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Nick GernertJuly 1st, 2010

WordCamp Boulder – We’ll be There!

WordCamp Boulder is coming upon July 10. We’ll be there not only attending the sessions, but Chris and Sean will be giving a talk on caching with WordPress. Here’s a brief description of the session: As a WordPress site owner you want your WordPress site to be fast, use less server resources, and be able [...]

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Nick GernertJune 23rd, 2010

PlayStation.Blog Share – An Idea Sharing Community with WordPress

So, it’s no secret that the Sony PlayStation Blog is one of our banner WordPress projects here. They’re great partners and have embraced the platform allowing us to do things like contribute plugins developed for the site back to the WordPress developer community. I’m excited to give a few details about one of our newest [...]

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Nick GernertApril 30th, 2010

Voce Communications is Sponsoring WordCamp San Francisco

WordCamp San Francisco is coming up this Saturday and for the second year, Voce will be sponsoring the event. It’s no secret we’re big fans of WordPress and the community, so we’re excited to be a part. It’s been another year of new sites and new challenges for the platform. Here’s a few things to [...]

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Nick GernertMarch 9th, 2010

WordPress Happy Hour Kicks off Tonight

Jeremy Harrington (@jharr) on the team here has been anxious to set up an informal gathering of WordPress users in his hometown of Des Moines, IA. The idea was to encourage WordPress community meet-ups that didn’t require the scale and preparation of a WordCamp. Basically, it would be what you did to keep up with [...]

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Nick GernertJanuary 13th, 2010

WordPress Core (canonical) Plugins, An Open Market, and Peace of Mind

An interesting debate has gained some momentum this week regarding WordPress Core (also known as canonical) Plugins, specifically their impact on the current plugin library for WordPress. To help with context, Jane Wells posted some information about Core (originally known as Canonical) plugins on the WordPress Development Blog. Jane says (interestingly, nothing about Sergio): Plugins [...]

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Nick GernertJanuary 6th, 2010

Voce’s Chris Scott at WordCamp Atlanta

No sooner does he catch his breath from presenting at WordCamp Orlando (recaps and commentary on that coming shortly) than Voce’s Chris Scott announces he’ll be speaking at WordCamp Atlanta: I’ll cover some common examples seen in plugins, themes, and tutorials that are either the “wrong” way to do it, not the “WordPress way”, or [...]

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Nick GernertDecember 4th, 2009

WordCamp Orlando Prep

(Cross-posted from the WordCamp Orlando site) I am extremely pumped that we’re just one short day away from the first WordCamp Orlando. The last minute registrations have been pouring in which is great to see. Here’s a few final reminders about the day in general: Last Minute Registration A reminder that we will be shutting [...]

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Nick GernertNovember 30th, 2009

Voce Hosts WordCamp Orlando

On December 5 we’ll be hosting Orlando’s first WordCamp. If you’re new to WordCamp, here’s the description straight from the central WordCamp site: WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share [...]

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Nick GernertJuly 30th, 2009

Expanding WordPress with BuddyPress: Tasty Kitchen

It was May 2008 when I first heard of the BuddyPress project. I was talking with a client about ways to expand user account profiles within their WordPress powered site. Fourteen months have passed since that first mention and we’ve finally launched our first project using BuddyPress. Sadly, it was not for this client. For [...]

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Nick GernertJune 26th, 2009

Platform Development Process Defined

The Platforms Team, and the idea of content platform development, is new to Voce so expect to see more here that brings clarity to this new part of the family. This month starts my 14th year in Web development (shocking to think about). In that time there have been some seriously hard lessons about process [...]

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