Tag Archives: WordPress

WordPress and Drizzle

July 8, 2009 – 05:15

So, for amusement, education and a desire to put Drizzle through its paces with a real-world application, I built a Drizzle database adapter for WordPress.
Rather than completely dumping the native wpdb class (as most WordPress database adapters appear to do), I have subclassed it, replacing only the methods which use mysql_ functions.
This way, it’s easier […]

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in General | Also tagged Drizzle, MySQL | Comments (12)

WordPress 2.7 released!

December 11, 2008 – 13:47

WordPress 2.7 is an awesome release. The revision of the admin backend, despite being so soon after the changes in 2.5, is fantastic… particularly for “real users”. I enjoyed putting forward my blunt perspective on the issue while Matt and Jane were in the crowd at WordCamp Australia. Developers and contributors don’t hear “you’re doing […]

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in General | Also tagged blogs.gnome.org, release, WordCamp, wordcampau, wordpress 2.7, WordPress MU, WPMU | Comments (12)

Intriguing sessions at WordCamp Australia…

November 28, 2008 – 20:41

If you’re missing out on WordCamp Australia this weekend, you might really be missing out! A bunch of sessions that will be of particular interest to WordPress fans (and fans of all things new and groovy) have snuck their way into the published schedule, including:

“Launch: Prologue Groups” at 11:05 on Saturday, from Sam Bauers and […]

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in General | Also tagged automattic, conference, Crikey, Crikey Blogs, WordCamp, wordcampau | Comments (1)

WordCamp Australia 2008

November 10, 2008 – 18:08

WordCamp Australia 2008 will be held in Sydney at the end of the month, right before OSDC… and I intend to celebrate my first WordCamp by giving a talk!
Yes, I will dimly glow next to such bright stars in the universe of WordPress as Matt Mullenweg and Jane Wells (who is kicking butt with the […]

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in General | Also tagged blogging, conference, Crikey, Crikey Blogs, jane wells, matt mullenweg, WordCamp | Comments (3)

Flickr Photo Album

July 29, 2008 – 17:19

I forgot to mention one WordPress plugin I enjoy using in my previous post, because I wasn’t sure if it was still being maintained. Turns out the maintainer, Joe Tan, just did a release today, bringing it up to speed with WordPress 2.6…
Flickr Photo Album makes it easy to use Flickr images in your blog, […]

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in General | Also tagged flickr, photo album, plugin | Comments (0)

Projects that make my WordPress rock!

July 26, 2008 – 15:53

Here are some of the projects that I enjoy using with WordPress… Perhaps you’ll find them as useful as I have.

WordPress and WordPress MU (multi-user)
It’s hard to make recommendations related to WordPress without mentioning the project itself, and its twisted sister, WordPress MU. Both are improving in leaps and bounds, and it’s a pleasure finding […]

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in General | Also tagged akismet, bad behavior, OpenID, opensearch, plugins, sandbox, tango, Twitter, typography, WordPress MU, WPMU | Comments (10)

WordPress Party! Sydney Style.

May 25, 2008 – 17:29

Matt announced a 5th birthday party for WordPress in San Francisco, and welcomed birthday events around the world. So here’s a response from the other side of the Pacific… Join the WordPress 5th birthday celebrations in Sydney this Tuesday, 7pm at the James Squire Brewhouse! Here’s a Facebook event for RSVPs. See you there!

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in General | Also tagged birthday, party, sydney, WPMU | Comments (6)

Projects that make GNOME rock!

January 14, 2008 – 00:59

James Maguire at Datamation published an article late last year about the favourite projects of FLOSS industry and community leaders. Uh huh, I’m still catching up with 2007!
With my GNOME Foundation hat on I thought that, rather than taking the easy way out by plugging a bunch of our rocking applications, it might […]

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in General | Also tagged bugzilla, cairo, evolution, GNOME, olpc, WPMU | Comments (7)

WordPress MU + OpenID

January 10, 2008 – 18:41

After quite a bit of work, WP-OpenID is now ready for WPMU! Always wanted your WPMU install to consume OpenID for logins and comments? Now it can!
I am already running this modified version on blogs.gnome.org and perkypants.org (WPMU and WPSO respectively), in order to test the changes in both environments.
To try it out, download the […]

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in General | Also tagged OpenID, WordPress MU, WPMU | Comments (29)