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Summary update: If you read this entire post you will learn that it was only my WordPress.com account, and the account of the company that I had access to, that was affected. This was not a widespread issue with all WordPress.com accounts. Here is what I learned from all of this. — original post below

I was in the mood for a long post title. Sue me. My thoughts on URL shortening services are pretty public but that doesn’t mean that I don’t have a need for them. I prefer Bit.ly over any other URL shortening services that I’ve used to-date. With Tr.im dying I thought that there was always…

From the "why hasn’t someone done something like this until now" category comes Crowd Favorite’s latest venture; The WordPress HelpCenter. Alex King, who has been hacking on WordPress even longer than I have, has more details about the launch of this service. Great idea, I hope it works out well for them.

Every now and then I experience a 500 Error when trying to access and older post. I really have yet to figure out what is causing this problem but it seems to happen only on old posts. Really old posts. Posts at least 2 or 3 years old. Mainly the posts that I imported from…

I’ve been waiting for WordPress 2.7 to be released before upgrading this site’s underlying software. In fact, I was considering even waiting as long as the first iterative release after 2.7 came out before upgrading. But it seems like the WordPress development team is really taking its time with this latest, and incredibly different, release. Which is…

Matt Brett, a designer with a style all his own, has joined forces with WooThemes, a company that specializes in developing premium themes (or, themes-that-you-have-to-pay-for) for WordPress and has released THiCK. THiCK is the very first premium WordPress theme that I’ve actually considered pulling my wallet out for. Not only is the structure of the…

Owen Winkler, who leads the Habari project, makes an interesting case for how "…Habari absolutely slaughters WordPress" in the licensing department.  He sums up his thoughts this way, which I think would raise just about anyone’s eyebrows that works with WordPress. "So that’s it. Before you even get into the technical merits of the platforms,…

WordPress 2.6 was released only a few days ago, so it isn’t too suprising that there are some bugs.  But this bug seems like it would have been very easy to catch. From my investigation, it appears that WordPress 2.6 ignores the upload preferences that I have set.  By default WordPress likes to upload files,…

Aaron Brazell, who has done just about as much development on top of WordPress as anyone I’ve ever met, likes to break down each release of WordPress just prior to its release with these lists of things you should know about it. It is obvious that Aaron knows WordPress down to its very core, including…

Now you might understand why the links and notes have died down here on my site lately – it is because I’ve been hard at work getting Viddler’s video commenting plugin, the one we tested here on my site, updating it to be compatible with WordPress 2.5. We didn’t stop at just squashing a few…

Can you believe how far blogging has come over the last few years? I can’t. I could go on and on about the history of blogging, how I’ve used it over the years, and where it is now that I find really surprising – but instead I just wanted to take a moment or two…

I’m writing this on my iPhone, using the WordPress plugin that changes the admin from its default style and layout to one that works on an iPhone. A few things that become apparent quickly is that the interface is pretty heavy, making load time a bit annoying. The interface is usable, but slow. Also typing…

Do you "follow" me on Twitter? If you do, then you definitely know that over the last few weeks I’ve been working on a video commenting plugin for WordPress powered by Viddler’s API. Update: This plugin is now available to everyone! I’m happy to announce that as of ten minutes ago, we’ve distributed a private-beta…

WordPress 2.1 has been released, and some of the latest features intrigued me (mostly the speed improvements and the fact that one of the official MySQL dudes went through all of the queries), so I’ve upgraded this site to "Ella". If you experience any problems, let me know. If you don’t, upgrade your own blog…

Lloyd catalogs the release of WordPress 2.0.5 RC by giving links to just about everywhere it has been mentioned so far. The most notable changes for me? user description is no longer HTML-entity converted going into the database plugins are sorted by plugin name, instead of filename the authors dropdown is now sorted by display_name…

We (meaning Mike and I), just got finished with a first pass of a WordPress plugin that we’ve called Happy Pals that will automatically find the REL attributes in your posts, and assign the appropriate classes to those links. This way, you can style links to your friends differently than you do links to anywhere…

If I can’t edit my theme on WordPress.com before March 1st. I’m leaving WordPress.com. Oh, and if they charge only a few dollars to allow me to do that, I’d probably consider paying.