WordPress Archives

  1. Twitter Tools and WordPress 2.9 Testing Needed

    Based on the feedback from my previous post, I think I know what the issue may be between Twitter Tools 2.0 and WordPress 2.9. I have a new version available that may address the issue that some people were having saving posts with Twitter Tools enabled in WordPress 2.9. I believe the cause of this…

  2. WordPress Security, Upgrades and Backups

    I often get questions about WordPress security and how best to manage WordPress upgrades. These issues are closely related, and I’ve thought about them a good deal over the years (and I’ve been doing this long enough to have experimented with a variety of approaches). These are the approaches I am currently using and recommend…

  3. Twitter Tools and WordPress 2.9 – Working or Not?

    A bunch of folks in the WordPress support forums appear to be having trouble with Twitter Tools with WordPress 2.9. It works as expected in my testing, the WordPress HelpCenter hasn’t been able to reproduce this either, and the works/broken voting on the plugin page is fairly evenly split. I’d love to gather some explicit…

  4. WordPress 2.9 Upgrade

    WordPress 2.9 has been released – time to upgrade! There are some pretty nice new features in this release. I’m glad to be able to retire a few plugins now that the post thumbnail feature is built in and we’re going to wear out the comment meta feature in our custom implementations. I’ve got a…

  5. WordPress HelpCenter now staffed by Crowd Favorite

    We’ve restructured WordPress HelpCenter a little bit, and it is now fully run by Crowd Favorite and staffed by Crowd Favorite developers. This change is due to how the business has evolved as it’s grown, and what we believe will allow it to flourish going forward. We have a: new phone number1: (303) 395-1346 and…

  6. Appearing on WordPress Weekly (next week)

    I’m going to be on the WordPress Weekly podcast next Tuesday (dialing in from the Bay Area, hopefully will find a spot for the interview that will work OK). There is a thread at WP Tavern for people to post questions they’d like to hear me discuss. I think there are a lot of very…

  7. WordPress HelpCenter Shares Revenue and Knowledge

    We’ve launched an affiliate program and a public knowledge base at WordPress HelpCenter (WPHC), two things that I’m very excited about. We’re getting closer and closer to my overall vision for the service. Affiliate Program The affiliate program is really core to how we want the HelpCenter to work (note: anyone can join the affiliate…

  8. Chain Reaction

    I’ve experienced a weird and unfortunate chain reaction over the last 48 hours. A flood of comment spam Akismet not accepting connections from my server1 and/or not catching the spam. UPDATE: this wasn’t Akismet’s fault, see bottom of post. The email notifications from all the spam comments sending to my mail account My mail host…

  9. WordPress HelpCenter is Hiring

    The WordPress HelpCenter is hiring another web developer. Due to the nature of the work we do at the HelpCenter, we’re looking for someone with a broad range of PHP, XHTML and CSS experience and in particular someone with outstanding communication skills. This will be a full time position with benefits, and we are open…

  10. WordPress Security/Upgrade Help

    The interwebs are abuzz with concerns about WordPress security this weekend. If you use WordPress, you should always make sure you are running to the latest version. Because of these concerns, the WordPress HelpCenter is open for special weekend hours (9am-5pm Central), and will be as responsive as possible to voice mail and email (help@wphelpcenter.com)…

  11. The Carrington Framework Q&A Part II

    I’ve published another Q&A on the Carrington Framework on the Carrington web site. This one covers some additional questions I saw popping up in the forums and comments. It’s great to see folks being able to get into Carrington a little more of late, I guess the additional documentation has been helpful. Also, remember to…

  12. Updated Carrington Core and Themes

    The Carrington CMS theme framework for WordPress has been updated to version 2.5. I’ve also released updated versions of all of our Carrington themes with the latest core, new documentation, and other misc. enhancements and bug fixes: Carrington Blog 2.2 Carrington Text 1.3 Carrington Mobile 1.1 Carrington JAM 1.3 WordPress developers, be sure to check…

  13. Analytics360° 1.1

    I’m pleased to announce that version 1.1 of Analytics360°, a great WordPress plugin from MailChimp that provides awesome Google and MailChimp analytics data and visualizations in your WordPress admin, is now available. Download it here This release addresses a handful of issues that were reported in version 1.0, and has been well received in testing…

  14. More Carrington Documentation

    I’ve published more documentation on Carrington, the CMS theme framework for WordPress we created and use at Crowd Favorite. These docs cover the three contexts used in Carrington, and examples of how you may want to use them: The General Context The Post Context The Comment Context I’m working on a follow-up to the Carrington…