Displaying 1 To 30 Of 34 Comments WordPress News Sites And The Bermuda Triangle Hi jeff, I’m sorry about the news. I’m just wondering. How much traffic wptavern got? Maybe average daily unique view/visit? I’m sorry if its a weird question. » Posted By david On February 15, 2013 @ 9:27 PM Three Plugins To Monitor Site Uptime “Surely there must be a better server side method to do this.” Ack I must have been up for too long. A server side system would just give you a response time of 0 each time! Sorry. » Posted By David On July 5, 2012 @ 8:36 AM Hello again. I have been using pingdom for a while. It is great to pinpoint issues that are intermittent. The only problem I have found is that pingdom have issues with the response timing due to some of their networks. On average, we get a ping of 250, but we have seen this spike at 13000ms! When cross referenced with our server log, the server was much more responsive than that and was actively working with around 75% of resources available. We also use cloudflare, but that too has caused some issues, with one site getting over 180’000 errors per day according to google webmaster. These errors are not logged on our server and cloudflare are taking a while to address the issue. While pingdom is probably the best, it is naturally not precise. Surely there must be a better server side method to do this. At the moment I have a test running that I am very excited about. I am blocking users who hide adverts from one of our free websites. I have been unable to find results of this nature from any tests by anyone else. On average, you have 8.25% of firefox users with Adblock plus, but we are targeting all blocking software. After the first day, we can see that the users blocking adverts are around 20%. Of those, around 20% of them seem to be disabling the software when asked. » Posted By David On July 4, 2012 @ 8:50 PM @Tom J Nowell - +1 for for http://queryposts.com » Posted By david On May 18, 2012 @ 2:30 PM The Biggest Challenge For WordPress? @Ted Clayton – No apology needed, I had hoped you did not think I was getting at you. It was a long day and I read my reply a few times to make sure it didn’t seem ungrateful or written by a troll. The fact is that many plugins do something within wordpress which is unaffected by updates and the plugin continues to work way into the future, but the developer does not update the listing within the repository. At the end of the day, you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t. Even if WordPress had notifications for outdated plugins, some users would complain and would create plugins that turned the notifications off. The users need to accept a level of responsibility when using WordPress. After all, you get out what you put in. Too many times I have seen people run WordPress almost on autopilot and then wonder how or when it got infected when it has never been updated since the day it was installed. Sometimes plugins seem like the new gifs. Remember when people would get a free account with geocities or tripod and fill it with moving gifs and then wonder why it took so long to load? Heck, even when you’re building with lego, you have to pay attention to stability issues so that the thing you are building does not collapse. I still remember the first time I used WordPress and it only had one theme. It seems so long ago looking at WordPress today. Sometimes I wonder if I should print out the first page of coding and frame it. If WordPress is the place users usually come to after using another system, what other system do they usually use first? Are there any stats on it? I would have thought that users would have used something basic first such as html, a forum or something that is not self-hosted. Many users seem to come to WordPress due to the one click install available within cPanel. I am getting off topic, but I do think that WordPress is attracting newer users. Do you know if there are any surveys or stats on WordPress users? Was the statement Matt made based on stats? I would be interested to dig through some user stats for WordPress. I absolutely agree that people may “graduate” to WordPress. I have converted many people from blogspot, blogger, multiply etc. simply because WordPress is (in my opinion) the best option. Thank you very much for your time and insightful replies. I have immensely enjoyed our comments. » Posted By David On April 29, 2012 @ 3:34 AM @Ted Clayton – “Update Notifier” does not seem to have been updated since 2010-9-20, but if it does not need to be updated, there would not be an update completed. However, I would expect them to alter the “Compatible up to:” if it works with the latest WordPress releases. If someone with the latest version of WordPress tried to install this plugin via WordPress, they would