All Forces

I am writing this post from the new Wordpress application on my iPhone.

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 guess. I hope some of you can make it if you are in town.

UPDATE: John Keegan’s photostream at Flickr

This actually makes a lot of sense. Very cool stuff WordPress has been supporting through XFN links.

Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.

Link: Microformats.org

The cool cats from the WordPress dev team are starting to spill the beans about the upcoming version of WordPress. In an effort to make WordPress more CMS like they are finally giving pages the same love that posts have. Links are now simplified and called Bookmarks. This thing just keeps getting better and better.

Link: www.boren.nu

I’m glad to see I’m not the only one using WordPress as a non blog tool. Colin Devroe has put together a great article on how they built 9Rules using WordPress. Worth the read if you are a web developer.

Link: Building the 9Rules Network: Episode 1
Link: Building the 9Rules Network: Episode 2

I took the time this weekend to redesign my wife’s blog at liliflower.com. In the past my blog and hers have been mostly based on Michael Heilemann’s Kubrik, but this time I have done most of design from scratch. I really like the ability to include php functions on the new themes in WordPress 2.0. I already wrote a function that shows the number of unapproved comments on the front page if i’m logged in. I look forward to write a few more, specially that dreaded sidebar content who’s still hardcoded into the template file.