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Commit messages can be poetry, too

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Brian Krogsgard
Make WordPressWordPress News
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
Business
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
Careers
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
WordPress News
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,…

WordPress 3.8, “almost”

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Brian Krogsgard
Make WordPressWordPress News
WordPress 3.8 Release Candidate 1 is out. This means that the next major version of WordPress is getting close. I was pretty entertained by Matt Mullenweg's slug of "3-8-almost" in the announcement post. As he notes, it's definitely time to…

WordPress through the ages

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Brian Krogsgard
DesignMake WordPress
Jeff Matson has gathered up screenshots of every major design change of the WordPress admin and default themes on Inmotion Hosting's blog. It's fairly interesting to take a bird's eye view on the evolution of the visible aspects of WordPress.

The motivations of a blogger

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
When I blog, I don't do it so I can read the post myself. I want you to read it, just like you are doing right now. But I don't just want you to read it. I want you to…

A glossary of WordPress terms for beginners

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
WP Beginner has created a very handy glossary of various WordPress terms. I looked through a few of them, and they are pretty thorough in their descriptions, and each has relevant WP Beginner posts below for further reading. This is…

Understanding _n_noop()

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Brian Krogsgard
Development
How a function that doesn't do anything can save your life. Well, not really, but close. _n_noop() can be very interesting, especially for APIs in larger plugins.

WP Bacon expanding beyond a podcast

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
WP Bacon is a relatively new podcast, and they are already deciding to expand into written content as well. They plan to write tutorials, reviews, and even a little news. There's a lot of good content being written in the…

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