“The best zoo in the world has weblogs now.” The new San Diego Zoo blog is powered by WordPress too. Hat tip: Matt Haughey.
Category Archives: Press
Podshow
The buzz is Podshow got over 8 million dollars for their company. As was noted on Photo Matt before, “all of adam curry’s podshow affiliates are using wordpress across the network.” Regardless of that, I’m wishing them the best in their new venture. They have a killer board.
More Trackback Spam
Came across two interesting posts today Trackback spam a nightmare and Fighting Trackback spam. Although I appreciate the praise for all we’ve done thus far in WordPress to address these problems, I think we’ve got a lot left to do and this is still an area of very active development.
The Word is WYSI
It’s official now, the excellent TinyMCE has been integrated into WordPress 1.6. The real test after the search was if I could use it on a day to day basis, even though I normally can’t stand WYSIWYG-type things. With this integration I’ve actually found it more enjoyable to use and the code it produces is top-notch. Of course if you don’t like it, there’s a new checkbox to disable it under Options > Writing.
Mac Tips
Mac Tips looks clean, has nice content, and runs WordPress. Hat tip: Geof.
Sitemeter Blog
Sitemeter provides stats for more sites than I could ever count, and their weblog runs WordPress. Hat tip: Richard Eriksson.
New Dreamhost Blog
The new Dreamhost blog is powered by WordPress, of course. Hat tip: Kathleen.
BBR: Good to Great
Binary Book Review — Good to Great, Jim Collins: 1.
BBR: Selling the Invisible
Binary Book Review — Selling the Invisible, Harry Beckwith: 1.
BBR: Origin of Brands
Binary Book Review — The Origin of Brands, Al Ries and Laura Ries: 0.
Podcast Interview
At Gnomedex John Furrier interviewed me and the results are now online, John was a lot of fun to chat with. I hope we do it again sometime. PodTech.net is one of my favorite podcast sites.
WordPress.com
You can now sign up to be notified about WordPress.com. Tell your friends! First come, first serve. Thanks again to Ric Johnson for releasing the domain to us.
Forbes.com Best of Web
WordPress wins Forbes.com Best of Web and Favorite award for blog tools! “In February, open source blogging application WordPress came out with its release 1.5, and we’ve found that this release puts WordPress squarely ahead of its competition.” Our number of downloads has more than doubled since that was written. Hat tip: Niall Kennedy.
Weblog Wannabe
Weblog Wannabe is switching to WordPress. The site has won several Bloggies, usually for design.
On Podcasting
More love from Apple.com: “IMHO WordPress is the best single user blogging system available (did I mention its free?) […] I came accross this really simple tutorial on how to use WordPress as a podcasting engine … take a look at it. What is so amazing is how easy it really is! Before you know it, you’ll have thousands of listeners, be listed in the iTunes 4.9 Podcasting Directory, and be a media darling.” We’re turning the media darling thing into a plugin in 1.6. Hat tip: Pete Quily.
Ryan in SF
WordPress Ryan is coming to town so let’s show him a good time with a WP meetup. I’ll be hosting an after-party at my place.
Sort WP with Greasemonkey
Greasemonkey has gotten a bit of bad hype lately, but it’s still incredibly useful and relevant. Check out this user script that allows you to sort table rows in WordPress using Greasemonkey. BTW, a better sorting algo should be able to deal with no leading zeroes on rows.
Mac-like WordPress
The day after the Apple news comes TUAW asking WordPress: Most Mac-like Blogging Tool?. The comments are interesting too, someone points out another Apple weblog using WordPress that I had never heard about before.
DOM Scripting Task Force
The new Web Standards DOM Scripting Task Force is using WordPress for their site.
Dawn and Drew on WordPress
Drew from the Dawn & Drew Show wrote in: “hi matt, i just wanted to drop you a line letting you know how much i enjoy using wordpress. i went from blogger to movabletype to wordpress and i’m digging it very much. i’m half of the dawn and drew podcast and wasn’t sure if you know about podcasting or not, but all of adam curry’s podshow affiliates are using wordpress across the network. i’m in the process of redoing adam’s site in wordpress now.”