Displaying 1 To 11 Of 11 Comments WordPress News Sites And The Bermuda Triangle @Jeffro – You are DEFINITELY right on that one. :) » Posted By Mike Schinkel On January 25, 2013 @ 7:57 PM @Jeffro – Thanks. Lately so much emotion going on in the WordPress community it’s hard to know when someone is being playful. But anywho, thanks for the link! The check’s in the mail. ;-) » Posted By Mike Schinkel On January 25, 2013 @ 7:43 PM @Adam W. Warner. I’m genuinely honored. Thanks. » Posted By Mike Schinkel On January 23, 2013 @ 8:33 PM @Jeffro – Wow, that’s a long reply!
Of course you would +1 that Mr. http://hardcorewp.com/
Or maybe… I decided to start HardcoreWP because I believed the sentiment in the comment for which I gave a +1? :) Did you happen to notice I didn’t reference HardcoreWP in my comment nor did I link it as my website? (I didn’t even know you knew I had started it.) I started HardcoreWP because I felt that there was nothing that exclusively addressed more advanced plugin development techniques. There are either news sites, technique sites targeted at users, technique sites targeted at themers, and the personal blogs of the leading developers who sporadically write about plugin development techniques but who also write about a lot more unrelated to plugin development. But I’m not actively promoting HardcoreWP yet as evidenced by my not mentioning nor linking it when I made the comment above. I’m happy to have minimal traffic and fewer comments because when I’m replying to comments I’m not writing new posts, and I’ve got a huge backlog of posts planned. Later once I’ve gotten most of the topics covered I will hopefully have a resource that can benefit many different people. It’s just what motivates me. In summary I thought a blog needed to exist that covers WordPress plugin development techniques and concerns. On the other hand my +1 was driven by my honest opinion and not by a desire to promote a blog as I think you might have been trying to imply. » Posted By Mike Schinkel On January 23, 2013 @ 5:47 PMComments Posted By Mike Schinkel
“I think, ultimately, a successful WordPress-centric “blog” should focus on teaching WordPress, not just linking to everything WordPress-related or writing about the latest hire at Automattic.”
+1
» Posted By Mike Schinkel On January 21, 2013 @ 6:51 PM
What Dev4Press Thinks WordPress Needs
Team WordPress of course pays considerable attention to “developers”. The developer community is not, and isn’t about to be, ignored.
True, they don’t ignore developers, per se. But they do effectively ignore key functionality that is important to developers. I could delineate those but I think Milan has already created a pretty good list.
» Posted By Mike Schinkel On April 19, 2012 @ 9:54 PM
@otto – Developers are the ones that create functionality that end-users use. Ignoring developers is like giving men fishes without ever teaching men to fish; you can only feed so many people that way.
» Posted By Mike Schinkel On April 16, 2012 @ 11:12 PM
500 Plugins To Possibly Be Purged From The Repository
Cool, mark me as interested.
» Posted By Mike Schinkel On February 26, 2012 @ 9:14 PM
@Ted Clayton -
By far the most common/main irregularity with these ‘non-compliant’ plugins is that they are being licensed under GPL3, instead of GPL2. In a high portion of the cases, I will speculate that the author was being conscientious about licensing (but ‘in violation’), simply by adopting ‘the latest’ version of the GPL.
Just for reference, this became an issue (for us) because Google’s official API client toolkit for PHP is Apache 2.0 licensed, as are many other important integration libraries. We’d really like to publish the plugin we are building for a client, with their permission, and our team felt it would be crazy to have to rewrite that library’s functionality just so we can make it GPL.
So unless we can get the repository to allow plugins to somehow contain Apache 2.0 licensed code we can’t publish this plugin to the repository.
Any chance you’ll publish a JSON API of your search results? Your terms of service for using it could be that the site has to link back to you.
» Posted By Mike Schinkel On February 26, 2012 @ 8:01 PM
Bad Behavior In The WordPress Community
@Andreas Nurbo – Thanks for the ack.
In general, this whole situation makes me feel like I’ve been punched in the gut and it makes me wonder what my clients are going to ask me about their use of or support of WordPress.
And I’m not even KevinJohn; I can’t even imagine what he has been going through lately. All because he voiced his (IMO totally reasonable) opinion.
Just completely inappropriate. Ugh.
» Posted By Mike Schinkel On January 24, 2012 @ 12:10 AM
Why WordPress Has Fewer Options, Not More
«« Back To Stats PageThanks for writing this post and being willing to publish a contrary opinion.
As a developer I definitely agree that the trend towards fewer options is troubling. I think “less options” is a fad and too many developers just jump on the bandwagon rather than doing the hard work of implementing progressive disclosure and deciding which options to give. I also think it can be a form of self-centered developer rationalization; it’s easier on developers to provide end-users with less options than addressing legitimate needs or worrying about the moderate-to-advanced user frustration.
I’m not pointing fingers at anyone in particular, just hoping those who read this and have been following this trend without thinking consider what makes sense vs. defaulting to the flavor of the month.
» Posted By Mike Schinkel On December 21, 2011 @ 11:48 PM