Displaying 61 To 90 Of 139 Comments @Jeffro – I guess I sort of consider the developer chats to be like city council meetings. Most people don’t have the time, or a good reason, to attend these meetings, but they still like to catch up with what happened in their local paper the next day. So of course, I consider you our reporter, attending all these meetings and taking notes so that we don’t have to show up and get in the way! I can understand why the core developers wouldn’t want a wave of end users coming in and being disruptive or distracting. But I hope they’ll allow you to continue to report on these meetings and keep the community up to speed. @Dan Cole – I think Jane mentioned something in the last episode about setting up more general chats that would include the wider WordPress community. » Posted By JLeuze On August 19, 2009 @ 12:03 AM WPWeekly Episode 68 – Hey, I Didn’t Change My Password! @Conorp – Bummer, copy/paste is standard on Android :) » Posted By JLeuze On August 15, 2009 @ 8:43 PM @conorp – LOL, come on, I made my post from my gPhone… » Posted By JLeuze On August 15, 2009 @ 8:04 PM It was good to hear that some of the code from Google Summer of Code is making it out into the world, I’m keen to take Daryl Koopersmith’s Elastic Theme Editor for a spin! John Gridley (urbangiraffe.com) is the latest part time Automattician. Yoast’s interview with John was interesting, I hope it was the first of many Press This episodes. » Posted By JLeuze On August 15, 2009 @ 3:09 PM Do You Think The Codex Is The Future Of Documentation For WordPress? @Edward Caissie – @John Myrstad – That’s a good point, quality content could be used in many ways, so I guess the handbooks could contribute to the improvement of the Codex in that sense. @Edward Caissie – Yeah, confidence is hugely important. That’s why I have devoted so much time to learning WordPress, I trust that the developers and the community will continue to thrive and make improvements. Who wants to spend time learning a dead language so to speak? » Posted By JLeuze On August 15, 2009 @ 3:08 PM I’m not sure if the Codex is in it for the long haul or not, and I think that’s half the problem with it. I often see things that I want to fix or add to, but I’m hesitant to contribute if it is going to be retired in favor of handbooks or some other alternative. From what Jane was saying in the latest episode, i got the impression that the Codex was going to stick around and that the handbooks would be in addition to the Codex. Which would be fine in theory, they could serve different purposes. But it seems like as a whole, the Codex is already the most neglected part of WordPress, splitting attention between that and multiple handbooks could cause it to suffer even more. I don’t think the current wiki is that bad, lots of good info, just needs strong editorial oversight to clean and organize it. I’m ok with a wiki, handbooks, or just about anything though. As long as it is well maintained I’ll feel more confident contributing to it. » Posted By JLeuze On August 15, 2009 @ 2:04 AM WPWeekly Episode 67 – Everywhere You Look There’s A WordPress Book Kinda tricky to edit comments on an iPod, here’s that video tour I was talking about: http://barry.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/new-datacenter-for-wordpresscom/ » Posted By JLeuze On August 8, 2009 @ 12:28 PM It’s too bad you’re switching to Tuesday nights, I always look forward to starting my weekend off with WordPress Weekly. But I’m sure you and David are thrilled to finally start having Friday nights off soon. That you’ve been willing to give up a prime chunk of your weekend for this long shows just how dedicated you! Luckily I’m just one timezone over, so the day of the week doesn’t really bother me, I’m all for whichever day makes it easiest for you to keep grinding out episodes ;) I was going to suggest that we all toss in a little something so that you could enjoy the first few rounds of freedom on us, but it seems someone has stolen the tipjar… At least some of WordPress.com’s servers are hosted by Layer Tech, they have a cool video tour of the WordPress.com racks in Chicago. » Posted By JLeuze On August 8, 2009 @ 12:12 PM WPWeekly Episode 66 – Interview With Scott Reilly It was interesting to hear from such a prolific plugin developer, if anyone should write a book about plugin development, it’s Scott Reilly! Being “a man of travel, tunes and publishing”, Matt said his favorite iPhone Apps are Tripit, Taxi Magic, Shazam, and of course, WordPress. Oh, and I’m all for moving the podcast to whichever day doesn’t work for Conorp ;) » Posted By JLeuze On August 2, 2009 @ 8:40 PM SitePoint bbPress Theme Community Project @Ryan The problem with that approach, is that you often need to modify the theme to accomodate the plugin in a suitable manner. Many plugins add styling information to the site, and you really need that to be styled by the theme, not via the plugin, or else the plugin itself will require some sort of theming system which is likely to be a pain in the neck. Yeah, I have ran into this problem of trying to over-ride with some bbPress plugins. I wish that these plugins were left a little more open to the theme’s styles. I am going to try to support as many popular plugins as I can with my theme’s style, but I suppose you have to cut your losses somewhere. It is fine line, I agree that AJAX features would be a good candidate for inclusion in the theme. For functionality that actually adds content, like signatures, I could see some users being upset if they switched themes and “lost” that content. I guess they could keep the sigs by tweaking the new theme, but using a plugin seems more self-contained. We could release a plugin which is provided as a complementary extension for the