Displaying 31 To 60 Of 76 Comments Should Automatic Upgrades Be Opt-In? It’s worth noting that a heck of a lot of people already do fully automatic upgrading. Many people run their site on the trunk code via SVN and have it doing an “svn up” once every so often. We run WordPress.org off the trunk and it’s often updated several times a day. So I’d say that, for core at least, we’re in a good position to state that there’s very rarely any breaking changes, and that an automatic upgrade system is at least feasible from that perspective. Also consider that an “upgrade”, as it currently is, is once every three or four months (sometimes less) and is usually a fairly major change. But what if the upgrade was just one or two files, maybe a few minor function changes or enhancements? Maybe even on a weekly basis? What if it was “upgrading” to the latest version that was in the current branch (3.2) instead of to the next level of 3.3? Would that be any different? I’m just thinking you might want to consider more than the most obvious point of view about upgrades. When was the last time you upgraded Chrome? Did you know it upgraded itself, about twice a week? Did you notice? Did you care? That’s the kind of thing I think we should shoot for. You shouldn’t notice upgrades, they should just happen. And not fail, of course. » Posted By Otto On September 8, 2011 @ 12:08 PM How To Make The WordPress Search URL Pretty Here’s a better way: That will do more what people are expecting, I think. » Posted By Otto On September 6, 2011 @ 8:01 PM What’s The Best Way To Be Notified Of Theme And Plugin Updates? The basic problem is simple: PEOPLE DON’T UPGRADE. They just won’t do it. You can make it as annoying and intrusive as possible. You can make it flash warnings in big red letters. It doesn’t matter. People just won’t click the damn button. When you ask them why, they’ll usually say something to the effect of that they don’t know how, or that upgrading once broke something somewhere… They simply refuse to do it, no matter how much you try to explain or warn them. There is only one solution to this. Google found it with Chrome. Upgrade them automatically, and don’t bother telling them. This is the only solution that will work in the long term. We have to implement automatic upgrades. We have to make it happen entirely without the user being involved. That’s the only way it’ll get done. » Posted By Otto On September 5, 2011 @ 4:34 PM WordPress.org Should Scare You Wow. Lot of fighting going on over there. I’ll sit down sometime soon and give the whole thing a read through. Thanks for the heads up! » Posted By Otto On March 25, 2011 @ 7:27 PM The smiley thing is pretty cool. https://akismet.com/img/ab/smiley.png » Posted By Otto On March 15, 2011 @ 8:10 PM Need Post Format Support Added To WPTavern Found it. You’ve got mail. :) » Posted By Otto On February 3, 2011 @ 1:30 PM Hey, just found that I don’t have your email address. Email me directly and I’ll email you the modified theme file. Also need to ask some questions about how you want to do it. :) » Posted By Otto On February 3, 2011 @ 12:52 PM Sure, I got your back. Gimme an hour. :) Donate the $20 to the WordPress Foundation instead. » Posted By Otto On February 3, 2011 @ 12:11 PM Protecting WordPress Login Credentials From FireSheep @John Pratt – It’s worth noting that theft of your password isn’t the problem here. It’s theft of cookies. Firesheep doesn’t grab your password going over the wire, it grabs your authentication cookie and lets the attacker easily duplicate it, thus pretending to be you. » Posted By Otto On November 4, 2010 @ 12:59 PM Think you might have misread me there. Using the WordPress app over 3G is fairly unlikely to get sniffed. So actually I’d say you’re probably safe there. It’s one of those “it’s possible if you’re a hacker who is presenting how to do it at DefCon” type of things. I just don’t want anybody to get the impression that XML-RPC is insecure. It’s the traffic that is non-encrypted. XML-RPC is just the protocol being used, and yes, it has your credentials sent along with it. WiFi is simply insecure in general. Public WiFi even more so. » Posted By Otto On October 28, 2010 @ 4:10 PM Chip Bennett Explains The Right Way To Custom Gravatars People always do things the hard way… » Posted By Otto On September 27, 2010 @ 11:11 AM A Few Website Pet Peeves I Have Re: Sharing buttons…. Sorry, but no, you’re mistaken. LOTS of people use them. The trick is to make them unobtrusive and yet easy to find. Anything more complex than putting the buttons off to