Displaying 1 To 30 Of 47 Comments I’m still going to say WPMU. I just like having an excuse to say Mμ. » Posted By Michael Torbert On March 25, 2010 @ 3:38 PM My Thoughts On WordPress Weekly Personally, I was fine with the Friday night show. Unless I have plans to go out that night or am going out of town that weekend, I’m around to listen to the live show. Tuesdays just happen to be a night I’m always gone for the evening. Seems like the best thing is for Jeff to do what works for his schedule. We’ll never find a perfect day or time, with listeners all over the world and with varying schedules. :) » Posted By Michael Torbert On February 16, 2010 @ 1:14 AM James is right. With listeners all over the world, and everyone having different and changing availability, you’ll never satisfy everyone. People will either have to adapt to the time you set or just listen to it on iTunes. » Posted By Michael Torbert On February 8, 2010 @ 10:17 AM I’m still waiting for the WP Tavern t-shirts as well! » Posted By Michael Torbert On February 3, 2010 @ 1:07 PM I’d be curious to know what other people think. It may be that most people would prefer Sat/Sun afternoon as well. » Posted By Michael Torbert On February 3, 2010 @ 12:46 PM I’ve got a weekly dinner meeting on Tuesday nights which is why I don’t make the Tuesday night one. » Posted By Michael Torbert On February 3, 2010 @ 12:38 PM @donnacha - You’ll feel differently once your balls drop ;) Code of Conduct! » Posted By Michael Torbert On January 11, 2010 @ 9:01 AM On the code of conduct… what are we talking about? wordpress.org forums? I heard her talk about this in bits and pieces (the audio wasn’t very good so I couldn’t make out most of it) but I had no idea what she was talking about. As for her five theme authors, she got one yesterday I believe. :) » Posted By Michael Torbert On January 10, 2010 @ 11:27 PM Should WordPress Change The Blog Nomenclature Within The Backend? Just as we now have people ignorantly saying that WordPress isn’t a good CMS tool because it’s more of a blog, we would then have people saying it isn’t a good blog tool. Personally, I agree with SpamBoy. Most people should be able to figure out that WordPress will serve their content management needs just fine. I doubt we’d introduce many great members to the community by changing the back-end blog references. » Posted By Michael Torbert On November 4, 2009 @ 12:02 PM David will certainly be missed. He always seemed to ask guests the questions that I was thinking. » Posted By Michael Torbert On October 2, 2009 @ 11:28 AM Request Deletion Now Part Of Ajax Edit Comments I think this is a very useful new feature. I wish all sites had this. » Posted By Michael Torbert On September 15, 2009 @ 6:05 PM WordCamp Hitting The Big Apple Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make it to WordCamp NY this year. I’ll be in College Park, Maryland that weekend. » Posted By Michael Torbert On September 9, 2009 @ 5:58 PM I saw your series of tweets. :) » Posted By Michael Torbert On July 12, 2009 @ 7:16 PM There’s that canonical plugin thing again. You should interview him asking him questions about it. » Posted By Michael Torbert On July 12, 2009 @ 7:13 PM GPL, Theme Critique, WP Showcase, Interview Questions What exactly is the criteria to be considered an “active” member. ie, sign in during the last week, etc. » Posted By Michael Torbert On June 22, 2009 @ 3:01 PM State Of The Word From San Francisco @Jeffro – Well it was mostly the WordPress functions one that I was talking about. But they’re all cool. » Posted By Michael Torbert On June 22, 2009 @ 8:52 AM I love those shirts. I would love to be able to buy some of them, especially the one with the WordPress functions. » Posted By Michael Torbert On June 21, 2009 @ 8:20 AM Cashing In On WordPress Plugin Development Lester, I’m surprised that you allow that stuff. You shouldn’t have to deal with that sort of thing. I would think you should just delete and ban posts and the people who make them. You’re welcome, thanks for the great plugins and all the time you spend on them. Kevin. I read the rest of your post, and the comments. Your post reflects that you are either new to the WordPress community or that you have misunderstandings regarding the repository and the license for which WordPress is filed under both of which have been addressed countless times on various blogs and forums throughout the community. Matt has stated more than once in many different places what the guidelines are regarding the plugin and theme repositories and if you were to ask a few notable members of the WordPress community, I believe they would have pointed you in the right direction which could have changed the entire tune of your post. » Posted By Michael Torbert On June 20, 2009 @ 10:08 PM Kevin, you really should have done some better research for that article. Your descriptions of services and plugins provided by Automattic aren’t very accurate. Your descriptions of statements and positions of Matt are inaccurate as well. » Posted By Michael Torbert On June 19, 2009 @ 9:12 PM @Lester Chan -Wow. I’m sorry that you’re getting comments like that. I certainly can’t see where he’s coming from (not to mention his inappropriate tone and language). I’ve used a number of your plugins, and whenever I’ve gone to look at your supporting documents have found them to be among the most complete for any plugin out there. » Posted By Michael Torbert On June 18, 2009 @ 12:21 PM @Barry – You have an excellent point, but I don’t think it applies to everyone, nor to every plugin. Take CForms II and Contact Forms 7. Contact Forms 7 is ugly, clunky (although much better than it used to be), and until recently could have been subjectively considered a member of the latter category, but serves a great purpose and works well if you’re happy with its features. CForms II is extremely attractive, has fancy ajax, and a million features, but there are issue with it that we don’t need to get into. Guess which one would get my donation? *No offense to Oliver, as CForms II is still a great plugin. » Posted By Michael Torbert On June 17, 2009 @ 9:02 PM @Miroslav Glavic – I don’t understand your thinking. You demand that a plugin developer is obligated to provide support for a plugin, which should be free, and as a result may possibly receive a donation from you if you feel they’ve earned it. By the way, I never said that a plugin that is commercial is automatically better than a free alternative. I don’t think anyone has said this. For what it’s worth, most of the people