nigel5
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Forum: Developing with WordPress
In reply to: Disable automatic “echo-ing” of wp_tag_cloud()or if you don’t want to tweak the core code, you can use ob_start()…
ob_start(); wp_tag_cloud( $args ); $tag_cloud = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean();Forum: Alpha/Beta/RC
In reply to: I don’t like the way 2.5 is goingI think I missed the 2.4 revolution so far, but it’s good to see things moving… I just wish I could keep up 🙂
My 12 peneth – I can ramble, apologies in advance 🙂
Widgets – UN-simple yep ok, but it was there and it worked… very well. While I don’t tend to tweak widgets very often the drag and drop made is really easy for end users to adjust things.
The posts page… man what happened… with plugins, (podpress for example) you can currently scroll for miles for some of the unimportant stuff, now you gotta scroll for miles anyhow for important stuff – categories, pings and comments eek – and no drag and drop. My grievance here is that when writing posts, I’m used to word processors and “applications”. the most important part of the “write a blog entry” process is the content and the editor. What you can do to the post is really a sub task. Please put the right hand side stuff back 🙁 If you can make plugin “additions” appear on the right as well, you’re onto a winner 🙂 (at least the sections fold up though)
The media library functionality looks to have moved forward, although the demo site doesn’t have any images to play with so I can’t tell about image sizing, thumbnailing, links etc… oh, and to break it, just click “add to post” with nothing there 🙂
I’m divided on the functional/fancy war. My personal blog – definately functional however I manage some 26 blogs for clients that activly manage their own content, they are end users and appreciate the fluffyness on what we would see as the back end.
The ability to CSS up the back end is awesome. Fluency is neat, but too dark… I think the idea is great though, wordpress the application, with menus and stuff. Mind you it could go all M$ orafice 2007 if you’re not carefull, and even after 3 months of using that I still struggle to find what I need.
WordPress IS the best blogging platform out there, and with one of the strongest plugin facilities I have seen it is close to being the best platform out there. The developers are doing a great job, and they generally tend to listen to the community. The fact that they have released an alpha, 2 minors ahead of the current stable release is testament to that.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: CAPTCHA – Image VerificationI h ave had a look at the 4 or 5 captcha plugins I have found in varying places, but none of them seem to address registering a user.
Would anyone know if there is a plugin for this?
Thanks
Nigel.