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Aaron Jorbin, with the assistance of…

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Brian Krogsgard

Aaron Jorbin, with the assistance of Andrew Norcross, has created a plugin called BRAD (Better Responsibility Around Discoverability), named such because Brad Williams tweeted the idea. This plugin does one thing: it moves the notice about search engine discouragement to…

CodeInWP recently wrapped up their 2017…

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Brian Krogsgard
CodeInWP recently wrapped up their 2017 WordPress Hosting Survey, with 4700 responses. Some of the more interesting tidbits, at least to me: - GoDaddy was the most popular host, accounting for 15.3% of all responses, with the majority of them…

SiteLock has acquired a Dutch security…

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Brian Krogsgard
SiteLock has acquired a Dutch security company called Patchman, which doubles the number of active sites they’ll have on their network. Patchman patches (good name!) vulnerabilities on the server, based on scanning files and identifying known vulnerable software. This is…

WP Remote has finally been acquired,…

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Brian Krogsgard

WP Remote has finally been acquired, by Maekit. It seems a good fit for Maekit, who has robust plans for the future of WP Remote. I’ve followed and covered WP Remote as long as it has existed. It’s a pretty…

GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving is retiring…

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Brian Krogsgard

GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving is retiring at the end of the year, and COO Scott Wagner is taking his place. Blake took the job in 2012 and steered GoDaddy through a massive product and cultural shift. I'm thankful for the…

Scott Bolinger gives advice on “trying…

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Dan Knauss

Scott Bolinger gives advice on "trying to focus on the system, not the results." In other words, focus on things you can control. You can’t control your traffic or revenue but you can control how much time you spend coding…

WP Remote has finally been acquired…

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Dan Knauss

WP Remote has finally been acquired -- by Maekit. It seems a good fit for Maekit, who has robust plans for the future of WP Remote. I’ve followed and covered WP Remote as long as it has existed. It’s a…

Free speech, privacy, and the web

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Brian Krogsgard
Web-based hosts, platforms, and businesses need a plan for how they'll handle issues around free speech and privacy rights for their users and customers.

Gutenberg is in beta, and an…

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Brian Krogsgard

Gutenberg is in beta, and an official testing page has been published on Make WordPress, with links to forms to provide generic feedback via a Google form, or you can contribute via GitHub. They are looking for specific task based…

There is a new weekly meeting…

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Brian Krogsgard

There is a new weekly meeting for new contributors on WordPress Slack. As Adam Silverstein mentions, it is a perfect place to come if you are new to contributing to WordPress core and have questions.

M Asif Rahman writes about his…

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Brian Krogsgard

M Asif Rahman writes about his experience sponsoring WordCamp Europe for weDevs. He analyses the time and actual costs, the value beyond direct sales, and more. He also raises a very valid concern around the timing for WCEU 2018, which…

This comparison between WordPress and Craft…

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Brian Krogsgard

This comparison between WordPress and Craft CMS from Matt Shaw is interesting, if nothing more than just to compare user experiences. Matt does give his personal nod to Craft in areas like its simplistic admin section and use of custom…

Here is a surprising and rather…

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Brian Krogsgard

Here is a surprising and rather sad tale about why WangGuard shut down. It was published by creator Jose Conti, and translated into English by Zé Fontainhas.

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