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LearnDash + FV Player + Vimeo – A Great Video Learning System Combination
LMS are popular these days. Here’s how you set up an almost unlimited video learning system with as many courses and videos as you want.
Comment Caching Models to improve WordPress Core Performance
A single file is fast but very fragile for logged in commenters (any change means caching everything all over again). We found another way.
Moderating a busy WordPress Site with Thoughtful Comments
It’s been a commenting kind of last seven days since Disqus started adding ads or charging what are extortionate rates for continued ad-free existence ($99/month for sites with from 50K to 250K visitors!). First some lively conversation over at WP Tavern about Disqus, wpDisquz (also very expensive at $29/extension), Postmatic, Replyable and our own Thoughtful […]
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Targeting a fresh & modern direction in ballet, Louis de Caunes’ video merges contemporary electronic music with important Parisian architecture
Irocku.com & Chuck Leavell are changing the way music is taught
Irocku not your usual music lessons site and not just because one of the co-founders is a real rock star.
What GitHub brings to open source development
Without GitHub it would just be too much work to share code. Despite Eric’s generosity, inertia would take over and hours would run out.
Building a better WordPress Post Editor
Workflow, fluency of editing and ease of use are the three values required in an editor.
Improvements in WordPress 4.4, 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 for Business Publishers
If your site works, keep it stable. Focus on your business, not your technology.
HHVM vs PHP7 for WordPress: One Year Later
The HHVM/PHP/WordPress compatibility problems will not go away. For those with a spirit of generosity, PHP7 is the clear choice.
Comparing Hootsuite and Buffer Free Versions
I reviewed a couple of well-known social media tools in their free versions before deciding which one is worth the purchase. Here’s what I found out.
VAST Ads Now With ‘Silent Start’ Option
Our FV Player VAST add-on just got a useful update called Silent Start, that allows you to have the ads served with your videos start muted.
How to convert bbPress 1 forums to bbPress 2
How to convert a custom bbPress v1 forum to v2 successfully. Advice for WordPress.org who are about to start.
Playlist Styles
FV Flowplayer allows you to use tabbed playlist, playlist prev/next arrows. News about new Vimeo integration and Video Ads.
WordPress Comment Ratings Plugins Roundup: Zaki vs Ulike vs Comment Vote vs Voter vs Thumbs Rating vs GD Rating System
A new Thoughtful Comments version with comment rating and comment sorting by date and rating will be coming soon.
Multilingual Video Subtitles
How to put up multilingual subtitles for your videos.
How WordPress developers treat publishers like suckers and marks or why I’m now ashamed to be a WordPress developer
Without ever changing WordPress, no reason to keep expensive WordPress consultants on retainer or spend thousands monthly on VIP.wordpress.com.
Future of WordPress
WordPress is making Rainmaker’s marketing too easy for them: “finally a useful dashboard”.
Site specific VPN for OS X: sample case Pandora
The quick and easy way to route a single application or website over VPN in OS X and stay at full speed for everything else.
Realtime WordPress Comments: Disqus vs wpDisquz vs Epoch
How to best manage real time comments without a site slow down.
