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Black Friday WordPress Theme Sale (EXTENDED!)

It’s black Friday!  People are going a bit crazy over the deals — I just passed a BestBuy near my house around 8:00pm and there were people lined up along the side of the building, some of them even had tents setup. Almost looked like a party worth joining, if it wasn’t for the 30 [...]

Intro to Post Formats in WordPress 3.1

WordPress 3.1 will introduce a simple new feature called “Post Formats” that should make theme developers very, very happy people. Although the feature is simple, in the hands of a creative designer it allows for some pretty major styling options with a single line of code.  If a designer also happens to have some minimal [...]

Install Google mod_pagespeed with DirectAdmin

Earlier this week, Google released an open source Apache module to simplify the optimization of your content.  The module, mod_pagespeed, will do all sorts of magic like minify your JS/CSS and optimize images, and a handful of other optimizations that seem (from limited testing) to improve your servers performance considerably. Google has provided a couple [...]

WordPress themes and plugins DO NOT inherit the GPL v2

Last week, the WordPress scene once again exploded with debate about the GPL v2.  The fuse?  A WordPress developer was removed from the CodePoet.com directory because he actively supported the commercial theme “Thesis” .  The community ruckus  spawned several articles about the subject, including this article I wrote as a response to the situation. This post is an update [...]

Extending GPL Licensed Code

So — once again, WordPress GPL wars have erupted on the Twitter. Today, it started with an independent WordPress consultant being removed from the CodePoet.com website. CodePoet is a directory of WordPress consultants brought to you by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. The reason cited  was that the consultant promoted the Thesis theme, a commercial theme [...]

Not so Judicious capital_P

So – after all the hype about the capital_P_dangit “feature” in 3.0 surfaced, the core team did decide to make a change.  They’ve implemented a “more judicious” version of the filter to help “fix” some of the technical glitches the original code caused.  Today I’ll take a quick peek at that code so we can [...]