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  1. WordPress Personas For Firefox

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 12 Mar 2010 | 12:29 am MST

    What WordPress is to Blogging, Firefox is to browsing, so what happens when we can get both of them to get together? WordPress personas for Firefox :-)

  2. Firefox Personas, WordPress-style

    → WordPress Development Blog | 11 Mar 2010 | 2:37 pm MST

    We recommend open source software whenever we can, and the Firefox browser from Mozilla is one of our favorites. Firefox 3.6 recently came out with persona support, allowing users to skin their browsers with favorite designs and brands. WordPress users everywhere seem to love the W symbol (at WordCamps it shows up on everything from [...]

  3. WordPress Plugin Releases for 03/11

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 11 Mar 2010 | 12:00 pm MST

    New Plugins WP-ZoomImage With CopyProtect You can pop up an image or thumbnail by just clicking on it and it will disappear when you click it again Titled Comments Hikari Titled Comments enables each comment to have a title, so that commentators can give a subject meaning to their comments. Scroll to Top Plugin Integrate a jQuerry scroll to top control

  4. Bangkok Unrest

    → Matt Mullenweg | 11 Mar 2010 | 12:26 am MST

    In celebration of my arrival in Bangkok the opposition party is apparently planning a million person “red shirt” rally. Exciting! On the bright side, “The UDD [United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship] can only afford to keep its protest going for three to five days. If the government has not fallen by that time, it [...]

  5. Interview with Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little

    → Mike Little's Journalized | 9 Mar 2010 | 4:30 pm MST

    The interview I did with Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp UK in Cardiff last year has finally made it on to WordPress.tv In it,  Gurbir Singh of astrotalkuk interviews Matt and I.  We discuss the history of WordPress,  the open source philosophy behind it,  a little about our backgrounds, fame, and… astronomy. Go watch the interview, it’s pretty [...]

  6. Back to Firefox

    → Matt Mullenweg | 8 Mar 2010 | 8:54 pm MST

    After a good while (I can’t search my Twitter stream) on Chrome I’m switching back to Firefox as my primary browser, and actually uninstalled Chrome. Why? I was getting the “Oh snap” failure page all the time, even on Google’s own Youtube! The only support I was pointed to was this page, and when I [...]

  7. Distributed Company

    → Matt Mullenweg | 8 Mar 2010 | 7:44 pm MST

    Toni Schneider, the CEO of Automattic, writes 5 reasons why your company should be distributed.

  8. Happy Thirteenth Birthday Megan

    → Mike Little's Journalized | 8 Mar 2010 | 5:00 pm MST

    Happy Birthday Megs, a teen at last! Have a great day. See you later Gramps, Nan, and Jamie xoxoxox

  9. Manage Comments From Your Windows or Linux Desktop

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 8 Mar 2010 | 4:13 pm MST

    WP Comments Notifier is a open source application written in QT/C++ for Linux and Windows, which will allow you to manage new comments and reply to them from your desktop. In addition to that, it will also allow you to edit, spam or delete the comments.

  10. WordPress Theme Releases for 03/07

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 8 Mar 2010 | 1:30 pm MST

    Turquoise The Turquoise Theme is a simple free WordPress Theme 980px wide with 3 Sidebars and an Option Page to populate the Footer. One Sidebar is on the right side optimized for Adsense 250px Ads. Two Sidebars are on top of the postings and below the Posting. Good for 468px Ads. Greener Side Smell the fresh cut grass

  11. Bug Chasing

    → Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings » WordPress | 7 Mar 2010 | 4:00 pm MST

    Okay, so in my post about Code Spelunking I mentioned about how working on a project can lead you to explore the code because you need to become more familiar with how the code works. But it can also lead you to explore the code to figure out why code doesn’t work. In this particular case, I spent many hours puzzling over why something didn’t work correctly, chasing down the root cause, and eventually finding a bug in the WordPress core. [...]

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  12. Notify Unconfirmed Subscribers Updated

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 6 Mar 2010 | 11:08 am MST

    NUS has been updated to v1.3.0 to fix issues with unconfirmed subscribers not being fetched.

  13. Harvard Gazette

    → Matt Mullenweg | 4 Mar 2010 | 5:14 pm MST

    The Harvard Gazette is now on WordPress, with a beautiful magazine-style design. There’s a whole meme/argument going around a few blogs and Twitter saying WordPress isn’t a CMS. Who cares what you call it, look at the amazing sites you can create. (And manage content on.) Who woulda thunk it. I thought WordPress was only [...]

