If you check out the new Pixelog you may notice in addition to having gorgeous photos, it’s powered by WordPress. You can read about the photolog switch from MT on Christine’s blog and get the technical details on ScriptyGoddess.
Category Archives: WordPress
The Apple Blog
The Apple Blog looks good and runs WordPress. Hat tip: Om.
Persian
Persian 1.0 theme for WordPress. Another groovy theme free for WP users.
New Interview on Digital Web
There’s a new interview with me up on Digital Web that covers a lot of ground. The questions come from the lovely Meryl. As it tends to work in these things, most of the answers are actually a few months old, for instance it’s all from before I announced I’d be working at CNET. This is mostly my fault because I got so swamped after the move I didn’t have a chance to sync up with Meryl again. I’m willing to try something a little different though, something along the lines of the old Under the Iron model. If you have any questions you’d like to ask just leave them in the comments section for the article and I’ll do my best to answer everything there. Blogging is all about empowerment, right?
Stop Worrying
how I learned to stop worrying and love WordPress, the fascinating story of Dan Sandler’s switch. The site looks great too. Only thing is the URIs are a little verbose.
WordPress Professional
If you’re a professional providing services or consulting around WordPress, definitely sign up for the WordPress Pro List to get connected. Whenever anyone asks me for WordPress consulting I always point them to this list.
Apple WordPress Weblog
It’s been all over, but I’m finally getting to check out the new new Apple education weblog which, coincidentally, is run by WordPress. I would like to thank the people who emailed me about this, in chronological order: Mike Carvalho, Serge K. Keller, Matt Willmore, Michael, John Roberts, Kyle, Michael Biven, Andreas Mayer, Noel Jackson, Manish, Jasmeet. I need to blog faster next time. 🙂 Update: Within the past two hours they commented out the “Powered by WordPress” text on the page. Before anyone jumps the gun it is entirely within their right to do so under the GPL, which I and the other developers believe strongly in, but it’s too bad as I think that could have been excellent exposure.
In Boston
Okay so I’m finally here in chilly Boston, living it up. I’m open to recommendations on places to eat, things to do, and people to see. (Besides the Boston WordPress Meetup this Saturday.)
WysiwygPro
WysiwygPro is a WYSIWYG textarea replacement that claims to be XHTML 1.0 compliant and cross-browser. Might be a good basis for a definitive plugin or feature in WordPress. I hear Typepad based theirs off HTMLArea which I guess works but I’m not comfortable with the code that produces.
Bnet Leadership Blog
Apparently Bnet also has a blog thing going on WordPress called Leadership Now. Looks interesting if you’re into that sort of thing.
WordPress in Technorati
The Technorati cosmos for wordpress.org is finally working again and reports 94,678 links from 43,489 distinct sources. It’s also really, really fast.
Lycos Europe
Boston Meetup
I’m going to be in Boston for the WordPress meetup this month. My plan is to hit every city that has one eventually. 🙂 Free copies of WP to anyone who shows up, and I’ll bring stickers too.
Tripod Sweden
Carthik pointed out to me this thread that says Tripod in Sweden is offering one-click WordPress installs.
Jonathan Schwartz on WordPress
Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun, is doing a WordPress powered blog over at ZDNet. It has comments enabled too, something he said before wouldn’t happen. Bing!
Changes.xml
The Weblogs.com/changes.xml, used by hundreds of update services and tens of thousands of bloggers, is now password-protected. Not sure what this means. Update: False alarm! It seems to be back to normal now.
Pete on WP
Pete Sheerin, yes that Peter Sheerin of ALA and Pete’s Guide fame, is investigating using WordPress for his site. How did I find this out? He registered for a bug tracking account, I guess he’s about to report some bugs. Can’t wait. 🙂
Guaranteed Misspellings
I can never spell “guarantee” right, I always end up googling it. Maybe if I blog it I’ll be able to remember. Other words that I consistently mess up: “separate,” “Wednesday,” and “bourgeoisie.”
Spambot Stopper
I’ve been testing out a spam plugin that has been very effective. You can get Spambot Stopper on the WordPress support forums. It’s very simple, for more advanced protection check out the Combat Comment Spam page on the Codex.
WordPress Themes
Anatomy of a WordPress Theme from Ryan the rockstar.