Charles Stricklin, the host of WordCamp Dallas 2008 and The WordPress Podcast has released The Voices of WordCamp Dallas, a collection of quick interviews and questions I asked during the event.
I was so amazed at how open everyone was, willing to share their thoughts on WordPress, WordCamp, blogging, and the magic of the web [...]
Have you seen the new WordPress mug?
For ages, while the WordPress Shop began their offerings of WordPress logo items with t-Shirts and hoodies, I kept telling the powers that be that I wanted a coffee mug. A big mug for my frequent cups of daily tea. A product that is useful and reusable, and [...]
Matt Mullenweg spoke out recently on the recent bogus “SecurityFocus SQL Injection” fear spreading across the web. There is a huge perception today that WordPress is a security risk. This is not true.
As Matt discussed, fears of SQL server vulnerabilities and other security issues have gotten out of control, for WordPress as well as [...]
WordPress.com has activated a feature without warning that has many up in arms of protest, making it one of the least welcoming additions to WordPress.com.
Since the beginning of WordPress.com, one of the most requested features has been the ability to showcase related posts from our own blogs. WordPress.com has activated this ability, but the [...]
WordCamp Dallas in Frisco, Texas, began Friday night with a bang of social fun at a local restaurant, with a lot of the participants and speakers talking WordPress and blogging, and getting to know each other while competing with the loud volume of the announcements for diners.
The beers were huge and the people were wonderful. [...]
April 17, 2008 – 11:39 am
According to Brazil: Bloggers united against WordPress.com ban by Global Voices, WordPress.com blogs are or soon will be banned due to a judge in Brazil ruling against a WordPress.com blogger featuring a YouTube video embedded in the blog of a couple having sex.
The details of the blogger and content in question is a bit [...]
Get ready for Friday. Lorelle and Jeffro2pt0 will duke it out on the WordPress Weekly Show!
Due to a variety of unfortunate circumstances, including tornadoes, last week’s WordPress Weekly live show was rescheduled to this Friday, April 18, 2008, with myself and host, Jeffro2pt0. You have no excuses now to join us Friday at 9PM EST! [...]
Weblog Tools Collection has a list of the videos and special interviews of the speakers at WordCamp Dallas, including my presentation on WordPress Tips.
Check it out and tell me if I did okay. And be sure and watch everyone else. They did much better.
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In March of 2005, Scott Reilly of Coffee2Code shook up the WordPress Community with 7 Days of Plugins. During that week, Scott created and released:
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Obfuscate E-mail WordPress Plugin: Automatically disguise emails within blog posts and Pages.
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I’m rarely totally and completely blown away by anything, and yesterday at WordCamp Dallas, John Pozadzides blew the whole crowd away with his new blog statistics program, Woopra.
John is a blogger, author of the popular One Man’s Blog, and an experienced web user, web company owner and business man. He understands the importance blog statistics [...]
Within the last hour, WordPress 2.5 was released for public access. Go for it.
I’m in Dallas for WordCamp Dallas and Matt Mullenweg is speaking right now and just made the annoucement.
I’ll have more information later. Go get your copy and have fun with the new Administration Panels. Click EVERYTHING.
WordPress.com users will hopefully get upgraded [...]
March 26, 2008 – 10:08 pm
I and a couple hundred other WordPress and blogging enthusiasts are gathering outside of Dallas, Texas, for a foot stomping and roaring great time this Saturday and Sunday. You better be there.
These are some things you will need to know about WordCamp Dallas.
1. Register Now or Never
Registration is required. There will be no registration taken [...]
March 18, 2008 – 11:44 am
I just published WordPress 2.5 Plugins Beware: Automatic Plugin Upgrade Problems on the Blog Herald and recommend that you check it out before using the new Automatic Plugin Upgrade feature in the just released Release Candidate 1 for WordPress 2.5 for beta-testers only.
The issue with the new Automatic Plugin Upgrade feature is explained by [...]
I’ve got three blog conferences I’ll be speaking at, and I want to give you 24 good reasons why you should be at each of these.
March 29-30 - WordCamp Dallas
WordCamp Dallas is going to be one of the hottest WordPress-oriented blog events this year. People are flying in from all over the country to [...]