I don’t see too many interviews with the CEO of Automattic Toni Schneider, conducted by people within the WordPress community so when I come across one, my interest is immediately grabbed. Dre Armeda who is one of the authors behind WPVibe.com had the unique opportunity to have Toni answer some of his questions about WordPress, Akismet, things they are working on, and one thing he’s learned as CEO of Automattic. One interesting bit of information I picked up out of the interview relates to PollDaddy: PollDaddy has been growing really impressively as well. It reaches over 117 million people a month! I imagine Toni is a pretty busy man but it’s nice to see him stop and chat with fellow members of the WordPress.org community. Not related to the interview but if you are interested in reading about how Automattic came to exist and how Toni Schneider became CEO of […]
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Archive for January, 2010
New Plugins ThemePerPost ThemePerPost is ideal for people who want to style their about page, create a unique landing page, show theme previews for design showcases, split one WordPress install into multiple sub-sites. It’s for anyone who wants to have posts and pages with different styles. All you have to do to change theme for one or more posts or pages is upload the theme you want to use to the usual WP theme directory add a Custom Field to the page/post you want to style. WordPress Contact Form Contact Form plugin from 123ContactForm.com. It requires a free account on 123ContactForm. jQuery Table of Contents Inserts the lovely little table of contents you see on many of the pages of my website. It uses jQuery to inspect the content of your post or page and generate table of contents links based on the header tags. It’s easy, SEO friendly, and […]
[Continue Reading...]Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress celebrated his birthday yesterday. He turned a year younger and is now 26 years old.
[Continue Reading...]In the past year or so, you may have heard of the term ‘Canonical Plugins‘ being used throughout the community. Back in early December, a poll was published that goes into more detail regarding the idea of Canonical Plugins and what to call them. The poll has since closed without making the results viewable but from what I understand, the name for these plugins going into the future will be ‘Core Plugins‘. Core plugins are community developed and encourage collaboration with multiple developers to satisfy the most popular functionality requests that would not make it into the Core of WordPress. These plugins would be developed alongside the core of WordPress to ensure compatibility, coding standards are met, secure code, etc. To highlight these plugins, a screen would be added to the plugins page in the back-end of WordPress to highlight these special plugins. Everything sounds great right? Let’s take a […]
[Continue Reading...]DirectoryPress DirectoryPress is a fully featured directory theme for WordPress, it allows you to turn your standard WordPress blog into a powerful online link directory. Not only does DirectoryPress come with great directory plugin features but also it comes with a range of changeable themes and designs, you can easily switch between any of the designs available with a click of the button! CouponPress Turn a standard WordPress blog into a powerful, feature rich coupon code website easily with CouponPress Theme. FreshBrown 3 column widget ready fluid width theme White Magazine The White Magazine Premium Theme comes with seven Widget positions and an Ad position in the header. The Theme is fully optimized for Adsense and very flexible. Page in German
[Continue Reading...]There may be times in WordPress where you would like to load the WordPress environment manually, and prevent plugins from loading. Two instances where this is ideal are: When loading an inline frame with Thickbox or Colorbox. When parsing AJAX requests in an external PHP file. To further give justification for this technique, I had a major plugin conflict with another plugin. My Ajax Edit Comments plugin had failed to work for one of my clients. After doing some troubleshooting, I determined it was a plugin conflict with “xyz” plugin. When I looked at the conflicting plugin’s code, I was able to pinpoint the problem to one patch of code, but failed to determine a fix. The conflicting plugin was causing my nonces to fail, as well as my AJAX processor to fail (since that uses nonces as well). Since my plugin’s editing options are all in a Colorbox inline […]
[Continue Reading...]As a developer it is always easy to overlook minor things, some of them may not cause you much headaches, but some of them could eventually build up to give you nightmares because they are hard to spot.
[Continue Reading...]New Plugins Picasa Album Uploader Provides a button to be installed into the Google Picasa Desktop to directly upload files from Picasa as WordPress media. Once the button has been downloaded and installed in Picasa, images can be selected in Picasa and uploaded to your WordPress blog with a simple click of the button within Picasa. Sabre Sabre is an acronym for Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine. It’s a set of counter measures against spam registration on your blog. Multi Currency PayPal Donations PayPal charges high fees for cross border transactions. If you are one of the fortunate few that have PayPal accounts in multiple currencies then this plugin is for you. It allows you to route different currencies to specific PayPal accounts. Even if you don’t have multiple PayPal accounts this is still a great plugin for accepting donations. Updated Plugins Linkify Authors Turn a string, list, or array […]
[Continue Reading...]Ahh, Kirby. One of my favorite games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. That little pink guy could eat anything! Alas, this Kirby is not pink. It’s white, black, blue, and has square corners. One of the news bits that came out of the WordPress Developers Chat on January 7th is that Matt Mullenweg is spearheading the creation of the new default theme in WordPress named 2010. This means that the default theme will not be something created by a third party. However, Ian Stewart took the challenge upon creating a default theme and Kirby is his result. Kirby is clean, simple, and has good typographical elements, all the building blocks of a good theme. I encourage you to check out Ian Stewarts insight into the design process of this theme and then read the feedback he’s received. Although it won’t be the new default theme in WordPress, it sure looks […]
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