  14. IntenseDebate auto-login

    → Matt Mullenweg | 3 Mar 2010 | 4:18 pm MST

    WordPress.com User Accounts now auto-login to IntenseDebate blogs no matter where they’re hosted, any website in the world. Connect services like Facebook’s and Twitter’s always require at the very least a click or two, and in worst case can be a full login and several bounces to the origin site, which increases the friction of [...]

  15. BuddyPress for One (and All!)

    → WordPress Development Blog | 26 Feb 2010 | 1:25 pm MST

    Back in April of last year, Matt posted here on the dev blog about the release of BuddyPress 1.0, a plugin that adds a social networking layer to an installation of WordPress MU. Many people were excited about the idea, but were unable to experiment with BuddyPress because they ran single installations of WordPress rather [...]

  16. Dougal on WordPress Community Podcast

    → Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings » WordPress | 23 Feb 2010 | 4:52 pm MST

    I was the guest tonight on the WordPress Community Podcast, hosted by Joost de Valk and Frederick Townes. We talked about upcoming features in WordPress 3.0, my past work as a WordPress core developer, my WordPress plugins, microformats, and a smattering of other topics. [...]

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  17. Menus, the Merge, and a Patch Sprint!

    → WordPress Development Blog | 23 Feb 2010 | 12:56 pm MST

    A Report from the 3.0 Development Cycle Menus There’s been a flurry of blog posts about the integration of the WooThemes Custom Navigation into WordPress core, so I thought it was time we posted the official word. For 3.0, the main user-facing feature we wanted to include was a better site menu management system. Currently, dealing with [...]

  18. WordPress Code Spelunking

    → Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings » WordPress | 18 Feb 2010 | 9:56 pm MST

    Earlier today, I finished up a WordPress plugin that I’ve been working on for a client.  Without divulging too many details, I’ll say that it wasn’t a huge project, nor was it overly complicated, but it was interesting. One fun thing about working on projects for clients, is that it often gives you a chance to explore areas that you might not have looked too closely at on your own.

    For example, some of the areas of WordPress (and PHP in general) that I researched and learned more about were:

    I used a combination of the links above, other articles I found, plus some good old exploration in the WordPress core to learn more about these topics. [...]

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  19. Akismet Services Were Uninterrupted

    → Akismet Blog | 18 Feb 2010 | 5:20 pm MST

    As you’ve probably heard, WordPress.com had a major network issue today. Fortunately, Akismet was not affected — all Akismet API services were operating at full capacity. (Some tweets and blogs incorrectly reported that Akismet was down too.) We are of course monitoring closely for signs of any aftershocks. As always, if you have any [...]

  20. WordPress On The Go

    → WordPress Development Blog | 17 Feb 2010 | 9:54 am MST

    I like to moderate comments when I’m waiting for something: a checkout clerk to help me, the dentist to call me back to the office, a soy chai to be made. I don’t lug my laptop everywhere I go,* so I love it that we have mobile apps that make this possible. I don’t know [...]

  21. WordPress 2.9.2

    → WordPress Development Blog | 15 Feb 2010 | 10:37 am MST

    Thomas Mackenzie alerted us to a problem where logged in users can peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors. If you have untrusted users signed up on your blog and sensitive posts in the trash, you should upgrade to 2.9.2.  As always, you can visit the Tools->Upgrade menu to upgrade.

  22. How to get your plugin removed from the directory

    → Mark on WordPress | 11 Feb 2010 | 4:22 pm MST

    The following is a non-exhaustive list of things you can do to get your plugin rejected or removed from the WordPress.org plugin directory. Yes, this is tongue-in-cheek. This is a list of things NOT TO DO. Give it a license that is incompatible with WordPress’ license. Host your plugin elsewhere, and only use the WordPress.org plugin listing as [...]

  23. Ready for School

    → Ryan Boren | 10 Feb 2010 | 8:06 pm MST



  24. Spoke and Boy

    → Ryan Boren | 10 Feb 2010 | 8:04 pm MST



  25. Up a Tree

    → Ryan Boren | 10 Feb 2010 | 7:43 pm MST

    This is the cover for their upcoming emo rock album.

  26. Coq au Vin

    → Ryan Boren | 10 Feb 2010 | 7:28 pm MST

    Coq au Vin with Caesar salad and a from scratch dinner roll.

