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 currently testing this on WordPress.com before polishing the code up and sharing it. We are [...]
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Stuff White Victoria People Like
July 30, 2008 – 8:44 pm
Stuff White People Like is coming to Victoria!
Victoria is one of the stops on the book tour. Get your copy of the fresh minted book signed by Christian Lander at Chapters on August 10th, 2:00 p.m. He’ll be in Vancouver a couple of days later.
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WordPress, Gears, Offline, Privacy
July 4, 2008 – 1:02 pm
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. I’ve been using it for about a month, and even though I have a decent [...]
5 Years of WordPress!
May 27, 2008 – 9:20 pm
Today, people all around the world are celebrating that five years ago today the first version of WordPress was released!
Of course, most people’s celebration is limited to Happy Birthday WordPress posts. It’s awesome reading them; most posts (subtlety) demonstrate the authors own participation in WordPress. We’re all the developers of WordPress!
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BattleStar Blogger, Darth Mojo
May 27, 2008 – 3:30 pm
I found a gem of a blog the other day, Darth Mojo. It is written by BattleStar Galactica Visual Effects Designer, Adam “Mojo” Lebowitz. The blog’s tag line is “the dark chocolate side of the force”. As well as in depth BSG insider info, he geeks out on Star Trek, Star Wars, and all [...]
Surfin’ WordPress 2.5 with Safari 3
February 29, 2008 – 3:52 pm
With the release of Mac OS X Leopard (10.5), the simple, elegant, fast web browser Safari 3 is here.
Very soon we will release WordPress 2.5, and about the same time WordPress.com will be updated.
With Safari 3 and WordPress 2.5 you should finally have a great experience if Safari is your preferred browser.
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Matt Thomas Put Under the Press, WordPress 2.5 That Is
February 28, 2008 – 6:25 pm
Matt Thomas, our brilliant web designer on team Automattic, has been very busy working on WordPress 2.5 .
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Anderson Cooper blogging at WordPress.com
January 29, 2008 – 11:20 am
Yesterday, Anderson Cooper 360° Blog relaunched on our WordPress.com. CNN was one of our first VIPublishers and has more than 40 blogs with us — their team is among my favorite to work with.
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