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Archive for February 2010

New feature: subscribe to new questions via email

Several people wrote to us and asked for the option to subscribe via email for notifications of new questions. We just added in this feature today. Go to your personal control panel and click the new option, which you can see highlighted in this screenshot:

There are now 3 ways to keep track of new questions [...]

What support system would be useful for plugin and theme developers?

Over the last few weeks we’ve had several talks with plugin and theme developers. The question was originally “What would make WP Questions more useful as a support platform for you?”
2 issues were raised:

Accuracy
Ownership

The first issue has to do with the possibility of stupid, ignorant answers being given. One developer asked us “What if [...]

Launching a new site: Symfony Experts

We just launched a new site: Symfony Experts. The site is identical to WP Questions, except the focus is different. WP Questions was built using the Symfony framework, so this is a technology that we use every day.
In the next few weeks we be launching similar sites focused on MySql and Javascript.

New feature: easily extend questions, if you need more time

We’ve had a few questions that needed more than 3 days for the asker and the answerers to figure out the perfect solution. So I’ve added a link that makes it easy to extend a question. If you are the person who has asked a question, and your question is about to expire, feel free [...]

Traffic to our site keeps increasing

I’m looking in Google Analytics. Always a treasure trove of information, some of it surprising.
Traffic this month is up 58% over last month.
Our most popular page is our front page. This does not surprise me. What does surprise me is that our “About” page is the second most popular page. On most sites, I think [...]

Email updates for the answer threads

Last month we rolled out threaded answers, which we think help facilitate the conversations between the askers and the answerers. One feature we should have added then, but did not, was automatic emails that let an answerer know when an asker has responded to their answer. This is one feature we just rolled out today. [...]

Some bug fixes

There was a bug in our code that occasionally miscalculated what an expert’s cash balance was. That is, if they’d earned $100 and withdrawn $75, then their cash balance should have been $25. Sometimes it was $0. During the last month, on 4 separate occasions, I had to log into the database and fix [...]

Is this site slow?

One of our regular users just wrote to us and complained that the site has been coming up slowly for him. I’m curious if anyone else is having problems?