Category: WordPress
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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.
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Connections at SXSW
This is what I love about representing WordPress(.com) “in the field” at SXSW. After a long evening working an event, we had a couple of guys sit at the bar with myself and a couple of coworkers. When we were asked what we do, we answered “Vague Internet Things”. “That’s great—as long as it isn’t…
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How To Use Emoji One On Your Site
Emoji One, an open-source emoji set, revealed their 2016 collection last month and it is beautiful! WordPress natively uses Twiemoji, a “competing” set sponsored by Twitter when the browser can not display emoji, so how do you switch which is used? The quick answer is to add this to a core functionality plugin or your…
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Code is Poetry… and Warm!
The WordPress swag store added a couple of products yesterday. A Wapuu Christmas ornament and, my personal favorite, the “WordPress Ugly Holiday Sweatshirt“, which I don’t think is ugly at all. I’ve been eager to see this in production since Nick Hamze first teased it on his site in October and it is finally available…
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The Power of WordPress.com
I’m guessing they just wanted a quick and easy way to make a functional and beautiful website, which is kind of the whole idea of WordPress. Source: Amazon Silk on WP.com | Matt Mullenweg Via Twitter, I stumbled upon this 2011 post from Matt sharing that the Amazon Silk Browser’s blog is hosted, for free or…