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Jetpack 1.8: Mobile Theme

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According to very respected research, it's estimated that approximately a lot of people browse the Web via a mobile device.  When those people view your site, are they seeing your site in the best possible format for their small screen?  With the new Mobile Theme in Jetpack, you can be sure that they are.

Jetpack's Mobile Theme displays your content in a clean, uncluttered interface, making it easy for mobile visitors to scan your site.

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Jetpack 1.8 is out, and brings yet another new feature from WordPress.com to self-hosted WordPress blogs: a Mobile theme!

Jetpack 1.7: Custom CSS

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The updates just keep on rolling in—Custom CSS has just landed in Jetpack! You now have the ability to add to or replace your theme's CSS right from your blog dashboard, no child theme required.

To use the CSS editor, first make sure the Custom CSS panel is activated on your main Jetpack page and go to Appearance → Edit CSS…

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Jetpack 1.7 is out!

Hide and seek with WordPress menus

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WordPress 3.0 introduced a very useful feature: custom menus: if your theme handles it, you can add menus in different areas of your theme, without having to dive into code or install any plugin.

There is only one limitation to this: your menu is often added to your theme’s header or footer and the menu items remain the same on all pages of your site.

Let’s see how to work around this problem, and have different menu items depending on the page you’re on.

Let’s dig into this small tutorial!

Developer Plugin v1.0: Helping WordPress developers develop

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One of the great things about developing for WordPress is the number of tools available for developers. WordPress core ships with a bunch of useful features (e.g. WP_DEBUG) with many more built by the community (like our own Rewrite Rules Inspector and VIP Scanner) that make development and debugging a breeze. The hardest part is getting your environment set up just right: knowing what constants to set, what plugins to install, and so on.

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This is a must-have plugin for all WordPress developers! Make sure you install it in your development environment.

Jetpack Comments Now Available at a Launchpad Near You

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The wait is finally over. You've been asking for it for months and we are finally ready to ship it.

Jetpack Comments has arrived!

We're breaking down the barriers between you and your audience. When someone reads an article on your site and wants to comment, they can now use one of their existing social networking accounts to post a comment.

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The Jetpack plugin sees another update, and now include Jetpack comments! Once activated, the new comment form includes the option to log in with your WordPress.com account, Twitter, or Facebook.

WordPress 3.4 is out!

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Instantly share posts on Tumblr

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The second you publish a new post on WordPress.com, you can instantly share it on Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, LinkedIn, and now Tumblr with a feature called Publicize. This helps you get exposure to multiple audiences without having to manually share your content on all your favorite social sites.

With Publicize, you can make WordPress.com your home on the web and automatically share your content on five other social platforms.

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A great addition to the Publicize feature!

WordPress Skeleton

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At my "Scaling, Servers, and Deploys — Oh My!" talk (slides) at WordCamp San Francisco 2011, I talked a bit about my ideal WordPress repo setup. In the spirit of sharing, I've now made that skeleton setup into a GitHub repo.

What you get is a WordPress repo starter kit. WordPress is in a subdirectory (/wp/

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We're all looking for new ways to make our jobs faster, and be able to deploy a basic WordPress install as quickly as possible. Well, Mark Jaquith just did the work for you. :) You only have to fork, add your own starter theme and favorite plugins, and you're good to go!

Querying Posts Without query_posts

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Here at WordPress.com, we have over 200 themes (and even more plugins) running inside the biggest WordPress installation around (that we know of anyway!) With all of that code churning around our over 2,000 servers worldwide, there's one particular WordPress function that we actually try to shy away from; query_posts()

If you think you need to use it, there is most likely a better approach.

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