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WordPress originally began life as a blogging platform but has grown to be a Content Management System (CMS) and is now so popular, that it is now used by thousands of companies and corporations.
Many thousands of free themes of differing purposes and quality have been released to the public, but yet during the last few years more and more developers have popped up selling premium WordPress themes, but are they worth the money?
Personal Users vs Business Users
Free
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Paid
The worst just happened, my internet went down. As in down for hours, not minutes, and no reprieve in sight. This points to obvious holes in my workflow towards some clients at Odd Alice, necessary holes in all but one cases, but holes nonetheless.
It would seem some people get slightly upset on this world wide web thingy. Sometimes they even get upset with me, and spend their no doubt very valuable time commenting about how they are right and I am wrong.
This prompted me to write this FAQ, to clear up some things. Here we go!
Do you hate WordPress?
Obviously not, I’m writing for a WordPress site, I write books about WordPress, my web agency Odd Alice is focused on WordPress, and WordPress is pretty damn good!
Then why do you complain about WordPress all the time?
You know what I hate? That everything is an “app store” these days. Yeah I know, the shock of me getting to the point right away, huh? Shaking things up is all, and also I’m hungry as hell and that means I’m cranky, which in turn means that I want to get straight to the whining.
So, app stores and how everything is called an app store.
Like WP App Store, for example. I’m sorry, but that’s an awful name. Really.
Yes, people get it.
Yes, it has brand recognition per default.
You might’ve seen Jane Wells’ post about the WordPress community summit, and if not, well then you’re obviously not following @tdh on Twitter, which is a really really bad thing not to do, you know.
Yep. That’s my column, all self promotion and the like. Paid in chocolate kittens, remember?
Joking aside (right…), I think the WordPress community summit is a great idea. For those of you who find posts on wordpress.org to be scary, here’s the lowdown.
Wait. You find posts on wordpress.org scary? That’s just plain stupid, go read it, battle your phobia, then come back here.
A new bug reared its ugly head when Facebook rolled out their new page design. A bug that was driving me nuts. But fortunately, I soon found an extremely simple fix.
I first wanted to check and make sure that I was not the only person coming across the problem. But after a quick straw poll amongst some colleagues, I discovered that I was not.
Here’s the problem:
There’s been quite a bit of noise the past week about WordCamp San Francisco. It appears as if some organizers of past camps are pissed off because WordCamp San Francisco is bloody expensive to sponsor, and they have been told they can’t ask for that much sponsor money. I don’t know about this, when I organized WordCamp Stockholm in 2010 no one asked me what the sponsor rates where, and I didn’t tell. We managed well enough anyway, obviously.
I never thought that I’d get to use the word “despotism” in a WPMU article. Actually, I’d never thought about whether or not I would, but if the question had been asked of me, I would have certainly thought it unlikely.
On the other hand, I do tend to wander onto some pretty strange paths at times, so I shouldn’t be that surprised. The point is, I am rather pleased with myself for shoehorning despotism into this post. I am even more pleased with myself because it is actually relevant.
Do You Use a Comment Policy?
Back in April I wrote an article entitled The Great Plugin Backwards Compatibility Debate, in which I referred to some data showing that a considerable proportion of WordPress users have not installed the latest version (or even the previous latest version, or others before that).
Those figures will be somewhat skewed by inactive sites and the like, but I don’t think anyone could dispute that there are (and probably always will be) a proportion of WordPress users who choose not to upgrade to the latest version of the software.
But why? I would say that there are three common “fears” associated with upgrading:
We are self-confessed tag addicts here at WPMU. Tagaholics, if you will. We tag with wild abandon.
However, I don’t touch tags on my own blog. Given that tagging is fairly widespread in the blogging world and I appear to be missing out on all of the fun, I thought it would be interesting to take a closer look at why tags may be useful – and in contrast, why they may be useless.
What is a Tag?
