Sort of a strange chart to make public, but I’m all about being transparent. Here is a chart of questions that people started but never paid for.
There has been a noteworthy decline in unpaid questions during the last 4 weeks, and these are the 4 weeks where we have been experimenting by putting our [...]
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How many questions do askers start, but then never pay for, and why?
Our donations program will soon be controlled by voting
We are changing the way we give money to developers.
Since this site began, we have had a donations program through which we gave money to various themes and plugin developers:
This program never amounted to huge money, but we did have 4 projects that eventually got over $100.
But all of this is about [...]
We've decided to try for YCombinator again
We tried last year but didn’t make the cut. We’ve made some progress over the year, so we are going to try again. Better product, better software, more clarity about the basic idea: maybe we will get in.
The first few questions decided by vote
We’ve now had the first 5 questions that were decided by a vote:
Buddypress, Wishlist, S2 and Mingle
Headspace2 for Custom Post Type Problem
Need help finding stylesheets for customization.
Position in Wordpress
Change of blog roll presentation
In every case, there was only one voter, and it was the asker, so these questions were resolved just like questions have always [...]
sfYaml is a great PHP yaml library
Because I am both lazy and stupid, I initially decided to parse Yaml files as strings, hunting for the info I needed with functions like stristr(). This was for the cron scripts that iterate over the sites using the Codewi.se software. Since the software was built using the Symfony framework, there are a lot of [...]
We now pay 10% to affiliates
If you look at your affiliate page, you’ll see that is says we will pay you 5% when you sign up someone who then asks a question. But for the next 3 months, we are going to pay 10%. So if you sign someone up, and they ask 5 questions and offer a $10 prize [...]
Posting to Twitter again
During these last 6 months I’ve been working so much that I had no time to keep these sites up to date with such things as the changing authentication system on Twitter. Back in September I asked Is there a working plugin for Twitter?. I’m only now acting on this. I’ve just installed the Tweetable [...]
We would like to sell WPQuestions.com
Darren Hoyt and I would like to sell WPQuestions.com, but only if we can find the right person (or company) to take over this site. The buyer would have be as respectful of the community as we have been.
Ironically, we were pulled away from the world of WordPress almost as soon as we launched WP [...]
How to protect one's PHP code and CSS and JS?
Drew posts an interesting question over at WP Questions:
So, I’ve been working hard for six weeks now on a new WordPress framework that will be packaged with our premium themes that are going on sale. The theme will be distributed unpacked with good comments and so on as its fine for the user to [...]
Congratulations to Michael Fields, our first Expert to win over $1,000
Michael Fields has earned over $1,000 on WP Questions.
Back on December 29, 2009, we wrote this post: Congratulations to Darfuria, our first Expert to win over $100. That was a year ago, almost to the day. I imagine that a year from now we will be congratulating our first expert who earns $10,000.
We offer [...]
