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3691 readersAutomattic has officially donated the WordPress trademark to the non-profit WordPress Foundation. To quote the official announcement by Jane Wells, “the Foundation will be responsible for safeguarding the trademarked name and logo from misuse toward the end of protecting WordPress and preventing confusion among people trying to figure out if a resource is ‘official’ or not.”
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2500 readersRunning a WordPress site on your local machine is a great way to do development. I’ve taken advantage of this to do development while on flights (and yes, I realize that in about 5 years it’s going to seem positively quaint that there used to be flights without Internet access).
Today, I’d like to tackle two
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3441 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.
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2538 readersThe Google Summer of Code 2011 application period has begun, and WordPress is accepting applications from eager students. There’s a lot of talent out there ready to shine, and the development team is excited to see what new and great things will...
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8852 readersThis post will be short and to the point: Dan Roundhill announced that a new version of WordPress for Android has been released, fixing numerous bugs and adding the ability to set post status from within the app. Version 1.3.8 hit the Android Market today. For more details, check out the post on the WordPress
3701 readersAttention Apple-gadget-owning WordPress users! Have you been using the WordPress iOS app for iPhone and iPad? Or maybe you tried it a while back and thought it wasn’t for you? Either way, the new release — v2.6 — will knock your socks off. Why? A bunch of reasons: Video. Record, upload, attach, and play videos
9363 readersWe are very pleased to announce that WordPress for iOS Version 2.6.1 is now available in the App Store. This release addresses issues many of our users reported with Version 2.6. Like always, we owe a great deal of thanks and credit to the WordPress community for providing us with such amazing feedback. Your comments,
4321 readersThere is some good news for all of the Windows Phone 7 / WordPress users out there, Windows Phone 7 now has a WordPress application available. In the first version of the application, you can edit posts and pages, upload photos, check stats, and last but not least, moderate comments. At some point in the
882 readersHere’s a scary thought for most bloggers. At some point, most likely, you’re going to screw up your site in a very bad way.
Computers are finicky things and your site is no different. With one wrong move you are more than liable to blow your site up, making it either extremely ugly or entirely unusable
16124 readersOver the weekend, there was yet another awesome WordCamp over in Boston. I am still bummed we were unable to go. But! We followed along at home, and there was some great news.
WPcares was launched during the event to raise money for Haiti. The original goal was $1,000. Last I checked, it was over $3,000