The Future of WordPress

The Future of WordPress

WordPress is coming up to a huge milestone in its history. For a long time, WordPress and WordPress Multi-User (WPMU) were serpate entities, sharing the same code base, but largely different functions. WPMU’s core function was to house multiple blogs, such as a network like WordPress.com. WordPress’ main function was to house …

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WordPress 2.9.1 Released

WordPress 2.9.1 Released

WordPress 2.9.1 was just released and it has a number of bug fixes.
One of the biggest fixes was the upgrade process. There were a number of related bugs to the upgrade process and as you can imagine, this is a fairly big deal for most people.
As Ryan notes, there were “millions of downloads for …

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We Love WordPress

We Love WordPress

It’s a new year and people are loving WordPress! I threw out a question of “who else loves WordPress?” and here’s the feedback I got!

2010 is going to be an amazing year for WordPress!

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WordPress 2.9 Upgrade Failure

WordPress 2.9 Upgrade Failure

WordPress 2.9 was recently released, and there were some huge improvements made — which I’m really excited about. But, as anyone may know, there’s always a bug…somewhere.
This time, it happened to be a failed upgrade process.
In brief, there were some database queries that shouldn’t have been added, but they were. So some people …

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Add a Message to Plugin Updates

Add a Message to Plugin Updates

Frederick Townes is both the CTO of Mashable and a friend of mine. He’s always doing new and cool things with WordPress. One of his latest and greatest creations is W3 Total Cache, which we utilize here on WP Vibe. Here’s a little something he did recently that is really cool.
He added …

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WordPress Google Analytics Plugin

WordPress Google Analytics Plugin

Google Analytics is one of many analytics platforms available for free. Google Analytics used to be what was called Urchin, which was acquired back in 2005; and then Google made it a free offering. GA is a very flexible and extensive free analytics platform.
It’s easy to integrate Google Analytics code into your site, …

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HOWTO: Thumbnails for Categories

HOWTO: Thumbnails for Categories

Customizing a post with a fresh and unique thumbnail is a nice touch as it adds just a bit more personality to the post, rather than having the same ole’ images or not having images at all. Here on WordPress Vibe, we have thumbnails for each post, which both Dre and I really like …

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Take a walk with Designer and PHP Programmer Travis Ballard

Take a walk with Designer and PHP Programmer Travis Ballard

WordPress is about a lot of things, Code is Poetry, an artistic form. Design, code, photography play a huge roll in the success of WordPress. Travis Ballard is a seasoned PHP programmer, WordPress Dev, Photobug, Design guy, and more. I had the opportunity to sit down with Travis recently and here’s what came from our …

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WordPress 2.9 Beta 2 Released

WordPress 2.9 Beta 2 Released

Day by day we get closer to the full release of WordPress 2.9. Today WordPress released the 2nd round of its latest Beta. Join the fun, the download is now available.
The folks at WordPress have also ask that if you are continuing support for themes or plugins you’ve developed, that you ensure they work properly …

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WPVibe Holiday Vibe Pack Giveaway

WPVibe Holiday Vibe Pack Giveaway

Congratulations to Danielle (@alex_friday) on winning the first Vibe Pack Giveaway. Best of luck & Happy Holidays!
It’s that time of year again, when you hear it’s that time of year again. This is our first holiday season here at WPVibe and we’re in the spirit, so we’ve decided to put together a small giveaway.
WPVibe is …

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