Category Archives: Wordpress

Being a WordPress 2.5 Bubble Head.

I decided to take the day and use it for fiddling around with WordPress 2.5 a bit. I’ve had the nightly builds installed in my local Sandbox for a while now but I wanted to see how it performed online so I threw up a test install of WordPress and updated it to the latest [...]

Automattic’s Doing Something Right.

Matt Mullenweg, Toni Schneider and the crew at Automattic should be giving out lessons to the world’s major businesses in how to succeed since it seems while everyone else is going down the tubes and contemplating doom and gloom, Automattic and it’s various endeavors are developing like mad, sipping at funds, gaining $29.5 million in [...]

Well Bless my WordPress Admin. Wait Till You See This.

My devious little brain finally talked me into downloading the latest developer’s build of WordPress 2.5 the other day and loading it into my local Sandbox and oh, what they’ve done to my Admin!
I know there’s a  few pics of the new (really unfinished) Dashboard running around on the Net and even a demo you [...]

WordPress Skipping a Version for Quality’s Sake

WordPress 2.4, which was scheduled for a January 24th release date has been skipped over in favor a March release of WordPress 2.5 instead. This decision was made by the developers due to all the new features that are scheduled to be added, a redesign of the admin plus more streamlining overall in the form [...]

Need Help With WordPress?

For some, WordPress can be a dream of being in control of your own blog rather than having to “take what they give you” as when you have a blog hosted at Blogger or WordPress.com for example. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with those at all but there comes a time for some folks to [...]

WordPress 2.3.1-An Email Notification Fix

The upgrade to WordPress 2.3.1 may have fixed a lot of bugs that existed in the original 2.3 release but it seems that it created another rather large one. For a lot of folks who upgraded they found that they no longer received email notifications when a reader left a comment on one of their [...]

I Need a Schedule!

So now that I have "medically retired" so to speak I now have the entire day to myself to do whatever I wish. Okay, not so it’s not exactly like that since I can take on the household chores which is something I’m certainly not unfamiliar with in the least but there is also my [...]

WordPress 2.3 Privacy Issue? Your opinions please.

Earlier today I was banging around the various WordPress developer’s resources and the people involved with this new release and I was surprised to see a great deal of consternation over the new automatic WP core update and WP plugin update notification features, most notably the automatic plugin update notification feature.
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