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Battling round numbers with WordPress 4.0

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress 3.9 hasn't quite reached beta, but many of us are already looking ahead to WordPress 4.0. I know, I know: 4.0 is no more significant than 3.9 or any other major release. It just so happens that WordPress' twenty-third major…

WooCommerce 2.1 Released

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Travis Northcutt
WooThemes announced the release of WooCommerce 2.1 "Peppy Penguin" today. Major changes include a REST API, a new look for the admin panel to match the WordPress 3.8 UI, improved reporting tools, and responsive default templates.

Debug Bar Slow Actions

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Travis Northcutt
Konstantin Kovshenin announced a new plugin called Debug Bar Slow Actions, an extension for the Debug Bar plugin. Konstantin's new plugin ...adds a new panel with a list of the top 100 slowest actions (and filters) during the current page request. This…

The qualities of a great WordPress contributor

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Travis Northcutt
Andrew Nacin, one of the lead developers of WordPress, posted an excellent read on how to best contribute to the WordPress project, as well as some information on how core committers (that is, people who have access to commit code) are…

WordPress theme performance tips

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Brian Krogsgard
Kirk Wight has written a helpful post on the Theme Shaper blog that offers tips on improving performance in WordPress themes. Kirk is a theme wrangler at Automattic and knows his stuff. If you love making themes, but haven't thought…

How to remove jQuery

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Brian Krogsgard
With the recent "you might not need jQuery" craze, developers are understandably asking how to remove the library from the front-end of their site. Depending on the way the theme is built, it's fairly straight-forward.

Business models for WordPress products

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Brian Krogsgard
Chris Lema has put together a nice video about creating business models for WordPress products. Sometimes, people jump in without really analyzing or knowing a market, and Chris helps you navigate these waters. He's helped a lot of businesses in…

Welcome Travis Northcutt as Contributing Editor

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Brian Krogsgard
I'm thrilled today to announce that the Post Status team is growing. Doubling, in fact! I'm very happy to announce that Travis Northcutt is going to be a Contributing Editor to Post Status. In this role, Travis will be able…

VelocityPage by Mark Jaquith

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Travis Northcutt
Mark Jaquith just announced a new plugin called VelocityPage. VelocityPage is a WordPress plugin that brings simple and intuitive page layout abilities to WordPress, on any theme. There's a short video that demonstrates the capabilities in the linked post; it's definitely…

The email line that’s client repellant

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Brian Krogsgard
I've had a lot of email correspondence lately. As a boutique agency, all of us at Range share duties like responding to leads, proposals, and project management. It's been incredibly fun to stretch my legs back into sales and project…

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