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WordPress 4.6 to be a release for refinement

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Brian Krogsgard

WordPress 4.6 is officially underway, and release lead Dominik Schilling announced in the weekly chat that the goal of this release is to fix as many longstanding bugs as possible, and to refine existing features, rather than to focus on…

WordPress 4.5 — Draft Podcast

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Katie Richards
Joe and Brian talk about the release and features of WordPress 4.5, “Coleman”. They also discuss the earliest stages of WordPress 4.6 -- no rest for the wicked.

WPLift is for sale, and with…

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WPLift is for sale, and with 12 days remaining, the bidding is at $95,000. That's already about $20,000 more than the last twelve months of revenue for the site. Most of the revenue is from affiliates, but he has a…

Weekend listening: The A16Z podcast talked…

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Weekend listening: The A16Z podcast talked about open source business models in a short episode the other day. Automattic isn't mentioned, but the conversation around investing in community influencers, winning over developers, and building out a sales team is pretty…

  The WordPress 4.6 roadmap for…

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  The WordPress 4.6 roadmap for the Customizer is being formed, and here's a sneak peak. Features being considered are basic content authorship in the Customizer and Customizer Transactions, which would allow revisions to changes in the Customizer, among other perks.…

Daniel Bachhuber reviews some recent changes…

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Daniel Bachhuber reviews some recent changes to WP-CLI related to the WordPress REST API. I love the lightweight profiling and I know this is going to help out some developers quite a bit.

Here’s a statistic from 10up: WordPress powers…

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Here's a statistic from 10up: WordPress powers at least 1 of every 7 Webby nominees in the "General Websites" and "Website Features and Design" primary categories. I'm not surprised, and honestly thought it might be more, but I forget sometimes the…

This post on moving from Squarespace…

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This post on moving from Squarespace to WordPress reveals a few interesting tidbits that were new to me. Apparently Squarespace makes changes to the photos you upload (renaming and even disabling search engine optimization, according to Scott Kivowitz). Yikes. Scott…

WordPress Global Translation Day is a…

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WordPress Global Translation Day is a full day (Sunday, April 24) of live training sessions on WordPress i18n & L10n. If you know of WordSesh, think of it as that but devoted to translations. If you have any interest in…

Bridget Willard reviews what qualities might…

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Bridget Willard reviews what qualities might make a plugin feel and work better than the norm. She uses a restaurant analogy to drive the points home. The owner of a web company I used to work for loved restaurant analogies, so this made…

Threaded messages are apparently coming to Slack.…

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Threaded messages are apparently coming to Slack. When I saw this, I tweeted that while trying to replace email, Slack is becoming more like it. I'm personally more excited about the recent release of reminders.

WordPress 4.6 wishlist

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Brian Krogsgard

No rest for the wicked. WordPress 4.6 development is officially underway. To start, 4.6 Release Lead Dominik Schilling (you may better know him as Ocean90) has followed the recent trend of opening up Make Core for an ideas "wishlist". There…

Yoast Google Analytics plugin acquired by Awesome Motive

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Brian Krogsgard

AwesomeMotive -- the company lead by Syed Balkhi -- has acquired Yoast's Google Analytics plugin, which boasts over one million active installs of the free plugin, plus a commercial version that was generating revenue that was at least low six…

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