see a warning saying that it did not work with the version of WordPress they were using. I honestly think that this is a huge challenge for WordPress as they seem to be targeting new or less experienced users. In my experience I would say that these users are the ones who have a higher tendency to be using outdated plugins. Please let me know if you want statistics or examples and I will see what I can do. » Posted By David On April 28, 2012 @ 1:37 PM @@Ted Clayton – I couldn’t agree more. Firefox updates can be a pain due to the frequency of them. But do we not face the same issues with the frequency of WordPress updates? While I welcome frequent updates, each update means that a number of plugins will be left behind. But then again, if a developer does not update a plugin for a pending version of WordPress, they may not be as quick to patch security issues. However, it seems that so many fantastic plugins are being left behind with each WordPress milestone release. » Posted By David On April 28, 2012 @ 1:21 PM I think we may have hit the nail on the head. I was talking to one of my friends who was getting a warning to upgrade firefox. He waned to bypass the message and I told him that the best way to do that was to upgrade. He said he did not want to upgrade (he had a very old version of firefox) and when I asked why, his reply was “I am of the mentality that if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it”. To be frank, I was shocked at the lack of understanding and unwillingness to upgrade. Here are a few examples of others with the same attitude: A quick search on google will show many others who have the same mentality. Some even complain that they can not entirely disable updates. I think this is one major issue that wordpress might want to address. However, is it really up to wordpress or is it up to the end user. If wordpress are targeting new users, I think this mentality will need to be addressed otherwise the users will experience issues and naturally blame wordpress, plugins or their theme. While professionals such as ourselves know what needs to be done, many new users do not and they expect wordpress to look after its self. We have a monthly checklist for all of our sites and the sites we manage which includes every corner of website maintenance you can imagine. This ensures that the websites are all in the best possible state. » Posted By David On April 28, 2012 @ 8:41 AM @Ted Clayton – The problem is finding one and seeing that it is popular. The popularity does not show on a time basis and while the plugin may work today, it may break when the next wordpress release is made. There should be something within wordpress that informs the user that the plugin(s) they are using are out of date and do not work with their version of wordpress. While the rest of us will look at plugins in depth, testing them on a test install, most users do not do this, especially new users which wordpress seems to be aiming for. New users have a bad habit of assuming all plugins work with wordpress, so they add all the plugins they want and then wonder why their database is so large and their site doesn’t work properly. I wish I could show you some examples of customers where they have so many outdated plugins, it is insane. If wordpress is targeting new users, they need to make it more user friendly and inform the users of incompatibility issues with plugins. They have already started to do this by warning users when they add the plugin, but after the plugin has been added, there are no further warnings that the plugin is out of date unless an update is available. » Posted By David On April 28, 2012 @ 1:56 AM @Ipstenu – I have been checking on our customers who request support for our plugins and services. Most customers seem to have outdated plugins, some of which are only compatible with wordpress 2.5. Some customers (around 80% of customers who contact us) have 40% of outdated plugins. I am amazed at how many people have outdated plugins, but with wordpress not telling customers which plugins are out of date. I would love to see admin warnings about plugins that are out of date so that customers are informed of this issue. However, having said that, when my staff warn customers that their plugins are out of date, 80% of customers do absolutely nothing at all. Many actually refuse to remove the out of date plugins, claiming that they need the plugins functions, even if that means instability issues within the site. However, even after saying that, I know how many people use each version of our plugins on wordpress and the majority of them are using very old versions, even though we have much newer versions available and they are told about them within wordpress. What I would love to see is a warning when customers