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Ok, so — in an obvious effort to generate some extra income for Akismet, they changed their signup screen and hidden the free account in plain sight. Can’t really blame them for wanting to produce some additional income from this awesome service, but I really hate the way they did it.  Instead of asking people [...]

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Endeavor WordPress Child Theme for Genesis Framework

It’s black Friday!  People are going a bit crazy over the deals — I just passed a BestBuy near my house around 8:00pm and there were people lined up along the side of the building, some of them even had tents setup. Almost looked like a party worth joining, if it wasn’t for the 30 [...]

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Post Formats in Publish Meta Box

WordPress 3.1 will introduce a simple new feature called “Post Formats” that should make theme developers very, very happy people. Although the feature is simple, in the hands of a creative designer it allows for some pretty major styling options with a single line of code.  If a designer also happens to have some minimal [...]

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Earlier this week, Google released an open source Apache module to simplify the optimization of your content.  The module, mod_pagespeed, will do all sorts of magic like minify your JS/CSS and optimize images, and a handful of other optimizations that seem (from limited testing) to improve your servers performance considerably. Google has provided a couple [...]

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Last week, the WordPress scene once again exploded with debate about the GPL v2.  The fuse?  A WordPress developer was removed from the CodePoet.com directory because he actively supported the commercial theme “Thesis” .  The community ruckus  spawned several articles about the subject, including this article I wrote as a response to the situation. This post is an update [...]

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So — once again, WordPress GPL wars have erupted on the Twitter. Today, it started with an independent WordPress consultant being removed from the CodePoet.com website. CodePoet is a directory of WordPress consultants brought to you by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. The reason cited  was that the consultant promoted the Thesis theme, a commercial theme [...]

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