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  1. Chic & Geek Interview

    → Matt Mullenweg | 2 Sep 2010 | 8:40 am MDT

    On the new Chic & Geek website (no relation to Chic Meets Geek events) I was invited to do a “Questionnaire de Proust” style interview which has just been published in French. Lots of little tidbits that I’ve never talked about before. (Translation here.)

  2. Lorelle’s Mind Blowing WordPress Plugins

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 2 Sep 2010 | 7:00 am MDT

    Lorelle VanFossen has published a recap of her Mind Blowing WordPress Plugins session given on August 29th at OpenCamp in Addison, TX. To Lorelle, “a mind blowing WordPress Plugin is one that breaks the rules. It is unique and original in its implementation, and pushes WordPress. It might not be a Plugin that everyone must

  3. Upcoming WordPress Events

    → Mark on WordPress | 2 Sep 2010 | 12:39 am MDT

    On September 8th, I’ll be at the Tampa Bay WordPress meetup to talk about WordPress custom post types. If you’re a WordPress developer or themer in the area, you should stop by! The meetup is at 7pm at CDB’s Southside in South Tampa. WordCamp Portland is on September 18th and 19th at Webtrends. My talk [...]

  4. Upcoming WordCamps

    → Matt Mullenweg | 1 Sep 2010 | 1:44 pm MDT

    I really enjoyed attending WordCamps in Houston, Savannah, and Salt Lake City the past few weeks. You can always find upcoming WordCamps here, and I’m currently planning on attending Jerusalem (this Sunday), Portland (September 18-19), and Philippines (October 2). I’m looking forward to meeting more of the WordPress community and also answering your questions in [...]

  5. WordPress Care Package

    → Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings » WordPress | 1 Sep 2010 | 11:35 am MDT

    WordPress Care Package: Close-up

    Around the time of the Thesis GPL debates, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg made an offer to send people free t-shirts. [...]

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  6. Equestrian Chase

    → Ryan Boren | 1 Sep 2010 | 7:17 am MDT



  7. WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/01

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 1 Sep 2010 | 7:00 am MDT

    New plugins Facebook Like for Tags converts a standard Facebook Like button from a one-time sharing feature to a one-on-one relationship for ongoing updates and sharing based on tags (keywords) or categories defined by you, the blogger/author. LBAK Google Checkout is aimed mainly at small projects that just want to sell a few things on

  8. Mind Blowing WordPress Plugins

    → Lorelle on WordPress » WordPress News | 31 Aug 2010 | 6:11 pm MDT

    In Dallas, August 29, 2010, at OpenCamp I presented “Mind Blowing WordPress Plugins.” Here are the WordPress Plugins and more features during my presentation. Let me first define what my qualifications for a “mind blowing WordPress Plugin” were, as I had to sift through thousands of Plugins and then filter down to include the following [...]

  9. Lazy Ferret

    → Ryan Boren | 31 Aug 2010 | 3:15 pm MDT

    Passed out on the floor after playing with the kids.

  10. WordPress Mobile Apps for Android and BlackBerry Updated

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 31 Aug 2010 | 7:00 am MDT

    The WordPress mobile apps for Android and BlackBerry have both been updated with some shiny new features, like a new comment notification system and improved VideoPress integration. There’s no word yet on an update to the iOS mobile app, but the team still has its eyes set on making this one a major bug-fixing release.

  11. Latest Kindle

    → Ryan Boren | 30 Aug 2010 | 8:42 pm MDT

    Holding the form factor of a novella length trade paperback that opens up into a bookstore tickles my amazement even more than iPhones and iPads. This latest generation comes the closet yet to making the device disappear and bringing the book forward. Picking it up feels right. This is what you use to get lost [...]

  12. WordPress Theme Releases for 08/30

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 30 Aug 2010 | 7:00 am MDT

    Bombax is a nicely crafted theme with 5 different color schemes and configurable options such as right or left or holy grail or no sidebar, magazine style or traditional style, custom header, and custom background. Lukoo is a simple and stylish theme based around the color green. Modernist is a beautifully built yet transparent theme.

  13. WordPress and the Fatal Memory Error

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 29 Aug 2010 | 7:00 am MDT

    Remember the old days when your computer would crash because you were running too many applications simultaneously? Well, you might be surprised to know that WordPress can fall victim to the very same thing. You see, your server may be packed with 4 GB of RAM, but that doesn’t mean that all 4 GB have

  14. Blue Moo

    → Ryan Boren | 27 Aug 2010 | 6:19 pm MDT

    Sirloin from one of Zoe’s cows.

