Tag Archives: cms

jQuery API site using WordPress as CMS

By Dougal | Published: January 19, 2010

I mentioned before that the jQuery project was going to switch from Mediawiki to using WordPress for their online documentation. They’ve recently pulled the trigger on that change, and you can now visit the new WordPress-powered site at: api.jquery.com

Performance and Backend

As mentioned before, we’ve switched away from using a MediaWiki backend to a new WordPress-powered backend. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Ajax, API, content management, docs, documentation, JavaScript, jquery, libraries, livesearch, Search, WordPress | 5 Comments

WordPress As a Documentation Platform

By Dougal | Published: December 14, 2009

Twice now, the jQuery Podcast has mentioned that the jQuery project is going to migrate its online documentation from Mediawiki to WordPress. Which is pretty cool, because, I happen to like WordPress (duh). [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged developer portal, documentation, jquery, mediawiki, wiki, WordPress | 16 Comments

WordPress 2.9 Features

By Dougal | Published: October 16, 2009

This site is now running on WordPress 2.9-rare (which is our “pre-alpha” designation, for those of you who don’t know). WP 2.9 is in “feature freeze”, which means no new features will be considered for this version, and the developers will concentrate on finishing up the existing new features and any outstanding bugs. So far, it appears that all of my plugins are working just fine.

The main new features I’ve actually seen so far are the addition of the “Post Thumbnail” box in the writing screen, the new “trash” status for posts, pages, and comments, and the image editor in the Media Library. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged alpha, Beta, content management, content types, Development, embeds, features, Flickr, hulu, images, Media, Metadata, oembed, Plugins, qik, testing, Themes, thumbnails, viddler, vimeo, viper, viper007bond, Widgets, WordPress, youtube | 82 Comments

WordPress Packages?

By Dougal | Published: July 30, 2009

On my way to work recently, I was listing to a Drupal podcast (because I had already listened to all of my WordPress-related podcasts). The participants spent some time talking about something they called “Drupal Distributions”. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged automation, configuration, drupal, install, packages, Plugins, podcasts, preconfigure, setup, WordPress | 12 Comments

Drupal shop gives props to WordPress

By Dougal | Published: June 22, 2009

My wife sent me a link by Volacci, a Drupal SEO development shop, giving some nice kudos to WordPress 2.8.

Last week the much anticipated new version of WordPress (version 2.8) was released for download. Many webmasters, bloggers and CMS fans alike have come to expect great things out of the seasoned system, so the expectations were high. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged d7ux, drupal, WordPress | 16 Comments

What’s the buzz?

By Dougal | Published: June 1, 2009

Here’s a quick post, just to let everybody know that I’m still alive.

During my long silence here, a lot of things have been happening in the WordPress community. First and foremost is the upcoming WordPress 2.8 release. There are several nifty new features in there. The most notable (for me) are probably:

Built-in theme browser/installer
Drag-n-drop widget management
Syntax highlighting when using theme/plugin editor
Image cropping in media uploader
New theme functions for author metadata
New OOP WP_Widget framework for plugin authors
More support for custom taxonomies
New combined i18n/escaping theme functions
Script loading improvements

The first four are the main “visible” features for this release. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Beta, Development, features, taxonomies, Themes, webdev, Widgets, WordPress | 9 Comments

Efficient permalink strategies for WordPress

By Dougal | Published: February 4, 2009

Over the past several days, there has been an interesting discussion on the wp-testers mailing list (though, it really belonged on the wp-hackers list, but that’s beside the point) about permalink structures in WordPress. The original question came from matthijs and questioned why WordPress was storing rewrite rules for every page on his site in a database option. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged good urls, Performance, permalink patterns, permalinks, pretty permalinks, url structure tags, urls, WordPress, xcache | 111 Comments

WordPress 2.6.1-beta1

By Dougal | Published: August 7, 2008

I’m surprised that I haven’t seen mention of this from other channels yet (official or unofficial), but two days ago, SVN revision 8561 of the WordPress 2.6 branch was labled as WordPress version 2.6.1-beta1. The log messages reveal that most changes since the 2.6 release are minor bug and typo fixes. . [...]