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WordPress 3.8.3 fixes a bug with “Quick Draft”

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Travis Northcutt
Make WordPressSecurity
Last week's 3.8.2 security release introduced a bug where drafts written with the Quick Draft tool in the dashboard were not saved. That bug is fixed with today's 3.8.3 release. What's really interesting about this release is that not only is…

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,…

Image optimization and automation in WordPress

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Travis Northcutt
Development
Matt Cromwell compares a few different image optimization methods 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. I…

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 know…

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 introducing…

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 Post…

Security updates for 3.5 and 3.6

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Travis Northcutt
Security
The good folks over at interconnect/it have backported the recent security updates for WordPress to the 3.5 and 3.6 branches, due to having some clients running older versions that, for whatever reason, aren't able to upgrade at this time. They've…

Automattic acquires Longreads

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Longreads is a popular term and hashtag for, well, long reads. Many publishers pride themselves in in-depth articles aimed to capture a reader for a significant period of time. Such stories are quite popular amongst journalistic and hyper-attentive-news-addict circles. The…

The FooBox lightbox plugin now has a free version

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
The folks at FooPlugins have announced a free version of their FooBox lightbox plugin. FooBox has been under active development for about two years, which is saying something in the world of lightboxes, where many free jQuery driven options have…

Cognitive Lode: tips for understanding user behavior online

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
Cognitive Lode is a nice little resource site by the folks at ribot that aims to educate web-makers about the various behaviors of web-users, "to help you make better products." Each study is nicely illustrated, cites additional resources, and generally…

Sponsored Comments on Disqus

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Travis Northcutt
WordPress News
Update: although the announcement post didn't mention it, apparently Sponsored Comments are optional: https://twitter.com/DisqusAmanda/status/453272621023391744 As if you needed another reason to own your content, Disqus announced today that they're launching what they call "Sponsored Comments", a.k.a. ads at the top of…

DevPress sold for $14,000 on Flippa

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessDesign
Update: Devin Price is the new owner. DevPress has a storied four year history, and today it's been sold on Flippa for a mere $14,000. What started as a partnership between four well known WordPress community members was eventually reduced…
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