Can there ever be too many WordPress meetups, parties, or get togethers? The answer is easily “no”! Well, let’s make a go of it, shall we? On May 27th of this year we’re going to be celebrating the 10th anniversary of WordPress (since the very first release) and it’s going global baby! Via Meetup Everywhere you can get connected in your local area to have a party as people around the globe celebrate the awesomeness that is WordPress. There are already 66 WordPress Anniversary parties and more to be started I’m sure by the time we get close to the day. […]

WordSesh 2013 is right around the corner – have you gotten your comfy seat ready as well as a full six pack prepared (soda or beer, your choice) for 24 hours of WordPress insanity? They’ve got a brand-spankin’ new site to stare at, an amazing lineup of speakers (check out their talks!), and the fact that it’ll all be archived for future review and viewing. Brad and Dre, from the fabled DradCast will be opening it up strongly with Scott Basgaard joining them. 100% free, no costs involved (although if you want to donate to the foundation to support it that would […]

Things are continuing to move steadily ahead with development and the release of the Windows Phone v2.1. You’ll need OS 7.5 and above to use it, of course. With this release we see the ability now to not only get push notifications but the ability to have these notifications take you directly to the comment itself to moderate and/or respond to the community member. You also see the rich text editor that many people have requested. You’ll have styling options beneath the keyboard and in the app menu itself for your publishing pleasure. And as usual, you get a number […]

Or at least it’ll be deprecated and out of the picture since 2010, but it’ll be officially removed May 19th, 2013. You should definitely head over and get to version 3.0 before that time: The Google Maps JavaScript API Version 2 has been officially deprecated as of May 19, 2010. The V2 API will continue to work until May 19, 2013. We encourage you to migrate your code to version 3 of the Maps JavaScript API. The Google Maps API lets you embed Google Maps in your own web pages with JavaScript. The API provides a number of utilities for manipulating maps (just like on […]

Two weeks ago I gave my initial thoughts about CoSchedule.  As promised I’ve been using it on my personal blog since then and I’m happy to report that it’s worked very well. The plugin interface is attractive and easy to use.  Choose your social media profile, write out what you want to post to that profile, schedule the timing and your done.

It’s been a wild first quarter here at WP Daily and the growth has been pretty insane. I shared in a contributor newsletter earlier this week that we almost crossed the 100,000 pageview mark for a single month last month – the trend data is pretty mind-numbing to be honest. Who would have thought that just a few months ago (December, 2012) we’d be seeing six-digit figures in terms of traffic? We didn’t even exist 6 months ago! And it’s all thanks to the growing and passionate community that we’ve got here and the great writing and contributions of our […]

Oh boy. I love sneak peeks! I had the chance to test drive the new and improved back admin dashboard for WP Engine service and it definitely is a significant design change. This won’t be a long post, but check it out after the jump:

This is a brilliant idea by the WordPress team and I think it’s a smart way to solicit and receive support – it’s kind of like those “Adopt a Highway” signs that you see posted up on the road but much better, right? (And to be honest I have, like you perhaps, thought about adopting a highway at least once in my life.) The Codex is a completely free place to get information about the stuff that you need to make your WordPress life even better – they are managed through volunteers and receive contribution from even more volunteers who […]

Now this is an interesting play and business expansion – Creative Market, which received a lot of attention recently around supposed favoritism as well as releasing the first WP.com Premium Theme is continuing to change things up on us as they now have a Photoshop extension. What this extension essentially does is bring Creative Market straight to you, right in your Photoshop application, with direct access to all the premium content that you may want to use for your own creative projects. You can browse and search the marketplace, purchase and install assets directly without ever leaving your app, and even access […]

Sheesh. The sheer simplicity of this js script is killing me! And I love it! After encountering this simple jQuery overlay I’ve thought of a million ways to use it in previous projects as well as new ones in the pipe. The inspiration came to Pablo Fernandez via the new composer tour of Gmail (you know, that helpful overlay that shows up when you first boot up). Check it out and see for yourself: