Displaying 91 To 120 Of 161 Comments Listener Poll: Do You Think bbPress Will Evolve Into A WordPress Plugin? There isn’t really any need for it to be a plugin. It’s fairly straightforward to deep integrate the two already. It’s not particularly hard to create a bbPress theme grabs your WordPress theme header, footer and overall design either. My bbPress template generator is already able to do that with themes form my WordPress theme generator and there is no reason why WordPress theme developers couldn’t add support for it within their own themes. It does require both the WordPress theme and bbPress theme to be coded to match up correctly, but if a few different bbPress core themes were developed, then WordPress themers could pick the bbPress theme which matched up with their own theme their own template files the best and recommend their users use that. Adding bbPress support as a plugin would still be handy for some people though and I’d be surprised if it doesn’t happen eventually. » Posted By Ryan On July 19, 2009 @ 6:20 AM Were the new smilies only included in trunk? I just tried adding a smiley to a 2.8.1 installation and it just showed the crappy old smileys. » Posted By Ryan On July 14, 2009 @ 5:54 AM Matt’s response sounds like the best solution to the problem. » Posted By Ryan On July 12, 2009 @ 7:27 PM Listener Poll: Is WordPress A Community Run Project? I found a link this evening which does a good job of explaining reasons why WordPress should not become a fully community run project: » Posted By Ryan On July 11, 2009 @ 7:08 AM The issues you have outlined above seem to be the same reasons I hear from Habari developers about why they jumped ship. I’m fairly happy with the way things work though. WordPress is the best product out there so whatever they’re doing seems to be working. If it aint broke, don’t fix it! » Posted By Ryan On July 10, 2009 @ 8:03 PM How Do I Contribute To Commercial GPL Themes? Reporting bugs would be the main thing. The amount a non-coder can contribute back is rather limited I think. If I make use of code or designs from another GPL product I always try to contribute back something, even if it is just a coding tip or similar. Most themers and plugin developers really appreciate that, just a simple tip on how to improve what they’re doing can be quite useful. I’ve had the same thing happen too, users have sent in code snippets demonstrating how to improve my software, it’s very useful and much appreciated. From my own personal experience as a plugin/theme developer, I think the best thing a non-coder can do to help with bug reports, is to make sure you report the exact problem you are having. If you can’t explain it, provide an image. An image paints a thousand words. Having said though, make sure you include a link as well if it something which is specific to your site (or a plugin you are using). I receive lots of reports on “bugs” which people think are in my software, but they fail to provide a link back to their site so there is literally nothing I can do to help them or to fix the problem. Usually what they’re reporting is a problem with their own coding, but I can’t let them know that usually because they don’t provide enough information for me to figure it out. All the time I waste trying to work out problems due to lack of information can be quite horrendous and it would make my life a lot easier if more thorough reports were given. » Posted By Ryan On July 9, 2009 @ 4:46 AM @Conorp – Yeah, I’m wondering the same thing! It’s possible they have it turned off on bbPress.org I guess. » Posted By Ryan On July 12, 2009 @ 5:19 PM @Peter Kahoun – I never said anything about how much these SEO benefits are worth, just that they are beneficial features which other forum softwares don’t have. Whether a backlink is nofollow or not is irrelevant to whether it is beneficial to have SEO wise or not. Non nofollow links are better, but nofollow links still have SEO benefits as it exposes your site to more people and hence are more likely to be linked to in the future. It’s an indirect SEO benefit. Most other forum software do not include good on page SEO optomisation in their default theme, bbPress does. » Posted By Ryan On July 11, 2009 @ 6:32 PM @Peter Kahoun – Reversing the question. What makes any other forum software as good as bbPress? I can’t think of anything they do to match it. Sending trackbacks help as it automatically posts links to the forum on other sites. It’s like having a little automated spammer running around posting on random blogs, except those blogs are willingly allowing it since they’re legit trackbacks. Acquiring evidence of the effects of SEO is difficult and I doubt anyone has tried to quantify the difference between bbPress and any other forum softwares. However the SEO benefits of trackbacks, semantic HTML and pretty permalinks is well known so it seems reasonable to assume that bbPress will perform better than other software since it has these extra features available to it. » Posted By Ryan On