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  1. BuddyPress Codex Gets a Refresh

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 6 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am MST

    If you’re a fan of WordPress, you probably know about the WordPress Codex, the massive community-editable source of WordPress documentation. Just yesterday, the BuddyPress core team gave a massive update to the BuddyPress Codex, making it easier than ever to learn how to use the #1 social networking platform plugin for WordPress. Even though the new BuddyPress Codex may function like a traditional Wiki, it’s actually built on top of WordPress and BuddyPress. After all, why not show off some of the cool things you can do with a platform while you learn how to use it?

  2. WordPress Theme Releases for 2/5

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 5 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am MST

    Blush is a soft, warm, feminine theme in tones of rose and cream. Boozurk is a clear theme with a lot of features. The Frances Wright is a clean and elegant theme.

  3. The Evil Wiener

    → Ryan Boren | 4 Feb 2012 | 3:40 pm MST

    The Evil Wiener Truck parked outside of Thirsty Planet. La Revolucion, Killer Fries, and a Silverback Pale Ale.

  4. A Plugin to Make All Themes Responsive, Coming Soon

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 4 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am MST

    It’s no secret that I’m a fan of responsive themes. Knowing that your WordPress blog will look just as good on a tiny mobile screen as it does on a huge desktop screen is one of the most important factors of design to me, especially in today’s age where mobile device usage is growing so rapidly. Sadly, there aren’t many responsive themes out there, but Responsive Plugin aims to change that. Once released, Responsive Plugin will make any theme scale perfectly on any screen size. There is no definitive release date, but it is definitely coming out sooner rather than later, and you can find a signup form at the bottom of the site if you want to follow the action.

  5. Not A Marmot

    → Ryan Boren | 3 Feb 2012 | 9:56 pm MST

    Nor an amphibious rodent.

  6. WordPress Plugin Releases for 2/3

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 3 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am MST

    New plugins Quick Notice Bar will help you to display a sticky message in your site’s header. RePress allows you to circumvent internet censorship by proxying traffic to websites that have been blocked by repressive regimes. Widget Logic Visual lets you control on which pages widgets appear using conditional tags. WP Really Simple Health allows you to view memory utilization, server uptime, and CPU load on the new admin toolbar. Updated plugins Tallyopia Analytics provides analytics that you can embed into your site using shortcodes or view in your admin dashboard. Ultimate TinyMCE beefs up your visual editor with a plethora of advanced options.

  7. http_build_query() Separator Tip

    → alexking.org » Blog | 2 Feb 2012 | 1:46 pm MST

    I ran into an interesting “bug” in Twitter Tools last night that I traced back to http_build_query(). I expected that the query strings generated by this function used & as a separator for the key=value pairs, but on one of our test servers, the separator being used was &. This is a php.ini config setting,…

  8. LIFE.com

    → Matt Mullenweg | 1 Feb 2012 | 6:48 am MST

    LIFE magazine has relaunched, powered by WordPress.com VIP. I’m a huge fan of the magazine’s history and the work of photographers like John Dominis.

  9. WordPress Theme Releases for 2/1

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 1 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am MST

    Dusk To Dawn is a dark theme that melds old-style organic ornaments with modern design and typography. Grisaille is a classic and simple two-column design adjusted for mobile browsing. Stark has 2 columns with a left sidebar, is of fluid width, has both an upper menu and a vertical menu, and is high contrast with vivid red, black and white.

  10. Junior Dishwasher Installer

    → Ryan Boren | 31 Jan 2012 | 7:16 pm MST

    Chase puts on the cover of a junction box.

  11. Log Round Ashtray

    → Ryan Boren | 28 Jan 2012 | 3:38 pm MST

    An excuse to get stupid with a chainsaw, this ashtray was “carved” from a post oak limb that fell a couple years ago.

  12. Tracing things back to where they came from

    → westi on wordpress | 28 Jan 2012 | 5:14 am MST

    One of the things I find myself doing a lot when developing WordPress is debugging things and so I spend a lot of time thinking of ways I can make this easier for me and easier for everyone else. Overtime this had led to a number of significant improvements to the debug ability of WordPress [...]

