Displaying 1 To 11 Of 11 Comments This morning I was googling around for some WordPress theme information and came across an interview you coaxed me into doing for Weblog Tools Collection years ago. I was super-honored when that happened. I still am. I even told my mom and dad about it! I felt like I was doing something right and that what I was doing was important. You made that happen. And not just for me. You made a lot of people feel that way. Thank you for that. You’re important to a lot of people in this community, Jeff. We’ll be comparing people to what you’ve done for all of us for a long time. You will most definitely be missed. Good luck with everything. » Posted By Ian Stewart On May 20, 2011 @ 9:11 AM WPWeekly Episode 105 – The Return Sorry to hear about your trials and tribulations, Jeff, but glad to have you back. I’m looking forward to the next show. And the one after it, and after that, and after that … » Posted By Ian Stewart On November 8, 2010 @ 8:49 PM Jason Schuller Did It – I Can Do It To While I still think you have what it takes to do consulting (you’re an honest-to-goodness expert at using WordPress, you know all the cool plugins and themes, and you know all the right people for plugin and theme coding—a house contractor doesn’t do everything himself—and that knowledge is valuable) I’m excited to see the plan you’ve got worked out. You ideas sound great for you and the WordPress Tavern. Good luck, Jeff! » Posted By Ian Stewart On May 6, 2010 @ 1:19 PM What Is The Weakest Link Of WordPress? Not following the rules here but I think the weakness of WordPress.org—as described above—is one of the stronger links in the WordPress community. If almost everything were centralized on WordPress.org our community would be about as exciting and vibrant as the Drupal community. (Sorry, Drupal community, Drupal’s awesome but the instructional community-vibe doesn’t compare) In Drupal-land almost everything is centralized on 1 central site and it’s terrible finding trying to find tips, tricks, hacks, and recipes. I’m not talking about documentation for tags and code. I’m talking about the stuff you really need to build your site: instruction on cool things you can do with that code. Over here in WordPress-land there’s an ‘economic’ incentive for providing solutions to WordPress problems on your site (you know, blogging about WordPress): you get traffic. Traffic leads to a whole host of other things that I won’t get into here but you won’t get the same thing out of building up a profile on WordPress.org. Which isn’t to say one shouldn’t build up a profile there by contributing. That’s great. But if that’s it, if that’s all there is to the WordPress community we’ll all lose far more than we gain. Centralize and official-ize everything and fewer people will contribute to the wider and wilder community of WordPress instruction. Anyway, back to the game: A simpler API for things like installation profiles and theme options and the like. It’s beyond my ability to contribute code towards this but I’ll continue to talk, blog and tweet about it. I think this could give some much-needed confidence to designers who could in turn turnaround with some really neat, rock-solid, WordPress stuff. » Posted By Ian Stewart On December 2, 2009 @ 5:17 PM Nomad-One Interviews Six Great Theme Developers I still think it should be in the WordPress dashboard news. I’m pretty sure I emailed Matt about it. If you—as in, everyone who enjoys the WordPress Tavern—haven’t, I suggest you do the same. Keep up the good work, Jeff. » Posted By Ian Stewart On October 6, 2009 @ 3:37 PM Is WordPress Information Too Fragmented? Luckily I already have a centralized source for finding anything I need on WordPress. Check it out. ;) » Posted By Ian Stewart On June 3, 2009 @ 3:56 PM Just commenting to say, yes, you should be using Justin’s Query Posts Widget. It’s super impressive. » Posted By Ian Stewart On May 22, 2009 @ 4:52 PM @Jeffro You can submit links to Wpazo. Unless it’s a 1001 Best WordPress Plugins post or something. I won’t be linking to that. » Posted By Ian Stewart On May 9, 2009 @ 7:58 PM Thanks for the mention, Jeff. Although only 2 posts have something to do with Thematic. Pretty far from most! :) In fact, I expect that you won’t see much related to Thematic or ThemeShaper on Wpazo. It’s sort of an outlet for me to, well, do what it says on the tin: link out to all the best WordPress stuff. Something that I’d do on ThemeShaper—if I didn’t feel it diluted that blog. Instead, you get distilled, 180 proof WordPress links on Wpazo. » Posted By Ian Stewart On May 9, 2009 @ 8:12 AM Comparisons Between Most Popular Theme Frameworks Oh, and as of today there are 17 Thematic Child Themes. :) A magazine-style theme no less. » Posted By Ian Stewart On April 7, 2009 @ 6:27 PM It sure is neat seeing everything stacked up in a table like this. Thanks for doing this Dan (and Jeff). » Posted By Ian Stewart On April 7, 2009 @ 6:03 PMComments Posted By Ian Stewart
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