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:
- Plugin auto-updates from Github.
- Praise for the Barley inline editor plugin.
- The first WordPress plugin for Google Glass.
- WordPress 3.8 “Parker” is now available.
- FYI: Browser detection is built into WordPress core.
- Monitor site changes with the Stream plugin.
- WP-Discourse integrates Discourse w/ WordPress.
- The ultimate shortcodes plugin.
Web Development
- Issues with the Oswald font cutting off? Here’s the fix.
- Top 25 responsive design tools.
- gfycat converts GIFs to faster, smaller-file HTML5 video.
- CSS3 Generator
- Beautiful icons via The Noun Project
And the rest…
- “Perfect is the enemy of good.”
- How to win as a first-time startup founder.
- The Ballmer peak, via XKCD. Cue obligatory “Developers” remix.
- Find online courses with Coursera.
- Google makes improvements to Spreadsheets.
- Work better with the Focus@Will soundscapes.
To cap things off, we leave you with Kevin Rose’s prototype concept for a new blogging platform: