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WPMU DEV Copyright Infringement: the story continues
Since I published my last post about WPMU DEV infringing on my copyright, there’s been quite a storm of activity. James Farmer of WPMU DEV emailed me this saturday, to which I hadn’t had a chance to respond yet and he posted a public statement. I’ve now replied to his email and to open up [...]
WPMU DEV infringes on my copyright
I write open source code, and I love doing that. The license I use for most of my code, the GPL, allows people to use, alter and distribute my code as they wish as long as they retain an original copyright notice. WPMU DEV, or at least an author of WPMU DEV who didn’t get [...]
Upgrading issues with WordPress MU
I was upgrading a WordPress MU site we work on and came across an annoying issue: core update wouldn’t work the way it’s supposed to. I got the following error: After a bit of Googling I found a thread in the WordPress forums that contained a gem of a fix: In the file /wp-admin/includes/class-wp-upgrader.php change [...]
A Migration to WordPress MU
I’ve been working on one of the largest WordPress MU projects we’ve taken on so far the last couple of days. We’ve been migrating the blogo.nl blogs (a Dutch blog network started in 2005) over to WordPress MU. There were several things in this project that were nice to figure out, I’ll go over two [...]
WordPress MU development, I love it!
At OrangeValley, we’re currently working on migrating a large Dutch blog network over from it’s own proprietary system to a WordPress Multi User install, one of our more serious WordPress MU development projects. There’s quite a few things about WordPress MU that I like, but what I like most is, well, that’s it’s WordPress :) [...]
Use Gravity Forms to submit custom post types
In my previous post I explained how I used the Types plugin to create a new custom post type. That custom post type will be used to display a table of supported themes for my WordPress SEO plugin, and is therefor called wpseo-theme. Now the trick here is that I want users to be able [...]
Tracking Outbound / Affiliate Links with getClicky
I use Clicky for most of my day-to-day tracking and analysis, only using Google Analytics for the harder analyses. One of the things Clicky can do most wonderfully is track outbound clicks. There’s an issue however when you start routing your affiliate links through a script or on-site redirect. I redirect mine through /out/ here [...]
On WordPress Dashboard Widgets
I was one of the first plugin developers to add a dashboard widget to your dashboard when you installed one of my plugins. I’m hoping people will follow me in doing the reverse as well. While it generates traffic, it doesn’t generate sales. Let me show you. When I added mine, in the beginning, it [...]
CDN for WordPress: using MaxCDN
Yoast.com uses MaxCDN. When I started using their service, the speed improvement was mind boggling. Before, I could only get the front page of this site to load in about 3-4 seconds, measured by Pingdom, (check your site here). Now, the front page loads in less than a second: You’ll want to know how I did [...]
Search & Social – you can’t get the cream out of the coffee
Yesterday, Google launched “Search plus your World”, intermixing search and social and providing even more “personalized” results. There’s a lot of outcry about some parts of this, with people saying they don’t want “personalized” results. I actually think that normal users do want personalized results and that this is, for the most part, a good thing. [...]
Google Analytics WordPress
Track your WordPress site easily in Google Analytics and add lots of data, for example views per author & category and automatic tracking of outbound clicks, pageviews & downloads.
