The “Crunchies,” which describes itself as an “award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year,” had its award ceremony last night. WordPress of some sort won an award, but it’s not clear which.
WordPress is the open-source blogging software hosted on WordPress.org. It’s sometimes referred to [...]
Matt Mullenweg, lead developer of WordPress, recently announced plans for “a set of interface guidelines similar to Apple’s or Yahoo’s detailing what was found in the research, so core WP devs, plugin authors, and other web devs can make better decisions about interactions in the future.” (The research he’s referring to—commissioned by Automattic—was done [...]
Michael Arrington at TechCrunch lists WordPress among his favorite “Web 2.0″ companies. Considering how many well-known bloggers use WordPress and that 3.81 million people downloaded WordPress in 2007, I think he’s not alone.
Bug fix
Yesterday WordPress version 2.3.2 was released, chiefly to fix a bug that allowed any visitor to your site to view any posts set to be published in the future (a request like http://pressedwords.com/?x=wp-admin/&paged=1 would do it).
Suppress Error Messages
More generally, WordPress now suppresses most database error messages. That’s great for a production site, where [...]
Localizing (or internationalizing) your WordPress plugin means making its text capable of being translated into other languages, without having to change the plugin itself. That’s something any plugin author should want to do, considering the huge communities of non-English-speaking WordPress users and the relative ease with which internationalization can be done.
Here is a list [...]
Welcome to the inaugural post of Pressed Words.
How I’ve Cut WordPress Comment Spam by 45%
For the last couple of months I’ve been keeping the database entries for comment spam caught by Akismet at my personal blog. I have an ongoing search for patterns that I hope to use in a future project.
WordPress accepts three types of comments: “regular” comments made by submitting the comment form on-site, [...]