Episode 11 includes:
- David Peralty joins Charles as co-host.
- Survey results thus far are conflicted (to say the least).
- Episodes 12 and 13 will contain an extensive interview with WordPress’ lead developer Matt Mullenweg, and will be released Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively.
- The podcast will soon have transcripts of past and future episodes thanks to André Gerber
- News
- Automattic and KnowNow form a partnership to bring KnowNow WordPress Enterprise Edition (KWEE) to market.
- According to a review in PC World Magazine, top-level bloggers are migrating to WordPress.
- WordPress.com doesn’t allow PayPerPost posts.
- Has the WordPress Codex become unmanagable?
- Weblog Tools Collection announces a blogging essay competition.
- David let’s Mac users in on an easy way to set up a testing server, Charles counters with XAMPP for Mac, Windows, Linux and Solaris.
- Plug-Ins
- Target AdSense accentuates or downplays text within your posts for Google’s AdSense to use.
- Alex King’s popular Share This plug-in allows your readers to share a post from your blog with others via social bookmarks or by e-mail.
- Alex also released 404 Notifier, which keeps a log of error 404 (file not found) hits on your blog, along with a referring URL if there is one.
- Snap Preview Anywhere is a plug-in that captures and displays a preview image or the web page you’re linking to.
- Kottke Style Archives is a plugin which produces an archive list in a similar format to that of Jason Kottke.
- Digg Dugg syndicates all kinds of stories from digg.com and lists them in your blog.
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Hi guys, thanks for another great WordPress podcast. A couple of thoughts on KnowNow and PayPerPost.
KnowNow: You are correct that they will be using the same version of WordPress MU that is available for free to anyone (and whatever changes they make to it will be released back as open source in full support of the GPL license). The value they ad is support, integration and hosting for large, Fortune 1000 type customers. These are customers who decide that they don’t want to deploy and maintain the open source version of WPMU themselves. Instead they’ll pay KnowNow to install or host it for them, integrate it with other software they already have running in their company (this is where things like LDAP come in), and support their end users who need help setting up and using blogs. So it’s the dedicated sales, engineering and support teams who understand large enterprise customers that KnowNow brings to the table. We like it because it’ll bring enterprise features to the core WP platform over time, and it’ll increase the chances of getting Bank Of America type customers to adopt WordPress.
PayPerPost: One thing I think you forgot to mention is that unlike some of their competitors, PayPerPost does not require bloggers to disclose that they are getting paid to write about a specific company. So you might be reading someone’s blog and they are talking about a product and you have no way of telling if they are talking about it “voluntarily”, or because they are getting paid to talk about it. Not good. However, the lack of disclosure is _not_ the reason why we disallow them on wordpress.com. The reason is that we currently disallow _all_ commercial activity (ads/afiliate links/etc) including as you mention AdSense. We originally came up with that rule to discourage spam bloggers to use wordpress.com (and it has worked for that). Now that we have a lot of blogs and some of them would like to make money via ads, we are evaluating ideas for doing that without opening the door to sploggers. I hope that makes sense!
Another very easy way to set up a testing server is to use Web Server on a Stick (WOS). There is a good tutorial on how to set this up with WordPress at http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/usb/. This set up has proved very flexible and I found it useful for demonstrating designs to clients on their own PCs.
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Just FYI – I’ve been working on a new version of Share This along with several other new plugins that folks have been asking about. Would be happy to chat with you guys about that if you’re interested.
The Snap previews have been very useful on my WordPress themes page:
http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress/themes
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Good podcast guys. Keep up the good work – especially bringing us new plugins … no more digg plugins, please:-)
About KnowNow and the whole GPL thing:
If you read the GPL license, It gives anyone the full freedom to do whatever they want with it, Including sell it. as long as they release any additions back into the community.
As a hugh fan of open source, I must say, OS doesn’t mean you can’t make money form it, it just means you have to share it with the community.
Take Red Hat as an example. While the product is available for free under the GPL, they sell support at the enterprise level for people interested.
Following this model, OS software can be a real profitable buisness, while leaving it free for the user who want to do it themselves, and not just a volunteer niche thing.
Just another comment: About XAMP, Why didn’t you mention that Mac OS X comes pre installed with Apache (and PHP, though the later requires a little hack to activate)
Hey LobsterMan,
The reason for not mentioning it is because I didn’t know. I am not a big Mac user, and while I knew OS X was built off a BSD core, I didn’t know if it had Apache and whatnot.
Links are always good by the way for “hacks”
As for the GPL thing, Matt basically cleared that up in his interview with us…
By activating web sharing in System Preferences > Sharing you are turning on Apache, which will run at localhost (the files being in /Libarary/WebServer/Documents/) and at localhost/~user/ (the file being at /Users/user/Sites/)
A version of PHP comes pre installed with OS X, instructions for activating it can be found Here Though the default version is a bit old, so I’d recommend installing Mark Linynage’s PHP package
As for MySQL, an official version for OS X is available on the official MySQL site
Dear listeners, let’s use the forums too! I left a short post about MAMP for OSX.
The forum looks FANTASTIC! I love the look, what a beautiful clean theme! I hope more of us share the knowledge.
Thanks for a another great podcast!
On the Codex-Problem-Subject:
It would be great to find the WP-Codex on http://www.gotapi.com (more about in germany: http://fly.ingsparks.de/2006-12-26/gotapicom-sehr-hilfreich/)
This doesnt solve the content-problem but makes the codex much easier to search in…
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