who have given me donations never asked for support from me, and never contacted me in any way other than going to my Paypal donations page. Also, most of the people to whom I’ve given support have never given a donation. I can probably count on one or two hands the number of people who’ve donated after receiving support (which ranges anywhere from a couple minutes to send a quick email to hours of work, usually somewhere in between with a few emails or so back and forth), only one of which that I can think of which was over 10 dollars. Most that donated after receiving support gave $5 or less. All but one of the larger donations were from people who never asked for support. Having said all that, let me be clear. I have no problems with with receiving little or nothing in the way of donations from most people for my contributions to the WordPress community, that’s not why I do it. If I never got another donation I would still work on developing my plugins and love doing it. But please don’t insult me and the other developers by having the telling us that we owe you support for the software that you didn’t pay for in the first place. » Posted By Michael Torbert On June 17, 2009 @ 8:47 PM I was going to stay out of this topic but…. @Miroslav Glavic why is it up to you to decide whether to pay for a plugin but the plugin author should have no say in whether they want to charge for it? You make the statement that you will pay for quality, even though at the same time you say that you’ll quit using a plugin that starts charging, when the common charge people are talking about is only $1. I don’t understand how you are willing to pay for 12 custom plugins yet you are adamant about not paying a dollar for non-custom ones that you download. » Posted By Michael Torbert On June 17, 2009 @ 8:05 PM “The argument that users who need this information should know how to get it is absurd. Perhaps WordPress should stop showing post dates, page titles, and the number of comments for each post, because, after all, anyone who needs that info should know how to get it.” Post dates, page titles, number of comments, etc is all information that your average blogger will use regularly. Again, post,page,category ID numbers are never needed unless developing a theme/plugin or if a theme/plugin needs it and didn’t supply the title/name dynamically for you. This issue has been brought up over and over in trac for a very long time as well as recently, and has consistently been shot down by the core committers. Removing it was a mistake, and leaving it out is just laziness. » Posted By Michael Torbert On June 12, 2009 @ 10:50 PM @Justin Sure, various functions require an ID, but this isn’t out of the box usage of WordPress. If someone has the skills to customize a template/theme using the WordPress API, then they should have the ability to locate the ID they need. » Posted By Michael Torbert On June 12, 2009 @ 12:34 PM Andrew, That’s just what I meant. You have it exactly right. Since a WP user will never need them unless a plugin or theme requires it, it’s the job of the developer to supply what they need via dropdown or whatever method. Several themes list categories, pages, etc in a dropdown for you to select instead of asking you to enter the id. » Posted By Michael Torbert On June 12, 2009 @ 11:58 AM It’s not that most people don’t need the post/page/category ID, or even that it can be found by hovering over the name. It’s that nobody will ever need it in a bare installation of WordPress. » Posted By Michael Torbert On June 12, 2009 @ 10:14 AM Hopefully Matt will post some more details about this soon. » Posted By Michael Torbert On June 2, 2009 @ 7:57 AM 2nd North East Ohio Meetup A Success This post title looks familiar… » Posted By Michael Torbert On June 2, 2009 @ 6:11 AM 52 Ways To Have Twitter And WordPress Play Nice I like Twitter Tools by Alex King. » Posted By Michael Torbert On June 2, 2009 @ 6:14 AMComments Posted By Michael Torbert
Pick the time that works best for your schedule and we’ll do the best we can to make it to the live show.
Don’t cancel the show! Maybe put out a poll asking everyone what day works best?
Also, who will plug Gravity Forms every week now. ;)
***Just installed on my personal blog!
I do hope to go next year though!
I mean you should interview him about exactly what he’s planning for canonical plugins. We only know so many details at the moment.
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I couldn’t make it past the first few sections.
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@Kevin Eklund – I don’t know that 95% would agree, but many would anyway. It’s becoming a hot topic as more and more plugin developers move on and abandon their plugins.
Do the math: I get around 30ish support emails (and phone calls) a day for my free plugins. Statistically, most or none of these will give a donation, and if any do, it will be a few dollars. Being conservative, if I spend 20 minutes on each, and get $5 from each, would you consider that good compensation for the support time, not to mention for the development time?
MySQL is free. Go ahead and call Sun Microsystems and ask for support, let them know that you may provide a donation if you’re happy with their support. Have you checked out Automattic’s pricing for support?
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It’s not laziness, as the patch for it has been submitted numerous times. All a core committer had to do was commit it.
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The only time anyone will ever need the ID number of a post/page/category is when a theme/plugin asks for it, or if you’re creating/editing a theme/plugin. Just because you go and get some StudioPress or iTheme theme that asks for a category ID or a page ID, that doesn’t mean that WordPress should have it in there.
If you know enough to create a theme or plugin, you should know enough to be able to figure out the ID of what you need. If a plugin or theme needs it, it is the responsibility developer of the plugin or theme to supply this information.
What if I write a plugin or theme that needs a post meta or user ID number, should WordPress supply those in an additional column as well?
There are 9834589 different types of unique ID numbers for the various types of data in WordPress. NONE of it will ever be needed by a user unless they’re making or editing a plugin or theme, or the plugin or theme asks for it.
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:)
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