Archive for WordPress
Apparently it is possible to write something that is not about the Facebook IPO today. My latest column is about the WordPress community summit.
This year’s first column (weekly ones, remember?) for WPMU.org is online. It is about theme developers and keeping it simple.
Important things are discussed in this year’s last column for WPMU.org: What should you name that theme?
I just published an update on what’s going on with the Notes themes. Be sure to read it if you’re into that sort of thing.
In light of recent events, I’m asking the question whether your plugin should be hosted on wordpress.org in my latest column at WPMU.org.
My latest column on WPMU.org is about the lessons i learned from organizing a WordCamp. Sorry, no profanities or controversy in this one!
Last week I wrote a column on Akismet being a part of the WordPress package and why that’s a problem. This week I give you the solution.
I’ve got a column on Akismet and WordPress online over at WPMU.org, by the way.
You already know that I loathe shortcodes (well, it’s not that simple perhaps) so the list of shortcodes from plugins on wordpress.org scares me.
A slight publishing snafu over at WPMU.org made my Thursday column publish early. Ah well, at least you can read all about why I loathe shortcodes right now.
Ryan Imel on WPCandy is upset about people who are advising WordPress users against running a lot of plugins. He goes on a little rant, which you should read, because it definitely has a point.
What does matter is the nature of the plugins themselves. If the plugins are properly coded and serve their individual purposes well, then it shouldn’t matter even if you have one hundred of them active. If the plugins are big, bloated, and poorly written then you could run into a problem with only two active. The key here is the number of active plugins is unimportant; only the quality matters.
This is true, although I think you have a problem if you’re running 100 plugins, but that’s another matter.
The thing to take away here is that you can run how many plugins you want, just make sure they are well-written, then you won’t have any problems.
With that said, I still say you should keep your plugin count down. Continued →
I never was one to thread around lightly, so when James Farmer and his cohorts had a brief lapse of judgment and gave me the keys to WPMU.org, I knew I had to come out swinging. So I’ll start with calling the WPMU.org reader as well as most of the WordPress community an asshole then, shall I? Indeed I shall, and I did. Continued →
WordPress 3.3 introduces admin pointers, which basically are highlights to show how various things work. This will be great for the core features obviously, but where it can really make things easier is in plugins and themes doing fancy stuff no one’s seen before.
The nice folks on Theme.fm have a post on admin pointers, which you should read if you’re interested in how you’ll be doing them, although you need to remember that 3.3 is still under development. They also put together this awesome video detailing how it could work.
The good folks over at Smashing Magazine has been covering WordPress all along, but with a brand new WordPress sub-site things should just increase.
Now you can run WordPress, and other PHP based systems, on Heroku. Here’s how.
