WordPress – Page 2 – Steve Burge

October 5, 2021

Logtivity is Featured on WPTavern

On Friday, our new Logtivity project was featured on WPTavern. For a start-up, being featured on the Tavern often marks a debut into the WordPress community.

Every now and again, some complaints pop up about WPTavern. Mostly they center around the fact that the site is owned by Matt Mullenweg, and there are potential conflicts of interest, but people are rarely able to point to specific examples. WPTavern is well run. Yes, it probably focuses more on boosting and encouraging the WordPress community, than it does on hard-hitting criticism, but that’s not a bad thing at all. For entirely independent alternatives, there are Post Status and also WP Mainline, although I’m afraid you’ll find them to be warm and welcoming also. There are harsher takes on the WordPress world, and you can find them with a little digging on Twitter.

August 20, 2021

Logtivity and Easy Digital Downloads User Tracking

We launched Logtivity in August: it’s a new activity log service that helps you understand exactly what’s happening on your WordPress site.

The first version of Logtivity had support for the WordPress core, so it recorded eventss like these:

WordPress Core Updated
Post Updated
Post Published
Attachment Uploaded
Theme Deleted
User Created
Profile Updated
Plugin Activated

The next big step is integration with Easy Digital Downloads. If you sell WordPress plugins or themes, there is a very good chance that you use the Software Licensing extension. It is a cornerstone of the WordPress economy.

August 12, 2021

We Launched Logtivity: A New WordPress Activity Log

A few months ago, I saw a tweet from Iain Poulson, who has been very active on the business side of WordPress. Iain regularly links to WordPress products for sale, and this time it was a listing on Flippa:

July 14, 2021

TaxoPress Pro is Here to Help Organize Your WordPress Sites

Earlier this year, I posted that we had adopted a WordPress plugin called Simple Tags, and renamed it “TaxoPress”.

Since then, we’ve been working hard with frequent releases. Here is the download chart for the plugin on WordPress.org. Each big spike represents a new release. Can you spot when we took over?

March 9, 2021

TaxoPress is Our New WordPress Plugin

Simple Tags has been a popular WordPress plugin for 10 years, and now has over 80,000 users.

I’m delighted to say that our team has taken over running the plugin. This is the same team that runs the plugins at PublishPress.

We’ve given it a new name (“TaxoPress”) and a new website at TaxoPress.com.

Over the last few years, we’ve repeatedly answered custom questions about Tags and Categories. We often found that we didn’t have good answers because the plugins in this space weren’t great.

So our goal with TaxoPress is to build the perfect tool to create, edit and manage all your WordPress taxonomy terms.

June 15, 2012

There is an Open Source Rival to Facebook: WordPress

I always cringe when seeing people try to build an open source rival to Facebook. Projects like Diaspora gain publicity as a nice idea, but get little real traction.

However, I’ve come to believe that there is a potentially viable and very real open source rival to Facebook … WordPress.

That might sound silly at first, but hear me out: Continue reading “There is an Open Source Rival to Facebook: WordPress”

January 11, 2010

What Joomla People Need to Know About WordPress 3.0

I had the chance to attend Wordcamp Atlanta on Saturday. It was a well-run event in a great location: the Savannah College of Art and Design.

The best presentation was the keynote delivered by Jane Wells who is the User Experience lead from Automattic.

Here’s her rundown of where WordPress is going in 2010, head-lined by the release of WordPress 3.0. A lot of WordPress’ successes and problems have lessons for us in the Joomla world.

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