In this episode, I had the chance to welcome Alex King back to the show to talk about the WPHelpCenter, his Carrington theme framework and last but not least, his take on PremiumMod as well as his thoughts on building a business around GPL software such as WordPress. When I published my review of WPHelpCenter when it launched in April of this year, I had my doubts as to whether there would be demand for it considering the numerous outlets for support that exist within the community. After talking with Alex King within this interview, it’s clear that there is demand for such a service and it’s doing well.
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WordPress Tavern Listener Poll:
Last weeks poll question was: Should WordPress Change The Blog Nomenclature Within The Backend?
Out of a total of 103 votes, 92 of you said Yes while 11 people voted No.
Jeff – WP Manage Plugins – WP Manage Plugins, is an easy way to give you more control over the plugins section of WordPress. This plugin enables users to disable upgrade notices for specific plugins, hide the plugins page from all users except yourself, hide the wp manage plugins settings page from all users except yourself, automatically email the site admin when any plugin is added/activated/deactivated and much more.
Last Weeks WordPress Trivia Question:
Which forum software was the first to use CSS based layouts rather than tables?
WordPress Trivia Answer:
bbPress. bbPress was originally written by WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg, after he could not find software available at the time that fit his needs. bbPress was the first forum software to utilize a CSS-based layout, rather than the tabular layouts of other forum software available at the time.
This Weeks Trivia Question
What powers the WordPress.org website?
Announcements:
Aaron Brazell aka Technosailor will be on the show next week to discuss his work with WordPress as well as his new book, The WordPress Bible.
In this sleepy edition of WordPress Weekly, (since I was awake for 20+hours) I had a chat with Joseph Cefoli who is the guy in charge of The FairFieldMirror.com and Daniel Bachhuber of CoPress, a company specializing in the migration from College Publisher while also providing managed hosting. During the interview, we discussed a number of topics including the trials and tribulations of migrating 7,000+ articles from College Publisher into WordPress, the manual labor involved, the various plugins in use on the site and much more. I find the stories of migrations such as these to be interesting since they usually consist of painful experiences that were overcome.
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Jeff – WPWorldMap.net – WPWorldMap.net is a cool website where WordPress users from all across the world can register an account and place a marker above their general location since the site is made up of an embedded google map. It’s a great way to see if their are any awesome WordPress folks in your neighborhood.
This Weeks Trivia Question
Which forum software was the first to use CSS based layouts rather than tables?
WPWeekly Meta:
Next Episode: Tuesday, November 10th 2009 8P.M. EST
This episode of WordPress Weekly focuses on the upcoming WordCamp New York event being held on November 14th and 15th. Jane Wells joined me on the show to tell us all about the planning stages of the event and what to expect. We also talked briefly about WordPress 2.8.5 as well as what to look forward to in WordPress 2.9. If you are planning on attending WordCamp New York, I highly encourage you to give this episode a listen.
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This episode of WordPress weekly was a little bit different than some of the previous episodes in that we discussed the topic of Hyperlocal websites and using BuddyPress to power them. I had two guests on the air with me to discuss this topic. The first was Ted Mann who runs InJersey.com. A hyperlocal website for New Jersey that is powered by BuddyPress. My other guest was Jeff Lee who is just starting to get his hyperlocal site off the ground at CityZombie.com. It was great getting to talk about these hyperlocal news sites and why they will be springing up left and right from the point where Newspapers left off.
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Not long ago, I put the call out that I was looking for a new co-host to help me with the WordPress Weekly podcast. I didn’t think I would receive much feedback regarding the position but I was wrong. I ended up receiving a couple of great applications but during the search for a new co-host, I decided on a new way to do the show which I couldn’t do before.
Using the WordPress Weekly forum, I will create a new thread that will correspond to the next episode. I’ll add in two to three stories during the week that I want to talk about. If you are interested in either having a story discussed or to be a guest co-host on the show, this is where you would tell me. I’m going to limit the amount to 4 co-hosts per episode as anything more will just get confusing. The co-host spots for each episode will be first come first serve. The only time I will not have guest co-hosts on the show is when I do an interview.
With this system, I hope to create a bit more diverse crowd of co-hosts to weigh in on different stories each week. Also, the previous hurdle of not knowing what is going to be discussed is removed thanks to the forum. I’m hoping that the guest co-hosts will submit a story or two for discussion so you don’t constantly have to hear my big yapper. Most of the feedback I have received regarding the show is that the roundtable episodes end up being their favorite, so why not do them all the time?
To all those who got in touch with me regarding the position, I thank you for showing so much interest. If I regain interest in having a dedicated individual to serve as co-host, I have a few good people to contact.