  13. Year of the Meetup

    → WordPress News | 27 Jan 2012 | 1:17 pm MST

    We hereby declare 2012 as the Year of the WordPress Meetup. You'll want to get in on this action. So what is a WordPress Meetup? Basically, it's people in a community getting together — meeting up — who share an interest in WordPress, whether they be bloggers, business users, developers, consultants, or any other category of person able to say, "I use WordPress in some way and I like it, and I want to meet other people who can say the same.

  14. Vintage Nerd Arsenal

    → Ryan Boren | 26 Jan 2012 | 8:29 pm MST

    These are almost as old as some of my coworkers.

  15. Growth, Performance, and Pretty URLs

    → Gravatar Blog | 25 Jan 2012 | 9:55 pm MST

    It’s been a while since we have posted about the current scale of Gravatar. Since that post in 2008, things have changed quite a bit. We are now serving over 100,000 requests per second. That is over 8.6 billion requests per day – more than the number of people currently alive. With the help of [...]

  16. WordPress — 9 years since it’s conception

    → Mike Little's Journalized | 25 Jan 2012 | 4:06 am MST

    Simon D reminded me that it is now nine years since my fateful comment on Matt’s blog that kicked off this whole WordPress thing! WordPress is really shaping up, and is an evermore stable and functional CMS platform. The statistics continue to … Continue reading →

  17. On the Evolution of Investing

    → Matt Mullenweg | 24 Jan 2012 | 12:59 pm MST

    Today Y Combinator announced they are adding two new partners, Garry Tan and Aaron Iba. This announcement is unique because it does not list their academic credentials, their previous investments, the boards of companies or non-profits they have sat on, how many years of experience they have, or any of the usual badges of honor [...]

  18. Twitter Tools 3.0 beta 2

    → alexking.org » Blog | 22 Jan 2012 | 4:27 pm MST

    I’ve packaged beta 2 of the next generation version of Twitter Tools. Version 3.0 is a ground-up rewrite on top of the Social platform, with a few features included for backward compatibility. If you’d like to test the beta, grab it from GitHub. This version fixes several bugs that were found in our QA process,…

  19. MPAA Threatens Politicians

    → Matt Mullenweg | 22 Jan 2012 | 1:43 pm MST

    MPAA Directly & Publicly Threatens Politicians Who Arent Corrupt Enough To Stay Bought on Techdirt.

  20. Hollywood and the Justice System

    → Matt Mullenweg | 21 Jan 2012 | 7:44 am MST

    Two excellent essays on how Hollywood has completely put our legal system out of whack through years of twisting our legislative process to their ends, or as Shirky put it “imagine the possibility of a longer jail term for streaming a Michael Jackson video than Jackson’s own doctor got for killing actual Michael Jackson?” Andrew [...]

  21. #Reinventing: Chamber of Commerce

    → Matt Mullenweg | 18 Jan 2012 | 10:23 am MST

    Really great article from my friend Hunter Walk on #Reinventing the Chamber of Commerce, which is especially relevant given how the US Chamber of Commerce has been tending to side with the MPAA and RIAA rather than actual small businesses, startups, and tech communities.

  22. Internet Blackout Day on January 18

    → WordPress News | 17 Jan 2012 | 4:18 pm MST

    WordPress.org is officially joining the protest against Senate Bill 968: the Protect IP Act that is coming before the U.S. Senate next week. As I wrote in my post a week ago, if this bill is passed it will jeopardize internet freedom and shift the power of the independent web into the hands of corporations. [...]

  23. This Site Will Blackout Against SOPA and PIPA

    → Lorelle on WordPress » WordPress News | 17 Jan 2012 | 1:09 pm MST

    I’m joining Wikipedia, Reddit, and millions of other concerned web users across the United States to blackout my site on January 18, 2012. WordPress is even against this. Traction is happening. SOPA appears to be dead in congress but PIPA is still alive and just as bad. When you land on Lorelle on WordPress on [...]

  24. Clark College WordPress Class in the News

    → Lorelle on WordPress » WordPress News | 16 Jan 2012 | 1:42 pm MST

    Wow! I knew my Introduction to WordPress course at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, was getting a lot of attention around the world from those eager to get WordPress into their curriculum, I didn’t realize it would make so much noise so close to home. Check out “Blogging pioneer blazes trail for WordPress at Clark [...]

