WordPress has recently re-launched their ‘Swag store‘ with a great new look, new features and new products to boot. Here you can pick up everything from a branded baby-grow to a phone charger and they’ve promised there’s more to come.
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Plugin developer, Core contributor and support volunteer. Yeah, I’m a WordPress fan!
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Why my denied WordPress Core contribution was the right thing
Yesterday, the following Tweet, copying in myself, appeared on my Timeline.
This sums up what’s wrong with @WordPress.
— Alex Goller (@alpipego) April 20, 2017
Someone has done it wrong in the past, now everyone has to.
@DavidArtiss https://t.co/FmgpZwVM8x pic.twitter.com/2VPIJx89YNThe image is a quote from the README of one of my plugins. Except it’s being used to make a point – a point I don’t agree with (which I’m guessing the Tweet author wasn’t expecting to be the case).
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James Altucher Interview with Matt Mullenweg
James Altucher, a “investor, writer and entrepreneur” publishes regular podcasts and, for this latest, he interviewed Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic.
You can listen to it below, or head to James’ website.
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WordPress, PHP 7 and Yoast – Why we should’t be forcing users to upgrade
Right now, WordPress recommends being hosted on PHP 7 but it’s not an absolute requirement. However, since adding this as a recommendation more and more people have switched over. Having said that, according to stats provided by W3Techs, usage of PHP 7 currently stands at 3.7% across PHP users and is 8% for WordPress.
So should be be doing more to push WordPress users? Yoast thinks so and is currently forcing a non-dismissible, ‘big, ugly’ admin message to all users who haven’t upgraded.
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How to surface old posts on your WordPress site
If you have an old post on your WordPress site that you think deserves greater recognition then an age-old way is to modify the published date, pushing to the top of your blog. But this isn’t a great way to do it – links can be broken (WordPress is great at directing URL changes to the new location but it’s not infallible), sitemaps may not update correctly and, well, Google is unlikely to appreciate it, as far as SEO concerns.
Instead, some smart coding changes will allow you to easily mark posts as note-worthy and have them listed at the top, all without changing any URLs.
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