Important WP Author Announcement: Envato WordPress Toolkit  

by posted in General
Apr 3
2012

Dad's Toolbox by Eric Bjerke

One of the best features of WordPress is the way it lets users check for, download, and install updates for plugins and themes from within the WordPress admin interface. Last year you may recall Jason announced the WordPress Theme Only Attachment and after more work we’re ready to roll out a way for authors to implement automatic updates for their themes in a standard way.

We now have a plugin for WordPress that will show you when a theme you’ve purchased from ThemeForest has an update available. You can then choose to automatically download and install the update. Even better than that though, the plugin will show you all the WordPress themes you’ve purchased on ThemeForest, and allow you to install them too!

We also have a PHP library for authors to include in their WordPress themes that will provide an easy way to implement this functionality within the themes themselves.
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The WPCandy Quarterly: WordPress in print. Have you subscribed yet?  

by posted in News
Dec 19
2011

With all the talk going on about ebook readers and emagazines etc, one could be forgiven for thinking that the catch cry “Print is dead” was slowly coming true. In the web community at least though, there seems to be a bit of a resurgence going on. Magazines are still alive, it seems they just serve different niches. The success of Elliot Jay Stocks’ print magazine ‘8 Faces‘ mainly targetted at typophiles, for example.

So why not a print magazine for WordPress fans? I’m very excited about The WPCandy Quarterly Magazine that Ryan Imel has in the works. The magazine has been accepting pre-orders for a while now, so I was quick to subscribe. The first issue is due to start arriving in letterboxes next month, and it will feature articles from some of our very own marketplace authors!

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New MacBook Pro: Paid for by advertising sponsors  

by posted in Team
Jan 13
2011

It all started when my Sony VAIO of almost 4 years crashed on me and destroyed the virtual hard drive of my virtual development server. Needless to say, it was a virtual disaster, and something needed to be done.

Now don’t get me wrong, my Sony VAIO had done me proud for a few years, but it was gradually failing. First the fan got louder and louder, then the base got hotter and hotter. Then one day it got so hot that it switched off, and that seemed to also kill the battery (which it turns out is considered a “consumable” and not covered under the extended warranty I bought!). Since then, it would get extremely hot and just switch itself off randomly, even despite the laptop cooling fan I purchased to try and extend its miserable life. But when it crashed and I also almost lost a lot of work… that was the last straw.

I’m generally fairly operating system agnostic. I used Windows almost exclusively for quite a long time and then switched to Linux for development and Windows for gaming, and Mac OS X on the odd occasion. I was once a Mac hater until OS X came out, and then it seemed that with the basis in *nix, this could be the perfect OS for me. My main problem was that a replacement laptop is a fairly big expense, especially as I had just moved from Australia to the UK for a while, and was still settling in.

So I hatched a plan.

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