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WPWeekly Episode 61 – Could WordPress.com Ever Rebrand?

By Jeffro on June 28, 2009 | 88 views

In this weeks edition of WordPress Weekly, David Peralty is back in full form as we discussed a wide variety of topics ranging from the idea of WordPress.com rebranding, WordPress needing more testers and the first virtual WordCamp. We also give you the skinny on WordPress 2.8.1 Beta 2.
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WPWeekly Episode 60 – Interview With Charles Stricklin

By Jeffro on June 24, 2009 | 44 views

In this special episode of WordPress Weekly, I sit down with Charles Stricklin the host of The WordPress Podcast and talked about his foray into WordPress, the difficulties involved with producing the show, podcasting in general, and near the end of the show Charles gives away a free gift which you’ll have to listen for. [...]

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WPWeekly Episode 59 – Roundtable Featuring Peter Westwood

By Jeffro on June 20, 2009 | 91 views

Unfortunately, the interview I had scheduled with Sam Bauers didn’t take place because he couldn’t make it. However, it was awesome to finally have Peter Westwood, one of the core developers join us from the UK to participate in our roundtable discussion of stories. I’ll reschedule Sam for another episode as I know many of [...]

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WPWeekly Episode 58 – WordPress Deep Dish Style

By Jeffro on June 14, 2009 | 96 views

In this episode of WordPress Weekly, David and I are joined by Jacob Santos, Brad Williams, Lisa Sabin Wilson and Kim Parsell to talk about WordCamp Chicago. Afterwords, David and I dived into the news of the week including the release of WordPress 2.8, iThemes going GPL, and the merger between the self-hosted WordPress software [...]

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WPWeekly Episode 57 – Live From Chicago

By Jeffro on June 9, 2009 | 119 views

This special episode of WordPress Weekly features four special guest interviews live from the WordCamp Chicago event. One of the interviews is with Matt Mullenweg. I apologize for the background noise in most of the interviews but I’ll be conducting better quality interviews in the future, especially once I get some decent equipment.
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WPWeekly Episode 56 – Back On Track

By Jeffro on May 31, 2009 | 82 views

In this episode of WordPress Weekly, special guests Brian Gardner and Lisa Sabin Wilson give us the lowdown on WordCamp Chicago taking place this weekend. Afterwords, David and I discussed the news of the week getting everyone back on track.
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WPWeekly Episode 55 – WordCamp Toronto/Columbus Recap

By Jeffro on May 24, 2009 | 62 views

In episode 55, we had a roundtable discussion of sorts centered around the various WordCamps we attended over the past two weekends. David Peralty and Jeremy Clarke discussed WordCamp Toronto, I talked about WordCamp Columbus and Brad Williams talked about his experience at WordCamp Mid-Atlantic. We discussed the good, the bad, and the ugly regarding [...]

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Trifecta Of WordCamps

By Jeffro on May 20, 2009 | 46 views

Fresh off our one week break, this week we’ll be going crazy with our thoughts and opinions of WordCamps we attended. I attended WordCamp Columbus, David attended WordCamp Toronto, and Brad Williams who will be calling in will be talking about his experience at WordCamp Mid-Atlantic. If you are a WordCamp organizer or are thinking [...]

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WPWeekly Episode 54 – Warmup For WordCamp Toronto

By Jeffro on May 9, 2009 | 74 views

In this episode, David and I discussed WordCamp Toronto which started yesterday and will last until Sunday May 10th. So far, it looks like not all things are going according to plan at the event as the venue has awkward placement of outlets, no dedicated video or audio equipment and expensive food. Hopefully, David has [...]

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WPWeekly Episode 53 – Interview With Daniel Scocco

By Jeffro on May 2, 2009 | 412 views

On episode 53 of WordPress Weekly, David and I had a chance to talk with Daniel Scocco who is the man behind the popular (and I do mean popular) site DailyBlogTips.com Daniel has used WordPress for DBT since 2005 and he also publishes reviews about a ton of WordPress plugins and themes so it [...]

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Listener Poll: Should there be a page on the plugin repository for Commercial GPL plugins?

By Jeffro on July 3, 2009 | Polls | 3 comments | 53 views

Recently, it was announced that there is now a commercial GPL themes page that was added to the WordPress theme repository. Now, there is discussion that there should be a page on the plugin repository for commercial GPL plugins. While Matt has said that there is no need for this because the repository already has ...

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Ad Block Plus Not Needed Here

By Jeffro on July 3, 2009 | Blogging | 5 comments | 57 views

This blog post has been on the tip of my tongue ever since I introduced display advertising. Here on the Tavern, I use a plugin called OIO Publisher to handle my advertising needs and it's been the best $48.00 I've ever spent. In the sidebar as well as the blog header, I use a block ...

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The Simplecart Thematic Challenge

By Jeffro on July 3, 2009 | News | 0 comments | 30 views

Feel like whipping up a Thematic child theme that could earn you $240.00? If so, you should check out the Instinct blog to read up on the details regarding the Thematic Child theme challenge. The first person to submit a Thematic child theme which functions comparably and looks like the simpleCart demo site will win ...

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Andrew Rickmann Selling WP-Fun

By Jeffro on July 3, 2009 | From The Forum | 0 comments | 38 views

I'm bummed to see that Andrew Rickmann who runs the Fun With WordPress blog about WordPress is selling the site. Andrew Rickmann always approached topics involving WordPress with an interesting angle. I say interesting because anytime I visited the site, I ended up thinking about writing a response blog post with a link back to ...

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My Thoughts On The Virtual WordCamp

By Jeffro on July 3, 2009 | WordCamps-Meetups | 5 comments | 50 views

When I initially published information regarding the virtual WordCamp, I was a bit miffed at the price tag as well as a few other things. However, after putting together some information that I discovered through an anonymous source and from what has been added to the Virtual WordCamp website, I've come to the conclusion that ...

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GPL Commercial Theme Page Now On The Repository

By Jeffro on July 1, 2009 | Themes | 3 comments | 95 views

Commercial theme authors who switched their business model to be completely inline with the GPL just like the WordPress software are cheering today as some of them have made the first part of a list that is now on the WordPress.org theme repository page under the heading of Commercial. The links do not contain affiliate ...

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WordPress Dev Chat For 7-1-09

By Jeffro on July 1, 2009 | WordPress-org | 6 comments | 68 views

So the WordPress development meeting took place today and boy was the atmosphere conducive to discussion. Lots of things discussed while new ideas were generated. Unfortunately, you get a bunch of developers into a chat room and when you announce an idea or feature, the talk immediately turns into implementation which results in an unruly ...

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Bad Comment Karma

By Jeffro on July 1, 2009 | WordPress-org | 6 comments | 73 views

Before making the domain move the other day, I made a mistake by deleting something I shouldn't have from the database. It was the comment_karma field located within the wp_comments table. A long time ago, I remember installing a plugin called Comment Karma which enabled visitors to rate a comment up or down thus promoting ...

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Spam Link Injection Sucks

By Jeffro on July 1, 2009 | WordPress-org | 4 comments | 57 views

Over the past few days, I've been helping out someone with their blog as it's become compromised by some nasty injection code. This code is in his php files, in his content, and his database. I have no idea how it happened except that his plugin and theme folders had a permission level of 777. ...

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