Thord D. Hedengren

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The world’s largest CMS, WordPress, is what got me started writing technical books. I’m still active in the community, and every now and then I’ll write something about my favorite open source publishing platform.

  • Another great thing about the new admin bar in WordPress 3.1

    I wrote a post on the new admin bar in WordPress 3.1 previously, but I would like to highlight another great thing with it: It incorporates the edit link on single posts and pages. This means we can cut this from themes if we want to. Sweet.

  • BuddiPhone might be one to watch

    A new plugin called BuddiPhone sets out to make your BuddyPress powered WordPress community more accessible on your iOS device (being iPads and iPhones). The teaser screenshot on the landing page certainly looks clean enough, albeit a bit too close to the official Facebook iPhone app in my opinion.

    Might be one to watch. Props for the name are in order, no matter what!

  • Child themes hitting the wordpress.org directory

    I’m really happy to see child themes in the wordpress.org theme directory. They need proper labeling though, and a link to the parent theme, otherwise users will be confused. After all, a child theme won’t work without its parent! Here’s Mazeld, of Photomatt fame, which is now a child theme using Twenty Ten.

  • Post Formats, is this really a good idea?

    WordPress 3.1 doesn’t just add an admin bar, among the new features are also Post Formats. This is basically a new way to sort content and it does indeed solve a lot of small problems. The Post Formats are:

    • aside (for short asides)
    • gallery (for post being just galleries)
    • link (for post that are really links elsewhere)
    • image (for posts that are really images)
    • quote (for quotations)
    • status (for short status updates)
    • video (for posts that are really video embeds)
    • audio (for posts that are really audio)
    • chat (for chat transcripts)

    Now, obviously you can have anything in any post with any Post Format. They are meant for the things above (sort of, I’ve kept it simple), but you’re not limited to it. This is your content. (more…)

  • The best thing about the new WordPress admin bar

    One of the new features in WordPress 3.1 (out in RC3 now, help test it if you’re into that sort of thing) is the admin bar. If you’re a wordpress.com user you’ll no doubt recognize it.

    Want to know what’s the best part with this new addition? (more…)

  • WordPress 3.1 RC3 ute, behöver hårdtestas #wpse

    Äntligen är WordPress 3.1 RC3 ute, men med oroväckande stora förändringar för att vara i en RC-fas. Testa på!

  • WordPress 3.1 RC3 out now, makes changes

    I’m happy to see that the third release candidate for WordPress 3.1 is out, but less thrilled about the amount of changes there are between RC2 and RC3. Probably the right call and all that, but this is a wee bit much to be altering in this phase in my opinion. I hope this means that we’ll see an RC4 version as well to avoid a point 1 bugfix release. Get RC3 here.

  • Buying you off with free stuff next week, is that OK?

    Sorry for the slight delay in getting TDH.me up to speed, I have just wrapped up two major deadlines and need a little breather. Just to make me feel a little better about this, I’ll release a free WordPress theme or two next week, how’s that?

  • Några tankar om WordPress-teman 2011 #wpse

    Apropå en bloggpost så skrev jag lite om vad jag tycker och tänker kring WordPress-teman anno 2011. På engelska, men du klarar av det!

  • My take on the future of WordPress themes, 2011 edition

    The guys a WPCandy didn’t think to include me in their future of WordPress themes post, which says something about how active I’ve been in the WordPress community the past year or so I guess. After all, I’ve just sold tens of thousands of WordPress books and release free themes and…

    Nah, just kidding. I’m pretty low key and I like to keep it that way. The post sparked my mind though, so let me give you my thoughts about the future of WordPress themes this year. (more…)

  • Notes Blog ready for release, sort of

    The new Notes Blog theme, detailed in this post, is now officially ready for release. It’s a first public version and as such it will probably contains some weird stuff you guys will have things to say about, but all in all I think it’s pretty solid. Rather, I know it is solid, it’s being used in serious projects already and have been running in closed beta for quite some time.

    There’s really just one thing holding it off, and that’s the fact that Notes Blog requires WordPress 3.1, which is still in RC2 as I’m writing this. There will be an RC3 as far as I can tell from the core developer’s communiques, so the final release of version 3.1 (which I’m running here already, by the way) is probably a week or two away.

    Frustrating.

    I’ve been debating whether to upload the beta version anyway, but since I’d get a ton of “why did this break?” questions if I did, I’m holding off. You’ll have to wait, and so will I. Hopefully it’ll be worth it.

    PS. This post is indeed a sign of things to come, and a shift in communication regarding the development behind the Notes themes. The idea is to keep more practical stuff, for users, on the Notes site, while I might blabber about decisions and other things here. I think it’ll make sense in the end.

  • TDH.me gets a crappy WordPress page

    I snuck out the WordPress page here on TDH.me, primarily because I had to drop the link to the Twenty Ten Tri child theme. I’ll tend to it later, this week is completely devoted to wrapping up Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog, 2nd Edition.

  • Ny utgåva av Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog i april

    Det är mycket WordPress-bokskrivande för mig nu, vilket är anledningen till att jag tystnat en aning. Det och lite annat, som bekant. Idag har dock varit en bra dag:

    • Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog ska översättas till portugisiska. Grymt kul tycker jag, boken är alltså på väg ut i Brasilien.
    • Smashing WordPress Themes: Making WordPress Beautiful släpps nästa vecka i USA, Kindle-versionen någon vecka senare, och sedan rullar den ut löpande i Europa.
    • Idag gick jag även ut med att Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog får en andra utgåva. 2nd Edition ska släppas i april, och manuset är nu (så gott som) lämnat. Jag vet inte om jag fick prata om det än, men äh – jag har avrått så många att avvakta med köp av boken den senaste månaden så det började bli löjligt.

    Dessutom väntar jag fortfarande otåligt på WordPress 3.1 så att WPMWP äntligen kan ges ut. Och efter det? Jo, de närmaste månaderna är synnerligen intressanta för mig, med spännande projekt och nya uppdrag – samt en väldig massa skrivande. Som jag vill ha det.

  • There will be a second edition of Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog

    I think I’m allowed to talk about this now. If not, tough luck.

    There will be a second edition of my highly popular, critically acclaimed, bestselling, insert-pr-speak-here book, Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog. The manuscript is in the hands of my editors as we speak, and those of you stalking me on Twitter or Facebook can finally rest easy knowing that this is what I’ve been working on the past few weeks.

    I’ve added Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog, 2nd Edition to my books page, but there’s not much else going on over there right now. Expect it to be bigger, better, more up to date, and hopefully better syntaxed by the people doing that stuff as well. Obviously this is the version they’ll be translating when launching the book in Portuguese.

    Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog, 2nd Edition is tentatively slated for release in April 2011.

    Now go and buy Smashing WordPress Themes, it’s out next week!

  • Över 30 miljoner nedladdningar av WordPress 3.0

    Det här är otroligt stort, helt enkelt. Version 3.0 (med underversioner förstås) av WordPress har laddats ner mer än 30 miljoner gånger. Kolla räknaren själv för mer aktuell siffra.

    Nu väntar vi bara på 3.1, saftigt försenad men redan naggade god. Den är minst två veckor bort skulle jag vilja påstå, såvida utvecklarna inte bestämmer sig för att hoppa över RC3…