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In a stark contrast to WordPress.org action against WordPress’s premium theme, SixApart is fully supporting of the idea of MoveableType’s premium theme.
Whether this is just another disagreement on this matter between WordPress/Automattic VS MoveableType/SixApart or competing to win the ‘heart’ of theme designer is out of my interpretation.
But anyway, it is interesting to know what their stance is and detail explanation behind it.
Has anyone seen it?
via WP-Premiums. Thanks for catching this.
If your wordpress theme uploaded into WordPress.org theme directory without fulfilling key rules, among other GPL compatible and no spammy links, it could had been possibly removed without prior notice.
First got to know this via ProBlogNews , 200 themes that not comply with these rules were removed by WordPress on Dec 12. There are further discussion by Justin, spectacu, alistercameron.
I’m not a theme coder (tried once but not impressed with the outcome), but this action can be interpreted by many as ‘punishing without giving chance to defend’ . It needs little bit more tolerant to allow them to comply with the new rules, and Matt & WordPress won’t get unnecessary bad publicity publicly.
Like everybody else (who are not good in theme design), I love theme, especially ‘premium‘ theme that not only looks great, but some of them is extremely customizable and feature rich.
Those persons above has got a great articles about the issue, and you’re recommend to read it especially if you’re theme coder. I’m summarizing what I
Back Link
There are 2 type of links that if available on theme, the theme will not be accepted.
The first type obviously spammy links. I don’t agree with the way of certain theme coder putting a links on the theme that linking back to non-author website as SEO purpose. I just feels that it is unethical and opportunistic which taking advantage of WordPress’s popularity.
The second type is the links on the theme that linking back to commercial site that selling themes. Can this be interpreted that WordPress doesn’t like those that selling theme especially that branded as Premium theme??
GNU
Another crucial part here is how WordPress enforcing the usage of GPL. Again, I’m quite new to this term although have heard of it many times before.
You have probably came across about it before where certain themes are free to be use but restricted for any modification without prior permission. This is against the spirit of GPL which clearly stating,
- the freedom to use the software for any purpose,
- the freedom to change the software to suit your needs,
- the freedom to share the software with your friends and neighbors, and
- the freedom to share the changes you make.
When a program offers users all of these freedoms, we call it free software.
You’re probably safe if avoiding these stuff and. Spend some time to read the theme’s about page before uploding any theme.
You’re forgiven if you haven’t updated your blog to WordPress 2.7
Apparently 2 of Yahoo blogs that run on WordPress, Yahoo Mail blog & Profile blog are still running on ‘ancient’ WordPress 2.5.
I believe that they’re putting greater bandwidth on the development & innovation instead of blog administration like this. Just make sure you feel ‘secured’ with it.
For sure now, ‘Please update now‘ greets you once you logged in into the control panel. Yup, WordPress 2.7 is finally here, for WordPress-self hosted blog.
Haven’t run the update just yet (the 3G internet connection is killing me), but I got a chance to view the glimpse of WordPress 2.7 via video posted.
The major update is obviously the new dashboard/control panel which undergone extensive makeover as well as the functionality. It is ‘extremely’ customizable, and feature rich. Not to forget the inner beauty, resulted from the new icon and new navigation menu, now relocated to the left bar.
Honestly to me, the ‘mother of all update‘ on this release is the built-in upgrade feature – which made possible the single-click, update-all. Gone the day, when update is a real pain in the a*s!!
Admittedly, that I’m not a very good WordPress user, so to get a better picture, you better off reading the Wordress 2.7′s official announcement .
If you have some doubt over compatibility of the plugin and theme with this new release, Lorella has posted some tips you can refer to.
Couple of days ago, there is a comment about why one commentator had moved to Drupal from WordPress. Honestly, I didn’t really pay attention to that.
I must say that my satisfaction for wordpress isn´t there anymore since they´ve been releasing. It´s been made very vulnerable for spam attacks. I migrated my WordPress Siteblog to Drupal. Hope it´ll will better.
And coincidentally, I came across 1 article from Drupal blog, where one blog moved to Drupal from WordPress due to performance issue.
So is WordPress that bad?? Full of spams & is not scallable??
On the first claim, I see it merely as a frustration with the number of spams, and no statistical evident to support his claim. I’ve been a WordPress user for 1.7 years. Along the way I got 75k spams (not much for certain blogs), but Akismet works well protecting my blog. So no fuss here.. The spam goes to ‘thrash’ directly.
1 thing that needs to keep in mind is, WordPress is the most widely used CMS. Due to its popularity, which means more blogs built with its platform, compared to its nearest competitor; and hence there are huge chances for spammers to take advantage over it by inventing different ways of flooding the blog with spams (don’t you want to invent 1 thing and impact more things than what you could do with the second most thing).
Probably I can use Windows as an analogy here. It’s more vulnerable to attacks compared to Mac OS or Linux due its worldwide usage of over 90% (plus other internal factors such as the security, bug & etc, and I know the Window market share has dipped to below 90% recently).
While the 2nd claim, since it’s written by Drupal user and posted in Drupal blog, I cannot be too sure about the fact inside. Furthermore, I’ve never used Drupal, so I’m not really in a position to provide any feedback about it.
WordPress has made it possible for more people to start blogging, easily. I’m pleased with WordPress especially the simplicity and how its communities support this platform. There are bunches of plugins and themes out there to make your blog stand up from the rest.
In terms of performance, blogjer is just a ‘small kid’ with only hundreds of page impression daily, so I couldn’t comment more, enough to say that I’m satisfied with it, even without any ‘cache’ plugin to boost the performance.
Anyway, Matt has came across to the post as well and here is what he says. Please take note these tips are from the WordPress founder itself, and it doesn’t come often. (full comment on that post)
1. Every release of WP gets faster, so upgrading can get you sometimes significant boosts depending on your bottleneck.
2. Use the memcached object cache backend.
3. If memcached is set up, use Batcache instead of wp-cache.
4. If you get a lot of comments, consider using InnoDB as your storage engine instead of MyISAM inside of MySQL.
5. Double-check that your webserver is set up properly for static requests, this is the cause of 90%+ of the problems we see.
This post is not trying to decide which CMS is the best, but merely my ranting, and if you feel offended, take it to yourself. I welcome any comments.
Perhaps what Matt said here is useful for you “We haven’t found the upper limit of this strategy (scalling) yet.”
