Last week, Automattic’s Tim Moore announced their new REST API that provides app developers access to WordPress posts and comments. In addition, the API includes social features like Follow, Like and Reblog. The API will initially provide access to WordPress.com blogs, with support for self-hosted WordPress.org blogs to follow, via Automattic’s Jetpack plugin. Continue reading
Matt Mullenweg on the Future of WordPress
WordPress’ biggest challenge over the next two years, and where we’re focusing core development, will be around evolving our dashboard to be faster and more accessible, especially on touch devices.
– Matt Mullenweg, WordPress and the Top 100
WordPress 3.4 beta 1 Performance
WordPress 3.4 will be released in the next six weeks, or so, and I finally got a few minutes to install it on my local test machine and have a look. My local installation does not have any active plugins, so this is not a compatibility-check, but it does allow for a sneak-peek at the raw performance of the core, itself. Continue reading
Matt Buchanan on Instagram Hipsters
If you don’t have enough taste to pick the right phone, you can’t possibly have enough taste to shoot supercool images, right?
– Matt Buchanan, Instagram For Android: There Goes The Neighborhood
