Augustin Prot and Rémy Berda, co-founders the Weglot multilingual plugin for WordPress, started their operation in a small apartment in September 2015. Weglot was originally a simple JavaScript project that offered a language switcher so that users could view websites in different languages. After testers started asking for a solution that could be used with WordPress without causing SEO problems, …
WordPress Careers Masterclass: Selling Your Code (Themes and Plugins)
Are you interested in a career selling your code? Specifically, coding themes and plugins that you can then sell for profit? Welcome to the second post in this series on how to build a successful career with WordPress. If you followed part one of this series, WordPress Careers Masterclass: How to Forge a Successful Career, you should have some ideas …
WordPress 4.7 to Introduce User-Specific Language Setting for the Admin
WordPress 4.7 will allow users to select a language to use in the admin. Prior to this change, using a different language for the admin required installing the necessary translations and editing the wp-config.php file or using a plugin. A user-specific language setting makes it possible to run a WordPress site in one language on the front end and administrate …
Kinsta Managed Hosting Review: Blazingly Fast and Solid Features
Kinsta is a relative new-comer to the WordPress managed hosting scene, but since launching in 2013 has quickly become a force to be reckoned with. Marketed as “Better, faster, stronger managed WordPress hosting,” the web host uses Google’s Cloud Platform to provide fast speeds from the web giants secure and reliable data centers, paired with Kinsta’s simple and intuitive hosting panel. …
Peter Meth Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Produce 7″ Wapuu Plush Toys
Wapuu is the unofficial mascot of the WordPress project and is quite the traveler appearing at WordCamps all over the world. While there is a variety of swag featuring Wapuu, outside of handmade items, there isn’t a way to obtain a plush toy. Wapuu Plush Toy Prototype Peter Meth, a Senior PHP Consultant based in Toronto, Canada, is looking to …
WordPress Careers Masterclass: How to Forge a Successful Career
Welcome to this new series on WordPress careers! In this six-week series, you’ll learn about the wide range of options available to you if you want to forge a career with WordPress. This series will be useful for you if you can answer “yes” to any of the questions below: Are you starting out with WordPress and want to develop your career? …
New WordPress Default Theme Twenty Seventeen Merged into 4.7
WordPress 4.7 will ship with a new default theme in December. David Kennedy merged Twenty Seventeen into core yesterday as his first commit to WordPress. Any remaining development issues for the project will now be managed via Trac. In the merge proposal, Kennedy described Twenty Seventeen as “an ambitious theme that focuses on a creative home page and an easy …
How We’ve Made Website Monitoring Easy with The Hub
Whether your WordPress empire consists of a single domain or 100 websites, I’ve no doubt that keeping on eye on your empire’s health is of utmost importance to you. The health of any organization, whether it consists of wo/men or megabytes, can be ensured by keeping an eye on just a few key metrics. In the world of government, factors …
WordCamp WarmUp Is a Success
Rebecca Gill, founder of Web-Savvy-Marketing, has published a postmortem of WordCamp WarmUp, an event that took place two days before WordCamp Ann Arbor aimed at breaking the ice for new WordCamp attendees. The event surpassed its goal of 50 attendees forcing Gill to close registration early. “Not only did most WarmUp guests arrive right on time, we had a full room of …
New Hub Feature! Update ALL Your Plugins & Themes (Not Just Ours)
We’ve just added a new feature in The Hub, our member dashboard, which we think you are going to like: the ability to update all of your plugins and themes from the one easy dashboard, and not just WPMU DEV ones! So now, in order to manage updates (or, in fact, update every single plugin and theme on every single one of your …









