The GPL FAQ Has No Legal Validity! Get That And Stop Rubbing It In My Face!
In virtually every debate about whether or not WordPress themes and plugins need to be GPL or not, sooner or later the proponents of the idea inevitably come up with the GPL FAQ. This is as annoying as it is ridiculous. The GPL FAQ has no legal validity! Period!
Once more I feel a strong urge to oppose such BS, and this time I will borrow the words of somebody much firmer in copyright law than me. Read more >>
Is WordPress.org violating the GPL? – A fresh angle on the GPL vs. non-GPL wordpress themes and plugins debate
There is a never-ending dispute on whether it is legal or not to put WordPress themes and plugins under a license different than the GPL. The WordPress.org hardliners want to make us dogmatically believe that we can’t. In a prior article I already argued that you actually can, and here is one more fresh angle on this topic.
Brand Your Free Web Software
Brands. They are everywhere. Cars, electronics, sportswear… Even food. In every-day life, wherever a product is publicly visible, the manufacturers take care their brand is visible, too. When we drive our car, we showcase their brand. When we carry a newly bought computer home, we showcase their brand on the package. Heck, where I live, even the supermarket plastic bag is showcasing the supermarket’s brand. In our every-day “off-line” life, we don’t really expect a product – any product – to come unbranded.1 What about our on-line life? Read more >>
- There are exceptions, of course. The branding needs to be adequate. Nobody would buy an Armani smoking with a fat shiny Armani sign on the back, even if Armani may like the idea of a dinner banquet full of Armani logos. [↩]
Table Of Contents Discussion Resumed
Yesterday I’ve posted about the pros and cons of basing WordPress plugin functionality on JavaScript. Now Ted has written a follow up article responding to mine, from which I’ve got the slight impression he might have mistaken my post for a critique of his plugin, which it definitely wasn’t meant to be. Besides, there are also some clear misinterpretations of my arguments in his post. Here I’m taking the time to hopefully correct both aspects. Read more >>
WordPress PlugIn Tech Foundations – PHP vs JavaScript
This post elaborates on the sense and nonsense of technology choices for a WordPress plugin implementation. It compares two diametrically different technological foundations, PHP vs JavaScript, for WordPress plugins.1 Read more >>
- Of course, every WordPress plugin will ultimately contain at least some administrative portions of PHP code in order to hook into WordPress. I’m referring to the main computing though, and whether it takes place in PHP or JavaScript code. [↩]
URL Shortening Harmful, Use URL Masking / Cloaking Software Instead
URL shortening, and URL shortener services, are evolving rapidly into a real hype. And while they do make sense with Twitter (due to their 140 characters per tweet limitation), they are not all that harmless from a SEO perspective.
Plugin Info Extraction for WordPress Online Tool Launched
Ever needed a list of your plugins for pasting it into an email or a document? Or into an (Excel or Word or OpenOffice) table? I did, and with all the plugins I have installed, I concluded that writing it all down manually would seriously suck. Read more >>
Featuring New WordPress Tweaks Bundle And WordPress Tweaks Composer Tool
Cheerio, dear performance-conscious WordPress user. I present you the continuously evolving, streamlined WordPress Tweaks Bundle, and its accompanying WordPress Tweaks Composer online tool.
Read about it at the WordPress Tweaks homepage, or about the technical background of it in the rest of this post.
Best Spam Blocker Still Kicking Ass
This is almost scary! Week 2 is nearly over and still not a single spam comment in the queue!
Best Spam Blocker Utility Kicking Ass
For a week or so I’ve had a spam blocker utility in place that simply rocks the casbah. Yessss! I had only 3 (!) spam entries in my spam queue this morning! The only 3 in the entire week!
Guess who cooked up this thing! Yepp! It was me! 🙂
