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A bit of additional WooCommerce news:…

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Brian Krogsgard
A bit of additional WooCommerce news: Joel Bronkowski, one of the top leaders within WooCommerce -- technically as director of business development -- and mostly dealt with third party partnerships, has decided to leave Automattic. Surprisingly (to me at least),…

Developers in the business of selling…

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Brian Krogsgard
Developers in the business of selling plugins and themes should bookmark and read Josh Pollock's recent essay that no one wants plugins, but they want solutions. He touches on a few points, but here's an interesting quote: The future of…

Leader.Team is a new business podcast…

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Brian Krogsgard
Leader.Team is a new business podcast from Cory Miller and Matt Danner. I like that their goal is keep it shorter than most podcasts (15-25 minute) so that it's easily digestible.

Daniel Bachhuber’s blog post on open Source,…

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Brian Krogsgard
Daniel Bachhuber's blog post on open Source, and why "you're doing it wrong" continues to espouse his views on contributing to open source and what it means for your profitability as a developer. "If you think open source is building your business on…

WordCamp Europe takeaways

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Brian Krogsgard
After a whirlwind WordCamp Europe, I've had some time to sit back and consider some of the common conversational threads. When a big group of people gets together in the WordPress space, you can start to identify what folks are…

If you build emails for your…

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Brian Krogsgard
If you build emails for your business or for clients, then it might be worth it for you to review these "email trends" of 2016. I don't think there's anything on this list that is new or life-changing, but there…

Hacked sites are never fun, and reading…

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Brian Krogsgard
Hacked sites are never fun, and reading tales like this one from Tim Butler gives great insight as to how hackers gain access, since it seems the ways are limitless. In this case, I enjoyed how Tim was able to locate…

Wordfence is getting into the “forensic”…

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Brian Krogsgard
Wordfence is getting into the "forensic" and malware cleaning business for WordPress sites. The service is a pretty logical extension of the plugin, and they're charging $179 to clean sites, or $120 for Wordfence Pro customers.

JavaScript for WP course update and enrollment details

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Brian Krogsgard
If you have been interested in the JavaScript for WP course, administered by Zac Gordon, then now is the time to sign up. The course has been under development for several months, and is now available for registration. The course…

The latest episode of the Apply Filters…

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Brian Krogsgard
The latest episode of the Apply Filters podcast has a nice interview with Devin Walker, and they discuss the Github announcement on pricing. Speaking of podcasts, it's a new season of the Matt Report and Matt has a great chat with Mike…

If you run a SaaS business…

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Brian Krogsgard
If you run a SaaS business (or want to), then you might want to bookmark this in-depth post from Jason Cohen, founder of WPEngine. I could say it discusses the cancellation rate in SaaS business models, but I don't think…
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