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2012 Theme and Support Stats for WordPress.com

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January 2, 2013

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After culling the stats from 2012 for WordPress.com I thought I’d do another round of stats related to those that run theme shops and are considering the behaviors of bloggers in light of their business model. I know that my team is constantly thinking about these elements so that we might not only refine our business strategy but also our product offering with our WordPress Theme, Standard, which is available on WordPress.com. The first one is a powerful signal that’s worth thinking about for your WordPress business:

Citing Creative Commons for Your Photos

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January 1, 2013

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Here’s an incredibly handy infographic about Creative Commons that’s well worth a review if you use any photos or media for your blog posts, which is an incredibly strong strategy for building great content. Make sure that your blog posts have some media and make sure that you cite it well and right! Click for a much larger view:

Five Favorite Plugins of 2012

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December 31, 2012

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This has been a great year to be a WordPress developer, designer or user.  With the updates to core, community, and paid plugins and themes, it’s been a real smorgasbord of awesomeness. In the realm of plugin development, it’s been a particularly exciting time with amazing new plugin releases and feature upgrades with existing plugins. I’ve asked some well known folks in the WordPress community for their top picks and present to you the top five mentions here. You should also check out the other year end plugin roundup posts for more great plugins. Enjoy!

Jetpack's End of the Year Annual Reports

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December 31, 2012

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Did you get your 2012 Year in Blogging Annual Report in your inbox recently? I know I did as I got more than a few of them. These annual reports are a neat way to see a top-level view of what happened over the course of the year in terms of your blog. It gives you statistics (in a nice graphical form) of how many people visited the blog, where they were from, what the top posts were in terms of traffic and comments (and who they were) as well referrals. It’s not a crazy-robust report but it’s a neat […]

How I Got More Involved in the Community in 2012

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December 31, 2012

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In addition to my WordPress development goals in 2012, another one I had was to get more involved in the WordPress community—whatever that looked like for me. This ‘community’ is constantly trumpeted as the backbone of the project itself, but I felt overwhelmed figuring out how to take the first step. To be honest, I was also afraid I’d make quite a fool of myself. I’m not a world class developer (yet, hopefully), I’d only given one public tech talk, I had no idea how Trac worked, and I’d never submitted a theme or plugin to the repository. From the […]

Hello Dolly: Episode 1 – The Empire Strikes Back

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December 30, 2012

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A couple of weeks ago, we released Episode 0 of Hello Dolly. Generally speaking, the podcast was largely an experiment not only to see if we could pull off something that was a worthwhile contribution to WordPress in the podcast-space, but to see if there was any interest from others in listening to anything we had to share. Based on the feedback of the first episode – all of which that we’re thankful for, by the way – it was evident that we should move forward. So we took everything you guys suggested and critiqued and aimed to release the official […]

Building a WordPress-Centric Plugin Business

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December 30, 2012

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Pippin Wiliamson recently has shared his thoughts on how he’s managed to create a successful and growing WordPress Plugin business and how it’s becoming an even more viable model: I have been doing WordPress plugin development as a business for about two years now. When I first started, by releasing my very first plugin on Code Canyon, it was very much a side project that brought in a little side residual income. Today, I make 100% of my needed income and more off of plugin development. The fact that he’s making 100% of his income is fantastic and is the […]

The WordPress Weekend Roundup

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December 29, 2012

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This has been a pretty light week in terms of news and breaking stories which is natural because of the holidays. I actually appreciate it because it makes my life a bit easier as an editors job is really never quite done and never really stops, especially if you’re attempting to launch a new venture in the news vertical. Which is what we’re trying to do! So my team has taken some time off but we’re working (just like a lot of you) and keeping our eyes on our inboxes. It’s not incredibly ideal but it is what it is, […]

Participad: Realtime Collaboration for Your Site's Content

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December 28, 2012

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Now here’s a neat solution that you may not have known that you needed (especially if you’re an editor for a multiuser blog or site): Realtime collaboration on those blog posts! Participad does it through being powered by Etherpad Lite. For those already aware, Etherpad is an open source online editor created via Node.js that allows such neat things like realtime editing in a collaborative setting. Honestly, I’m drooling over this thing since we’re trying to figure out our perfect editorial workflow for WP Daily here. Would realtime editing and collaboration be of use for our authors? Jury is out but I’m […]

6 WordPress Plugins That Made Development Easier in 2012

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December 28, 2012

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As a WordPress developer, 2012 was a year of concentrated improvement for me. My goals for this year included being able to code themes and plugins completely from scratch using coding standards and best practices. I mostly reached these goals, and found along the way that the time I spent plugin hunting when I needed an added feature could usually be coded by hand faster and better. So, plugins that still make the ‘cut’ for me have had to prove their worth this year. The following have helped me in development throughout this year—some I’ve discovered recently, and some are […]

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