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WordPress vertical case study: ClickBank Powered

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Brian Krogsgard
Human Made have published a really interesting case study about their work with Noel Tock creating a new WordPress vertical for ClickBank. Human Made and  Tock also worked together to build happytables, so the ClickBank project marks their second move…

How do you justify traveling to WordCamps?

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Brian Krogsgard
WordCamps are awesome. No doubt about it. But from a business perspective, how do you justify attending out of town WordCamps as a freelancer, employee, small business owner, etc? I would love to hear the perspective of people that have…

PressBooks open sourced

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Brian Krogsgard
PressBooks, the plugin for WordPress Multisite to make ebooks in various formats, has officially been open sourced. This is really great news. It lowers the barrier to entry for authors even more.

Andrea Rennick Code Poet interview

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Brian Krogsgard
Andrea Rennick, a WordPress multisite and support forum legend, has a nice interview on Code Poet today. Check it out to learn about her WordPress story, her job at Copyblogger, communities, and quilting.

WordPress.com menus go Locu

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Brian Krogsgard
Techcrunch reports that WordPress.com has teamed up with menu-distributor startup Locu to display menus in their restaurant vertical. Locu customers (and now WordPress.com customers) can add their menus to the Locu interface and Locu integrates those menus with various other…

Better WordPress code reference

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Brian Krogsgard
Siobhan McKeown has created some initial concepts for a revised WordPress code reference format. It's time for you to go give your thoughts on what would be useful information.

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…

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