Tag Archives: Ronald Heft Jr

Interested in Freeing Yourself from the TypePad Trap?

Posted on September 18, 2008 by Lloyd

My co-worker Noel Jackson, tired of hearing me whine about the Six Apart TypePad Trap, has created a WordPress importer mashing together the MT formatted export file (missing permalinks) and the broken TypePad AtomPub (missing comments and trackbacks). We are … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging | Also tagged Automattic, Data Portability, Export, Import, Importer, Noel Jackson, Open Web, Six Apart, TypePad Trap, Web Standards, WordPress, WordPress.com | Leave a comment

The TypePad Trap

Posted on August 22, 2008 by Lloyd

So during my talk “Switching to WordPress Painlessly” at WordCamp, (video coming soon!) Six Apart’s Open Platforms Tech Lead David Recordon was in the audience and rather than have a chat with me at any one of the numerous times … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging | Also tagged Anil Dash, AtomPub, Christopher Alden, Data Portability, Dave Winer, David Recordon, Export, Import, Importer, Movable Type, Open Web, Six Apart, Switching to WordPres Painlessly, TypePad, Web Standards, WordCamp, WordCamp SF 2008, WordPress | 20 Comments

WordPress Google Summer of Code 2

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Lloyd

The Google Summer of Code is here again. I submitted our WordPress application today. Last year was awesome, and I think this year will be even way better!

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Automattic, Chris DiBona, Google Summer of Code, GPL, gsoc, GSoC2008, Jacob Santos, Leslie Hawthorn, Matt Mullenweg, Mentors, Open Source, Students, WordPress, WordPress Partcipants | 3 Comments

WordPress Trunk, More Feed, Less Plugin

Posted on February 19, 2008 by Lloyd

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. … Continue reading →

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Extend WordPress, Full Text Feed, Ryan Boren, WordPress 2.5, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Trunk | Leave a comment

WordPress Google Summer of Code Students!

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Lloyd

Ten students are being paid $4500 USD each to working on WordPress this summer!

Posted in Open Source, WordPress | Also tagged Andrew Nelson, Andy Skelton, Automattic, Bernardo Santos, Brian Layman, Celeste Lyn Paul, Corey Shaffer, Dio Hulse, Google Summer of Code, Google Summer of Code 2007, gsoc, GSoC2007, Keith Bowes, Leslie Hawthorn, Luc Bizeul, Matthias Bauer, Michael Adams, Mike Grouchy, Nikolay Bachiyski, Open Source, Peter Westwood, Robert Deaton | 10 Comments