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DreamHost targets managed WordPress hosts with DreamPress

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Brian Krogsgard
HostingWordPress News
DreamHost has announced a "highly optimized, extremely reliable managed WordPress service" using managed VPS instances on "tuned-for-WordPress" servers. They're also including automatic updates and some other WordPress specific features. It seems they are pretty clearly going after the growing market that so far…

WordCamps and business

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
WordCamp SF attendees, via Matt You've likely heard a lot about the WordPress economy over the past couple of years. Tens of thousands of people make their living with WordPress. It's likely that many thousands more work at news sites,…

Sometimes we need a reminder

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
John Hawkins reflects on his experience this last weekend at WordCamp Orange County, as someone he met was literally brought to tears because they finally found a solution to a problem they were having with a friend's website. John says…

If you’re serious

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Brian Krogsgard
Make WordPressWordPress News
Matt, If you’re serious about forking b2 I would be interested in contributing. I’m sure there are one or two others in the community who would be too. Mike Little's fateful comment on Matt Mullenweg's blog. A short history of…

Nonces that are used only once

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Brady Vercher
Development
The word nonce indicates a number used only once, but in WordPress nonces can be used multiple times within 24 hours, although they are unique to the user, action, and ideally an object. Usually, that's all that's necessary, but to…

Case study: Building a WordPress powered web app

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessDevelopment
Josh Kadis has written up a summary of his experience at Quartz (an excellent online business news magazine) using WordPress to build a web app. Their considerations for choosing to build their own  API versus use Jetpack's, using the settings…

Redesigning the Template Hierarchy

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
The WordPress Codex has a very useful template hierarchy graphic to show which templates files display what info. However, it isn't the prettiest or easiest to follow. Luckily, Michelle from Marktime Media took on a personal project of redesigning it…

Without a plugin? The functions.php myth.

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Brian Krogsgard
Development
There's a wide spread digital myth in the WordPress microverse about the functions.php file and that it's a code snippet container. This post tries to explain why people are misusing this file, shows alternatives and explains step by step how…

WordPress 10th anniversary roundup

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
WP Daily has a nice collection of WordPress 10th anniversary cakes and blog posts from this weekend. It's a tremendous achievement what WordPress has made possible in the last ten years, and I look forward to many years to come.…

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