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eMusic: WordPress on a Large Scale

James — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:00:30 +0000

A few days ago, we asked if you plan ahead for the scope of your site or just play it by ear. eMusic is moving to WordPress for all of their CMS needs, and they need to handle some rather hefty usage, so how are they doing it?

Straight from WordCamp San Francisco 2011, eMusic software engineer Scott Taylor shares some of his secrets on bringing WordPress to the enterprise level.

WordPress and Responsive Web Design

James — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:00:05 +0000

A few days ago, I mentioned that a responsive design was my favorite WordPress theme feature. Of course, I wouldn’t be doing well to promote my favorite feature without at least pointing you in the right direction to learn how to do it yourself.

Straight from WordCamp San Francisco 2011, here’s Sara Cannon with a great presentation on responsive web design in WordPress.

WordPress and Internationalization

James — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:00:32 +0000

I’m sure that you’re all familiar with WordPress in English, but did you know that WordPress is available in 121 languages? There is definitely a lot of work that goes into that, and it’s just another reflection of the power of the WordPress community.

Maybe you want to know what goes into that, or how you can get involved. If you do, this presentation from WordCamp Montreal 2011, featuring Paolo Belcastro and Zé Fontainhas, offers a great peak into a world of WordPress that you may have never experienced or even expected.

WordPress Plugin Security Showdown

James — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:00:39 +0000

It’s the weekend, time to work on your next WordPress plugin, but are you following the right security practices? At this year’s WordCamp San Francisco, core developers Mark Jaquith and Jon Cave, along with developer and author Brad Williams, covered some of the best security practices for plugin development and offered some real-life examples of just how easy it is to turn a world-class plugin into a crippling vulnerability.

“One of the greatest things about WordPress plugins is they can do anything, and one of the most frightening things about WordPress plugins is they can do anything.” ~ Mark Jaquith

Ten WordPress Features That You May Have Missed

James — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:00:52 +0000

Feature-wise, WordPress is quite huge, so there are bound be a few useful features that you never noticed, especially those that have been introduced recently.

If you think that you know all there is know about WordPress, check out Sheri Bigelow’s Top Ten Features You Aren’t Using from this year’s WordCamp San Francisco. You might be surprised.

Should You Use WordPress?

James — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:00:10 +0000

Are you having trouble decided if WordPress will be the right solution for your next amazing site, or do you have a boss or client who’s refusing to accept WordPress as a viable platform? Sara Rosso gave a great intro to the WordPress Ecosystem at this year’s WordCamp San Francisco. She covers some of the heavy-hitters using WordPress, how big of an audience some of them are reaching, and why they decided to make the switch (if they did move from another platform), as well as how the overall community works.

5 Ways to Break and Fix Your Blog

James — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 13:00:23 +0000

It’s Saturday, which means that it’s probably time to tinker with WordPress again, just don’t break anything. Just as a precautionary measure, here’s a great presentation from Hanni Ross at this year’s WordCamp San Francisco on the five most common ways to break and fix your blog.

Q&A with the WordPress Core Developers

James — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:00:31 +0000

Are you eager to know what’s going on in the minds of the WordPress core developers? This Q&A with the core developers themselves was a great treat for those present at this year’s WordCamp San Francisco and has a wealth of intriguing questions from the community. It’s definitely worth the hour if you’re interested in some of the recent and future WordPress decisions and plans.

Theme Customization Basics

James — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:00:13 +0000

The weekend is just around the corner, so it may be time for yet another fun project on your WordPress blog. Are you one of the millions of bloggers using the default theme with absolutely no customizations? Are you interested in perhaps modifying it just a little to stand out from the crowd? At this year’s WordCamp San Francisco, Jane Wells gave a great presentation with an outstanding Q & A to highlight some of the basics of theme customization. If this doesn’t inspire you to change at least one element in your theme, you must really love your current theme.

What to Expect in BuddyPress 1.5

James — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:00:06 +0000

BuddyPress has been quickly moving to a major update in version 1.5. There have been hundreds of bug fixes, and steps have been takes to make BuddyPress 1.5 much more efficient and secure than its predecessor, but what are the noticeable changes that users can look forward to? Lead BuddyPress developer John James Jacoby took some time at this year’s WordCamp San Francisco to share what’s new in BuddyPress 1.5.

John Battelle Interviews Matt Mullenweg

James — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:00:44 +0000

A few days ago, Matt Mullenweg was interviewed by John Battelle on Signal Austin. The discussion is quite broad, ranging from the supposed death of blogging, to Jetpack, to privacy and security. It’s actually a rather entertaining interview with some thought-provoking and honest answers to some tough questions.

Watch The Development of WordPress

James — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:00:00 +0000

WordPress has come a long way since 2003, and this handy video from Jon Cave traces every step along the way. Don’t miss a beat when things really start to heat up in 2005 as work begins on WordPress 2.

WordPress FAQ: Audio and Video

James — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:00:40 +0000

If you attempted to upload an audio or video file to a post in WordPress, you may notice that all you get is a link to download the file. If you want the file to actually play, you’ll need to use an extra plugin.

By far, the most popular audio plugin is WordPress Audio Player. Video plugins are significantly less popular, probably because video files take up so much space and bandwidth, and it’s so easy to embed videos from external providers.

When embedding audio and video, I prefer to use the Degradable HTML5 Audio and Video Plugin. Sure, it may require some file conversion, but it’s a great way to embed both audio and video files that use the browser’s native (non-Flash) player while also providing the option of a Flash-based player for browsers that don’t support HTML5 embeds.

If you’d rather embed videos from an external provider, it’s easy to do (as mentioned above), but Viper’s Video Quicktags providers a few additional features and customizations, plus it uses XHTML-valid embeds, which most external providers tend to avoid for some strange reason.

Embedding audio and especially video opens your blog to a whole new world of content. Give it a try, you may enjoy it.

WordCamp Phoenix Live Video Stream

Jeff Chandler — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:07:34 +0000

This weekend will be packed with WordCamp goodness starting with WordCamp Phoenix on Friday the 13th and WordCamp New York on Saturday the 14th as well as Sunday the 15th, both of which still have tickets available. However, if you can not make it to WordCamp Phoenix, the great news is that it will be live video streamed in its entirety thanks to their sponsorship with GoDaddy. Simply point your browsers to their Live Video page and the event will be streamed starting at 9AM Mountain time. Also check out the schedule of events in case you only want to tune in during a certain session.

Because of a lack of WiFi and bandwidth at WordCamp New York, there will be no live audio or video streams.

*UPDATE* Just found out that WordCamp Victoria in Canada is also this weekend.

WordPress.com 2.5 Essential Training Videos

Mark Ghosh — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:06:19 +0000

WordPress.com 2.5 Essential Training at lynda.com Online Training Library® is a set of training videos by Maria Langer (who also happens to be a professional helicopter pilot) that walk through the setup and use of WordPress as a blogging tool. Sadly, the title of this set of videos might be a bit misleading (though the title does indeed say WordPress.com, I was taken by the version number in the title) since the videos are tailored for WordPress.com blogs and not for self hosted WordPress.org blogs. However, a few of the initial videos are offered for free download and the only option for purchase of the full set is via a monthly subscription for $25 which would give the user access to all the videos on lynda.com. There are plans to sell the videos as a CDROM for purchase but those are not available as of this post.

The videos are aimed towards the basics of blogging and range in topics from setting up a blog on WordPress.com to creating and maintaining posts, pages, categories, adding multimedia, choosing and setting up themes, managing users and participating in the blogosphere.