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The Evolution of WordPress Products

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August 9, 2013

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WordPress, as it exists today, is quite a young product. In present day, it’s almost impossible to believe that WordPress has only recently entered the double-digit age, clocking in at just over 10 years old. The disbelief comes in when one looks at just how quickly WordPress, and the community and products surrounding it, have evolved. Today, we’ll be taking a brief look back in time to how WordPress products have evolved. Meet, Classic and Kubrick. Surely everyone remembers Kubrick, right? Do you remember Classic as well? If not, no worry. I’ll explain. Classic and Kubrick were, for many years, […]

You’ve been GPL’d!

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August 8, 2013

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What WordPress and WooThemes can learn from Linux History I’d like to tell you all a story to give some perspective on recent events that have happened in the WordPress community. Once there was a smart Founder who wanted to change the world. He was a scrappy and outspoken 20-something who decided to build his own Open Source Software (OSS) project with a few friends because he knew he could design something that was better than the competition. He chose principle over profit and picked an OSS license that would protect the community over even his own interests. He handed over […]

Captain Woo and the Island of Misfit Extensions

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August 8, 2013

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Last week WooThemes made a pretty big, and controversial, announcement regarding policy changes to their WooCommerce extension platform. The changes include increased prices, a consolidated licensing system, dropping their unlimited pricing tiers in favor of a 25-site license tier, and capping support and updates at one year. They also grandfathered any purchase made before their announcement to receive support and updates for 2 years. The lifetime purchase that many people had made was now good for 2 years. This was a big change for a lot of people, as you can see from the roughly 500 comments on the original post. […]

Episode 021: Doing it at Midnight

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August 8, 2013

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Show Notes Host Brian Krogsgard is a WordPress developer in Birmingham, Alabama. Krogsgard the owner of Poststat.us a curated WordPress news platform. How the Matt got started in WordPress Brian found out about WordPress in 2008. In 2010, he came back to WordPress when he realized he enjoyed making websites and began writing for WP Candy. He spent a year learning and writing while making sites for friends and families. What they are sipping? Brad – Chub Soda. Cherry Vodka and Club soda Dre – Water Brian – Dale’s Pale Ale Pressing Topics WordPress 3.6 Oscar released. Oscar includes a […]

WordPress Advanced Anti-Spam Techniques

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August 7, 2013

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Have you ever found yourself dealing with a spam attack on your site? If you have, you’d know. It almost always starts out as a trickle… Maybe it’s a couple comments about how enlightening your entry on the summer corn you made on the grill a few weeks ago was. Only all the comment author links are to pharmaceutical sites or places where you can buy knock-off high heels. And can an entry about corn really be enlightening? *sigh* This is spam, isn’t it? Well, let’s go ahead and flag those in Akismet so it can catch others like it. […]

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