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Scared of WordPress Core Trac, but want to give it a shot? Try Trac Gardening! – Helen on WordPress

For 3.7, the biggest goal (at least in my mind) is to blow through Trac and close as many tickets as possible, either through committing a patch or because they aren’t relevant anymore. At close to 3800 open tickets, Trac just isn’t manageable for anybody anymore (except perhaps for Sergey). Casual and hopeful patch contributors…

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Helen Hou-Sandí’s got a pretty great idea for folks looking to pitch in on core development:

For 3.7, the biggest goal (at least in my mind) is to blow through Trac and close as many tickets as possible, either through committing a patch or because they aren’t relevant anymore. At close to 3800 open tickets, Trac just isn’t manageable for anybody anymore.

I’ll gladly spend a little time this next cycle doing a little “gardening”.

Tidy Repo – A curated list of the best WordPress plugins

Tidy Repo is a curated collection of the best WordPress plugins, tested and reviewed for reliability.

tidyrepo.com

A beautiful, carefully curated list of both paid and free plugins. ᔥ

Automattic’s Awesome Remote Work Culture

WordPress creator, Matt Mullenweg, has created a dream-job company for 190 lucky employees.

www.businessinsider.com

Business Insider on how Automattic manages their distributed workforce.

I want to go to there.

LaunchKey – Evolving User Authentication, Killing Passwords

LaunchKey is evolving user authentication and killing passwords with physical multi-factor authentication through your smartphone or tablet.

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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.

The Heartbeat API: Getting Started

With 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…

wp.tutsplus.com

The first in a series from Wptuts+ covering WordPress 3.6’s Heartbeat API.

Sane Widget Sidebar Management – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org

Manage one widget area at a time to maintain widget sanity.

wordpress.org

This. In core. Now.

The Theme Foundry – WordPress themes for publishers

WordPress themes with modern magazine layouts and commercial quality fonts for your website. Trusted by over half a million WordPress publishers since 2008.

thethemefoundry.com

Beautiful & seemingly well coded. Nevertheless, “read more” links are a fucking pox on the internet – and this theme relies on them. Heavily.