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<p>Oh and before you tell me to just switch to another webhost, this site will eventually be moved somewhere else but for the time being, I&#8217;d love to be able to conclude what is causing these problems.</p>
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<p><a title="FBar Social WordPress Plugin" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/fbar-social/" target="_blank">FBar Social</a> is a new plugin from Ngan Tengyuen that displays a full social networking top bar when the user scrolls down the page beyond the main menu navigation. It displays options for Facebook, Twitter Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube and just plain old RSS subscription. It also allows for social shares via a Facebook likes, Tweets and Google +1 for the site in general. Editing options include the ability to change the color of the bar, enable either fixed or full width display and add more buttons like Digg and StumbleUpon. At just 150 kB this is a lightweight plug-in with a very small footprint.</p>
<p><a title="Converter WordPress Plugin" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/converter/" target="_blank"><img class="   alignright" alt="Ingredients Converter plugin" src="http://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/plugins/converter/screenshot-1.png?resize=166%2C182" />Converter</a> is a plugin used for those who want to convert units of measurement for cooking, such as Tsp to Oz, Cups to Gallons, etc. This plug-in gives you the option to include actual food ingredients (such as converting the weight of wheat flour from ounces to tablespoons) The data is derived from two internal CSV files which can be edited to include new food items or ingredients of your choosing.</p>
<p><a title="Simple Business Hours WordPress Plugin" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-business-hours/" target="_blank">Simple Business Hours</a> plugin helps you display a business&#8217; hours of operation as a widget. From an editing perspective this allows you to enter the businesses hours of operation on a daily basis, and even select which days the business is closed. Because this plug-in is widgetized, You can insert different hours of operation for different businesses or locations all within the same WordPress installation. The widget title is completely customizable allowing you to separate and properly identify locations and their respective hours.</p>
<p><a title="FP News Ticker" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/fp-news-ticker/" target="_blank">FP News Ticker</a> is a jquery-based plugin by Flourish Pixel that populates your most recent post titles or the titles of any external RSS feed onto a transitions based news ticker. Edit options include the transition, speeds and full CSS control of overall appearance.</p>
<p><a href="http://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/plugins/fp-linkedin-profile/screenshot-2.png" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignright" alt="LinkedIn Profile" src="http://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/plugins/fp-linkedin-profile/screenshot-2.png?resize=224%2C181" /></a><a title="FP LinkedIn Profile" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/fp-linkedin-profile/" target="_blank">FP LinkedIn Profile</a> is another new offering by Flourish Pixel that enables you to display your profile link and statistics within the sidebar. Out of all the social networks that exist today LinkedIn has the most underutilized potential when it comes to integrating with WordPress. This particular plug-in allows you to display LinkedIn information in a variety of ways. You can choose the option to just displaying your link in avatar image with a link to your profile, or opt for fully blown exposure by including Information about similar contacts and who people have viewed that are similar to your profile. To me, the second option seems a bit overkill. I would rather see a feed of my posts or activity on LinkedIn to encourage others to connect with me. But again, I&#8217;m not even certain that LinkedIn allows this kind of functionality. Either way, this plug-in is easy to use and install, providing an excellent means for your site viewers to connect with you on LinkedIn.</p>
<p>Join us again tomorrow as we slash our way through the Repository jungle together in search of hidden plugin treasures. I&#8217;ll bring the machete just in case. As always you can contact me via Twitter <a title="Marcus Couch on Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/marcuscouch" target="_blank">@marcuscouch</a> or leave your feedback for this post right on <a title="WP Tavern" href="http://wptavern.com">WPTavern</a>.</p>
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<blockquote><p>BlogDroid was an attractive acquisition for Page.ly due to their impressive growth in a short period of time, a more polished brand than most competitors, and the “customer-first” approach made by Karen Jackie, co-founder of BlogDroid. She had the following to say about the acquisition</p></blockquote>
<p>Congrats to both companies and I hope the transition goes over well for all BlogDroid customers. To get a more detailed perspective on how this acquisition came to be, read the <a title="http://www.blogdroid.com/blogdroid-has-been-acquired-by-pagely/" href="http://www.blogdroid.com/blogdroid-has-been-acquired-by-pagely/">announcement post</a> on the official BlogDroid blog. If you&#8217;re a BlogDroid customer, I&#8217;d love to hear about your experience with the service in the comments.</p>
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<p><a href="http://i2.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/PostFormatMigration.jpg" rel="thumbnail"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7522" alt="Post Format Migration" src="http://i2.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/PostFormatMigration.jpg?resize=298%2C150" /></a>For the vast majority of users, this entire process should be of no concern to you.</p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:52:"WPTavern: Where Are They Now? – Leland Of ThemeLab";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"http://www.wptavern.com/?p=7473";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:99:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WordpressTavern/~3/vAbBBlK39ZY/where-are-they-now-leland-of-themelab";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:10244:"<p><strong>Tell us who you are and what it is you&#8217;re doing these days.</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://i0.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/themelablogo.png" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3108" alt="themelablogo" src="http://i0.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/themelablogo.png?resize=200%2C102" /></a>My name is Leland Fiegel. Some of you WordPress old timers might know me from my site called <a title="http://www.themelab.com" href="http://www.themelab.com">Theme Lab</a> where I used to release a lot of free WordPress themes, along with tutorials on how to do WordPress and CSS stuff, among other things. Unfortunately do to time constraints while being a full-time college student for the past three years, I didn’t really have time to update it much.</p>
<p>The site still pays for itself (and more) through affiliate and direct ad sales, and still has (surprisingly) pretty steady search engine traffic to a lot of the old tutorials and themes still up on the site. I still get a few thousand daily visitors, and have no plans to take down the site any time soon.</p>
<p>I just graduated college this year (May 2013, which is a little more than a month ago at the time of this posting) and was hired to be a WordPress developer for a local DC company called <a title="http://socialdriver.com/" href="http://socialdriver.com/">Social Driver</a> where I&#8217;m now working full-time as a developer, mostly doing WordPress stuff. The work I’ve done with Theme Lab definitely played a huge role in my ultimate hiring there.</p>
<p>It’s a really laid-back work environment, and I have the opportunity to work on a lot of bigger WordPress projects I probably wouldn’t have had the opportunity to as a lone freelancer. Let’s face it, large organizations would rather pay a premium and hire a proven firm over a one-man shop, which is how I was previously operating. Now I work in a team which features a full-time designer, project manager, and another developer. I’ve only been working there a few weeks, but so far it has been a great experience.</p>
