Soon, themes based on Hybrid Core will be parent themes and it will be easy to adapt them to your own requirements by creating a child theme. If you choose to use Prototype, a parent theme that already uses the latest version of Hybrid Core, you can do this already. However, there are some excellent [...]
I’m always in the market for a really good WordPress statistics plugin. WordPress.com stats is not a million miles away from what I want. The standard view shows number of visitors per pages today and yesterday as well as how visitors arrived at the site through referrers or search engine queries. The only other thing [...]
Ashley Pond V.does not know PHP: “WordPress had to cover dozens or even hundreds of pieces (feeds, site map, remote content fetching, sessions, SSL, revisions, Ajax backend, logging, caching, email) I didn’t have to think about beyond configuration settings and a little glue.” I found this quite amusing. I know the CPAN is great. It [...]
One of the comments on my Choosing a Blogging Engine post mentions Melody, a community fork of the Movable Type content management system which is written in Perl. Which leads me to the question in the title. Whenever I hear about people writing yet another blogging engine in Perl, Python or Ruby it brings to [...]
A few weeks ago, Justin Tadlock released the latest version of his excellent hybrid theme framework – Hybrid Core 1.0. I have used hybrid child themes on a number of websites with good reason. Justin’s code is clean and easy to follow the theme is extremely flexible the support Justin provides for just $25/year is [...]
As I am primarily a Perl programmer, the clear and obvious choice was WordPress. I didn’t even consider looking at any of the alternatives available. If it’s good enough for him… Perl luminary, Dave Cross, had some comments on why he chose WordPress. Some of them are more than a little strange; he mentions that [...]
