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If you’re familiar with Less CSS, SASS and others, you will absolutely love this one: The future of CSS. It seems to cover everything we’ve been missing so far. I’ve already started using More CSS in my next project and it’s looking very good so far!
Everybody’s doing roundups, and so am I. WordPress Weekly issue #1!
Jane opened a ticket to add meta description to core, Joost de Valk is not happy. Theme Customizer in 3.4 is looking good. Ryan Imel of WPCandy interviews John James Jacoby on BuddyPress, bbPress and social. Theme.fm seems to be back, with a post about some plugins essential for your WordPress themes.
There’s a bunch of new videos at WordPress.tv from WordCamp Phoenix 2012 featuring Lance Willet, Aaron Campbell, Ryan Imel, Daniel Bachhuber and others. Tom McFarlin writes for Smashing Magazine about premium products. Jane’s Jitterbug Kickstarter project is almost funded. WordPress.com rolls out two new themes and views by country in stats.
This is an experimental post series where I link to random news around the WordPress community. Yes, everybody’s doing roundups, and so am I, but mine are better — short and straight to the point. Did I miss anything?
If you’re an Android fan you’ll love this post on Mashable: Top 10 Best Android Games of 2011. Features both free and paid ones and some I haven’t even played yet, awesome!
Sweet! WordPress 3.3 Release Candidate 2 is here and as Andrew Nacin pointed out they’re “really close to a final release.” To find out what’s new in 3.3, visit the About page after installing the release candidate. Good luck and make sure your themes and plugins throw no errors!
If you’re using VirtualBox for web development and sync data between the host and guest VMs using folder sharing via Guest Additions, you might have noticed that VirtualBox is not too good ad syncing files and some of them tend to get lost too.
Here’s a good tutorial on Setting Up NFS in Ubuntu which turned out to be a great alternative, works crazy fast, no permissions issue, syncs very well and easy to snapshot too!
Check out Selective Page Hierarchy for wp_list_pages() where Michael Fields shows how he extended the WordPress Walker_Page class to create a selective “drilldown” page walker, which can then be used with wp_list_pages.
Artiste by Orman Clark is a very nice looking portfolio theme for WordPress released today. Just like the rest of Orman’s themes, this one’s got a bunch of options, widgets, shortcodes and templates as well as a layered PSD for heavy customization. Doesn’t seem like it responds to media queries but the layout is flexible enough to fit an portrait iPad.
Kriesi, one of the top authors on Themeforest has released his first eCommerce theme called Abundance. Quite experimental but the sales figures are looking good so far. Thinking of giving it a spin very soon.
There’s a great article over at Theme.fm on Using the Google Analytics Data Feed API in WordPress which covers some pretty interesting techniques to grab and make use of data stored in your Google Analytics profile, like what are your top 10 posts this month, or what were the most searched ones, etc. I’ve authored that article so feel free to ask questions ;)