To celebrate the launch of a new WordPress course that will be offered by Grumo Media, Miguel has produced a song specifically for the course with his guitar. Not a bad tune.
The WordPress Song by Grumo from Grumo Media on Vimeo.
Video: Developing/Submitting Themes To The Repository
The following is a presentation by Chip Bennett at WordCamp Kansas City 2011. In this video, Chip Bennett explains the entire process of what it takes to get a theme hosted on the WordPress.org Theme Repository. Pretty awesome to see Chip go from being a vocal member on WPTavern within the past year or so to really getting involved with the WordPress community overall. Not only has he stepped up and has volunteered his time for the WordPress Theme Review Team but now he has a couple of WordCamp visits/Presentations under his belt. The only thing missing from Chip now is some sort of book!
Here are the slides that go with this presentation via Slideshare.
Andrew Nacin Previews WordPress 3.3 At WordPressNYC Meetup
Andrew Nacin who is one of the core developers of WordPress gave a presentation at the most recent meetup in New York City covering WordPress 3.3. The video is 35 minutes in length with Andrew going in-depth on many of the features that 3.3 will have such as the admin bar, drag and drop media uploading, post names for permalinks and more. The video is best viewed at full screen. Thanks to Steve Bruner for the hat tip.
Video Featuring Matt Of WordPress With Dries Of Drupal
Here is the recorded video featuring the presentation of Matt Mullenweg of WordPress with Dries Buytaert of Drupal discussing open source. Kudos goes out to the Schipulcon group for getting these two together for an awesome presentation. The audio is terrible until you hit the 4 minute mark. If you want to see a transcript for some of the questions you can read them on the Schipul Blog. Definitely watch from 32 minutes onward as that is when the audience starts asking some pretty good questions.
Sara Cannon On Responsive Web Design From WordCamp Boston
Within the past few weeks, I’ve noticed the term ‘Responsive‘ showing up everywhere, especially as it relates to WordPress 3.3 and the administrative area. Having no idea what this term meant, I got in touch with Sara Cannon to figure it out. Unfortunately (or fortunately), she is pretty busy helping with making the back-end of WordPress 3.3 responsive. So the next best thing is her presentation from WordCamp Boston on optimizing a WordPress site for multiple devices. To make a long story short, having a responsive designed WordPress site means it will look good across multiple screen dimensions without the need for plugins or weird tricks. The webpage responds to look correct within the confines of the devices screen. It’s not about designing one site that is pixel perfect on a 30 inch monitor. It’s about designing a website that can be fluid enough to look great on an iPad, 30 inch screen, or an iPhone. After watching the presentation, I can see why this is a cool technique. Perhaps with WordPress 3.3, we’ll be able to login with our iPhones and be able to easily navigate and administrate our websites much easier through the phone rather than through a specific app. I recommend viewing the video in full screen mode as it’s difficult to see the slides.
WordPress Mentioned On TheGuild
Not really WordPress news but it’s cool to hear a WordPress reference in the show, TheGuild. Fast forward to 9:03 to hear the WordPress remark. As an aside, I watched the entire episode and didn’t understand the show one bit. This was the first time I’ve watched TheGuild and since I’ve never played MMORPG games, I guess I don’t get any of the inside jokes.
John Battelles Interview With Matt Mullenweg
John Battelles interview with Matt Mullenweg in Austin Texas. The discussion around the topic of Blogging being dead was pretty good. Also interesting is Matts thoughts on scaling advertising. What are your comments on the interview?
Matt Mullenweg Interviewed By KTEH
Matt Mullenweg was recently interviewed by KTEH who produces the program, “This Is Us“. The interview goes over a bunch of information such as Automattic, Matt’s enjoyment of WordCamps, the GPL licensing, and more. This is a great 5 minute spotlight for anyone that is not familiar with Matt. One of the best things he said during this interview was that:
It’s never good to see something you put your heart and soul into, being used for morally odious purposes. But, ultimately, the freedom to use the software for any purpose is far more important than the fact that I might disagree with some folks who use it.
He even talks a little bit about the legal action threat against Chris Pearson earlier this year.
Interview With Two WordCamp Detroit Attendees
During the conference, I randomly pulled two people aside attending the event to get their take on how things were progressing. I wanted to know if they had learned anything new and what they thought of the event overall. The attendees are Rick McGrath and Ana Kelly both whom work for Resonate Web Marketing. During the interview, we get to hear about their experience using WordPress as well as their favorite features of the software.