photo credit: manu schwendener React users are petitioning Facebook to re-license React.js after the Apache Software Foundation announced its decision to ban Apache PMC members from using any technology licensed with Facebook’s BSD+Patents License. So far the GitHub issue has received 627 “thumbs up” emoji and 66 comments from concerned React users who are hoping for a change in licensing. …
The Secrets to Creating a Powerful Brand Message Using the 'Trial Lawyer Marketing Method'
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The Most Complete 101+ Step WordPress Checklist Ever
Some might say that it’s easy getting a WordPress website up and running. And truth be told, it is. But when you’re actually creating a new WordPress website from scratch, for a client, well, things tend to get a bit more complicated. This is the last WordPress website creation checklist you’ll ever need. Today, we’re […] View original post at …
WPWeekly Episode 282 – Talking WooCommerce with Cody Landefield
In this episode, John James Jacoby and I are joined by Cody Landefield, Senior web strategist and founder of Mode Effect. Landefield describes some of the challenges that shop owners face and provides insight into a couple of WooCommerce projects Mode Effect has recently built. We discussed the future of WooCommerce and the odds of it turning into a SaaS …
Keeping SoulCycle at a Sprint and Ahead of the Pack
SoulCycle CEO Melanie Whelan talks about perfecting the customer experience, harnessing your team’s talent and chasing a certain former president. View original post at Entrepreneur…
9 Stunning CSS Button Libraries and Collections for WordPress
Think about how many times you click or tap or press on something over the course of a day. In fact, it’s probably so ingrained in you to click before trying any other action that it can be confusing to encounter something that looks clickable but in actuality doesn’t do anything. Buttons are generally the […] View original post at …
New WordPress Contributors Meeting Provides Opportunities to Ask Questions and Learn the Ropes
Contributing to WordPress or other open source projects can be intimidating for first-time contributors. Sometimes, all you need is a helping hand to overcome fear, intimidation, or other barriers. In 2013, with the help of Konstantin Obenland, a WordPress core developer, I overcame my fear and contributed my first patch to WordPress. This is one of the principles behind a new …
What to Do When Your Ideal Customer Isn't Who You Expected
Most businesses choose their target customer based on self-perception of their brand, and then the marketing team goes after them. Your own perception of your brand, however, doesn’t always reflect what’s actually happening in the marketplace. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Smush Now Lets You Optimize Images Stored in the Cloud
We’re celebrating Smush surpassing 800,000 active installs with a killer new feature! Now you can Smush and optimize images that you are storing on Amazon S3. Smush is the clear choice when it comes to WordPress image compression and optimization. Thanks to your support, it has been named the 2017 plugin of the year. So with 1 million […] View original post at …
React Users Petition Facebook to Re-license React.js after Apache Software Foundation Bans BSD+Patents License in Dependencies
The Apache Software Foundation issued a notice over the weekend, indicating that it has added Facebook’s BSD+Patents license to its Category X list of disallowed licenses for Apache PMC members. This is the license that Facebook uses for most of its open source projects. A representative from Facebook’s RocksDB team commented on the Apache Foundation’s post to advise that the …