Category Archives: WordPress

Official WordPress Logos and Fan Art

Posted on September 22, 2008 by Lloyd

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 … Continue reading →

| Tagged Adam Freetly, Allan Fernandes, Andrew Dela Serna, Avijit Paul, Dan Philibin, Jason Santa Maria, Lorelle VanFossen, Matt Mullenweg, Matt Thomas, WordPress, WordPress Art, WordPress Buttons, WordPress Fan Art, WordPress Logos | 13 Comments

WordCamp Shirt, Do You Do Spelling Bees?

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Lloyd

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 … Continue reading →

| Tagged Alan Levine, Branding, Chris Heuer, Conversations, Dane Hurtubise, Francine Hardaway, Guy Kawasaki, Kathy Seirra, Kris Krug Photo, Michael Cummings, Schwag, Scott Beale Photo, Spelling Bee, WordCamp, WordCamp SF, WordCamp SF 2008, WordCamp Shirts, WordPress, WordPress Shirts, WordPress Shwag | 6 Comments

Broken WordPress Plugin or Theme, Blame Me

Posted on August 26, 2008 by Lloyd

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 … Continue reading →

| Tagged Jeff Chandler, WordPress, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes | 35 Comments

Movable Type Pro, Setting Social Networking Free, Vaporware, WordPress, BuddyPress

Posted on August 20, 2008 by Lloyd

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?

Also posted in Opinion | Tagged Anil Dash, Automattic, BuddyPress, CMS, GPL, Movable Type, Movable Type Pro, Open Source, Parody, Performance, Plugins, Product Stories, Scalability, Six Apart, Social Graph, social networking, Web Security, WordPress, WordPress Security | 7 Comments

WordPress for iPhone + Source Code Available!

Posted on July 25, 2008 by Lloyd

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 … Continue reading →

| Tagged Automattic, iPhone, iPod Touch, Matt Thomas, Open Source, Raanan Bar-Cohen, WordPress, WordPress for iPhone | 3 Comments

Geniuses for WordCamp SF Bar?

Posted on July 24, 2008 by Lloyd

WordCamp San Francisco is less than a month away. This year it’s one day, Saturday, August 16 at the Mission Bay Conference Center.
I’m putting together a genius bar for WordCamp where people will have their questions answered one-on-one. Are you … Continue reading →

| Tagged barcamp, one-on-one help, WordCamp, WordCamp SF, WordCamp SF 2008, WordPress Help, WordPress Support | 17 Comments

Mac, WordPress: “Error establishing a database connection”

Posted on July 23, 2008 by Lloyd

If you get “Error establishing a database connection” when trying to set up WordPress.org on your Mac, are sure that the database name (DB_NAME), username (DB_USER) and password (DB_PASSWORD) are correct, the solution is very likely that you need to … Continue reading →

| Tagged Mac OS X, MySQL, php, WordPress | 8 Comments

WordPress 2.6 Released!

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Lloyd

Last night the team pushed the button releasing WordPress 2.6 onto the world. This is a nice polishing release (“stronger better faster”) with a surprising number of features. The features I expect to continue to take the most advantage … Continue reading →

| Tagged Blogging Software, Web Publishing, WordPress 2.6 | 3 Comments

WordPress, Gears, Offline, Privacy

Posted on July 4, 2008 by Lloyd

Google Gears has been enabled on WordPress.com for a couple of weeks now for some members, but was only announced this week. Andrew Ozz (azaozz) added this feature a couple of month ago in the development version of self-hosted WordPress. … Continue reading →

| Tagged Andrew Ozz, Brad Neuberg, Browser Add-Ons, Firefox, google, Google Gears, Internet Explorer, Online Privacy, Open Source, WordPress, WordPress Performance, WordPress.com | 16 Comments

WordPress GSoC Week 4 and import/mt-atom.php

Posted on June 20, 2008 by Lloyd

Today is the end of week 4 of coding for WordPress’s Google Summer of Code. It’s hard to believe it has already been 4 weeks, and there are only 2.5 weeks until the half way mark. This year, we’re running … Continue reading →

| Tagged Atom, Google Summer of Code 2008, gsoc, GSoC2008, Mentoring, Ronald Heft, TypePad, WordPress | 1 Comment