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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.

On WordPress themes and frameworks

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Brian Krogsgard
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.

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Brian Krogsgard
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…

100+ WordPress theme shops sorted by Alexa rank

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Brian Krogsgard
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…

Use the_title() and the_title_attribute() Correctly

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Pippin Williamson
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…

WordPress themes for comics

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Brian Krogsgard
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

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Brian Krogsgard
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

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ZĂ© Fontainhas
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.

A refreshed Post Status

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Brian Krogsgard
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…

WP Daily shuts down

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
In an incredibly surprising move, WP Daily has closed its doors. In the 8bit post, John Saddington states, "it did not achieve the much larger global goals and strategy of our organization at this present time."

It’s time to take the WordPress 2013 survey

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
The 2013 WordPress survey is now available. I highly recommend that anyone that uses WordPress in any capacity go take it. This survey is enormously helpful for at least three reasons: It helps those that influence the development of WordPress…

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