  25. January 18: Join Reddit in a National Blackout Day of Protest Against SOPA

    → Lorelle on WordPress » WordPress News | 11 Jan 2012 | 10:25 pm MST

    On January 18, join Reddit and the country in protesting SOPA. Reddit announced they will black out their site January 18 for 12 hours in protest of the US government’s pursuit of the horrible SOPA act: The freedom, innovation, and economic opportunity that the Internet enables is in jeopardy. Congress is considering legislation that will [...]

  26. Happy Birthday, Matt Mullenweg

    → Lorelle on WordPress » WordPress News | 11 Jan 2012 | 7:45 pm MST

    As I prepared my annual public “Happy Birthday, Matt” post for Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress (with a lot of other amazing people), I spotted the birthday greeting by Jane Wells of the WordPress Foundation. She thanks Matt for all the ways her life has been changed since meeting him, a perfect way to say [...]

  27. Creating a WordPress and Blogging New Year’s Resolutions List

    → Lorelle on WordPress » WordPress News | 11 Jan 2012 | 2:09 pm MST

    Small Biz Trends released “5 Website Resolutions to Put on Your List for 2012,” by my friend, Shashi Bellamkonda, with some great ideas on what needs to be on your New Year’s resolution list for your business this year for building content, web communications, community building, and embracing and integrating technology. I’d like to add [...]

  28. Help Stop SOPA/PIPA

    → WordPress News | 10 Jan 2012 | 12:18 pm MST

    You are an agent of change. Has anyone ever told you that? Well, I just did, and I meant it. Normally we stay away from from politics here at the official WordPress project — having users from all over the globe that span the political spectrum is evidence that we are doing our job and [...]

  29. WP_Query by “Standard” Post Format

    → alexking.org » Blog | 5 Jan 2012 | 11:56 pm MST

    When using WordPress post formats, you’ll quickly start looking for a way to query WordPress content by the “standard” post format. This Trac ticket seeks to work on solving this. The implementation there handles URL-based requests: http://example.com/type/standard/ quite nicely. However the code in that patch doesn’t (yet) handle direct WP_Query calls. I was hacking on…

  30. Akismet WordPress plugin 2.5.4

    → Akismet Blog | 5 Jan 2012 | 4:19 pm MST

    Version 2.5.4 of the Akismet plugin for WordPress has been released. This is a maintenance release with minor fixes and improvements: * Less Javascript and CSS is loaded in wp-admin * Added link previews and a link removal button to comment moderation pages * The Akismet configuration and stats pages are now under the Jetpack [...]

  31. 2011 in review

    → westi on wordpress | 5 Jan 2012 | 4:08 am MST

    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 11,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many [...]

  32. Partial API outages

    → Akismet Blog | 5 Jan 2012 | 1:13 am MST

    There were two separate problems affecting availability of the Akismet API today. The first was a network configuration problem that caused some servers to be unresponsive. Some users may have noticed problems during a 15 minute window starting around 12.30pm PST. The second was caused by some spurious code that was inadvertently deployed to our [...]

  33. WordPress Core Contributions

    → alexking.org » Blog | 4 Jan 2012 | 10:25 pm MST

    At today’s team meeting, the Crowd Favorite folks who contributed to the WordPress 3.3 release (including me!) received goodies. I hope to dole out a few more for the 3.4 release. Related: If one of your 2012 resolutions is to contribute to core WordPress code development, please read this post: wp.me/pbNCB-ui — WordPress(@WordPress) January 5,…

  34. WordPress 3.3.1 Security and Maintenance Release

    → WordPress News | 3 Jan 2012 | 2:24 pm MST

    WordPress 3.3.1 is now available. This maintenance release fixes 15 issues with WordPress 3.3, as well as a fix for a cross-site scripting vulnerability that affected version 3.3. Thanks to Joshua H., Hoang T., Stefan Zimmerman, Chris K., and the Go Daddy security team for responsibly disclosing the bug to our security team. Download 3.3.1 or visit [...]

  35. Popularity Contest is Dead (and on GitHub)

    → alexking.org » Blog | 28 Dec 2011 | 11:43 am MST

    I wrote the Popularity Contest plugin for WordPress back in May of 2005. It had a good run, but that run is over. We are no longer developing or supporting Popularity Contest, and I recommend letting it rest peacefully. Why? It does too much, and too little at the same time. It does too much.…

  36. WordPress 3.3 “Sonny”

    → WordPress News | 12 Dec 2011 | 3:58 pm MST

    The latest and greatest version of the WordPress software — 3.3, named “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt — is immediately available for download or update inside your WordPress dashboard. WordPress has had over 65 million downloads since version 3.0 was released, and in this third major iteration we’ve added significant [...]

