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I don't know why you were downvoted, but I agree with you - It's highly unprofessional of someone like Matt to reveal some random Marketer's personal informatio

by neya 14y ago

I don't know why you were downvoted, but I agree with you - It's highly unprofessional of someone like Matt to reveal some random Marketer's personal information, especialy considering the fact that he is not someone at the top like Matt, but works hard for a living to make his both ends meet. And my advice to Matt - It's a great offer, Wordpress is so FUCKED UP right now, worse than drupal that I wouldn't be surprised if this was even sent on purpose. (Try working out pagination for static pages, you will notice there are two GET variables ($page and $paged) for the same functionality (example of inconsistency) or try updating your Wordpress to the recent version AFTER a couple of months and tell me if it doesn't break your theme or plugin. They depreciate so many functions randomly, rename them unnecessarily, etc.) If I wanted a blog engine right now, my solution right now would be: $ rails generate scaffold Post name:string title:string content:text Which I'm sure is much, much better.

envex 14y ago
I'm not really sure how many plugins you're running, or even what type of things you're trying to do with your themes, but I work at a web dev company where WordPress is used for 95% of our clients and I haven't run into any issues using the auto updater in years.
westi 14y ago
Hi, I'm sorry you've had a bad WordPress experience but I don't think your experience is typical - we try very hard to maintain backwards compatibility we don't deprecate randomly or rename thing unnecessarily IMHO. If you have specific examples of compatibility breaking changes we have made recently that caused you issues I would love to know about them so we can address them. I agreed that $page and $paged can be confusing - being able to both be on a page within a single item of content or on page X of the stream of blog items means we need two different variables - yes they could have better names but changing them would be backwards incompatible ;)
- neya 14y ago
  Thanks for coming forward, I will let you know soon, I was using Wordpress for a client project for a Mobile Website builder as a full-fledged CMS some time back, and it kept breaking plugins and functionality on the site with each update. Also the $page and $paged is not documented well. It took me hours and hours of googling to find out about it..
at-fates-hands 14y ago
Interesting. This is the very reason I haven't updated any of my plugins or versions of Drupal on my personal site. I ran an update for the first time and then spent four hours fixing everything it broke. I was so pissed, I decided not to do it again and have already moved off Drupal. I highly doubt I will use Wordpress either and agree with your take on just spinning up a rails blog project instead.
ersii 14y ago
"but works hard for a living to make his both ends meet." I know it's harsh of me to say "It sure doesn't look like a person working hard to make ends meet, if he's just spamming/spraying and praying". But then again I have a hard time justifying obvious spam at all. Sure, a lot of people can interpret marketing mail and reach out e-mails as spam - but this is not one of those times.

by neya 14y ago

envex 14y ago

I'm not really sure how many plugins you're running, or even what type of things you're trying to do with your themes, but I work at a web dev company where WordPress is used for 95% of our clients and I haven't run into any issues using the auto updater in years.

westi 14y ago

Hi, I'm sorry you've had a bad WordPress experience but I don't think your experience is typical - we try very hard to maintain backwards compatibility we don't deprecate randomly or rename thing unnecessarily IMHO. If you have specific examples of compatibility breaking changes we have made recently that caused you issues I would love to know about them so we can address them. I agreed that $page and $paged can be confusing - being able to both be on a page within a single item of content or on page X of the stream of blog items means we need two different variables - yes they could have better names but changing them would be backwards incompatible ;)

neya 14y ago
Thanks for coming forward, I will let you know soon, I was using Wordpress for a client project for a Mobile Website builder as a full-fledged CMS some time back, and it kept breaking plugins and functionality on the site with each update. Also the $page and $paged is not documented well. It took me hours and hours of googling to find out about it..

at-fates-hands 14y ago

Interesting. This is the very reason I haven't updated any of my plugins or versions of Drupal on my personal site. I ran an update for the first time and then spent four hours fixing everything it broke. I was so pissed, I decided not to do it again and have already moved off Drupal. I highly doubt I will use Wordpress either and agree with your take on just spinning up a rails blog project instead.

ersii 14y ago

"but works hard for a living to make his both ends meet." I know it's harsh of me to say "It sure doesn't look like a person working hard to make ends meet, if he's just spamming/spraying and praying". But then again I have a hard time justifying obvious spam at all. Sure, a lot of people can interpret marketing mail and reach out e-mails as spam - but this is not one of those times.