Displaying 1 To 30 Of 38 Comments Secrets Revealed: WLTC and WPTavern @Jeffro – I think the hour long live shows worked well. Hangouts are definitely better than Talkshoe and a new mic sounds like an excellent idea :) » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On May 21, 2013 @ 9:42 AM +2 for WordPress weekly! » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On May 21, 2013 @ 8:35 AM Matt, perhaps you should merge WLTC into WP Tavern? Importing the posts in and redirecting them to their new URLs would make a lot of sense IMO. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On May 21, 2013 @ 2:59 AM Widget Visibility – When Do We Get That? Kaspars Dambis (author of Widget Context) gave an excellent presentation about the WordPress widget system at WordCamp Norway. http://wordpress.tv/2013/02/20/kaspars-dambis-widgets-and-sidebars/ » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On May 17, 2013 @ 1:40 PM Styling Your Comment Form And Layout I think there is a market there if someone pulls off a comments bits style service properly. I used to make a living off of menus in that sort of way, although I moved away from that particular market as it seemed that most of the people wanting customised menus were wanting super bizarre highly user unfriendly menus which made it somewhat unmotivating to work on. Plus the advent of the WordPress menu system somewhat killed off the purpose of my menu plugin(s). The concept did seem to work though. I had a vague plan of doing something similar with sliders, but shied away from that in the end. But I do think the idea is a sound one if someone were willing to put a lot of time into preparing some kick butt pre-made templates and systems for it. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On May 14, 2013 @ 3:12 PM Using WPTavern To Share Your Knowledge With The World Nice to hear you are back in action Jeff :) I am weary of submitting posts to a website owned by someone mysterious though. If I’m helping support someone’s project, I kinda like to know who they are. I was happy to write guest posts for you in the past because I like you, but now I don’t know who it is I’d be supporting. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On May 14, 2013 @ 5:06 AM WordPress News Sites And The Bermuda Triangle An alternative to regular news sites is something from former WP Candy author Brian Krosgard … http://poststat.us/ It was launched today. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On January 21, 2013 @ 4:35 PM The beauty of WP Realm is that it isn’t reliant on one person. The sites that keep disappearing, do so because the owner jumps ship, on sells it or just plain loses interest. WP Realm shouldn’t (hopefully) have that problem since it’s run by a non-profit community group. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On January 19, 2013 @ 11:27 AM General Overview Of MODx Versus WordPress Excellent article. Thanks for sharing. I installed MODx once. It seemed okay to me. I’ve never tried building anything with it though. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On December 11, 2012 @ 6:05 AM How To Become A Top WordPress Professional @Susan Daniels – If someone is doing it for money, then they are not just starting out. They should know how to spell the name of the software at the very least. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On December 10, 2012 @ 1:16 PM I’ve had numerous people apply to me for paid work. As soon as someone refers to themselves as a “WordPress expert” they are very quickly ignored. If you can’t even spell the name of the software you claim to be an expert of, then you are most definitely not an expert. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On December 7, 2012 @ 5:57 AM My Apologies To The WordPress Foundation I don’t get it. Isn’t WordCamp Central administered by the WordPress foundation? » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On May 13, 2012 @ 12:42 PM ManageWP To Soon Be Available As An iOS App I think the service is an extremely good deal. My only concern is that I’m not keen on allowing an external company to have that level of access to my site. I’d like the backup features of Manage WP without having to provide them with full access to my WordPress install. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On April 24, 2012 @ 10:52 AM What Dev4Press Thinks WordPress Needs Akismet is definitely a commercial plugin. 95% of the WordPress sites I setup can not use it without paying. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On April 21, 2012 @ 3:59 PM All Sorts Of Code Snippet Resources Awesome. When I first saw this blog post I assumed it was yet another link to yet another boring code snippet site. I didn’t realise it let you select from a set of darned handy bits, then patch them together in an automated fashion. Awesomesauce :) » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On April 11, 2012 @ 6:30 AM TimThumb Vulnerability Bites Another Victim I guess this will be happening a long time into the future. Thanks for the link to http://codegarage.com/, I hadn’t heard of them before. Looks like an interesting service, although the “backups kept for 30 days” business seems a bit crappy. I’d want access to much older backups in case I didn’t notice a problem for more than 30 days (entirely possible if something subtle was altered). » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On April 9, 2012 @ 9:05 AM New Ebook Released For WP Multisite @Otto – Yup, got that. I just thought Jeff was saying text couldn’t be licensed under the GPL. