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He officially exited the commercial WordPress theme business earlier this year when <a href=\"http://wptavern.com/press75-acquired-by-westwerk-for-undisclosed-amount\" target=\"_blank\">Press75 was acquired by Westwerk</a>, following a sharp decline in the shop&#8217;s monthly revenue.</p>\n<p>Prior to selling his company, Schuller had begun to focus more on his experimental projects, <a href=\"http://dropplets.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Dropplets</a>, <a href=\"https://leeflets.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Leeflets</a>, and <a href=\"https://cinemati.co/\" target=\"_blank\">Cinematico</a>. Over the years, he had become disillusioned with the software, as he watched WordPress become increasingly more complex. 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It doesn&#8217;t scale backward for minimalist websites like this. The CMS should reflect, in my opinion, what you&#8217;re trying to accomplish with your website, and all of these unnecessary components of WordPress just really don&#8217;t need to be here unless you need them for what you&#8217;re trying to accomplish.</p></blockquote>\n<p>Schuller said that it took him approximately two days to customize the WordPress admin to suit his template. <strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m nearly finished with it. It’s going to launch as a downloadable theme first and then I’ll be launching a hosted version as well,&#8221;</strong> he said.</p>\n<p>The theme will not be launching on Leeflets but rather on a new domain, yet to be determined, bringing Schuller back into the WordPress theme market. 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WordPress core is moving towards bridging the separation between the editing experience and the display of the content, with improvements to the customizer and experimental projects like the frontend editor. Others hope that the new JSON REST API will make it easier for developers to create custom admins.</p>\n<p>These changes cannot come soon enough, but will they be fully able to provide a more natural editing experience for users? Those, like Schuller, who have wrestled with dissatisfaction, have a decent shot at creating a revolutionary editing experience for the 10 year old platform. His inspiring work on the Pickle admin breaks WordPress out of the box and forces developers to look at the content editing experience in a new way.</p>\n<p>A more modular admin that can easily be scaled back for minimalist websites is something that would allow developers to truly customize the CMS for any niche template or project. 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After reviewing the #<a title=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/wppluginreviewday?src=hash\" href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/wppluginreviewday?src=hash\">wppluginreviewday</a> hashtag on Twitter, it&#8217;s clear that a lot of people submitted reviews to their favorite plugins. Based on an <a title=\"https://twitter.com/richardtape/status/523331218973405184\" href=\"https://twitter.com/richardtape/status/523331218973405184\">estimate by Richard Tape</a>, 455 reviews were published on October 17th. When compared to 254 reviews on October 16th, that&#8217;s an increase of 180%. Here are a few noteworthy mentions of the hashtag in action.</p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\"><p>Wrote a review for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/eddwp\">@eddwp</a> here <a href=\"https://t.co/zvwWNJaGtu\">https://t.co/zvwWNJaGtu</a> Awesome feeling! <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/wppluginreviewday?src=hash\">#wppluginreviewday</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; Bharath Mandava  (@_mandava) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/_mandava/status/523321112222900225\">October 18, 2014</a></p></blockquote>\n<p></p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\"><p>So I delivered a plugin review on .org today. <a href=\"http://t.co/4ua0iG0XjQ\">http://t.co/4ua0iG0XjQ</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/wppluginreviewday?src=hash\">#wppluginreviewday</a> /cc: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/stevengliebe\">@stevengliebe</a> :)</p>\n<p>&mdash; David Decker (@deckerweb) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/deckerweb/status/523217428311191552\">October 17, 2014</a></p></blockquote>\n<p></p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\"><p>For Rate &amp; Review a <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/WordPress?src=hash\">#WordPress</a> Plugin Day I gave kudos to <a href=\"https://twitter.com/iThemesSecurity\">@iThemesSecurity</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/wppluginreviewday?src=hash\">#wppluginreviewday</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; BobWP (@bobWP) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/bobWP/status/523121578268041216\">October 17, 2014</a></p></blockquote>\n<p></p>\n<h2>Observations I Made While Submitting Reviews</h2>\n<p>It took 90 minutes to rate and review the plugins I&#8217;ve depended on for years. 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I used this in combination with my review to tell people if the plugin works or not.</p>\n<a href=\"http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/WPPluginReviewSubmissionForm.png\" rel=\"prettyphoto[32151]\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-32152\" src=\"http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/WPPluginReviewSubmissionForm.png?resize=752%2C502\" alt=\"WordPress Plugin Review Submission Form\" /></a>WordPress Plugin Review Submission Form\n<p>Clicking the works or doesn&#8217;t work button is an easy task but it&#8217;s a <strong>separate action</strong> from submitting a review. It&#8217;s also the last widget on the description page and depending on the length of the description, may be hidden from view. I suggest merging the compatibility box into the process of submitting a review so it&#8217;s one action. 