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I recently stumbled upon a plugin…

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I recently stumbled upon a plugin from 10up called "WP-Hammer" that cleans and removes information from a WordPress site that might be sensitive -- like emails and passwords or undesired users and posts. This might be a quick and dirty tool…

GoDaddy targets Digital Ocean with new cloud infrastructure

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
GoDaddy is targeting products by companies like Digital Ocean and Amazon with their new by-the-hour Cloud Services and Apps project. The pricing is pretty much a direct mirror of Digital Ocean's right now (starts at $5 per month), and they…

Jetpack is testing direct email marketing for Automattic products

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Brian Krogsgard

Automattic is testing email marketing to WordPress.com users who have accounts linked to Jetpack, in order to market Automattic products like VaultPress and Akismet. It's the first time I've seen them make use of the WordPress.com <-> Jetpack connection; previously the…

The Jorbin Test

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Aaron Jorbin
BusinessCareers
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.

Rainmaker Digital passes $12 million in revenue, 60+ employees

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Rainmaker Digital is the newish name of the formerly known Copyblogger Media. Brian Clark recently did an interview with Andrew Warner of Mixergy, where he discussed the state of the business, where things are going, and what to expect. It was…

Facebook Instant Articles to be available to all publishers in April

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Brian Krogsgard
Hosting
There is really only one existing WordPress integration for Facebook Instant Articles. It is from Jack Spurlock, a developer at WIRED. Facebook has a limited spec for supporting Instant Articles, which at a base level can just use RSS, but deeper integrations would…

A Canadian court has issued an opinion…

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Design
A Canadian court has issued an opinion with a vomit inducing description of open source. A problem Chenier saw was that 21st Capital used "open source code" and made changes, sometimes on a weekly basis, to its program code without testing…

Automattic has been testing Let’s Encrypt,…

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Automattic has been testing Let's Encrypt, which for them means putting about a million domains on Let's Encrypt certs. I talked to someone from Automattic, and they are planning to expand it, but are still ironing out a lot of…

The WordPress Importer is getting some love

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Brian Krogsgard

I'm going to give Ryan McCue a big hug next time I see him. The WordPress Importer is key to a tonne of different workflows, and is one of the most used plugins on the repo. Unfortunately, the Importer is…

Yoast SEO 3.0 is in the…

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Yoast SEO 3.0 is in the release candidate stage, and there are quite a few new features. It's worth testing if you run a complicated install or are just curious what's going on. Here's a link to the changelog, but…

The CSS-Tricks team shares the plugins…

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The CSS-Tricks team shares the plugins they use. The funniest is one with 50 installs that's 8 years old, called Advanced Post Cache, and was built by Matt Mullenweg. The code definitely has an old school vibe, but hey, if…

Mike McAlister on creating a WordPress theme

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Brian Krogsgard

I did another interview, that for now is for members only. This one is with Mike McAlister, on the process of creating a WordPress theme: https://soundcloud.com/brian-krogsgard/mike-mcalister-on-creating-a-wordpress-theme/s-jUSpV Mike recently released Paperback, a magazine focused WordPress theme. I really like Paperback (like…
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