Venture Capital and Automattic

February 26, 2008 – 8:23 am

Xconomy has an article about the birth of Automattic, the company started by WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg. The author has interviewed Mike Hirshland, a partner at Polaris Venture, Automattic’s main investor.

By Austin Matzko | Posted in Pressed Words, WordPress | Please write a comment

Adding Advanced Options Boxes in WordPress 2.5

February 25, 2008 – 9:58 pm

The upcoming WordPress 2.5 has a completely-redesigned admin backend. Plugin authors who add custom fields to the “Write Post” and “Write Page” pages will need to change their methods to work with the new design. Ozh explains how to use add_meta_box() with the new design to add those custom fields. He has [...]

By Austin Matzko | Posted in Pressed Words, WordPress | Please write a comment

Adding Advanced Options Boxes in WordPress 2.5

February 25, 2008 – 9:58 pm

The upcoming WordPress 2.5 has a completely-redesigned admin backend. Plugin authors who add custom fields to the “Write Post” and “Write Page” pages will need to change their methods to work with the new design. Ozh explains how to use add_meta_box() with the new design to add those custom fields. He has [...]

By Austin Matzko | Posted in Pressed Words, WordPress | Please write a comment

Readying Plugins for the New WordPress Admin Theme

February 23, 2008 – 7:09 pm

The WordPress admin theme has been overhauled for the next version (scheduled to be released mid-March), which means that a lot of plugins’ admin pages could end up looking out of place.
Joost de Valk gives some brief tips on how to mark up plugin admin pages to take advantage of the new styling.
Unfortunately, as he [...]

By Austin Matzko | Posted in Pressed Words, WordPress | Please write a comment

WordPress Plugin: GZIP Pages

February 22, 2008 – 12:46 pm

WordPress 2.5 is being released in less than three weeks. While it has a lot of exciting new features, it is also missing a feature that’s been part of WordPress for a while: the option to compress page content for browsers that support compression. Up to version 2.3.3 of WordPress, you could select [...]

By filosofo | Posted in gzip, plugin, WordPress | 30 comments

Lunar Eclipse

February 21, 2008 – 12:07 am

We enjoyed watching the lunar eclipse tonight, apparently the last one for a couple of years.

By filosofo | Posted in Lunar Eclipse, Moon, Space | 6 comments