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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…

Sane sidebar widget management

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Brian Krogsgard
Here's a great example of a utility plugin that someday could have a chance showing up in core. Justin Sternberg has created a plugin to tame sidebars in the widgets admin so they are visible only via a dropdown, and…

Remove SEO columns from the posts admin table

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Brian Krogsgard
I love Joost de Valk's WordPress SEO plugin, but I hate those damn columns in the posts admin table. That's precious horizontal space, and I don't really care most of the time about the color of my SEO dot or…

33 unusual tips to being a better writer

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Brian Krogsgard
This is a bit off beat, but I think relevant for our space. We are almost all publishers, after all. James Altucher gives a whole slew of unexpected tips for better writing. If you've never read anything by James Altucher,…

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