Prior to this episode taking place I had a feeling that this would be a great show. Despite there being a technical snafu where the stream audio disappeared, we covered alot of great information. We talked about everything ranging from Premium themes and the GPL to what StudioPress is all about to the future of WordPress themes. Definitely another classic show!
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Headlines:
IntenseDebate Now Has Plugins
WordPress Store To Be Revamped
New WordPress Book On Plugin Development
WordPress Tavern Listener Poll:
Each week from now on, I’ll be featuring a new listener poll question on WPTavern.com The poll is located in the sidebar on the right hand side of the site.
This Weeks Poll Question Is: Should WordPress Be Referred To As A CMS?
Plugin Picks Of The Week:
Jeff – Mail Press – With this plugin you will be able to send beautiful and styled html and plain text mails based on dedicated themes and templates for any e-mail notification issued for comments subscribers, your periodic newsletters or post notification (per post/daily/weekly/monthly), specific admin events : registration of a new user, comment to moderate, new comment on your posts.
David – MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate
WordPress Trivia Question:
What role has the download counter played in the WordPress project other than counting the number of times a specific version has been downloaded?
WordPress Trivia Answer:
As the story goes, in 2005 at a party in a small San Francisco apartment, Matt Mullenweg who was then 20 years old was celebrating an early release of the software. As Mike Hirshland was looking around for a beer, he noticed the download counter on Matts laptop whizzing by like a race car. This was a Eureka moment for Hirshland and using his partnership with Polaris Venture Capitals, led the way to the first round of funding for Automattic which was 1.1 million dollars.
Announcements:
Matt Mullenweg will be our special guest on March 20th. And Vladimir Prelovac will be our special guest on March 27th
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Another great episode! I think Brian has the right idea, a contest for the new default theme. If Brian himself would submit an entry, I can imagine how many other top designers would do the same.
This would be a great way for more people to contribute to WordPress, rather than just having someone at Automattic knock out a new theme. If they said your entry has to meet these requirements, then add it to Extend with the tag “contest”, not only would we get a spiffy new default theme, we’d get hundreds of excellent new themes in Extend as well!
But something tells me that Matt’s comment that the future of WordPress themes “will be blue, with rounded corners” isn’t entirely tongue in cheek…
Great show last night Jeff! Really enjoyed listening to Brian Gardner, and getting to talk with everyone during the after-show. It’s a shame that the streaming audio messed up – hopefully TalkShoe has gotten that issue taken care of.
@JLeuze – I agree. That would be a win-win situation. Great themes for the repository and one or two particular themes bundled with WordPress. But you know something, you may be right.
@Kim – Yeah hopefully the Friday the 13th show won’t implode on me heh. Glad the recorded interview was not interrupted though.
Wow … you’ll get the Who’s is Who of the WP world on the show.