Tag Archives: WordPress.com

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, WordPress Foundation | 1 Comment

Measurements That Matter on WordPress.com

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Lloyd

I know what measurements matter for WordPress.com, because they’re right there on the front page. Right now in the top left of “Freshly Pressed” it reads:
The best of 252,029 bloggers, 223,676 new posts, 327,799 comments, & 54,240,782 words today on … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Collaborating, Communicating, WordPress.com | Also tagged Blogging, Inspirations, measurements, statistics | 1 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, WordPress Plugin Checker, WordPress Theme Development, wp-content, WP_CONTENT_DIR | 1 Comment

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 | Leave a comment

WordPress.com Still Blocked in China

Posted on June 6, 2009 by Lloyd

I’ve seen some reports lately that “WordPress is blocked in China”, including some Mashable articles. To clarify, it’s WordPress.com that is blocked, not all sites that run self-hosted WordPress.
Mashable’s “China Blocks Twitter (And Almost Everything Else)” seems to suggest that the … Continue reading →

Posted in WordPress, WordPress.com | Also tagged AFP, Censorship, China, Chinese Government, Dangerous Journalism, Great Firewall of China, Guy Newey, Journalism, Matt Mullenweg, Public Security Bureau, Reporters without Borders, Reporting, RSF, Stan Schroeder, Tor, Tor Project, WordPress | 5 Comments

Mozilla SEO & Firefox Tips & Tricks Web Page Bugs

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Lloyd

Update Thurs, May 7th (2 days later): Mozilla is working on the issue for Mozilla.com “Bug 491985 – Title tag changes for select product pages on Mozilla.com to help SEO rank “. To clarify, the improvement is more search … Continue reading →

Posted in Mozilla, Web Development | Also tagged Copywriting, Firefox Tips & Tricks, Mozilla, SEO, Title Tag, WordPress | 4 Comments

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, Ronald Heft Jr, Six Apart, TypePad Trap, Web Standards, WordPress | Leave a comment

Stuff White Victoria People Like

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Lloyd

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Victoria, WordPress.com | Also tagged Book Tour, Christian Lander, Humor, Stuff White People Like, Victoria | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Andrew Ozz, Brad Neuberg, Browser Add-Ons, Firefox, google, Google Gears, Internet Explorer, Online Privacy, Open Source, WordPress, WordPress Performance | 16 Comments

5 Years of WordPress!

Posted on May 27, 2008 by Lloyd

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Blogging, publishing, Web, Web Publishing, WordPress | 8 Comments