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This could probably be a full…

November 26, 2015

This could probably be a full blown post, but considering the holiday, I'm sticking to a footnote for now. Placester is a real estate website solution, that uses WordPress for many components, including the sites they sell realtors. It's been…

Introducing REST APIs is part 2…

November 26, 2015

Introducing REST APIs is part 2 of a series on ThemeShaper about building themes with JavaScript. This is a great series to follow for theme developers looking to grok the new WordPress REST API.

Matt Danner — iThemes’ COO –…

November 26, 2015

Matt Danner -- iThemes' COO -- has a great AMA up on ManageWP. His answers are all very thoughtful, and I really loved what he said about how the hack they had last year, while very challenging, helped make them…

Your “new to me” resource for…

November 26, 2015

Your "new to me" resource for the day: "OnionShare is an open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share a file of any size." Neat!

Delicious Brains concludes their fantastic series…

November 26, 2015

Hosting

Delicious Brains concludes their fantastic series on hosting WordPress yourself with examples of Nginx configurations.

Partner deals, and Black Friday deals

Brian Krogsgard

November 26, 2015

Howdy! So, Post Status site partners offer deals to you, members, year round! I figured, to remind you, I'd share them here before Black Friday. If you're in the buying mood, use these if they match up well. Gravity Forms:…

Interview with Automattic CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on Calypso and more

Brian Krogsgard

November 25, 2015

DraftHosting

Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress, and founder and CEO of Automattic. In this interview, we talk about their new WordPress.com editor, and more.

For those of you that are…

November 25, 2015

For those of you that are Calypso'd out, long live Footnotes.

Envato is now extending it’s 3…

November 25, 2015

Envato is now extending it's 3 month "work from anywhere" policy to full time. It's a nice hybrid approach to the remote work thinking. I love the way Envato considers culture.

Recently, theme updates started getting auto…

November 25, 2015

Recently, theme updates started getting auto approval on the WordPress.org directory. A couple of theme authors got their themes suspended for not following the rules, and Justin Tadlock writes that the theme team is banking on theme authors to be…

This new Rapid Order plugin for fast…

November 25, 2015

This new Rapid Order plugin for fast WooCommerce wholesale checkout is amazing. I wish I had this in 2012. It will definitely come in handy for some of you consultants, especially if you have clients with wholesale or other big-buy style…

Rarst advocates for progressive enhancement and…

November 25, 2015

Rarst advocates for progressive enhancement and asks for JavaScript driven websites to fail gracefully, and Joe Hoyle rebuts.

WordPress Dashboard Autobookmarks puts items in…

November 25, 2015

WordPress Dashboard Autobookmarks puts items in a toolbar dropdown based on how frequently you visit them. Omg yes please.

Client feature section, woot woot! WebDevStudios…

November 25, 2015

Client feature section, woot woot! WebDevStudios built a hiring site for Uber. This is a nice marketing example of WordPress, for a huge brand. 10up Client and overall neat organization StoryCorp got featured on Google's homepage for their Thanksgiving Listen campaign. I can't…

Dave Warfel has a pretty in-depth…

November 25, 2015

Dave Warfel has a pretty in-depth post about the issues some folks had with the Yoast SEO 3.0 update, and gives the whole thing a fair analysis.

Do you just need to nom…

November 25, 2015

Do you just need to nom nom nom on some developer-y stuff so bad right now? Okay, I'll leave you with a couple of very technical links. First, a very long, but educational, case for using Nginx. I don't think…