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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…

Make your own WordPress admin themes

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Brian Krogsgard
As I noted in my feature post on WordPress 3.8, the new WordPress build tools (using Grunt) and the port of the admin CSS to Sass make it much easier for WordPress core to make new admin themes. Well, with…

The design of WordPress 3.8

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Brian Krogsgard
Matt Thomas goes into detail on design considerations for MP6, which became the new look of WordPress in 3.8. Also, it's just so impressive how many people were involved in this project. Excellent wrap-up by Matt.

Meet WordPress 3.8, Parker

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress 3.8, "Parker", has just been released. WordPress 3.8 is the result of four months of hard work by 188 core contributors. Named after Charlie Parker, jazz saxophonist and bepob innovator. WordPress 3.8's development was led by WordPress co-founder, Matt…

Commit messages can be poetry, too

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Brian Krogsgard
Ryan Boren, WordPress Lead Developer and Bug Whisperer, decided to create a poem on the importance of eliminating trailing whitespace in his latest commit to the WordPress codebase. The Pinking Shears stir from their slumber, awakened by what may seem,…

Envato community lifetime earnings are over $140 million

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Brian Krogsgard
It's amazing to think that in only seven years, Envato has grown to 200+ employees and helps so many thousands of people in their community distribute their work. That work, as announced for the first time in Collis Ta'eed's 2013…

Who’s hiring in WordPress? (Fall edition)

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Brian Krogsgard
This is the fourth “Who’s hiring” post this year, and previous ones were very encouraging. I have seen multiple people start conversations that led to full time jobs and contract work from those posts. I consistently find people looking for…

Six figure WordPress consulting

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Brian Krogsgard
Curtis McHale debunks the myth that making good money with WordPress is easy. This is a good read for anyone looking to dive deeper into a WordPress-oriented career. Like most things, a highly rewarding career working with WordPress requires work,…
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