Category Archives: WordPress

The open source publishing platform I co-founded — development, releases, community, and the ecosystem.

Moving Up

WordPress

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.

Movable Type and WordPress Meet

Friends, Travel, WordPress

LoicLoïc 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.”