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.
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.
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.
Confirmed.
Brad Williams, co-host with me and Dre on WP Late Night (he also does something else not nearly as cool), talking about the podcast on his blog. We determined during this week’s episode that WP Late Night is the most popular podcast on WPCandy, and since ours are the only podcasts about WordPress that we know of, it’s likely the most popular WordPress podcast anywhere at the moment.
The theme review team discusses changes for 3.4
Chip Bennett leads a discussion on revisions to the theme review guidelines for WordPress 3.4. Read through the guideline revisions and the comments following for a brief look into the world of the theme review team.
How one WordPress theme made $370,000
Will Ellington on the WP Living blog takes a look at U-Design, a ThemeForest theme that made $370,000 in sales.
Lately I’ve wondered whether the nature of ThemeForest really encourages the developers who sell themes there to create great themes, or just to learn how to market their themes more effectively.
Related posts after taking a quiz
Neat idea from Daniel Bachhuber:
It would be neat if you could include a quiz widget within the article. The reader could take the quiz which would test their knowledge and then suggest content based on their responses. The news organization would collect useful demographic data to refine their editorial planning.
How to use the theme customizer in your themes
Otto walks through how to implement the theme customizer in your own themes. This feature is coming in WordPress 3.4, which really isn’t far away now. If you make WordPress themes, you need to dive into this tutorial head first.
Harming? Please.
An excerpt from Jeff Chandler’s post WordPress Foundation Harming Rather Than Helping WordCamps:
If the WordPress Foundation is going to tell WordCamp organizers what the limit is on their sponsorship packages and quite possibly make it too low which can make or break an event, WordCamp San Francisco should be held to the same procedures. If WordCamp San Francisco can not put on a successful event because of the regulations of the WordPress Foundation, they should change its name so they can hold an event without anyone telling them what to do.
WordCamp San Francisco is a WordCamp in name, but that’s it. It’s not like other WordCamps. Think of it as WordPress OMGBBQ Yearly Event if that makes it easier.
WordCamp San Francisco sponsor prices cause a stir
The WordCamp San Francisco 2012 sponsorship pricing page went up today, and discussion ramped up around Tony Perez’s blog post about it. He said:
My bigger issue is with the “Do as I say, not as I do” mentality. I fail to see how this camp is any different than any other. I have heard the rumors yes, the plan is to change the name and make it the one true WordPress conference. Great, then change the name and differentiate it, don’t hold it under the same name, hold everyone to one standard, and yourself to another.
Automatticians Evan Solomon and Jane Wells spoke up in the comments to respond to concerns. Wells explained, among other things, why San Francisco is still called a WordCamp:
Matt has not felt the need to change the name to differentiate, in part because most of the community already knows it’s different and in part because as the founder of WordCamp, with an event in SF, he’s attached to it.
The post and comment thread are both worth a read through, particularly if you’ve been confused about how WordCamp San Francisco differs from other WordCamps. I’d also recommend checking out Jane’s post announcing WordCamp San Francisco 2011, which further explains the thought process behind keeping it named WordCamp.
