WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE BECOMING A FULL-TIME BLOGGER 1. Building A Successful Blog Takes Time It would be nice to tell you that plugging in and getting online is easy and profitable right off the bat. Like with…
Over the last few years I’ve reviewed many, many items on my blog and on Amazon. Aside from the FTC disclosure I’m required to include in all my posts I’m fairly free, within a degree of reasonableness, to write as…
Today’s Nablopomo prompt was – Does blogging bring out the best or worst in you? Though I do share certain things about my life blogging for me is not intended to be a public diary. I have never kept a…
This is my first pressgr.am post. I’m testing this new app that allows me to post images to my blog in an Instagram type format. I like this idea because my blog gets the traffic, not Instagram. This neon spaghetti…
It’s been ten years since we started this thing, and what a long way we’ve come. From a discussion between myself and Mike Little about forking our favorite blogging software , to powering 18% of the web. It’s been a crazy, exciting, journey, and one that won’t stop any time soon. At ten years, it’s fun to reflect on our beginnings. We launched WordPress on 27th May 2003, but that wasn’t inception. Go back far enough, and you can read a post by Michel Valdrighi who, frustrated by the self-hosted blogging platforms available, decided to write his own software; “b2, a PHP+MySQL alternative to Blogger and GreyMatter.” b2 was easy to install, easy to configure, and easy for developers to extend. Of all the blogging platforms out there, b2 was the right one for me: I could write my content and get it on the web quickly and painlessly. Sometimes, however, life gets in the way. In 2002, Michel stopped maintaining b2. Over time, security flaws became apparent and updates were needed and, while the b2 community could write patches and fixes, no one was driving the software forward. We were lucky that Michel decided to release b2 under the GPL; the software may have been abandoned, but we weren’t without options. A fork was always a possibility. That was where it stood in January 2003, when I posted about forking b2 and Mike responded . The rest, as they say, is history. From the very beginning to the present day, I’ve been impressed by the thought, care, and dedication that WordPress’ developers have demonstrated. Each one has brought his or her unique perspective, each individual has strengthened the whole. It would be impossible to thank each of them here individually, but their achievements speak for themselves. In WordPress […]
