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The Second Freedom

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February 5, 2014

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If you drive down the street I grew up on too fast, my dad will yell at you. You will not hear him because you’re inside a car, and you’re already half way down the street, but my dad will still have yelled at you to slow down because he’s worried about the kids in the neighborhood. I grew up in a pretty tight-knit community that’s focused on its children. Unsafe drivers are a risk to one of the things the community of the neighborhood is built-on: children. Recently, in the WordPress community we had another site pop up re-selling […]

Updates to the Jetpack Plugin

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February 4, 2014

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Late last week, the Automattic team released the newest version of Jetpack, which included a few notable updates worth taking a look at which should make some people’s lives easier. Full disclosure: I use Jetpack, but not all the time. For content-driven sites I find it useful, but with larger sites I’ll usually leave it off. That’s just where I stand. Markdown Support I remember when John O’Nolan first pitched Ghost to the WordPress community, one of his major sticking points was a cluttered post editor with lack of Markdown support. With the newest version of Jetpack, Markdown is now […]

The Difference Between WordPress Companies and Silicon Valley Startups

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February 3, 2014

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The other night I read a line in one of the awesome posts at the Matt Report. (By the way, if you’ve never watched Matt’s interviews, you’re really missing out.) The line was this: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: We’re in an interesting phase of the WordPress growth spurt. It’s only a matter of time until we see some larger WordPress companies really break away from the pack and follow the traditional path of a Silicon Valley startup. And that got me thinking. As someone who spent a decade in five Silicon Valley startups and now […]

Dissecting WordPress: Customizing footer.php

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January 31, 2014

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My journey to WordPress began by learning basic HTML, laboriously typed out in Notepad. Over the years I added CSS, then some JavaScript, to gain a bit of interaction with website viewers. File “includes” for reusable page elements like a header and footer, or a menu, made building websites a bit more streamlined—though I still did a lot of hand-coding—and I was comfortable with it. I knew of the existence of WordPress, and CMS systems, and eventually the day came when I sat down and committed to learning WordPress so I could turn over sites to clients and they could […]

Episode # 31: Rap Battles of WordPress

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January 30, 2014

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Show Notes Host Jason Coleman is the developer of Paid Memberships Pro and author of the book Building Web Apps for WordPress. Jason can be found on Twitter at @Jason_coleman. How the host got started in WordPress: Jason started in 2005 with a blog on WordPress. He was just leaving my job at Accenture. He started working on plugins and learning more and more WordPress every year. What they’re sippin’ on: Dre – Dry Dre Express (Canada Dry) Brad – Captain Morgan Private Stock Jason – Yellow Tail Shiraz EPIC RAP BATTLE OF WORDPRESS Pressing Topics  Aesop WordPress storytelling plugin […]

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