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Paid Memberships Pro unveils business model from 2012 to now

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Brian Krogsgard
Paid Memberships Pro has a somewhat unique monetization method for their plugin. They largely monetize by selling support and custom work, versus selling any kind of extension or functionality. All Paid Memberships Pro features are free. A few years ago,…

Herbert is a framework for building plugins

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Brian Krogsgard

Herbert is a fancy MVC framework for building WordPress plugins. If you long for a different way than how most WordPress plugins are structured, Herbert may really interest you. I have had a lot of fun looking through the documentation, the example…

Strong passwords by default

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Brian Krogsgard

Mark Jaquith has further outlined the new password features in 4.3, and they are exciting. I think this may prove to be the most important new feature for this release. I've already covered this, but I'm covering it again. I…

WordPress hosting performance benchmarks, 2015

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Brian Krogsgard
Kevin Ohashi has this year's WordPress hosting performance benchmarks review up on Review Signal, and it's another great analysis. He reviewed 19 hosts and for some of them testing multiple configurations. He covers the biggest players and some I had…

Don’t make enemies, invest in friendships

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Cory Miller
Enemies are trouble and tear you down. Friends support you and build you up. Building a friendship is not easy, especially when the potential friend could just as easily be your enemy. But it's a worthwhile endeavor and a lasting investment.

Rogue shortcodes cause controversy for 4.2.3 security release

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Brian Krogsgard
The WordPress 4.2.3 security release looks like most security releases on the surface, but it has caused a good bit of controversy. The release includes a number of fixes, but one involving shortcodes is the focus of attention. Immediately after…

Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg have hardly communicated with one another in the last five years, but they are ideological enemies. They have very strong personalities and unshakable beliefs on business and software. This is a story of their dispute, their idealism, and the implications it will have on the WordPress project.

Version 2 of the WordPress REST API released

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Brian Krogsgard

Version 2 of the WordPress REST API has been released on WordPress.org as a whole new plugin. The decision to do this was so that backward compatibility could be maintained on version 1 on a permanent basis. So if you…

Pearson versus Mullenweg, a history

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Brian Krogsgard
This is a preview of the first part of my upcoming article on Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress. Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg have hardly communicated with one another in the last five years, but they are ideological enemies. They are…

WordPress 4.3 Beta 3 available for testing

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Brian Krogsgard

I've already talked a little about what's coming in WordPress 4.3, and now Beta 3 is available for testing. If you haven't already been testing, you absolutely should now. I know the core team will appreciate all eyes.

The web we have to save

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Brian Krogsgard

Hossein Derakhshan went to jail in Iran because he dared publish. Now he says we are giving away the web and that we have to save it. Just one passionate segment from his moving longform story: But hyperlinks aren’t just…

Ad networks’ grip on news outlets

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Brian Krogsgard

Ben Thompson's latest post tackles how web pages -- especially web pages driven by advertising and ad networks -- are bloated. Ad networks have gained huge adoption amongst big news websites, which largely cannot manage to sell their own inventory,…

Design before discovery

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Brian Krogsgard
Guillermo Rauch has written a post about the development of the new VideoPress, titled Pure UI. In it, he describes the workflow for creating the new player and how it was managed between design and development. He says that the…

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