• Don’t Punish Journalists for Software Problems

    Jotham Sederstrom’s public reaction to being fired cold by the New York Daily News for appearing to publish plagiarized content is remarkable in its candor and its acceptance of blame but belies the pressing issue at hand for those of us who build news websites. Jotham would still be toiling away for his teetering employer if not for a harebrained Content Management System…

  • Publish to Apple News directly from WordPress

    Let your readers get news on the go. The 1.0.0 version of the Apple News plugin is now available for download for any WordPress or WordPress VIP site. Now any publisher can push their WordPress content directly into the Apple News platform with a few simple actions. 

  • Large custom WordPress content migrations

    WordPress natively handles a number of different content migrations from various platforms. However, these will not work for all organizations either due to custom requirements for data transformation or because the data is being migrated from a non-supported or proprietary system. In these instances, writing a custom script is unavoidable. Furthermore, as WordPress becomes widely…

  • Local Nginx config which supports WordPress, Drupal, and Dynamic Domains

    I recently upgraded my laptop to the current top-spec MacBook Air, which has been a big improvement. I took the opportunity to reconfigure my local web server, and came up with a configuration that has already saved me quite a bit of time, since I touch so many projects that come through our company. This…