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Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg have hardly communicated with one another in the last five years, but they are ideological enemies. They have very strong personalities and unshakable beliefs on business and software. This is a story of their dispute, their idealism, and the implications it will have on the WordPress project.

Free WordPress themes and the elephant in the room

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Brian Krogsgard
There has been a big kerfuffle the last few days in the community of theme authors and theme reviewers on WordPress.org. The theme review team discovered that some themes are skirting (knowingly or not knowingly) some old-standing rules around content creation.…

Envato’s role in the “big theme” market

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Brian Krogsgard

In a provocative article on WP Tavern titled "Envato Continues to Rake in the Cash from WordPress Themes Packaged as Complete Website Solutions", Sarah Gooding slams Envato for their role in what I'll call the "big theme" market. Envato theme authors…

Why you should use WP_DEBUG_LOG in your development environement

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Brian Krogsgard

Brad Touesnard shares why you should use WP_DEBUG_LOG in your development environment. He gives three reason, but the one I never would've thought of is regarding plugin load order and how that could allow tools like Query Monitor to miss…

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.

What’s your WordPress wishlist?

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Brian Krogsgard

The good fellas over at WP Shout are doing a survey: they want to know what's on your WordPress wishlist. You can describe three features you'd like to see in WordPress. I did this last night, and I'm always moody…

ManageWP undergoes overhaul to improve multiple services

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Brian Krogsgard
ManageWP announced some big updates to their site management services this morning. The highlights are as follows: A much faster base plugin that uses over 80% less memory than before Increased speeds and codebase for both backups and site cloning…

WordPress code conventions for easy wins

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Brian Krogsgard
Our code in WordPress plugins and themes should follow some basic standards. Here are a few simple tips to make your code more aligned with the standards of the core project. Prefix everything Nacin said it best. Prefix everything. Prefix…

How to avoid getting scammed by an SEO

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Robert Neu
I didn’t get into SEO because I thought it was a way to get rich. In fact, I sort of learned about it against my will, but I stuck with it because I enjoy helping people. Let me give you…

WordPress coding standards: you’ll thank yourself later

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Brian Krogsgard
Tom McFarlin has written another useful post on the wpTuts+ blog. He reminds us to stick to the WordPress coding standards for our naming conventions and function arguments. As you start working with other developers on projects, or see your…
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