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A Chat About Open Source with the Founders of Drupal and WordPress

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On Octo­ber 7 at Schip­ul­Con 2011 in Hous­ton, Matt Mul­len­weg, founder of Word­Press, and Dries Buy­taert, founder of Dru­pal, shared the stage for a fas­ci­nat­ing ques­tion and answer ses­sion about their CMS plat­forms, their ecosys­tems, and open source in general.

Both founders are pas­sion­ate about their soft­ware, pas­sion­ate about their com­mu­ni­ties, and pas­sion­ate about open source — not just as a way to write soft­ware, but as a way of life. In this hon­est exchange, Matt and Dries reveal the dif­fer­ent ori­gins and philoso­phies behind Dru­pal and Word­Press that influ­ence their strengths and weak­nesses, and the two inno­va­tors explain how the plat­forms com­ple­ment each other.

Prob­lems with micro­phones mar the first four min­utes of audio; the other fifty min­utes are fine. Tran­scripts of a few of their answers are on the Schipul blog.

Outstanding Issues 9/30

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We are work­ing hard to have every­thing work­ing smoothly, and while Word­Press may have infi­nite pos­si­bil­i­ties, the time and per­son­nel to imple­ment them is finite. Below are some of the more both­er­some issues we are tracking:

  • Guest Account Pro­vi­sion­ing accounts are not able to authen­ti­cate on any of the blogs in the net­work. The prob­lem has to do with the @ signs in the user­names. Cur­rently, only nor­mal Prince­ton netIDs can log in.
  • We do not yet have a sim­ple solu­tion for adding videos that use the PUVOD Flash stream­ing server.
  • We have some doc­u­men­ta­tion, but not nearly as much as we would like.
  • Https works just fine, but forc­ing https by redi­rect­ing from http to https causes our load bal­ancer to infi­nitely loop the redirect.
  • Our Mov­able Type users will have to suf­fer with that aging plat­form just a lit­tle while longer as we migrate dozens of sites.
  • There is not a sep­a­rate server for stag­ing con­tent or a mul­ti­stage work­flow as with Roxen CMS. Posts and pages are either unpub­lished (draft) or pub­lished, and you can revert to any pre­vi­ously saved version.
  • The Shar­ing but­tons at the end of posts and pages do not have a Google Plus option.

WordPress.tv: Top 12 Features You Aren’t Using

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In this Word­Camp San Fran­cisco 2011 pre­sen­ta­tion, Sheri Bigelow talks about the “Top 10 12 Fea­tures You Aren’t Using – But Should Be!” (27:24).

This is an excel­lent pre­sen­ta­tion for new Word­Press users, but it includes a few things that Word­Press vet­er­ans may not know about, like the Post Revi­sions Easter egg at 18:30.

WordPress.tv: 5 Ways to Break your Blog

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The travel funds aren’t always avail­able to go to con­fer­ences, but at least most of the ses­sions from the regional and national Word­Press con­fer­ences (aka Word­Camps) are posted online. I will occa­sion­ally repost some of the ger­mane ones here. Pre­sen­ta­tion slides are after the break.

The first four min­utes do not apply to a mul­ti­site blog, so you can skip ahead.

In this first one, Hanni Ross from Automat­tic talks about the “Top 5 Ways to Break Your Blog – and Fix It” (21:32)

Con­tinue read­ing →