Send HTML Emails with WordPress and the e-Newsletter Plugin

by Sarah Gooding July 14^th, 2011 13 Responses

We’re very excited to introduce our brand new e-Newsletter plugin today. If you’ve been searching for the ultimate HTML Email plugin for WordPress, you’ve finally arrived at the right place. E-newsletter has it all.

Create powerful, targeted email campaigns directly within the WordPress dashboard
e-Newsletter allows you to create successful email campaigns, offer a signup on your website, manage your subscribers and track results for campaigns all from your WordPress dashboard.

Create and edit advanced e-newsletters with professionally-designed templates
Quickly setup unlimited numbers of groups and subscribers to effectively target your campaigns

Development

Update Now to WordPress 3.2.1

by Sarah Gooding July 12^th, 2011 2 Responses

WordPress 3.2 was a big, exciting update for WordPress users with quite a few new features. WordPress 3.2.1 hit the shelves today, but don’t worry – it’s just a maintenance release. You’ll want to upgrade when you get a chance, especially if you’ve been experiencing some problems after your last upgrade.

Here’s what’s new, according to the release haiku:

JSON, the admin
A little bit tidier
Edge cases covered

Community, Development, Freebies, News, Themes

PressWork Officially Launches Free Drag-and-Drop WordPress Framework

by Sarah Gooding July 12^th, 2011 27 Responses

The new PressWork framework for WordPress officially launched at WordCamp Montreal. Last week I wrote a little preview of the new HTML5 framework, which is unique in that it allows you to change your site’s layout and design in a live preview environment.

Now that PressWork has launched we’ve got more information and details about what they will be offering.

Check out the new PressWork demo video:

Why was PressWork Created?
Brendan Sera-Shriar and c.bavota created PressWork to be an approachable framework for WordPress users of all experience levels. In their own words:

Development

WP-Snippets Gets an Update and Redesign

by Sarah Gooding July 11^th, 2011 3 Responses

WP-Snippets, created by Filip Stefansson, is one of my favorite WordPress resources for quick and useful WordPress code snippets. They’ve recently updated the site with a new design and a couple of new ways to view the snippets.

Archive mode will show you snippets segmented into different categories of code. The new Blog mode displays snippets in a traditional blog format. You can also subscribe to the Snippet RSS Feed to read them whenever it’s convenient for you.

BP Development, BuddyPress, Development, News

BuddyPress.org is Undergoing Maintenance This Week

by Sarah Gooding July 8^th, 2011 2 Responses

The BuddyPress development team announced that BuddyPress.org will be having some work done this week, so don’t be surprised if everything isn’t working as expected.

Here’s the official announcement:
We’ll be doing some maintenance to BuddyPress.org this week, so don’t be alarmed if a few things aren’t working or go missing for a little while. We’ll try to make it as painless as possible, and we promise it will be worth it in the end.

Community, Development, Miscellaneous, News, Plugins

Like WordPress 3.2′s Distraction-Free Editor? You’re Going to Love Artsy Editor!

by Sarah Gooding July 8^th, 2011 5 Responses

WordPress 3.2 was released on the 4th of July, sporting its new fancy distraction-free editor for composing in full-screen mode.

If you’re a fan of the new editor, then you’re bound to love the new Artsy Editor, created by Stephen Ou. It’s a premium editor with an even simpler UI than WP’s distraction-free editor. One of the most exciting features of Artsy Editor is the convenient image management. It lets you drag-and-drop images, Photoshop-style resize images, customize the interface, and much more.

Check out a screenshot of Artsy Editor in action:

Community, Development, News, Plugins

How to Display WordPress Post Content Based on a User’s GeoLocation

by Sarah Gooding July 6^th, 2011 4 Responses

If you have the need to display different content based on your readers’ location, you’ll want to check out the new WP Geocode plugin. It gives publishers the ability to customize content based on the geolocation information of the person reading the post.

WP Geocode is easy to use, because it makes use of shortcodes in order to include location data in posts and post titles. You can also use the shortcodes within posts in order to tailor the content based on the readers’ proximity or location.

Settings are easily configured through the plugin’s options panel in the dashboard:

Community, Development, News, Themes

PressWork: A New HTML5 Front-end, Drag and Drop WordPress Framework

by Sarah Gooding July 6^th, 2011 18 Responses

Anyone going to WordCamp Montreal? It’s happening this weekend July 9-10, 2011. If you’re attending, make sure to watch for PressWork, a brand new HTML5 framework for WordPress designers, developers and publishers. PressWork announced on Twitter that they will be launching their framework at WordCamp Montreal.

What’s unique about the PressWork framework?

BP Development, Community, Development, News, Themes

WordPress 3.2 is Here: Born on the 4th of July

by Sarah Gooding July 4^th, 2011 16 Responses

WordPress 3.2, dubbed Gershwin, has arrived and is ready for download, coinciding with the American Independence Day. Nice little touch for GPL software, isn’t it? ;)

What’s New and Exciting in WordPress 3.2?
If you’ve been following WordPress 3.2 development, then you know it’s packed full of goodies. The major new features include:

Refreshed dashboard design
Fully HTML5 new Twenty Eleven theme with optional rotating header images
Distraction-free writing or zen mode
Retiring support for PHP4, older versions of MySQL, and legacy browsers like IE6
Performance updates to make WordPress significantly faster on all hosting platforms

Development

WordPress Has Dropped Support for IE6 – Who Can Blame Them?

by Sarah Gooding July 4^th, 2011 13 Responses

WordPress 3.2 is dropping this week and, for the first time, it will not have support for IE6. Those of us who have struggled to support IE6 at the expense of modern browsers’ capabilities when building with WordPress are jumping out of our seats to wave goodbye. WordPress 3.2 will be pushing users to upgrade their browsers through the Browse Happy campaign.