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Fully Automattic
Today is a very exciting day for me, because I start as a full-time employee with Automattic, Inc.
Here’s a little bit about how that happened and what it means to me:
The dotMobi WordPress Mobile Pack
The dotMobi WordPress Mobile Pack
“The dotMobi WordPress Mobile Pack is a complete toolkit from dotMobi to help mobilize your WordPress site and blog. It includes a mobile switcher to select themes based on the type of user that is visiting the site, a selection of mobile themes, extra widgets, device adaptation and a mobile administration panel to allow users to edit the site or write new posts when out and about.”
Audit Trail Plugin
“Audit Trail is a plugin to keep track of what is going on inside your blog. It does this by recording certain actions (such as who logged in and when) and storing this information in the form of a log.”
WordPress CodeSniffer Standard
WordPress CodeSniffer Standard
Checks your PHP code to see how well it conforms to the published WordPress Coding Standard.
On Social Customer Support
Through my work with Automattic, I’ve had the privilege of working with the guys over at Intense Debate. I’ve been helping them improve their WordPress plugin and get it ready for some new features. Along the way I made the blunder of releasing a version that had a pretty serious bug in it, and that triggered a lot of customer support issues/cases.
In the “old days” (or in a lot of big corporates today), those support cases would have been handled behind a corporate “veil of secrecy”, tucked in a back end system somewhere, responded to by anonymous “Customer Service Representatives” via a generic email account like “support@intensedebate.com”. While we’re also making use of a generic email address, the similarities between our approach and that of big corporates ends there. End to end, the differences are pretty stark.
WordCamp San Francisco 2009
It’s almost time for another WordCamp event, and I can’t wait. This is the big one – the fourth annual San Francisco WordCamp! This will also be the fourth WordCamp that I’ve attended. Yes, I believe that makes me somewhat of a groupie.
There’s a new website online as of yesterday and it’s looking pretty spiffy. I’m looking forward to seeing Tim Ferriss and Tara Hunt speak in particular.
Oh, and I’m going to be helping out on the “Genius Bar” for a bit as well, so drop by and get some questions answered!
This will probably be a bit of a different experience for me than previous years because I’ve been doing some consulting work with Automattic, so I’ve met a lot of the crew now, and it’ll be good to see a lot of them again here.
WP-o-Matic
Pull the contents of a feed into a WordPress install and re-post the contents as real posts within your install. Easily abused, but might be good for internal “Planet” style sites.