<p><strong>Why did you decide to join the WPTavern forum in 2009?</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://i1.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/LelandJoinsTheTavern.jpg" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-7513" alt="Leland Joins The Tavern" src="http://i1.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/LelandJoinsTheTavern.jpg?resize=224%2C119" /></a>Back in 2009, WPTavern was just the place to be for active WordPress community members. When I say &#8220;<strong>active community members</strong>,&#8221; I mean the people who were on Twitter all day, IRC all day, interacting with each other all day. The people who lived and breathed WordPress, were people seemed to be active members at WPTavern as well.</p>
<p>The only “<strong>competing</strong>” forum at the time was the WordPress.org support forum, which mainly composed of support requests from the millions of WordPress users around the world. There wasn’t so much discussion about business (and other WordPress-related, but non-support stuff) like there was on WPTavern. Basically, it cut out a lot of the noise.</p>
<p><strong>How did the WPTavern community help you progress with WordPress in the past 4 years?</strong></p>
<p>The amazing thing about the WPTavern community, as well as the greater WordPress community as a whole, is its diversity. It’s an international phenomenon (just take a look at some of the WordCamp locations around the world) comprising of many different people with many different skillsets. There are the developers, the designers, the writers, the marketers, the social media “gurus“ (as much as I hate that word, some people know what they‘re doing), and the entrepreneurs. WordPress brings all that together.</p>
<p>The WPTavern community, as well as the greater WordPress community as a whole, has helped myself progress with not just WordPress, but development techniques, content writing, entrepreneurship, social media strategy, and the list goes on. It&#8217;s a truly awesome community with a lot of passion, and I’m glad to be a part of it.</p>
<p><strong>What was the idea and motivation behind the Theme Lab website?</strong></p>
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<p>First of all, I just wanted to point out that it’s been <strong>6 years</strong> since I started Theme Lab. It’s been a while. Before that, I was really into buying and selling domain names along with basic web development. It was from there that I discovered WordPress, and it all progressed from there.</p>
<p>When developing my domain names, I tried out countless CMS&#8217;s (for those familiar with Fantastico, I tried pretty much everything in there) like Mambo (which was later forked into Joomla), Xoops, PHPNuke, just to name a few. Nothing quite stuck like WordPress did.</p>
<p>On top of its ease of use, what really hooked me in was the (previously described) community surrounding it. Pretty much any problem I had, I could find a solution with a simple Google search. It could’ve been a tutorial, WordPress.org support forum thread, or just a plugin with the functionality I was looking for. I could do pretty much anything I wanted to with it by just hacking up my theme.</p>
<p>Through this continuous theme hacking, I started to get pretty good at actually developing themes. I realized you could turn pretty much any type of template into a WordPress theme by just plugging in WordPress template tags in certain places, along with basic understanding of theming concepts (like the Loop, widgetization, etc.).</p>
<p>So I decided to start a WordPress theme site with the idea of releasing WordPress themes to the public. I did an available domain search for “theme” keywords, and found that themelab.com had recently dropped. I liked the sound of it, so I went with it.</p>
<p>This was a time when the theme industry was in its relative infancy. Just to put it in perspective, this was when the RevolutionTheme was one of the few commercial themes available, and the vast majority of themes were free.</p>
<p>Keep in mind I was a high school student at the time, and didn&#8217;t really have any idea of the massive potential of the theme industry at the time. I know it&#8217;s hard to imagine now, but I doubt many other people did at the time either. Within the next couple years it just exploded. People really liked free WordPress themes.</p>
<p><strong>What was it like to attend your first WordCamp?</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://i2.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/WPDCMeetup.jpg" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-7515" alt="WordPress DC Meetup" src="http://i2.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/WPDCMeetup.jpg?resize=192%2C253" /></a>Well to answer that question, I’d like to direct readers to a <a title="http://www.wptavern.com/leland-tells-us-whats-cooking-in-the-themelab" href="http://www.wptavern.com/leland-tells-us-whats-cooking-in-the-themelab">previous WPTavern post published in May of 2010</a> when you video interviewed me at WordCamp Raleigh.</p>
<p>“Nervous but excited” pretty much sums it up. To be able to meet in person some of the people I interacted with on Twitter was great.</p>
<p>Since then I attended the following year’s WordCamp Raleigh, and have since been on a WordCamp drought. Hopefully I’ll have an opportunity to attend some nearby WordCamps in the future.</p>
<p>Although not technically a WordCamp, I do enjoy the monthly <a title="http://www.meetup.com/wordpressdc/" href="http://www.meetup.com/wordpressdc/">WordPress DC meetups</a> to network with some of the local members of the WordPress community.</p>
<p><strong>Any pet peeves you still have regarding WordPress Themes?</strong></p>
<p>Let’s see, where do I begin…</p>
<p>Chill on the theme options. And stop making the UI’s clash so much. Use theme options only when you absolutely need them, and if you do, make them blend in. I think Devin Price’s <a title="http://wordpress.org/plugins/options-framework/" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/options-framework/">Options Framework</a> does a good job of this.</p>
<p>Chill with the “SEO,” and stop replicating every single option that free plugins (like Yoast’s WordPress SEO) already do. Data like that should be stored in a plugin anyway.</p>
<p>Speaking of data that should be stored in plugins:<em> chill with the shortcodes, chill with the custom post types, and chill with the custom taxonomies built directly into the theme’s functions.php file</em>. It makes it a huge pain when the user wants to switch themes. Contrary to popular belief, users may not want to use the same theme forever.</p>
<p>Finally, the biggest pet peeve of all is that all my previously mentioned pet peeves are perpetuated by demand in the commercial WordPress theme market. Just take a look at the top sellers of any of the popular theme marketplaces. Their themes almost always include &#8220;features&#8221; such as SEO optimization, tons of shortcodes, etc. But those themes have sold thousands of times over. Clearly, it&#8217;s what the people want. Can&#8217;t really blame those theme authors too much for supplying the demand.&#8221;</p>
<p>Also, sliders suck.</p>
<p><strong>Is there anything you’d like to say to the general WordPress Community?</strong></p>
<p>Hopefully people don’t get the wrong idea from my theme rant. Being a theme developer myself, I’m a little biased, and I hate to see bad development practices perpetuated.</p>
<p>I love the WordPress community as a whole. I don’t think anyone could’ve imagined 10 years ago how much the community has grown today. I’m just looking forward to see what happens in the next 10.</p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:41:"WPTavern: The Daily Plugin for 06-25-2013";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"http://www.wptavern.com/?p=7476";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:93:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WordpressTavern/~3/v-Mc5fDf1PQ/the-daily-plugin-for-06-25-2013";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:8755:"<p>Once again we scoop our hands into the repository in hopes of pulling out a few pearls. Today we have some very interesting new plugins that are worth checking out. As always, install these on a test site first before going live. These do not represent endorsements or ratings, but are just a sampling of new plugins as they are released. Disclaimer out-of-the-way.. Let&#8217;s get plugged in!</p>
