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Registrars Can Sign Up Now To Sell .blog TLD

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Marie Dodson

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May 19, 2016

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Registrars can now sign up on nic.blog for the rights to sell the .blog top-level domain. According to nic.blog, registrars can also sign up to receive more information on the timeline, implementation details, and more. Pricing for the new gTLD will be standard for top-level domains and will also include premium options for higher-value names. “Pricing will be in the standard range for new gTLDs, with premium names available in several tiers,” the site said. “High margins for registrars will be guaranteed by an incentive model, rewarding sales above a certain baseline. Final terms will be published in the coming weeks.” While […]

Happy First Birthday, WooMattic

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Emily Schiola

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May 19, 2016

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A year ago today, Automattic acquired WooThemes. Since joining Automattic, lots has happened under the WooTeam. This post takes a look at some of the big changes WooMattic has made in the past year and where it’s headed. But first check out this video: Growth When WooThemes started in Sept. 2011, it had zero downloads, nine themes, and six extensions. Now, the company has 13.8 billion downloads and is the most popular ecommerce solution. According to built with, 37 percent of all eCommerce sites use WooCommerce, and that number doesn’t seem to be slowing down. In April, the first WooConf since the […]

Clean Up Your Site With ‘Spring Cleaning Tips For WordPress Site Optimization’ [Ebook]

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Marie Dodson

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May 18, 2016

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The reality is that, over time, your WordPress site can become bloated and bogged down by unused or unnecessary plugins, broken links, comment spam, and more. That’s why it’s important to intermittently optimize your site to keep it running fast and smooth. Spring Cleaning Tips For WordPress Site Optimization walks through how to clean up and declutter your WordPress website. Download Spring Cleaning Tips For WordPress Site Optimization In this free ebook, Torque contributor Nick Schäferhoff provides tips on how to optimize your WordPress sites, including, Scanning for malware and changing passwords deleting unused plugins and themes removing old post and page drafts cleaning and […]

WordPress 4.6 Will Drop Open Sans In The Admin

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Sufyan bin Uzayr

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May 18, 2016

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Since 2013, WordPress has used Open Sans as the default font for the admin panel. For a number of years, Open Sans has been around, and considering the fact that Open Sans in itself is a really popular and pretty good-looking font, it has become a staple feature in the WordPress admin panel. However, all of that is expected to change pretty soon. The upcoming version, WordPress 4.6, is planning to ditch Open Sans in favor of system fonts in the admin panel. Overview Here is what WordPress lead developer, Helen Hou-Sandi, stated in her commit message: “Rejoice, for your […]

New Broker System To Ease REST API Authentication Challenges

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Emily Schiola

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May 17, 2016

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Since the beginning of the REST API project, authentication has been one of its biggest challenges. Although cookie-based authentication solves issues for JavaScript code running on the site, external sites have a more difficult time, which makes authentication in the REST API project inadequate. Co-founder of Human Made Joe Hoyle on Sunday announced the Authentication Broker System, a solution that aims to solve the decentralized registration problem. The broker can be found at https://apps.wp-api.org/, where you can sign up as a developer and create your app directly. In addition, the specifications for the system can be found at https://apps.wp-api.org/spec/. The two biggest roadblocks to authentication […]

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