A free weekly Newsletter with a round-up of WordPress news and articles
WordPress Takes SXSW 2012!
There will be a WordPress booth at the SXSW trade show March 12-15. Stop by if you need a helping hand with your site, or just to say hi.
WordCamps for Spring 2012
The following is a list of the confirmed upcoming WordCamps, one of which may be in your area, or you might be lucky to be traveling there just in time to have some WordPress fun with your trip. For updates on schedules and WordCamps, check out WordCamp Central.
4 Simple Ways to Secure (and Maintain) Your WordPress Website
Though WordPress allows a site creator to go a step above what most website software offers regarding security, it is still Internet based software, and there are inherent risks for you, your data, and your users.
Community Interview with John James Jacoby on BuddyPress, bbPress, and social
John is the lead developer on the BuddyPress and bbPress projects, and has been working for Automattic since November 2010. In this interview he talks about the futures of both BuddyPress and bbPress, or “the bbs”, his slew of old jobs, and something called a Faquith.
Inside The WordPress Toolbar
Great article on how you can modify your WordPress toolbar to fit your needs.
WordPress Coding on Your iPad
This is really interesting because it can be a great alternative to carrying around a bigger laptop. Good for log-in / make a quick fix / save / continue your vacation sort of workflow.
Daniel Bachhuber: The Zen of WordPress Development
Daniel Bachhuber of Automattic’s WordPress.com VIP team, gave this awesome talk at WordCamp Phoenix 2012 earlier this year. He walked through some things developers are overlooking when working with WordPress, and some great tips and tricks to speed up your development workflow.
GitHub for Journalism — What WordPress Post Forking could do to Editorial Workflows
What if we could re-imagine WordPress’s ease-of-use and intuitively dumb-simple workflow to introduce a layer of GitHub’s collaborative fork-and-merge horsepower under the hood?
