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The age of Gutenberg

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Brian Krogsgard

Gutenberg was the talk of town at WordCamp US, as you may expect. Most people have their own thoughts on the product itself, the necessity of its existence, the process in creating it, or a variety of other things. I…

Dave Coustan at WordPress VIP discusses John Blackbourn’s…

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Brian Krogsgard

Dave Coustan at WordPress VIP discusses John Blackbourn's presentation at a recent London meetup: how Human Made moved one of the largest UK newspapers, the Sun, from a print-oriented CMS to WordPress and WordPress.com VIP. As you can imagine the undertaking was huge and…

This is cool news: WordPress VIP…

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Brian Krogsgard

This is cool news: WordPress VIP has announced that India’s rtCamp is the newest member of the WordPress.com VIP Featured Partner Program. (It's also worth noting there's been a good bit of shakeup to that program in the last year,…

HeroPress

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Brian Krogsgard

HeroPress aims to help WordPress professionals around the world that have felt excluded by the western WordPress community. There are a large number of WordPress developers in the world that feel excluded from the Western WordPress community for a variety…

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…

WP Engine rebrands and restructures

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Brian Krogsgard
Few brands in tech have skyrocketed in exposure like WP Engine in the past couple of years. WP Engine has experienced massive growth, and they are showing signs of acting very much like a grown up company. Rebranding WP Engine…

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 VIP Training Days

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress.com has introduced a new teaching service called VIP Training Days to offer workshops for superusers and developers. The classes are one day workshops and the first round is October 14th (superusers) for $600 and 15th (developers) for $850. The…

Design inspiration: WordPress VIP site redesigns

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Brian Krogsgard
It appears the WordPress VIP website has a new look and feel. I have to say, I greatly prefer it to the harsh black of the old design. This is one of my favorite blogs for seeing what the biggest…
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