Displaying 31 To 60 Of 69 Comments Please Adopt This Plugin – Comment Quicktags Reloaded I’ve been using Comment Form Quicktags since 3.0 and it works rather well. It has fewer conflicts with other plugins, too. Like BuddyPress. » Posted By Ipstenu On March 22, 2011 @ 7:29 PM Pet Peeve – Akismet Configuration Link Location Yeah, I suspect Akismet’s placement is legacy to BEFORE they came up with that. I mean, how old is it anyway? » Posted By Ipstenu On March 23, 2011 @ 10:09 AM While a LOT of people would go ‘AUUUGH! MIssing!’, I think it would be better under settings. » Posted By Ipstenu On March 22, 2011 @ 6:36 PM @Craig – Yeah, I have to say … ‘makes me money through ads’ seems a weird choice of words. Makes a PROFIT and makes MONEY are hugely different. I’ll let’cha know when I break even ;) » Posted By Ipstenu On March 15, 2011 @ 7:37 PM At a guess, they clicked makes me money through ads. » Posted By Ipstenu On March 15, 2011 @ 7:09 PM SharePoint In Favor Of WordPress For IT Managers WordPress for a CMS is fine. WordPress for everything SharePoint can do? Not even close. Frankly, SharePoint’s got a lot going for it (though ‘ease of use’ is not on my list). It’s insanely complicated and robust and, for a lot of Big FatCat companies, this is why it gets used: SharePoint is a bit of a big beast and part of the reason it goes well is that it integrates quite well across a number of feature sets. That’s exactly why we use it here. We don’t need comments or spam filters. We DO need to be able to integrate documents with webpages with private areas and LDAP and everything else Windows we have here. So yeah, totally makes sense. Not that I don’t agitate for WordPress for some PARTS of our site, but even with my ‘WordPress for everything!’ jaded POV, I can easily look at my company and go “Oh yeah, WP’s not the one for us right here.” (I work for a very large, international bank, if that helps) » Posted By Ipstenu On March 9, 2011 @ 3:11 PM Narrowly Escaping WordPress 3.0.6 @Jeffro – Due to WordPress’s lack of built in spam protection, AND given that a ‘sample’ functional plugin is helpful for noobs, I think Akismet should stay in the initial build but NOT updates. I was taking bets on why Nacin and Jane were swearing the other morning. » Posted By Ipstenu On February 9, 2011 @ 7:26 PM Most of us :) While I like that Akismet is bundled with WordPress, and I totally understand the necessity of bundling a theme, the number of ‘OMG! WordPress core update undid my theme!’ posts makes me bang my head against the wall. A lot. Unbundling them with the updates won’t solve everything, this is true, and may make it a rarer (and thus less understood) problem, but it’s a good call. » Posted By Ipstenu On February 9, 2011 @ 7:05 PM Should Easter Eggs In WordPress Be Removed? @eddiemoya – Most software I’ve seen have some easter eggs somewhere. Some are harder to trip than others. Microsoft’s are the only one’s I remember off the cuff and without violating my NDA (bank software). @Eric Mann – The “would my parents understand” defense becomes less and less valid, the … well not the younger, but the more tech savvy perhaps, parents get. Cultural shift. » Posted By Ipstenu On October 26, 2010 @ 3:23 PM @Jeffro – No doubt someone will complain to me ‘Where’s the select button?’ :D » Posted By Ipstenu On October 25, 2010 @ 11:22 AM If they have to ‘go’, just make it easy to disable (or make them all “up down left right a b select start”). That said, even Microsoft Office has easter eggs — http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/microsoft-office/fun-at-work-microsoft-word-easter-egg/ — And I actually had a coworker freak out when he did that (he was trying to document some code, we ended up going for ‘foobar = rand()’ and that stopped it). Everything has easter eggs and they’re easier to trip when you’re a newbie than any other time (unless you’re a bored bank worker stuck in the office on Christmas day….) I don’t see it as unprofessional at all. And I bet that guy never makes the same