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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.

The WP Conf to “fork” WordCamp Los Angeles

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Brian Krogsgard
I was tagged in a tweet by Brad Williams that referenced The WP Conf, which is currently only a half-finished website, but is an independent WordPress conference slated for late this year, and calls itself, "a WordPress conference forked from…

Plugin aims to make managing nonprofits easier

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Brian Krogsgard
A company called Wired Impact has released an intriguing new plugin called Nonprofit Board Management. The plugin is a combination of a people / board member content type, event RSVP management, committee management, and document / resource management. It's a…

Accessibility objectives for WordPress – initial thoughts

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Brian Krogsgard
Members of the Make WordPress Accessibility group have created an initial set of accessibility objectives for WordPress. Ultimately, in order to support Matt Mullenweg’s view on the democratization of the web by web-related software, the group wants as many WordPress…

Why every new employee should do customer support

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Brian Krogsgard
Mel Choyce recently joined Automattic as a Design Engineer. In this post, she talks about her experience doing customer support her first few weeks on the job. This has become a well known stage of employment for those that join…

WordPress podcasts to keep an eye on

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Brian Krogsgard
The WordPress podcast landscape seems to be exploding. I've been keeping my queue filled for a while now with the shows available. Let's talk about a few. The DradCast The DradCast is a carryover from WP Late Night, hosted by Sucuri CEO…

Week in WordPress: talking WordPress news and more

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Brian Krogsgard
Matt Medeiros, Adam Warner, Curtis McHale, Jeff Chandler, and Pippin Williamson all got together for a great panel discussion on the most recent episode of the Week in WordPress podcast. They talked about a lot of the shifts in the…

Design inspiration: WordPress VIP site redesigns

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Brian Krogsgard
It appears the WordPress VIP website has a new look and feel. I have to say, I greatly prefer it to the harsh black of the old design. This is one of my favorite blogs for seeing what the biggest…

How WooThemes makes distributed team culture work

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Brian Krogsgard
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

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Brian Krogsgard
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…
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