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.
Category Archives: WordPress
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.
Feeds in Yahoo 360
You can now syndicate feeds into your Yahoo 360 page. They list WordPress as a possible source.
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.”
MIT on WordPress
MIT has a new WordPress blog. Hat tip: Chetan.
Thanks Apple
Apple have updated their student blog to say “Powered by WordPress.” Thanks! Here is the context.
WordPress-ive
J. Michael thinks WordPress is WordPress-ive. “And their website’s Installing and Upgrading WordPress wikis are the sort of Help pages most every open source app I’ve ever used was lacking. They’re simply a pleasure to use. […] WordPress fills a specific need I’ve had since my very first website back in the mid-late nineties, and I simply can’t believe it’s free.”
Online Journalism Review
WordPress in the Online Journalism Review with a very positive write-up. Hat tip: Newley Purnell.
Blog Census
Is anyone doing anything to replace or update the Blog Census? It still doesn’t count WordPress blogs, two years later, and that there are only 3 Textpattern blogs. Right now at Ping-O-Matic we have a database of over 5.6 million blogs, if anyone has a smart crawler I could throw at that list it’d be great to get a more realistic view of the State of the Blogosphere.
WP in MacAddict
A few people have written in to point out WordPress is in MacAddict this month as well. Last time I went to Border’s to pick up Linux Journal they didn’t have it so I’ll try again today and pick up both. When it’s all done I’ll try to post pictures.