Episode 16: Year-end review of survey results

Written by Charles Stricklin and David Peralty Published on December 31st, 2006

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For the die-hard listeners only, this episode clocks in at over an hour, where David and I go through many of the comments, both good and bad, given during our listener survey.

03:51 What do you enjoy about the WordPress Podcast?
23:05 What do you dislike about the WordPress Podcast?
37:02 What would you like to see more of, or added to future episodes?
52:46 What would you like to see less of, or eliminated, from future episodes?
63:34 Summary

Thanks to everybody who took the time to fill out the survey, we’re taking all this to heart, and we’ll use everything to improve the podcast!David, myself and everybody here at the WordPress Community wish you a Happy New Year!

Episode 15: Interviews with Tom Werner (Gravatar) and Jaimie Sirovich (SEO Egghead)

Written by Charles Stricklin and David Peralty Published on December 26th, 2006

 
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00:00 Tom Werner, of Gravatar, discusses Gravatars, the problems the free service has been seeing and his plans for Gravatar 2.0.
09:22 Jaimie Sirovich, of SEO Egghead and co-author of Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP shares some tips and ideas on how to make your WordPress blog friendlier to search engines.

Episode 14: Your feedback on the Mullenweg interview, ways to customize your blog and more

Written by Charles Stricklin and David Peralty Published on December 20th, 2006

 
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01:02 Automattic, Inc. CEO Toni Schneider responds to David’s comments on KnowNow WordPress Enterprise Edition and WordPress.com’s ban on PayPerPost posts.
08:45 Paul Gowder explains in further detail what LDAP is really all about.
11:32 Rubin Kaplan (AKA LobsterMan) explains how Automattic, Inc. can sell WordPress µ as Open Source Software under a GPL.
13:12 Jeremy Bloom agrees with Rubin, again comparing WordPress to Red Hat Linux.
15:23 Seòras reminds us that one of the many excellent tutorials found at Podz’s WordPress @ T2 site deals with Webserver On a Stick (WOS).
18:28 Jorge Vargas compliments us on the podcast.
18:55 Ad likes having David as a co-host.
20:52 Wither Gravatar? Rouge testing message splashed across gravatars… Charles previews an interview with Gravatar creator Tom Werner (next episode) and misleads Jason Van Orden to the Gravatar plug-in where he is unable to register a new one, and David offers Davatar as an alternative alternative
26:14 David again balks at WordPress.com charging for optional features, this time for more disk space.
29:05 WordPress for Dummies close to being published.
33:19 Plug-in: WP Tiger Administration 3.0 - Modifies the WordPress Administration panels using only CSS to make it more visually appealing.
36:10 Plug-in: Themed Login - allows you to incorporate the Login, Registration, and Forgot Password porms into your current theme.
37:16 Plug-in: Custom Admin Menu - Change the order of all of your administration menus to whatever you like, change the label of any menu item, create as many nested sub-menus as you want and more…
39:12 Plug-in: Disclosure Policy - disclose financial, copyright and other relationships/disclosures on your Wordpress blog.
41:42 Plug-in: Title Override - defines alternative titles for pages only.
43:18 Plug-in: TDO Mini Forms - allows unregistered users to submit draft posts to your blog until they can be posted by an administrator.
44:16 We preview next week’s interview with Tom Werner, the guy behind Gravatar on the future of the service and what features we can expect in 2.0, also next week an interview with Jaimie Sirovich of SEO Egghead and co-author of Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP, and the last day of 2006 we’ll have our year-end episode to mull over your survey compliments, suggestions and criticisms.

Episode 13: An interview with Matt Mullenweg (Part 2)

Written by Charles Stricklin and David Peralty Published on December 6th, 2006

 
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Episode 13 completes an interview with Matt Mullenweg, the lead developer of WordPress and head of Automattic, including coverage of topics as:

  • Matt resists Molly Wood’s pleas to disable the rich visual editor by default.*
  • WordPress.com statistics will be made public.
  • Why WordPress.com won’t allow PayPerPost posts and other advertising.
  • The future of WordPress.com and Automattic.
  • The creation of a plug-in directory.
  • Opening up the WordPress.com themes to the WordPress.org community.
  • KnowNow Wordpress Enterprise Edition and WordPress’ GPL.
  • WordCamp 2006 and 2007.

* Buzz Out Loud, episode 357, November 16th, 2006

Episode 12: An interview with Matt Mullenweg (Part 1)

Written by Charles Stricklin and David Peralty Published on December 5th, 2006

 
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Episode 12 is made up entirely of the first part of an interview with Matt Mullenweg, the lead developer of WordPress and head of Automattic, including coverage of topics as: