Category Archives: WordPress

Goodbye Soma, Hello Automattic

April 25, 2012 – 10:55 am

I’m excited (and maybe a touch sad) to announce that I’m shut­ter­ing Soma Design to join the great, grow­ing team at Automat­tic to help build the best pub­lish­ing plat­form on the planet. As a Theme Engi­neer, I’ll be work­ing with the brand-new Cus­tom Design team to pro­vide some awe­some tools for cus­tomiz­ing your WordPress.com theme […]

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Intro to Webfonts Presentation

January 12, 2012 – 9:54 am

I talked about web­fonts at the Jan­u­ary edi­tion of the Win­nipeg Word­Press meetup. The slides are not that inter­est­ing, par­tic­u­larly out of the con­text of the pre­sen­ta­tion, but here you go: And, here’s the links from the last slide in click­able form: http://blog.typekit.com/2010/10/15/type-rendering-operating-systems/ http://www.typotheque.com/articles/hinting http://www.fontslive.com/info/typography/web-font-quality.aspx http://www.lucasfonts.com/fonts/thesans/thesans-office/features/ http://cl.ly/9PBw http://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint/ https://github.com/typekit/webfontloader/ http://somadesign.ca/projects/fontfriend/

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WordPress.org Theme Review Process is Broken

December 14, 2011 – 11:51 am

Update: The Eru­dite 3.0.2 is now live on WordPress.org. I’ve already crit­i­cized the WordPress.org Theme Review process when it first launched. Things seemed to be improv­ing, but either the team is poorly orga­nized, severely under-powered, or both. The Eru­dite 3.0 has been in review for 3 months, 3.0.2 since Sept 28. The review ticket was assigned […]

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WordPress Portfolio Presentation

August 25, 2011 – 12:19 am

As promised, here’s the follow-up infor­ma­tion on my Power Your Port­fo­lio With Word­Press pre­sen­ta­tion that I gave at New Media Man­i­toba yes­ter­day. I’m grate­ful that they gave me a chance to present, and dou­bly grate­ful that so many peo­ple came out on a hot sum­mer night to hear me ram­ble about nerdy Word­Press things. Firstly, […]

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Some Cranky WordPress Plugins

June 6, 2011 – 10:26 am

It looks like I may carve out a niche for cranky Word­Press plu­g­ins. This could either be seen as a per­son­al­ity flaw or as a per­fect fit within open-source cul­ture. In either case, Word­Press makes it easy for irri­ta­ble peo­ple to release plu­g­ins to change what they don’t like about it. I’ve done so twice […]

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