4 minute readThis is my 3rd monthly transparency report for Print My Blog WordPress plugin. What Happened in June 2019 Open Collective Stats Hours: 18.5 (+3.5) support 26 (+3.5) copy writing 53.5 (+7) development 6.5 (+0) management Expenses: $3588.91 (+470.40) Donations: $40 (+0) Plugin Stats Downloads: 5, 771 (+1177) Active Installs: ~500 (+100) Languages: 3 (+1) Five […]
Read More Print My Blog Transparency Report – June 20198 minute readThis is my second monthly transparency report regarding development of Print My Blog WordPress plugin. For me, the most exciting developments this month has been hearing how folks are using Print My Blog. If you use it, please let me know on Twitter, through my contact page, or through a review on WordPress.org. What Happened […]
Read More Print My Blog WordPress Plugin Transparency Report – May 20193 minute readIn this post I show I avoided WordPress.com’s charges for forwarding users onto my new self-hosted WordPress site.
Read More How I Moved from WordPress.com Without Paying for the Redirect< 1 minute readI finally made the move from WordPress.com to becoming self-hosted. I was able to bring all my old posts, pages, categories and tags, images and other media, and even subscribers. So if you were subscribed to my .com blog before, you’re now automatically subscribed to this new self-hosted one. I have yet to pretty it […]
Read More Me: Self Hosted!4 minute readI enjoy blogging but I’ve had mixed feelings about sharing details about others that they might not want to be so publicly accessible. In this post I’ll describe my thoughts on blogging vs privacy, and how I balance the two. What Is The Purpose of a Blog Anyway? I’ve written an entire post on this, […]
Read More Is Blogging in Conflict with Privacy? (Or, How to Effectively Use Password-Protected Posts)9 minute readStats and discussion about April’s progress developing the WordPress plugin Print My Blog. Benefits other plugin devs, plugin users, and (let’s be honest) myself.
Read More Print my Blog Plugin Transparency Report – April 201910 minute readHave you ever been on a WordPress.org plugin page, and seen a link saying “Donate to this plugin”? You probably didn’t click it. Nearly none of us do. But why not? You probably think you should, but something is preventing you. In this article, I explore the reasons we rarely donate to software we depend on, and what can be done about it.
Read More Why We don’t Donate to WordPress Plugins, Even When We Know We Should2 minute readWhere Did This Come From? I was previously putting my weekly updates for Print My Blog, the WordPress plugin, on the Open Collective page. But I don’t think anyone saw them (although I wasn’t sure, I didn’t have access to any analytics), it didn’t seem as usable from my phone (which is important when I […]
Read More Print My Blog Transparency Report, April 5, 2019 – Private Posts, Family Search Tutorial, and Hustling6 minute readSo you have a blog to share your stories with friends, family, and the world. Great. But will it still exist in 50 years? How about 100? Most likely it will fall victim to the “Digital Dark Age“, and won’t be available. Your grandfather’s memoirs written on paper might be more accessible than your blog. […]
Read More Immortalize Your Blog by Turning It into a Family Search Memory5 minute readI used to make my transparency on plugin development reports right in Open Collective, but I really prefer to keep them on my blog, like I outlined last time. So here’s all my old reports compounded into one blog post. Reports From Open Collective 1.6.3, updated WordPress.org description, and comments feedback published on March 29, […]
Read More Print My Blog Transparency Reports – November 2018 to March 2019