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Pro Plugin Directory bought by owner of aThemes

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Brian Krogsgard

Pro Plugin Directory, which I noted was for sale a few weeks ago, has sold to Charlie Livingston, owner of aThemes. Neither Charlie or Steven would disclose the sale price, but Charlie did answer a couple of my questions via…

Marketing added to Make WordPress network

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Brian Krogsgard

A Marketing subsite has been added to the Make WordPress network. Sara Rosso -- the Director of Marketing at Automattic -- made the call for the new channel, and will be one of the moderators. She cited the WordPress Security whitepaper (created…

Easy Content Types for sale

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Brian Krogsgard

Pippin Williamson is selling his Easy Content Types plugin, after five years of managing it under Pippin's Plugins. Easy Content Types spent two years on Code Canyon before he moved it to his personal site. It still sells pretty well,…

The origins of Wapuu

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Brian Krogsgard

Who doesn't love Wapuu, the adorable Japanese WordPress mascot? Nick Hamze shared a great post about the origins of the mascot: In 2009 at the WordCamp Tokyo after-party, Matt asked Japanese users what should we do to promote WordPress in…

The ustwo team is a product…

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The ustwo team is a product building company with a new React-driven Single Page App website that stores data in WordPress and uses the WordPress REST API to serve content. They partnered with Human Made for the project, and now…

Andy Biou wrote a pretty terrifying…

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Andy Biou wrote a pretty terrifying account of how his website got hacked, and how he should've been able to avoid it. It's a WordPress website, but he shares how the hacker, "Ivan", was able to do it (and it…

This is a handy little snippet…

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This is a handy little snippet that creates a nag for plugin users using a non-English language to help support your plugin. This is cool, but dangerous: don't go too crazy, please.

Morten Rand-Hendriksen says WordPress can and…

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Morten Rand-Hendriksen says WordPress can and should throw its weight around more often, like was recently done with the Responsive Images project. I'm not sure supporting a pretty universally accepted spec is exactly throwing our weight around, but it's a…

Congratulations to Julie Kuehl on achieving…

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Congratulations to Julie Kuehl on achieving her goal from a crowdfunding campaign in the spring: she got a job doing WordPress stuff! She declares, "Mission accomplished."

Pantheon surveyed a small pool of…

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Pantheon surveyed a small pool of agencies, and is ready to declare that WordPress is moving upmarket. Some of the numbers I found interesting: 60% of those surveyed say their WordPress budgets have increased over the past year. 8% even…

Patrick Garman used a couple of…

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Patrick Garman used a couple of filters to prevent WordPress from doing expensive counting queries, and reduced some admin page loads from around 8 seconds to 1 second.

My friends at The Theme Foundry…

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My friends at The Theme Foundry say over 400,000 people are using their popular page building theme, and they've just redesigned the Make page. Here's their blog post about it, and they also talk about the future of the theme.

One of my good friends over…

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One of my good friends over at Modern Tribe shared a new page on Stanford's website that they just finished, and I thought it'd make for a fun Friday Feature. It's called Then and Now.

Quartz is a business oriented news…

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Quartz is a business oriented news website owned by Atlantic Media, and it is also using WordPress on the backend, with a custom REST API to power much of their distribution (to apps, the website, newsletter, etc). Here's an analysis…

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