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If you’re someone who designs emails…

April 8, 2016

If you're someone who designs emails or just appreciates a good email design when they see it, then you might want to check out the latest in a "best of email" post from Jason Rodriguez. I mean, who doesn't appreciate…

Hugo Baeta recently has results from…

April 8, 2016

Hugo Baeta recently has results from a survey conducted a few months ago whose goal was help better understand how contributors and other community members interact with WordPress.org sites. The survey only had around 32 responses (most from developers), which…

It’s official. Internet is spelled with…

April 8, 2016

It's official. Internet is spelled with the lowercase "i". I've been right all along.

If you have grumbles about the…

April 8, 2016

Design

If you have grumbles about the WordPress.org plugin repo in terms of its design and user experience, you might want to check out some wireframes recently done by the plugin team. So far, I like the general way things are…

I found Parham Doustdar’s post on…

April 8, 2016

I found Parham Doustdar's post on what a blind programmer uses as tools in his coding and development to be an interesting bit of reading. When it comes to accessibility, we often focus on consumption rather than creation, and some of…

Here’s a list of compelling conference…

April 8, 2016

Here's a list of compelling conference videos and talks if you feel like watching people speak about something outside of WordPress.

Dave Warfel has a nice walkthrough…

April 8, 2016

Dave Warfel has a nice walkthrough (with video) on how to use the device preview functionality that's coming in WordPress 4.5.

Not all plugins need to rush…

April 8, 2016

Not all plugins need to rush to the SaaS model. Josh Pollock has some thoughts on why this might not be the path for you and your plugin.

It’s been two and a half…

April 8, 2016

It's been two and a half months in the making: GlotPress 2.5 is out. It's a release focused on tweaks and enhancements primarily. It does include items such as case-sensitive translation searches, support for Java properties files, new and updated…

I found this insider’s look into…

April 8, 2016

I found this insider's look into how the 2016 Olympic logo and font were created to be interesting. While they did have pressure of working on the project in secret (they actually had to fake working on real project not…

Iain Poulson talks about using Codeception,…

April 8, 2016

Iain Poulson talks about using Codeception, a behaviour-driven testing framework -- particularly in how it relates to automating WordPress plugin tests.

Envato has introduced flexible pricing on…

April 8, 2016

Envato has introduced flexible pricing on ThemeForest across HTML, Muse, Marketing, PSD, Sketch and Courses categories. The WordPress category isn't included (for now) but I think it's pretty obvious it's on the way. I'll have more on this soon.

Developers who use Grunt can rejoice…

April 8, 2016

Developers who use Grunt can rejoice that the 1.0.0 version has been officially released (and no longer supports Node.js v0.8).

WebDevStudios has launched Pluginize, which is…

April 8, 2016

WebDevStudios has launched Pluginize, which is a plugin store where they'll share and sell self-created WordPress plugins. I'll say that this wasn't much of a surprise to me as I learned about it -- WebDevStudios employees are constantly publishing new plugins…

Upsource is a developer tool that…

April 8, 2016

Upsource is a developer tool that provides IDE-level code insight to help developers understand and review code changes. It supports both Git and SVN. I haven't used a tool exactly like this before, but it's features look pretty awesome. And Upsource is…

Managed WordPress hosting provider FlyWheel has…

April 8, 2016

Hosting

Managed WordPress hosting provider FlyWheel has raised a $4 million Series A round. They last raised $1.2 million over a year ago. The TechCrunch article states that FlyWheel has about 40,000 paying customers.