July 11, 2009 @ 7:07 AM A comment from http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-seo-blog-post/ should show up here shortly. This will be a good test of bbPress’s ability to send trackbacks. » Posted By Ryan On July 11, 2009 @ 12:47 AM It seems they are referring to plugins which would be bundled with WordPress, just like Akismet, Hello Dolly etc. In which case I don’t see much point, may as well bundle it with WordPress instead of doing that. » Posted By Ryan On July 8, 2009 @ 3:02 AM If they’re just meaning should they test certain popular plugins before releasing a new versin of WP, then I saw yet. Although I assume that is already done anyway. If it is a question between including something in the core, or bundling a plugin, I saw stick it in the core. I don’t see much point in having something as a plugin when it’s bundled in anyway. If a bundled plugin is broken, then the core is broken since the plugin is effectively part of the core anyway (if it is bundled) … I’m not sure that entirely makes sense, but hopefully you can decipher my gibberish. My point is … if you are going to bundle them as plugins, they may as well be in core anyway. Although I’m still not sure that is the question they’re asking. » Posted By Ryan On July 8, 2009 @ 2:56 AM Yoast To Host A WordPress Podcast Sounds interesting. I doubt he’ll beat your kick ass podcast for quality though! » Posted By Ryan On July 8, 2009 @ 3:03 AM Listener Poll: Should there be a page on the plugin repository for Commercial GPL plugins? The commercial theme repository was (I assume) created as the WordPress theme industry was deemed to be unacceptably biased towards non-GPL themes. However this does not seem to be the case with plugins. I don’t know of any popular non-GPL plugins but until recently I could rattle off the names of a whole stack of non-GPL themes, most of which were far better than their GPL counterparts. So no, I don’t see much point in a commercial GPL plugin repository. I already have plugins with commercial features in the repository. Since they’re 100% GPL they’re already in the repository. Moving them to commercial repository may give them more exposure, but I can’t see that benefiting anyone but myself. A decision to create a commercial plugin repository should be based on how it benefits the community, not how it benefits greedy plugin developers. If encouraging plugin developers to create better plugins by allowing them to monetize them whilst still having them promoted by WordPress leads to improved plugins across the board, then sure, a commercial GPL plugin repository may make sense, but I doubt it would. » Posted By Ryan On July 4, 2009 @ 3:52 AM @Chip – I think it’s a moot point. I doubt anyone’s going to cough up that much money for a virtual WordCamp organised by an unknown anyway. Jeff should organise a competing event for the same day :) » Posted By Ryan On June 26, 2009 @ 6:15 PM @Jeffro – You should do it. Organise a TavernCamp, setup online presentations etc. and let people chip in with live questions to the talkers at the end. I’d be keen to be involved and I’m sure others would too. I enjoyed watching some of the WordCamp Australia event and I think you could do exactly the same thing with EVERYONE virtual if you wanted. The only problem would be making sure everyone could stream their video live. I’m not sure what the best way to do that is, but I have dabbled with a couple of live video streaming systems which seemed to work quite well. In fact, they wouldn’t even need to be live. We could record them before hand, send them to you and you could play them on WP Tavern one by one and allow us to chat in the chat room whilst watching/listening. It could work quite well I think. Travelling 2000 kms just to attend a WordCamp is horrendously expensive, being able to interact with lots of other WordPress developers virtually, but live would be great. » Posted By Ryan On June 25, 2009 @ 2:11 AM Looks a bit like a profit making exercise to me. I can’t see any reason why a virtual WordCamp would be more expensive than a non-virtual WordCamp. Having said that, WordCamp’s seem to be ridiculously cheap. The last major conference I want to was about $700 for registration and that was the students price, regular registrations were a lot more than that. The registration costs for WordCamps pale in comparison. » Posted By Ryan On June 24, 2009 @ 8:32 PM State Of The Word From San Francisco Great video. Apparently I need to add some more words for a comment, so here they are. » Posted By Ryan On June 21, 2009 @ 8:57 AM Cashing In On WordPress Plugin Development I must be doing something right then as I make considerably more from donations than all of you combined (who posted their donations above), and my plugin isn’t even particularly popular. I couldn’t live on the income, but it will comfortably pay for all of my costs including air fares to WordCamp NZ this year. » Posted By Ryan On June 18, 2009 @ 10:18 PM I think some plugin developers are doing something