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Bad documentation is a bug

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Brian Krogsgard
"Bad documentation is a bug" is a quote I saw from Jennifer Hodgdon at the Write The Docs conference that really stuck with me. I'm not at the conference; I just saw the quote. I think all developers should think about this quote, and…

Happy Easy Digital Downloads customers

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Brian Krogsgard
I've seen quite a few happy customers voice out about Easy Digital Downloads, and its ease of use. James Dalman is the most recent example. I've been wanting to use it (beyond just testing) for a long time, and hopefully…

Open source choices

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Brian Krogsgard
John Saddington shares why his WordPress-based / Instragram-like app, Pressgram, will not initially be open source. His Kickstarter project is very close to full funding with five days to go.

Numeric shortlinks plugin makes shortlinks simple

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Brian Krogsgard
The biggest issue I've ever had with shortlink plugins is that the plugins usually seem like overkill. Custom domains and third party integrations annoy me. Kaspars Dambis seems to have simplified things a bit. His new Numeric Shortlinks plugin creates…

BadgeOS plugin for site achievements

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Brian Krogsgard
WebDevStudios have released a plugin called BadgeOS for site owners to enable achievements and badges. I looked into a number of badge and achievements plugins when building Post Status, but never found one that fit. The Achievements plugin is quite…

The future of SEO plugins for WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
Joost de Valk talks about what he sees as the future of SEO plugins. In short, most of them suck. Joost's and a couple others are good, but don't trust most of what you see out there.

Different ways of instantiating WordPress plugins

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Brian Krogsgard
Many different ways exist to structure WordPress plugins. You can use singletons, global references to your plugin class instance, static classes, namespaces and so forth. In this article, many different ways are outlined in the context of extensibility.

10 useful WordPress plugins

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Brian Krogsgard
These plugins are quite handy for someone that makes websites for clients. Most of these are in my default setup, but I hadn't seen Content Aware Sidebars before, so I'll need to check it out.

Restaurant Engine Q&A with Brian Casel

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Brian Krogsgard
Brian Casel has answered some questions about his WordPress SaaS project, Restaurant Engine. The questions are some he's gotten over time that he decided to put into one blog post. It's great to see his thought processes behind his project.

The Long Game

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Brian Krogsgard
Noel Tock describes ways to invest in yourself today that will pay bigger in the future.
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