Displaying 91 To 120 Of 718 Comments @Ryan Imel – It might not be how it went, but reality did sink in when the realization came about that “donations” were not going to be the way to move up the next level and that advertising is what needed to happen. I’d like WPCandy to be a full time team rather than just a full time me. An admirable goal, something that I wanted but didn’t have the cash to hire the people to make that a reality. In my case, I didn’t want to be the boss or the marketer. I just wanted to be the content producer without limits. A (you pay me and I’ll produce) kind of relationship. Life sucks when you have to wear all those hats without doing what it is you really want to do. I’ll be watching how you progress with the team approach, you already know what I think in terms of what would be the best, kick ass type of site dedicated to WordPress and the projects surrounding it. Maybe your the guy to make it a reality. » Posted By Jeffro On September 7, 2011 @ 6:01 AM Feedback Needed For New Widget Context User Interface @Flick – That’s exactly why I ended up going with Widget logic. It’s no muss or fuss and once the conditional tags are put in, I can just forget about it. But, I wouldn’t mind a nice interface to assign widgets to certain places which again, would be a cross between Widget Logic and Widget Context. » Posted By Jeffro On September 7, 2011 @ 5:55 AM The WordPress Learning Curve – How Steep Or Shallow Is It? @Jeremy – Come to think of it, I too came across WPDesigner because of some of the tutorials he wrote, specifically theme related stuff. Not to mention the fact that I loved the design of his site. @Dave – In my opinion, a fresh install of WordPress.org is much easier than a new account on WordPress.com. I’ll explain why in a future post but it’s a nightmare to navigate and their is too much stuff in for the user to wade through on .com versus WordPress stand alone. That’s why you probably see people flocking FROM it rather than TOO it. @Martha Davis – If you’re still struggling with WordPress, I highly suggest checking out WP101.com which I’ll be doing a review of in a few days or keep an eye out for new classes on WPClassroom.com. In fact, WPClassroom has classes on September 13th and 15th and is more of what you’re looking for to learn the software. @Ipstenu – I think I hinted to that in the post near the end. I mean, these days, you have one click install, one click upgrade for core, themes and plugins, and overall, everything is just easier. If you loved the way a theme looked, there is a good chance that user would never have to touch any code to get going. But, are we going to be looking at a generation of WordPress users that look at you funny when you mention the acronym FTP? @that girl again – I can’t agree with you that the software has become more difficult to use, at least I don’t think so. But I will say that WordPress.com is definitely more complicated to use than stand alone WordPress because of the interface and how many menus and links people have to wade through on WordPress.com. WordPress.com is supposed to be the hassle, easy way to press your words when in fact, I think it’s the other way around. @Jim W -I’d say no. As I learned with Drupal and with Joomla before WordPress, each system has it’s own nomenclature, it’s own ecosystem of terms and descriptions used to navigate managing the system. While all three are built with PHP, they each do things a different way, sometimes majorly different ways. While there are similarities between them all, there are probably twice in not three times as many differences. » Posted By Jeffro On September 7, 2011 @ 5:51 AM WordPress Powering Practically Half Of The Top 10,000 Websites @Brian Krogsgard – Well, I didn’t say half of all websites, I saidComments Posted By Jeffro
practically half of the top 10,000 websites recorded by BuiltWith Trends
if you wanted to get picky, you could pick from any number of analytic companies and come up with a number based on who is in their surveying group.
@Giovanni – The numbers are not wrong and are specific to the surveying group that Builtwith Trends has. The numbers change from week to week so they could be a little higher or a little lower but when I wrote this post, you can see in the screenshot that the number was for the top 10,000 sites monitored by Builtwith Trends.
» Posted By Jeffro On September 7, 2011 @ 5:30 AM
@Jamie Northrup – I use Vbulletin for the Tavern forum and boy, it sure could take a few lessons from WordPress in terms of interface design. The back end is something from 1990. It’s just interesting that amongst the top 10,000 sites, the ones that are using Drupal or Vbulletin have to be massive in terms of how much traffic they receive to show those kinds of percentage points.
» Posted By Jeffro On August 30, 2011 @ 4:51 PM
What’s The Quickest Way To End A Conversation About WordPress?
Definitely some good answers to the question that I didn’t think of when I wrote the poll. Since the poll is closed, looks like (There’s A Plugin For That) wins by a long shot. In fact, one of the other comments reminds me that even people who are not vaguely familiar with WordPress often say, there is a plugin for that lol.
» Posted By Jeffro On September 7, 2011 @ 5:24 AM
If I Fork You, You Can Fork Me Right Back
@Andrew – Would you feel bad because they chose to work on it by themselves or because they didn’t chip in and help you out with your own project?
@Joost de Valk – Well, a spoon is less likely to cause an injury than a fork.
» Posted By Jeffro On September 7, 2011 @ 5:22 AM
@QuinnerKat7 – I’ve read through the first and second edition of WordPress For Dummies and Lisa Sabin-Wilson did a great job of being able to walk people through the technical hurdles of WordPress. Thanks for telling your cool story and the best of luck with using WordPress.
