Way back in 2005 someone said “Email is the universal API“. This is what came to my mind when I found out and tried Posterous, a blog-by-email service. I think this service has a lot of potential for casual bloggers, and already has a few rather cool features regarding media embedding. Blogging by email has always [...] → Read more

A WordPress install is a bunch of directories and files, but two of them are particular: the file wp-config.php and the directory wp-content/ are personal and don't get overwritten when you upgrade your blog. In WordPress 2.6, they get so personal that you can even move them out of the WordPress root. This must bring [...] → Read more

Version 2.1 of Better Feed fixes some compatibility issues for people using the visual editor which was double-escaping HTML (boy, do I loathe this visual stuff) and introduces a new token allowing for embedding any PHP expression into feed footers, for maximum flexibility (%%<?php if ($that) do_this(); ?>%% anyone ?). Put your feed on steroids [...] → Read more

Stephen, on his geek blog Nerdaphernalia, is running a series of excellent posts giving advices to plugin authors for neat subtle effects: adding a "Configure" link right next to the "Activate" link on the Plugins page, or how to give credit to your plugin without cluttering the page (I'm a big fan of the "Configure" [...] → Read more

wpdevel follows what gets committed into WordPress core. This may be easier (and less cluttered) than the wp-svn mailing list (except for the occasional Twitter downtime that is:) Share This Related posts Send Your SVN Commits to Twitter (0) Instant WordPress Beta Build (1) Wordpress.com Invite (0) Wordpress Theme Sirius (1) WordPress Theme Design Competition (0) [...] → Read more

twitvn: sends SVN commits to a Twitter feed. That'd be fun to have a Twitter account for, say, WordPress commits. Share This Related posts WordPress SVN Now Twittered (0) Instant WordPress Beta Build (1) Wordpress.com Invite (0) Wordpress Theme Sirius (1) WordPress Theme Design Competition (0) [...] → Read more

The mother of all the feed plugins is back: Better Feed version 2.0 just hit the repository and it's now even better than better. For those who don't know it, Better Feed allows you to highly customize your feed, adding basically anything you'd like below each item: a copyright notice, an "Add to delicious" link, a [...] → Read more

Funny: this post was aiming to be a collection of reasons why WordPress sucks. After a couple of comments pointing out more or less annoying bugs or features, the thread naturally evolved towards a lists of all the reasons why WordPress does not suck, to the consensus that it is the best blogging tool around, [...] → Read more

WordPress MU is a hacked version of WordPress that can manage several blogs from a single install. Basically, most of the things (plugins and themes) made for WP work for WPMU (don't take this as a golden rule though) Today on wp-hackers' mailing list, Donncha posted an interesting message about two fundamental differences between WP and [...] → Read more

WordPress 2.6 will implement a potentially very cool feature: Google Gears. Here is what you get to see after you click on a catchy "Speed up!" link in WordPress 2.6 ... Basically, Google Gears is a browser addon that stores on your local computer some files, allowing for quicker (as in "immediate") access. Those files are stored [...] → Read more