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WordPress theme for presentation slides

Brian Krogsgard

June 19, 2013

Otto Wood has created an initial version of a WordPress theme intended for use as presentation slides. It's called Slides. Hosting slides on the web makes complete sense, and making slide templates WordPress themes is just as logical. I can…

Conversion rate optimization: hypothesise first, then test

Curtis McHale

June 19, 2013

Business

Seems that conversion rates are on the mind of a few people in the WordPress community lately. Here we get some more advice about how long to run tests and what tools to use.

What’s your WordPress job title?

Brian Krogsgard

June 19, 2013

DesignWordPress News

Job titles can be confusing. If you've ever tried to hire a WordPress consultant to build you a website, or you've had inquiries about your services, you've likely encountered some level of confusion trying to decipher what an individual (or…

Tweeple plugin offers tweet feeds compatible to Twitter V1.1 API

Brian Krogsgard

June 18, 2013

WordPress News

If you're like most of the internet, you probably didn't update your Twitter feeds embedded on your site to comply with Twitter's V1.1 API. Well, their V1.0 API fully deprecated about a week ago, and a ton of Twitter WordPressplugins…

Dealing with query variables in RSS feeds

Curtis McHale

June 18, 2013

Development

This episode modifies the ICS calendar feeds so that we can accept an author parameter and send only the posts that match the author provided.

How split-testing an opt-in form increased conversion rate by 102.2%

Curtis McHale

June 18, 2013

WordPress News

Very interesting look at split testing for your email list opt-ins and social proof. There has also been a decent discussion on this by WordPress people on Google+. Why do you think that social proof hurt the conversion rates?

How much are the big WordPress companies making?

Brian Krogsgard

June 18, 2013

BusinessHosting

It's a question many of us have pondered. Just how much money do these "big" WordPress product companies make? WooThemes, Copyblogger (makers of StudioPress), Gravity Forms, WP Engine, Sucuri, and many more companies are clearly making significant revenues compared to…

WordPress.com launches MP6 dashboard redesign

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2013

DesignWordPress News

WordPress.com has launched the MP6 dashboard redesign to everyone this morning. The comments on Matt Thomas' announcement post are pretty enlightening as to how regular folks feel, and also a bit entertaining. In short, most are happy and some are…

Local development tips for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2013

Development

Jon Brown has a very nice post up on his blog with some tips for better local development with WordPress. There are a lot of ways to go about this, but I like the way Jon organizes things. h/t Ben…

Automattic acquires popular mobile WordPress app, Poster

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2013

WordPress News

Automattic acquired what is probably the most popular third party WordPress publishing app, Poster. Tom Witkin, Poster's developer, is joining Automattic to work on the official WordPress mobile apps. There's a little more info on Mac Stories, TechCrunch and WP Daily, if you're…

Code Poet interview with Human Made cofounder Tom Willmot

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2013

WordPress News

This is a great interview with Tom Willmot, a cofounder of Human Made Limited. Human Made is a web shop and WordPress VIP partner out of the UK, and Tom and his brother Joe Hoyle started WP Remote and partnered…

On WordPress news sites

Brian Krogsgard

June 13, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

There has been a bit of talk about WordPress news sites recently. WPMU has done a pretty good summary of the recent DradCast podcast episode hosted by WP Tavern's Jeff Chandler. It tells the story of Jeff's journey running the…

The importance of business talks over WordCamps

Mario Peshev

June 12, 2013

Business

WordPress is the perfect product for business. It is a great framework for both small and large websites, and thousands of experts are doing full-time WordPress work whether it's in development, design, SEO, marketing -anything related to the ecosystem. That's…

DevPress aims to create a new hosted website platform

Brian Krogsgard

June 12, 2013

WordPress News

Tung Do, the owner of DevPress, has written a post that he knows may be more ambitious than he can handle. He notes a longstanding desire to "revolutionize the WordPress-experience" and he wants to do so by transforming DevPress into…

Styling comments based on custom user role

Curtis McHale

June 12, 2013

Development

WordPress provides classes for stock roles on comments, this tutorial shows you how to add them for custom roles and how to style the comments.

WPSessions: Learn from experts

Brian Krogsgard

June 12, 2013

WordPress News

Brian Richards has launched a new project called WPSessions. WPSessions is a series of monthly presentations from some of the foremost experts in the community. The first Session will be Saturday, June 22nd on Building WordPress Plugins. Brian says that…

WordPress theme for presentation slides

Conversion rate optimization: hypothesise first, then test

What’s your WordPress job title?

Tweeple plugin offers tweet feeds compatible to Twitter V1.1 API

Dealing with query variables in RSS feeds

How split-testing an opt-in form increased conversion rate by 102.2%

How much are the big WordPress companies making?

WordPress.com launches MP6 dashboard redesign

Local development tips for WordPress

Automattic acquires popular mobile WordPress app, Poster

Code Poet interview with Human Made cofounder Tom Willmot

On WordPress news sites

The importance of business talks over WordCamps

DevPress aims to create a new hosted website platform

Styling comments based on custom user role

WPSessions: Learn from experts

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