WordPress
A few days ago, we asked if you plan ahead for the scope of your site or just play it by ear. eMusic is moving to WordPress for all of their CMS needs, and they need to handle some rather hefty usage, so how are they doing it?
Straight from WordCamp San Francisco 2011, eMusic software engineer Scott Taylor shares some of his secrets on bringing WordPress to the enterprise level.
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A few days ago, I mentioned that a responsive design was my favorite WordPress theme feature. Of course, I wouldn’t be doing well to promote my favorite feature without at least pointing you in the right direction to learn how to do it yourself.
Straight from WordCamp San Francisco 2011, here’s Sara Cannon with a great presentation on responsive web design in WordPress.
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I’m sure that you’re all familiar with WordPress in English, but did you know that WordPress is available in 121 languages? There is definitely a lot of work that goes into that, and it’s just another reflection of the power of the WordPress community.
Maybe you want to know what goes into that, or how you can get involved. If you do, this presentation from WordCamp Montreal 2011, featuring Paolo Belcastro and Zé Fontainhas, offers a great peak into a world of WordPress that you may have never experienced or even expected.
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It’s the weekend, time to work on your next WordPress plugin, but are you following the right security practices? At this year’s WordCamp San Francisco, core developers Mark Jaquith and Jon Cave, along with developer and author Brad Williams, covered some of the best security practices for plugin development and offered some real-life examples of just how easy it is to turn a world-class plugin into a crippling vulnerability.
“One of the greatest things about WordPress plugins is they can do anything, and one of the most frightening things about WordPress plugins is they can do anything.” ~ Mark Jaquith
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Feature-wise, WordPress is quite huge, so there are bound be a few useful features that you never noticed, especially those that have been introduced recently.
If you think that you know all there is know about WordPress, check out Sheri Bigelow’s Top Ten Features You Aren’t Using from this year’s WordCamp San Francisco. You might be surprised.
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Are you having trouble decided if WordPress will be the right solution for your next amazing site, or do you have a boss or client who’s refusing to accept WordPress as a viable platform? Sara Rosso gave a great intro to the WordPress Ecosystem at this year’s WordCamp San Francisco. She covers some of the heavy-hitters using WordPress, how big of an audience some of them are reaching, and why they decided to make the switch (if they did move from another platform), as well as how the overall community works.
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It’s Saturday, which means that it’s probably time to tinker with WordPress again, just don’t break anything. Just as a precautionary measure, here’s a great presentation from Hanni Ross at this year’s WordCamp San Francisco on the five most common ways to break and fix your blog.
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Are you eager to know what’s going on in the minds of the WordPress core developers? This Q&A with the core developers themselves was a great treat for those present at this year’s WordCamp San Francisco and has a wealth of intriguing questions from the community. It’s definitely worth the hour if you’re interested in some of the recent and future WordPress decisions and plans.
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A few days ago, Matt Mullenweg was interviewed by John Battelle on Signal Austin. The discussion is quite broad, ranging from the supposed death of blogging, to Jetpack, to privacy and security. It’s actually a rather entertaining interview with some thought-provoking and honest answers to some tough questions.
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WordPress has come a long way since 2003, and this handy video from Jon Cave traces every step along the way. Don’t miss a beat when things really start to heat up in 2005 as work begins on WordPress 2.
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