Shortly after the release of WordPress 3.3, BuddyPress 1.5.2 was released and is simply a compatibility release intended to fix some cosmetic issues with the new WP 3.3 toolbar. If you experience any issues with WordPress 3.3 and BuddyPress 1.5.2, you should participate in the following support thread on the official BuddyPress forum.
Huge congratulations goes out to Lorelle VanFossen for being selected to teach at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington. Lorelle will be teaching an Introduction To WordPress course that will reward students with four college credits. While WordPress in the classroom has become more common across the world, very few are actually awarding students college credits.…
The time has finally arrived. WordPress 3.3. was released early this morning to the masses. Codenamed ‘Sonny’ which at a glance looks like sorry, 3.3 has a couple of great user oriented features with a ton of polish. While my WordPress upgrade experience went smoothly, I was immediately impressed with the welcome screen which in…
Interesting case study using a number of cool data points that shows how WordPress has won the crown amongst Joomla and Drupal for being the most widely used CMS in the world. One things for sure, it certainly paid off for WordPress to be focused on making the democratization of content publishing as easy as…
Looks quite possible that we’ll be using WordPress 3.3 before Christmas. 3.3 Beta 1 was released on October 11th so plugin and theme authors have had more than enough time to test their code against the latest version of WordPress. However, when a Release Candidate is offered, it’s generally the best time for testing as…
Aaron Brazell of Technosailor.com has come through once again with his traditional 10 things you should know post, this time covering WordPress 3.3. The article covers mostly the user experience side of WordPress 3.3 but Aaron also points developers in the direction of the ever changing Codex article for 3.3 that they should take note…
Ryan Imel of WPCandy.com has announced the launch of a quarterly magazine focused entirely on WordPress called the WordPress Quarterly. The magazine will be physical in nature meaning you can hold it in your hands as well as have a digital counterpart that won’t be available until the print edition ships. During the course of…
More WordPress Love via XKCD
WordPress.com has crossed over yet another milestone in that they now host over 60 million blogs. After the GigaOm article has been updated, it now appears that half of the 60 million blogs are hosted on WordPress.com while the other half is on the self-hosted version of WordPress. This is a big number but unless…
Snowshoe Magazine has recently switched over their website from a Coldfusion installation into WordPress with the help of Serafini Studios. During the switch, Gabriel created custom code that exported 1,131 articles in 48 different categories as well as 1,184 events from ColdFusion into WordPress. According to the sites source-code, a custom theme is being used…
Great tutorial on the WordPress email system that walks users through setting up a plugin, creating an email template, preparing WordPress to use that email template, and modifying existing system emails. If that tutorial has you thinking that it’s too much work, you can take a look at the WP Better Emails plugin.
Migrating from Drupal to WordPress is one of the more difficult migration paths. There are scripts available to migrate from Drupal 6 to WordPress but the way in which those scripts were created only allow for the migration of a specific version of Drupal to a specific version of WordPress. Most of the time, these…
Andrew Nacin who is one of the core developers of WordPress gave a presentation at the most recent meetup in New York City covering WordPress 3.3. The video is 35 minutes in length with Andrew going in-depth on many of the features that 3.3 will have such as the admin bar, drag and drop media…
This weeks edition of the show features a one hour presentation with the founders of Drupal and WordPress together on one stage to talk about Open Source. This presentation took place on October 6th through the 7th, 2011 at an event called Schipulcon which is a web marketing conference. Unfortunately due to audio problems, I…
Here is the recorded video featuring the presentation of Matt Mullenweg of WordPress with Dries Buytaert of Drupal discussing open source. Kudos goes out to the Schipulcon group for getting these two together for an awesome presentation. The audio is terrible until you hit the 4 minute mark. If you want to see a transcript…