» Posted By Jeffro On September 7, 2011 @ 5:17 AM
@Elpie – Thank you lol. The deal I worked out is awesome. Plus, I end up wanting to say so much and it would suck not having a place to say it :P
» Posted By Jeffro On June 8, 2011 @ 7:25 AM
I’d like to know if any of those solutions or a particular plugin could go through and Smush my images that I use for my theme so I can lower their file sizes even more than they are. That would be a nice optimization technique.
» Posted By Jeffro On April 5, 2011 @ 7:02 AM
@Brad Vincent – Thanks for showing people the various alternatives that exist. Until forced to do other wise, I’ll be sticking with Akismet :)
» Posted By Jeffro On April 5, 2011 @ 7:02 AM
WebBoy Fights Spam – Akismet Comic
@Quinten Sage – Looking forward to future webisodes of the comic. You could take this any number of different ways. I’m going to guess that the arch nemesis will be a designer that rips you off or something that copies designs. Maybe the Copyright Infringement guy lol.
» Posted By Jeffro On April 5, 2011 @ 7:04 AM
WPCo.de New Site Dedicated To WordPress
@Andrew – You’re welcome. Take a look at your sites and tell me if you saw any noticeable bump after the WPTavern mention :P In a way, you were featured in the WordPress dashboard lol.
» Posted By Jeffro On March 29, 2011 @ 4:43 AM
WPWeekly Episode 110 – Everyone Wants A Jetpack
@Jon – If you would like to be reminded of the show via email, please create an account on Talkshoe.com and then visit my Talkcast page. After you create an account, you’ll be able to click on the FOLLOW THIS button, which will add your email address automatically to the mailing list. Each time I send out a reminder of when the show will air, an email will be sent to the email address you configured when you created your Talkshoe account.
» Posted By Jeffro On March 29, 2011 @ 6:28 PM
GravityForms 1.5 Released – Tons Of New Stuff
@James – GravityForms has a MailChimp add-on that comes with the plugin if you purchase the Business or Developer license. Not sure how it compares to mailChimp itself but at least it provides a way to do it with WordPress instead of MailChimp itself.
http://www.gravityforms.com/add-ons/mailchimp/
» Posted By Jeffro On March 25, 2011 @ 6:08 PM
How To Mimic The WPTavern Commenting System
@Jesse Friedman – After commenting, what do you think?
@Brandon Mullins – This is the way I do it. Of course, you can simply use Disqus or IntenseDebate to do the same things. In fact, IntenseDebate has their own plugin architecture so you can go above and beyond my commenting system.
@Anne – I think it’s the easiest way to say ‘Hey, I’m talking to you’ in a sea of noise. That code is in my functions.php file but it’s coded in such a way that it’s specific to my child theme based on the Hybrid framework. Messing around with the code, I’m sure you could figure out a way to lift the Javascript bits for your own site.
@Octavian – Not sure what you mean by Tweeter but in a sense, you get threaded comments, just not as visually as you’re used to.
@Daniel – On my site, I’ve chosen not to use threaded comments because that would introduce a second Reply link. The custom one I have and the one WordPress has by default. I liked the functionality of my link better. Although you won’t see the conversation threaded normally, the conversation still maintains threads thanks to the Comment ID link added to the beginning of replies so everyone knows which comment is being responded to.
@Aldo – I haven’t used that plugin and was not aware of it but upon browsing around, are all those options only available to the administrator and not to everyone? That makes a big difference.
» Posted By Jeffro On March 25, 2011 @ 5:42 AM
A Better Way To Link To Previous Content Via Insights
@Ed S. – When you do, let me know what you think about it.
@Rakesh – as far as I know, the Google search results should show up if you select Google as your search method. The results show up in the meta box where you can click on a button that will automatically link to it so you can paste it within the post editor.
» Posted By Jeffro On March 25, 2011 @ 5:46 AM
Fixing PressThis On A HostGator Account
@Peter Westwood – Yeah, it was one of those things that really bothered me because not only was the trash link not working, but other things such as PressThis and the plugin that utilized PressThis wasn’t working. I bet the core team is happy to see that it’s not a WordPress specific issue.
» Posted By Jeffro On March 25, 2011 @ 5:47 AM
Please Adopt This Plugin – Comment Quicktags Reloaded
@Ryan Imel – Looks like you have something similar on WPCandy already but with a cleaner look and less options. I like my comment form to resemble that of a forum. I think it’s the best way to encourage conversation.
@matt mcinvale – One less site in your feedreader? lol
@M.K. Safi – Pretty sure that the buttons in the plugin I’m using are styled via the CSS within my child theme so I could change it up if I wanted to but I haven’t seen or felt the need to.
For previews, I use Filosofo Comments Preview http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/comments-preview/
» Posted By Jeffro On March 25, 2011 @ 5:51 AM
@Ipstenu – I can’t remember if I tried that plugin or not or if I just never got to it. The one I’m using though has been pretty reliable despite being 4 years old.
