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WordPress responsive navigation options

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Brian Krogsgard
Navigation is one of the most challenging battles for doing responsive design well. To preface this article, I highly recommend you study Brad Frost's collections of responsive navigation patterns and complex responsive navigation patterns. In this post, I'll cover two…

Meet Philip Arthur Moore, Premium Theme Lead at Automattic

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Brian Krogsgard
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…

Art direction for publishing with WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
One of the most exciting conversations for WordPress 3.8, in my opinion, is around creating content blocks and art direction for editing with WordPress. This is probably the direction core is going to go for handling post formats, and any…

How Templatic develops commercial themes

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Brian Krogsgard
Templatic has written a really informative post describing their processes for developing commercial themes. They talk about doing market studies, creating mockups, design and development, project management, quality assurance, documentation, and more.

Code should fail nicely

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Brian Krogsgard
Web designers tend to be pretty particular about their designs. However, often times, if you watch how end users use a website, it can be surprising when they don't do things how the designer and developer would expect. Perhaps the…

All plugins are (not) created equal

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Sarah Pressler
Plugins are the new black in WordPress site development, and picking out the perfect plugins for your site can quickly become overwhelming. The WordPress.org plugin repository hosts over 26,000 plugins and the plugin forum contains over 1.3 million posts. Check…

2013 State of the Word from Matt Mullenweg

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Brian Krogsgard
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…

How Lift is taking WordPress to the Emmy’s

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Brian Krogsgard
Lift is a WordPress-powered product, design and consultancy business. I've been following Chris Wallace, a Partner at Lift, for a long time. I've always known they do a lot of work for television and other interactive media, and this morning…

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…

On WordPress themes and frameworks

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Brian Krogsgard
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
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…

A refreshed Post Status

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Brian Krogsgard
Post Status has been iterating quite a bit over the last six months since it launched. However, not everyone noticed. I'm excited to launch a redesign that reflects the changing purpose that Post Status serves. It started as a link…
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