Today, I’ve done something that I haven’t done in a long time and that is schedule an episode of WordPress Weekly. This Saturday, I’ll be interviewing Lance Willett who is head of the theme wrangler team for Automattic. We’ll be discussing all sorts of stuff related to themes including the big news of last week concerning commercial themes and WordPress.com. Be sure to join us live on Saturday, February 12th at 3PM EST, to participate in the festivities. There is also a rumor that Ian Stewart will be in the chat room during the show.
While the show used to be at 2PM EST, due to a shift change at work, I’ve increased the starting time by one hour. If you have any questions you’d like me to ask Lance, feel free to post them in the comments.
For the first time since the shows creation, all shownotes for every episode can be found on one domain, WPTavern.com. One of the problems with WordPress Weekly is that I produced the show across three different domains. Jeffro2pt0.com, WeblogToolsCollection.com and WPTavern.com. On the Podcast page I linked to all of the shownotes posts on the various domains to make them easier to find but ultimately, they should all be housed under one roof which has now been accomplished. I’ve even retained the date the post was published to maintain the order. So if you browse to the very back of of the WordPress Weekly Category, you’ll see Episode 1 up to the current episode all with the same post structure including the button to listen to that show on the page itself.
So that’s one longstanding pain in the ass taken care of. As for the show itself, I’ve finished the custom intro for it and am currently working on the outro. Once I complete the outro and make a few other purchases, I’ll be ready to start the show again. In my absence, I’ve been coming up with different ideas to implement on the show. I hope to once again be able to produce a podcast about WordPress which actually talks about the news of the week and keeps you updated on what’s going on. Something that no one else seems able to provide. While I am my own worst critic, I think the show has always done a good job of keeping people on their toes with regards to what’s happening in the world of WordPress.
P.S., here is episode 1 of the monstrosity known as WordPress Weekly.
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, I discussed some of the possible changes I have planned for WPTavern.com. I covered some history around why I started the site and why now, things have to change somewhat. Short and sweet episode this week.
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This is just a friendly reminder that episode 108 of WordPress Weekly will be recorded this Saturday at 2PM EST. I’ll be talking about the news stories that caught my eye during the week, the release of 3.0.2, and last but not least, some changes to WPTavern.com. The changes are not major but I figured I’d tell everyone what’s going on so we’re on the same page. I’ll tell the story of why I started WPTavern, what I wanted to accomplish and why I have to do what I’m doing now. By the way, I’m not selling the site or the show. I can’t bring myself to do that.
In this episode, I was joined by Grant Griffiths, one of the team members behind HeadwayThemes.com. During the show, we discussed a number of different topics such as how he got involved with WordPress, the awesome visual editor within Headway, how business has been treating him and much more. We also covered a few of the news stories that made the headlines this week including a plugin that specifically deals with headlines. Hope all who celebrated Thanksgiving had a filling meal. I’m still eating ham and turkey!
On this weeks edition of WordPress Weekly, Grant Griffiths will be joining me live for the duration of the show to talk about the release of Headway 2.0. We’ll also discuss his commercial theme business, themes in general, and perhaps a few business oriented things to top it off. During the show, I’ll be giving away at least 1 copy of Headway 2.0 to a lucky listener or caller.
If you have any questions you’d like me to ask Grant during the show, feel free to post them in the comments below. Other than that, make sure to visit the WordPress Weekly podcast page at 2PM EST this Saturday to participate in the show live as it’s being recorded.
In the first half of the episode, Gil Rutkowski otherwise known as FlashingCursor on twitter joined me to discuss post formats, a new feature slated for WordPress 3.1. We went over what a post format is, data portability, why the core dev team decided on a standard set of formats, and much more.
During the second half of the show, I played a pre-recorded interview with Chip Bennett which went over a ton of information related to the Theme Review Team. In the interview, we discuss how the team was formed, the guidelines of reviewing a theme, and last but not least, the goal of the theme review team. After the interview concluded, I was joined live by Edward Caissie who is a member of the theme review team to answer some additional questions I had, specifically dealing with the new post formats featuring which will be theme dependent.
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In this long awaited live edition of WordPress Weekly, I gave everyone a detailed description as to my whereabouts within the past few months. I then went through some news stories that caught my eye during the week. The show ended with a 20 minute interview with Brad Williams discussing his work with WebDevStudios.com, Pluginize, WPClassroom.com and a few other projects he’s working on. I hope I can get back to doing these shows on a regular basis.
On the next episode of WordPress Weekly, I’ll be playing an interview with Chip Bennett discussing various facets of the WordPress Theme Review Team as well as the review guidelines.
This is just a heads up that I’ll be recording a live show of WordPress Weekly on Saturday, November 6th which is tomorrow. I’ll try to cover the news of the week if I can figure out what it is. I’ll also be updating everyone as to what I’ve been up to the past few months. Last but not least, we’ll catch up with Brad Williams of WebDevStudios.com to see what he’s been up to lately.
As the first official “WordPress Crash Test Dummy,” Lorelle has long worshiped the ground WordPress Plugin authors walk over. Join her as she explores the world of WordPress Plugins that are pushing the barriers that many feel limit WordPress, changing site navigation, connecting with the social web, expanding WordPress Theme capabilities, unique solutions to tasks you might not have considered for your website, and even some Plugins which help Plugins do even more.
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, I discussed some of the possible changes I have planned for WPTavern.com. I covered some history around why I started the site and why now, things have to change somewhat. Short and sweet episode this week. 
