WordPress – Matt Mullenweg https://ma.tt Unlucky in Cards Thu, 01 Jun 2023 20:06:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9-alpha-60131 https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2024/01/cropped-matt-favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 WordPress – Matt Mullenweg https://ma.tt 32 32 1047865 Print Magazine on WP https://ma.tt/2021/09/print-magazine-on-wp/ https://ma.tt/2021/09/print-magazine-on-wp/#comments Wed, 29 Sep 2021 01:26:24 +0000 https://ma.tt/?p=54801 One of my favorite magazines, that I have issues going back to the 40s and 50s, has relaunched and redesigned their site on WordPress and it’s gorgeous. Speaking of great redesigns, the new Grist is pretty great too.

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The WordPress community has long advocated for a repository with GPL-compatible images, and it’s time to listen to that need. CC Search, a CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) image search engine, is joining the WordPress project with over 500 million openly licensed and public domain images discoverable from over 50 sources, audio and video soon to come.

I am a long-time supporter of Creative Commons and their influential work on open content licenses, and when we heard they were considering shutting down their CC Search engine we immediately started exploring ways we could keep it going. I am eager to give a new home to their open search product on WordPress.org in continued commitment to open source freedoms, and providing this community resource for decades to come. This is an important first step to provide a long-term, sustainable challenger to proprietary libraries like Unsplash.

Automattic has hired key members of the CC Search team and will sponsor their contributions as part of our Five for the Future commitment. I look forward to seeing the project grow and welcome them to the WordPress community! Will share in a few weeks when everything is live and running on the site.

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Here is the State of the Word presentation I delivered on Saturday, and the following Q&A.

If you just want to check out the slides, here they are on Slideshare:

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]]> https://ma.tt/2010/01/stanford-daily/feed/ 6 33661 Custom CSS https://ma.tt/2010/01/custom-css/ https://ma.tt/2010/01/custom-css/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:34:36 +0000 http://ma.tt/?p=33547 Continue reading Custom CSS →]]> There have been a few requests for the plugin that drives the custom CSS feature on WordPress.com. We wanted to clean it up before releasing, and ended up adding a feature that stores the CSS better (in the posts table) and also adds revisions so you can revert to an old version of your custom CSS. The plugin is now available on the WordPress.org directory, free for everybody. Enjoy!

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]]> https://ma.tt/2009/09/automattic-aquires-atd/feed/ 26 14772 qTranslate https://ma.tt/2009/07/qtranslate/ https://ma.tt/2009/07/qtranslate/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:07:33 +0000 http://ma.tt/?p=14381 I recommended a translation plugin the other day at WordCamp Montreal but couldn’t remember the name. It was qTranslate.

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]]> https://ma.tt/2009/05/afp-wordpress-china-article/feed/ 3 14303 BuddyPress for the World https://ma.tt/2009/04/buddypress-for-the-world/ https://ma.tt/2009/04/buddypress-for-the-world/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:25:15 +0000 http://ma.tt/?p=14098 Continue reading BuddyPress for the World →]]> Happy to announce that BuddyPress is now available to the world. BuddyPress is a package built on top of WordPress which transforms WP into a social network complete with profiles, friends, messaging, groups, and even activity streams. Of course it’s 100% GPL and Open Source. It’s built on top of MU (which can be tricky to install) so still not for everybody yet, but this is a major milestone in the WordPress world. Check it out. Congrats to Andy and the whole BuddyPress team. 🙂 Here’s Andy’s official  announcement post and WordPress.org.

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]]> https://ma.tt/2009/03/berkun-on-27/feed/ 0 12693 Authentication in WordPress 2.8 https://ma.tt/2009/03/authentication-in-wordpress-28/ https://ma.tt/2009/03/authentication-in-wordpress-28/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:07:37 +0000 http://ma.tt/?p=12331 Will Norris on the new authentication system in WordPress 2.8.

]]> https://ma.tt/2009/03/authentication-in-wordpress-28/feed/ 1 12331 Magazine Theme https://ma.tt/2009/02/magazine-theme/ https://ma.tt/2009/02/magazine-theme/#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:45:42 +0000 http://ma.tt/?p=12038 Check out “Magazeen”: Free Magazine-Look WordPress Theme. Even better: it’s GPL.

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