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WPWeekly Episode 45 – Unlucky Stream

WPWeekly Episode 45 – Unlucky Stream

By Jeffro on March 14, 2009

wordpressweekly1While last months Friday the 13th date proved to be uneventful, the same can not be said for this months version. Last night, for the second week in a row, the live stream on Talkshoe.com as well as the SIP portion of their phone bridge went offline during the recording of WordPress Weekly. It eventually came back up only to go down again. I’m currently in the process of writing a support email to both a Talkshoe support representative that I know and also their Get Satisfaction page. I’m starting to worry if whether or not I should do next weeks show by cell phone to insure that my audio does not drop out of the interview. At this point, I am still not convinced that I should move the show to a new platform or do the show a different way than I currently do. However, if this continues to impact the show like it has for the past two weeks, Talkshoe will leave me no choice but to find something better, although it will be tough to do so.

For those that managed to make it to the show last night, thanks for sticking through it and my apologies for the disruption in audio.

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Stories Discussed:

Lookup functions In A Flash
WordPress 2.7 Milestone
WordPress Forums To Be Revamped Maybe?
BuddyPress Skeleton Theme Released
Preview Of WordPress 2.8
Contributing To WordPress 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.

Last weeks poll question was: Should WordPress Be Referred To As A CMS?

Out of a total of 26 votes, 14 of you said YES, 7 of you said It Depends and 5 of you voted NO. 0 people voted for the option What Is A CMS.

This Weeks Poll Question Is: Do You Like The Direction WordPress Is Heading?

Plugin Picks Of The Week:

Jeff – WP To Top – WP To Top is a WordPress plugin that adds a “Back to top” link in your blog without modifying your template files. This is useful especially if you have long posts or long pages. You will have a nice “Back to top” or whatever-text-you-want link floating at the bottom right/left of your page.

WordPress Trivia Question:

Who originally coined the term WordPress?

WordPress Trivia Answer:

Christine Selleck coined the term in response to Matt Mullenwegs desire to associated his new software project with Printing Presses. In this sense, press refers to the world of reporters, journalists, columnists, and photographers. An aptly chosen name, because WordPress serves as the printing press that enables its users to publish their words.

Announcements:

Matt Mullenweg will be our special guest on March 20th. Look inside of the WPTavern forums in the WordPress Weekly section for the thread dedicated to this show and post the questions you would like me to ask Matt. Vladimir Prelovac will be our special guest on March 27th

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Next Episode: Friday March 20th, 2009 8P.M. EST

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Length Of Episode: 1 Hour 9 Minutes

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Episode 44 – Interview With Brian Gardner

Episode 44 – Interview With Brian Gardner

By Jeffro on March 7, 2009

wordpressweekly1Prior 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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Next Episode: Friday March 13th, 2009 8P.M. EST

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Length Of Episode: 1 Hour 8 Minutes

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WPWeekly Episode 43 – Glimpse At WordPress 2.8

WPWeekly Episode 43 – Glimpse At WordPress 2.8

By Jeffro on February 28, 2009

wordpressweekly1David and I talked about some WordPress news that has accumulated the past two weeks. This ranged from WPDesigner coming back to life only to die again to my idea to wipe the ideas forum and start a new. We also covered a few confirmed features that will be in WordPress 2.8. Oh and last but not least, Michael Castilla and Dan Philibin from WPCandy.com stopped by at the beginning of the show to tell us about WordCamp Miami.

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WordPress Trivia Question:

Was Matt Mullenweg the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th Automattic employee?

Stories Discussed:

WPDesigner Breathes And Then Dies

WP Ajax Edit Comments Needs New Dev

Plugin Search Now Useable

2008 Theme Prediction Review

Who’s Who In WordPress

WordCamp Germany

An Idea For WordPress Ideas

WordCamp Denver

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.

Last weeks poll question was: Is Friday The 13th Lucky Or Unlucky?

Out of a total of 33 votes, 20 of you voted The Concept Of Luck Is Superstitious Nonsense, 8 Of you voted Lucky while only 5 of you voted Unlucky.

This Weeks Poll Question Is: Should WordPress Be Referred To As A CMS?

