Displaying 1 To 26 Of 26 Comments GravityForms Now With Freshbooks A bit gutting that only dev license holders can get the add-ons. I’d be willing to pay for the MailChimp add-on, but can’t afford to upgrade to the dev license to get it, guess it’s a sales pitch! Would definitely like to see the add-ons available for all. » Posted By Epic Alex On February 20, 2010 @ 3:09 PM Should WordPress Change The Blog Nomenclature Within The Backend? Incredible that it has taken this long for that discussion to come up; it seems like a logical step to ‘prove’ to all those naysayers that WordPress is, in fact, already a CMS… » Posted By Epic Alex On November 3, 2009 @ 6:57 PM WPChat – A New Hangout For WordPress Folks I really enjoyed the chat the other day, I think it’s going to be “my hangout for when I’m hungover from the Tavern” » Posted By Epic Alex On October 15, 2009 @ 10:46 AM WPWeekly Episode 70 – Talking BuddyPress With Andy Peatling Well, instead of needing my thinking cap, I just needed to be online earlier to get in the top 3!! Another really great show, and thanks to Andy for answering my question. I’m currently running Buddypress on my uni Ultimate team’s website, and I’m loving the experience so far. » Posted By Epic Alex On September 3, 2009 @ 11:53 AM Which Theme Company Has The Best Word Of Mouth? I suppose it depends what you mean by best? And I’m not saying WooThemes doesn’t offer great themes, support and articles, because they do, but they definitely have the most word of mouth advertising; maybe that’s more a reflection of who I follow on twitter. As for best, elegant themes have an incredibly high reputation, as @Jeremy said. » Posted By Epic Alex On September 1, 2009 @ 10:47 AM I’m a huge fan of BuddyPress, and try to help out as much as I can with reporting bugs and submitting patches, but when can we expect to see BuddyPress at a stage where it is relatively stable? I’m not talking bug free, obviously, but where all aspects of the already established base will just work. » Posted By Epic Alex On August 31, 2009 @ 3:16 PM GravityForms Launches To The Public @Carl Hancock – I listened to Joost’s podcast as well as Jeff’s, but my biggest question didn’t get answered. I was interested in how uploads work? I’m currently trying to find the best way of allowing users to upload multiple photos, and be able to link information to each one, as per the built in Media Uploader, but allowing uploads from the front end. I love the look of your plugin, but obviously don’t want to buy it if it doesn’t do exactly what I’m looking to do! (Just read there’s going to be a demo site, but if you could let me know anyway!) » Posted By Epic Alex On August 27, 2009 @ 4:46 PM WPWeekly Episode 69 – Grava what The major appeal of Gravatars is their universality. There should be no reason why any site can’t use them. Having your own functionality on your site is just pointless(Facebook excepted), except of course if it’s BuddyPress, in which case the upload and crop feature that is now fixed is awesome. For those that follow plugin releases, I released a gravatar related plugin lately, and I was amazed at how low the interest was. I thought people would be clamouring for it, but apparently it’s just not mainstream enough… WordPress is world-renowned for blogging. If you were to start another project, along the same lines as WordPress but not to do with blogging, what would it be? Synchronization, or some sort of contextual text analysis for grammar and spell-checking. Maybe something with anti-spam again like Akismet. http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=631389 » Posted By Epic Alex On August 22, 2009 @ 4:59 PM Have You Enjoyed Your Stay At The Tavern So Far? I’ve found the forums a guaranteed way of getting the help I need with WordPress problems, which I haven’t found on any other site, except the IRC. And yes, I practically live here, WPTavern is 3rd on my most visited sites in Chrome… » Posted By Epic Alex On August 22, 2009 @ 5:04 PM Roll Your Own URL Shortener With Pretty Link Interesting review. I can definitely see the appeal of having a plugin that does this for your own blog, but as you say, it kind of defeats the purpose if your domain is long to start with. And to be honest, I think you hit the nail on the head here: Tiny URLs to me are throwaways The ONLY place I use bit.ly is for on Twitter. Anywhere else I have enough space to just use the link, and after a couple of days, no one is going to be seeing that tweet anyway, so who cares if the service stops being around. For a plugin like this to take off, it needs to be one click in my mind. After initial setup, where all the available options are defined globally, a post is published, and in the message at the top of the screen saying it is published, the short url is provided for you. » Posted By Epic Alex On August 19, 2009 @ 8:36 AM Are We Afraid To Do What We Want With Our Blogs? Just wondered if people have seen what they’ve done on http://digwp.com recently, and as Chris said, there are other blogs that get a happy medium. » Posted By Epic Alex On August 19, 2009 @ 3:11 PM WPWeekly Episode 68 – Hey, I Didn’t Change My Password! From the Press This show synopsis: Joost welcomes one of the newest member to Automattics WordPress team. John Gridley tells us about his new role with Automattic http://www2.webmasterradio.fm/press-this/ » Posted By Epic Alex On August 16, 2009 @ 6:22 AM WPWeekly Episode 67 – Everywhere You Look There’s A WordPress Book Well Layered Tech sponsored WordCamp Dallas, and they say on their site “Layered Tech is one of WordPress.com’s hosting providers”. From http://www.layeredtech.com/about/newsroom/release/index.php?num=0626151 Since that is the only reference on the whole of the net I can find, I’m guessing it must be them! » Posted By Epic Alex On August 8, 2009 @ 3:52 PM WPWeekly Episode 66 – Interview With Scott Reilly Matt’s favourite iPhone apps are: “Tripit, Taxi Magic, Shazam, and of course, WordPress” » Posted By Epic Alex On August 3, 2009 @ 6:14 AM To be honest, when I wrote my first plugin, Hello Dolly was the last place I looked. There are so many tutorials that will teach you how to write a far better and more useful plugin than that plugin. If a plugin is included to help developers, then maybe it should be one that at least ads an options/settings page, and stores some options to the database, then it might be a useful resource. » Posted By Epic Alex On July 30, 2009 @ 5:00 PM WPWeekly Episode 65 – Interview With Nikolay Of GlotPress Matt says “I have been or am currently an adviser to Sphere, WeGame, Rescuetime, and