<p><a title="WP Testimonials Manager" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-testimonials-manager/" target="_blank">Testimonials Manager</a> is a newly released plugin from <a title="Dinesh Karki WordPress Profile" href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/dnesscarkey/" target="_blank">Dinesh Karki</a> and Gobala Krishnan that provides an easy way to add testimonials to your WordPress site. While most of the similar testimonial plugins out there have some of the same functionality, this particular plugin is nice because it allows you the option to use Gravatar images, custom uploaded images or simply no image of the person listed next to the testimonial. <a title="WP Testimonials Manager" href="http://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/plugins/wp-testimonials-manager/screenshot-2.jpg" rel="thumbnail"><img class="   alignright" title="Testimonials Manager" alt="Adding new testimonials is easy with simple form fields combined with a full featured editor." src="http://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/plugins/wp-testimonials-manager/screenshot-2.jpg?resize=309%2C240" /></a>It provides additional space for name, web site and a full editor to create the testimonial chock full of other short codes. Custom CSS is allowed as well, which a lot of the other Testimonial plugins lack. The testimonials display in both the content area and as a sidebar widget, so the versatility is nice to have. Because there is a full featured editor, I tried it with inserting a YouTube video inside the testimonial block. It worked great when within the traditional content area, but not advised as a video testimonial widget unless you plan to display your video as a lightbox overlay that plays full size similar to what image galleries do. (See <a title="Thickbox Content" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/thickbox-content/" target="_blank">Thickbox Content</a>) Obviously there are plenty of other in-post or widget based methods of creating testimonials through custom post types, but this plugin provides a great solution for those who don&#8217;t want to touch a speck of code and still have a good-looking site result.</p>
<p><a title="Bitcoin Payments WordPress Plugin" href="http://i1.wp.com/s-plugins.wordpress.org/bitcoin-payments/assets/screenshot-4.png" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignright" alt="Bitcoin Payments Example Demo" src="http://i1.wp.com/s-plugins.wordpress.org/bitcoin-payments/assets/screenshot-4.png?resize=248%2C144" /></a><a title="Bitcoin Payments WordPress Plugin" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/bitcoin-payments/" target="_blank">BitCoin Payments</a> from <a title="Wordpress Profile - Jandal" href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/jandal/" target="_blank">Jandal</a> allows you to accept donations via <a title="BitCoin" href="http://bitcoin.org" target="_blank">BitCoin</a>. This is not to be considered an e-commerce or shopping cart system as that functionality has not yet been implemented. Your Bitcoin address is displayed on your site via text or QR code. You can even set up multiple Bitcoin addresses in order to track which content or landing page brings the highest donation conversion rates. Display options include widget and shortcode applications.</p>
<p><a title="Nonprofit Board Management WordPress Plugin" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/nonprofit-board-management/" target="_blank">Nonprofit Board Management</a> helps you to keep track of board members and meetings for nonprofit organizations or similar groups. Developed by <a title="WiredImpact WordPress Profile" href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/wiredimpact/" target="_blank">WiredImpact</a>, this tool allows you to transform your WordPress installation into a complete collaboration system for board-related activities. From committees and sub-committees to board member profiles and event invitations, this system is designed to manage your teams, volunteers and staff with email collaboration. The core plugin is free and functions with everything mentioned, but there are also two paid add-ons that allow for Attendance Tracking ($11) and Automatic Event Reminders and Email RSVP ($17). All in all, this packs a pretty powerful punch and is ideal for any WordPress designers out there who have clients that could benefit from such functionality and ease of use.</p>
<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a video demonstration on how Nonprofit Board Management  is set up:<br />
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<p><a title="WP Social Networks Widget" href="http://i0.wp.com/wordpress.org/plugins/wp-social-networks-widget/screenshot-3.png" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignright" alt="WP Social Networks Plugin Example Rendered Sidebar" src="http://i0.wp.com/wordpress.org/plugins/wp-social-networks-widget/screenshot-3.png?resize=130%2C204" /></a><a title="WP Social Networks Widget" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-social-networks-widget/screenshot-3.png" target="_blank">WP Social Networks Widget</a> is similar to other plugins out there that will display icons to your social networking homes like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. However this plugin is a bit different in how it displays the social icons themselves. Bypassing the traditional method of using bitmap image logos or favicons of each service, this plugin uses an internal customized font representation of each logo. This not only allows for a much higher Retina-friendly resolution, but also allows you to adjust the CSS colors of the logo font to match the color scheme of your web site perfectly. Display options include both horizontal and vertical, with or without labels next to the icons. As much as I&#8217;ve struggled to edit social logos to match a web site in the past, this particular plugin incarnation opens up some design possibilities that previously required some serious CSS and Photoshop manipulation to achieve a consistent look and feel of the design elements.</p>
<p><a title="JSJ Gallery Slideshow Plugin Screenshot Example" href="http://i1.wp.com/s-plugins.wordpress.org/jsj-gallery-slideshow/assets/screenshot-1.png" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignright" alt="JSJ Gallery Slideshow" src="http://i1.wp.com/s-plugins.wordpress.org/jsj-gallery-slideshow/assets/screenshot-1.png?resize=214%2C192" /></a><a title="JSJ Gallery Slideshow Plugin" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/jsj-gallery-slideshow/" target="_blank">JSJ Gallery Slideshow</a> by <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/jorgesilva-1/">Jorge Silva-Jetter</a> provides an alternative to the core image gallery functions of WordPress. JSJ substitutes the off-the-rack gallery with a jQuery gallery that&#8217;s feature packed with transitions and fades. Full timing options can be adjusted to allow for either smooth or fast transition between images. The best part of the plugin is that it&#8217;s retro-active with your current galleries. If you already have existing WordPress galleries in your site, this will transform them to the new style without having to change a single line of code. I like this plugin for those instances where a highly animated presentation is required in a site design. It isn&#8217;t hard to implement and the results look quite appealing. Worth investigating further if you want a dynamic way to spice up your existing site galleries with a more dramatic flair.</p>
<h2>The Wrap Up:</h2>
