Displaying 121 To 150 Of 721 Comments @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 @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 New Forum For WordPress Meetup Organizers @Jane – Meetup.com is expensive for just meeting up but the site has everything we (North East Ohio Meetup) needs to conduct our meetups. On our first meeting, we had a discussion on whether to user a WordPress site with custom domain to have for our meetings or use Meetup.com. We decided to go with Meetup because the WordPress site would be just another site that needed maintenance, would need some sort of kick ass events calendar which is something that is still lacking overall in the plugin community, and it would be difficult to spread the word regarding our meetup group when people go to Meetup.com and use their zip code to see if anything is near them. In our case, WordPress just wasn’t the best tool for the job. As for the data, that data really isn’t important. @JTPratt Media – Meetup.com has been around for awhile and it’s how I discovered relevant meetups in my area. It’s also a cool site and has much of what we needed to get out group underway. After we registered our group, we immediately began to gain members from the local area. This would have been hard to do with a brand new WordPress site. They have so many people creating WordPress meetups that they dedicated an entire sub domain to it. » Posted By Jeffro On March 16, 2011 @ 6:17 AM Three More Commercial Themes Added To WordPress.com @that girl again – I would guess that it doesn’t and $75.00 is an expensive price to pay but we’ll have to see how many people bite the bullet and go through with the purchase since the install numbers are available to the public. » Posted By Jeffro On March 8, 2011 @ 7:31 PM WordCamp Columbus Looking For More Speakers @Kim – Me too. It sounds like everything is shaping up to be a great a event. @John Parkinson – Same here. » Posted By Jeffro On March 5, 2011 @ 1:28 PM Affiliate Program For Digging Into WordPress Closes @donnacha of WordSkill – I take it you’re not a fan of the book or was that all tongue in cheek? @Pothi – I’m sure other affiliates have had to go through similar issues, that’s most likely why most use a third party to handle the affiliate stuff instead of doing it on their own. » Posted By Jeffro On March 5, 2011 @ 1:30 PM Have You Removed Or Disabled The Admin Bar? @Larry Wilcox – Oh, well I’ve decided to keep it on for myself as it’s proving to be a very convenient way of accessing the same areas I’d want to access if I were in the Administration panel anyways. The admin bar just saves me a couple of mouse clicks. » Posted By Jeffro On March 8, 2011 @ 7:37 PM @Chip Bennett – Not sure I understand you. What do you mean by front-end and back-end? I see it on the front-end but I’m the only one that sees it. As for the back-end, I don’t see any admin bar. » Posted By Jeffro On March 4, 2011 @ 5:42 PM WPWeekly Episode 109 – Interview With Lance Willett @ Sallie – It was called http://www.changedetection.com/ @Matt Bragg – Thanks for the awesome comment. It’s a balancing act and I’m just trying to find a way to do what I want to do while getting other priorities taking care of. » Posted By Jeffro On March 5, 2011 @ 1:41 PM Narrowly Escaping WordPress 3.0.6 @Chip Bennett – No, I’m not even aware of the specifics regarding the code to fix the bug but did it have to do with character escaping? If it did, it was a hidden pun that I didn’t know about lol. » Posted By Jeffro On February 9, 2011 @ 7:56 PM @Ipstenu – I think WordPress definitely needs to ship with a default theme but in reality, no plug-ins need to be bundled with WordPress to have it function well out of the box as in a new install. Thankfully, at some point in the future, I think Akismet will not be bundled with WordPress. As for Hello Dolly, I think it’s going to take pulling more teeth to get that out of the core package despite the plug-in not really causing any technical issues. It’s just an annoyance more than anything. » Posted By Jeffro On February 9, 2011 @ 7:10 PM New WordPress Podcast For Your Ears @Josh – Heh, as a matter of fact, I just scheduled an episode for this Saturday at 3PM. » Posted By Jeffro On February 9, 2011 @ 4:27 PM Need Post Format Support Added To WPTavern Chip and Otto are on the ball. I’m working with them to try and get some post formats onto WPTavern.com. I initially offered to pay because that’s just who I am. Grateful though that these guys are offering to add the support for free. » Posted By Jeffro On February 8, 2011 @ 7:48 PM History Of WPWeekly Now Properly Archived @Patrick D. – Thanks for the self esteem booster :) I’m a big fan of Leo Larportes shows as well. Certainly seems like he’s growing his network all the time. I guess Mostly Lisa is now doing a photography show with him. » Posted By Jeffro On February 2, 2011 @ 6:33 PM WordPress To Be More Tumblr Like @Hollow – I’m not sure where legal problems come into play here? I’m pretty confident that the post format feature set will not be code ripped directly from Tumblr as that would be bad. » Posted By Jeffro On November 13, 2010 @ 4:02 PM Software Releases And The Kitchen Sink @Eric Mann – Great response. That’s another thing I’ve noticed