What WordPress Needs
I know what WordPress needs: they need an independent young Weblogger/journalist wanna-be to chronicle anything and everything about WordPress—positive mentions, switchers, complaints, requests, interviews with WP developers, and news about the venture capital powering WP these days.
If you use WordPress and want to spend 2-3 hours a day sifting through Technorati searches, etc., you could make yourself one hell of a niche market with a weblog about WordPress. It would eventually be a positive thing for the community, I feel.
I’m throwing that out there because I sure as hell have neither the time nor the desire to take it on.
Posted December 29th, 2005 in WordPress.
Hmm, just might be the logical evolution of my site, thanks for the pep talk.
December 29th, 2005 at 2:08 pmStep 1: Announce new releases on the official blog before the rest of the community has already downloaded the new version…
Still no mention of the 2.0 release on the WordPress blog…
December 29th, 2005 at 2:17 pmMichael: Go for it! If you’re afraid that you can’t do it alone for the long term, start on your own, then collect compatriots. Use the tools that are out there are your disposal to make this happen.
Chris: Given the bugginess of 2.0, I’m okay with the soft launch. I’ve stopped my 2.0 upgrade progress dead in its tracks. My call for a completionist set of test cases is yet to come … mainly because I don’t even begin to have a handle on what all I’d be asking for there.
December 29th, 2005 at 6:12 pm[...] I’ve found a few posts online [1, 2, 3, 4] that talk about the problems they’ve had with 2.0 that have caused them to hold off. But rather than dredge up those posts, I figured I would ask directly. [...]
December 30th, 2005 at 2:15 pm[...] ahogy az várható volt fellángoltak a viták a wordpress 2.0 kapcsán [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. a régi 1.5.x felhasználóknak nem jelentenek semmit az új funkciók. nyilvánvaló, hogy a cél inkább a nyitás az új felhasználókhoz és nem a régiek kiszolgálása. ezt többen is nehezen élik meg és már születtek is segédprogramok, amelyekkel downgradelni lehet. [...]
December 31st, 2005 at 7:43 am[...] Oublions pour un moment qu’il s’agit probablement d’un des lancements les plus laborieux d’une nouvelle version de WordPress à ce jour, et profitons un peu de la musique du grand Duke pendant les derniers jours de vacances. [...]
January 1st, 2006 at 1:38 pmShould I be downloading 2.0 yet? There is that link about it on my Dashboard and your comments are a few days old.
January 3rd, 2006 at 6:29 amRoger: No, not now, unless you just want to do it.
January 3rd, 2006 at 6:31 amAlthough I’m not a Wordpress user, this is the sort of thing that could very well trap me. I’m a sucker for projects that just need to be done. Right now I’m really glad I’m not a WP user.
January 4th, 2006 at 7:32 pmThat’s why I said that a young guy on the up-and-up should do it, David. Us old farts, we need to stay on the sidelines.
Me, I just play at WordPress whining and kvetching…
January 4th, 2006 at 8:56 pmCarthik was doing something close to this with WordLog before he took a backseat in the WP community. I’m with you though, I’d happily remove several of the WP-related feeds from my RSS reader in lieu of one like you described.
January 4th, 2006 at 10:37 pmY’know, as I sit here and think about this, I look at the new roles and capabilities in 2.0 and think, “Hmmmmm … this doesn’t need to be a single-user thing at all.” If registration was open, and folks joined as contributors who could submit stories but not publish them, you end up with a situation where the community can submit stories, and you just need a strong cadre of editors willing to put the time in to sift through the contributions, and one administrator to keep them all in line.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
January 4th, 2006 at 10:41 pmAn Interview with “Skippy”
Here at WP Station, I’ve been trying to track specifically plugin and theme updates, announcements, etc, with the occassional WP News update. However after coming across this postby Geof, perked my interest, and sent me in search of my first in…
January 6th, 2006 at 1:42 pm[...] I’ve found a few posts online [1, 2, 3, 4] that talk about the problems they’ve had with 2.0 that have caused them to hold off. But rather than dredge up those posts, I figured I would ask directly. [...]
January 25th, 2006 at 9:54 am