The future of education is with online technology and there are fewer and better things to be innovating on than just that. Now, WordPress.com offers that opportunity for any educator with specific themes and features that will make learning even more effective. It appears, on the outside at least, that this is yet another channel and market strategy hoping to capitalize on unique and focused niches that might appeal to certain individuals. In this case, the educational market that is a trillion dollar market. With themes like Chalkboard and Runo Lite that make it look very classroom-like a teacher (or […]
New UI Look for Post Revisions in 3.6
Apparently after 2 office hours a consensus has been reached in terms of the new look of post revisions, as reported by Erick Hitter. It’s neat to see the slider with previous / next coming into play as this is a much different approach than our current implementation. They are still working on the UI for comparing two different revisions:
Behind the Scenes: The Miso Mister
As the team starts creating their own unique work environments in the new office we’re bringing in personal items that will help us do our best work. I, for one, have allergies like no one’s business, especially during this season and it’s driving me literally insane. As a result, I have a bunch of water misters and humidifiers at home that I use. But, I didn’t want to embarrass myself by bringing in one of my epic frog humidifiers so I haven’t been sure what to do. Luckily my wife has come through and found me a cute portable one:
Easily Transfer Posterous Blog to WordPress
As someone who has many friends on Posterous I can understand the pain of Posterous closing down. Many people I know have been facing the decision over what platform to switch their blogs over to. Of course, as a self proclaimed WordPress evangelist I have been doing my part in convincing people to switch to WordPress from their original blogs but there is one issue that remains…how can I easily transfer all my blog posts from my Posterous blog to WordPress? If the thought of copying and pasting hundreds of blog posts makes your stomach turn then worry no more because a few years […]
Import Tweets as Posts or Comments?
An interesting discussion is brewing over at Trac about the new Twitter Importer which many users have been looking forward to for their own WordPress-powered properties: This ticket is to track the development of a plugin that can import tweets from a downloaded twitter.com archive. Presumably, such a plugin would be added to the importers list on wp-admin/import.php. The gist of the conversations so far that have interested me is the discussion of whether these should be imported as posts, which is the original proposed implementation, or another view presented by Mike Schinkel:
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