A bug arose on our sites. We tracked it to that portion of the code that tried to ping Twitter’s API. Two weeks ago Twitter changed how it allows authentication. The portion of our code that pings Twitter began to fail, and began to sabotage everything else on the site – including the ability of [...]
Category Archive for ‘Background’ 
My new, personal website
On a completely personal note, I have just started a new personal weblog. I will be writing about business, tech, startups and all the other subjects that interest me.
How does our donation program work for plugin and theme developers?
With the permission of Allan Cole, I’m going to use his themes as an example to talk about our donation program.
Some background info:
Allan Cole offers themes for WordPress.
Allan Cole signed up with WP Questions to receive donations from us whenever we get a question about his themes.
We have software that runs on the 1st [...]
Earn $1 for every $20 spent by someone you sign up
A few people have recently asked me if we have an affiliate program. We have written about our affiliate program in the past, but I think it is time to review how it works.
We have an affiliate program that pays 5%, so every time you sign someone up and they spend $20 on questions, [...]
What searches bring people to WP Questions?
On WP Questions we get a lot of traffic from search engines. For those of you who are curious, I here list the top 100 searches, first the search phrase, and then the number of times that search was run (during the last 30 days).
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Almost no one visits WP Questions exactly 8 times
I am examining the statistics in Google Analytics, regarding WP Questions, and I notice this interesting pattern – there is rapid fall off in the number of visits people pay the site, and then there is a big increase. I suspect it is all the experts answering questions who show up more than 9 times [...]
What does this spam do?
I am curious about some of the spam we get. Someone just went to WP Questions and used the contact form to send us this spam:
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We get 5 or 6 of these a week. Someone actually took the time to fill in the captcha and send [...]
Our advertising economics
Would you like us to pay you so that we can advertise on your website? I’m going to explain our economics to you, so you know where we are coming from, but first, I’ll list the sites where we are currently advertising:
BuildInternet
DevSnippets
WP Shout
WP Arena
Kreative Garden
Kreative Use
DevGrow
WP Tavern
WP Garage
Skyje
WP Tavern and DevGrow are doing especially [...]
Chris Clarke helps to keep Codewi.se running
For a while now I’ve been meaning to post something about Chris Clarke. All of the websites of Codewi.se sit on a server run by Chris. Many times he has helped me out when I’m troubleshooting some odd issue involving Apache, or MySql, or some DNS issue, or the odd bug that seems to fall [...]
We donate 25% of our profits to open source developers
Open source developers should know that we donate 25% of our profits to them, when we get a question about their software. For instance, if you develop themes or plugins for WordPress, you can register for donations on our WordPress site. If you have developed a plugin for the Symfony framework, you can register for [...]