  27. Russian Blinis

    → Ryan Boren | 10 Feb 2010 | 7:12 pm MST



  28. WordPress HelpCenter is Hiring

    → alexking.org » WordPress | 4 Feb 2010 | 4:44 pm MST

    I’m very pleased that we have reached the point with WordPress HelpCenter where we need to add another developer to our team. We’re looking for someone with a broad range of WordPress, PHP, XHTML and CSS experience, basic server configuration experience, and in particular someone with outstanding communication skills. Ideally we’d like to add someone who lives [...]

  29. Twitter Tools 2.2.1

    → alexking.org » WordPress | 28 Jan 2010 | 8:24 am MST

    I’ve released a new version of Twitter Tools, my WordPress plugin that creates a full 2-way integration between your blog and your Twitter account. This release addresses two bugs: The use of the native json_decode() function, required by the changes in WordPress 2.9 (version 2.1) created a problem for users with servers running 32-bit PHP. The json_decode() [...]

  30. WordPress 3.0 Multisite Terminology

    → Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings » WordPress | 25 Jan 2010 | 2:00 am MST

    One of the big changes coming in WordPress 3.0 is the merge of the WordPress MU code into the standard stand-alone WordPress codebase. When WordPress 3.0 is released, you will be able to choose to install it either as a single site, or in multi-site mode. With the migration from WordPress MU (MultiUser) to WordPress 3.0 (Multisite), I think there is a need for us to clarify some terminology. [...]

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  31. WordPress Started Seven Years Ago

    → Mike Little's Journalized | 24 Jan 2010 | 5:00 pm MST

    WordPress started 7 years ago today.

  32. jQuery API site using WordPress as CMS

    → Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings » WordPress | 19 Jan 2010 | 10:12 am MST

    I mentioned before that the jQuery project was going to switch from Mediawiki to using WordPress for their online documentation. They’ve recently pulled the trigger on that change, and you can now visit the new WordPress-powered site at: api.jquery.com

    Performance and Backend

    As mentioned before, we’ve switched away from using a MediaWiki backend to a new WordPress-powered backend. [...]

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  33. New Plugin – “I Make Plugins”

    → Mark on WordPress | 18 Jan 2010 | 4:32 am MST

    I have several WordPress plugins. They’re hosted on the WordPress.org plugin repository, but I also have a page for each plugin on my own site. I’ve found it tedious to have to update both places separately. Things get out of sync, or worse, I put off plugin updates because I loathe updating two places (with [...]

  34. WordPress 2.9 and PHP Libraries

    → alexking.org » WordPress | 13 Jan 2010 | 9:21 am MST

    I recently put new releases of my Twitter Tools plugin – basically patches so that it would work in WordPress 2.9 on versions of PHP prior to 5.2. This is an interesting situation, where I hadn’t really done anything wrong in the plugin and the WP core team hadn’t really done anything wrong in the [...]

  35. Akismet on GoDaddy

    → Akismet Blog | 10 Jan 2010 | 11:26 pm MST

    One of the biggest challenges for Akismet is most people don’t know there’s a commercial option, and even if you do we use a Paypal subscription method that’s a pain in the butt. (For now.) On the first front we have a lot of work to do on awareness, but on the latter it seemed like [...]

  36. Child Theme Support for Carrington CMS Theme Framework

    → alexking.org » WordPress | 10 Jan 2010 | 8:26 am MST

    Child theme support has landed in SVN for Carrington. The way it is implemented allows child themes to add templates to the parent theme (adding more supported conditions for post types, comments, categories, etc.), not just replace existing templates. If you are building themes on Carrington, check this out and provide feedback before it’s tagged [...]

  37. Twitter Tools 2.1

    → alexking.org » WordPress | 9 Jan 2010 | 4:48 pm MST

    Version 2.1 of my Twitter Tools plugin is now available. Twitter Tools creates a two-way integration between your Twitter account and your WordPress blog. You can send your blog posts to Twitter and bring your tweets back to your blog for display, archiving, or creating posts from them. This version has a bunch of changes including [...]

