mfiszman

macmanx,

Fair enough ??

But just a note on a “developer being passionate”…

I (generally) think it’s wonderful that people are passionate about ideas, but anger and aggression are (generally) not the best ways to convey those ideas to others.

Also, re. Larry’s blog: that’s really more of a personal forum ??

Yes, of course, others are invited in. But Larry’s blog is Larry’s blog; he sets the agenda, he can write what he likes.

The WordPress forums belong to the entire community and shouldn’t really be used for personal agendas.

I think it’s a bit selfish to talk too much about yourself here ??

Podz,

You seem like a nice guy, you generally respond in a pleasant fashion to people’s questions in the forums, and, though I haven’t looked at much of “your” material, it seems you’ve put together some nice tutorials for the benefit of the community. Good on you for all of these things ??

Having said that, you are not the “be all and end all” of the WordPress scene. You are not the WordPress guru we all come running to when we have a problem. There are other ways a person could research a book on WordPress than run to your site and “steal” “your” material. You’re being very paranoid. There’s really no need ??

I’m really not trying to start any silly arguments here, but your actions and manner are rather immature. You have certain opinions, fine; I respect you for that. But at least try to express those opinions in a civilised, grown-up fashion. This frothiness of yours is really not conducive to healthy debate ??

I might also note that given your position as a WordPress developer, what you say, and how you say it, may well have a particular influence on people’s attitudes towards the WordPress product. Something to bear in mind, perhaps.

Oh, re. the archives, you might want to check out the nicer archives hack — https://www.ads-software.com/support/10/6041

I use that on my site — https://teleportchronicles.com — which has a similar layout to yours. It fills out that archive column a bit and adds some nice functionality.

Looks great, Ronak.

I think a slim, one-column layout works really well for keeping the focus on the writing.

There are far too many sidebars out there… ??

Larry,

Apart from the ideas you’ve already mentioned, it might be interesting to include chapters/sections on:

— the history of blogging/its current social significance/expected future social significance, etc.

— the different types of blogs (diary, dev, niche news, etc.)

Feel free to work with these suggestions, no payment required ??

Perhaps I’m misreading the situation… ??

But there seems to be some underlying resentment towards Larry because he’s looking (I assume) to profit financially from an open source project. I don’t see why else people wouldn’t be more supportive.

Personally, I think his book is a good idea. I wouldn’t purchase such a book myself, but I think it would be useful for some people. Enough people that it would be worth producing a printed book? Don’t know. But in principle, it sounds good.

It can certainly be helpful to have a nice printed resource which gathers the various bits you might need to make the most of a system.

As for one person doing it alone, Larry would be perfectly free to conduct appropriate research and include appropriate references.

Is the objection that Larry might make some money off WordPress?

If you’re using the default theme, you need to adjust wp-content/themes/default/page.php.

The way I did it was to change <div id="content" class="widecolumn"> to <div id="content" class="narrowcolumn"> and add <?php get_sidebar(); ?> right above <?php get_footer(); ?>.

Thank you.