The weekend is here! I hope you all have a great one! I have some new and updated plugins to share with you today. Check them all out after the jump! Continue Reading…
Hope you guys are getting ready for the weekend because not only is it a holiday (if you’re in the US) but Monday is the 10th Anniversary Party!
Dig it!
So until then, chew on some of these links while you wait to party!
WordPress Game Show!
Now isn’t this a clever idea?
Why not boot the WordPress Game Show via Detroit’s 2011 WordCamp at the 10th Anniversary Party that you’re having on Monday?
Of course, no cheating!
Pressnomics, one of the few events that focus exclusively on WordPress and business, is fast approaching and the invitations are being sent out as we speak – in fact, you may already have them if you’re close by and local to Josh and his team.
It’s open to everyone but there are some people and organizations that they are trying to explicitly encourage to show up at the event:
While the event is open to all WordPress-centric business owners, we feel it is important to try to ensure specific people are in attendance: Those that are actively shaping and driving the Economy around WordPress.
Canada, the UK, Australia, Tasmania, Norway, India, and South Africa were all represented last year giving PressNomics an international feel. About 50 of invitations for this year are heading across the US and to the far corners of the world tomorrow after I pay a visit to the post office. Please check your postbox next week and consider attending.
Let us know if you get one of those sweet invites!
In a blog post this morning Matt Mullenweg, one of the founders of WordPress, shares that Tiger Global has invested over $50M in his company, Automattic.
This isn’t a new capital round or series round – rather, it’s based on secondary stock purchases so that earlier investors can “lock in some returns” which releases pressure for a much larger liquidity event.
Tiger Global joins the likes of Polaris Partners, True Ventures, Radar Partners, and the New York Times Company all who have stake in the growing company. As Toni Schneider shares in his blog post, Tiger isn’t a small player (although a more “behind the scenes” type one):
It’s noteworthy that Tiger has recently invested in companies like SurveyMonkey and Eventbrite, and before that companies like LinkedIn and Facebook.
I thought it would be fun for the WP Daily community to share their own THANK YOU to WordPress and the entire WordPress community for a great 10 years.
Let’s have a go, shall we?
WordPress security is top-of-mind with a lot of people lately with the big botnet scare that’s apparently still happening in pockets here and there.
That’s why we have companies like Sucuri and their great staff that are constantly monitoring the security landscape for those that don’t know about it until it’s too late.
Dre Armeda is leading a lot of that charge and in an oldie-but-goodie presentation from WordCamp Atlanta 2012 that finally got uploaded to WP.tv he goes over End-User security that’s worth a look:
Happy Thursday everyone! Not only do I have some plugins to share, but I have some themes to share as well. It has been quite a while the I have shared some themes, so I’m a bit excited
Check them all out after the jump!
There’s been some conversation about having a “better” planet and it’s been a great topic of conversation among blogs as well as in internal conversations here in our office.
For those that need a quick recap, the WordPress Planet is a feed that sources content from a number of blogs and sites and aggregates them into one central location here at http://planet.wordpress.org/. It’s an old and outdated place of aggregation as many of the sites and blogs are either defunct, rarely update, or do not post about WordPress anymore.
As James shared as he broke down the blogs and outlined their “effectiveness” there are only about 10 or so that should be kept based on their continued good-standing and about 20 that should be effectively removed.
The reason this is important is because it’s a feed of content that comes right into your WordPress dashboard – which means there are a lot of eyes on it and in an effort to be the best resource and one that creates value it should be better curated and managed.