<p>If you happen to be a WordPress designer for a socially active non-profit that accepts BitCoin donations and wants a fancy gallery on their site, you just hit the WordPress lottery in one post my friend. But for the rest of us the search will continue tomorrow as we scour the <a title="Wordpress Plugin Repository" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/" target="_blank">WordPress Plugin Repository</a> for the perfect plugin of the moment. Feel free to say hello on Twitter <a title="Marcus Couch on Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/marcuscouch" target="_blank">@marcuscouch.</a> Also be sure to subscribe to <a title="Wordpress Plugins A-Z Podcast" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wordpress-plug-ins-from-a-to-z/id417310569" target="_blank">WordPress Plugins A-Z</a>, the weekly podcast that I&#8217;ve co-hosted with John Overall for nearly two years. If you enjoy my feedback here, you&#8217;ll probably benefit in hearing us talk about plugins every week via audio as well. Hasta Mañana!</p>
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<p>Last Friday, I took some time out my day to watch <a title="http://toni.org/" href="http://toni.org/">Toni Schneider</a>, CEO Of <a title="http://automattic.com/" href="http://automattic.com/">Automattic</a> give a presentation on working as a distributed company. His talk was part of a series called <a title="http://www.creativelive.com/courses/secrets-silicon-valley" href="http://www.creativelive.com/courses/secrets-silicon-valley">Secrets Of Silicon Valley</a> presented by <a title="http://www.creativelive.com/" href="http://www.creativelive.com/">CreativeLive</a>. Unfortunately, I can&#8217;t embed Toni&#8217;s presentation because it&#8217;s now part of the $199 package to buy the entire video series. However, while watching his presentation, I wrote down a bunch of notes. </p>
<p>Keep in mind that the main topic of the presentation was operating a company that had a 100% distributed workforce. The benefits, downfalls and whether this would be a good fit for other companies. If you have any questions regarding these notes, post them in the comments. I&#8217;ll try and get Toni Schneider to answer them.</p>
<h2>General Overview Of Automattic:</h2>
<p>Lots of Automattic employees within 7-9 months tell Toni that they can&#8217;t imagine going back to a regular job.</p>
<p>Automattic has been 100% distributed since day 1.</p>
<p>180 people, 28 countries, 138 cities make up the Automattic workforce.</p>
<p>Interesting point about people working from home. The assumption is that people would goof off. But Toni mentions how they have the opposite problem of people working too much.</p>
<p>Being distributed saves some money, but not a ton. Thanks to traveling expenses, etc.</p>
<p>Being distributed gives you a global pool of people to tap into. Less of a chance of running into scarcity of qualified workers.</p>
<p>Flexibility is one of the best reasons to have a distributed work force. Working when you want, how you want, makes work fun.</p>
<p>Not having a central office where everyone works in cuts down on office drama. Lack of office politics.</p>
<p>Distributed workforce helps flatten the company hierarchy.</p>
<h2>Hiring:</h2>
<p>Be exceptionally clear with people on what it means to be a remote worker. Being in a distributed environment. Explaining the company culture.</p>
<p>The more public information the company puts out there on what it means to work for the company, expectations, what it&#8217;s like and knowing what the core mission is, helps pre-select employees or allows themselves to be pre-selected.</p>
<p>Thanks to the <a title="http://ma.tt/2011/09/automattic-creed/" href="http://ma.tt/2011/09/automattic-creed/">Automattic creed</a>, it&#8217;s helped be upfront with expectations of what people will be doing as being part of the company. The creed acts as a formal commitment towards the company culture.</p>
<p>Main mode of communication is text between Skype and P2 blogs.</p>
<p>Employees are usually hired on a contractual basis to build something which gives both parties a period of time to understand whether it really would be a good fit for the worker and the company.</p>
<p>Automattic has an open vacation/holiday policy. When operating under a global umbrella, having a no vacation policy gets around expectations and the fact that holidays are different around the world. It also shows that the company trusts the employees to get their work done.</p>
<h2>How To Break In A New Employee:</h2>
<p>Usually the first few days of the job are weird. It&#8217;s multiplied when you have a computer job at work but then have a computer job at home.</p>
<p>Automattic developed a 3 week support rotation to help ease in employees to get accustomed to working remotely. This support rotation helps new employees to meet established employees immediately, also gets them familiar with the communication methods. It also provides the opportunity to see what their customers are dealing with, to see what their problems are that they&#8217;ll be helping to solve.</p>
<p>In general, people come out loving their three-week support rotation.</p>
<p>Intro videos and giving new employees mentors.</p>
<p>Providing a field guide which acts as an employee hand book. Doesn&#8217;t have to be 100% serious such as a section devoted to company trivia.</p>
<p>General rule of thumb at the beginning. If you&#8217;re going to email someone and it&#8217;s not private or personal, post it to the team blog. This helps keep everything in the open, aids in transparency, and people across the team can be on the same page.</p>
<p>Internally, P2 will be called O2 and they are working on a new version. Not sure what the new public version will be called.</p>
<p>Modes of communication<br />
Email -&gt; <strong>P2</strong><br />
Hallway -&gt;<strong> IRC</strong><br />
Meetings -&gt;<strong> Google Hangouts</strong><br />
One on one -&gt; <strong>Skype.</strong></p>
<h2>People Organization:</h2>
<p>Automattic as a company is formed into teams made up of 6-8 people. When more people join the team, it&#8217;s split up. Good example is cell division.</p>
<p>Teams are designed to be self-sufficient where they can build something and launch it without the need for approval from the top.</p>
<p>Takes 30 seconds to launch code to production servers.</p>
<p>Each team has one lead which helps keep everyone in synch. The team concept is fluid where the team lead as well as team members change based on assignments and interests.</p>
<p>This helps give a co-working environment so it doesn&#8217;t feel like you&#8217;re at home, by yourself, you&#8217;re working with others.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s important to have employees feel connected. Each one knowing what&#8217;s going on across other teams and company wide.</p>
<p>Very little in the way of middle management. This helps move things quickly and puts the emphasis on individuals contributions.</p>
<p>Managers primary role is to remove friction for team members to help get their job/project done.</p>
<p>MySQL was a company that Automattic modeled themselves after early on in terms of working remotely.</p>
<p>Toni believes a big part of the reason why a distributed model has worked so well for Automattic is because they started that way and have gone out of the way to remain 100% distributed but he also noted, that companies that started out distributed have failed as have companies that have a partial distributed workforce.</p>
<h2>Biggest Downside Of This Model &#8211; Loneliness:</h2>
<p>Working remotely gets lonely.</p>
<p>Automattic recommends that teams get together a few times a year, to provide social time.</p>
<p>Automattic has at least 1 company meet up a year which brings everyone together.</p>
<p>These yearly meet ups include assigning a small team a small project where at the end of the week, the project goes live.</p>
<p>Flash talks. Everyone in the company has to get up and talk for about 4-5 minutes about whatever it is they want.</p>
<p>The company meet up feels more like a family reunion versus a casual meet up.</p>
<p>Automattic encourages employees to go to conferences/WordCamps together as teams either to present a talk or to hang out and talk to people.</p>
<h2>Work Styles:</h2>
<p>Automattic loves to support their employees by supporting their work styles whether it&#8217;s a home office, a co-working space, a lounge or events.</p>
<p>The lounge offers Automattic an opportunity to provide a place to work, hold as many meet ups/meetings as possible and shows certain people that they have an office.</p>
<p>The number one thing employees say they love most about working for Automattic is the flexibility.</p>
<h2>Books About Working Remotely:</h2>
