By Jeffro on March 9, 2011
When I think about enterprise, I rarely think about WordPress. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I heard WordPress and Enterprise used in the same sentence. Based on an article from CIO.com.au, IT managers still prefer using SharePoint as an enterprise CMS compared to WordPress.
Cogan addressed a room of web developers and IT managers and said that while there are a large number of free or low-cost CMS options available, enterprises using Microsoft products will generally choose SharePoint.
“There’s a lot of competition out there… but companies still choose SharePoint,” he said. “… It doesn’t matter how good the other ones are, they don’t have Office integration.”
Posted in WordPress | Tagged enterprise, managers, sharepoint |
By Jeffro on March 9, 2011
John Battelle who is behind BattelleMedia is in the unique position to interview Matt Mullenweg not once, but twice this week. The first interview will take place at Signal Austin while the second will be an onstage conversation at South by Southwest discussing the Future Of WordPress. John is asking for people to submit questions for both interviews.
One of the thought provoking questions I would ask is what he thinks about WordPress without him. It’s a question that is possibly impossible for him to answer but I would like to hear his thoughts on which direction he would want WordPress and the non-profit foundation to head if he were to disappear.
The second question which probably wouldn’t be of interest to anyone in the audience is whether Matt actually has any time to just think and reflect about where he’s been and where he wants to go along with the project. I would like him to describe those times of reflection and then talk about the short term and long term future of both Automattic the company as well as the non-profit foundation. While he doesn’t have a crystal ball, I imagine he has plans and goals for 2011 and possibly for 2012. I’d like to know what those are.
I’m just glad they don’t have me on stage interviewing Matt or having a conversation with him because I’d never stop asking questions. That reminds me, it’s about time I have him on the show again.
Posted in News | Tagged interview, matt, questions, sxsw
By Jeffro on March 9, 2011
This is the moment every VideoPress user has been waiting for. On March 9th, it was announced on the official VideoPress blog that the service now supports the HTML 5 video format.
VideoPress now supports HTML5 < video > playback in supporting browsers without Flash playback support. Low-power devices such as smartphones can now play MP4 (H.264 video, AAC audio) and Ogg (Theora video, Vorbis audio) content natively in the browser. VideoPress also supports Apple’s AirPlay streaming technology to share video between supporting locally networked devices such as iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Apple TV. Videos with associated transcripts, such as WordPress TV, include WebVTT < track > data for display by supporting browsers.
This is great news for videos uploaded to the service from now on but unfortunately, it doesn’t look like videos uploaded before March 9th will be able to be viewed by an iPhone since those have already been encoded. (I’ve been informed that the HTML 5 changes only apply to WordPress.com hosted videos and not to the VideoPress plugin for self installed WordPress sites. I hope it comes down the pike though.) It would be cool to see an option to re-encode the videos so that HTML 5 support could be added.
Posted in News | Tagged flash, html, Video, videopress |
By Jeffro on March 8, 2011
Here is the tale of two individuals that upgraded to WordPress 3.1 only to realize that their sites became broken after the upgrade. Two things that should immediately be learned by anybody using WordPress. The first is that even though it’s as easy as clicking a button to perform an upgrade, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t create a backup of the site before the button is pressed. The second point is illustrated by Keith in his story:
The recent 3.1 update changed my thoughts about that and taught me that even a hobby WordPress blog isn’t entirely automated and it is a good idea to know how it works, if you care about it. If you are passionate about your blog, there is even more reason to anticipate disasters and know how you react to them accordingly.
If you’re going to pour your heart and soul in to your site and it’s running WordPress, you would do yourself a lot of good to learn the basic ins and outs of the platform to not only help yourself, but to understand some of the underpinnings that allow WordPress to do what it does.
The one other piece of advice I can provide is to wait a few days after a major version of WordPress has been released. Keep an eye on the WordPress hashtag on twitter and the How-To and Troubleshooting section of the WordPress.org support forums to locate the issues people are having once they make that upgrade so that if you run into the same issue, you’ll know how to deal with it.
As an aside, my streak of problem free upgrades continues as I had zero issues with 3.1.
Posted in WordPress | Tagged backups, upgrades, versions, wordpress |
By Jeffro on March 8, 2011
“For those following along at home, we’re now powered by 152 physical processors, 511 gigabytes of memory (RAM), 174 hard disks with several terabytes of storage, and we’re adding new servers constantly.”
That last part about “adding new servers” was especially true, for WP.com we’re now at 8,921 CPU cores across 2,475 physical processors, 8,200 gigabytes of memory (RAM). We’ve changed how we’ve done storage, but now that layer includes on its own 1.3 terabytes of RAM, 1.3 petabytes of storage, and 8.9 terabytes of solid state disks. (Plus Amazon S3, which we use as backup to our internal systems.) Also, we’re adding new servers constantly.
