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DradCast Episode 046: Fork It Good

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May 29, 2014

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[y=UvIdwPwT3vU height=400] Show Notes Host In 2004, Drew Strojny was drafted by the New York Giants. During the off seasons he was teaching himself CSS and HTML in order to build his own website. He started freelancing and using WordPress for his client websites. From there he released a few themes of his own, and since then he founded The Theme Foundry. You can contact him on twitter @drewstrojny. Sippin’ On Brad – Water Dre – Diet Canada Dry Drew – Water Pressing Topics The State of the WordPress Theme Industry is Changing David Perel details some things to consider when […]

5 Plugins That Display Beautiful Charts and Graphs in WordPress

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May 28, 2014

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To find more great plugins, check out Torque’s free eBook, The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Plugins. Download here.  We all know that solid data and research adds authority and credibility to blog posts. Case studies and simple statistics are the most popular presentations of research in the blogosphere. But there’s also one very important data visualization tool that often gets ignored by bloggers—charts. Charts have always been a superb way to help people see extensive amounts of data at one glance. We use charts for presentations and PowerPoints, but how many times do you see one in a blog post? […]

Matt Mullenweg Touring the Asia Pacific

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May 27, 2014

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Matt Mullenweg is about to rack up a whole lot of frequent flyer points, as he embarks on a jam-packed tour of the Asia Pacific. As announced on Mullenweg’s blog, he is headed to 7 countries during June 2014. According to a LimeCanvas post about the Australia and New Zealand components of the tour, Mullenweg is touring the Asia Pacific to “help spread the WordPress brand and interact with established communities that support the open source CMS.” Here are the details for the events: Seoul – Sunday, June 1 Jakarta – Monday, June 2 Singapore – Wednesday, June 4 Tokyo – Friday, June 6 […]

Panda 4.0 Is Shaking Things Up

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May 23, 2014

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This week kicked off with the announcement of Panda 4.0, and since then it has been shaking things up across the web. The Panda algorithm is Google’s effort to keep low-quality sites low in rank, and return higher-quality sites towards the top of the search results. Since 2011, Panda has undergone frequent data refreshes and updates, but many times they aren’t announced or confirmed. So, when the head of Google’s webspam team, Matt Cutts, announced the release of 4.0 SEO specialists began speculating about its significance. According to searchmetrics, Panda 4.0 is rumored to be a major update that will serve as the platform for […]

Understanding GitHub Flavored Markdown

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May 23, 2014

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GitHub is the largest code host in the world. With over 13 million repositories, it’s a favored place for powerful collaboration. GitHub allows users to harness its extensive field-tested tools for both  public and private projects. It’s a simple and efficient way to use the power of the community (and GitHub tools) to test, create, and build. As part of its inventory, GitHub uses a version of Markdown for simplified text formatting. It’s called GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM). In this article, I’m going to explain GitHub Flavored Markdown language—and how it differs from traditional Markdown language. Markdown If you’re already familiar with Markdown, then […]

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