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A case against shortcodes

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Brian Krogsgard
Tom McFarlin has written a thoughtful article on WordPress shortcodes, and why he generally doesn't like them as a method for enabling custom content functionality in WordPress. I left my own thoughts in the comments of his post.

Never load jQuery from Google in themes and plugins

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Brian Krogsgard
If Pippin reminds us to not dequeue the WordPress version of jQuery in plugins and themes enough, maybe people will eventually listen. This goes for custom client sites too, in my opinion. For the minimal savings, it's just too much…

Adii Pienaar on The East Wing podcast

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Brian Krogsgard
Recently, Adii Pienaar appeared on The East Wing podcast. Adii is a cofounder of WooThemes. I've always enjoyed this podcast, and Adii's interview provides great insight into WooThemes and Adii's perspective on business and the WordPress community. Definitely give it…

Gravity Forms 1.7 beta out with new features

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Brian Krogsgard
Gravity Forms has released beta 1 of Gravity Forms 1.7 and it's got all sorts of nice new features. I really like the attention paid to improving the UI in the backend. Developers can check out another post where they…

Introduction to pluggable functions

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Brian Krogsgard
Rakhitha Nimesh has done a nice job on wpTuts+ with his introduction to using pluggable functions in WordPress. I personally tend to prefer filters for adding flexibility in my projects, but there are times where a custom pluggable function is…

WooCommerce 2.0 released

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Brian Krogsgard
I use WooCommerce quite a bit, and today their big 2.0 update was released. There are many, many improvements, and I'm excited too see such active development. The new product data panel is probably my favorite thing. Congratulations to Mike Jolley,…

Site showcase: Batman News

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Brian Krogsgard
Here's an awesome WordPress site to check out: Batman News. It's a blog about all things Batman, and it is pretty awesome. I think it's really well designed and put together. It was built by Brady and Brody Vercher, of…

Nerdy WordPress rap

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Brian Krogsgard
Yep. I just don't know how to describe this. Treehouse apparently has a new podcast, called "Blogcast Podcast News", and they've started with this
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