So, you’ve just moved your WordPress blog following the official instructions, but what about all of your internal links and images? Even though you may have changed your main URL during the move process, your internal links and images will remain unchanged, leaving images broken and internal links pointing toward the old domain or directory. Sure, you could manually edit every single post or page, but there are other ways. The easy way is to use a plugin called Velvet Blues Update URLs. It’s a very simply plugin. You just enter your old URL, then enter your new URL, and this plugin take cares of the rest. I know, it almost seems too easy, but in this case it really is just that easy. Of course, if you want to make it a little bit more difficult, we sure can. What if Velvet Blues Update URLs disappears and you’re left […]
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It seems like just last month when we were celebrating Andrew Nacin’s first full year of WordPress contributions. Like any good athlete with a solid year under his belt, Andrew Nacin has just been acquired, by Matt Mullenweg himself. Nacin now has his dream job. He will be working alongside Otto Wood as a Tech Ninja at Mullenweg’s Audrey Capital. His job? To continue his work as a WordPress core developer on a full-time basis and also contribute to the WordPress.org site, bbPress, BuddyPress, and GlotPress. Nacin has certainly made an impact during his rise through the WordPress community, and we wish him the best in his new adventure. The future of WordPress certainly feels more secure than ever before.
[Continue Reading...]The aspect of community-powered support is definitely one of that factors that has lead to the popularity of WordPress, but despite millions of users, only a handful regularly volunteer in the support forums. How can you support WordPress? What kind of questions will you encounter? What if you aren’t an expert? These just a few of the questions that Automattic Happiness Engineer Sheri Bigelow answers in her WordCamp Portland 2010 session, How to Support WordPress. I became a volunteer in the WordPress Support Forums six years ago, one week after installing WordPress. I was what some would call a “n00b,” but while I was waiting for an answer to my question, I noticed a few installation questions that I could answer. Fast-forward six years later, and everything that I know about WordPress today was learned from answering questions on the WordPress Support Forums. If a lack of knowledge is preventing […]
[Continue Reading...]Users are advised that WordPress 3.0.3 has just been released and is a security update. This release fixes issues in the XML-RPC remote publishing interface. This release fixes issues in the remote publishing interface, which under certain circumstances allowed Author- and Contributor-level users to improperly edit, publish, or delete posts. If you have remote publishing enabled on your site you are urged to upgrade. You can do so easily via the built-in automatic upgrade feature. If upgrading the old fashioned way is your cup of tea here is the list of revised files … wp-includes/version.php xmlrpc.php readme.html wp-admin/includes/update-core.php
[Continue Reading...]WordPress is certainly the most popular open source blogging platform, but how are development decisions made? You may have heard that WordPress is a democracy, that Matt Mullenweg makes all the decisions, or that Automattic governs the development of WordPress. Of course, neither of those are true. WordPress is actually a Meritocracy. It’s really quite simple and efficient, but the more you contribute to WordPress, the more weight your opinions carry when it comes time to make decisions. Probably the best example of this is Andrew Nacin. When Nacin began contributing to WordPress, he could only submit his bug fixes and enhancements for review. After showing his commitment to the WordPress community over three months and a hundred patches, Nacin was asked to be a core developer. Now, Nacin’s bug fixes and enhancements go right to the core. I could write pages upon pages describing how everything works, but I’d certainly […]
[Continue Reading...]The fine folks over at Testking.com have created and shared an info-graphic that displays the power of WordPress. The image contains interesting information that can be found within the Codex but has been displayed in a nice, visual form. Notables include: time line of releases and major milestones from 2003 to 2010, web usage of WordPress, percentages of websites using different versions of WordPress, daily user activity and much more. Some of this information seems to be WordPress.com based so keep that in mind. Despite the information at some point being dated, this would still make a great snapshot to use as a poster. The Power of WordPress
[Continue Reading...]WordPress 3.0.2, the first mandatory security update in quite a while, was released not too long ago. The update patched an exploit which allowed an Author-level users to gain access to the site well above their user level, but the real story here is the overall efficiency of the volunteer developers. With a team unpaid volunteers keeping WordPress in tip-top shape, you might be surprised to hear that this particular update went from initial disclosure of the exploit to final release in no more than four hours! That particular time frame is almost unheard of, even amongst commercial projects. To further sweeten the pot, the VaultPress team automatically pushed a hotfix the next day to all VaultPress-enabled blogs, ensuring that all VaultPress users were protected from the exploit, even if they had not had a chance to apply the 3.0.2 update. With such an efficient team of volunteer developers, and […]
[Continue Reading...]Andrew Warner who produces the video show Mixergy has published his interview with Andrew Mason, founder of Groupon. While Groupon has recently been given a 5 billion dollar acquisition bid by Google, it wasn’t easy getting started. In fact, Andrew cobbled together scripts and blog posts on a WordPress powered website to get things off the ground. All we did was we took a WordPress Blog and we skimmed it to say Groupon and then every day we would do a new post with the points embedded. It was totally ghetto. We would sell t-shirts on the first version of Groupon. We’d say in the right up, ‘This t-shirt will come in the color red, size large. If you want a different color or size, email that to us.’ We didn’t have a form to add that stuff. We were just, it was so cobbled together. It was enough to […]
[Continue Reading...]Automattic has launched the official WP Swag Store! Now, you too can own a piece of WordPress memorabilia. Proceeds from the sales go to benefit the donation of swag to WordCamps around the world. Of course, one can’t help but notice that the store has launched just in time for the holiday season, and what would make a better stocking stuffer than a 3GB WordPress USB drive? Even if you don’t celebrate any of the traditional gift-giving holidays, there are plenty of WordPress-themed warm clothing options for the cold winter months, and even a mug for your warm drinks. Are you collector of WordPress swag? If so, we’d love to see your collection!
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James began using WordPress in 2004. Being new to WordPress (and blogging in general), he quickly found the WordPress Support Forums and basically never left. James currently resides in sunny Southern California, where he enjoys bringing happiness to millions of WordPress.com users.
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