Displaying 91 To 120 Of 735 Comments @donnacha of WordSkill – There is no switch that determines how sensitive or open Akismet wants to act. This is how I have the commenting system set up. Before a comment appears: Comment author must have a previously approved comment That’s pretty much it. Not sure why your comment was held in moderation since it didn’t have 5 or more links. I try to moderate comments as soon as possible but I can’t moderate them in my sleep. The one that gets the most people is the fact that they need to have a previously approved comment which both of the WordUp folks didn’t have. What do you suggest I do, turn off Akismet or change those two settings regarding comments? » Posted By Jeffro On September 30, 2011 @ 1:44 PM @Kevinjohn Gallagher – Yeah, I get your point which is why this text is part of the review: However, my review is based on setting up one product on my local server. To get a better sense of how this plugin really performs, it would be best to read a review from someone using it for a live store. I’m not going to set up a live store and do the transactions and provide every little detail as to what is going on. The plugin is free and if someone writes up a detailed review of it used on a live site complete with all that jazz you want to know about, I’d love to link to it. Or, I could install the plugin on WPTavern.com. I setup a product, you pay me money and then I write about the experience. No refunds though :/ » Posted By Jeffro On September 30, 2011 @ 7:48 AM When Will Automattic Be Acquired? @Kevinjohn Gallagher – Regarding point number 1, please refer to this comment by Matt Mullenweg in 2008 which I still hold to be true and accurate. http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/automattic-secures-295-million-b-round/#comment-88087 The WordPress trademark is owned by the WordPress Foundation but the WordPress.org open-source project is owned by no one. There are project leaders, project founders, but not project owners. If the open-source project is not owned by anyone, then how could acquisition ever happen? On a side note, and something I raised last year, if the WordPress Foundation is separate from Automattic and it’s WordPress.com service, why isn’t it being sued over trademark infringement? Matt answers that question in the following comment – http://ma.tt/2010/09/wordpress-trademark/#comment-485325 With regard to my domain, it’s acceptable because the domain itself is WPTavern not WordPress Tavern. However, I do have the explicit permission of the trademark owner to use the trademark in the name of my show, WordPress Weekly. The more I read into it, especially the post announcing the second round of funding, the more depressed I get as it’s just a matter of time before the company is acquired. But on the flip side, Matt took steps such as the Trademark transfer that were huge in making sure that the most important things regarding WordPress would be kept under the foundation rather than a company that he may not have much influence over. » Posted By Jeffro On September 28, 2011 @ 5:58 AM @jobalicious – Your last two comments have me wondering if you think that WordPress the open source project is owned by Auttomatic? It’s not. In fact, no one can acquire WordPress the open source project as it’s owned by no one. No company would take over a platform, they would only be taking over a service. » Posted By Jeffro On September 27, 2011 @ 6:41 PM @Carl Hancock – But doesn’t it matter how much money was taken in and whether that money translates into ownership shares of the company? What if it’s just money with no actual ownership of the company? » Posted By Jeffro On September 27, 2011 @ 2:40 PM Reasons Not To Upgrade WordPress @chomachomachoma – What if I said yes and what if I said no? » Posted By Jeffro On September 27, 2011 @ 4:54 PM @Chip Bennett – Well, if you wanted to get technical about it, you have a point. But it’s just bad practice to make modifications like that as it ruins the upgrade path. » Posted By Jeffro On September 27, 2011 @ 2:17 PM @donnacha of WordSkill – inner circle, circle of trust, those in the know, us versus them. Man, it’s starting to sound like an interesting political movie lol. Unfortunately though, I know where Kevin is coming from with his comment regarding the us versus them mentality, something that really is unnecessary and didn’t have to happen. People need to realize that arguing changes to rules will most likely not get them to change, we won’t get our way but at the same time, shoving those changes in our face without allowing open dialogue from people to talk about those changes is a bad deal. That was my basis pretty much behind the post I wrote : All We Want To Know Is Why? » Posted By Jeffro On September 26, 2011 @ 2:37 PM @Scott Kingsley Clark – I don’t think they were removed explicitly because of their post. From my understanding, they were removed from the feed once but they were supposed to be re-added. Either that hasn’t happened yet or they were added, then taken down again. » Posted By Jeffro On September 14, 2011 @ 7:49 PM Flexible Widgets – Only Works For Certain Widgets @Ryan – Ok well you convinced me and plus, looks like only one of my extensions won’t work. Installing 5.0.1 now. » Posted By Jeffro On September 13, 2011 @ 3:40 AM @Ryan – Because all of my extensions that I use work on it and I don’t have any pressing need to upgrade. Also, Mozilla has been maintaining the branch with security fixes. Once that’s over with, then I’ll have to consider upgrading. » Posted By Jeffro On September 13, 2011 @ 3:27 AM @Shawn Hesketh – Well, now that I see that you offer a one time fee of $19.00 for users, that sort of changes my tune and definitely shows that this product is for the consultants, not really for end users. You’ve got that covered with the $19.00 membership fee. I’ll need to update the post to reflect that information. » Posted By Jeffro On September 9, 2011 @ 6:21 PM Should Automatic Upgrades Be Opt-In? @David Gwyer – Interesting you bring that up. I wonder what other ripple effects there would be if Automatic upgrades were across the board for everyone. » Posted By Jeffro On September 9, 2011 @ 6:13 AMComments Posted By Jeffro
Hold a comment in the queue if it contains 5 or more links. This feels like Matt Mullenweg wants to tell me when I can wipe my rear end. Sometimes it is not necessary to wipe my rear end.
Should I even ask when it’s not necessary to wipe your rear end? lol
As for Opting In or Opting Out. Initially, I was for Opting In so as the decision would not have been made automatically without my knowledge. However, if I open my mind up to the bigger picture, I think having folks Opted in automatically on new and existing installs is the better way to go. Overall, I think having automatic upgrades for the majority of users is a good thing the more I think about it, especially for those that choose not to upgrade anyways.
However, I still would like a line I could put in WP-Config to turn off automatic Core Upgrades.
» Posted By Jeffro On September 9, 2011 @ 6:08 AM
@Ipstenu – I’m glad someone brought this up because it’s something I thought about when writing the post.
Decisions, not Options, is one of the WP credos, right?
An option to choose whether to opt-in or not to automatic upgrades would never be added to core so whether I like it or not, they would likely have to be opt-out anyways. And of course, I suppose the wp-config way of doing it wouldn’t hurt.
» Posted By Jeffro On September 8, 2011 @ 4:03 PM
What’s The Best Way To Be Notified Of Theme And Plugin Updates?
@Ben – Sounds like a cool service. Sent you an email, hoping to get in touch with you to conduct a small interview for the show.
@Otto – I ask that this be opt-in which is something the WordPress team seems to be against most of the time, something being opt-in. I want to be in full control of my site and want that ability to review the upgrades before they become live and active on my site.
» Posted By Jeffro On September 7, 2011 @ 6:10 AM
@Jon – I did the ultimate in monetization, sold the site. Let’s just say that one of the things I’ve been hoping for has happened and now, the responsibility is on me to produce great content. I don’t need the ads or affiliate links now.
» Posted By Jeffro On September 9, 2011 @ 4:00 AM
@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 said
practically half of the top 10,000 websites recorded by BuiltWith Trendsif 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
«« Back To Stats Page@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