#new on wordpress

[queenbdivine]

Practice makes perfect Nah....

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[vampireharpy]

for those maybe familiar with my fakemon project, the Lapeo Region, where I'm making a fakedex based entirely on prehistoric creatures and whatnot--

well, I recently made a whole page on my site dedicated to it, so you can scroll through the whole dex! I'm currently expanding on it again, so there's a couple new faces there that haven't shown up anywhere else yet hehe

[geopsych]

So do we wipe our blogs or what?

[allthegeopolitics]

Tumblr is making the move to WordPress. After its 2019 acquisition by WordPress.com parent company Automattic in a $3 million fire sale, the new owner has focused on improving Tumblr’s platform and growing its revenue. Now Automattic will shift Tumblr’s back end over to WordPress, Automattic said in a blog post published on Wednesday. The company clarified that it will not change Tumblr into WordPress; it will just run on WordPress. “We acquired Tumblr to benefit from its differences and strengths, not to water it down. We love Tumblr’s streamlined posting experience and its current product direction,” the post explained. “We’re not changing that. We’re talking about running Tumblr’s backend on WordPress. You won’t even notice a difference from the outside,” it noted. [...]

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[deadly-danaid]

"I feel safer in a room full of books as opposed to a room full of people."

Moka Lynn, The librarian

[tyote]

"Hey guys, Tumblr here. We're gonna sell your data to an AI company. But there'll be an opt-out. Except we've already been scraping data, and even scraped some stuff we shouldn't have, so... we're really hoping the people we're selling this to will honor the user's data preferences retroactively."

Source: (requires an account but the article is completely free)

[mint-mumbles]

Not even a year after his Tumblr meltdown over trans women, Matt “Photomatt” Mullenweg is STILL digging his own grave

Here’s his response to a lawsuit filed against him (spoiler, it’s just him being cringe (don’t like that word but that’s the only way I can describe this) and the article saying “meritless” over and over again):

Here’s how the news is covering it:

Meanwhile, Matt has been losing it:

Links attached to Matt’s posts in the first and third photographs:

Anyway, keep digging your grave, Matt. It’s an honor to have been blocked by a scumbag like you 😊

[belamercado]

"Werifesteria"

- (noun) An old English and dead word, werifesteria means to wander longingly through the forest in search of mystery.

[cupidsvx]

stop - cease, halt, stay, pause, discontinue, conclude, end, finish, quit.

story - tale, myth, legend, fable, yarn, account, narrative, chronicle, epic, sage, anecdote, record, memoir.

strange - odd, peculiar, unusual, unfamiliar, uncommon, queer, weird, outlandish, curious, unique, exclusive, irregular.

take - hold, catch, seize, grasp, win, capture, acquire, pick, choose, select, remove, steal, lift, rob, engage, bewitch, purchase, buy, retract, recall, assume, occupy, consume.

tell - disclose, reveal, show, expose, uncover, relate, narrate, inform, advise, explain, divulge, declare, command, order, bid, recount, repeat.

think - judge, deem, assume, believe, consider, contemplate, reflect, meditate.

trouble - distress, anguish, anxiety, worry, wretchedness, pain, danger, peril, disaster, grief, misfortune, difficulty, concern, pains, inconvenience, exertion, effort.

true - accurate, right, proper, precise, exact, valid, genuine, real, actual, trusty, steady, loyal, dependable, sincere, staunch.

[queenbdivine]

This may defy logic...

Daily writing promptWhat do you wish you could do more every day?View all responses Meet QueenB.Divine who is passionate about Mental Health & Astrology, because of her roots which are Jamaican /Canadian, grandfather who was from India and she now lives on the island of Vancouver . Mental Health and astrology it is in her DNA , because of her own personal journey ancestry. Some moments in life…

[technofeudalism]

Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com, is required to remove a controversial login checkbox from WordPress.org and let WP Engine back into its ecosystem after a judge granted WP Engine a preliminary injunction in its ongoing lawsuit.  In addition to removing the checkbox—which requires users to denounce WP Engine before proceeding—the preliminary injunction orders that Automattic is enjoined from “blocking, disabling, or interfering with WP Engine’s and/or its employees’, users’, customers’, or partners’ access to wordpress.org” or “interfering with WP Engine’s control over, or access to, plugins or extensions (and their respective directory listings) hosted on wordpress.org that were developed, published, or maintained by WP Engine,” the order states. In the immediate aftermath of the decision, Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg asked for his account to be deleted from the Post Status Slack, which is a popular community for businesses and people who work on WordPress’s open-source tools. 

