Displaying 31 To 60 Of 729 Comments New Company Releases Evil WordPress Plugin Let’s try and avoid using insults out in public or I’ll have to close the comment thread down. After further investigation, it’s clear as to what his intentions are with this plugin. » Posted By Jeffro On May 10, 2013 @ 9:09 AM @Rob Lawrence – This plugin is not hosted on the WordPress.org plugin repository. Instead, it’s hosted on the GangstaCode website. @Daniel Crowley – Agreed and it’s usually too late before you find out. @dave wp evil – I’m not whining about it, just spreading the word. It’s not about privacy, it’s about the responsibility of making sure the data users provide you is kept safe and is not easily obtainable. Just out of curiosity, would you ever use your plugin on a large membership website with a ton of members? If so, would you at least disclose that information to members when they signed up? » Posted By Jeffro On May 9, 2013 @ 10:29 AM Up To The Community To Improve Theme Demo Data @James W. Lane – Thanks for the offer. We’ll have to see if there is a group of individuals willing to concentrate on this project. Unfortunately, I don’t have BuddyPress installed just yet so I can’t create a group dedicated to it. @Chip Bennett – Hey Chip, long time no see :) based on your comments and the discussion on the Post Status post, it looks like this is a catch 22 situation. We can make the demo content look better but we still can’t get the theme previewer to match 100% the way a theme is meant to be viewed as in the screenshot. So the next alternative would be a link on the theme repo that takes people to that theme authors demo page on their website but this is not an option because of the monitoring and such that would need to take place. Would be stupid for people to contact WP.org to complain about demo links being broken. It seems at this point, theme authors should be encouraged to have their own demo site that is accessible when you visit the theme authors home page as the .org previewer can not be guaranteed to show the theme the way it was meant to be viewed. » Posted By Jeffro On May 9, 2013 @ 10:18 AM At 10 Years Old, Is It Time To Fork? @Morten Rand-Hendriksen – Thanks for stopping by and clarifying some of your points. I think we can all agree that at the end of the day, what matters is the end user. I think another example I could throw in here is the image editing features that were added. Just another group of features I don’t use because I do my image processing/editing on my desktop outside of WordPress. It’s an interesting paradox. In the early days of WordPress, we wanted more features to be added to WordPress. 10 years later, we want features taken away. As for your MP6 example, I’m not sure if that is actually going to be added to core or if it will remain as an experimental plugin. At least some of the bigger ideas for WordPress can start out as plugins first, then be added to core when they are in demand or are ready. I remember a few years ago in an interview I conducted with Matt where I asked him what was the overall goal of WordPress considering its userbase. I remember him saying that the goal was to simply democratize publishing and enable anyone in the world to get their thoughts published online. I don’t know about you but I think WordPress as is does a fairly decent job at reaching that goal. A lot could be done to improve the process of publishing those words and removing anything that may be getting in the way of putting those thoughts and words online. » Posted By Jeffro On May 9, 2013 @ 11:39 AM @Drew Jaynes – Yes, even a pseudo-customized experience would be better than segmenting everything into core plugins or optional modules. @Carl Hancock – That’s my feeling as well. Because of the large third party ecosystem and the economy surrounding WordPress, forking it just isn’t going to get anyone very far. However, I love seeing things like Ghost come up where they have a clean slate. Fresh code and a fresh take on how to accomplish tasks while revamping the publishing experience. It will be interesting to see how well Ghost is received after it hits the public’s hands. With the financial backing, I imagine John is now under a lot of pressure to deliver the goods. I outlined the development of Core Plugins because somewhere within that idea, was the revelation of taking out some functionality from WordPress and applying it to a plugin. But as we can see, a few years later development of Core Plugins has really stagnated. Too much effort directed to core and not enough left over for those plugins. @John Blackbourn – You raise some good points and in fact, I’m going to outline a list of things that I wouldn’t mind seeing removed from WordPress and either put into a plugin or just disappearing entirely. But like I mentioned in the post, the things I don’t use and would like to see be put into a plugin are the same things my neighbor probably uses every day. Although with what happened to the Blogroll/Links area in WordPress, it’s been proven that longstanding functionality can be removed from WordPress. @MK Safi – That video is what got me excited to try out Ghost. If John can nail down the publishing experience and make it better than what WordPress offers, he could be really onto something. Funny you mention WordPress.com because I completely agree with you. One day, I decided to reopen my account on .com and was amazed at everything that was put in front of me. To put it bluntly, it’s a cluster#$@!. I have no idea how new users can easily navigate around and accomplish tasks using WordPress.com. » Posted By Jeffro On May 9, 2013 @ 9:57 AM Searching For A Better WordPress Search Thanks for the comments guys. It looks like I have my hands full with a couple of search alternatives to try