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Category Archives: WordPress
Lockergnome Reviews WordPress
Lockergnome reviews WordPress and gives it 9/10. “I have never seen such a great interactive community before in my life.” Also talks about Blogger, which I’m personally a big fan of and it’s usually what I recommend to new bloggers. They also have the coolest logo and clothing in the biz.
WordPress in NYT
Bloggers Add Moving Images to Their Musings is, as far as I know, the first mention of WordPress in the New York Times. First of many, hopefully. 🙂 (I wonder what sort of traffic they’ll drive?)
Eric on 1.5
Eric Meyer on WordPress 1.5, “A good tool is now a great tool, and I can only imagine where it will go from here.” A nice look at things from a developer and tweaker perspective.
Chetan Review
Another great review: “This version brings back the pleasure to blog. […] Are WordPressers the only ones having all the fun these days or what?”
Simon on WordPress
Is Simon finally going to switch? We already use his excellent XML-RPC library.
Make-A-Wish on 1.5
The Texas Make-A-Wish Foundation manages their entire site with WordPress 1.5, very cool. Dig those Pages.
Local Area Security
Local Area Security, the Linux security project, is now run by WordPress.
Quotes Coming In
More reviews are coming in, “Cleaner code, faster execution, and maybe it’s just my imagination but I actually detect a hint of lemony freshness too. Seriously ecstatically happy with my blog since running WordPress and it has been trouble free and effortless (as a blog should be). If you’re thinking of putting one up and joining the Jones’, I recommend it highly and if you’re thinking of switching I heartily encourage it.”
WordPress 1.5 is Official
Announcing WordPress 1.5, okay now you should link it and spread the good word. 🙂 1,400 words and it still doesn’t cover everything.
Tool Marketshare?
Elise’s look at weblog tool marketshare is interesting if not the most accurate. I’d much rather see numbers from someone who could programatically actually determine what blogs use, like Technorati or Feedster. Anyway I tried to follow along in the audience and typed “wordpress.org” into Google, which gave me a helpful page with “link to” and “contains term” links, which I assume is Elise’s methodology. Link to returned 288,000, as is in her chart, but contains term gave 674,000, which is radically different than the 5,000 she attributed to WordPress. I sent a note suggesting she look at this number, to which she replied to Google for www.wordpress.org, which I did. The “contain this term” link returned the even more modest “Results 1 – 10 of about 981,” so obviously the chart should be updated to 1 instead of 5 immediately.
Dougal on 1.5
Dougal on WordPress 1.5. Several people have asked if “Strayhorn” is a poke at Longhorn. Nope.
WordPress Review
macosxhints reviews WordPress, 8 out of 10 stars. “The admin interface to WP is wonderful; it’s amazingly simple…” Hat tip: Adam Johnson via email.
Multi-Lingual Development
WordPress PIM
A four part series on using WordPress as a Personal Information Manager. “I’ve spent the last couple of weeks setting up a personal database of favourite poems, book quotes, short author bios and related links. I had previously shoehorned my poetry collection into a Keynote file, but then wanted something more flexible, customizable and expandable: a database.” Interesting use of custom fields.
Eggcorn Database
The Eggcorn Database is a novel use of WordPress for something that isn’t a blog at all. A great testament to the flexibility of 1.5.
Quentin Template
Upgrade Partay
WordPress 1.5 upgrade party on Tuesday. I had originally planned for it to be Monday, but forgot about that whole Valentine thing. If you want to host an upgrade party in your area, let me know!
Technorati Updates
Technorati has finally updated the cosmos for WordPress and it’s showing 74,931 incoming blogs right now. That’s about 30,000 blogs more than the last update.
Pfister on 1.5
I would recommend reading Jenna Pfister’s great review of 1.5. I’ve been working with the 1.5 codebase so long now that I’ve actually forgotten some of the new features—I may use this article when writing the release announcement. Hat tip: My WordPress dashboard via Feedster.