5 Things of Interest to Developers in the New WordPress 2.8 11 Jun 2009 | 03:53 pm

With each major WordPress release, public changes like the new widgets administrative interface usually get all the glory. Here are some new features in WordPress 2.8 that most users won’t even know e...

Frequently-Used WordPress Filters and Actions 20 Jan 2009 | 04:07 am

Edward Dale has grepped through the WordPress plugins repository to find the most frequently-used filters and action hooks. In case you didn’t know, the filters and action hooks API is the glory of W...

WordPress Use Declines Among Top 100 Bloggers 18 Jan 2009 | 06:32 am

…but just barely. Last year, 34 of the top 100 bloggers used some version of WordPress. This year it’s 32. Movable Type / TypePad use has increased—again, barely—from 23 to 28 of the top blogs. Most ...

Paged Comments and the SEO Problem: A Solution 16 Dec 2008 | 09:26 am

The paged comments feature new in WordPress 2.7 is handy for reducing page size, but it introduces the search engine optimization (SEO) problem of putting the same content on different permalinks, as ...

WordPress Themes and Vagueness 15 Dec 2008 | 03:05 am

Recently there’s been a kerfuffle in the WordPress blogosphere over the fact that WordPress.org suddenly removed 200 themes from the Extend repository, in order to make all themes comply with this app...

Monthly Archives Idea 15 Nov 2008 | 01:05 pm

Charles Stricklin, WordPress Podcast guru, had an interesting idea for arranging monthly WordPress archives, which is basically to make an archives page like this: 2005 Feb Apr Jun Jul Aug Sep ...

Beware Upgrading to a Fake WordPress 2.6.4 8 Nov 2008 | 01:49 am

The Register mentions an attack on WordPress blogs that tells users to upgrade to a bogus 2.6.4 version of WordPress. This attack seems to be taking advantage of the security vulnerability that neces...

Happy Halloween 1 Nov 2008 | 08:38 am

WordPress 2.7 Theme Comments How-To 30 Sep 2008 | 06:03 am

Otto has a good tutorial on adjusting a WordPress theme to take advantage of the upcoming comment features in WordPress 2.7, including comment threading and paging. Keep in mind that WordPress 2.7 is...

Does Google Discourage the use of WordPress Permalinks? 27 Sep 2008 | 03:06 am

A recent blog entry by Google’s Search Quality Team members Juliane Stiller and Kaspar Szymanski somewhat confusingly gives the impression that Google does not like WordPress-style permalinks. Does t...