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Flickr and Creative Commons: Fair use or mass theft?

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Doc Pop

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Community

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December 3, 2014

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Is it OK for a company to sell your Creative Commons work without your permission or compensation? That’s the question Flickr users are debating right now after a the launch of the company’s new print making service. For those unfamiliar, Creative Commons is an open-source framework for photographers, makers, artists, and more to define how their work may be used. The 4 basic variations of CC are: -attribution -noncommercial -no derivative works -share alike Flickr embraced CC licensing many years ago and now hosts over 300,000,000 CC-licensed images. Last month the company began a new printing service that allows customers […]

My experience starting up a WordPress business

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Dragan Nikolic

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Community

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December 3, 2014

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Technology is empowering. It doesn’t take as long to establish your online presence as it used to. We all want a smooth startup and that’s why we opted for taking our business online, right? You can easily assemble a crew of WordPress developers and designers, buy decent hosting, pick one of the free or premium WordPress themes, install some plugins, begin creating WordPress products, and start your own WordPress shop. Weeell no, not exactly. When I first got on that road (along with a couple of my friends) all I ever heard were fairy tales about owning a WordPress shop. We […]

Turn your WordPress site into an app: Reactor review

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Shaun Quarton

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Featured, News

Published

December 2, 2014

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WordPress has already conquered the Internet, and is slowly but surely turning its attention towards the world of apps. This is nothing new: there are plenty of impressive services out there promising to turn your WordPress website into a full-blown app, suitable for inclusion on Google Play and the App Store. One of the best of these services is AppPresser, which I discussed several months ago. Well, the people behind AppPresser are back with their revolutionary new app builder, Reactor. This combines nearly a year’s worth of feedback from AppPresser to give WordPress users exactly what they want when building […]

What you need to know about authentication for the JSON REST API

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Josh Pollock

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Featured

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December 2, 2014

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Update: For more information, you can download our free ebook, The Ultimate Guide to the WordPress REST API. The new JSON REST API is one of the more exciting developments in the WordPress world. One of the parts of working with the API that has generated the most confusion is authentication. In this article I will give you a brief introduction to how authentication works with the REST API and the authentication system provided by the REST API team. I will also introduce some additional tools that will make using them even easier. Understanding authentication with the REST API How authentication works […]

A look at Twenty Fifteen, the new WordPress default theme

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Nick Schäferhoff

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Featured

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December 1, 2014

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Christmas is coming early in WordPressland this year, with WordPress 4.1 slated for release early this month. As exciting as this piece of news already is, it gets even better. The developers are putting together an extra present: A new default theme by the name of Twenty Fifteen. As most of you probably know, the release of the new default WordPress theme has been a time-honored tradition of the past five years. Starting with Twenty Ten, these themes have been a show of WordPress development best practices, state-of-the-art theme making, and great parents for child themes. So, in the spirit of children who […]

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