I’m going to take a leaf out of Chris Lema’s book right now to answer whether WordPress should be used for eCommerce: It depends. There are camps of thought that think WordPress isn’t right for eCommerce, and there are people that think it’s the only way to go. Having worked with and used several different […]
According to the Polygots Make blog, WordPress is used all over the world and in many different languages. To put that in perspective, more than a third of existing WordPress installations are non-English and in his keynote at WordCamp Seattle, core developer Andrew Nacin mentioned that only 5-10% of the world speaks English. At AudioTheme, […]
Web professionals talk a lot about the importance of writing great code. We should talk even more about providing great user experiences for websites and products we build. Code quality is really important. We should have standards, and utilize them habitually. We should code with proper debug tools so we catch problems as they happen. […]
A WordPress website is very affordable to get up and running. You can do it for free, plus the cost of your average shared hosting account. However, running a more serious site can get considerably more expensive. Here’s the list of stuff that I use here on Post Status, along with associated costs. I’m also […]
I found the Freelance Toolkit landing page on Modern Tribe’s website today thanks to a Tweet from Tom Willmot: This is awesome: http://t.co/hjPxL2azH0 via @justlikeair — Tom Willmot (@tomwillmot) March 13, 2014 It’s apparently been around for a while, but this was the first time I’ve seen it. The toolkit is a presentation and a collection […]
I had the pleasure of being a guest on WPwatercooler today, where we talked about where to go to learn WordPress. I thought I’d share more in a post here. How I learned My perspective as a learner is centered around development — mostly theme development. I was introduced to WordPress in 2008 and by […]
WordPress Multisite is a great feature of WordPress. But it’s not always the right feature. I just disabled Multisite on my personal blog. I used it for the wrong reasons back in the day, and have either deleted or moved the sites in the network. It was time to disable Multisite completely. There isn’t much […]
The theme customizer feature was introduced in WordPress 3.4, released June 2012. Since then, it’s been a great tool that’s allowed theme developers to move away from complex options managers to a simpler, more logical interface where many settings can even be live previewed. Over the last couple of years, there have been a few […]
Internationalization (i18n) and translation is one of those fuzzy gray areas for many of us in the WordPress community, especially amongst Americans. We’re simply not very accustomed to a multilingual society, therefore we sometimes erroneously don’t think about internationalization of our code and translating our projects to other languages. But WordPress is 20% of all the web, […]
Riptide is “an oral history of the epic collision between journalism and digital technology, from 1980 to the present.” It is a collaborative project of interviews and an essay between Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and the Nieman Journalism Lab. In Riptide, John Huey, Martin Nisenholtz, and Paul Sagan interview sixty one influential […]