theme. That would be cool, even just sharing the extra functionality that you add to the theme as a plugin suite for people that would like to use it on other themes would be well received I am sure! » Posted By JLeuze On August 4, 2009 @ 11:06 PM Cool project Ryan, there is a real need for more quality bbPress themes! I’ve tweaked Kakumei to match a few WordPress themes so far, and I’m currently working on my first original bbPress theme. When it comes to including plugin functionality themes, I’m on the fence. I like to keep themes simple and not have important functionality dependent on the functionality. It seems like redundant code anyways, why redo the code for some feature, or roll it into the theme if it already exists as a plugin? Particularly for bbPress where there are not that many plugins, it seems like that effort would be better put into new plugins, or updating plugins that don’t work properly with 1.0 yet. I can understand how you’d want to be able to include more of these features in one package. But it seems like a bit of a hack to me. Some of these features should make it into core eventually no matter how lightweight they want to keep bbPress. I think rather than themes with plugin functionality, I’d rather see more comprehensive plugins that can replace 4 or 5 smaller plugins. Like Nightgunner5′s excellent bbPress Moderation Suite. Myself, I am trying to build my bbPress theme to work with existing plugins better. So that if you install the bbcode button plugin, or signatures, it styles them to fit into the theme, but without being dependent on them. You’ve started an ambitious project though! I’m definitely interested to see what you come up with, and if I can contribute anything that I learn from building my own theme, I’d be happy to pitch in. » Posted By JLeuze On August 3, 2009 @ 4:28 PM Screenshots Of bbPress.org Redesign @Toby – I didn’t notice those status icons before. They do need to tweak those icons, just using color to differentiate the status leaves them inaccessible to those who are colorblind or have a low contrast screen. Just adding a plus and minus, or check and X would be an improvement. Though maybe they could push the metaphor with a bee sting and bandaid ;) » Posted By JLeuze On August 3, 2009 @ 10:03 AM I think that the new design is a good fit with the rest of the WordPress family, while still being original enough to stand on its own. Seems like having a sharp looking website should help generate more interest in bbPress and give the impression that the project is maturing a bit. But now that bbpress.org and the dashboard have been freshened up, Kakumei really stands out like a sore thumb ;) I think the Gravatars, and other poster info looks sharp, but I can see how a series of one line posts with such large Gravatars could take up quite a bit more room than need be. » Posted By JLeuze On July 29, 2009 @ 3:55 PM Adding Google Custom Search Is Easy @Jeffro – I set up Google CSE on one site that had some static pages, WordPress, and phpBB, it was a pretty painless procedure, but I did spend some extra time getting the results page to match the rest of the site. » Posted By JLeuze On July 28, 2009 @ 11:22 PM It’s debatable on a vanilla install of WordPress. But for the Tavern, with some of the content in WordPress, and some in vBulletin, it makes sense to use Google CSE so that you can get search results from the whole site at the same time. » Posted By JLeuze On July 27, 2009 @ 11:29 PM WPWeekly Episode 65 – Interview With Nikolay Of GlotPress Props to David for doing such a great job of flying solo on the podcast this week! I know one plugin that I created a translation for was GigPress. I think that the developer did a great job of internationalizing his plugin, lots of languages to choose from. Though my translation was just to customize the terminology of the plugin. According to Matt’s about page, “I have been or am currently an adviser to Sphere, WeGame, Rescuetime, and Foodzie.” And The Howdy Doody fan club ;) » Posted By JLeuze On July 26, 2009 @ 10:34 AM WPWeekly Episode 64 – Big Huge Round Table @Conorp – The post times need to include seconds ;) » Posted By JLeuze On July 18, 2009 @ 12:07 AM Listening to the show right now, I always dig the open mics, you guys should get together for a panel at a WordCamp! Oh, Toni Schneider was the CEO of Oddpost (Later Yahoo!) » Posted By JLeuze On July 18, 2009 @ 12:02 AM Listener Poll: Do You Think bbPress Will Evolve Into A WordPress Plugin? @JD Hartley – I second that. Just look at P2, with the right theme, you could just about turn WordPress into a forum without even using any bbPress code. But I can’t see it happening. » Posted By JLeuze On July 17, 2009 @ 11:02 PM WPWeekly Episode 63 – Interview With Randy Hoyt And Scott Clark @Conorp – I’ve heard good things about MyBB. » Posted By JLeuze On July 11, 2009 @ 11:10 PM Dang, I’m going to have to stop sleeping on the weekends if I wanna keep my points up there ;) I’ve got a few forums on phpBB, and I’m happily migrating them to bbPress now that it is past 1.0, I’m so sick of spammers I don’t care what I have to “give up”. I don’t need private messages, signatures and all that other stuff, I’d gladly trade them for Akismet! The thing that disappoints me most about phpBB is it’s age, it’s slow and lumbering, and has a real upgrade like every two years. That reminds me way too much of Windows… It really depends on your specific needs though. On one of my sites, i have a rather active phpBB forum, and the main site is in WordPress and not very active. I have several authors on the WordPress site, and they are moderators on the forum. So it makes sense to have that all under WordPress/bbPress with integrated login. I am hoping this will also encourage more people that