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How to charge clients more and grow an agency

Brian Krogsgard

February 10, 2013

Matt Medeiros has been doing a number of good video interviews on his site, Matt Report. His latest is with Jose Cabeller, and they discuss how to grow your web consulting business. They key seems to be focusing on your…

A Process For Successfully Migrating a WordPress Website

Tom McFarlin

February 10, 2013

Development

In this article, popular WordPress consultant Bill Erickson provides a complete walkthrough of steps used to successfully migrate a WordPress site from one server to another.

WP Stack – a Toolkit For Creating Professional WordPress Deployments

Tom McFarlin

February 10, 2013

Development

WP Stack is a professional WordPress deployment tool written and maintained by Mark Jaquith. It assumes you're already using a number of professional development techniques. Specifically, WP Stacks aims to help you scale WordPress out to multiple servers.

The Zen of WP Development

Tom McFarlin

February 10, 2013

Development

In this WordPress.tv episode, Daniel Bachhuber - a Code Wrangler at WordPress.com VIP team - presents what it means to be "one with the code" of WordPress development for providing elegant solutions.

Why does the slug work in a page URL, but not the ID?

Tom McFarlin

February 10, 2013

Development

Here's a very simple question to a potentially confusing problem relating to how WordPress relates ID's, slugs, and tags when dealing with URLs.

How to detect a WordPress URL without doing a full HTTP GET

Tom McFarlin

February 10, 2013

Development

In this WordPress Stack Exchange question and answer, Jeff Atwood - co-founder of Stack Overflow - asks an interesting question in relation to WordPress and WP Super Cache and Rarst provides the answer as to why.

7 Tips for Better WordPress Theme Development

Brian Krogsgard

February 8, 2013

WordPress News

I gave this talk at WordCamp Norway 2013. It covers several tips and tricks that will make you a better theme developer.

WordPress Performance Optimzation

Brian Krogsgard

February 8, 2013

Hosting

Performance matters because a positive (fast) user experience facilitates all goals a publisher or application developer might have. WordPress, like most applications, has numerous moving parts that must be considered when trying to scale.

Curriculum for a “WordPress school”

Brian Krogsgard

February 7, 2013

WordPress News

Sami Keijonen proposes a first draft of what a WordPress school curriculum may look like. I've known Sami for quite a while (via the Theme Hybrid forums) and I'd love to see him move forward with a WordPress course like…

Using WordPress for application development

Brian Krogsgard

February 7, 2013

Development

Tom McFarlin weighs in on the topic of WordPress as a tool for application development in his latest post on WP Daily.

Joomla vs WordPress (or why most infographics stink)

Brian Krogsgard

February 7, 2013

WordPress News

I just have a hard time getting behind an infographic. They tend to be so absolute and incomplete. I'm not trying to knock on the people that probably worked pretty hard on this infographic of a comparison between WordPress and…

Justin Tadlock calls for more admin themes

Brian Krogsgard

February 7, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Justin Tadlock has written a blog post about admin themes and the WordPress UI in general. He also highlights Tung Do's new admin theme, which looks quite nice, and gives a shout out to a few other blog posts on…

A trend in theme shops closing affiliate programs

Brian Krogsgard

February 7, 2013

Business

Jonathan Dingman poses interesting questions on his WP Force blog. Why do WordPress theme companies struggle with so much fraud compared to other industries? And I'd rephrase his second question just a bit - as I think it's obviously a…

Free WooCommerce extensions

Brian Krogsgard

February 7, 2013

WordPress News

I work with WooCommerce a lot, and I didn't know about some of these free WooCommerce extensions James posted on the WooThemes blog. **Goes to download**

Avoid the pains of pagination

Brian Krogsgard

February 7, 2013

Design

UX Movement explores various painpoints of pagination. A good reminder for those of us creating pagination in WordPress themes and client sites. Are we giving it enough thought?

WordPress themes specifically for hotels

Brian Krogsgard

February 6, 2013

WordPress News

A theme company called Hermes launched recently that appears to make WordPress themes specifically for hotels. An interesting niche. I'm a little surprised they aren't going one extra step with a fully hosted option. Either way, expect much more of…

How to charge clients more and grow an agency

A Process For Successfully Migrating a WordPress Website

WP Stack – a Toolkit For Creating Professional WordPress Deployments

The Zen of WP Development

Why does the slug work in a page URL, but not the ID?

How to detect a WordPress URL without doing a full HTTP GET

7 Tips for Better WordPress Theme Development

WordPress Performance Optimzation

Curriculum for a “WordPress school”

Using WordPress for application development

Joomla vs WordPress (or why most infographics stink)

Justin Tadlock calls for more admin themes

A trend in theme shops closing affiliate programs

Free WooCommerce extensions

Avoid the pains of pagination

WordPress themes specifically for hotels

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