1. We are going to be extracting images from tweets and instagram posts with the #wp10 hashtag during the event, and displaying them “live” on the site. I have two rough but functional plugins in my GitHub account, so feel free to look those over or provide better alternatives. The key here is that photos are is extracted and placed into WordPress’s media library, which i think is a good way to archive things.
2. Design isn’t yet established – Jen is reaching out to the potential designer as we speak – but generally speaking think of a pInterest or similar display that auto-updates on a page.

I’m new relatively speaking to how things work with the servers and accounts, etc. So two potential questions I would like someone to educate me about as soon as possible:

1. How does one get file-level (SFTP, etc.) access to the wp10 site?
2. Most likely scripts will require traditional cron (not WP cron) to ping the social media channels every few minutes. Confirmation and thoughts on this would be appreciated.

Thanks. Can’t wait to get this together in a quick and orderly fashion (crossing fingers).

So I wrote a first draft of a shortcode to make this a bit easier. It’s not perfect, but I figured to go ahead and tell people now, so that you all could go ahead and start banging on it and telling me what the problems are.

Usage: [time] some-time-format-here [/time]

By “some-time-format-here”, I’m being a bit generous. You can use pretty much any time format you can think of and it will attempt to figure it out. With extra emphasis on “attempt”.

Stuff like this all works:

• March 30, 2013 1pm UTC
• April 4th at 1pm
• April 4th around 1pm
• April 4th 2012 1pm
• next monday 1pm CDT
• 1pm UTC

Now, a few important points:

• If you don’t specify a timezone, you’ll probably get UTC. This is just for now, until I work out a better way.
• If it can’t figure it out, you’ll notice no change in your text. Hopefully.
• If it gets really confused, it’ll probably say January 1st, 1970.
• “Absolute” times are more likely to work than “relative” ones. Give a date, and year, and time, and timezone, and you’ll probably be good.
• Timezones matter in terms of daylight savings. GMT is not the same as BST (British Summer Time).

So, what’s the point? Well, if it can figure out what time you meant, then it’ll encode that and a bit of Javascript will then localize that time to the viewer of the make P2 in question on load, assuming their browser knows what timezone they’re in.

So when I post “April 3rd, 2013 6:30pm CDT” (my current time) in the time shortcode, it’ll show this instead: April 3rd, 2013 6:30pm CDT. What you see there depends on where you live.

Hopefully this will make it somewhat easier to schedule IRC meetups and such. Let me know when (not if) you break it. Happy to iterate.

Otto: The make network is set up so that adding a user can’t be done without the confirmation email. Can we reverse that, or at least turn on the option? A lot of times the emails seem to not get there.

They added a menu like this to Mike Admas’s team’s p2 at Automattic:

Tacked on top of content area like that and just using the standard colors/fonts already in this theme would be great.

p.s. autocomplete for author mentions doesn’t seem to be working?