The WordPress Plugin Directory sees updates
The WordPress Plugin Directory , as a part of the 3.org project, has seen a new functional and visual update in the last week . To begin with, the directory was upgraded to the bbPress trunk. Other updates included the following: The “broken” link on Plugin pages now prompt the user with a new topic in the support forum, with the suggestion to explain the problem. Gravatars were added in addition to author usernames on Plugin pages. Plugin homepage URLs were removed.
Interview with Darcy Clarke of Themify
This is the first installment of a new interview series at WPCandy called Indie Interviews . In these interviews we’ll be focusing on new WordPress related startups, the people involved, the obstacles they overcome, and where they hope to go with WordPress. In this week’s installment I was happy to sit down for a few minutes with Darcy Clarke, co-founder of the new-this-month Themify , a new WordPress themes company.
Plugins and themes are different animals
The more I think about it, the more I agree with Joost de Valk’s post from last week discussing themes taking on functionality that is better left to Plugins. What I’m thinking is that themes are different from Plugins, So different, that it’s changing how I approach themes and Plugins, and how I determine whether they are quality or not.
Moving Target
My favorite book on the film industry is William Goldman’s ( The Princess Bride , Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ) “ Adventures in the Screen Trade ”. What I love is there are no specific conclusions about filmmaking.
Develop Plugins? There (will be) a handbook for that!
The chapter list for the upcoming Plugin developer handbook has been unveiled . Aaron Jorbin posted the current draft of the handbook overview, which includes the following five sections: Before You Code Coding Plugins Data Structures/Data Storage WP APIs After You Code The full chapter list is too long to include here, but can be found at the WordPress development blog
Blogging For Web Designers: Editorial Calendars and Style Guides
A few years ago, you might not have pointed out during a meeting with a potential client that you maintained a blog. Over time, though, blogs have evolved from the being a personal hobby to a serious work tool
WordPress Theme Releases for 08/30
Bombax is a nicely crafted theme with 5 different color schemes and configurable options such as right or left or holy grail or no sidebar, magazine style or traditional style, custom header, and custom background. Lukoo is a simple and stylish theme based around the color green
New Plugin will improve your internal search results
Derek Herman has released a WordPress Plugin titled Relevant Search that improves on the default WordPress search functionality, which has a notorious reputation for being less than stellar . Herman explains the basic workings of the Plugin: The basic idea behind this plugin was to add a FULLTEXT index to the post_title & post_content and run a bit of REGEX on the search terms using that index. Then once daily the plugin will update the index with wp_schedule_event() to keep the search results from become corrupted or invalid.
New Envato Marketplace, buy and sell WordPress tutorials
It was announced this morning that a new marketplace site, the Tuts+ Marketplace , has launched today as a place to buy and sell tutorials, screencasts, and ebooks.
Be friendly with WPCandy on Facebook
WPCandy is getting all fancy with the social networks. Last week we promoted our Twitter feed , this week it’s our Facebook page
