photo credit: Marconi – work in progress – (license) Kevin Ohashi has published his annual Managed WordPress hosting performance benchmarks on Review Signal, an independent consumer review site. In past years (2014, 2015), Ohashi had every company and plan competing against each other, but the WordPress hosting market has rapidly evolved to serve more enterprise level clients. “When I started …
Zerif Lite Suspended from WordPress Theme Directory, 300K Users Left Without Updates
Zerif Lite, one of the most popular themes on WordPress.org, has been suspended by the Theme Review Team for several violations of the Presentation vs. Functionality guideline. As a result, more than 300,000 users (including those on child themes of Zerif Lite) can no longer receive maintenance and security updates to the theme. Justin Tadlock, an admin on the Theme …
GitHub Adds Code Review and Project Management Tools
GitHub’s second annual Universe conference kicked off in San Francisco today with 1500 attendees. Co-founder and CEO Chris Wanstrath announced a collection of new and and upcoming features for the platform, including code reviews, project management tools, profile updates, additional security features, and a community forum. October marks nine years since the first commit on GitHub. Over the past few …
Headway Themes Confirms Financial Difficulties, Issues Apology to Customers
Headway Themes publicly apologized to its customers on the company’s blog this evening for a lack of communication, the decline in support, and the extensive issues with the most recent 4.0 release. To say the past couple of months have been tough for you, in particular, and us, is an understatement. We’re writing today to communicate with you as best …
San José, Costa Rica to Host Its First WordCamp November 5-6
WordPress enthusiasts in San José, Costa Rica are getting ready to host the city’s first WordCamp November 5-6. Roberto Remedios is one of 10 organizers working with a Rocio Valdivia, the team’s mentor from WordCamp Central. He said that WordCamp Miami inspired him to want to host an event in Costa Rica. “Back in 2014, Rommel Castro and I attended …
Former Headway Themes Employee Goes Public: Staff Has Not Been Paid and Customers Are Not Receiving Support
As of last week, Headway Themes customers are still not receiving support for the products they purchased and co-founders Grant and Clay Griffiths have yet to communicate via email or the company’s blog. Support is frozen and customers and employees have been jilted, while Headway Themes continues to keep the product available for purchase. The founders have remained silent on …
Customers Still in the Dark Concerning the Future of Headway Themes
Back on August 10th, we wrote about the uncertainty of Headway Theme’s future amid a lack of communication, ability to provide support, and possible financial troubles. The article prompted customers to reach out on social media to Grant and Clay Griffiths, co-founders of the company, to find out what’s going on. On August 20th, Red Robot Web Design sent the …
Chrome to Add Security Warning to HTTP Sites Beginning 2017
The Google Chrome Security team announced yesterday the browser will begin labeling HTTP connections as insecure starting in January 2017. Chrome currently displays a green lock icon in the address bar for sites that are secure but the security team will be taking it one step further by displaying a warning on unencrypted sites. “Beginning in January 2017 (Chrome 56), …
WordCamp Milwaukee September 17-18 to Be Themed After the 1950s
WordCamp Milwaukee is set to take place September 17-18 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Continuing Education. More than 170 tickets are still available at $40 each and provide access to both days of the event, including the after party. The event’s second round of speakers were recently announced and according to Marc Benzakein, lead organizer for WordCamp Milwaukee, …
Ninja Forms 3.0 Released, Features New Drag-and-Drop Form Builder
Ninja Forms 3.0 was released today after a year in development. WP Ninjas have completely rewritten the plugin using Backbone, Underscore, and Marionette, an undertaking that required the bulk of development time for this milestone. This architectural overhaul brings major improvements to the user experience. The most visible improvements can be seen in the form building screen, where the process …