Displaying 121 To 150 Of 161 Comments New Project Underway – GlotPress I still think it has something to do with that urban dictionary definition. » Posted By Ryan On May 26, 2009 @ 8:48 AM Listener Poll: Did You Enjoy Going Six Months Without A Major Release Of WordPress? Just because the updater is in place does not make it any less stressful IMO. Just because the system can update itself, does not mean things won’t break during the upgrade. » Posted By Ryan On May 26, 2009 @ 5:19 AM Some may argue this is not within the “spirit” of the GPL. I’m simply trying to discover what is “legal” within the GPL. Yeah, me too. I’m not even interested in releasing non-GPL code, I’d just like to know the exact answer to it (if there is one). I originally took ‘Beagle’s advice as gospel, but with so many people having a different view on it I’m just not sure anymore. If it was just random themers jumping up and down I’d have not believed them. But when Matt M says something which contradicts this advice I received I tend to listen as I’m guessing he also received expert advice on the topic. While interesting I don’t think this really answers any questions; at least not to any depth of satisfaction. Yep, the conversation left me with more questions than answers too. The GPL is explicit about what constitutes a derivative work, and themes/plugins are derivative work. The GPL does not prevent you from creating and selling themes that are not GPL licensed, but using them in conjunction with WordPress (or any other GPL’d software) would be a violation of the theme’s non-GPL license. Hmmm, interesting point. I’ll ask him to clarify the next time I talk to him. If someone wants to leverage a ginormous existing market that uses GPL software, playing nicely with the GPL is necessary. That’s the approach I’m taking too. And anyhows, it’s nice to be part of the WP community :) But, as the article said, the WordPress project (being a private org) is free to take any action that may discourage the use of non-GPL themes, such as pulling them from the directory, publicly denouncing them, etc. So it’s a risk vs. reward scenario. Yes, that is a very good point to emphasise. I saw a lot unpleasant blog comments a while ago about WordPress.org breaking the law by not promoting non-GPL stuff, which is completely ridiculous. » Posted By Ryan On May 22, 2009 @ 7:06 PM Lol. Mistakes happen. There wasn’t anything particularly offensive in the first draft, just a a swear word and messages which had been edited incorrectly. We were having a conversation about multiple topics at the time and so some of the original messages were intermingled and entire messages had to be rewritten for it to make coherent sense. Thanks for posting it though :) » Posted By Ryan On May 22, 2009 @ 6:52 PM @Jeff – You not only edited it, but you posted the wrong document. What is above is the crude draft I sent you and specifically asked you not to post in public! I’ve re-emailed the correct text to you again. » Posted By Ryan On May 22, 2009 @ 6:14 PM This is actually not the post I sent Jeff for posting here. It has been edited. » Posted By Ryan On May 22, 2009 @ 6:09 PM Review Of Eventina 2.0 – jQuery Strikes Again The problems with jQuery are probably caused by them not using the enqueue method to load their scripts. If I’m correct this should be fairly straightforward for them to fix. » Posted By Ryan On May 22, 2009 @ 8:19 AM Too Much RSS Noise? Get An Email Daily Digest Keep the posts coming. The more content the better, this is a serious problem with blogs in general IMO. Imagine if a major news website limited itself to two news items per day! There is a lot of news in the WordPress/Automattic world and I’m sure you could push it to 20 posts/day if you had enough contributors. » Posted By Ryan On May 19, 2009 @ 2:17 AM WordPress Plugin Compatibility Checker Lol, I KNEW I hadn’t added get_categories in my plugin. It was an ‘unnamed’ member of the WPTavern forum who did some paid work for me and added it in place of wp_list_categories :p A darn useful too this is. I wouldn’t have noticed that discrepancy without this plugin checker. » Posted By Ryan On May 16, 2009 @ 3:18 AM Heh, that’s a very handy little tool. It showed up that my Multi-level Navigation plugin uses get_archives instead of wp_list_categories. I hadn’t even noticed that. » Posted By Ryan On May 15, 2009 @ 3:16 AM #7 Should only be done if you know and trust the developer. Even then I don’t recommend it unless it is absolutely necessary. I gave Alex Rabe admin access to my WP install once to help figure out a totally bizarre problem I had with his NextGen plugin, but there is no way I would have done that for a random plugin developer who wasn’t ‘known’ in the community. #10 Only applies for those who allow free questions via email. I never answer freebie questions by email as the replies are of no help to anyone else since they’re hidden in my email archives. By forcing people to use my support forum it makes the advice available to everyone. Plus it makes it easier for me to separate paid work from non-paid work and doesn’t clog up my inbox if I go on holiday for a week. » Posted By Ryan On May 10, 2009 @ 12:34 AM I’ve integrated WordPress into an SMF installation before which made some sense since WordPress has very poor user management systems and I was already using SMF as a forum anway. But integrating WordPress into another CMS which already has a blog module seems like a smack in the face to the system it is being integrated inside of. Surely the Joomla blogging system can’t be THAT bad … or can it? » Posted By Ryan On May 8, 2009 @ 5:34 AM If Thesis is indeed compliant with the GPL license, then I think now is the time for them to write a blog post explaining how. As Jacob alluded to above, there do seem to be various ways of releasing themes with restrictive licenses which do not violate the GPL. » Posted By Ryan On May 1, 2009 @ 6:10 PM Saying Goodbye To Drupal And Hello To WordPress I’ve heard of a lot of people moving from WordPress to MoveableType for multi-blog setups. Apparently MoveableType is a lot more user friendly than WordPress Mu. » Posted By Ryan On April 30, 2009 @ 3:13 AM Review Of Front End Editor Plugin @Andrew – My issue here is that not all WordPress sites are designed for only public facing use. I have a site with a large number of contributors and having everything powered from the front end would definitely be desirable. In