In this short and sweet episode of WordPress weekly, we discuss how WordPress can control missiles, the release of RC3, and WordPress 2.9 surpassing the 10 million download mark. Although not related to WordPress, I provide an update as to what has been going on in my personal life. Sometimes, I feel that it’s best if we are all on the same page. Last but not least is the introduction of a new monthly segment on the show called Where’s Matt? Once a month, I’ll be getting in touch with Matt to ask him where he’s at, what he’s been up to and a few questions regarding recent news throughout the community.
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In this somewhat historic episode of WordPress Weekly, we had Jake Goldman, Brad Williams and Gil Rutkowski call in from WordCamp Chicago to provide us an update. Based on what was heard by a few attendees, June 14th looks like the earliest date for the release of WordPress 3.0 if everything goes well. Being the 100th episode and all, I gave away some prizes during the show but I have quite a few left over for those that listen to it after the fact.
In order to be put in the running to obtain one of these prizes, you must leave a comment explaining why you enjoy listening to the show or share one of your favorite moments from a previous episode.
The prizes I have left to give away are:
Two licenses for the GD Press Tools Pro Standard membership and 2 xScape single standard theme licenses.
5 Ajax Edit Comments VIP accounts along with 5 free copies of the WordPress And Ajax e-Book.
Two copies of Slearys upcoming book, Beginning WordPress 3 that is scheduled for release on June 15th.
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Well, it only took (insert time period here) but the show itself will have produced 100 WPWeekly branded episodes after tomorrow. To celebrate the occasion, there will be plenty of prizes to give away. In no particular order, here are the prizes donated graciously by their respected owners.
Brad Williams has donated one physical copy of his book, Professional WordPress and one copy of the e-book version.
Sleary has donated two copies of his upcoming book, Beginning WordPress 3 that is scheduled for release on June 15th.
To round things out, I’ll be giving away a free lifetime VIP membership to the forum.
How these prizes will be given away is yet to be determined. Prizes will be given away to those who are in the chat room, have called in, and for those who leave comments in the shownotes post for this episode.
New Chat Room:
Since the Talkshoe pro and web clients suck when it comes to having a reliable chat system, I’ve finally decided to implement a chat system myself. Inspired by WPChat.com, I’ve embedded a web client that ties into an IRC channel on Freenode. This will be the new way to interact with the show. I’ve also installed a dynamic talkshoe widget which allows streaming audio so that everyone can participate in the show from the WordPress weekly page instead of going through Talkshoe.
Since the chatroom is hosted on Freenode, those of you who have your own IRC clients installed can point them to the Freenode server and then join the #wptavern channel. Freenode is the same IRC server that the WordPress development channel and regular channel is hosted on. Freenode also supports username registration which is recommended to prevent spoofing. Directions on how to register can be found here.
I know WordCamp Chicago is taking place this weekend which has sold out to 500 attendees but I hope those that can make it will join me for the 100th episode.
Patrick O’ Keefe who is known as iFroggy on Twitter and the author of the book Managing Online Forums presented at WordCamp Raleigh this past weekend. In his presentation, Patrick talks about how to extend your community beyond the blog as well as bringing community from various outposts spread across the web back to your blog. It was a great presentation filled with pointers for those looking to start or build upon their existing community. With Patrick’s permission, I was able to record the presentation and use it as a special episode of WordPress Weekly. Thanks again Patrick.
I think this is the first episode of WordPress Weekly ever that I flew solo the entire episode. That’s why it was so short today. I’m not use to flying solo so bare with the mumbling I did that makes up most of the episode. I talked about some of the tibits I picked up from Matts keynote at WordCamp San Francisco, my efforts to monetize, my review of the limit logins plugin and a couple of other things. Hoping that after vacation and such, I can implement a few changes I have planned for the show. Long needed changes by the way.