» Posted By Jeffro On March 22, 2011 @ 7:31 PM
Pet Peeve – Akismet Configuration Link Location
Glad to see the poll results reflect that I haven’t fallen off my rocker hitting my head on the corner of a desk :)
» Posted By Jeffro On March 25, 2011 @ 5:52 AM
@donnacha of WordSkill – I agree. I’ve written about this subject before and in fact, there are ways built into WordPress where a Configure or Settings link can be added as a link to plugins on the main Plugins page. Very few plugin authors are doing this technique though and I’m still having to search for configuration pages. Not to mention, some plugin authors think they are so awesome, they deserve to add a top level menu item.
» Posted By Jeffro On March 22, 2011 @ 7:40 PM
@Ipstenu – Yes, people would then feel the same way I do because it changed positions but I think in the long term, it wouldn’t cause unnecessary aggravation because it’s not in the place where common sense dictates it would be.
» Posted By Jeffro On March 22, 2011 @ 6:38 PM
My Thoughts On The Atlas Theme Framework
@Donal MacArthur -By the way, this worked out great for you as this site has recently been added to the Planet WordPress Feed and because of that, article from the site show up in peoples dashboards. This post has had over 1,100 pageviews today
» Posted By Jeffro On March 22, 2011 @ 6:45 PM
@Donal MacArthur – You’re welcome. This review is just one persons experience but I’m glad you took it in stride. Good luck with your Atlas framework.
» Posted By Jeffro On March 22, 2011 @ 6:37 PM
WordCamp Montreal 2011 Looking For Speakers
@Jeremy Clarke – You’re welcome. I won’t be in attendance as I can’t see myself spending the money to get a Passport and frankly, I have no interest in traveling outside the United States.
Let me know though if Live video streaming happens at this years event as it did last year when you got to perform a Q&A with Matt on stage. I have a good memory :)
» Posted By Jeffro On March 22, 2011 @ 6:40 PM
@Ryan – Because of the visual changes that have occurred and the process of actually getting a key to get Akismet to work people are beginning to think that Akismet is a paid service only and has ditched the free option. That’s why I decided to write this post to figure out if the service was still free, which it is, for a select few.
As mentioned by someone else, I think they are selecting the option that states that you have a few ads on the site and are making money meaning you have to pay $5.00 a month to Akismet. This amount is the one I see mentioned all the time when referencing that Akismet is no longer free.
» Posted By Jeffro On March 22, 2011 @ 2:56 AM
@Eric – Heh, if you go multi-site, you better get some better performing ads.
» Posted By Jeffro On March 16, 2011 @ 12:38 PM
@Craig – I’m making money but it’s nothing to get excited about. It helps pay for hosting and such and as of yet, I’m not going to be paying monthly for Akismet despite how great of a service it is.
@James Poling – I’ll have to continue to enjoy it for free until pressured to do otherwise :)
@Chip Bennett – I get what your saying with your first point but if you’re trying to monetize a service, is this not the route you would go? Out of the gate, you know people will want to use the free version over all others and that option is still there, along with the other plans, it’s just not as big and important as the first three plans. I’d be pretty upset though if the free plan was hidden or off on some other page.
Agreed with point 2. The amount should have been 0 for default.
As for point three, I understand where you’re coming from and I bet the guilt trip has convinced at least one person to up the anty just to see a smilier face. Personally, I think it would have been cool to see the donation slider as a separate plan where people could select their price point, minus the smily face. I have reason to believe and perhaps I’m wrong but Akismet saves so much time for so many people and does such a good job at thwarting spam that I bet many people would take advantage of that plan. It might even be the most popular one. Even if it were 3 dollars per month, from a business perspective, that would be better than Free.
@Peter Knight – I think the only time you’ll see a decline in Akismet installations is when the plugin is not bundled with the core of WordPress or the service has a meltdown and the algorithm gets screwed up.
@Brad Vincent – There is definitely an argument to be made that if first time users have to go through such a process that perhaps not bundling it with core is a good idea. Alas, I think Akismet will be unbundled either in 3.2 or sometime in the future, perhaps after it may be added to the Jetpack plugin bundle.
@Christoph – Well, this site gets 50-60 thousand pageviews a month and I’m not paying a dime. As for privacy concerns, I’m out of the loop but as far as I know, no jurisdiction from Germany has taken Automattic to court over it and the service has been around for a few years now. In fact, I’ve never heard of an individual blogger being taken to court because of their use of Akismet on their site. I’d think someone out there would have sued already if it was really that big of a problem.
I won’t argue that there are other anti spam measures available to everyone to use but Akismet has been rock solid for me and in fact, since 2009 when this site was launched, Akismet has a %99.35 accuracy rating. Over the course of two years, only 28 false positives leaving me with more time to get things done instead of moderating.
» Posted By Jeffro On March 16, 2011 @ 6:06 AM
«« Back To Stats Page@Ipstenu – Well, that kind of makes sense. If you have ads on your site and you click that plan, it’s 5 bucks with no way around that. So perhaps all the people that are saying Akismet is a paid service only are the ones with ads on their site that can’t run it for free. (They can run it for free but maybe that would be morally wrong)
» Posted By Jeffro On March 15, 2011 @ 7:11 PM