Tag Archives: Developers

Dev Blog: PHP 4 and MySQL 4 End of Life Announcement

Our approach with WordPress has always been to make it run on common server configurations. We want users to have flexibility when choosing a host for their precious content. Because of this strategy, WordPress runs pretty much anywhere. Web hosting platforms, however, change over time, and we occasionally are able to reevaluate some of the [...]

PHP 4 and MySQL 4 End of Life Announcement

Our approach with WordPress has always been to make it run on common server configurations. We want users to have flexibility when choosing a host for their precious content. Because of this strategy, WordPress runs pretty much anywhere. Web hosting platforms, however, change over time, and we occasionally are able to reevaluate some of the [...]

Alex King: WordPress HelpCenter is Hiring (Again!)

I’m very pleased that my WordPress HelpCenter team is ready to grow again and we’re looking for a top-notch WordPress developer to join our team. We’re looking for someone with a broad range of WordPress and web development (PHP, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript) experience, comfortable working in a standard web hosting environment, and in particular someone [...]

Joseph: Why WordPress Themes are Derivative of WordPress

Mark Jaquith has an excellent post describing Why WordPress Themes are Derivative of WordPress. Mark is one of the lead developers of WordPress and makes a living by doing freelance WordPress consulting (Covered Web Services). What Mark points out is that WordPress and themes “run as one cohesive unit”. It’s a good read, I [...]

bbPress: WordPress Integration

I think WordPress integration is the most important item on the roadmap for the future of bbPress. Why? One, it’s an embarrassing pain in the butt to do now. One of the most frequent questions here on our forums. You have to jump through endless loops, and end up with something worse than most of [...]

Adding 3rd Party Value

You would’ve noted recently that we’ve added support for two 3rd party WordPress plugins – GravityForms & ScribeSEO – to all of our themes and when we announced it, we also included special promotions from the developers responsible for them. You would’ve also seen that we included affiliate links (in our favour) if you decided [...]

Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 06/18

New Plugins Private Email Notifications Remove Email and IP address information from Email Notifications to protect the privacy of folks commenting on your blog. This is accomplished by overriding three pluggable functions and removing all email and IP address information from being sent out. WordPress-MU Helpers This plugin is for WordPress-MU Developers and provides two [...]

Put facebook like button on wordpress blog

Here I’ll show you how to put a facebook Like button on your WordPress blog. The link is: developers.facebook.com…

Alex King: Why Custom Post Types are Great

WordPress 3.0 will introduce a simple programatic way for developers to create custom post types. I’ve seen people talking at length about this feature, but most discussion focuses on how you can have a custom display for certain content, support custom URL structures or manage content differently. These things aren’t new – they are all [...]

Dougal Campbell: WordPress and Drupal

Dries Buytaert re-tweeted a couple of interesting things on Twitter earlier today. First was this one: RT @chx1975: WordPress is now approximately where Drupal was around Drupal 5 w/ content types. See you in 2015. Ouch. Okay, so we’re late to the game where custom content types are concerned. But I doubt it will take [...]

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