Archive for September, 2010
If you’re a WordPress.com user, you may have noticed that your stats received a significant facelift today. The Flash-powered line chart has been replaced by an interactive Javascript-powered bar chart and the module layout is now fully customiza…
The WordPress for iOS mobile app has received a significant update with a slew of bug fixes and the following new features:
Video: “record video within the app and then upload it directly to a blog.”
Local Drafts: “save posts locally…
Attention Apple-gadget-owning WordPress users! Have you been using the WordPress iOS app for iPhone and iPad? Or maybe you tried it a while back and thought it wasn’t for you? Either way, the new release — v2.6 — will knock your socks…
After a lovely weekend in New York I headed straight to Seattle, but not because of the Microsoft announcement like many people thought, but to attend a meeting for Grist, an environmental non-profit (with a sense of humor) whose board of directors I …
The transients feature of WordPress is a very useful tool for local data cache when pulling from a remote data source (web service/API).
A typical workflow goes something like this:
Get remote data.
Store it locally as transient data with a timeout.
O…