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On Fonts and Web Typefaces

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February 20, 2014

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Gone are the days when designers had to rely entirely on web-safe fonts and web typography meant simply a combination of Verdana and Georgia. Nowadays, with the advent of various web-optimized font formats, as well as the ever-popular Google Web Fonts, the task of picking the ideal typeface for your web design projects can indeed be difficult and confusing. In this article, we’ll be discussing some of the simplest measures to take while picking the ideal web font for your design projects. Introduction Web typefaces serve two major purposes: To set the tone To guide users through the content With […]

WordPress Slider Plugin Roundup: 8 Ways to Deck Out Your Website

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February 19, 2014

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Lately, people have been falling in love with image sliders. They are everywhere. And nowhere else are they more pervasive than they are in WordPress. In fact, WordPress has as many as 690 image sliders to choose from! Now, testing this overwhelming number of image sliders one-by-one would be quite a daunting task. And being the busy person that I’m sure you are, you probably don’t have the time to do all of this yourself. So, in order to help you out, we decided to put together a roundup of some of the most popular and powerful WordPress image slider […]

Episode 32: Pippin Ain’t Easy

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February 13, 2014

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Show Notes Check out the new DradCast App! Host Pippin Williamson a WordPress plugin developer from Hutchinson, KS, and the lead developer and founder of many plugins, included Easy Digital Downloads and Restrict Content Pro. He is a travel addict and spends a lot of time tracking around the country speaking at WordCamps on plugin development. He can be found on Twitter at @pippinsplugins. What They’re Sippin’ On Dre: Johnnie Walker Blue Label Brad: Captain Morgan Private Stock Pippin: Long Strange Tripel How the host got started in WordPress Pippin was introduced to WordPress by his brother who wanted help with […]

Matt Cutts on Guest Blogging and SEO

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February 13, 2014

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When it comes to Google and Search Engine Optimization, Matt Cutts is no stranger. Having worked at Google for fourteen years, Cutts knows all that there is to know about search engines. Apart from that, he also happens to be the subject of a good number of internet memes. So when Matt Cutts recently wrote an article titled The Decay and Fall of Guest Blogging for SEO, the internet went wild. What could this mean? Matt Cutts on Guest Blogging and SEO The Action To cut the long story short, this is what Cutts had to say: “Okay, I’m calling it: […]

CES 2014: From a WordPress Perspective

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February 6, 2014

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I recently spent 4 days in Las Vegas for CES 2014 and noticed a few technologies that—in my opinion—we in the WordPress community will want to actively monitor, as they could potentially affect the future of the platform. Reverse Responsive Design 2012 saw the push for responsive design in themes in order to accommodate smart phones that required developers to handle both touch events as well as different screen sizes and resolutions. By the close of 2013, it was practically impossible to find a theme that was not responsive (I say this jokingly), and mobile design was openly embraced by the WordPress […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Developer Plugins I Can’t Live Without

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January 28, 2014

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When you’ve been developing for WordPress for a while, you get into a bit of a flow, and you end up reaching for the same tools again and again. And if you’ve reviewed as many plugins as I have, you probably will come across quite a few useful ones. I’ve found that each time I install WordPress fresh, there are a few plugins I install immediately, no matter what the project. They’ve helped me out quite a bit, and I’m hoping they might help you all too. Here they are, in reverse alphabetical order. WP MigrateDB Pro: $40 – 300 […]

If You Wouldn’t Say It in Person, Would You Say It Online?

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January 27, 2014

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This question is at the center of the recent security breach involving Disqus, a widely used comment hosting service, and Gravatar, a service owned by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg’s company Automattic. Gravatar allows users to maintain a consistent profile picture across websites enabling a Gravatar plugin. Until recently, Disqus enabled Gravatar which uses an MD5 hash, an algorithm designed in 1991, to mask the email addresses associated with each Gravatar account. Gravatar’s MD5 hash has been proven to be easily hackable. In December, a group of investigative journalists at Sweden’s Researchgruppen was able to de-anonymize the identities of thousands of […]

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