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 .
Category Archives: WordPress
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.”
Power
The Power of WordPress, or how to leverage a robust platform to speed development. I’ve grown so accustomed to WP functions and resources that I find myself including the WP files as a base to work from even when what I’m doing has nothing to do with blogging.
Black Feminism
Black Feminism powered by WordPress, a migration from Drupal. “If you’re interested in using WordPress, I encourage you to. It’s well documented, open source, and standards-compliant. It does help if you know PHP, but it’s not crucial. All-in-all, a wonderful web log tool.”
Meryl
Shai Coggins
Shai Coggins, a WordPress user, writes weblogs.about.com.
Live Press
Live Press Release 1.2.0, a WordPress plugin that synchronizes WordPress with Livejournal.
Min Jung
MinJungKim.com is now powered by WordPress. Imported 2 separate blogger blogs and one MT blog (5 years of archives!) and about 160 blogroll links from Blogrolling without a hitch.
somethingme
Post to your blog using instant messenger, works with WordPress using the Blogger or Metaweblog API. That said, this seems way too complicated for end users.
Powdered
WordPress Meetup
For everyone in San Francisco the WordPress Meetup is tomorrow (Saturday) at 4 PM. However there is a slight misunderstanding about the location. All week I’ve been telling everyone it’s going to be at the Border’s at Union Square, when at the meetup site it’s listed as a Border’s someplace way out of town. So to clarify, I’m going to be at the Border’s at Union Square Saturday at 4 PM, not anywhere else. We’ll meet in the cafe and eat, drink, and be merry. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.
Here’s the store information. I hear the best parking is at Stockton and Sutter. We’re on the second floor.