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GiveWP recently open sourced their support…

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Brian Krogsgard

GiveWP recently open sourced their support manual, which is a document that defines "the standard by which we can hold ourselves accountable as support technicians." It covers topics ranging from the duties of support techs to documentation and the principles of…

Notes from WordCamp Europe, 2018

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David Bisset
Another successful WordCamp Europe 2018 just wrapped up a few days ago. The event had 54 organizers, 170 volunteers, 65 speakers (from 17 countries), and 37 sponsors (with 44 micro-sponsors). Out of 2,368 tickets sold, 2,085 attendees (from 76 countries)…

Hookster is a new tool from…

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Dan Knauss

Hookster is a new tool from Jason Bobich that automatically extracts data about the actions and filters of your WordPress theme or plugin. This is a huge time-saver when you are creating documentation for developers.

The age of Gutenberg

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Brian Krogsgard

Gutenberg was the talk of town at WordCamp US, as you may expect. Most people have their own thoughts on the product itself, the necessity of its existence, the process in creating it, or a variety of other things. I…

Taking a new product from concept to launch

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Brian Krogsgard
When you launch a new project there’s always a buzz of excitement, hope, and relief, but also that of fear of failure and disappointment. This is something I’ve experienced for all the projects I’ve been part of over the past…

Scott Bolinger shows how you can…

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Brian Krogsgard

Scott Bolinger shows how you can make a WordPress settings autocomplete field, using Ajax. Scott wrote this post because there seems to be no official documentation for "ajax-tag-search," an Ajax function built into WordPress core that he used to accomplish…

Huh brings documentation to your customer’s WordPress dashboard

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Brian Krogsgard

Huh -- like the sound -- is a new documentation plugin by Nick Hamze. It offers a little tooltip to your customer that enables easy to access documentation, right within the WordPress dashboard. Having recently gone through some install processes,…

WordPress REST API content endpoints proposed for core

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Brian Krogsgard

Readers know that the WordPress REST API has had a lot of activity this release cycle. There has been a concerted effort to get the API ready for a core merge in 4.7. The release isn't slated until December, but…

I found Eric Holscher thoughts on…

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Brian Krogsgard

I found Eric Holscher thoughts on funding open source with marketing money to be insightful. Eric is involved in Read The Docs, a community supported site that hosts documentation for projects, and he relates how he is building an advertising…

Renewed push for WordPress REST API content endpoints

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Brian Krogsgard
There's a renewed push going on right now to try and get what is being termed "content endpoints" into WordPress core with the 4.7 release -- which is being led by Helen Hou-Sandí of 10up. In the first core development…

Using Kickstarter to fund open source

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Daniel Bachhuber
Successfully crowdfunding open source development is difficult, but not impossible. Here are some of the lessons I took away from my Kickstarter project, "A more RESTful WP-CLI."
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