Digging into WordPress, by Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr, is available in its third edition today as a PDF download only for $27.
The new edition includes an updated design and new information on WordPress 3.0. Printed versions, according to Starr, may be available in September or October.
Coyier and Starr began publishing Digging into WordPress via their website DigWP.com in 2009. You can follow Coyier on Twitter @chriscoyier and Starr @perishable.
Jane Wells updated the WordCamp NYC blog to officially announce the dates for the 2010 event today. WordCamp NYC will be held October 16-17 at Bratuch College, in New York City.
There are two other conferences happening the same weekend: BlogWorldExpo in Las Vegas and an open source conference in Pennsylvania. Wells explains this as a positive:
We see this as a positive, because it forces us to look more closely at local WordPress practitioners who have something to share, rather than automatically defaulting to the names that pop up on the WordCamp circuit all the time.
Speaking and volunteer applications will be accepted soon. Those interested should keep an eye on the WordCamp NYC blog, Twitter account and the hashtag #wcnyc.
I’m proud—very proud, actually—to present the second WPCandy WordPress podcast. That’s episode two! Before long we’ll actually figure this whole thing out.
Today on the show were myself, JD Bentley, and Ashley Hittinger. Ashley is new to WPCandy, but was a part of the old podcast we ran, long long ago on Theme Playground.
You can now subscribe to the show on iTunes, which is pretty exciting. If you would rather subscribe directly to the RSS feed, you can get that as well.
As always you can send any emails you would like to have included on the show to podcast@wpcandy.com. Download links, a browser player, and full show notes after the jump.
This week on the podcast, we discussed:
WordPress Picks this week:
If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.
For a couple of weeks now we have been refreshing the official WordPress shop website every day, only to see the same holding page (above) for a few weeks. But in the last few days the (now) old URL shop.wordpress.net has started redirecting to WPSwagStore.com.
It’s likely safe to assume the shop has been renamed to the WordPress Swag Store, and it in turn is getting a facelift. The credit in the footer, next to the Automattic logo, credits GetShopped, the online home of the WordPress e-Commerce Plugin.
WPCandy has word out to Automattic and GetShopped for more information. We’ll update you when we know more.
The WordPress Plugin Directory, as a part of the 3.org project, has seen a new functional and visual update in the last week. To begin with, the directory was upgraded to the bbPress trunk. Other updates included the following:
Further updates to the directory are on the way, as the approach has been described as “iterative” multiple times in the post. To follow updates on this and other 3.org projects, keep an eye on the 3.org tag here on WPCandy.
