Displaying 31 To 60 Of 161 Comments Akismet Looking For New Testimonials Although my personal blog doesn’t have the same amount of traffic as others, Akismet has provided me with 99.981% accuracy. Overall, I have found it to be the best solution for myself. » Posted By Ryan On August 1, 2010 @ 9:12 PM Thesis Goes Split Licensed – Hell Freezes Over @Xcobar – From the sounds of it, he hasn’t actually changed his opinion. He just gave up I think. » Posted By Ryan On July 23, 2010 @ 1:35 AM Should The WordPress Support Forum Only Support Themes From The Theme Repository? I would extend what Justin said above to say that most questions which some would deem as “theme questions” are in fact just generic questions about WordPress. » Posted By Ryan On June 28, 2010 @ 5:05 AM Matt Mullenweg Named Son Of Gutenberg I publish content on two blogs, one for storage of photos and random tidbits of stories for my own purposes and the other for dispersing WordPress information to the masses. » Posted By Ryan On June 17, 2010 @ 8:14 AM WooThemes Has And Will Continue To Get Credit @Carl Hancock – I’m not sure I’d say it was inspired by the Woo Nav system. The original system built for core was not that much different from the current version, and at that point no one outside of the Woo team knew about what they had under development. @Jeffro – Good post. » Posted By Ryan On June 2, 2010 @ 12:27 AM Using Amazon S3 To Set Up A CDN In WordPress @Chip Bennett – It’s not just a cost issue, it’s also a performance one, particularly if you using something like Cloudfront in combination with S3 (serves data locally, so lower ping times). » Posted By Ryan On April 15, 2010 @ 7:28 PM If it’s a team, then it would make sense IMO to have specialists for each job. In which case I’d have a CSS coder, a couple of designers, a WordPress whizz and a WordPress theme whizz. Paul O’Brien – CSS coder » Posted By Ryan On April 7, 2010 @ 11:22 PM 1x affiliate link used :) Plugin looks good so far. It’s kinda pooping itself when I do the manual backup though, maybe coz it’s got too much stuff to zip up. » Posted By Ryan On August 27, 2010 @ 9:48 AM Thanks Jeffro. We’ll that’s better than the plugin simply being deactivated :) » Posted By Ryan On March 7, 2010 @ 4:18 PM The plugin sounds great but the activation key is a bit confusing. From the site: Membership length for support and updates: 1 year from time of purchase Does this mean the plugin will still be active after one year if I don’t pay for another year? (I realize upgrading may be necessary for WP compatibility). I just want to know if I’m getting myself into a subscription-based situation or not. Btw, I searched their forums will no success. Thanks for all you hard work in keeping this site fresh Jeffro. It is a great service you’re providing. » Posted By Ryan On March 5, 2010 @ 5:21 PM I think it would be terrific if plugin authors could add links onto the front-end to take a little extra credit for their work, but it just isn’t possible without turning everyone sites into a big plugin-developer billboard. You can only run one theme, so adding a credit link isn’t going to get in the way. End-users can install dozens of plugins; if each one added it’s own link things would just get ridiculous. I see little point in worrying about such things though. Plugins which add links on the front-end will naturally die out of existence. IIRC Twitter Tools has an option to add a link on the front-end. I assume it isn’t turned on by default (I can’t remember), but even if it was, I’d be okay with that since it’s very easy to turn off anyway. » Posted By Ryan On February 20, 2010 @ 6:33 AM WPWeekly Episode 88 – Woo For Menu Management @beachbum – Navt is nothing like as good as what is going into core. » Posted By Ryan On February 19, 2010 @ 6:16 PM @donnacha – Actually, Miroslav mentioned the overall price as a problem earlier in the comments. I can’t see what the problem is though. Last I checked, it was very obvious from reading the listing that the cost was exorbitantly expensive and as Conorp said “If you don’t like the price, don’t buy it”. The pricing system is certainly obvious now: Plugin Price: $ 39.00 Support & Upgrades: $ 3.00 p/month » Posted By Ryan On February 17, 2010 @ 8:59 PM My Thoughts On WordPress Weekly Your suggested time is on Friday at around 5am for me I think. There’s no way I’d be out of bed by then. The current time slot is on Wednesday around noon which is awkward as I have been coming in and out of my office needing to talk to me. The original setup was Saturdays at noon was the best for me and why I always tuned in then as I’m generally chilling out coding around that time. I thought the Wednesday mid-day time was going to kill my participation dead in it’s tracks, but I had a massive life-change at about the same point you changed the schedule, which meant I was free at that time of day, albeit still a little busy. I’m a late sleeper, so the crack of dawn on Friday morning would rule me out entirely unless I totally rearranged my weekly activities. EDIT: Rebecca’s suggestion above sounds good to me. » Posted By Ryan On February 5, 2010 @ 8:02 PM Support forums and FAQ. You can even combine the two by stickying your FAQ in the forum. Ticketing systems just plain suck. If no one else can see the questions/answers then I see no point. Perhaps for paid support they’re okay, but certainly not for free support. For free support you need to make sure you can keep your support load as tiny as possible and so having a massive stock pile of previously answered questions can make a huge difference to reducing the support you need to offer. Blog posts are stupid place to provide support unless you only have a tiny number of support questions being asked. I refuse to answer any questions in my blog posts and having to rifle through hundreds of support questions in blog posts is a nightmare. I ended up with over 1000 support questions on the blog post for my first ever WordPress plugin. It only took a month or two before I purchased another domain and plonked a forum on it to rid my blog of the annoying number of comments. I’m also thinking of branching out into video-tutorials as some people don’t seem to be able to understand simple instructions in textual form. » Posted By Ryan On February 1, 2010 @ 6:25 AM bbPress Now Has An Official Plugin I assume Matt is just squatting on that plugin folder so nobody snavvles it before him. EDIT: I take that back. It looks like there is something under construction in there. It looks like the majority of bbPress dumped inside a plugin with a few modifications made. I assume it doesn’t do anything useful yet, but interesting to see there’s some sort of development gone on already for it. » Posted By Ryan On January 16, 2010 @ 12:54 AM Sometimes I wonder if WPTavern.com is a segmented portion of the WordPress community where the energy spent in discussions and such would be better served on the WordPress.org domain. No. The WordPress.org forums are an awful example of a community forum. For raw support they’re fine I guess. But you aren’t trying to create a support forum here. Without the Tavern, there would be no WordPress oriented community forum. » Posted By Ryan On January 4, 2010 @ 6:54 PM Ajax Edit Comments Switches To Paid Model @Andrew – that could work, but I think it would be a good idea to allow current users to upgrade for free if that were the case, otherwise they’re just losing a bunch of functionality from a plugin they may have been using/relying on for quite a while. » Posted By Ryan On December 25, 2009 @ 7:59 PM My guess is it will be a minimalistic, but pretty theme released in version 3.0. I can’t imagine a full blown framework like Thematic or Hybrid type being used as there’s just too much functionality built into those to be suitable as a default theme. » Posted By Ryan On December 15, 2009 @ 7:28 PM WPWeekly Episode 79 – Alex King And WPHelpCenter bbPress I believe is the answer to the question. » Posted By Ryan On November 18, 2009 @ 5:15 PM PremiumThemes.net Club Membership Giveaway IMO, you need more confidence. I would focus on making an income indirectly from the huge base of viewers you have here and on other sites. You are not a developer, but that makes no difference whatsoever, most of the time people are looking for someone to help them with the most rudimentary basics of developing WP powered sites and to do that they need someone with (a) connections with developers who CAN do the work and (b) someone they can talk to who knows what they want and how to achieve it … ie: you are exactly the sort of person they are looking for. If someone pays you US$100/hour to do something and part of it involves doing a bunch of code work you can’t understand, then just outsource it for US$50/hour. You are still making US$50/hour but you aren’t putting any effort into it whatsoever. The coder is happy because they don’t need to do deal with the client, the client is happy because they know that when they go to you they will have an absolute ninja expert working behind the scenes on their site and you should be happy as you making a butt-load more money than you presumably are working in a supermarket – plus it all ties in with what you are doing here on the Tavern. There are many different ways in which you could set something like this up, including creating a paid support forum, paid