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Over the past few months, one of the larger items of discussion within the WordPress community is that of LoopConf.

It’s a pretty big deal because it’s the first conference of its size to be focused specifically on WordPress developers – a niché conference, if you will – but perhaps the largest point of discussion around the conference has been the point of pricing.

Interestingly enough, at the same time all of this is happening, the community has also been talking about hosting specialized conferences that cater towards specific areas of WordPress. Whereas WordCamps tend to hit bloggers, beginners, businesses, developers, and designers, some have been talking about conferences that focus specifically on one to maybe two of these types of audiences.

So LoopConf comes around and basically does both: It provides a conference that’s a proof-of-concept for the idea of specialized conferences, and it shows us how the pricing of a conference affects the attendance.

It’s really the perfect time to be hosting this type of event.

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TL;DR: Exporting a lot of data? Don't forget the "posts_per_page" argument.

If you’ve ever done any work for yourself or for others in WordPress where you’re responsible for importing a lot of data in a specific format (such as a CSV), then the odds that you’ve had to also work on writing an export tool for the same data are pretty high.

I mean, it makes sense, right? Get the original data into the new, WordPress-based system, do work in the new system, export the data so its portable for others.

But how is this information usually structured?

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Oftentimes, one of the great things you hear about WordPress is its low barrier to entry.

Depending on who you ask, this may be seen as a good thing or this may be seen as a bad thing. Whatever the perspective, I think there are inherent problems with treating any language and/or platform that way.

At best, experienced developers can pick it up quickly. At worst, beginners feel as if they’re lacking because this “low barrier” doesn’t actually feel so low.

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One of the things that I really enjoy whether or not I’m out for a walk, a run, or a drive, is listen to a number of different podcasts. And I don’t think I’m an exception.

As with any topic that we all like, there are times in which I find myself wanting a WordPress podcast. To be clear, this isn’t to say there aren’t any – WP Tavern, DradCast, and Apply Filters turn out good stuff – and the now-defunct WP Candy Podcast used to be a fun listen, but I do think there’s a gap in WordPress-related podcasts.

At least in so far as the style of the podcast is concerned.

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From a consumer perspective, WordPress is as attractive as it is because of the number of plugins that exist for it. From a developer perspective, WordPress is as attractive as it is because of how easy it is to extend the core application through the APIs.

They’re a hot topic, too – anyone (including me and probably you, as well) who’s worked with WordPress in any capacity has their opinions on some plugins, on certain plugins, on all plugins, on the plugin directory, and so on.

But one thing that we don’t talk about very much – at least right now – is the idea of extensions. But why? They’re something that are becoming more common with various plugins and with various themes.

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