Displaying 1 To 30 Of 33 Comments Secrets Revealed: WLTC and WPTavern Excited to see what comes from this! » Posted By Matt On May 20, 2013 @ 9:54 PM Do You Want To See Plugin Specific Dashboard Widgets Disappear? I agree that we should be given the option. There are some widgets that do provide very useful information in the dashboard. On the news site I run I really like seeing the recent searches and searches that came up empty as soon as I log in as it prompts me to do something about it. As someone that also develops themes for clients though I hide pretty much everything to keep the UI as simple as possible, so the ability to choose would simplify everything for me. » Posted By Matt On January 30, 2012 @ 4:42 PM Some Orgnizations And WordPress Just Don’t Mix @Andreas Nurbo – You’re missing the point. “There are plugins out there that do some of this. Document Revisions and Edit Flow are great examples of how plugins are getting there. But frankly it’s not enough. So much of this needs to be driven by, or at least firmly dictated by, the core management team.” WP does not aim to solve every use-case within core. The purpose of core is to contain the essentials, plus functionality that proves useful to the vast majority of users. The rest is plugin territory. The author claims that the right plugins don’t exist to fulfill his requirements. The logical conclusion would be to either (1) find a better solution for the job, or (2) build the plugins, or find someone who can. There’s really not much “fanboy” about it. » Posted By Matt On January 10, 2012 @ 4:48 PM I agree that WordPress isn’t the best solution for everything. It’s important to find the right tool for the job. That being said, the plugin architecture is pretty flexible. If the functionality doesn’t exist and WordPress is still the best option, do your part and contribute / patch a plugin. » Posted By Matt On January 10, 2012 @ 1:46 PM I’d love to see a list of KevinJohn Gallagher’s WordPress contributions. Has this guy, or his company, contributed any patches to WP core, or added any plugins to the repository? Has this guy, or his company, helped test WordPress during one of its beta or RC releases? It’s fine point out flaws for contructive criticism, but what’s been done on their part to help the WordPress community? WordPress is FAR from perfect. No secret there. But lots of people seem to forget that it’s an open-source project. Anyone can help make WordPress better, if they feel so inclined. » Posted By Matt On January 10, 2012 @ 12:05 PM I created an account by downloading the free wootique theme which allowed me access to the codex. However, you need to purchase something before accessing individual threads within the forum. » Posted By Matt On October 1, 2011 @ 8:01 PM I love that the plugin is free but I can’t stand when forums are behind paywalls. I like to ask questions before a I drop money on a theme. Just testing the shop locally has me really excited. The one thing I can’t figure out is how to edit the single product image output to not hard crop and leave the original image aspect ratio intact. » Posted By Matt On October 1, 2011 @ 2:00 PM This is really sad. Jeff, you will be missed and I hope you come back to it someday. Let me know if there’s ever anything I can do to help. » Posted By Matt On May 18, 2011 @ 11:32 AM Should Easter Eggs In WordPress Be Removed? It was said on the list, but I think the problem with the revision comparison is that it’s rather easy to stumble upon. Most easter eggs require some sort of complex operation (Konami code, whatever) to trigger them. Anyhow, what was said is that this shouldn’t really be an easter egg trigger, it should be an error trigger. I don’t think the uproar would be periodically happening if it was something that required more effort on the part of the user to make it happen (i.e. they basically should need to go seek it out, not have it happen while they were randomly trying to do something). » Posted By Matt On October 25, 2010 @ 10:31 AM WPWeekly Episode 104 – To P Or Not To p Hi Jeff: I have recenty begun to listening to the WPTavern podcast. I am a relative newcomer to WordPress and a student of dynamic scripting languages. Over the last few months I have been intrested in the new features of WP 3.0 and will install