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Are Your University Websites Working Together, or Against You?
Read FULL Article: Are Your University Websites Working Together, or Against You?There’s a question that exposes more about the health of a university than almost any accreditation review, board presentation, or strategic plan.
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Introducing Annotum 2.0
We are proud to announce the release of the new and improved open-source Annotum WordPress theme. The new Annotum is compatible with WordPress 3.8+, and more completely supports valid scholarly article authoring. To class it up, we introduced a number of other improvements. Annotum is a product of Solvitor with heavy lifting by Crowd Favorite, in collaboration with…
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Hacking vendor support for HiDPI Canvas
How we help The way browsers handle canvas drawing on HiDPI (or Retina) displays is a bit of an unknown specification. The common assumption is that because canvas uses vectors to rasterize its entities like lines and shapes, it should “just work” for HiDPI displays. This assumption is currently incorrect and leads to inconsistent results…
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iThemes & Crowd Favorite partner in new product development
One of the many things I have in common with our incoming CTO, Chris Lema, is we’ve both been serving Enterprise clients for over 20 years. While my focus has been primarily on the services side, Chris’ expertise comes from a products background. As we have spent the last year or more collaborating, discussing and…
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Crowd Favorite welcomes Chris Lema
In March of 2013 we invited Chris Lema to join our board of directors. It was a move that we hoped would provide strategic insight into several areas: building a high performance culture, managing remote staff, navigating ecosystems, and leveraging his 20 years of experience in managing successful startups and enterprise-level teams. In short, our…
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JavaScript profiling and optimization
JavaScript can be a very powerful tool in a web developer’s kit for producing highly-interactive, polished, responsive content. It runs in almost all browsers, across almost all devices, almost the same way on each. It can be used for data collection, such as AJAX form submission, streamlined data delivery, via infinite scroll or AJAX retrieval,…
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A New Digital Presence for Colorado Mountain College
After attending a conference where other universities touted the benefits of using WordPress to manage their website, the Colorado Mountain College team began hunting for the right partner to leverage WordPress as a content management system. Insert Crowd Favorite. We needed to move our main website from a dysfunctional platform, and we needed to move…
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Alex King interviewed for Digital Design Leadership Series
Our CTO Alex King was interviewed by Richard Banfield for Fresh Tilled Soil’s Digital Design Leadership series. In this 20 minute interview, Alex provides background on the evolution of Crowd Favorite and the shaping of our inspired culture. He also shares a sneak peak into his vision for the future of Crowd Favorite.
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WordCamp Miami
We were proud to return1 as a sponsor for WordCamp Miami again in 2014. This was a great opportunity for us to re-connect with old friends in the community and make a few new friends as well. Our thanks to the organizers for putting on another stellar event. Our CEO Karim Marucchi participated on The…
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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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Where to find great candidates
Hiring well into a small, focused team like Crowd Favorite is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. Over the last few months we’ve had openings for a front-end developer and a web application designer. We put a lot of effort into the job listings, our “we’re hiring” page and trying to project our…
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Done deal: VeloMedia & Crowd Favorite join forces
VeloMedia and Crowd Favorite have successfully closed the deal, joining the two companies. For those of you behind the times, in October of 2013, Karim Marucchi (Founder, VeloMedia) and Alex King (Founder, Crowd Favorite) started a discussion: What if we took the skill sets and reach of both our companies, and combined them? That simple…
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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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Behind the scenes of a modern website
*This article was originally published on Forty.co. Forty is now Crowd Favorite. We recently redesigned our own website (on which you’re probably reading this article right now), and thought you might be interested in hearing about some of the technology elements running the background that help shape the overall user experience. Ultra advanced front-end…
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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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Twitter Tools v3.1
We’ve released an update to the Twitter Tools plugin for WordPress. Twitter Tools works with Social to create an elegant 2-way integration between your WordPress site and Twitter. Twitter Tools archives your tweets on your own site, and gives you the option to turn them into blog posts. You can see it in action on…
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Social v2.11
We’ve released a very minor update to the Social plugin for WordPress. This update corrects the documentation about the CRON jobs actions that Social executes. Download the new version from WordPress.org. Developers, collaborate with us on GitHub where active development takes place.
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FavePersonal v1.5
We’ve released an update to our FavePersonal theme for WordPress. This new version brings compatibility with the admin UI refresh in WordPress 3.8 and brings the minimum required WordPress version to 3.8. Find links to the download, documentation and more on the FavePersonal product page. Developers, collaborate with us on GitHub.