Displaying 1 To 18 Of 18 Comments Removing The Browser Nag Bar In WordPress @Kel – Because no one bothers to look at options before searching on the web. » Posted By Jeremy On December 6, 2011 @ 3:32 PM WordPress Gameshow Now Available To Play From Home Great game! I think I missed 3. Got all the Theme questions right though! :) » Posted By Jeremy On November 22, 2011 @ 6:31 AM Please Don’t Use The Post Title As A Hyperlink I really don’t see a problem with it at all. If all you’re posting is a link, esp. with no commentary, then why make the user go to your web site just to click on that link and go to a second site. Start with the source if all you want to do is point. Why point at a picture of yourself pointing to something else? That seems like unnecessary cruft just for the sake of tradition. Not to mention it’s probably more economical just in terms of server load – which makes it ever-so-slightly greener to do. The past is dead and gone. Get used to the shifting paradigm of shifting paradigms! » Posted By jeremy On November 4, 2011 @ 1:52 PM The WordPress Learning Curve – How Steep Or Shallow Is It? I mut say my experience is really similar to yours. I also used Joomla before to come to WordPress, and my first steps with WP were not easy (that wa back in 2006 I think). But I didn’t turn back to Joomal: I had realized that Joomla was way too much for what I wanted to do (a personal blog). I looked around for help and I discovered wpdesigner, still maintained by Small Potato at the time. It became my main source of information for all things related to WordPress, and thanks to his great tutorials I got more and more familiar with the code, and started browsing the codex to get to know things better. I remember that I first started playing with my sidebar. I had discovered the PHP widget plugin by Otto, and started displaying different elements on my homepage and article pages. It helped me understand the template hierarchy thanks to the conditional tags. To conclude, I’d say that my first steps to WordPress were really good, thanks to all the tutorials that I could find. I don’t think there is so much documentation for other CMSes (correct me if I am wrong). WPdesigner has now disappeared, but there are many other great sites out there! » Posted By Jeremy On August 31, 2011 @ 8:21 AM I’d go for the following team. Since we were talking about woothemes, I fell free to include some of them (we can dream, right? :P) Code masters: Designers: » Posted By Jeremy On April 8, 2010 @ 9:34 AM Good to see you back! Hopefully everything is solved on your side as well! Switching hosts can be a pain, so I can’t imagine how frustating it can be to have to it in emergency. Did you actually plan to make the switch before the attacks? » Posted By Jeremy On March 21, 2010 @ 6:38 AM What Is The Weakest Link Of WordPress? In my opinion, the weakest link in the WordPress project is its past. It could grow so much more if only people knew that WordPress was NOT just a blog platform, but a CMS like the others. I am sad to see that people still choose Drupal or even Joomla’ over WordPress, because “WordPress is for blogs”. I know we have all tried to communicate about it, to let people know about the evolution of WordPress towards more and more CMS features, but still the reputation remains. And I think that’s really something that stops WordPress from growing really big. In that point, I completely agree with you, a a reorganization of WordPress.org would be useful. After all, what’s the title of WordPress.org homepage: “Blog tool and publishing platform”. Don’t you agree that WordPress is now much more? » Posted By Jeremy On December 3, 2009 @ 3:53 AM Yoast Interviews SmashingMagazine Creator Sounds amazing! I did not imagine it was running this way. It sounds really like community work, many different people contribute to one single article. No surprise they are one of the best Web design online magazines nowadays! » Posted By Jeremy On October 8, 2009 @ 1:04 PM Nomad-One Interviews Six Great Theme Developers 1) You, the fact that you do not only report but also give an opinion. And of course, you are interested in what the others think. Keep asking, that’s what builds a community! 2) You are trying to be as objective as possible. That’s not an easy task, and I think that’s why I come back, because I know that what I read here is well-thought. I feel you give yourself some time to think before to write and publish something. That gives this bit of in-depth info that’s missing in so many other places. Keep on!! » Posted By Jeremy On October 6, 2009 @ 2:33 PM Small Potato Coming Back Again Again? :) I’d be the first one to follow this up… if only this wasn’t published on Kubrick. I mean, if you want to compete with the big fish, you gotta have something more appropriate than the simpliest fishing rod ever. Somehow I feel that WordPress themes have changed a lot in a few years, and SP will have a lot to learn before to be able to compete… But why not? » Posted By Jeremy On October 6, 2009 @ 12:02 PM I thinkyou forgot to mention the co host should speak English clearly:) Anyway, I am sleeping at that time of the day, so I hope you find a good replacement for David, he was a good element in the show! » Posted By Jeremy On October 3, 2009 @ 5:25 AM List Of The Best WordPress 404 Pages @Jeffro – I think I am blacklisted … Don’t know what I have done for that… I will ask them via Twitter. Weird. » Posted By Jeremy On September 17, 2009 @ 12:13 PM Is it just me, or wpbeginner is not reachable since yesterday? Every time I come back to try once again to have a look at the article, I get an error page. » Posted By Jeremy On September 16, 2009 @ 8:43 AM Which Theme Company Has The Best Word Of Mouth? @donnacha | WordSkill – Well I think asking people to vote for