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Comment on WordPress Plugin Competition 2009 Winner is… by John Egan

John Egan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:46:24 +0000

Great job Godfrey–and the whole team!!!!!

Comment on about running large WP install by Clint Lalonde

Clint Lalonde — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:07:05 +0000

Novak, this couldn’t be more timely as we are just about to launch a WPMu pilot at Camosun. I really appreciate (and heed) this advice as we begin down the road.

Comment on about running large WP install by novak

novak — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:10:23 +0000

Well, we wouldn’t be here at all, if there wasn’t people like you making us a way and stirring the water in the swamp.

Comment on about running large WP install by Jim

Jim — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:07:14 +0000

You didn’t sound preachy at all to me, just very practical, and I need that dearly because like you said, getting your fingers burnt hurts, a lot :)

I’m an absolute fan of what you are masterminding over at UBC, and I really am looking forward to this series.

Comment on about running large WP install by novak

novak — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:59:14 +0000

Hi Jim,
Apologies if I sounded preachy, that was definitely not the intention, I guess I was trying to remind firstly myself about the importance of being a bit more conservative when it comes to running system like this, as we have, like you, burnt our fingers quite a few times.

Comment on about running large WP install by Jim

Jim — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:06:26 +0000

Novak,
I have to thank you for this, because my edupunk coolness is indeed not worth a nickel when the system is exploding. Looking forward to this series and I will be integrating much of this into UMW Blogs over the next several months. I’m not so sure I agree with you on themes and plugins, I think a system has to have some flexibility for this stuff if it is going to be at all relevant, but at the same time I think e have been exceptionally liberal.

Tuning into the super-novak for the WPMu institutional skinny.

Comment on section widget by More hotness from OLT’s WordPress team

More hotness from OLT’s WordPress team — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:05:10 +0000

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Comment on gimmie wiki! by enej

enej — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:41:10 +0000

Hi Robert

You should be able to download the plugin from here.

Enjoy

Comment on gimmie wiki! by Robert

Robert — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:23:01 +0000

Hi!

I am unable to find this plugin.
The blogpost has been removed.

Can you please point me in the direction of the wiki-inc plugin, or its successor?

Regards,
Robert

Comment on forum-like blog comments by Robert Neuschul

Robert Neuschul — Sat, 02 May 2009 23:16:56 +0000

Novak

Your approach isn’t a bad one, but as far as I’m concerned the WP Thread Comment plugin you mention doesn’t really deliver threading in a user-friendly or useful manner. By the time a thread is deeply nested the quotes of quotes of yet more quotes have entirely obscured the thread itself; it becomes impossible to follow.

For a thread to be usable and trackable to users requires an extension of your “grid” approach, using a scrollable split-screen view – with “your” list of threads in the upper display and the body content in a lower scrollable screen, the upper screen thread display should then be expandable/collapsable at any node on the tree.

With a suitable next/last and begining/end [of thread] plugin and a quote plugin users can then view and respond to the thread root or to any other reply in the thread with great facility.

If you’re interested, mail me off list: I can show you screen shots of a fully threaded mail/news reader which I helped to design and implement in the early 90s which does exactly this.