Free as in Time

First up, I guess yesterday was Unofficial International WordPress Day. Silly me, I was celebrating Canada Day, a rather national holiday. How Canuck-centric of me.

Second we’ve got 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.6. Press This and the Theme Preview look pretty strong, but the thing that gets me most jazzed is the Post Versioning. If it applied to pages too, WordPress just expanded from personal publishing and CMS to include something like a wiki.

Next, here a brief look under the hood of one [...]

This is all I gots for ya this week:

WordPress shortcodes look pretty darned useful to me.

This Wednesday we’re all about theming and theming systems for WordPress:

• A Revolution in Theming: WordPress Theme Frameworks
• 960 Grid System
• LaunchPad, The WordPress Domain Parking Theme
• Prologue theme for a group Twitter blog?

Ok, maybe not all about…

• Tutorial: Embedding Google Newsbar Wizard to WordPress
• A plugin for WordPress (unreleasedat this time), that changes stylesheets if it’s a holiday or seasonal time
• Conditional statement using custom fields

The FeedWordPress plugin is wildly useful. More on this soon.

Shauna and Sean, take note:

Over the past two years, the Institute for the Future of the Book has run a series of “networked book” experiments exploring the potential of blogs and other popular web apps to stimulate meaningful social interaction around and inside of long texts.

Based on this success, and in order to make this functionality more widely available, the Institute developed CommentPress as an extension to the popular blogging software WordPress. Now anyone with a blog can set up a social reading environment with paragraph-level commenting around a text [...]

Weblog Tools Collection just posted a collection of WordPress Lingo. It’s pretty short, but hits some of the bigger stuff. Some day I’d like to expand on it.

I’ve got a client who’d like a guestbook for his WordPress site. In the world of WordPress, what this amounts to is creating a page called ‘Guestbook’, adding a bit of text to encourage people to comment on the page, and then enabling comments for the page. Presto! One guest book.

There can be a bit more to it, though. In putting this together, I came across these two pages. The first walks you through creating a template for the guestbook page and making some changes to closer mimic the guestbooks [...]