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The response to the new series, Behind the Site, has been great. A number of you have offered up a look behind the curtain of your sites, so there are plenty on the way.
This week’s Behind the Site is WP eBooks, a site run by Ron and Andrea Rennick. In this post they (well, Andrea) will tell you about the site, what plugins they are using, and what they’ve customized to make it work the way it does.
Today I’m happy to usher in a new post series on WPCandy called Behind the Site. It’s not much of a series right now since we’re at post number one, but we’ll get there.
Behind the Site is a series for sharing more about the inner workings of a WordPress site, almost the way you would an interview with a person. We want to get to know the site, find out what makes it tick, and see how we might emulate what it does. If our WordPress Workspaces series offers a bit of insight into the workspaces WordPress professionals work in, Behind the Site should offer some insight into what those professionals have built.
As I did to open up the WordPress Workspaces series, I’ll be offering up a site of my own for Behind the Site’s first round: this one. We’ll look at what makes up WPCandy, what drives it, and hopefully touch on what makes it a unique site.
While the design update in WordPress 3.2 is certainly not of the magnitude of the redesign that 2.7 saw, it represents a significant step forward for WordPress as a platform. Despite the many significant updates, it’s odd how quickly we adapt to the change and even forget what things used to look like. After using 3.2 for a few days it’s easy to forget what all the changes between 3.1 and 3.2 were. And that’s a good thing.
If you’re using 3.2 and aren’t quite sure of each of the subtle design changes it brought, skim through the gallery below and reminisce on how things used to be. And in the future, when you want to remember what the 3.1 to 3.2 visual shift was like, don’t forget about this post.
WordPress 3.2, or “Gershwin”, is now available on WordPress.org. Odds are you’ve already run over to update your install or to download it fresh to check it out. If you haven’t done that yet, well, why not? Get to it.
Once you have 3.2 in hand you might be wondering just what the new version brings to the table. We’ve reviewed all of the new bits and bobs and have summarized them all below. If you aren’t sure of everything in WordPress 3.2, or aren’t completely up to date, this post is for you.
We’ll walk you through literally everything we know about WordPress 3.2. If you’re already using and enjoying 3.2, be sure to jump down to the comments and describe you experience so far.
There are no shortage of places to find WordPress themes. Some prefer to make their own themes, some use only free themes, and still others—perhaps yourself—that purchase WordPress themes. Assuming you are purchasing themes online you have a number of places to look. Commercial theme shops are many and varied. There is also another type of commercial theme resource, typically referred to within the community as a WordPress theme marketplace.
After how well received our WordPress theme framework comparison was, and how often theme marketplaces were brought up when we discussed how to find WordPress themes, there was just no way we couldn’t do a rundown of theme marketplaces as well. In this post you will find a bit of a background on theme marketplaces in general, a rundown of everyone we know about, and a poll so that you can weigh in with your experiences.
It was only a few weeks ago when we ran off our first set of WPCandy shirts. We have taken them to a number of WordCamps, meetups in our various areas, and in a few special instances mailed them out to folks. While handing out all this free torso decoration I’ve noticed something odd, but not altogether surprising.
These people are all very attractive. But man, they are even better looking wearing a WPCandy shirt.
Have a look at our beautiful community just after the jump, and find out how you can snag a WPCandy shirt for yourself. If you have a shirt and would like to see yourself on this page as well, send a photo our way.
We all work with WordPress professionals every day. Not in the traditional way, of course: we use Twitter, Facebook, and blogs to work virtually with one another. And that works great. But have you ever wondered what someone’s office looked like, the desk where they spend the bulk of their lives working? I know I have.
This week Brian Casel, WordPress theme developer, will be showing us around his own WordPress Workspace.
Brian Casel is a web designer based in Norwalk, Connecticut. He’s the creator of WP Bids, a WordPress theme for creating project proposals, as well as the Clean Slate WordPress CMS Theme. Most recently, Brian co-hosts Freelance Jam, a live web show and podcast all about freelance business and web design.
You can connect with Brian on Twitter @CasJam and on his blog, briancasel.com.
Now I’ll hand it off to Brian, so he can walk us through his WordPress Workspace.
We all work with WordPress professionals every day. Not in the traditional way, of course: we use Twitter, Facebook, and blogs to work virtually with one another. And that works great. But have you ever wondered what someone’s office looked like, the desk where they spend the bulk of their lives working? I know I have.
This week Pippin Williamson, freelance WordPress developer, will be showing us around his own WordPress Workspace.
We all work with WordPress professionals every day. Not in the traditional way, of course: we use Twitter, Facebook, and blogs to work virtually with one another. And that works great. But have you ever wondered what someone’s office looked like, the desk where they spend the bulk of their lives working? I’ve wondered.
This week Shayne Sanderson, WordPress consultant and speaker, will be showing us around his own WordPress Workspace.
We all work with WordPress professionals every day. Not in the traditional way, of course: we use Twitter, Facebook, and blogs to work virtually with one another. And that works great. But have you ever wondered what someone’s office looked like, the desk where they spend the bulk of their lives working? I’ve wondered.
This week Jason Schuller, of Press75 and Theme Garden, will be showing us around his own WordPress Workspace.
