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Ask WordPress Questions to Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp Portland
Posted By Aaron on August 31st, 2009
We have a great addition to our lineup of presenters at WordCamp Portand; WordPress founding developer Matt Mullenweg will be here to lead a “Town Hall” style Q&A discussion about all things WordPress.
I’m sure the topics will go in a variety of directions once the ideas start flowing, but we’d love to have a few starter questions to kick things off. If you’ve got a question you’ve been dying to ask the man behind WordPress, leave it as a comment here. We’ll pick out a few to start the discussion (and anything that doesn’t get chosen is fair game to be asked from the audience).
Tags: matt mullenweg, wcpdx, WordCamp, wordcamp portland
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yeehaw!
I adore Matt….he’s so chill and down to earth on stage. Can’t wait for WCPDX!
This is truly epic! Will he be speaking on day one or day two?
What a great addition to the lineup. I am even more excited for Wordcamp Portland now.
Question: Why no plugin marketplace? Wordpress has done essentially nothing to help developers charge for their plugins and other WP enhancements.
Marketplaces work elsewhere, and though there’s certainly challenges, it would be nice if Wordpress took the lead here.
Just an addendum, I don’t want to get mired in the same old GPL arguments, that’s well-worn territory. But maybe we can push beyond that to talk about how developers are making money through plugins and what models are evolving, how WP users and bloggers are evolving to accept paid models (PollDaddy, etc.).
This may be a silly question, but I have a LOT better luck finding themes on other sites and better plugin information other places too. Is the bar for getting something listed on wordpress.org really that high or are people just not listing there for some other reason?
Many of the sites I develop use WordPress more like a CMS than a blog platform. Are there any plans to expand WordPress in this area?
Specifically, it would be great to have the ability to define additional fields required for registration or to be able to create pre-defined custom fields with various input options (radio, check, select). I know there are plug-ins that do this and the functions are fairly easy to write, but it seems like these options might be used more if they were built in.
Would adding more CMS features take away from the simplicity of WordPress? Or is this something only developers would take advantage of? At any rate, I would appreciate your thoughts on this. Excited to have you in Portland.
OK, my question seems to be continually evolving.
How does one get approval for a shortcode for Wordpress.com?
As the gatekeepers, you have tremendous responsibility to customers, but is there a possibility for an official “trusted partner” program?
The GPL-friendly biz model of Polldaddy, Akismet is hobbled if the WP.com community is completely inaccessible.