Dave Shea redesigns, the new look is called “Proton.”

Dean offers hosting, and pledges 10% of the fee to anyone who uses WordPress on it. Available for a limited time only. Those specs sound killer. You can’t deny that man’s flair.

“Why are people moving to WordPress? I have absolutely no idea. I hate it.” Me too.

Nikolai Nolan has posted his pictures from SxSW 2004. What’s funny is I know it’s going to kill him that I’m linkblogging this. As usual it has a novel design and presentation. Nikolai is the most underappreciated CSS guru and designer on the web.

“It’s easier to upgrade from MT 2.6 to WordPress than it is from MT 2.6 to MT 3.0.” Usually I stay away from Slashdot comments, but these look pretty good. 😉

WordPress gets slashdotted again. We aren’t even mentioned directly in the article this time but the traffic rush is much more intense. Things were very slow for a few minutes.

Irony in your palm: WordPress PocketPC Theme. Anyone want to try this out and let me know how it looks?

“I’m proud to announce the new and improved, Word/Image Count Plug-In for WordPress 1.2.” Four steps.

Rafe Colburn on Java and PHP.

My honest opinion: Scrivs, we get it, you’re controversial. It’s a good way to get links, but use it too often and you become the designer who cried wolf and people start to tune out. Critiques are good, but there’s a difference between ranting, constructive criticism, and stop energy. Criticism between friends is usually just that, between friends. It takes on a whole new dimension when it’s in the public eye.

Anne asks “May a webpage use H1 multiple times within the same page?” He helped me proof the new WordPress readme before the 1.2 release and mentioned this.

Adam updates Textile 2 for WordPress. Apparently the plugin we included with 1.2 doesn’t have all the features the perl version does. We’ll have to roll this in.

The pinging continues. If you haven’t set http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ to be your default ping in your blog software yet, why not?

Nice Thunderbird theme called Charmel. Best I’ve used. Hat tip: Rick Yribe

Shelley says, “It’s odd, but when I first switched from Movable Type to WordPress, I also thought the interface was ‘unpolished’.” This is a common first impression but an uncommon lasting impression. What could be done to make WordPress a little snazzier for first-time users without compromising the speed and elegance long-time users appreciate?

How to ping Ping-o-Matic in Movable Type. Nice looking blog too.

JournURL is auto-pinging the Ping-o-Matic RPC interface by default. Awesome, and should result in much faster service for JournURL users.

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Even better the upgrade of the site to the new version is now complete. It took all of 30 seconds to do. Only well written software can make things that easy.”

Brad Froehle » Switch to WordPress
“Let me tell you that right now it’s the slickest thing I’ve used.”

Zen, and the Art of Blogging » Upgraded to WordPress 1.2. “That’s right, they’re making it even easier for you to switch from your old blog software to WordPress.”