So -- people got a little hyped about the capital_P_dangit() filter that is activated in the WordPress v3.0 core. For those of you that have been hiding under a rock for the past few days, this filter keeps you from "misspelling" WordPress.  More accurately, it changes your "misspelling" of the word to the "correct" spelling, without letting you know that it's doing so. It's just a little snip of code that Matt Mullenweg himself submitted.  It doesn't seem like it should be a big deal, but … [Read more...]

An Open Letter to the WordPress Community Every so often, the debates heat up and some of the more excitable members of the community get their panties in a bunch. We've seen articles calling for Matt Mullenweg's resignation, posts lambasting 3rd party developers that choose to go closed source, endless twitter fights and tantrums, and even the threat of law suits.  The GPL arguments alone have taken up hours of my time. The whole situation turns into a black eye for WordPress and … [Read more...]