The WordCamp Report

Matt played Moderator as four developers; Mark Jaquith, Donncha O Caoimh, Mike Adams, Andy Skelton answered questions

Favorite plugins?

• Ajax Comment Viewer
• Subscribe to Comments (Favorite with 3 of the devs)
• Hello Dolly
• Akismet
• Some plugin that stops posts from Flickr so you can clean up the mess it makes
• Automattic Stats

Best Beer?

1. Becks
2. Leffe
3. Chocolate Stout
4. Magic Hat #9

What do you think is most important?

1. Automatic Update Notification
2. Better Media Support
3. Better Uploader… back to media

Should WordPress and WordPress MU be combined?

1. Yes
2. No
3. No
4. Yes

Pretty much same

Too much bulk

Need more access

Dangling the carrot and taking away, but MU can’t run most anywhere. Also System Requirements

What Theme you most want in WordPress Package

• Sandbox

Security Patches - Opinion on releases

• Releases are too slow
• Getting better (3 releases a year)
• Why the delay
• Sometimes the bugs are related

Depends on the severity of the bug on how fast

How about a auto-discovery ifor deciding between WordPress and WordPress MU

• Panel can be issue
• mod rewrite
• database
• you really might not want to use it

If not WordPress what would you use?

• moleskin
• nothing or nothing
• ftp and text files
• write his own
• text patern or own
• bbpress

PHP 4 or PHP5

1. 4
2. 5
3. 4
4. 5 in time

WordPress on CD?

Gallery can export a full gallery as HTML for on CD, Do we need for Blogs?

1. Yes, but why
2. As a Plugin?
3. WordPress to PDF?
4. Perhaps a Live install WordPress on CD with db and all as backup

Asides functionality in core?

1. I think yes, we should do it
2. No, themes can do it
3. No, but I would like to see a series of theems with a plugin support

Tumbler Function?

1. Hot
2. Hot
3. Hunh?
4. Hot

Is anyone Documenting what plugins work with what themes?

1. Go to forums, and IRC
2. Firebug?

Should WordPress market itself as a CMS?

1. No
2. No
3. Um… I like the previous answer Show it can be possible
4. Show it can be possible

Favorite thing to work on?

1. The small jobs
2. Paypal instant payment notification plugin (will be released)
3. bbpress and BackPress
4. Writing new code to solve problems that people don’t realize exist yet.

How do you back up your blogs?

1. dbbackup and email to gmail
2. Script that backups to home PC
3. Depends on Host
4. WordPress.com…. rsync blog directory

What do you do when not programming?

1. Sit
2. Computer Gaems and Motorcycle
3. Reading Harry Potter 7
4. Taking care of baby and wife… oh and photographs
5. Photographs, walking, Desktop Tower Defense

What would you change about image uploading?

1. Resizing by transparently resizing on the fly (at time of post)
2. Auto resizing according to content area
3. A Better way to seach and display images
4. Better way to save images with info

XML Parse or Rexgrep

• Depends
• rexgrep
• depends

Moving from a test environment to Production? (hard coded links)

• Move to short code to images
• short code to links

Outside of WordPress Boxers or briefs?

• Boxer briefs
• boxers
• boxer briefs

Should WordPress support other database?

• Sure why not
• only Open Source Ones
• No, because it brings us to lowest common denominator?

Should continue support for iis?

• Not too bad, not too hard to do

There is a mod-rewrite hack out there

Last post to Support Forums?

1. Month or Two
2. Last Week?
3. Long time ago
4. in June

Idea was to better bubble up things in Support?

• Moderators can bump up issues
• Tags will allow post flagging
• mention his name…

Ghettoist thing with Wordpress?

• Blogs of the day?
• His theme
• 1.0 Wordporess theem ported up
• Explaining to Lorelle he destroyed her blog posts once
• Taco Tuesday… blog order form
• Wordpress.org itself

Moving 250 Blogs from Single User to MU?

• Manual, Create Blog records, Rename the 250 blog tables,
• Via XML export/import
• Possible strip certian info

How to entice a plugin idea, how do you get it written?

• Slight of hand
• beer
• cash
• Find a author whose done similar
• WP-hacker mailing list
• IRC Channel

Most Annoying thing in WordPress?

• Comment manaement
• Image management

Mac & Windows/Text Editor/IDE

1. max & vim & Zen IDE (plus PCs at times)
2. Mac & nano with syntax highlighting
3. Linux/Macbook&vim
4. mac and textmate/nano

What language would you rewrite WordPress in?

• Python
• BF
• XSLT

Default Blogrooll?

1. Not in it don’t care
2. not in it, and don’t care
3. in it and it should go
4. Not and go
5. Yes, and update it, and include WordPress resources

Credit Page?

• yes
• yes
• yes
• yes
• yes

A huge round of applause and its over for the year.

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John Pozadzides of One Man Blog has posted this video of this session.

11 months, 2 weeks ago Sunday, July 22nd, 2007 at 6:06 pm.
Filed under 2007, Day 2, Presentation, WordCamp Live.
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