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Freemius Checkout Makes It Easier To Sell WordPress Products
Freemius today announced Checkout, a new service to help developers sell WordPress products on any site by providing secure checkout, software licensing, and automatic updates. “We created Checkout to help fellow developers be able to do whatever they feel passionate about and make a living from that,” CEO and Founder of Freemius Vova Feldman told Torque. You can register for Checkout for free clicking “Register for Beta.” You’ll subsequently be asked schedule a 15-minute demo, which according to Feldman will help ensure that each user has all the tools necessary to efficiently use Checkout. When you have completed the demo, you will be […]
Why It’s Time for Agencies to Fully Embrace WordPress for Client Work
Despite the high profile success of companies such as 10up, some agencies are still reluctant to fully commit to WordPress as a solution for clients. The platform’s roots as a blogging engine (and small business CMS) still leave many doubting whether it’s the right technology to build an entire project or team around. While historical doubts about WordPress in an agency environment were not without justification, the software is more than ready to rise to the challenge these days — and an increasingly impressive number of top-flight agencies have moved large parts of their development efforts over to it. In this piece, we’ll […]
It’s Time To Level Up Your PHP Skills
A few years ago I was working on a WordPress-powered web application that used several custom post types, each of which required a different class to query it. The classes included a lot of repetitive code because the queries and a lot of other things I was doing was different. Somewhere during this project, I noticed that the pattern I established and cut and pasted across four different classes was very wrong. I recently came across my first Carl Alexander article on polymorphism in PHP, which introduced me the concept of abstract classes in object-oriented PHP. I re-read the article […]
Doc Pop’s News Drop: 06/06/2016
Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. Learn more about the stories discussed in this week’s news drop: Syed Balkhi Donates WP.org to the Foundation WordCamp Incubator Locations Announced Sign Up For Torque Top 5 Newsletter
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