WordPress 2.7 is slated to be released very soon and I’ve started playing around with the beta release. And I’ve begun producing some updated videos for wpscreencasts.com
The video below provides a quick intro to the new dashboard coming in WordPress 2.7. The changes to the dashboard are dramatic and will require adjustments from even the [...]
Hey all… if you are in Hawaii this week (and I know you all wish you were), help me wind down Geek Week at PodCamp + WordCamp Hawaii. I’ll be speaking on Saturday about how you can reinforce your personal or company’s brand by doing simple tweaks to default WordPress templates. I’ll go into a [...]
WordCamp is easily one of my favorite events of the year. Meeting our fantastic community and geeking out over WordPress is the best. Plus, JJ and I were pretty excited this year since we launched WP Screencasts. So, we always make it a point to go (sorry to say that JJ did miss out on [...]
Right on the heels of WordCamp is the WordPress Charity Scavenger Hunt. Proceeds from this event - which looks like it will be very fun - will benefit 826 Valencia.
To play a little six degrees of WordPress separation…
The WordPress Charity Scavenger Hunt benefits 826 Valencia
826 Valencia was founded by Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers won the 2008 [...]
Akismet is an obvious choice for any list of WordPress plugins we always use. But there’s plenty of other plugins that we find ourselves installing every single time we build a site with WordPress. If Matt and the Automattic crew ever decide to make these part of the core WP software, Holly and I certainly [...]
One of the first projects Holly and I undertook under the Shiny New Toy name, MeltingSpot, is now live.
MeltingSpot, a free email newsletter and website, is an Internet version of the American “melting pot” society - a place where Americans and immigrants come together to close the culture gap. Read MeltingSpot for advice on how [...]
About a week ago the WordPress app for the iPhone was announced with an awesome screencast. And now that the app has been released and seeing that JJ and I are HUGE fans of WordPress, its only fitting that I do a quick review (especially since between the two of us, I’m the iPhone owner).
So… [...]
It’s getting easier and easier to start a company. The tools you can use to operate, manage, and communicate with the folks you work with are becoming more robust and dirt cheap to adopt. Here’s a few of the services and tools we used to bootstrap Shiny New Toy and get things off the ground. [...]
When Holly and I decided to (re)join forces, fire up the factory, and unleash Shiny New Toy on the world, we rooted our principles on many of the same principles found in the open source software community and the emerging - make that exploding - world of social media communications. Like those two outstanding communities, [...]
It was five years ago today that Matt Mullenweg posted a link to download version 0.7 of WordPress, making WordPress publicly available for the very first time. Like the proud family it is, the WP gang is celebrating with a party in San Francisco tonight. A party I’d love to be at but won’t be [...]
