Culture & Community

  • The missing element in enterprise hosting

    Companies offering enterprise WordPress hosting have focused too much on technology and not enough on the missing element in enterprise hosting…

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  • WordPress do_action(), PHP 5.4, and pass-by-reference

    A somewhat common idiom in WordPress is to pass an object by reference 1 into do_action for possible modification: do_action(‘before_frobulation’, $frob_params, &$this); Just out of curiosity, if you’re expecting possible modification, wouldn’t apply_filter be more semantically logical? I’m glad you asked! It is a subtle distinction, but in this case, no. apply_filter gives the opportunity…

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  • CloudMoxie acquired by WP Engine

    I am pleased to announce that Crowd Favorite’s hosting business, CloudMoxie, has been acquired by our friends at WP Engine. We were the majority partner in CloudMoxie, a boutique web hosting business from 2010-2013. We are no longer offering web hosting services so that we can better focus on our client services and product offerings.…

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  • Alex King interviewed on Agency Mavericks

    WP Elevation is now Agency Mavericks. Crowd Favorite founder Alex King has been interviewed by Troy Dean on Agency Mavericks. He talks about his history with WordPress, his approach to building the team here, the merger with VeloMedia and more in the 70 minute conversation.

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  • Crowd Favorite and VeloMedia

    I’m very excited to announce that Crowd Favorite is joining forces with our good friends at VeloMedia! Karim (VeloMedia) with Jon, Jonel and Alex (Crowd Favorite) at WordCamp Denver 2013. When I started building the team at Crowd Favorite I did so with the intention of creating a sustainable business where I’d want to work.…

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  • Introducing Ruby gems: Capistrano-WP and Steps

    Today we’re happy to announce we are the proud maintainers of two brand new gems on RubyGems: Capistrano-WP: A Ruby gem containing recipes for deploying, rolling back, and maintaining remote WordPress installations with Capistrano. In other words, these are the set of tasks that we use for local development environment configuration and remote Capistrano deployments…

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  • Crowd Favorite sponsors Junior Achievement

    Crowd Favorite is proud to sponsor Junior Achivement . Four out of the last five years we’ve sponsored a hole at the JA golf event at the Sanctuary. Alex played with the Ernst & Young golf foursome and the team tied for 3rd gross score and placed first for net (handicaps applied) score. Alex says,…

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  • Interview: Alex King on Page.ly

    Alex was recently interviewed by Sally Strebel at the Page.ly Blog under their “WordPress Heavy Hitters” series. Head over the the interview to read more about: What Crowd Favorite is working on Insight into the company’s success Working with WordPress HelpCenter and Crowd Favorite The future of WordPress Here’s a quick quote explaining how we…

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