the side or at the bottom or top of the story is unnecessary. I share links via Tweeting or Facebook far, far more often than via email. And usually I’ll look around for a button to share a story right there, because it’ll generally have the title already in it for me, the shortlink, etc. Building my own is too much work. So much so that if I can’t find the button to share the story, I usually end up not sharing it at all. This is a split second decision, if it takes more than a button press or two for me to do it, then I won’t bother with it. And that’s a shame because it means that your content won’t get seen by people I have some level of influence over. Sharing buttons for Facebook and Twitter are basically required, in my view. Any extra services are a tad pointless, the top two are enough. If you want a third, Google Buzz is a good one because it’s linked in with Google Reader, which has bajillions of users using it. Note: I will never use a button on a site to email the story to somebody. The very last thing I ever want a site to do is to email something to somebody else using my name. I don’t trust your email button and I never will. So those I avoid like the plague. » Posted By Otto On August 17, 2010 @ 5:44 PM Blogger Import Authentication Broken For Some People The importers got moved to plugins around 3.0. I don’t know the reasoning there. » Posted By Otto On August 19, 2010 @ 10:22 PM And done. Version 0.3 of the blogger importer plugin fixes the issue. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/blogger-importer/ » Posted By Otto On August 17, 2010 @ 5:34 PM Actually, it looks like there’s a simple change that needs to be made to fix it. Related info: » Posted By Otto On August 17, 2010 @ 4:44 PM Six Revisions On Missing Features In WordPress Here’s the 10 features: Of those, 3 are already there, 6 are better served as plugins, and only a better search should be core code. IMO, of course. » Posted By Otto On July 1, 2010 @ 10:43 AM WordPress Support Forum And Themes @Jeffro – My PHP Code widget uses eval. I can think of no sane reason to use eval in a theme. » Posted By Otto On June 26, 2010 @ 4:29 PM WPWeekly Episode 100 – The Century Mark Sorry about my bad microphone at first. I’ve found the problem since then, the gain was set way too high by default. :) » Posted By Otto On June 9, 2010 @ 7:59 PM Otto To Head The WordPress.org Redesign @Dan Cole – you’ll know when I do. Promise. :) » Posted By Otto On June 4, 2010 @ 4:04 PM WordCamp Fayetteville Around The Corner Huh. Didn’t know there was going to be one in Arkansas. Of course, that is still a pretty long way for me. Birmingham is closer. Still, wish I’d known. Gotta check the Wordcamp pages more often. » Posted By Otto On May 19, 2010 @ 3:54 PM Jason Schuller Did It – I Can Do It To Dude… Working in a cubicle is better than grocery store clerking. Take the money for the few years of cubicle work, save up a few years, then work on getting the dream job. I, for one, want to start a brewery. Might take me another 5 years, but I don’t mind the cubicle life in the meantime. » Posted By Otto On May 6, 2010 @ 2:07 PM Use The Media Library Or Hand Code? The file handling system changes drastically in 3.0 for multi-site, (not for normal single-site), so expect some weirdness there if you try to go that route. Took me a while to get the hang of it. This doesn’t affect the media-library view of it though, which has gotten much better in recent versions and is very useful now. I wish we could dump the flash uploader though. It’s definitely a problem on some systems. Perhaps HTML5 adoption will help that. » Posted By Otto On April 19, 2010 @ 5:30 PM Adding Twitter Anywhere Into Your WordPress Site @Jeffro – LOL. :) Demo of it in action here: http://ottopress.com/2010/stc-now-has-anywhere-support/ » Posted By Otto On April 19, 2010 @ 5:24 PM My Simple Twitter Connect plugin has @anywhere support now. :) http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-twitter-connect/ The base of the anywhere is there along with an example plugin to make it work. I’ll be integrating anywhere more and more into it as time goes on (working on pretty @anywhere commenting right now, in fact). » Posted By Otto On April 19, 2010 @ 3:04 PM Automattic Launches VaultPress – No BackupBuddy Killer When Matt was in town a month or so ago, we had a prolonged chat about VaultPress over lunch. Let’s just say that some of the features he was proposing are really, really slick, but I did have the same concerns over the price. It doesn’t seem to fit my price point, although