Archive For August, 2008
Anton Mannering organised TechLudd Cork last night at the Cork International Airport Hotel. I demoed Tweet Tweet and answered questions about WordPress and some of the plugins I had running on my blog. Apart from showing off Tweet Tweet I took a few photos too. Pictured below are only some of the people there including [...]
WordPress.org user, “definitelynot” discovered a bug in the WordPress plugin, WP Super Cache that could expose blogs to duplicate content penalties. Unfortunately this affects every blog that uses the plugin in “ON” or full “Super Cache” mode, and has URLs that end with the “/” (forward slash) character. If the plugin is on “half on” [...]
A few weeks ago Twitter annoyed a lot of European users when they stopped sending sms notifications to their users. I never really used that facility so I didn’t miss it but many Tweeters did. Outrage and blue murder were spoken of in the same sentence. People marched in the streets, there were riots. OK, [...]
WP Super Cache is a plugin for WordPress that creates cached copies of your blog posts and pages, making your site much faster to serve. It’s also ideal for coping with sudden surges of traffic. I released a new version of the plugin this morning. This is a bugfix release: Mike Beggs contributed a number [...]
The happy and sad story of Goofy, a dog rescued from Greece, who took over Belinda Harley’s life. If you enjoyed story of Goofy’s rescue, look for the book, “Marley and Me”. It’s a lovely story, and you’d need to have a hard heart not to shed a tear by the end of it. The [...]
I’m a big fan of Twitter. It serves as a useful tool connecting people who might never meet, and also as a vital means of communication for those who work at home or in solitary conditions. The one huge and uncomfortable problem I see with Twitter is, “What happens to the conversation if Twitter fails?” [...]
Speculation on fan blogs about an upgrade to play DVDs on the Wii Console has been persistent for as long as I’ve been reading them, but it seems doubtful Nintendo will ever add this ability. What are we to do? If you can’t get official support for something that the hardware can probably do, why [...]
You may have heard that the official site of the British Prime Minister’s Office at number10.gov.uk launched earlier today. The great news is that it’s running WordPress, but what really excited me is the fact that the site is also using WP Super Cache. The site was initially very slow, but once the cached static [...]
A long sought after feature in WordPress MU is domain mapping. That’s where a blog on a WordPress MU site can be “mapped” to a new domain. WordPress.com has an advanced domain mapping feature that has proved to be very popular with users even though it’s a paid-for upgrade. This domain mapping plugin isn’t quite [...]
Andy has the very exciting news that Gravatar icons will be printed on attendee’s WordCamp San Francisco badges this year! On supporting websites, Gravatars have become a de-facto identity for comment threads and discussions so to carry through the identity to the conference floor is just a logical conclusion. There is one caveat. Gravatars can [...]