mistake again. AND the tech has a great story to win drinks with at the bar. » Posted By Ipstenu On October 25, 2010 @ 10:20 AM 5 Tips To Create A Great Site About WordPress @Jeffro – Now that I found my free time again. I meant that as a good thing, you know. That every site can be boiled down to your five great tips to running a wordpress site. A wordpress community site :) If all there was to blogging was writing great content, this would all be so flippin easy! But it’s not, and that’s something that’s hard to get through everyone’s head. » Posted By Ipstenu On October 4, 2010 @ 9:09 AM This could be true about every subject site :) » Posted By Ipstenu On September 28, 2010 @ 6:34 PM WPTavern Is My Home And You’re Just A Guest Being a blogger (and writing what’s in your heart) is only half the problem. Running a community, and managing/wrangling/moderating the people in it, is MUCH harder than crafting a well written (if controversial) blog post. That’s what eats your soul :/ » Posted By Ipstenu On September 1, 2010 @ 11:12 AM Would there be a possibility for a PayPal donation link then? (And man, that’s a bummer, all the work upgrading the forums too!) » Posted By Ipstenu On August 31, 2010 @ 7:02 PM SilverLight Application For Exploring WordPress Hooks @donnacha | WordSkill – Seems to work okay for me. What weirdness on Mac are you seeing? » Posted By Ipstenu On August 9, 2010 @ 7:13 PM Plugin And Theme Devs Have Reason To Celebrate @Dan – I’m not fanboying this. But. I like PHP 5 over PHP 4 for a variety of reasons, and was an early adopter, so I’ve been using it for … ages. But as you said. What Matt said was years ago. Slow adoption … years. He was correct. It’s taken three years. That is pretty fast for these things, but there are reasons. And Matt DID NOT advocate that ‘we’ maintain PHP 4 as PHP-lite. Selective quoting there on your part. I wonder if PHP 5+ should be called something other than PHP. A unique name would have allowed the effort to stand on its own, and not imply something that’s an upgrade from what came before when in many cases it’s just different, not better, from an end-user perspective. Continue to maintain PHP 4 as like a PHP-lite. Make it harder, better, faster, stronger. Matt was saying that PHP should consider it. Not WordPress. » Posted By Ipstenu On July 30, 2010 @ 4:42 PM @Patrick D. – It depends on your server. Google ‘Upgrade mysql 4 to 5 ‘ and that should get you started. If you have something like cPanel/WebHost Manager, you can use that. If it’s a co-hosted server, they may have advice (LiquidWeb offered to do it for me, for example). » Posted By Ipstenu On July 29, 2010 @ 5:01 PM @Patrick D. – I didn’t think it was too hard. A bit harder than PHP. Easier than mailservers ;) » Posted By Ipstenu On July 29, 2010 @ 10:14 AM Automatically Correcting The WordPress Mistake @Andreas Nurbo – Aaaah! See I read ‘force correct’ as ‘When I type in MicroSoft, Word magically flips it to Microsoft via auto-correct, and I have to pay attention and remember to switch it back.’ In my mind? That is forcing a correction. You meant ‘It changes it and won’t let me change it back.’ Which … makes more sense now :) @Raphael Mudge – See, now AtD would have been the perfect application of this change! » Posted By Ipstenu On July 7, 2010 @ 9:49 AM @Andreas Nurbo – Microsoft grammar check does autocorrect ‘MicroSoft’ actually. You can undo and keep the bad spelling, but it does check in the latest version. And again, that’s kind of the thing. Microsoft and iApple DO check. But they let you misspell if you want to. » Posted By Ipstenu On July 6, 2010 @ 4:48 PM If WordPress had always magically corrected wordpress into WordPress, would we be having this sort of argument, or would it be something we always accepted? Mind you, I think it’s a really stupid change. I get why they did it, I don’t mind that it was done, but I mind the hassles it causes when you legitimately want to say wordPress or WordPress or what not. Yes, I can turn it off via a filter, but much like Hello Dolly, and adding links to plugins to your front end, this should be opt in. Make a damn checkbox in the Writing section and say ‘Have WordPress autocorrect the spelling of WordPress?’ with a default of ‘no.’ » Posted By Ipstenu On July 6, 2010 @ 3:31 PM Six Revisions On Missing Features In WordPress Given that the post started with a complaint about a new default theme every year, I’m sort of writing the author off as someone who doesn’t know what he’s talking about. » Posted By Ipstenu On July 1, 2010 @ 1:29 PM FeedBurner Relevancy And RSS Subscriber Numbers I don’t use it for the numbers. I use it for the easy way to put adsense ads in my RSS and the 30 people who follow via email. That’s it. When I want numbers, I look at my analytics results. » Posted By Ipstenu On June 30, 2010 @ 1:58 PM 14 Things To Consider When Choosing A Webhost For Your WordPress Powered Site @matt mcinvale – I knew about the A+, as well as the fact that the BBB is NOT a government entity (mostly because it’s good in the US and Canada, and that was sort of a hint years ago). They never claim to be the gov. They’re .ORG not .GOV, for heaven’s sake :) I didn’t know anyone thought they were the gubbmint. Scam? No. Sometimes questionably business practices? Yes. Sole source of information about asshattery of a company? No. Useful tool? Yes. They rate more reliable than Joe Random’s blog, but less than the FTC. » Posted By Ipstenu On June 30, 2010 @ 3:09 PM @Rarst – I was agreeing and adding to :) @matt mcinvale – The BBB is a scam? I’ve seen the criticisms (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Business_Bureau#Criticisms for a quick list) but. But. People say paypal is a scam, and I’ve never had a problem. People never have issues with GoDaddy and I want to kill it. You can’t take ONE report and be done. The BBB is something that should be ONE piece of the puzzle. No one said JUST use the BBB, we (I, I think brought it up on the forums) use it in combination with everything else. Take everything with a grain of salt. » Posted By Ipstenu On June 30, 2010 @ 2:06 PM @Rarst – There’s a lot wrong with shared hosting in MANY but not ALL hosts. Lack of redundancy is one, but also there’s a lack of phone support. The good hosts are going to cost you more up-front, but if you ask me, I’d rather pay $20 a month and know they can help me, than $10 a month and be screwed when I try to upgrade, say, WordPress because their servers are out of date. » Posted By Ipstenu On June 30, 2010 @ 11:35 AM WordPress 3.0 Upgrade Woes Starting To Come In Demetris , I knew about the memory issue, but not the plugins I didn’t use (out of sight out of mind). But. There’s nothing wrong with you making a codex page on it :) I mean, the codex is open for anyone to edit, in a way, for that purpose. If you see a void, the lovely thing about open source is that you can fill it. » Posted By Ipstenu On June 21, 2010 @ 10:18 AM I’ve been beta testing with a single -> multisite, a single site and a wpmu -> multisite. No major issues, just some weird ‘This is what happens when you use a beta/RC version.’ Nothing that couldn’t be fixed in 5 minutes. Demetris – The problem with a known issues release is … unless a beta tester had the problem, there’s no way to know. 10k plugins, and MAYBE 200 testers? We’d each have to use 50 totally different plugins to have a chance of it :( As it was, I know of a handful of plugins we did find as being borked, and many of us betas did tell them and work out some solutions :) Caryn Goldsmith – Open a topic on the WP.org support forums if you haven’t already. » Posted By Ipstenu On June 20, 2010 @ 6:52 PM It’s wrong, but I didn’t notice there were names credited until you posted. So I went and looked and then snickered when I saw my own name. I feel all extra nerdy. If you have time and want to volunteer, the wp.org forums are teeming with people needing help following the upgrade. » Posted By Ipstenu On June 17, 2010 @ 3:22 PMComments Posted By Ipstenu
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