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You just don’t need a magazine theme - WPCandy

WPCandy — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:14:00 -0600

Magazine themes are quite alluring. Sliders, pictures, columns, unique blocks of different content on demos. But beyond the perfectly crafted demo marketed to entice you to purchase what you’ve convinced yourself you must have, you probably don’t need it at all.I’m willing to bet a..

WordPress Theme Releases for 2/9 - Weblog Tools Collection

Weblog Tools Collection — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:00:00 -0600

Aqua is a crisp, clean, and bright theme with small touches of aqua as an accent. Gridly is a clean, minimal, and responsive theme with a simple options panel...

The History Of WordPress Default Themes - WP Tavern

WP Tavern — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:00:00 -0600

WPLift has a cool post highlighting the different default themes that WordPress has had since its inception. According to the post, since WordPress was first created, the publishing platform has had a total of five default themes with Twenty Twelve being the sixth, slated to arrive with WordPress 3...

Printed WordPress Magazine to be Released Shortly - Weblog Tools Collection

Weblog Tools Collection — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:00:00 -0600

WPCandy Quarterly, a WordPress related quarterly print magazine from the folks at WPCandy, is just about to be mailed out to the lucky readers who either pre-ordered or subscribed. To my knowledge, or at least about half an hour of searching, this may very well be the first ever printed WordPress ma..

WP Late Night 002: The Usual Suspects - WPCandy

WPCandy — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:45:00 -0600

Prepare your earholes for the second-ever episode of WP Late Night, the WordPress podcast from Brad Williams, Dre Armeda, and Ryan Imel (that’s me!). This episode we discussed a number of recent events in the WordPress community, and even tried (kind of) to deduce the identities of the WP Hone..

Senior PHP Developer Position Open – Lift - WP Tavern

WP Tavern — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:00:00 -0600

Chris of LiftUX reached out to me the other day and wanted me to let everyone know that they are hiring for the position of Senior WordPress/PHP developer. The developer would also be helping to build out themes and plugins for UpThemes. ∞ Related posts: WordPress Developers ..

New Themes: Splendio and Suburbia - WordPress.com

WordPress.com — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:00:00 -0600

Happy Tuesday! We’ve got two unique free themes for you today, and they are quite a study in contrasts. Our first theme, Splendio, dazzles with an unconventional yet stylish design from Design Disease that pops out of the box — literally. How you use this theme is limited only by your imagi..

First Issue Of The WPCandy Quarterly Almost Out The Door - WP Tavern

WP Tavern — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:00:00 -0600

Many people within the WordPress community are anxiously awaiting the first issue of the WPCandy Quarterly to show up in their mailbox. According to Ryan, that day is soon approaching as the first batches are currently being printed. However, since there is still some time before we’ll be hold..

Custom Classes: WordPress Plugin - Justin Tadlock

Justin Tadlock — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:39:00 -0600

For a recent project, I needed a way to add custom post and body classes on a per-post basis. Sure, I could have used a category or tag to style each post, but I hate creating custom categories and tags for the purposes of styling a post. So, I created a small plugin to let me add custom classes f..

Internationalization should be common practice, not a feature - WPCandy

WPCandy — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:21:00 -0600

A subject finally getting some attention in the WordPress community is i18n, or internationalization.Internationalization is the process of making an application ready for translation. Often this gets confused with localization, which is the process by which the text on the page and other settings a..

The Quarterly Magazine’s design process, sped up on video - WPCandy

WPCandy — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:21:00 -0600

The first issue of The WPCandy Quarterly is in the printing queue as you read these words. Exciting, right? Since there’s nothing I can do to speed up the process (believe me, I would if I could) I’ve taken some time and looked back over the first issue’s development.One thing I di..

How to query by “standard” post format - WPCandy

WPCandy — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:52:00 -0600

Ever find yourself wanting to query the “standard” post format within WordPress and not having much luck? It turns out there’s a Trac Ticket for this very subject. But for now, Alex King came up with a way for it to work with WP_Query calls. Go have a look at his code.You just fini..

The first WP on Tour was a huge success - WPCandy

WPCandy — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:40:00 -0600

The 15th of January through the 22nd finally saw its first WP on Tour go live. WPCandy mentioned WP on Tour here before, but it’s basically a bunch of WordPress developers (of all shapes and sizes) sharing a working space for a week. This first edition saw 10 of us — yes, I was fortunate..

Amazing things to do with PHP and cURL - CatsWhoCode

CatsWhoCode — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:01:00 -0600

Check if a specific website is available Want to know if a specific website is available? cURL is here to help. This script can be used with a cron job to monitor your websites. Don’t forget to update the script with the url you want to check on line 3. Once done, just paste it somewhere and i..

How Page.ly Was Built - WP Tavern

WP Tavern — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:00:00 -0600

First off, congratulations to Joshua Strebel and to his wife as they are now first-time parents. Secondly, Joshua has put together a pretty transparent view as to how he created Page.ly, a WordPress specific hosting service. So far, the guide is five parts long but I advise you to start out with par..