Back on August 23 there was a WordPress theme review meeting that included a discussion (and vote?!) about restricting the number of new themes an author can submit to the WordPress theme repository. Current guidelines/rules make that a limit of one. Yes, a single theme (although supposedly updates to approved themes do not count)!! I … ∞
Bringing awareness to a rare disease is no easy feat. Generally speaking, most people do not go out of their way to find a rare disease and although there are over 7000 rare diseases out there it usually takes yourself, a family member, or a friend to contract one before you even know it existed … ∞
There are just some things that really get under my skin and comments like this “… beyond the support levels expected from this volunteering forum” really burn me up. You might ask, where ever did you see that? The WordPress forums of all places?! Now, to qualify this, I spend a great deal of time every … ∞
“Working with WordPress” and “Working on WordPress” may seem synonymous but the philosophy of each phrase will definitely affect the code you share and support going forward. When you work with something, it becomes a partnership, a collaboration, a team effort and more often than not an ongoing relationship; while working on something is more … ∞
I was doing some maintenance on one of my sites and I saw the notification balloon lit … I hadn’t realized how long ago it was … … and I’m not even sure which dot-com account it’s for from four days ago.
The year 2013 stood out more than past years, enough so to write this post.. Our “babies” left us this year … our babies being our fancy pet rats. We rescued, and provided a sanctuary at times, as well as adopted fancy pet rats for close to ten years but as difficult as it was … ∞
A young gentleman Terri and I have had the good fortune of getting to know wrote some very kind words in a recent email. I’d like to share them here because this is why Terri and I work with WordPress and why we are involved in the WordPress communities both local and abroad: I also … ∞
It was about two years ago that I noticed there was a minor issue with how wp_get_shortlink handled things with the default permalink structure. This is what I wrote in my original ticket: Currently the code used in the link-template.php file causes the wp_get_shortcode function to return an empty result if the WordPress installation is … ∞
I started 24 years ago … and I quit yesterday! I tendered an appropriate Letter of Resignation but I’ve always wanted to say: I Quit! Cha-Cha-Cha! (Although I did write my wife after using that as the subject line … we both laughed about it later.) It reminds me of an old television ad for … ∞
You have just updated your WordPress installation and are looking at the latest “About WordPress” page. You are reading about: A “Colorful New Theme” (Twenty Thirteen) How you can “Write with Confidence” (Explore Revisions, Improved Autosaves, and Better Post Locking) New “Support for Audio and Video” (New Media Player, and Embed Music from Spotify, Rdio, … ∞