“Sorry, I’ll provide a patch after I graduate. I don’t have the time at the moment.” writes Jacob Santos aka darkdragon, in WordPress bug ticket #5860 Activating plugin that uses upgrade functions (dbDelta) fails , and I think he was serious. Reading that put a big smile on my face!
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Jacob Santos, “I’ll provide a patch after I graduate”
February 27, 2008 – 1:35 pm
WordPress and your Problems at MooseCamp!
February 20, 2008 – 1:06 pm
Bloggers and problems enter, only bloggers exit!
Friday, Feb 22, day 1 of the 4th annual Northern Voice including an “internet bootcamp” for people new to blogging, Facebook, podcasting, wikis, and more. It is an awesome logging conference being held again at the Forestry Sciences Centre at UBC! It’s Tim Bray’s “favorite little blogger conclave.” This [...]
WordPress Trunk, More Feed, Less Plugin
February 19, 2008 – 9:59 am
With changeset 6763 on WordPress trunk (soon to be WordPress 2.5), when I select Full text in Settings > Reading I now get… you got it, full text feed.
Ryan wrote in the issue ticket, “Looking back, this was a mistake. By popular demand, we’re returning to disregarding the [<!--more-->] tag when serving feeds.”
And with this [...]
MaadMob Dumps MT for WordPress
February 4, 2008 – 9:45 am
Amazing information architect and interaction designer, Donna Maurer, dumped Movable Type after 5 year relationship for WordPress.
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CMSWire: WordPress dominates the Technorati’s Top 100
January 23, 2008 – 6:40 pm
John Conroy of CMSWire wrote “Results: Most Popular CMS in Technorati’s Top 100” which finds “WordPress dominates the list” and “[WordPress is used on] a whopping 34 percent of the 100 blogs on Technorati’s Top 100″.
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WordPress Hands Free Upgrade?
January 7, 2008 – 3:09 pm
This comment by Matt is too good to leave obscure in a WordPress bug report:
Fundamentally, I think the reason [automatic upgrade] should be core is that WordPress being used as, and has the responsibilities of, a platform. Therefore it’s useful to look at the evolution of a few of the other most successful platforms out [...]
WordPress.com Happiness Engineer For Hire
September 21, 2007 – 12:03 pm
Matt linked to our Happiness Engineer job posting:
Our software and services are far from perfect, and when things go wrong people aren’t shy about contacting us asking for help. We consider the support side of the user experience to be vitally important because it’s the person who interacts with our customers most and makes the [...]