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Jeffikus
Sentinel Values
Last week I put the finishing touches on an update to one of our free themes on WordPress.com, Independent Publisher 2, and I thought that everything was working as they should after my changes. I had made a significant modification to the existing parts of the theme to warrant a full test of its capabilities…
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Joan Rho
How to Create a Website for Your Small Business (a Three-Part Tutorial Series)
According to the U.S. Small Business Administration and SCORE, many small businesses don’t have a website, yet most consumers research a business online before they decide to try out their products or services. Having a website for your business is beneficial in many ways: it can help you increase awareness for your brand and offerings,…
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Michael Arestad
The language of time travel
I have been working with a team to build a time machine. Yep. A time machine. It can travel to the past. It can return to the present. It can’t really go into the future yet, but I have confidence we’ll get there eventually. 😉 This time machine has another caveat: It only works for…
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scottsweb
Plugins, Plugins, Plugins
For the past six weeks I have been working to retire a small library of shared plugins on the VIP Go platform. It was a slow and delicate operation that needed to be coordinated with clients and development partners. It required patience, accuracy and lots of testing. My task was to manually open pull requests…
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Shaun Andrews
Preparations for Bulk Editing
One of our overarching goals for the end of the year here at Automattic is to “close the gaps” between our modern Calypso interface and the classic /wp-admin/ interface. Its been nearly 2 years since we first announced Calypso, but there are still some things missing. One of these “gaps” is bulk editing of your…
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Mike Shelton
Balance the Scales of Influence with Design Sprints
This article was originally published on the edUiconf blog. It has been adapted for this publication. Journey with me for a moment. Think back to the last big problem or initiative you worked on. Think about the solution that made it out the door to your users. Where did that solution come from? How did…
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Ola Bodera
Embracing web-safe fonts
Before webfonts were widely available, designers relied on a relatively small number of web-safe fonts, i.e. fonts that come pre-installed with various operating systems, and thus most likely to be present on user’s devices. As a result the web was saturated with Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Georgia and Times New Roman. While these fonts are not…
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Rick Banister
Squad Goals
A few keys to distributed success Since becoming the lead of my team I’ve spent a fair bit of time helping my team members define career growth goals and track their progress. Everyone is different and their growth can obviously take many forms—from skill-building to efficiency to leadership. That said, I have noticed a few…
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Adding WooCommerce Support to Libre 2
The Theme Team is hard at work adding support for WooCommerce to some of our popular themes, and last week I wrapped up my first rotation. My project was to add WooCommerce support to an existing free theme, Libre 2. Despite being a long-time WordPress user, I have relatively little experience with WooCommerce and its…
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Joen A.
The New Block Blueprint
WordPress is set to receive a new block-based editor in the future, and I’ve spent the better part of this year working on the design. The driving force is that instead of looking at the document as the unit to edit, we are now looking at piecing together this document from a sequence of blocks,…
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