  38. Happy Birthday Kim

    → Mike Little's Journalized | 29 Dec 2009 | 5:00 pm MST

    Happy Birthday Kim Hope you have a good break. See you when you get back. Mike, Jan, and Jamie. xoxox

  39. Giving your WordPress a check up

    → westi on wordpress | 26 Dec 2009 | 3:46 pm MST

    Every now and then someone finds something wrong with a WordPress install which, rather than be caused by a bug in WordPress itself, is caused by a server configuration error, an interaction between WordPress and something else installed on the server or is just a recommend optimisation for better site performance. Everyone has a different set [...]

  40. Happy Birthday Kate

    → Mike Little's Journalized | 24 Dec 2009 | 5:00 pm MST

    Happy Birthday Kate Lots of love Mike, Jan, and Jamie xoxox

  41. New in WordPress 2.9: Post Thumbnail Images

    → Mark on WordPress | 23 Dec 2009 | 12:19 am MST

    Many WordPress themes, especially those with “magazine-like” layouts, use an image to represent each post. It might just be on the front page. It might be alone, or alongside an excerpt. Until now, there was no standardized way to do this. Many themes would require you to tediously enter a Custom Field with the value [...]

  42. What should go into a WordPress maintenance release?

    → westi on wordpress | 19 Dec 2009 | 3:56 pm MST

    Now that WordPress 2.9 has hit the streets there are inevitably going to be a number of bugs which slipped through testing which people will identify and we need a good process for deciding which of these bugs should be included in an upcoming 2.9.1 release and which of them can wait until 3.0 to [...]

  43. How should “Post updated. View Post” links open?

    → Mark on WordPress | 15 Dec 2009 | 5:16 am MST

    We’ve gone back and forth on this. How should the “View Post” link that shows up next to the “Post updated” (or similar) text work? Should it open in the same window/tab, or should it open in a new window/tab? The problem with this question is that the people who have really strong opinions in favor [...]

  44. Excluding your plugin or theme from update checks

    → Mark on WordPress | 14 Dec 2009 | 4:14 pm MST

    There has been a vigorous discussion going on regarding what data WordPress installs send to WordPress.org when doing update checks. Because WordPress (the software) doesn’t know whether a theme or plugin is listed in the WordPress.org repositories, it has to check them all, and let the repository sort it out. Some have expressed concern that [...]

  45. A spammer’s playground

    → Akismet Blog | 8 Dec 2009 | 6:28 pm MST

    Tom Lee writes at Manifest Destiny about his discovery that spammers were abusing a full-text RSS tool he developed. The self-described black-hat search engine optimization crowd — the folks who assemble sites peppered with ads that are designed to attract search engine traffic, aka “link farms” — had been using my script to steal other people’s [...]

  46. Dreams Can Come True: Meeting Alan Dean Foster

    → Lorelle on WordPress » WordPress News | 19 Nov 2009 | 9:27 am MST

    I’m in Arizona after a very exciting and busy series of conferences, including the very successful WordCamp Netherlands, WordCamp Phoenix, and PodCamp Arizona, visiting family living near one of my favorite authors in the world, Alan Dean Foster. During WordCamp Phoenix and PodCampAZ, I shared with my audience that I was too excited to just [...]

  47. Beta Testing in your language

    → westi on wordpress | 13 Nov 2009 | 11:13 am MST

    Thanks to Naoko McCracken the WordPress Beta Tester plugin is now fully translatable and also has a Japanese translation out of the box. Hopefully this will make it easy for Japanese WordPress users to get involved in the Beta Testing of WordPress 2.9 in the coming weeks. If you would like to submit a translation for [...]

  48. WordCamp Netherlands Rocked; WordCamp Phoenix Will Rock!

    → Lorelle on WordPress » WordPress News | 11 Nov 2009 | 11:04 am MST

    WordCamp Phoenix is all set to really rock and roll with great WordPress, blogging, and SEO experts on November 13, 2009, in Arizona at the Arizona Grand Resort. Some of the hottest folks in WordPress and web tech are lined up to speak and attend, taking advantage of PodcampAZ and Az Entrepreneurship Conference happening the [...]

  49. WordCamp Portland Donates to WordCamp Seattle

    → Lorelle on WordPress » WordPress News | 23 Sep 2009 | 1:24 pm MDT

    You know I’m a huge WordCamp fan. I attend as many as I can, speak at many, and work hard with the The WordCamp Report, Blog Herald, and this blog to help promote WordCamps all over the world. For those unfamiliar with WordCamp, it is a grassroots gathering, formal or informal, of WordPress fans. It [...]

