I’ve uploaded my program from WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco to SlideShare and showcased it below.
I talked about how important it is that we push WordPress as far as possible, even to the breaking point, to make sure it will work across all operating systems, all hosts, all browsers, all setups – in every way we can. The more we push WordPress, the more the community benefits from the fixes. Trust me, WordPress can take it, but we need to do more.
Examples covered in the presentation include:
- Liz Strauss is Breaking the Web and Pushing WordPress as an example of how Liz wanted to publish 260 posts, one a minute, using the future post/timestamp feature of WordPress. Would it work?
- Absolute Comments WordPress Plugin and WP Comment Remix WordPress Plugin add improved functionality for responding to comments from the Comments Panel in WordPress.
- When you can’t use WordPress Plugins, like on WordPress.com blogs, creative people like Engtech of Internet Duct Tape said, “We can do more!” He created some Greasemonkey FireFox Extension scripts that improve how WordPress works for WordPress and WordPress.com blogs. WordPress Comment Ninja adds comment replies from the Comments Panel. Auntie Akismet Spam for WordPress condenses Akismet spam to two lines and combines redundant comment spam to speed up comment spam checking for false/positives by an incredible amount. Both of these save you a LOT of time.
- Extra Tip: Power Blogging Tips: Comment on Blogs From Within Google Feed Reader – another Greasemonkey script that allows you to comment on blogs from inside of your Google Feed Reader without opening the page in a new tab.
Here are some of the other presenters from WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco:
- Global Voices – Democratising the web with WordPress
- WordPress APIs
- Color Theory and the Making of Monotone
- Quercus WordCamp 2008
- Secure Coding with WordPress – WordCamp SF 2008
- BuddyPress @ WordCamp
- WordPress + OAuth
- Make Cash. Using Open Source. And WordPress.
- Findability Abwc2008 (blog post)
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my wordpress seems to be a bit broken, some themes that the developers of SWEAR are in perfect working order, don’t work for me… i’m on a mac, and safari is my browser, and some themes preview box has a little question mark (image not found) instead of the image, then when i click on preview for the theme, my blog just shows up on a white page with unformatted black text.. no theme… the people who write the themes never have an answer for me.. so i thought i would tell you, just so you know, my wordpress is broken 🙂
@Elaine
That is highly suspect. Did they inquire further on the issue? How well does the Default theme work? Is its picture showing up? When you click on it, does the preview appear for it?
If the preview does not appear for it, have you tried uploading all of the 2.6.1 files again? Have you tried another browser? How does it look in Firefox?
Check the picture link. Does the picture point to the right place?
What Server OS do you have? Are you using Apache, IIS, etc?
What plugins do you have? Have you tried disabling them and rechecking?
You may also try the forums at WordPress.org and see if anyone is having similar issues (I do think I remember a few having them, but I forget how or if they were resolved). If you can answer the above questions in the thread, it would help speed the resolution to your problem.
Wow! I never thought my name would be on someone else’s slides. Well, one goal I had as a child is now accomplished.
@ Elaine:
Thanks to Jacob, it looks like he answered your question. Safari has been troublesome for web design on and off for a while, so the Theme you are using might have issues with Safari. Have you checked it on another browser?
@ Jacob Santos:
You know I live to make all the dreams come true for everyone involved in WordPress. 😀 You deserve the attention, as does everyone who works so hard for WordPress.
Lovely post!:)
And I will definitely check one of those scripts, though I’m really looking forward to threaded comments in WordPress 2.7.
I guess I can be proud as I have not managed to break my first and busiest installation of WordPress, though it’s been on a high-traffic website for 4 years.
But I agree that Safari is nowhere near friendly for a web designer. I tried out to Windows version and I looked through the most of my projects from a Mac in an Apple store and it just looked like something completely different to me. The font was pretty blurry, too.
Thanks Jacob and Lorelle, i guess i will install firefox and try… but i won’t stop using safari, just coz i like it better than firefox… and my website looks fine, i mean the one i coded.. thanks for your help you guys, i will go peruse the forums 🙂
well i reinstalled wordpress, and everything is the same, and i installed firefox and the only thing that’s different is the question mark is missing for the themes that don’t work, but when i click on them to preview, it’s the same thing, just black and white and blue links.. no formatting per say, no nothing to do with the theme… i looked in the forums and found a couple of people having these problems, and noted that they were both on macs, so i guess i’ll just have to live with it until people start coding for this rapidly growing part of the user world.. 🙂
also, when i reinstalled, my ‘edit this entry’ stopped working, and my postviews plugin stopped working, so it’s more broken than it was before lol
@ Elaine:
You’ve got all kinds of problems, don’t you. 😀 Be sure and remove EVERYTHING from your server before uploading the new version – everything except what is in your /wp-content/ folder and other stuff you need hanging around. The everything of the WordPress program.
Sometimes when we upload over things via FTP and such, the files don’t make it all the way. A clean upload will usually cure a lot of problems.
Thank goodness the WordPress Support Forum is there to help hold your hand when you are in agony.
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