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The Church of WordPress

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Travis Northcutt
WordPress News
Mike Jordan wrote an excellent post on the future of the WordPress community. The natural evolution of community  is exclusivity. The WordPress community is still so young, that this has not yet become a problem- but it is a looming…

Who’s hiring in WordPress? (Spring 2014 edition)

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Brian Krogsgard
Careers
This is the fifth “Who’s hiring” post, and previous ones were very encouraging. I have seen multiple people start conversations that led to full time jobs and contract work from those posts. I consistently find people looking for WordPress developers…

Tips for clients hiring a web consultant

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Chris Lema has dropped some excellent tips for clients looking to hire a web developer / consultant. My favorite part was his description of why clients should know their budget: Sure, low prices exist, but in parts of town that…

Blog like a tortoise

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Travis Northcutt
WordPress News
This post by Brian Krogsgard on his personal blog is a great reminder that blogging isn't all about the stats (although the stats are a nice motivator). It's also a great peek at Brian's strategy and plans for Post Status; he's…

Synchronize WordPress uploads across environments

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Brian Krogsgard
Development
Iain Poulson has written a nice tutorial summarizing five different ways to sync uploads / media across WordPress environments. This is a common problem, and he approaches the solutions using different methodologies, including via FTP (least preferred), rsync, Migrate DB Pro,…

PhpStorm IDE gets official WordPress support in version 8

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Brian Krogsgard
Development
PhpStorm is a full-featured IDE that has somewhat of a cult following amongst the WordPress developers I follow. Made by JetBrains, it's notable for being lighter weight than most IDEs, web development specific (though not just PHP as the name…

Using the magnifying glass icon for search

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
I love reading user studies like this recent one from Nielsen Norman Group, where they talk about the user experience for using the magnifying glass icon for search. All in all, they say it works quite well. Users tend to…

Creative Market acquired by AutoDesk

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessDesign
AutoDesk is an enormous company. Publicly traded on the Nasdaq, they have a market cap just under $12 Billion. You may have heard of AutoCAD, the thirty year old drafting software that's an absolute titan in a broad range of…

WordPress core proposal: portability

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Brian Krogsgard
Make WordPressWordPress News
The biggest feature lacking in WordPress is portability. We have an exporter for post content, but this exporter omits settings, widgets, theme options, and a large swath of data necessary for truly moving a site from server A to server…

Akismet releases update to address pingback vulnerability reports

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Brian Krogsgard
Security
Akismet, the popular WordPress spam prevention plugin by Automattic, has released an update with a number of fixes, including two to address recent reports of DDOS risks in WordPress related to pingbacks. The post describes the two points that address…

WordPress.com has opened applications for commercial themes

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessDesign
Automattic has added a new page on WordPress.com inviting theme makers to submit their theme shops to the platform. Historically, Automattic has invited particular theme makers to be a part of the WordPress.com commercial theme program. I have heard from some…

The evolution of 10up

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessDesign
The ecosystem of businesses that have been built around WordPress is huge, but shallow. Few companies are both large (relatively speaking) and central to a broad WordPress community. With 60+ employees, some of which are very well-known WordPress developers, 10up…
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