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  The Benevolence of the WP Community

  7843 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

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  WordPress Foundation

  1580 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

• WordPress Trademark Donated to WordPress Foundation

  108 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.”

• WordPress Trademark Changes Hands

  112 readersThe WordPress community took a big step forward today when Matt announced that Automattic has donated the WordPress trademark to the non-profit WordPress Foundation. Moving forward, 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

• WordPress Wins Best Open Source CMS Award for 2009

  244 readersWordPress has always been one of the best open source software available for blogging and managing websites, corporate or otherwise. To better that, WordPress has been awarded the Best Open Source CMS Award for 2009

• From Blogger To WordPress

  2050 readersBack on January 22nd, Google notified its Blogger users that effective March 26th, support for publishing via FTP would be discontinued. This announcement prompted at least one individual who relied on this feature to switch from Blogger to WordPress. However, the journey from one platform to another presented some obstacles. Kent Newsome has published a

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  WordPress and Windows Azure

  542 readersThis week I had a unique opportunity to appear at Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles, to demo four open source technologies — WordPress, Apache, MySQL, PHP — running on Microsoft’s new EC2 competitor called Azure. WordPress and Windows Azure probably aren’t the first two things you’d think of together. WordPress has been free

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  Could WordPress.org Benefit From A GitHub Similar Platform?

  683 readersWhen ‘canonical plugins’ for WordPress were announced the post also mentioned that these plugins might have to move to a new structure, setup: In order to have a system like this, each canonical plugin’s development community would probably need similar infrastructure to WordPress itself, including things like Trac, mailing lists, support forums, etc. These things will

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  Plugin: Transforms Your WordPress Blog Into an Ebook

  356 readersAnthologize is a free, open-source, plugin that transforms WordPress 3.0 into a platform for publishing electronic texts. Grab posts from your WordPress blog, import feeds from external sites, or create new content directly within Anthologize. Then outline, order, and edit your work, crafting it into a single volume for export in several formats, including in

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  Plugins 016 – Interview Paul Kehrer Part 1 CDN Tools & Fidgetr

  313 readersThis episode we interview Paul Kehrer, a WordPress user and plugin developer. Paul has written 4 plugins, 2 of which are publicly available called CDN Tools and Fidgetr plugins, both available at wordpress.org. In part 1 of this 2 part interview we talk about developing plugins, web development, HTML5, as well as discussing open source software.