I’m going to try out VaultPress, but I might not spring for it

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A while back, Matt and the Automattic gang (maybe a pose now) let the world know that they were working on a new service to back up WP.org-based blogs—Announcing VaultPress | VaultPress Blog. It was clear from the get go that this was going to be a premium service and there would be no free [...]

WordPress 3 & Parent-Child Themes from WordCamp Vancouver

If you missed WordCamp Vancouver and wanted more than the slides I posted previously, now you can watch Catherine Winters & I talk about WordPress 3.0 just a short while before it came out: As Catherine & I talked about, WordPress 3.0 is a very easy (and fast) update for people who are already using [...]

WordPress App for iOS devices updated. Now we can paste on the iPad!

Automattic updated the native WP client for iPhones, etc…and wow you can paste on the iPad now! Cut-and-paste now behaves as expected on the iPad. [#438] [From WordPress for iOS › WordPress Version 2.5 for iOS] Wow. When will the innovation end!

Boing Boing Confirms: You Can’t Please Everyone When It Comes to Comments

Close on the heels of my commentary on Daring Fireball’s commenting brouhaha—Without Comments, A Site Is…—Boing Boing has their take on it. In addition to their solid arguments (I’d say they fall into the “it’s your blog, do what you want” camp) they make this point: We accept comments at BoingBoing and publish them automatically, [...]

WordPress 3.0 is out!

Catching the news here, if you haven’t heard already, but WordPress 3.0 is finally out! WordPress › Blog » WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious”. WP 3.0 was a huge (epic perhaps) amount of work to merge WP and WPMU together, but as I’ve said a number of times, this isn’t a scary use update. WP3.0 is a [...]

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