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The most popular WordPress plugins

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress plugin popularity has always been pretty tough to figure out. We only had download counts or independent, third party website scrapers to tell us anything. Now, WordPress.org itself has more data that's being tested and launched to give us real insight into the popularity of WordPress plugins.

The future of Post Status

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Brian Krogsgard
I'm tired. Really, really tired. I've been tired for weeks. Those of you who follow this blog closely know that it's been slow around here. I've only published ten blog posts since the beginning of August. For me, that's three…

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,…

The cost of running a WordPress website

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Brian Krogsgard
A WordPress website is very affordable to get up and running. You can do it for free, plus the cost of your average shared hosting account. However, running a more serious site can get considerably more expensive. Here's the list…

From ThemeForest to Array, the story of a theme business

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Brian Krogsgard
Mike McAlister has been an active member of the commercial WordPress theme space since 2009. He started by selling themes on ThemeForest. He transitioned to the Okay Themes brand in December of 2011. And at the end of March of this year, Mike…

Keep an eye on accessibility in your projects

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Brian Krogsgard
For one of the first projects I ever worked on in an agency setting, we had a monster list of items to either finish, ask about, or respond to. A classic punch list. So, I was given this list in…

Where to learn WordPress development

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Brian Krogsgard
I had the pleasure of being a guest on WPwatercooler today, where we talked about where to go to learn WordPress. I thought I'd share more in a post here. How I learned My perspective as a learner is centered…

Client resource: beginner’s guide to SEO

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Brian Krogsgard
If you're like me, you've been frustrated before when a client asks you if you are "SEO proficient". SEO is one of those terms that's so mainstream, many prospective clients ask about it without knowing too much about what they…

Yoast enters the WordPress theme market

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Travis Northcutt
Joost de Valk has announced his company (Yoast) have released three Genesis Child Themes, with more on the way. We’re releasing 3 themes today, all of them very different but all of them share a lot of functionality too. They’re…

A glossary of WordPress terms for beginners

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Brian Krogsgard
WP Beginner has created a very handy glossary of various WordPress terms. I looked through a few of them, and they are pretty thorough in their descriptions, and each has relevant WP Beginner posts below for further reading. This is…

Understand WordPress internationalization and translation

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Brian Krogsgard
Internationalization (i18n) and translation is one of those fuzzy gray areas for many of us in the WordPress community, especially amongst Americans. We're simply not very accustomed to a multilingual society, therefore we sometimes erroneously don't think about internationalization of our code…

Yoast introduces commercial version of WordPress SEO

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Brian Krogsgard
Joost de Valk announced on the Yoast blog yesterday that they're pre-releasing a commercial version of the highly popular WordPress SEO plugin. The plugin will come with additional features with the full release, but for now it's an option for…
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