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From ThemeForest to Array, the story of a theme business

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessDesign
Mike McAlister has been an active memberĀ of the commercial WordPress theme spaceĀ since 2009. He started by selling themes on ThemeForest. He transitioned to the Okay Themes brand in December of 2011.Ā And at the end of March of this year, Mikeā€¦

Tips for a better eCommerce website

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
I've seen it many times. A business owner goes to a consultant, and they want an eCommerce offering for their products. They may even have some functionality in mind that they'll need. But have they considered the things that willā€¦

Lessons learned from the Obox affiliate program

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Obox has run their affiliate program since 2009, but made it invite-onlyĀ last week. It was not an easy decision for them, since there were some months that their affiliates accounted forĀ more than 30% of all revenue. That said, after investigatingā€¦

Daniel Bachhuber is the new maintainer of WP-CLI

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Travis Northcutt
Development
TodayĀ Cristi Burcă (perhaps better known as scribu)Ā announcedĀ on the WP-CLI blog that Daniel Bachhuber will now be the maintainer of the WP-CLI project. As Cristi notes, he's no longer using WordPress, so it makes perfect sense to hand off the projectā€¦

WordPress 3.9, “Smith”

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Brian Krogsgard
Make WordPressWordPress News
WordPress 3.9, "Smith", has just been released. It is named after James Oscar "Jimmy" Smith. WordPress 3.9 is the hard result of hard work from 267 contributors. The WordPress 3.9 release was led by Andrew Nacin and Co-led by Mikeā€¦

Keep an eye on accessibility in your projects

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
For one of the first projects I ever worked on in an agency setting, we had a monster list of items to either finish, ask about, or respond to. A classic punch list. So, I was given this list inā€¦

Microcaching with Nginx

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Travis Northcutt
Development
Zach Brown has a nice post up on how to set up microcaching with Nginx combined with Batcache to handle big spikes of traffic (or just to maximize efficiency and enable running a site on low resources). Zach explains thatā€¦

Keys to building a successful remote workforce

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessSecurity
Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood writes why companies are not hiring the best and the brightest employees. While the title says the article is about hiring, it's really about working. His points boil down to a promotion for distributed workforces.ā€¦

WordPress.vim

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Travis Northcutt
Development
Darshan Sawardekar has released a very impressive looking plugin for Vim, appropriately titled WordPress.vim. If you use Vim as your editor/IDE, you should definitely check this out. The plugin includes support for an impressive array of features and other tools,ā€¦

Image optimization and automation in WordPress

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Travis Northcutt
Development
Matt Cromwell compares a few different image optimization methodsĀ for WordPress sites, including EWWW Image Optimizer, manual optimization, and WPInject. Matt also mentions the WP Smush.it plugin, but interestingly, implies that it produces results similar to EWWW, only less effective. Iā€¦

Life on trial at Automattic

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Brian Krogsgard
Careers
Recently, Dave Clements finished a trial at Automattic. In this summary, he describes the experience in detail, from his initial interview and test to his four week trial. There were a few things in the post I didn't already knowā€¦

WordPress.com introduces a Portfolio content type

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
I'm honestly surprised it took this long, but WordPress.com has introduced a Portfolio custom content type for their platform. Current themes that support the new content type are Espied and Illustratr, however I think that many themes will begin introducingā€¦

Devin Price is the new owner of DevPress

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Devin Price is a developer from Austin, Texas and owner of WP Theming, an excellent WordPress blog. He also hosts his plugins and themes on WP Theming. Devin is the author of the popular Options Framework plugin, the Portfolio Postā€¦
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