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News and insights about WordPress and its ecosystem by Post Status staff and contributors for our members and the WordPress community.

Syed Balkhi and Thomas Griffin are joining forces

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Brian Krogsgard
Syed Balkhi and Thomas Griffin first partnered together when they created Floating Social Bar, a free WordPress social sharing plugin. They decided to collaborate after meeting and getting along at WordCamp Raleigh. From there, their relationship blossomed, and they decided…

Automating i18n in WordPress themes

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Brady Vercher
According to the Polygots Make blog, WordPress is used all over the world and in many different languages. To put that in perspective, more than a third of existing WordPress installations are non-English and in his keynote at WordCamp Seattle,…

You forgot about user experience

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Brian Krogsgard
Web professionals talk a lot about the importance of writing great code. We should talk even more about providing great user experiences for websites and products we build. Code quality is really important. We should have standards, and utilize them…

Better local development with Airplane Mode

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Brian Krogsgard
Websites are complicated these days. Even when we work locally, we typically still need to make a bunch of calls to external, online applications, on any given page load. If you're ever without an internet connection, but still attempt to…

Evermore, hosted WordPress with power and ease of use

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Brian Krogsgard
Finally, finally someone has done it. They've combined the power of self-hosted WordPress with the ease of hosted WordPress.com. Evermore is WordPress for everyone. It comes with "the most important functionality built in." There aren't loads of tiny upsells like…

The WordPress community summit is back

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Brian Krogsgard
The WordPress community summit was an exciting event in 2012. For the first time ever, over one hundred core contributors, team leads, and community influencers were set to gather with the specific goal to "work together and discuss the vision…

Who is buying commercial WordPress themes?

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Brian Krogsgard
To say the theme marketplace is undergoing a transition is probably an understatement. We've seen many shops sell or change focus over the past year. A few have maintained their place in the market or even grown some, but it's not easy…
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