This year’s WWDC logo is fantastic. My favorite compared to the past several years for sure. You’ve got the iPhone and iPad app icons, watch icons, and is that an Apple TV in the center? “The epicenter of change.”? Surely there’s more going on here than just a hint at fancier stuff that the Watch will be able to do.

Matt Mullenweg, in his comments on the aforelinked WordPress stats, shares about the future of WordPress and their focus on better mobile usability:

WordPress’ biggest challenge over the next two years, and where we’re focusing core development, will be around evolving our dashboard to be faster and more accessible, especially on touch devices. Many of our founding assumptions about how, where, and why people publish are shifting, […]

Agreed. I’ve been using WordPress since 2006. It’s a great CMS and it has come a long way. But publishing via my iPhone and/or iPad is a poor experience. In fact, it has been one of the biggest points of friction in my job. Though, thanks to 3rd-party plugins and apps, that friction is decreasing.

Pingdom takes a look at the Technorati’s top 100 blogs and what CMS they are rolling on. Turns out that 49 of them are on WordPress.

Technorati determines ranking using what they call Technorati Authority:

Authority is calculated based on a site’s linking behavior, categorization and other associated data over a short, finite period of time. A site’s authority may rapidly rise and fall depending on what the blogosphere is discussing at the moment, and how often a site produces content being referenced by other sites.

Because I never ever write in the browser, this is new to me. (Looks like it’s been around since July 4, 2011.) Yesterday when doing some upgrades to WordPress, I happenstanced across this full-screen-slash-distraction-free writing mode within WordPress. It’s actually quite nice. And, since WordPress now auto-saves your draft every 60 seconds, it’s not a bad place to compose articles. Though I’ll still be sticking to MarsEdit.

I started using WordPress somewhere in-between Duke and Ella.

This plugin by Jonathan Penn is the foundation for how I’m able to make adjustments to my RSS Feed Behavior.

It uses a custom field named linked_list_url (which you have to initially create yourself). If that field is populated when you publish a new post then that post’s template tag, the_permalink_rss, gets defined as the linked-to URL you pasted in.

Since the_permalink template tag stays unaltered there is a lot you can do with calls, functions, if/else loops, and more to get your link posts formatted just the way you want in your RSS feed and on your website.

Additionally, the kind and clever John Stansbury shared with me an edited version of the Press This bookmarklet that works directly in tandem with Penn’s plugin. This version of the bookmarklet adds the linked_list_url custom field to the Press This publishing window and auto-populates that field with the URL of the website you were on when you clicked the bookmarklet. It works on the iPhone, too, though it’s not iPhone optimized.

I’ve posted the code for the bookmarklet as a plain text file here.

Save this file as .php and drop it into your /wp_admin/ folder. Leave the “-cf” addition so the file stays in tact if you ever upgrade automatically. Also, you’ll need to edit the Javascript in your Press This bookmarklet’s address so it references the new press-this-cf.php file.