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The first WordPress conferences of 2018…

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Brian Krogsgard
The first WordPress conferences of 2018 will soon be upon us. Two to point out: LoopConf is happening from February 21 to 24 with a solid speaker lineup. It's back in the same venue at Salt Lake City, Utah. If you're…

I believe all of the WordCamp…

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I believe all of the WordCamp US 2017 talks are available on WordPress.tv. Catch the talks you couldn't see personally or that you might have missed on the live stream.

Automattic’s Simplenote Mac app got an…

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Automattic's Simplenote Mac app got an impressive update. I use this every day and am pleased to see it's being worked on. It's the, well, simplest not taking app I've ever tried and the only one that's ever stuck --…

There’s a Gender Data Protection Regulation…

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There's a Gender Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) going into effect in the EU, which may affect how you as a website owner should collect data, including possibly informing visitors about what data you collect. Hannah Swain shares how WooCommerce is…

Here’s a handy plugin from Sridhar Katakam…

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Here's a handy plugin from Sridhar Katakam that makes the widget areas on the right side of the widget manager sticky so they always remain in view. There's talk of this possibly going into core at some point — a really…

Pippin Williamson has discontinued memberships on…

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Brian Krogsgard
Pippin Williamson has discontinued memberships on his website to provide free and open access to his tutorials. The product side of his business has grown enough that he can't consistently produce new tutorials and provide code reviews, so he's opening up…

Another great (and free) source of…

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Another great (and free) source of tutorials is freeCodeCamp — they have something for everyone. A recent podcast episode on the employee management problem of "brilliant jerks" is worth a listen. They've been working through a great little series on CSS…

Here are some other recent links…

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Here are some other recent links to share regarding Gutenberg: If you haven't seen Morten Rand-Hendriksen talk at WordCamp US, I would highly recommend it. He also has two articles on LinkedIn: one high level post on what we need…

I’ve been a long time user…

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I've been a long time user of DeployBot, a product from WildBit to deploy code. I was a bit sad to see it was sold, but it seems like the right call for their team, and it appears to have…

What are the biggest theme shops…

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What are the biggest theme shops in 2017 by Alexa rank? Karol at CodeinWP has you covered. I didn't see a ton of movement this year from last, a further sign to me that it's simply difficult to be a…

GoDaddy has ranked the most popular…

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GoDaddy has ranked the most popular WordPress plugins and themes installed on their servers in 2017. The top three plugins were Yoast SEO, Jetpack and Ninja Forms. The most popular eCommerce plugin was WooCommerce, and MonsterInsights took the crown as the most…

WP Snapshots is a project sharing…

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WP Snapshots is a project sharing tool for WordPress developed by 10up. It's a command line tool that uses AWS to "push snapshots of projects into the cloud for sharing with team members." Helen Hou-Sandi also announced an ads.txt manager…

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