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WordPress.com Desktop app now on Windows, Linux, and open source

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Brian Krogsgard

The release of the WordPress.com Desktop app (codenamed Calypso) is now on Windows and Linux in addition to Mac. You can now use the app anywhere, and they've open sourced the desktop app itself. The internals of the app were…

WordPress 4.4, “Clifford”, released

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Brian Krogsgard
Make WordPressPlanet
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
PlanetWordPress News
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.

The WordPress swag store, finally revamped

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Brian Krogsgard

The WordPress swag store -- or more accurately perhaps, the Automattic swag store with WordPress stuff in it -- has finally been revamped, and now runs WooCommerce. Now under the domain mercantile.wordpress.org, the new store looks nice, and has some new…

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…

WordPress.com has a new post editor,…

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WordPress.com has a new post editor, that you can also use if you have a Jetpack enabled WordPress site. Apparently it's really fast. Improvements like these are important for their platform, and it seems well received in the comments.

WooThemes introduces pay-for-play WooExperts program

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Brian Krogsgard

WooThemes has introduced a pay-for-play style consulting program for WooCommerce, in a similar vein to the WordPress.com VIP model. The WooExperts program has three levels: Gold: $7,500 / year Silver: $3,500 / year Standard: $1,000 / year If indeed the…

Google’s AMP and what it means for WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
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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…

Upvoted is the new Reddit-owned news…

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Upvoted is the new Reddit-owned news website that made a big splash today. It's on WordPress.com VIP and it's my understanding it was built by 10up. Props. It's a nice win for WordPress, as I would bet this site will…

Rest in peace, Alex King

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Brian Krogsgard
PlanetWordPress News
Alex King passed away at his home last night, after battling cancer for more than two and a half years. Alex was one of the original WordPress developers, and leaves a lasting legacy and impact on the WordPress community.

WordPress.com is getting more into the…

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Brian Krogsgard

WordPress.com is getting more into the plugin finding business, for some reason. Maybe site management features are a bigger market than I thought? Also related to Automattic: I understood that they were going after Jetpack.com, and I noticed this weekend…

How WordPress can avoid a Titantic-style fate

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Brian Krogsgard

A developer, who I can only identify as CK (Got to love the old school anonymity), thinks WordPress needs to make a change in order to "save" its future. CK starts by highlighting how filters and actions were introduced to b2…

Design before discovery

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
Guillermo Rauch has written a post about the development of the new VideoPress, titled Pure UI. In it, he describes the workflow for creating the new player and how it was managed between design and development. He says that the…
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