C Michael Nelson

Finally have help with @printmyblog ! Hired an old friend l, Ryan, and have mostly let him run wild with it! One of the first things he did was create proper social media accounts for it.

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@vovafeldman It’s a great service you provide!

We're a rising ⭐️

@MediaRonLLC Yeah it would obviously stink; but I mean who gets control of WP? Does he have will bequeathing it to the WP foundation and a democratic government? Or does his private equity firm, Audrey capital, which will be taken over by some billionaire, be the new owner?

@cmljnelson The bus apologizes.

Question though: what happens to WordPress if Matt gets hit by a bus?

@jeffr0 1. Golden handcuffs. 2. I don’t think the benevolent dictator hates WP or the community, to the contrary: he probably loves it too much. He just thinks he knows better what it needs than it does, and wants to retain ultimate control in order to protect it.

I know the answers and circumstances are different for everyone involved, but after everything that has been done and said since last September, why is there a contingency of folks still showing up everyday to put their heart and soul into WordPress?

@adampreiser @DerekAshauer Even if the customer heard about this, “postponed” doesn’t mean cancelled. The threat Trump is dangling over the Canadian economy will be felt here for a long time

I purposefully avoid politics on here, but... US tariffs on Canada just cost me a very long term customer who is also my primary featured testimonial. This is all so stupid.

WPDrama: Matt Loves WordPress Too Much – Colin Michael Lucien Jonathan Nelson’s Blog cmljnelson.blog/2025/01/21/wpd…

@WiseArts IMO their behavior says more about them than the website. Regardless of whether their criticism is right, they show they have a need to publicly show they’re smarter than someone (most likely someone who’s getting more recognition than them).

Why is it, if someone posts a finished website, people have to sh*t on it? If you find something wrong, or don't like something, send them a friendly DM or move TF on 🙄 Don't 💩 on their announcement post.

@WiseArts That seems to have gone over the line to me.

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WHO DID THIS!? 🤣🤣🤣 techarseholeoftheyear.com

It speaks volumes that the "big group of heavy hitters in the WordPress project" who signed this letter felt they had to stay anonymous. There is such a culture of fear that it is stifling. therepository.email/wordpress-cont…

@nerrad Congratulations on your son’s wedding! And Getting time off to unplug and do all those “I’ll get around to it sometime” activities sounds great.

I'm so grateful to Automattic for the gift every employee gets after their 5th anniversary at the company. I didn't realize how much rest I needed. unfoldingneurons.com/2024/sabbatica…

@igorbenic I think if the WP news dashboard widget is there, it should automatically include news for all the plugins you have installed. But that would probably get abused with spam. But users should know what’s new with the plugins they use

WordPress Plugin businesses, do you have your own "dashboard widget" or a section in the admin area that is used to list the recent blog posts from your site? Seems like a nice idea to get traffic and inform customers if you make it non-intrusive. Or would this be frowned upon?

@jeffr0 [2/2] Provide a way for people to choose to help you, and try to remove as much friction from that process as possible. [People will] want to give something back. – ma.tt/2007/07/price-…

@jeffr0 [1/2] “how do you maximize the effect of the good[?] Celebrate the successes. Talk, connect, promote, and embrace the people who are creating things on top of your creation…

For 21 years, Community is one of the things that people enjoyed most about WordPress. We were all united in the goal of democratizing publishing and making the web a better place. Striving to be open and available to all. Now it's all a big mess. The feeling of being united for a central cause is breaking down. Contributors or those thinking about contributing will question if they're doing things for the greater good or for the direct benefit of Matt. Do people contribute to WordPress to aid Matt in whatever mission he has or do we not? The breaking up of communities and turning places into silos for mini projects and mirrors as we all move forward is gonna suck. But I hope that the market figures out which ones are worth rallying around and maybe the Fediverse can help us all stay in touch. Sorry if this is more of the doom and gloom thing, but the ripping apart of the community aspect of WordPress is extremely disappointing. It hurts. I'm trying to think of a path forward where we end up better than where we are right now while maintaining everything we've all worked so hard to build and I don't see it.

When you give a code review (eg leave a review on GitHub), how many comments are expected to get overlooked? (Eg you asked to rename a variable but the coder didn’t do it). If you left 10 comments, how many is a “normal” amount for the coder to overlook? 1-2? 3-4? Usually none?

@dewolfe001 @JustinFerriman 😞 I hate that this sounds appropriate

@JustinFerriman Strategy #1: Don't be successful. Strategy #2: Build code that doesn't use WordPress.

Most interesting blogpost I’ve read in a few years: wordfence.com/blog/2024/09/w…

@MetaPrinxss TBH I want to post it to my email list before making decisions, but I’ve had technical difficulties and am waiting on my hosting company to fix it.

@cmljnelson Have you found someone yet? Hope you are well 🤗

Anybody I know want a 5 hours/week work helping me with my WordPress plugin? (Looking for developers or support or content writing etc). RTs appreciated.

It was the IP change. I found the new IP address and put it into cloudflare, so I’m good again

@SetraHost hey it looks like my site hosted e weigh you, cmljnelson.blog , is down? But another one of mine, printmy.blog is fine. Is this a known issue? (Here’s a screenshot of what I’m getting, FYI I’m using cloud flare too)