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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.

Get a WordPress mentor

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Brian Krogsgard
Matt Medeiros recently wrote a post encouraging WordPress folks to both mentor others and find mentors for themselves.  Now he's taken it to the next level with WP Mentor, a site dedicated to the effort. This is a great little…

Bedrock — a modern WordPress stack

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Brian Krogsgard
Bedrock is a modern WordPress stack that helps you get started with the best development tools and project structure. Dependency management with Composer Automated deployments with Capistrano Better folder structure Easy WordPress configuration with environment specific files Environment variables with…

It’s time for a simpler default WordPress theme

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Brian Krogsgard
Konstantin Obenland has been involved with the development of the last three default WordPress themes. In this post, he makes a great case for simplifying the default theme with Twenty Fifteen; and he goes as far as advocating simply using…

WordPress Foundation financials

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Brian Krogsgard
As a non-profit organization, the WordCamp Foundation publicly files financials. However, they've gone an extra step and broken down their costs for the 2012 tax year on the website. The Foundations expenses were $580,161 for the year, and the breakdown…

WordCamp San Francisco 2014 announced

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Brian Krogsgard
With perhaps the earliest announcement I've seen for a WordCamp, WordCamp San Francisco 2014 has been announced to occur October 24th - 26th. It appears the contributor day is going to flip this year, and be before WordCamp instead of…

“Patches Welcome”

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Brian Krogsgard
As a phrase, this is often more of a conversation killer rather than encouragement for collaboration. The delivery method of this popular phrase is paramount, and the audience needs to be genuinely considered when we say "patches welcome" to those…

BuddyPress 1.9 released with notifications

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Brian Krogsgard
BuddyPress 1.9, "Sammy" was released last night, and for the first time in two years added a new component: notifications. Sarah Gooding has done a nice job on WP Tavern highlighting the various details of the release.

Design is not a democracy

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Brian Krogsgard
With all the recent changes to the design of WordPress admin, the new default theme, and other design projects for other WordPress properties, I think this is a valuable lesson for us to remember: design is not a democracy. In…

Share sidebars in WordPress Multisite with transients

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Brian Krogsgard
Corey Collins goes in depth on the WebDevStudios blog to offer a solution to a problem experienced by many Multisite users: for sharing sidebars across a Multisite instance. The solution uses transients to store everything and a small AJAX function…

The faces behind WordPress 3.8

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Brian Krogsgard
On the "About" page of updated WordPress installs, you can look at a list of all contributors for a given release. Bob Dunn has gone the extra step to make a list and show the face of every contributor to…

Publish more with Color Schemes Roulette for WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
Color Schemes Roulette — a brand new WordPress plugin, that will randomly change your admin color scheme every time you hit that Publish button. It’s also a great motivator, proven to increase blogging frequency up to 170% right after activation!

Automattic trial data and employee retention

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Brian Krogsgard
Matt Mullenweg does a lot of interviews, and much of this one at the Lean Startup Conference is similar to many others, highlighting how WordPress got started, the culture of open source and how Automattic works. But at the end he mentioned…

Theme development enhancements in WordPress 3.8

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Brian Krogsgard
On ThemeShaper, Konstantin Obenland highlights some of the enhancements in WordPress 3.8 that benefit theme developers, primarily for the post format and custom background features. It might also be worth noting the change in screenshot size requirements as well (to…
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