Category Archives: Open Source
Government for the People Makes You Special
“It turns out that the International Intellectual Property Alliance, an umbrella group for organisations including the MPAA and RIAA, has requested with the US Trade Representative to consider countries like Indonesia, Brazil and India for its “Special 301 watchlist” because they … Continue reading
WordPress 3 Coming Together
The delirious pace of WordPress 3 development has been delicious!
I’ve enjoyed not being able to keep up at all.
The sprint is on to feature freeze!
There’s going to be a patch sprint of sorts for 3.0 this week. Please grab a … Continue reading
WordPress Declaration of Independence
The WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source project: to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software.
The point of the foundation is to ensure free access, in perpetuity, to … Continue reading
Versatile and Elegant, WordPress, Democratizing Publishing
The combination of the elegant and versatile WordPress and the ground breaking Kubrick made that possible, turning the democratization of publishing from an idealized concept into a concrete reality.
Tina Daunt, “The Secret History of Kubrick, the Blog Theme That Changed … Continue reading
Free and Open Source from the Roots Up
“Free and open source from the roots up. “Open source” can be much more than a development methodology. For me, it also constitutes a world view that upends institutionalized notions of competitive advantage that saw their apex in the twentieth … Continue reading
Everything In Our Power
WordPress is a community of hundreds of people that read the code every day, audit it, update it, and care enough about keeping your blog safe that we do things like release updates weeks apart from each other even though … Continue reading
wp-content in Code is a Tell for Common WordPress Coding Mistakes
Regularly while reviewing themes and plugins, I’ll see URLs or paths that include ‘wp-content’. This is a often a hint of a WordPress coding mistake.
Consider this simple example:
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://example.com/wp-content/themes/default/style-ie.css” type=”text/css” media=”screen” />
If as part of a migration or server … Continue reading
GPL Isn’t a Good License for Proprietary Software
Yesterday, I wrote about the clarification regarding WordPress Themes and the GPL (v2). Daniel Jalkut, who I featured as a personal WordPress Hero earlier this year, wrote one of the most interesting responses to “[WordPress] Themes are GPL, too“. Written … Continue reading
Commercial WordPress Themes’s PHP Code is GPL 2 Too
I’m hoping that my boss Matt Mullenweg sharing the legal opinion on “Themes are GPL, too” will put the issue to rest for the majority of the community (emphasis mime):
“PHP in WordPress themes must be GPL, artwork and CSS may … Continue reading
WordPress.com Still Blocked in China
I’ve seen some reports lately that “WordPress is blocked in China”, including some Mashable articles. To clarify, it’s WordPress.com that is blocked, not all sites that run self-hosted WordPress.
Mashable’s “China Blocks Twitter (And Almost Everything Else)” seems to suggest that the … Continue reading