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Business theme highlight: Forefront

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Brian Krogsgard
I discovered a new WordPress theme today, thanks to a tweet from Ian Stewart, called Forefront. Forefront is a business theme by Automattic that is available on both WordPress.com and on Creative Market for WordPress.org users. Forefront has its own…

Automattic should acquire Editorially

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Brian Krogsgard
http://vimeo.com/73479976 Watch the video above. See the beautiful and collaborative writing experience that Editorially built? And now it's gone. Only, why? This seems like a perfect opportunity for Automattic to be able to keep a great project afloat. And it…

WordPress and the Techmeme 100

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Brian Krogsgard
Matt Mullenweg did a little research study for himself, based on his own "guilty pleasure" for reading Techmeme. Techmeme's leaderboard, for those that aren't aware, is basically the benchmark all tech sites measure their influence by. Matt analyzed which of…

A self hosted alternative to Jetpack’s Photon service

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Brian Krogsgard
While Jetpack and its Photon service are useful, it is not a solution fit for everyone, and may users and developers have reservations about integrating with the WordPress.com infrastructure. Will Norris takes the open source approach and has rolled his…

Matt Mullenweg is now Automattic’s CEO

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Brian Krogsgard
Matt Mullenweg and Toni Schneider are switching jobs at Automattic. After joining Automattic eight years ago, Toni Schneider is moving into a product-focused role within Automattic, and Matt Mullenweg is the new CEO. Both Matt and Toni blogged about the…

Meet WordPress 3.8, Parker

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress 3.8, "Parker", has just been released. WordPress 3.8 is the result of four months of hard work by 188 core contributors. Named after Charlie Parker, jazz saxophonist and bepob innovator. WordPress 3.8's development was led by WordPress co-founder, Matt…

WordPress, .com vs .org

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Brian Krogsgard
There's a new post on The Daily Post of WordPress.com that does a nice job explaining the differences between WordPress.org and WordPress.com, and gives some advice on when someone may want to use each. It's a good one to keep…

Automattic has acquired Cloudup

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Brian Krogsgard
Matt Mullenweg recently teased a large acquisition for Automattic, and today they've announced the acquisition of the Cloudup service. Cloudup is a file sharing service that's still in beta. However, it looks like a promising project with a lot of…

Jetpack 2.5 gets deeper Google and Facebook integrations

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Brian Krogsgard
Jetpack 2.5 was just released and comes with a number of new features. The most interesting is the new integrations with Google, including the ability to easily embed maps, calendars, and more. For those that are big Facebook users, you…

The Year Without Pants

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Brian Krogsgard
Scott Berkun's The Year Without Pants is a first person narrative of his time employed at Automattic from August 2010 to May 2012. Berkun entered Automattic as employee number fifty six when the company was replacing its totally flat structure…

Dave Pell on building the NextDraft platform

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Brian Krogsgard
If you don't already follow NextDraft, then this is your lucky day. NextDraft is a newsletter -- or a column really -- from Dave Pell that contains "the day's most fascinating news." And it is great. NextDraft is the only…

Faceted search for WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
Matt Gibbs, the original creator of the popular Pods Framework, has launched his latest project: FacetWP. FacetWP is a commercial plugin to offer faceted search capability for WordPress. Faceted search, if you're unfamiliar, is an advanced search technique: A technique…

WordPress.com, undeletable accounts

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Brian Krogsgard
I discovered a website recently called JustDelete.me that serves as a way to help people delete troublesome online accounts that make it hard to delete them. WordPress.com is one of the worst offenders; it doesn't allow accounts to be deleted at…
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