Category Archives: WordPress
LonelyBlog15
A Tribute to Lonelygirl15, new blog from the creators of the original Lonelygirl15. From Tech Republic, “Our entire backend that supports the Web site is free because we use WordPress,” Beckett said. “Five years ago, you would have had to buy UNIX boxes and build a custom content management system.”
bbPress Integration
Simpler integration with WordPress and bbPress, this is getting really cool.
Design Matters
Robert Accettura writes in that Lenovo, makers of the Thinkpad, is now blogging on WP. (And it’s surprisingly good.) Check out this post on their keyboard drainage system.
Blogging from Space
The Day Has Come, Anousheh Ansari Space Blog. This is the last post before the first woman space tourist heads into space. Is there wifi up there? This Xprize blog is part of our upcoming VIP program on WordPress.com. Update: This BBC article says “Ms Ansari says she will write the first blog from space.” I never would have guessed WP would be used from space!
Crazy Egg
Crazy Egg has launched, it’s the tool I used to generate this heatmap of the WP.com front page.
New Servers
We’re looking to expand into a third datacenter for WordPress.com and related Automattic stuff. I’ve been asking around for quotes, but it occurred to me I should blog what we’re looking for because someone reading might be able to provide what we need, or know someone who could. One line summary of what we’re looking for: 22 boxes, AMD 3800 or similar, cheapest HD, 1-2gb of RAM, Debian AMD64 (this is important), private and public 100mbps network. I’d be happy to post more info in the comments if anyone wants it. A per-server monthly price including space and bandwidth is what we’re looking for.
Happy Pals
Happy Pals is a plugin for WordPress to denote relationships within links.
WebWorkerDaily
Om has launched a new blog called WebWorkerDaily, it’s hosted by WordPress.com as part of a new program we’re making public soon.
5 Reasons to Use WordPress as CMS
Ensight Business Cards
Jeremy Wright’s Business Cards say “powered by WordPress” on the back.
BarCampTexas
I’m going to be in Austin this weekend for BarCampTexas. I’ll bring lots of WordPress stickers, so find me if you want one. Anyone else going to be in Austin?
Install WordPress Video
CNET has a video on “Install a WordPress blog”, this came up at WordCamp and I think more of these would be a great idea. Here are some intro videos from EduBlogs.
Live Writer Developer
One of the developers of Windows Live Writer on its release, and also on a WordPress.com blog. As does J.J. Allaire. Hat tip: Blog Herald.
Daily WP.cOm
Check it out, daily.gigaom.com is now hosted on WordPress.com. If you're logged into WP.com you'll see the admin bar on the site. We're seeing some folks do some interesting things with Custom CSS, like Lorelle and Mirkwood and we've got about a dozen folks testing domain mapping.
Mac OS Forge
Apple has made a few important open-source related announcements today, including Mac OS Forge whose site powered by WordPress.
Big Day
Just launched some pretty major features at WordPress.com: private blogs, store, and custom CSS.
IE7 on New Sonys
I was in the Sony store at the Metreon the other day because Vista has been driving me nuts, I can't find my restore disks, and in a moment of weakness I was contemplating a new laptop. Anyway they had some pretty nice models, but what struck me most when playing around with the different computers was that IE7 was installed as the default browser on each of these computers. Consider IE7 wrecks havoc on sites like WordPress.org, I better start testing with it.
Yodel Anecdotal
Yodel Anecdotal is the new official Yahoo blog, powered by WordPress.
Our Tail
Someone had asked me about traffic patterns on WordPress.com the other day and whether or not they followed a "long tail." I knew the answer was yes, and I guestimated the numbers from memory at around 80% outside the top 10 blogs. It's actually a little more acute: 92.63% of the traffic to WordPress.com is for blogs outside of the top 25. (About 8.4 million pageviews in the past week.) This is from Google Analytics, so doesn't include RSS or anything like that.