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Automattic.com Goes Mobile Friendly

Those clever devils at Automattic done launched a new responsive site: /via @kristastevens — Responsive Design (@RWD) June 10, 2012 Yes, so now we’re cool, just like everybody else in town :) By the way, the new Twitter embeds are working like a charm in WordPress 3.4 (as you can see), so I had to disable my Twitter Embed plugin, which you can still use if you want to embed tweets...

WordPress 3.4 Hits the Shelves

WordPress 3.4 is here! Update your site now to try the new theme customizer, better headers, HTML captions & more: — WordPress (@WordPress) June 13, 2012 Better, faster, more secure, and shinier than ever before! You will be able to upgrade from within your WordPress dashboard in the next few hours. Keep an eye out on the download counter too, and if you’re a plugin or theme...

WordPress 3.4 RC3

WordPress 3.4 RC3 is now available. Start the countdown to final launch!
— WordPress (@WordPress) June 12, 2012

How to write a terrible WordPress tutorial

True, and here’s a related post I wrote earlier about Plugins vs. Without a Plugin. Still, we keep seeing such tutorials piling up everyday, even obvious ones like Google Analytics. Why would one want to go through the trouble of copying and pasting code into their theme’s header.php file, and then breaking everything when they change their theme or when the theme gets an update? Why...

P2 for WordPress Gets an Update!

Not much has changed from the previous version. Perhaps the most exciting change is that you can now create todo lists, by adding an “o” or an “x” at the beginning of a new line. Cool huh? If you’re new to P2, don’t forget to read this article by Matt on why we use P2 at Automattic.