Displaying 1 To 27 Of 27 Comments WooThemes Has And Will Continue To Get Credit @Kevin Muldoon - The implementation of the Woo based menu was a win/win situastion for Woo. They got credit and community goodwill, and a better menu system, which makes the theme market Woo operates in larger, and they will have less expenses making Woo themes compatible with latest buids. » Posted By John Myrstad On June 3, 2010 @ 12:48 PM I wouldn’t worry too much about the visuals of the UI at this stage, if the architecture is functional. I tested with 7-8 menus and didn’t really think there was any scalability problems. How often do you use more than 3 menus on a site ? Maybe I misunderstood the scalability issue though, is it an issue if you have zillions of posts or pages ? “The masses” will always complain about new UI`s and new design patterns, but with WordPress.TV it should be possible to make some official Menu UI introduction videos, and have links to them in the help tab. John Myrstad » Posted By John Myrstad On April 28, 2010 @ 12:04 PM Woo To Power Menu Management In WP 3.0 How does Woo benefit ? 1. Community goodwill. If you make millions on WordPress you give back !! John Myrstad » Posted By John Myrstad On April 17, 2010 @ 8:20 AM My Bid For Advanced Exporter Into Core Not included in 2.9 it seems: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10317 » Posted By John Myrstad On October 16, 2009 @ 2:03 PM Has anyone made a ticket for the inclusion of Advanced Exporter? If no, and the plugin fixes anything that might be considered a bug, it should be easier to get it in since bugfixes have higher priority than enhancements. » Posted By John Myrstad On October 15, 2009 @ 9:15 AM I guess whats needed to get it into core is someone doing the code. If its up to core devs its weighted against other prioritized tasks, and 3.0 will be a big update taking all resources. I suggested Scissors plugin for core integration, and the author Stephan Reiter did quit a lot of the heavy lifting. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/scissors/ » Posted By John Myrstad On October 13, 2009 @ 5:05 PM Nomad-One Interviews Six Great Theme Developers Enthusiasm – your “our man” reporting from planet WordPress. » Posted By John Myrstad On October 6, 2009 @ 3:02 PM Plugin Competition Winner Announced If we keep downloading it I guess he continues to develop it ;) And…. a BIG thank you to the 3712 people who have downloaded the plugin! Without you guys I would have no motivation to maintain this plugin! http://www.chancancode.com/2009/09/29/a-big-thank-you/ » Posted By John Myrstad On September 29, 2009 @ 7:57 PM WordPress Dev Chat For 9-17-09 Ticket for image editing. » Posted By John Myrstad On September 19, 2009 @ 5:54 AM Upgrade Notifications By Email Since somebody seems to have problems keeping up with upgrades no matter how well its published, one solution would be to use this plugin to send an email to a mail-to-sms service. Then its no excuses. Maybe someone may make a bookmarklet that displays a 100px blinking red overlay in the browser saying: New WordPress release available: UPDATE NOW !! :/ …or maybe the “Lazy admin sequrity insurance plugin”, a plugin that locks WordPress down with htaccsess if its not running latest version. :P » Posted By John Myrstad On September 14, 2009 @ 3:16 PM Screencast: Basic Image Editing In WordPress 2.9 I`m pretty sure Andrew Ozz will, but its still early days and its possible to make sure the solution becomes flexible: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10528#comment:9 » Posted By John Myrstad On September 13, 2009 @ 3:39 PM @Carl Hancock. Actually its a basic implementation of Scissors plugin which gets deprecated at 2.9. Its probably possible to pick up where Stephan Reiter quits, and put more functionality into the solution, with an enhancement plugin. » Posted By John Myrstad On September 12, 2009 @ 11:04 AM Do You Think WordPress Is Secure? I`m pretty sure there are zero day exploits working on 2.8.4, and the worm exploit have probably been zero day for a long time. Who knows, maybe years. I voted its a trick question. If its safe enough ? Yes, its safe enough, if you dont run a critical site that is likely to get special attention from hackers, and store sensitive information in the backend. http://www.number10.gov.uk/ is running WP and it should really attract some hacking attempts. Mike Little at http://zed1.com/blog may have modified it quite a bit though, and its probably on the safest of servers, but running WP safe is possible. » Posted By John Myrstad On September 9, 2009 @ 3:23 PM Those who find this workflow interesting should also check out the Edit Flow plugin which is under development: http://www.copress.org/wiki/Edit_Flow_Project » Posted By John Myrstad On September 7, 2009 @ 2:40 PM @Matt: Perhaps as a community ( WordPress community ) we could do a bit more than that. You probably have the stats needed to find a working strategy to sequre WordPress installs. The important question is what stops people from upgrading, and what may be done to make people upgrade. We do know that plugin compability and borked upgrades are one factor making people hesitate to upgrade, but what are the other factors and how is it possible to change behaviour. Theres some discussion inside The Tavern and just upgrading WP is not enough as discussed here: http://www.wptavern.com/forum/general-wordpress/835-wordpress-security-about-more-than-wordpress.html You should grab a virtual beer with us in the bar, since I at least, talk about yore responsibility ;)