a instance of 3.0 locally soon. I listen to tech podcasts during my hour long commute to work and found the WPTavern after listening to an interview you were on. After taking the time to listen to many WPT episodes, I have come to the realization that you are quite a busy fellow. I can relate to that completely. Your passion for WP comes through loud and clear. I’m very impressed that you have access to Matt (Who by the way I would not have known from a hill of beans if I had not been a listener) and Brad Williams who I “knew” from the Sitepoint shows and all others who are key players in the WP community. I have to agree with you that it seemed a bit much to have a patch added to the core that changed every misspelling of WordPress into the proper arrangement. I have learned quite a bit just from listening to your shows and look forward to hearing many more. I also hope that you are able to make a smooth transition from working stiff (like me) to WP Guru guy. Later » Posted By Matt On July 31, 2010 @ 7:52 PM Jane’s not so bad…?! She’s awesome! » Posted By Matt On May 29, 2010 @ 6:19 PM MattNote From WordCamp San Francisco @_ck_ — bbPress.org 2.0 is under way and should be live within a week or two — we kicked off the project after we got the design source files from Sam. Forum plugins for WP are popular, and would be more so if they were as powerful as bbPress already is. With better integration with WordPress tens of millions of users will be one-click away from having a forum perfectly integrated with their design and user system. This is sort of possible today, but it’s too hard right now. Themes don’t really mesh. BuddyPress does some juggling to make integration easier but it has too much overhead. » Posted By Matt On May 2, 2010 @ 10:52 PM Would You Take WordPress Advice From A Non WordPress Using Site? Sure I would. Using Blogger for their site doesn’t mean they’ve never used WordPress. Then again, I run a Thesis site on a non-Thesis theme. :p » Posted By Matt On April 28, 2010 @ 7:24 PM Thesis Creator On WP Community Podcast For the record, I think that his assertion that Thesis is faster than WordPress because it bypasses page selection logic (paraphrasing) is technically inaccurate. » Posted By Matt On February 15, 2010 @ 11:40 PM Canonical, Core, Something Plugins As a plugin developer, I’m a fan of keeping the core as lightweight as possible — and having plugins for the nice-to-have features (e.g. Code Editor). I’m not a huge fan of the canonical plugins idea, at least the way it’s been presented thus far. A bundled/canonical plugin would have tremendous outreach, but Carl is right — providing support for a canonical plugin could prove overwhelming for the plugin developers as well as the WP core team. @Keith – Agreed. I think it would be of WP’s best interest to steer clear of favoritism. Improvements to the WP.org plugins page and “Add New” area (within WordPress itself) could make a world of difference. They’re now collecting “Plugin Compatiblity” crowdsourcing data, which could be combined with WP.org’s metric shit-ton of other statistics data to determine which plugins to feature. My recommendation would be for WP to re-vamp the plugins page to take all their statistics (average downloads/day, plugin age, last updated, rating, compatibility, tags) and use it to provide a more interactive/filterable experience. An obvious example is to allow users to search for plugins tagged with X that are compatible with Y version of WordPress. Or, plugins rated >= 75% with >= 5 votes. Also, cleaning up the tags system would make them more helpful. Maybe even going as far as only using tags for aspects of WordPress (e.g. “Admin UI”, “Widgets”, “Image Management”, “Search”, “SEO”, etc). Finally, instead of just having a single “Featured Plugins” area, maybe having a tabbed area of high-impact categories (UI, SEO, Post Types, Forms, Images, Commenting, Roles), with several algorithm-picked plugins under each type. That’ll give users a much wider view of the variety of WP plugins (no offense to PollDaddy, IntenseDebate, and the others). » Posted By Matt On December 20, 2009 @ 12:14 AM Mullenweg Interview Remastered Donnacha I was about to say that! REEEEEMIIIIIIIIX. » Posted By Matt On November 29, 2009 @ 8:52 PM Managing Comments With Ajax