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Stats, wordpress way

Posted by Panos ⋅ December 20, 2012 ⋅ 10 Comments

The wordpress.com theme showcase site is a brilliant invention: it allows you to read about all the available themes, see them in action, and filter them or sort them in various ways. But when you sort them by popularity, strange things happen…

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Wordpress going to the dogs

Posted by Panos ⋅ March 22, 2012 ⋅ 137 Comments

If you had a problem with your wordpress.com blog, you could contact staff via the Support contact form. Up to about a year ago, support tickets would usually be answered within a day or two. With the steadily increasing number of wordpress.com blogs, this service gradually deteriorated. What would the logical step be? Hire more staff, I’d say. Well, welcome to wordpress ‘logic’. Continue reading →

There we go again…

Posted by Panos ⋅ February 25, 2012 ⋅ 186 Comments

Matt, the founder of WordPress, has his own way of dealing with negative feedback and objections. Namely, he can’t.
The latest incident involves the newly introduced infinite scrolling feature. But first, some notable previous cases.

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Athens By Night

Posted by Panos ⋅ February 12, 2012

Athens, outside parliament, 12 February 2012

Athens, inside parliament, 12 February 2012

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Positions absolute, relative, stable(d), unstable(d) and others

Posted by Panos ⋅ October 17, 2011 ⋅ 12 Comments

Or, what can happen when you try to justify the unjustified…
A possibly edifying dialogue in a recent forum thread.
Your opinions welcome.

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Vote for or against the new HTML editor font

Posted by Panos ⋅ June 4, 2011 ⋅ 7 Comments

https://wpbtips.wordpress.com/ Click here for direct (and biased!) comparison. Click here for relevant forum thread. See discussion in timethief’s blog too. Note well: When some wp.com users complained about this in the wp.com forum, they were told to go to the wp.org forum instead. So if you don’t like the new font you can post in … Continue reading →

Dirge

Posted by Panos ⋅ November 9, 2010

For amusement only…

Posted by Panos ⋅ September 20, 2010 ⋅ 22 Comments

https://wpbtips.wordpress.com/ Some time ago WP imposed a perverse 30-minute block on volunteers in the forum, [see Update at end of post] so that staff could answer questions first. They claimed they were “considering focusing more staff support on the forums”. Hasn’t happened (in fact, staff presence in the forum has decreased now that they’re busy … Continue reading →

Three Escher lithographs

Posted by Panos ⋅ May 21, 2009 ⋅ 20 Comments

https://wpbtips.wordpress.com/ Posted as an illustration of the technique described here. Update 26/10: Post obsolete – my attachment pages messed up now that themes have (fortunately) been updated to include navigation thumbnails.

La Llorona

Posted by Panos ⋅ May 12, 2009 ⋅ 19 Comments

https://wpbtips.wordpress.com/ (Associated with this post and its comments. For the legend of la Llorona see here.) Lyrics – as sung by Chavela Vargas: Todos me dicen el Negro, Llorona Negro, pero cariñoso Yo soy como el chile verde, Llorona Picante, pero sabrosoAy de mí, Llorona, Llorona Llorona, llévame al río Tápame con tu rebozo, Llorona … Continue reading →