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Tools for growth at WordPress.com

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Pete Davies is a growth engineer for WordPress.com. That basically means he uses many tools to help analyze data so they can better market the platform for more people. This post on Pete's personal blog is a fantastic description of…

How websites are making money

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Here's a really interesting slide deck from Flippa's operations manager analyzing how websites are making money. He used 8,000 Flippa sold sites as examples. Toward the end, he notes an 8% growth for WordPress' marketshare of the CMS driven sites sold in…

Are home pages dead?

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
Quartz makes the argument that every page is the home page, because more and more sites are accessed first from within. I'm pretty sure I disagree. I get the point that interior pages need to be better focused for users first…

WordPress is a mature platform

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Austin Gunter, of WP Engine, attempts to quell concerns from some who think WordPress may not be a mature platform. He gives a very level headed response to some common criticisms. While I think there is room for WordPress to…

Set up unit tests for your plugin

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Brian Krogsgard
Development
The wp-cli (command line interface) project has really been gaining traction. Scribu shows in this post how to easily setup unit tests for WordPress plugins using wp-cli.

gdgt’s Acquisition Forces Us to Up Our Game

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
In an interview, gdgt co-founder Ryan Block hints that his team was hired at AOL for "technology", not content. As more media orgs like AOL continue to choose in-house platforms, what can WordPress developers do to help keep WP relevant…

Who’s hiring in WordPress?

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Brian Krogsgard
Careers
It's always great when people can get hooked up to work together. I consistently find people looking for WordPress developers, for both full time positions and contract work. Periodically, I also see folks looking for new opportunities. I'd like to…

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…

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