  15. Vote for these SxSWi WordPress Panels

    → alexking.org » WordPress | 26 Aug 2010 | 1:30 pm MDT

    It’s that time of year to promote your SxSW panels. I’m slated for two WordPress panels I’d like you to consider voting for. Beyond Blogging: WordPress is a CMS – much of the work that we do at Crowd Favorite is creating advanced CMS websites with WordPress. It’s what’s driven us to create the Carrington theme [...]

  16. Sync Privacy

    → Matt Mullenweg | 24 Aug 2010 | 4:58 pm MDT

    Sync took a different tack, and started off with “what if we didn’t want the data? What if even having that data was a failure state?” That led us to cryptography. Sync uses strong crypto to encode your data before it is uploaded. The secret phrase is the key to this encryption, and we never [...]

  17. Thunderbird Extension Lets You Add Gravatars

    → Gravatar Blog | 24 Aug 2010 | 6:41 am MDT

    By downloading the “Display Contact Photo” extension from Thunderbird, you can now view Gravatars, creating a personalized touch to all your email messages: How to Install To set this up, first follow the download and installation directions found on the extension page above. Then, to specifically enable Gravatars, follow these steps: 1. Go to Tools [...]

  18. Akismet plugin 2.4 for WordPress

    → Akismet Blog | 23 Aug 2010 | 1:20 am MDT

    Version 2.4 of the Akismet plugin for WordPress is available now. This is a maintenance release that fixes some bugs, and includes some preparation for new features in a forthcoming version. Major changes include: * Akismet now uses the trash bin when deleting old comments (WP 2.9+ only) * Legacy code needed for WordPress versions [...]

  19. Leo Loves Blogging

    → Matt Mullenweg | 22 Aug 2010 | 2:02 pm MDT

    Buzz Kill, where Leo Laporte describes the re-ignition of his love affair with blogging over micro-blogging.

  20. Ma.tt Themes Released

    → Matt Mullenweg | 21 Aug 2010 | 12:52 pm MDT

    As I announced today at WordCamp Savannah, I’m releasing two of my old designs as themes for any WordPress blog. (See slides here.) If you’re one of the thousands of people who’ve asked me how I do my galleries here on this site, now you can look at the actual code in the Matala theme. [...]

  21. Cabin Boy

    → Ryan Boren | 19 Aug 2010 | 5:57 pm MDT



  22. My Portfolio Site: dougal.us

    → Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings » WordPress | 18 Aug 2010 | 9:32 am MDT

    dougal.us maximus

    If you looked closely at the business card image in my previous post, you might have noticed that the URL on the card isn’t for this blog. I set up a separate portfolio site using the dougal.us domain that I’ve been sitting on for quite some time. [...]

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  23. Mind Blowing WordPress Plugins: Officers Directory and Contextual Help Menus

    → Lorelle on WordPress » WordPress News | 16 Aug 2010 | 1:21 pm MDT

    I will be presenting a session on “Mind Blowing WordPress Plugins” at OpenCamp in Dallas, August 27-29, 2010, and I want to introduce you to some of the WordPress Plugins I will be talking about to tease and tempt you, as well as to showcase the innovations that are out there in the WordPress Plugin [...]

  24. Twitter Tools 2.4 (OAuth Support)

    → alexking.org » WordPress | 15 Aug 2010 | 11:37 pm MDT

    Version 2.4 of my Twitter Tools plugin for WordPress is now available. Twitter Tools creates a full two-way integration between your WordPress site and Twitter. You can send your posts to Twitter, archive your tweets and create posts from them, and more. This version has the following changes and is a must upgrade due to [...]

  25. Twitter Tools OAuth Update

    → alexking.org » WordPress | 13 Aug 2010 | 11:00 pm MDT

    Quick update: I still hate the user experience I’m stuck with implementing, but we’ve got it working. I expect to push out an update to the plugin Sunday that will replace the current authentication with OAuth. Assuming all goes well, this version will merely be a stopgap. I plan to replace it with a new version [...]

  26. Carrington Build Q&A

    → alexking.org » WordPress | 11 Aug 2010 | 1:33 pm MDT

    I’ve been collecting questions for the last few days for an O’Grady-style Q&A on Carrington Build. Is Carrington Build a plugin or a theme? Carrington Build isn’t a traditional WordPress product (a single theme or plugin). It is probably best thought of as the foundation or feature of a theme (for example, a component of our Carrington [...]

  27. APC Object Cache Backend for WordPress

    → Mark on WordPress | 6 Aug 2010 | 9:21 am MDT

    I wrote the original APC Object Cache backend for WordPress back in 2006. Shared it via a link on the wp-hackers list, and until a few days ago, hadn’t touched it since. It has now been updated to version 2.0.1, and should work more efficiently. It supports increment/decrement, and you can now use it to [...]

