Happy Hanukkah, Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Black Friday…!
The holiday season is in full swing south of the border. Meanwhile we’re happily embracing the deep discounts here in Canada. 🙂
 Here’s a look at what we’ve been discussing/tossing around on HipChat over the last week:
What’s New at WPUniversity?
- More plugin reviews. We checked out Add Meta Tags, Microdata Manager for Genesis, and itemprop WP. This wraps up our first-ever plugin review series for adding schema.org support to WordPress.
- Showing off Sidekick. The team demo’d Sidekick for WordPress at The Working Group’s November #nerdlearn.
WordPress News & Discussion
- Quickshop for WooCommerce. A nifty modal for displaying products in your WooCommerce-powered store.
- Jeffrey Zeldman joins the Automattic advisory board. Check it out on Post Status.
- Check out that search bar. Ben digs WP Engine’s support section.
- WordPress backend design. An alternative to the new admin UI.
- Write clean code – and read Code Poet’s interview with WordPress plugin developer Pippin Williamson.
- New to Trac? Robert Dall shows you how to submit a ticket.
- So meta. A features-as-plugins team has formed to improve support for post meta.
- Barley is an inline editor for WordPress. Check out the WP Tavern article.
General Chatter: All the other stuff.
- Hey girl. Kyle shares the glory of Programmer Ryan Gosling.
- There’s an xkcd for that. Make sure you’ve entered it correctly.
- Git er’ up. Giteor handles continuous deployment from a git repo.
- An IDE in your browser. Codeo is free for public & open-source projects.
- Samuel L Jackson approved. This is a monkey-fighting website. (NSFW language!)
- Start building an email list. Let WPBeginner’s Syed Balkhi tell you why.
That’s all for this week! In closing, we leave you with this: