Displaying 1 To 30 Of 161 Comments Experimental Method For Contributing To WordPress 3.4 @Chris Wallace – Perhaps this could be the beginning of a situation in which developers aren’t the ones running the project? » Posted By Ryan On January 6, 2012 @ 9:04 AM Limiting The Amount Of Text In Comments JavaScript won’t have any effect on spam. Bots generally don’t process JavaScript. That’s why captcha’s which make use of JavaScript are very effective at blocking bots. » Posted By Ryan On December 11, 2011 @ 7:02 AM Upgrading And Backwards Compatibility For Plugins Backwards compatibility is silly. It is extremely rare than anything would break on an upgrade. In fact I don’t recall ever having a single plugin break during an upgrade ever. That includes plugins I’ve made myself and other plugins I use. The ability for WordPress to upgrade regularly without breaking anything is one of the main reasons I use it. If plugin developers are having their code break on upgrades, then they’re probably doing something wrong (not always, but almost always). So with that in mind, I’m totally 100% in agreement with Otto and co. We need to find ways to make people upgrade, not provide backwards compatibility which has the exact opposite effect. » Posted By Ryan On November 30, 2011 @ 7:48 PM WPCandy Set To Publish First WP Centric Print Magazine @Ronald – In that case the Canadian shipping prices are kinda bizarre. It should cost roughly the same price to ship to Canada than the USA. I won’t be buying it myself, but the shipping rate of US$8 certainly wouldn’t put me off. I just don’t see the point in having something in hard copy form. I’d rather just read it on a website. But obviously many people feel otherwise, or there would be no book industry left. » Posted By Ryan On November 27, 2011 @ 11:47 PM I checked the shipping to New Zealand and it was $8. That seems reasonable to me. » Posted By Ryan On November 25, 2011 @ 10:02 PM @Mark McWilliams – I think Miroslav’s point is that it does not cost that much more to ship a magazine from the USA to Canada (or anywhere for that matter). Someone is profiting immensely from that hike in price to other countries. Based on Ron’s comment, I assume there is some strange American law which prevents shipping outside of the USA for a reasonable rate. But that seems kinda ludicrous since it’s basically hurting American exports, so it really doesn’t sound right at all to me. It would explain why buying anything on eBay from Americans is basically out of the question though. They rarely ship anything outside their own country and when they do it normally has some dementedly high shipping cost. » Posted By Ryan On November 25, 2011 @ 9:55 PM WordPress.com Reaches 60 Million Blogs Milestone Yeah, that was a silly article. I guess whoever wrote it didn’t understand what was WordPress and what was WordPress.com related. » Posted By Ryan On November 11, 2011 @ 8:11 PM Chip Bennett Working On New Template Hierarchy Diagram Thanks for the hard work Chip! » Posted By Ryan On October 26, 2011 @ 11:58 PM Andrew Nacin Previews WordPress 3.3 At WordPressNYC Meetup Excellent video. I’d love to see more of this style of video. Nice and in depth. » Posted By Ryan On October 24, 2011 @ 11:05 PM WPBeginner Reviews Post Admin Shortcuts Plugin @Paul Kewah – I’m not sure that posting on an entirely unrelated blog post is going to help you get any help. Perhaps try the official support forums instead … http://wordpress.org/support/ » Posted By Ryan On October 3, 2011 @ 6:25 AM Removing Links In Favor Of Menus? I’m amazed the links section wasn’t removed a long time ago. I remove it from my all of my sites as it just gets in the way. » Posted By Ryan On September 30, 2011 @ 4:31 AM When Will Automattic Be Acquired? @Carl Hancock – Facebook also uses PHP, so there’s an extra synergy in there too. » Posted By Ryan On September 29, 2011 @ 11:27 PM I doubt WordPress.org is at any real risk. I don’t think Matt would let that happen. He cares too much about the software. I think a deal with Microsoft is more likely to involve integration with Microsoft services in some way rather than a buy out. » Posted By Ryan On September 29, 2011 @ 11:20 PM First Patch Into WordPress By Coen Jacobs I submitted my first patch the other day too. Hasn’t been committed yet but satisfying none the less. » Posted By Ryan On September 26, 2011 @ 6:10 AM Flexible Widgets – Only Works For Certain Widgets Extensions should be upgraded to work with new versions more frequently (like Chrome extensions do) now that Firefox has changed their development process … or at least that’s the theory. So