Quoted From – Some Turbulence
The time span between then and now is about 4 years. I’m sure Automattic has help with regards to managing all that hardware but I wonder how Barry does it and how much of the hardware load he has to worry about?
Posted in News | Tagged cpus, hardware, servers, wordpress.com
By Jeffro on March 7, 2011
WordCamp Miami was held this past weekend and based on the schedule I saw, quite a few awesome sessions took place. Thanks to sponsorship from WooThemes, the WPCandy crew was able to attend the event and live blog most of the festivities, including a few of the sessions. For a bite sized view of of their experience, check out their Live Blog of the event. I stopped by on Saturday and thought the team did a good job not only with live blogging but sprinkling in photos from the event as well.
Posted in WordPress | Tagged liveblog, miami, wordcamp, wpcandy
By Jeffro on March 7, 2011
Congrats to Brian Gardner and the StudioPress team for having their Pretty Young Thing theme added to the commercial offering on WordPress.com. The second theme from WooThemes called Crisp has also been added. Not to be outdone, The Theme Foundry also has two themes now available, the second being The Traction Theme. Interesting to note that Pretty Young Thing is a child theme based on the Genesis Framework which is also in use with this theme.
Posted in News | Tagged studiopress, woothemes, wordpress.com |
By Jeffro on March 7, 2011
PollDaddy must be doing something right as the early results from their customer survey point towards a large majority (91%) would recommend the service to others. Survey, poll, quiz, and rating users all responded that PollDaddy was easy to use.
While the comments and results point towards PollDaddy being an excellent service, it’s the negative comments or complaints that really help out a company when offering these surveys. If you have a PollDaddy account, consider taking the survey which is still ongoing via the PollDaddy dashboard.
Posted in News | Tagged polldaddy, Polls, satisfaction, survey
By Jeffro on March 5, 2011
Automattic has partnered with Federated Media Publishing who has partnered with GE as the content partner and interactive marketing agency Bebby Clark+Meyler to launch a new site on WordPress.com called EcoPressed. Similar in design and function to FoodPress, EcoPressed focuses on clean tech, eco-friendly items and more. Hand picked content from some of the top WordPress.com bloggers will be highlighted on the site along with home grown content.
EcoPressed signals a first-of-its-kind opportunity for a corporate partner to highlight hand-picked content from WordPress.com’s top users blended with Federated Media’s premium professional blog talent. It also gives independent content producers far greater exposure and the ability to join the eco conversation alongside millions of passionate readers.
The EcoPressed experience will source material from over 30 million content producers and informational resources highlighting the most relevant conversations taking place on the independent web. It will also incorporate content from GE’s ecomagination initiative, making EcoPressed the one-stop destination for consumers to get the latest news, topics and trends on innovation, sustainability and energy initiatives.
This is the second in what will likely become a series of Press sites on WordPress.com. Personally, I think what Automattic is doing with partners such as Federated media is really leveraging their audience/writers is brilliant. Instead of subscribing to hundreds or thousands of feeds of people writing great things on a specific topic, these special Press sites act as great content curators giving some no name bloggers a chance to shine. Sure, Automattic is making money through these partnerships but it’s their business and I don’t see anything wrong with what they’re doing. Do you?
Can anyone guess what topic will be next to be pressed?
Posted in News | Tagged automattic, ecopressed, foodpress, wordpress.com
By Jeffro on March 5, 2011
WordCamp Columbus, Ohio will be taking place this year between June 17th and June 19th. The event has a new organizer this time around in Angie Meeker who is an experienced WordPress designer and intends on making the event squarely focused on WordPress. Friday, June 17th, will be dedicated to the topic of Businesses and Beginners. The event is still looking for presenters that can talk to guests in a way that is simple and easy to understand, (Kim, you should do this :). June 18th will be dedicated to more in-depth topics concerning WordPress that developers and designers should find useful. In fact, some of the crew from Automattic will be in attendance as well as presenting on a few topics.
The last day of the event, June 19th will provide a genius bar where anyone that has any questions concerning WordPress can have them answered by knowledgeable WordPress users. There will also be a session dedicated to non-profits, specifically, Ohio based non-profit organizations, something Angie definetly has experience with herself.
The event is still looking for more speakers, sponsors, or volunteers to help. If you’re interested, please get in touch with Angiemeeker on Twitter or send her an email.
WordCamps will be few and far between for me this year but I’d be remiss if I didn’t find a way to make it to the one in my own back yard. The first WordCamp Columbus event went off pretty well for a first but I didn’t even bother attending the second one due to changes in the events structure. I’m hoping that Angie and the team can make WordCamp Columbus as respectable and fun as the others across the world. Please consider coming to the buckeye state to see me.
Posted in WordPress | Tagged event, ohio, wordcamp, wordpress |
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