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Create A WordPress Legacy Bigger Than Star Wars

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Brenda Barron

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December 18, 2015

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been anxiously awaited for months now. The excitement in my house about this film is hanging in the air with every breath. Seriously, a day doesn’t go by that some discussion about the franchise occurs.My husband’s phone notification is a series of R2D2’s beeps and boops, for crying out loud. But all of this hype and hullaballoo has got me thinking about the legacy of Star Wars. The enthusiasm from fans and the generational connections it has created are surely greater than any one film or any one character alone. There’s wide-ranging appeal in […]

Automattic Could Go Public In 2016, Report Says

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Marie Dodson

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December 18, 2015

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Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, is among 36 “unicorns” that could go public in 2016, CB Insights said in a report released yesterday. The 2016 Tech IPO Pipeline states there are more than 80 private tech companies in the U.S. currently valued at $1 billion or more, and notes that Automattic is among the 36 companies with the greatest momentum. Automattic joined the billion-dollar club in 2014 when it raised $160 million in Series C Funding, which raised its valuation to $1.16 billion. Along with Automattic, “the unicorn club” includes other well-known, fast-growth companies, such as Airbnb, Snapchat, GitHub, Slack, and Uber. While Automattic’s inclusion on this list doesn’t […]

17 Of The Best Code Editors For WordPress Developers And Users

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Nick Schäferhoff

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December 17, 2015

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Just like a painter needs a brush, a blacksmith her hammer, and carpenter his saw, WordPressers need their own set of tools. While we have many different WordPress development tools at our disposal, most of the work happens inside a simple text editor. Whether you are a full-on plugin or theme developer or “only” an advanced user, we need code editors all the time: Configuring core files, changing styles, editing template files, you name it — a good chunk of our work is modifying lines of code. Therefore, it’s only good and proper that we use the best tool at […]

5 Takeaways From This Week’s AMA With Brian Gardner

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Emily Schiola

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December 17, 2015

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After a week off, ManageWP gave us another AMA this week, headed by StudioPress founder Brian Gardner. Find him on Twitter @bgardner. Gardner lives in Chicago with his wife and son and isn’t afraid to admit his love for Starbucks and Sarah McLachlan. People asked about Gardner’s decision to make themes minimal, how he decides on his next project, and as always, the future of WordPress. Here are five takeaways. Sometimes Change Is Good. Gardner has switched up his blog design many times, and while he admitted part of it is because he is a “creative schizophrenic,” the real reason […]

Taking A Closer Look At XML-RPC

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Sufyan bin Uzayr

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December 16, 2015

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XML-RPC is one of the oldest, and possibly lesser used, components of WordPress. In fact, it has been around since day one, and will probably continue to stick around for many days to come. In this article, we take a closer look at what XML-RPC is, and what it does, in reference to WordPress. What Is XML-RPC? XML-RPC is a not a WordPress-only innovation. In fact, it was a part of the original b2 software, from which WordPress was forked. However, earlier versions of WordPress had it turned off by default. Starting WordPress 3.5, functionality for XML-RPC has been turned […]

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