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On WordPress, Windows, Knowledge and Testing

I had an interesting conversation with a friend earlier today. It started with the persistent state of WordPress in some point of time, backing up and restoring a state after a failure, testing plugins here and there and keeping the site as useful, flexible and stable as possible at the same time. The gist of that was the conflict between "keeping up and using the best tools" and "making the software fast and stable". Windows I haven't been using Windows for several years now, but I am supporting and maintaining my family's hardware and software (and there is a Windows-specific… Continue Reading
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Interview With ThemeForest Author Slobodan Kustrimovic – WPCanyon

Hello everyone, today we will discuss the hot topics on the Internet and specifically the WordPress platform and some premium hints from the ThemeForest market presented by one of the authors there - Slobodan Kustrimovic (a.k.a. wpcanyon). He is an expert in the WP world and has published few themes on ThemeForest and currently working on a new framework in his passion to constantly improve the quality and usability of his products. ---------------- M: Hi Slobodan and thanks for your time. How are the things going on your side? S: Hi Mario. Can't complain, everything is great at the moment.… Continue Reading
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Sass in 5 – slides from OpenFest 2012

I had a lightning talk about Sass over the weekend at the largest open source conference on the Balkans - OpenFest. We've been using it in the past few projects and the improvement in the CSS code design is remarkable. Sass in 5 from Mario Peshev Sass is pretty handy when comes to a CSS file resulting in more than 100 LoC. It's always room for improvement, unnecessary copy-paste (due to the lack of reusability here and there) and Sass leverages this by adding an extra layer of 'programming concepts' on the top, such as variables, conditionals, loops, extending snippets (or including… Continue Reading
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Mind Your JavaScript on WordPress.tv

My "Mind your JavaScript" talk from WordCamp Oslo last month is now live on WordPress.tv: https://videopress.com/v/qQ7nMQth Special props to @koop for his JavaScript talk from 2011 and his work on the gallery feature for 3.5. Note: the talk doesn't make much sense without the slides but unfortunately the video couldn't focus on both the speakers and the screen at the same time. Continue Reading
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Test Drive For Plugins and Themes is Not Popular Enough

The pricing dilemma with WordPress themes and plugins is a critical problem, mostly due to the widespread race to the bottom. Unfortunately, people don't understand the magnitude of a problem until they are personally involved and affected by the consequences. Discussing Business With Developers [caption id="attachment_11439" align="aligncenter" width="752"] Business owners and Developers working together[/caption] That's on of the reasons why I often have a hard time discussing business with developers working on a payroll for large companies. Part of them are not interested, nor involved with the actual business processes, or don't really care where do money come from. After all,… Continue Reading
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Why Does WordPress Fall Behind In Tech?

What I call a "Community Virus" is a fraction of a community that sets a bad example. You know, when you're a part of the society and there's a small (or larger) number of people doing bad stuff and are loud and annoying at the same time, and you tend to get embarrassed while shopping near them in the supermarket or at the airport. The Manifesto I was reading an email from Curtis with his manifesto - "NO is NOT a Curse Word" (definitely subscribe here and read it) and he's explaining his strategy for working with customers and valuing his services. It's a… Continue Reading
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WP Core – dynamically resize images

The only issue with post-thumbnails I've had was the lack of ability to resize images dynamically. I had to use add_image_size() function to define image sizes which is ineffective for many different sizes used once (or a limited number of times) as it creates thumbnails for every single uploaded image. Kovshenin was my savior once again for the image_make_intermediate_size function. Unbelievable. [blackbirdpie url="https://twitter.com/#!/kovshenin/status/176668168306167808"] Continue Reading
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WordPress Developers hangout recording with Pippin and Franz

We just ended the first official WordPress Developers community hangout recorded live with Franz Kaiser and Pippin Williamson, available here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/hAWVMk-WCs0 It's been fun hangin' out with both Pippin and Franz, it's always inspiring to have a chat with fellow contributors. In the interview we're discussing different topics, such as: work styles - clients work vs. selling products modular plugins history of development (how did Franz and Pippin started) helpful tools and functions the WordPress.org community contributing in various ways - code is just one of them! If you're into the online shows that we plan, we're discussing the next… Continue Reading
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Recommended WP hostings – Podcast

Recently I found a research on WP hosting providers by WPShout - http://wpshout.com/wordpress-hosting-review/ . It is a pretty good review and I have used servers from most of the hosting providers listed there so I decided that this could be my next podcast. In this review I'm going through the list from the site summarizing what is the overall experience from people reading the WPShout site and adding my 2 cents to the big picture. If you wonder what's the cosiest cavern for your WordPress systems, you should definitely check this out. [podcast]http://devwp.eu/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/wp-podcast-19-12-2011-low.mp3[/podcast] Continue Reading
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Talking WordPress Retainers and Selling to SMEs With Curtis McHale

My friend Curtis has been innovating in the sales and marketing space for WordPress consulting for years, and he's literally just started selling his latest book "Finding and Marketing To your Niche". His content is top-notch and I've personally been following his blog closely for quite some time now. That said, we've been talking with Curtis on business and marketing strategies, and I joined his podcast "The Smart Business Show" in order to share more nuggets from our own philosophy at DevriX and what drives us to focus exclusively on ongoing WordPress retainers. For us, implementation wasn't really the problem; it was… Continue Reading