  28. Carrington Build Pricing Structure

    → alexking.org » WordPress | 4 Aug 2010 | 5:18 pm MDT

    The reaction to yesterday’s launch of Carrington Build has been overwhelming. We knew we had created something we were proud of, but it’s extremely gratifying to see so many other people excited about it as well. My post yesterday was pretty long and really only scratched the surface. For example, I didn’t go into details on [...]

  29. Gravatar Gets Around

    → Gravatar Blog | 3 Aug 2010 | 10:08 am MDT

    Since our last update, we’ve spotted a number of implementations of Gravatar around the web that we think are pretty neat. Here are a couple of them: MailChimp now supports Gravatar, loading them up as part of the member profile for any subscribers who belong to mailing lists you manage. Yoav emailed to let us [...]

  30. WordPress 3.0.1

    → WordPress News | 29 Jul 2010 | 3:38 pm MDT

    After nearly 11 million downloads of WordPress 3.0 in just 42 days, we’re releasing WordPress 3.0.1. The requisite haiku: Three dot oh dot one Bug fixes to make you smile Update your WordPress This maintenance release addresses about 50 minor issues. The testing many of you contributed prior to the release of 3.0 helped make [...]

  31. Bookmarklet to install a WordPress Plugin

    → Mark on WordPress | 27 Jul 2010 | 1:59 pm MDT

    As a followup to my previous post, I’ve created a bookmarklet that you can use to install a WordPress plugin. While viewing a plugin in the WordPress Plugin Directory, click this bookmarklet, and you’ll be guided in installing that plugin on your site. Here’s a screencast showing it in action!

  32. “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 [...]

  33. Plugin installer tool

    → Mark on WordPress | 24 Jul 2010 | 6:39 pm MDT

    Remember when you had to install WordPress plugins by uploading them manually via FTP? I do. Heck, I remember when there weren’t plugins, and you had to copy and paste PHP code! We’ve come a long way, but I realized the other day that there is one more way that we could improve ease of [...]

  34. PHP 4 and MySQL 4 End of Life Announcement

    → WordPress News | 23 Jul 2010 | 1:01 pm MDT

    Our approach with WordPress has always been to make it run on common server configurations. We want users to have flexibility when choosing a host for their precious content. Because of this strategy, WordPress runs pretty much anywhere. Web hosting platforms, however, change over time, and we occasionally are able to reevaluate some of the [...]

  35. WordCamp slides featured on Slideshare

    → Mike Little's Journalized | 21 Jul 2010 | 8:29 am MDT

    My WordCamp UK presentation slides are featured on the SlideShare front page today. Continue reading →

  36. Business Cards

    → Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings » WordPress | 21 Jul 2010 | 6:00 am MDT

    I finally got around to ordering some new personal/business cards for myself a few days ago. I’m no designer, but I think they look fairly decent. After I had put the order in, I thought of a couple of things I might have changed, but I’m not going to worry about it at this point. [...]

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  37. Do you appreciate Akismet?

    → Akismet Blog | 20 Jul 2010 | 9:37 am MDT

    If so, please take a moment to leave a short comment on this post letting us know! We’re working on a new site design and would love to include some new testimonials whether you just started being protected by Akismet or if it’s been safeguarding your site for 5+ years now.

  38. WordPress Q & A: Week of July 19th, 2010

    → Mark on WordPress | 18 Jul 2010 | 11:11 pm MDT

    Iva asks: For us who use shared/clustered hosting solutions, there a good and free way to run WordPress 3.0 with a couple of sub-sites using more than one database? Check out HyperDB. It does exactly this! Paul asks: How can someone make sure that their theme is compatible with the latest WordPress version? I presume [...]

  39. WordCamp UK 2010 Presentation – Core Plugins

    → westi on wordpress | 17 Jul 2010 | 8:27 am MDT

    This morning I did a short presentation on core plugins at WordCamp UK.  It ended up quite short with a long Q&A session with great feedback from the audience.  Here are the sides:

  40. WordCamp UK A Few Places Left

    → Mike Little's Journalized | 15 Jul 2010 | 1:44 pm MDT

    Tickets still available for WordCamp UK this weekend. Continue reading →

  41. Important People

    → Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings » WordPress | 15 Jul 2010 | 5:59 am MDT

    Dougal Avatar

    I just wanted to state, for the record, that “I am one of the three most important people in WordPress.”

    Also, I am a self-proclaimed Bubble-ologist.

    If you don’t know what I’m talking about, listen to the Mixergy interview with Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg concerning WordPress, Thesis, and the GPL. [...]

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  42. WordCamp UK, Manchester July 17-18 2010

    → Mike Little's Journalized | 4 Jul 2010 | 6:28 am MDT

    The third annual WordCamp UK is taking place later this month -- July 17-18th -- in Manchester, at the Manchester Metropolitan University Business School. I'll be there, will you? Continue reading →

  43. 100 Million Plugin Downloads and Counting

    → WordPress News | 2 Jul 2010 | 11:48 am MDT

    WordPress 3.0 Thelonious passed 3 million downloads yesterday, and today the plugin directory followed suit with a milestone of its own: 100 million downloads. The WordPress community’s growth over the years has been tremendous, and we want to reinvest in it. So we’re taking the next two months to concentrate on improving WordPress.org. A major [...]

