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Loopconf postponed indefinitely

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Brian Krogsgard
Force majeure is a term that you don't pay too much attention to in contracts until it matters. It means "superior force" in Latin, and typically refers to uncontrollable events like natural disasters, that prevent something in the contract from happening…

Carrie Dils and Diane Kinney are…

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Brian Krogsgard
Carrie Dils and Diane Kinney are working on a book devoting to making you become a better freelancer. Real World Freelancing covers, "client management, business strategies, processes & tools, marketing, mental health" and other subjects. You can signup to be notified…

Twenty Seventeen is 🔥

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Brian Krogsgard
I have not been stunned -- in a positive way -- about a default WordPress theme design preview since Twenty Twelve. I haven't had a major beef with any of the other default themes, but I haven't been really wowed. Twenty Ten…

GoDaddy has acquired ManageWP

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Brian Krogsgard
GoDaddy has acquired the WordPress website management service, ManageWP. ManageWP will remain a standalone app, and GoDaddy will integrate several features into their GoDaddy Pro and WordPress hosting plans.

Makers of WP Rocket are getting into WordPress security

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Brian Krogsgard
WP Media -- the team behind WP Rocket (a commercial caching product) -- are getting into the WordPress security sector. SecuPress hasn't yet launched, but they are starting early access trials for people that sign up through their home page.…

PayPal is still king of the…

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Brian Krogsgard
PayPal is still king of the hill as a merchant provider. Jean Galea (from WP Mayor) has written this article to help you decide whether you should open a separate business account for each of your brands or products, or…

Pavel Ciorici from WPZoom writes a…

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David Bisset
Pavel Ciorici from WPZoom writes a detailed post about how his WordPress theming business took off. He talks about his first theme, Yamidoo Magazine, which at one point was making $10,000 per month in revenue alone. Pavel also talks about…

Using Kickstarter to fund open source

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Daniel Bachhuber
Successfully crowdfunding open source development is difficult, but not impossible. Here are some of the lessons I took away from my Kickstarter project, "A more RESTful WP-CLI."

A bit of additional WooCommerce news:…

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Brian Krogsgard
A bit of additional WooCommerce news: Joel Bronkowski, one of the top leaders within WooCommerce -- technically as director of business development -- and mostly dealt with third party partnerships, has decided to leave Automattic. Surprisingly (to me at least),…

Developers in the business of selling…

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Brian Krogsgard
Developers in the business of selling plugins and themes should bookmark and read Josh Pollock's recent essay that no one wants plugins, but they want solutions. He touches on a few points, but here's an interesting quote: The future of…

Leader.Team is a new business podcast…

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Brian Krogsgard
Leader.Team is a new business podcast from Cory Miller and Matt Danner. I like that their goal is keep it shorter than most podcasts (15-25 minute) so that it's easily digestible.

Daniel Bachhuber’s blog post on open Source,…

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Brian Krogsgard
Daniel Bachhuber's blog post on open Source, and why "you're doing it wrong" continues to espouse his views on contributing to open source and what it means for your profitability as a developer. "If you think open source is building your business on…

WordCamp Europe takeaways

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Brian Krogsgard
After a whirlwind WordCamp Europe, I've had some time to sit back and consider some of the common conversational threads. When a big group of people gets together in the WordPress space, you can start to identify what folks are…
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