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Where do independent commercial theme authors go from here?

Brian Krogsgard

January 23, 2013

After reading Jake Caputo's post that went nuts, Matt's comments there, and Collis' reply on WP Daily, I'm left feeling lost. If individuals want to stay involved in the community, but also want to sell themes, what do they do?…

Envato’s Collis Ta’eed on ThemeForest Authors and WordCamps

Brian Krogsgard

January 23, 2013

WordPress News

Envato founder Collis Ta'eed gives his take on the ThemeForest - GPL - WordCamp fiasco.

The case against Singletons in WordPress

Brady Vercher

January 23, 2013

Development

Mike Toppa makes a case against Singletons in the ongoing discussion regarding best practices for object oriented WordPress development.

Restaurant Engine Year 1: Learning Lessons the Hard Way

Brian Krogsgard

January 23, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

Outstanding post by Brian Casel on his experience running Restaurant Engine this last year. This is a must read for anyone running (or thinking about running) a business with WordPress, especially SaaS ones. I absolutely love openness and honesty like…

How to debug your work in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

January 23, 2013

DevelopmentHosting

As a hosting company, I beg and plead with you, the developer of sites, to do some basic sanity checks, before you upload your code, for the world to experience. Your clients will thank you. So will our monitoring systems.

Grandchild themes – solving a problem to a bad architecture

Brian Krogsgard

January 23, 2013

WordPress News

Little bit of an opinionated title, I know. Mark Barnes does a nice job describing how to create grandchild themes by way of a plugin, in order to alter child theme functionality in themes like Genesis. The problem is Genesis…

How to Win & Work with Big Clients

Brian Krogsgard

January 22, 2013

WordPress News

Tom and Joe from Human Made Limited share experience and tips on how to win and work with big [good] clients, mostly learned through making every mistake in the book whilst going from being freelancers working on small sites to…

500 Site Reviews and Lessons Learned by Joost de Valk

Brian Krogsgard

January 22, 2013

WordPress News

Joost de Valk wrote a great post that highlights a real achievement of 500 site reviews; but he also gives some great tips on how people can make their sites better with relatively simple steps. Definitely worth a read to…

How I built “Have Baby. Need Stuff!”

Brian Krogsgard

January 22, 2013

Development

Mark Jaquith explains how he built "Have Baby. Need Stuff!", a baby gear site built on WordPress and inspired by "The Wirecutter"

Building a Better Image Widget with the New WordPress Media Manager

Brian Krogsgard

January 22, 2013

Development

A thorough post about how you can leverage the WordPress 3.5 Media Manager in a widget.

Contributing To WordPress using GitHub

Brian Krogsgard

January 22, 2013

Development

Although the official WordPress source code still lives in a Subversion repository, you can contribute patches without having to touch svn

Remove the WordPress Admin Bar – But Leave it for Admins

Curtis McHale

January 22, 2013

Development

Shows how to remove the WordPress admin bar. Then wraps it in a current_user_can check to keep it around for site admins.

Automattically Blackballed

Chris Lema

January 22, 2013

WordPress News

Sounds like selling in the Envato marketplace and participating at WordCamps is getting folks stuck in a hard place.

Got big time PHP and WordPress chops? You’re wanted.

Brian Krogsgard

January 22, 2013

Careers

Gil Rutkowski has a new gig heading up web development for a pretty big team. He's a well respected and seasoned WordPress guy, so the PHP and WP gig he tweeted about this morning may be enticing for some of…

WordPress Plugin Troubleshooting Flowchart

Brian Krogsgard

January 22, 2013

WordPress News

A little flowchart describing how, given plugin X, you could determine if it was conflicting with some other plugin Y, or with your theme. This is a nice helper from Scribu.

WPBillings – an upcoming CRM tool on WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

January 22, 2013

WordPress News

Remi Corson has a landing page up for WPBillings, a free CRM tool for WordPress he's building. Looks very interesting. You can go to the site to sign up for when they launch. Looks like another great "WordPress as an…

Where do independent commercial theme authors go from here?

Envato’s Collis Ta’eed on ThemeForest Authors and WordCamps

The case against Singletons in WordPress

Restaurant Engine Year 1: Learning Lessons the Hard Way

How to debug your work in WordPress

Grandchild themes – solving a problem to a bad architecture

How to Win & Work with Big Clients

500 Site Reviews and Lessons Learned by Joost de Valk

How I built “Have Baby. Need Stuff!”

Building a Better Image Widget with the New WordPress Media Manager

Contributing To WordPress using GitHub

Remove the WordPress Admin Bar – But Leave it for Admins

Automattically Blackballed

Got big time PHP and WordPress chops? You’re wanted.

WordPress Plugin Troubleshooting Flowchart

WPBillings – an upcoming CRM tool on WordPress

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