On January 31st, Twitter released version 2.0 of their popular Bootstrap framework complete with a responsive stylesheet and new components. I have been working to keep BootstrapWP, the WordPress theme for Bootstrap as up to date as possible.
If you have been using any previous versions of the BootstrapWP for theme development, I encourage you to switch to the development branch on Github. The development branch contains many bug fixes along with overall style and device response improvements.
Usage: Customize and override any of the styles using style.css file. All .css and .js files are loaded in functions.php. Don’t forget to disable any of the .js files you do not need
I released Bootstrapwp, a powerful base WordPress theme powered by Bootstrap. Bootstrap is a responsive frontend toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart web development, complete with core HTML, CSS, and JS for grids, type, forms, navigation, and many more components. Now you can use it with WordPress as a solid base to build custom themes quickly and easily.
WordPress has made improving the experience and communication of feature changes to users a priority. After updating to the latest beta release of WordPress 3.3, I smiled when I saw the screen at the end of the update. Kudos to the WordPress UI team.
I am currently working on a WordPress project where the development site is hosted on Rackspace Cloud Sites. Doing typical administration tasks on the development site (Example: updating to WordPress, updating/installing a plugin, running a backup, etc.) was constantly resulting in a page timeout error.
A little research lead to the discovery that Rackspace Cloud Sites uses a load balancer that times out all PHP requests over 30 seconds. The solution to this problem on any PHP based site hosted on Cloud Sites, is to add a few lines to your .htaccess file to manually override the length of time for the timeout.
The end result of my .htaccess file is shown below, with entries added for increasing the maximum execution time, upload size, post size, and memory limit. Your results may vary, but this setup for WordPress on Rackspace Cloud Sites has me developing happier.
I was working on a WordPress project where I needed to give the client the ability to customize the sort order for a custom post type taxonomy. WordPress by default does not have this ability built-in, so I created a plugin called Custom Post Type Taxonomy Sort.
The upcoming release of WordPress 3.3 features an improved interface for uploading images or other attachements. Plupload - is a drag and drop interface that uses HTML5, Flash, or Silverlight (depending on your browser capabilities) for the adding of new images or other attachements to your WordPress site.
The fifteenth release of WordPress, named “Gershwin” or 3.2 came out today. The main purpose of this release was to improve the speed of WordPress, both internally from an administration side and externally to your website visitors. To help with the speed improvements, the minimum requirements for running WordPress on your website host have changed.
WordPress 3.2 requires:
PHP version 5.2.4 or greater
MySQL version 5.0 or greater
If you are unsure of your website hosting server specifications, be sure to run the Health Check plugin before installing the 3.2 update.
There are over 400 features/improvements in the new release, all are listed on the WordPress 3.2 Codex page.
Update: If your website is hosted by GoDaddy, do not install the WordPress 3.2 update. GoDaddy’s web hosting servers run an old version of PHP, that no longer meets the updated minimum requirements.
