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How To Become A Top WordPress Developer

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by Jonathan Wold

August 23, 2012

First, let's set a few things straight: becoming a top WordPress developer is hard work - very hard work.

It's going to take a lot of time, energy and determination. If you're looking for an easy checklist or some "fast pass" to the top, you're going to waste your time. Being one of the best is hard, and statistically speaking, the odds are stacked against you. By the way, installing WordPress, reading a few tutorials and customizing a few themes does not make someone a top developer. They may call themselves an "Expert", and that's fine. They may know more than the average person. But a top developer moves far beyond the basics, and pushes the very boundaries of what is possible. They innovate, contribute to the community, and demonstrate mastery in the work they do. So I want you to be more than an "expert", I want you to be one of the best.

Help Us Help WordPress

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by Shane Pearlman

August 8, 2012

Learn how to improve the WordPress user experience with some practical usability wisdom.

This is a personal request from your user, a rallying cry from a compatriot. I personally love WordPress. I make my living from it. The average user, though, couldn't care less about it. They just want to run their business, tell their family history, organize their church, share their photos or live their life online with a minimum of impedance. In its evolution from simple blogging tool to CMS, framework and software ecosystem, WordPress is losing its way. It needs us to help bring it back and cultivate simple genius.

Writing Effective Documentation For WordPress End Users

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by Siobhan McKeown

July 4, 2012

Learn how to write effective documentation for WordPress end-users.

Today I get to write about something close to my heart: documentation. The emails I love the most start with, "I've got this new product. Please, document it!" I get a lot of pleasure from learning about someone's code and making it as clear as possible for users. I love taking a great product and making sure that people get it.

Do-It-Yourself Caching Methods With WordPress

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by Milan Petrović

June 26, 2012

WordPress comes with everything you need for data caching. Learn how to optimize your code using WordPress' built-in caching mechanism.

There are different ways to make your website faster: specialized plugins to cache entire rendered HTML pages, plugins to cache all SQL queries and data objects, plugins to minimize JavaScript and CSS files and even some server-side solutions. But even if you use such plugins, using internal caching methods for objects and database results is a good development practice, so that your plugin doesn't depend on which cache plugins the end user has.

Easily Customize WordPress Default Functionality

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by Joseph Casabona

June 19, 2012

Learn some great ways to customize WordPress and its default behavior, including how to change markup, enhance search, and much more!

The absolute best thing about WordPress is how flexible it is. Don't like the theme? Just change it. Need added functionality? There is probably a plugin you can download or buy. If not, build it yourself! You can change pretty much anything about WordPress. In this article, we'll go over some easy ways to customize WordPress that you might not know about.

Whats New in WordPress 3.4

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by Daniel Pataki

June 12, 2012

With WordPress 3.4 set to arrive this week, it's a great time to familiarize ourselves with the new features and additions.

The new version of WordPress brings many improvements, including custom backgrounds and headers, a live theme-customizer, revamped XML-RPC, better support for internationalization, and many bug-fixes and enhancements. Let's dive in and see what WordPress 3.4 has in store!

How To Customize The WordPress Admin Easily

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by Aurelien Denis

May 17, 2012

In this article, we take a break from some of the more advanced ways to customize WordPress, and share some super-easy customization techniques for the WordPress Admin area.

If you're just getting started with WordPress, or have been running with default functionality for a while and now want to dig in with some useful and easy ways to customize your WordPress site, a great place to start is the WordPress Admin area, or backend. One of the great things about WordPress is that each part of the backend is easily customized using simple PHP functions. In this article, you'll learn how to customize the login page with your own logo, add new widgets to the dashboard, add custom content to the admin footer, make it easier to get in and out of the Admin area, and more. When combined, these techniques can improve branding, accessibility, and usability of your WordPress-powered site.

What's Going On In The WordPress Economy?

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by Siobhan McKeown

April 12, 2012

In a post on her blog last year, WordPress designer, business woman and author Lisa Sabin Wilson, talked about how thankful she is to be part of the WordPress economy.

It's an economy that thousands of people, the world over, are benefiting from (including me!). It is an economy built on free, open source software. In this article I'm going to talk to people who are active in the WordPress economy, people from all over the globe. It's amazing to see how even in the past few years the economy around WordPress has grown, and what new, innovative, enterprises it's composed of.

Inside The WordPress Toolbar

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by Dominic Giglio

March 1, 2012

The WordPress Admin Bar, first introduced in version 3.1, debuted to mixed reactions. A Google search for "wordpress admin bar" returns multiple articles about how to disable or remove it.

Version 3.2 of WordPress introduced new features and functionality, and version 3.3 has not only further enhanced it but integrated the header of the admin section into the bar itself. Since this feature is not going anywhere and it figures largely in WordPress' plan to implement front-end editing, I think we would all benefit from looking at where its features come from and how best to make this sometimes controversial feature work for us.

WordPress Theme Design and Development Trends for 2012

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by Siobhan McKeown

February 8, 2012

2011 was a great year for WordPress, with some excellent new updates that saw the introduction of a drag-and-drop uploader, distraction-free writing, the HTML5 Twenty Eleven theme, and movement towards a fully responsive dashboard.

As well as changes to WordPress core, theme development continued to evolve, as whispers of responsive design spread like wildfire across the WordPress community. Over the next year, some recent developments will become standards. Others, now just remote flickerings in the eyes of a few theme designers and developers, will start to take hold.

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