The following is a list of all entries tagged with wordpress.
12 CommentsNot two days ago, I hurled myself into the fray once more, discussing usability with the Wordpress developers. The topic of discussion was a recently unveiled demo site showing off work being done to improve the backend design for the next version.
I do usability reviews for a living. Among other things, I’ve worked with [...]
CommentFinally an alternative to WP Cache: WP Super Cache. I’ve been having nothing but trouble with the former, yet I can’t live without it. Let’s hope the new one works better. So far things seem to be working really well.
6 CommentsInspired by Grubers new RSS feeds, I’ve been meaning to add a small heart icon in my RSS feed, right next to full posts (such as this). Easy peasy right?
Well, yes and no. Gruber uses MT, which I remember has a special template for the feeds. Wordpress, does not. In Wordpress you have to edit [...]
4 CommentsWordpress 2.3 codename Dexter has just arrived. Among the notable new features are a minimalistic built-in tagging support system and an update notification function for Wordpress, themes and plugins. I have just upgraded the Fauna theme to fix stuff that broke in the upgrade and add support for the new tagging features. On that note, [...]
12 CommentsThere’s a story on Digg about Wordpress. Completely unrelated to the contents of the article, one commenter had this to say:
too bad no one ever sees wordpress themes because the sites go down after five diggs
6 CommentsI have struggled with this for so long now, and I cannot for the life of me figure out what the problem is. So I turn to you, dear reader. In order to take off some of the load on my database server, I’m using the excellent WP-Cache plugin. The plugin automatically writes static HTML files to the server, serving these to visitors instead of asking the database for a fresh copy every time. The cache is supposed to be purged whenever someone posts a comment.
Except, this doesn’t work for me. I have scoured the web, including the Wordpress forums. People seem to have all sorts of problems, some have even created plugins to purge the cache when the admin loads. Am I missing something? Isn’t WP-Cache supposed to purge the static files when content is updated? And if not, shouldn’t there at least be an option to tell it to do so?
2 CommentsWhat turned out to be a major major update, the free and open-source Fauna theme for Wordpress has been updated to version RC2. Hopefully the next one will be the final one.
11 CommentsVery recently announced, a version of Movable Type 4.0 will be open source:
The MTOS Project is a community and Six Apart driven project that will produce an open souce (sic) version of the Movable Type Publishing Platform that will form the core of all other Movable Type products.
This is, no doubt, in response to the fierce competition to the far superior Wordpress and up-and-coming products such as Habari et. al. I used to run MT on this very blog, so the real question is: too little, too late? My mind immediately jumps to an article entitled Freedom 0 by Mark Pilgrim, which I’m sure caused countless of MT users to switch to Wordpress.
That said, I’ve begun to actually miss the static pages that MT generated. For once, I’d like to see the file-server go down, rather than the database-server. WP-Cache just isn’t cutting it. There’s more on both the Open Source aspect and the new features.
22 CommentsWhy isn’t there a 1st party “theme toolkit”? Like the extensive Wordpress plugin APIs, why isn’t there a similar complement to theme options pages? If a 3rd party can make theme options easy, surely the fine Wordpress team can make theme options easier and more secure!
3 CommentsWith the advent of social networking — especially sites like Digg — making sure your Wordpress website is cachable can mean the difference between a surge of new visitors, or a database server crashed.
In this case, “cachable” refers to server-side caching; allowing a caching mechanism (either the built-in caching system or WP-Cache) to serve cached [...]
5 CommentsI just finished upgrading Noscope to Wordpress 2.1. In the process, I was reminded of just how damn lovely a piece of software it is. Despite rather large changes to the core, the upgrade was fairly smooth. One thing that broke, though, will require small changes to Fauna, which I hope to get time to finish (1.0 final!) soon enough. In the mean time, head on over to Michaels place for a few screenshots and a few annoyances.
5 CommentsThe release I’m the most proud of yet: Fauna RC has been released. RC is for “Release Candidate”, which means it’s the second-last release before the big 1.0 final version.
10 CommentsI have just released a new live preview for Wordpress plugin that uses AJAX. Like last time, the bulk of the code is by the excellent Jeff Minard.
Upload and activate. It’s really nice. Trust me.
Note: For now, this plugin will bork if you feed it a link containing an anchor. Like this one. The rest will work just fine.
My good friend Khaled writes for all of the Shuttle team in his latest post, Contributing to Open Source. Shuttle was a redesign of the Wordpress administration section. 6 team-members worked hard to make sure it was the best it could be. Unfortunately, it seems, it might never reach Wordpress. See also a Flickr photoset showing some of the design process. I’m still hoping it’ll reach Wordpress.
9 CommentsFor this project I’m doing, I needed an easy way to have a static homepage in my Wordpress installation. I found this fairly simple recipe, that if cooked correctly is mighty tasty. Here are the tools necessary:
Your root directory, / is your static frontpage.
Your subdirectory, in my case /journal/ is your blog.
Wordpress is installed in [...]