I recently purchased the somad.es domain for use with my own URL shortener. (Vanity or owning my own URLs: you decide.) I decided to use Alan Hogan’s Lessn More, an improved fork of Shaun Inman’s Lessn. I then decided I wanted to integrate the shortlink into my WordPress install, but the existing WP Lessn plugin […]
Category Archives: WordPress
Doing Things the WordPress Way
January 10, 2011 – 9:00 am
This past Friday marked the second Winnipeg WordPress meetup, and it was fantastic. It also marked my first time presenting on a tech topic, and I thank everyone for letting me ramble for a while! Len from WPCanada has a great writeup of the event and has high hopes for the future. My presentation was […]
Seth Godin Chooses The Erudite
December 9, 2010 – 7:53 pm
Seth Godin should need no introduction to anyone on the web. What might need introduction is his new venture called the Domino Project, in which he’s partnering with Amazon to rethink the fatally flawed current publishing model. And, to get it up and running, he’s running WordPress and a lightly tweaked version of The Erudite. […]
The Erudite 2.7.7 Released
November 4, 2010 – 11:28 am
At long last: a new release of The Erudite that isn’t only available on my site, but also on the WordPress.org theme directory. As I previously wrote, this has been a massive pain in the ass due to the new theme requirements. 2.7.7 introduces an option for page comments, which are on by default in […]
WordPress.org Theme Requirements Are a Drag
September 11, 2010 – 3:06 pm
I tweeted a while ago about my mixed feelings about the new WordPress.org theme requirements. They’ve already bitten me on the release of The Erudite 2.7.4, which was not approved by the theme directory folks for failing to meet a number of requirements. High standards are a great thing. Overall I think that the theme […]