Displaying 1 To 11 Of 11 Comments Do You Mistrust A Company That Misspells WordPress? It depends what the company does, but if they’re marketing themselves as WordPress experts then I would definitely be concerned. If they’re experts then they should know about the filter and the ‘discussions’ around it. » Posted By Ben On May 17, 2013 @ 8:53 AM WordPress News Sites And The Bermuda Triangle I for one will miss WPTavern greatly and I can empathise with your situation completely. I’m not a coder at all and started http://wpin.me to learn WordPress posting my experiences and reviews. Whilst I am aspiring to the heady heights of other WP sites in terms of traffic etc (going up slightly day by day) I adopt a no nonsense approach in terms of reviews which is where I generate my income. Perhaps you could have written guest posts for others to bolster income, ran competitions giveaways etc to add income from traffic etc. You have an excellent writing style Jeff, perhaps you could write for a WP related blog to earn some cash on the side without the pressure of running your own site and associated costs. You may well feel relieved and start to enjoy yourself again. In any case I thank you for the last 6 years and wish you every success for the future. » Posted By Ben On January 29, 2013 @ 8:31 PM New Site Dedicated To Reviewing WordPress Plugins @daddy design - I wouldn’t mind reviewing socialtoolbarpro if your looking for a review! » Posted By Ben On July 14, 2012 @ 5:57 AM Good Or Bad? Infinite Scrolling I am old fashioned, as much as it looks pretty etc. I get cramp in my finger from excessive mouse usage. Prefer the old click for next page routine, has served me for an age. Not about to change now. Pagination for me, all the way. » Posted By Ben On March 30, 2012 @ 10:14 AM Ian Stewarts Predictions On WordPress Themes For 2012 I am in the process of rewriting my Elemental theme framework and, apart from the breadcrumbs (I loves my breadcrumbs system) it does everything you are suggesting above. What I am doing with it is adding support for popular plugins that add support for major features. Currently it has support for bbpress and I am working on support for jigoshop. When I say support – obviously bbpress would work anyway, but I am making sure the styles fit the design of the theme nicely and work in all child themes. I am also making sure there aren’t two sets of breadcrumbs running (since jigoshop also includes it’s own breadcrumbs system), and a few other niceties. One thing I hadn’t put much thought into is WordPress post types so I am going to make a note to make sure they look good as well. Maybe I could support the WooTumblog plugin or something similar. So far I have removed about 20% of the code from Elemental version 1 – and I plan to keep going. I have also added native support for more built in WordPress features. In terms of customising the layout (different sidebars etc) I have some ideas of how I can do this without bloating the theme with loads of code. Hopefully they will work :) I am going to follow this thread with interest as there’s a lot of good feedback in the comments and I hope to use as much of it as I can to make Elemental 2 as flexible as possible without treading on the toes of WordPress built in systems and concepts. » Posted By Ben On February 14, 2012 @ 5:12 AM WordPress Ink Does Not Equal WordPress Cult Cool tattoo dude. My only question is this…… What if (and I mean what if) you meet a another CMS, how will you explain that? » Posted By Ben On December 29, 2011 @ 5:32 AM WordPress Gameshow Now Available To Play From Home I got 3, curse you screenshot.png (my mind went blank!!!) » Posted By Ben On November 22, 2011 @ 5:44 AM UK Civil Service Site Switches To WordPress Well as a UK Citizen it’s nice to see that money is not being spent on an over inflated (costly) CMS to house pages/media. It also goes to show the versatility of WP and it’s myriad of uses, a great example of authorities embracing open source, and saving money in these cash strapped times! » Posted By Ben On October 14, 2011 @ 10:03 AM What’s The Best Way To Be Notified Of Theme And Plugin Updates? @Otto – Totally agree, which is why we are going to push them auto at webpub, and then make sure the page loads after, and only roll back if there is a problem. » Posted By Ben On September 5, 2011 @ 5:05 PM Right now our new startup WebPub.com keeps WordPress automatically updated whenever an update comes out. We have a method to update plugins as well when updates come out, but we still need to finish some key features before we roll that out. We hope to have that ready end of this year or early next. Basically it will allow you to turn on automatic plugin updates for WP, or to be notified when one is available so you can manually update. Plus with snapshot rollbacks in case there is a problem. We are spending the next 30 days squashing the last bugs and exiting beta, then the next 60 after that finishing the marketplace frontend (which eventually will give a framework to plugin authors to push updates out as well as themes if users allow it), » Posted By Ben On September 5, 2011 @ 2:33 PM Hey Jeffro thanks for the comments and the “encouragement”. To be honest your optimism is a little off-putting – especially since you have said this to me repeatedly since I started building it. I am still trying to work out how you define success though? By your definition it may never be a success but by my own, I think it’s already a winner. It’s a success because I have actually managed to build something that worked and didn’t die on the launch day. It’s a success because I made a Digg styled site using WordPress. It’s a success because I’ve done no promotion (apart from 1 tweet) and have had over 50 people register in the first day. Will it have long term success? No idea, but I guess we’ll see :) I do have a number of ideas for both promotion and monetisation so hopefully it will do everything I plan for it to do. Thanks also for the constructive part of the review – there are some points there that make total sense and I will be implementing some changes in the coming days (weeks) to address most of the key problems from the review. » Posted By Ben On February 2, 2010 @ 2:21 AMComments Posted By Ben
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