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Giveaway: A Year of Free Hosting From InMotion Hosting

October 22, 2013 / Tom

The contest has ended. For details on the winners and how you can get a discount on InMotion hosting, see this post.

As you guys know, one of the things that I like to do for those of you who are regular readers is to provide giveaways for various software, applications, services, and products.

Today, I’m stoked to be offering up a giveaway for two web hosting options:

One year of hosting with the InMotion Hosting Power Plan
One year of hosting with the WebHostingHub

As usual, if you’re interested, there are more details below:

Introducing Pressware – Custom WordPress Development and Services

October 21, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

About three months ago, I published about on teasing Pressware.

Straight from the initial post itself:

But as years have passed, my focus has shifted, and I’ve begun to target specific things – namely WordPress and its tangential topics – I thought it fitting to label the business in that direction. Thus, The Pressware Company, or Pressware, for short.

And as of today, I’m proud to finally be releasing the landing page and the official launch of the brand.

Symbolic Links with WordPress: Working With Nested Directories in Repositories

October 18, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

I – along with a number of other contributors – have been working hard to close out issues and prepare the next version of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate.

Sure, I’m excited, but while working on this particular plugin, I realized that for anyone who does work with a WordPress plugins either via git or Subversion, that you may be working with a mess of directories while trying to develop the thing.

It’s nothing that a symbolic link can’t fix, but first, let me explain the problem.

Searching For a Startup

October 18, 2013 / Tom

A couple of years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Stephen Bateman. During this time, I was working at 8BIT and he was spending his summer working with us.

Because of a weird scheduling conflict, he ended up staying at my place for about three or four weeks. During that time, my wife and I had just found out we were pregnant, and we were playing parents to a twenty-something.

I kid, I kid.

Pun intended.

It was awesome having Bateman around, and it’s hard to summarize my overall opinion of the guy in just a few words. But, basically, he’s smart and he’s going places, and he recently started a blog that I think many of us should be reading.

ManageWP.org For Community-Curated News

October 17, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of the problems of trying to keep up with all of the various news outlets as it relates to WordPress is finding the right sources. I mean, there’s Twitter accounts, blog subscriptions, blog aggregators, podcasts, and so on.

Personally, one of the best blogs that I’ve found for curating content is Post Status – it has a healthy balance of links from around the community, and one person’s commentary on some of the larger issues. A good read for sure!

But one of the things that the WordPress community has been lacking for sometimes is a Hacker News-esque site where stories can be contributed, voted, commented, shared, and so on.

In short, a full on community-driven-and-curated site of WordPress-based content for those who are specifically interested in, well, WordPress.