Comments on: When the Burden of Support is Too Great http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/28/when-the-burden-of-support-is-too-great/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Sun, 19 May 2013 11:08:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mind Blowing WordPress Plugins: Officers Directory and Contextual Help Menus « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/28/when-the-burden-of-support-is-too-great/#comment-930990 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:21:28 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/28/when-the-burden-of-support-is-too-great/#comment-930990 [...] of the main reasons for burn out with WordPress Plugin and Theme developers is the overwhelming need for customer support. The questions are often helpful, but can be time [...]

]]> By: jidanni http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/28/when-the-burden-of-support-is-too-great/#comment-916137 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:13:46 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/28/when-the-burden-of-support-is-too-great/#comment-916137 If there’s some young person willing to accept the baton, an author
should jump at the oppurtunity to pass it.

E.g., I hardly leave my mountaintop these days, so it was a godsend
that somebody who actually still takes city buses came along to offer
to takeover my city bus wiki (http://taizhongbus.jidanni.org/).

]]> By: Waiting for WordPress 2.5 : The Blog Herald http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/28/when-the-burden-of-support-is-too-great/#comment-892691 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:29:30 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/28/when-the-burden-of-support-is-too-great/#comment-892691 [...] Many burn out through the up and down process. Others thrive on it and love having users help them improve their products even more with their creative feedback. [...]

]]> By: Richard http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/28/when-the-burden-of-support-is-too-great/#comment-180339 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:22:44 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/28/when-the-burden-of-support-is-too-great/#comment-180339 Fully agree. Well written. Sometimes you can almost see the light go out of plugin authors eyes as you scroll down a long list of comments, all of which seem to begin with, ‘Great plugin! But I have this problem ….’

It’s human nature never to say thankyou but always to make negative feelings known. (Well …. sweeping statement :-) )

Have you ever seen commenters showing genuine appreciation rather than appreciation immediately followed by the rider (‘I need help’) ? If so, that plugin author must be doing something right.

]]> By: One Year Anniversary Review: Designing WordPress Themes for the Public « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/28/when-the-burden-of-support-is-too-great/#comment-36397 Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:07:07 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/28/when-the-burden-of-support-is-too-great/#comment-36397 [...] When the Burden of Support is Too Great [...]

]]> By: One Year Anniversary Review: Blog Housekeeping and Maintenance « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/28/when-the-burden-of-support-is-too-great/#comment-33484 Mon, 04 Sep 2006 09:02:52 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/28/when-the-burden-of-support-is-too-great/#comment-33484 [...] The downside of blogging is burn-out, and I wrote about dealing with this in “Have Your Favorite Bloggers and Blogs Run Out of Steam” and “When the Burden of Support is Too Great”: Developing a WordPress Plugin and Theme is exciting. It challenges the mind and pushes you to think not only out of the box but around the entire box. You even jump up and down on the box to get it to work. [...]

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