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WordPress in a next generation PHP world

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Brian Krogsgard

"It's a great time to be writing PHP," is not something you hear in all corners of the programming world. But in Aaron Jorbin's mind, this is the case. Aaron notes that the growing popularity of HHVM and the upcoming…

You are valuable

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Brian Krogsgard
The keys to being valuable: Be open. Be honest. Be willing. Be passionate. Result: Be valuable. Be employed. WordPress continues its dominance as a CMS. This is an obvious statement if you look at statistics for sites that use WordPress, but…

GoomWay

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Brian Krogsgard
Code should Get Out Of My Way. GoomWay!

New WordPress core stats signal better software update adoption across the board

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Brian Krogsgard

Andrew Nacin updated the WordPress core stats this weekend, and the update signals that WordPress and its underlying technology has better update adoption rates than was previously thought. Thousands of new WordPress sites come online every day. Some others, though, stop pinging…

A(nother) new era of WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard

Jeff Waugh is a prominent advocate worldwide of the open source ecosystem. In his latest article, he talks about the continued evolution of WordPress in a "new era", which is mostly stuff my audience should know about. But it's good…

WordPress talent shortage versus WordPress pricing

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Brian Krogsgard

Andy Adams (a Post Status Patron!) has written a great post, where he discusses the perceived WordPress talent shortage that exists today, as well as the perception of WordPress developer skills by potential clients. Andy is a Rails developer and a…

WPupdatePHP wants to be BrowseHappy for servers

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Brian Krogsgard
WPupdatePHP is a project by Coen Jacobs to evangelize the need for people to use modern PHP versions for their WordPress installs. It's both a website and a script people can include in their plugins, to function like BrowseHappy does.…

The WordPress REST API

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Brian Krogsgard
The WordPress REST API is a huge initiative and feature plugin being developed for the core WordPress project. But it can be a bit confusing if you don't know much about it yet. Let's discuss what this project is, why it's important, and how to get involved.

Contribution as culture

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Brian Krogsgard
This post spends a lot of time analyzing and referencing two other blog posts. Excuse me for that, but also be sure to read both, as they are relevant for this post and also interesting in their own right. Matt…

Automating i18n in WordPress themes

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Brady Vercher
According to the Polygots Make blog, WordPress is used all over the world and in many different languages. To put that in perspective, more than a third of existing WordPress installations are non-English and in his keynote at WordCamp Seattle,…

WordPress 3.9, “Smith”

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress 3.9, "Smith", has just been released. It is named after James Oscar "Jimmy" Smith. WordPress 3.9 is the hard result of hard work from 267 contributors. The WordPress 3.9 release was led by Andrew Nacin and Co-led by Mike…
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