[wp-hackers] wp-hackers Digest, Vol 60, Issue 35

Sun Jan 17 15:02:31 UTC 2010

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>    1. Re: A question about donation link (Jordi Canals)
>    2. adding more than 4 widgets to default sidebar (Chris)
>    3. Re: adding more than 4 widgets to default sidebar (scribu)
>    4. Re: A question about donation link (Jordi Canals)
>    5. Re: New plugin for plugin authors to showcase their	plugins
>       on their site (Mike Walsh)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:29:37 +0100
> From: Jordi Canals <jcanals at alkivia.net>
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] A question about donation link
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> 2010/1/16 Jeremy Clarke <jer at simianuprising.com>
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>> The resulting discussion of GPL and attribution is fascinating, but to
>> return to the original question I think it's obvious that regardless
>> of what actually happened to get his theme denied access to the repo,
>> the *proposed functionality* of asking for a donation when people
>> remove the footer link is 100% appropriate and should be allowed in
>> the theme repo. It is an example of very good usability to only ask
>> for a donation when people are actively removing other benefits you
>> derive from their use of your work. I think we can all agree the GPL
>> has nothing to say about it and that donation asks like the one in
>> WP-Supercache are far more imposing and annoying to clients than this
>> one.
>>
>>
> It's a petty that this link to the donations page has blocked all theme
> updates on the WP-Themes site from December 18 and they are considering to
> completely remove the theme. Just because them considered the text as a
> commercial licensing option. The text was: "If you remove public themes,
> please consider donating to the project".
>
> Them asked the text to be removed and I did it the day after (Dec, 19). But
> because of that the theme updates have been blocked and I had to spend a big
> amount of time trying to tell them the link was removed and the theme is
> only released under the GPL license.
>
> Jordi, thanks for your dedication to making the footer credit an
>> explicit option in the UI. It makes it WAY easier for people to use
>> theme upgrades since they don't have to effectively fork their copy
>> just to remove the credit. This should be a common practice, and I
>> think your system of asking for a donation at that moment is a perfect
>> way to raise the appeal of such options for theme developers (as well
>> as encouraging users who don't want to donate to reconsider their
>> decision to remove the link :)
>>
>>
> It's a petty that because this, the theme was blocked (as said).  I also
> thinks the best way is to allow doing it without hacking the theme which
> makes updates easier. And now, the theme users are compaining to me because
> I announced a lot of new features for the 2.0 release and the theme is not
> available at WP-Themes site. I'm really disappointed with the guys who
> manage the site and approve the themes publishing.
>
> On the next releases, I just will completely forbid to remove the footer
> with a big announcement on the code as the clause 7b og GPLv3 allows me to
> require the preservation of author attribution. This is just the worst
> solution, and far away of my original wish to allow an easy removal of the
> theme author attribution. With this attitude, WordPress guys made me to be a
> lot more restrictive about author attribution removal.
>
> This really discourages me to continue developing and maintaining WordPress
> plugins as all them are GPL and freely available.
>
>
>> --
>> Jeremy Clarke | http://jeremyclarke.org
>> Code and Design | http://globalvoicesonline.org
>>
>>
> Jordi Canals
> http://alkivia.org
>
>
> ------------------------------
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:53:34 +0000
> From: Chris <chris.hearn01 at ntlworld.com>
> Subject: [wp-hackers] adding more than 4 widgets to default sidebar
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> Hi there,
> Sorry if this is wrong place!
> I have just loaded WP 2.9.1, and just testing out the Dashboard features.
> Using default theme, initial setup.
> I put 4 widgets into sidebar1 and it works ok.
> Add another (> 4) does not work unless navigate away from the page and
> back again.
> If this is not already a known issue (albeit minor) maybe someone would
> care to confirm and add to bugfix list?
>
> Regards
> Chris
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:08:18 +0200
> From: scribu <scribu at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] adding more than 4 widgets to default
> 	sidebar
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
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> What exactly happens when you try to add the 4th one?
>
> What browser are you using?
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Chris <chris.hearn01 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>> Sorry if this is wrong place!
>> I have just loaded WP 2.9.1, and just testing out the Dashboard features.
>> Using default theme, initial setup.
>> I put 4 widgets into sidebar1 and it works ok.
>> Add another (> 4) does not work unless navigate away from the page and
>> back
>> again.
>> If this is not already a known issue (albeit minor) maybe someone would
>> care to confirm and add to bugfix list?
>>
>> Regards
>> Chris
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> --
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:43:48 +0100
> From: Jordi Canals <jcanals at alkivia.net>
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] A question about donation link
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
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> 2010/1/15 Alex Hempton-Smith <hempsworth at googlemail.com>
>
>> Jordi, do you have the original plugin zip available for us to take a look
>> at (to rule out there not being more than meets the eye)... Remember
>> attachments are stripped on this list, perhaps upload it to your site.
>>
>>
> Sorry Alex, It took a bit long to setup a downloads page.
> You can download any theme version at
> http://alkivia.org/wordpress/chameleon/downloads/
> The version that blocked the theme is 2.0, but in 2.1 the link was removed
> and still blocked it.
>
> I'm sure that you won't find anything in the theme that does not follow the
> GPL license.
>
>
>> -- Alex  (Hempsworth)
>>
>>
> Jordi Canals
> http://alkivia.org
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:12:12 -0500
> From: Mike Walsh <mpwalsh8 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] New plugin for plugin authors to showcase
> 	their	plugins on their site
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
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> Any chance it can support themes too?
>
> Mike
>
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Dan Phiffer <dan at phiffer.org> wrote:
>
>> Yo dog I heard U like ... etc.
>>
>>
>> On Jan 16, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Thomas Belknap wrote:
>>
>> > Dude.  So sweet. Thanks!
>> >
>> > On Jan 16, 2010 11:46 AM, "Mark Jaquith" <markjaquith at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Like many plugin authors here, I have many of my plugins in the wp.org
>> > repository, but I also want to showcase them on my own site. Until
>> > now, I've been managing them on my site manually. This has proved to
>> > be a giant pain ? so much so that it makes me dread updating my
>> > plugins, as I know it'll involve a tedious update of their
>> > representative pages on my site.
>> >
>> > I wrote a plugin to remedy this.
>> >
>> > http://txfx.net/wordpress-plugins/i-make-plugins/
>> >
>> > In order to make the page above, I did the following:
>> >
>> > 1. Pages > Add New
>> > 2. Title: I Make Plugins
>> > 3. Parent Page: WordPress Plugins
>> > 4. Publish
>> >
>> > That's it! It's getting all its info from the plugin repository, using
>> > the API calls available within WordPress. The info is cached in
>> > postmeta, with an expiration.
>> >
>> > It also auto-populates the listing page:
>> >
>> > http://txfx.net/wordpress-plugins/
>> >
>> > Both pages have templates (using WP shortcodes, of course) so that you
>> > can customize their layout.
>> >
>> > Now you can manage your personal plugins showcase just by updating
>> > their readme.txt file. Hope this is of some use to you!
>> >
>> > --
>> > Mark Jaquith
>> > ? http://markjaquith.com/
>> > ? http://coveredwebservices.com/
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