Jane on WordPress

November 9, 2008 • 3:35 pm

Unexpected trip to Austin

A friend is having her first baby a few weeks early (pretty much now), so I’m hopping on a flight from SFO to AUS to help out for a few days before heading to Charlotte for WordCamp. Will be trying to do some 2.7 usability testing while I’m in Austin, so if you’re interested, let me know. Especially interested in testing with people who have to moderate a lot of comments on their blog.

Yay, baby almost here!

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Hmph.

This theme is lame because it wants to be cool and allow you to specify a different middle sidebar for individual post pages than the main page and category landing pages have, but it doesn't allow for users who want to have the same sidebar on all pages. Because you can only use most widgets in one sidebar (Text and RSS are the only exceptions) at a time, I can't put the archives etc. here, because it's in use elsewhere. WordPress 2.8 will introduce multi-use widgets, which should solve the problem. In the meantime, go back to the home page if you want to see a list of posts or archives.

About Me

I'm Jane, which is short for Jenifer, which is a long story. I work at Automattic doing user experience stuff for WordPress and related projects. If you want to contact me, use this form, or @janeforshort on Twitter.

All Over the Map

Thinking About (Projects)

  • Overhauling WordPress media features
  • Improving communication channels/Ideas forum redux
  • Open source UX for WordPress
  • Distributed usability testing
  • Program for girls to get involved in WordPress
  • Blackboard-killer plugins
  • WordCamp NYC stuff
  • Cleaning up Settings screens
  • Theme design
  • Standardized taxonomies for themes and plugins
  • WordPress.tv stuff
  • PollDaddy stuff
  • Volunteers database