Comments on: The 31 definite reasons why you should be self-hosting WordPress

By: db0

db0 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:54:42 +0000

It'd be nice to get the awesome credit you're giving me but I think I may have been just very lucky. It seems that this plugin was released yesterday So, not your fault for not finding it

Thanks for the kind words nevertheless

By: GeoffreyTransom

GeoffreyTransom — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:50:26 +0000

"One search away' in the same sense as things are always in "the last place you look" – I lost count of the number of searches I did ("Wordpress strip javascript", "wordpress permit javascript", "wordpress self-hosted javascript config"… and so on). I left messages all over Mr Interwebs – at the plugin site, at WP.org – and that was AFTER doing a plugin search centred on 'javascript'… and you hit the nail on the head in about ten minutes. ACE.

I'm going to write a dedicated page and try to 'tune' the keywords so that nobody has to do the same webcrawling that I did over the last few days.

It struck me that there are a whole bunch of things that WP users don't 'document' in the same way as, say, the Ubuntu community (I have never had to refine searches more than twice to resolve ANY Ubuntu issue). I think that says two things: one, the installed base for WP is primarily WP.com installs (non-'tweakers') and two, the more 'tweaky' users solve a problem – usually with a plugin – and then move on without documenting it.

That said, your '31-reasons' post (along with a couple of htaccess-related posts on PCLand.com) are sensational resources.

Thanks again.

Cheers

By: db0

db0 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:00:29 +0000

Heh, no probs. I was really one search away

By: GeoffreyTransom

GeoffreyTransom — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:39:02 +0000

I've just installed it, and it works perfectly.

You are a super-ninja.

Thanks immensely,

By: db0

db0 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:59:48 +0000

Did you try with a plugin?

By: GeoffreyTransom

GeoffreyTransom — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:41:02 +0000

Just moved from Blogger to my own hosted WordPress setup, and am trying to find a way around the javascript-stripping suckage.

I have 1300 archive posts that have javascript or 'onclick' events: some that open a little analysis box for each stock-code, others that change a chart source depending on which index code you click on.

What's more, my 'engine' generates twice-daily posts with the same stuff embedded, and it all gets stripped out. Mr Interwebs has not yet yielded the secret to switching off the code-stripping, so, like, if anybody knows how to change the config (and which config files), then please let me know.

Cheerio

PS – I know I'm responding to a very old post, but Mr Interwebs is cool like that – it will still show up in your 'latest comments' widget.

By: GeoffreyTransom

GeoffreyTransom — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:54:20 +0000

Just moved from Blogger to my own hosted WordPress setup [edit: I've had my own domain and such for 4 years, but always kept the blog on Blogger out of pure inertia], and am trying to find a way around the javascript-stripping suckage.

What's more, my 'engine' generates twice-daily posts with the same stuff embedded, and it all gets stripped out.

Mr Interwebs has not yet yielded the secret to switching off the code-stripping, so, like, if anybody knows how to change the config (and which config files), then please let me know. [Edit: I should also point out that I use the FCKEditor WP plugin].

Cheerio

PS – I know I'm responding to a very old post, but Mr Interwebs is cool like that – it will still show up in your 'latest comments' widget.

By: db0

db0 — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:58:03 +0000

Reposting because IDC bug ate my reply:

I know what you mean. I happens. Not often but it happens but I don't think it's bad enough to make me take out IDC, especially not with all the goodies coming out soon

As for long comments, have you considered that when you have a long comment to leave to someone, you can make it instead a new blogpost? That you both get to have more people see your comment and post more often

By: tshawn

tshawn — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:34:54 +0000

I have self hosted my blog on WP for about 4 years now. Never had any problems that could not be sorted out with a bit of Google foo. For me there are 2 main reasons to self host; 1)I am too cheap to pay for hosting as I don't earn from my blog and 2)I have learned a lot about Linux, Apache, PHP and WP by doing it on my own.

By: db0

db0 — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:23:46 +0000

Well, if this a deal breaker for you, add your voice in this topic and let the developers know. The more people annoyed by this, the more likely they'll fix it.