Yearly Archives: 2009

WordPress MU to be Merged with WordPress Core

Jun 8, 2009 by Matt | Posted in WordPress No Comments

WordPress MU, the branch of WordPress that runs the popular WordPress.com “instant blog” site is being discontinued.

Matt Mullenweg announced at WordCamp San Francisco that the multi-blog capabilities of WPMU would be merged with the main WordPress core, a la Movable Type.

The two codebases’ merging will hopefully unify the project a bit more. It’s always stuck me as a bit odd the way WPMU is so separate from the main project, with slower development and minimal documentation.

I only hope that this is done carefully so that the majority of WordPress users (who are running single-blog setups) won’t be confused or inconvenienced in any way.

Thanks to @wptavern for bringing this to my attention.

SyntaxHighlighter Evolved

Jun 7

I recently started using the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved plugin on Webmaster-Source. The plugin provides an easy way to format code snippets for display in posts, complete with colorization. When using SyntaxHighlighter Evolved, you don’t need to replace quotation marks with " or anything like that.…

BlogBuzz June 6, 2009

Jun 6

WordPress Theme of the Month: Typebased

Jun 5

This month’s featured free WordPress theme is Typebased by WooThemes.

Microsoft’s “Bing” Search Engine Isn’t So New After All…

Jun 4

Microsoft recently launched their new search engine “Bing,” in an attempt to compete in the arena that Google has pretty much already won. There was a bit of talk leading up to the relatively quiet launch, which promptly disappointed me.

Basic HTTP Authentication With PHP

Jun 3

Basic HTTP authentication is rudimentary method of requesting a username and password, then allowing or denying access based on the credentials entered. You’ve probably seen it in action somewhere or another. If you try to subscribe to a protected RSS feed, such as the…

The 1Kb CSS Grid

Jun 2

Grid Design is something that’s being talked about a bit lately, and many people are using frameworks like 960gs to help them do it. A recent guest post over at Usability Post (by Tyler Tate) shows how to create a grid with your own…

Flavour Extended Icon Set

Jun 1

Smashing Magazine has released a new icon set designed by Oliver Twardowski: Flavour Extended. The set includes 452 transparent PNG icons, along with their respective PSD source files. The icons are 48×48 pixels in size, and easily shrinkable if you require a smaller size.…

WordPress Hosting Monitor Plugin

May 31

The WordPress Hosting Monitor plugin, created by WebHostingSearch.com, that gathers useful data about the server your blog is hosted on, and spits it out in a convenient widget. If you only have access to your server via FTP you really won’t know all that…

BlogBuzz May 30, 2009

May 30