I found it odd to think a whole year had passed since Page.ly was first launched by Joshua and Sally Strebel (and their little elves) but time flies when you’re having fun! - So to help Page.ly celebrate in style you’ve been invited to the Page.ly Birthday Bash! :)
More of a follow-up to my last article in which I talked about the WordPress.org redesign, where I’d like to see it going and what kind of improvements I’d like to see happen. Which leads me onto the comment Andrea Rennick (you all know Andrea) left the other day…!
While I personally disagree that they’ve done most of what I had written about, I can’t argue the fact that things have already happened, the biggest change in my opinion being the new colour scheme you can now find. It matches in with 3.o now!
Already it makes WordPress.org more appealing and easy on the eyes. Plus we can’t forget the drop-down menu you now see when you hover over Extend, you know what they say about small and simple changes sometimes being the best! ;)
For starters the development teams going to work on the redesign have been announced, and while I probably couldn’t help fully, I’m sitting on the sidelines here writing my thoughts and publishing them for all to read and use if they require?
Official WordPress News (http://wordpress.org/news/) – What was known as /development/ before it was changed, but a smart move which now makes it sound a lot more professional and more official looking!
The old slug didn’t quite describe what the WordPress Blog was all about in my eyes, and in the eyes of Matt Mullenweg and other developers too by the looks of it, as around July 8th 2010 Ryan Boren made a couple of changes to WP.org with this being one of them!
Extend WordPress (http://extend.wordpress.org/) – You’ll see it’s not a huge change, and wouldn’t really alter the setup currently being used, more or less just a little bit of a URL layout change, plus making sure it was the *real* hub for Extending WordPress through Themes and Plugins!
With over 100 Million Plugin Downloads I think it’s safe to say Extend plays a major part of WordPress, and at the end of the day, that’s going to continue long and hard into the future (both for Themes and Plugins!)
I’d like to think it would encourage other people to get involved in WordPress?
Make WordPress [...] (http://make.wordpress.org/) – Whoever thought that structure up should make themselves known, I’m due you a drink! :)
If you didn’t already know that we have Make WordPress UI (you do now) which deals with the User Interface of WordPress, where you’ll most likely find John O’Nolan hanging around as Deputy Head of the UI Team, with Jane Wells still in charge of it all. We’ll soon also have Make WordPress Code up and running for WP Code Developments!
Which got me thinking about the (redundant) Ideas Forum and how it really has no purpose under Extend! Please do call me crazy, but ideas are all about making things better right? – In which case why don’t we setup Make WordPress Better?
We’re all different and we all think differently about things! :D Any thoughts?
On checking out WordCamp Central for all the upcoming WordCamps, I decided to have a little look (and read) around 2 or 3 and found WordCamp Utah 2010 quite interesting to say the least! I say that because they’ve invited Tom Dickson, the man behind the “Will It Blend?” series, and I really am intrigued with what he’ll be doing (if only I could attend!)
Development on the bbPress Plugin for WordPress started a few days ago!
Introduced in WordPress 3.0 was the capital_P_dangit(); filter that would alter the title, content, and comment(s) if you never used a capital ‘P’when writing WordPress. It has caused quite a stir in the community with post after post after post appearing (yeah I know I’m creating another!) – For me though, like Leland Fiegel put it on ThemeLab, why not just educate the users on how we actually write and spell WordPress?
The history behind the headers you can find in Twenty Ten for WordPress 3.0 is quite an interesting read actually, who would have thought Matt Mullenweg took them from his travels around the world? If you had the chance, would you have included any others? :)
It has been said by Jane Wells before that WordPress.org would see a redesign later on this year, and at WordCamp San Francisco, Matt Mullenweg confirmed that in his State Of The Word 2010 – Not to mention the fact I have wanted to publish my thoughts on WP.org and the kind of changes I’d like to see implemented myself anyway!
You might have heard me saying this all before, I have been thinking about it for a while, and I also remember Jeff Chandler asking his WPTavern.com readers/followers if they knew what powered the main WP.org site? With not many people knowing, I think the majority were surprised to find out it was just HTML behind it.
With the release of WordPress 3.0 just happening today, and the huge success of the WP/WPMU merge that took place, wouldn’t it be the right time to harness all the new features and functionality that went into development of 3.0? :D
Not forgetting how it could act as another (major) site to help spot bugs similar to WP.com?
At the moment they use MediaWiki for the WordPress Codex but just imagine how it would look if they ported it over to use WordPress instead? I know it would take a lot of work, the opportunity could be taken though to give the Codex a spring-clean for more of a better word!
It would just be another way for people to see how WordPress can be used for virtually anything at the end of the day, along with what can be achieved. I’d like to think it would also enhance the way others use WordPress?
As they’d say in Trac for a feature or idea they like +1, but in this case I’m sure +1000 would sound way more appropriate! :) When you visit WP.org you shouldn’t have to login to all the separate areas all the time, it’s not user-friendly! - Which is probably why you’ll not find me kicking about there as much?
With the large number of Plugins and Themes available, sometimes I feel when you’re looking for a certain something it could be made a lot easier, fair point yes? If you take the Category/Section/Tag that can be picked from, cleaning that up is already half-way there, and half the battle!
Taking that a little further, I’d like to see it located at http://extend.wordpress.org/ instead because at the end of the day you are actually ”Extending WordPress” which fits better than the current format?!
I know we have something for this at the moment but it could do with a little work, making it the central location on WP.org for the users to go and edit their details would be a great start. Then with the main WordPress.org site running WordPress too, it could all be integrated using the MultiSite/Network Feature! (The possibilities are endless!)
Sure I could have probably expanded upon my thoughts above but I was just getting them out in the open, although I see they have been talked about on the WPTavern Forum which also includes MANY more ideas from others around the community!
For those of you not in-the-know, Samuel Wood (AKA Otto) has been hired by Matt Mullenweg himself to head up the WordPress.org Redesign, which I’m looking forward to watching and helping out however I can?
After what was months and months in development, the good news is that WordPress 3.0 (Thelonious) has finally been released! According to Matt Mullenweg in the release post, 218 people contributed to the 3.0 release cycle, myself included! :)