Displaying 31 To 43 Of 43 Comments 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 PM I tried the plugin out. The only plugin that stood out from the rest was Gravity Forms. Interestingly, I’m also running the Grunion Contact Form plugin on the same site, and it wasn’t even shown in the pie graph alongside the giant wedge for Gravity Forms. So I guess if you want optimal performance then use Grunion, not Gravity Forms …. well, assuming the plugin is measuring things accurately, which it may or may not be. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On February 16, 2012 @ 6:18 PM This is a great idea for a plugin. I like the idea a lot. Nice to see Godaddy sponsoring it too. Hopefully some of their hosting competitors like the idea and decide to make their own versions and encourage some competition/idea sharing. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On February 16, 2012 @ 3:00 PM Bad Behavior In The WordPress Community It’s disappointing to see this sort of behaviour, but hopefully those who participated will learn from this behaviour. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On January 23, 2012 @ 4:57 PM Open Source Scotland Cancelled This whole situation is disturbing to me. Apparently it is unacceptable to criticise WordPress now …. this is not a good thing for the community in any way shape or form. And now it is affecting events within the open source community. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On January 21, 2012 @ 10:35 AM WordCamp Norway Participants Tell Us Why They Love WordPress Damn Scott Basgaard and his stilts! » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On January 20, 2012 @ 4:35 PM Automattic Makes Second Investment – WPEngine US$50 is a perfectly reasonable price. It’s not good whatsoever if you have even a moderately popular site as you will below through the page view cap lickity split. But if you just have a simple business site which you want to make sure runs smoothly, then US$50/month for WP Engine seems like a great option. I’d have no problem recommending it myself, but only for specific people who would make good use of it. For the average site owner, it would be hideously expensive since they’d need to pay a LOT more than US$50/month. » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On November 16, 2011 @ 7:39 PM VaultPress Now Supports WordPress Multisite I’ve been trying to get my head around how this works, and I think I’ve got it now. Here’s my best guess on what’s going on … Plugins and themes are backed up just as as they normally would. However the plugins and themes activated for each site are NOT backed up, as are the posts, comments etc. So basically what you need is a single VaultPress subscription for the main network site (as Andrea suggested) and then use a standard backup system (I think BackupBuddy can do this now) to handle backing up the databases and uploads folders for each individual site. VaultPress will presumably need to do a full security scan through the entire install, so having a subscription for each individual site in a network isn’t really necessary since you get the primary benefit of VaultPress (security scanning) automatically with that single subscription. Now that I’ve typed this out, I think it’s the same thing Andrea was getting at over on WPMuTutorials.com … http://wpmututorials.com/news/vaultpress-now-for-multisite/\ » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On November 18, 2011 @ 8:15 PM Things To Look For In WordPress 3.3 Beta 1 I love this release. I’ve been using it on my live site for the past month and have been really happy with the changes. I don’t see any annoying bloaty feature creep junk in this release, just gradual improvements and code rewrites to improve what is already there. I wish all releases took this approach. The new media uploader in particular kicks some serious butt, yet doesn’t added any extra functionality. They took what was already there, and made it better. I want more of that :) » Posted By Ryan Hellyer On October 11, 2011 @ 2:28 PMComments Posted By Ryan Hellyer
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