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If You’re Looking To Guest Post, Do It Here

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Periodically, I’ll receive emails from others who are have stumbled into a problem with WordPress, and they aren’t sure how to solve it; however, before I can reply, I end up hearing from them again.

They end up sharing something like:

Nevermind! I figured it out. In case you’re curious, here’s the code that I used…

I love it when that happens, but who doesn’t, right?

And from there, I normally like to take a look at the code, ask any questions, and/or make any suggestions (if there are any to make).

This past week, someone sent me something that they had done that was really cool, and they mentioned that I could share it on my blog, if I wanted.

Instead, I asked:

Word up.

Filing this away for future reference unless you’d want to do the first guest post I’ve ever had . . . . . . . :)

No pressure.

He obliged, but this was interesting, because I’d been toying with extended guest posting for sometime.

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My Day-To-Day: Pocket

As much as I enjoy RSS (and the constant improvements to Feedly), it’s evident that the way in which we are sharing their content is changing.

After all, RSS is primarily meant for syndication, right?

But I think that more we are using social networks to share their content, and then discuss their content more than we once did. Honestly, I’m not really a fan of fragmenting discussions across a variety of networks, but that’s content for another post.

Anyway, as much as I still enjoy using RSS, following links from Twitter, or things shared on other sites and networks, I’ve been a little bit frustrated with the whole experience of trying to keep up with the content I want to read, and then having a solution for going back to reference it.

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The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate 2.6.1 is Now Available

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The next version of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate is officially tagged and available for download in GitHub.

This release – although a minor improvement over the last – introduces several improvements to 2.6.0, and also marks a change in the development of the project, as well as the introduction of several things that will be coming to the Boilerplate in the next several versions.

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Am I Using Sass in WordPress? Yes and No.

After talking about my post-Standard plans yesterday, I received several questions – some on Twitter, some via email – about my use of LESS rather than Sass since Sass is going into WordPress core.

It’s a good question, to be sure, and it’s one I’ve thought about since this ticket in Trac. Since I’ve been using LESS for over a year in various projects, I’ve had to decide how I want to move forward with development of those projects and future projects, as well.

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What’s After Standard?

Since Standard is no longer is active development and support is currently being managed by the stellar guys at WooThemes, a couple of people have asked me what my preferred theme and/or my preferred theme shop is.

There are several amazing theme companies out there. I don’t have a favorite, but you likely already know the good ones by name because they are the ones who are most currently the most prominent.

If you were to select a theme from one of those companies, then you’d be good to go.

That said, as much as I’ve enjoyed building, using, and sharing Standard, and as much as I love supporting other WordPress companies (heck, I bought a theme from one of them just yesterday), I still see my blog as a very personal property – as many do – and since I clearly love building things for WordPress, I’m in the process of building a theme that will serve as the next iteration of this blog.
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