wrong. From looking at the download stats for some of the most popular plugins around, I’m pretty sure that if my own plugin was that popular I could just sit on the beach and drink martinis all day. Comparing my own stats to his I’d have thought Michael could earn at least a US$1000 per week from donations alone. » Posted By Ryan On June 18, 2009 @ 2:09 AM WordCamp New Zealand This August Cool, another Kiwi WordPress’er on here :) Where are you from Richard? I’m from Dunedin. » Posted By Ryan On June 20, 2009 @ 7:48 AM I’ll be there! If anyone is wanting to do some site seeing whilst in the country feel free to get in touch with me. I live down south where most of the good touristy stuff is. Wellington is also the home of the SilverStripe CMS project, so if anyone is interested in that you should get in touch with Sigurd Magnussen. I’m not sure if any of them will be attending WordCamp though since they’re direct competitors of it. Thanks to Dan, Jason and Anthony for helping to organise the event. Somehow I never got lumped with organising duties which I’m quite stoked about :D » Posted By Ryan On June 16, 2009 @ 7:59 PM Plugins And The Lack Of Change Logs All plugin developers should include a changelog in view from the admin panel. This hadn’t occurred to me until late last year when Greg Yingling (developer of the WP Slimbox 2 plugin) mentioned to me that I should do it. I don’t think is laziness on the part of plugin developers, they’ve probably just never thought of it. Greg was the only person I’ve heard recommend this until I read this post today. » Posted By Ryan On June 16, 2009 @ 7:07 AM New User Features in WordPress 2.8 Great post! I didn’t realise most of that stuff was in the new version. The improved time difference system sounds great. @Jacob Santos – Does WP actually process it in GMT+/- ? If that is depreciated then surely they’ve just programmed it into the WP software without actually using that functionality in the PHP code itself. It wouldn’t be hard to go from whatever date format PHP uses to GMT +/- without actually using GMT+/- PHP code. Hopefully that makes sense, not sure I explained it very well! » Posted By Ryan On June 16, 2009 @ 7:11 AM @Jeff – I did that with SMF a while back. It’s a nice way to go about doing things IMO as it drags your forum posters into your blog and vice versa. I’ve never actually implemented it live on a site before though. I considered it once, but I was concerned my forum was going to end up with nothing but a bunch of blog comments in it which could distract my regular forum users from the regular topics. » Posted By Ryan On June 16, 2009 @ 8:25 PM Interesting to see that they are contemplating eventually making it possible to simply add a bbPress forum via a shortcode (or similarly simple approach) into a WordPress page. That would certainly boost the popularity of the software. » Posted By Ryan On June 13, 2009 @ 11:13 PM Hovering over a link to find an ID does not seem particularly intuitive to me. The first thing I did when I installed WordPress was to start hacking up the default theme. I knew nothing of PHP, ‘template tags’ or any of that stuff. However I did quickly learn that I needed to know page ID’s to make use of wp_list_pages(). WordPress is designed with theming in mind, so not providing the necessary information for new users to do this easily seems a little silly to me. I started using ID’s back when they were readily available in the admin panel, but I assume it would have had me baffled for a few minutes if I’d started with 2.5+. » Posted By Ryan On June 12, 2009 @ 6:21 PM Is WordPress Information Too Fragmented? My only request is that people stop posting the same inane crud that everyone else is posting. If it isn’t original, I’m not interested in it. I don’t need to be alerted via 30 different blogs that WP 2.8 has been released. I’ll get that from the WordPress.org blog itself. However if you want to write a blog post talking ABOUT the new release, then that’s sweet as by me. Or even if you add a little snippet of info. about the release which wouldn’t have been in the 30 other blog posts which arrive in my feed reader I’d be happy with that too. But a single paragraph outlining the fact that WP 2.8 is released and a summarising the 30 other blog posts is simply annoying, particularly since they all arrive at the same time. All those posts do is to add to the noise IMO. » Posted By Ryan On June 4, 2009 @ 3:35 AM Great List Of CMS Centric Plugins Cool. My Multi-level Navigation plugin is on there :) » Posted By Ryan On June 3, 2009 @ 5:31 AM TalkPress bbPress Domain Dilemma I’d prefer the domains to be consistent too. I don’t see WordPress.com changing it’s domain name any time soon, so renaming bbPress.org to TalkPress.org would make more sense to me. I suspect they won’t be changing now though, the decision has already been made and I assume they’ll stick to it. » Posted By Ryan On May 29, 2009 @ 3:03 AMComments Posted By Ryan
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