GNOME goes WordPress MU

Last Friday I completed the migration of GNOME Blogs (nicknamed ‘blogo’) to WordPress MU with an announcement to the GNOME community and a thank you to the WordPress community a couple of days later. The first post details some of the features we launched with.

But the best feature…?

Now anyone with a gnome.org, gtk.org or gimp.org email address can set up a delicious, prêt-à-porter, WordPress-powered blog for personal or project use in 30 seconds flat.

GNOME Loves WordPress

Thus far, all the feedback from GNOME bloggers has been positive, and there are a bunch of folks in the process of migrating from old pyblosxom installs, Advogato, self-hosted blogs, and abominations hacked up in emacs.

Oh, okay, I was lying about the last bit… none of those folks are going to kick their emacs habit any time soon. ;-)

WordPress folks have been very supportive, too:

Ryan Boren, a WordPress core developer, said: “I used to contribute bits and pieces to GNOME before being consumed by WordPress full time. I found out about WordPress through some GNOME developers. I took some of the GNOME philosophy with me to WordPress and found that Matt shared much of it. So I’m glad to see GNOME using WP and hope they will be as happy with it as I have been with GNOME.”

Lloyd Budd, WordPress hacker, and apparently a big fan (!), said: “This is awesome! I extensively and passionately use Ubuntu GNOME! […] Is there a higher compliment than experience-oriented, open-source-for-everyone participants using the software that you care about?”

I’ll quit with the quoting, because this is starting to sound like a press release. :-)

To cap it off, we’ve already managed to complete the virtuous circle: WordPress MU bug #352 was filed, fixed and shipped with WordPress MU 1.2.2 as a result of work on GNOME Blogs.

Tastes like freedom — and there’s more on the way!

This entry was written by Jeff Waugh, posted on June 15, 2007 at 19:15, filed under Uncategorized and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

7 Comments

  1. Ronald
    Posted June 16, 2007 at 00:02 | Permalink

    Awesome work Jeff, thanks for doing all this!

  2. Lloyd Budd
    Posted June 16, 2007 at 05:42 | Permalink

    Sweet image! I may have to re-use it ;-)

  3. Lloyd Budd
    Posted June 16, 2007 at 09:28 | Permalink

    One thing that is a bit strange about http://blogs.gnome.org/ is the front page.

    It might be better of the recent site update in not at the top of the page, but install have intro / getting started. Also, could use access to previous site news.

    BUG: http://blogs.gnome.org/blog/2007/06/10/migrating-your-pyblosxom-blog-from-wwwgnomeorg/ currently redirects to http://blogs.gnome.org/

    http://blogs.gnome.org/blog/2007/06/08/welcome-to-gnome-blogs seems useful, but no link to it on front page (currently also redirecting back to home page ;-))

  4. jdub
    Posted June 16, 2007 at 14:56 | Permalink

    Yeah, front page sucks atm. I wrote some stuff up about it yesterday in GNOME bug #447773. That redirect bug is interesting… I might’ve b0rked something while setting up the test site for gnomejournal.org, which will be switching to WordPress too! Yay! :-)

  5. jdub
    Posted June 16, 2007 at 14:57 | Permalink

    Thanks for pointing those out!

  6. Lloyd Budd
    Posted June 17, 2007 at 08:07 | Permalink

    point those out: no problemo. From Bug #447773, it looks like you were already all over it.

    gnomejournal.org: Cool!

    Based on those Technorati symbols my guess is that you are using Kramer. I tried it but later turned it off. I love the concept, but because it is not integrated in spam control, a lot of spam sites linking to me got through, and deleting those comments would result in them being pulled again. It also creates quite a bit of noise through duplicates.

  7. jdub
    Posted June 17, 2007 at 14:41 | Permalink

    Lloyd, yeah, starting to feel the same way about Kramer. Particularly because Technorati still reports links from pretty much every Planet I’m on, so I get five or six Kramer comments ‘by default’. Bleah.

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