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The rise of WordPress maintenance services

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
WordPress maintenance services seem to be all the rage. As people are using WordPress to do more, more maintenance is sometimes required. Also, having a seasoned development team on hand for when things go wrong can be quite valuable. There…

WordPress capabilities magic with map_meta_cap

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Brian Krogsgard
Development
Mannie Schumpert has done a nice job offering some practical examples using map_meta_cap. Mannie also took all of the examples from Andrew Nacin's excellent WCSF talk from last year. If you are dealing with roles and permissions, the things from…

Battling round numbers with WordPress 4.0

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Brian Krogsgard
Make WordPressWordPress News
WordPress 3.9 hasn't quite reached beta, but many of us are already looking ahead to WordPress 4.0. I know, I know: 4.0 is no more significant than 3.9 or any other major release. It just so happens that WordPress' twenty-third major…

WooCommerce 2.1 Released

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Travis Northcutt
WordPress News
WooThemes announced the release of WooCommerce 2.1 "Peppy Penguin" today. Major changes include a REST API, a new look for the admin panel to match the WordPress 3.8 UI, improved reporting tools, and responsive default templates.

Debug Bar Slow Actions

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Travis Northcutt
Development
Konstantin Kovshenin announced a new plugin called Debug Bar Slow Actions, an extension for the Debug Bar plugin. Konstantin's new plugin ...adds a new panel with a list of the top 100 slowest actions (and filters) during the current page request. This…

The qualities of a great WordPress contributor

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Travis Northcutt
WordPress News
Andrew Nacin, one of the lead developers of WordPress, posted an excellent read on how to best contribute to the WordPress project, as well as some information on how core committers (that is, people who have access to commit code) are…

WordPress theme performance tips

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Brian Krogsgard
DesignWordPress News
Kirk Wight has written a helpful post on the Theme Shaper blog that offers tips on improving performance in WordPress themes. Kirk is a theme wrangler at Automattic and knows his stuff. If you love making themes, but haven't thought…

How to remove jQuery

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
With the recent "you might not need jQuery" craze, developers are understandably asking how to remove the library from the front-end of their site. Depending on the way the theme is built, it's fairly straight-forward.

Business models for WordPress products

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
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
WordPress News
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…
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