support ticketing system or simple consultancy fees. At worst you would make lots of money rarely, at best you would make a ton of cash which would free you from the supermarket and allow you to work full-time on the Tavern. » Posted By Ryan On November 8, 2009 @ 8:24 PM WPWeekly Episode 78 – CoPress And The FairField Mirror “CSS layout” needs defined before anyone can properly answer this. Since it’s a vague question I’m going to give a vague answer :p AFAIK the first forum default theme to not have any non-semantical tabels was bbPress. It does use tables, but they’re semantical tables. So the answer you are looking for is probably bbPress I’m guessing … but then perhaps not if you are defining “CSS layout” as something which has no tables. phpBB3 was the first software to provide a default theme which used no tables at all. But just because something uses a table to define tabular data, does not mean that the layout is not defined by CSS, therefore being a “CSS layout”. However there is also a third option in that I’m sure there must have been a third party forum theme out there which used no tables at all long before bbPress, phpBB3 or Vanilla released their semantically optomised default themes. I have no idea what the first one of those would have been though. And there is a fourth option … themes which used convoluted nested tables on the interior content of their pages but use semantical non-table based layouts to control the actual layout of the page as a whole, but not for the nitty gritty stuff like positioning off avatars, posts, signatures etc. If I had to pick just one option, I’d go for bbPress since AFAIK it was the first forum software to provide a semanticaly optomised theme by default. » Posted By Ryan On November 5, 2009 @ 6:13 PM Should WordPress Change The Blog Nomenclature Within The Backend? Entirely off-topic: Otto’s unfiltered opinions are terrific! Ozh isn’t too shabby on the critique front either. We may not agree with their opinions (particularly Otto’s silly obsession with never modifying HTML no matter how dementedly convoluted and hackish it may make the CSS) but extensive constructive criticism is vital to everyone’s development (unless you are perfect like me of course!). » Posted By Ryan On November 5, 2009 @ 8:50 PM WordPress Dev Chat For 10-08-09 Thanks for the dev. reports Jeff. These are a terrific way to keep in touch with the core development without having to wade your way through screeds of technical mumbo jumbo. » Posted By Ryan On October 12, 2009 @ 7:28 PM Guide To Installing WordPress Locally With WampServer Does anyone know which is better, XAMPP or WAMP? » Posted By Ryan On October 1, 2009 @ 8:52 PM Supported Legacy Branches For WordPress.org? My 99.9% number was a measure of how many people are likely to have trouble upgrading if they have their site setup well. Almost all problems with upgrading are caused by sloppy coding of plugins or themes and/or weird server configurations. The number of people experiencing real problems would be extremely low I imagine. » Posted By Ryan On September 26, 2009 @ 10:36 PM This is a good idea, but is something I think would be better suited to a forked product. Someone needs to launch a separate site to maintain the older, crappier, but in theory more stable, version of the software. I don’t see enough benefits in it for the core devs to be spending time on a product that is essentially useless for 99.9% of WordPress users. » Posted By Ryan On September 23, 2009 @ 9:28 PM CodePoet.com – New Home For WordPress Consultants I wonder what they mean by … please send us: Am I supposed to get customers to vouch for my businesses services or other WordPress developers? » Posted By Ryan On September 17, 2009 @ 1:28 AM If the internet is international and doesn’t have boundaries, why restrict by region? It doesn’t restrict it. They just happened to have categorised them like that at this stage. Perhaps they’ll eventually split them into plugin developers, theme developers. And why is WordPress the only Automattic product handled? Perhaps add bbPress and BuddyPress developers to the list categories I mentioned above. I’m guessing this is very much in the testing phase right now and more features will be added later. » Posted By Ryan On September 17, 2009 @ 1:24 AM WPWeekly Episode 71 – Running A Business Around WordPress Poo, I forgot to tune into the show :( Podcast sounds good so far (I’m listening to it right now). » Posted By Ryan On September 9, 2009 @ 8:10 PMComments Posted By Ryan
Small Potato – Designer
Another designer – I’m not sure who
Otto – WordPress whizz
Justin Tadlock – WordPress theme whizz
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