Instigated in part by this discussion, I think the time has come to start forking WordPress. I think there is space for a few different forks, or flavours, of WordPress. I can imagine flavours focused on security, privacy and probably others. For example, a flavour that disables all the post versionining. A flavour that strips [...]
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Proposing WP Flavours
Posted in Open Source, Techy, WordPress Also tagged forking wordpress, wordpress forks, wordpress privacy, wordpress security, wp flavors, wp flavours 1 Comment
bbPress 0.9 and WordPressMU 2.7
I’ve just integrated cookie logins between bbPress 0.9.04 and WordPressMU 2.7.1 fort the second time. It took me a while to remember all the steps that were necessary the first time, so I’m documenting them here.
This is a quick and dirty integration. There might be a more fanciful or secure way of doing this. It [...]
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Thinking bigger
I think Seth Godin’s is my favourite blog. His posts are short, concise and usually thought provoking. Seth avoids the mistake of writing too much, too often, and writing crap just to keep the content flowing.
Today Seth talks about thinking bigger. It’s got me thinking about StraightPress.
I host a handful of WordPress sites for family, [...]
Posted in Business, Ideas, WordPress Also tagged Business, Seth Godin, startups, straightpress, thinking big 3 Comments
StraightPress is born
After much deliberating and some procrastination, I have a new business name, StraightPress. I’m working with Alan on the finishing touches for our tagline(s). They should be ready by the end of the week. In the meantime, I’ve whipped up a standard WordPress install at straightpress.com.
WP Mail SMTP v0.7
I released version 0.7 of the WP Mail SMTP plugin a couple of days ago. To make support a little more manageable I’m going to switch the comments from the plugin page to a post for each version. So please ask in the comments here for all support questions related to version 0.7. If you’re [...]
WP Mail SMTP v0.6 released
Just released a new version of the WP Mail SMTP plugin. There were a stream of similar questions about one particular error message over the last few months. Hopefully this new version will provide more detailed debugging output. I’d recommend upgrading to anyone having problems. There are no bugfixes or security fixes in this update, [...]
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Cape Town January OpenCoffeClub meet
I went to the February Cape Town OpenCoffeeClub meet yesterday. I had lunch with Nur (Nomade One) beforehand. We had a really interesting conversation around religion, values, ethics and business. I look forward to meeting Nur again.
Internet at the event was generously provided by Henk from Skyrove. Skyrove have an interesting business model. They manage [...]
Posted in Business, Events, Openness Also tagged cape town, ethical business, google groups, OpenCoffeeClub, skyrove, wifi hotspots, wordpress.com 4 Comments
Upgrade to 2.3
I successfully upgraded to WordPress 2.3 today. There were one or two glitches to start with, thankfully I had a full backup and was able to restore it quickly. Second time round it went fine. I’m now using WordPress’s own tagging system. Alas my tag cloud is not quite as pretty as it used to [...]
Burn Your Feeds, Burn Your Profits
I’m surprised by the continued success of Feedburner, the popular blog feed stats service. On the one hand, you get a great stats package, offload some traffic from your blog server, and it’s free. However, for those benefits, you give up control of your feed and you give up a share or all of the [...]
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WP Mail SMTP v0.3
A few people reported problems with the WP Mail SMTP plugin. I’ve resolved a few bugs and added a new feature that allows you to set the From name and email address of all mail sent by the wp_mail() function. I’ve thoroughly tested this version (unlike previous versions, oops!) and I’ve released it for immediate [...]
Posted in Techy, WordPress Also tagged Callum, Callum-Macdonald, Callums-Plugins, WordPress-Plugins, WP-Mail-SMTP 1 Comment
WordPress Optimisation
I’ve written an article on WordPress Optimisation on the WordPress Codex (Wiki). It covers the general areas where WordPress performance can be improved. I plan to expand on the work with more detailed discussions of the individual areas.
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First Published WordPress Plugin
I just whipped up a very simple little WordPress plugin called WP Mail SMTP. It’s not my first plugin, I’ve created quite a few for clients, but it’s the first one that I’ve published in my own name. It’s already listed on WP-Plugins.net and I’ve submitted it to WordPress.org, how very exciting!
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