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WordPress Foundation Official Website

storm — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:01:55 +0000

The WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source project: to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software. The point of the foundation is to ensure free access, in perpetuity, to the software projects we support.read more

Group Interview of WordPress Theme Sellers

Stuart — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:23:44 +0000

Over the past few years there has been a drastic increase in the number of premium or commercial themes available to WordPress users, and more theme sellers have continued to enter the market. Some are well-known individuals or companies who have developed a reputation in the WordPress community, and others have just recently started selling themes.

R. Bhavesh, Founder of Templatic Interviewed

Stuart — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:51:04 +0000

Today Bhavesh Radadiya from Templatic joins us and explains why they rebranded from PremiumThemes to Templatic, as well as shares his ideas on the future of Wordpress. Templatic also gives some licenses for their recently launched, excellent WordPress ecommerce theme ‘Store’ for our readers.

Useful Wordpress 2.9 Guides Not The Usual Features Post

DFalcon — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:14:01 +0000

Wordpress 2.9 – Carmen, named after Carmen McRae, the famous American Jazz singer, was released 4 days back on 18th December, 2009. Taking another step further to remain the most popular blogging platform turned CMS, this release included some exceptionally nice features that could make life really easy, other than of course, the regular bug fixes and security patches.read more

20 ways to use wordpress other than for blogging

Stuart — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:30:48 +0000

For those of you who think that Wordpress is only a blogging platform, well, think again. To prove our point we’ve come up with a list of the most creative Wordpress themes available in term of usage. We tried to list as many examples as we could but there are a lot more out there. So if you know some themes that you think diverse to be in the list, please let us know in the comments.

Using Wordpress to Build Large Scale Websites with Derek Herman

Stuart — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:25:17 +0000

Ask the Expert is a weekly series here on Design Informer. Building large scale websites with Wordpress is the theme for this week. Derek Herman of Envato is this week’s expert. Derek Herman is a 28 year old web developer residing in Portland, Oregon.read more

Geeky bits in WordPress 2.9

Stuart — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:33:18 +0000

Thanks to Peter Westwoord's WordPress Beta Tester plugin, this blog is on the 2.9 development track again, after having been off trunk for a couple of months. That plugin makes it really easy to switch any WordPress install to the development branch, either for the next "point" release (eg. 2.8.6), or the next major version, in this case, 2.9.

Updated Our WPscoop Member Profile Page Layouts A Little

Stuart — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:35:18 +0000

Today I spent some time working on the layout of our member profiles and adding some new options to them like being able to add links to your social profiles like twitter, facebook, delicious etc. This task has been something i wanted to do for a while now since our redesign but never had the time due to work commitments.read more

WordPress 2.8.5: Hardening Release Wordpress Security Release

Stuart — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:54:54 +0000

As you know over the past couple of months we have been working on the new features for WordPress 2.9.read more

Elegant Themes Release New Theme Admin Options Page Design

Stuart — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:10:12 +0000

Nick over at ElegantThemes has been working hard on redesigning the Admin Theme Options page for all his themes. The outcome is probably the best wordpress theme options panel you will ever have seen, sleek, modern, and simply beautiful. Looks like ElegantThemes have just made there Themes once of the best in the Wordpress Marketplace. Go check out the screenshots of the new admin panel.

WP.me: Wordpress.com Launches Short URLs

Stuart — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:41:10 +0000

If you’ve got a Wordpress.com blog, you’ll be pleased to know you can now share an itsy-bitsy-Wordpress (WordPress)-linky to each of your posts. That’s right: WordPress has launched the WP.me short URL, designed for linking to your blog posts from space-limited sites like Twitter (Twitter). It isn’t a general purpose URL shortener or rival to Bit.ly: it’s just for those on WordPress.com.

An Early Look at WP.com?

Stuart — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:03:48 +0000

Back in April 2009, we wrote about Automattic purchasing WP.com. At the time there was a lot of speculation about what the role of this incredible new domain would be. It has now been a few months since they took over possession and it looks like we finally have some hints about what the role of this domain may be.

WordPress Blog - WordPress 2.8.4: Security Release

Stuart — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:27:58 +0000

Yesterday a vulnerability was discovered: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset. As a result, the first account without a key in the database (usually the admin account) would have its password reset and a new password would be emailed to the account owner.read more

WPWeekly Episode 67 – Everywhere You Look There’s A WordPress Book

Stuart — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:13:27 +0000

Since David was unable to make it this week, that means a free for all of topics to discuss. Thankfully, I wasn’t alone as a number of WordPress Weekly faithful stopped by to share their WordPress news stories of the week.read more

Woo Worker Interview no3 – Sean O’Brien

Stuart — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:07:34 +0000

This is third Woo Worker Interview (see Josh’s & then Kirstin’s interviews as well) and we hope that you’ve been enjoying hearing from some of the Woo-superusers. We’re publishing these interviews to show you that it’s totally possible to contribute positively to your business by using WooThemes and also because we want to showcase some of the incredible talent within our little community.read more

What We Have Planned Next For WPscoop

Stuart — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:01:23 +0000

So I finally got some time away from developing and testing Wpscoop to write a fresh blog post that will hopefully outline some of the work I have been doing and keep you informed about the direction of the site. So far I am delighted with the way the site is performing at the moment with very little errors having cropped up, so whats in store for the future of WPscoop? read on to find out.

Evolution of WordPress User Interface (2003 - 2009)

Stuart — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:06:26 +0000

WordPress we see now is the product of the love the community has provided it with. Without the suggestions, tips, and new ideas of the valued users, and the hard work of WordPress staff implementing these ideas, it would never be where it is. Right now we see WordPress as a power house script that is so versatile, and adaptable to any use.read more

First Episode Of Press This Is Out The Door

Stuart — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:12:21 +0000

Joost DeValk aka Yoast in the community has produced his first episode of his WordPress podcast called Press This published through Webmastradio.FM. In his first episode, Joost interviews John Gridley who is an Automattic new hire. Also during the show, Joost answers questions from the chatroom on optimizing WordPress for Search, one of his specialties.read more

WPWeekly Episode 66 – Interview With Scott Reilly

Stuart — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:09:27 +0000

In episode 66, we interviewed Scott Reilly also known as Coffee2Code. Scott has developed over 50 plugins for WordPress. In this interview we discussed whether or not WordPress was a thankless community, various business models around plugins, why he contributes to open source projects and much more. It was a pleasure to have Scott on the show.

WordPress 2.8.3 Security Release

Stuart — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:02:05 +0000

Unfortunately, I missed some places when fixing the privilege escalation issues for 2.8.1. Luckily, the entire WordPress community has our backs. Several folks in the community dug deeper and discovered areas that were overlooked. With their help, the remaining issues are fixed in 2.8.3. Since this is a security release, upgrading is highly recommended.read more