Comments on: The Growing Panoply of Specialty BuddyPress Developer and Administration Tools http://jeffsayre.com/2010/05/08/the-growing-panoply-of-specialty-buddypress-developer-and-administration-tools/ Thoughts on startups, leadership, the Web, and disruptive technologies Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:35:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: shawn http://jeffsayre.com/2010/05/08/the-growing-panoply-of-specialty-buddypress-developer-and-administration-tools/#comment-2234 shawn Sun, 16 May 2010 01:22:21 +0000 http://jeffsayre.com/?p=658#comment-2234 I may not be the normal user in that I find myself donating for snippets of code much more often than purchasing themes or the such. If I do purchase a theme, it's not to use it per say, but to strip the logic out of it and add it to my own system. Lately I have found myself either paying for, or making donations for code that allows me to work outside the wp box. Mostly in dealing with post_types and taxonomies. Realizing just how hard it is to relate everything together, it became apparent that what I was receiving was much more valuable that just a pretty packaged together 'x'. I will say that most of my donations are pretty small >$20, but I try to make a point of sending something as a thank you to the dev's that build something that is either going to save me a huge amount of time, or something that is beyond my current ability. If everyone would just take this approach, then I truly believe it would be much easier to find plugins, code snippets for particular projects, as it would be worth the time for the authors to create. I may not be the normal user in that I find myself donating for snippets of code much more often than purchasing themes or the such. If I do purchase a theme, it’s not to use it per say, but to strip the logic out of it and add it to my own system.

Lately I have found myself either paying for, or making donations for code that allows me to work outside the wp box. Mostly in dealing with post_types and taxonomies. Realizing just how hard it is to relate everything together, it became apparent that what I was receiving was much more valuable that just a pretty packaged together ‘x’.

I will say that most of my donations are pretty small >$20, but I try to make a point of sending something as a thank you to the dev’s that build something that is either going to save me a huge amount of time, or something that is beyond my current ability.

If everyone would just take this approach, then I truly believe it would be much easier to find plugins, code snippets for particular projects, as it would be worth the time for the authors to create.

]]> By: The Link Edition: Friday Find | Premium BuddyPress Themes at BuddyDress http://jeffsayre.com/2010/05/08/the-growing-panoply-of-specialty-buddypress-developer-and-administration-tools/#comment-2184 The Link Edition: Friday Find | Premium BuddyPress Themes at BuddyDress Fri, 14 May 2010 15:02:25 +0000 http://jeffsayre.com/?p=658#comment-2184 [...] Jeff Sayre has an interesting post entitled ‘The Growing Panoply of Speciality BuddyPress Developer and Administration tools’ [...] [...] Jeff Sayre has an interesting post entitled ‘The Growing Panoply of Speciality BuddyPress Developer and Administration tools’ [...]

]]> By: Chris Taylor http://jeffsayre.com/2010/05/08/the-growing-panoply-of-specialty-buddypress-developer-and-administration-tools/#comment-2136 Chris Taylor Thu, 13 May 2010 13:22:45 +0000 http://jeffsayre.com/?p=658#comment-2136 Thanks for mentioning my Demo Data plugin, Jeff. Can I also point out my Plugin Register plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/plugin-register/), that allows plugin developers to keep track of where their plugins are being activated. I have a few other ideas about plugins specifically for WP/BP developers, but - as with many open source developers - finding the time to crank out the code is proving tough. Thanks for mentioning my Demo Data plugin, Jeff. Can I also point out my Plugin Register plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/plugin-register/), that allows plugin developers to keep track of where their plugins are being activated.

I have a few other ideas about plugins specifically for WP/BP developers, but – as with many open source developers – finding the time to crank out the code is proving tough.

]]> By: Jeff Sayre http://jeffsayre.com/2010/05/08/the-growing-panoply-of-specialty-buddypress-developer-and-administration-tools/#comment-2093 Jeff Sayre Sun, 09 May 2010 15:19:34 +0000 http://jeffsayre.com/?p=658#comment-2093 Interesting thoughts on the need to repackage the plugin dev's value proposition. Theme designers do provided a much-need service, as of course do plugin devs. The advantage that theme designers have is that they are enabling others to have pretty-looking sites. Their work is front and center every time someone visits a website. Thus, theme designers benefit significantly from the human tendency to prefer form over function—or at least the value that people misplace on the finish of a product versus its underlying foundation. Since a plugin dev's work is not readily visible to many, is not understood by most, it simple fades into the ether of that-stuff-under-the-hood. Interesting thoughts on the need to repackage the plugin dev’s value proposition. Theme designers do provided a much-need service, as of course do plugin devs. The advantage that theme designers have is that they are enabling others to have pretty-looking sites. Their work is front and center every time someone visits a website.

Thus, theme designers benefit significantly from the human tendency to prefer form over function—or at least the value that people misplace on the finish of a product versus its underlying foundation. Since a plugin dev’s work is not readily visible to many, is not understood by most, it simple fades into the ether of that-stuff-under-the-hood.

]]> By: Mike Pratt http://jeffsayre.com/2010/05/08/the-growing-panoply-of-specialty-buddypress-developer-and-administration-tools/#comment-2092 Mike Pratt Sun, 09 May 2010 13:57:41 +0000 http://jeffsayre.com/?p=658#comment-2092 Jeff, Excellent observation - the state of BP tool evolution. Everything about BP is reaching that proverbial tipping point. It certainly doesn't hurt to have Ning introduce a highly controversial new business model that will seemingly drive many into the arms of BP. As for the state of paid plugins/dev versus themes, I refuse to think it's merely ironic that the harder-to-build plugin is simply "monatizable" over the shiny, pretty easier-to-crank-out theme. We just have to figure out what need state is being triggered and captured by theme devs and tap into it. Jeff,

Excellent observation – the state of BP tool evolution. Everything about BP is reaching that proverbial tipping point. It certainly doesn’t hurt to have Ning introduce a highly controversial new business model that will seemingly drive many into the arms of BP.

As for the state of paid plugins/dev versus themes, I refuse to think it’s merely ironic that the harder-to-build plugin is simply “monatizable” over the shiny, pretty easier-to-crank-out theme. We just have to figure out what need state is being triggered and captured by theme devs and tap into it.

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