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Matt Miklic
Running an effective remote design team
Around this time last year, I got an interesting call on Slack. Automattic had recently organized its mobile teams into a new division called Hogwarts, and our new division lead Cate Huston had embraced her new identity. I was coming off of several weeks of time off after surgery to repair a nerve in my…
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Jeff Golenski
You can’t create successful products if you don’t leave your desk
For the past 15 years I’ve been anchored at a desk creating everything from marketing material to user experiences for various applications and software. Now more than ever, people can work from their desk and not have to interact with others in a physical capacity. This can certainly be great for productivity, but also comes…
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Tiago Noronha
Get Your Theme Ready for Gutenberg
Gutenberg is the codename for the upcoming WordPress editor. It’s currently in beta and available for download from the WordPress.org plugin repository. The new editor consists of blocks that replace current hacky methods of introducing dynamic content such as widgets, custom HTML, and shortcodes. If you test your current theme with Gutenberg, you’ll notice that…
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Erin Casali
The Perception of Presence in Remote Teams
I often get many kinds of questions regarding remote work, often from an organizational and structural perspective. Recently however I’ve been asked a different one: “I’m a freelance about to start working remotely for a remote company, do you have any advice for me?”. On the surface it looks like a simple question, with the…
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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…
Vienna
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