Archive for the ‘Happy WordPress-ers’ Category

You know what makes WordPress different from other “big” companies? The people are real. You can follow Matt Mullenweg and his family around the world through his blog. The boy just turned 25! You don’t even want to KNOW what I was doing when I was 25.

At this conference today there was an Automatic employee Lloyd who took time to answer questions. At a table were two people with “WordPress Help” scrawled on a paper and taped to the front. From my experience today, I can completely understand why everyone likes Mom Summit, and BlogHer and Blissdom Conferences. The only thing that would make this conference better is if it was full of friends and mommies! At Northern Voice 09, they DO, however, have a giant room put aside to accommodate childcare and encourage a childcare- ad hoc organization between parents. How cool is that?

So I do have a point to make here, WordPress brings to the table so much more than software, free software at that. It brings, at least to me, a human, approachable, entrepreneurial aspect. And I can really get behind that!

I got to discuss some of the world’s top designing firms with Jahzel Misner. She’s going to send me links. I got to get some top level help on our server migration from Lloyd at Automattic. And of course, this is a VERY important site for every. single. reader. 8Chocolate: a local chocolate fiend, and reviewer, and blogger of all things chocolate. You’re welcome.

Having a MySpace blog was no longer acceptable to Julie, a self-proclaimed princess, decided to make the leap to WordPress.

Please go welcome Julie to the blogging community at her new home!

Blog Name: From Inmates to Playdates

Theme Base: Downtown Java 3-Column

Graphics: DCR Design

I’ve worked with Beth and Christy on several other projects in the past, but they came to me with a doozy of a project when they told me they wanted to create a multi-user blog that had a main blog with all the post from the sub blogs feeding into it.

Originally I was going to just set up 4 blogs, however, after a little research, I discovered Wordpress MU.  It’s the same platform that Wordpress.com uses to manage it’s community of blogs, and I got it up and running for them so that it will be easy for them to make across the platform changes.  The installation wasn’t much harder than a regular WordPress install and was almost exactly what they were looking for.

Now each user has control over their own sub blog and they can customize the main blog for whatever they need.

So, please go check out the Sisterhood of the Shrinking Jeans!

Until next time…