out and review » Posted By Jeffro On May 9, 2013 @ 9:40 AM @Scott Kingsley Clark – Well, the more I look into it, the more it makes sense to offload all of the resource heavy searching to the cloud via a service and just use the plugin to provide the functionality and different methods of searching which seems to be exactly what the VIP search addon with Elastic provides. The last thing I want to do is have good search but take down my site and upset my webhost lol. » Posted By Jeffro On May 7, 2013 @ 1:13 PM Rolling Your Own WordPress With WPRoller @Viktoria Michaelis – It’s not much different. But your last point is the one that actually has a decent market. As I chronicled in the post, people have been looking for an easy way to create these installation profiles over the past few years. Now they can create specialized packages of WordPress complete with all of the plugins or themes they need without having to search and install multiple times. Let’s say you are dealing with customers that are within the same niche, you can then use WPRoller to create a WordPress package that is tailored to that niche and then you’ll only need to tweak it here and there to match the clients needs. I think that’s a big time saver for developers. » Posted By Jeffro On May 7, 2013 @ 11:29 AM First WordCamp North Canton A Success @Tom McFarlin – Thank you Tom. @John Saddington – I know we have the interview questions but my boss will be the one publishing a post here on WPTavern.com at some point in the near future that will explain a bunch of things. » Posted By Jeffro On May 6, 2013 @ 11:52 AM @John Saddington – Indeed, today marks the first day in bringing back the Tavern. This was the first time I used the Gallery feature within the media library but the images look bad because I use a sidebar on the single post page. Not a huge deal because in the near future, this site will be sporting a new design that hopefully rectifies that issue. » Posted By Jeffro On May 6, 2013 @ 11:29 AM WordPress News Sites And The Bermuda Triangle @Mike Schinkel – LOL I was getting ready to tell you that you’ve spent too much time in the shed known as WP-Hackers :P I’ve read your replies there for a few years and I bet you’ve written a novels worth of text lol. » Posted By Jeffro On January 25, 2013 @ 7:49 PM @Brian Krogsgard – I say it’s a ticking time bomb because in my opinion, at some point, you’re going to need to be paid for your time invested in that site, either from the site itself or some other means. If you can’t get it from some other means, then I could see you losing interest in a site that requires time but generates no money. I wish you luck with the site however as it’s already garnered some pretty good interest in the community. » Posted By Jeffro On January 25, 2013 @ 7:21 PM @Mike Schinkel – My reply was tongue in cheek as most of them are. I saw what you were doing with the site you just launched and considering it’s content, it makes sense you would +1 a site that teaches WordPress instead of just informs. By the way, that will be $999.99 for the link :) » Posted By Jeffro On January 25, 2013 @ 7:15 PM @John Saddington – WP Daily is one of the sites I’ve recently seen get the attention of many WordPress folks. If I were you, I’d step it up into high gear because when the effect of being the new cool thing dies down, people will disappear, looking for the next new source of news. Ride the crest of the wave for as long as possible because once it crashes, I doubt another wave will come through. Writing about WordPress is definitely fun and at one time, it was a passion of mine. I would do it for no money at all and was surprised as hell I could make any cash from it. But the desire for cash took away all attention from everything else. I couldn’t do what I loved and pay the bills at the same time. That was the problem. I gave it a legitimate shot and failed. @Ryan Hellyer – As I mentioned above, I tried to reach out and get guest posts but I receive very little in actual posts. Then again, I wanted to hire a few writers with expertise in bbPress, BuddyPress, etc. But didn’t have the cash to do it. At least with WPRealm, the team contributing can do so as they wish while paying the bills some other way. I also ran into the issue of why post any content to WPTavern when they could have it on their own blog, which I understand. @Chris Wallace – In my experience, the tutorials and reviews were the most successful posts, especially ones that deal security. As a user, I did my part in trying to teach what I learned but it’s difficult to maintain that line of content when I’m not a coder. I can’t judge anyone’s code whether it’s good or not and I couldn’t write any snippets myself. I did end up buying a book to try and teach myself PHP and MySQL to turn into a coder but I said to hell with it and used the books as kindling in a fire pit. @Dave Doolin – Good luck with round two of your endeavor to make a living based around WordPress. @Scott Hack – Nothing I was creating content wise made sense to me to put behind a pay wall. I felt that the more views the content had, the better. I also felt as though if I write a review, tutorial or such, that all people needed to see it and learn from it. @Ed Sutherland – That goal will need to be accomplished by someone else as I’m pretty much retiring from all this WordPress content creation stuff. @Makis.TV – Congratulations, you are doing something that people consider valuable. I hope you find a way to increase that value thus, increasing revenue. @Adam W. Warner – I feel a little flattered that this site or my name came up in conversation. The thing I noticed in my disappearance, at least from posting content on WPTavern is that sites sprang up that filled the role and they became the newest, next