<p><a title="http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Without-Pants-WordPress-com/dp/1118660633/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372109530&sr=8-1&keywords=the+year+without+pants" href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Without-Pants-WordPress-com/dp/1118660633/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372109530&sr=8-1&keywords=the+year+without+pants">The year without pants</a><br />
<a title="http://www.amazon.com/Remote-Office-Required-Jason-Fried/dp/0804137501/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372109619&sr=8-1&keywords=Remote+book" href="http://www.amazon.com/Remote-Office-Required-Jason-Fried/dp/0804137501/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372109619&sr=8-1&keywords=Remote+book">Remote</a><br />
<a title="http://www.amazon.com/Work-Shift-Create-Better-ebook/dp/B0097X0F4W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372109664&sr=8-1&keywords=WorkShift" href="http://www.amazon.com/Work-Shift-Create-Better-ebook/dp/B0097X0F4W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372109664&sr=8-1&keywords=WorkShift">WorkShift</a><br />
<a title="http://www.amazon.com/The-Future-Work-Organization-Management/dp/1591391253/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1372109717&sr=8-3&keywords=New+Business+Order" href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Future-Work-Organization-Management/dp/1591391253/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1372109717&sr=8-3&keywords=New+Business+Order">New Business Order</a></p>
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<p><strong><a title="Wordpress Plugin - Inline Preview" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/inline-preview/" target="_blank">Inline Preview</a></strong> is an intriguing plugin developed by <a title="Christopher Finke - WordPress Profile" href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/cfinke/" target="_blank">Christopher Finke</a> that places a preview window next to the editor rather than opening a new tab to view your post. I really like this feature a lot. It also features an &#8220;auto-update&#8221; cycle in which you can continually see a nearly real-time preview of your work as you create it. I see plugins like this continuing to enhance the writing experience of the WordPress editor. It really helps to keep the writing flow going without the distraction of losing post preview tabs among the 20 or so you probably have open at the time.</p>
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<p><strong><a title="Featured Image Via URL" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image-via-url/" target="_blank">Featured Image via URL</a></strong> takes the normal hassle of uploading and selecting a Featured Image and allows you to instead insert the URL of an image to be used as the Featured Image. The image will be grabbed and saved into the Media Library with all supported sizes included. If the featured image is already in the Media Library, the plugin retains the old image and does not import from the URL.</p>
<p><strong><a title="Easy Author Image" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-author-image/" target="_blank">Easy Author Image</a></strong> allows you to upload an author image in your User Profile, which is a good alternative to Gravatar. There are occasions in which I run project sites and would rather use a logo or alternative picture to my Gravatar default image. This plugin just might provide the options that would provide such functionality.</p>
<p><strong><a title="Ping List Pro" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/ping-list-pro/" target="_blank">Ping List Pro</a></strong> provides an alternative to the standard pingomatic ping set. Ping List Pro updates the ping list automatically an a daily basis.</p>
<p><strong><a title="WP Awesome FAQ - Screenshot of User Output" href="http://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/plugins/wp-awesome-faq/screenshot-2.png" target="_blank" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignright" alt="WP Awesome FAQ Screenshot - Sample Output" src="http://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/plugins/wp-awesome-faq/screenshot-2.png?resize=163%2C144" /></a><a title="WP Awesome FAQ" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-awesome-faq/" target="_blank">WP Awesome FAQ</a></strong> is a simple integrated FAQ system that presents an accordion style questions and answers dropdown for each question as it is clicked. This plugin is JQuery UI based. To insert into your page or post, simply insert the <strong>[faq]</strong> shortcode and the plugin will insert all the questions and answers that you have set up on the back end.</p>
<p><strong><a title="Plenty of Perishable Passwords for Protected Posts" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/p5/" target="_blank">p5 : Plenty of Perishable Passwords for Protected Posts</a></strong> lets the author assign multiple disposable passwords for an individual post, page or custom post type. Passwords can also have the option of an expiration. This is something that I will personally test out with some project sites where I would like to show off landing pages or specialized design templates within a content area of my main site. It could also be used for limited time offers that expire with the page content including a video and lead capture form. No matter what your usage or application would be, this seems like an interesting plugin to try if you need multiple people to view a private password protected content item.</p>
<h2>Conclusion:</h2>
<p>Join us again tomorrow as we dig into the freshest plugins from the <a title="http://wordpress.org/plugins/" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/">WordPress Plugin Repository</a>. Please feel free to provide your feedback on the plugins listed here. Feel free to say hello on Twitter <a title="Marcus Couch on Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/marcuscouch" target="_blank">@marcuscouch</a> and let me know what kind of plugin you are on the lookout for. If I find it throughout my daily plugin adventures, I&#8217;ll let you know! I&#8217;ll also be featuring several in-depth plugin reviews every week in addition to the daily plugin updates. Glad to be serving you here at the Tavern!</p>
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<p>Last but not least, some information geared towards everyone.</p>
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<li>Disallow contributors from improperly publishing posts, reported by <a href="http://kovshenin.com/">Konstantin Kovshenin</a>, or reassigning the post&#8217;s authorship, reported by <a href="http://www.sharefaith.com/">Luke Bryan</a>.</li>
<li>An update to the SWFUpload external library to fix cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. Reported by <a href="http://ma.la">mala</a> and <a href="http://mars.iti.pk.edu.pl/~grucha/">Szymon Gruszecki</a>. (Developers: More on SWFUpload <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/06/21/secure-swfupload/">here</a>.)</li>
<li>Prevention of a denial of service attack, affecting sites using password-protected posts.</li>
<li>An update to an external TinyMCE library to fix a cross-site scripting vulnerability. Reported by <a href="http://twitter.com/rinakikun">Wan Ikram</a>.</li>
<li>Multiple fixes for cross-site scripting. Reported by <a href="http://webapplicationsecurity.altervista.org/">Andrea Santese</a> and Rodrigo.</li>
<li>Avoid disclosing a full file path when a upload fails. Reported by <a href="http://hauntit.blogspot.de/">Jakub Galczyk</a>.</li>
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<p>We appreciated <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Security">responsible disclosure</a> of these issues directly to our security team. For more information on the changes, see the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.2">release notes</a> or consult <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/log/branches/3.5?rev=24498&stop_rev=23347">the list of changes</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.5.2.zip">Download WordPress 3.5.2</a> or update now from the Dashboard → Updates menu in your site’s admin area.</p>