Plugin Picks Of The Week:

Jeff – Admin Show Sticky – Determining what posts are sticky or not should be easier than editing each post or comparing a list of posts displayed on your site to the list in the Edit Posts table in the admin. This plugin will add a new column titled `Sticky` and place a check mark in this column if the post is `Sticky`.

David – GoCodes

WordPress Trivia Answer:

Announcements:

WPWeekly Meta:

Donncha of WordPress MU. Matt Mullenweg was the third employee

Next Episode: Friday March 6th, 2009 8P.M. EST

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Length Of Episode: 1 Hour 10 Minutes

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Episode 42 – How Could WordPress Die?

Episode 42 – How Could WordPress Die?

By Jeffro on February 14, 2009

wordpressweekly1Episode 42 of WordPress Weekly which fell on the same day as Friday the 13th contained a round table discussion where we talked about the various events or circumstances that would need to take place in order for WordPress to meet its demise. Although in the end, none us believed that WordPress would be disappearing anytime soon.

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WordPress Trivia Question:

Give me the exact date the first post was published on the WordPress.org blog. Date should be in month, day, year format.

Discussion Panel:

Brad Williams
Jeremy Clarke
Jacob Santos

Stories Discussed:

WordPress 2.7.1 Released

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.

Last weeks poll question was: Should The Sandbox Theme Be The Next Default Theme In WordPress?

Out of a total of 30 votes, 47% or 14 of you voted Keep Kubric But Remove Classic Theme. 37% or 11 of you said Yes and 17% or 5 of you voted No.

This Weeks Poll Question Is: Is Friday The 13th Lucky Or Unlucky?

Plugin Picks Of The Week:

Jeff – Supple forms – Supple Forms is a CMS plugin for WordPress that lets you easily add a custom write panel or meta box to the Write Post/Write Page screen. It differs from other custom write panel plugins in that you can store your data in either WordPress Custom Fields or your own custom table that the plugin will create for you. Additionally, it provides a powerful HTML snippet tool that lets you format and insert your data into pages and posts with shortcodes, and without tweaking templates.

David – SEO Blogroll – Lets you decide which blogroll links have the nofollow attribute.

WordPress Trivia Answer:

April 6th, 2003

Brian Gardner Theme Giveaway:

Member ID 12 was the lucky recipient of a single site license for a Revolution theme of their choosing. Member ID 12 on the WPTavern forum is ksolomon. If ksolomon does not claim the prize or chooses not to accept, I’ll use the random number picker to choose another winner.

Announcements:

There will be no episode of WordPress Weekly next Week. Instead, the next episode will be on February 27th.

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Next Episode: Friday February 27th, 2009 8P.M. EST

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Length Of Episode: 1 Hour 30 Minutes

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WPWeekly Episode 40 – Keith’s Farewell

WPWeekly Episode 40 – Keith’s Farewell

By Jeffro on January 31, 2009

wordpressweekly1Episode 40 of WordPress Weekly discussed a wide range of topics from the release of WordPress MU 2.7 to the All In One SEO Plugin reaching one million downloads. Also sad to say that this was Keith Murray’s last episode as co-host. I wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors.

Special Announcement:

Kym Huynh co-host of the WordPress centric podcast, WordCast was in a terrible car accident. Kym was in the middle of a three week vacation celebrating his recent graduation from law school when he ended up in a bad car accident. Unfortunately, Kym suffered quite a few broken bones and now has a metal arm. Dave Moyer of DaveMoyer.org, producer of show published an email he received from Kym earlier today that can be read on the DaveMoyer.org website. I personally wish Kym a fast and speedy recovery. Please visit DaveMoyer.org to find out how to send your get well wishes to Kym.

Stories Discussed:

WordPress MU 2.7 Released
BuddyPress 1.0 Beta 2 Released
All In One SEO Plugin Hits One Million Downloads
WordPress.TV Launches
Thank A Plugin Developer Day
CForms 2 Removed From The Plugin Repository
WordCamp Denver, Feb 28th
WordPress Documentation Project
Does The Post Revisions Feature Need To Be Revised?

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 was: Has the visual post editor ever made you angry?

Out of a total of 22 votes, 20 of you said yes while only 2 of you voted no.