best thing. People got their news and points of interest whether I was around or not. To be honest, running the site in the beginning was so much more fun without worrying about money at all versus struggling to make a buck. The perfect model for me was if someone or some company paid me a couple hundred bucks a week and stayed out of the way to let me build the site as the way I see fit. But who in their right mind would consider doing that? After putting myself in that persons or companies shoes, I could see how much of a waste of cash that would be. As far as mattering to the community, perhaps in a way but when it comes to news and information, I’m just another pea in the pod. @Felix krusch – Felix, you hit on a combination that I believe is a winning strategy for anyone that has anything to offer besides content eg. plugins, themes, etc. I’ve noticed that having blog which supports your product without being exclusively about your product or service is the best free advertising you could do for yourself. Seems to work well for many people. @Cristian Antohe – I thought about doing what you’re doing with WPmail.me but you beat me to it and had the guts to go through with it :). I hope one day it turns a profit. I was glad to be around when you launched it and I’m happy to see your stats after a year showing so much positive growth. Being a curator is an easy job when you have so many good WordPress centric websites to choose from. As you’ve seen, there is demand for curation so keep up what you’re doing. @mkjones – Yeah, WPMU is a great example of what I talked about in a previous comment of a blog filled with content but a blog that easily is used for upselling all their products. They keep doing it and post often so it must be working. @Syed Balkhi – And I shot myself in the foot along with my arm, my chest, and perhaps my other foot for the better part of 2-3 years. My other business was working at the grocery store lol. I had no interest in client work, being a coder, or anything of that nature. @Kevinjohn Gallagher – You hit the nail on the head Kevin regarding this site being a personal hobby/passion of mine without a heavy emphasis on marketing this site as a news site. It was and still is a site where I dump my thoughts into along with occasional other posts. That’s the way the site started and after I realized I could make some cash by writing about WordPress, I decided to launch WPTavern to try and go at it alone and build myself a community and somehow sustain myself. I was successful in some areas and failed in others. It always was though a personal site of mine. @Ryan Hellyer – As far as I’m concerned, that site and others before it such as WPVote.com need to rely on many other contributors as well as from the site author/administrator to succeed. I wish Brian luck but I think sites like that are a ticking time bomb waiting to be dropped in the bermuda triangle. @Mike Schinkel – Of course you would +1 that Mr. http://hardcorewp.com/ » Posted By Jeffro On January 23, 2013 @ 8:13 AM General Overview Of MODx Versus WordPress @Ryan Hellyer – When I hear or read of ModX I think of phpBB because if I remember correctly, ModX has something to do with creating mods for that forum. https://www.phpbb.com/mods/modx/ » Posted By Jeffro On December 12, 2012 @ 2:20 PM How To Become A Top WordPress Professional Touché :) » Posted By Jeffro On December 10, 2012 @ 11:30 AM @Jerry – My tips were in ADDITION to the ones provided by her article based on my own experience of participating in the WordPress community. » Posted By Jeffro On December 7, 2012 @ 3:52 PM Docs Team Needs Your Help For WordPress 3.5 You’re welcome » Posted By Jeffro On December 3, 2012 @ 8:01 AM 300 Free Icons For Web And User Interface Design I’ve followed up with Adam about the licensing and he said that he’s going to keep it as is. So, I just marked out the text that says it would be ok to use those icons in themes and plugins. » Posted By Jeffro On November 30, 2012 @ 8:27 PM @Otto – Well, I read that and thought that the icon set would not be GPL compatible. However, he states that those rules are for the entire set. I don’t see why themes or plugins would host or use the entire set which is why I said it would be ok for them to put those icons in their themes or plugins. Perhaps I will reach out to him to get some clarification on this because in his article where he published his thoughts on why he removed the price tag, he wants to see people use the icon sets. @Len – Thanks Len. You still running WPCanada? How’s like been treating you? We’ll see how long this stint I’m on goes lol. » Posted By Jeffro On November 27, 2012 @ 5:46 PM Three Plugins To Monitor Site Uptime @Lester Chan – That’s a pretty nice status page. @Ipstenu – If WordPress uses it, it has to be good, right? :) » Posted By Jeffro On July 1, 2012 @ 2:28 PM WordPress Foundation Harming Rather Than Helping WordCamps I think I made a big mistake of blaming the WordPress Foundation when i should have placed my disagreement towards WordCamp Central. As I now somewhat understand, WordCamp Central enforces guidelines that are imposed to those who want to use the WordPress Trademark. The WordPress Foundation is the organization that has come up with those rules for everyone else to follow. Therefor, if I understand correctly, the WordPress foundation has nothing to do with sponsorship caps, that is tied into WordCamp Central. However, with the Foundation and WordCamp Central intertwined into the whole discussion, it’s really confused me. I suppose it’s best that I offer a public apology to the foundation. » Posted By Jeffro On May 8, 2012 @ 8:15 PMComments Posted By Jeffro
I think there should be limits to non WCSF events, the other WordCamps. THEY ARE NOT AS BIG AS WCSF.
