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Automattic acquires domain search website, Lean Domain Search

Brian Krogsgard

July 15, 2013

Automattic has acquired Lean Domain Search, a domain search tool. The website allows users to enter a number of usernames they'd like to search, and then creates a nifty table of potential domain names involving those keywords. Founder Matt Mazur…

Replace the WordPress the default category metabox with radio buttons

Brian Krogsgard

July 15, 2013

Development

Justin Sternberg posted on the WebDevStudios blog a code example for changing the default hierarchical taxonomy metabox (like for categories) into a radio button select box. This is very handy for limiting end users to choosing only one taxonomy term.

How WooThemes makes distributed team culture work

Brian Krogsgard

July 15, 2013

Business

The iDoneThis blog profiles WooThemes and their distributed work culture. The author also learns about their processes, the recruiting advantage of distributed teams, their commitment to transparency, and growing pains.

On WordPress themes and frameworks

Brian Krogsgard

July 15, 2013

DesignWordPress News

Let's pull the bandaid off real quick, and it won't hurt as bad: Theme Framework has turned into a marketing term. I lean more every day to giving theme framework the premium treatment. Just because a product costs money doesn't…

Shortcodes should never be included in themes. Period.

Brian Krogsgard

July 13, 2013

Development

Leland at ThemeLab offers a passionate argument that he does not believe any shortcodes should be included in WordPress themes. I think he makes plenty of good arguments, but I do think we should remember that all a shortcode does…

WordPress 3.6 Release Candidate 1 is out

Brian Krogsgard

July 13, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Mark Jaquith has posted to the WordPress.org blog that the first Release Candidate is available for WordPress 3.6. You know the drill. Test it out, report bugs, etc, etc. Your feedback is valuable and this is one of the best…

100+ WordPress theme shops sorted by Alexa rank

Brian Krogsgard

July 12, 2013

WordPress News

This is a really great idea by Devin Price. Devin decided to sort WordPress theme shops based on their Alexa rank. The first three are Elegant Themes, WooThemes, and StudioPress, none of which surprises me. But I bet you there…

Page.ly launches PRESSCDN, a host-independent WordPress CDN

Brian Krogsgard

July 12, 2013

WordPress News

Page.ly has launched a new product they are branding as a "WordPress CDN" service named PRESSCDN™ (not sure why the emphasis on the trademark), specifically for "those that love WordPress." The service has it's own website as well, and starts…

FooCamp – a blog series on how to make a WordPress plugin

Brian Krogsgard

July 12, 2013

WordPress News

Follow along as FooPlugins Lead Developer guides our Support Manager in building his first plugin through a series of blog posts. We invite both developers and would-be developers to join in the discussion so we can all learn from each…

Use the_title() and the_title_attribute() Correctly

Pippin Williamson

July 12, 2013

Development

WordPress provides a nice little function for displaying the title of the current post: the_title(). This function gets used all over the place: in the site header, at the top of single posts and pages, in the loop, in the…

Gravity Forms the latest provider to move to ticket-based support

Brian Krogsgard

July 11, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

Gravity Forms announced today they are moving to a ticket-based support system, versus their previous forum-based setup. They cite that this will make it easier for them to manage and continue to scale. I've seen a few companies do this…

WordPress themes for comics

Brian Krogsgard

July 11, 2013

DesignWordPress News

I saw today that WordPress.com has released a new WordPress theme geared toward comic writers, called Panel. It reminded me of an older project called ComicPress. ComicPress was probably ahead of its time in terms of just how niche it…

New WordPress.org status blog

Brian Krogsgard

July 11, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Andrew Nacin announced this morning that they've launched a new "status" blog for WordPress.org that is not hosted in the same environment as the rest of WordPress.org. This is common practice for high-scale websites, and I'm happy to see it…

Upgrade your client services with documentation

Zé Fontainhas

July 11, 2013

Development

Curtis McHale defends that including solid and comprehensive documentation with your projects is probably a task you can no longer ignore, if you want to stand out as a more complete WordPress developer.

Filling in WP_Query when it doesn’t come back with enough posts

Curtis McHale

July 11, 2013

Development

Ever need 5 'featured' posts but WP_Query only gives you 2? This tutorial will show you how you can fill in those missing posts.

A refreshed Post Status

Brian Krogsgard

July 11, 2013

DesignPost Status Team Blog

Post Status has been iterating quite a bit over the last six months since it launched. However, not everyone noticed. I'm excited to launch a redesign that reflects the changing purpose that Post Status serves. It started as a link…

Automattic acquires domain search website, Lean Domain Search

Replace the WordPress the default category metabox with radio buttons

How WooThemes makes distributed team culture work

On WordPress themes and frameworks

Shortcodes should never be included in themes. Period.

WordPress 3.6 Release Candidate 1 is out

100+ WordPress theme shops sorted by Alexa rank

Page.ly launches PRESSCDN, a host-independent WordPress CDN

FooCamp – a blog series on how to make a WordPress plugin

Use the_title() and the_title_attribute() Correctly

Gravity Forms the latest provider to move to ticket-based support

WordPress themes for comics

New WordPress.org status blog

Upgrade your client services with documentation

Filling in WP_Query when it doesn’t come back with enough posts

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