Displaying 31 To 60 Of 65 Comments Is A Plugin Validation Team A Pipe Dream? I seem to recall a discussion a little while back abut optional standards which authors could build to which would given them the right to state they develop according to that standard. It is self-certification, but, as with web standards, these sorts of standards would be a good first step to letting users know that the developer cared to meet those standards. » Posted By Andrew On September 30, 2009 @ 4:49 PM Listener Poll: Should there be a page on the plugin repository for Commercial GPL plugins? If you have the choice of developing a plugin and giving it away and putting it in a commercial repository who, in their right minds, would do the former? » Posted By Andrew On July 5, 2009 @ 1:37 PM Cashing In On WordPress Plugin Development I’ve been thinking about trying to team up with a premium theme developer to produce premium plugins that add more features to that one (or set of) theme(s). That means they can be sold as added extras to provide much more control than the default. It makes the theme more attractive as well as making my dev time worthwhile. » Posted By Andrew On June 17, 2009 @ 12:39 PM The question is why do they need it? I don’t really think they do. It is very easy to write functions in plugins and themes that take named arguments, or provide an options screen that gives a named drop down, so I don’t think there is much of an excuse for simply expecting an integer, unless the functions are only for developers to use. » Posted By Andrew On June 12, 2009 @ 11:55 AM Is WordPress Information Too Fragmented? Some interesting points there. I certainly wouldn’t contribute to the codex myself any more for the reasons given. I might not be making any money off of my blog but that doesn’t mean I want to give my efforts away to someone else. I am not just that community oriented, and don’t feel part of the inner-circle community. Personally I think there is something fundamentally wrong with using a written publication to discuss a blog. That is backwards. Now, a blog network of sorts does sound very interesting. Consider how the online newspapers work now. They have columnists who write opinion and are prominently featured as the authors of that opinion. They also have reviews where the author is credited but the prominent thing is that it is a reviews page. I would certainly take part in a collective where I could be featured as a commenter, plugin reviewer, and theme reviewer. Get enough of us there, even if people still maintain their own blogs, and the revenue could be far higher. » Posted By Andrew On June 3, 2009 @ 12:36 PM Lots Of News From WordCamp San Francisco Great news about the BuddyPress community. BuddyPress is a great piece of work and should be the centre of .org. One thing I really hope they do is do put in place a payment and affiliate mechanism for those commercial themes so purchases have a consistent, and trustworthy, way of purchasing. As an aside, I have entirely solved the GPL Debate. I just don’t have the funds to put it into practice. Oh well, carry on as you were. Andrew’s last blog post..MU for all » Posted By Andrew On May 31, 2009 @ 1:40 PM My Child Theme Technical Hurdle I reckon that it should be fairly simply to create a plugin that lets you match a hook to a function. As long as the theme had sufficient documented hooks… » Posted By Andrew On May 26, 2009 @ 5:12 PM I’m working on something right now that I can’t share in detail but you’ve just given me an excellent idea. Thanks Jeff. I know that doesn’t help :-) I think, honestly, there is a problem with plugins that expect you to put any code anywhere. Can you be more specific about the what you had to add and why? (I’m not offering to help, I just want to know). Andrew’s last blog post..WLTC Plugin Competition: WP-Devel » Posted By Andrew On May 26, 2009 @ 4:02 PM I looked at this a little while back and it looked like it could make things easier but I did think the wrapper around it made it look simpler than it would be. I guess you’ve proved me right. The thing is, there are some amazing widgets (Justin Tadlock’s for example) that let you run just about any query you want so it is hard to think of a situation where you would need to create your own. The problem with your code is that you started a loop but never closed it again, so PHP was expecting an endforeach and got the end of the function instead. Andrew’s last blog post..WLTC Plugin Competition: Max Image Size Control » Posted By Andrew On May 22, 2009 @ 3:57 PM While interesting I don’t think this really answers any questions; at least not to any depth of satisfaction. Thanks for posting it though. » Posted By Andrew On May 22, 2009 @ 12:25 PM Too Much RSS Noise? Get An Email Daily Digest If you have five quality posts every day then bring em on! I’ll read them. Andrew’s last blog post..WLTC Plugin Competition: Live Blogging Plugin » Posted By Andrew On May 18, 2009 @ 12:48 PM But are their services better than their rivals? Andrew’s last blog post..WLTC Plugin Competition: Live Blogging Plugin » Posted By Andrew On May 18, 2009 @ 12:46 PM WPHOFF? I knew you’d be a fan Jeff. Andrew’s last blog post..Call that premium? » Posted By Andrew On May 11, 2009 @ 2:33 PM I would have to go with wuh-paz-oh. Andrew’s last blog post..Talk to me damnit! » Posted By Andrew On May 9, 2009 @ 7:03 PM Sorry Jeff, but I can’t, in all good conscience, pronounce it like that. » Posted By Andrew On May 9, 2009 @ 9:20 AM I think the whole GPL issue gives us a great yardstick with which to test the intentions of the people we do business with. Bypassing enough of the GPL isn’t really hard, time consuming, but not very difficult. The question is why would you want to avoid it? If you want to be part of the community then choose GPL and stick to it. If you want to milk the community from outside then ignore GPL. It will never go to court so whether you want to meet it or not is a matter of conscience. » Posted By Andrew On May 1, 2009 @ 6:15 PM Jeff, let’s be honest here. Theming isn’t rocket science, rocket science isn’t brain surgery, and brain surgery isn’t cutting edge particle physics. I’ve heard of thesis, but not this Chris guy. As the two are related I shall hang my hat even more firmly on the theme choices I have made. As to creating your own theme, I