(Update: Looks like they caught it and fixed the mistake. Glad I caught the screenshot when I did!)
Ran across an interesting little mistake over at the Movable Type blog today. But you can see for yourself.
Matt Mullenweg, owner of Automattic and self prescribed Head of Bug Creation for WordPress, announcedlast night at his blog that the new website for BuddyPress, an extension for WordPress MU that will expand its social network capabilities, is now live and ready for human consumption. Matt announced that Automattic was taking BuddyPress under their wing only a month ago, so no time is being wasted.
Scott Wallick over at Plaintxt.org has released an updated version of his Sandbox for WordPress 2.5.x.
Right from the horse’s mouth, Sandbox is:
The Sandbox is a theme for themers. It has the ability to be easily skinned, so beginners will feel comfortable styling it since they only need to know CSS. More experienced designers will drool at the rich semantic markup and profusion of classes, dynamically generated by a few functions.
Plaintxt.org
WordPress users go download a copy. This should be the framework for every WordPress theme you build.
I am very happy that the decision was made to update the design and architecture of the WordPress Dashboard and Administration; the outcome is exceptional. Sticking with Happy Cog was the right way to go, specifically due to the excellent work that Jason Santa Maria did with the logo a while back.
I will admit that when I first saw screenshots put forward a month or so ago, I was very skeptical. The new direction seemed like a very big leap, and at the time I wasn’t sure in what direction that was going. After finding out that the new direction was being guided by Happy Cog I breathed a sigh of relief and began to get anxious. After a week or so running Release Candidate 1, we now have the full release of version 2.5 of WordPress.
And it is a beautiful thing indeed.
Up at the WordPress blog is a post from Matt Mullenweg announcing the availability of Release Candidate 2 for WordPress 2.5. The most interesting is his screencast walk through of the new gallery feature, for uploading photos and galleries straight into posts.
Matt claims to have uploaded over 1,000 photos using the gallery feature so far. If you follow his blog closely at all, you would have already seen this happening.
On a side note, Platform Pub has been running on 2.5 RC1 since last week with no problems to speak of. Personally I am loving the new interface and, while there are some things to get used to, it is an overall improvement.
Chris Pirillo (about) wants to build on the basis of Drupal to build what’s called an Install Profile, or an easier way of building a community out of the box. Believing that Drupal has all of the power to do what he wants, he and Adam Kalsey have taken on the task of building this Install Profile to be open source and available for anyone to start up their own community with, based on what he is saying, some pretty intense abilities.
It’s not just about hosting videos, audio files, or any piece of random media - it’s the discovery mechanisms between them that make them more relevant…Imagine coming to a site and not just reading about what other people are interested in, but what interests they SHARE with you!
SEO’ed URLs, nimble templates that adhere to a guideline for communities (colors and layout), identity flow, rating, voting, posting, gathering, embedding… a structure that supports both ad hoc and category-driven content… something that is centered on the user instead of the community s/he is involved in.
selections from Chris Pirillo’s post/videoblog
Chris is clearly very excited about this idea, and it’s understandable why he would. Open source projects are very exciting. Chris spells out the implications of something like this being available in an open source way:
I could see using this, in a password protected way, for my neighborhood.… A million different people can use this for a million different things. … Here’s the starting point. You want to build a community? Bam! … Some new product comes out, you want to build a community around it? There you go. Drupal’s got the power. It just needs to be formed.
selections from Chris Pirillo’s post/videoblog
This will be an interesting project to watch. I’m reminded of WordPress’s MU platform, which enables users to, presumably, build their own hosted version of WordPress.com. While the ability for building a community from MU is very much there, it does lack a lot of the features Pirillo mentions right out of the box.
I’m slightly hesitant to sign on completely to the idea of building something quite as extensive as what Perillo is suggesting. It sounds like he wants to have everything possible from the gate, so that individuals can decide what to use and what not to use. But that sounds like a pretty hefty bet. Everyone wants something different, and pleasing everyone right out of the gate isn’t a very reasonable bet.
There are lots of improvements that can be made in the field of open source community platforms. There is plenty to be done.
Side note: expect more of a report on the now announced Activity Stream node before long.
via TechCrunch
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