And here we are, at the end of August, heading into the Labour Day long weekend. It’s amazing how quickly this summer has come and gone. Here’s what we’ve been following this week:
Automattic adds Media Explorer to WordPress.com
An awesome new feature has been added to WordPress.com blogs: Media Explorer.
“This tool lets you search Twitter and YouTube from inside the “Insert Media” window in your WordPress.com Dashboard, which makes it easy to find and embed relevant Tweets and videos in your posts and pages.”
It’s coming soon to Jetpack for all of you self-hosted types.
Related:
- Take that, Storify! (VentureBeat)
- Automattic Adds New Media Explorer (TechCrunch)
- How Media Explorer Was Made (WordPress.com VIP)
Registration Opens for WordCamp Toronto 2013
Registration for WordCamp Toronto 2013 (which WPUniversity is sponsoring, by the way!) opened up last week.
Treat yourself to a weekend of WordPress for only $30. Four tracks on Saturday, panels on Sunday, plus excellent food.
Add Tweetable Sentences to your Blog Posts
Joshua Benton posted a great tutorial yesterday on how you can add tweetable sentences to your WordPress blog posts:
“In this piece on auditioning for Saturday Night Live, Times staff highlighted a number of quotes from the piece and made them individually tweetable. Now you can do the same on your WordPress-based site.”
Head over to his article for a step-by-step walkthrough.
Innovative Web Layouts
One complaint we sometimes hear about WordPress sites is that the majority of them look the same. The layouts across most sites are virtually identical: header, navigation, content, sidebar, footer.
While this consistency is great for usability, you can make an argument that they’re also uninspired.
Smashing Magazine has put together a nice compilation of unique layouts to get your creative ideas flowing.
New Walkthrough: Visual Editor
The latest addition to our plugin’s walkthrough library covers the Visual Editor – something that you’ll become intimately familiar with as you use WordPress on a daily basis!
Unlike our previous walkthroughs, this one is an overview. Overviews are longer, more detailed walkthroughs that introduce you new to new concepts or tools in WordPress.
Not using our plugin yet? Why not? It’s absolutely free to download, and we’re releasing new updates each week. Download your copy.
You can also check out a live demo at demo.wpuniversity.com
