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Chris Lauzon, the interim CEO of…

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Brian Krogsgard
Chris Lauzon, the interim CEO of Pressable, recently shared his reflections on his first year at the company. A year ago, Chris was leading a support team for Automattic, and now he's gained some really valuable experience turning a hosting company around.…

Chris Lema has a follow up…

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Brian Krogsgard

Chris Lema has a follow up post to his in-depth analysis last year of the top WordPress membership plugins. It's a shorter post -- this time offering up his top three recommendations -- and he compares them based on features he believes are most…

Sami Keijonen has been interviewing fellow…

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Brian Krogsgard

Sami Keijonen has been interviewing fellow theme authors recently, and I enjoyed reading about AudioTheme, the partnership between Luke McDonald, Brady Vercher, and Brody Vercher. Sami talked to Brady about AudioTheme, how they approach themes, and their plans for the…

I found this list of underutilized…

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Brian Krogsgard

I found this list of underutilized CSS features to be educational, since it did show me a few items that I either haven't used in forever or completely forgot about. I really wish I remembered the :empty pseudo class, for instance.

Another good episode of How I…

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Brian Krogsgard

Another good episode of How I Built It, with Joe Casabona, is out. This week he interviews Joost de Valk about growing Yoast and how it has changed from a products company to a products and services company, with a big…

Jason Grigsby has written an informative article…

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Brian Krogsgard

Jason Grigsby has written an informative article on how to create a form that supports autofill, all using modern browser standards. Fun fact: Google has found that users complete forms up to 30% faster when using autofill.

Algolia has come out with a…

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Brian Krogsgard

Algolia has come out with a new WordPress plugin that improves upon built-in search. It's a hosted service (unlike SearchWP and other plugins), so that may deter or attract you depending on your needs. The plugin promises "out of the box"…

Shifter is a “serverless hosting solution…

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Brian Krogsgard
Shifter is a "serverless hosting solution for WordPress." According to the website, it "seamlessly transforms your site into a series of static HTML files," and they aim to be both the generator and the host of the generated files. It's…

I’ve been enjoying the Bits of…

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Brian Krogsgard

I've been enjoying the Bits of Code blog, by Ire Aderinokun. This week, she shares how she built an "offline first" version of her blog, using Service Worker. It's the first of a three part series, and while her blog…

Avoiding burnout is a common, and…

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Brian Krogsgard

Avoiding burnout is a common, and constant, challenge for many of us. Damon Brown's article at Inc. shares how to beat burnout "with one simple rule." The rule is called the "oxygen mask principle" and boils down to helping yourself first, so that…

If you are using Pressmatic, you…

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Brian Krogsgard

If you are using Pressmatic, you might want to note these scripts from Michael Moore that will automatically upgrade your MySQL version to 5.6+. This bit me when I tried to import a site on 5.6, and it wasn't supported…

Helen Hou-Sandí started a conversation in WordPress…

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Brian Krogsgard

Helen Hou-Sandí started a conversation in WordPress Trac that I'd love to see get more participants. It involves the role "dummy content" -- or demo content that would appear during live previews in the customizer -- could play to give users an idea of…

Last week was Geek Mental Help…

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Brian Krogsgard

Last week was Geek Mental Help Week and there are many helpful articles for those of you interested.

A recent story by Farhad Manjoo…

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Brian Krogsgard

A recent story by Farhad Manjoo in the New York Times about MailChimp's non-Silicon Valley approach to creating a successful startup is an enlightening and inspiring read. Their revenue per employee roughly calculates to more than $700,000 per year, which…

Google has recently released an open-source…

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Brian Krogsgard

Google has recently released an open-source font system called Noto. It covers more than 800 languages and 110,000 characters. It was designed with the intent to get rid of what they call "tofu", or the little squares indicating a character isn't…

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