Month: May 2011
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New free WordPress eCommerce plugin JigoShop released – jaw drops
Jigoshop from Jay Koster and the rest of the Jigowatt team shipped it’s first public beta today. Jigoshop is a free eCommerce plugin for WordPress. As someone who has played with just about every eCommerce plugin for WordPress, and who does a lot of work with other eCommerce platforms like Magento, OpenCart and Prestashop, I…
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Roots HTML 5 WordPress Theme – First Look
So I’ve been dabbling in a bit of HTML5 of late and have been reviewing how things have progressed in the WordPress development community with HTML5 themes in the past few months. Previously we looked at the Toolbox theme and the reasons why you should start using HTML5 in your theme development. There’s a few…
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Must read WordPress theme development tips from Carl Hancock
Envato Founder Collis Ta’eed posted an excellent response to that other recent post over on WPCandy. I think Collis and the Envato team are a really smart bunch and clearly understand the concerns expressed by the theme development community recently with regard to themeforest. What’s more they’re not just listening – they’re acting on it…
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Configuring nginx, php5-fpm and user permissions
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.” Gandhi* *(and anyone who has ever used Linux) I recently moved the blog over to a pretty cool new server config, the same kind that some of the really big boys like Mashable, WordPress.com, WPengine and PHPFog use. What started off as a simple exercise to tune up my…
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Say hello to theme.it
I was delighted to hear today that Jason Schuller (of Press75, themegarden) is in the process of launching theme.it – a new site for all things WordPress theme related including tutorials, articles & videos. Jason has gathered a crack team of contributors for theme.it including Lisa Sabin-Wilson, Mike McAlister, Orman Clark to name but a…
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Moving servers
Hi all, We’re tinkering with our plumbing at the moment and moving to a brand spanking new server to speed things up a little bit so apologies if you noticed some downtime the past hour. We’re all done now so everything should be nice and stable now. Ed
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Great new Bug tracking theme from WooThemes – FaultPress
WooThemes have launched a cracking new WordPress theme this week called FaultPress. FaultPress is a highly advanced WordPress theme that transforms WordPress from a publishing platform into a full featured trouble ticketing system. This certainly isn’t a new concept. We’ve seen the Quality Control theme late last year, but what is interesting about FaultPress is…
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New WordPress Theme Twenty Eleven – First Look
So it looks like the Theme Wranglers over at Automattic are getting close to completing the first version of the new Twenty Eleven WordPress theme which is based on the excellent Duster theme created by Automattic and recently released in the theme repository in April. The team are working hard to ship V1.0 of Twenty…
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Genesis Framework powers over 200,000 websites
In amongst the comments in the Hypercritical Analysis of WordPress themes post over on WPCandy came an interesting stat from Brian Gardner of StudioPress. Rough numbers indicate that a 1/4 million sites are running Genesis. I’d say that’s a stable environment to build for. That’s a huge number in my opinion – especially as the…
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An Analysis of WordPress theme pricing
Some great stuff from WPCandy this week that has prompted us to publish a highly irregular post 🙂 First of all go read the excellent Hypercritical Analysis of $35 WordPress themes. Theme developer Mike McAlister takes us through his thoughts on why he think commercial WordPress themes are priced too low. Mike makes the very interesting…