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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.

Rewrite rules made easy

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Brian Krogsgard
Development
Getting rewrite rules and Regex right is an often painful task in WordPress. Conflict solving, commenting the expressions, et cetera is something most people want to avoid. To be honest, every modern PHP or JS framework nowadays has a very…

How to be a good product support provider

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Pippin Williamson shares his story of learning to be good at supporting his products. Pippin highlights one of the hardest challenges, that a good support person is both good at problem solving and good at being empathetic with the customer.…

Partner spotlight: The Theme Foundry

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Brian Krogsgard
DesignWordPress News
It was just over three months ago that I redesigned Post Status, re-focused the site's purpose, and partnered with The Theme Foundry. Today, I'd like to share that The Theme Foundry has opted to continue the relationship for another quarter.…

( intuition + investigation ) > memorization

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Lance Willett is the theme team lead at Automattic, and in this post he describes the power of intuition and investigation, and how much more powerful these characteristics are than memorization. If you are passionate and curious, you can achieve…

GoDaddy has acquired Media Temple

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Brian Krogsgard
Hosting
In a shocking move (to me), GoDaddy has acquired fellow hosting company Media Temple. According to the post on TechCrunch, Media Temple's 225 employees will continue to manage its 125,000 customer base as a separate entity. GoDaddy has apparently been…

How long does it take to master WordPress?

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Tom McFarlin received an email asking him how long it would take to master WordPress. Tom's answer is fantastic. I do have something in addition to what Tom said to keep in mind as you are on your journey (note…

Simple Google Maps for WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Recently, a friend asked me what I recommended for a super simple Google Maps plugin. I didn't have a good answer. Plugins I'd seen were either just widgets, or had too much going on. Somehow I had overlooked Pippin Williamson's…

Ghost has launched to the public

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
I know it's not the WordPress platform, but it should be of interest to WordPress people. Much of the buzz around Ghost centers around it being an alternative to WordPress for blogging. Well, Ghost's source code is now public on…

Good decisions, else options

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Joen Asmussen is a designer for Automattic, and he's responsible for much of the look of WordPress.com's home page and for the Twenty Thirteen theme. In this post, he warns about using the Decision Not Options mantra of WordPress as…

Personal note: I’m joining Range

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
I'm happy to say I'm joining Range as a Junior Partner. You can read more details on my personal blog and the Range announcement post. I officially start with them at the end of the month. The career change doesn't…

Parent to child post relationships

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Brian Krogsgard
Development
Justin Tadlock has another nice tutorial out where he guides you in the relatively simple function that adds a metabox to a post screen to be able to assign a post parent from another post type. This is highly useful…

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