In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Marcus Couch and I are joined by Gabriel Mays, head of WordPress products at GoDaddy. We discussed a number of topics related to the company including a new on boarding process that will be unveiled to the public on September 15th. We learn why and how the company is establishing relationships with authors of …
Making an American Icon: How Harley-Davidson Roared to Life
Entrepreneur spoke with the stars and biker builder behind Discovery Channel’s new miniseries ‘Harley and The Davidsons.’ View original post at Entrepreneur…
How to Turn Any WordPress Theme Modification into a Simple WordPress Plugin
One of the first things budding WordPress developers learn is to use child themes for customizing WordPress websites. While this is a sound practice, there will also be times when you want to reuse code you’ve added to a child theme with a different theme or on a different website. The best way to package code for use with any …
Improving the User Experience by Rearranging the WordPress Post Editor
When the floor was opened up to users for suggestions on what they want to see included in WordPress 4.7, Mark Root-Wiley advocated for Trac ticket #27159. The three-year old ticket was created by Hugo Baeta and suggests that certain buttons in the post editor be removed in order to improve the user experience. In the initial proposal, Baeta recommends that the Underline, …
What Is a Logo? Just the Beating Heart of Your Brand, That's All.
The fundamental logo is probably one of the most over-looked pieces of any business. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Fast Gets Faster as Hummingbird Adds CloudFlare Integration
Another week and another great new feature comes to our performance optimization plugin Hummingbird – full CloudFlare integration! So, if you haven’t already heard of CloudFlare, go take a look .We think you’ll be really interested in their services (we use them for CampusPress, and Edublogs) and as with all our articles, that’s not an affiliate link – we genuinely do like …
ButterBean Post Meta Box Framework 1.0 Released
Justin Tadlock’s new ButterBean post meta box framework was officially released this week. The framework allows developers to easily build a metabox with a tabbed UI to accommodate multiple fields. After roughly three months of beta testing, ButterBean is ready for use in projects. It can be dropped into a plugin or used as a standalone plugin. “The framework was …
Use the Candidate's Recruiting Experience to Find the Best Talent
Think like the applicant. It will open your eyes to a new way of promoting jobs, interviewing and follow-up. View original post at Entrepreneur…
10 Simple Ways to Convert Casual Visitors into Paying Customers
We spend a lot of time talking about how you can improve your WordPress website’s design and functionality in order to get your visitors to feel a certain way about it. In other words, you want them to want to convert. You’ve given them a quick-loading site, beautiful high-resolution imagery, and an engaging story to follow… and yet you still …
Dennis Cooper Booted from Blogger, Relaunches on WordPress
photo credit: Sergey Zolkin Nearly two months after Google removed Dennis Cooper’s 14-year-old Blogger site and Gmail account without explanation, the novelist and performance artist has been officially ejected from the platform. According to Cooper, a post he wrote 10 years ago, which he had placed behind an adult content warning due to pornographic material, was flagged by a recent …