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Urban explorer, ASCII artist, directory editor, creative web publisher and web writer since 1996.

WordPress Origin Story

I was a devoted Movable Type blogger. Then MT changed their policy and ended the free ride. Understandable, even then when most things were free online. I reluctantly changed to WordPress. Don’t think I became a WP fan right away. I also tried GreyMatter, Melody (when it came along) and of course I already knew Blogger (Blogspot) well. However, no matter which other CMS I worked with I came back to WordPress because WP has the community support. This means it has the features, the plugins and the help when you look online for solutions. I began creating my own sites in 1998. Most of that time I’ve been using WordPress, but I still do it my own way.
Update for 2022 – These days I run ClassicPress, a WP fork. More than two years with ClassicPress now. I won’t go back to WP and all its blocks.

  • Member Since: November 29th, 2005
  • Location: Barrie, Ontario
  • Website: laurabrown.ca
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  • Created a topic, Works Great!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I've sent two newsletters now. Works great with all th…

  • Created a topic, This Worked When Nothing Else Did! Thank You!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Something caused all the media/ image links on the sit…

  • Created a topic, Long Time Plugin User, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    It works. There isn't more I need to say. Other than, …

  • Created a topic, Thank You, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Worked easily and did what I hoped it would do.Thank y…

  • Created a topic, Easy to Figure Out, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Easy to set up, figure out and start using. I especial…

  • Created a topic, Not Connecting to Amazon Port, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    HTTP Request failed!cURL error 7: Failed to connect to…

  • Created a topic, Add Colour to Post Background, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    TinyMCE Advanced brought back the option to add colour…

  • Created a topic, Still works in 2017., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Add one character at the start of the ASCII art to kee…

  • Created a topic, Not for Everyone, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    This plugin does clean things up. But, if you don't kn…

  • Created a topic, Thank you, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Quite happy with this plugin. Save me from spending fa…

  • Created a topic, Upselling – Not a Free Plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Lets you create an export but... you can't actually do…

  • Created a topic, Vatuma is Gone, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    This was one of my favourite themes. Sorry to see the …

  • Created a topic, Could this work with b2evolution as well?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    b2 has an XML importer but it imported everything as t…

  • Created a topic, Don’t Quite Understand, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Sorry to ask a stupid question, but, I don't quite get…

  • Created a topic, Formatting ASCII, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    How does the ASCII art keep the formatting if it is in…

  • Created a topic, Very Slow searching Google, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    This plugin works for images and my own blog, so far. …

  • Wrote a comment on the post Feature Plugin Merge Proposal: oEmbed, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    My problem with embedded content from a link is having it disappear and leaving me…

  • Wrote a comment on the post Feature Plugin Merge Proposal: oEmbed, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    If this is going to be added to the core why would we want to…

  • Wrote a comment on the post Responsive Images: Merge Proposal, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    I'm not a developer but I did use this plugin and would like to comment…

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