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Plugin to report content for moderation in bbPress

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Brian Krogsgard
Chris Coyier commissioned Josh Eaton to build a WordPress plugin that allows bbPress logged in users to report topics and replies as spam. Once reported, the content gets a new status and moderators can choose whether to allow it or…

WP Engine rebrands and restructures

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Brian Krogsgard
Few brands in tech have skyrocketed in exposure like WP Engine in the past couple of years. WP Engine has experienced massive growth, and they are showing signs of acting very much like a grown up company. Rebranding WP Engine…

A WordPress podcast, one year in

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Brian Krogsgard
Matt Medeiros reflects on the past year of running the Matt Report, a podcast about WordPress businesses and entrepreneurs. It's one of my favorites. He also talks a bit about his opinions on the state of podcasting in general, with…

Understand WordPress internationalization and translation

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Brian Krogsgard
Internationalization (i18n) and translation is one of those fuzzy gray areas for many of us in the WordPress community, especially amongst Americans. We're simply not very accustomed to a multilingual society, therefore we sometimes erroneously don't think about internationalization of our code…

Retroactive Composer support for WordPress with ComposerPress

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Brian Krogsgard
Tom Nowell has created a project called ComposerPress which analyses an existing WordPress install and creates a Composer .json file in your root directory. If you've already gotten to know the value of Composer, but need something to help bring…

Take the WordPress economy survey

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Brian Krogsgard
The folks behind Pressnomics are asking business owners to fill out a survey to help them put together some statistics on the WordPress economy. It's an anonymous survey about your company and revenue. Make sure only one person from each…

Markdown tools for bloggers

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Brian Krogsgard
I've written an introduction to markdown as a language for writing for the web, and a look through the various tools available for crafting markdown'd content, split up by device.

Top ten search terms for themes on the MOJO Marketplace

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Brian Krogsgard
Here's a quick but interesting little post. MOJO Themes has shared their top ten searched terms for themes on their website. Does it shock you as much as it shocks me that 'Real Estate' is number one? The others are a…

WordPress security tips for your website

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Brian Krogsgard
Brad Williams and Brian Messenlehner are co-founders of WebDevStudios and last week they teamed up with SiteGround to do a security presentation. They offer some scary statistics on security, go over an example hack, cover ways to secure your website,…
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