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Yoast on Why They Don’t Support Old WordPress Versions

Joost de Valk posted an interesting article about their support policy the other day. Specifically, about not supporting old WordPress versions. Joost comes to an interesting conclusion:

In short: upgrade. I know some developers out there are saying that we can’t “require” people to upgrade, well, I disagree. He compares it to Apple not forcing you to buy a new Mac when it breaks. The difference there is that we’re not talking about hardware. We’re talking about software. Apple regularly asks you to upgrade your system to fix battery issues or other issues.

Dates and Location for WordCamp Europe announced

Sooo, what are your autumnal plans for 2013? They should probably include WordCamp Europe, which has just announced the dates for the event.

After months of searching for the perfect venue, we’re really excited to announce that the very first WordCamp Europe will take place on 5th – 7th October in Leiden, The Netherlands!

All the information is now on WordCamp Europe’s official site.

You can keep abreast of all WordCamp Europe news by subscribing to WordPress Europe’s newsletter, or following @WPEurope on Twitter or on Facebook.

Current State of the WordPress Theme Marketplace

Over at WPShout Alex Denning wrote a nice piece on what he calls “An Economist’s Look: Competition in the WordPress Theme Marketplace”. Or in other words:

That thought process has lead me to this post, where I’m going to run you through the current state of the marketplace, what impact that has and what that means for consumers.

Alex comes to the following conclusion: [Read more…] about Current State of the WordPress Theme Marketplace

Introducing Twenty Thirteen

Mark Jaquith, over at the make.wordpress.core site, introduced the new default WordPress theme to be introduced in WordPress 3.6. Twenty Thirteen looks like nothing you’ve ever seen in a default WordPress theme and to be honest, I’m not sure that’s a good thing.

I am aware that what we see now is just an early rendition, – love the colors, don’t like it being boxed on my 27″ iMac – but I’m not sure what to think about the general direction here. It’s geared towards Post Formats, for which the UI will be revamped in 3.6, and I’m not sure that is the direction a default theme should be headed. Why? [Read more…] about Introducing Twenty Thirteen

BuddyPress 1.7 Comes With Shiny New Features

Over WPMU.org Sarah Gooding blogs about a few nice features that the forthcoming 1.7 version of BuddyPress will bring to the table. If you’re a BuddyPress fiend than do check out her article. Only thing I wished she’d worded differently is the mention of the Group Forums disappearing because they’re not.

BuddyPress itself will stop shipping the old stand-alone version of bbPress (which powered the old forums), but instead BuddyPress 1.7 relies on the bbPress plugin entirely for the forums. So they’re not going anywhere, you just need to switch to bbPress for the most awesomest forum experience. [Read more…] about BuddyPress 1.7 Comes With Shiny New Features

Changing UI Proposal Regarding Icons for WordPress 3.6

WordPress 3.6 will see some visual improvement on the admin side of things like for instance the Post Format UI is up for a change, but there’s more in the works. Right now there’s a ticket on Trac getting some attention regarding new icons. So, if you want your designer / UI voice to be heard, go make yourself be heard and comment on this trac ticket.

PressNomics v2 is in the Making

If you own a WordPress business, the event to go to last year was PressNomics. In case you missed it and were sad about that – I sure was – it’s good to know there will be a second one.

It’s official. Planning is underway for PressNomics 2.0.

The idea of PressNomics is simple: Get the movers and shakers of the WordPress economy in the same physical place and bring in amazing business focused speakers to share their experience, add in some ample social time and see what happens.

Interested? Just drop your email over here.