Diary of WordCamp Netherlands 2012
Siobhan McKeown with an excellent writeup of WordCamp Netherlands 2012 on Smashing Magazine. Killer photos, interviews, and a day by day breakdown. Love it.
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This week’s WPCandy Roundtable will be filled with BuddyPress Core developers: John James Jacoby, Boone Gorges, and Paul Gibbs will be sitting down to chat. If you caught last week’s show with the marketplace theme developers, you’ll know a thing or two about what to expect tomorrow afternoon.
We’ll be streaming the Roundtable on the WPCandy Stream at 2pm EDT (18 UTC) with the chatroom buzzing if you’d like to swing by and get your question answered by the group.
Speaking of questions, if you have one (or a few) that you’d like to see posed to these BuddyPress pros leave it in the comments below. Make ‘em good ones!
WP App Store, the project aiming to make plugin and theme purchases easy within the WordPress dashboard — and which we previewed a couple of months ago — quietly launched yesterday (complete with slick intro video). Their plugin is downloadable on their website, which once installed will give you a new top-level menu item for browsing commercial themes and plugins recently added to their system.
Seventeen theme and plugin partners are in place at launch, a few more than announced when the original teaser page went up. Brad Touesnard, the developer behind WP App Store, said that a couple of the vendors that originally showed interest haven’t been responsive, while others just aren’t in the store yet. Developers interested in bringing their own theme or plugin products to WP App Store can request an invite.
Touesnard’s certainly not on his own with this project. In addition to the vendors partnering with WP App Store, his advisors include prominent WordPress business owners Adii Pienaar, Carl Hancock, and Jason Cohen.
How Mark Jaquith built “Have Baby. Need Stuff!”
Mark Jaquith wrote an awesome blog post describing how he went about building a website called Have Baby. Need Stuff! He used _s from Automattic, Bootstrap, Posts 2 Posts, and a handful of other goodies to pull the site together.
This episode of Aftertaste immediately follows this week’s Weekly Theme Show and sees the crew casually discussing WordPress hosting choices, going back and forth with the chatroom, and choosing the episode title.
On this week’s episode of The Weekly Theme Show, we discuss buying themes via a plugin like WP App Store, the results of the ThemeThrift project, and all sorts of options and dashboard notification fun stuff. Sounds like fun, doesn’t it?
This episode is sponsored by the upcoming WordPress service Raft.io and the Typecase plugin by UpThemes.
This episode of Aftertaste took place directly after WPCandy Podcast #32 and, of course, consists of Brian and I discussing WordPress topics a wee bit more than we did on the podcast proper. I’d also say we did a good bit of catching up, since we honestly haven’t’ chatted in a while.
Episode #32 of the WPCandy Podcast sees Brian Krogsgard and I (yeah, seriously!) running down the most important WordPress news of the week in just about 30 minutes. I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it here again: if the other podcasts we produce here overwhelm you, the WPCandy Podcast proper is likely the show for you. Very little discussion, but quite a bit news and links.
If you only listen to one WordPress podcast this week, make it this one.
This episode is sponsored by the Typecase plugin by UpThemes and the upcoming WordPress service Raft.io.
QR code that looks like the WordPress logo
I’m not sure how I resisted posting this one for so long: Dougal Campbell posted a functioning QR code in the shape of the WordPress logo. Scanning it will send you to WordPress.org.
Also: QR codes still make me sad inside.
On Tuesday evening the countdown clock on ThemeThrift counted down to zero, and the week-long experiment that theme developer Jake Caputo began on a whim came to a close. For seven days his theme Modest was available via a pay-what-you-want model, with options ranging from $0 to $50. By the time the clock ticked to zero the theme had seen downloads from 272 people, 8% of which opted to pay something for the theme.
When I spoke to Caputo this week he said he expected to see a bit of activity on ThemeThrift when he launched it last Monday. I asked him to clarify, thinking he meant to say he hadn’t expected that. But he said he did expect some attention, since the idea was a bit off the beaten path and, well, risky.