don’t think you should. However I do think there a huge scope for creating a project where a selected group of devs can contribute to a single theme to get all the possible features in. Perhaps you could run something like that? » Posted By Andrew On May 1, 2009 @ 2:58 PM Vote For The New Header Design I looked at them for some time as well. I came away thinking it was really a non-contest. None of them really said to me that it was better than the others (although I discounted the ones with menu designs because that wasn’t the point) because the brief was so simple. I wonder how the designs would work on MU, because for me, on a non-mu install I didn’t see any good reason to change it. It works OK so I voted for Kaspars because I had read his explanation and understood why he made each change. Andrew’s last blog post..Show posts with a specific custom field » Posted By Andrew On April 29, 2009 @ 4:06 PM Review Of Front End Editor Plugin @Ryan – Forum software is a very different matter which I don’t think applies here. I am talking about pre-prepared public facing content, that is, web pages and blog posts. Interactive communities that encourage discussion are something different from administering and publishing. At least the are to me. I think front end editing encourages quick change and sloppy practices which, in essence, makes it too easy and hence discourages thought. Going into the editor, making changes, previewing, and then making the decision to publish the amendments at least provides the opportunity to review and consider changes before they happen. Why do you think so many commenters on blogs leave a follow up comment with stuff they have forgotten? Because they type quickly, without thinking too much and miss a point of view that occurs when reading the comment afterwards. (I am not really talking about comments though, it just seemed a valid comparison.) » Posted By Andrew On April 28, 2009 @ 8:28 AM I don’t really have a comment on the plugin itself, but I really dislike the concept of this. It is one of the things I disliked about Drupal (to some extent) and Joomla (to a huge extent). I really think that it is essential, for good workflow practices, to create a clear and clean separation between the website and the administration of that site. Andrew’s last blog post..Why I ditched Disqus » Posted By Andrew On April 28, 2009 @ 7:31 AM Plugins And Commercial WordPress Sites I think devs need to make a choice: offer it free and put it in the repository or sell it direct and provide professional levels of support. For me there is no place in “The community”, for commercial products and ventures. Perhaps there should be one single commercial marketplace for all items on a different website, but as there isn’t ya’ll will just need to live without it. » Posted By Andrew On April 8, 2009 @ 7:23 AM New WordPress Book For Plugin Development I understand that chapter 7 tells you how to create new post types. I plan on writing a review of this as I think it could well be a must read for many folks. » Posted By Andrew On March 6, 2009 @ 7:09 AM WPDesigner Breathes And Then Dies I’d be happy to take over the site. It is such a shame, I was about to join the club and grab some of the themes, but then it got bought, so I thought I’d wait and see what would happen, then nothing, so I haven’t bothered since. » Posted By Andrew On February 26, 2009 @ 12:18 AM WP AJax Edit Comments Needs New Dev I’m tempted to say yes, but my knowledge of AJAX is probably going to hold me back. » Posted By Andrew On February 25, 2009 @ 11:02 PM WordPress Tattoo Using The Wrong Logo? Definitely real: http://www.bakershours.com/2009/02/my-wordpress-tattoo/ » Posted By Andrew On February 10, 2009 @ 1:09 PM Is It Time To Refocus The Dashboard For News? Let me ask a more wide reaching question: Why do users (not that I said users, not developers, not fans, not designers, but actual end users) need WordPress news at all? If you develope a site for a plumber does he need it? no. Do my parents need it? no. Do they care who created it? no. It should be off by default, and I don’t mean hidden, I mean the dashboard should be setup without any feeds so that it does nothing by default. Discuss. Andrew’s last blog post..What a body! » Posted By Andrew On February 10, 2009 @ 7:25 AM Core Plugins? Never Gonna Happen! I don’t see Akismet as a core plugin. It is bundled, sure, but it is a one off, not the product of a philosophy to do this sort of thing. Ryan, I think there is value in some cases of producing core features as plugins, and if the repository had a way of distinguishing more official plugins then I would agree. I do think that if plugins were developed that were intended to form part of a WordPress release then it would be important to clearly identify them so they were more connected with official releases. I don’t see the value in using the core, or official plugins, simply for the purposes of standardising back-end code which I think is really what is being suggested on the list. Standardisation is very easy, just come up with the most extensible option that fits everyone elses needs and they will use it. » Posted By Andrew On February 5, 2009 @ 2:26 AM Andrew Rickmann Spotlight Special Cripes, and indeed jinkies; Now I am going to have to write some more on my blog. Anyone like menus? By the way, am I the only one who thinks the website and mail fields in your comment form are the wrong way round? » Posted By Andrew On February 3, 2009 @ 7:11 AM What WordPress Needs From Its New Community Leader Thanks for the comments on the writing guys, and for helping me pile the pressure on Jeff. :-) Andrew’s last excellent and amazing blog post..Can you do without widgets? » Posted By Andrew On January 27, 2009 @ 1:58 PM Innovative Use Of Private Pages @Will Anderson – You are right about it being ‘H’ related. If you want to read more about the details I did a post about it on another blog: http://www.habari-fun.co.uk/my-theme-project I haven’t used private pages, but I have added an extra field to specify what kind of page it is. In theory they could all be accessed directly with the right url. Let me know if you want any particular specific details and I’ll happily disclose. » Posted By Andrew On January 24, 2009 @ 4:24 PMComments Posted By Andrew
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