Displaying 1 To 5 Of 5 Comments iThemes Responds To Speculation – All Is Well Unfortunately I tend to agree with Nathan. iThemes started out well but has really been left behind in the last year in terms or creating quality innovative new themes. Cory can write a nice blog post with words about ithemes being “innovator of WordPress themes” with “great features and standards” etc, but until we actually see some of those things…actually all is not well with iThemes. » Posted By Peter On August 27, 2009 @ 11:35 PM Taking Out The WordPress Trash Perhaps more exciting — the prospect that the “de-link” functionality (to remove the author link when spamminess is suspected) might be making it to the core! » Posted By Peter On August 5, 2009 @ 4:27 PM WPWeekly Episode 61 – Could WordPress.com Ever Rebrand? Like Vix; I can’t download this or several back issues of WordPress Weekly from this website or from TalkShoe. Is there any possibility of fixing the problem soon? Regards, » Posted By Peter On June 29, 2009 @ 3:55 AM I’ll be interested to see how things go for you, David – I’m not really sure how I feel about the idea of entirely service based business, so I think I can see where you’re coming from. Regardless, I hope you do well, and I hope you’ll keep us all updated. » Posted By Peter On April 9, 2009 @ 9:41 PM Plugins And Commercial WordPress Sites I’m not sure of the answer either – but I know what isn’t the answer – I recently purchased a premium plugin for a client to use on one of his sites – the plugin is well made, does exactly what it promises, and does it pretty well. It’s a membership management plugin, and as part of a bigger site, it needed to be pretty closely integrated with a few other components. I was happy to pay for the plugin, as it goes above and beyond your average plugin fare – I was even happy that I had to enter an activation key to register it for the site – a bit more hassle than I expected, but I understand that the developers feel like they need to protect their assets. I got to work putting the site together, and I got to the point where I’d need to do a little custom work to integrate the membership protection provided by the plugin with a forum, to protect that as well. Assuming the code would be as pretty as the interface, I didn’t have any worries. Then I got into the plugin files – and the ENTIRE THING was encrypted. (I’m not sure encrypted is the right word here – obfuscated? I’ve never needed to do that before, so I dont know how it works) Every file. Every last line of code. I’m still furious about it. I was on a deadline, so I had to use it anyway, and just guess at what was going on in the database – thank goodness they didn’t find a way to encrypt that. $100 for a plugin that I couldn’t extend at all beyond the out of the box functionality. I’m happy to pay for plugins – and honestly, I’d like to sell a few as well – but please, don’t render your plugin completely useless to another developer like this. » Posted By Peter On April 7, 2009 @ 9:56 PMComments Posted By Peter
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