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3439 readersThe WordPress Blog came out with some good news for the Open source and GPL community. Matt Mullenweg has officially started out the WordPress Foundation, a charitable organization to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software.
2537 readersThe point of the foundation is to ensure free access, in perpetuity, to the projects we support. People and businesses may come and go, so it is important to ensure that the source code for these projects will survive beyond the current contributor base, that we may create a stable platform for web publishing for
4102 readersI’ve updated my BuddyPress Blog Author Link plugin for WordPress 3.0. I also added support for a single WordPress install. You can download it here. June 28, 2010 — Another Featured Posts update (12) July 21, 2010 — Theme Stats Updated (0) June 27, 2010 — Network Privacy (9) June 21, 2010 — Everything you
6560 readersBoth Andrea & I will be speaking at WordCamp Montreal. Andrea & I have had a fantastic time at every WordCamp we have attended and we enjoy meeting other people who use WordPress. If you have never been to one, this will be a great one for you to attend. Whatever you are doing with
4850 readersSomeone reported that my Featured Posts plugin wasn’t working. I tracked it down to the download zip containing the old admin page vs the updated one. I updated the repository. Original plugin post Download it from the repo: Featured Posts June 29, 2010 — BuddyPress Author Link (0) July 21, 2010 — Theme Stats Updated
9896 readersEarly in the development of WordPress 3.0, we had a preliminary discussion on changing the WordPress database class (wpdb) so that it could be inherited by plugins implementing a custom database class. We had a longer discussion on the subject while together at WordCamp San Francisco. As a result, there was a small change to
7356 readersFor the past two weeks, I’ve barely come up for air, and I’ve seriously neglected my social networks!
We completed 17 technical print brochures for one client, took three new WordPress sites live, created an entire set of event materials, including two 70+ page workbooks, designed two logos, designed an information product, launched a complete
4264 readersWith news of the merge of the Wordpress & WordPressMU codebase becoming more widespread, one of the questions I get asked with increasing frequency is should someone start a new site based on MU or should they wait for the merge.
My answer? It depends.
Is it time-critical? Do you need it up and running sooner rather
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1537 readersMark your calendars: WordCamp San Francisco, the official annual WordPress conference, will be August 12-14, 2011. This year will mark the 5th anniversary of WordCamp, and as always will feature Matt Mullenweg’s “State of the Word” address as well as a variety of amazing speakers that you’d normally only get to see at expensive industry
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3560 readersWordPress.com has launched Subscriptions, a new web-based feed aggregator for WordPress.com users. While feeds from WordPress.com blogs can easily be subscribed to by clicking “Subscribe” in the admin bar, you can add any feed by selecting “Manage Blog Subscriptions” under the new Subscriptions tab on the WordPress.com home screen. The features of Subscriptions are firmly