Comments on: Changing the Blog Herald WordPress News: Your Help Needed

By: kiev escort

kiev escort — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:58:37 +0000

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By: Cyru

Cyru — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 06:42:02 +0000

i would expect a regular news feature especially focusing on point release, plug-in updates, how to use with latest features, new features on wordpress.com, that sort of thing.

By: saifmalik

saifmalik — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:33:15 +0000

I would expect a regular ‘news’ feature to focus on point releases, updates to widely-used plugins, new features on wordpress.com, the latest Automattic acquisition, that sort of thing

By: that girl again

that girl again — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:40:37 +0000

I agree with the other commenters that two or three shorter posts focused on specific topics are more appealing to most readers than a lengthy weekly digest of everything. I would expect a regular ‘news’ feature to focus on point releases, updates to widely-used plugins, new features on wordpress.com, the latest Automattic acquisition, that sort of thing. At the moment, this information is somewhat lost amid a sea of random WP-related material that isn’t news as such (links to tips and tutorials, lists of your favourite sites, lists of upcoming fanboy conventions) and which in turn would probably attract more attention if posted separately under relevant headings such as ‘WordPress Tips’ or ”WordPress Blogroll’.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:43:12 +0000

Probably because I did ask the question and many want to know how the process works and what it takes – since educating people is what I do. I’m often asked how I do the WordPress News report. Glad you were interested enough to read through it. That says a lot, too. Thanks.

By: Bryan Strawser

Bryan Strawser — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:50:40 +0000

This has had to have been one of the most confusing rambling posts that I’ve ever read on here. Why not just ask the question.. instead of taking what felt like 2000 words to get there?

Bryan

By: Ajay

Ajay — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:52:12 +0000

I hope you don’t mind me being a bit to critical. Firstly, I must congratulate your on being able to track WordPress news so excellently. I find it really hard to find plugins and themes at times for the release posts on WLTC!

However, there is one major problem that I feel in the Blog Herald WordPress news and that is the sheer length of each of the posts.

You have so much information compressed in these posts that it just gets “boring” after reading a few paragraphs.

My main suggestion would be to split this post up into several posts spread across a day. I’m pretty sure you’ll be able to reduce the 18 hours to 12 hours.
So, instead of one monster posts ever week, split it into 4-6 posts across the week.

As for content, it’s been great so far :)

By: seriocomic

seriocomic — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:56:14 +0000

Easy.
1. Make it *readable* (short, succinct, with a message, and to the point)
2. Don’t (by your own definition) “ramble, take too long to get to the point, try to solve every problem in one blog post”
3. Don’t be a ‘WordPress’ ‘WordPress’ ‘WordPress’ SEO spam-whore.
4. Don’t try to be the WordPress police by dictating how wordpress is capitalized.
5. Keep each entry to a theme and stick to it – hey, if that means shorter, more frequent articles, then so be it.