Ryan Imel

Editor in Chief

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Ryan Imel is the Editor in Chief and WPCandy, and the one you get to be upset with if something goes wrong. You can also find him at his blog and on Twitter.

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Jigoshop team and WordPress community members share thoughts on forking

By 159 days agoAugust 28, 2011

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Last week WooThemes announced the hiring of Mike Jolley and Jay Koster, as well as the forking of Jigoshop e-commerce plugin into the soon-to-be-released WooCommerce. Jolley and Foster previously worked for Jigowatt, a WordPress and Magento development shop, spending the last year working on the core of Jigoshop.

The news brought a number of different reactions from the community, in comments here and on WooThemes’ own announcement post. To clarify their own stance on the situation and clear up confusion the Jigoshop team posted about the future of Jigoshop and their thoughts on what is happening.

The short of it: business as usual for Jigoshop, and they are confident in the team they have.

The long of it gets more complicated. It seems that Jigowatt views the forking of Jigowatt as “needless” and “sad”, and that the forking decision only came after an unsuccessful bid for purchasing their project that “grossly undervalued” their work.

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Run off with a box, err, bundle of Obox Themes for just $14

By 160 days agoAugust 28, 2011

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Obox Themes has been running a Bundle Sale this month that has fourteen of their themes available for just $14. Technically speaking, though, only four of those fourteen are WordPress themes; the others are for Tumblr and Posterous.

Still, four themes for $14 is still a heckuva deal. The deal is running through the end of the month, and on the 31st not only is the deal up but the themes themselves will be discontinued.

Their promotional page says the reason for the deal is that since they are planning to reduce the number of themes they offer, and they want to make sure everyone who wants their themes has a chance to pick them up. It’s not clear just how many themes will remain, but David Perel did say:

We wanted to focus on our best selling items and felt that we couldn’t give the other platforms / long tail themes the attention they deserved.

So instead of tagging them along we took the hard line and decided to discontinue them. It’s all in the interest of quality products from Obox :)

The theme purchase also brings with it one year of support. Head on over to their bundle page for more information.

Will you be picking up their themes while this crazy discount is running? What do you think of the idea of theme shops discontinuing past themes to focus on their most popular themes and features?

Win 1 of 5 Premise memberships thanks to AppSumo

By 162 days agoAugust 25, 2011

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The folks at AppSumo are running a big deal on Premise today. Premise is the landing page plugin from Copyblogger Media, the same team of folks behind StudioPress since they all joined forces. Premise is normally $165 for unlimited API usage and support, but in today’s deal it’s just $95.

That’s cool, but that’s not really what you want right this second is it? You’re looking for the free stuff.

Thanks to AppSumo and Premise, we have five of these Premise memberships to give away. Instead of $165, or $95, or even $2, these five memberships are completely free. If you want one, here’s how to get it.

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WooThemes forks Jigoshop into WooCommerce, launches WooLabs

By 162 days agoAugust 25, 2011

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Adii Pienaar announced earlier this afternoon that WooThemes has hired Mike Jolley and Jay Koster, and will be forking the Jigoshop e-commerce plugin (which we’ve covered) to become WooCommerce, their long awaited e-commerce offering.

WooThemes worked in collaboration with Jolley and Koster in the past to release FaultPress and SupportPress, two themes designed for tracking bugs and support tickets. Jolley and Koster will now head up a new division within WooThemes called WooLabs, where new services and products will be dreamed up. As Pienaar described:

Jay & Mike will head up this team and they will be contributing some of their agility in rolling out things on a more regular basis, whilst the rest of the WooTeam continues to design, develop & support new themes. They will also continue their development of some new application / niche themes and the next theme (only Pipeline for now) is already in the works.

Miniraffe will be one of the first WooLabs projects, as WooThemes has acquired it and will use it to release plugins in the future. Miniraffe was teased not long ago by Pienaar, and we previewed it before it launched.

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Automattic realigns website shortly after WordCamp San Francisco

By 163 days agoAugust 25, 2011

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Sometime after WordCamp San Francisco, Automattic launched a slight redesign of their site. It’s not a drastic change: more of a realignment than a redesign.

It was Chelsea Otakan that first mentioned the change on Twitter. That makes complete sense, since she is a Design Wrangler for Automattic.

Like we normally do, we’ve posted the side by side comparison image just after the jump.

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Jon Cave is a core committer for the 3.3 development cycle

By 163 days agoAugust 25, 2011

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It was announced on stage at WordCamp San Francisco that Jon Cave, developer and WordPress core contributor, has been promoted (so to speak) to the WordPress commit team for the 3.3 release cycle. Cave has been contributing to the WordPress core for nearly a year and a half now, with hundreds of patches under his belt. His eye for security has led to him helping out with the last handful of security releases, among other things.

Jane Wells made the announcement officially on the WordPress development blog, and explained just why he makes a good addition to the team:

Duck’s consistently good code, communication skills, eye for security, and tireless efforts made it a natural choice to give him a more official role with this release cycle. Also, @ryan is just sick of having to commit his patches. :)

Core contributors are sometimes named to the commit team for release cycles to work on key issues. Daryl Koopersmith was named a committer during the 3.2 release cycle, and he will continue in that role for the 3.3 cycle as well.

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