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Isolation in remote work and self employment

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Brian Krogsgard

This post is a little off the beaten path, but it's been on my mind a lot recently. I've been working from home for almost three years now, and I've worked for myself for about a year and a half.…

Automattic is building a directory for WordPress professionals

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Brian Krogsgard

There's not a whole lot to this story that's not in the title, but Jetpack.pro is the directory that Automattic is building, and it's in a very early beta stage right now. In the email to beta testers, they noted,…

CleanTalk is a potential alternative to…

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Brian Krogsgard

CleanTalk is a potential alternative to Akismet when it comes to dealing with spam. There are no captchas or other items in the submit form, as it's a server-side service. I haven't tried it yet, but it could be worth…

Papi has a different approach on…

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Brian Krogsgard

Papi has a different approach on how to work with fields and page types in WordPress. It's an interesting take that has origins from how Page Type Builder in EPiServer works.

New and seasoned entrepreneurs can appreciate…

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Brian Krogsgard

New and seasoned entrepreneurs can appreciate Cory Miller's confessions. Most everything on this list has been something I’ve struggled deeply with at one time or the other in my time as an entrepreneur, and/or heard numerous entrepreneurs talk about consistently.…

Jonathan Christopher shares some insights into…

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Brian Krogsgard

Jonathan Christopher shares some insights into his 10 years experience in pricing service based projects. Pricing is personal and unique depending on a number of variables, but listening to advice from experienced folks like Jonathan can help you make some…

Are you making your own endpoints…

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Brian Krogsgard

Are you making your own endpoints with the WordPress REST API but not writing full test coverage for your endpoints as you go? No problem. Daniel Bachhuber writes a post to help you get started.

It’s not much of a surprise,…

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Brian Krogsgard

It's not much of a surprise, but it comes to the official plugin repo and growth it looks like WordPress plugins set for another record year in 2016. It should be interesting if we hit the 70k mark in 2017…

Google recently announced it’s release of…

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Brian Krogsgard

Google recently announced it's release of parser software called SyntaxNet into open source. This parser breaks sentences down into components to better understand the meaning of words, and from what I've seen and read it looks impressive. It's also releasing…

Ryan McCue committed Requests to trunk,…

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Brian Krogsgard

Ryan McCue committed Requests to trunk, which improves upon WP_HTTP a great deal. Look for more in-depth posts on this in near future. Requests is an HTTP request library.

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…

This is nice: Happy Cog is…

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Brian Krogsgard

This is nice: Happy Cog is sharing their starter files, which includes their coding styles and CSS structure. The agency produces some great work, and if you are a front-end developer it might be worth a peak.

Here’s an in-depth preview on the…

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Brian Krogsgard

Here's an in-depth preview on the changes coming in WordPress 4.6 for the category and tag screens. The changes are focused on helping people who use the keyboard to navigate the content or use assistive technologies such as screen readers.

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