Magazine Theme
Check out “Magazeen”: Free Magazine-Look WordPress Theme. Even better: it’s GPL.
View ArticleAuthentication in WordPress 2.8
Will Norris on the new authentication system in WordPress 2.8.
View ArticleWordPress Authors Wanted
Wiley is looking for savvy WordPress folks to author new books they want to publish. If you love writing and are a WordPress wizard than contact Carol Long.
View ArticleWordPress CodeSniffer
WordPress CodeSniffer Standard. Helps you format your code in wp-style.
View ArticleWired Joins the Family
I wanted to take a moment to welcome Wired.com’s 12 blogs to the WordPress family! (They just completed their switch from Typepad.) I thought this completes my prediction from January that WP would...
View ArticleBuddyPress for the World
Happy to announce that BuddyPress is now available to the world. BuddyPress is a package built on top of WordPress which transforms WP into a social network complete with profiles, friends, messaging,...
View ArticleAFP WordPress / China Article
AFP: Blogging guru chips away at Great Firewall of China — the Agence France-Press talked to me when I was in Hong Kong about the early days of WordPress.com and our experience with the Chinese...
View ArticleqTranslate
I recommended a translation plugin the other day at WordCamp Montreal but couldn’t remember the name. It was qTranslate.
View ArticleAutomattic Aquires AtD
Automattic just purchased a company and service called After the Deadline, an amazingly smart contextual spelling and grammar checker, and can catch errors even the New York Times misses. It’s now live...
View ArticleQ&A: WordPress & Open Source
This one covers how open source creates ownership, the importance of community to WordPress, the role of BuddyPress in social media, open source and government, and the infectious nature of the open...
View ArticleQ&A: WordPress & GPL
In this one we cover the GPL and how it benefits WordPress, why WP is under the GPL, commercial themes, how the GPL fosters innovation, creates value, and affects themes and plugins.
View ArticlePermanently Deleted
“The WordPress people, as good as they are, don’t seem to ken why this ‘convenient’ and possibly life-saving feature creates repercussions and consequences. Like the Senate, it’s all a game to them.”...
View ArticleSecret History of Kubrick
The Secret History of Kubrick, the Blog Theme That Changed the Internet, a nice article by Tina Daunt.
View ArticleCustom CSS
There have been a few requests for the plugin that drives the custom CSS feature on WordPress.com. We wanted to clean it up before releasing, and ended up adding a feature that stores the CSS better...
View ArticleStanford Daily
It looks like the Stanford Daily, Stanford University’s newspaper since 1892, is now on WordPress.
View ArticleWordPress for Chinese on Sina
Interesting note: WordPress Comes To Chinese Users Via Sina.com’s New Cloud Service, costs CNY1 a month.
View ArticleWordCamp San Francisco Hack Day
Hack Day at WordCamp San Francisco went really well. Developers from around the globe met up to work on WordPress. Photos by Sheri Bigelow.
View ArticleWordCamp San Francisco 2013
WordCamp San Francisco 2013 was wonderfully photographed this year by Sheri Bigelow, Kevin Conboy, and Aaron Hockley. (I didn’t take any of these.)
View ArticleWordCamp San Francisco Contributor Day 2013
Photos from WordCamp San Francisco Contributor Day 2013 taken by Sheri Bigelow, Kevin Conboy, and Aaron Hockley.
View ArticleWordCamp San Francisco 2014
Photos from WordCamp San Francisco 2014 taken by Sheri Bigelow.
View ArticleState of the Word 2015
WordPress State of the Word 2015 Here is the State of the Word presentation I delivered on Saturday, and the following Q&A. If you just want to check out the slides, here they are on Slideshare:...
View ArticleCC Search to join WordPress.org
The WordPress community has long advocated for a repository with GPL-compatible images, and it’s time to listen to that need. CC Search, a CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) image search engine, is joining...
View ArticlePrint Magazine on WP
One of my favorite magazines, that I have issues going back to the 40s and 50s, has relaunched and redesigned their site on WordPress and it’s gorgeous. Speaking of great redesigns, the new Grist is...
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