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The future of contributing content is here – Post Forking in WordPress with Git.

1 October 2012 by Remkus de Vries 4 Comments

A week ago I watched a great TED talk about how Git(hub) is changing the world as we know it. Yes, I said world. I remember watching it and wondering how some of Clay Shirkey’s point could find its way to WordPress. We’re one week later and what do you know, Ben Balter was already busy creating just that and released a plugin today; a mix of Git and WordPress Posts. I’m really excited about this because of the possibilities it opens. From the site:

WordPress Post Forking allows users to “fork” or create an alternate version of content and in doing so, sets out to foster a more collaborative approach to WordPress content curation. This can be used, for example, to allow external users (such as visitors to your site) or internal users (such as other authors) with the ability to submit proposed revisions.

Support the Development of Anthologize

20 September 2012 by Siobhan McKeown 1 Comment

BuddyPress core developer, Boone Gorges, has set up an Indiegogo campaign to fund him to spend time working on the Anthologize WordPress plugin. Anthologize lets you turn your WordPress website into an ebook. It was developed via the One Week | One Tool project, a summer institute for humanities scholarships, during which they had to build a tool in just a week.

Anthologize encompasses two loves of my life: the humanities and web technology, so I’d encourage you all to check out Boone’s proposal and support him. He’s only costing his time at $75 per hour, which seems like a bargain for one of the select few of BuddyPress core developers. You can read more about it on Boone’s blog, or go straight to Indiegogo to sponsor him.

Interconnect/IT Launch the Auditor

6 September 2012 by Siobhan McKeown 4 Comments

The Auditor has been in beta for some time and was finally launched yesterday by Interconnect/IT. The plugin, as the title implies, creates an audit trail of all of the actions that have been carried out on a WordPress website, bringing a new level of ease to debugging client sites. From the website:

One day, a client of ours changed a WordPress setting. An important one. He didn’t tell us. He just told us his site was broken and it needed fixing, urgently. We were only able to guess at what had happened.

We realised that we weren’t the only people with this problem – if you administer WordPress sites, you need to know what other people are doing when they’re logged in. You need to know when something’s been changed.

After six months of development and testing, The Auditor was born.

The plugin lets you: [Read more…] about Interconnect/IT Launch the Auditor

A comprehensive understanding of web security and how it pertains to WordPress

30 August 2012 by Remkus de Vries Leave a Comment

Tony Perez from Sucuri talks extensively about WordPress Security, or in his own words: “My goal was to provide end-users a comprehensive understanding of web security and how it pertains to WordPress.”. Go check it out. ∞

WordPress Community Summit Announced: WP Realm Represents!

7 August 2012 by Siobhan McKeown 4 Comments

If you have been following the WordPress News then you’ll have heard about the WordPress Community Summit. The Summit is for WordPress community members, contributors, business people and general WordPress people. The make.wordpress.org/summit/ blog has gone up with a list of invited people. The list makes for some interesting reading, and there’s some surprises in there who, if they attend, will no doubt bring a bit of “excitement” to the proceedings.

Here at the Realm we’re really chuffed, that not one, not even two or three or four, but five of our number have been invited! These are:

Remkus de Fries aka Friesibeast – our founder and the man responsible for WordCamp Netherlands and the Dutch translation of WordPress
Noel Tock – WordCamp Zurich organizer & happytables founder, thinks themes are dead
Zé Fontainhas – WordPress Polyglots lead, grumpiest man in the world
Andrea Rennick – Support/Docs Team Rep, WordPress mother and quilter
Me – Siobhan McKeown – writer of Smashing Mag articles, doc writer and general overexcitable & impatient person

It’s going to be a great chance for us all to meet up, and to get to know the rest of the community. We’re all really excited to be representing our respective countries, to meet with folks stateside and to show them just how vibrant the international WordPress community is.

What do you think of the list? Anyone you think shouldn’t have been on there? Anyone you think is missing?

WP Engine Integrates Git Version Control with WordPress

24 July 2012 by Siobhan McKeown 5 Comments

If you’ve not heard of WP Engine you’ve probably been living under a stone (or not attended a WordCamp in America, which the WP Engine guys invariably attend). The WordPress hosting company has launched a new feature which is going to be of particular interest to developers, especially those who prefer Git to Subversion.

Git-push-to-deploy by WP Engine lets developers deploy applications using Git, and now that it’s incorporated with WP Engine it means anyone who’s hosted there can a) push to WordPress, and b) use version control with WordPress. With Git Push-to-Deply it looks like WP Engine is looking to tap into the developer market by offering the tools that developers love, and that make their lives easier.

Michael Kimb Jones Launches WOWPlugins.com

17 July 2012 by Siobhan McKeown Leave a Comment

WOW Plugins is a staple of WordCamp UK. Each year Michael Kimb Jones gives a rundown of plugins that he’s using that he finds useful and wants to share. It’s always a really popular presentation, partly because of the content and partly because Kimb is so good at presenting it. Kimb has just announced that he’s launching WOW Plugins, which will be an archive of all of the plugins he has covered each year (and will in the future I assume). I covered Kimb’s WOW Plugins talk on WPMU.org, but now you can follow them all on wowplugins.com. ∞