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On April 5, 2012 @ 9:45 AM Ah, on reading that post again I understand what you meant. The text on WordPress.org is creative commons licensed, and the code in WordPress core is GPL licensed. The way you wrote it implied that text can never be GPL licensed. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On April 3, 2012 @ 10:38 AM Why can’t text be GPL? » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On April 3, 2012 @ 10:35 AM All The Stats You Need To Know Regarding WordPress What actual stat is being measured in relation to Indonesian versus English though? If it’s the rate of change, then that’s quite different from the total number of sites. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On April 2, 2012 @ 12:06 PM Good Or Bad? Infinite Scrolling Automattic implemented this recently and it quite annoyed me. My WordPress.com site suddenly had infinite scrolling added to it without my knowledge. I don’t mind the concept, I just object to having it forced on me with no warning. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On March 31, 2012 @ 5:02 AM This doesn’t surprise me at all. I haven’t experienced it on this sort of scale, but I’ve certainly found that cranking up prices has had the effect of actually increasing sales in some situations. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On March 19, 2012 @ 12:31 PM WordPress Not The Direct Cause Of Mass Site Attacks I have no idea where on earth this reputation for WordPress storing DB details in clear text comes from. WordPress has never stored them in clear text all the way back to version 1.5 (I haven’t looked in older versions but I assume they didn’t then either). I’ve also never heard of an up to date WordPress installation being hacked via WordPress itself. I don’t think that has happened for a very long time. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On March 12, 2012 @ 10:34 AM Sucuri Answers Your Malware Questions I’ve had to clean out quite a few infected sites. They’re a pain in the neck, but it’s really not that hard. The main trick is to (A) know what caused the infection (to prevent it happening again) and (B) have backups. Most people with struggle with both of those and so services like Sucuri are ideal. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On March 6, 2012 @ 2:05 PM WP Devel solved a lot of the issues I had with the WordPress community. Sharing of information has been a lot more common since the introduction of that site. I don’t participate in the site, but I certainly appreciate it’s existence. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On February 23, 2012 @ 2:21 AM Your Chance To Work With WordPress In Oslo, Norway The job entails building WordPress themes and plugins for clients. Typically, we are provided with a PSD and a lengthy brief on functionality and we just plow ahead and write the code to make it happen. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On February 22, 2012 @ 4:11 AM I can’t mountain bike for quite a while as I just had shoulder surgery. If I’m still here next year I definitely intend to try cross-country skiing too, as that looks like a great way to see the country side in the middle of winter. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On February 18, 2012 @ 3:48 AM Thanks Jeff :) Metronet is a great company to work for. Hopefully we get some good applicants to come join us! I posted a short spiel about the position on Google+ too … https://plus.google.com/110903788122203327516/posts/35vSXVFEL7C » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On February 17, 2012 @ 2:20 PM Phoning Home To Plugin Authors I’ve often thought that the best approach to handling this sort of thing, is to simply replicate what WordPress core does. If you set your plugins up to auto-update from YOUR site instead of WordPress.org, then you would have access to that data too. That would not require an opt-in, but would allow you to analyse data that you happened to access via the update API. Of course, this then means you lose out on “downloads” on your plugin or theme page on WordPress.org. FYI, I have not done this to any of my own plugins hosted at WordPress.org. It’s just an idea I had a while back. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On February 16, 2012 @ 2:38 PM Determining Which Plugins Are Slowing Your Site Down I forgot to add that the redirect plugin was also using up a lot of resources on my site according to the plugin. I didn’t expect that at all. I always figured that plugin was very light and wouldn’t be affecting performance very much at all. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On February 16, 2012 @ 6:22 PMComments Posted By Ryan Hellyer
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