It’s been a long time since I published any episodes of WordPress Weekly and it’s not without good reason. I am still in the middle of transitioning from one dwelling to another and this is the primary reason why I haven’t been able to produce an episode. During the past few months, I’ve not been able to spend as much time behind the PC as I’d like which also explains why I’ve been publishing more short form content versus long form. I’d like to explain everything I’ve personally been through during 2011 and now going into 2012 but it would take up a novels worth of space. Lets just say that in 2011, we had to purchase a new roof for our home, new vinyl soffits, other home improvements and some of them were forced on us thanks to the appraiser who told us some items needed to be repaired or renewed before he would approve of the home in order for us to transfer the mortgage.
Putting all that personal stuff aside, I’ve been making strides and within the next 2-3 months, I expect to be moved into a new home as well as have my new office put together. Once this happens, I’ll be able to concentrate on producing the show on a weekly basis again. Regarding the show, I’ve decided not to produce it live on a weekly basis. Instead, the majority of episodes will be pre-recorded via Skype which is not only a benefit in terms of audio quality, but makes it much more convenient for both myself and the people I’ll be interviewing. There are plenty of people that I want to talk to throughout the course of the year and I look forward to being able to engage in spirited conversations with the people that are doing great things with WordPress.
In this episode, I give you the latest headlines of the week and end the show with a 40 minute conversation I had with Kevinjohn Gallagher who is a bbPress and WordPress end user to get his perspective on both platforms.
This weeks edition of the show features a one hour presentation with the founders of Drupal and WordPress together on one stage to talk about Open Source. This presentation took place on October 6th through the 7th, 2011 at an event called Schipulcon which is a web marketing conference. Unfortunately due to audio problems, I had to cut out the first 5 minutes of the presentation so your ears don’t fall off. Special thanks goes out to Katie and the Schipulcon group for providing me this audio file as well as the permission to play it through the WordPress Weekly stream. The next live show is scheduled for Friday, October 28th at 9PM Eastern.
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, I give you the news making headlines of the week. I also give you a rundown of what to look for in WordPress 3.3. Beta 1 and give you my experience thus far with some of the new features. The end of the show has a 3 minute audio sound byte from Schipulcon where the founders of Drupal and WordPress shared the stage to talk about Open Source.
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, I had a roundtable discussion with longtime WordPress community member Eric Mann on a number of topics mentioned in previous episodes. The end of the show featured an interview with Taryn and Martin who are organizers of WordUp Edinburgh to talk about not only the event but also about the WordCamp Guidelines and the interesting dynamic of hosting WordCamp events in the U.K. region.
This episode was pre-recorded due to some scheduling conflicts at work. They should be fixed by next Friday so I can do the live show again. This episode features a trio of interviews. The first is with Andrew Nacin, one of the core developers for WordPress who gives us an update as to what’s going on with WordPress 3.3. The second interview is with Site5 CEO and WebPub Founder Ben Welch-Bolen who talks to us about what WebPub is and how it will help make managing web applications much easier. Last but not least, Brad Williams gives us the low down on what WPClassroom is and how it works. He also gives us some information related to WordCamp Philadelphia scheduled to take place in early November.
In this pre-recorded edition of WordPress Weekly, I get you caught up with the news that made the headlines this week. While I didn’t have time to go in-depth on any particular topic, this episode features two interviews. One with Tom McFarlin talking about the lessons he’s learned through commercial plugin development and the other with Scott Kingsley Clark who discusses why he decided to use Kickstarter to fund the development of Pods 2.0. While you enjoy the show, I’ll be prepping the yard and such for the party tomorrow.
One year ago on September 17th, my would be father-in-law passed away from prostate cancer. Fellas, if you’re over 30 or 40, better keep an eye on that thing as it’s taking men out left and right.
In this jam packed episode of WordPress Weekly back from a long hiatus is an interview with Ryan Imel of WPCandy.com to talk about the launch of Pressed Ads, his new advertising network. We then discussed what’s happening with WordPress 3.3, various news and tidbits from throughout the community, and we ended the show with a 15 minute interview with DevPress developer, Ptah Dunbar.
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, we discussed a large number of topics considering it’s been awhile since the last episode. I give you the lowdown on Jetpack, a new plugin bundle released by Automattic. We also talked about the road map for WordPress 3.2. I give you a pet peeve of mine for an anti spam plugin and last but not least, I give you a plugin suggestion to take quick linking to previously written content to the next level. Thanks to everyone who showed up for today’s show.
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In this episode of WordPress Weekly, I shared a couple pieces of information such as the WordPress Weekly podcast has now been properly archived within the WPWeekly category here on WPTavern. I also explained what I’ve been up to regarding the Tavern forum as well as some miscellaneous stuff. After discussing some news stories during the week, I interviewed Lance Willett (@simpledream on Twitter) who is head of the theme wrangler team for Automattic to not only talk about themes in general, but the big news concerning commercial themes now available for WordPress.com users. There interview went off very well and I’m grateful Lance could spend part of his weekend with me.
P.S. Check out the newly designed ThemeShaper.com, the main site for the Automattic Theme Wranglers.
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In this episode, I give you the latest headlines of the week and end the show with a 40 minute conversation I had with