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Siobhan McKeown

Support the Development of Anthologize

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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.

Get Involved with Creating the Ultimate WordPress User Manual

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There’s been all sorts of buzz going on over on the make.wordpress.org/support/ blog ever since it was set up. The support folks and documentation writers are an all-round friendly group, and if you’re looking for a way to get involved with WordPress it’s a great place to get started. In fact, if you’d like to help out with WordPress docs and aren’t quite sure how to get started, there’s a project running at the moment which will ease you into the process while giving you a chance to get to know the gang: the WordPress User Manual. [Read more…] about Get Involved with Creating the Ultimate WordPress User Manual

Interconnect/IT Launch the Auditor

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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

Introducing the WP Realm Technical Writing Team

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As a site about WordPress, you’d expect us to have just a little bit of technical content. After all, I heard a rumour that there are these things called PHP and MySQL that have something to do with WordPress, although I’m not sure what – something mystical and magical no doubt. To help out with writing regular  content I’ve gathered a team of experts who’ll be writing regular posts about the technical aspects of WordPress; writing code, plugins and themes, contributing to core, getting the PHP right, playing with your database, and all that good stuff that technical folks who use WordPress like to do. Let’s meet them. [Read more…] about Introducing the WP Realm Technical Writing Team

WordPress Community Summit Announced: WP Realm Represents!

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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

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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.