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WordPress plugin : Threads

I just came across Alex King’s announcement of his new plugin – Threads: I’ve just released an initial beta of Threads, a WordPress plugin I’ve been working on for about a year. The idea is simple:...

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Cool stuff in upcoming WordPress 3.6

WordPress 3.6 is not too far away, with the first beta already released last week.   WordPress VIP blog did a very nice and very visual overview of the changes and new features in the release.  For me...

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The biggest merge ever

I am having a really proud and exciting moment at work right now.  We’ve just deployed the biggest merge ever.  I can’t really share enough details to provide you with the context (NDA and all), but...

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WordPress version check

With all the news of brute force attacks against WordPress, I thought I’d at least update the installations running on my servers.  Since there are quite a few instances of WordPress on some of them,...

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One million views

It’s been a while since I posted any milestones for this blog, so here you go.   Yup, according to WordPress stats, my blog pages have been viewed a 1,000,000 times.  Now, they were probably viewed...

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WordPress passwords and brute force

From the man himself: Here’s what I would recommend: If you still use “admin” as a username on your blog, change it, use a strong password, if you’re on WP.com turn on two-factor authentication, and...

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WordPress themes : Roots

Roots is a WordPress starter theme based on HTML5 Boilerplate & Bootstrap from Twitter. #

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RSS + IFTTT + Evernote = Backup

This post is just a test.   I’ve created a new personal recipe using IFTTT service, which will pull the RSS feed of this blog, and create a new note in a specific notebook of my Evernote account....

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Capsule – developer’s scratch pad

I’ve just learned about Capsule, and I think you should too.   It is based off WordPress, and does sound interesting.  But the two best things about it, I think, are that a developer can keep it...

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Happy 10th birthday, WordPress!

Today is the WordPress Day.  Thousands and thousands of people gather in hundreds of cities and towns all over the world to celebrate WordPress’s 10th birthday.  In 10 years, WordPress went from just...

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VaultPress Lite

VaultPress, “the world’s best WordPress security, backup and support”, has recently introduced a Lite plan.  It’s only $5 per month and it covers most of the essentials: Daily backups that happen...

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How to add Google fonts into your WordPress

Use Google to generate the CSS for the font, then include it using wp_register_style() and/or wp_enqueue_style() WordPress functions.  This should probably be generalized to accept font name...

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WordPress Template Hierarchy

The most useful diagram for understanding how WordPress themes work – the WordPress Template Hierarchy – has been enhanced with some artistic detail, converted into an interactive link map, and copied...

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Toni Schneider – Automattic As A Distributed Work Force

Lots of Automattic employees within 7-9 months tell Toni that they can’t imagine going back to a regular job. Automattic has been 100% distributed since day 1. 180 people, 28 countries, 138 cities...

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WordPress plugin : Inline preview

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WordPress plugin : Google+ Comments

This looks very interesting.   There is some overlapping functionality with Social plugin, which actually brings comments from social networks back into the WordPress installation.  That’s a bit more...

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WordPress plugin : Auto-Schedule Posts

You gotta love WordPress!  For anything that you can pretty much think of, there is a plugin already.  Just now I realized that I’ve been posting quite a few things at once, and that it would be way...

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Out of sync

Yesterday, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time trying to figure out if Crowd Favorite had yet released an update to the FavePersonal WordPress theme that I am using on this site.  It’s been quite...

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Upgraded the site’s WordPress theme to FavePersona…

Upgraded the site’s WordPress theme to FavePersonal 1.3.  This time, using the child theme best practice.

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