Comments on: Daniel Jalkut, WordPress Hero!

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[...] the clarification regarding WordPress Themes and the GPL (v2). Daniel Jalkut, who I featured as a personal WordPress Hero earlier this year, wrote one of the most interesting responses to “[WordPress] Themes are [...]

By: Alec

Alec — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:00:52 +0000

Hello Lloyd and Daniel,

We are running some sites on the older stable 2 tree.

Those are the sites which are having issues. We will be upgrading the rest of the stable this summer.

Wordpress 2.7 is a big leap forward in terms of user interface – we’d done a lot of custom interface work for clients to make Wordpress an easier posting environment for totally non technical clients and we were waiting to move until a really significant Wordpress improvement came. We can’t upgrade right now as we are a bit short-handed this month but it’s on the cards for June. We run quite a few custom plugins and upgrades are not a light matter for commercial sites (they have to work all the time).

Thanks for the history Lloyd. We really have to start submitting Wordpress bugs ourselves as we’ve stomped enough of them over the years (although Wordpress is a lot less buggy than it used to be). Now that I’m thinking of it, our lead programmer/CTO for a few years was John Godley and I’m quite sure John was regularly submitting formal bug reports.

PS. Daniel, we did follow up with you a few times (Martin was handling the issue) on your support about six months ago but at that time you couldn’t get to the bottom of it. It was great to learn the back story here.

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Sun, 10 May 2009 15:14:59 +0000

Alec, to compliment Daniel’s response, if you let me know specific WordPress bugs (even better trac #s), and I can also help.

Also, in my experience as Flock QA Lead from 2005-2006, I reported more bugs to Six Apart than to WordPress. My great experience working with the WordPress product and team was one of my motivations for getting more involved, and eventually joining Automattic.

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Sat, 09 May 2009 14:58:38 +0000

Alec, I’m surprised you are still running into trouble with MarsEdit and WordPress. Generally speaking it’s very stable and WodPress has one of the best developed APIs available.

I’m not sure which feedback you’re alluding to. If you want to follow up about any unresolved issues, please do get in touch. You can find out how at http://www.red-sweater.com/support/

Daniel

By: Alec

Alec — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:11:55 +0000

I am an owner of MarsEdit and have run into these bugs with Wordpress often (ironically here is one place Typepad is easier to use than Wordpress). So I don’t use MarsEdit much.

I was wondering if Daniel ever did anything with all the feedback that I asked our development team at Foliovision gave Daniel when we were still trying to get XMLRPC to work with MarsEdit.

I am glad to hear a lot! Well done, Daniel.

Yes, Lloyd, it would be great if you could get these bugs addressed even in the stable maintenance version.

By: Atul Sabnis

Atul Sabnis — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:37:28 +0000

I’d agree with Todd. I have been a user of MarsEdit after evaluating a host of offline editors. It is good to know a bit more about the person and his thinking. Thanks, Lloyd!