[AccessD] Wordpress, Blogs and sidebars

John Colby jwcolby at gmail.com
Fri Oct 27 18:28:42 CDT 2017


I have to say that 1200 commits by 40 people in two weeks makes me 
uneasy. Is there a defined process to review the new code before it is 
committed?  How do I know that one of the "active contributors" is not a 
hacker inserting back doors into the codebase?  Just because something 
is open source does not mean anyone is watching.  Development at that 
speed is absolutely possible.  Doing a thorough code review at that 
speed is less likely.

In the eighties I was the author of code and participated in reviews.  
The author, reader and scribe all looked over the code. The author 
explained, line by line what the reader was reading. The scribe watched 
and wrote down any questions or change requirements.  Wash, rinse, 
repeat until all three were satisfied.


On 10/27/2017 3:59 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> One WP teacher at the local college has been web designing since 1998 and she says there is still more to know. As an Open Source product, it evolves daily.
>
> Aside: If you check the WP Github site you will see that it has had over 1,200 commits in just two weeks via over 40 currently active contributors. WP is not unstable but it is advancing at an incredible speed.
>
> If WordPress mystifies you, you are in good company. :-)
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 11:17:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Wordpress, Blogs and sidebars
>
> I too am wandering down this path and am much mystified as to how it all
> works. Plogging along as best i can but it is not easy.
>
> A.
>
> On Oct 27, 2017 1:49 PM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>> Hi John:
>>
>> I think you have taken the right course to create a good web presence as
>> most of the world's most common CMS. It is so popular that all the other
>> similar programs, collectively have less users than WP.
>>
>> Which theme did you decide to buy?
>>
>> I have worked with WP for a time but am hardly an expert...Bryan may be a
>> good resource. I do have two excellent partners though, Mr and Mrs Google
>> and Github is your friend.
>>
>> It sounds like you have some very exciting projects planned. You must keep
>> us all posted.
>>
>> Aside: As WP is the most popular application of its type, its attack
>> vector is huge. There are some very good articles on security, use them and
>> as one fellow said, "Remember, always PYS". There are thousands of great
>> plugs but there are hundreds of badly designed inserts so "caution" is the
>> word of the day. (My wife has a WP website and it took six months to rid
>> ourselves of one persistent script-kiddie and it all came down to one bad
>> plugin.)
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John Colby" <jwcolby at gmail.com>
>> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <
>> accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
>> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2017 5:20:32 PM
>> Subject: [AccessD] Wordpress, Blogs and sidebars
>>
>> So guys, I am trying to bring my web site back.  I decided to use Word
>> Press.  Too late to argue, it's paid for.  Now I need help of course.
>>
>> I got it installed, and I am writing two blogs (more in the future).
>> When I say "two blogs", I mean blogs on two different subjects, one is
>> moving my blog from BlogSpot for Access classes. The other is moving the
>> tale of Sweet Allie Bluebeard, i.e. my sailing adventure when I bought
>> my boat.
>>
>> I am able to write blog entries however they just appear as a long list
>> of blog titles, which can be clicked on to read the specific blog entry
>> or  article.  What I want is a tree structure which allows me to have a
>> sidebar (or something) which holds a tree kinda thing and the branches
>> are hot links to the individual pages.  Seems like something every
>> blogger would wish for.
>>
>> Well maybe but I am not discovering how to just do it in WP.  So if
>> there are any WP gurus (NOT Word Perfect!;) that would like to hold my
>> hand through getting this set up, please contact me off line.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
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>> John W. Colby
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