you if they are happy with your services is exactly what I would call good word of mouth. Nothing bad in it, as you said yourself, when you are happy with something, you recommend it to your friends: isn’t the poll meant to be about who has the best word of mouth i.e. enough enthusiasm among their existing users that they recommend the company to their friends. » Posted By Jeremy On September 3, 2009 @ 3:10 PM I think a bit of stats would go well with this poll. People may have a favourite in the list, or may criticize the poll itself, but the truth is woothemes is now leader in this business niche, far in front of all the other. Another thing is the websites in this poll clearly do not play on the same level. A quick look at google trends gives us a bit more insight on the figures. I started by selecting the poll websites, then I kept only the ones actually appearing in Google trends. First conclusion: Woo! Woothemes is defintely above. Not so surprising though, Adii keeps transparency in his business, and his marketing methods are far more developed than any of the other market places. The number of people behind woothemes also makes a difference; a one-man company often makes less noise. Then imho, the brand Adii has built around himself also helps him selling: after all, isn’t he the “WordPress Rockstar”? Who in the WordPress community has got so famous? Small Potato is the first name that comes to my mind (and God knows they loved each other ;) ) I think that may be a key point for marketing your brand: you got to market yourself as well: Let’s have a look at elegantthemes.com for instance (I am not even a user of their themes, its just the perfect example here): their theme club is maybe the cheapest on the market right now, for a big amount of good quality themes, however Jeff did not include it in its poll, however the website stats are bigger than many websites quoted here: big proof the company needs to get more coverage! Then lets look at the owner… Who knows his name? Even on elegantthemes’s blog, he is “admin”. A quick look through the terms and conditions on the site tells me he is Nicholas Roach. I was not able to find more info about him. No personal blog, no twitter account… Or they are well hidden, or not good enough for Google! Don’t you think that could be the beginning of a recipe for a good brand advertising? Don’t you think that’s what makes the difference between all these websites? In the end, shouldn’t we all follow the advices Adii gives on his own blog about brand advertising? You may or may not like the man and his methods, but they seem to work pretty well, he wins everything so far :) Sorry for the long post :) » Posted By Jeremy On September 3, 2009 @ 3:00 PM I voted Woo, but I would add elegantthemes to the list. You do not hear much about it, but it actually gets more traffic than press75.com for example. And people are satisfied about what they buy there, for a great price, I gotta say! I guess it is just missing some advertizement, or a good marketing strategy… I guess that as the developer behing elegantthemes does not state his name, it does not help him… » Posted By Jeremy On September 1, 2009 @ 9:11 AM Are We Afraid To Do What We Want With Our Blogs? I think I will just summarize the comment I posted over on Woothemes here then! :) In my opinion, Tumblr is more than just a quick way to post videos or pictures. If you have used it, I am sure you have seen how it works for everyone: you follow and are followed, you check people’s posts from your dashboard, and you reblog what you like with two clicks of your mouse. Once you start following more and more people, reblogging represents an important part of your blogs content: much like Twitter retweets in fact. In the end you do not even check people’s pages, you get everything in your dashboard. So I do not really get why we compare WordPress and Tumblr, when Tumblr is actually much more Twitter-like. Can you implement Social features, develop a community of followers and friends, display a dashboard with all their recent posts and the possibility to post quickly from there, all this with WordPress? I am sure you can do it, nothing is imopssible, but what is the point? » Posted By Jeremy On August 19, 2009 @ 1:04 PM Is WordPress Information Too Fragmented? Interesting article! I completely agree with you on this matter, there are really a lot of WordPress blogs around (mine included!). However I think you also underestimate the power of the WordPress community: But I believe that’s a good alternative! Maybe we should just use these tools a bit more! » Posted By Jeremy On June 3, 2009 @ 7:06 AMComments Posted By Jeremy
Ian Stewart
Justin Tadlock
Jeff “Jeffikus” Pearce
Cobus “Fresh01″ Bester
Nick La
The guy from Elegantthemes (I can’t recall his name, sorry)
I also love comments here. There is always something interesting to read in the comments. it is almost as valuable as the post itself sometimes!
Seriously when I read it, my first thought was “everybody would be laughing at my accent if I started speaking :)”
No big advertisement, a few affiliate links, a few articles and giveaways on design blogs such as noupe, and most of all, not too much activity or comments on WordPress blogosphere…
That’s a sign for a potential customer, don’t you think?
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Among these websites, some of them have raised to select the information and give out only the best of it.
That is, I think, one of the best ways to go through WordPress news and info today without feeling overwhelmed. wpazo.com and wpvote.com are two of them. I myself try to do the same, without much success I must admit, but It is due to the fact I dont present the info in a correct way (within categories and with an except showing you what it is all about.