fact this is the sort of thing I’d like to see implemented into the core. » Posted By Ryan On April 29, 2009 @ 3:13 AM @Andrew – I strongly disagree. There are many reasons for editing things on the front end, particularly if it is your users who are doing it. In theory you could style the backend to look like the front end, but that is going to create just as many (probably more) problems than doing it the other way. Imagine if everytime you wrote a forum post, you could whizzed away to an entirely different looking admin panel just to write a single post. Most people fine that very weird and hence most (all?) forum softwares allow you to write posts directly from the front end. » Posted By Ryan On April 28, 2009 @ 7:47 AM Some Not Happy With Greetbox Updates I would be inclined to put the greetbox on the plugins admin page and if needed, have an opt-in system to allow it to be placed on the dashboard instead. That way the information is always being fed through but does not clutter up parts of the admin panel unrelated to the plugin. » Posted By Ryan On April 25, 2009 @ 9:41 PM @Jeffro – Yeah, I could see that happening eventually. I suspect they’ll hold off until either this plugin or a similar one is proven to be up to the task of running the codex. I do find it bizarre that the official WordPress shop is not powered by WordPress … http://shop.wordpress.net/world/. All they need to do is install the WP e-Commerce plugin to a bog standard WP install and bam! you have a WordPress powered e-Commerce store. Using another piece of software to power the site just seems wrong to me. » Posted By Ryan On April 28, 2009 @ 7:27 AM @Leland – Heh, yeah that is the same plugin. I hadn’t seen that site before actually but I had heard that it was being developed. Thanks for pointing it out :) » Posted By Ryan On April 25, 2009 @ 8:50 PM Thanks for posting my post Jeff :) BTW, the title was supposed to have a question mark at the end. » Posted By Ryan On April 25, 2009 @ 4:02 PM Plugin Style Settings – Database Or CSS? @JamieO – Good idea. If I get around to it I might submit a post to WPTavern.com on the matter. I’m not sure if my solution is the best, but it seems to work well enough. The main problem I see is a potential performance hit from using the database route, but during some testing I did this seemed to be a non-issue, I couldn’t measure any reduction in performance. » Posted By Ryan On April 21, 2009 @ 3:41 AM For the Multi-level Navigation plugin I simply give users the option to either use their theme to provide the CSS or they can add the CSS directly into their admin panel and that is then dynamically added to a stylesheet within the plugin. So the data is either stored in the users theme or in the database, whichever they choose. Or if a theme is designed to work with the plugin, then the plugin detects the presence of a compatible theme and automatically relies on the themes CSS file (although this can be overridden). » Posted By Ryan On April 17, 2009 @ 11:52 PM Advertising Now An Option On WPTavern There is no URL on your ‘Advertising page’ link. » Posted By Ryan On April 8, 2009 @ 11:27 PM Plugins And Commercial WordPress Sites I am very keen to see the official plugins repository allow paid plugins. Then everyone would get greedy and only provide their plugins for a fee and my own plugins would become more popular :) » Posted By Ryan On April 8, 2009 @ 6:48 AM Comparisons Between Most Popular Theme Frameworks How can hybrid use a strict Doctype? Does it prevent the visual editor from adding non-strict compliant code or do you have to make sure you don’t use the non-strict compliant features to prevent the site from failing validation? » Posted By Ryan On April 29, 2009 @ 3:10 AM WPWeekly Episode 45 – Unlucky Stream Couldn’t you just call in via Skype (or similar) and make sure the other caller is doing a conference call direct to you via Skype at the same time. Then, even if the TalkShoe stream conks out you will still be able to record the interview? So barring incidents, TalkShoe is used, but if something goes haywire then you can just continue with a regular old Skype call which you record the old fashioned way? So basically I’m just suggesting a backup system which is always running. So even if TalkShoe stops working part way through you won’t need to do a thing as your backup system will still be working anyway – we just won’t be able to call in that’s all (or at least not without Skype calling you). » Posted By Ryan On March 14, 2009 @ 11:40 PM WordPress 2.7 A Milestone In Its Own Right I think the number of double point releases will be a more telling story. If 2.7 doesn’t make it past 2.7.1 then that would be a big improvement over previous releases. Ironically this is much less of a problem now that WordPress has one click upgrades. » Posted By Ryan On March 10, 2009 @ 3:46 AM WordPress Forums To Be Revamped Soon? bbPress straight out of the box is not suitable as a large social network style forum such as what the WordPress.org forums should (presumably) be. But they also don’t need anything like vBulletin as that would simply be adding bloat to the system. A few basic plugins would solve most of the problems which make the WordPress.org support forums so awful. I don’t think they have any intention of making anything to compete with vBulletin as bbPress is niche product. It sure would be nice if they made their own support forum a lot better though (with plugins) as it truly is a horrid little forum in it’s current format and it doesn’t seem to attract many people to come and help. I’ve tried offering help there before and just got ticked off at the lack of tools/rules etc. at hand. I couldn’t even find a way to report a post, apparently you need to add a tag to the post to do that, which IMO is a ridiculous thing to expect your users to do. » Posted By Ryan On March 10, 2009 @ 3:55 AM WPDesigner Breathes And Then Dies I wonder how much traffic it is getting these days. I assume the traffic spikes every now and then when stuff like this happens, but I doubt it is anything like what it was pre-sale. » Posted By Ryan On February 26, 2009 @ 5:53 PM @Jeffro I don’t think most blogs send out pings when posts get updated. Perhaps Auttomatic had to donate resources to pingomatic so that it could handle the traffic from WordPress.com? » Posted By Ryan On February 8, 2009 @ 6:44 PMComments Posted By Ryan
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