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The Post Formats UI Feature Coming to WordPress 3.6

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One of the WordPress features we use a lot here on WP Realm are the post formats. However, we do not use it in its default way, we use it the Alex King way.

So with that in mind it’s quite exciting to see WordPress 3.6 will have a strong focus on the Post Formats UI in general. Aaron Campbell writes:

Post formats is going to be a major win for 3.6. It’s one of those features that has so much potential, but it really falls short in usability and honestly we haven’t really taken the time to truly show what it can do. We’re going to re-think the admin UI for post formats

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On Lightweights and WordPress

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A lot of people see WordPress as the be all end all solution for anything you can put on the web, an application platform as you like. But, not everyone agrees with this point of view for various reasons. Chris Lema wrote nice article that, for me, puts opinions like that in perspective. He calls it “The invasion of Lightweights”:

It’s the invasion of the lightweights.
And last night some guy who writes code using Rails and CodeIgniter hears that some WordPress guy is suggesting that people may want to use WordPress as an application platform. Much like every programmer before him, he can’t see it. He’s a hard core programmer. He likes his hard core tools. And he looks at the tools that new programmers might use (in this case WordPress), and all he sees are lightweights.

So, what’s your opinion, is Chris spot on or is he just trying to justify argument that WordPress could indeed be seen as an application platform?

Professional WordPress Second Edition is Out and About

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Whenever people ask me to recommend a good learning book about general WordPress stuff, they pretty much always get the same answer. Well, they always got the same answer. Because as of today Professional WordPress has a second edition. Not familiar yet with Professional WordPress? This is what Brad Williams, one of the authors, has to say about it on his blog:

Professional WordPress is a book written by programmers for programmers. We take a more in-depth look at WordPress to help explain how WP works from the inside out. The book offers an overview of the WordPress loading process and steps through exactly what happens when a WordPress-generated web page is displayed. The book also covers extending WordPress functionality through custom plugins and creating website designs with custom themes and child themes.

Have you picked up or ordered your copy yet?

WordPress Wallpapers, Who Doesn’t Need Them?!

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Just when I’d thought I’ve seen all WordPress related websites out there.. I came across the site WordPress Wallpapers today which is a totally cool site if you’re into WordPress and cool wallpapers for your computer. It’s an Envato project and you should probably do what they say:

We love WordPress and we love design. Grab your free WordPress wallpapers here.

Find your favourite here.

Pippin Shares Insights on How To Use bbPress As a Support Forum

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Ever since bbPress rebooted as a plugin people have started to use it more and more again in live situations again. One of those examples is Pippin Williamson‘s support forum where it’s being used to provide support for the very popular Easy Digital Downloads plugin. Pippin explains in great detail how you can use bbPress by adding a few extra plugins to provide for a perfect support forum.

One thing that stood out for me in his post was his introduction to the Private Replies function:

If your customers ever need to provide sensitive information, such as site URLs or account credentials, it is absolutely paramount that you give your customers a way to contact you privately. There are a variety of ways to do this, from personal emails to actual ticketing systems, such as Zendesk or Ticksy, but none of them are optimal if you are also using bbPress as your main support platform. Why? Simply because having multiple support areas to manage does nothing but convolute the process.

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PressBooks is going all the way open-source

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As you may know WordPress was intended to give anyone a publishing platform. PressBooks is a plugin that takes that principle one step further in that it allows you to actually publish a book via WordPress. Or, as they put it:

PressBooks is a simple online book publishing tool, built on WordPress. We help publishers and authors create ebooks, typeset/print-ready PDFs (to be turned into real books!), and webbooks (which can be public or private). For publishers, we can provide not just book production toolset, but also an online catalog and website (for examples, see: The Rogue Reader and AskMen Books).

It seems only fitting that a very cool solution on top of WordPress finally goes one step further and becomes open source project. Their idea is to turn their business into a freemium model which seems to be doing very well for WooThemes with their WooCommerce for instance.

So what do you think, is this a step in the right direction for PressBooks?