Displaying 1 To 10 Of 10 Comments Should Automatic Upgrades Be Opt-In? Opt-out for new installs, opt-in for existing installs. The main objections seem to be from power users and from people who’ve had upgrades break sites in the past. Power users – you are smart enough to know about the option and configure it the way you want it (as you do with the rest of your site), and hopefully you will recognise the broader benefit to the internet if more sites are kept up to date. Stop looking at it as something that is enforced on you and instead look at it as a choice that will help others. Past breakages – those sites that broke from an upgrade would break whether the upgrade was manual or automatic. So the only difference is that it might happen when you aren’t on hand to fix the problem. Solution: scheduling options for the automatic upgrades. And if you’re concerned about clients, then you can always just turn it off and own the upgrade responsibility for those sites (as you probably already do). I don’t know why this issue continues to be so controversial. Automatic upgrades have done wonders for the security level of numerous operating systems and applications over the years. Time for WordPress to join the party. » Posted By Paul Cunningham On September 13, 2011 @ 12:47 AM Jeff, I’m very happy to hear this news. I’m glad you were able to get such a good deal worked out. Thanks to your mystery benefactor (who I am willing to guess the identify of just not publicly :-)) for helping you find a way to keep this going. » Posted By Paul Cunningham On June 15, 2011 @ 1:12 AM I just read this post tonight (talk about real life getting in the way :-)) Jeff, it is sad to read this but not all that surprising. Life certainly did come crashing down on you and it was clear from following your Twitter stream that you had more important things on your hands. I would do the same in your situation. Thanks for being one of the community’s great enthusiasts. Your name has been in my RSS feeds for as long as I’ve been into blogging and WordPress. Best of luck! » Posted By Paul Cunningham On May 28, 2011 @ 8:51 AM Automatically Correcting The WordPress Mistake Oh honestly…. » Posted By Paul Cunningham On July 8, 2010 @ 6:22 AM Jason Schuller Did It – I Can Do It To Instead of focusing on the things you can’t do, focus on the things you want to do and then work on achieving them. Want to get some more technical chops and do consulting work? Nothing stopping you. Want to go from being a community enthusiast to being flown around the country to talk about WordPress at conferences (not just WordCamps)? Nothing stopping you. I’ll tell you this from experience – now is the time to start taking those first steps. You’re getting married, you might have kids one day soon, it gets a lot harder to make big changes in your life when your little angels are eating up a lot of your day (though they make you so happy doing it). PS – I’m honestly surprised you haven’t turned this site into a stronger authority review site for WordPress plugins, themes, etc and monetized that traffic with affiliate links. Nothing wrong with that if you’re doing honest reviews. » Posted By Paul Cunningham On May 19, 2010 @ 2:04 AM Automattic Launches VaultPress – No BackupBuddy Killer I like the look and sound of it. It caters to a different site owner than say BackupBuddy, which I also like the look and sound of. $300/yr (riffing off someone’s earlier comment) is a drop in the bucket if the site is making tens of thousands of dollars a year (or more), especially for the cloud-ey nature of Vaultpress. Having it automatically, and incrementally backup to resilient, replicated storage online saves a lot of hassles. For my smaller sites no doubt BackupBuddy and email/FTP to get the backup file off-server will be fine. The hot updates also interest me. Frankly I’m still disappointed that WP doesn’t include at least the *option* to do automatic upgrades. I understand the risks and still want it. In the IT world we went through similar resistance to Microsoft’s automatic Windows Update options when they first appeared, but the truth is they solve more problems than they create. » Posted By Paul Cunningham On April 4, 2010 @ 4:47 PM Classic And Kubrick Have Left The Building Its a great day for sploggers who will now have a fresh new look for their bare-bones scraper sites ;-D » Posted By Paul Cunningham On March 30, 2010 @ 9:30 PM Community Oriented WordPress Magazine Idea I’m all for this and have some similar projects in mind in slightly different niches. I know people think that contributors won’t want to put free effort in, or will hold back their best content, but really this type of project is like the ultimate guest posting opportunity. Add in some sort of promotional incentive like allowing you to use one ad spot on the page where your article appears and its a winner in my book. In most professional industries the opportunity to be featured in industry publications is highly sought after. Should be no different in the WP community. » Posted By Paul Cunningham On March 1, 2010 @ 7:41 PM Overtaking Blogger Through Mobile Apps Not many people would publish long posts from their iPhone, but I bet plenty of us are at least moderating comments while out and about. But if you think about a different type of blogger, the more personal, short-take blogger, mobile apps make posting to your blog as easy as updating Facebook. Personal example, I run a blog for my family that is little more than pictures of the us and the kids so that distant family and friends can see what we’re up to. Two years ago I would take photos on my camera, transfer them to the computer later that night, upload to the blog, and publish them. Now I just snap a quick shot of the kids doing cute stuff on my iPhone and post it straight away. » Posted By Paul Cunningham On March 10, 2010 @ 12:03 AM My Thoughts On WordPress Weekly I’m in Australia so with the timezones there is almost no night of yours that makes it easy for me to tune in live. But I do listen to the episodes on my iPhone, sometimes a week or two later. » Posted By Paul Cunningham On February 14, 2010 @ 7:21 AMComments Posted By Paul Cunningham
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