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FlexSlider, Nivo Slider, Basic Slider - all the types of sliders I discuss. The verbage is confusing for sure. I just used what I commonly hear them referred to in the WordPress community.

I've worked there for a year and a half, and the site is older than that. I can assure you our designers and me all want it to go away. And there are 25 people in our company, so I don't get to do whatever I want whenever I want. If I had posted that on our company site, your point would be valid.

And we're actually in early stages of a redesign (it's not even in WordPress right now), so it'll get taken care of : )

I think that's a good example of how sliders can be used effectively. But most of the time, they're just not. Sliders definitely have a place, but right now they have far too big of a role in web design.

edit: and we, web professionals - suck at saying no. Especially when they're willing to pay for it. That's what we need to change.

Unrealistic for software that powers over 20% of all new websites. Also, a bit presumptuous of the core team. I think there is a lot of support for a simplified UI (see Matt's post above). Just because there is a barrier before you get patches submitted doesn't make the core team unwilling. Each decision needs fleshing out before getting put into a new version of WP. If it wasn't that way, the project would be a (total) mess.

These are some beautiful concepts by John. However, I think it's also worth noting that just about everyone that works with WordPress wants to see the interface itself be simplified, even if most of us want to retain its flexibility as a CMS.

Here are some related notes from Matt Mullenweg on a "radically simplified WordPress" http://ma.tt/2012/05/simpler/

I'd like to see something like Ghost as a step two of Matt's thoughts, rather than a fork or separate project.

Looks like cPanel has redirected the releases.cpanel.net site to an interior page and you can't see it the same way as before. Wonder if anyone got some screenshots. It was blatant.

Pageviews only matter in, obviously, a pageview driven ad model. In other instances, like the author mentions with Buzzfeed, pure pageviews aren't the entire goal. If publishers can get advertisers more interested in unique visitors and (especially) length of time on the site, then pageviews could be less important, and terrible practices like Mashable-esque page-reload sliders and six page articles can start to go away.

Yeah, paginating articles and paginating archives are two totally different things. Paginating articles (as the article linked describes) is not a good user experience. But not paginating archives, otherwise known as endless scrolling, in my opinion, is not good.

If you read even a little bit of the article, you'll see it's Slate's policy to do so. But even then, if you click the next page, he just completes the joke he made in the article.

Because WordPress is a really mature platform for publishing that is vastly simpler than just about anything else out there, especially considering the power it wields. This is a really great enhancement to the platform and I'm excited to use it. Before, it was pretty difficult to collaborate on posts, especially after the initial publish date.

Subtle Patterns has been around for a pretty long while now. It's a great site. My designer colleagues use it quite a bit.

The only thing I wish it did was show the pattern size by default in the description. Some of them show it, but not all. And in my experience they vary a good bit.

Also, on the Github page, there is a .pat zip of all the patterns which makes it even better https://github.com/subtlepatterns/SubtlePatterns

Yikes http://cl.ly/image/0e390o2i3a38

"If you're using software like WordPress or PHPBB (What that hell were you thinking?)"

What exactly did WordPress have to do with his point?

Using WordPress for your entire product site makes a ton of sense for most companies. You can have your blog and your product info all on the same site. No subdomain blog. No separate SEO. It's simple to link the logo to the product, and have custom sidebars or after-content widget areas with a call to action. Your blog is part of your site, and feeds traffic to your product. Everything integrated. Easy to use. What's his problem again?

Yeah, charcoal. Fixed - sorry about that.

the definition of bourbon varies based on country, but pretty much it's anything over 50% corn based.

The difference in "Tennessee Whiskey" is the charcoal filtration. They pour the whiskey over an enormous pile of charcoal, which provides a unique flavor, independent of standard bourbon. They obtained the legal right to distinguish it this way a long time ago. To me, technically, Tennessee Whiskey could be called bourbon, but bourbon should not be called Tennessee Whiskey without this process. IE, square/rectangle relationship.

After the charcoals, it goes to the barrels, and anything that ages appropriately (usually depends on the height of the barrel in the storeroom and the strength of the winters/summers) between, I think, 3 and 7 years becomes JD black label. If it hasn't aged after 7 years, it becomes green label. Gentlemen Jack gets put through the coals twice, and single-barrel is well, single-barrel.

If you haven't been to Lynchburg, I recommend it. It's an awesome tour.

It baffles me why more companies can't be like this. Surely some testing could provide data on success ratio of sending "friendly" c&d letters versus the normal threatening kind. I suspect people are much more likely to play nice in this kind of scenario (especially when the reason for the c&d is not as strong), but why not at least put it to the test?