Next Weeks Poll Question Is: Do you think configuration options need to be added to WordPress to configure Post Revisions?

Plugin Picks Of The Week:
Jeff – Revision Control – Revision control gives users control over post/page revisions. With it, you can choose a blog-global setting which is found in SETTINGS – REVISIONS in the WordPress administration panel for pages/posts to enable/disable or limit the number of revisions which are saved per post/page. This setting can even be controlled on an individual level since the revision control shows up as a meta box in the WordPress Write Panel.

Keith – TweetSuite – TweetSuite is one of the most complete plugins available for Twitter-minded individuals. The tool allows for all the usual twitter features that we’ve come to expect (tweet my post, widget my tweets) but goes further: widget for favorite tweets, and most importantly TWEETBACKS. Becoming as important as trackbacks from other blogs are tweetbacks. When someone tweets your post with one of the major URL shortening services (tinyurl, is.gd etc) TweetSuite will find that tweet and add a tweetback to your post. Super cool. If you’re into twitter and have a blog, TweetSuite is a must-have.

Announcements: The next episode of WordPress Weekly will have a new co-host. Who will it be? Tune in to find out.

WPWeekly Meta:

Next Episode: Friday February 6th, 2009 8P.M. EST

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Length Of Episode: 56 Minutes

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WPWeekly Episode 39 – Special Interview With Michael Pick

WPWeekly Episode 39 – Special Interview With Michael Pick

By Jeffro on January 28, 2009

wordpressweekly1On the evening of Tuesday, January 27th, I had the pleasure to converse with Michael Pick, an employee of Automattic and also the guy behind the newly launched WordPress.TV. WordPress.TV is a new website which aggregates all sorts of WordPress content in video form. The site has already made a name for itself by showcasing many of the videos from recent WordCamps. Here is just a sampling of what we discussed during the show.

Here are some of the questions we covered on the show:

  1. What is the purpose of WordPress.TV?
  2. How did WordPress.TV reach fruition?
  3. Will WordPress.TV feature content created by people other than Automattic?
  4. What do you plan on doing with videos that seemingly disappear?
  5. Can someone suggest a video that is produced with a language other than English?
  6. If there were any plans to let the videos be downloadable or even a podcast?
  7. Are WordPress.tv videos released under the GPL? Would love to use this stuff for company training videos

Near the end of the show, I let my curiosity get the best of me.

Plug For A Podcast: Plugins Podcast is a podcast which aims to cover one WordPress plugin a week with occasional interviews of plugin developers as well as heavy plugin users. Episodes range between 10-15 minutes and are in mp3 format. Angelo already has a podcast available on the pluginspodcast.com website where he discusses the CForms2 Custom Forms plugin. So if you’re a plugin junkie, this sounds like the show for you.

Announcements: This Friday will be Keith Murray’s last episode as co-host of the show. Please stop by for the going away party as we send Keith off to greener pastures.

Subscribe To WPWeekly Via Itunes: Click here to subscribe

Length Of Episode:47 Minutes

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WPWeekly Episode 38 – WP E-Commerce – Interview With Dan Milward

WPWeekly Episode 38 – WP E-Commerce – Interview With Dan Milward

By Jeffro on January 24, 2009

wordpressweekly1Continuing with the theme of E-Commerce, this week I had the chance to interview Dan Milward who is the man in charge of the WP E-Commerce plugin. During the hour long conversation, we discussed the feature set of WP E-Commerce, e commerce in general, what its been like to operate a business in and around WordPress and much more. If you have used WP E-Commerce in the past or are just interested in hearing what Dan has to say regarding the plugin, definitely tune in to this episode.

Disclaimer: This interview was not purchased or is sponsored in any way.

Here are some of the questions we covered on the show:

  1. What are the differences between the free version of the plugin and the gold cart solution?
  2. In your opinion, why has WP E-commerce become synonymous with WordPress and E Commerce?
  3. What are your thoughts on the GPL?
  4. How has it been like for you and Instinct to run a business based on and around WordPress?
  5. How well does WP-E-commerce work with WordPress MU?

Announcements: Next week will be Keith Murray’s last episode as co-host of the show. Please stop by for the going away party as we send Keith off to greener pastures.

