Category Archives: Press

Interviews, profiles, and media coverage.

Hidden Gem

September 15, 2005Humor, Press, WordPress, WordPress.comMatt

Some of the funniest original content on WordPress.com has been coming from Mike of Because the World is Round, it’s worth checking it out and reading through the archives.

Meebo IM

September 14, 2005Press, WordPressIMMatt

Meebo is IM Chat 2.0, and in the tradition of many Web 2.0 ventures they have a WordPress blog. Hat tip: Derkilicious.

WordPress Hooks

September 13, 2005Press, WordPressMatt

Fantastic database of WordPress plugin hooks.

Poetry is Microsoft

September 10, 2005Microsoft, Press, WordPressMatt

Has Microsoft stolen WordPress’ tagline? (Note: I’m sure someone in 1970 probably said “Code is Poetry” at DEC or something. 😉 But it has been the WordPress tagline since day 1.)

New Dashboard

September 9, 2005Press, WordPressMatt

Blogs on WordPress.com have a new dashboard which highlights the community content more.

Web 2.0 Show

August 30, 2005Interview, Podcast, PressSkype, Web 2.0Matt

There is a new “Web 2.0 Show” (on podcast of course) that interviewed me as part of their innagural podcast. The Skype call quality was pretty bad, I must have been too close to the mic on my Powerbook or something. They said they’re fixing that for future shows.

AJAX and CSRF

August 28, 2005Press, WordPressAJAX, CSRF, Security, Web DevelopmentMatt

When working on some new AJAX features for bbPress and WordPress we’ve noticed that AJAX requests don’t seem to send HTTP_REFERER values. We check referrers as one level of protection against cross-site-scripting, or XSS, so when they’re not set we aren’t able to use that value. How are most people using AJAX protecting against XSS? It seems the same things we’re doing to make things easily accesible in a dynamic fashion are also opening new vectors for attack.

Invite Giveaway

August 25, 2005Press, WordPressMatt

Well you can buy one on ebay for $25 (and growing), you can guess how much the ebay invite is going to go for, or you can read Photo Matt. 🙂 I’ll send an invite to the person who leaves the best comment or ping about how they would use their WordPress.com blog, if they had one. I’ll pick a comment 12 hours from this post, so about 1:15 PM PST.

Rogue Switches

August 24, 2005Press, WordPressMatt

The Rogue Librarian (better known as Carrie Bickner) has switched to WordPress as well as a new design. Looks lovely!

Website You Needed

August 22, 2005Press, WordPressMatt

WordPress, or “How I finally built the website I needed”.

Invite on eBay

August 21, 2005Press, WordPressMatt

There is a WordPress.com invite on eBay already. 🙂

Sitepoint Switches

August 19, 2005Press, WordPressMatt

Sitepoint has switched their blogs to WordPress, which I find amusing since in 2001 I joined SitePoint to learn more about web stuff and their PHP/MySQL tutorial was probably the first I used. Here they talk about integrating WP with vBulletin. Hat tip: EasyRew and Josh Lavin via email.

WYSIWYG Screenshots

August 18, 2005Press, WordPressMatt

Owen has a nice animated screenshot of the new WYSIWYG features in WordPress. By the way, I’ll be doing the first public demo of WP 1.6 and WordPress.com tomorrow morning at 8 AM at the Blog Business Summit.

Getting Close

August 17, 2005Press, WordPressMatt

The WordPress download counter is about to break half a million!

Blogging BBS

August 17, 2005Press, WordPressMatt

I’m blogging about the Blog Business Summit over on my WordPress.com blog. Here’s the feed.

Russ Switches

August 17, 2005Press, WordPressMatt

Russ switched to WordPress and has written a little bit about it. His permalinks are still a little funky, but they match his old system and in terms of content the transition from his custom CMS seems to have been pretty seemless.