Jane on WordPress

Open Source Fantasy

I want John Lilly’s WordCamp SF presentation to marry WordPress and have cute little open source babies that are born knowing how to collaborate effectively, communicate and enable a combination of curated and distributed decisions, and bewitch users and contributing developers into never saying a snotty thing again because they are so happy with how pretty the babies are turning out to be.

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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