Oh yes. This is why I love going to WordCamps. Silly stuff like this that you can laugh about later.…

On September 8th, I’ll be at the Tampa Bay WordPress meetup to talk about WordPress custom post types. If you’re a WordPress developer or themer in the area, you should stop by! The meetup is at 7pm at CDB’s Southside…

I wrote the original APC Object Cache backend for WordPress back in 2006. Shared it via a link on the wp-hackers list, and until a few days ago, hadn’t touched it since. It has now been updated to version 2.0.1,…

As a followup to my previous post, I’ve created a bookmarklet that you can use to install a WordPress plugin. While viewing a plugin in the WordPress Plugin Directory, click this bookmarklet, and you’ll be guided in installing that plugin…

Remember when you had to install WordPress plugins by uploading them manually via FTP? I do. Heck, I remember when there weren’t plugins, and you had to copy and paste PHP code! We’ve come a long way, but I realized…

Our approach with WordPress has always been to make it run on common server configurations. We want users to have flexibility when choosing a host for their precious content. Because of this strategy, WordPress runs pretty much anywhere. Web hosting…

Iva asks: For us who use shared/clustered hosting solutions, there a good and free way to run WordPress 3.0 with a couple of sub-sites using more than one database? Check out HyperDB. It does exactly this! Paul asks: How can…

In the past few days, WordPress has become entangled in a debate about WordPress theme licensing. It was specifically centered around Thesis, one of the last notable proprietary theme holdouts. Chris Pearson, who develops and sells Thesis, refuses to license…

Brad asks: What’s the optimal way to store large amounts of meta data for a taxonomy without creating a custom table in WordPress? WordPress has meta tables for the site (options table), posts, comments and users. It lacks a table…

I’ve set up a question submission form where you can send me interesting WordPress-related questions. They can be seeking advice on everything from usage, to hardcore plugin and theme development issues. I’ll periodically pick a good one and answer it…

WordPress is the number one user-installed web app, and its growth is showing no signs of slowing. If you are a web host, and you don’t have a specific strategy for WordPress, you’re likely operating your service inefficiently, and may…

The following is a non-exhaustive list of things you can do to get your plugin rejected or removed from the WordPress.org plugin directory. Yes, this is tongue-in-cheek. This is a list of things NOT TO DO. Give it a license…

I have several WordPress plugins. They’re hosted on the WordPress.org plugin repository, but I also have a page for each plugin on my own site. I’ve found it tedious to have to update both places separately. Things get out of…