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WordPress.com Announces Marketplace Vision, Plans To Partner With Developers in the WordPress Ecosystem

Donna Cavalier announced the vision of WordPress.com’s marketplace earlier today via the site’s news blog. This future will include bringing more premium themes, plugins, and services to users. Automattic, the company behind the site, will be partnering with third-party developers to bring these commercial offerings to its customers. Plugin developers, theme designers, and WordPress service…

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Help the Helpers

Do you want to help, but you aren’t sure how — or who to trust? Here are some non-profit organizations and charitable foundations with a history of success and transparent reporting, according to Ukrainian sources. For more information, including volunteer opportunities, events, email templates, refugee information, and news, visit HelpSaveUkraine.com.  Medical Support Help Ukraine Center…

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Learn InDesign: 15 Best Free Tutorials & Guides for Beginners

Adobe InDesign is the industry-leading layout and page design software for print and digital media. You can use it to create publications, books, and types of print and layout projects as well as PDFs, slideshows, banner ads, social media images, or YouTube preview tiles. It’s a truly versatile piece of kit to have in your…

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WordPress Podcast and Video Picks for the Week of March 7

PushUp is a new product from 10up that offers push notification integration between WordPress and Mac OS X Mavericks. Currently, only Safari is supported and users must opt-in by viewing a website in Safari, where they are greeted by a popup that prompts them to enable push notifications from a specific website: If a site……

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WPExperts Acquires Password Protected Plugin

WPExperts has acquired the Password Protected plugin from WordPress developer Ben Huson, author of nearly 20 plugins on WordPress.org. Password Protected was by far his most popular one with more than 300,000 active installs. The acquisition is hot on the heels of the company’s purchase of the Post SMTP plugin two weeks ago, another product…

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Make a Flowchart the Easy Way: Zen Flowchart

Zen Flowchart is billed as the simplest flowchart maker out there… and it might just be an accurate description. This tool makes quick work out of creating flowcharts and removes a lot of the complexity and frustration you might have found with other apps. It’s easy to use and helps you manage and organize information…

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WordPress.com Favorites: Empish Thomas

Welcome back to our “WordPress.com Favorites” series! In these interviews, we’ll be highlighting bloggers about their passion project. Caution: contents guaranteed to be inspiring. This interview has been lightly edited.     Shortly after Empish Thomas earned her journalism degree in the mid-’90s, she began experiencing severe headaches and sensitivity to light. After a visit to the eye…

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Post Status Notes #489

An App Store for WordPress.com? Performance Team Gathers Steam. WP Notify. FSE Beta. Block is Beautiful. Security, Plugin, Dev, Acquisitions. An App Store for WordPress — .com? Donna Cavalier recently announced on the WordPress.com blog that “instant purchases of plugins, themes, and even services” are “coming soon” to WordPress.com. In fact, they are coming “right…

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