WordPress Bar WordPress Plugin
Hate those bars that so many sites are now putting at the top of your screen when you click a link, then this will make you fuming. Seems like some enterprising person has created a plugin to create...
View ArticleNo More WordPress 2.0.x Updates?
Looks like the final nail has been put in the 2.0 branch, as the WordPress blog lets us know that it has been marked as deprecated. The WordPress team had initially committed to maintaining the...
View Article48 Resources, Tips, Tricks & Themes
While we weren’t part of the list, (for-shame!) I did want to point out the 48 Resources, Tips, Tricks & Themes post on Thinkdesign. Today I’m bringing you a bunch of WordPress resources. As I’m...
View ArticleWordPress 2.8.3 Released: Security Release Again
It seems someone on the WordPress team wants me to have to work hard as they pushed out another release today that will have me scrambling around to various sites to upgrade WordPress. Seems that they...
View ArticleWordPress.com – Its History
Jeff has written up a great post about the history of WordPress.com and includes screenshots from the last while, and it makes for a fun tour down memory lane for me as I have been a WordPress fan...
View ArticlePress This: a New WordPress Podcast
Joost de Valk, a well known WordPress community member has joined the likes of WordPress Weekly, and other WordPress related podcasts in chatting about the open source project. His new show, Press...
View ArticleWordPress Plugin: Advanced Exporter
A feature I’ve been wondering about for a while is the built-in export tool in WordPress. I’ve always found it really limited in nature and use. It was always designed more as a migration tool or a...
View ArticleWordPress.com July Wrap-up
I haven’t posted about one of these in a while, but I really love numbers, and these wrap-ups are just amazing. Here are July’s stats: 394,609 blogs were created. 5,666,839 posts were published....
View ArticleWordPress 2.8.4 Released: Security Update
I am not even sure that we should be posting about new releases any longer, with the 2.0 branch of WordPress dead, everyone should be running a version of WordPress that notifies you of new releases...
View ArticleHow to Report Abuse to WordPress.com
This might get a little confusing, but hopefully you can follow along. Over on Lorelle.WordPress.com, Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today has written a post about reporting abuse and spam to...
View ArticleWordPress Plugin: Minimum Password Length
Will Anderson, @itsananderson on Twitter, saw me ask if there was a Minimum Password Length plugin for WordPress, and if there wasn’t, would someone code something, and Will, being more than helpful,...
View ArticleGravity Forms Requirements Check
With Gravity Forms, a plugin I’ll probably be talking a lot about in the coming weeks, months and maybe even years, coming closer to being released, the team at Rocket Genius have released a plugin to...
View ArticleWordPress Plugin: Gravity Forms Released
Today, Gravity Forms version 1.0 was released to the general public, and for $39, $99 or $199 you can purchase your own licensed version of Gravity Forms, the ultimate plugin for getting data from your...
View ArticleModThemes.com Launches
Looking for a new Premium Theme company to buy your products off of, then you’ll be happy to know Nathan Rice has created a new company called ModThemes. As you know, I live and breathe WordPress code...
View ArticleSitePoint Podcast: WordPress with Matt Mullenweg
Sitepoint has recently released their twenty-fifth episode of their podcast, and this time round they have Matt Mullenweg on to talk about WordPress and more. Brad: Why don’t you take a second to just...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Custom Fields
One of the most confusing thing about WordPress is custom fields. The shame of it is that custom fields are one of the most powerful features of WordPress, allowing you to do all kinds of very...
View ArticleA Story of Fear: WordPress Hacks
I went away from home, on a micro weekend vacation, and on arrival to where I was staying there were numerous e-mails waiting in my account. It seems as though old versions of WordPress were being...
View ArticleWordPress Cheat Sheet
There are numerous cheat sheets for WordPress, and they’ll continue to be created, edited and re-released, but I wanted to highlight a new one for those in search of one that fits the bill for...
View ArticleScreencast: WordPress 2.9 Image Editing
For the longest time, I’ve been waiting for WordPress to handle images better, and allow built in editing tools. Most people don’t have Photoshop, or even understand how to use most basic image editing...
View ArticleRSS Cloud and WordPress
I’ve never had much issue with RSS, but some people say it was a dying format. Unlike the “real time web” of Twitter, Facebook and other services, the data from RSS wasn’t getting polled often enough...
View ArticleWordPress Role Management: New Plugin
I’ve never been happy with how WordPress deals with user permissions and roles. I’ve always wanted to customize it further, and while it is supposedly possible to do without a plugin, having a nice...
View ArticleEpic Episode of WordPress Weekly Podcast
Recently, Jeff and I had a great episode of WordPress Weekly that I hope more people will listen to. The episode contains our thoughts on WordPress releases, its user base and its management of press...
View ArticleShort Inside View of StudioPress
Jeff appears to have a great article up regarding StudioPress, and it helps answer some common questions about the company, its goals, and direction. If you are interested in knowing what Brian Gardner...
View ArticleNo Long Term Support Version of WordPress Planned
One of the things that was discussed on a recent episode of WordPress Weekly Podcast was the idea of bringing back a long term support (LTS) release of WordPress like they did with the 2.0 branch up...
View ArticleNo More SimplePie Development
I’ve used SimplePie for a few projects, and so I was sad to find out, via WPTavern, that SimplePie is shutting down development. From the Blog Post: So effective immediately, we are ceasing development...
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