The WordPress Podcast

Episode 9 covers:

1. Our listeners get a discount on hosting at Fuzzy Hosting.
2. WordPress 2.0.5 causes a 500-Internal Server Error for some users, but Mark Jaquith has a tune-up plug-in to correct it.
3. WordPress MU 1.0 is released and bbPress 0.72 is reintroduced.
4. Google allows you to create custom searchs for your blogs. Joel Pan (ketsugi) details its features while Steve Graham (Nezz) points out concerns with its terms of service.
5. WP-Websnapr displays thumbnail images of sites you link to.
6. Sara Cormeny provides a tutorial on how to restyle the WordPress log-in page to rebrand it.
7. Mark Jaquith reviews and compares the three leading anti-comment spam plug-ins, Akismet, Bad Behavior 2 and Spam Karma 2.

 

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Episode 8 includes:

• WordPress 2.0.5. goes Release Candidate 1.
• Business Week (Blogspotting, Byte of the Apple and many great podcasts) names WordPress as the best blogging tool of 2006.
• Google announced that they will begin accepting pings to their blog search service. Ping-O-Matic already has you covered.
• StopBitacle.org leads the fight against Bitacle.
• What to do if a splog steals your content.
• Performacing Partners is a new affiliate ad network, offering you 70% of the revenue share and a very high 5% lifetime revenue share of any bloggers that you refer.
• Plug-ins featured:
  1. Digital Fingerprint
  2. sig2feed
  3. SurveyGizmo
  4. Timeline
  5. Digg Notify
  6. FireStats
  7. OpenID
  8. Clutter Free
  9. Yahoo UI and WordPress Comment System
  10. Advanced Search
  11. Social Bookmarks
  12. deUncategorize
  13. Wordpress Organizer
  14. Wordpress PDA
  15. Simple UTW Performance Boost
  16. Feedvertising
  17. Alexa Traffic Rank Button Generator
  18. GPixel-Contact
• Andre asks about Widgets
• obert asks about making blog posts by e-mail

 

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Episode 7 includes:

• Being dugg forced us over our bandwidth quota and shut us down temporarily. Many thanks to A Small Orange for quickly bumping up our quota.
• We get added to the WordPress Dashboard.
• Don’t be surprised if WordPress 2.0.5 is released soon.
• Robert Scoble, Om Malik and other mega-bloggers may take advantage of wordpress.com’s VIP hosting services.
• Round 5 of the 9rules Network’s membership audition is scheduled for Wednesday, October 25th.
• You have to question the validity of the PEW Internet Survey (PDF) when they don’t even mention WordPress.
• The Digg.fx plug-in allows you to proudly display your digs, your friends’ digs as well as all the latest digs on your blog.
• Whisper is a WordPress plug-in that allows your blog’s registered users to leave “whisper”-type comments to the administrator or other registered users.
• If you’re saddled with a really bad host that doesn’t allow you to use PHP’s mail functions, you could either use the SMTP Email plug-in or you could always move to a better host.
• Spamgarden takes random words from your recent comments that were marked as ’spam’, and uses them as fertilizer to grow your own private Spamtree.
• Flickrss displays the latest comments of your Flickr account in your Sidebar. As a bonus it automatically detects if you’ve got FAlbum installed on your blog and then offers you to link the comments to the gallery in your blog rather than back to Flickr.
• The Democracy survey plug-in has been updated to version 2.0, just as a problem with search engine optimization and the older version was identified.
• iBox is a small JavaScript library that’s useful in adding overlays of images, divisions, and HTML on top of your current page, and MacStansbury.com has written a great tutorial on how to integrate iBox into your WordPress themes.
• Aaron’s Webmaster Workshop has made available some code to make setting up PayPal items much easier.
• A listener’s links to his favorite WordPress plug-ins in general and the best search engine optimization WordPress plug-ins in particular got me to thinking, “What are the most popular WordPress plug-ins?“
• SeanRox asked what software I use to edit this podcast, and I answered Audacity, Adobe Audition and the PodPress plug-in.
• Max Limpag tells us of a tutorial on how to turn any web template into a WordPress theme.

 

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