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A self hosted alternative to Jetpack’s Photon service

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Brian Krogsgard
Development
While Jetpack and its Photon service are useful, it is not a solution fit for everyone, and may users and developers have reservations about integrating with the WordPress.com infrastructure. Will Norris takes the open source approach and has rolled his…

Let’s use WordPress to help make a difference

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Today you have an opportunity to help people that are using WordPress to help others. I hope you'll read this fully and consider helping. Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a fatal genetic disease that has devastating effects on the lungs especially.…

Matt Mullenweg is now Automattic’s CEO

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessWordPress News
Matt Mullenweg and Toni Schneider are switching jobs at Automattic. After joining Automattic eight years ago, Toni Schneider is moving into a product-focused role within Automattic, and Matt Mullenweg is the new CEO. Both Matt and Toni blogged about the…

WordPress is not easy, and that’s okay

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Morten Rand-Hendriksen has put together one of the more thoughtful posts I've seen about the complexity of WordPress. As he notes, "the way we talk about WordPress to new users and clients gives them a distorted picture of what the…

How blogging has kickstarted my career

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
In early November I had the privilege to attend, sponsor, and speak at WordCamp Cape Town. I had a great time, and got to spend time getting to know some wonderful people in the South African WordPress community. I traveled…

Quick lessons in typography

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Brian Krogsgard
DesignWordPress News
Want to learn something new to ring in the year? Check out Benedikt Lehnert's A Pocket Guide to Master Every Day's Typographic Adventures. It's short, easy to understand, and offers great advice. And trust me, I've seen your sites (and…

Get a WordPress mentor

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
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
WordPress News
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
WordPress News
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
WordPress News
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
WordPress News
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
Business
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
WordPress News
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
Design
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…
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