The folks at FooPlugins have announced a free version of their FooBox lightbox plugin. FooBox has been under active development for about two years, which is saying something in the world of lightboxes, where many free jQuery driven options have…

Update: although the announcement post didn't mention it, apparently Sponsored Comments are optional: https://twitter.com/DisqusAmanda/status/453272621023391744 As if you needed another reason to own your content, Disqus announced today that they're launching what they call "Sponsored Comments", a.k.a. ads at the top of…

AJ Kohn talks about participation inequality online in his defense of comments, using a number of level-headed metrics, as part of his argument that comments are good for blogs. A small amount of creators are responsible for the vast majority of…

Mike Jordan wrote an excellent post on the future of the WordPress community. The natural evolution of community  is exclusivity. The WordPress community is still so young, that this has not yet become a problem- but it is a looming…

Noted speaker and podcaster Sarah Parmenter noted on a recent episode of "Happy Monday" that building anything other than a blog in WordPress is something of a "hack." In her response post, Tracy Rotton argues that it isn't: The fact…