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Also the reason I started spending more time in New York. <cite>Hat tip: <a href=\"http://kellychoffman.wordpress.com/\">Kelly Hoffman</a>.</cite></p>\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:7:\"pubDate\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:31:\"Mon, 13 Oct 2014 20:27:00 +0000\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}s:32:\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:14:\"Matt Mullenweg\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}}}i:43;a:6:{s:4:\"data\";s:13:\"\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";s:5:\"child\";a:2:{s:0:\"\";a:5:{s:5:\"title\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:49:\"Matt: Beats Studio Wireless vs Samsung Level Over\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:4:\"guid\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:21:\"http://ma.tt/?p=44275\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:4:\"link\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:65:\"http://ma.tt/2014/10/beats-studio-wireless-vs-samsung-level-over/\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:11:\"description\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:7474:\"<p>I listen to music pretty much constantly, and it&#8217;s not unusual to see me on the road with just a carry-on and still have 3 or 4 headphones on me that I&#8217;m testing.</p>\n<p>First off, Bluetooth changes everything. It&#8217;s so nice to not ever worry about cables, or even proximity for the most part, like having your phone charging by the laptop and still able to walk around the room. Audio quality is great now, only downside is having to charge something, but they&#8217;re all pretty good about battery now.</p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been enjoying a category I&#8217;ll call: Bluetooth, over ear headphones that let people know not to bother you, that you feel kind of cool wearing, that are great for planes, and cost around $300-400. The pioneer in this category is Beats, and I bought a pair of their Studio Wireless (in <a href=\"http://www.beatsbydre.com/headphones/studio-wireless/titanium/900-00199-01.html\" title=\"Like a bosse.\">matte titanium</a>, natch) after <a href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/28/apple-buys-beats-electronics-for-3b/\" title=\"Apple has made a series of interesting buys and hires this year.\">Apple bought them</a> because I wanted to see what the fuss is about. More recently I got some horribly named but well-reviewed <a href=\"http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones-accessories/EO-AG900BWESTA\" title=\"Oh, Samsung.\">Samsung Level Overs</a>, so this is a comparison of those two. (Another contender in this category would be the <a href=\"http://www.parrot.com/zik/usa/\" title=\"I wanted to love these.\">Parrot Zik ones</a>, but just skip those. Great idea, annoying in practice.)</p>\n<p><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-44276\" src=\"http://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2014/10/overear-studio-wireless-titanium-standard-thrqrtleft-O.png?resize=256%2C298\" alt=\"Beats Studio Wireless\" />Let me start with how the Beats are better: they fold up, look cool, sound pretty decent on calls, and everything works nicely with the iPhone. For me they have two fatal flaws: comfort and noise. The earcups are kind of small, or my ears are kind of huge; whichever it is, sometimes after wearing them for a few hours my left ear starts to become quite sore. Second is they have active noise cancellation (ANC) that causes what can only be described as a constant hiss you can hear both while music is playing and while it&#8217;s off, it&#8217;s like like noise addition rather than noise cancellation. The fit and finish of the Beats are nice, as well as the accessories like cables, how it indicates how much power is left, et cetera.</p>\n<p><img class=\"alignright  wp-image-44277\" src=\"http://i1.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2014/10/71joq-txpaL._SL1500_.jpg?resize=272%2C360\" alt=\"Samsung LEVEL over\" />The <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KGGK738/\" title=\"Reviews on Amazon are pretty good too.\">LEVEL overs</a> (wow that&#8217;s awkward to write) are big, and they don&#8217;t fold, but they float around in my backpack pretty much the same as the Beats, especially if you don&#8217;t use the included case. The battery seems to go forever. The ANC can be turned on and off (battery goes longer with it off), and when it&#8217;s on it&#8217;s <em>good</em>, like miss-the-announcement-for-your-flight good. For me this is the deal-maker &#8212; I didn&#8217;t realize what I was missing with mediocre ANC before on the Beats, I&#8217;m now able to concentrate and relax much better on planes. I&#8217;ve flown every third day in the past month, so this is a big deal to me. They also feel like they&#8217;re better made &#8212; less plastic feeling than the Beats. The have a <a href=\"http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/316Rt2g8EEL.jpg\" title=\"Pretty intuitive.\">touch gesture control</a> on the right cup like on the Zik, but it actually works well. The cups fit completely over my ears and in general it feels more comfortable on my head, I can wear it for hours at a time and it&#8217;s totally comfortable. I don&#8217;t think they look as cool, but that&#8217;s probably because I haven&#8217;t been conditioned with pictures of my favorite musicians and athletes wearing them. (<a href=\"http://recode.net/2014/10/04/nfl-bans-beats-headphones-on-camera/\" title=\"Why is the NFL a non-profit, again?\">Though not in football anymore</a>.)