Automattic’s Awesome Remote Work Culture
WordPress creator, Matt Mullenweg, has created a dream-job company for 190 lucky employees.
Business Insider on how Automattic manages their distributed workforce.
Category: WordPress
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Rethinking Content Editing in WordPress
Rethinking Content Editing in WordPressI want to go to there.
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LaunchKey
LaunchKey – Evolving User Authentication, Killing PasswordsLaunchKey is evolving user authentication and killing passwords with physical multi-factor authentication through your smartphone or tablet.Speaking of passwords, LaunchKey looks like a nice alternative to other multi-factor authentication applications.
And hey, big shocker, they’ve got a WordPress plugin.
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The Heartbeat API: Getting Started
The Heartbeat API: Getting StartedWith 3.6, aka “Oscar”, just released, lets take a look at some of the new features that are available to developers. In particular, in this series I’ll be looking at the new heartbeat API, and…
The first in a series from Wptuts+ covering WordPress 3.6’s Heartbeat API.
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Collections
The Theme Foundry – WordPress themes for publishersWordPress themes with modern magazine layouts and commercial quality fonts for your website. Trusted by over half a million WordPress publishers since 2008.
Beautiful & seemingly well coded. Nevertheless, “read more” links are a fucking pox on the internet – and this theme relies on them. Heavily.
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WP DB Driver
WP DB Driver – WordPress plugin | WordPress.orgAn improved database layer for WordPressConsidering an upgrade to PHP 5.5.x? It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this.
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Remove WordPress SEO data from post table
remove WordPress SEO data from post table – WordPress TutorialsThe WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast is fantastic for WordPress site owners. But if the data is crowding your post table, there is a solution.Nothing against Yoast’s SEO plugin, but this shit is getting dropped into the
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WordPress Coleman
I’ve spent a lot of time since WordCamp San Francisco thinking about Matt’s expressed desire for faster, Chrome-like automatic patching in his State of the Word. Mainly, I got caught up in the “how” of it. Like how could they balance development on the trunk alongside rapid-fire, stable core releases?
Then I read about the move to
develop.svn.wordpress.org& Grunt for WordPress core development this morning and realized that it’s only a matter of time before WordPress has its own Canary build.For the uninitiated, Chrome Canary is a version of Google’s Chrome browser that has the most cutting edge stuff crammed into it. The stuff that’s not quite ready for the general public, but still needs testing. Firefox is doing something similar thing with Aurora.
But WordPress can’t just go and call their cutting edge test branch Canary, can they? So, after combining the list of jazz greats in the version history along with my middling knowledge of the genre, I propose the early-adopter build be named after an innovator who was notorious for shaking things up: Ornette Coleman.
Think about it. WordPress Coleman has a pretty nice ring to it, right?
Anyway, now that I’ve given the project a name, I’ll just be hanging around waiting for an auto-updating build. Don’t worry though, I can be patient…
Addendum: As my buddy Mike Schroder pointed out in IRC, you could totally do something like this right now with the Beta Tester plugin and the bleeding edge nightly builds. But I’m thinking about something that’s a little less likely to break things as trunk development progresses.
Addendum 2: The Legend of Curly’s Gold: Yes, I realize that WordPress 4.5 used “Coleman” as its release name. This post was written 3 years before that release dropped. Nobody likes a pedant.
