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Matt Mullenweg was recently on the…

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Matt Mullenweg was recently on the ChangeLog podcast where he talked about JavaScript for WordPress, REST APIs, Calypso, amongst other (mostly technical) subjects.I haven’t yet listened to this in full, and it’s long, but it’s an open source centric podcast that…

The Jorbin Test

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Aaron Jorbin
The Joel Test has largely stood the test of time, yet there isn't a WordPress specific version to help WordPress developers judge job opportunities. The Jorbin Test is the Joel Test, updated for the WordPress engineers of today.

David Hayes has done an excellent…

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David Hayes has done an excellent job giving a lay of the land of the JavaScript world, as it applies to WordPress developers. WP Shout also completed their hosting survey, and the results are out. The sample size is a…

Kevin Stover, of WP Ninjas, shares…

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Kevin Stover, of WP Ninjas, shares his thought processes for choosing a JavaScript framework for use in WordPress. Btw, their upcoming Ninja Forms 3.0 is all JS based.

Learning JavaScript, Deeply is a great…

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Learning JavaScript, Deeply is a great post by Remkus de Vries that offers a ten week plan for doing just as his title states. As for how not to learn, Remkus advises, "not try to learn JavaScript from bits of…

I feel like pretty much the whole…

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I feel like pretty much the whole WordPress world has seen this, but if you haven't, give John O'Nolan's post with his thoughts on WordPress and JavaScript a read. Prepare yourself: it is pretty long, but he outlines his thoughts well.…

WordPress 4.4, “Clifford”, released

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress 4.4, “Clifford”, has been released. Clifford includes infrastructure for the WordPress REST API, taxonomy and comment improvements, as well as the new Twenty Sixteen default theme, the ability to embed posts anywhere, and much more.

State of the Word, 2015

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Brian Krogsgard
Matt Mullenweg has just completed the 2015 State of the Word, the annual speech where he highlights the last year of everything WordPress and what we can anticipate in the future.

JavaScript and the future of WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard

Scott Bolinger has written a great post that outlines some of the things to consider for a future that includes a more JavaScript-centric WordPress. Two of the most thought provoking sections of his post are on enabling support for plugins,…

Extra bits and bobs around the new WordPress.com Calypso project

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Brian Krogsgard

Phew, it's been a bit of a whirlwind couple of days, and I don't work at Automattic. The Calypso project sparked a lot of conversation, and confusion. Calypso is the name of the effort, but the result was the WordPress.com…

Google’s AMP and what it means for WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages. It's an open source spec created by Google and collaborated on by a number of other mega companies, in response to Facebook's "Instant Articles" feature. The tl;dr on AMP is that it's a not…
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