</p>\n<p>Main downsides: the cable it comes with doesn&#8217;t &#8220;work&#8221; with an iPhone or Mac as a mic or control device, and is also clunky. (Bluetooth control works fine.) This is apparently because <a href=\"http://shaddack.twibright.com/projects/reveng_RemoteControlHeadphones/\">the remote control resistor on Apple-targeted cables</a> work <a href=\"http://www.androidcentral.com/head-headphones-samsung-level-over-vs-beats-studio-wireless\">differently from everyone else&#8217;s</a>, which I think we can all agree in 2014 is ridiculous for both sides. My fix for this was to use the cable from the Beats, which you <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ILV7VGG/\" title=\"This one might be not-real, but look around.\">can also buy online</a>, which looks cooler, is smaller, and works great with my Mac for G+ Hangouts and Skype calls. Perhaps related to this is when the Beats or many other Bluetooth headsets I&#8217;ve used are connected to the iPhone there&#8217;s a battery indicator and the Samsung doesn&#8217;t support this, but since the battery life is so good I don&#8217;t worry about this too much.</p>\n<p><strong><img class=\" wp-image-44278 alignleft\" src=\"http://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2014/10/720311395_5520467755400174836.jpg?resize=190%2C190\" alt=\"Matt with Samsungs\" />Too long; skipped to the end:</strong> The Samsung sounds better, is more comfortable, and is better made. Try it out if you&#8217;re considering buying headphones in this category. I don&#8217;t expect this to be a long-term advantage because I&#8217;m fairly certain Apple will do amazing things with Beats in the future, even if that just means a lightning connector, but I&#8217;m guessing that&#8217;s a 2015 thing.</p>\n<p><strong>Extra credit:</strong> What headphones do I use in other categories? (An update to <a href=\"http://ma.tt/2009/07/headphone-recommendations/\" title=\"Oldie but goodie.\">my 2009 post</a>.) For in-ear wired I use <a href=\"http://pro.ultimateears.com/en-us/home/18-Pro\" title=\"Best sound, best comfort, but my ears get waxy when I wear them too much.\">Ultimate Ears 18 Pro Custom</a> molded to my ears, but I also recommend <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003WV391Q/\" title=\"This is the one with the remote mic, the newer 80s don\'t, for no good reason.\">Sennheiser IE 8i</a> for friends who don&#8217;t want to go to audiologist, for running/exercise or when being discreet like on a subway I use the <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DIOAM4Y/\" title=\"Been putting a lot of miles on these.\">Plantronics BackBeat GO 2 with charging case</a>, at home I like <a href=\"http://www.audeze.com/products/headphones/lcd-3\" title=\"Indefensible.\">the Auduze LCD3</a> usually with a <a href=\"http://redwineaudio.com/\" title=\"Cavier on the kobe.\">Red Wine Audio</a> amp. 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Open up FTP to see if the files are there, and they are. Start wondering if maybe 1-clicks can&#8217;t handle being in a subdirectory (where I&#8217;d put it), so think I&#8217;ll try another one in the root. Same thing, the 10-minute notice. Set up web email for the domain and send a test email so I can see if it&#8217;s just the website, or if it&#8217;s everything on the domain. Webmail is also whitescreened. Hm. Status on Dreamhost says my server is going to be getting some software updates and will be offline during this maintenance, but it doesn&#8217;t look like I&#8217;m in that time window. I get a 2nd automated email saying the 2nd 1-click has failed. I head into the support section.</p>\n<p>The Live Chat support option shows as available, but when I click it it says that due to heavy activity there will be a 5-hour wait. Come on, just take down the Live Chat option when it&#8217;s 4am and you don&#8217;t have people on staff. 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Someone setting things up without my account gymnastics wouldn&#8217;t have encountered that, though, so I set out to find my hosting versions as specified in the ask-for-it text on the requirements page on wordpress.org:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>PHP 5.2.4 or greater</li>\n<li>MySQL 5.0 or greater</li>\n<li>The mod_rewrite Apache module</li>\n</ul>\n<p>I log into the Dreamhost control panel. I look for a navigation label that says something like hosting environment, version information, about, etc. Don&#8217;t see anything. Click into <em>Manage Account</em>, nothing. Click into <em>Manage Domains</em>. 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With multiple mentions of passwords but no headlines that say secret key? I command+f to do a search for text on the page, which shows that &#8220;secret key&#8221; is mentioned in the section titled <em>Security Keys</em>. Hmph. Would a little consistency here be so much to ask?</p>\n<p>Read the section. Questions that should be answered in this section <strong>before</strong> jumping into the history of adding stuff.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is a key?</li>\n<li>What is a salt?</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Then it shows what secret keys look like from the online generator. Cool, I like online generators. But the wording all over is inconsistent and confusing &#8212; is it one secret key, or four, or eight? And where do I set a secure password for the key (or keys)? I don&#8217;t understand this! So! Many! Words! Used! 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Below that is create a database, which has fields to create the first user at the same time. There&#8217;s no instruction on the difference between a database user, an ftp user, and an account user. I go ahead and made new host, db, and user (and while I&#8217;m in there I delete the databases left from the aborted 1-clicks), but I think it would intimidate someone who hadn&#8217;t done it before and didn&#8217;t really know what a database was in relation to a hosting account or a website. This takes me a minute or two, but would probably take someone who&#8217;d never done something like this a little longer, maybe up to 5 while they tried to grok the setup page on the host panel.</p>\n<p><strong>Edit wp-config.php &#8212; check. </strong>This step is labeled optional, but I&#8217;m not sure why. 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