mfiszman

Podz,

You seem like a nice guy, you generally respond in a pleasant fashion to people’s questions in the forums, and, though I haven’t looked at much of “your” material, it seems you’ve put together some nice tutorials for the benefit of the community. Good on you for all of these things 🙂

Having said that, you are not the “be all and end all” of the WordPress scene. You are not the WordPress guru we all come running to when we have a problem. There are other ways a person could research a book on WordPress than run to your site and “steal” “your” material. You’re being very paranoid. There’s really no need 🙂

I’m really not trying to start any silly arguments here, but your actions and manner are rather immature. You have certain opinions, fine; I respect you for that. But at least try to express those opinions in a civilised, grown-up fashion. This frothiness of yours is really not conducive to healthy debate 🙂

I might also note that given your position as a WordPress developer, what you say, and how you say it, may well have a particular influence on people’s attitudes towards the WordPress product. Something to bear in mind, perhaps.

Looks great, Ronak.

I think a slim, one-column layout works really well for keeping the focus on the writing.

There are far too many sidebars out there… 🙂

Perhaps I’m misreading the situation… 🙂

But there seems to be some underlying resentment towards Larry because he’s looking (I assume) to profit financially from an open source project. I don’t see why else people wouldn’t be more supportive.

Personally, I think his book is a good idea. I wouldn’t purchase such a book myself, but I think it would be useful for some people. Enough people that it would be worth producing a printed book? Don’t know. But in principle, it sounds good.

It can certainly be helpful to have a nice printed resource which gathers the various bits you might need to make the most of a system.

As for one person doing it alone, Larry would be perfectly free to conduct appropriate research and include appropriate references.

If you’re using the default theme, you need to adjust wp-content/themes/default/page.php.

The way I did it was to change <div id="content" class="widecolumn"> to <div id="content" class="narrowcolumn"> and add <?php get_sidebar(); ?> right above <?php get_footer(); ?>.