Comments on: WordPress Slowdown and a Challenge

By: » WP Theme: Grimm DF » darkfaerytale

» WP Theme: Grimm DF » darkfaerytale — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:56:17 +0000

[...] her little sister was, I realized it was June 29th already. Earlier this month, I’d seen the Slowdown Challenge over at Bloggingpro.com and wanted to participate with turning Darkfaerytale’s previous [...]

By: Andreas

Andreas — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:16:57 +0000

Interesting…

By: Marbella Property

Marbella Property — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:54:44 +0000

I have just begun with WordPress, Great to have found this article, starting off with wordpress is like hell. Makes me losing days about stupid details (am not a professional coder).â€ I try to read every one of your article and learn more about wordpress.

By: Menekse ile Halil

Menekse ile Halil — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:10:14 +0000

I mostly agree with you.

By: Liz Strauss at Successful Blog - WordPress Theme and Plugin Challenge

Liz Strauss at Successful Blog - WordPress Theme and Plugin Challenge — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:28:22 +0000

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By: vivalabamba

vivalabamba — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:10:25 +0000

Great to have found this article, even if it has been released 6 months ago – it confirms my first impressions. Let me tell you that at the end of 2006, the situation is not better.

I have just began with Wrodpress, and let me tell you : I am very disappointed. The list of templates is fantastic though – I love it – It seems so professional, but well… coming from beta-blogger (so easy, I can focus on webmastering – and I understand the required level is just not the same), tweaking a code here is just a pain in the neck, makes me losing days about stupid details (am not a professional coder).

“Permissions” stuff is just horrendous – making a few plugins useless – am not joking about security. These templates are so different – I would rather fewer templates that are developped more in depth. I want support as well.

Starting off with wordpress is like hell. Their support is not structured (useless tutorials (there is no tutorial) with too many links everywhere (great from a seo point of view, but in order to try to understand sthg, take your week off for simple explanations or better for u to visit third-party websites).
Forum help support is just inexistant – impossible to find a relevant post (it is not organised). Right I understand a few questions might be redundant – but as there is no pedagogical tutorial and no way to find previous posts… well.

Maybe wordpress is just for professional coders ! I am seriously thinking about moving to another blog pro platform. If you have any idea, I am interested to know about it.
Best.

By: Lorelle on WordPress » Blogging Pro WordPress Themes and Plugins Contest

Lorelle on WordPress » Blogging Pro WordPress Themes and Plugins Contest — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:35:54 +0000

[...] Blogging Pro started a WordPress Themes and Plugins Contest on June 23 with a deadline of June 30th. The goal of the contest was to 1) revitalize the WordPress creative community, and 2) feature the best new Themes and Plugins on Blogging Pro to help promote them. [...]

By: WordPress Plugins Feature Series | blogHelper

WordPress Plugins Feature Series | blogHelper — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:09:10 +0000

[...] Anyway, back to the main picture. As I said yesterday, this series will consist of monthly posts featuring WordPress plugins released that month which provide enough new functionality to be described as worthy additions to our plugin libraries, but not necessarily “big” enough to deserve Blogging Pro’s “really revolutionary” status. [...]

By: My Take on the “WordPress Community Slowdown” | blogHelper

My Take on the “WordPress Community Slowdown” | blogHelper — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 19:07:59 +0000

[...] He did raise a valid point when he argued that the amount of “really revolutionary” plugins coming out of the community has been falling over the past few months or so. But we must ask ourselves: Are we overstating the problem? [...]

By: Diada

Diada — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:08:55 +0000

I will take certain liberties with that though, as I know many two column themes with an image header, and a right or left column navigation look fairly similar.

By: Meet The Burkes » Article » This Is Showing Mikey

Meet The Burkes » Article » This Is Showing Mikey — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:31:07 +0000

[...] WordPress slowdown and a challenge started a week before the end of the month. I was hoping to try to stir up the WordPress community, but alas, there was nothing but a faint trickle of ideas though I am not surprised by the results. I am sure some will blame the summer months or the short span of this challenge, but honestly, I think it just shows the current state of the theme and plugin community. With up to a total of 10 spots open to have a link to their theme or plugin on every page of Blogging Pro for a month, I expected to atleast get 10 entries, but I did not even get that many. [...]