  50. Old WordPress Versions Under Attack

    → Lorelle on WordPress » WordPress News | 4 Sep 2009 | 4:33 pm MDT

    Otto42 of OttoDestruct, a key WordPress developer and supporter, reports that there is an “attack” on older versions of WordPress right now. The number of sites hit by this is growing every hour. Protect your WordPress blog now: UPDATE NOW!!! Update your WordPress blog before you continue reading this post. That’s how critical this issue is. Things [...]

  51. A new look for Gravatar.com

    → Gravatar Blog | 21 Aug 2009 | 11:32 am MDT

    A few days ago we released an updated look for Gravatar.com.  We really felt that the old front page was cramped, stuffy, and heavy.  So we worked hard to lighten it up, make it more immediately informative, and gave everything a little more room to breathe.  Playing a starring role on the new front page [...]

  52. Summer Blog-b-que for Bloggers

    → Lorelle on WordPress » WordPress News | 18 Aug 2009 | 1:27 pm MDT

    It’s time to celebrate blogging and summer in the Portland, Oregon, area. If you are a blogger, come join the summer Blog-b-que! We’re hosting the first ever Blog-b-que at the home of Lorelle and Brent VanFossen in North Plains, Oregon, on Sunday, August 30, 2009, and you are welcome to join us. We’re inviting WordPress, WordPress.com, [...]

  53. What has been going on in the world of Gravatar

    → Gravatar Blog | 10 Aug 2009 | 2:15 pm MDT

    Coming Soon to a Theater Near You Now you can watch Gravatar, the motion picture! Which was put together by the ever helpful Michael Pick. If you’ve ever had trouble explaining exactly what Gravatar.com does to your friends, family, neighbors, long lost friends, and that dude down the street, then this is the screen [...]

  54. Backing off Blog-by-email

    → westi on wordpress | 6 Aug 2009 | 2:10 pm MDT

    On order to protect email servers from a possible denial of service attack from the blog by email feature of WordPress I have committed a change today to ensure that WordPress will not contact the mail server more that once every 5 minutes however often wp-mail.php is accessed. The 5 minute interval, is itself, configurable using [...]

  55. Captcha conversion conundrum

    → Akismet Blog | 20 Jul 2009 | 3:01 am MDT

    SEOMoz has posted some original research on effect of CAPTCHAs on conversion rates: With CAPTCHA’s on, SPAM and failed conversions accounted for 7.3% of all the conversions for the 3 month period. With CAPTCHA’s off, SPAM conversions accounted for 4.1% of all the conversions for the 3 month period. That possibly means when [...]

  56. New plugin version 2.2.6

    → Akismet Blog | 19 Jul 2009 | 9:57 pm MDT

    Version 2.2.6 of the Akismet plugin for WordPress is released. WordPress users may upgrade using the Plugin Update feature, or by waiting for the forthcoming WordPress 2.8.2 release. This release contains minor fixes only. Upgrading is recommended but not essential. Changes since 2.2.5: Fix a global warning introduced in 2.2.5 Add changelog and additional readme.txt tags Fix an [...]

  57. Making your broken Plugin work again with WordPress 2.8.1

    → westi on wordpress | 15 Jul 2009 | 12:55 am MDT

    WordPress 2.8.1 contains changes to improve the security of plugins by ensuring that only correctly registered plugin pages can be accessed as well as only showing the link to the page to users who have the capability required in the add_x_page call. This change has broken a number of plugins which were adding there menus on [...]

  58. Gravatar .NET control for Silverlight and WPF

    → Gravatar Blog | 10 Mar 2009 | 11:01 am MDT

    Jeff writes in to let us know that he has created an open source Gravatar control for Silverlight and WPF apps available here: http://www.jeff.wilcox.name/2009/03/gravatar-control/ Thanks, Jeff!

  59. Castle MonoRail Lowers the Drawbridge for Gravatar

    → Gravatar Blog | 19 Jan 2009 | 1:37 pm MST

    Andy writes in to tell us that he has instructions for using Gravatar with Castle MonoRail projects in his blog post Integrating Gravatar with Castle MonoRail. Thanks, Andy!

  60. Gravatar with JavaFX

    → Gravatar Blog | 2 Jan 2009 | 2:54 pm MST

    Silveira Neto write in to let us know that he has written an article covering how to use gravatar with JavaFX.  Thanks for the info, Silveira, I’m sure many people will find this to be very useful!



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