Tag Archives: WordPress

WordPress 3 Coming Together

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Lloyd

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 →

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Kubrick Theme, twentyten theme, WordPress 3.0, WordPress Development, WordPress Themes | 4 Comments

WordPress Declaration of Independence

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Lloyd

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 →

Posted in Free Culture, Open Source, WordPress | Also tagged 501(c)3 non-profit organization, Free Culture, GNU Public License, GPL, Matt Mullenweg, Non-Profit, Open Source, Web Publishing, WordPress Foundation, WordPress.com | 1 Comment

Versatile and Elegant, WordPress, Democratizing Publishing

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Lloyd

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 →

Posted in Computing, WordPress | Also tagged Kubrick WordPress Theme, Software Design, Software Products, Tina Daunt, WordPress Themes | Leave a comment

Free and Open Source from the Roots Up

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Lloyd

“Free and open source from the roots up. “Open source” can be much more than a development methodology. For me, it also constitutes a world view that upends institutionalized notions of competitive advantage that saw their apex in the twentieth … Continue reading →

Posted in Free Culture, Open Source | Also tagged Automattic, codepoet, Free and Open Source from the Roots Up, Free Culture, Matt Mullenweg, Open Source, Paul Kim, Toni Schneider, Upends institutionalized notions of competitive advantage, WordPress.com VIPs | 5 Comments

Everything In Our Power

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Lloyd

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 →

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Community, Developers, Open Source, open source participants, Partici, Security, Software Development | Leave a comment

wp-content in Code is a Tell for Common WordPress Coding Mistakes

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Lloyd

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 →

Posted in WordPress | Also 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 Plugin Checker, WordPress Theme Development, WordPress.com, wp-content, WP_CONTENT_DIR | 1 Comment

GPL Isn’t a Good License for Proprietary Software

Posted on July 4, 2009 by Lloyd

Yesterday, I wrote about the clarification regarding WordPress Themes and the GPL (v2). Daniel Jalkut, who I featured as a personal WordPress Hero earlier this year, wrote one of the most interesting responses to “[WordPress] Themes are GPL, too“. Written … Continue reading →

Posted in GPL | Also tagged Collaboration, Community, GPL, Open Source, Participation, Proprietary Software, Software Developers | 5 Comments

Commercial WordPress Themes’s PHP Code is GPL 2 Too

Posted on July 3, 2009 by Lloyd

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 →

Posted in GPL, WordPress | Also tagged GPL, GPL v2, licensing, Theme Licensing, WordPress Themes | 28 Comments

A 20-minute Snooze in the Office

Posted on June 25, 2009 by Lloyd

In “The Way I Work, annotated” my boss Matt Mullenweg shares additional insights and linkifies his Inc. Magazine’s “The Way I Work” column (July issue). Both versions are excellent reads, but the post at ma.tt benefits from Matt answering a … Continue reading →

Posted in Automattic | Also tagged Automattic, Full Engagement, Managing Energy, Matt Mullenweg, nap, rest, sleep | 8 Comments

WordPress.com’s Job System – Cron for PHP in Distributed Environment

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Lloyd

Colleague Demitrious Kelly (meech, Apokalyptik) earlier this month open sourced the (Unix process) jobs system he (primarily) has been developing for WordPress.com. Not that I really understand it, but “jobs” is described as
A fast, distributed, horizontally scalable system built upon … Continue reading →

Posted in Automattic | Also tagged cron-like, Open Source, php, WordPress.com | Leave a comment