http://wprocker.com WP Rocker - Fresh Links, News and Updates from WordPress wprocker.com http://wprocker.com/story/58989/ WPCandy Quarterly, a WordPress related quarterly print magazine from the folks at WPCandy, is just about to be mailed out to the lucky readers who either pre-ordered or subscribed. To my knowledge, or at least about half an hour of searching, this may very well be the first ever printed WordPress ma.. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:00:00 -0600 Weblog Tools Collection http://wprocker.com/story/58989/ http://wprocker.com/story/58987/ Chris of LiftUX reached out to me the other day and wanted me to let everyone know that they are hiring for the position of Senior WordPress/PHP developer. The developer would also be helping to build out themes and plugins for UpThemes.    ∞ Related posts: WordPress Developers .. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:00:00 -0600 WP Tavern http://wprocker.com/story/58987/ http://wprocker.com/story/58985/ Many people within the WordPress community are anxiously awaiting the first issue of the WPCandy Quarterly to show up in their mailbox. According to Ryan, that day is soon approaching as the first batches are currently being printed. However, since there is still some time before we’ll be hold.. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:00:00 -0600 WP Tavern http://wprocker.com/story/58985/ http://wprocker.com/story/58978/ First off, congratulations to Joshua Strebel and to his wife as they are now first-time parents. Secondly, Joshua has put together a pretty transparent view as to how he created Page.ly, a WordPress specific hosting service. So far, the guide is five parts long but I advise you to start out with par.. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:00:00 -0600 WP Tavern http://wprocker.com/story/58978/ http://wprocker.com/story/58972/ WordPress community site VoodooPress has recently turned one year old. To celebrate, they are giving away VoodooPress branded T-Shirts. They come at the cost of providing the site some social love by clicking on any of the social media icons on the site. Small price to pay for a chance at a T-Shirt... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:00:00 -0600 WP Tavern http://wprocker.com/story/58972/ http://wprocker.com/story/58970/ The WordPress book, Digging Into WordPress has been updated to cover WordPress 3.2 and 3.3. This marks the 9th edition of the book as noted by Jeff Starr. Those of you who are owners of any previous version of the book will receive this update for free.    ∞ Related posts: Affil.. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:00:00 -0600 WP Tavern http://wprocker.com/story/58970/ http://wprocker.com/story/58944/ In what I believe to be an excellent use of the WordPress Foundation, Jane Wells has shared news that the foundation plans on footing the bill for Meetup.com Organizer dues that need to be paid by the founder of the meetup group. Considering the amount of these dues range from $12-19/month it’.. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:00:00 -0600 WP Tavern http://wprocker.com/story/58944/ http://wprocker.com/story/58937/ Apparently, this site has been around for a little while but I’ve just now seen it being shared across WordPress folks on Twitter. It’s the WordPress Honey Badger who has a bad attitude and does things the way it wants to do them which is not always the right way. I’ve been reading.. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:00:00 -0600 WP Tavern http://wprocker.com/story/58937/ http://wprocker.com/story/58932/ Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress, turned 28 two weeks ago. It’s been a busy year for Matt. Three major WordPress versions were released, he switched back to using a Mac after 8 years on Windows, and he travelled 190,000 miles over 245 days. Even though two weeks have gone by, it’s.. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:00:00 -0600 Weblog Tools Collection http://wprocker.com/story/58932/ http://wprocker.com/story/58928/ Knowing that a lot of people use DreamHost for their WordPress powered websites, it’s a bit unsettling to see that suspicious activity was detected within one of their databases and thus, passwords have been reset across FTP/Shell and VPS customer accounts. If you use DreamHost and have not be.. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:00:00 -0600 WP Tavern http://wprocker.com/story/58928/ http://wprocker.com/story/58926/ iThemes has now added a huge student discount to their popular Web Designer’s Toolkit. The new Student Edition offers full-time students in the US and Canada access to over 150 themes, over 20 plugins, and over 300 hours of training for only $97 ($880 less than the original). Folks with a str.. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:00:00 -0600 Weblog Tools Collection http://wprocker.com/story/58926/ http://wprocker.com/story/58902/ WP-Snippets has gone through a few changes as of late. Among them is a responsive design, a button to mark snippets as favorites, better ways of filtering snippets, and a few other enhancements. WP-Snippets is one of those really cool ideas that I talked about during the early days of WordPress Week.. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:00:00 -0600 WP Tavern http://wprocker.com/story/58902/ http://wprocker.com/story/58866/ Splinder, a popular Italian blogging service, will be closing its doors on January 31st. If you’re Splinder user in need of a new home, fear not! Moving to WordPress is super-easy. If you want to try a similar hosted blogging service, WordPress.com has you covered with a new importer, a handy.. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:00:00 -0600 Weblog Tools Collection http://wprocker.com/story/58866/ http://wprocker.com/story/58855/ The days of KevinJohn Gallagher and his company using WordPress are over, according to him. Within the post, Kevin covers a number of reasons as to why WordPress will no longer be used for client projects with the biggest reason being that it’s not a full fledged CMS like some of its rivals. C.. Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:00:00 -0600 WP Tavern http://wprocker.com/story/58855/ http://wprocker.com/story/58811/ WordPress 3.3.1 has been released. This is the first minor update since the release of WordPress 3.3 and contains 15 fixes, as well as an important security vulnerability fix. This update is recommended for all users, and can be done from the Dashboard -> Updates section of your blog’s Dash.. Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:41:00 -0600 Weblog Tools Collection http://wprocker.com/story/58811/