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Contribution As Culture
Matt Mullenweg wrote a blog post called Five for the Future yesterday that advocates his belief that WordPress-centric companies should aim to utilize 5% of their company resources toward contributing back to the project. Brian analyzes this post and give us his insights on Matt's recommendation.
WordPress 4.1 Welcomes A New Class of Committers
With WordPress 4.0 released, it’s time to once again look to the future, WordPress 4.1. Over the weekend, Andrew Nacin announced our new release lead for 4.1, Jack Blackbourn, and a couple of guest committers that are coming along for the ride.
WordPress Beyond Boundaries: A Recap of WordCamp Europe 2014
This weekend, 950 WordPress professionals and enthusiasts from all over the world descended upon Sofia, Bulgaria to participate in Europe’s largest WordCamp to date. WordCampers arrived excited to soak up new information and connect with others in the European community.
WordPress.com Publishes First Ever Video Ad Entitled “Welcome Home”
WordPress.com released a new video on its YouTube account entitled Welcome Home. In the 15 second video, featuring music from Childish Gambino, photos are taken with a iPhone in various locations. Near the end of the video, the WordPress app is opened displaying a post with one of the images captured by the phone. The central theme of the video is to create your home on the web at WordPress.com.
Should You Develop a WordPress Site for a Client From the Ground Up or Use a Helper?
Should you be using a placeholder WordPress theme when building sites for clients? Or should you start from scratch and build your way up, element after element for each client project individually?
This article isn’t that much about describing “what’s the right thing to do.” What we want to achieve here is just list the technically possible solutions and the pros and cons of each. It’s then up to you to decide which is the one you are most likely to opt for.
