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Category Archives: WordPress
All About Models
This is funny because I just saw Zoolander again on Monday, but Models.com has a new WordPress blog which features—you guessed it—lots of models. Looks great. I found the site because they made a donation to WordPress.
2WirePress
I got word a little bit ago that 2Wire, makers of the modems everyone with SBC DSL gets and a cool new DVR, are using WordPress internally. “We tried salesforce.com and now we use WordPress exclusively!”
WordPress in FreeBSD
Earlier I noticed that FreeBSD has a WordPress port, which means you can install WordPress automatically, just like on Debian and Gentoo. Only with Free software. 🙂
Well Designed
It seems I’m seeing more and more great designs in WordPress blogs, where previously the really gorgeous stuff was either hand-rolled or on another system. Citizen Dmitri is a great looking WordPress blog, Binary Bonsai is still one of my favorite designs right now (try out the LiveSearch). I need to start keeping up my well designed list again. Hat tip for Citizen Dmitri: Dave.
Technorati Tag API is Broken
The Technorati Tag API is Broken, or so asserts Kevin Burton. The post is a little old and the comments don’t seem to have gone anywhere. I think the tag having to appear in the URI is a weakness, and a restriction that isn’t reasonable under many hosting enviroments. That said, my understanding of rel="tag" is that they don’t have to link to Technorati at all, they can link to your own taxonomy and not Google bomb key terms. (As WordPress does in 1.5.) You don’t even really need to use the links, since they spider categories and dc:subject from RSS feeds anyway, but if you do tag you posts using the link method, it might be worth using nofollow.
WordPress 1.5 Gamma
Mark Ghosh takes a fair and balanced look at WordPress 1.5 Gamma. “Wow!”
Firefox Wins
Firefox beat Internet Explorer in number of people accessing wordpress.org by about 80,000 in January. Of the people visiting with IE, over 90% were using 6.0. This makes web development much, much easier.
Search Meta Tags
Gigablast, the search engine run by one guy named Matt, allows you to do some interesting things with meta tags. Here is a search that finds all “generator” meta tags with “WordPress” and shows the tag itself in the search results. (About 1.5 million results.) I found out about this on the Gigablast blog which isn’t quite a blog. If Matt is looking for a better blog system, I have a suggestion. The results on Gigablast seem on par with Google’s for most things I tried, but the pages themselves need some UI and QA love.
One Click Backup
There’s a new version of the One Click Backup plugin for WordPress.
CiP Tee
Dig Nicole in the Code is Poetry WordPress shirt. I’m thinking maybe the logo should go on the front? I got a grey one that is tagless, just like WordPress.
It’s Not RSS
New formats called RSS that don’t work with anything else, specifically referring (I assume) to the “RSS 1.1” effort. (Where RSS stands for RDF Site Summary.) The name of RDF Site Summary is a mistake in the first place, they should take this new development effort as a chance to correct it. (Also, publishers are getting tired of supporting the format du jour. Maybe it’s “easy” for aggregators to support the latest permutation, but the last thing I want to do is bloat WordPress with support for Yet Another syndication format. Four is enough.)
Blake Ross
Blake Ross, who is on the cover of Wired next month, a new WordPress blog. Hat tip: Alvin W..
San Francisco Meetup
So the plan is today Saturday at 2 PM at the Chaat Cafe on 3rd and Folsom we’ll have a WordPress late lunch for all the people in the area who are interested in the latest and greatest in weblog software. It’s not a meetup proper but should be fun nonetheless.
Scoble on WordPress
Robert Scoble’s new linkblog is now running on WordPress. “Uploading is TONS faster now!” Glad to be of assistance.
Dallas Meetup
Ryan is doing the WP meetup in Dallas tomorrow. I’ve been busy at work and forgot that was this weekend, I think we’re too late to do the official Meetup thing but I’d be willing to meet some San Francisco WordPress people for coffee tomorrow afternoon.
Louisiana WordPresser
Web log Meetup group searches for members.
“I’d rather blog than talk on the phone,” he said. “I’ll blog four or five entries a weekend. I’ll just sit there watching movies or listening to music and spend about 10 hours (blogging). Just whenever the mood strikes me.”
Harley WordPress
I just heard that Harley Davidson is going to be using WordPress internally. Groovy!
Blog Jobs
Brian Alvey is looking for blog designers and programmers, presumably to work on his Weblogs Incorporated Network. Brian is a great guy, so if you can work with him you should. (Note: This isn’t a WordPress job, they use a custom Microsoft ASP/SQL engine.)
Dennis Switches
Dennis Yang, the mySimon guy at CNET, has switched to WordPress.