Subscribe To WPWeekly Via Itunes: Click here to subscribe

Length Of Episode: 1 Hour 12 Minutes

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WPWeekly Episode 37 – Ready To Shopp? – Interview With Jonathan Davis

WPWeekly Episode 37 – Ready To Shopp? – Interview With Jonathan Davis

By Jeffro on January 17, 2009

wordpressweekly1It’s not often that we feature plugins or themes that you have to pay for but when the product is fully compliant with the GPL, things are gravy! In this special episode of WordPress Weekly, we talk e-commerce with Jonathan Davis who is the developer of the Shopp E-Commerce plugin for WordPress. Jonathan gives us the low down on what his plugin has to offer. What is also interesting is his business model. The plugin is fully compliant under the GPL but without purchasing the update Key, you won’t be able to upgrade the software. If you’re interested in learning about an e-commerce solution for WordPress, definitely take a listen to this episode.

Disclaimer: This interview was not purchased or is sponsored in any way.

Here are some of the questions we covered on the show:

  1. Why did you create Shopp when WP-Ecommerce was already available?
  2. Speaking of WP-Ecommerce, what does Shopp have to offer that the competition doesn’t?
  3. Which payment options/gateways does Shopp support?
  4. For a single site license, the plugin costs $55.00 What else does a user get when they purchase the plugin?
  5. Does this plugin work with WordPress MU?

Announcements: On January 23rd, Dan Milward of the WP E-Commerce plugin will be our special guest to discuss E-Commerce from his point of view and tells us what his plugin is capable of.

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Next Episode: Friday January 23rd, 2008

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Length Of Episode: 1 Hour 3 Minutes

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WPWeekly Episode 36 – Interview Of Sorts With Douglas Bell

WPWeekly Episode 36 – Interview Of Sorts With Douglas Bell

By Jeffro on January 10, 2009

wordpressweekly1Joining me this week on WordPress Weekly was Douglas Bell who operates Webmacster87.info as well as hosts the PHPBBWeekly podcast. In this episode, David and I chatted about a number of subjects including:

  • WordPress User Interface History
  • BBPress
  • PHPBB3
  • The possibilities of the WordPress team working with PHPBB to develope a bridge between the two
  • Security of PHPBB3 and WordPress

And a whole lot more. While PHPBB and WordPress are two different pieces of open source software serving different needs, I find it interesting to discuss the differences in strategy as well as the similarities between the two.

Plugin Of The Week: Maintenance Mode – Adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end. When the maintenance mode is activated, a custom defined message is shown to site visitors

Announcements: On January 16th, Jonathan Davis who has created a comprehensive e-commerce plugin for WordPress called Shopp will be our special guest.

WPWeekly Meta:

Next Episode: Friday January 16th, 2008

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Length Of Episode: 1 Hour

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WPWeekly Episode 35 – Interview With Mark E

WPWeekly Episode 35 – Interview With Mark E

By Jeffro on January 3, 2009

wordpressweekly1I flew solo for episode 35 while Keith cranked out some college work. In this episode, I interviewed Mark E. who is just about ready to release the first beta of his comprehensive WordPress Security plugin called Maximum Security. During our discussion, it was easy to see that this plugin contains just about everything except the kitchen sink as it relates to security and WordPress. If you don’t believe me, view the long list of features this plugin has with more on the way. We also discussed security through obscurity, basic WordPress security practices and much more. Mark has 15 years of experience in network and system security and within this episode, he gave us about 4 years worth of experience in less than an hour!

Plugin Of The Week:Comment Luv – Comments are a wonderful thing to receive on your blog and while adding the dofollow plugin is one way to reward your commenter’s, why not place a link to their last post under their comment. With CommentLuv, you can do that automatically! This is an excellent way to promote comments from your readers. The CommentLuv WordPress Plugin will visit the feed of the comment author and attempt to scrape the last post they made and display it under their comment, this way you can encourage people to join in the discussion of your posts and give something back straight away. WordPress.

Announcements: Douglas Bell will be our special guest on January 9th..

WPWeekly Meta:

Next Episode: Friday January 9th, 2008

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Length Of Episode: 1 Hour 23 Minutes

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