But if read between the lines here, other WordCamps could easily be as big as WordCamp San Francisco but the foundation told those organizers that the amount of sponsorship money was too high for their event which means they had less money to put towards making the event better or, getting that bigger venue to hold more people. There have already been WordCamps in Chicago and New York that have had over 500-600 attendees, it wouldn’t take much to be as big as WCSF, attendee wise. But when you have people telling you how much money you can get from sponsorships, it makes it hard to hold events that big.
» Posted By Jeffro On May 4, 2012 @ 6:22 PM
ManageWP To Soon Be Available As An iOS App
@donnacha of WordSkill – WPTavern is open for guest blog posts at any time. If you want to write one and publish it on the site, feel free to get in touch with me via email.
» Posted By Jeffro On April 25, 2012 @ 1:44 PM
What Dev4Press Thinks WordPress Needs
Yeah, huge oversight on my part, the post and title has been corrected. Ughhh.
» Posted By Jeffro On April 16, 2012 @ 1:50 PM
500 Plugins To Possibly Be Purged From The Repository
@Andrew Nacin – I’m not running a news desk here where I ping people all day long about stuff. Just about everything I write is based on publicly available information with sometimes my personal interpretation of that information which in some cases is totally wrong. But in this case, based on what Otto said and the compiled list, I found it completely reasonable to suggest that there was the possibility of those 499 items in the spreadsheet to be purged from the repository for having non-compatible licenses.
The ticket was created 11 months ago so that’s why I said the discussion has been ongoing for 11 months. I suppose I could have said that “However, discussion has ramped up on the topic within the past few days” or something to that effect but that’s just semantics.
I even quoted you that you said the team was going to get together for discussion on the topic which would have been a nice pointer had anyone got involved in the comments that started assuming stuff. I even added the word possibly to the headline as nothing was set in stone. These things are evolving stories and until your last comment on the track ticket, I don’t see anything out of the ordinary with what I wrote or how I wrote it. After the core team discussed the matter and the results of the meeting were published, I would have written an update post or added the information to the bottom of this post. Which I’ve already done.
» Posted By Jeffro On February 23, 2012 @ 11:40 AM
WPTavern Watering Hole Still Open For Business
@Ted Clayton – I don’t advertise the forum as often as I should. It’s been a long time since I encouraged anyone to sign up. The reason for the age thing is to comply with COPPA which doesn’t allow anyone under the age of 13 or so to register to the site without written consent from a legal guardian.
Regarding the quiz question, it’s not so much a quiz question but one that needs to be answered by a human being. This method of approving new accounts has worked well over the past two years. I realize that for some, it’s a pain in the rear to register but on the flip side, it enables me to determine who’s human and who’s not. I have bots browsing and registering to the forum all the time and I had to do something to prevent those accounts from being registered.
If you can find me a clean and simple and just the facts registration for vBulletin while eliminating all spam accounts from having to suck up my time, I may have to give you a million bucks for the solution.
» Posted By Jeffro On January 24, 2012 @ 7:26 PM
Open Source Scotland Cancelled
@Andreas Nurbo – Out of curiosity, if I did publish a post outlining my thoughts on how everything went down, it wouldn’t mean much now, would it?
» Posted By Jeffro On January 20, 2012 @ 10:34 PM
Some Orgnizations And WordPress Just Don’t Mix
@Kevinjohn Gallagher – Is there anyway you could forward one or two of those threats to me via email?
» Posted By Jeffro On January 15, 2012 @ 5:36 PM
Matt Mullenweg To Be In Charge Of The 2012 Default Theme
«« Back To Stats Page@Jane Wells – Out of curiosity, between now and the time in which you were hired by Automattic to work on WordPress, do you recall of anything that was added to core and then in a later release, removed based on negative feedback whether it was constructive criticism or not? I’ve tried to think of a feature or something but I can’t come up with anything.
» Posted By Jeffro On December 23, 2011 @ 7:35 AM