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Share sidebars in WordPress Multisite with transients

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Brian Krogsgard
Development
Corey Collins goes in depth on the WebDevStudios blog to offer a solution to a problem experienced by many Multisite users: for sharing sidebars across a Multisite instance. The solution uses transients to store everything and a small AJAX function…

Make your own WordPress admin themes

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
As I noted in my feature post on WordPress 3.8, the new WordPress build tools (using Grunt) and the port of the admin CSS to Sass make it much easier for WordPress core to make new admin themes. Well, with…

The design of WordPress 3.8

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Brian Krogsgard
DesignMake WordPress
Matt Thomas goes into detail on design considerations for MP6, which became the new look of WordPress in 3.8. Also, it's just so impressive how many people were involved in this project. Excellent wrap-up by Matt.

Meet WordPress 3.8, Parker

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Brian Krogsgard
DesignMake WordPress
WordPress 3.8, "Parker", has just been released. WordPress 3.8 is the result of four months of hard work by 188 core contributors. Named after Charlie Parker, jazz saxophonist and bepob innovator. WordPress 3.8's development was led by WordPress co-founder, Matt…

WordPress through the ages

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Brian Krogsgard
DesignMake WordPress
Jeff Matson has gathered up screenshots of every major design change of the WordPress admin and default themes on Inmotion Hosting's blog. It's fairly interesting to take a bird's eye view on the evolution of the visible aspects of WordPress.

Understanding _n_noop()

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Brian Krogsgard
Development
How a function that doesn't do anything can save your life. Well, not really, but close. _n_noop() can be very interesting, especially for APIs in larger plugins.

Beware of a spam email disguised as if it’s from Yoast

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Brian Krogsgard
Security
An email spam campaign disguised as being from Yoast is making the rounds. If you get an email from Yoast linking to their latest post, be sure to verify the sender and the link before you click it. According to…

What screens want

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
This is one of the most fun and thought provoking reads on design I've read in a really long time. Frank Chimero has put together what he calls "thoughts on digital canvases", and it's really worthwhile. If you do any…

Case study: building a front-end managed web app using WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
The folks at Voltronik have put together a pretty interesting case study going over their processes and considerations for building a project management system for a client, managed on the front end, all with WordPress. The result is a Bootstrap…

Another take on redesigning the WordPress admin

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
George Kordas has put together a tremendous effort on his concept for a new WordPress admin design. It's very, very pretty I think. I love seeing what people are coming up with. This skin, and the DevPress one, are fun…
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