are using plugins that are not for their version of wordpress. » Posted By David On April 27, 2012 @ 7:47 AM One of the issues that we see is the speed at which WordPress is updated, coupled with the speed of updates and support provided for plugins. The problem is that most of the plugins are a hobby for the developer. Therefore, they do not have the time or money to support it entirely. WordPress updates are released that break parts of the plugin and the developer (at some point) gives up and the project becomes abandoned. I am seeing more and more notices on plugin descriptions within the repository that state something like “I am no longer maintaining this plugin, if you would like to take it over let me know”. But there are also so many other plugins where the developer has not replied to anyone in over a year. Even if the plugin has been updated recently, it may still not work due to a WordPress update. This experience is not good for users, they use a few similar plugins to find the best one for them, settle on one and add all their data. Only then do they find that it does not work properly and they have to start from scratch. Naturally, this fills their database with junk data that they will never need again. It is becoming a real pain to see so many plugins abandoned and most of them you have to install and test only to find they are abandoned. » Posted By David On April 17, 2012 @ 11:10 PM A Closer Look At Brute Force Attacks Against WP Sites These scripts almost always attack the account called ‘admin’, so simply changing the name of that account solves that problem. Personally, I just use a random word from the dictionary. I also try not to use my admin account to make posts, but if I do I set my user nickname to something else to help with the obfuscation, and then use the ‘Edit Author Slug’ plugin to further hide the login name. Lastly, the Limit Login plugin helps people trying to get lucky. » Posted By David On March 16, 2012 @ 6:54 PM 500 Plugins To Possibly Be Purged From The Repository @Andrew Nacin – I think everyone knew well enough to not get all up in arms and I don’t think there is anything wrong with bringing both positive and negative news to light. I think that most blog readers have become used to sensationalist headlines and while I don’t really expect to see them here, the word “possibly” in the title was enough to delay any worries that I had until I had read the post. I do think it was nice that you did say that Jeff could contact you, but beyond that, the tone of your response was a bit weird. The WordPress community needs to work with blogs like WPTavern if the software is to continue being the successful publishing powerhouse that it is. Glad to see that no plugins are going to be removed due to issues between different GPL versions. (Who knew?) » Posted By David On February 23, 2012 @ 3:18 PM So Many Commercial Themes – So Many Theme Sorters Hi, im developer of another theme directory called bestplaceon.net. I have to credit Steve because he as grown rapidly so large. although i started mine before. Bestplaceon.net is not just a directory it is a wordpress theme gallery and my goal is not to become the largest or to make any kind on review systems. I like to develop it and make it quickest place to search wp themes. To me most important is simplicity and speed. All themes are handpicked by few parameters, like up to date, developer support etc. I will keep my gallery open for a inspiration seekers and for a theme hunters. My goal is to keep there arround 500 themes, if some theme will go out to date i will delete it or but to archive for inspiration seekers. Also a more simpler and easier search and site is coming up soon… » Posted By david On April 16, 2011 @ 6:47 AM WordCamp Detroit Was A Good Time Isn’t Polldaddy owned by Automattic? I’d think that it means a heck of a lot for the company that basically runs WP to help pay for you to attend. Will there be more coverage of the event from you? Or can you point out other posts people have done about it? I missed out on speaking and attending because of some personal stuff, so I’d love to live vicariously through others… » Posted By David On October 13, 2010 @ 2:30 PM Review Of GravityForms – Could Creating Forms Be Any More Kick Ass? And those two comments right there are why people SHOULD buy Gravity Forms. :) Support is bar-none the best I’ve ever received for any product. Let alone a plugin for WP. » Posted By David On October 8, 2010 @ 8:44 AM Cutline Dropped On WordPress.com In Favor Of Coraline I really wish you’d make a note in the post that the theme never had a more strict license. It was always Creative Commons. » Posted By David On August 12, 2010 @ 1:11 PM Or how about killing some of the old themes I had a hand in helping