hopefully you won’t need to deal with broken extensions on upgrades anymore. » Posted By Ryan On September 13, 2011 @ 3:49 AM Interesting. I didn’t realise Mozilla was maintaining browsers back that far. I doubt they’ll be doing that again now that they have taken on the same development approach as Chrome, with rapid updates. My memory of Firefox 3.6 was that it was dog slow. » Posted By Ryan On September 13, 2011 @ 3:37 AM Firefox 3.6? Why on earth are you using such an ancient browser? » Posted By Ryan On September 13, 2011 @ 1:39 AM Should Automatic Upgrades Be Opt-In? Does anyone know why this is likely to be such a long way off? I always thought that when the current “automatic updating” system was put in place, that the next step for the very next version, would be for “real automatic updating”. But that time has not yet come. I guess I just don’t get what the technical challenge is. The current automatic update system seems to work flawlessly from what I’ve seen, and when it breaks, it seems to just fail instead of causing a catastrophic failure. So I’d have thought the step to a fully automatic system would have been trivial. » Posted By Ryan On September 11, 2011 @ 12:14 AM Definitely opt out. Upgrades don’t break unless you’re doing something wrong. Plugins and themes should definitely be opt out though, for the reasons mentioned above. » Posted By Ryan On September 8, 2011 @ 12:11 PM Awesome news. » Posted By Ryan On June 8, 2011 @ 10:28 PM Sad to see you go. One request: Please don’t throw the forum out. There’s a lot of content in there which is useful to people. I’m sure someone out there would be keen to take it over, redirect it elsewhere etc. » Posted By Ryan On May 17, 2011 @ 11:13 PM I can’t understand why this has suddenly become an issue. Akismet has always been a commercial service, they’ve just adjusted the point at which you need to start paying, that’s all. The simple solution would be to just remove it from core. It’s still an excellent plugin. The only problem I see is that it’s pimping a commercial service in the core software, which has always felt a little odd, but that’s not a recent change, it’s been like that ever since it was integrated into core many years ago. I noticed the TOS has been adjusted a while ago, and have slowly been taking Akismet off my sites one by one. I’ve actually seen a reduction in span since doing that, as the new tools I implemented were more effective at blocking spam than Akismet ever was. » Posted By Ryan On March 21, 2011 @ 5:46 AM jQuery And The Theme Review Process Seems like a plugin issue to me. It’d be kinda annoying if a theme were to unhook the built in one purely for performance reasons without asking me first. » Posted By Ryan On March 2, 2011 @ 4:36 AM Need Post Format Support Added To WPTavern Thanks Otto :) @Jeff – Don’t offer money for this stuff :P There’s plenty of us out here who will just do it for you for free. You just need to ask :) » Posted By Ryan On February 6, 2011 @ 4:38 AM WordPress, Disqus, And Spam Comments So basically, using Disquis is just like having your site hacked? ie: a bunch of spam links get injected into your site? That seems utterly ridiculous and a hell of a good reason not to touch it … ever! » Posted By Ryan On November 6, 2010 @ 6:53 PM Should Easter Eggs In WordPress Be Removed? I think the Easter eggs should be revamped periodically. That Matrix one is getting a bit old now. Something in the wp-config.php file to disable them would make sense IMO, but I certainly . » Posted By Ryan On October 27, 2010 @ 11:04 PM Core Committer Peter Westwood Joins Automattic I thought he already worked for them too. » Posted By Ryan On August 31, 2010 @ 10:25 AM Advertising via an email list seems kinda weird to me. Using a website to provide an advertising service makes a lot more sense IMO. » Posted By Ryan On August 21, 2010 @ 3:07 AM I have used countless theme frameworks, but I use Justin Tadlock’s Theme Hybrid on my personal blog. As you mentioned, the inline documentation and ease of modifying is incredible. » Posted By Ryan On July 30, 2010 @ 4:49 PM The Future Of bbPress Lies Within WordPress I just recently set up my first WordPress / bbPress integration. I have to say, it wasn’t the smoothest process. I would really love to see bbPress become a plugin and I’m glad to see it is starting to get off the ground. I can see so much potential in bbPress, but it just isn’t there yet. » Posted By Ryan On July 30, 2010 @ 4:54 PMComments Posted By Ryan
wouldn’t want to see them totally gone. That would be lame.
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