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| October 28, 2007 | 8 Comments

http://wordpress.org/development/2007/10/wordpress-231-release-candidate-1/ Over 20 bug fixes. What can I say except "sigh." View Post

WordCamp Israel overview

| October 26, 2007 | 5 Comments

WordCamp Israel happened yesterday. It was all videotaped and is supposed to be put online at some point, but it's all in Hebrew (except for Lorelle's lecture), so here is a quick overview of what was said and done:

Lorelle was great. Her lecture was similar to the

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Automattic for sale? Yikes.

| October 24, 2007 | 8 Comments

It seems that it's just rumors so far, but Automattic, the company behind our favorite blogging platform, may be up for sale. This makes sense. They've invested money, time and energy in building up a huge user base ... View Post

Finding the perfect facebook-WordPress system

| October 23, 2007 | 20 Comments

Welcome to our first guest post. The writer, Ryan Hellyer, is a PhD student studying supramolecular chemistry at the University of Otago in New Zealand (I don't even know what that is, but it sounds like you need to be a bit smart to study that). In his spare time, he plays and organises ... View Post

How to not look for WordPress themes

| October 21, 2007 | 4 Comments

Oh My Stinkin Heck gives advice how to NOT look for WordPress themes:

Subscribe to the WordPress Theme Viewer RSS feed - I never realized that you could!

Subscribe to wpSnap's blog - I didn't find the themes on this site so

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Transferring Simple Tagging tags into another WordPress blog

| October 18, 2007 | 1 Comment

I recently had to migrate an entire blog from one installation to another. WordPress does have an export function, and there are many database backup plugins and managers, but these really only work well with a basic installation that doesn't use any plugins that created tables. So, in my case, I couldn't ... View Post

New Answers.com WordPress plugin creates quick links to definitions

| October 12, 2007 | 3 Comments

Answers.com is a free online service that provides definitions and encyclopedic-entries on millions of topics. (It is also an Israeli company - I had to add that :)). The company has now partnered with Automattic, the guys behind WordPress, with a new ... View Post

Lorelle is coming to WordCamp Israel!

| October 2, 2007 | 4 Comments

It's now official - Lorelle Van Fossen (yes, THE Lorelle) is going to be the keynote speaker at the upcoming WordCamp Israel conference! When: Oct. 25, 9am to 4pm Where: Michlelet Afeka - Bney Efraim, Tel Aviv ... View Post

Akisment Auntie Spam picks up where Akismet leaves off

| September 18, 2007 | 3 Comments

Akismet brilliantly catches most comment spam and saves it in the Akismet section of our WordPress blogs. But if we don't check Akismet regularly, we can find ourselves hundreds, if not thousands, of comment spam waiting for review. Since Akismet sometimes mistakenly identifies legitimate comments as spam, we need to ... View Post

RSS feed mashup services – easy and free

| September 16, 2007 | 4 Comments

Once you're writing and/or managing a bunch of sites or blogs, you may find that it would be useful to mash all your feeds together into one feed that displays posts from all of your sites in chronological order. For example, you may want to have each site display all the new posts from ... View Post