WPWeekly Episode 90 – Interview With Michael Koenig

WPWeekly Episode 90 – Interview With Michael Koenig

By Jeffro on March 7, 2010 |

In the first Saturday edition of WordPress Weekly, I interviewed Michael Koenig who is VP Of Marketing for IntenseDebate as well as an evangelist. During this episode, Michael gave us the low down on what IntenseDebate was all about, how the service works, how it can be extended by end users, and how it is [...]

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WPWeekly Episode 89 – Interview With Brad Williams

WPWeekly Episode 89 – Interview With Brad Williams

By Jeffro on February 24, 2010 |

This was like having two episodes in one. During the first 20 minutes of the show, Hal Stern and Brad Williams gave me the 411 on their upcoming WordPress book, Professional WordPress. This book was written to take people directly into the core code of WordPress to figure out how it works and to explain [...]

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WPWeekly Episode 88 – Woo For Menu Management

WPWeekly Episode 88 – Woo For Menu Management

By Jeffro on February 17, 2010 |

What a pleasant surprise this show turned out to be. I started the show solo but about 10 minutes into the recording, a familiar voice called into the show. You might know him as Matt Mullenweg. Kim Parsell also joined me to talk about WordPress. We discussed a number of stories that occurred during the [...]

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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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WordPress Dev Chat For 3-11-10

WordPress Dev Chat For 3-11-10

By Jeffro on March 11, 2010 | WordPress-org | 0 comments |

Status check up first The UI group is tackling a few design things while Jane is performing some testing at South By South West. After the testing is completed, all lingering UI will be done for WordPress 3.0. Ryan Boren stated that themes needed to be finished in the GUI, land the big menu patch and ...

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Toni Schneider To Speak At Freemium Summit

Toni Schneider To Speak At Freemium Summit

By Jeffro on March 11, 2010 | News | 0 comments |

Automattic CEO Toni Schneider will be presenting at the Freemium Summit taking place in San Francisco at the Mission Bay Conference Center on March 26th 2010. The price for admission is $449.00 which is a reality check to anyone who is used to attending a WordCamp. However, there will be a number of speakers from ...

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Spell Check Is My Ultimate Crutch

Spell Check Is My Ultimate Crutch

By Jeffro on March 11, 2010 | Blogging | 3 comments |

Raphael Mudge has published an interesting post that talks about re-thinking the relationship with the spell checker. His post made me reflect on just how dependent I've become on services such as After The Deadline or the built-in spell checker inside of FireFox. There used to be a time when I could easily spell big ...

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IntenseDebate Introduces Moderator Role

IntenseDebate Introduces Moderator Role

By Jeffro on March 11, 2010 | News | 2 comments |

IntenseDebate has announced two new features, a moderator role and comment voting. IntenseDebate has always allowed users to assign multiple admins to help in administering the comments but these admins had full permissions to change various settings such as the blog account. Therefor, this required a fair bit of trust in the users you chose ...

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WPTavern Was Trackbacked To Death

WPTavern Was Trackbacked To Death

By Jeffro on March 10, 2010 | News | 16 comments |

Now that things have calmed down, it's time to discuss what happened that took WPTavern.com offline. It all started the day I published my review of the Backup Buddy plugin from PluginBuddy.com. That post not only received a large number of comments, but it ended up on StumbleUpon and was overall a large success. However, ...

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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 dates shown on the roadmap so I don't have to visit the page anymore. Keep in mind, these dates are tentative.

WordPress 3.0 - *Tentative* Early May
WordPress 3.1 - *Tentative* Sometime In 2010