By: WordPress Theme and Plugin Challenge Results by Blogging Pro

WordPress Theme and Plugin Challenge Results by Blogging Pro — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 21:12:36 +0000

[...] Recent Comments Int…: [...] Recent Comments Guru Manag…: NotGuru Manag…: Not easily to define but hopefullyDavid: I am going to post theBlah, Blah…: [...] (via Blogging Pro) I makeScott: Are there results? Or have IWordPress …: [...] [via Blogging Pro] [...]Links for …: [...] Blogging Pro kick starts theJohn: Problogger is cool, I agree, butBlog of Le…: [...] WordPress development team is organizingSouthern D…: [...] DOut of the gazillions of [...]

By: Interviewed on Successful Blog by Blogging Pro

Interviewed on Successful Blog by Blogging Pro — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 20:40:05 +0000

[...] Recent Comments Guru Manag…: Not easily to define but hopefullyDavid: I am going to post theBlah, Blah…: [...] (via Blogging Pro) I makeScott: Are there results? Or have IWordPress …: [...] [via Blogging Pro] [...]Links for …: [...] Blogging Pro kick starts theJohn: Problogger is cool, I agree, butBlog of Le…: [...] WordPress development team is organizingSouthern D…: [...] DOut of the gazillions ofMike’s Blo…: Trackbacking your entry…… [...] in fact it [...]

By: Guru Manager

Guru Manager — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:06:48 +0000

Not easily to define but hopefully something along what you had in mind on being different as it provides the ability to be a fully customized Theme without HTML or any PHP knowledge from Sidebar menu after Login,

Colors (Background, Footer, Title, Navigation Links, Visited Links, Text) Banner Headers (24 Banner Graphics are included to choose from or upload your own) Then Change the colors to match Navigation Links on Top NavBar can be changed Google AdSense – Activate or Deactivate

Lots of drop down menus to choose from… what can I say?

By: David

David — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 13:13:57 +0000

I am going to post the results today. It was a Canadian holiday on the weekend, and my fiance wouldn’t let me touch the computer.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 17:06:37 +0000

Are there results? Or have I missed them elsewheres?

By: Links for the end of June » Project Syndicate

Links for the end of June » Project Syndicate — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 05:12:14 +0000

[...] Blogging Pro kick starts the WordPress theme designers with a challenge. [...]

By: darkfaerytaleCOM » WP Theme: Grimm DF

darkfaerytaleCOM » WP Theme: Grimm DF — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:32:35 +0000

[...] This morning, while I was pounding away at the keyboard trying to get my character to start talking about the actual plot and not how just how annoying her little sister was, I realized it was June 29th already. Earlier this month, I’d seen the Slowdown Challenge over at Bloggingpro.com and wanted to participate with turning Darkfaerytale’s previous design into a WordPress theme. [...]

By: Gunship Diplomat » Blog Archive » Web design - not as easy as its made out

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:29:34 +0000

[...] I was reading ‘WordPress Slowdown and Clallenge‘ on bloggingpro.com. David bemoans the increased number of recycled themes appearing on the theme sites. The comment made me think about how great recycling WordPage themes is. I agree that making small changes to somebodies work and then posting is as yours is wrong; but using a theme to build and customise your own site is really important to get new people involved in the internet. [...]

By: plaintxt.org

plaintxt.org — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 06:12:19 +0000

Throwing Down the Dev Gauntlet…

A challenge has be issued by David at BloggingPro.com. He prefaces his post by commenting that the recent WordPress theme competitions were relatively unsuccessful. Interested and nodding, I read on:

Theme releases lately, all seem to be small change…

By: Wordpress udfordring: Skab et tema eller plugin » ProBlog.dk » At blogge - din guide til blogging og blog-vÃ¦rktÃ¸jer

Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:00:10 +0000

[...] SÃ¥ hvis du har styr pÃ¥ enten det at lave temaer eller plugins til WordPress, kan du hoppe over pÃ¥ BlogginPro.com og se kriterierne for deltage: WordPress Challenge » [...]

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:59:24 +0000

Christ, I am useless.

By: dandyna

dandyna — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 08:53:30 +0000

I mostly agree with you.
@ David, Phu Ly is a genius!!!!

By: David

David — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 20:01:01 +0000

You can do it, and worst case scenerio, get it working without too many bugs and release it. If its great, you can keep developing it and add any “extra” features it may need. I know this can be done, as I have gone from concept to 0.1 theme release in 3 days. And Phu Ly did one theme a day for 6 days. Go WordPress theme makers!

Good luck monkeypup

By: monkeypup

monkeypup — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:57:48 +0000

Okay. Time for me to stop dicking around and release my first theme. See if I can beat the clock…
eep…look at the date! Better get working!