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Category: News & Views

Have a nice steaming mug of…WordPress

| February 10, 2008 | 4 Comments

If you're a true WordPress fan, you've already got your WordPress hoodie which is keeping you toasty on these cold winter days. But alas, a very important part of your life, your daily cup o' joe, is being encased by a generic mug with no meaning. Well, those drinking-coffee-in-generic-mug days ... View Post

Is WordPress’ security vulnerable at its core?

Miriam Schwab | February 6, 2008 | 5 Comments

To my chagrin, my blog is telling me that it's time to upgrade again. A new version of WordPress is available! Please update now.

It's an urgent security release because if you allow registration on your WordPress blog, users can edit other users' drafts. WordPress development also mentions the ... View Post

Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan: WordPress in Kazakh

| February 6, 2008 | 4 Comments

Poor Kazakhstan. It's going to take them a long time to live down the image of their country that was created in Borat. However, despite the damage inflicted by Borat, I recently saw a news item on how the Kazakh economy is growing at a steady pace. So it seems that they've ... View Post

WordPress upgrade nightmare and lessons learned

Miriam Schwab | January 31, 2008 | 8 Comments

I just spent five hours trying to save WordPress Garage and another site of mine, but some of the damage is irrevocable. Here's the story of this nightmare, and what I've learned: I have a site that was running on WordPress version 2.2. I hadn't bothered to upgrade since we had stopped publishing on it ... View Post

Find out how much your domain and site are worth with dnScoop.com

| January 29, 2008 | 1 Comment

I think that dnScoop.com is more of a vanity tool than something really useful, but it’s fun anyways. According to the dnscoop.com About page, “dnScoop.com attempts to estimate a value for an established website or a domain name by using factors such as:

Links pointing to the domain
Popularity

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Hail all WordPress plugin creators – Reuters will pay you $5000 for a plugin

| January 28, 2008 | 1 Comment

Reuters OpenCalais project is looking for a plugin developer who can create a plugin or application for WordPress that can do the following:

Offer automatic blog content scanning

Support rich meta-tagging

Create and maintain a Semantic tag cloud for each blogger to post

Embed the related Calais URI.

The price? A measly $5000. I bet that’s the most anyone’s ... View Post

Consumer evangelists vs. lawyers: using “WordPress” in domain names

| January 22, 2008 | 33 Comments

Michael over at WPCandy brought up the question recently of whether it's ok to use the word "WordPress" in the domain name of sites about WordPress that are not affiliated with Automattic. I came across this issue about a month ago thanks to ... View Post

WordPress Publisher Blog launches

| January 18, 2008 | 10 Comments

The folks at Automattic have launched their WordPress Publisher Blog, which will:

"cover features that are often overlooked, we’ll highlight plugins that extend WordPress functionality, and we’ll showcase interesting sites being built with WordPress."

So far the blog has ... View Post

Thank you to my readers!

| January 18, 2008 | 3 Comments

As many of you may know, writing a blog on a regular basis can be challenging. On the one hand, the stats and feed statistics tell you that people are reading, but on the other hand, you can sometimes feel like you're shouting out into the darkness, and you're not sure that anyone is ... View Post

Could it be that WordPress would like us to vote for them in the Crunchies?

| January 10, 2008 | 0 Comments

It seems, but I'm not 100% sure, that the guys at WordPress might want us to vote for them in the Crunchies. At least, I think that's what the big banner at the top of every page on WordPress.org with the word "Crunchies" in huge letters ... View Post