By Ryan Imel on July 7, 2011
The founder of WordPress himself, Matt Mullenweg, will be attending WordCamp Montreal this weekend. In addition to his actual corporeal existence in the city, Mullenweg will be running a town hall question and answer session on Sunday. Mullenweg doesn’t attend and speak at many WordCamps, so this is quite the occasion. Questions for the session can be submitted via the Montreal blog as well as directed to the event organizers on Twitter.
You can use this opportunity to ask Mullenweg about the work that goes into software used by millions and millions of people. Or you could ask him for beard growing tips. It’s really up to you.
Unfortunately WPCandy won’t be attending WordCamp Montreal this weekend, but we will be watching and reporting here, as usual. If anyone will be at Montreal this weekend and would like to become a legit WPCandy Ambassador (which means liveblogging, mainly) for a couple of days, just let us know in the comments below.
In addition to attending and speaking at choice WordCamps Mullenweg also has a tendency to stop by and answer questions right here on the internet. Crazy, right? Given the chance, what question would you ask him?
Posted in featured, News, WordCamp |
By Ryan Imel on July 6, 2011
Code Poet launched in 2009 as a simple directory of WordPress consultants, recommended and maintained by Automattic. According to a callout on the top of the site, the Code Poet facelift seems to be under development at beta.CodePoet.
Currently Code Poet exists as a list of consultants linked up according to their location. The new site introduces a fresh design and enhanced sorting, to make finding Automattic’s recommended consultants much easier. Current filters include speciality, geography, and budget.
You can check out the beta.CodePoet.com site to see the upcoming changes, which will likely be launching for realz before long.
Are you a Code Poet? Have you ever worked with one in the past?
Posted in News, Wordpress |
By Ryan Imel on July 6, 2011
Today’s Daily Plugin will be best for those who have ever had to send instructions to someone—a client, perhaps a friend—instructions for using a WordPress website. Instead of relying on email or some other contrived option, WP Help allows you to write out your instructions within WordPress itself.
The video is embedded at the top of this post’s page, with more about the plugin below.
WP Help
WP Help uses WordPress’ custom post type system to run a Dashboard-only page of help documents. I love this plugin for two primary reasons. First, it solves a problem by taking advantage of something WordPress does extremely well: managing stuff. Second, using this plugin actually encourages me to write help documentation. That alone is quite a feat!
Video recorded with version 0.2 of WP Help, running WordPress 3.2.
About the author
Mark Jaquith, one of the Lead Developers on the WordPress project, created this plugin himself. You can read his blog and his tweets (you seriously should).
Is your plugin worthy?
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!
Posted in The Daily Plugin | Tagged Plugins |
By Ryan Imel on July 6, 2011
WordPress 3.2 saw the end of support for Internet Explorer 6, and the internet rejoiced. Every user of a modern browser was thankful to WordPress for making the shift. Even Microsoft was. And it looks like there might be another round of thank yous on the way.
Core WordPress developers have mentioned the possibility that WordPress 3.3 may see the end of support for Internet Explorer 7 as well. For instance, lead developer Mark Jaquith teased the idea on Twitter:
Dear IE 7,Don’t get comfortable. You’re next.Love,@ Would you like to see Internet Explorer 7 dropped in the next version of WordPress? Are you excited to see WordPress encouraging its users to move to more modern browsers?
Posted in News, Wordpress |
By Justin Rouch on July 6, 2011
Posted in News | Tagged Plugins |