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<p>If you&#8217;re a woman and looking for a tech oriented job, it looks like Automattic may be the <a title="http://automattic.com/work-with-us/" href="http://automattic.com/work-with-us/">perfect place to work</a>. According to a <a title="http://www.women2.com/how-automattic-empowers-women-a-culture-that-neutralizes-gender/" href="http://www.women2.com/how-automattic-empowers-women-a-culture-that-neutralizes-gender/">recent article published by Women 2.0 </a> the distributed nature as well as the entire company culture is about empowering people regardless of their gender. One of the beautiful things about Automattic is the communication factor. One would think that not having a central office where everyone that is apart of the company works out of would be a hindrance to communication. In this instance, it&#8217;s actually the opposite. The team uses over 160 different P2 blogs that are organized by function, teams, and projects. This has at times lead to over communication, if that&#8217;s possible. Those P2 sites are accessible to everyone within the company which produces a window of transparency. You don&#8217;t have to worry about back-room deals or meetings where a sub-section of workers don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">With fewer barriers to expressing themselves and being heard, Automatticians don’t have to wait for formal meetings or write out memos. “Recently there was a very long internal thread about finding great female job candidates and what we can do as a company to encourage this, or if it’s even a problem,” Rosso recounts. Rather than having a limp exchange about women in tech within the HR department, the question turned into a real dialogue throughout the company.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Although not written by a female, I&#8217;m looking forward to reading a new book by Scott Berkun titled <a title="http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Without-Pants-WordPress-com/dp/1118660633" href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Without-Pants-WordPress-com/dp/1118660633">The Year Without Pants</a> slated for release on September 10th, 2013 which chronicles how Automattic works as a company from an insider&#8217;s view and what lessons other companies can learn from them.</p>
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<p>If we rewind the clocks back to July of 2010, a portion of the WordPress community was in the midst of <a href="http://themesforge.com/theme-news/thesis-gets-hacked-and-the-coming-thesis-vs-automattic-battle/" title="http://themesforge.com/theme-news/thesis-gets-hacked-and-the-coming-thesis-vs-automattic-battle/">one of the largest GPL debates</a> in the history of WordPress between Matt Mullenweg and Chris Pearson. On July 20th, 2010 Matt Cutts <a href="http://wp-community.org/2010/07/20/google-matt-cutts-wordpress/" title="http://wp-community.org/2010/07/20/google-matt-cutts-wordpress/">appeared on the WordPress Podcast</a> where he first mentioned the possibility of switching from Thesis to the default theme in WordPress but the switch was more a case of WordPress improving to the point of not needing Thesis versus whether it was violating the GPL or not. </p>
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<blockquote><p>Thesis is such a popular theme that even Matt Cutts from Google uses it. You couldn&#8217;t ask for a better endorsement!</p></blockquote>
<p>Well, that endorsement is now gone. Considering Matt was going to switch themes in 2010 because of the increase in features in WordPress and not because it had anything to do with the GPL leads me to believe that this most recent move didn&#8217;t have much to do with the license either. In fact, all of the SEO work that&#8217;s gone into the Genesis Theme Framework recently has probably perked Matt&#8217;s interest. This is speculative of course. </p>
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<p>If posts are the life blood of a successful blog, then comments are probably the heart as they encourage the author and provide a discussion mechanism around a story*. The problem is that blogs can be seen as an island in the ocean surrounded by social media continents such as Google Plus and Facebook. The islands may not get much attention. </p>
<p>That&#8217;s where the plugin <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/gplus-comments/">Google+ Comments for WordPress</a> comes in. It&#8217;s simple to install and adds a tabbed comment interface at the end of each post where visitors can comment using their identities on their favourite social media site. </p>
<p>I left a Google Plus comment on a previous post and allowed it to be shared on Google Plus. I got a few replies on that post which also appeared on my blogh. I wouldn&#8217;t go sharing every comment you make from your blog. Spamming is spamming, whatever way you do it.</p>
<p>* On Youtube of course it&#8217;s usually the reverse. Never read the comments on a popular Youtube video. It&#8217;ll hurt your brain.</p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:39:"WPTavern: Bad Attitudes Are Not Welcome";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"http://www.wptavern.com/?p=7400";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:91:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WordpressTavern/~3/AMAdlbHWtO8/bad-attitudes-are-not-welcome";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:3585:"<p>Tom McFarlin of 8Bit has written a piece entitled <a href="http://wpdaily.co/attitude-adjustment/" title="http://wpdaily.co/attitude-adjustment/">The WordPress Community Needs an Attitude Adjustment</a> and while I agree with the overall point of needing to just be nicer to each other, his post generates a lot of different thoughts and emotions inside of me. </p>
<p>On the one hand, I read Tom&#8217;s post and come away thinking that everyone should just shut up and stare at the sign that says <strong>Patches Welcome</strong> which at times, appears to be the answer to any form of criticism or discussion about WordPress. On the other, I see the point of being more civil towards one another when disagreements or engagement occurs. This thing we call the WordPress community does an excellent job of policing itself but a quick Google search shows that at times, we certainly eat our own for lunch. I can see how this public display of back and forth fighting could turn off a lot of people from contributing to WordPress much less be a part of that circle.</p>
<p>In Tom&#8217;s article, Jake Goldman of WordPress consulting firm <a href="http://10up.com/" title="http://10up.com/">10up</a> left this great comment:</p>
<blockquote><p>Any large, enthusiastic community is going to have louder, more opinionated voices, and softer “never offend” voices. And even those of us that generally strive to be loud only when the subject seems in need of broader discussion, sometimes err in how we communicate (I know I regret the way I framed a point about business and WordCamps that was, ironically, sensationalized here).</p>
<p>Follow any large audience – Android fans, UX groups, Joomla communities – and you’ll find the same characteristics. It’s a sign that we’re passionate, diverse, and engaging. And human!</p>
<p>No one would argue that calmer, more professional dialog is a bad thing. IMHO, lets just remember its not uniquely endemic to WordPress, and try to embrace, not shun, the more opinionated among us.</p></blockquote>
<p>WPTavern has played host to several important discussions surrounding WordPress over the years and I can&#8217;t count the number of times I saw core WordPress developers shrug people and their concerns off as &#8216;<em>big deal</em>&#8216;. It&#8217;s infuriating to be passionate about WordPress, raise a valid concern and instead of those close to the heart of WordPress taking an active stance and being part of the conversation, they insist on shrugging people and the conversation off. I would like to formally recognize Mark Jaquith as <strong>NOT</strong> being one of those people. Mark has often  participated in these discussions offering rational, level-headed approaches to our discussions and sometimes, validating our concerns while providing us direction on how to solve them. As far as I&#8217;m concerned, he&#8217;s a role model for those at the top on how to deal with issues that are raised by members of the community.</p>
