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WP Engine Says Goodbye to Paypal

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December 20, 2012

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WP Engine has just shared that it’s not longer accepting Paypal as a payment for billing and moving forward with another implementation. Unfortunately, PayPal has become an obstacle to our commitment to a hassle-free customer experience for you, and to keep up with this commitment, we’ve unfortunately had to stop accepting payment via PayPal. As with these situations, it’s never one single thing, but a stream of problems that affected various customers over an extended period of time. The problems ranged from failed transactions, which is bad, to duplicate transactions that billed customers twice, which is REALLY BAD. The time it took […]

Mark Jaquith Leading 3.6 and Looking for a Backup Lead

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December 20, 2012

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WordPress 3.5 only dropped this month, but things are moving on quickly. We’re expecting to see 3.5.1 around January 2 to resolve the few issues that came up, and already we’re starting to talk about the development cycle for WordPress 3.6. Andrew Nacin was the lead for the 3.5 cycle, and now the reins pass back to Mark Jaquith for 3.6. Mark is also looking for applicants to step up as a backup lead for this cycle, should he be unavailable for any reason. Mark has said he’s planning for this release to focus on content editing, specifically relating to autosave, […]

MaxCDN Redesign Built on WordPress, WP Engine

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December 19, 2012

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MaxCDN, a content delivery network solution has recently redesigned their homepage and site and has shared their learnings on how they leveraged WordPress (and other technologies) to achieve a sub-half-second (.5s) load time: There are literally a ton of factors how we changed to get such a fast page load. To break it down, we’ll discuss what we did with the code itself, CSS styling, JavaScript, server/hosting, and the images to achieve this incredible page speed. They go on and share their techniques and implementation strategy that you could leverage for your own use. We’re writing about it because they […]

More Musicians, Artists Coming to WP.com

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December 19, 2012

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Remember MySpace? Yeah, that website. It was the hot shiz for musicians and artists back in the day. One of the best decisions I ever made was turning down an offer from Fox Interactive Media to oversee product at MySpace. The choice was actually easy as they wanted me to move to LA and my wife has never been a fan – so we stayed in Austin, TX which was a much better choice. The point of that is to say that MySpace was the place for music artists and I hope that WordPress can take that charge and be so much […]

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