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The Jorbin Test

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Aaron Jorbin
The Joel Test has largely stood the test of time, yet there isn't a WordPress specific version to help WordPress developers judge job opportunities. The Jorbin Test is the Joel Test, updated for the WordPress engineers of today.

Corey Maass describes his experience building…

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Corey Maass describes his experience building a WordPress plugin, with a few months behind him. The plugin in question is Kanban for WordPress -- which looks quite interesting as well.

Sam Sidler opened a discussion on…

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Sam Sidler opened a discussion on rethinking the "tags" interface on the plugin repo, as part of the redesign project I mentioned last week. This is exactly the kind of thing I noted that would have a big impact on…

Media Temple and WordImpress have announced…

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Media Temple and WordImpress have announced a really interesting model where they are a plugin shop / involved community members acting as corporate liaisons of sorts for Media Temple. This is the first thing I've seen like this and I'm really…

The discussions between WooThemes and Stripe…

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The discussions between WooThemes and Stripe that ended up with the Stripe payment gateway being free for WooCommerce seem to go a little farther than the extension. The WooThemes website is now powered by Stripe checkout as well, including automatic…

Poetica’s editing collaboration tool — originally…

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Poetica's editing collaboration tool -- originally a WordPress plugin integration -- has been acquired by giant publisher Condé Nast, and will be shutting down. I mentioned Poetica after they contacted me in October and said, "more on this soonish," which…

Plugin repo and frameworks

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Brian Krogsgard
There's a newly clarified policy on Make Plugins from Mika Epstein where she says that developer frameworks are no longer going to be approved for the plugin repo. Plugins like CMB2, Advanced Custom Fields and others that may be dependencies of other…

AppPresser 2 includes offline mode and other improvements

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Brian Krogsgard

Scott Bolinger announced AppPresser 2, a new major version of the popular WordPress to mobile app bridge. AppPresser seems to be doing quite well and the team has iterated the plugin a good bit. One of the most requested features…

WordPress 4.5 Beta 1 is out,…

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WordPress 4.5 Beta 1 is out, as I noted it was likely to be in my last newsletter. The overview post lists some of the features, and like I said before, this is very much a shine and polish release, versus…

Alex Turnbull at Groove shares some…

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Alex Turnbull at Groove shares some tips on hiring that he's learned while scaling his team. Quite applicable to remote teams or hybrid remote teams in the WordPress space.

Apache is getting its clock cleaned…

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Apache is getting its clock cleaned by nginx, though it's still ahead in overall use. Nginx is dominating in terms of use on top sites. The charts in this post are fun. But here's the money stat: The Netcraft data,…

Ionut Neagu says the mistake many…

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Ionut Neagu says the mistake many WordPress-centric entrepreneurs are making is probably starting from scratch, versus acquiring for a head start. You may recognize Ionut as a Post Status member, but also as the author of those popular transparency reports…

Rock The Slackbot is the most…

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Rock The Slackbot is the most thorough WordPress -> Slack trigger plugin I've seen, written by Rachel Carden. A friend was asking me if I knew of one that notified of updates, and not two days later I discovered this…

Not too long ago I talked…

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Not too long ago I talked about how some folks are doing quite well freelancing on Codeable. Nathan Ello shared his path to $100k.

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