Parody of… you guessed it. (via Amy)
Brokelandia
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Hello Publishers, Meet Dash
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Specifically, editors at separate organizations asked us the same question: Can you share some of that data with us? You know, the topic data and the data on authors?
Begrudgingly, we agreed, and started to send out reports on a monthly basis.
Editors: “Hmm, this is great! Can we get this quicker?”
Parse.ly: “Uh, sure. We can give it to you weekly.”
Editors: “Awesome! Actually, it’d be great if we could get this daily.”
Parse.ly: “OK, what’s up here? Why do you care more about the data than the recommendations?”
Well, as it turns out, nobody had really showed them this data before, and the data was simply eye-opening for the editorial team. They were using it to go beyond monitoring individual articles to understanding what was resonating with their audience.
Queue the second Aha! moment in early 2011. We took a step back and did some research on analytics tools for online publishers. What we found was astounding. Almost no innovation had happened on the analytics side for online publishers. Most tools were one-size-fits-all systems that treated an e-commerce site the same as a content site, and obviously, that’s not the way to do it.
Content-based sites are dramatically different than an e-commerce property from both a data and business perspective.
It’s no wonder these publishers were clamoring for data that provided fresh insights on their property. Publishers need to know how their content breaks out by topic, what causes a post to go viral, why one author does better with search traffic than another, and a bevy of other key insights that are specific to their needs. We knew this was a big opportunity, and decided to dive head-first into the analytics space.
Sachin Kamdar — Hello Publishers, Meet Dash
Intensive WordPress VIP Developer Training Workshop: March 2012
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Intensive WordPress VIP Developer Training Workshop: March 2012. Come join us! Take three days in California’s wine country to learn about coding standards, caching, optimization and other high performance topics.
New York Times releases code to help journalists collaborate on WordPress, other platforms
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New York Times releases code to help journalists collaborate on WordPress, other platforms. Track changes within the WordPress editor. Code is available on Github; it would be awesome to see this support realtime collaborative editing too. (via Steve Myers)
Show biographies for co-authors at the end of your post
In the WordPress.org forums, doubleedesign says:
I want to add the authors’ biographies to the end of each post.
Awesome… it’s pretty simple to do. Conceptually, what we need to do is load our co-authors, and then loop through printing the relevant information for each one.
You’ll want to put the following code snippet within The Loop in any template you’d like the bios to appear.
/**
* Show multiple Co-Author biography fields at the bottom of a single post
* This snippet should be placed within The Loop
*/
if ( class_exists( 'coauthors_plus' ) ) {
// Get the Co-Authors for the post
$co_authors = get_coauthors();
// For each Co-Author, echo a wrapper div, their name, and their bio if they have one
foreach ( $co_authors as $key => $co_author ) {
$co_author_classes = array(
'co-author-wrap',
'co-author-number-' . ( $key + 1 ),
);
echo '<div class="' . implode( ' ', $co_author_classes ) . '">';
echo '<h4 class="co-author-display-name">' . $co_author->display_name . '</h4>';
// Only print the description if the description exists
if ( $description = get_the_author_meta( 'description', $co_author->ID ) )
echo '<p class="co-author-bio">' . $description . '</p>';
echo '</div>';
}
}
If you’d like other co-author details to appear as well, like their avatar for instance, you can modify the output within the foreach loop.
Vegan shepard’s pie with broiled brussel sprouts
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Vegan shepard’s pie with broiled brussel sprouts. Delicious, and better than the original.
Pipe Dream in numbers
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Pipe Dream in numbers. 7,763 articles containing 4,136,279 words written by ~380 authors in the BU Pipe Dream’s export from College Publisher.
WordPress Jargon
Today it dawned on me that when working with WordPress I tend to use a lot of jargon (the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group). Now I didn’t realize this until someone pointed it out to me as since I use it everyday it doesn’t seem that foreign to me. However, I recognize that to others, especially those new to WordPress, I might as well be speaking greek. What I thought would be a fun/useful project would be to start a WordPress dictionary. Not just …
Great idea… Similar to the Hacks/Hackers glossary.
First day in a while where I have the entire day free to do whatever I want
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First day in a while where I have the entire day free to do whatever I want. On the list:
- Run in Forest Park
- Buying groceries for the week
- Changing the oil in my car
- Cleaning my room
- Maybe building a bookshelf with Tom
- Some Edit Flows and working on Timepiece with Andrew
Woo hoo!
Read All Your Favorite Blogs in One Place
If you feel like it’s a chore to keep up with all your favorite blogs, you can now read posts from all the blogs you follow (even the ones that aren’t on WordPress.com!) in one convenient place on the WordPress.com home page: Your reader displays all the posts across all the blogs you follow in the order they were published, with the most recent content appearing at the top. You’ll see an excerpt of the introduction to each post, the first image in the post, and thumbnails of any other images that the post …
Making progress! Previously.