are already logged in to the forum to comment in the blog since they would be logged in there as well. I also like having more options for pulling the latest posts and threads from bbPress and promoting them in the sidebar of the blog. » Posted By JLeuze On July 11, 2009 @ 11:01 PM As I build more business than blog sites with WordPress, this was I thought a really interesting show! I agree that better role management would be a very welcome feature in WordPress. I personally don’t need anything terribly drastic, I’d like to see basic groups so that I could restrict users to a certain category, or a specific Page and it’s children. I think maybe a bit more fine-grained control in core to lay the groundwork; and something more more advanced, one of the two plugins they mentioned, as a canonical plugin would be sufficient. I feel their pain, and I’m sure the pain of many others, when it comes to clients and end users balking at the idea of blogging. I learned quickly to not even mention blogs to them and to just strip the comment features out of the theme, and removed all mention of blog or blogroll and rebrand the whole blog feature as just plain old “news”. It makes some end users feel more comfortable and lets them ease into blogging without even knowing it :) Hopefully this one isn’t a trick question! There are five names listed on the About WordPress page as lead developers who I assume are all able to commit to core: Ryan Boren, Mark Jaquith, Matt Mullenweg, Andrew Ozz, & Peter Westwood. » Posted By JLeuze On July 11, 2009 @ 4:28 PM Checkout the Wikipedia explanation in the context of computer science and programming. Basically I think that they just mean they want to have some plugins that are the standards. Like there might be 100 gallery plugins, but one will be canonical, the default plugin. They will test those canonical plugins before major releases, so that end users can be confident that they are stable and won’t break when they upgrade. In this case, it seems they are referring to more “official” plugins like Akismet, but from what has been said, I get the impression that these could just as easily be third party plugins as well. I think this would be a good thing all around. It expands the options for end users, so that they can have confidence in those extra features, without bloat, and without taking over functionality that plugin developers have been providing. I can see how this would also be helpful if a canonical plugin developer was to stop development, it would be even more likely to be picked up by another developer or adopted as an official plugin. Hopefully leading to smoother transitions in these cases. This would be a good way to give plugin developers more of the limelight that theme developers tend to hog! But I can see how the other 99 gallery developers could feel left out in the cold… » Posted By JLeuze On July 7, 2009 @ 10:43 PM WPWeekly Episode 62 – Celebrating The Freedoms Of The GPL I think actually talking about the freedoms of the GPL was a great topic to cover on “Independence Day”. The arguments and speculation tend to concentrate on the negative aspects of the GPL and the freedoms that all users gain from Open Source software can get overlooked. I think that no matter how we might feel about specific licenses or business models we can all agree that the more code that makes it out there into the collective pool to draw from, the better off we will all be :) Oh, we can expect to see more photos from Matt in the future. My guess is from Brazil and Montreal, must be rough ;) » Posted By JLeuze On July 6, 2009 @ 2:38 AM Listener Poll: Should there be a page on the plugin repository for Commercial GPL plugins? Whether it is needed or not, it’s only fair that plugin developers be treated equally, unless they can’t write a haiku ;) » Posted By JLeuze On July 4, 2009 @ 1:14 AM @Aaron D. Campbell – Well, not all Flash ads are equally annoying ;) I have made quite a few web ads at my day job. I often use animated GIFs and Flash for these ads, but the animation is slow, the transitions are soft, and they are not content heavy. I think just about any non-popup/under ad format is fine, as long as the ads are made to be subtle and not overly annoying. Unfortunately, it is much too easy to make those kind of annoying Flash ads that we are all very familiar with! » Posted By JLeuze On July 6, 2009 @ 4:52 PM I know I wouldn’t be caught dead without Ad Block Plus! There’s so much nasty stuff out there, it’s almost a security risk… But I selectively disable it on many credible sites, like yours, because I know that advertising is going to be low-key, legit, and maybe even useful. I actually just enabled Ad Block Plus on WP Tavern and the ads are still showing up, so you must be doing something right! » Posted By JLeuze On July 3, 2009 @ 4:39 PM My Thoughts On The Virtual WordCamp VirtualWordCamp is meant to be a week long event where those who want to be trained on how to use WordPress can sign up and attend these daily webinars. If that is the case, they could have avoided a lot of confusion and teeth gnashing by simply not calling it a WordCamp ;) » Posted By JLeuze On July 3, 2009 @ 2:01 AM GPL Commercial Theme Page Now On The Repository the links and images are randomly generated upon page load as to not give any individual site more credence over the other That sounds fair, I just thought they were very poorly alphabetized… » Posted By JLeuze On July 1, 2009 @ 10:51 PM Thanks for being there to report on this stuff for those of us who aren’t able to check it out! Sound like some interesting features coming down the pipe. A bulk media uploader would be really handy. » Posted By JLeuze On July 1, 2009 @ 7:56 PMComments Posted By JLeuze
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