  44. Downtime

    → Akismet Blog | 30 Jun 2010 | 1:53 pm MDT

    This morning around 9 AM CST there was a database error that ended up causing API slowness for 3-4 minutes, which could have manifested itself on your end as timeouts or spam getting through. Although the downtime was short it did alert us to a weakness in our system we’ll address so this won’t happen [...]

  45. Summer of WordCamp

    → WordPress News | 29 Jun 2010 | 11:19 am MDT

    It’s been summer for about a week now. Whether you’re on vacation or burning the midnight oil, attending a local/nearby WordCamp is a great way to spend a weekend. Meet other WordPress users, developers, designers & consultants, learn a little something, maybe share a little of your own experience and knowledge, and break bread (or [...]

  46. Book Review: Digging Into WordPress

    → Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings » WordPress | 29 Jun 2010 | 9:33 am MDT

    A couple of weeks ago, I won an eBook version of Digging Into WordPress from a giveaway on Twitter. This book was authored by Chris Coyier and Jeff Star, who are both successful WordPress developers, well known in the community. [...]

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  47. Profile Pages <3 hCard

    → Gravatar Blog | 22 Jun 2010 | 2:26 pm MDT

    Did you know that your profile pages are fully marked up using hCard? hCard is a microformat for programmatically embedding information about people, companies, organizations, and places in HTML and other markup languages. The screenshot below describes some of the main markup involved on a profile page Email address marked up with class=email (only available [...]

  48. Picture Finder

    → Gravatar Blog | 21 Jun 2010 | 3:23 pm MDT

    Thanks to an email from the creator, we’ve been made aware of this really neat Gravatar-powered application for Mac users. Picture Finder is a free (but please donate!) application for Mac OSX 10.6 users that allows you to control the images that appear in Address Book on your system (which will also sync to your [...]

  49. WordPress 3.0 "Thelonious"

    → WordPress News | 17 Jun 2010 | 10:26 am MDT

    Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow [...]

  50. Introducing menu_page_url()

    → westi on wordpress | 10 Jun 2010 | 3:50 pm MDT

    We’ve just added a new api into WordPress 3.0 to make plugin writing that bit easier – #13829 It is now really easy to get the url for a plugin page that you have registered to make it easy to link between different plugin pages. You use the new function like this: add_options_page('Best Evar Menu', [...]

  51. Public Profiles For Everyone

    → Gravatar Blog | 2 Jun 2010 | 2:12 pm MDT

    Back in March when we announced Gravatar profiles, your profile page remained private so that only you could access it. Now that you’ve had a chance to update your information and make sure that only details you want public are there, let’s open things up. It’s been just over 2 months and more than 300,000 [...]

  52. Akismet plugin 2.2.9

    → Akismet Blog | 2 Jun 2010 | 12:47 am MDT

    Version 2.2.9 of the Akismet plugin for WordPress is now available. This version fixes a conflict in 2.2.8 that could potentially lead to spurious spam or ham reports on blogs that use other spam filtering plugins in conjunction with Akismet. The conflict does not affect accuracy, but may in some circumstances cause incorrect stats. Users [...]

  53. Akismet plugin 2.2.8

    → Akismet Blog | 26 May 2010 | 11:36 pm MDT

    Version 2.2.8 of the Akismet plugin for WordPress is now available. Changes in this version include better diagnostic checks, and fixes for a bug that prevented false positive reports from being submitted in some circumstances. Users of modern WordPress versions can upgrade by following the prompts in the wp-admin dashboard.

  54. Seven Years Since WordPress 0.7

    → Mike Little's Journalized | 26 May 2010 | 5:00 pm MDT

    It was seven years ago today that WordPress was first released . Just a few months after it's inception. Continue reading →

  55. Happy Sixth Birthday Millie

    → Mike Little's Journalized | 4 May 2010 | 5:00 pm MDT

    Happy Birthday Millie Six today! Lots of love, Uncle Mike, Auntie Jan, and Jamie xoxoxo

  56. Themes and WordPress 3.0 some important changes

    → westi on wordpress | 3 May 2010 | 4:55 am MDT

    During the development of WordPress 3.0 we have made a number of changes under the hood which will be of interest to the developers and users of themes.  Some of these changes are about making themes easier to develop and some of them are about making it easier to support the override of parts of [...]

  57. 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 [...]

  58. 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 [...]

  59. 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 [...]

  60. 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 [...]



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