Category Archives: WordPress
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
Also posted in Computing
Tagged Kubrick WordPress Theme, Software Design, Software Products, Tina Daunt, WordPress, WordPress Themes
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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
Tagged Absolution Paths, ABSPATH, bloginfo(), Duane Storey, get_stylesheet_directory(), get_stylesheet_directory_uri(), get_stylesheet_uri(), Mark Jaquith, php, Plugin Development, Relative Paths, STYLESHEETPATH, TEMPLATEPATH, URLs, Will Norris, WordPress, WordPress Plugin Checker, WordPress Theme Development, WordPress.com, wp-content, WP_CONTENT_DIR
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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
Also posted in GPL
Tagged GPL, GPL v2, licensing, Theme Licensing, WordPress, WordPress Themes
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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
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Tagged AFP, Censorship, China, Chinese Government, Dangerous Journalism, Great Firewall of China, Guy Newey, Journalism, Matt Mullenweg, Public Security Bureau, Reporters without Borders, Reporting, RSF, Stan Schroeder, Tor, Tor Project, WordPress, WordPress.com
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SourceForge Projects Moving to WordPress
Open source project hosting has long been a topic that interests me. I stopped recommending venerable SourceForge.net some years ago, as it’s proprietary stack (open source prior to 2001) became crufty and fell behind some of the newer and more … Continue reading
Daniel Jalkut, WordPress Hero!
Daniel Jalkut, the proprietor of Red Sweater Software, is the developer of the excellent Mac desktop blog editor MarsEdit. He is also a code contributor to WordPress.
I became acquainted with him about two years ago when he started submitting detailed … Continue reading
