Are you a WordPress developer? Or wanna be one? Well, according to Matt Mullenweg himself you should “Learn JavaScript, deeply” and hey, why not do that from WordPress expert (and Smashing Magazine WordPress editor) Daniel Pataki, here at WPMU DEV, for free? For Free? Yep, if you are a current member you don’t have to pay a penny – just hop over and …
You’re Not Going to Believe the Brand New Image Compression Trick in Smush… It’s TRANSFORMATIVE
Smush is absolutely established as the best auto image compression available for WordPress by some distance – over 5 billion images smushed and 1,624 five-star reviews certainly do not lie… But we’ve just taken Smush to a whole new level. Say hello to automated PNG to JPG transformation for your files that need it. Magic. So let me run that past you again. …
8 Completely Free Ways to Steal WPMU DEV’s WordPress SuperPowers
When I started out in WordPress I was broke. Not just broke, broke-ass. Newly married, new baby, $6.57 in the bank, no paycheck coming in and starting a new online business. I needed to start and grow a site. I needed the support of a community. I needed it all at top quality. And I needed it all completely for …
Introducing Upfront 1.3, aka Blogging on Speed
Today we are excited to announce the release of Upfront 1.3, which we’re dubbing “Upfront for Publishers.” This version of our WordPress theme platform includes a huge update to the post and page writing experience. Want to display your featured images above the titles of your posts? Easy. Or show the publication date at the bottom of posts instead of …
New Academy Courses: Announcing the BEST Multisite Course on the Web
You know how we’re the Multisite experts here at WPMU DEV? Well, we want to upload everything we know about Multisite directly into your brain, Matrix-style. Enrollments are now open for three new courses in The Academy: WordPress Multisite Masterclass, WordPress Development for Intermediate Users, and (by popular demand) our CEO James Farmer’s hugely successful Dream Small, Market Big & …
Inside WPMU DEV’s New Blog Design (And Why We Did It)
Say hello to our brand new blog design! Over the past few weeks, we’ve been cooking up this new look to help make reading articles on our blog a more enjoyable experience. In other words, we want you to keep coming back for more (and share our articles, too!). Since our very first post went live back in 2008, we’ve published …
Smush Solves Internet-Old Problem (By, Erm, Now Resizing Images!)
We’ve all been there, volunteered to put up a website for the parents or taken a look at the local footy club page and wondered to ourselves WHY DID YOU UPLOAD FOUR HUNDRED 2.8MB IMAGES???? Well, wonder no more! No more searching for bulk image resizing desktop utilities and no more fretting about your server space. Because now Smush, in …
Upfront 1.2 Is Out, Try It For Free Today!
Welcome to Upfront 1.2, the version we’re dubbing “Upfront for the People.” What do we mean by “for the people?” Well, first up, this new version introduces user restrictions that allow you to control different actions that your users can perform – handing over your Upfront site to a client or running it on your Multisite setup just got amazing. Now your …
Introducing… The Academy!
Say g’day to the all new Academy, where expert entrepreneurs, developers, educators and authors will provide our members with intensive, illuminating and top quality courses in all things WordPress. Enrol in The Academy for FREE today >> Oh, and it’s completely free for WPMU DEV members too!!! You know, I’ve wanted to have this on the site for absolutely ages so …
Get Blazing Fast Load Times With the All New WP Smush and Slay All the Megabytes!
Since we re-launched WP Smush this time last year, our Smush servers have compressed a whopping 3 billion images. That’s a hell of a lot of cat pics! Try Smush Pro for FREE today >> Every day we smush images on more than 24,000 different WordPress sites, at peak times smushing 200+ images per second without breaking a sweat. All …