Category: WordPress
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Tonight, I reset my MySQL root password and pulled a subsite out of my multisite into a new single install while maintaining all options, media, etc. I expect to be recruited by the NSA any minute now.
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Happy Anniversary to Me!
I would have never guessed nine years ago that trying out this WordPress thing would end up like this. From toying a bit when all of the Movable Type help I sought online suggested WordPress to having 70 core commits so far and providing the income for my family for years. My only regret was…
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Writer’s Block
39 and 8. Tonight, I sat down at the computer ready to publish a post that I started a week ago. “Hmm”, I thought to myself, “this topic isn’t as topical as it was. I’ve read this point since I thought it was an original idea.” Move to trash. I started going draft-by-draft seeing if…
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Knock Knock WHOIS There?
You can still have fun while being corporate and while doing legal processes. One thing that brings me joy at work is to hear of the names we come up for entities. There’s Automattic, of course, named after Matt. We have a few subsidiaries in other countries to help streamline employment matters for Automatticians in…
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Cutting Edge of Emoji
WordPress added support for two special emoji today—not included in Unicode 9: the rainbow/pride and pirate flags. 🏳️🌈🏴☠️ iOS users will see these in the next update (iOS 10, currently in beta) and has been updated in the scripts that Twitter uses. WordPress users will see it, besides on my site and those that run the…
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Confessions of a WordPress Wife
Vanessa took our five kids to the shoe store for summer shoes. Clerk: Do you work for WordPress? Vanessa: Um, my husband works for Automattic. He helps make WordPress. How did you guess that? C: Two of your kids are wearing WordPress shirts.