Category: wordpress
-
Tumblr Adult Content Review
I don’t think I need to tell many people who are vaguely aware of the news that after Tumblr announced a massive overhaul of their content and introduced an adult filter, that this has been often incorrectly flagging posts. Part of my backdating is driven by seeing posts linking from Twitter to my old Tumblr…
-
“I would be interested in contributing”
16 years ago at the exact time this post publishes, the idea of WordPress, and contributing, and everything started. January 25, 2003 at 3:58 pm mike says: Matt, If you’re serious about forking b2 I would be interested in contributing. I’m sure there are one or two others in the community who would be too.…
-
Year of the blog
I’ve seen variations of the phrase “2019 will be the year blogging comes back” a few times recently and I have to agree. I’ve enjoyed reading blogs more and I’m wanting to write more. I agree with a Tweet I saw a few days ago which said, and I paraphrase, “people aren’t sharing any more…
-
Publishing anniversaries
I got my yearly ping today: Which reminded me that I hit 11 years on Twitter just over a week ago: 11 years on this thing.#MyTwitterAnniversary pic.twitter.com/BpcGnLX9rh — Doug (@dougaitken) November 22, 2018 I think I should feel happier that I ended up publishing first on WordPress.com (via another blog before2008-03-29) rather than…
-
1000 Likes / 101 posts
I guess my coworkers like me… (You to can get fancy achievement badges if you post lots, or take orders, or get followers. Or get post Streaks.) This will post will be number 101 on this blog. Not bad considering this site address (dougaitken.wordpress.com) originally was created on Dec 1st 2007 and I hardly used…
-
vanity
Did you notice the change? Humbled to now be able to post from the new fancy doug.blog. Thanks Automattic ❤️ Expect to see posting frequency go all hockey stick 📈 Want your own? There are a few services, some offer a platform as well.
-
Introducing VR and 360° Content for All WordPress.com Sites
Originally posted on WordPress.com News: Virtual Reality is coming to WordPress.com! As of today, you can create and publish your own VR content on any WordPress.com site, starting with 360° photos and 360° videos (beta), and you can view regular photos and panoramas in VR. Our goal is to make publishing VR content as simple as…
-
9 years later
I missed the date with the rush of last week. Then Sunday was my birthday. I am just over 5 months into working at Automattic, and never when 23 year old Doug signed up on that afternoon of December 2nd 2007, did he think “Aye, I’ll be working with people who support that”. And now I am. Maybe…
doug dot blog... 