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Brian Krogsgard
SecurityWordPress News
My apologies for the headline. I couldn't resist. Yesterday, Jeff at WP Tavern covered yet another new A/B testing service. With dreadful timing, the site was also flagged by Google as malware for some users. As a commenter points out…

The ethics of open source

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Justin Tadlock has written about the four core freedoms of open source, and warned that with some of the WooThemes drama that happened in the last couple of weeks, he heard some words and tones that didn't match the ethos…

The state of WordPress themes (infographic)

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
We've done some theme research to discover about 1,000 theme shops online and we looked at 300 of them one-by-one. We collected some really cool data, like that 88% offer lifetime support, the average shop has 13 themes on average,…

WordPress wallpapers

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Alison Barrett is a Code Wrangler at Automattic, and has created a new website for people to dowload WordPress themed wallpapers. Nick Hamze (who has WordPress everything) and Michelle Schulp have contributed the original designs, but it's open to anyone…

WordPress job board gets a redesign

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Brian Krogsgard
CareersWordPress News
The jobs.wordpress.net website has received a redesign, bringing it in sync with the branding of most of the other WordPress.org facilities. The website was acquired by Matt Mullenweg at the same time as Weblog Tools Collection. It's mostly unrelated to…

Meet Philip Arthur Moore, Premium Theme Lead at Automattic

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessDesign
Philip Arthur Moore is the Premium Theme team lead at Automattic. I'm thrilled to have been able to ask Philip some questions about WordPress.com premium themes, their processes, and working at Automattic. His answers are thorough and very insightful, and…

Time to go home

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
You know you've done this to at least one or two websites. Well, now when you type /wp-admin into Github, you can have a good laugh. This is the proper way to start your week. h/t Dominik Schilling.

Get started with the Heartbeat API

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Brian Krogsgard
Development
WordPress 3.6 introduced the Heartbeat API. It's an exciting API that opens up a whole bunch of possibilities for various core features or plugins, or even themes, to utilize. Pippin Williamson gives a nice introduction and example use case for…

Social navigation menu with Genericons

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Justin Tadlock walks you through creating a menu for your social networks, making use of CSS attribute selectors. He shows you how to do it all with the Genericons icon font. This is actually part two, but you can check…

Issue tracker for WordPress documentation

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Curtis McHale
WordPress News
Documentation is a lot of work and it's hard to even know where to start. It looks like an issue tracker may be in the works for it though so we can report bugs and dive in on things that…

A guide to pluggable functions

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Brian Krogsgard
Development
Curtis McHale has written a nice three part series on WP Lift offering a guide to pluggable functions in WordPress. For those unaware, pluggable functions make it easy for other developers to override your functions in their own plugins and…

Apply Filters is a WordPress development podcast

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Pippin Williamson and Brad Touesnard are starting a brand new WordPress podcast specifically about development, for developers, called Apply Filters. First, they get an A+ for the name. My own site title may hint as to why I like such…

FeedPress, a Feedburner alternative

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
After reading this article, I decided to try out FeedPress, a Feedburner alternative for tracking RSS and utilizing many features similar to Feedburner's own offering. I just switched to it, so I may do a more in-depth review once I…
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