Carthik breaks one of the WordPress easter eggs, which is really more of a developer’s shortcut tool.
Category Archives: WordPress
Arabic
An Arabic WordPress blog. I have no idea on earth what it says though.
Ordered List
OrderedList.com v2.0, a very attractive site redesigns. I dig the curved navigation at the top. Good IA, good writing. Groovy motif. Reverse breadcrumbs. RSS and such a little funky though. Why isn’t this guy using WordPress? A blog to watch.
Between the Lines
Between the Lines is the ZDNet blog. Looks like WordPress to me. 🙂 (By the way, that page isn’t far from validation. It’s mostly pretty nice markup. Must be a staging area, because the main site has markup straight out of the 90s.)
Download?
Someone just reported when they visit WordPress.org it tries to download a file instead of showing the web page. Can anyone recreate this?
Hot Blogs
Speaking of lists, I have a small list of well-designed WordPress blogs I’ve come across. I’m open to suggestions, so if you have a favorite that isn’t on the list let me know.
Moving Up
I noticed today that about a third of my updated blogroll is now powered by WordPress. This is a skewed sample, surely, but at least half of those I never would have imagined converting. I was remembering today when WordPress first got started and out of all the developers I was the only one running it. Mike and Alex were still on b2 because they had a lot of hacks that would be hard to transition, and Dougal was on some funky system he had previously contributed to. (MyPHPBlog?) You could count the number of WP blogs on one hand. That was about a year ago.
Free SuSE
Novell is giving away copies of SuSE Pro. Step 3: Profit!!! Hat tip: dented21 in #wordpress.
Subscriber
Molly.com Switches
Molly E. Holzschlag, author of Teach Yourself Movable Type and much else, has switched to WordPress. Her switch was quite an adventure. Getting the data out of a partially-corrupted Berkeley database into something either MT or WordPress could parse really was a challenge .
Big Pink Cookie
Christine, who came up with the name “WordPress” about a year ago, has switched to WordPress from Movable Type. 3,500 posts and 17,000 comments were imported without a hitch.
More FOAFers
Danny Ayers, semantic web advocate, likes how WordPress handles Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn. Jim Ley, another RDF/FOAF guy, has also switched to WordPress. Where are they coming from?
Bouncer
Use WordPress’ built-in authentication to secure your blog.
Dan Brickley
Dan Brickley, creator of FOAF and W3C RDF advocate, is using WordPress.
Blogs By Their Covers
Judge blogs by their covers, powered by WordPress.
Bush2004
Bush2004 upgrades to WordPress blog, I think I saw this guy at SxSW, if he was indeed the one wearing the bush2004.com hat and t-shirt.
The Saint WP
A Windows/Apache/MySQL/PHP distribution offers WordPress as their first plugin. Is it just me or do all of these things come out of Germany?
WordPress Junkie
WP-Amazon
Amazon WordPress plugin, looks handy.
Movable Type and WordPress Meet
Loïc Le Meur Blog: MT and WordPress meet :=) I didn’t get to see Loïc again on Friday like we originally planned, but in the short time we met I got a good impression. People assume that behind the scenes we’re all at each other’s throats, that it’s all WordPress vs. MT vs. Drupal vs. TextPattern vs. Blogger vs. whatever, but it’s actually the opposite. Though there may be some professional differences (you say po-tah-to, I say PHP) everyone is genuinely friendly. Behind the tools are normal people, not super-villians. While meeting with a large potential WordPress user I suggested they also check out Typepad and Blogware because I’ve personally used each and they seem like solid platforms worthy of investigation. I hung out with Anil half of the days I was in San Francisco. Life is too short to waste karma on blogging, and while I get as passionate about the issues as anyone, at the end of the day we’re all contributing something positive to the medium. Of course, Mingus would say “They’re singing your praises while stealing your phrases.”