What a week it has been my friends! I’m not so sure about you, but this past week nearly killed me – trying to get back into the “groove” of things gets harder and harder and harder. But we survived the first week of April, didn’t we? On to the next one!

No, not anytime soon (I hope?). But maybe, sometime in the future, it could always be a possibility, especially since some of the other publishing platforms are experimenting with it. For example, Tumblr has gotten a lot of publicity and facetime in the WordPress community as being a model to be examined and analyzed in terms of fluidity of publishing and simplicity of UI/UX. To be honest, the Tumblr interface and overall experience isn’t something to laugh at – it’s incredible. I believe that Tumblr poses an interesting threat to WordPress long-term – and if they continue to gain traction […]

Follow along from sunny Miami, FL for WordCamp Miami 2013.

Remember the TimThumb scandal? Or rather, the big hullabaloo about vulnerability around TimThumb a year or so ago? Well, many themes still are using it as an integral part of their product, which doesn’t mean that they necessarily vulnerable but it’s worth noting that if you have an older version of a theme that you should probably update. Pagely has listed out a handful of them that are still using TimThumb within their architecture – so make sure you take note if you’re using a theme that does use it.

And… it’s here! Beta 1 of 3.6 just released less than an hour ago and it’s time for testing. Did your schedule just get messed up because you’ll now spend the rest of the day testing Beta 1 instead of your real job? *Raises hand!*

It’s hard to stay enthusiastic about new WordPress products, especially ones that do not necessarily seem to push the boundaries of WordPress design and development, let alone software development as a whole. Drag and drop interfaces is not something new and it’s been done in more than a few WordPress-centric product before. And to be honest, drag-and-drop interfaces as a whole aren’t something that is very attractive to me. I’ll admit, somewhat emotionally and illogically I just feel that d-n-d features make the product worse, not better. I feel like for a neat feature they sacrifice the integrity of the overall […]

Blogging software is built for people to communicate amazing things to many people – but not always in english. How often do we forget that there are more languages than just my own? I believe it’s part of our responsibility to make our products, our WordPress themes and plugins, multi-lingual compatible. If not out of the gate but that you’re definitely thinking in that direction long-term. That’s why I love to see what Elegant Themes has done with all of their themes, making them all WMPL compliant and compatible.

You may have already updated but yesterday the version 3.5.2 was released which nicely disabled autosaving because of the issues that many users were experiencing. This latest also fixed a number of crashes that were brought on by 3.5.1 – so you should see a significant stability increase on this newest version.

Now that would be a mega-first. It seems like they are hinting at that with their recent hire of COO Heather Brunner, from Bazaarvoice, a technology company also located in Austin, TX: With Brunner’s addition to WP Engine, the WordPress-focused service will be gaining someone with experience helping to lead a company into an IPO. Ben Metcalfe, one of WP Engine’s co-founders, tells us that should the company go that route, it would be the first time a company went public based around the popular blogging platform. She will be charged with growing the company from its 46 employees today […]

Some of you might find this funny – and we’re a few days past April Fools so you don’t have to overly offended! This time it’s via  Atlassian.