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Highlight tweetable text in post content

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Joshua Benton, of Harvard's Nieman Lab, has released a plugin to allow authors to highlight text in an article and make it easy for users to tweet that selected text. Extended from Salim Virani's Tweetable Text plugin, and further inspired…

Date queries in WordPress 3.7

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Brian Krogsgard
Make WordPressWordPress News
Alex Mills highlights the new date_query parameters just committed to WordPress core, slated for release with 3.7. It makes more complex queries to query posts within various date ranges much simpler. Congrats to Alex on the props, and I'm excited…

How to submit a WordPress Trac ticket

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Robert Dall shares some best practices for submitting WordPress Trac tickets. Trac can be intimidating, but Robert does a nice job of keeping his list informative but simple, and his advice is a great first step to getting more serious…

Join me on The East Wing podcast today

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
I'll be on The East Wing podcast with Tim Smith today at 2:00 p.m. central time. Tim has interviewed some pretty awesome people before, and I'm happy he asked me to be on. Check it out today or catch it…

How to run a viable freelance business

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Curtis McHale has released his latest book: Don't be an idiot: Learn to run a viable business. Curtis has experience as a WordPress consultant and freelancer. His previous book released from WP Theme Tutorial on how to become a WordPress…

Cheers to the GPL

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
This past weekend, I co-organized WordCamp Birmingham, or WP Y'all, and a couple of our (many) taglines were "In Open Source We Trust" and "Cheers to the GPL." So naturally we toasted the GPL at the after party. Going through…

WordPress VIP Training Days

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
WordPress.com has introduced a new teaching service called VIP Training Days to offer workshops for superusers and developers. The classes are one day workshops and the first round is October 14th (superusers) for $600 and 15th (developers) for $850. The…

WordPress.com, undeletable accounts

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
I discovered a website recently called JustDelete.me that serves as a way to help people delete troublesome online accounts that make it hard to delete them. WordPress.com is one of the worst offenders; it doesn't allow accounts to be deleted at…

How to build a crazy good support experience

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Eric Hoanshelt shares how to build better online support experiences on the SalesForce Desk.com blog. Eric is from The WP Valet, where they've grown from a team of two to a team of eight in just over a year. He's…

Sucuri Security plugin gets nice new features

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Sucuri Security is well known in the WordPress community for being the go-to place for WordPress site monitoring and malware cleanup. Their free WordPress plugin just got some nice new features, too. It now comes with core files integrity checking,…

WordPress and JavaScript with Backbone

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Brian Krogsgard
Development
I recently ran across this excellent slide deck from K. Adam White on evolving your JavaScript with BackBone.js. It's a really great deck that I highly recommend you fully digest. It's simple enough for people not yet well versed in…

8Bit is shutting down

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessWordPress News
8Bit, the maker of the Standard Theme, is shutting down. The four founders of 8Bit are all significantly involved in various parts of the large WordPress ecosystem. You can follow John, Tom, Jared, and Chris going forward. The Standard Theme…

Tips for marketing WordPress products

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
I see a lot of WordPress products and product websites as a consultant. I also get "pitched" a pretty decent amount, requesting me to check out someone's new product to blog about here. Because of this experience seeing and judging…

Best practices for WordCamp forkers

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
In light of some recent WordCamp "forks", Andrea Middleton has posted a draft of policies for people that are WordCamp organizers and decide to organize non-WordCamp affiliated conferences. This is a really good proactive approach in my opinion, and Andrea…
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