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Stop supporting commercial themes and plugins for free!
For the last days there has been much excitement about Thesis. Fo those who don’t know: Thesis is one of the more popular commercial themes for WordPress. Despite the special problems with this theme and its author it’s a more general question if customers of commercial should be supported for free by the community or…
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So your WordPress plugin kills the Theme Editor?
You’ve created a plugin that worked happily since version 2.5 of WordPress. Then came version 2.9 and the users of your plugin complain that the theme editor does not work anymore! What the theme editor? What have I to do with the theme editor? That were my thoughts when I received bug reports for the…
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Photographing and filming British buildings makes you a terrorist suspect
Today I came across some nice articles and videos by Paul Lewis: ‘You’re filming for fun? I don’t believe you’ and A few photographs add up to a minor terror alert. You definitely should follow his feed.
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Meet the WordPress core developers (almost)
How does Peter Westwood look like? How does Mark Jaquith talk? Is Ryan Boren funny? You can find some anwers in this video from the first meetup of all WordPress core developers:
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noteaser – The unknown WordPress tag
Most WordPress users will know the <!--more--> tag which allows you to create a teaser for your blog post. The text in front of the tag will be displayed on the main blog page and after clicking the “more” link the single post page containing the teaser and remaining part of the blog post will…
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Accessing WordPress data from outside WordPress
(img by shindohd) There are times when you want to access the data from your WordPress database from a webpage outside of your WordPress installation. This can be done by using the mysql_connect of PHP and selecting the data with some genuine SQL statements. This will work but it has the substantive disadvantage that the…
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First meeting for launching a hackerspace in Kassel/Germany
Kassel, a city located at the Fulda, population 200,000, is as ugly as sin but it’s got the <a href="Herkules, a pile of museums, a great hackerspace, a national theatre, a university… Wait, wait, wait! A hackerspace? In Kassel? No, of course there isn’t one. Not yet. But there could be soon. Some people thought…
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Botany Bay: Old Men with Ballpoint Pens
Botany Bay made a nice music clip about surveillance. You may not know the people in the clip (German politicians) but that does not matter at all. Old Men With Ballpoint Pens They know it is the worst thing Not being in control So they bring in all the big guns To ease their troubled…