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An interview with WordPress co-founder Mike Little

Brian Krogsgard

February 5, 2013

Prolific North has published an interview with WordPress co-founder Mike Little that's a very interesting story of the earliest days of WordPress. If you haven't been around the platform for long, you may not know much about Mike. He owns…

Women in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2013

WordPress News

This is a great story from Mel Choyce. She reflects on her positive experience as a woman in the WordPress community. She talks about being inspired by other women in the community, and how it encouraged her to get involved.…

Allow Users to Update their Profile from the Front End with Gravity Forms

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2013

WordPress News

Using Gravity Forms, you can allow users to edit their profile from a simple form on the front-end of your site, ensuring consistency with the styling of your site. It even supports passwords and custom profile fields.

The Best Time to Buy is Now

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2013

Business

A low-price guarantee where you refund the difference for customers who purchased within 30 days of a promotion may actually increase sales.

Choosing a WordPress Membership Plugin [infographic]

Chris Lema

February 4, 2013

WordPress News

This infographic highlights a decision making process for selecting the right WordPress membership plugin.

Notifications in WordPress for iOS

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2013

WordPress News

I like this very much. If you're using Jetpack with a self hosted install, you can now get more advanced notifications, and do a bunch of pretty cool stuff from within the iOS app.

Five questions with theme developer Mike McAlister

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2013

DesignWordPress News

Erik Ford has a nice Q&A with Mike McAlister on his blog. Both Erik and Mike are valuable members of the commercial theme community. This is a great opportunity to hear how Mike got into making WordPress themes, and how…

Customer happiness reports

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2013

Business

I've admired WooThemes' openness as long as I've been reading their blog. Last week, Adii Pienaar laid out exactly how WooTheme's transition to ZenDesk support has gone, including their number of tickets, response times, and more. As a WooThemes customer…

Theme independence among potential BuddyPress 1.7 features

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2013

WordPress News

Ryan Imel posted on WPCandy about some features in the works for BuddyPress 1.7. Of them, theme independence catches my eye the most. It would certainly be nice to have a relatively simple path for enabling any theme for BuddyPress.…

Don’t dequeue WordPress’ jQuery

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2013

Development

Eric Mann describes why you shouldn't dequeue WordPress' version of jQuery. Unless you have a really, really good reason to use a CDN for jQuery (you probably don't), then stick with what WordPress ships with. You'll likely save yourself many…

WordPress Timthumb Alternative

Travis Northcutt

February 4, 2013

Development

An alternative to Timthumb that includes back compat for <3.5, and a separate function for WP 3.5+.

Post Meta Inspector: easily see all meta data in a post meta box

Brian Krogsgard

February 2, 2013

WordPress News

This is a super useful utility plugin if you work a lot with post meta data. Automattic and Daniel Bachhuber have released Post Meta Inspector, a plugin that shows all meta data for a post in a post meta box.…

Multi Page Navigation with Gravity Forms

Brian Krogsgard

February 2, 2013

WordPress News

David Smith is a developer for Rocket Genius, the makers of Gravity Forms. And on the side, he runs the Gravity Wiz website for adding additional functionality to Gravity Forms by way of "Perks," plus general tips and tutorials. His…

Sticky posts in custom post type archives

Brian Krogsgard

February 2, 2013

WordPress News

WordPress has post sticky option only for posts post type. So if you are going to create a new custom post type, there is no native way for adding support for sticky posts. With this trick, you can show your…

Force CSS changes to bust browser cache

Brian Krogsgard

February 1, 2013

WordPress News

This is an old one, but still a great solution for busting browser cache any time you update your theme stylesheet. Mark Jaquith shows how to easily wrap your stylesheet with filemtime, a PHP function that returns the time a…

Creating the Legalities of a WordPress Business

Brian Krogsgard

February 1, 2013

Business

In the process of setting up a legal entity for our upcoming business launch, I reached out to several people seeking advice on how best to create our business structure. I’m really grateful for the willingness of everyone to share…

An interview with WordPress co-founder Mike Little

Women in WordPress

Allow Users to Update their Profile from the Front End with Gravity Forms

The Best Time to Buy is Now

Choosing a WordPress Membership Plugin [infographic]

Notifications in WordPress for iOS

Five questions with theme developer Mike McAlister

Customer happiness reports

Theme independence among potential BuddyPress 1.7 features

Don’t dequeue WordPress’ jQuery

WordPress Timthumb Alternative

Post Meta Inspector: easily see all meta data in a post meta box

Multi Page Navigation with Gravity Forms

Sticky posts in custom post type archives

Force CSS changes to bust browser cache

Creating the Legalities of a WordPress Business

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