By Ryan Imel on June 15, 2011
Well over 30 folks will be sharing their WordPress knowledge via sessions at WordCamp Boston this year. The speakers are uniquely spread out over three rooms with nine separate tracks that shift almost on an hourly basis. The tracks listed on the speakers page are:
- Development,
- Education,
- How To,
- Design,
- Enterprise,
- Advanced Development,
- Strategy, and
- Freelancing Skills
It’s impossible to pick out and highlight any particular speaker for the event—just visit their page and check them out for yourself.
Boston will take place over two days, July 23 and 24. Will you be attending, or will you be shamefully missing out this year?
Posted in News, WordCamp |
By Justin Rouch on June 15, 2011
Mint Themes creates their themes with specific groups in mind. They have quite a few themes in the works for 2011, and recently released sneak peeks of two that they plan on releasing in the next two months. Including these themes they plan on releasing four more church themes and six more band and musician themes.
The two themes they’re teasing us with right now are geared toward churches. The only details that are available right now are screenshots. More details will be available when they’re released.
Mint Themes church theme teaser gallery
Speaking of releases, they just released a new church theme, Ezekiel. It’s a theme for churches looking for an interactive, WordPress powered website.
Posted in Previews | Tagged Themes |
By Ryan Imel on June 15, 2011
Nick Roach of Elegant Themes posted a poll last week asking his users what sort of theme the shop should produce next. A number of options were voted on (see the full results) but top of the heap was “business CMS” theme with 277 votes, which was 17% of the vote total.
In Roach’s analysis of the results he found the voting predictable, despite complaints he says he hears:
The 1,600+ votes cast gives me a good idea as to what types of themes are in demand, and the many comments/suggestions given were great to see…
To me it was no surprise that Business CMS received the most votes. Despite some complaints that we already have too many CMS-style designs, it’s obvious from our internal stats that these themes are in demand and continually receive the most downloads.
Business themes are certainly popular. After all, nearly every major commercial theme shop has a few of them. Do you think more business themes are needed in the WordPress community? If you had your word in a theme poll like the one Elegant Themes ran, what sort of theme would you vote for?
Posted in News | Tagged Themes |
By Mark McWilliams on June 14, 2011
Andrew Nacin announced WordPress 3.2 RC1 earlier on today, which can only mean one thing: we’re nearing the final release of WordPress 3.2.
Just as a reminder: RC stands for release candidate, which comes after the betas (which we’ve seen two of). The release candidate is the last step for WordPress before the final public-ready versions is released.
Like with any other release candidate Nacin explained that anything is still possible, and the contributors would like to make sure they’ve caught everything:
We think we’re done, but with tens of millions of users, a variety of configurations, and thousands of plugins, it’s possible we’ve missed something. So if you haven’t tested WordPress 3.2 yet, now is the time!
Nacin goes on to mention a few things you might want to remember:
- With more than 350 tickets closed, there are plenty of changes. Plugin and theme authors, please test your plugins and themes now, so that if there is a compatibility issue, we can figure it out before the final release.
- Users are also encouraged to test things out. If you find problems, let your plugin/theme authors know so they can figure out the cause.
- Twenty Eleven isn’t quite at the release candidate stage. Contents may settle.
- If any known issues crop up, you’ll be able to find them here.
It looks to be running pretty much on schedule, so here’s hoping we see 3.2 by the end of the month, which is the target. Have you tested this in-development version of WordPress yet, particularly with any plugins or themes you created?
Posted in featured, News, Wordpress |
By Ryan Imel on June 14, 2011
The second episode of The Daily Plugin is posted just below the jump. Today we’re looking at Blog Metrics, a plugin developed by Joost de Valk.
Blog Metrics is a plugin that provides statistics, within your WordPress Dashboard, regarding which of your blog’s authors are posting the most and generating the most discussion.
Blog Metrics
Blog Metrics is a plugin developed by Joost de Valk that adds a screen to your WordPress Dashboard that provides stats on what each of your authors are contributing to your blog. It is likely best used as a just-for-fun plugin on multi-author blogs. Turn it on when you want to see the stats, poke fun at your co-authors, and find out who is generating the most conversations on the blog overall.
Granted, this plugin hasn’t been updated for a couple of years. But for what it does, it still works. As far as I can tell this plugin’s age shouldn’t keep anyone from checking it out.
Do you use Blog Metrics, or something like it to measure post statistics on your blog?
If you would like to see your plugin featured on an episode of The Daily Plugin, send your plugin information over to dailyplugin@wpcandy.com. We’ll see you tomorrow for another Daily Plugin!
Video recorded with version 1.2.6 of Blog Metrics, running WordPress 3.1.3.
Posted in The Daily Plugin | Tagged Plugins |
