Blog consultant Michael Martine is set to review this blog sometime next week. I’m looking forward to it. And, to be honest, sort of bracing myself for it.
In case you haven’t heard, Matt Mullenweg of WordPress fame is hosting a party on Wednesday night to commemorate WordPress 2.3.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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.
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.
Brian Gardner recently released his Revolution Theme, a WordPress theme which takes blogging to a new level (as far as presentation). It feels very much like the New York Times front page or another newspaper layout. Everything is very strong, as it usually is with Brian’s work. Be ready to pay a few bucks for [...]
Blogging Tips has posted the winners of its comment contest centering on WordPress vs. Blogger. While the hosted version of WordPress was the target in that one, I still think a lot of positives were heard on the WP side. Keep an eye out for future comment competitions on Blogging Tips. [Disclosure: I write for [...]
My name is Ryan, and I am a freelance web developer. Turns out I also enjoy blogging. Read more.
