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Excellent customer service tips

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Brian Krogsgard
The Help Scout blog is quickly making its way to being one of my must-reads. In their latest post, they give 20 customer service tips that we can all apply to our businesses. Whether you sell a product, do client…

Disturbing report On WordPress plugin security

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Brian Krogsgard
Checkmarx, a company founded in 2006 that specializes in automated security code reviews has published a security vulnerability report on the top 50 plugins on the WordPress plugin repository. As WP Tavern's Jeff Chandler summarizes, more than 20% of the…

How the Washington Post used WordPress to power The Grid

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Brian Krogsgard
The Washington Post has a feature called The Grid that tracks realtime events in, well, a grid. It's a combination of tweets and other things they find interesting, and in this profile, they show how they used WordPress and other…

WordPress quotes collection

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Brian Krogsgard
Nearly everybody knows that WordPress.Stackexchange is a nice place to go if you need help. But there's also the #loopchat where most of the high rep users hang out. And when you help users with WordPress on a day-to-day base,…

The new News Corp runs on WordPress VIP

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Brian Krogsgard
News Corp recently split their publishing and entertainment divisions into two companies. The new News Corp, the umbrella organization for their publishing arm, unveiled a new logo about a month ago, and now they've launched their new website on WordPress…

A seller’s decision to leave Code Canyon

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Brian Krogsgard
Scott Evans shares why he decided to remove his plugins from Code Canyon. I'm sure each seller's mileage varies as far as their level of concern for the reasons Scott brings up, but I'm at least happy he'll be releasing…

Access external WordPress data

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Brian Krogsgard
Zach Schnackel gives an example of an interesting use case for WordPress. He wants access to some WordPress functions, but doesn't really want to use the WordPress theming system or load most of WordPress itself.

Simple changes, big results

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Brian Krogsgard
Design is about much more than art. In this interesting case study from Visual Website Optimizer, they highlight an eCommerce store that achieved a 56.43% increase in revenue by removing a mega-dropdown menu and replaced it with a category landing…

What is the future of commercial plugins?

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Brian Krogsgard
Every now and then there are discussions and debates that arise to the forefront of the WordPress community. One of these discussions caught our attention: paid products based in WordPress and how they are (or are not) promoted within the…

Teach yourself programming in ten years

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Brian Krogsgard
Peter Norvig is the Director of Research at Google. Years ago, he wrote this essay on how to teach yourself programming in ten years. Somehow, I've just now read his excellent advice for the first time. I'm only a few…
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