Displaying 1 To 16 Of 16 Comments Jason Schuller Did It – I Can Do It To To build on the comments Brad, Trace, and Jason, here are a few ideas – WPTavern has already established itself as a highly regarded resource of WP news and conversation. You should build on the very strong credibility you already have. Expand the blog and topics. Hire guest writers and publish even more articles than you already do. More topics. Tutorials. In-depth news/interviews. As for increasing audio ad sales on the podcasts – Check out mixergy.com. Andrew Warner does a fantastic job of plugging his sponsors at the top of every show, and his approach clearly pays off. I might even suggest switching to a video podcast or video interviews. Could bring the show to the next level (and boost monetization). I think paid forum areas are a good idea. Definitely a paid job board. FreelanceSwitch does a great job of this by charging $7/month to apply for jobs, but posting jobs are free. This helps to weed out the non-serious applicants while keeping a steady flow of new jobs. This wouldn’t be in my best interest, as a premium theme company owner, but I’d consider doing paid reviews of premium WP products. You mentioned you receive loads of requests for reviews. I see nothing wrong with charging for this product promotion. You’d have to disclose the fact that it’s a paid review of course. Lastly, I wouldn’t underestimate your abilities as a consultant. You’re clearly very knowledgeable about WordPress and web development in general. You can certainly build a freelance business on that, even if it involves project managing WordPress projects / over-seeing contractors, etc. » Posted By Brian On May 7, 2010 @ 9:25 AM bbPress Website Gets A Fresh Coat Of Paint About time bbPress got an update. Looking forward to seeing what comes up as the project (finally) gets revived. » Posted By Brian On May 5, 2010 @ 10:04 AM Interview With Brian Casel Of ThemeJam.com Thanks for the interview Jeff! Very much looking forward to this month’s podcasts. » Posted By Brian On April 1, 2010 @ 9:13 AM The Skies The Limit For Freelancers And WordPress Thanks for the shout out! By the way – I haven’t had much experience with Advertising Manager (or any ad management for that matter), but that seemed promising on first glance. » Posted By Brian On March 30, 2010 @ 9:31 AM Review Of Evenflow By SimpleThemes.com Jumping into the Framework debate: I think we’re rapidly heading toward a world where there will only be a couple of viable theme frameworks. It doesn’t make sense to take the extra effort to make your theme do all the work that frameworks do unless you really think you’re going to be one of the few frameworks that’s still around in a couple years. Meanwhile, there’s still plenty of room for one-off themes and (eventually) child themes for major frameworks. As a developer, I appreciate the ability to have a client pick out a theme that’s almost what they want as a starting point for customization. Frameworks are nice, but if you know what you’re doing, it’s just as quick to make customizations in code. (As a bonus, any work I do in PHP is unlikely to be accidentally undone by less savvy end-users.) » Posted By Brian On March 29, 2010 @ 1:07 PM Forget backup — it’s not too terribly difficult to back up content. It sounds like the real gem here is the ability to save and move entire sites: content, plugins, themes, and all. This is timely for me, as I’ve been considering ways to automate some of that on my own. Something like this will save me the trouble. » Posted By Brian On March 4, 2010 @ 3:20 PM Should Themes Have Plugin Functionality Built-In? I think it depends on the specific functionality you’re talking about. There are features that are nice to have as part of a theme, such as color/style options, layout/navigation options, and anything related to the design and specific to that theme. I’d also put some other things under the theme functionality umbrella, such as Analytics integration for example. But then there are things that make more sense as a plugin. For example, contact forms. There are many great ones available (both free and paid), and users probably prefer to use them with any theme they want. You wouldn’t choose to use a theme because it comes with a great contact form feature, would you? So i think it can go both ways, depending on the theme, the intended audience (mass consumption? or single client project?) and also depending on the feature. » Posted By Brian On February 9, 2010 @ 5:08 PM Adding Live Chat To Your Site Via Zopim Thanks @wptavern for the tip on Zopim. I have just implemented the Zopim live chat wordpress plugin on ThemeJam.com. Interested to see how it impacts the readers and sales. I have also set it up to direct chats to my AIM account. Makes it really easy to manage chats. I also have the widget set to “hidden” when I’m signed off. I prefer to only display the widget when I’m actually available to chat with visitors. Overall, great features and really nice WP integration. » Posted By Brian On February 8, 2010 @ 12:36 PM My Thoughts On WordPress Weekly Big fan of the show, but I tend to listen after the fact (not live). Been meaning to get in on it during the live show though… My vote would be to have it during weekday work hours (if possible). Like between 11am and 4pm mon-fri would be good. I think most people listen to the show while they’re working, at least I do. » Posted By Brian On February 10, 2010 @ 2:04 PM New York Matt Mullenweg Interview For sound issues you could always use a sound editor and convert the recording to mono. Here is a free editor: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ » Posted By Brian On November 19, 2009 @ 12:54 PM PremiumThemes.net Club Membership Giveaway I think you’re doing a great job building an independent WordPress community here. If I were in charge, I’d try to put more emphasis on the independent aspect of it. With few exceptions, there’s an awful lot of rah-rah in the WordPress world. Which is good, it’s a good product and the praise is usually deserved. But it’s not a perfect product, and it would be nice to see more constructive criticism. Give WordPress folks (developers, users, whatever) a couple of (virtual) beers, and find out what they might say. It could be very useful to have an ongoing, open discussion of pain points and possible solutions. » Posted By Brian On November 13, 2009 @ 5:37 PM Don’t change what has made this place such a great hangout for the WP community. Keep doing what you’ve been doing, but do more of it & enhance it. How about introducing a video show? That could help bring things to the next level… I’m personally a fan of interviews… with anyone. Always cool to peer into fellow WP dev’s views on development, business, and things. » Posted By Brian On November 9, 2009 @ 10:46 PM Review – Wooden Fence By TemplateLite @Chip Bennett I’ll look into the license issue again. Thanks for all your opinions. I appreciate it! I am worried about Brian Gardner’s decision to make all his themes GPL because anyone who purchases the themes can distribute freely and even resell it somewhere without his permission. Hope he made a right choice in an effort to comply with WordPress open source spirit. » Posted By Brian On June 7, 2009 @ 12:55 AM @Chip Bennett I have to disagree with you on the amendment. This additional term is generated right from the CC website at http://creativecommons.org/license/ It allows us to enter a “More permissions URL” and part of the code generated is as follows: The debate over the WordPress license will be around for sometime unless the developers and founder of WordPress demonstrate a clear stance about this issue. Btw, what do you think of the idea of releasing the themes under GPL license but charge users for the use of the themes like what Studiopress.com is doing? » Posted By Brian On June 6, 2009 @ 8:34 PM @Chip Bennett What you said seems true. I have modified my themes’ license terms and the details can be found at http://www.templatelite.com/license-terms-amendment/ Though not easy to enforce, I have to get it right in the first place to avoid dispute in the future. » Posted By Brian On June 6, 2009 @ 7:09 AM @Chip Bennett, @Jeffro For all of you, thanks for giving all the comments for my theme. I really appreciate it! » Posted By Brian On June 4, 2009 @ 7:34 AMComments Posted By Brian
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I am the author of the theme. Both of you think that you can just use the theme and remove the footer links. It is actually against the CC license. I stated clearly that to enjoy free usage, you MUST keep the footer link and script.