If you’re at all involved in the WordPress community, whether you’re an established or aspiring theme or plugin developer, or contributor, or bug squasher, then you would be aware that there has been a long-standing conflict between WordPress’ founder, Matt Mullenweg, and a number of premium theme developers who refuse to abide by extensions of… Continue reading this entry
That is, of course, in addition to Memorial Day. Today I’m activating the oldest theme I have that will work with this current version of WordPress, and when I roll it back, it will be to the new theme for the year (I redesign the blog annually.) As for Memorial Day: in keeping with this… Continue reading this entry
WordCamp Raleigh has come and gone, and everyone has a lesson or two they can take with them in the days ahead. Mine, however, is deeply personal. It’s one that I didn’t expect would happen at the event, but it was forthcoming. I’ve been known in some small circles of the WordPress community as a… Continue reading this entry
As I promised during my presentation at WordCamp Raleigh, I will be posting a few links to resources as a follow-up to my presentation: First of all, here is my presentation on SlideShare, open for anyone to download and use. It would be nice to get some credit if you’re using it for another presentation,… Continue reading this entry
UPDATE: Comments are closed. I appreciate Jane’s response at comment #9 and yes, I give her the benefit of the doubt. I didn’t write this looking for or spoiling for a fight and now that I got a response from Jane that is materially oomphy, comments are closed. Blog about it on your own sites… Continue reading this entry
One of WordPress 3.0′s most anticipated features is the revamped menu generation system. I’ve played around with the nightly builds and I am very impressed with both the front-end and back-end aspects of the features. It comes as sad news to hear that the development team is planning to shelve it for now in order… Continue reading this entry
A lot of features are discussed for the new default theme for WordPress version 3. I’m using a theme base which I rolled together over the years, based off of Classic (of all things!). It’s a quick and easy and customizable way for me to deploy a site and focus on the CSS, as I… Continue reading this entry
In matters of criminal investigation, intent can be proven by certain actions. However, in these cases, there is a jury to be convinced and a victim to be vindicated. Thankfully, when it comes to disputes in the tech community, one need not try to prove intentions through actions. One need only ask. Following the remarks… Continue reading this entry
One of the biggest failures of the open-source community, and the GPL-istas particularly, is not clarifying the concept of libre versus gratis when talking about free. It’s for this same reason that I’ve learned to use FLOSS—Free/Libre Open Source Software—to refer to projects such as WordPress. This distinction hurts developers when they release plugins to… Continue reading this entry
Have you found yourself hardcoding your page-based navigation menus in your theme because wp_list_pages doesn’t display your page titles the way you want to with the function? This site serves as a great example: where it says “Colophon” in my menu under the title? It links to a page whose title is “Production Notes.” With… Continue reading this entry
Recently, Michael Torbert, developer of the popular All-In-One SEO Pack (AIOSEOP) plugin, released a major upgrade to, among various other bugfixes and feature enhancements, future-proof the plugin against scaling issues. I worked with him on beta-testing the upgrade, and found it to be flawless. I was one of many, but gauging by the reaction of… Continue reading this entry
Update on July 12, 7PM: A sweet welcome to WordPress.org users, now that this guide is linked from the AIOSEOP plugin page itself: Please don’t mind the scoldy, crabby, acerbic tone. If you do, skip all the commentary and just read the instructions that serve as captions to my screenshots. This was written due in… Continue reading this entry
It may surprise some to know that for a veteran of the blogsophere like myself, WordCamp Mid-Atlantic 2009 was my first ever major meetup. I’ve met up with individuals before, and recently had a medium-sized tweetup, but nothing like what happened yesterday. When I was quoted in the Baltimore Sun as taking the opportunity to… Continue reading this entry
I’ve designed WordPress-powered sites and blogs for almost five years now. I have my niche, for which I am grateful. Recently, I came across some huff-and-puff regarding Matt Mullenweg’s decision to remove over 200 themes from the repository, citing non-compliance with the GPL. I have a feeling I’ve been living under a rock for the… Continue reading this entry
One of my clients told me about an email they received from Technorati. This is about a security flaw in versions prior to 2.5. I have kept her running on a legacy 2.0.x branch because of some custom queries in the blogrolls that would totally break if it were merely upgraded. I posted a topic… Continue reading this entry
I’ve installed the Sandbox Theme on which I will redesign my site and get it up to speed for WP v2.3. Yup. I give up. I’m going with a pre-packaged theme for the codebase and I’ll be redesiging my site. So much for keeping this for a year, ey? The old theme will be around… Continue reading this entry
With the release of WordPress version 2.3, tagging has been finally integrated into the core functionality of the platform. Not a bad idea, if your blog generally has fewer words and more photos. I am well aware of its usefulness in flickr, fergodssakes, but tagging posts with the very same words that are used in… Continue reading this entry
I have had an itch to participate more into WordPress’ development path at least from a designer’s point of view; while my work over the past five months has made me less accessible than the Pope himself—as stated quite matter-of-factly by a friend tonight—I find the need to keep up to date. Hey, when you’re… Continue reading this entry
I’ve been working with WordPress since it was b2. In that time I have seen a growing scourge of spam comments and all sorts of efforts to take sites down. In my experience, the best spam plugin out there to hit the WordPress market is Spam Karma 2, which uses a heuristic, points-based system to… Continue reading this entry
I’ve been hacking around with the WordPress conditional tags and I’ve started to get the hang of it. However, I have never really known much of PHP programming and I don’t know jack about the syntax at all. I’ve spent too much time aping existing code’s syntax and this inquiring mind would like a hand-out… Continue reading this entry