Comments on: Take Crontrol Of WordPress

By: Ali

Ali — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:36:05 +0000

Thanks. The plugin works perfectly.

By: Luca Beltrame

Luca Beltrame — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:28:17 +0000

I also have to add that I don’t like the Flash idea also from a philosophical standpoint. The less Flash is on the web, the better. (I could go in details, but that would be off-topic.)

By: Nathan Bowers

Nathan Bowers — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:22:04 +0000

The Flash uploader “works” for me in that it functions, but the *way* it works is horrendously unusable. WP and Happy Cog did a good job with most of the WP 2.5 admin redesign, but the image uploading UI just feels tacked on and incomplete.

I hate that I have to do repetitive manual tasks (remove the link, uncheck “thumbnail”, handle ALT tags) every time I add an image. Also, the way WP explains and then implements ALT vs. Title attributes is confusing and counter to what those attributes mean.

There’s more about how crummy the uploader is on my blog (click my name to read the article).

Question: How would a UI person contribute to WordPress? I’d like to contribute but I’m a designer, not a coder.

By: Mosey

Mosey — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:19:08 +0000

Thanks for recommending a WP based cron manager! I think I will find it very useful for quite a few tasks.

However, on a complete side note: what I *really* fail to understand is why one would need two plugins to automatically backup a database. I do appreciate that “WP Database Backup” is a fore-runner of such plugins, but having used GamerZ’s/Lesterchan’s WP-DBManager for the past 8 months, which already has all this built into one plugin (including automatically scheduled Repair/Optimise database) I think it’s brilliant, and it sadly really isn’t promoted enough.

I am not related to Gamerz (etc) in any way. I just hope that perhaps WLTC (and many other blogs that ‘recommend’ plugins) would also take notice of good alternatives to the ’standard’ recommendation.

p/s: This comment is not to criticise Mr. Jeff Chandler’s post at all, but to bring an alternative plugin (for database backups at least) to the attention of other readers.

By: Trisha

Trisha — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:51:57 +0000

I use a great plugin from Lester Chan called WP-DBManager - it has it's own built-in scheduler, optimizes your db tables and a lot more - I tried wp-db-backup but I personally prefer WP-DBManager. If you're on WP 2.5, use this link instead, since he has a new version specifically for 2.5

By: MyDeskBlog.com

MyDeskBlog.com — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:53:45 +0000

I wasted 2 hours trying out the suggested solutions. Only the No-Flash-Uploader worked in the end.

By: michael lee

michael lee — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:55:09 +0000

The quoter plugin that is rolled in to k2 has been tragically broken for a while. I would love to have that functionality back in a new plugin.

http://www.damagedgoods.it/wp-plugins/quoter/

By: Desactivar flash al subir imágenes en WordPress en Agamum.net

Desactivar flash al subir imágenes en WordPress en Agamum.net — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:20:20 +0000

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By: jonathan hickman

jonathan hickman — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:16:15 +0000

You know, if it worked before and it doesn’t work now, it is a bug. If it doesn’t work out of the box for x% of the population, it’s a bug.

By: jonathan hickman

jonathan hickman — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:15:05 +0000

I’m pretty sure I tried all of those suggestions with no luck before going with the plugin, which I’ve been using ever since. Maybe I should try them again, I don’t know.

Like many WP users, I don’t have the time or patience to painstakingly peace together why the image uploader doesn’t work. I’ll use the plugin or, failing that, flickr.

By: Otto

Otto — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:48:06 +0000

The Flash uploader works fine on non-Windows systems. I’ve used it on Macs, Linux, Windows XP and Vista… it has no issues that are not solvable, on most hosts. The main problems I’ve helped people solve with it are:
1. Failure to upload all the WordPress files (80%)
2. mod_security or something else on the server not liking it (~18%)

Details on how to fix it in 99% of the cases are here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/164999

Those steps really do work, it’s just that most people I’ve seen complaining about it have not really done them. They think “the previous one worked, this one doesn’t, it’s a bug, fixitfixitfixit” and then wait for somebody else to deal with the problem. The truth is that nobody else is going to fix problems with your hosting service for you, and upgrading is not always a simple thing. Dealing with problems is part of upgrading.

By: Megapixels

Megapixels — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:14:13 +0000

I used to use WP-Cron back in my darker days, but not lately. I’m using Austin Matzko’s database backup http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup/ , which comes with it’s own cron based scheduler. Why use 2, when you can use 1?

By: Wordpress stuff

Wordpress stuff — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:06:08 +0000

The flash uploader works for me, and I use linux on both my computer and my server (Apache 2.2, PHP5).

By: Luca Beltrame

Luca Beltrame — Thu, 01 May 2008 08:40:55 +0000

I find it hilarious that someone has to code a plugin to remove that uploader. Matt’s comments on the relevant trac entry have been equally hilarious. The change was forced on the users, without even an ability to turn it off. The fact that it’s utterly broken in non-Win systems (at least on the ones I have tried) aggravates the situation.
There should have been an *option* in WP, not a plugin (which may even break with every new release, considering the WP team’s history on API/DB changes…)