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Meet Philip Arthur Moore, Premium Theme Lead at Automattic

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessDesign
Philip Arthur Moore is the Premium Theme team lead at Automattic. I'm thrilled to have been able to ask Philip some questions about WordPress.com premium themes, their processes, and working at Automattic. His answers are thorough and very insightful, and…

WordPress.com introduces Connect, a “login with” API

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
WordPress.com has introduced a new API today called WordPress.com Connect. It's an API to allow websites and applications to offer login capability for WordPress.com users. It's not surprising Automattic has introduced this feature. After all, they have tons of services that…

2013 State of the Word from Matt Mullenweg

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Brian Krogsgard
DesignWordPress News
Matt Mullenweg just delivered the 2013 State of the Word, his annual update about WordPress. He started off discussing the history of WCSF, and the first WordCamp San Francisco 8 years ago. It was pretty low tech at first, and…

On WordPress themes and frameworks

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Brian Krogsgard
DesignWordPress News
Let's pull the bandaid off real quick, and it won't hurt as bad: Theme Framework has turned into a marketing term. I lean more every day to giving theme framework the premium treatment. Just because a product costs money doesn't…

WordPress themes for comics

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Brian Krogsgard
DesignWordPress News
I saw today that WordPress.com has released a new WordPress theme geared toward comic writers, called Panel. It reminded me of an older project called ComicPress. ComicPress was probably ahead of its time in terms of just how niche it…

WordPress.com launches MP6 dashboard redesign

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Brian Krogsgard
DesignWordPress News
WordPress.com has launched the MP6 dashboard redesign to everyone this morning. The comments on Matt Thomas' announcement post are pretty enlightening as to how regular folks feel, and also a bit entertaining. In short, most are happy and some are…

DevPress aims to create a new hosted website platform

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Tung Do, the owner of DevPress, has written a post that he knows may be more ambitious than he can handle. He notes a longstanding desire to "revolutionize the WordPress-experience" and he wants to do so by transforming DevPress into…

GigaOM’s need for speed

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
GigaOM recently launched a redesign, and in their development, really focused on improving page load times. The results are especially impressive, considering how much content they are loading per page view. Their interview with WordPress.com VIP is definitely worthwhile.

Twenty Thirteen hits WordPress.com

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Twenty Thirteen is officially available on WordPress.com now. This is very interesting to me, as it leads me to believe the new functions around post formats will remain in 3.6, even if the new UI does not. Designed by Joen Asmussen, Twenty…

WordPress.com partners with ShopLocket for eCommerce

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
This is a surprising move. WordPress.com has partnered with a company called ShopLocket to enable eCommerce for WordPress.com customers. Anyone ever heard of or used ShopLocket? Seems like a pretty direct response to Squarespace's eCommerce offering to me.

WordPress.com vs WordPress.org

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Sarah Gooding has done a nice comparison of WordPress.org and WordPress.com. This could be useful for when you're trying to explain the difference to clients.

WordPress.com menus go Locu

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Techcrunch reports that WordPress.com has teamed up with menu-distributor startup Locu to display menus in their restaurant vertical. Locu customers (and now WordPress.com customers) can add their menus to the Locu interface and Locu integrates those menus with various other…

Swiftype Search for improved WordPress search

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Austin Gunter has done a nice feature on the WP Engine blog on a new plugin called Swiftype. It seems the folks behind Swiftype have been "blessed" by the WordPress.com VIP team as a more relevance-based search solution. I'm certainly…

Media embedded feed widget for WordPress

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Austin Passy
WordPress News
Ever tried using the default RSS widget included with WordPress to show a photo blog or media embedded in a RSS feed? This plugin adds that feature. It will grab images (that have been embedded) and show them on the…
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