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I’m extending a personal invitation to those of you who were able to attend WordCamp San Francisco last weekend to call into the show to talk about your experience. I’m interested in hearing your thoughts on how the event was handled, the positives, negatives, and what you took away from the event. The show will be Saturday, May 8th at 2PM Eastern time. Information to call into the show can be located here.
In this golden gate edition of WordPress Weekly, I was joined by Kim Parsell as well as Leland of ThemeLab.com to talk about the stories of the week. This episode was recorded at the same time WordCamp San Francisco was going on and I want to send out a special thanks to James Hicks of TheTechScoop.net for calling into the show from WordCamp San Francisco. James gave a detailed account as to what he was experiencing. His timing couldn’t have been better as James was on the line, Matt Mullenweg walked by and James was able to get Matt to hop on the phone to say hi. Hopefully, next weeks episode will feature a couple of guests who attended WordCamp San Francisco to provide us with a recap as to what took place their.
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Kurtis sent in the following question: What if you have so much content between Posts and Pages that you start to notice the site slowing down. Is there any way to resolve that or will I have to leave WordPress and find another alternative? Hosted through GoDaddy.
I responded that he should start using a caching plugin such as WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache. I also suggested hooking up W3 Total Cache to a CDN. Kim weighed in and mentioned that he should start with his plugins. Review all of them, remove the ones he doesn’t need.
If anyone else has suggestions for Kurtis, place them in the comments.
*To Kurtis* I have tried to respond to your email but I receive an email server error.
In this series wrap up, Jake and I talk about some of the sticking points from the previous three episodes. We discuss what we’ve learned and what we thought was useful information for those looking to start a business in anyone of the three areas that we covered. Among some of the topics of discussion were the low barriers to entry for theme and plugin authors, the costs of running a Software As A Service model, the majority of panelists not taking to the Freemimum model too well, and other tidbits of information. I hope you all enjoyed this series and if you could, please tell me anything you learned from this series in the comments.
Smashing Book Contest:
Week Three Winner - Carlos Frevert
Congratulations to all the winners.
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This episode of WordPress Weekly featured two individuals who are in the midst of running a successful service around WordPress while the other individual didn’t quite make it that far. The round-table consisted of Joshua Strebel of Page.ly, Daniel Bachhuber formerly of CoPress, and Raanan Bar-Cohen of Automattic. During this episode, we talked about the difficulties involved with running a service around WordPress. I was especially interested in the topic of Automattic running a commercial service along side free, open-source software. Daniel was able to offer a unique perspective as CoPress didn’t end up being successful in the long run and he tells us why. Joshua gave us some insight into the business strategies he thought of before launching the service. One thing Joshua mentions during the show is that if you’re going to run a service around WordPress, make sure you’re profitable from the first customer. Another theme that developed during this episode is the lack of trust in the Freemium model. If you are thinking about starting a commercial service around WordPress, this is the episode for you.
Smashing Book Contest:
Week Two Winner - jb510
Want to win a copy of the Smashing Book and a chance to participate in our wrap up episode on April 24th? Help us publicize the special WordPress Weekly series on commercialization! Just follow @WPTavern and guest co-host @jakemgold on Twitter, and Tweet a message mentioning us both with a link to the most recent episode. We’ll randomly pick one of our favorite tweets right before the next show.
We’ll be giving a book away for each of the episodes (excluding wrap up). You can participate each week. Each contest starts at 2pm on Saturday with the show’s recording, and ends the following Friday evening. You may participate if you’re outside of the contiguous United States, but will be asked to cover shipping expenses.
If we get over 500 participants in the contest, before the wrap up show, we’ll also give away one copy of Smashing WordPress to one participant after the last episode!
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This episode is also sponsored by EnvironmentsForHumans.com This is an organization that brings together expert speakers on a given topic exploring that topic from different angles. While they recently had a WordPRess Workshop, the next event will be a UX Web Summit on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (CT). This event will teach people how to improve their websites so that they are more responsive to visitors as well as making this more usable. If you’re interested in this summit, visit UXWebSummit.com
The last part of the series will be held on Saturday, April 24th where we encourage everyone to send in their feedback or be part of the live show to discuss what you learned throughout this series.