create: They are both brutal, inflexible, and garish. I’d sacrifice them to make room for some new/better themes. Heck, I’d see both of them sacrificed over Cutline. » Posted By David On August 11, 2010 @ 7:08 PM Jason Schuller And The ThemeGarden Marketplace Jason – Do you think the WordPress section of CodeCanyon will be GPL only? I don’t think the themes currently are. Has that effected their business in any noticeable way? Not enough to change policies from what I can tell. » Posted By David On June 14, 2010 @ 4:22 PM Carl – The reason for my question was more to put the pressure back on Leland since he’s flip flopping regarding licensing. This will ensure that ThemeGarden.com and the community surrounding it is in line with and supported by WordPress. I also wanted to, in a strange way, point out the same as you bluntly said: the success or failure of the project will have nothing to do with the WP “elite” and so they shouldn’t even be considered in deciding licensing issues. » Posted By David On June 14, 2010 @ 1:46 PM Which is where I was heading. It had nothing to do with the site, and everything to do with the owner. It would be like expecting a new theme site by Chris Pearson to be welcomed by the GPL lovers out there. He could say that all his new themes were going to be totally GPL, but would that “fix” him in the eyes of the WP elite? » Posted By David On June 14, 2010 @ 1:18 PM Will it matter that he is doing a 100% GPL site if he also does a non-100% GPL site? I thought that once you went non-GPL you were persona non grata with WordPress peeps. » Posted By David On June 14, 2010 @ 12:58 PM Jason Schuller Did It – I Can Do It To I tried to turn my passion for writing, WordPress, and whatnot into a career, and while I was able to do so for a few years, I was always chasing bigger pay checks so that I could afford the things my wife wanted. Because of this, I was never able to move onto the next stage of my career. » Posted By David On May 6, 2010 @ 1:08 PM No link? » Posted By David On February 5, 2010 @ 7:33 PM CodePoet.com – New Home For WordPress Consultants This is funny to me since I started my web development career working for Code Poets (codepoets.ca) » Posted By David On September 17, 2009 @ 8:15 PM Sitepoint Interview With Matt Mullenweg I have to agree with Andreas; Brad was very quick to back down to several of Matt’s responses. I must say, it seems counter intuitive to focus on a commercial plugin business model that charges only for support and not the actual download of the product. Ideally, plugins should be coded and documented in such a way as to minimize the need for support. So why would you base your business on a factor you should be actively seeking to reduce? It is also worth noting that any plugin functionality that is added to the WP core obviously makes WP a more valuable product and therefore makes Automattic more profitable. Is it fair to expect commercial plugin developers to contribute to Automattic’s wealth, without reaching for a piece of the pie themselves? » Posted By David On September 5, 2009 @ 12:31 PM WPWeekly Episode 65 – Interview With Nikolay Of GlotPress Just noticed… we have 2x Ep 65… Oopsie… Shame on me for trusting the show notes, eh? » Posted By David On July 27, 2009 @ 4:43 AM A Question For Premium Theme Authors Hey Jeff, for WPUnlimited, I ask people to get in touch with me directly. I don’t like my users/customers giving out the theme, but I have no qualms about talking with plugin developers and giving them a copy in hopes that we can make all plugins work with the theme. » Posted By David On May 1, 2009 @ 7:12 PM WordPress 2.7.1 Available To The Public It was right in between us, but using the rules of Price is Right, you win. » Posted By David On February 10, 2009 @ 9:36 PM WordPress Tattoo Using The Wrong Logo? Looking at the low res versions of the logo on WordPress.og, I can see now that he used the right logo. Just lots of lost detail. » Posted By David On February 10, 2009 @ 9:37 PMComments Posted By David
But in a way, traffic = money.
I’m sure wptavern got more than 10k daily visit.
But why it’s not convering to $ is something we all can learn.
@Lester Chan Your plugins are awesome.
We offer a plan for $1 per month where no adverts will be seen if the user does not want to see any adverts.
I hope to publish a full report on this as soon as we have completed the first week and have crunched all the numbers. Please let me know if you would like to run some tests on the numbers we produce.
It’s going to be huge!
Using WordPress, like any software, is a learning process.
Code is poetry, but not everyone can read poetry in a nice, flowing manner. Some websites are not poetry, they are noise.
Many thanks
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