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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.

How to avoid getting scammed by an SEO

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Robert Neu
I didn’t get into SEO because I thought it was a way to get rich. In fact, I sort of learned about it against my will, but I stuck with it because I enjoy helping people. Let me give you…

Running a Viable Freelance Business

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Curtis McHale
After talking with many small business owners over the years there is one constant, many are good at what they do but bad at business. This book as aimed at helping you be good at business.

Modular WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
Matt's vision of future WordPress development (from the SotW) is encapsulated in plugin development. What does that mean for future dev on core APIs? I have one idea on a way that plugin-like functionality could work hand-in-hand with core API…

WordPress Infographic 2013

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Brian Krogsgard
Elegant Themes team went to WordCamp San Francisco and designed a nice WordPress Infographic with all the stats about how WordPress is used and consumed.

All plugins are (not) created equal

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Sarah Pressler
Plugins are the new black in WordPress site development, and picking out the perfect plugins for your site can quickly become overwhelming. The WordPress.org plugin repository hosts over 26,000 plugins and the plugin forum contains over 1.3 million posts. Check…

Potential roadmap for taxonomy meta and post relationships

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Brian Krogsgard
Andrew Nacin has written a thorough post discussing many of the challenges for implementing taxonomy metadata in WordPress core and a potential roadmap for doing so. He also highlights how we may be able to achieve post to post relationships…

WordPress, forking, and the road to 4.0

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Brian Krogsgard
At WordCamp San Francisco, Matt Mullenweg presented the future of WordPress versions 3.7 and 3.8. I have a specific vision for 3.9 and 4.0 - one that will keep both end users and developers happy. Can we make it happen?

2013 State of the Word from Matt Mullenweg

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Brian Krogsgard
Matt Mullenweg just delivered the 2013 State of the Word, his annual update about WordPress. He started off discussing the history of WCSF, and the first WordCamp San Francisco 8 years ago. It was pretty low tech at first, and…
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