Displaying 1 To 30 Of 139 Comments Secrets Revealed: WLTC and WPTavern @Jeffro – Yeah, the listener chat is a nice feature to have too. Hangouts are really simple, you won’t have any problems figuring that out. » Posted By JLeuze On May 21, 2013 @ 12:40 PM @Jeffro – It’s good to hear you’ll still be including audio in some form or another. For all its issues I think Talkshoe helped WPWeekly feel more like a community conversation with being able to listen live and call in to the show. Hangouts could really serve that same function, even if video isn’t the focus you can still stream it live and allow people to jump into the show, using the audio later for a podcast feed. I hope this means we’ll see you at some WordCamps this year! » Posted By JLeuze On May 21, 2013 @ 11:42 AM It’s awesome to hear that WP Tavern is in good hands and that Jeff will be sticking around. Will Jeff be rebooting the weekly podcast? It’d be a shame to waste his great radio voice! » Posted By JLeuze On May 20, 2013 @ 10:51 PM Status Update On WordPress Weekly Sounds like you’ve been busy Jeff, I’ve got to put a new roof on my house this spring, hopefully I remember how to do it! Glad to hear you’re starting the show back up, I’ll be looking forward to seeing it in my podcatcher! » Posted By JLeuze On January 25, 2012 @ 11:12 AM Upgrading And Backwards Compatibility For Plugins I only test my plugin with and require the current version of WordPress. It probably works with some older versions, and users can try it, but I’m not going to open that can of worms. Not trying to force users to update, but I’m building for the future, not the past! I figure if they are willing to run an older version of WordPress, they can run an older version of the plugin that is compatible. » Posted By JLeuze On November 29, 2011 @ 8:13 PM WPWeekly Episode 111 – You’ve Been DevPressed I’ve missed WPWeekly, glad to hear you on the air again Jeff, welcome back! » Posted By JLeuze On September 12, 2011 @ 11:16 AM That’s great news Jeff, can’t wait to see WordPress Weekly in my podcast queue again! » Posted By JLeuze On June 8, 2011 @ 3:14 PM It’s a dark day for WordPress, sorry to hear you’re leaving the tavern Jeff. But I hope we’ll still see you around, good luck with your career! » Posted By JLeuze On May 17, 2011 @ 11:47 PM Please Adopt This Plugin – Comment Quicktags Reloaded I use Comment Form Quicktags on my site and a few other sites. It has worked great for me, easy to customize and style. » Posted By JLeuze On March 22, 2011 @ 8:16 PM WPWeekly Episode 109 – Interview With Lance Willett It was great to see WPWeekly in my podcast queue again, it’s been way too long since I’ve heard that TalkShoe intro! I like the idea of theme adoption, there are way too many themes in the dotorg directory that haven’t seen an update in more than a year or two. If there was a theme shelter where abandoned themes could be rescued I’d be happy to give one a good home, as would other developers I’m sure. » Posted By JLeuze On February 14, 2011 @ 2:54 PM Cutline Dropped On WordPress.com In Favor Of Coraline There are a lot of old themes on WordPress.com that I’d like to see retired. But I can understand that Automattic is stuck in a tough position where every single theme in their collection is going to be used and loved by many members. One solution that I think would be a win-win would be if they retired some of these old themes, but grandfathered them in for anyone currently using them. So the old themes would lurk in the background being used on some sites, but no longer available as an option to anyone that wasn’t already using them. It’d be a bit of a headache to support those legacy themes, but at least that way no users would have any changes forced on them. And eventually they would switch on their own to the new fancy themes that Ian and the rest of the theme team are creating and those themes can just fade away quietly. Who knows, the last few users of Banana Smoothie might really value their rare theme like an out of print Magic card :) At the very least, it would be nice if they could bury some of these old themes in an archive so that they didn’t show up as options unless you went looking for them. This is also how I’d like the plugin and theme directories to work, if the code hasn’t been updated since 2008 I’m not going to trust it on any of my sites. » Posted By JLeuze On August 11, 2010 @ 4:47 PM Intro/Outro Needed For WPWeekly I think having ambient noise from a tavern, people chatting and glasses clinking, is a great idea. You need some bar