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Archive for August, 2007


Away at An Event Apart

Just a little heads up that this WordPress guru (that means me) is headed to An Event Apart in Chicago for the next couple of days. If you’ve never heard of An Event Apart, it’s basically a place for the world’s foremost web authorities to gather together and speak about whatever they want while the […]

Smashing Magazine on WordPress SEO

Yesterday Smashing Magazine posted a nice piece on optimizing your WordPress site for search engines. It has some helpful tips, although I don’t agree that WordPress is poorly set up for search engines in the first place. If you know what you need to do, it’s perfectly set up. Just because it doesn’t hand it […]

Matt vs. Duncan on TechCrunch

There’s a really interesting post/conversation over at TechCrunch this morning. Duncan, a writer for TechCrunch, has openly criticized Matt Mullenweg (WordPress head honcho) and the proceeding comments (61 count so far) is pretty intense. Matt responds, others respond, Duncan responds. Lather rinse repeat.

WPDesigner

If you enjoy Theme Playground, you may well enjoy WPDesigner, a site I’ve just caught wind of that does a lot of what I do here.

New Job at WordPress.net

WordPress.net has a new listing asking for a WordPress MU developer for a new website being developed. Worth a look, if that’s up your alley. I haven’t noticed many jobs coming from this area of WordPress for a while, I’ll have to pay closer attention.