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:
WordPress 3.0.1 RC Announced
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Jul 27 2010 | View Comments
In Featured, News, WordPress News
Pete Mall of Developer’s Mind posted “WordPress 3.0.1 RC1 Released,” announcing the release of the first public testing version of WordPress. The changelog shows mostly a lot of bug fixes, little fixes to improve performance, and functionality.
A Day in the Life: YouTube Unleashed
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Jul 24 2010 | View Comments
In Blogging News, News
Are you participating in YouTube’s Life in a Day Project, subtitled “One World. 24 Hours. 6 Billion Perspectives.” The project is the brainstorm of Ridley Scott of Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, and Thelma and Louise fame, and Kevin Macdonald known for One Day in September, Touching the Void, and The Last King of Scotland, along [...]
When a Blog Goes Bad, Should The Whole Thing Be Shut Down?
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Jul 21 2010 | View Comments
In Featured, News, Web Industry, WordPress News
The WordCast team is working on a series of articles about using WordPress 3.0 for a multi-user site, and we stumbled on this article from ReadWriteWeb: 70,000 Blogs Shut Down by U.S. Law Enforcement (hat tip Andrea_R). Blogetery, a WordPress platform, has seen its entire community shut down by its host, BurstNET. Subsequent statements by [...]
Around the WordPress Community: PhotoShop, Default Theme, BackPress, Google Maps, AJAX, WordPress.com Apps
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Jul 21 2010 | View Comments
In Around the WordPress Community, Features
The WordPress 3.0 tips and techniques continue to thrive around the WordPress Community. In this round up of tips, tutorials, and help from around the WordPress Community and beyond we have an interesting look at languages for web talkers, some site design tips with PhotoShop, the WordPress Default Theme CSS styles, a quick look at BackPress, adding Google maps to WordPress blogs in a variety of ways, roles and capabilities, AJAX, apps for WordPress.com, some WordPress Plugin tips on how to write them, and more. Just for you.
WordCampLA in Los Angeles in September 2010
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Jul 16 2010 | View Comments
In Features, The WordCamp Report
WordCampLA 2010 is calling itself the “WordPress convention to the stars!” Day one is for the general WordPress Community, September 11th, 2010, focused on a wide variety of WordPress and web development topics. Day two is September 12th and will be dedicated to core development.
Raincoaster Media Offers WordCamp 101 Tips
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Jul 16 2010 | View Comments
In Features, The WordCamp Report
In “WordCamp 101″ by Raincoaster Media, Lorraine Murphy takes a lighthearted but powerful look at what makes WordCamps special and unique, but also powerful networking and educational opportunities for the WordPress Community. Here are some of the key points from her article.
Around the WordPress Community: Frameworks, Data Strategies for Plugins, CrunchBase API, PDFs, MySQL, Feeds, and More Hacks
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Jul 14 2010 | View Comments
In Around the WordPress Community, Featured, Features
Digging around the WordPress Community, we bring you articles on building frameworks for WordPress Themes, data strategies for WordPress Plugins, a look at the CrunchBase API WordPress Plugin, how to optimize PDF files for web publishing, WordPress MySQL hacks, feed hacks for WordPress feeds, and more.
Around the WordPress Community: W3 Total Cache, PHP 4 or 5, KSES.php, CRON, and More Links
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Jul 7 2010 | View Comments
In Around the WordPress Community, Features
This week in “Around WordPress” we offer a wide variety of tips and tricks, but also a look at how people are using the W3 Total Cache WordPress Plugin to improve their blog’s performance and speed. We also look at articles on the difference between PHP 4 and 5, kses.php, CRON, and smart quotes, as well as a look back at Cats Who Code’s top WordPress hacks for 2009, a bookmark worth saving.
WordPress.com Members Phone Home
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Jul 2 2010 | View Comments
In Featured, News, WordPress News
Just like diva Mariah Carey, you, too, can now leave phone messages on your blog to reach out to your fans. WordPress.com members can now phone in their blog post via via the web, email, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and desktop clients. Post by phone to your WordPress.com requires you to set your My Blogs tab [...]