  37. Act now to stop Internet censorship legislation in the United States

    → Mark on WordPress | 16 Nov 2011 | 1:02 pm MST

    Right now, the United States Congress is holding hearings on legislation that will have disastrous effects on free speech and the Internet. This video gives a good overview: One of the reasons that I help make WordPress is because of … Continue reading →

  38. Akismet Partner Program: Help Reduce Spam and Get Rewarded

    → Akismet Blog | 11 Nov 2011 | 7:48 am MST

    Every month, over nine million websites use Akismet to stop spam. The vast majority of those nine million sites are personal sites that get to use Akismet for free. But for the rest, we ask companies and people that make significant income from their sites to pay for Akismet. Many of these company sites and [...]

  39. Translating WordPress Plugins and Themes: Don’t Get Clever

    → Mark on WordPress | 5 Oct 2011 | 11:41 pm MDT

    When you use the WordPress translation functions to make your plugin or theme translatable, you pass in a text domain as a second parameter, like so: This text domain is just a unique string (usually your plugin’s WordPress.org repository slug). … Continue reading →

  40. How I backup my database

    → Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings » WordPress | 29 Sep 2011 | 5:00 am MDT

    I run several WordPress sites on my servers, including this blog, which has content going back over 10 years. While I’m not too worried about backing up all the files (I can always install a fresh copy of WordPress on a new server and be up and running quickly, sans old images and such), my content is quite precious to me. For a long time, I ran a nightly perl script which dumped my databases … Continue reading →

    Original Article: How I backup my database Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings - WordPress, web development, and world domination.



  41. Electronic Arts’ Battlefield 3 Game Selects Gravatars For Use In Profiles

    → Gravatar Blog | 29 Sep 2011 | 12:52 am MDT

    Electronic Arts has implemented Gravatar in their upcoming Battlefield 3 video game’s online profile and game management site Battlelog. Battlelog is the new browser interface for the game, allowing you to find friends, servers to play on, groups to join as well as your stats. Wherever a user is listed on the site, be it [...]

  42. Vikings, Viagra, and Versace: A Brief History of Spam

    → Akismet Blog | 12 Sep 2011 | 5:20 pm MDT

    The biggest gathering of WordPress users and developers takes place each year at WordCamp San Francisco. At this year’s three-day event, I gave a short presentation on the history of spam. Here’s the video:

  43. That’s a lot of shortcodes

    → Mark on WordPress | 31 Aug 2011 | 12:54 pm MDT

    I did a scan of the WordPress plugin directory today, and found the following shortcodes in use. The list is non-exhaustive, as some shortcodes are specified with variables. This is just the list of basic quoted string shortcodes that I … Continue reading →

  44. Smile… :-)

    → Akismet Blog | 15 Aug 2011 | 11:54 am MDT

    Earlier this year we decided to add an option for individuals to be able to contribute to the running costs of Akismet. We believe that it’s really important that personal bloggers continue to have access to Akismet for free. But, for those that really value Akismet’s spam filtering, we wanted to provide a way to [...]

  45. Speaking at WordCamp SF 2011

    → Mark on WordPress | 17 Jul 2011 | 9:24 pm MDT

    My sessions for WordCamp San Francisco 2011 have been confirmed. This post is a quick teaser. Please let me know if you have any questions on what will be covered, or if you have any suggestions: Scaling, Servers, and Deploys … Continue reading →

  46. Review: WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials

    → Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings » WordPress | 14 Jul 2011 | 9:31 pm MDT

    I recently received a copy of WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials from Packt Publishing. This book was authored by Brian Bondari and Everett Griffiths, who run the TipsFor.us site together. I also noted that one of the technical editors was Paul Thewlis, who wrote WordPress for Business Bloggers, which I reviewed here previously. I’m always eager to check out new programming books that come my way, and that’s especially true for books that cover WordPress … Continue reading →

    Original Article: Review: WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings - WordPress, web development, and world domination.

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  47. Open Profile Data

    → Gravatar Blog | 12 Jul 2011 | 12:19 pm MDT

    Did you know that in addition to the hCard markup on profile pages, we support a number of other completely open, standards-based formats for accessing profile data on Gravatar? These formats are all accessed using a similar method to how Gravatar images have been requested. Full details are provided in the Developer Resources section of [...]