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Jake and I chatted with three commercial plugin authors. Two of which are in the middle of maintaining a successful business while the third was just getting started. The panel members consisted of Carl Hancock of Rocketgenius, Jonathan Davis of the Shopp e Commerce plugin and Ronald Huereca of Ajax Edit Comments. We went from the ground up in terms of questions regarding each persons business. Jake and I had large shoes to fill based on the feedback of the commercial themes round-table episode but I think we pulled it off. Thanks to everyone who showed up in the chat room during the show.
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During this episode, we talked briefly about the topic of selling GPL licensed software. To put the issue to rest on whether folks are allowed to sell GPL software or not, please view this link which was passed along during the show. Selling Free Software
Smashing Book Giveaway Contest:
Congratulations to JeremyOLED for winning a copy of the Smashing Book courtesy of Jacob Goldman. If you want to put yourself in the running to win week two, here is what you need to do.
Help us publicize the special WordPress Weekly series on commercialization! Just follow @WPTavern and guest co-host @jakemgold on Twitter, and Tweet a message mentioning us both with a link to the most recent episode. We’ll randomly pick one of our favorite tweets right before the next show.
We’ll be giving a book away for each of the episodes (excluding wrap up). You can participate each week. Each contest starts at 2pm on Saturday with the show’s recording, and ends the following Friday evening. You may participate if you’re outside of the contiguous United States, but will be asked to cover shipping expenses.
Announcements:
Part 3 of this series will take place on April 17th with the Services Round-table featuring Joshua Strebel of Page.ly, Daniel Bachhuber – Formerly of CoPress, and Raanan Bar Cohen of Automattic
In this short and sweet episode of WordPress weekly, we discuss how WordPress can control missiles, the release of RC3, and WordPress 2.9 surpassing the 10 million download mark. Although not related to WordPress, I provide an update as to what has been going on in my personal life. Sometimes, I feel that it’s best if we are all on the same page. Last but not least is the introduction of a new monthly segment on the show called Where’s Matt? Once a month, I’ll be getting in touch with Matt to ask him where he’s at, what he’s been up to and a few questions regarding recent news throughout the community.
WPWeekly Episode 95 – Commercial Plugins
By Jeffro on April 11, 2010
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This episode is also sponsored by EnvironmentsForHumans.com This is an organization that excels at getting experts together in a given topic and then exploring that topic from different angles. The next topic to be handled is the UX Web Summit on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (CT). This event will teach people how to improve their websites so that they are more responsive to visitors as well as making this more usable. If you’re interested in this summit, visit UXWebSummit.com
Related Links:
During this episode, we talked briefly about the topic of selling GPL licensed software. To put the issue to rest on whether folks are allowed to sell GPL software or not, please view this link which was passed along during the show. Selling Free Software
Smashing Book Giveaway Contest:
Congratulations to JeremyOLED for winning a copy of the Smashing Book courtesy of Jacob Goldman. If you want to put yourself in the running to win week two, here is what you need to do.
Help us publicize the special WordPress Weekly series on commercialization! Just follow @WPTavern and guest co-host @jakemgold on Twitter, and Tweet a message mentioning us both with a link to the most recent episode. We’ll randomly pick one of our favorite tweets right before the next show.
We’ll be giving a book away for each of the episodes (excluding wrap up). You can participate each week. Each contest starts at 2pm on Saturday with the show’s recording, and ends the following Friday evening. You may participate if you’re outside of the contiguous United States, but will be asked to cover shipping expenses.
Announcements:
Part 3 of this series will take place on April 17th with the Services Round-table featuring Joshua Strebel of Page.ly, Daniel Bachhuber – Formerly of CoPress, and Raanan Bar Cohen of Automattic
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