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Nuno Morgadinho 6:55 am on June 11, 2010 Permalink | Reply

Turn off Sending Emails to New Users in WordPress Mu

“WordPress automatically sends an email with the password to new users. How can we disable this feature?”

I’ve seen this question being asked around (e.g. here) and couldn’t find a helpful reply anywhere.

I had this same problem and since I couldn’t find a clean way of doing it I had to comment a line in one of the core files. In the file wp-includes/pluggable.php, function wp_new_user_notification(), you can comment the last line that reads:
wp_mail($user_email, sprintf(__('[%s] Your username and password'), $blogname), $message);

I would love a cleaner way of doing this, if you know one please let me know!

Note that with upgrades you will lose this change. Unfortunately there seems to be no way around this until WordPress supports a filter or some other mechanism to do it in a cleaner way.

Also note that this is different from disabling new user notifications that are sent to the admin email, for that there is an option in the admin panel.

This was done against WordPress Mu 2.9.2. Your mileage may vary of course! :)

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Nuno Morgadinho 8:52 am on June 8, 2010 Permalink | Reply

The Future of WordPress Video

Much to my amazement I was featured in Scott Berkun’s talk about the future of WordPress at the WordCamp San Francisco 2010 (around minute 33:36). Scott is a great speaker and a world reference in the technology world so I was very happy that he considered my input of enough value to be included.

Thanks Scott!
Nuno Morgadinho 11:57 am on April 13, 2010 Permalink | Reply

The Future of WordPress

Scott Berkun will talk about the future of WordPress at the WordCamp San Francisco 2010. He is asking for suggestions on things to talk so if you have any ideas head here. On the other hand, you can read upon my suggestions there or here:

1) Keep the Simplicity – My greatest fear with WordPress is that people won’t stop adding more things to it. I like its smallness. The merging of WordPress MU in the upcoming 3.0 version is just one example of the unnecessary growing complexity of the WordPress code base.

2) Be more Open – Automattic keeps control of the only official plugin repository and WordPress only works with it. Reminds me of the Apple App Store and I for sure don’t want anything like that for WordPress.

Nuno Morgadinho, and João Leitão are discussing. Toggle Comments
- João Leitão 3:25 pm on April 14, 2010 Permalink
  
  o que é que pensas disto nuno?
- Nuno Morgadinho 4:10 pm on May 9, 2010 Permalink
  
  Fui eu que escrevi João, por isso concordo :)
Nuno Morgadinho 3:30 pm on April 10, 2010 Permalink | Reply

Apple changes their iPhone user agreement to forbid use of private APIs

So.. it seems Apple changed this week their iPhone OS user agreement to include the following:

“3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs.’”

This is most of all a stab in back of Adobe, who was planning to launch on the 12th April their new Flash CS5 that included a Flash-to-native compiler that now becomes… not so useful.

True evil stuff no?

http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/iphone_agreement_bans_flash_compiler

http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/why_apple_changed_section_331

Update: I was told that the particular bit I mentioned has been in for a while but has been extended to the following:

3.3.1–Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited).”

They are restricting people to use a particular technology that is as valid as any other. And in that sense it is evil I think.

On the other hand, Apple had already made it clear they would not support Flash on the iPhone/iPad so I guess it is only natural that they oppose any attempt by Adobe to circumvent that.
Nuno Morgadinho 8:49 am on March 25, 2010 Permalink | Reply
Modern Warfare 2

Most modern games amaze me but some more than others. It is no surprise that the game industry deals with the bleeding edge of computer graphics and that’s one of the reasons I recently took more interest into games again, because every time I look at the graphics of my PS3 games I gaze the television in a mixed feeling of respect and fear.

Although I haven’t bought yet the latest kid on the block, Modern Warfare 2, I think the numbers and technology involved is worthy of reflection:
- You can play on-line against other gamers
- It is available for PC, PS3 or XBox360
- At whatever time of day you find half a million other gamers
- It took the makers 2 years to develop
- Cost the equivalent of a Hollywood blockbuster
- Had sales worth 550 million dollars in the first 5 days.
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- Berto 11:39 am on March 25, 2010 Permalink
  
  And the PC version doesn’t have dedicated servers and a good anti-cheat (it takes about 2 weeks to ban a cheater)
  But i bought the game e play it almost every day – Its the best FPS around (at least 4 me)