<p>Ultimately, the WordPress eco-system is better off by eliminating unnecessary insults, threats, public displays of bashing, and being the crudest of human beings. There&#8217;s no room in the community for that crap. It doesn&#8217;t mean that we&#8217;re forced to sit around a campfire and be happy WordPress hippies signing kumbaya. It just means we can have meaningful dialogue among each other to generate forward progress without having to take part in all the above. </p>
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<p>With the impending shutdown of Google Reader on July 1st, I&#8217;ve been looking for Feedreader alternatives. I happened to stumble across a recently developed plugin called <a title="https://github.com/PressForward/pressforward" href="https://github.com/PressForward/pressforward">PressForward</a>. Developed for the <a href="http://chnm.gmu.edu" target="_blank">Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media</a> at <a href="http://gmu.edu" target="_blank">George Mason University</a> by <a href="http://aramzs.me" target="_blank">Aram Zucker-Scharff</a>, <a href="http://boone.gorg.es/" target="_blank">Boone B. Gorges</a>, and <a href="http://clioweb.org" target="_blank">Jeremy Boggs</a>, PressForward provides not only a set of curation tools for authors, but a simple feedreader as well. The plugin is in beta form and it&#8217;s obvious once you start using it but here is my experience with it thus far.</p>
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<p>My main interest was determining whether PressForward could work as my primary feedreader with the added benefit of being within the back-end of WordPress. After experimenting with it for the better part of the day, I&#8217;ve determined that it&#8217;s not something that fulfills my needs. For starters, there is no way to browse feeds by folder/site, it&#8217;s all or nothing. Adding feeds is another matter. It&#8217;s not as simple as clicking an RSS feed button and adding the site to the back-end of WordPress. Instead, you&#8217;ll need to link to a OPML file or provide the URL of a single feed. In the future, it would be beneficial to have the ability to upload an OPML file instead.</p>
<h2>What And Who This Plugin Is Really Meant For:</h2>
<p>The ideas behind this plugin start to shine when you consider its feature set mixed with a multi-author website. Say we have a website with 7 authors dedicated to all things WordPress. All 7 authors can use the feedreader in PressForward to curate content from those feeds and then nominate their content to be published to the front page. When a piece of content is nominated, it goes under review and from here, authors can automatically create a draft post from the nominated content.</p>
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<p>It&#8217;s not just the administrators that can curate content. PressForward has drop-down menus that control the permission levels for specific sections of the plugin. I could see this becoming handy for someone that wanted to create a crowd-sourcing site dedicated to a specific topic.</p>
<p><a href="http://i0.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Pressforward4.jpg" rel="thumbnail"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7379" alt="PressForward Permission Settings" src="http://i0.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Pressforward4.jpg?resize=337%2C306" /></a></p>
<p>One of the other neat aspects is the built-in commenting system. Each article can be commented on which aids in collaborating on the story. Those comments are not accessible to the public.</p>
<h2>Conclusion:</h2>
<p>PressForward is not a good recommendation for single site authors looking to replace their desktop or service based feedreaders with something that exists within WordPress. However, this is definitely a plugin to keep your eyes on if you&#8217;re the owner of a multi-authored website that covers specific topics and would like an easier way to collaborate with others on different stories.</p>
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<p>The last thing I want to do is be a hindrance on the core developers of WordPress and ask a silly question like, &#8220;<em>When will so and so be released</em>&#8221; especially if the answer to that question is already answered on the <a title="http://make.wordpress.org/core/" href="http://make.wordpress.org/core/">make.core.wordpress</a> site but in this instance, it wasn&#8217;t and it&#8217;s been two weeks since the public has had any news on what is going on. At the same time, I&#8217;ve been reminded that if there are no updates on the Make.Core.WordPress site it&#8217;s because the developers are knee deep in code trying to get things fixed.</p>
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<p>A big thank you to everyone who reported issues, suggested features and submitted patches. If you&#8217;re interested in contributing, please <a href="https://github.com/crowdfavorite/wp-capsule/">join us on GitHub</a>.</p>
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<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m not sure that any one thing in particular pushed me over the edge. Being excited, happy and passionate about what I’m working on/with is very important to me, and I no longer feel any of those things when it comes to WordPress. Creating a simple WordPress theme (for example) has become a grueling task because there are certain expectations that you have to consider in order for the WordPress community to accept your work. </p>
<p>I still think WordPress is an amazing piece of software that has opened so many doors for so many people and that is something I will never forget&#8230; it’s just not something that interests me in its current state or direction. My focus is on creating simple/elegant solutions that actual people can use without having to spend weeks reading through tutorials or sifting through admin menus. Also, in order to continue to learn and grow as an entrepreneur I have to leave WordPress behind and find my own path.</p></blockquote>
<p>Then there is <a href="http://wiki.habariproject.org/en/Manual#Introduction" title="http://wiki.habariproject.org/en/Manual#Introduction">Habari</a>. Habari is another project created from the ground up from former WordPress developers/users. If you want to hear Matt&#8217;s thoughts on Habari at the time, I highly encourage you to <a href="http://wp-community.org/2007/01/18/episode-18-habari-wordpress-206-released-wordpress-21-enters-beta/" title="http://wp-community.org/2007/01/18/episode-18-habari-wordpress-206-released-wordpress-21-enters-beta/">listen to episode 18 of the original WordPress Podcast</a> from January 18th, 2007 starting at the 10:34 mark. Their news bit includes a quote from Matt with his thoughts on the release of Habari as well as open-source competitors. I wonder if his attitude on competitors is the same today as it was back then. </p>
<p>There are a handful of other publishing platforms available but the core point I want to draw attention to is that they all seem to focus around one thing. <strong>Simplicity</strong>. One of the major features of WordPress in its early years was in fact, simplicity. Now it seems as though that simplicity is disappearing and is ending up in entirely new codebases. There is no need to panic but it&#8217;s a trend worth taking note of. </p>
<p>I love the freedoms that WordPress provides but I&#8217;d hate to see people give up those freedoms to go behind a walled garden because WordPress is just too darn complex to use. A strong pillar of the WordPress ecosystem is its third-party community via plugins and themes. But this pillar can not exist as the foundation of WordPress, nor should it. The foundation should be the publishing software. If the third-party ecosystem becomes <em><strong>the only</strong></em> reason to use WordPress and I were a core developer, I&#8217;d be extremely disappointed. </p>
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<blockquote><p>The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. &#8212; Pablo Picasso</p></blockquote>
<p>My hope is that over the next few years, and perhaps beyond that, the lights brighten people&#8217;s experience of San Francisco whether they see them every night or they&#8217;re one of the 16 million that visit the city every year. Hopefully that effect, however small, spreads to their other interactions long after the lights are off and the sun comes up. There are countless good causes around the world, some which I support regularly <a href="http://ma.tt/about/">are listed on my about page</a>, and I hope to have the opportunity to support many more in the future, but this close-to-home gift to a city that has given me so much seemed like the right thing right now.</p>
