Displaying 1 To 15 Of 15 Comments Roots – WordPress Starter Theme Thanks for the hint, looks quite nice! » Posted By hakre On April 5, 2011 @ 5:12 PM Where Are The Settings For That Plugin? I once coded a quick search over the menu and the plugin tables. After Jeffro’s post I just put it in it’s own plugin and I hope to get that on wp.org soon: At your fingertips – just search quickly the long lists. has some screenshots. » Posted By hakre On September 15, 2010 @ 5:07 PM WordPress Is More Functional Over Time Mythbusting the light core propaganda :) Nice post! » Posted By hakre On August 19, 2010 @ 2:35 AM I’d like to have Genesis on wordpress.com :D » Posted By hakre On July 17, 2010 @ 10:52 AM Six Revisions On Missing Features In WordPress Please define “keep light”. Having tons of multisite files shipping with core while you use it for a single blog is far away from “being a light core”. I think what really would help is a build system that is able create packages for the different usage profiles and needs. That build system could bundle core plugins as well – just to show the picture. Eg. Classic could ship with hello dolly and akismet for that Matt can sleep at night, there could be multisite package and one package for single site use. Can be something valuable for the current wordpress.org redesign as well. Just to add some ideas. » Posted By hakre On July 3, 2010 @ 5:57 AM Should The WordPress Support Forum Only Support Themes From The Theme Repository? I mean the solution is very simple here, right? Every supporter can decide on his or her own to what to provide support for. Maybe there is someone who wants to learn and decides to do that practically in the support forums by trying to help other users. A project should just offer the possibilities, but it should not limit them. If you start to make a limit here and there you end up throwing tons of resources on limiting. And in the end you can never solve communication problems with a technical implementation. Humans are more clever then the computer. Ask google. » Posted By hakre On June 29, 2010 @ 6:07 AM @Ash – GPL is not a business model, it’s a software license. If you decide for yourself that GPL does not fit for your business, create your own blogging software under a license that pleases your needs more. I don’t want to say that GPL is not fitting for business as well, but if you think it’s too cheap, you need to go the expensive way. » Posted By hakre On June 28, 2010 @ 10:10 AM @Milan Petrovic -@Milan Petrovic – Well the GPL is very clear about how to deal with derivative works and the license is part of the software package so I really must admit that I do not see any clarification issues here. You might have interest in a discussion about the license implications this poll has on the meta-level here: “Pirated themes” – How to deal with Non-GPL Sourcecode (e.g. in Themes) » Posted By hakre On June 28, 2010 @ 10:06 AM The question should not be wether a theme is in a certain repository or not, but the question should be if support can be provided by third parties for a theme. For example if the theme prevents proper support by base64-encode the code, then I would not have any motivation to support such a crippled theme. It’s not supporter, nor developer, nor user friendly. If users do not understand about what they did wrong with installing a base64 crippled theme, they can be pointed to an FAQ entry so they can correct their mistake. I mean they are free to use viruses and such, but I as a supporter would protect myself to not be influenced by such mistakes. So the worpdress theme repository can be a valid subset (because it’s all GPL compatbile in there which includes the right to modify which most often is the case in support) but it can’t be the outer fence. That won’t work, because there are far more themes out there that are GPL compatible. If I imagine how many countless GPLed themes I’ve passed on to customers but not have published them in the repository over the years (just because of the work), it would be a pitty if the worpdress forums won’t support such a good practice of free software distribution for customers that are willing to pay for free software. Buy more free software. Support those who are doing so. » Posted By hakre On June 28, 2010 @ 6:19 AM You wrote “If a premium developer sells a theme and then not provide support for the themes, than it would be a good thing to have some way to ‘report’ such developer and warn other users to stay away.” That is very dangerous and against the freedom of software. Very counter-productive IMHO. There is nothing bad with selling a GPL compatible theme and NOT providing support. GPLed software comes AS-IS. You can take money for the service to pass over the GPLed sourcode, the GPL does not hinder that. The opposite is the case, it explicitly states that taking money for GPL software is an option. There is no need to “report” such developer or even to warn other users “to stay away”. That’s counter productive. If I sell a customer a GPL compatible theme I educate him about the rights he has (that’s part of the license BTW). And the good point of the GPL here is that that customer can actually get support in the forums, because he can pass on the themes code to any support personnel, not only the one of my company. » Posted By hakre On June 28, 2010 @ 6:08 AM WordPress Support Forum And Themes “pirated themes” – that wording is not very useful and it’s not clear what this means. Sounds like FUD to me. Those sourcecodes under proprietary licenses that you can find somewhere are sort of a license-bomb for potential users. In the moment they mix it with wordpress code, they loose the right to use wordpress if it’s not GPL compatible. And most often these theme “creators” are not only careless about licensing but as well they don’t care about their users. So I would stay away from obfuscated themes at all cost in the first place. If you find a nice guy who can decompile it for you, well that’s nice. But users should be better educated about the problems these obfuscated themes bare in parallel. » Posted By hakre On June 26, 2010 @ 2:22 PM WordPress Dev Chat For 5-20-10 Thanks for the write up! I really appreceate it, was out for dinner (so much for the time-zones), but I really hope this is at least some-how pushed out very soon. There are a lot of changes with 3.0 and we just need to go through this release. Even if it might be a not well made one, let’s look for the things to come. p.s.: thanks for all the nice features you offer with comments like the preview and zoom-up :D. This helps especially _after_ being out with friends. » Posted By hakre On May 20, 2010 @ 8:13 PM Don’t bite me, but really, next to just making a point, I had not seen that either for WP. There’s not much webapps that take 3D that way. Even if that is beta code or just playing around. Thanks for sharing. » Posted By hakre On May 20, 2010 @ 8:31 PM MattNote From WordCamp San Francisco Thanks for the write-up. » Posted By hakre On May 1, 2010 @ 8:36 PM WordPress 2.9.2 Released – Security Fix I think it’s worth to note that the error was known since some more weeks now. Originally it was reported by caesarsgrunt in #11236. I’ve the full story in my blog post “The short memory of WordPress.org security”. Just for the info. » Posted By hakre On February 16, 2010 @ 7:47 AMComments Posted By hakre
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