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News and insights about WordPress and its ecosystem by Post Status staff and contributors for our members and the WordPress community.

Wizards are busy people

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Brian Krogsgard
Curtis McHale wins today's award for the most creative post title. He shares a valuable lesson for freelancers, service providers, and even clients. The best ones are busy, because a lot of people need their help. Expect to wait.

Questions for WordPress Calendar Users

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Brian Krogsgard
I'm part of the team behind The Events Calendar and we would love to learn a bit more about how people use a WordPress calendar and who our own users are. Events 3.0 is getting close to launch and my…

Validation and sanitization in the theme customizer

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Brian Krogsgard
Konstantin Obenland has posted some tips for proper validation and sanitization on the Themeshaper blog. For those that recall Otto's definitive post on the subject, this one adds a couple of tips in addition that have been added to core…

Ghost reaches funding goal in twelve hours

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Brian Krogsgard
John O'Nolan's Ghost Kickstarter has reached (more than) full funding in just under twelve hours. I just posted about Ghost this morning, and while I'm impressed it funded so damn quick, I'm not at all surprised by the interest. It's…

Who’s hiring in WordPress? (Spring edition)

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Brian Krogsgard
This is the second "Who's hiring" post, and the last one was very successful. I know of a few people that got full time jobs and contract work based on conversations started from that post. I consistently find people looking…

Ghost hits Kickstarter, seeks ÂŁ25,000

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Brian Krogsgard
John O'Nolan's Ghost project, a re-think of WordPress, is now a Kickstarter project. O'Nolan gives a good deal of detail about Ghost's longer term plans, licensing, etc. on the Kickstarter page. The funding goal for the project is £25,000, which…

WordPress biography book outline

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Brian Krogsgard
Siobhan McKeown has been working on a book on the history of WordPress, and has its first outline available for your viewing. I love how open she's been about the development of the book. This one is going to be…

Summer Mentorship Programs: Gnome and GSOC

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Siobhan Mckeown
Jen Mylo has announced the WordPress summer mentorship programs. Google Summer of Code is for college/university students to get involved with development in an open source project. Gnome is an outreach program for women and is open to contributions in…
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