apparently there are 34 better blogs about wordpress than this. you should probably go and read one of them instead.
Yes, I’m alive. No, I don’t have a hoverboard. What is the German word for ‘returning to something after many years to discover nothing has really changed, yet everyone else finds it new and surprising’? (Well, OK, obviously the admin interface has gone to hell, but I wasn’t so far out of the loop I […]
And it becomes clear why it was suddenly a matter of urgency to get the wordpress trademark out of Automattic’s hands, not to mention their newfound love for Internet Explorer. (IE? seriously? I remember when promoting open-source browsers was a core feature. I guess it depends who’s paying.) Strangely, my comment on the latter post […]
Somebody help me out here. Why exactly are we meant to be jumping for joy at the ‘news’ that the wordpress trademark has been taken out of the hands of Automattic and back into the hands of… um, Matt? I mean, yeah, obviously we didn’t want Google or whoever to get their mitts on it […]
You thought all was forgiven now Chris Pearson finally got bullied into split-licensing Thesis? No, of course you didn’t. So here you go, more grudgewank: Cutline was sold a few years ago and had a more restrictive license placed on it. The original author of the Cutline theme has gone on to produce other themes […]
I appear to have become one of those people who does their blogging in other people’s comments threads. Oops. So, here am I on putting the P into wOrDpReSs: 1, 2 and 3 (bonus link to camelcasers needing to get out more). And whipping the dead horse of GPL just to make sure it will […]
OK, not getting this. Well, I get that Automattic needs to start converting the millions of .org users into cashflow, and there are precious few ways of doing this. Yeah, they’ve got the affiliate earnings, they’ve got VIP support, they’ve got a little bit coming in from Akismet licences, and they appear to be considering […]
Let’s have a Q & A session on the vaporware Wordpress Foundation! Here is Andreas Nurbo with the questions: 1) Any plans to make all the people involved at decision level with the foundation and their role public? Yes. It is Matt. Next question. 1a) Will documentation of decisions, meetings be made public and easily […]
bbpress lives? I wouldn’t call being downgraded to plugin status living, exactly, even though I’ve been saying for years that it would work better as a plugin. As forum software it only appeals to existing fanboys who want to display their allegiance to the Automattic brand, and naturally they’re all running multiple installs of WP […]
I don’t really have time for this (I am meant to be NaNoing) but, yeah. Here we have somebody getting banned from the forums for wanting their personal information removed from someone else’s blog comments, and wondering why staff were willing to do this a year ago yet not anymore. I suppose we should be […]
I’m wondering why the word ‘marketing’ has been substituted by the relatively meaningless ‘user growth’ in the title of Automattic’s marketing guy. Surely we are past the days when we had to worry about the open source fanboys fretting about commercialisation? Anyone who was bothered by that has long gone by now. My own feeling […]