What’s Hot and Not in the WordPress Economy

by Hyder Jaffari June 22^nd, 2012 1 Response

The WordPress economy is a big buzzing hive of talent and ideas. Users are always thinking up new ways to extend it, make some side income or turn it into their full-time profession.

Finding a niche within that ecosystem is a task of its own, because there’s so many directions you can take. Let’s take a look at what’s hot and what’s not.

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What’s Hot?
Niche Themes

Generic themes are good, but niche themes are better. Using a theme specifically built for a restaurant is easier to customize and launch than building/modifying a generic theme. Some examples of niche themes include -

Wedding themes
Resume themes

BuddyPress, BuddyPress Development, BuddyPress Plugins, BuddyPress Themes, Community

Planning and Building an Intranet with WordPress

by davidalbert June 22^nd, 2012 5 Responses

Ah, the Intranet. Long hailed as the red-headed step child of web portals, Intranet’s are increasingly becoming more sophisticated as companies realize the true potential of a well-designed central hub to share, collaborate, reference company and client information, and even manage projects and track time.

While there’s no shortage of hosted Intranet solutions on the market, fortunately for the WordPress inclined a plethora of themes, widgets and plugins are available whether you’re looking to build an Intranet for 5 employees or 500.

Community

How to Build a Money Making Business with WordPress

by Kerry Carron June 21^st, 2012 4 Responses

“He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.” ~ Henry Emerson Fosdick

Community, Plugins

Donate $1 to every free WordPress plugin you use

by Clifford Paulick June 21^st, 2012 1 Response

Are you a WordPress “taker”, not a “giver”? Do you eat all the free donuts at church but never volunteer? If yes, I’m calling you out:
Donate at least $1 to every free plugin you actually use.
Alternatively, if the plugin author operates on a “freemium” business model, upgrade today, like you know you’ve always wanted to.

Do you want to donate more than $1 to some? That’s fine. In fact, you could calculate your website or blog’s value and share some of your value with them.

Donate $1 to every WordPress plugin you use

Community, WPMU DEV

Fundraising With WordPress: A Guide For Nonprofits

by Craig Grella June 21^st, 2012 8 Responses

There are several plugins which allow nonprofits to take donations and even more web services that provide similar functionality, but none of them can match the level of integration and ease of use offered by the WPMU DEV Fundraising Plugin.

This video and text walk-through will discuss the main features of the plugin and how you can get your nonprofit up and running quickly taking donations right on your website. All the videos were shot in HD so remember to select that option in the video display panel by clicking on the gear icon at bottom right of each video window.

Community

9 WordPress Myths That Might Surprise You

by Kerry Carron June 19^th, 2012 15 Responses

If you are new to using WordPress you may have heard a number of things about WordPress that held information that was slightly less than the whole truth. Here in the WordPress community we refer to these misrepresentations as “WordPress Myths”.

WordPress Myths are either completely fictitious or an exaggerated conception of what WordPress really is. The problem with Myths is that they tend to be a widely held but false belief in what typically contains some truth to it.

Myth 1: Too Many Plugins Slow Your Site

Community

Creating Sample XML Data for Multiple WordPress Sites

by Craig Grella June 19^th, 2012 4 Responses

Bloggers working with several clients understand the difficulty in managing multiple installations of WordPress, especially when it comes to initial design and site testing. Clients always want to preview an early version of the site to test the look and feel, to make sure text looks good on the page, and to confirm the site has all the desired functionality.

Community, Plugins

Photocrati Acquires Popular WordPress NextGEN Gallery Plugin

by Sarah Gooding June 19^th, 2012 1 Response

Many of you are familiar with the wildly popular NextGEN Gallery plugin for WordPress. It’s been one of the most widely used WordPress gallery plugins with over 5 million total downloads, 3,600 daily downloads and 26,000 weekly downloads.

The big news this week is that NextGEN Gallery has just been acquired by Photocrati. Photocrati provides all-in-one WordPress websites and galleries for photographers. They’ve got big plans for adding new features to the plugin, including:

Improving the user interface
Adding capabilities to manage galleries from within posts and pages
Working with Automattic to integrate with WordPress VIP
New slideshow, filmstrip and thumbnail displays
Caption and filmstrip styling

Community

7 Signs You are a WordPress Fanatic

by Kerry Carron June 14^th, 2012 14 Responses

What Are the Characteristics of a WordPress Fanatic?
1. Does your work uniform consist of something sporting a great big WordPress “W” of some sort?

After taking my shower, combing my hair and brushing my teeth I make my way to my closet, pull out and put on my black t-shirt boldly stating “Ask me about WordPress” across the front. It really doesn’t matter which day of the week it is. I have a WordPress t-shirt for each day of the week. Seriously! WordPress T-shirts have become my work from home uniform.

Community

WordPress To Change ‘Posts’ to ‘Blog’ in Next Version?

by Ronnie Burt June 14^th, 2012 15 Responses

We’ve preached about the need to simplify the WordPress dashboard before, and just a few minutes ago one such change was proposed in the WordPress Trac.

This change is simple:

1. Change the ‘Posts’ menu item to ‘Blog’

2. Move the ‘Pages’ and ‘Comments’ menus up above ‘Media’

The idea is that the difference between posts and pages is often confusing for new users and this should help make it more clear.

We are a bit torn on if this really is a good move, so thought it might be worth asking you here.