Has the WordPress world gone weird on us? You tell me: Rosie O’Donnell has a blog and it’s powered by WordPress. Kevin Smith has a blog and it’s powered by WordPress. One would think that the German WikipediaWikimedia site would…
Now this is cool. Blogger has apparently implemented an “auto-save” function for blog posts, meaning that if you’ve composed something at work and forgotten to save it as a draft or if your browser crashes in the middle of a…
Since the backup/restore process appears to have slightly b0rked my WP install, I am going to be performing some site maintenance today. This will entail disabling all of my installed plugins (except for SpamKarma, of course) and moving quite a…
The Philly WordPress crew (Left-to-right): Maurice (Mo), Ryan, Yours’ truly, Andrea and Owen. The inaugural Philly WordPress Meetup was held yesterday at Fergie’s Pub in Center City Philadelphia. A good time was had by all (as Andrea and Ryan have…
Exciting news on the WordPress front: Not only has version 1.5 surpassed 100,000 downloads, but, apparently, WordPress, Inc. has officially been formed. Let’s just hope that they don’t go the Six Apart direction and suddenly find the need to close…
WordPress 1.5 scored a glowing review over at NewsForge today, with author Chris Lynch labeling it “open source as it should be done”. High praise indeed. Personally, I’ve really enjoyed my WP experiences and am eternally grateful to all the…
WP’s status is really moving up these days, as it warranted a mention in an NYT piece about blogging Congrats to the WordPress team! Source: The indispensable Photo Matt.
A few stories to note on the WordPress front: Tuomas Kuosmanen (better known in the Linux/GNOME community as “tigert”, developer of the gimp and various other GNOME-related software) has upgraded his blog to WP 1.5 (and given it a glowing…
