WPCandy

Not long ago, our team was online 9 a.m to 4 p.m. PDT to answer your questions and keep your blog running smoothly. Soon after, we brought it up to 24-hour support, five days and week, so those across the country and across the globe wouldn’t have to wait for their answers.

The time has come for help without delay. We hereby announce 24-7 support on WordPress.com.

WordPress.com Blog

The WordPress support team has decided to go to full 24-hour, 7-day free support for WordPress.com-hosted blogs. First they were 9am to 4pm PST, then 24-hours for five days a week, and now you can get support on weekends too.

The official WordPress support team handles issues pertaining to blogs hosted on WordPress.com. If you have a WordPress.com blog, you can contact them if you come across any functionality problems or have a question about how to use the system.

If you’re looking for support for a self-hosted weblog, you can visit the support forums where there are a number of experienced developers waiting to help answer your questions.

As WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg confirmed at WordCamp Dallas back in March, Automattic was indeed working on a native iPhone App for WordPress using the SDK. Sure enough, the official WordPress app was announced at the official WordPress for iPhone blog. It didn’t make it into the App Store in time for launch, but about two weeks later, it’s there. Let’s give it a try. Read more…

The WordPress crew has just released the latest and greatest edition of WordPress, version 2.6, today. This release, named ‘Tyner’, brings even more fantastic features to our favorite open-source blogging platform, with some of the bigger features including:

• Word count display below Save and Publish buttons
• Theme pagination and a hot live preview feature
• The number of plugin updates available is now shown in the Plugins tab
• Ability to change the location of the wp-config.php file
• Multiple plugin activate/deactivate; improved sorting
• Admin page caching for faster speeds
• Improved galleries
• “Press This” bookmarklet for quick posting from anywhere on the web via your toolbar
• Post revisioning
• Drag-and-drop gallery sorting
• Multiple checkbox selection (on Manage pages) using shift+click

The WordPress team has obviously been working hard to get this release out, and we thank them for all their efforts. You can download the latest version of WordPress from WordPress.org. You can also get the full skinny on version 2.6 from the WordPress Development Blog. Happy blogging!

A few months ago I wrote an article on how to use Coda with WordPress via Clips. Well the creators of Massive Blue and Nonimage have created a site called Coda Clips, featuring a ton of clips for CSS, Expression Engine, HTML, JS, PHP, Textpattern, WordPress, and other coding languages.

While browsing through some of the clips, I noticed some tags I have never even seen before! Here’s a few that are worth mentioning:

Anyways, if you use Coda, make sure to check out this sweet resource. Oh and if you have a few of your own snippets, make sure to submit them!

I have been using WordPress pretty frequently for about a year now. I’ve written two plugins and counting for the blogging CMS, ran a site dedicated to customizing themes for a while, and have been working hard with the rest of the WPCandy team to create the third version of the site, which I’m sure will be a huge hit among the WordPress community. I haven’t been using WordPress nearly as long as other people, but I have a good feel for the system, both front-end and back-end, and I have compiled a list of 30 things I think should be changed, added, or built in to WordPress. Read more…

The other day, I came across a post written by Patrick Algrim of HellYeahDude.com entitled, What Not To Put Into WordPress Themes. Patrick dove into some well known, freely available WordPress themes to see if he could uncover anything out of the orindary. Unfortunately, he discovered some things inside of themes that I find appalling. Things such as blog ranking code to theme author RSS feeds that when clicked on, the end user would end up subscribing to a feed other than your own.

For a few weeks now, there have been a number of people that have preached about how the safest way to download themes is directly from the author’s website. If what Patrick discovered is true, (it sure as hell looks that way) then this leaves the door wide open as to how to go about downloading and using WordPress themes that are not filled with this stuff.

The WordPress Theme respository is not off line but it does contain a number of outdated themes that most likely do not work with WordPress 2.5. So the question is, why are theme authors including this crap into their themes and secondly, do we really need to go through each and every theme and look for this stuff before sites such as WPCandy give themes any sort of press?

Lastly, how do you feel about this situation?

This is a guest post by Jeff Chandler of Jeffro2pt0.com.

Over the past few days, news of a possible multiple SQL injection vulnerability in WordPress 2.5 was spreading across the WordPress community like wildfire. However, Matt Mullenweg has published a post which puts our fears to rest in that the bulletin was falsified. Matt’s post also contains a wide assortment of helpful information in regards to why you should upgrade your version of WordPress to the latest stable release. One of the more interesting portions of his post discusses the most common reasons Matt finds as to why people don’t upgrade their WordPress installation.

Read more…

To kick-start WPCandy, we decided to interview Matt Mullenweg! For those of you who don’t know, Matt is the founding developer of WordPress. So let’s skip all this talking and dive right into the interview!

Read more…