As those of you following me on Twitter (I'm larskjensen) may know, we recently launched our WordPress powered blog community.

For those of you who don't know what WordPress is (although you should! :-)) it's the state of the art blogging software - and it's open source and free of cost. For our blog community we use the multi user version of WordPress, the aptly named WordPress MU.

Well, we've had some problems with some of the themes of an older date. The CSS in them acts quite weird - most often in Internet Explorer 7…

Anyhow, I have an email correspondance with one of our bloggers and I tell him that either I'll try to find an update for the theme or otherwise we'll have to phase out the theme. But before I can do anything he has written me another mail telling me that there is an updated version of the theme and he also gives me the link.

So I translate the theme (by adding the _e and __ WordPress translation functions to .php files of the theme) and update my already existing language file with the new theme, upload it and email our most friendly user to tell him that the new theme is now online for him to test.

All this just to point out one thing: Open. Source. Software. Rules. :-)

PS: This blog is running on the single blog version of WordPress - of course.

• WordPress 2.6 Beta 2 (0)
• WordPress 2.4 is cancelled, is now 2.5 (1)
• New plugins handling in WordPress 2.6 (1)
• New in WordPress 2.7 trunk: QuickPress (1)
• An early look at the new widget management in WordPress 2.5 (3)

Tags: Blogging, Blogs, Danish media, Open source, PHP, Social web, wordpress

Blogs, Danish media, Open source, PHP, Social web Comments 0 Jun 16th, 2008

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