By Justin Rouch on June 14, 2011
WordCamp San Diego has released their list of speakers and details about an after-party. The topics will range from web design to SEO. There are 16 speakers, including:
- Chris Radcliff, founder of SpaceUp
- Lucy Beer, founder of Web Training Wheels
- John Hawkins, Director of Operations at 9seeds
- Sheri Bigelow, Happiness Engineer at Automattic
There are two tracks, Gaslamp and Balboa, running simultaneously so be sure to check out the schedule so you don’t miss the speakers you’re interested in hearing. Each track has 8 presentations, with Gaslamp ending with a development panel that’s still to be determined.
What is better than an after party for winding down after a long day? Nothing. The WordCamp San Diego After Party will be begin at 8pm at Downtown Johnny Brown’s. The bar has even offered to take $1 off all local drafts for WordCamp attendees.
Don’t forget WordCamp San Diego is July 16th, 2011. Registration starts at 8am. Opening remarks are at 9. Unfortunately, tickets are sold out. So instead of asking who’s going, let’s take it the other way: who is facing crushing disappointment for not being able to attend? Share your woes in the comments.
Posted in News, WordCamp |
By Brian Krogsgard on June 14, 2011
I recently had an opportunity to chat with Noel Tock, the creator of Theme Force. Theme Force has a singular focus – websites for restaurants. Noel and his development partners, Tom and Joe of Humanmade, are targeting restaurants across the globe with fully hosted, WordPress based, website solutions.
Theme Force has been selling WordPress themes for restaurants since mid 2010. However, the end goal for Tock is “to sell an end-to-end solution where a customer can log in and manage everything from there.” Thus, the end goal is not building products for WordPress, but building a web application on top of it.
Theme Force doesn’t consider other WordPress theme shops as competition, but rather other non-WordPress based restaurant website providers like Culini and Let’sEat. They have created a framework for their themes so end users can manage theme options, event management, and menu management.
Menus and Events utilize custom post types to help users easily accomplish previously difficult (PDF anybody?) features for restaurant websites. Theme Force also has features to integrate easily with popular social media sites like Yelp and Foursquare.
Starting July 1st, Theme Force’s fully hosted version will be available for $49 per month. Furthermore, Tock shared with me that they were transitioning from a split-GPL license to 100% GPL. He said the philosophy fit with his practice of writing WordPress tutorials and releasing free themes, whereas Humanmade have been contributing their share to the open source community through a series of github repositories (including WP Remote and WP Thumb).
If you’d like to view a video runthrough of the Theme Force backend and their newest theme, Fineforce, take a peak after the jump. I’d also love to hear what you think about their plan, which is certainly a bit out of the current mold of WordPress business models.
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Posted in News | Tagged Themes |
By Ryan Imel on June 13, 2011
Ronald Huereca is a WordPress developer who was recently hired to the PluginBuddy team. He is also the author of WordPress and Ajax, which we’ve mentioned before (and reviewed). Over the weekend he decided to make the book free to download in its PDF form, along with code samples.
Of course the print version of the books is still available via Amazon, which is helpful if you want to hold WordPress knowledge between your physical fingers.
Along with other credits at the front of the second edition, WPCandy receives a thoughtful shout out for spreading the word about the book. Cool!
Have you dug into Huereca’s book yet? Will the new price tag of free entice you to crack it open?
Posted in News, Wordpress |
By Ryan Imel on June 13, 2011
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Milan Petrovic has put together a 24 minute screencast showing how to go about setting up the new bbPress plugin on a WordPress site. If you’re looking for a bit of hand holding to get started with bbPress, this might not be a bad place to start.
Posted in bbPress, Videos |
By Ryan Imel on June 13, 2011
It’s very exciting to announce a new project here at WPCandy called The Daily Plugin. This is a new show that will, as you might have guessed, feature a new WordPress plugin every single day.
The first episode is posted just after the jump, as well as a bit more about The Daily Plugin, and how to get your own work featured on the show.
The Daily Plugin
The Daily Plugin joins the small family of WPCandy video programs, and is our first daily program. Every day we’ll be looking at a new, likely awesome, WordPress plugin. In the process we will bring some attention to independent WordPress developers and hopefully point out a plugin or two that you don’t yet know about.
This show joins The WPCandy Show over in our shows section.
WPCandy Dashboard Feed plugin
Okay, so featuring our own plugin is a bit self-serving for our first Daily Plugin. I’ll give you that. Point you.
The WPCandy Dashboard Feed plugin is handy if you’d like to see new posts from WPCandy showing up in your WordPress Dashboard. The number of posts and the category that is pulled in is configurable, which is a decent level of customization for a plugin like this.
Even if this plugin isn’t for you (not everyone relies on the WordPress Dashboard for their reading/news), it might be just perfect for a friend, a family member, or a client that you would like to introduce to WPCandy.
Do you use WPCandy Dashboard Feed, or any other news aggregating plugins with your WordPress Dashboard?
Video recorded with version 0.3.1 of WPCandy Dashboard Feed, running WordPress 3.1.3.
Posted in featured, The Daily Plugin | Tagged Plugins |
