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How WordPress evolves without breaking everything

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Brian Krogsgard
DevelopmentMake WordPress
This is a great flash talk by Andrew Nacin, where he discusses the decision making process for evolving WordPress while maintaining backward compatibility. Included are some explanations of the struggles with terms, term meta, and more. This was part of…

Bring any slides to WordPress with seoslides

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
A new WordPress plugin called seoslides aims to bring slides straight to your WordPress website. Alorum worked with 10up to build seoslides. You can build presentations right in the WordPress admin using a fancy HTML 5 canvas interface, and you…

WordPress 3.7 Beta 1

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Brian Krogsgard
Make WordPressWordPress News
WordPress 3.7 Beta 1 is ready for testing. For such a quick release cycle, there are features in WordPress 3.7 that are going to be big for the platform. Andrew Nacin highlighted a few items in 3.7 Beta 1 that…

The case for WordCamp speaker reviews

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Chris Lema makes the case for implementing WordCamp speaker reviews. I think it's a great idea, and you should definitely read his full proposal. I do have some concerns on it though. For one, reviews are subjective, so organizers would…

What fold?

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
It doesn't matter how many times we explain it, clients are still concerned with the fold. The fold does not exist on the web, especially when we do our jobs as web designers and developers. The fold is a print…

Behind churchthemes.com

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessHosting
I've written a non-traditional "launch post" for churchthemes.com, telling the story of how this theme shop came together in the last year. Included are thoughts and experiences relating to business, development philosophy, pricing models, web hosting and marketing.

The new WP Remote API is fancy

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
WP Remote is really starting to mature as a site monitoring and backup service. With their new API and integration with WP CLI, there's some seriously awesome potential. Read more from Human Made developer Daniel Bachhuber. They are also hiring…

Automattic has acquired Cloudup

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Matt Mullenweg recently teased a large acquisition for Automattic, and today they've announced the acquisition of the Cloudup service. Cloudup is a file sharing service that's still in beta. However, it looks like a promising project with a lot of…

WYSIJA is now MailPoet

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
WYSIJA is a popular email and newsletter plugin, built right into the WordPress dashboard. The name is confusing, but as I have talked about before, the product is pretty great. They have cleared up the name part, re-branding as MailPoet.…

WordSesh 2 is coming soon

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
The First WordSesh was a huge success and we are crazy enough to do it again. We’re currently pulling ourselves together and have begun planning the next event. We hope to have firm dates and additional details for you as soon…

Why the WP App Store failed

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Brad Touesnard shares the story of his WP App Store project, with a sobering but super insightful account of why it failed. This is a great read for anyone that's got "a great idea" and is ready to pounce on…

A Backbone.js powered starter WordPress theme

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Tareq Hasan has begun development on a Backbone powered single page application starter theme for WordPress. It uses the JSON REST API plugin as backend. A number of features are left to integrate, but if you're interested in learning more…

Better collaboration in WordPress with Post Forking

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Post Forking is a plugin all about collaboration. Released almost a year ago, the plugin introduces Github's style of collaboration into the WordPress post editing experience. The plugin works, and it's awesome. The biggest problem is it's not intuitive enough…

Jetpack 2.5 gets deeper Google and Facebook integrations

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Jetpack 2.5 was just released and comes with a number of new features. The most interesting is the new integrations with Google, including the ability to easily embed maps, calendars, and more. For those that are big Facebook users, you…
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