WordLog

Nick Momrik4 Comments

Carthik has started a site for WordPress news. It’s called WordLog and sounds like a great idea. I’ve added it to the links section of my sidebar so that I can tell when it’s updated. I’m not quite sure what “Alpha Users” are, but I’m listed there. Maybe Carthik will be contacting me soon…

Over the past few months I have not been active at all in the Support Forums, compared to before when I was one of the top 5 posters there. Part of me feels bad, but part doesn’t. I think I’ve mainly stopped visiting the forums because too many people ask the same questions over and over. It got old pretty quick when I kept referring people to the Wiki or to the same posts all the time. A few times a week I’ll get an email or IM from someone needing help, which I’m always glad to do, but I wish people would at least try to figure things out on their own first. Search the forums, visit the Wiki, use Google, browse other WP blogs, and if you can’t find your answer ask someone who might know. WordLog should help to resolve some of these problems in communication by being a central location for plugin and hack announcements.

4 thoughts on “WordLog”

  1. Alpha Users is just a list of the more important users (in my personal view) who have contributed something substantial to the WP community over time, and you certainly have 🙂

    WordLog does not intend to be a central resource for wp plugins. That job is being tackled by NuclearMoose, with his upcoming wp-plugins.org.

    What WordLog is, is a frequently updated blog about wordpress, and I will let it evolve whichever way it wants to. I hope to feature some new plugins that go unnoticed because the authors haven’t posted about them anywhere except in their own blogs, and some plugins that are neat and noteworthy, and other oddments.

    I also hope to keep a tab on cool new wp blogs, or interesting things that I’d have liked to learn, from a blog dedicated to wordpress.

    We all miss you at the forums, but lately, the inefficient forum software is turning me off too. The wordpress faq, at http://faq.wordpress.net is a work in progress, and I hope it will prevent at least a few repeat questions.

    Thanks for the plug 🙂

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  2. Thanks for the clarification on where WordLog will be heading. Sounds great! I’m sure Craig will do an excellent job with wp-plugins.org, which will help out a ton. Didn’t know about the FAQ, probably because it’s not listed on the main menu, where it should be! 😕

    I miss being around the forums also, and another reason I haven’t been there is I’m just too damn busy this summer! Maybe in another month or two I’ll get back to stopping by regularly again.

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  3. The faq is linked-to from the Readme of the latest wordpress (1.2) 🙂

    It is also there at the wiki, lately, and I encourage linking to entries in it, when there is a need to answer a repetitive support question.

    The FAQ could use more questions, I guess, and I will get to that whenever I can. I have invited quite a few people to co-author that, and Podz has been a great help, so have some others, and it would be cool to have even more authors — people who do not want to answer the same support questions again and again.

    Cheers!

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