in the past few months. Quite a few cool little plugins that are being kept in-house because of the fear that the increased load of support will bring on. Then this all gets turned around into the problem of 80% support 20% development while at the end of the day nothing gets done. » Posted By Jeffro On November 9, 2010 @ 1:57 PM WPWeekly Episode 105 – The Return @Ian Stewart – haha, thanks Ian for continuing to support me and my work. Having fun at your new job? Do you wear a cowboy hat when you wrangle themes? » Posted By Jeffro On November 9, 2010 @ 1:58 PM WordPress, Disqus, And Spam Comments @Antti Kokkonen – One more reason why it’s better to perhaps find a few plugins that can fill in the gaps of functionality of the default commenting system. I love the way my commenting system works with the reply, preview, and other options and it’s all home grown. However, I’m curios as to whether IntenseDebate suffers from the same problem considering their tight integration with WordPress. Have you looked into that? » Posted By Jeffro On November 5, 2010 @ 4:51 PM Protecting WordPress Login Credentials From FireSheep @John Pratt – Who really changes their passwords every 30 days? The more sane thing to do would be to use a different, strong password for every login. » Posted By Jeffro On November 4, 2010 @ 9:12 AM Should Easter Eggs In WordPress Be Removed? @Ipstenu – LOL I said that on Twitter the other day. Make all easter eggs accessible only after typing in the Konami code :) » Posted By Jeffro On October 25, 2010 @ 10:22 AM 5 Tips To Create A Great Site About WordPress @Ipstenu – Yeah, I guess :P but I’ve only brought this all together with my travels of the web looking for WordPress stuff. Quite a few good sites about WordPress have come and gone. Sounds weird since that could be considered my competition but it’s the being part of the community part of me looking for cool new sites :) » Posted By Jeffro On September 28, 2010 @ 6:40 PM StudioPress Sold To Copyblogger? @Brian Gardner – Understood and that info was merged into the bottom of the post in an update. » Posted By Jeffro On September 1, 2010 @ 1:31 PM @Matthew Guay – I’ve linked to that in the post and have also added that the company was not sold. Just bad timing on my part. As soon as I hit publish, StudioPress published their announcement post lol. Ouch. » Posted By Jeffro On September 1, 2010 @ 1:30 PM New WordPress Book – WordPress 3 Site Blueprints @Idealien – Yes, the entire chapter is mainly about installing and customizing ClassiPress along with a selection of plugins that in the end, creates a fully functional classified ads website which was the entire point of the chapter. What I meant by my statement that you quoted was that books such as WordPress For Dummies or WordPress For Beginners and many other books simply tell you how to install plugins and themes and that’s it. Just the basics. This book on the other hand tells you specific themes and plugins to install and use to come up with a particular use case of WordPress which the sample chapter was an example of. I thought the book was a great example of simply providing the ingredients necessary to create specific kinds of sites with WordPress, themes and plugins. While there might be better ways to accomplish the same thing e.g. Custom Post Types, I think this kind of book at least opens up the floodgates for creativity for many out there that didn’t know WordPress could be used for these types of sites. As for the affiliate link, this post is not a full blown review of the book and I have not read the entire book, just the sample chapter and the table of contents. I figured if I was going to post news about a WordPress book, why not put an affiliate link on it. By the way, since adding the various WordPress books to the Tavern store and talking about them quite a bit, no one has made any purchases for books through this website. At least not through any affiliate links. I think this crowd is too smart for books :P » Posted By Jeffro On August 24, 2010 @ 1:28 PM Looking For Guest Posts For September @donnacha | WordSkill – LOL that was a good one. Seriously! :) and no, I prefer not to publish posts that go on and attack anyone. » Posted By Jeffro On August 13, 2010 @ 11:13 PM @Miroslav Glavic – I will be. Just thought that if someone wanted to get content in front of a lot of smart WordPress users, that would be the time to do it. » Posted By Jeffro On August 13, 2010 @ 4:36 PM Which OpenCamp WordPress Presentation Do You Want To Hear? I just put a new battery in the DVR and I have a spare one :) Will try and get Lorelles Presentation on audio and perhaps the PODs one but without visuals, the PODS one might be confusing. » Posted By Jeffro On August 26, 2010 @ 4:44 PM Thesis Goes Split Licensed – Hell Freezes Over @that girl again – That’s too bad. I was hoping he would go bankrupt so I could show him the door out of the community. Maybe then, he’d give two shits about something other than himself. » Posted By Jeffro On July 23, 2010 @ 12:06 PM I supposed I’ve reached the point where I need to sleep and wake up to some interesting comments. » Posted By Jeffro On July 23, 2010 @ 4:29 AMComments Posted By Jeffro
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