Foodzie.” on his about page. Really looking forward to the interview with Scott Reilly. » Posted By Epic Alex On July 26, 2009 @ 5:19 PM WPWeekly Episode 64 – Big Huge Round Table I need to get up earlier… » Posted By Epic Alex On July 18, 2009 @ 8:43 AM JLeuze touches on a point that I’d been considering for a while. There are many suggestions for standards for a plugin, or expected features (such as uninstall etc), so if a plugin meets all of these criteria (maybe see the wltc post), the plugin could earn a seal of approval from WP, and effectively say that it is guaranteed to work with a certain release…if that’s possible… I realise that’s at a bit of a tangent to your original question Jeff, but thought it was a good place to bring it up. @Ryan – I remember reading somewhere that plugins stay plugins because they’re not deemed necessary for everyone’s WP site to run, like the example of a gallery plugin, and instead the core is a base to be extended. The core cannot be designed to serve everyone’s different needs, hence why its core. So in my eyes, it’s best to leave this sort of stuff as a plugin. If I need it, I’ll download it. » Posted By Epic Alex On July 8, 2009 @ 7:00 AM Aaron Brazell Author Of ‘The WordPress Bible’ @Paul – You’ve got a point, with something like WP that gets updated regularly, being able to receive updates as a digital copy would be very useful. This is my main problem with publishing a book on WP, it can very quickly go out of date, but I still might buy this one if the price is right! » Posted By Epic Alex On July 6, 2009 @ 8:01 AM WPWeekly Episode 62 – Celebrating The Freedoms Of The GPL Hm, so if I now say that he’ll be posting more photos, will that make me third?! » Posted By Epic Alex On July 6, 2009 @ 5:33 AM Looks like some intriguing features here. Interesting to see that a post excerpt thumbnail is potentially making it into core…but still in the form of a custom field, I guess disguised as a meta box. Not really sure how this improves any current functionality via a plugin or a theme’s individual code. Maybe so many blogs have a post thumbnail now it is deemed essential? » Posted By Epic Alex On July 2, 2009 @ 11:32 AM Listener Poll: Do You Know The Difference Between WordPress.com And WordPress.org? I’ve actually never used WordPress.com, I’ve been on self hosted ever since I first used WP a few years ago, so I have no idea how limited its features may or may not be. All the same, you are right, and WordPress is far from limited feature wise; I don’t think I’ve ever seen a concept go unresolved. ps. Isn’t the expression “one and the same”? » Posted By Epic Alex On June 27, 2009 @ 8:25 AM Cashing In On WordPress Plugin Development @Miroslav Glavic and @all –Comments Posted By Epic Alex
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just because a plugin is a paid one, does not mean it is a good plugin.
This is a good point that should not be ignored, and touches on what has already been mentioned. People will start making plugins that are near to useless just to get the income if a paid ‘app-store’ is created.
I understand all the ethics etc of paid vs no-paid for plugins and their support or customisation. But how about we look at this from a new angle. We are all here saying that plugin authors should be supported for the work they do. If this is the sentiment throughout the community, now that the issue is being discussed everywhere, and even if only 50% of the community agree, why not create a site where a donation is expected for a download, rather than required?
So the site may work the same way as the official repository, but those of us who are conscious of the fact that we should do more for plugin authors can visit it, and the donation process could all be in place, and the user wouldn’t have to search out how to send their favourite plugin some money. Simply by using this new site, support is being shown, and a community movement could be underway. A little bit like having a clear conscience on matters of the environment when you add carbon-offsetting to your flight…
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» Posted By Epic Alex On June 18, 2009 @ 5:47 AM
@Chip Bennett – There are a few functions in the core code that would allow for a link to donate to a plugin’s author to be added to each plugin row, such as plugin_action_links and plugin_row_meta(undocumented).
The problem would be though, if this were made into its own plugin, that the email address supplied by the plugin author might not match their paypal email. However, assuming they have added the link in the readme, then that can easily be used as the link. Although that in turn is assuming they put in a paypal donate link – quite a lot of the donate links just lead to the author’s homepage…
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@Chip – The official plugin repository already has the functionality for a built in deposit button(or rather link); all you need to do is put a paypal link in the readme file for your plugin, and a link appears in the plugin info block on the right hand side…not that mine has ever been clicked on! I guess that the problem is that it isn’t really that noticeable.
A one dollar contribution per plugin is relatively nothing in my eyes, especially when you consider that a lot of plugins have tens of thousands of downloads or more, so a plugin author would be happy with one dollar a time. I know I would, the $6000 I would have received so far would go a long way for a uni student, and would also encourage me to consider building in some of the more tricky functionality people have requested.
Another point, which I’m not sure if anyone has mentioned, is what happens when you just want to try a plugin out. For example, I read the plugin release post on WLTC, and think, oh that plugin looks cool, I’ll try it out. The chances are it’s something I don’t really need, but I’m just interested. I wouldn’t really want to pay just to have a play and then never come back to it.
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Plugins And The Lack Of Change Logs
«« Back To Stats PageWhat’s crazy is that it is so easy to add another tab on the plugin info page on wordpress.org. It all comes from the readme file, and the example even shows ho to do it. I think the problem though is that in that example file, a change log tab isn’t suggested, so maybe plugin authors don’t think to do it. Maybe the example readme should be changed to include it?
I’ll be putting a new tab too on the next update of my new user email plugin!
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