Tag: WordPress

  • 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.6

    WordPress 2.6 is around the corner (sometime next week, it looks like), and as usual, there’s a bunch of changes, improvements, enhancements that have went into this version. In my opinion, this is an odd major release. While there are certainly major new changes that warrant a new major release, much of the release consists…

  • WordPress Plugin: WP-Twitterpitch

    Obviously, there’s been a lot of talk about PR pitches gone bad. Stowe Boyd coined the word Twit Pitches last month. The concept is to force PR firms to use the economy of words (characters?) to pitch bloggers. It’s a reality in life, and I fight with my wife on this regularly, that no one…

  • WordPress 2.5 en Español

    Al fin aparece WordPress 2.5 en su versión oficial. Si quieres tenerlo en español, aquí te lo explicamos. Vas a necesitar lo siguiente: Blog actualizado a la versión más reciente de WordPress El archivo de WordPress en español Acceso via FTP, Control Panel o Shell a tu servidor En el servidor donde tienes alojado el…

  • WordPress FAQ Session at WordCamp Dallas

    I had the opportunity to speak at WordCamp Dallas today. The topic was WordPress FAQs which extends the conversation we had here last year. Here is the slide deck from the talk.  Thank you everybody for the great feedback and Mashable for recording the uStream.

  • Funny WordPress Plugin Sneaks In

    One of the annoyances we have at b5media is when people spell our company name wrong. We’ve even had our own people spell the name wrong. So annoying. :-) Somewhere along the line last year, this universal plugin snuck into our build. I don’t know where it came from or who wrote it. (whistles) It…

  • Maintaining WordPress on SVN: Adding Plugins

    Thank you for joining me again for this series on maintaing WordPress from subversion. We talked previously about creating an SVN repository and then about importing WordPress into the SVN repository. Today, we get into customizations. It does us no good to have an SVN repository with WordPress if we don’t change it to be…

  • Maintaining WordPress on SVN: Import WordPress into Your Repository

    Last time, I talked to you a bit about setting up a clean subversion repository for your WordPress build. Today, I want to take that a step farther and help you bring WordPress into working copy and commit it into your repo.

  • Maintaining WordPress on SVN: Create Your Repository

    A lot of people know that I’ve done a bit with maintenance of WordPress using subversion. Alot of those same people have asked me to show how it’s done. It’s not very difficult, really, but I encourage you to work with a host like Dreamhost that provides one click installs of svn. It’s the easiest…

  • WordPress Export Base Class

    Real quick note to let you know that over the weekend, I released new code that is GPLv2, relating to WordPress export format (WXR). The code and details are here and I’d love to get some input and contributions of other export classes. I’ve included a (yet undocumented) Expression Engine exporter as well and will…

  • Expression Engine WXR Export Class

    Earlier, I shared with you a new base class I’m releasing into the wild. While that was a conceptually nice piece of code, and potentially useful, it didn’t really translate in usefulness without some actual code. As mentioned, I just moved Shai to WordPress from Expression Engine and it required writing a custom export routine.…