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Olympians on WP

Shawn Johnson, a gold medalist and WordPress-powered blogger. Dreamhost says “So far we haven’t had to do anything special to keep her blog up,” even though the first entry has over 1,100 comments. (Man, those things pop up everywhere now.) Any other Olympians on WP you’ve seen?


MT Pro w/ Comments

Movable Type Pro — with Comments! The latest innovation in blogging. See the original here.


WordCamp San Francisco 2008 Photos

Adam Tow got some great photos at WordCamp. Update: Here are mine. See also:

This hilarious set with the WordCamp sign
Duane Storey’s
Randy Stewart’s
Ben Metcalfe’s
Andrew Mager
Nick from CNP’s
Jenn Vargas
Dennis Goedegebuure’s
Mark Ghosh’s
Lorelle’s
Chiropractic’s
Byrne Reese’s (MT developer, a spy? :))
Liz Danzico’s
Chris Heuer’s
Hugo Baeta’s
Alan Levine’s
Laura Iriarte’s
Jeremy Person’s
Niall Kennedy’s
Douglas Bell’s
Scott Beale’s
Emily Chang’s
The WordPress Tattoos
Some funny ones from the WP Scavenger [...]


WordCamp SF Coverage

The best ongoing coverage of WordCamp SF I’ve seen is on ZDNet today. If you post/Flickr use the tags “wordcamp” and “wordcampsf2008″. See also: Techcrunch’s coverage.


My WordCamp Photos

Photos from WordCamp San Francisco. Guest photographer: Heather Rasley.


Pre-WordCamp Dinner

A dinner for speakers and Automatticians at Jack Falstaff preceding WordCamp SF 2008.


WordPress 57%

Spinn3r Weblog Hosting Breakdown.


Theme Directory Interview

Matt Mullenweg & Joseph Scott Discuss The WordPress Themes Directory.


Testing Comment Rating

A new comment rating plugin is in effect on this site, try it out!


Start Conference Photos

A series of snaps from the excellent Start Conference, which I spoke at in the morning after Ev Williams and before Mena Trott.


WordCamp 2008 Badges

Get A Gravatar Ready For WordCamp 2008 Badges. I think this is the first time Gravatars have gone physical. Really excited about it! They’re generated on the fly using PHP and the PDF library.


Community Tagging

Matt’s Community Tags. This is the VERY BETA plugin I’m using for the community tagging on my photos, which allows people to submit tags which then go into a moderation queue to be approved or modified by an admin. Not recommended for general use yet, just getting it out there since a lot of people [...]


Random Redirect Plugin

I just updated the  Random Redirect plugin, with two extra parameters.


Theme Video Tutorial

A series of videos, Designing for WordPress, that walks you through all steps of creating a theme.


Free Jon Miller

BoomTown Plea to Jeff Bewkes: Free Jon Miller! — Kara Swisher.


Free Software Usability

Why Free Software is hard to use, and how to improve it, by Matthew Paul Thomas. (The other Matt Thomas who used to be involved with WordPress.)


Interference Robustness?

What is Interference Robustness? In case you’ve ever wondered what that checkbox under Mac wifi means.


Plugin Competition

The WordPress plugin competition at WLTC is now open for voting.


Using WordPress as a CMS

Things To Consider When Using WordPress as a CMS. Would love to see more articles like this.


ALA Survey

The new A List Apart for survey is up.