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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.

Business models for WordPress products

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Brian Krogsgard
Chris Lema has put together a nice video about creating business models for WordPress products. Sometimes, people jump in without really analyzing or knowing a market, and Chris helps you navigate these waters. He's helped a lot of businesses in…

Welcome Travis Northcutt as Contributing Editor

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Brian Krogsgard
I'm thrilled today to announce that the Post Status team is growing. Doubling, in fact! I'm very happy to announce that Travis Northcutt is going to be a Contributing Editor to Post Status. In this role, Travis will be able…

VelocityPage by Mark Jaquith

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Travis Northcutt
Mark Jaquith just announced a new plugin called VelocityPage. VelocityPage is a WordPress plugin that brings simple and intuitive page layout abilities to WordPress, on any theme. There's a short video that demonstrates the capabilities in the linked post; it's definitely…

The email line that’s client repellant

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Brian Krogsgard
I've had a lot of email correspondence lately. As a boutique agency, all of us at Range share duties like responding to leads, proposals, and project management. It's been incredibly fun to stretch my legs back into sales and project…

Woo: You too have woes

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ZĂ© Fontainhas
For developers, i18n isn't always obvious, not even for large, and well-established theme vendors. In this post, I've tried to outline some of the most obvious issues in some of WooThemes' themes.

How to customize the WordPress theme customizer defaults

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Brian Krogsgard
The theme customizer feature was introduced in WordPress 3.4, released June 2012. Since then, it's been a great tool that's allowed theme developers to move away from complex options managers to a simpler, more logical interface where many settings can…

A free documentation theme for WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
Tareq Hasan has created a free theme called weDocs to help folks manage documentation within WordPress. The theme is on Github and the demo is quite nice. This could be a great boilerplate for those of you looking to integrate…

Support Dash is transitioning to be a HelpScout app

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Brian Krogsgard
Support Dash has announced they are transitioning from a standalone in-dashboard customer service app to a HelpScout app. Ben Sibley says the new app "will reduce the time you spend on support by providing you with key information inside every…

Rethinking the WordPress editor

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Brian Krogsgard
Jay Hoffman has some good thoughts over on Torque about what lies ahead for the WordPress content creation experience. Between content blocks and front-end editing, writing a post in WordPress two years from now will not be like it is…

A love letter on .pot

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Brian Krogsgard
Zé Fontainhas is an extraordinary wordsmith (in my own and many others' opinions) and a polyglots master. In this open love letter to Mike Jolley and his excellent WP Jobs Manager plugin, Zé eloquently highlights some of the finer points of…
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