Smashing Magazine’s take on “Extending WordPress With Custom Content Types” is one of the best I’ve seen around. It is very complete – skipping only, from what I can tell, the REST API functionality of the custom post types. It’s easy to read and follow. It has both screenshots and code snippets. And it is based on a real example.
This article alone can answer a gadzillion of those “Can this be done in WordPress?” questions.
Matt Mullenweg shares a piece of hilarious SPAM he received. This. Is. CLASSIC!
I apologize for the cold email. I was researching Automattic , Inc. and wanted to ask you if there was any gaps/pains within your CMS and website. I work for the “Redhat of Drupal”, (Acquia) and we have seen an explosion of Drupal use in the Media, News, and Entertainment Industry.
Some companies using Drupal/Acquia include Warner Music, Maxim, NBC Universal, and NPR.
If you are evaluating your current system or are looking into new web projects, I would love to connect and discuss Drupal as an option.Would it make sense to connect on this? If there is someone better at Automattic , Inc. to speak with, perhaps you could point me in the right direction?
Octopress – a blogging framework for hackers
Being a very happy WordPress user doesn’t stop me from looking around for alternatives. I recently came across Octopress, which is, in some sort, GitHub pages on steroids. This is a really neat and geeky approach to tech-savvy bloggers. Recently, version 2.0 has been released.
Octopress comes with:
- A semantic HTML5 template
- A Mobile first responsive layout (rotate, or resize your browser and see)
- Built in 3rd party support for Twitter, Google Plus One, Disqus Comments, Pinboard, Delicious, and Google Analytics
- An easy deployment strategy using Github pages or Rsync
- Built in support for POW and Rack servers
- Easy theming with Compass and Sass
- A Beautiful Solarized syntax highlighting
James Huff of Weblog Tools Collection asks the questions: what was your first WordPress version? Since I’ve been using WordPress for a few years now, my memory got hazy and I didn’t quite remember. It took me a couple of minutes to dig the truth out.
According to my archives, I’ve migrated this site from NucleusCMS to WordPress on April 9, 2005. A quick check with WordPress versions history suggests that my first WordPress version was 1.5. It was released on February 17, 2005. Version 1.5.1 was released on May 9, 2005 and I’ve upgraded to it, not migrated.
So, for six and a half years I’m using WordPress and I’ve never regretted it even once. That’s quite an achievement, I think. Huge thanks to WordPress folks. I hope that you will continue to bring us more WordPress awesomeness for years to come.
What was your first WordPress version?
