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Develop locally with Jetpack

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
In the latest release of Jetpack, you can assign a constant in wp-config in order to develop locally. This is long due and welcome news. There are also some nice new filters for refining which widgets and shortcodes are made…

WordPress, a web operating system

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
I'm wrapping up listening to the most recent episode of DradCast, hosted by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg. Matt speaks of what WordPress can be ten years from now, and included in his response mentions, "when you think about it, we're…

WordPress.com vs WordPress.org

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Sarah Gooding has done a nice comparison of WordPress.org and WordPress.com. This could be useful for when you're trying to explain the difference to clients.

More Bad Tutorials

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Curtis McHale
WordPress News
It always gets my goat when people leave off escaping in tutorials just to make it easier. The code you just provided will be copied and pasted and then you are the cause of bad code out there.

VIP Developer Workshop

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Brian Krogsgard
HostingWordPress News
WordPress.com VIP is hosting another developer workshop this year, offering two+ days of hardcore WordPress training from Automattic's VIP team. It's a great opportunity, and comes with a hefty price tag. It'll set you back $3600, but does including hotel…

Function names you shouldn’t use

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Kailey Lampert has started a list of class and function names that should not be used in plugins and themes. These come from popular tutorials, common unprefixed names, or other methods she's run across at various times. Rule of thumb?…

Things learned designing for retina

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
Here's a very practical post where the author outlines what they learned they need to account for to handle retina devices. Simple, practical, and to the point. Are theme designers out there accounted for high resolution screens yet?

Toggle WordPress toolbar on hover

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Ever been logged in to WordPress but want to see your site without the toolbar? I've got a project with some weird positioning right now where such a feature is nice. You could just open the site in a different…

SublPress: WordPress actions in Sublime Text

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
This is an interesting package for Sublime Text that brings actions in the WordPress dashboard to your text editor. Though, to me, it seems if you are going to do it this way, why not just go straight to the…

Wptuts+ Resources

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Brian Krogsgard
HostingWordPress News
Wptuts+ has created a WordPress resources page. It includes a variety of categories, including development tools, hosting recommendations, and reference websites. Many of the links are affiliates.

Developing a WordPress site on a live url

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Brian Krogsgard
DesignDevelopment
There are a many ways to develop a website in WordPress, locally, on a sub-domain or on a staging server but these ways mean that you will eventually have to migrate the site to a the live url at some…
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