Jeremy Zawodny says “the more I play with WordPress on a couple sites I run, the more I’ve realized that it just feels right.” That made my day. 🙂 Hat tip: Ozh.
Category Archives: WordPress
WPMU Themes
WPMU can use WordPress themes. I think there will be some nice MU developments in the next month or so. 🙂
No More Websites
BlogSavvy, which I’ve been enjoying lately, asks Why on earth would you want a website? “This time round that hadn’t even popped into my mind… of course I was going to use WordPress to put it together, why would I waste my time and expend my energy on doing it any other way?” James really “gets” a lot of topics.
Alternative Admins
If you don’t like the look of the current WP backend be sure to check out SpotPress. Also check out the Tiger Admin, which is grrrrrreat. Update: Tiger is now a Greasemonkey script.
New Codex Look
Lorelle, one of the shining stars of the amazing WordPress Documentation team, just wrote a nice article about the new Codex front page.
When Worlds Collide
Google Sitemaps
Google Sitemaps seem strange to me, but you can generate them with WordPress now.
Nirantar
Nirantar, a Hindi blogzine, has a special WordPress edition up. Judging from the cover I’m pretty sure this has an interview I did with them in it. I hope my terrible jokes translated well.
WP in NewsForge
I had missed this great Newsforge review of WordPress when it came out.
One True Permalink Plugin
I’m using this nifty plugin from Scott Yang which was pointed out to me by Alistair. It’s actually replacing a bit of code and mod_rewrite rules I had to do the same thing, I wish I had thought of this sooner. I could see something like this making it into the core.
WordPress Themes
Official WordPress Themes page, fresh and shiny. I feel like when Neo in the Matrix says “I know kung-fu.” I know javascript. Not really, but normally I stay as far away from JS as humanly possible but I was able to cobble together some pieces to make this work pretty much exactly how I wanted. Thanks to Chris Messina for the original mockup.
Designing Headers
Designing Headers, one of the latest of hundreds of pages of documentation the great WP doc team has been working on. Should help you spruce up that default template a bit.
Secrets of WP Theming
WordPress and Greasemonkey
Customizing WordPress with Greasemonkey, I expect to see a lot more of this in the future. Any other GM scripts for WP? Hat tip: Billy via email.
Google’s RSS Ads
A blogger applies for Adsense RSS and finds “As I had suspected, during the inital testing phase they are only accepting blogger.com and Movable Type/ TypePad blogs as of this time.” I would love to know from someone at Google (maybe Jason Shellen?) if there was any technical or logistical reason they decided not to support the 140,000+ WordPress users or if it was just a lack of communication, which is entirely possible (and very plausible considering how busy everyone is). I would encourage WP users to sign up for Adsense for Feeds and list “WordPress” in the “Other” field. Update: Communication has started. (Thanks, Jason F.!)
Subversioning WordPress Upgrades
Here is the simple script I use to upgrade all the WordPress sites I run on a single server in one fell swoop. Each site is a Subversion checkout of the WordPress trunk so getting the latest changes and merging them with my version is a simple command, however remembering to do each site was a pain. It also helped me figure out exactly how many WordPress installation I’m responsible for upgrading. (Twenty-seven.) Just fill out the array with the site roots of each install (use locate wp-login.php to find them) and run the script on the command like php upgrade-sites.php. I also like to put the time command in front to see how long things take.
High Traffic Sites
Just got this email, “I am the artist manager for Bob Ricci, famous parody artist. Our site www.BobRicci.com (http://community.bobricci.com) caters to more than 350,000 hits a day from fans worldwide. I wanted to let you know that in our years of being online and having to support such a large amount of global traffic WordPress.org is the only software we have found that is able to withstand the amount of traffic and offer us a community/news service in the online marketplace.” Sweet!
Blogging Without Borders
Blogging Without Borders just hit Version 2.0, and continues to fight censorship around the world. One of the best uses of Drupal I’ve seen, and the first I know in terms of “citizen media” which is starting to get hype these days around things like Bayosphere.
Really Moblogging
“I’m going to keep updating the site via a PDA and an Iridium satellite phone (using a tweaked version of WordPress that we’ll be releasing as open source once I’m back in June).”
Huffington’s Toast
Huffington’s Toast is proudly powered by WordPress.