“It's hard to imagine wanting to continue to working on WordPress after this,” he wrote in that Slack, according to a screenshot viewed by 404 Media. “I'm sick and disgusted to be legally compelled to provide free labor to an organization as parasitic and exploitive as WP Engine. I hope you all get what you and WP Engine wanted.” His username on that Slack has been changed to “gone 💀” Mullenweg began to publicly denounce WP Engine in September, calling the web hosting platform a “cancer” to the larger Wordpress open-source project and accusing it of improperly using the WordPress brand. He’s “at war” with WP Engine, in his own words.  In October, Mullenweg added a required checkbox at login for WordPres.org, forcing users to agree that they are not affiliated with WP Engine. The checkbox asked users to confirm, “I am not affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise.” The checkbox was still present and required on the WordPress.org login page as of Wednesday morning. Automattic and Mullenweg have 72 hours from the order to take it down, according to the judge’s order.  WP Engine sent a cease and desist demanding that he “stop making and retract false, harmful and disparaging statements against WP Engine,” the platform posted on X.  Automattic sent back its own cease and desist, saying, “Your unauthorized use of our Client’s intellectual property has enabled WP Engine to compete with our Client unfairly, and has led to unjust enrichment and undue profits.” WP Engine filed a lawsuit against Automattic and Mullenweg, accusing them of extortion and abuse of power. In October, Mullenweg announced that he’d given Automattic employees a buyout package, and 159 employees, or roughly 8.4 percent of staff, took the offer. “I feel much lighter,” he wrote. But shortly after, he reportedly complained that the company was now “very short staffed.”   All of this has created an environment of chaos and fear within Automattic and in the wider WordPress open-source community.  Within 72 hours of the order, Automattic and Mullenweg are also required to remove the “purported” list of WP Engine customers contained in the ‘domains.csv’ file linked to Automattic’s website wordpressenginetracker.com, which Automattic launched in November and tracks sites that have left WP Engine. It’s also required to restore WP Engine’s access to WordPress.org, including reactivating and restoring all WP Engine employee login credentials to wordpress.org resources and “disable any technological blocking of WPEngine’s and Related Entities’ access to wordpress.org that occurred on or around September 25, 2024, including IP address blocking or other blocking mechanisms.” The judge also ordered Mullenweg to restore WP Engine’s access to its Advanced Custom Fields (“ACF”) plugin directory, which its team said was “unilaterally and forcibly taken away from its creator without consent” and called it a “new precedent” in betrayal of community access. “We are grateful that the court has granted our motion for a preliminary injunction,” a spokesperson for WP Engine told 404 Media. “The order will bring back much-needed stability to the WordPress ecosystem. WP Engine is focused on serving our partners and customers and working with the community to find ways to ensure a vigorous, and thriving WordPress community.” A spokesperson for Automattic told 404 Media: “Today’s ruling is a preliminary order designed to maintain the status quo. It was made without the benefit of discovery, our motion to dismiss, or the counterclaims we will be filing against WP Engine shortly. We look forward to prevailing at trial as we continue to protect the open source ecosystem during full-fact discovery and a full review of the merits.” 

[lemonduckisnowawake]

You know what. I'm gonna use this place as an accountability checker. Aka, any story idea I put on here, I HAVE to write something for. Also, instead of doing an "every day, post something creative for May," I'll do it every week (I'll still DO something every day, but not post).

So first thing that I've really wanted to write for a while now? A Cinderella story where the prince is blind.

[deadlypoetacademia]

Talents include randomly standing in the middle of the road just to click the picture of the moon.

[deadly-danaid]

"You can't just press a button and expect everything to go right back to the beginning."

Moka Lynn, No easy way out

[televisionenjoyer]

Last on tumblr's unlikely demise but it just makes no sense to fire most of your staff just four months after talking about a major migration in the works. like. with which people.