Some thoughts and details about the redesign of the All Forces website.
Approving comments outside WordPress
The job of approving comments sometimes falls on a person who does/should not have access to the WordPress admin. By design WordPress only allows a user with admin privileges to do this job. I wrote an an External Web Interface for approving pending WordPress comments via XMLRPC. Check it out, it is open source on [...]
Under Construction Redux
View my “Be Right Back” page Enough of this blank “Be Right Back” pages we usually throw together when we need to do website updates. It is time for a nicer, more web 2.0 savvy under construction. Next time I do an update to WordPress, I’ll be replacing my index.php file with this one, [...]
My WWDC session is in iTunes
As some of you know, Apple asked me give a session about WordPress at at their WWDC 07 conference this year. The session was titled “Designing and Extending the Mac OS X Blog Experience” and they gave me an hour to cover how to create a local development system for designing blogs with WordPress and [...]
I’m Speaking at WWDC
I’m flying out tomorrow to San Francisco to speak at Apple’s WWDC conference. My session is titled Designing and Extending the Mac OS X Blog Experience and will be on Friday. I will be covering WordPress extensively, it should be fun. If you are at this year’s WWDC, please let me know, I would love to [...]
WordPress Meetup
Photo by John Keegan. I will be at the WordPress today at 6:30 at the northwest corner (south of the Starbucks, east of the Verizon shop) of Bryant Park. Matthew Mullenweg, a founding developer of WordPress is in town and has set up the meetup. It will be raining tonight, but that’s New York I [...]
Mobile Monday NY
In keeping with the whole mobile phone madness of this week, I’m spreading the word on this event for those of you in the nyc area. via George Ariola The MobileMonday NY committee, Antoine Quint of SVG.org, Scott Weiss of Usable Products and Dan Appelquist of Vodafone and MobileMonday London are happy to invite you [...]
The WordPress Podcast
This is definitely geeky, but I just started listening to the WordPress Podcast and I am hooked. There’s a great interview with WordPress lead developer Matt Mullenweg and some plugin news as well. An excellent addition to my subway ride commute. Podcast Link: Launch in iTunes Website Link: wp-community.org
Snap Preview Launches
At last, the much anticipated Snap Preview has been released. The web 2.0 search engine snap.com is providing a way to automatically show an image preview of the site when rolling over the referring link. This is a free service provided to site owners and bloggers. All that is required is a snippet of code [...]
Creating a custom WordPress database error page
This is a quick tutorial on how to have WordPress show a custom error page when there’s a database connection error. This tutorial covers WordPress 2.0.1.
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