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Lazy loading images, explained

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Brian Krogsgard
I love posts like this. I've never given Lazy loading of images much thought. Devin Price has explained what lazy loading actually does, how it's best handled in WordPress, and gives his recommendation on how to best use this sort…

Alex King on the maturity of WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
Austin Gunter has interviewed Alex King on the WP Engine blog about the maturity of WordPress. I'm only part way through the 4,000+ words, but it's a great read so far. Alex brings enormously valuable perspective to things in the…

Blackbox Debug Bar

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Brian Krogsgard
In Dave Donaldson's WordCamp Atlanta presentation, he mentioned how much he likes the Blackbox Debug Bar plugin. I'd never seen it before, but it looks quite nice for showing debut information in an easy to consume way. It's a nice…

Advice for working with clients

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Brian Krogsgard
Ryan Cowles has shared some great advice on WP Daily for working well with clients. It's quite similar to what I talked about in my presentation at WordCamp Atlanta. Not all of the things we need to remember to do…

Tips from WordPress pros

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Brian Krogsgard
In Siobhan McKeown's latest post on Smashing Magazine, she shares some really great advice from some of the top folks in the industry. It's a must read if you work with WordPress professionally.

WordPress & Google Summer of Code 2013

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Brian Krogsgard
Initial plans for applying to Google's Summer of Code (GSoC) are coming together on the Make Core blog. It's a good opportunity to mentor someone if you've got the chops.

Increased plugin sales by 4x in two and a half months

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Brian Krogsgard
Thomas Griffin is in the midst of transitioning his mindset from that of a developer to that of a marketer. In his most recent post, he describes some relatively simple methods he used to sell his plugin at four times…

WordCamp Internet

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Brian Krogsgard
I had a thought after seeing Brian's tweet about his #WCATL presentation: "I wish that I could get all these cool WP peeps together & do some kind of WordCamp where we could all meet each other in person." Seeing…

Rethinking the WordPress Admin

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Brian Krogsgard
Aside from all the flexibility WordPress gives us for warping and bending it to our will, the static nature of the admin really grinds my gears. There's been some progress on better admin styles and even some very impressive iterations…

WordPress development with Vagrant

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Brian Krogsgard
Jeremy Felt is the Director of Web Engineering at 10up, and he's written on his personal blog about evolving your WordPress development by using Vagrant. It's a great read if you are new or unaware to the practice.

Orbtr: WordPress based marketing plugin

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Brian Krogsgard
The folks at Orbtr launched their new plugin this weekend at WordCamp Atlanta. I spoke with them for a while, and I think their product is promising. Imagine it as a Hubspot-esque product, but all within the WordPress dashboard. It handles email…
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