71Miles is a cool new travel site with a twist PM readers will find interesting — it’s built with WordPress. How? Adam Rugel writes “The nuts and bolts of our site is WordPress, it’s our foundation and content management system. We extended it to manage our content feeds: Google Calendar XML for the events calendar, map, and mobile product and Kayak’s brand new hotel API for the hotel deals. We tricked out the custom fields in WP to do a lot the work for us, and we’ve got the categories set up so that we can scale to roll out dozens of editions (NYC, LA, Chicago…). At any rate we’re loving the platform…” Definitely one of the coolest uses of the WordPress framework I’ve seen in a while.
Category Archives: WordPress
USPS and Speaker.gov
Jim Amos just wrote in that Campbell-Ewald launched a new WordPress-powered site for the US Postal Service, called Deliver Magazine. Congrats to Jim and Naoko McCracken! Ryan noticed the other day that Nancy Pelosi has a WordPress blog at Speaker.gov called The Gavel. Cool domain name, and good to see WP being used in the political realm, especially since none of the Presidential candidates for 2008 are using WP (yet). If you come across or instigate WordPress being used someplace cool, be sure to write in.
MooPress
Jeremy Keith just pinged me via IM that Moo.com, the cool printing guys, use WP to power their entire site.
WordPress Rap
The fellow who did the WordPress song video has now done a rap song for version 2.1. 🙂
Math for the Masses
Math for the Masses, WordPress.com now support Latex formatting. Happy Friday!
IdeaExchange
Salesforce’s IdeaExchange, Yahoo! Suggestions, Feedlounge & WordPress Ideas – What Do They Have in Common? A neat look at different people’s takes on the suggestions part of user feedback. I like seeing how other people approach a similar problem, especially if they’re older than us, because there’s always something to learn.
PHP5 Issues
Dreamhost upgrades their servers to PHP 5.2 (newer is better, right?) and most of their PHP5 customers break. WP 2.1 had a lot of workarounds in it just to run under 5.2. That’s stupid. I’m sure there is a perfectly rational reason why PHP core was “forced” to break existing scripts, but constantly shooting your users in the foot isn’t a good way for PHP to stay relevant. (I write this as someone whose entire company and livelihood is based on PHP.)
bbPress Desmond
bbPress 0.8 “Desmond” Released! bbPress is starting to pick up the things we found worked best in WordPress.
2.1 downloads
Version 2.1 of WordPress has been downloaded an average of 19,483 times a day since it was released. The increased traffic on the site as a result has put a strain of the single server it runs on, we’re adding more soon.
2007 Resolutions
- Not be so late with things like resolutions.
- Make my writing shorter. Because… nevermind.
- Read 2 offline books a month.
- File taxes on time.
- Do 3 major releases of WordPress.
- Get Wii tennis score to 4000.
- Eat more regular meals.
- Release 3 new Open Source projects.
- Normalize sleep schedule.
- Throw out clothes I don’t wear, junk I don’t need.
- Keep inbox in the single or double digits.
- Stop trying to do everything myself.
- Take it to thirteen.
2.1 and Forward
I almost forgot to blog it here, WordPress 2.1 is out and everyone should upgrade. We have shiny download buttons. It has been downloaded 52,216 times in about 24 hours. Now the real fun starts in development, for example I just checked in Atom API support to the 2.2 trunk, and other goodies around APIs and syndication.
WP-Pillow
WordPress 2.1 RC1
Enrique Dans Switch
For the Spanish speakers in the crowd, noted blogger Enrique Dans has switched to WordPress. The switch was done by Blogestudio, whose Luis Rull was my host in Seville. They’ve done something neat with redirecting old links on Blogspot, I hope they publish more about that. (I wonder if they could use Blogger’s new Custom Domains feature to make it automatic.)
WordPress Song
Devin Reams has done the first WordPress fan song, check out the music video on his site. Too cool for words.
WP Ultimate Gamer’s Pack
WordPress Ultimate Gamer’s Pack, supports Wii, PSP, and DS Lite.
FlatPress
Ford uses WordPress
Jason just wrote in that Ford Motor Company has launched a WordPress site, and it’s pretty kickass. How cool that the first Fortune 5 company to use WP goes beyond just a regular blog and really shows what can be done with a powerful framework.
Habari
Habari is a new PHP5, object-oriented, database independent blog project that includes some people who have contributed to WP in the past. Should be worth keeping an eye on once they get a release out, it reminds me a lot of Drupal meets Serendipity.
RTL support
RTL support in WordPress 2.1, I’m really looking forward to the release of 2.1 this month. Our internationalization efforts is probably where I learn the most new stuff day to day.