He of course is referring to: Wordpress Multi-Site Enabler Plugin JG Web Development
I don't know what to think about such face slappery...
So a Wordpress core developer disapproves of my plugin...
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He of course is referring to: Wordpress Multi-Site Enabler Plugin JG Web Development
I don't know what to think about such face slappery...
I was afraid that would be their reaction when I saw you were writing it - they are concerned that most of their users are not technical enough to use multisite - probably true. Just post it on your own site ( and everywhere else you can) and after a while they will probably put it into wordpress.org. That is what happened to the domain mapping plugin, anyway.
Fuck him, censoring a plugin because the majority that wouldn't even use it wouldn't be able to understand it is utterly asinine.
And how fucking hard is it to add a wildcard DNS entry?
And how fucking hard is it to add a wildcard DNS entry?
By the way the worse that can happen is they remove it from the wp.org site, you could still host it off your own website and course link it here where people are most likely to use it.
Wordpress core devs are jackasses, keep doing your thing. The fact that they make anyone go into functions.php to enable anything is fucking stupid. So many plugins exist to help with this stuff.
There's a plugin called sidebar, for instance, that allows you to dynamically add sidebars from your admin panel. No more fucking around with functions.php, adding new sidebar php files. You just fill out a form. I emailed Matt Mullenweg about merging that feature in, and he said it's on the roadmap but not for a while. ???? "it already fucking exists?!?"
There's a plugin called sidebar, for instance, that allows you to dynamically add sidebars from your admin panel. No more fucking around with functions.php, adding new sidebar php files. You just fill out a form. I emailed Matt Mullenweg about merging that feature in, and he said it's on the roadmap but not for a while. ???? "it already fucking exists?!?"
They're apparently starting to care more about their personal preferences in coding than they are about continuing a powerful open source CMS.
I got approved to submit to the wordpress plugin repository on the 9th and I submitted myself. I guess they worst that could happen is they take it off.
They have created a wonderful and expandable system. I'm not sure what their plan is... I think they have one. I just don't get the reactions from Peter Westwood & Andrew Nacin. It's obvious this feature was needed, It's already had 625 downloads on wordpress.org in 2 days.
I'll just do as you said, and keep doing my thing.
http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/
They have created a wonderful and expandable system. I'm not sure what their plan is... I think they have one. I just don't get the reactions from Peter Westwood & Andrew Nacin. It's obvious this feature was needed, It's already had 625 downloads on wordpress.org in 2 days.
I'll just do as you said, and keep doing my thing.
http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/
Just tried this plugin on brand new domain on an el cheapo shared cpanel hosting and it works like a charm; but I may not be the typical new user though since I have installed MultiUser/MultiSite WordPress more times than I can count . New users should grab it from wordpress.org/extend before they decide to take it down, and BACK UP your data first if you are putting this on a production site.
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Wait, they wouldn't put it on WordPress.org because of that? Or they're just saying they don't like it... if the latter, fair enough.
Thank you very much, glad to see people appreciating it.
They allowed me to put it on Wordpress.org, they just posted a comment on my blog saying they would recommend users follow their process than use my plugin.
I'm slightly annoyed at the amount of "core" features built into wordpress that require a hack just to enable. Why is there no simple interface to enable new post types and taxonomies in WP 3.0 if that is one of the biggest touted features?
Makes no sense...
Makes no sense...
Like media trash? Yes, that's correct. They have the ability of a trashcan for your media files built in, but disabled via a define... I'm not sure if there is a bug they haven't fixed in it or what... regardless... it's there and not turned on.
FYI
This morning I got the following email:
We have closed your plugin – Enable Multi-Site – because it is no longer needed with WordPress 3.4
As it does not support IIS or nginx, it was increasingly causing issues with users. Since the process to upgrade has become as simple as changing three files, it is no longer needed by the majority of users, who should be making these changes anyway, in order to become familiar with the system.
If you should like to upgrade your plugin to work with a larger variety of servers, or code it so that it simply will not run if it detects nginx/iis, please update the code and let us know so we may review you changes before re-opening.
Thank you for all your hard work!
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-multi-site-enabler-plugin-v10/
This morning I got the following email:
We have closed your plugin – Enable Multi-Site – because it is no longer needed with WordPress 3.4
As it does not support IIS or nginx, it was increasingly causing issues with users. Since the process to upgrade has become as simple as changing three files, it is no longer needed by the majority of users, who should be making these changes anyway, in order to become familiar with the system.
If you should like to upgrade your plugin to work with a larger variety of servers, or code it so that it simply will not run if it detects nginx/iis, please update the code and let us know so we may review you changes before re-opening.
Thank you for all your hard work!
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-multi-site-enabler-plugin-v10/
