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WordPress 3.6 Coming – But I Really Want Workflow

WordPress 3.6 Coming – But I Really Want Workflow

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We’ve got another fairly interesting release from WordPress on the way – 3.6.  From Mark Jaquith’s post on features: Post Formats:  Post Formats now have their own UI, and theme authors have access to templating functions to access the structured data. Twenty Thirteen: We’re shipping this year’s default theme in our first release of the year. Twenty Thirteen is an opinionated, color-rich, blog-centric theme that makes full use of the new Post Formats support. Audio/Video: You can embed audio and video files into…

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Again with the “WordPress Isn’t Secure” Meme

Again with the “WordPress Isn’t Secure” Meme

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As I was going about my morning reading, I came across an article with this dire headline: “The Perils of Using WordPress as a Hotel Website Content Management System.”  Of course, being a professional who spends much of his time working on WordPress, my interest was piqued.  From the article: WordPress technology is ill-fitted to power hotel websites’ content management systems and is only adequate as a blogging technology. Hmmm…that’s a pretty serious allegation.  So I read on.  The crux…

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WordPress Scalability

WordPress Scalability

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I know why I turn off many of the “tech experts” and “internet celebrities” – they’re wrong so often it makes my head spin.  Take Chris Pirillo today on Google + pitching Tiki as a CMS, as an alternative to WordPress or MediaWiki. The statement as to why he doesn’t like WordPress was very plain: “it doesn’t scale”. Bullshit on that I say!  It most certainly does scale and I’ve proven that over the years.  Geek.com alone used to withstand…

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Updated to WordPress 3.0

Updated to WordPress 3.0

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Nothing major, just did a quick backup then hit the upgrade button.  While things may have changed significantly in the backend code, there really isn’t much to show you here. WordPress MU (the multiblog variant of WordPress that is used on WordPress.com) is now built into the maintstream code.  Thus endeth the tyranny of MU, a code branch I personally despised. Custom menus make it really easy to create a special nav menu.  I’ve already used this, and it’s a…

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WordPress 2.8.6 Released and a 2.9 Preview

WordPress 2.8.6 Released and a 2.9 Preview

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I got the notice last night that WordPress 2.8.6 was released to fix a pair of security holes.  So I hopped right into the admin console from my Iphone and in 2 minutes, it was updated.  If you have a WordPress installation, I urge you to update right away as well. This will almost certainly be the last release prior to the much anticipated release of 2.9 which is our next major (feature related) release.  Aaron Brazell had a great…

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News Has Always Been Free…

News Has Always Been Free…

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I read an interesting post this morning by Michael Hickins on The Faster Times that posit that “Internet Isn’t Killing Papers, We Are“.  His basic premise: that the tech industry, and the web in particular with with the dotbomb era and sky high salaries and insane stock packages, inflated journalist salaries well beyond their regular levels. Why? Because salaries had to be adjusted for the stock options that artificially inflated the potential compensation packages offered by the dot-com start-ups. How…

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Reel-Time.com Updated

Reel-Time.com Updated

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Over the past couple months, I’ve been working nights and weekends to get Reel-time.com updated and running on WordPress.  The project, while far from complete, reached critical mass this week and I was able to go live Tuesday night. This site has been around since 1995, and frankly, if you knew where to look, it was showing it’s age.  The homepage was left justified, which is something designers haven’t been doing since around 2001. There were a lot of challenges. …

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Open Discussion: How to Crowd Source Weekly Fishing Reports

Open Discussion: How to Crowd Source Weekly Fishing Reports

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(Update: In thinking about this, I believe my fundemental problem is that while I’ve crowd sourced content generation, I am now at a point where I need to crowd source some of the content entry, formatting and editing tasks…) I’ve been editing the Fishwire Reports at Reel-Time.com since 1995.  The task has generally been hugely manual, requiring tons of my time, most of which has happened over the years between the hours of 4am and 9am on Friday mornings.  In…

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WordPress 2.7 Released

WordPress 2.7 Released

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It’s out and you can get it here. Words to the wise: There are some issues with Image Handling which have not been resolved.  These issues appear to be related to server setup, and not the actual code, but sites where images handling worked on 2.6.5 may find that it is broken in 2.7 – like this site. (Update:  yes, image thumbnailing is working for me now – it appears it’s finicky on large size images and doens’t like some…

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Drinking From the Fire Hose #2 – the China Syndrome

Drinking From the Fire Hose #2 – the China Syndrome

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One of the big complaints that the anti-Wordpress chorus croons is that the vaunted blogging platform doesn’t scale.  Certainly we’ve all seen sites brought low by the “Slashdot Effect” or the “Digg Effect” but my experience tells me that WordPress is getting a bad rap for poor server setup, poor plugin choice, etc. How do I know?  Well, one of the sites I work with last week experienced the “China Syndrome” or potentially “The Great Fire Hose”.  The site, TheTruthAboutCars.com…

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