Comments for Philip John

Comment on The Walled Garden by Scott Daris

Scott Daris — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:16:21 +0000

Hello from the US! I really like how you outlined your process. I’m thinking about developing WP sites on a local basis out here in western Massachusetts, New England, now that I’ve moved out of New York City. I’ll bookmark your blog. Cheers!

Comment on Hiding bbPress topics from logged out users by Philip John

Philip John — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:07:37 +0000

Awesome, didn’t realise it’d be that easy – thanks for sharing!

Comment on Hiding bbPress topics from logged out users by Spence

Spence — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:01:49 +0000

Pardon… I meant to type “Hi Philip” rather than “John” …

Comment on Hiding bbPress topics from logged out users by Spence

Spence — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:01:10 +0000

Hi John!

Awesome workaround!

We’ve taken it a little further and added a warning dialogue box to let users know that they have to log-in to see the forums. Otherwise the default message may be slightly misleading.

(Hope this formats well in comments)

Cheers!
Spence

/*———————————————————————————–*/
/* Hide bbPress topics from viewers not logged-in */
/*———————————————————————————–*/

function lab_logged_in_bbptopics($have_posts){
if (!is_user_logged_in()){
$log_in = ‘Sorry, you must be logged-in to view the forums!’;
$have_posts = null;

}
echo $log_in;
return $have_posts;
}
add_filter(‘bbp_has_topics’, ‘lab_logged_in_bbptopics’);
add_filter(‘bbp_has_forums’, ‘lab_logged_in_bbptopics’);
add_filter(‘bbp_has_replies’, ‘lab_logged_in_bbptopics’);

Comment on Add a shortlink to the end of your WordPress posts by Philip John

Philip John — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:10:18 +0000

Thanks Andy. I’ve got the notification of your WP.org post so I’ll look at this later today and get back to you there

Comment on Add a shortlink to the end of your WordPress posts by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:16:07 +0000

Still inserting a duplicate of the post’s title at top of content

Comment on Add a shortlink to the end of your WordPress posts by Philip John

Philip John — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:00:22 +0000

I’ve just put this on WordPress.org at last: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-shortlink-to-posts/

A couple of improvements. If you have any issues please post a new thread at http://wordpress.org/tags/add-shortlink-to-posts?forum_id=10 so I can best deal with it.

Thanks!

Comment on Northcliffe’s Local People: It’s not working, let’s shift the risk by Webby

Webby — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:47:54 +0000

I worked on 4 localpeople sites in Devon last year, charged with generating revenue. It was a disaster and I resigned after four months. The Northcliffe culture towards it’s sales staff was diabolical to say the least.

That said, some of the sites were highly profitable – I can think of two sites in particular that were generating well in excess of £5k per month. In an established localpeople town, I dare say that £7k with Northcliffe support probably won’t be the worst investment out there.

On the flip side, some of the sites were eye-wateringly loss-making and I won’t lose any sleep from their demise.

Comment on Northcliffe’s Local People: It’s not working, let’s shift the risk by Tom

Tom — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:34:13 +0000

I’ve been thinking about local networking a lot recently and I’ve had a look at my own ‘local-people site’ …. well it’s too faceless and sterile to be a community site and I know for a fact that very few people in my area use it. It sounds like a cliche but I believe local networks should be locally managed, a return to the ‘garden gate referral’ where information passes via word of mouth (in an internet sort of way)… local people’s model doesn’t address this and non-techie small businesses could well get sucked in for little return. I think their original idea was good and the sites look nice and function well, but ultimately I doubt they are trusted any more than the phone directory is for endorsement of local services.

Comment on Northcliffe’s Local People: It’s not working, let’s shift the risk by Nigel Barlow

Nigel Barlow — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:41:59 +0000

I have had a quick look at this as you can well imagine.

If it provides some of the business model and support so that people like us can produce good content then it might work but then you have to look at the figures.

You are going to need to justify a fairly decent return on seven grand.

Their literature talks about 5k a month income but as we both know,that is surely pie in the sky for small sites.

Nevertheless I take my hat off to them for trying and maybe it could be the model that we are all waiting for