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Do Web Designers Need to Know How to Code?

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January 18, 2013

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Is it true that web designers must know how to code in order to be taken seriously as a professional services provider? Over the past year or so, I have seen articles and blog posts written that exhort web designers to learn HTML, CSS, and PHP. Some of these articles have even gone as far to say that if you don’t know how to code, you aren’t a true web designer. These opinions do have merit. It would be valuable and beneficial for a designer to have an understanding of the code work necessary to build a website, but in […]

Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 1.17.2013

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January 17, 2013

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Thursday is my favorite day of the week. It means only one more work day and the weekend is just around the corner. It’s also the night of comedy on NBC and I get reminiscent about when The Office was in its prime. It’s also another day of more plugins! New ones at that! Just a quick house cleaning note before I share the list. If I stumble upon a description that is in gibberish or I can’t understand it, I may get rid of it. I am getting these lists from some RSS feeds that I have set up and if the […]

MemberPress: Just Another Membership Plugin?

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January 17, 2013

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Almost every day my inbox announces the arrival of another solution that will earn me a seven digit income passively. All I need to do (right now) is buy their plugin – for only $16. And while these promises are too good to be true, the idea of passive income, of recurring revenue, made off of a WordPress membership site still call out to content producers. Is this just the quest for the almighty dollar? And aren’t their enough membership plugins out there already? Given that demand, and it’s constant growth, you would have thought by now that the market […]

Hello Dolly: Episode 2 – Publishing Platforms, Interns, and Popovers

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January 17, 2013

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The team’s been having a lot of fun recording Hello Dolly and we’re stoked about the comments, emails, tweets, and phone calls we’ve been receiving (yes, even the pranks!). In this episode, John, Chris, Jared, and I all sit down to talk about the upcoming WordCamp Atlanta, some of our thoughts on other publishing platforms (such as Tumblr and Svbtle), and take a call from Chris Brogan about pop overs and permission based marketing. For a a more detailed recap, be sure to review the show notes and check out the links we’ve provided; otherwise, listen up, tune in, or do […]

Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 1.16.2013

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January 16, 2013

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Happy #humpday everyone! We had a couple of Google Hangouts today with a few of our contributors here at WP Daily. I’m most stoked about the positive feedback on the daily theme & plugin roundup. As always I encourage anyone to please add any comments with things you like, don’t like, and especially like being able to connect with the developers of these themes and plugins. Let me know! Here’s today’s new and updated plugins:

The Future of The Twenty Thirteen WordPress Theme

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January 16, 2013

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Aaron Jorbin, who has had the pleasure of contributing code to the last three versions of the year-based default WordPress Themes, has shared a few great thoughts on what he’d like to see in this year’s release. One of the more notable ideas is his focus on accessibility: I want Twenty Thirteen to tackle another problem that the education and example of a default theme can do. I want Twenty Thirteen to be designed and built Accessibility First. Aaron goes on to share what he means by this explicitly:

Book Release: Become a WordPress Development Professional

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January 16, 2013

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Curtis McHale has announced the release of his newest book, Become a WordPress Development Professional and it’s chock full of goodies for you or a developer that you know. After running his own successful and growing WordPress consultancy Curtis has a few words of wisdom that could elevate your game and ability to increase your business this year: Becoming a Professional WordPress Developer walks you through 10 chapters of WordPress best practices and advice. This advice is proven through running a successful WordPress development business for 5 years. We will walk through the “WordPress Way” to do things like include JavaScript and […]

2 Easy Ways To Make WordPress Work For Your Nonprofit

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January 16, 2013

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Nonprofit organizations around the world are catching on to the beauty and simplicity of using WordPress to power their websites. But aside from a few large foundations and universities, most nonprofits are very modest operations where every staff members wears many hats and where the “communications” line in the budget is nearly nonexistent. Enter WordPress: an organization can get up and running quickly and can start publishing their content right away. But in my years of working with nonprofits in WordPress, I’ve found that few sites really live up to their full potential. So here are two simple tips that […]

What Exactly is the Plugin Creation Blueprint?

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January 16, 2013

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I discovered this interesting via the Warrior Forum the other day, which is one of the first and one of the largest internet marketing forums in existence (and yes, I’ve been on the site a few times “promoting” things). But it appears to be a series or some product that will help you build your own paid or premium plugin to capitalize on that killer idea that you have, right? Apparently it’s 89% complete:

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