My Thoughts On WordPress Weekly

My Thoughts On WordPress Weekly

By Jeffro on February 3, 2010 |

As I continue to produce the WordPress Weekly show every week, I’m beginning to notice that some of the greatest aspects of the show are not being put to good use. There are two main reasons why I continue to produce WordPress Weekly. The first is that I’m continuing to learn about the software by [...]

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WPWeekly Episode 87 – The LOST Episode

WPWeekly Episode 87 – The LOST Episode

By Jeffro on February 3, 2010 |

I was unaware that the U.S. with the exception of a few people were in front of their TV’s to watch the season premiere of LOST. Thankfully, I had Kim Parsell and Ryan Duff call in to make sure I wasn’t lonely on the show. We actually had a great conversation centered around the [...]

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WPWeekly Episode 86 – The WordPress Bible

WPWeekly Episode 86 – The WordPress Bible

By Jeffro on January 27, 2010 |

In this holy edition of WordPress Weekly, I interviewed special guest Aaron Brazell of Technosailor.com to talk about his experience in the world of consulting, his work involving WordPress, and last but not least, his book called The WordPress Bible by Wiley Publishing. The WordPress Bible is a book for theme designers, plugin developers, core [...]

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WPWeekly Episode 85 – Core Plugins, Core Access, And WordCamp Atlanta

WPWeekly Episode 85 – Core Plugins, Core Access, And WordCamp Atlanta

By Jeffro on January 20, 2010 |

This episode of WordPress Weekly was an open mic version of the show where I was joined by Kim Parsell, Scott K Clark and Conorp to discuss the round up of news stories for the past week. Nothing too exciting in the episode other than you get to hear my voice quite a bit.
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WPWeekly Episode 84 – Interview With Page.ly

WPWeekly Episode 84 – Interview With Page.ly

By Jeffro on January 13, 2010 |

This episode of WordPress Weekly featured two different guests. The first, Joshua Strebel who operates the Page.ly service. Page.ly is an interesting service because it takes the best of what WordPress.com has to offer and combines it with the freedom of using the WordPress software itself. While I would have thought that this is directly [...]

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Plugin Review: Technical Support

Plugin Review: Technical Support

By Jeffro on February 8, 2010 | Plugins | 1 comment |

It's become evident that a large portion of the WPTavern readership is made up of consultants. This next plugin should be right up their alley. It's called Technical Support and is authored by Konstantin Kovshenin. The plugin provides a dashboard widget that after configuration, gives clients an easy way to contact you for support. After ...

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Interview With Anika Of WPJewels

Interview With Anika Of WPJewels

By Jeffro on February 6, 2010 | News | 4 comments |

I had the opportunity to get in touch with Anika who is the marketing director for WPJewels.com which is on it's way to being relaunched. What inspired you to create a shop that sells WordPress Jewelry? The short answer is our love for WordPress, the long answer would be the fact that I really wanted a ...

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Adding Live Chat To Your Site Via Zopim

Adding Live Chat To Your Site Via Zopim

By Jeffro on February 6, 2010 | Blogging | 4 comments |

When Woopra was first launched to the public in 2008, one of the coolest features it had was the ability to chat to visitors that were browsing your site. To be honest, once the Woopra effect died off, I rarely if ever initiated conversations with my visitors. I always thought it would be cool if ...

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If Matt Could Start Over

If Matt Could Start Over

By Jeffro on February 5, 2010 | Quotes | 4 comments |

Having said that, Mullenweg believes that if he had to do it all again starting in 2010 he would do it differently. “The trajectory (of WordPress) would look very different because the software world is different now. The blog market is more saturated and social tools are a lot more important so, yeah, maybe it would ...

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Is Gravatar Slowing You Down?

Is Gravatar Slowing You Down?

By Jeffro on February 5, 2010 | News | 5 comments |

We already know that Gravatar is a third party service and that support for it is built into WordPress. But, is that dependence on Gravatar slowing your site down? SEOMofo takes a hard look at the performance hit that Gravatar can cause on a WordPress powered website with various configurations in place such as whether ...

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WordPress Roadmap

I hate traveling to the WordPress Roadmap page to figure out the tentative dates for releases. So, this spot will showcase the tentative dates shown on the roadmap so I don't have to visit the roadmap page anymore. Keep in mind, these dates are tentative.

WordPress 3.0 - *Tentative* First Quarter of 2010
WordPress 3.1 - *Tentative* Possibly Around June Or July

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