a blog by Oscar González
As much as I discourage the use of Microsoft Word, I know its widely used as the preferred method of writing for some people. Be it for a letter, a resume, or even in some cases, a blog post. Some people use Word to write their blogposts, then copy and paste them into WordPress.
This isn’t unusual at all, and in some cases I would even encourage it. Using an editor like Word has tremendous advantages for some people, for example: [click to continue…]
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There’s always a list of stuff you do before you post to your blog. Whether you realize it or not, there are a number of things that must be done before you hit that Publish button on your next blog post.
For example, did you… [click to continue…]
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That’s a tough question, and one that many people will answer right away with their first choice for hosting. But really, is anyone else’s opinion of a host the most important thing you need before making a decision? I don’t think so. Many different things come into play when you begin to answer some of the questions that really matter. Below are a few hosts I recommend and the reasons why. I have personally used these services with varying degrees of success, keep in mind this is mostly for LAMP style of hosting. I briefly talk about Godaddy dedicated servers. I’ll eventually give you a good review for VPS and Dedicated servers, but this is mostly for shared hosting. [click to continue…]
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When you want to setup a website, or an online store, or even your own social network, you will most likely need a webhost. These are some questions I run through when evaluating a webhost.
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If a piece of software knows there’s a problem its great when it alerts you of this problem. Even better than just an alert, is a follow up action to correct the problem.
WordPress has this type of mechanics, for some things, for example, the Auto save feature.
If you open up a draft of a post, you might get a warning like this one:
But then when you actually go to the linkprovided and try to compare the versions to make sure you’re working on the right one WordPress might tell you this:
Why?
If WordPress knows or can know that the revisions are identical, why take me through all the clicks and follow-up with this? Seems like a costly operation and a waste of time for me as a user.
A better approach would be to present me with a warning that says that there is another revision that was autosaved, but the current one and the autosaved are identical. This would just be an alert that can be dismissed. Some built in support could come along with the alert, like a warning to the user to check other tabs or windows they might have open that are causing the auto-save to trigger and prevent mangling your working document. But there shouldn’t be anything for WordPress to do.
There is no need to take me through a bunch of clicks and page loads just to see that there’s nothing for me to actually do.
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