A free weekly Newsletter with a round-up of WordPress news and articles
10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 3.4
WordPress 3.4 is around the corner. It’s currently beta4 which means a Release Candidate or three will be needed before it drops officially.
Radically Simplified WordPress
Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress and Automattic says that the service is preparing for a significant change of direction — by releasing a much simpler version designed to work on mobile.
Plugin Directory Refreshed
Besides the somewhat old Plugin Header, you can now subscribe to get an email whenever a commit is made to a plugin repository and behind the scenes there was a revamp of the proactive scanning of the entire repository to help authors fix security issues.
WordPress Plugins and Usability – a Match Made in Hell?
When a plugin should get its own spot in the sidebar, when its settings screen should be placed in the Settings menu, what makes a plugin a “Tool”, and so on.
Is it WordPress?
A fun little tool just launched from the folks at Web Factory tells you whether WordPress powers a website or not.
The less we all talk about WordPress, the better
It’s great to see WordPress businesses forming their own events, but I’ll be more excited when a free, community developed project built on WordPress sees its first real dedicated event — be it a BuddyCamp, bbCamp, or something else.
How Renku Works
Renku is a new way to buy premium plugins for WordPress. Integrated completely into your WordPress administration, it makes purchasing plugins a breeze.
Scott Reilly (aka coffee2code) joins Audrey Capital
WordPress developer and self-described “prolific plugin developer” Scott Reilly has joined Audrey Capital, Matt Mullenweg’s angel investment and research company.
Code Poet relaunches, expands beyond a listing service
The new CodePoet.com, or rather build.CodePoet.com, offers two free ebooks, interviews with WordPress professionals, and a collection of resources the team has curated that they think other Code Poets would find useful. The listings, or Code Poet Directory, can now be found at directory.codepoet.com.