brawl sounds effects you can play as a bumper when you’re reporting on GPL fights ;) » Posted By JLeuze On June 16, 2010 @ 9:37 AM Buy My WordCamp Chicago Ticket @Jeffro – LOL, maybe you can find someone to sponsor a little WordCamp coverage and a little stormchasing. There’s zero info on WordCamp Iowa though, hopefully they kick it into high gear soon! » Posted By JLeuze On May 27, 2010 @ 12:05 AM It’s a shame you won’t be making it to Chicago this year, I won’t be there either, it’s kind of a haul from Minnesota and just coming up too fast! I’m hoping to make it to WordCamp Iowa in August though since that is half the distance for me. » Posted By JLeuze On May 26, 2010 @ 12:24 AM Leland Tells Us What’s Cooking In The Themelab It’s always good to put a face with the name. I’m surprised that this was Leland’s first WordCamp as active as he is! Jeffro’s right, he at least needs a sweet ThemeLab t-shirt. I’d say Jeff needs a tavern one, but it’s easy enough to just listen and who he is ;) » Posted By JLeuze On May 26, 2010 @ 12:20 AM WPWeekly Episode 99 – Recap Of WordCamp San Francisco Recording the aftershows is a great idea. The couple of times I’ve stuck around, they’ve been interesting and fun so sign me up. Print-on-demand services are kinda expensive, but it doesn’t cost you anything and there’s no risk, you can experiment and figure out what works. I’d totally recommend Zazzle, they have done a great job for me in the past. The nice thing is, you can start offering products through print-on-demand right away and use the revenue and experience to pick up just what inventory you know you can sell in a realistic amount of time. Though the thought of you surrounded by giant piles of WPTavern tshirts does make me giggle ;) Only a few more weeks until your hundredth episode, how exciting! Oh, and good luck with your house, next time send Chip… » Posted By JLeuze On May 8, 2010 @ 11:25 PM Jason Schuller Did It – I Can Do It To @Otto – No one can argue with that! You should brew Jeff some special WordPress Koolaid for the Tavern… » Posted By JLeuze On May 6, 2010 @ 2:27 PM I found Jason’s post very inspirational too, kudos to him for laying his professional growth bare for all to see. I’m sure that with your dedication to the WordPress community, you can find just as much success! But I wouldn’t be so quick to write off consulting, especially since you don’t have a product to sell aside from your expertise. You might think of a consultant as someone who writes code or makes fancy designs, but after the dust settles on a new site, many clients still need someone to take their hand and show them the best ways to use WordPress, blogging, and social media in general. As much as you like to talk about WordPress, I’m sure you’d have no problem chatting with clients for $XXX an hour about how they can get the most out of the software. I think I could speak for a lot of coders and designers when I say that we’d rather not get into the real practical nuts and bolts of running a site and would happily pass that on to an able consultant such as yourself :) Don’t be afraid to experiment with existing revenue sources either. Display Advertising is one of those tricky things where one ad in a certain size and position could outperform many ads in the wrong spot, might not hurt to try blending them into the site more. And when one is empty, like that prime spot in the header, maybe you could pop in a nice ad to an affiliate product to keep it productive? Same goes for the audio spot, I’m sure this one is the best for you and the advertiser, but if you don’t have one, shame to let it go to waste. Lots of the podcasts I listen to are sponsored by Audible, you could do something similar by promoting an affiliate product, especially if it is timely. “Gravity Forms just released a new version, it has cool features X,Y, and Z, visit wptavern.com/gforms to pick up a copy and support the show.” Some sites, the Affiliated Reviews would really bother me, but you do a great job of covering it critically just like you would any non-commercial product or service. To increase their potential, have you thought about making them a sticky post for a while, maybe style the sticky post to stand out a bit? All of your ideas for new revenue sources are sound, you should definitely implement them all. For the VIP membership, I wouldn’t worry too much about what it offers. Think about public radio, plenty of us would signup as members simply to support the show, getting a mug or a gold star next to our names in the forum would just be a