SmartyPress – Smarty Driven WordPress

SmartyPress is another Smarty driven WordPress project.
It looks interesting, and I had the thought that it might be possible to paste an alternative template system into WordPress by piggy-backing on top of the current system.
The home.php, single.php, index.php files of the various themes could be loaders for another more secure templating system rather than PHP. It would certainly make editing templates and securing them against abuse easier, although for WordPress.com we have even fancier ideas to be announced later!

WordPress MU Feedback

Matt took time out to update the feedback form in WordPress MU and WordPress.com today! Here’s a taster of what it looks like:


See the “Feedback” link above there? Hit that to send feedback to the admins of your WPMU site.


This is the feedback form that appears. It’s already being used on WordPress.com to great affect, reporting bugs and suggestions from users to the admins.


Thank you for your feedback. The great thing about this is that you can send feedback about the current page without disturbing what you’ve been doing. It’s sent to the server via an AJAX request and happens without refreshing the page!

What's this WordPress.com thing anyway?

Lots of people are asking about WordPress.com, fortunately for them there has been lots said about it already, both on the wp-hackers list, and on the WPMU blog. Usually without much feedback which I have found strange, but there you go!
The question comes up on IRC frequently, and here’s what I said a short while ago:

<donncha> it’s just WordPress.. if you already run a WordPress blog then you know a lot about what WordPress.com will be 🙂

It’s that, but also more. WordPress.com is going to be a great site and a shining example of what can be built on GPL software!

D’Arcy Norman Dot Net » Blog Archive » Multiuser weblog software is heating up again…

D’Arcy Norman looks at the multi-blog universe again. He’s examining a few systems and I like his simple litmus test:

If a user’s first reaction to the software is something like “GAH!” they are less likely to use it.