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  • 100 Things To Know About WordPress

    100 Things You Need to Know About WordPress. JTPratt and Anthony Montalbano combine to provide 100 things all users need to know about WordPress. The list is broken down into 10 parts ranging from web hosting to WordPress resources. A good read for anyone relatively new to using the software.

    Jeff Chandler

  • Using Chrome And WordPress To Publish Saved Bookmarks

    Here is a cool little extension for Google Chrome that uses the WordPress API to publish saved bookmarks as posts instead of using the Del.icio.us service. It requires WordPress 3.0 and only takes about a minute to setup. Another nice touch is that it uses the Link post format if your theme supports it.

    Jeff Chandler

  • Interview With Thord Daniel Hedengren

    How many of you are familiar with the name, Thord Daniel Hedengren? Thord is a veteran member of the WordPress community and over the past few years, we’ve seen him develop and release free themes, write a couple of books about WordPress and generally, just be a well rounded individual when it comes to the…

    Jeff Chandler

  • WPCo.de New Site Dedicated To WordPress

    WP Code | Just another WordPress site. New site dedicated to WordPress launched by Andrew. He says the site will bring you news and tutorials as he learns the ins and outs of the software. Have to say, I’m a fan of the domain name. Consider adding WPCo.de to your feed reader.

    Jeff Chandler

  • Hello To Those Reading From The Dashboard

    First, let me start off by saying hello to everyone who has arrived to this post via the dashboard of their WordPress installation. Secondly, I’d like to personally thank Matt Mullenweg for not only adding WPTavern to the Planet WordPress Feed but for adding WPCandy as well. It’s funny because I remember in 2009 when…

    Jeff Chandler

  • WordPress.org Should Scare You

    Interesting conversation within the Drupal forum discussing community and the Drupal.org website

    Jeff Chandler

  • Fixing PressThis On A HostGator Account

    It all started with a couple of tweets by Bradley Potter when he mentioned a HostGator specific bug to Andrew Nacin. Since WPTavern.com is also hosted on HostGator, I decided to try and replicate the bug. Following his instructions I was able to replicate the error pointing towards the possibility of something on HostGator not…

    Jeff Chandler

  • SharePoint In Favor Of WordPress For IT Managers

    When I think about enterprise, I rarely think about WordPress. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I heard WordPress and Enterprise used in the same sentence. Based on an article from CIO.com.au, IT managers still prefer using SharePoint as an enterprise CMS compared to WordPress. Cogan addressed a room of web developers and…

    Jeff Chandler

  • WordPress Upgrades Gone Bad

    Here is the tale of two individuals that upgraded to WordPress 3.1 only to realize that their sites became broken after the upgrade. Two things that should immediately be learned by anybody using WordPress. The first is that even though it’s as easy as clicking a button to perform an upgrade, that doesn’t mean you…

    Jeff Chandler

  • WordCamp Miami In Bite Sized Form

    WordCamp Miami was held this past weekend and based on the schedule I saw, quite a few awesome sessions took place. Thanks to sponsorship from WooThemes, the WPCandy crew was able to attend the event and live blog most of the festivities, including a few of the sessions. For a bite sized view of of…

    Jeff Chandler

  • WordCamp Columbus Looking For More Speakers

    WordCamp Columbus, Ohio will be taking place this year between June 17th and June 19th. The event has a new organizer this time around in Angie Meeker who is an experienced WordPress designer and intends on making the event squarely focused on WordPress. Friday, June 17th, will be dedicated to the topic of Businesses and…

    Jeff Chandler

  • From The Other Side Of The Fence – How WordPress Won

    Well, here is something you don’t get to read every day. Byrne Reese who was the former product manager of Movable Type and TypePad as well as an employee of Six Apart from 2004-2008 wrote a great article outlining the various facets that have contributed to the success of WordPress. It’s a great post because…

    Jeff Chandler

  • Narrowly Escaping WordPress 3.0.6

    WordPress 3.0.5 was released the other day to address a couple of issues dealing with security and untrusted user accounts. While those issues were addressed, it was soon discovered that one of the security fixes for 3.0.5 created another problem of stripping HTML on display from people with the unfiltered_html capability. Instead of fixing that…

    Jeff Chandler

  • WordPress To Be More Tumblr Like

    What’s that sound? It’s a cannon ball being shot over the bow of Tumblr. The big discussion point over the past two days has revolved around a new feature slated to hit WordPress 3.1 called Post Formats. Otto as well as Mark Jaquith do a great job explaining what these are. To make a long…

    Jeff Chandler