Comments on: New WordPress.com Feature: Prologue

By: Raanan Bar-Cohen

Raanan Bar-Cohen — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:26:48 +0000

@levent — you may be interested in the updated Prologue theme we’ve called P2: http://p2demo.wordpress.com/ and http://ma.tt/2009/05/how-p2-changed-automattic/

By: levent

levent — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:36:29 +0000

coolll…you can see my prologue modification on cocktailshows.com .. I m working for media upload from post-form…

By: Friendly Intelligence - February 3, 2008

Friendly Intelligence - February 3, 2008 — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:32:18 +0000

[...] New WordPress.com Feature: Prologue – When I saw this post on Raanan’s blog, I thought to myself, cool a twitter for a closed environment. Do a search on Google for Prologue. Geez, it seemed to push some strange buttons… [...]

By: Jamie Thingelstad

Jamie Thingelstad — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:20:28 +0000

I actually deployed Prologue 1.2 for something that will likely get no use but I like the idea. See

http://www.mapleridgecourt.com/

This is a website for my neighborhood and the idea that neighbors can use this to keep in touch in a loose “tweet” like manor is nifty.

By: bentrem

bentrem — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 02:06:18 +0000

@raanan I must be in the right groove; just re-read AKing’s “AllThingsDigital” post and heh found myself right back here. *grin*
But “being debated all over the place” … yaa, I get that feeling, but I’m not in the loop. (technorati loaded in another tab; I’m about to go geek hunting)

Peek http://bentrem.sycks.net/blog/ … I just installed the ExtJS theme (and also the ExtJS Admin menus … gawd, goodness is sweet sometimes!) and blue-sky pondering that page gave me a thought, in keeping with my “cognitive ergonomics” hobby horse, and supporting my feeling that “most recent from each” should have been preserved.
Imagine this: only a single blurt from each contributer … but mouse-over a geeky-sweet icon in each and a popup opens displaying the last, say, 7 blurts (limited lengtch? truncated? plugs?) along with a >More< link).

*shrug*
Anyhow, if I can recover an intermediate build I’ll run with that.

And TU for pointer to (yet another!) the mail-list.

cheers
bdt

p.s. no email notification … *humph*. Years on LJ (email notification and threaded comments both) have spoiled me.

By: Raanan Bar-Cohen

Raanan Bar-Cohen — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:31:26 +0000

@bentrem –

all interesting ideas and ones that are being debated all over the place

Since we release everything as open source you can definitely tweak it — and I’m sure many other people will be coming out soon with various implementations.

also, if you aren’t already signed up, I’d recommend joining the wp-hackers mailing list for these types of topics: http://codex.wordpress.org/Mailing_Lists

cheers.

By: bentrem

bentrem — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:46:56 +0000

@raanan Pretty fine how fast the page / category snafu got fixed, but I have to say y’all moved too fast to show stream.

In the comment I put on Chris Brogan’s “Prologue is More Than …”; my thinking was this: fine stuff to fix the functionality, but there was some value in the previous logic … and IMNSHO that got blown away in haste. (Some folk didn’t get it? Yaa, ok … and lotsa folk “don’t get” Twitter … )
I think it’s too bad that the “most recent from each” got blown away.
The suggestion I’d made was that “stream” be accessible, perhaps as a separate page, but that homepage remain as it had been originally. (I don’t know what the discussion had been, but I support it, as a plausible alternative logic.)

I have the previous version, the one that has that logic, but it also has all the frabbed stuff. And the updates w/fixes blows away that logic.

I’d make this request: for those of us who don’t grok WP tables and SQL logic (My page on Codex shows I’m working on it!), to release a branch that a) has the fixes to Page and Category, but b) retains that distinctive “most recent from each” feature.
Heck, I’ll take the task of hacking that to create a stream page as an entry point!

cheers
–bentrem

p.s. sure wish there was Preview here.

By: raanan

raanan — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:02:48 +0000

@bentrem –

the theme has been updated to show a stream, not just the latest post per user.

Joseph posted details here: http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/archives/2008/01/29/prologue-update/

By: bentrem

bentrem — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:15:34 +0000

Ok … I’m gonna call that one a mulligan.
Writing that cleared the log-jam: the sidebar is there, and it can be configured to carry Pages, so that’s good.
And *D’uhh!* since the theme is intended to show only the most recent post from each contributor, it’s behavior is quite correct.
Why couldn’t I figure this out last night? Let’s say I had a long day.

cheers

By: bentrem

bentrem — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:08:55 +0000

Speaking of mods: I banged my head on 3 things right off: no sidebar? doesn’t display pages? and, most importantly, when I post a new item the previous one/s disappear, even though it’s configured to display 10.
I’m hoping to find out who’s working on this (I imagine Matt’s pretty busy) to pitch in. Joseph Scott?

http://42words.wordpress.com