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How to Become a Respected WordPress Developer

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July 24, 2013

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When you give back to the community, there is a good chance you will receive much more than you give. WordPress is thriving as an open source platform as well as a client services platform. Here are six steps to you can take to become a more respected WordPress developer that clients return to for work time and time again: Define your skills If you are doing client services, it’s important to effectively define your array of skills. The term “WordPress Developer” isn’t very insightful to your overall abilities. An analysis of many WordPress developers would likely return a huge […]

WordPress Plugins and Your Brand’s Social Media Strategy

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July 24, 2013

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How to optimize—and personalize—your brand’s social impact through unique sharing capabilities. By Michelle Oznowicz | July 3, 2013 Over the course of a day, most people spend more time interacting through social media on their phones, tablets and computers than they spend making calls, emailing, or texting. With Facebook’s one billion active users to Twitter’s four million daily tweets, these networks are dominating the public sphere. Social media is where all the action is. Establishing a presence on the social networks that are popular with your demographic is the key factor in building brand awareness. Interacting with your customers within […]

Samuel Sidler’s Improvement List

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July 23, 2013

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Samuel Sidler, brand new “Ninja Wrangler” for Audrey Captial, released a Digestable WordPress.org Project List. Let’s break his priorities down to the barebones for the sake of conversation: Ongoing Open Source Stats General Design Improvements   Immediate Increasing WordPress and WordPress.org participation Improving make.wordpress.org   Short Term Support and documentation hubs Profile improvements   Medium Term Themes Directory Redesign Improvements for the i18n Community Improve WordPress.org Home Page Support Forum Improvements   Long Term Plugin/Themes Directory Workshops (i.e. learn.wordpress.org) jobs.wordpress.net “Ideas” Improvements Mailing List Page Redesign     Thoughts? Reactions? Do you think he left anything out? 

Writing is Product

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July 23, 2013

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 The best writing comes from a place of honesty, authenticity, and passion. By Ryan Hoover | July 23, 2012  Writing is introspection, therapy, branding, learning, teaching, relationship building. I write for all the reasons above, but it’s my genuine interest and passion to articulate and share my ideas, that fuels my writing. As I’ve invested more time in writing this past year, I’ve begun to see the fruits of my labor. To my surprise, I’ve built an audience – albeit small – of people who genuinely care about what I have to say. And several of those followers have asked […]

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