  48. Now supporting Gowalla, Google and GoodReads

    → Gravatar Blog | 6 Jul 2011 | 2:30 pm MDT

    In our never ending quest to bring awesome profile power to gravatar users, we’ve added support for three awesome services: Gowalla, GoodReads and Google Profiles. And yes, it is true, given we are called Gravatar, we do have a secret preference for G named services. You can add these new services to your Gravatar Profile [...]

  49. WordPress local dev tips: DB & plugins

    → Mark on WordPress | 24 Jun 2011 | 5:17 am MDT

    Running a WordPress site on your local machine is a great way to do development. I’ve taken advantage of this to do development while on flights (and yes, I realize that in about 5 years it’s going to seem positively … Continue reading →

  50. WordPress’ Eighth Birthday

    → Mike Little's Journalized | 27 May 2011 | 9:29 am MDT

    WordPress celebrates it's eight birthday today. Continue reading →

  51. New Theme (in progress)

    → Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings » WordPress | 25 Apr 2011 | 5:00 am MDT

    Welcome to my new theme. It's not done yet, but I'm making it available so that others can help me improve it. Read more about the details to learn what features it includes, what remains to be done, and how you can help, if you're so inclined. Continue reading →

    Original Article: New Theme (in progress) Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings - WordPress, web development, and world domination.



  52. Competitors “Taking Aim”

    → Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings » WordPress | 24 Mar 2011 | 5:09 pm MDT

    Open source CMS projects like WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla! provide web publishing tools that give users the freedom to modify the system and own their data in ways that proprietary systems don't offer. BC Gurus, a consultancy specializing in Adobe's Business Catalyst (a hosted turnkey web publishing product), "took aim" at Open Source CMS's, kicking off a proposed series of articles with a video showing two BC Gurus people at a firing range, using WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla! logos as targets. The communities for these projects were, understandably, not happy about it. Continue reading →

    Original Article: Competitors “Taking Aim” Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings - WordPress, web development, and world domination.

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  53. Happy Birthday Megan 2011

    → Mike Little's Journalized | 8 Mar 2011 | 5:00 pm MST

    Hope you have a great day. Lots of love Gramps, Nan, and Jamie xoxoxox  

  54. Chrome Extension for Gmail

    → Gravatar Blog | 17 Feb 2011 | 1:07 pm MST

    A friend of mine pointed out this pretty slick extension for Gmail called socialGmail. It adds Gravatar support into your Gmail account, placing Gravatars in your mail listings, and also within conversation view. Here are a couple of screenshots (taken from the extension page) so you can see how it works:

  55. WordPress — 8 Years in the making

    → Mike Little's Journalized | 26 Jan 2011 | 5:00 pm MST

    Wow! Another year has passed and it is now eight years since my fateful comment on Matt’s blog that kicked off this whole WordPress thing! WordPress is now a mature CMS platform driving 13% of the web! It is used for … Continue reading →

  56. Introducing Debug Bar

    → westi on wordpress | 5 Jan 2011 | 3:35 am MST

    One of the features being introduced in the upcoming WordPress 3.1 release is the new Admin Bar.  This is designed to make it easier to get access to the more common administration area tools from the front end of your site but also introduces the possibility to easily integrate extra debugging features into your site [...]

  57. 2010 in review

    → westi on wordpress | 3 Jan 2011 | 3:38 am MST

    The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 52,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj [...]

  58. Happy Birthday Kim 2010

    → Mike Little's Journalized | 29 Dec 2010 | 5:00 pm MST

    Hope you have a good one. See you later, Mike, Jan & Jamie x0x0x

  59. Smarter Post Formats?

    → Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings » WordPress | 10 Dec 2010 | 10:00 am MST

    A suggestion for marrying get_template_part() and get_post_format() to create a new layer in the WordPress theme file hierarchy. Continue reading →

    Original Article: Smarter Post Formats? Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings - WordPress, web development, and world domination.



  60. “Patches Welcome”

    → westi on wordpress | 25 Jul 2010 | 3:10 am MDT

    Occasionally you may have seen or heard myself or one of the other members of the core WordPress team saying “Patches Welcome” and wondered what this was all about. Basically we are just trying to emphasise that in an open source project like WordPress, where direction is driven by the community with responsibility gained through [...]



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