There will not be an episode of WordPress Weekly for October 13th as I work on other things and because of some pitfalls last week, I’m not in the position to record the show. There will be a show for October 20th though.
This episode of WordPress Weekly marks David Peralty’s last episode as co-host of the show. He is moving on to other endeavors in his life and I wish him the best of luck. As for what we talked about during the show, plenty of stuff revolving around themes. You’ll want to tune in to listen to our discussion on whether releasing free themes is dead or not, we also discuss what might happen in the theme market now that Small Potato is back as well as the Theme repository now called home for over 1,000 themes.
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Last weeks poll question was: Who has the craziest WordPress upgrading story?
Out of a total of 19 votes, Donnacha had 13, Redwall with 4 while Nic Myers had 2 votes. Donnacha won a single license copy of gravityforms for winning the game.
Picks Of The Week:
Jeff – NextGEN Public Uploader – The NextGEN Public Uploader plugin for WordPress allows users to upload images from the frontend of your blog to a specified gallery.
What is the template tag that was introduced in WordPress 2.3 which provided one of the major feature additions in WordPress themes?
WordPress Trivia Answer:
the_tags
Announcements:
On October 20th, Todd Mann will be joining us on the show to talk about InJersey.com as well as the meaning of Hyperlocal and how he is using BuddyPress to power his efforts.
WPWeekly Meta:
Next Episode: Tuesday October 13th, 2009 8P.M. EST
Unfortunately, the time has come yet again to announce that I am looking for a new co-host for WordPress Weekly. David hasn’t been fired or anything like that, but his interests and passions have changed to the point where it doesn’t make sense for him to continue on with the show. I have until episode 80 to find a new co-host or I’ll be doing the show solo until I can find someone to fill the void. Here are the details.
First off, this is not a paid opportunity. However, there have been times where based on performance or just sheer gratitude, I have made a sizable donation to the co-host. The candidate needs to be consistently available Tuesday evenings at 8PM Eastern time. Preferably, the candidate needs to do a good job on their own account to monitor what is going on in the WordPress community. This person also needs some experience with using Google Docs as that is what I use to share the shownotes document.
Benefits with the position include getting the chance to talk with some notable folks in the WordPress community. Also, the co-host always gets an opportunity to announce projects they are working on, sites they run, etc. Not to mention, those who co-host the show for a reasonable amount of time gain notoriety so when you go to a WordCamp, you have a better chance of those in the crowd knowing who you are.
If you are interested in co-hosting the show with me full-time, please get in touch with me and let me know what you have to offer.
Wow, this episode of WordPress Weekly is a long one so be prepared to have some time set aside to listen to it, or break it up into two sections. In this episode, we talk about what the implications are for WordPress with SimplePie ceasing development, big changes coming to users of Woopra, the winner of the 2009 plugin competition hosted by Weblogtoolscollection.com and one of the last topics we discussed dealt with the feud between WPMU.org and Matt Mullenweg.
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Last weeks poll question was: Who’s Responsible For Keeping Your WordPress Site Up To Date?
Out of a total of 74 votes, 50 of you said the end user, 9 people voted for the new world order, at least seven of you said Matt Mullenweg, 6 voted for WordPress while 2 people voted for Automattic.
In this Jeffless episode of WordPress Weekly, David Peralty mans the ship by himself covering a number of different topics such as whether trackbacks should be dumped by bloggers, codepoet.com, WordPress MU/BuddyPress Contest, punishing IE 6 visitors and much more. I gave this show a listen on the deck of our cabin and I thought David did a great job covering the topics at hand.
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In this rant filled edition of WordPress Weekly, David and I along with special guest co-host Scott Clark developer and community manager for the PODS CMS plugin talk about a wide range of topics all relating to WordPress Security. We cover what happened with the worm that took advantage of old versions of WordPress, security practices, the responsibility of end users when running a website, and one of the bigger topics of discussion, the fear of upgrades breaking a WordPress powered site. If you’re not willing to listen to ranting and raving by WordPress veterans, don’t listen to this show!
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Jeff – Upgrade Notifications By Email – Sends daily notifications to admins’ email if installation of WordPress is out of date. No configuration necessary, simply install and activate.
In this episode, I had the chance to welcome Alex King back to the show to talk about the WPHelpCenter, his Carrington theme framework and last but not least, his take on PremiumMod as well as his thoughts on building a business around GPL software such as WordPress. When I published my review of WPHelpCenter when it launched in April of this year, I had my doubts as to whether there would be demand for it considering the numerous outlets for support that exist within the community. After talking with Alex King within this interview, it’s clear that there is demand for such a service and it’s doing well.