if I was running WordPress as part of a small business, I’d consider it a bargain. But the short of it is that that sort of price point is kinda required to make it profitable at all. Cloud storage simply isn’t cheap, especially when you’re using more than one provider for it. One feature that we talked about which I thought really drove the point home: Migration. How would you like to be able to migrate a site as easy as restoring a backup from their servers? That sort of thing is entirely possible. Now, I have no idea if they actually have that feature, just that it would be more than possible to do based on what he was talking about. Essentially you’re letting them manage your site entirely at the file and database content level, so having it automagically change those contents according to pre-defined methods lets you do this sort of thing. » Posted By Otto On April 1, 2010 @ 1:13 PM When you published this a month ago, I was forced to bite my tongue as Matt asked me not to spill the beans. But they’ve announced it now, so here: » Posted By Otto On March 31, 2010 @ 9:59 AM Using BuddyPress With Existing WordPress Theme @Jeffro – No, I generally don’t do video. I read, not watch. Actually, making a video tutorial is a very good way to have me ignore you. :D And this video didn’t really answer my question. Yes, it adds activity streams, forums, and friending and such. Okay, but what are those? What do those do for you? How do they work? Where’s the technical documentation on how I can use them? Why do I want them in my “community”? BuddyPress just strikes me as poorly documented and I have no idea why I’d use any of it instead of using other pieces to build what I wanted. If I wanted to make a forum, for example, I wouldn’t even think of BuddyPress. I didn’t even know it had forums in it until just now. It’s like they are assuming I just know what they’re talking about with these terms, when I have no idea what those terms even mean in the given context. Like “Friends” with WordPress? That doesn’t even begin to make the slightest bit of sense to me. I know what “friends” are on Facebook and similar, but I don’t see how that applies to WordPress at all. I grant you that it is entirely possible that I don’t get it because I lack any sort of valid use case for it. This is most likely. » Posted By Otto On February 26, 2010 @ 4:54 PM I still have yet to see a satisfactory explanation of what, exactly, BuddyPress does. “Social networking” is not an answer. I even tried the test site. All it did was send me spam, and I’m still no closer to understanding it. » Posted By Otto On February 26, 2010 @ 3:59 PM @Jeffro – There’s no current plan to eliminate it, I simply expect it based on the way things happen… I did make a ticket to this effect, actually, but I suggest deprecating it for a version or two first. As far as keeping up with changes… if you want to be a serious plugin developer, then I’d get involved in core development as well. Subscribe to the wp-trac mailing lists. Download the trunk SVN and run a local copy which you do an “svn up” on every so often. Give your opinion on trac every once in a while. Contribute a patch or two. You can’t be a really good WordPress developer without keeping up with and helping out with the core code as well, IMO. There’s no real difference between “plugin” and “core” developers. There’s just “WordPress developers”. » Posted By Otto On February 26, 2010 @ 4:48 PM Comment_karma is a remnant. Much like post_category and link_category used to be. The only difference is that, until recently, there was no way to really get rid of it. However, now that we have comment meta system, I expect that the comment_karma field will go away. Probably not in 3.0 since we’re close to feature freeze. But probably in 3.1. It’ll likely be replaced by a comment meta of “karma” or similar. Plugins should start taking advantage of the comment meta now, as many of the comment fields are not really necessary any more and probably won’t live long. » Posted By Otto On February 26, 2010 @ 3:00 PMComments Posted By Otto
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http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14566
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14629
1. Web Caching
2. Pagination with Multi-Page Navigation
3. Displaying Related Posts
4. Custom User Role Permissions
5. Social Media Integration for Popular Web Services
6. Site Statistics
7. Web Form Builder
8. Minification of Source Code
9. Better Site Search
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