Category: WordPress
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Retina 2x downsampling
While working on some 2x retina images for WordPress.com, and the bbPress and WordPress open-source projects, I found an image rendering issue that I haven’t seen documented anywhere yet. Here’s the WordPress core retina ticket, for reference. The first image highlights the difference between the WordPress core 2x icons, and the bbPress 2x icons. Notice how…
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Confessions of an Open Source Workaholic
Hi, my name is John, and I’m an Open Source Software workaholic. I touched on it a bit in my WPCandy interview, and I thought I’d finish the story here with a few added thoughts. I live in a great neighborhood on the east side of Providence, RI. I work from home, rarely drive my car (ignore the…
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WordPress and Blogger love at WordCamp Gold Coast #wcgold
WordPress and Blogger love at WordCamp Gold Coast #wcgold.
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BuddyPress 1.5 “Lombardi” released
Could not have said it better myself. Reblogged from Boone @ Teleogistic: It’s finally here! After many, many months of bug squashing, refactoring, and general bloodsweatntears, BuddyPress 1.5 has been released! This long development cycle has been frustrating in some ways and extremely rewarding in others. On balance, I’m quite proud of the work that’s been…
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I Spoke at WordCamp San Francisco!
This year I had the privilege of speaking a total of three times at WordCamp San Francisco and MC’ing the dev track all day on Friday. The footage and slides below are from my first talk on Friday morning about BuddyPress 1.5. [wpvideo GzqLp8uq] [slideshare id=9052698&w=515&h=375&sc=no] Overall I’m happy with the way things turned out.…
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I’m Speaking at WordCamp San Francisco!
Following Ian’s lead, I too am speaking at WordCamp San Francisco this year! This will be my second time attending and first time speaking at the annual WordPress conference, so needless to say I (like Ian) am super-excited about it! The details of my session haven’t been officially released, but you can bet the farm it…
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Circles
There’s a reason why Google chose circles for its new Google + social graph, and it isn’t just because it’s a clever name. If you search Google’s archive of images for the phrase “social graph” every single relevant image that comes up portrays relationships as being circular. In the screen shot above, it’s clear that…
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Preventing BuddyPress Spam
Interesting read by Ed Bury on preventing BuddyPress sign-up spam using a combination of a honeypot, random hashes, and blacklisted domain names.