WordPress 3.5 is almost upon us, and I was excited to learn that my Sort Query by Post In plug-in had been folded into core, thanks to a ticket I opened and submitted a patch for some time ago. Sort Query by Post In allowed developers to return posts from a post query (WP_Query) in the order designated using the post__in parameter.
Now that identical functionality is in core, I wanted to update my plug-in to automatically disable itself – with a notice – for users running 3.5 or newer. This code would also prevent the plug-in from being activated if installed on 3.5 or newer. Surprisingly, there seemed to be a dearth of good tutorials, so I came up with my own solution.
10up has come along way since I cobbled together a logo at the beginning of 2011. With 2013 almost upon us, it was past time to move beyond questions like “Is up written in Comic Sans?” Let’s face it – our logo did the job, but it didn’t exactly communicate “first class agency.”
Our new logo is more evolution that revolution, just like our own path over the last two years. Our fundamental business and ideals – making first class websites and online publishing experiences – hasn’t changed. We’re bigger, have more resources, have in-housed resources for systems and design, and have a little more polish as a “company.” So too, our logo is a bit bigger, a bit more rounded out, and a bit more polished.
What does “10up” mean, anyhow? It means carrying forward and upward. It means not just a little better, but a lot better. It means a big leap ahead. And it conveys this idea concisely, just like our new logo. What do you think?
I’ll be participating in WordCamp Los Angeles this weekend, where I’ll present my latest iteration of Enterprise Class WordPress, likely for the last time. While it’s a broad topic and talk, I’m hoping to present a trimmer version that leaves more room for conversation and engagement. Hope to see some familiar and meet some new faces in LA!
Enterprise Class WordPress is a look at what it means to tackle web projects for really big organizations using WordPress. The talk highlights tools and resources for enterprise implementations, marketing tactics and resources for pursuing large scale clients, and even takes a hard look at what our platform needs to do better (multilingual). Above all, it explores how we, as a community, can better pursue large businesses and make WordPress not just the #1 web publishing platform for small to medium sized organizations, but the #1 platform for large scale implementations.
Meaningful conversation and education about WordPress in enterprise is really critical for ushering in the next stage of WordPress’s growth, which is why I’ve taken this conversation to a few WordCamps in the last few months. I debuted the talk in Orange County, but the Boston version was the first to make it up to WordPress.tv. You can also see the standalone slides from the original version (which has evolved a bit).
This weekend I’m heading to New Mexico for the first time for WordCamp Albuquerque. In addition to continuing the conversation about WordPress in enterprises, I’m looking forward to participating in a panel on Making a Living as a Designer or Developer with WordPress. Judging by the communication so far with speakers and attendees, this looks to be an incredibly well organized and planned camp. If you’re headed to Albuquerque, be sure to say hi this weekend!
We might tell our clients to be serious about social media, and we might even build next generation websites structured entirely around social media. But we’ve been so busy helping clients that it wasn’t until tonight that we started getting serious about our own social strategy. We now own @10up on Twitter – the official place for 10up news and insights. In addition, we’ve launched our Facebook fan page, where you’ll find team photos you won’t find anywhere else. Of course, you also can continue to follow me at @jakemgold for unique 10up insights and news, and the team 10up list for a peek into our psyche. Be sure to let us know what you think – at those locations!
Last summer, we had the privilege of collaborating with the brilliant designers at Tellart and the IT team at Bates College to rebuild the college’s website on WordPress. Our mission was to build a durable, modular framework that would balance the consistency and unique features envisioned by Tellart with some department personalization and a clean administrative experience consistent with the needs of each departments (apparently, Food Services didn’t understand why there were sports scores; food fights are not scored). We were proud to hand off just that framework to the talented developers at Bates who ran with it.
Today, I learned that the project won both the “Judged” and “People’s Choice” category for “Best Overall Website” – the top category – in the 2012 eduStyle Awards. Bates was also nominated for “Best Home Page” – the second highest honor – which it won the “People’s Choice” award for. The awards, in their 5th year, celebrate the best work in college and university websites.
Today, Automattic officially announced an expansion of their WordPress.com VIP featured partner program. Among other changes, it will now include consulting agencies for the first time. Here at 10up, we’re proud to be on a list that includes elite WordPress.com partners like Facebook and Flipboard.
“The WordPress.com VIP team vets each agency that applies … to ensure the agency’s capabilities fit the needs and scale of VIP customers.”
At 10up, quality and customer service is number one. 10up’s President is a core WordPress contributor with over a dozen top rated plug-ins to his name. Understanding what it means to build a high quality web solution goes all the way to the top. With a modern, distributed workforce, 10up has been able to hand pick some of the best talent from around the country; talent like Helen, 10up’s Lead User Interface Engineer, and the team representative for User Interface on the Core WordPress.org project. No fewer than five of 10up’s employees are credited core WordPress contributors, more than any other agency in the program – with more on the way.
If WordPress is the best platform in the world for managing a website (and we think it is!), WordPress.com VIP is the best platform in the world for hosting high volume WordPress sites. On WordPress.com VIP’s unique, highly scalable, cloud infrastructure 10up clients never have to worry about their sites going down when their popularity surges. That’s why 10up has brought fast growing clients like Hip2Save – the official deal blog of the Today Show – and Twitchy – an innovative editorial news site centered on Twitter – to the platform.
10up has been privileged to work with an exciting mix of WordPress.com VIP clients, from the world’s top technology news site, TechCrunch, to cable TV sports network Universal Sports, to Canada’s top news portal, Canada.com, to 9to5 Mac, one of the top 100 blogs on the web. 10up is working on its most exciting VIP projects yet, and we can’t wait to tell you more.
This weekend is the biggest WordPress event of the year – WordCamp San Francisco. So where else would team 10up be? No, we’re not just sending a couple of executives or a few top developers – you’ll find all of team 10up at this annual anchor event, running around in our 10up gear. At 10up, WordCamp San Francisco is our annual anchor, so we’ll be heading down the day before and sticking around for a couple of days after the camp for some face to face team work and some on site visits with local clients. Hope to see you there!
Looking forward to participating in WordCamp Reno-Tahoe 2012 next weekend, June 30-July 1. I had my first chance to visit beautiful Lake Tahoe about 1 month ago, and am already excited to be heading back. I’ll be revisiting Enterprise Class WordPress, an exploration of what it means to use and sell WordPress as the CMS solution for massive website projects.
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