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A Casual Contributor’s Guide To Giving Back To WordPress

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Josh Pollock

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Community, Featured

Published

October 23, 2015

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We should all contribute to WordPress. It’s personally rewarding, it helps you meet new people and develops new skills, and it also shows your commitment to the community and helps ensure that WordPress — the thing we use to make our livings in one way or another — continues to improve and grow. Don’t contribute to WordPress in a way that leads to burnout, or isn’t likely to benefit you. Instead, contribute by doing what you are good at. That way you’re giving your best effort, getting better at what you do, and getting recognized for it. Some people can […]

5 Takeaways From Adii Pienaar’s AMA

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Emily Schiola

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Community

Published

October 22, 2015

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Like Pippin Williamson last week, Adii Pienarr stepped up the mic this week to answer your questions. Pienarr is the co-founder of WooThemes, which was recently acquired by Automattic, and is now working on Receiptful. Pienarr talked about everything from what it’s like to have your company acquired, to how to build your own business multiple times. Here are five takeaways. Failure Comes With Building A Business. No one successful has gotten there without failing along the way, and Pienaar is no exception. Many people asked how to come back from a failure. The first thing Pienaar explained is that […]

How To Pick A New Web Developer: 4 Tips On reducing The Odds That You’re Disappointed

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Phil Simon

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Community

Published

October 22, 2015

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Over the years, I’ve learned a few things about websites and web development. (For a warts-and-all walk down my site’s memory lane, click here.) In the process, I’ve learned a few things about choosing a developer. I have picked great ones, average ones, and even one truly terrible one. What’s more, I’ve been on the other side of the aisle before getting out. In this post, I’ll provide a few tips for choosing a web developer. View Existing Portfolios Any developer worth his or her salt will post previous sites for all the world to see. Show me, don’t tell […]

WordPress 4.4 May Add Private Plugin Header

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Emily Schiola

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News

Published

October 21, 2015

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The release of WordPress 4.4 is rapidly approaching, but people are still hard at work making this the best version yet. One of the recent tickets being addressed has made a decent amount of headway and seems to be on target for the next release. The ticket covers a longstanding problem with plugin name collisions. There have been instances where an existing plugin in the WordPress repo, which shares a name with a privately maintained plugin, has an available update. Because the plugins share directory names, hitting the update button means that the private plugin is replaced. The currently suggested solution […]

If Marty McFly Went Back To The Future Today… He’d Be A Web Dev

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Brenda Barron

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Community, Featured

Published

October 21, 2015

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We’ve arrived at that fateful day, Back to the Future fans. It’s floated around the web as a meme for years now (always with the year altered) but today is really the day Marty McFly arrived in the future for the first time. It was on Oct. 21, 2015 when Marty stepped out of the DeLorean and tried on a pair of Nike Power Laces. And from this day forward on re-watch, all events in the films will have transpired in the past. Which, if I’m being honest, sort of makes me sad. But more than anything, it raises important […]

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