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News and insights about WordPress and its ecosystem by Post Status staff and contributors for our members and the WordPress community.

Performance of 7 top shared WordPress hosts compared

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Brian Krogsgard
Ryan Sullivan compared seven popular hosting companies' shared environments for his experiment to see which ones were performing well and which weren't. I love Ryan's views on hosting, and trust his experiment. This is a valuable resource. However, I'd really…

Art direction for publishing with WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
One of the most exciting conversations for WordPress 3.8, in my opinion, is around creating content blocks and art direction for editing with WordPress. This is probably the direction core is going to go for handling post formats, and any…

WordPress 3.8 brainstorming

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Brian Krogsgard
Matt Mullenweg led the first WordPress 3.8 planning meeting today. A bunch of potential ideas were thrown out, and it's also been opened up on the Make Core blog. Go check out all of the options and get involved in…

WordCamp demographics and selection processes

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Brian Krogsgard
There are many challenges for WordCamp organizers. One of those challenges if finding the right balance of speakers. That includes balancing topics, demographics and having a proper number of local speakers versus out-of-towners, and weighing pros and cons for each…

A guide to promoting your new plugin

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Brian Krogsgard
Ben Sibley, of SupportDash, has created a thorough guide to promoting WordPress plugins. For someone that has a plugin that they think is good, but they're having a hard time getting the word out, definitely check out some of Ben's…

On being a developer friendly developer

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Brian Krogsgard
Here are a few things I think about when I work on WordPress themes that other developers may encounter down the road. It's good to work in a way that helps those who come after you know what you've done,…

WordCamp Europe speakers announced

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Brian Krogsgard
The WordCamp Europe speakers have been announced. It is going to be a wonderful event. Do not miss it if you can go. Let me repeat: do not miss it if you can go. I am nearly certain this will…

Email users with custom templates on specific actions

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Brian Krogsgard
Patrick Daly has written a plugin called Email that allows site administrators to build custom text-based email templates to be delivered to users based on specific user activity. Based on the screenshots, this seems like it could potentially be a…

Join me on the DradCast tonight

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Brian Krogsgard
Tonight, I'm joining Dre Armeda and Brad Williams as guest host on the DradCast. The DradCast is a really fun evening podcast about WordPress. Each week, they have a guest host, and this week I'm the lucky guy. Dre does…

Anonymity is bullshit

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Brian Krogsgard
I'm a little fired up. Tonight, I saw an open-ended and, honestly, silly post from Torque about a strange WooCommerce extensions shop called WP Avengers. WP Avengers, as it turns out, is a group of essentially anonymous folks who claim…

New tools for WordPress core development

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Brian Krogsgard
Daryl Koopersmith posted on the Make Wordpress Core blog about some new tools and strategies for WordPress core development. The new setup will allow code, testing mechanisms, and build tools to all be under one roof. WordPress core is also…
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