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A Tale of Two WordPresses: WPCS & Pressnomics

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Over the past few weeks I’ve been exceptionally lucky to have attended two of the most unique WordPress events of this year: the WordPress Community Summit and Pressnomics. I’ve already attended four WordCamps (!!!) in Utrecht, Edinburgh, New York, and Lisbon, each of which had its own character and cultural flavour. I tend to go to WordCamps with a few things in mind – hang out with my WordPress friends, meet current clients, pick up new clients, share knowledge, get do a bit of partying. I’m usually successful at all of these things.

WordCamps are usually focused on doing things with WordPress, whether that’s as a user or as a developer. However, in Georgia and Arizona over the past few weeks, I’ve been involved in two quite different faces of WordPress: Community and Commercialisation.

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Ghost: WordPress forked for blogging

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John O’Nolan, who worked as a Deputy Head of the WordPress UI Group a few years back, has jotted down his concept for a fork of WordPress. One that, in his words, will focus very specifically on blogging again instead of being a full blown CMS like WordPress itself.

I actually like some of the ideas he’s suggested in his post. I think it would be a huge undertaking to do such a fork, but it’s certainly a refreshing approach focussing on just blogging again. So what do you think, is John on the right track?

Find the Words to Match Your Code Poetry

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A few weeks ago, 200+ WordPress enthusiasts geeked out at WordCamp Vancouver and then attended the first ever BuddyCamp. For me, the highlight of the weekend was listening to John James Jacoby’s (AKA JJJ) presentation about proper documentation. His talk reminded me, that last year at WordCamp Toronto, Chip Bennett also gave a great presentation discussing documentation, and over in Montreal, Joey Kudish discussed the merits of becoming a better developer by writing better code. Weird how you need to hear the same thing three times to finally actually “hear it”. Well after WordCamp Vancouver, I finally started and I’m now documenting my themes properly.

I don’t know about you, but back in 2004 when I started working with WordPress, I didn’t pay much attention to standards, documentation, or the proper way to do things. But now, it seems as though the entire WordPress community is now working towards adopting the same standards. [Read more…] about Find the Words to Match Your Code Poetry

The Ten Commandments of WordPress Development

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About a year ago I made an inventory of all the WordPress websites I created together with my colleagues over the past few years. I found out that we used a lot of different approaches. It lacked standardization. What we needed was a uniform approach to development and, of course, a philosophy. At first I was a little flabbergasted, I really did not know where to start. Of course we all knew about the Codex, the forums and tutorial websites, but we did not have any contact with the WordPress community at all. [Read more…] about The Ten Commandments of WordPress Development

From WP Startup to Hiring Your First Employee

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Mailpoet is hiring its first employee to help out with their support forums and some coding. Mailpoet is a newsletter plugin which has been downloaded over a hundred thousand times on the WordPress repository. It’s run by an awesome team of four guys from across Europe, all of whom we had the pleasure of hanging out with at WordCamp Lisbon.

If you’re a WordPress expert and would like to be the first employee of a growing business with a fun and smart team, you should take a look. From my perspective, I just love to see fledgling WordPress businesses start to grow.

Now on WordPress: The oldest continuously published magazine in the English language

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Interconnect/IT have launched the latest iteration of The Spectator on WordPress. It looks gorgeous and, most important, it’s on WordPress. Why should anyone care? The Spectator is the oldest running continuous publication in the English language. It’s been in production since 1828. So it’s great to see the oldest running English pubication finally land on the world’s best blogging platform. Go check them out..