Last Week @ WPUniversity: Version Updates & Dev Resources

Sidekick for WordPress 1.1

Our weekly check-in post was skipped last Friday — we blame the egg nog — so we’re tackling things this afternoon instead!

Here’s what we were looking at last week:

On WordPress

Sidekick v 1.1 is live.
Our flagship project, Sidekick for WordPress, has just been updated! Sidekick puts interactive step-by-step WordPress walkthroughs in your admin area. Check it out on the plugin directory.

Playing with 3.8 admin colour schemes.
WordPress 3.8 introduced new colour schemes alongside the redesigned admin area. Core developers Aaron Jorbin and Konstantin Kovshenin created two plugins: Jorbin’s Color Rotator plugin randomizes the colour scheme when you log in, and Kovshenin’s Color Schemes Roulette plugin randomizes the colours after publishing a new blog post.

Matt Mullenweg on tour.
Lots of interviews popped up in the last week:

A curated directory of WordPress plugins.
Tidy Repo is a curated directory/listing of WordPress plugins. Props to Jay Hoffmann for putting together such a great resource.

Other Goodies:

Web Development

And the rest…

To cap things off, we leave you with Kevin Rose’s prototype concept for a new blogging platform:

 

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