Displaying 31 To 47 Of 47 Comments WordPress Plugin Compatibility Checker Looking at All in One SEO Pack, it claims that I use the deprecated (pre 2.3) tag “the_tags”. and that I’m missing a $wpdb->prepare. Both of which are incorrect. He’s pretty misleading anyway, boldly calling plugins “incompatible” with whatever version of WordPress. According to that, most of the top 15 plugins haven’t been compatible in a year. » Posted By Michael Torbert On June 4, 2009 @ 4:25 PM Automattic ALMOST Acquired At One Point Well the day will come when Matt will be more of an executive (Bill Gates, etc) and not be involved in the daily goings on of WordPress. We’ve already seen his role start to change in some ways, as WordPress continues to grow. Hopefully, no matter what role he has, WordPress will always continue on the path that he’s envisioned. » Posted By Michael Torbert On March 31, 2009 @ 5:14 PM That could have been very, very scary. It’s hard to resist selling rights to your ideas when you’re struggling in the early stages. I’m glad Matt decided to stick it out to continue on his path that’s given us the WordPress software and community we know and love. Michael Torbert’s last blog post..Twitter Updates for 2009-03-31 » Posted By Michael Torbert On March 31, 2009 @ 3:00 PM If CMS’s Were Operating Systems Linux is an OS that is liked by many ‘techie’ types. This statement is still faulty. Linux is a generic term for operating systems built on the Linux kernel. They are all very different and can’t be generalized in that way. For instance, the ‘type’ of people that use Fedora would never use Lindows. There is no Linux ‘type’. Many ton technical people use desktop-oriented Debian distributions like Lindows or Ubuntu, but would never venture into enterprise grade distributions like RHEL or CentOS. » Posted By Michael Torbert On March 31, 2009 @ 5:09 PM Well it’s an analogy, so of course he didn’t mean that it’s exactly like OS X in every way. I suppose he may have meant that WordPress is easy to use or powerful. However, since he didn’t qualify anything that he said, we don’t know exactly what he meant. » Posted By Michael Torbert On March 31, 2009 @ 2:08 PM Saying that one of them is Linux is too vague. Also, there’s nothing to qualify the statements. If I were to make a comparison, I would say that WordPress is CentOS/RHEL, because it is stable, secure, highly scalable, and can be used for most anything. Drupal would be Ubuntu; it looks pretty and has a lot of built in features (read: bulky), but I wouldn’t plan on using it for any legitimate purpose without a lot of work. » Posted By Michael Torbert On March 30, 2009 @ 2:16 PM Aside from the fact that he recycled that idea from a month ago, it’s not even remotely accurate. For one thing, OS X is BSD Linux. Linux also describes many different operating systems. » Posted By Michael Torbert On March 30, 2009 @ 12:19 PM WordPress Store To Get A Revamp @Jeffro -I just haven’t been able to make it work yet. There were two in North Carolina last year, one of which was cancelled, and the other conflicted with a prior engagement out of town. I think there’s one in NC in either Charlotte or Raleigh this year, and I want to say one in Baltimore at some point as well. Although that’s quite a long drive/flight just for some WordPress gear. :) » Posted By Michael Torbert On March 6, 2009 @ 3:55 AM @Jeffro -I am in dire need of a WordPress mousepad. and pens, I need pens with a WordPress logo. » Posted By Michael Torbert On March 6, 2009 @ 3:48 AM Great post! Do you have any details on what “a new batch of new product is being produced” means? I’m curious to know whether that means there will be new products and/or additional stock of the old/existing products. » Posted By Michael Torbert On March 6, 2009 @ 3:43 AM Making Money From GPL Plugin Development @Chip Matt doesn’t need to consult with the community of WordPress users to make decisions for a website he owns. » Posted By Michael Torbert On March 11, 2009 @ 9:54 PM Unfortunately, there isn’t a one size fits all solution. » Posted By Michael Torbert On March 4, 2009 @ 9:21 PM WordPress Tattoo Using The Wrong Logo? It looks right, I think maybe just the angle makes it look wrong. I have a hard time with this though, so I don’t know for sure. » Posted By Michael Torbert On February 10, 2009 @ 4:46 AM Is It Time To Refocus The Dashboard For News? I suppose I should point out that most people probably aren’t aware they can easily change the feed. It may not be immediately beneficial to a person’s WordPress to see Matt’s personal blog posts, and just feeding a WordPress News category would certainly correct that. However, I maintain that WordPress is unique. With a million WordPress site owners, every one of them can feel involved. You use MySQL, PHP, and Apache on more projects than WordPress, but can the average user name any of their developers, much less their creators? Aside from the fact that Matt can do whatever he wants, one thing that initially drew me into WordPress was the community. Drupal, CentOS, Joomla, MySQL, etc could only dream of having a community like WordPress has. At the head of that community is a creator that is very reachable and involved. He isn’t some distant executive whom nobody has ever heard of. As soon as a new WordPress user logs in for the first time, they are able to see this significant distinction that WordPress has from any other large scale application they’ve ever used. » Posted By Michael Torbert On February 10, 2009 @ 3:55 AM I can certainly understand your position that Ma.tt doesn’t have mostly content relevant to WordPress news these days, and wanting it to be removed from Planet WordPress. However, the argument could be made that, unlike many other highly used utilities, WordPress has a creator who is close, reachable, and more personable. Anyone who uses WordPress is immediately exposed to its creator’s personal life, something which is rare in far-reaching companies. Michael Torbert’s last blog post..You know you’re a WordPress addict if… » Posted By Michael Torbert On February 10, 2009 @ 3:26 AM I’m partial to WordCap myself. » Posted By Michael Torbert On February 10, 2009 @ 2:50 AM Anyone Ever Hear Of A Server Drive? Oh yes, I take frequent trips to the datacenter to manhandle a server until it works. » Posted By Michael Torbert On February 10, 2009 @ 2:53 AMComments Posted By Michael Torbert
Community Driven != Community Owned
wptavern.com is a community driven website, but if I go start a thread that Jeff feels is inappropriate, he can certainly delete it. Refer to Jeff’s TOS which say you can’t plug your commercial product/service around the forums. I don’t remember him consulting me on that.
Plugins generating leads for consulting or custom development, support fees, donations are all definitely viable solutions, but won’t necessarily apply in every case. At the end of the day, a developer may need to realize that writing WordPress plugins just isn’t going to be what pays their salary.
I could name many large (larger than any WordPress plugin) open source products (that are free of charge) which don’t generate a significant amount of revenue for their developer.
Aside from that, it’s his software, why wouldn’t he want to use it as free advertisement for his blog? NextGEN Gallery’s main page has the feed for Alex Rabe’s personal blog as well. Of course, you can always easily change the feed shown in the Dashboard.
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(Great section idea by the way.)