First of all, Happy New Year to all the readers! (a little late but better late than never – I’ve been busy) Thanks for standing with us for the first half of 2009. Since the last part of 2009 Appchain has taken a few steps into the future and has evolved in terms of quality of the content it provides. There was a small period of time where theme reviews where made for free and premium themes. That experiment was partly a success but a huge time killer with too little success to continue. It died and something better took it’s place. Something much better…
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If you’re a wordpress plugin or theme developer and you got a plugin/theme at wordpress.org, you probably received an email recently with “[wp-dev-news] WordPress Developer News: WordPress 2.9 Beta 2 released” subject. Yep! everybody got them and the messages says what it says: wordpress 2.9 beta is out and ready for testing. There is a blog post on the wordpress blog that says a very low version of the same thing. What you see in the picture above is actually Wordpress 2.9 Beta (a fresh install), and I know it looks exactly the same, nothing much has changed in the interface part of the admin panel (even though there are some changes here too).
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Automattic’s Douglas Hanna presents the WordPress Showcase to the audience of WordCamp San Francisco 2009
Video produced by Dave Curlee and John P, with post-production by Michael Pick.
Enjoy!
I’m thinking of building a plugin that will auto-update all the plugins (yes… automatically ..haha). I will build this if I get enough requests.. but before you wordpress lovers say “YES, YES, YES!!” i want to point a few things out:
If the plugin will be made, it will only update all of the plugins, automatically after it checks for each installed plugins updates once every x minutes or hours or days…. IF and only IF a an administrator has logged in the wp-admin panel. So the script will only run once an administrator has logged in admin panel. (and i’m not entirely 100% sure if/how to make this work perfectly for each server)
Why?
- Because cron jobs might not work (at all or correctly) on all servers and hosts where wordpress is installed
- Because if i make it run each time a user loads a page then your site will load slower and your cpu will be used more once you have hight traffic(short: because it’s inefficient that way)
- Because HTTPRequest might not work for some servers
I’m thinking of opening a popup or another page as a sollution to where the script to update all the plugins is going to load withouth being disrupted…
Give me your thoughts please… Do you want this? would you make these compromises? Have any better ideas? (i just came up with the ideea in the last 24 hrs and found these solutions so far)
I’ve decided I can do 2 things at the same time and while I was looking for the best way to post to Youtube some helpful tutorials and reviews about the plugins, themes (but not only:) and because i like it and wanted to do this for some time now: reviews, tutorials, hands on, unboxings of what ever i get my hands on…
So i found the best! uStream live .. And i decided to make it a non-stop service where i will do all the stuff above and more(answer questions, help with the plugins.. etc).
So here’s a place were you are going to see me live all of the time i am on my computer (and that’s most of the time). You are free to ask me questions, give feedback (just no swearing, no fighting and no spam!)
A new website is born today. Live Countdown Timer is one of our most successful plugins that we recently updated it to a new version. That new version is a place where we fixed all the requested bugs and added all the requested features( thanks everybody for the feedback! ), but also a place where we linked the plugin (from now on) to a new website: LCT (live countdown timer).
WHAT? WHAT? WHAT?
The idea behind this project is to organize all the events in the world, give them a nice looking timer and let everybody join in. So we decided to start with wordpress because all of the good feedback we received from the Live Countdown Timer Plugin(thanks again everyone!).
How is this useful? How could you take this further?What’s the big picture?
It’s a place where all the events happening in blogs, websites, news ..etc will be stored. A timer for each event is being formed. People will be able to rate and comment these events. People don’t use tags and categories that much (at least we are not trying to “complicate” things by using them) so we are going to try to organize these things as hard as we can.
LCT wants to organize all the events it can get… we are trying to bring it further with new enhancements to the website and we will try to give more flexibility to the functionality but for now you will have to use it as it is.
Let us know what you think!
And just in case you missed it above… HERE’S THE LINK to the website.