Lets say Matt then. If you make an easy-to-setup CMS with a famous 5-minute-install and have 100.000 or more users installing and running it, without having a clue about servers or security then you also have some responsibility towards these 100.000 + users. » Posted By John Myrstad On September 7, 2009 @ 3:13 PM How many sites are currently using BuddyPress and how is the growth ? I believe a social network site must be very easy to use to be truly successful. How are you currently working with usability, and will BP be included in the usability labs testing Jane are setting up ? » Posted By John Myrstad On September 1, 2009 @ 5:31 PM Maybe OT but: In the context of software and web publishing a theme/skin is usually a term describing a graphical appearance. The parent/child theme distinction is useful to separate child themes from normal themes. When it comes to the theme framework term I think its useful to make the distinction from themes with a graphical appearance, addressing that the theme is made to bring a framework of functionality to make graphic skins/child themes on top of. However theres a framework buzz and too many call their themes frameworks, even though they really dont bring much functionality for child theming. To me the term theme framework has a clear semantic meaning, and is useful to make a distinction from regular themes with graphic appearance and no extra functionality for child theming. A interesting question for Andy is: When you decided on using the term theme framework, does that imply that the theme will be developed actively as a framework along the lines of true theme frameworks like Hybrid, Thematic, Carrington etc. ? » Posted By John Myrstad On September 1, 2009 @ 6:53 AM Andy Peatling Drinks The Kool-Aid Skins with a functions.php and template overriding that is. A skin with brain, hands and feets. ;) I`m very happy to see BP take the Framework/Child theme route. » Posted By John Myrstad On August 27, 2009 @ 7:44 AM Do You Think The Codex Is The Future Of Documentation For WordPress? They should make documentation marathons on the most important topics, where volunteers got some access to devs/experts to request some insight in missing info. Its all about organizing the content production. Once the content is produced it may be published in many ways. » Posted By John Myrstad On August 15, 2009 @ 6:12 AM Listener Poll: What Day Of The Week Should I Record WordPress Weekly? In my opinion the day that suits interview objects is the better day. That rules Friday out cause many will have the weekend scheduled. I voted Tuesday because people often have some time available early in the week but not close to the weekend. » Posted By John Myrstad On August 1, 2009 @ 10:38 AM I Need Your Questions For Scott Reilly Q1: Are you going for 100 ? ;) » Posted By John Myrstad On August 1, 2009 @ 5:20 AM Can WordPress Be A Project Management App? A project managment tool within WordPress will certainly have limitations compared to dedicated project managment systems, but I believe an internal project managment system, which limits its ambition to only be a managment tool to use when developing, launching, running the site its installed on, may be useful. » Posted By John Myrstad On July 15, 2009 @ 9:21 PM @ Drew Strojny: » Posted By John Myrstad On July 15, 2009 @ 3:35 PM A Theme I Can Be Critical About Its the first released theme of what Justin calls Starter child themes. Themes with very modest styling to give designers and developers the opportunity to add their personal style. A “grandchild/sibling” theme would only need a css file and optionally some gfx. » Posted By John Myrstad On July 15, 2009 @ 3:24 PM How Do I Contribute To Commercial GPL Themes? I dont have much experience with contributing to commercial pay-to-download gpl themes, but I have experienced that bug reports, comments on shortcomings and enhancement proposals, and template code contribution haven`t been very welcomed. However this may be because of business models where volunteers do support for free to push customization services. I also believe that you dont have to be a coder to contribute because sometimes its SEO , usability or documentation that needs changes. Some of the pay-to-download gpl themes services are not really open-source in the traditional way, its just a marketing adjustment to fit in with WordPress/Automattic policy. Hopefully more will move over to the free to download – pay for support business model, focusing on customer support, addon-packs with value, and quality development, rather than on marketing and affiliating schemes. A key to success in any business is to listen to your customers, and a business model where customers may contribute in shaping the product will probably give higher brand loyalty, with more referrals and purchases of add-on packs. Anyways – theme developers are free to do whatever they feel like with their businesses – just my two cents. » Posted By John Myrstad On July 10, 2009 @ 6:26 AM Its really surprising that 53.2% wants new advanced media features in core rather than plugins. No fear of core bloat, and breaking existing media plugins… Some new features may be added as canonical plugins, and if they are successful, then they may be added to core in the next release after some months of user experience/feedback. Lots of problems may be avoided then. » Posted By John Myrstad On July 9, 2009 @ 4:10 AM I seem to remember Matt talking about cononical plugins in State of the Word – SF, and the intention to have a canonical list for third party services and encourage devs to work together on the canonical, rather than having like 15 plugins for Twitter, and using the upcoming WP.org Profiles in this process, just like the b2 forks that came together to become WordPress. » Posted By John Myrstad On July 8, 2009 @ 9:22 AMComments Posted By John Myrstad
That would be a long list of links…
2. Compatibility which saves Woo a lot of work and support hours.
3. Marketing arguments to use in their great branding/marketing machine.
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10528
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10528
Q2: What motivates you to make so many plugins ?
Q3: Whats your workflow when making a plugin, and which tools do you use ?
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