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WP Roll is a new way to find WordPress news sources

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
WP Roll is curated blogroll of people and blogs writing about WordPress. It uses RollRank which is a unique and custom built ranking algorithm that relies on various social signals for sorting blogs by their popularity, quality and relevance to…

A Year Without Pants

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Scott Berkun spent a year working for Automattic as research for his upcoming book, A Year Without Pants. The book will focus on remote work, for which Automattic is well known. Berkun is going to, "share what I learned about…

WordPress plugin to embed comparison charts

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
The Diffen comparison plugin lets WordPress bloggers easily search and embed comparison charts on their blog, from right within their regular editor. Diffen is the world's largest collection of unbiased comparisons in sports, sci./tech, legal, finance, grammar, health and general…

The Future of Startbox with WebDevStudios

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Startbox is a theme framework built by Brian Richards that was adopted / acquired by WebDevStudios when Brian went to work there full time. In this post  on WP Force, Brad Williams answers what the future of Startbox looks like.

Make support easier with the SysInfo plugin

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Dave Donaldson has extracted some code he uses in all of his plugins at Max Foundry to release as a standalone plugin. SysInfo is relatively simple; it shows as much information about a WordPress site and environment as it can,…

WordPress.com partners with ShopLocket for eCommerce

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
This is a surprising move. WordPress.com has partnered with a company called ShopLocket to enable eCommerce for WordPress.com customers. Anyone ever heard of or used ShopLocket? Seems like a pretty direct response to Squarespace's eCommerce offering to me.

Why extensions for plugins

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Pippin Williamson describes why the extensions model is a good idea for plugins, and responds to common criticism he sees for the model. I agree with him. I really love the extension model for plugins, and I think there is…

Develop locally with Jetpack

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
In the latest release of Jetpack, you can assign a constant in wp-config in order to develop locally. This is long due and welcome news. There are also some nice new filters for refining which widgets and shortcodes are made…

WordPress, a web operating system

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
I'm wrapping up listening to the most recent episode of DradCast, hosted by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg. Matt speaks of what WordPress can be ten years from now, and included in his response mentions, "when you think about it, we're…

WordPress.com vs WordPress.org

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Sarah Gooding has done a nice comparison of WordPress.org and WordPress.com. This could be useful for when you're trying to explain the difference to clients.

More Bad Tutorials

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Curtis McHale
WordPress News
It always gets my goat when people leave off escaping in tutorials just to make it easier. The code you just provided will be copied and pasted and then you are the cause of bad code out there.

VIP Developer Workshop

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Brian Krogsgard
HostingWordPress News
WordPress.com VIP is hosting another developer workshop this year, offering two+ days of hardcore WordPress training from Automattic's VIP team. It's a great opportunity, and comes with a hefty price tag. It'll set you back $3600, but does including hotel…
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