bonus. Best of luck on building your career Jeff, if all else fails, get your wife-to-be to bring home the bacon! ;) » Posted By JLeuze On May 6, 2010 @ 1:54 PM bbPress Website Gets A Fresh Coat Of Paint @Jeffro – Oh I know, I’m tired of having to favorite every thread I post on just to at least get the replies in my feed reader. » Posted By JLeuze On May 4, 2010 @ 7:35 PM Maybe bbPress just had a bad bout of Colony Collapse Disorder… A new design for bbpress.org and the impending release of 1.0.3 are a great start to reviving bbPress and I’m glad to see that _ck_ is back as well. Matt should buy her some flowers, we can’t afford to lose such a valuable member of the community ;) » Posted By JLeuze On May 4, 2010 @ 4:15 PM WPWeekly Episode 98 – WordPress 3.0 And WordCamp San Francisco @Jeffro – You totally should, there’s so much truly shameless marketing out there, no one would ever mistake you for a shill! » Posted By JLeuze On May 4, 2010 @ 7:41 PM @Andrea_r – Definitely, if a regular old attendee can get a sponsor, our community journalist should have no problems securing sponsors. And if no one one sponsor can or will bankroll his whole trip, Jeff can sport all their logos at the event like a NASCAR driver ;) » Posted By JLeuze On May 4, 2010 @ 4:04 PM Thanks for the remote coverage of WordCamp SF, it was fun to have James and Matt call in to the show even though they were surely quite busy at WordCamp! Hopefully next year you’ll be able to cover it live on the ground. You should setup a classic fundraiser thermometer, Send Jeff to San Francisco. Be sure to take your fiancee too, you guys can hit up all the great neighborhoods like Chinatown and The Mission and it will be like six vacations in one. ;) Kim had a lot of great insights into customizing the dashboard. I leave all those feeds on my own site, but I clean most of those out on client websites and replace them with content that is relevant to their needs, like a support widget with contact information to get in touch with us. » Posted By JLeuze On May 3, 2010 @ 11:29 AM April Dedicated To The Commercialization Of WordPress These are some great round-table groups that you have put together Jeff, I’ll look forward to April’s shows! » Posted By JLeuze On March 26, 2010 @ 5:12 PM WPWeekly Episode 90 – Interview With Michael Koenig @donnacha | WordSkill – That’s a good point, such a small percentage of readers actually leave comments that anything you can do to reduce the friction is a good thing. » Posted By JLeuze On March 10, 2010 @ 9:34 AM I’ve been meaning to give Intense Debate a try for a while now, I’ll be interested to hear how your experiment goes Jeff. » Posted By JLeuze On March 8, 2010 @ 4:31 PM @Kim – And congratulations to you and Conorp for your wins, thanks for giving me some stiff competition! Thanks Jeff for digging up all those tough questions, and StudioPress for their generous prize. I had a lot of fun with trivia too, a great excuse to participate in the conversation more. Maybe next time Jeff can do a game that would fit in even better in a tavern, bingo or a meat raffle! ;) » Posted By JLeuze On January 6, 2010 @ 10:27 PM WPWeekly Episode 82 – The Tinfoil Hat Brigade @Jeffro – I never leave home without my tin hat! » Posted By JLeuze On December 23, 2009 @ 5:19 PM Really enjoyed the roundtable with Jeremy and Otto. I’m looking forward to canonical plugins that can be relied on. If BuddyPress can be considered the first canonical plugin, I’d like to see bbPress as the second one, hopefully it is just as successful. I wonder if we will ever see any canonical themes? It sounds like the opinions for the 2010 theme are split between a simple theme that can be learned from and easily modified and a more advanced framework. I want the default theme to be simple myself, it’d be accessible to the most people. But I could see the advanced theme framework being a canonical theme. Yeah, this was a pretty easy one! Even if I hadn’t read this on bbpress.org before, Christmas would seem like a pretty safe guess: “The day after Christmas 2004 Matt started coding from the ground up and two days later the first version of bbPress was pushed live on WordPress.org.” » Posted By JLeuze On December 23, 2009 @ 5:09 PM WPWeekly Episode 81 – Interview With Jacob Goldman @Jeffro – I would have been stumped, but I subscribe to the bbPress blog and I had actually read through the transcript. Conorp is just a copycat ;) » Posted By JLeuze On December 16, 2009 @ 7:06 PMComments Posted By JLeuze
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