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Back in October, I asked if you guys thought that there was room for yet another WordPress podcast. Between the comments, Tweets, and emails, I receive an overwhelmingly response all of which was positive.

After the response that I received, I brought the idea and responses to my team at 8BIT who were more than excited about the opportunity. So much so, in fact, that we’ve opted to bring this under the 8BIT banner rather than as a personal podcast of my own.

So, as of today, I’m proud to announce the first episode of the Hello Dolly podcast. Continue reading

One of the things that I dig about the WordPress community – or, really, any open source community – is the diversity that exists with respect to its contributions.

For WordPress specifically, I always get a kick out of seeing the various plugins, themes, documentation, and other projects that people create that help others do their job better.

These include things like the Developer plugin and the Underscores theme. Projects like this and contributions from others are those that help keep me motivated to continue working on the Widget and the Plugin boilerplates.

The thing is, there are alternative projects that are out there that help do the same thing, and I’m way more a fan of the collaborative environment than the competitive environment (at least when it comes to educating others!).

Case in point: Mario Peshev’s WordPress Plugin Base.

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Shortly after the WordPress Community Summit, Siobhan McKeown pushed forward with an effort to formally put together several handbooks for the WordPress community.

The Handbooks include:

• Core
• Support
• Documentation
• Mobile
• …and several more.

Out of all the handbooks being written, I’ll be contributing to the WordPress Plugin Guide – a handbook for plugin developers.

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