By Ryan Imel on June 13, 2011
The team behind Mojo Themes is prepping a new site launch called WPRoots. Roots will join the Mojo family as a home for WordPress tutorials, focusing specifically on design and development. As J.R. Farr described in the announcement post, the plan for WPRoots involves Mojo paing WordPress professionals to write out the tutorials (which they have a call out for in their post):
Each tutorial on the site will be created by hand picked WordPress experts and the editors of the site will paid for their contributions. The tutorials would be catered more towards actual theme development and design. At the end of each tutorial we will include a full download of the tutorial along with the source files. Cool eh?
WPRoots hasn’t launched quite yet, but should be up soon. We’ll keep an eye on it, of course. In the meantime, it looks like the Mojo crew is also giving away their pre-launch landing page as well. See their post for more info.
What do you think is missing from the WordPress tutorial community? What would you like to see from new tutorial blogs like WPRoots? How can they stand out from the crowd?
Posted in News, Wordpress | Tagged Themes |
By Ryan Imel on June 13, 2011
WordCamp San Francisco, which is billing itself as the official WordCamp of the year, has opened up ticket sales for the big event. San Francisco is a three day event, so be sure to grab the ticket that matches up with the parts of the conference you’d like to attend. Just to recap, the conference is split into the following parts:
- Professional/large scale focus on Friday
- First-time user workshop on Friday
- Developer and designer focus on Saturday
- Bloggers and content creator focus on Sunday
Odds are you will be interested in either a 3 day pass for $50, or a single ticket for $25. WPCandy will, of course, be there all weekend covering the event and (hopefully) meeting many of you folks.
If you’d like to support WordCamp San Francisco beyond your ticket price, sponsorship levels have been published as well. An individual sponsorship runs $500, and regular business sponsorships run from $5,000 to $40,000 this year. According to organizer Jane Wells, these sponsorship levels are necessary to cover the tripled cost of running the event over three days.
In addition to covering the cost of the camp, any sponsors that contribute $10,000 or more will be invited to participate in a mini trade show, which will be new to the event.
Similar to other camps this year, WordCamp San Francisco will not be handing out swag bags to attendees. Wells explains:
No swag bags. People already have bags, they don’t need another, and most people just throw away your lovingly crafted swag. It’s sad, but true. No more throwaways!
According to a tweet, chosen speakers for San Francisco will be notified this week.
Who’s planning on attending WordCamp San Francisco in August? Which of the days will you be attending, and what do you hope to take away from it?
Posted in News, WordCamp |
By Mark McWilliams on June 13, 2011
If you’ve been keeping up-to-date with news regarding bbPress 2.0 (aka the plugin version of the bbPress forum software), then you’ll be glad to hear John James Jacoby just released beta 3 which can be downloaded now from the WordPress plugin directory.
Over the past 2 and a half weeks, project lead Jacoby has been taking in even more user feedback, committing new code, cleaning up old parts of code, and is happy to report:
Available immediately is bbPress 2.0 Beta 3, chock full of fixes and enhancements to help smooth out the integration of bbPress into your existing WordPress.org powered site. Your feedback has been super helpful, and there’s been so much testing we think a sarcastic cake-promising robot may be involved somewhere.
That’s right. More bbPress and a Portal reference.
Some of the fixes and enhancements for bbPress 2.0 beta 3 involve Akismet integration, improvements to the importer, fixes to the inconsistant breadcrumb behavior, shortcodes for login, register, and lost password forms, improvements to multisite support and more.
The bbPress plugin is still on schedule to be released with WordPress 3.2, so the more testing that can be done before hand, the better. We know DevPress are using bbPress on their newly revamped site, have you tried it yet?
Posted in bbPress, News | Tagged Plugins |
By Ryan Imel on June 9, 2011
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Posted in News | Tagged Themes |
By Ryan Imel on June 9, 2011
BuddyPress core developer Paul Gibbs has a fun BuddyPress-only plugin called Achievements that lets you reward users within your BuddyPress enabled blog. Think XBOX Live achievements meets your WordPress blog (or just watch this video to see Achievements in action). Of course that’s BuddyPress only, so unfortunately that leaves the majority of WordPress blogs out.
The word on the street is that the next major release of Achievements won’t require BuddyPress to function, and will be able to run on any old WordPress installation. In this case the street was Gibbs’ blog and the word is actually a number of words he wrote in a post on that blog.
The plan is for the plugin to come out after BuddyPress 1.3, which is planned for the next month or so.
Would you add Achievements to your blog if BuddyPress wasn’t required? Speaking of which, we clearly need a mint-driven scavenger hunt on WPCandy. This must happen.
Posted in News | Tagged BuddyPress, Plugins |
