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Jonathan Bailey, copyright and plagiarism consultant…

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Dan Knauss
Hosting
Jonathan Bailey, copyright and plagiarism consultant at CopyByte, puts his thoughts down about the future of WordPress: "WordPress is at a crossroads... it faces a new threat, and it’s not a competitor but rather an ideology." Jonathan believes the self-hosted…

Managed WordPress hosting companies continue to…

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Dan Knauss
Hosting
Managed WordPress hosting companies continue to grow: Flywheel is #344 on Inc. Magazine's annual ranking of the United States's fastest-growing private companies. It is also Nebraska’s fastest-growing company in 2018.

Gutenberg 3.5 is out with another long list…

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Dan Knauss
Design
Gutenberg 3.5 is out with another long list of features, but the clear majority of items are improvements that refine and polish the user experience, like styles for checkbox components and states for buttons. About 50% of all Gutenberg downloads have happened…

Ryan Sullivan, who recently sold his…

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Ryan Sullivan, who recently sold his company WP Site Care, shares his feelings about the way a growing business can potentially interfere with your passion and get you sidetracked from the things that made you start a business in the…

Speaking of the BBC News, Chris Ashton,…

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Speaking of the BBC News, Chris Ashton, a senior developer, documents his experience of using the internet with nothing but a keyboard. Many designers and developers are taught to make sure their work is accessible through the keyboard and nothing else, so…

The BBC News has transitioned to HTTPS,…

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Brian Krogsgard
Security
The BBC News has transitioned to HTTPS, as everyone should. James Donohue, a software engineer working with a team on the transition, briefly explains the problems that needed to be addressed and why security is so important to journalism: "In a…

4.9.7 Security Release

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Brian Krogsgard
Security
WordPress 4.9.7 is a security release that fixes 17 bugs in WordPress, as announced by Aaron Campbell. The release caused some confusion from a naming perspective, as blog posts had been written scheduling 4.9.7, which are now bumped to 4.9.8…

Pagely has introduced PressThumb, a solution…

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Brian Krogsgard
Hosting
Pagely has introduced PressThumb, a solution for image optimization and on-the-fly thumbnail generation. It is powered by Thumbor and integrated with Pagely’s hosting stack using a combination of custom NGINX rules and an MU plugin.

Over at the Easy Digital Downloads…

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Brian Krogsgard
Security
Over at the Easy Digital Downloads blog, Mandy Jones explains how to create customer confidence for digital products in an era of hackers, fraud, and online theft. Mandy stresses how transparency means honesty and stressing how your customers' information is readily…

On June 21st the US Supreme…

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
On June 21st the US Supreme Court has ruled that online sellers must collect state sales taxes on consumer purchases, which will effect every business that sells on the web in the United States. This will likely impact small businesses…
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