Community Tagging

August 4, 2008Asidesplugins, WordPressMatt

Matt’s Community Tags. This is the VERY BETA plugin I’m using for the community tagging on my photos, which allows people to submit tags which then go into a moderation queue to be approved or modified by an admin. Not recommended for general use yet, just getting it out there since a lot of people have asked about it.

Random Redirect Plugin

August 4, 2008Asidesplugins, WordPressMatt

I just updated the Random Redirect plugin, with two extra parameters.

Theme Video Tutorial

August 2, 2008AsidesDesign, Video, WordPressMatt

A series of videos, Designing for WordPress, that walks you through all steps of creating a theme.

Free Jon Miller

August 2, 2008Asidesaol, jon miller, YahooMatt

BoomTown Plea to Jeff Bewkes: Free Jon Miller! — Kara Swisher.

Free Software Usability

August 1, 2008Asidesfree software, Open Source, UsabilityMatt

Why Free Software is hard to use, and how to improve it, by Matthew Paul Thomas. (The other Matt Thomas who used to be involved with WordPress.)

Interference Robustness?

August 1, 2008AsidesApple, interface robustness, OS X, wifi, wirelessMatt

What is Interference Robustness? In case you’ve ever wondered what that checkbox under Mac wifi means.

Plugin Competition

July 30, 2008Asidescompetition, plugins, weblog tools collection, WordPressMatt

The WordPress plugin competition at WLTC is now open for voting.

Using WordPress as a CMS

July 30, 2008AsidesCMS, WordPressMatt

Things To Consider When Using WordPress as a CMS. Would love to see more articles like this.

ALA Survey

July 29, 2008Asidesa list apart, survey, ZeldmanMatt

The new A List Apart for survey is up.

Cuil

July 28, 2008Asidescuil, Google, search enginesMatt

I like Cuil. There’s just something very intuitive about the interface that fels comfortable to me, but I’m not sure how to articulate it. And it’s fast! Going to try it out as my default search engine for the next few days. Downside? Sometimes the images seem completely random, and I do see some spam in the index.

Another one!

July 27, 2008Photosbook, internationalization, japan, WordPressMatt

I just got another Japanese WordPress book in the mail. 🙂 I can’t wait to visit there later in the year. P.S. I’m not sure who this is from, so if you’re the person who sent it email me.

Beyond REST? XMPP

July 26, 2008Asidesflickr, kellan, rest, xmppMatt

Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP. Pretty fascinating stuff.

Single Malt Scotch Episode

July 25, 2008Videogary vaynerchuck, libations, scotch, wine libraryMatt

The Single Malt Scotch Episode – Episode #509. I was on Wine Library TV with the inimitable Gary Vaynerchuk talking not about wine, but scotch. Much trouble ensues. Check it out! I ended up leaving my laptop at Gary’s store and had to go back to Jersey later that day. I took a few moments to browse around and discovered an awesome cheese called Ombra.

WordCamp Signup Open

July 25, 2008AsidesWordCamp, wordcampsf2008Matt

WordCamp San Francisco 2008 Signup. Signup is now open for WordCamp SF, and it’s $5 cheaper than last year even though we’re at a bigger venue (with more comfortable seats, based on your feedback) and should be packing more awesomeness. Who’s going to be speaking on what? Well that’s still a surprise. 🙂

WordPress Geniuses

July 25, 2008Asideslloyd budd, WordCamp, wordcampsf2008, WordPressMatt

Geniuses for WordCamp SF Bar?. Lloyd is organizing a “Genius bar” at WordCamp San Francisco of volunteers to help everybody with their WP problems. I love it!

2.6 by the numbers

July 24, 2008WordPressgrowth, Stats, theme directoryMatt

Now that we’re now 10 days into the release of version 2.6 of WordPress, it’d be interesting to look at a few of the numbers around it.

There have been around 23 thousand downloads per day. (Of just the English version.)
According to the update system there are 201 thousand blogs using 2.6 already.
That’s about 9% of all known WordPress.org blogs in 10 days.
The video in the announcement post has been viewed 665,080 times.
There have been over 300 themes submitted to the new Theme directory, which launched just 6 days ago.
In the same period (10 days) there were 579,871 downloads of 2,527 plugins.

I imagine 2.6 adoption will pick up after the 2.6.1 release — a lot of people wait for the .1 before upgrading.

How are we celebrating? By working on 2.7!

It should be a fun release both for the features we have planned and also because it might incorporate some of the aspects of Crazyhorse, our experimental bizarro world dev branch which we’re laser-eye-testing in NYC next week. (700 blogs are running 2.7 already.)