Edit Comments Ah good, the new version is now working fine (it wasn’t the case with thickbox, probably due to a plugin conflict). I would very much like to see Jean-Paul’s ideas implemented ! » Posted By Matt On November 9, 2009 @ 11:40 AM 2009 Plugin Competition Winner Reviewed – Section Widget That sounds like a pretty slick widget. I like how you can place it anywhere. The only thing is, the main uses I’d have for it aren’t supported (i.e Recent Comments, Recent Posts, etc.). It’d be nice if it had the widget features of Kaspar’s Tabbed Widgets mixed with the functionality and ease of use of this plugin. » Posted By Matt On October 6, 2009 @ 12:33 PM @Paul – thank you for saying that. I think a lot of us were thinking it. » Posted By Matt On October 31, 2009 @ 2:34 PM @Dave Doyle – if you’re smart enough to use patches, you’re smart enough to wrangle SVN. SVN can give you arbitrary diffs between any release or revision of WordPress, compare it to your local version, allow one-click reversions and updates, and you can browse it visually and even download diffs of any file or changeset on the WordPress Trac. It also works great with binary files, something patches really can’t. Any patches we provided would be inferior to what you could get yourself via SVN, so if that’s important to you I would recommend diving into it. There’s a fantastic free book on SVN available here: » Posted By Matt On September 7, 2009 @ 6:49 PM Perhaps as a community we could do like an “upgrade barn raising” where the more tech savvy folks (the audience of WP Tavern) could volunteer a little bit of time every day to help get folks set up correctly on the latest version, like install4free used to work for installations. » Posted By Matt On September 7, 2009 @ 12:10 PM Roll Your Own URL Shortener With Pretty Link @Barry – It was because wpmupremium (at that time) violated the GPL license, sorry if that wasn’t obvious from my comment. It’s not an issue anymore because they’ve switched to being fully GPL compliant. I should clarify that I think the local shortlink part is useless, external shortlinks is a harder problem. You could generate extremely short URLs for WP by just using a base62 of the post ID (that’s what wp.me does) and catching the 404 handler. If your domain is too long just alias it to yours and WP’s canonical features will take care of the rest. Stats are redundant because all of the clicks go to your site, which should already run a stats package like Google Analytics or WordPress.com Stats. Click tracking is only useful to know about traffic you’re sending someplace else. (WP.com stats already tracks outgoing clicks.) Shortening other people’s links is useful. Long term, though, I hope shortened links go away for everything but severely constrained mediums, like SMS. (And who clicks on links from their SMS anyway?) » Posted By Matt On August 21, 2009 @ 5:15 PM This seems like a rip-off. » Posted By Matt On August 19, 2009 @ 2:35 PM I encourage you to continue to attend, I don’t think Jane’s intention was to ask you to not. » Posted By Matt On August 21, 2009 @ 5:08 PM WPWeekly Episode 68 – Hey, I Didn’t Change My Password! John is full-time, not part-time. » Posted By Matt On August 16, 2009 @ 7:46 PM Miroslav, this login problem has been there for years, it’s just no one has noticed it until now. If this had been told to us in the 2.7 branch, we would have had to do a release then. There was nothing more or less tested about 2.8 than previous releases. » Posted By Matt On August 12, 2009 @ 5:25 AM WPWeekly Episode 66 – Interview With Scott Reilly For a while it sounded like you were trying to talk Scott out of writing plugins. » Posted By Matt On August 3, 2009 @ 10:12 PM Poetry is poetry. (more words because your comment form requires it.) » Posted By Matt On July 15, 2009 @ 1:17 AM It’ll get a design refresh, I just wanted to get the content going. It had been sitting on my laptop for too long. » Posted By Matt On July 15, 2009 @ 1:03 AM WPWeekly Episode 53 – Interview With Daniel Scocco Thanks for the link to my plugin, WordPress File Monitor. Glad folks are finding it useful :) There should be a new version out in the next day or two. » Posted By Matt On May 2, 2009 @ 10:38 AMComments Posted By Matt
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