Is it WordPress?
A fun little tool just launched from the folks at Web Factory tells you whether WordPress powers a website or not.
How Renku works
Renku is a service, yet in beta, that will offer a plugin purchasing experience through the WordPress dashboard. Ryan McCue explained how Renku works in a recent blog post.
WordPress theme SEO marketing gimmick
Developer Jason Bobich:
Why should you be limited to whatever features the theme author has stuffed in that may or may not be relevant to you? You should be able to choose your own SEO plugin to accomplish what you want.
A couple of months old, but still worth linking up. It’s great to see theme sellers on ThemeForest speaking out against others there following bad practices.
WordPress in place of Sharepoint
Joe Flood pitches the advantages of using WordPress and assorted plugins as your Intranet, in place of more bloated systems:
By using WordPress, you turn “add this information to the Intranet” from a frustrating task into something as simple as blogging. And just think how good your Intranet could be if people actually wanted to contribute to it.
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.
