WordPress Plugin Directory Gets Author Gravatars
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Aug 26 2010 | View Comments
In News, WordPress News
WordPress Plugin authors now have their Gravatar featured on their WordPress Plugin pages in the WordPress Plugin Directory. This is a great way to celebrate and honor those who build our blogs.
Ed Morita Now Featured on NonStopHonolulu Entertainment Network
By WordCast Team, posted Aug 23 2010 | View Comments
In Around the WordPress Community, News, WordPress News
Ed Morita of WordPress tattoo fame is now one of the select few freelancers working for NonStopHonolulu, a new entertainment and food network. He brings his popular Baker’s Hours blog to the network, as well as his wit and phenomenal talent for food writing, photography, and reviews.
WordCast Conversations 15: SOBCon Colorado 2010
By WordCast Team, posted Aug 18 2010 | View Comments
In Events, Featured, News, Podcasts, WordCast Conversations
Lorelle VanFossen talks to Liz Strauss and Terry Starbucker, founders of the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference (SOBCon) about their upcoming SOBCon Colorado special event on September 17-18, 2010. They share the success stories behind the event for helping people build their online business and offer some great tips for community building and getting more comments on your site.
Review: WebRing Updated
By WordCast Team, posted Aug 17 2010 | View Comments
In News, Web Industry
Lorelle VanFossen takes a look at the newly updated WebRing, the grandmother of web communities. Developed in 1994, she looks at how far it’s come and where it should go as it competes with the new highly social web. Are you a member of a webring or the WebRing? Were you?
OpenCamp in Dallas Breaking All the Conference Rules
By WordCast Team, posted Aug 16 2010 | View Comments
In Events, Featured, News, Web Industry, WordCamp News
OpenCamp in Dallas is breaking all the rules found at a typical tech and web publishing conference, beginning with its unique domain name. It include sky divers, top web publishers, concerts, and mixes up everything with SEVEN tracks plus BoF sessions across two days of non-stop action.
Is Your Company Still Preventing Access to the Social Web?
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Aug 10 2010 | View Comments
In Social Media, Tips
Is your company still preventing you access to Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and other social media? We’re not talking about blocking your access to the web during work hours, but actually preventing you from freely being you on the web to protect their company’s reputation? It’s time to really look at why companies are banning the social web.
Google Dropping the Wave
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Aug 9 2010 | View Comments
In News, Web Industry
Google announced it is giving up on Wave, leaving those who learned to enjoy it and use it a bit bereft, and the rest of the world still wondering what was that thing and was it really useful?
WordPress Dropping PHP 4 and MySQL 4
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Aug 7 2010 | View Comments
In News, WordPress News
WordPress has announced as of next year it is officially dropping support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4 in their next releases, giving developers, Theme and Plugin authors plenty of time to prepare. Many other programs reliant upon these are doing the same.
WordPress Blog Network Super Admin Panel Under Reconstruction
By WordCast Team, posted Jul 30 2010 | View Comments
In News, WordPress News
There is a discussion right now on the WordPress Development blog about the Super Admin menu for WordPress 3.0 Blog Networks. Ryan Boren, lead developer for WordPress, proposed changing the look and feel: The wordpress.org infrastructure work has reminded me how much I dislike having the Super Admin/Network Admin pages appearing alongside the regular per-blog [...]
WordCamp Jerusalem Set for September 5, 2010
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Jul 30 2010 | View Comments
In Features, The WordCamp Report
WordCamp Jerusalem is now set for September 5, 2010, at the Jerusalem College of Technology for an all day conference on WordPress. The event features various tracks for beginning and advanced developers and publishers. They are looking for speakers and sponsors still, but registration is open now and usually sells out very fast. This year’s [...]
