Category Archives: WordPress

First Thoughts: Distraction Free Writing in WordPress 3.2

This is my first attempt at testing distraction free writing, a feature that is currently targeted for WordPress 3.2.  It’s still in a very early form, but I’m excited to see where it goes. Here is what it looks like: … Continue reading

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One Year of Contributing to WordPress

Today is the one year date from my first substantial contribution to an open source project. I documented the process of getting my first patch accepted last year. Since then, I’m glad to say I’ve also encouraged and assisted some … Continue reading

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John Cave (aka duck_ ) put together a really cool visualization showing the commits to WordPress since it started. Road to WordPress 3.1 | Jon Cave.

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DC Web Content Mavens January 2011

The other night, the DC Web Content Mavens(isn’t that a great name?) presented on “Drupal and WordPress as CMS”. I was invited to co-present with Andrew Nacin and Joel Sackett. It was great to get the chance to talk about … Continue reading

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#WPTest in DCresults

Today the WordPress DC group met for a couple of hours of testing WordPress 3.1. Andrew Nacin, John P Bloch, Thad Allender, Ben Balter, Alex Byers, Anthony Braddy and I spent a couple of hours, finding, fixing WordPress. Nacin also … Continue reading

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Last night I did a quick presentation on post formats. You can check out the slides for more information about them. The last slide has links to some great articles that should cover everything you need to know about this … Continue reading

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Let your users pick a header, but not add one

WordPress 3.0 added the ability for themes to easily allow custom headers. Users could pick one that the theme shipped with, or upload their own. But what if you run a branded multisite instance where you don’t want your users … Continue reading

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