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100% uptime

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Brian Krogsgard
Hosting
Jason Cohen, of WP Engine, talks about the unachievable goal of 100% uptime for hosts. He lays out the reality very nicely. It's great to see that logic. I added my own remarks in the comments, because I think more…

Mini freelance projects

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
WooThemes recently announced a partnership with Codeable for referring people for small customizations to their sites. Now Envato announced Microlancer for a similar concept. I know there are others, like Tweaky, as well. And there's a WordPress centric one somewhere…

Rethinking WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
Make WordPressWordPress News
Caleb Mellas wishes WordPress had the intuitive interface and ease of use for CMSs that Square does for payments. It's a popular topic of late, and Caleb gives a strong argument that WordPress needs to simplify.

Theme Mentor

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Mario Peshev has reviewed a lot of themes for the WordPress theme review team. So he's created a complimentary plugin called Theme Mentor, to assist theme reviewers (and theme makers) in accounting for various things that the theme check plugin…

WP Shindig – all WordPress events at a glance

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
The folks at Modern Tribe have created a nice little demo of their Events Calendar Pro plugin, with a helpful twist. WP Shindig is a community calendar of all WordPress events across the world, that happens to use their plugin. This…

WordAds, explained

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
The Daily Post on WordPress.com has a post explaining more about the WordAds system on WordPress.com. WordAds is a managed ads system Automattic created for the platform, so bloggers can monetize their blogs. It's relevant, as traditional advertisers like Google…

Write Simple CSS in Plugins

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Pippin Williamson
WordPress News
One of the philosophies of plugin development that I believe in very strongly is that CSS should be kept simple and easy to override.

WPLift got a big facelift

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Brian Krogsgard
DesignWordPress News
WPLift is a popular blog about WordPress. Oli Dale launched their second design iteration this morning. It's a whole new scheme, and they've included new plugin and theme repositories that will be interesting to see how they're used. It's very…

WordPress.com theme guide resource

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Michael Fields posted on the theme review team listserve this morning that the WordPress.com Theme Team has created a resource page for theme guidelines. They use this resource for reviewing themes submitted to WordPress.com, but it can be useful to…

Create your own tournament pools with BracketPress

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Scott Hack has released a plugin called BracketPress that allows you to create your own tournament pools. With March Madness just around the corner, this is great! The obvious advantages of a tool like this is that you can make…

Comprehensive guide to WordPress metaboxes

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Brian Krogsgard
Development
Alex Mansfield has published a very comprehensive overview of creating custom meta boxes in WordPress. It doesn't cover every type of field, but if you aren't using a class or other tool for building metaboxes, this will come in very…
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