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Customers don’t care about ideas

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Brian Casel has written a great post debunking a never-ending myth that ideas by themselves are valuable. Brian tells us how to differentiate ourselves with how we solve problems and how we serve our clients. I also love his note…

The WordPress mobile app is ready for iOS7

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Brian Krogsgard
DesignWordPress News
The WordPress Mobile team has been working hard to get the WordPress iOS app ready for iOS7, which is to be released today. Design was led by Hugo Baeta, but eight contributors took part in the design and development for…

WordPress.com, 8th most visited website in the world

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
WordPress.com recently passed Yahoo! in Quantcast's rankings of the world's most trafficked websites. It's now number 8. What I find most interesting though, is that according to Matt Mullenweg this does not even count mapped domains, or sites on WordPress.com's…

php[architect] online summit for WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Andrew Nacin, Aaron Jorbin, Benji Regan, and Jason Rhodes are participating in php[architect]'s Online Summit Series, presenting on WordPress. It's $49 per person, with discounts for larger groups. This looks to be a very technical lineup, and it'd be tough…

Blogging is narcissistic

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
"Ultimately, my point is that for those of you who are blogging to keep at it and keep sharing. The majority of us love to see what it is that you’re working on, and we love to get into the…

Niche themes: How to research, create, sell

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Can you make the best WordPress theme in the world? You can if you target a niche. Here's how to find and target niches for your next theme, and a list of 230 niches included to kickstart your research.

Home and front page templates in WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Chip Bennett has done an outstanding job thoroughly describing the issues handling home and front page templates in WordPress. This is a part of WordPress with some of the most confusing nomenclature for folks just getting started (and some experienced…

The Year Without Pants

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessWordPress Community
Scott Berkun's The Year Without Pants is a first person narrative of his time employed at Automattic from August 2010 to May 2012. Berkun entered Automattic as employee number fifty six when the company was replacing its totally flat structure…

WP Weekend Phoenix to merge back into WordCamp Phoenix

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
It's been confirmed that WP Weekend Phoenix is merging back into an official WordCamp as WordCamp Phoenix. I first heard about the announcement on Twitter and confirmed with Andrea Middleton today. As you may recall, I posted about WP Weekend…

Creating a JSON REST API for WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Sarah Gooding talked with Ryan McCue on WP Tavern about his Google Summer of Code project to build a JSON REST API for WordPress. This is a great project, and Ryan is the perfect person to lead it, in my…

The ThemeForest experiment, one year later

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
A year ago, Justin Tadlock submitted a theme to ThemeForest to experiment and see a different side of the theme community than he's been a part of for some time. His results, and more importantly much of his additional insight…

The collision of journalism and digital technology

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Riptide is "an oral history of the epic collision between journalism and digital technology, from 1980 to the present." It is a collaborative project of interviews and an essay between Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and the Nieman…

WordPress 3.6.1 security release is out

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Brian Krogsgard
Make WordPressSecurity
WordPress 3.6.1 is out as a security release. Three security fixes were made, plus an additional security hardening measure. The security fixes affect all previous versions of WordPress. Check out the release details, and go update your sites.

Yoast introduces commercial version of WordPress SEO

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Joost de Valk announced on the Yoast blog yesterday that they're pre-releasing a commercial version of the highly popular WordPress SEO plugin. The plugin will come with additional features with the full release, but for now it's an option for…
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