I'm assuming the two are one in the same, with 147 colors being just an easy way to remember it. Either way, it's a clever display.

I really wish it was easy to permalink something though. Took me a few seconds to at least figure out I could manually grab a url like this http://www.147colors.com/darkslategrey/ - but when you click from the grid it doesn't permalink.

This newsletter is fantastic. It's one of the only subscriptions I get in my inbox that I make sure I read every time. Kale does a great job curating the best of HN across a variety of categories. Congratulations on 100 issues, and 10,000 subscribers.

Every employee at Automattic has a trial period before they announce they've been hired. It usually includes a test project for designers and programmers. I'm sure that's a helpful filter. Then, when the employee starts, they spend some amount of time (I think a couple weeks) doing support, no matter what their actual job is.

'm sure working from home helps limit turnover too. Also, they work in teams, and I'm sure that's fun. And I've never noticed anyone mention things like logging time either - I think they get assigned work and as long as you get it done, time isn't an issue.

And finally the people that work for Automattic tend to be really really passionate about WordPress in the first place, so I'm sure working for the most influential company to the WordPress.org project(Automattic / wp.com), doing WordPress stuff all day, is pretty awesome.

I almost went down that route. I interact with a lot of Automattic employees, and all of them are extremely talented.

I'm not sure what they get paid, but I tend to doubt it averages $160k, because if I were Automattic I'd probably pay relative to where the employee lives. And even though I'm sure most of them could command top dollar where they live for what they do, I'd bet in most parts of the world it comes out to less than $160k / year, because most parts of the world just are not as expensive as SF.

Also, I'm pretty sure they have thousands and thousands of servers. I have no idea how much that costs, but an uneducated guess would be that it's not as much as the $16 million in salaries you mention. So... $45 million - $32 million for salary and servers is indeed a hefty profit.

I personally don't think so based on my observation of the company over the past few years. I think they're in it for the long haul, as are their investors. However, I don't have much to back up my statement, other than Matt's ideals.

A lot of Tumblr pageviews are dashboard based, whereas WordPress.com's tend to be much more front facing. Also, I imagine the amount of time a Tumblr user spends per page is less than those on WP - just by typical nature of the content. Just guessing, but that's my assumption.

Mullenweg has said before he pictures Tumblr as more of a social network than a blogging platform. I wish I could find that right now. Either way, WordPress.com is definitely learning some things from Tumblr. The new wp.com dashboard and quick posting mechanism is enough proof of that.

Well, they're completely distributed with little physical overhead. With 100 employees and the only other primary cost being servers, I'd guess they're doing alright.

Spelling "kidz" with a z is a pretty good warning of how awful it's bound to be.

As far as who to pitch and who not to pitch, I think it's worth a mention that a startup will have more success pitching the blogs in its own niche before going after general tech blogs.

For example, if your startup is a service based on WordPress, go to some of the popular WordPress news blogs and influential WordPress people before you try to pitch Techcrunch and the like.

That's a good example of one of his points that's way off base.

For one, WP is always trying to improve the WYSIWYG experience, but if you're not happy just look at all the alternatives available for free in the plugin repository http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/wysiwyg - some with very high adoption and ratings.

You could even integrate with markdown if you wanted http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/markdown - what other CMS has these kinds of options in the writing experience?

WordPress core is not trying to be all things to all people. But can he tell me a CMS that makes it simpler to build out the requirements for a vast majority of the websites in the world?

If you are looking for a custom feature set on a project that you claim WordPress doesn't meet your needs, then build a custom CMS for the job and charge appropriately. WordPress allows organizations and individuals to have massive power in their website for a fraction of the cost of a custom CMS. And in comparison to a custom CMS, it gets a great deal of testing.

WordPress is always looking for new contributors, and if your solution isn't something that works for core and the WordPress core philosophy, then you can extend your idea via a plugin.

And in the author's list of things WordPress "has either no, or severely limited" support for, he is way off the boat. There are a slew of highly talented developers that either having working solutions for or are working on almost all of those things, and more.

I don't like GoDaddy any more than most others here, I'm sure. And I certainly hate the idea of SOPA. But don't a lot of big companies support it?

In a quick Google search, I found this post referencing support by the Business Software Alliance, which includes Microsoft, Apple, and many others: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/11/17/which-tech-companie...

The infographic stated that Greece is wholly excluded, as they never reported properly anyway, enabling them to join the union in the first place, and broke the rules all along. Though I too wish they were included at least for some perspective.

The new web interface appears very ad driven (sidebar left, for instance). And all Twitter did with Tweetdeck / Chromedeck is destroy it. It's near unusable.