A free weekly Newsletter with a round-up of WordPress news and articles
WordPress 3.9 “Smith”
Version 3.9 of WordPress, named “Smith” in honor of jazz organist Jimmy Smith, is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard. This release features a number of refinements that we hope you’ll love.
WordPress 3.9 Release Candidate 2
The second release candidate for WordPress 3.9 is now available for testing.
If you haven’t tested 3.9 yet, you’re running out of time! We made about five dozen changes since the first release candidate, and those changes are all helpfully summarized in our weekly post on the development blog.
WordPressers, Should You Build Your Own CRM?
So the question we hear talked about a lot – around WordPress developers – is whether to build their own custom CRM directly inside of WordPress. It’s a “eat your own dog food” kind of thing. And of course, many developers even think that maybe it’s a product others would buy. In this article, Chris answers you the some really good questions.
How I Built WatchMeCode’s Subscription / Streaming Service
In a previous post, we very briefly mentioned using WordPress and some plugins and add-ons to get the service up and running in a matter of hours – what would have taken me weeks or months to do if I were writing all of the code from scratch. Several people have asked about this setup, so in this article we wanted to share more detail about what we’re using.
WordPress 3.8.3 Maintenance Release
Last week’s 3.8.2 security release introduced a bug where drafts written with the Quick Draft tool in the dashboard were not saved. That bug is fixed with today’s 3.8.3 release. What’s really interesting about this release is that not only is the bug fixed, but discarded draft posts will be restored, if possible.
Microcaching with Nginx for WordPress
Zach Brown has a nice post up on how to set up microcaching with Nginx combined with Batcache to handle big spikes of traffic (or just to maximize efficiency and enable running a site on low resources).
The Importance of Using Domain Language in WordPress
In building software one phrase that’s used to describe the work that goes into understanding what all needs to make up an application is that of the “problem space” or the “problem domain.”
This is important because part of the process of understanding the problem domain is learning the language, the terminology, and the concepts that go into building an application.
