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 be but are not required.
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Even though graphics and CSS aren’t required to be GPL legally, [...]
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 block relates to the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen massacre on June 4th. That may be [...]
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 agile offerings.
Well, I think it’s time to revisit.
I received an email on Tuesday from the [...]
Only two more weeks until WordCamp San Francisco 2009. I can’t wait!
This is the original WordCamp. Every year has been fantastic! There is no other event that brings so many of WordPress’s elite together.
They’re friendly people to boot! Thankfully, the elite are welcoming and generous with their time, knowledge, talent and bad jokes (puns). It’s [...]
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 bug tickets (often with patches!) to WordPress.
I’m the developer of MarsEdit, a Mac desktop blogging [...]
I know that Matt Mullenweg and Matt Thomas die a little each time they see WordPress fan art that uses a faux logo. I only notice the chubby W because I’ve been edumacated.
MT (the real) has updated WordPress.org/about/buttons with official WordPress logos in pngs and vector image formats.
There are also WordPress desktop wall paper in [...]
One of the many things that Kathy Seirra’s session at WordCamp SF 2008 has me thinking about is what does WordPress say about us using it. And what do WordPress shirts say about the us wearing them.
About half way through her session she talks about “T-Shirt First Development (Guy Kawasaki)”. I have about 7 [...]
WordPress community superstar and regular web tools collection contributor Jeff Chandler (jeffr0) recently published a passionate article, “Stop Blaming The WordPress Team“. The article is about plugin developers blaming WordPress for too frequent updates without testing of popular plugins. His conclusion ends “So the next time you upgrade WordPress and realize your favorite plugin is [...]
Six Apart VP Anil’s response today on the official Six Apart blog to my Movable Type Pro Introduction video parody doesn’t surprise me, but where is the link love?
Earlier this week my Automattic colleagues and Effigent released WordPress for iPhone and iPod Touch. Now, the source is also available and Trac is set up for reporting bugs and participating in development!
I’ve tried it on my iPod Touch. They’ve done a great job! And are urgently working on fixing the worse bugs.
It’s already in [...]