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The commercial theme tides

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Commercial WordPress theme sales is a known business today. Folks have been selling themes since 2007 and many sellers experienced some very good years. The market commoditized itself quite significantly, and it's harder and harder each year to stand out. Of…

PressNomics 4 set for March 3-4, 2016

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
PressNomics 4 is set. You can (and should) start planning to visit sunny Phoenix March 3-4th next year. This is one of the best events of the year, and probably the best event for business oriented WordPress professionals. I launched…

WordPress.org revamping hosting recommendations

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Japh Thomson
Hosting
It looks like a change is coming to the WordPress.org hosting recommendations page. Companies will now be able to request a presence, though they have to part with quite a bit of information to do so. It will certainly be…

Give your WordPress client an Apple experience

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Japh Thomson
Hosting
We're all familiar with the Apple ecosystem to some extent, even if we don't own any Apple products. We know it stands for polish, accessibility, and a complete solution. Carl Alexander wishes that the situation with WordPress hosting was more…

Say hello to UpThemes Hosting

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Japh Thomson
Hosting
UpThemes has entered the hosting arena! The hosting service includes access to a great selection of over 40 themes pre-installed and ready for activation. This includes their entire library, Aesop Interactive's entire library, and a curated list of themes from…

Growth in the French community

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Jenny Beaumont
BusinessPlanet
Jenny Beaumont, a freelance web developer based in France, describes the recent growth boom in France's WordPress community and some of those who've helped it thrive.

A future API

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Ryan McCue
BusinessPlanet
Ryan McCue, the lead developer of the WordPress REST API, imagines the year 2020, when the REST API is mature and in WordPress core. He tells us stories of some of the fun things that are possible.

Enterprise hosting options

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Brian Krogsgard
Hosting
Chris Lema wrote a post sharing his experiences with enterprise hosting options for WordPress, specifically options beyond WordPress.com VIP, which is often folks' go-to recommendation. He covers three specifically: Microsoft Azure: They have a long history of enterprise products and…

Stepping up reporting in WordPress eCommerce

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
If I could give this post 1,000 +1's, I would. Brianna Norcross is operations manager at Reaktiv Studios and she is super obsessive with the numbers and good reporting. In her experience, and I wholeheartedly agree, WordPress eCommerce plugin reporting…

Things learned building and coding HTML emails

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
Now, don't everybody click at once, as I know it will be tempting. But this article is all about stuff Lee Munroe has learned about building HTML emails. Let me put it this way: making email templates suuuuucks. If you've…

Google Analyticator sold to SumoMe, the team behind AppSumo

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Troy Dean -- of WP Elevation and Video User Manuals -- was until recently also the maintainer of Google Analyticator, the WordPress analytics plugin with 400,000+ active installations. Troy sold Google Analyticator to Noah Kagan and SumoMe. SumoMe is directly related…

Twenty myths about building a business

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Alex Turnbull shares some myths about business that resonated with me. I’ve learned a lot – we all have – and I look at business and entrepreneurship in a completely different way now than I did five years ago. There were so…

What is Code?

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessDevelopment
"What is code?" Paul Ford answers the question, with a 38,000 word masterpiece in Bloomberg. This is the first article I'd tell an aspiring programmer to read, and the one that anyone working in technology should have in their permanent collection.

Moving Dashicons from an icon font to SVG

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
Mel Choyce has started the conversation on Make Core to change WordPress's Dashicons icon font to SVG: In the next couple months, we’re going to focus on converting the Dashicons icon font in core to SVG. The process of adding and…
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