<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen them yet, here are the lights in action, more on the <a href="http://thebaylights.org/celebrating-solutions/">tech fixes happening to the lights on TBL</a>, and <a href="http://ma.tt/2013/02/bay-bridge-cable-walk/">photos I took climbing the bridge a few months ago</a>:</p>
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<p>You can create a gallery straight from your device by attaching two or more pictures to a post or a page. You can even customize the appearance of a gallery by tapping the &#8220;gallery settings&#8221; button and choosing the best options for your site.</p>
<h3>Gallery Styles</h3>
<p>You have great control over how the gallery will be displayed: as a thumbnail grid, or as a slideshow. Both gallery types offer a lot of options to choose, not limited to: random order, page or file attachment.</p>
<p>Below is an example of an image gallery using the default thumbnail setting. If you click on any of the images you will be able to see what the carousel view looks like:</p>

<a href="http://wpwindowsphone.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/version-2-0/01-dashboard/" title="01-dashboard"><img /></a>
<a href="http://wpwindowsphone.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/version-2-0/02-write-screen/" title="02 - write screen"><img /></a>
<a href="http://wpwindowsphone.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/version-2-0/03-gallery-settings/" title="03- gallery settings"><img /></a>
<a href="http://wpwindowsphone.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/version-2-0/04-gellery-settings/" title="04 - gellery-settings"><img /></a>

<p><strong>Gallery as a slideshow</strong></p>
<a href="http://wpwindowsphone.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/version-2-2/#gallery-456-1-slideshow">Click to view slideshow.</a>
<h3></h3>
<h3><span>More improvements and bug fixes</span></h3>
<p>This release also includes improvements for WordPress.com  push notifications, as well as fixes for crashes and other bugs.</p>
<h3>Download</h3>
<p>Ready to get the latest? Click the link below to update the best WordPress app for Windows Phone so far.</p>
<p class="download"><a href="http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=5f64ad85-f801-e011-9264-00237de2db9e"><strong>Download App</strong>WordPress for Windows Phone</a><span class="download-info">Supported: WordPress.com or self-hosted WordPress (v. 2.9+)</span></p>
<h3>Contributors</h3>
<p>A huge thanks to the contributors that worked on this release: <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/profile/daniloercoli" target="_blank">daniloercoli</a>, and <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/profile/jkv1" target="_blank">jkv1</a>.</p>
<p>Would you like to get in on the fun? Let us know at <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/mobile" target="_blank">make/mobile on WordPress.org</a> and we&#8217;ll help you get started as a contributor.  Do you have an idea for a new feature or have you encountered a bug that needs fixing? Tell us about it on the <a title="Project Trac site" href="http://wpwindowsphone.wordpress.com/feed/windowsphone.trac.wordpress.org" target="_blank">WordPress for Windows Phone Trac</a>.</p>
<p>Make sure to follow <a href="https://twitter.com/wpwindowsphone" target="_blank">@WPWindowsPhone on Twitter</a> to get the latest news first.</p>
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<p><strong>WPDaily.co</strong> &#8211; This website is backed by 8Bit</p>
<p><strong>WPBeginner</strong> &#8211; They offer services such as consulting and custom WordPress designs.</p>
<p><strong>WPMU.org</strong> &#8211; This site is funded by a commercial plugins and themes</p>
<p><strong>WPRealm</strong> &#8211; All of the contributors are compensated outside of the content they produce on WPRealm. </p>
<p>Starting to notice a trend here?</p>
<p>All four of those websites publish WordPress news and related items on a routine basis but they&#8217;re also excellent examples of the primary point I made: <em>A news centric website takes so much time and energy to maintain and keep fresh, it’s not worth it in the long run unless you have a company backing you or an auxiliary source of cash that pays the bills and puts food on the table at the same time.</em></p>
<p>A number of people suggested I should have started a consulting section on WPTavern but that was something I was never interested in doing. I was and still am a content creation guy. I needed to figure out how to make the content I created pay for the bills while also getting to the point where the site was self-sustainable. I tried affiliate links for themes and plugins I reviewed, display advertising, sponsorships, nothing I tried was as consistent as a 40 hour work week. I did toy with the idea of putting up a paywall but I wanted as many people as possible to read what I had to say.</p>
<blockquote><p>I believe that there is space to make money providing WordPress news and information without selling out. I also think that this notion that there would be a void had Matt Mullenweg not bailed out the Tavern and funded Jeff to write there is totally false.</p>
<p>The WordPress ecosystem is a market like any other, and holes in markets tend to be filled. What fills a hole in a particular market may take different shape over time as the solutions evolve, but people are always out there to fill voids. Especially if you can do something to fill a void that you are passionate about. <a href="http://poststat.us/on-wordpress-news-sites/" title="http://poststat.us/on-wordpress-news-sites/">Brian Krogsgard &#8211; PostStat.us On WordPress News Sites</a></p></blockquote>
<p>I agree with Brian that there would not have been a void had the Tavern disappeared. Once things started to go south on this website, WPCandy was rocking and rolling. I watched from the sideline as WPCandy became the coolest place to be in the WordPress community and saw Ryan Imel take ideas I had for the Tavern and turn them into reality e.g. the first print edition WordPress magazine, <a href="http://wpcandy.com/quarterly/" title="http://wpcandy.com/quarterly/">The WPCandy Quarterly</a>. Once things started to go south for WPCandy, WPDaily.co became the new popular watering hole. There is never a void in the WordPress news space. </p>
<p>One of the few people to understand my original point is Curtis McHale. He has an <a href="https://plus.google.com/113827756965068019660/posts/EfgkNUNacea" title="https://plus.google.com/113827756965068019660/posts/EfgkNUNacea">ongoing conversation</a> taking place on Google+. At the end of his comment, he asks the following question: <em>Can a WordPress site monetize just on the news it produces? It may be a naïve assumption that it&#8217;s possible (without a ton of ads).﻿</em> A similar <a href="http://wpmu.org/wordpress-news-sites-are-they-worth-paying-for/" title="http://wpmu.org/wordpress-news-sites-are-they-worth-paying-for/">type question asked on WMPU.org</a> <em>Is WordPress news worth paying for?</em> After my experience with WPTavern, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s possible for a WordPress news centric site to survive solely on the content it produces. I&#8217;m interested to see if Brian proves me wrong with PostStat.us.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll close out this post by providing these words of wisdom. </p>
<blockquote><p>My advice to anyone wanting to start a WordPress news centric website, especially if you think it’s going to make you some money is to stop immediately. Focus your efforts on where the real cash is. Commercial plugins, themes, and services. A news centric website takes so much time and energy to maintain and keep fresh, it’s not worth it in the long run unless you have a company backing you or an auxiliary source of cash that pays the bills and puts food on the table at the same time. The value and worth comes from writing code, not text.</p></blockquote>
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