In case you haven’t noticed, and chances are you didn’t notice because actually I didn’t really mention it anywhere, updates from Planet WordPress are also on Twitter: @planetwp. Follow! Share This Related posts WordPress SVN Now Twittered (0) Send Your SVN Commits to Twitter (0) Wordpress.com Invite (0) Wordpress Theme Sirius (1) WordPress Theme Design Competition (0) [...] → Read more

If you’re a WordPress freelancer, you already probably have your regular web sources for your gigs (and if you don’t, do read How to find a WordPress job right now). Did you know that Twitter was also a fine potential source of information for your next project ? Here are three Twitter users that you should [...] → Read more

If you’re a Twitter user, got a WordPress blog, and would like to throw in some interactions between those two, don’t miss this plugin: Twitter Connect. Using the brand new Twitter’s OAuth API, this plugin lets you identify yourself using your Twitter account. I like it for several reasons: it’s cool, it’s quick, and it opens [...] → Read more

Recently, I’ve been using Twitter more and more. I recently launched a tiny web service and decided to use Twitter as a “marketing” platform (maybe I’ll blog about this later) so I really needed a way to switch easily between multiple Twitter accounts and identity. The best twitter client I’ve found yet is Splitweet, a free [...] → Read more

It seems Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror has found a new way to identify spam: comments by women are so rare on my blog that when I see a female name in the comments it is 95% likely to be spam. Sad but true. Hey. Fun but sad but true, I’d say :) Share This Related posts Wikipedia Google Bombing [...] → Read more

Troy’s Twitter Script for Greasemonkey is the definitive power tool for Twitter addicts. The feature list of this tiny script is amazing: my favorite is media embedding (view pictures or Youtube videos right from within Twitter), Retweet button, on the fly link shrinking when writing and expanding when reading, and much more. Check the full description [...] → Read more

One of Twitter’s cool features is that you can really customize your profile, in particular with any background you want. Doing this, you are soon facing a design constraint: Twitter is a fixed width centered column, and your background image will be aligned from the top left corner. So despite all your artistic efforts, your [...] → Read more

Best practices when it comes to writing plugins is a frequently asked question on the wp-hackers mailing list. Good news: Mark Jaquith, one of the WordPress core developers, has an ebook planned: Too many WordPress plugins have security issues. Solution: I’m writing a short e-book on how to write secure WordPress plugins. I’ll buy. Share This Related posts Use Twitter [...] → Read more

I bet a number of you will recognize the following logo: on the left side of the picture is the cute bird on his branch as used by Twitter (you see it on their home page when you are logged off, or on the Support page). What about the right side? Share This Related posts Worst Logos Ever [...] → Read more

LastFM Love Tweet: tweets every track you “love” on last.fm so you can share it with with your followers. Neat! Share This Related posts Predictions for 2008 (2) Yahoo! 360 Review. Sort of. (3) www dot googleporn dot com (0) World’s Most Dangerous Roads (0) World Jump Day (2) [...] → Read more