Projects
The best way to get an idea of what Automattic is about is to use
the products and services we’re involved with, as described to the
right.
The open source WordPress package was famous for its 5-minute
install, but as simple as we could make it the barriers to getting a
WordPress blog were still fairly high and technical. Enter WordPress.com
,
a version of WordPress that is hosted and completely maintained.
Thousands of people every day are creating blogs on the WordPress.com
service, which has just begun to explore its capabilities.
If you’ve been blogging for any amount of time, you’ve probably
experienced how spammers can suck the joy out of managing your blog,
and some people spend more time deleting junk than they actually do
creating content. Akismet is our way to address this. It’s an adaptive, self-learning spam protection service that has proven highly effective, blocking millions of spams a day with a 0.001% miss rate.
WordPress is an open source blogging tool used by everyone from Rosie O’Donnell to the New York Times, and WordPress.org is its community home. Development is led by Automattic troublemakers
Matt Mullenweg and Ryan Boren, along with community members Mark
Jaquith and dozens of others. WordPress has grown from a tiny project
to what is by many accounts the most popular non-hosted blog platform
out there.
Forum software is notorious for being bloated and insecure, and
bbPress is pretty much everything most modern forum software is not.
Sharing the same philosophical roots with WordPress, the most prominent
installation of bbPress is the WP support forums
themselves, which have hundreds of thousands of posts yet still are as
speedy as can be. All the features you need—like tags, AJAX posting,
categorization, modular user system—and nothing you don’t.
A gravatar (globally recognized avatar) is quite simply an
image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name
when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your
posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs?
Plugins
Here are a few of the plugins we’ve written, some long and complex
and some 5-liners that hook elegantly into WP’s API to do something
simple.
- With WordPress.com Stats you can have simple, concise stats with no additional load on your server by plugging into WordPress.com’s stat system.
- Sidebar widgets allow you to easily rearrange widgets on your sidebar.
- Blog + Wiki = Blicki
- fauxML easily converts specific fake markup into full blown XHTML. It also offers an API for adding new fauxMLs.
- Random Redirect
allows you to create a link to yourblog.example.com/?random which will
redirect someone to a random post on your blog, in a StumbleUpon-like
fashion.
- Close Old Posts closes comments on old posts on the fly, without any DB queries.
- Admin IP Watcher monitors when someone logs in with a new IP and emails you.
- No-WWW. WWW checks in, it doesn’t check out.
- Google Adsense for Feeds puts Google RSS Ads in your feed, make sure you fill in your publisher ID by editing the plugin file.
- Cache Images goes through your posts and gives you the option to cache all hotlinked images from a domain locally in your upload folder
- Blogtimes generates a bar graph image showing when posts are made during a period of time.
- Protect Old Posts puts a password on all posts except for the latest one.
- WP LaTeX creates PNG images from inline $\LaTeX$ code in your posts and comments.
- bbPress Integration synchronizes bbPress registration with your WordPress blog.
- No Self Ping keeps your site from pinging itself.
- Draft Notifier sends a notification email to your blog’s admin address when a post is written by a Contributor or when such a post is edited.
- Just One Category will cause WordPress to display on a category archive page only those posts which are direct members of that category.
- Cap Comments turns off comments when a post achieves a pre-set comment count.
- Flickr Widget displays your latest Flickr photos.
- Secure Admin allows you to SSL-encrypt your dashboard.
- Crypt provides encrypt/decypt functions for use by other plugins.
- Theme Switcher allows your readers to switch themes.
- Search Hilite
is so when someone is referred from a search engine like Google, Yahoo,
or WordPress’ own, the terms they search for are highlighted with this
plugin.
- Front Page Categories selects categories to display on the front page.
Thanks Mich Happy holidays Auto / WP crew
