Episode 14: Your feedback on the Mullenweg interview, ways to customize your blog and more
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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. |
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@Charles: “ad” is a shortform for “admartinator” and this is a combination of my real name Martin and my job - i’m an administrator.
Even Steve Jobs knows this and mentioned it at MWSF ‘06:
http://www.admartinator.de/2006/01/11/ad-gets-famous/
Thank you for putting me in show (is that correct English??).
Martin
Well, I stand corrected.
Thanks for the mention of my plugin in your Podcast
I think you might need to make some corrections in your review of my Disclosure Policy Plugin.
First of all you stated “They’ve come up with”
I am sorry but that is highly misleading, and suggests the plugin and myself have some kind of business relationship with the guys from PayPerPost.
I am not a member of PayPerPost, although I have made a single post on their members forum after I received a mention there in relation to another issue, and I did mention the plugin being available soon on their MyBlogLog page.
PayPerPost for some time have a website disclosurepolicy.org which is a generator of disclosure policies.
From what I have seen, they have been actively supporting the idea of disclosure far more than most reviewers are giving them credit for.
Disclosure Policy Plugin can in no way be looked on as a generator, because all content is user supplied, as is all formatting.
IANAL however a number of lawyers have written about the recent FTC statement.
Here is a list of some of the informed commentary I have seen on the subject.
http://andybeard.eu/2006/12/ftc-word-of-mouth-and-affiliates.html
You mention Google so lets use them as an example. They have a referral program for lots of Google related products. If you say how great Adsense is, or how great Firefox is with Google Toolbar on your blog, and happen to have the referral links, that is WoM advertising. The potential gain from one Google Adsense signup or a few Firefox downloads is actually higher than most PPP bloggers earn.
You have legal information in your sidebar, but it is likely 80% of your readers are in a feed reader.
Legal information should be with your content
You do have a license with your content, it is a shame that the license is actually different to the one on your sidebar (2.0 rather than 2.5)
Some people use something other than a CC license. People discussing law, politics and health matters probably need a fairly extensive disclaimer with their content, in fact most lawyers I have seen already do, but it is a pain to update that legal statement on 300+ pages of a blog and it is something that needs to be with the content if they have RSS feeds.
Thanks, Andy, for clearing all that up. Disclosure is starting to become a big deal for just about everybody, and your plug-in and opinions on the subject are very much appreciated.
Another Fantastic Podcast Charles. Nice and big this time
Hi Charles and David,
thanks again for another great podcast. I was amused to hear that you thought I was of Latin/Spanish origin. Just for clarity I am male, Scottish and my name, Seòras is pronounced something like Shawras, it’s Scots Gaelic for George.
All the best from Scotland and keep up the good work.
That is probably the coolest thing ever Seòras. Thanks for the clarification.
A $4/mo web host with 5 GB of fully backed up storage in multiple datacenters and being run through a global acceleration and caching network (like Akamai), not to mention no bandwidth limits, CPU limits, traffic limits, etc? Please let me know and I’ll get an account.
lol…True enough Matt. But I enjoy the rather inexpensive hosting I have for a few of my sites. Really though, we tried to balance our thoughts on the continued additions of paid features. We understand the time, effort and infrastructure put into the WordPress.com blogs.
But I still think many people don’t need “unlimited bandwidth and CPU, etc…” I am sure 90%+ of the blogs on WordPress.com don’t use over 1GB of bandwidth and 100mb of space…
And if I do find a host with fully backed up storage in multiple datacenters and global acceleration and caching… I will let you know.
Another wonderful episode!
KnowNow: I am looking forward to the potential for them to participate in the testing community. Hopefully, they will bring their own expertise and requirements to testing WordPress.
David, I didn’t quite follow your PayPerPost comment about a Coke employee talking favorably about their employer. I don’t think whether the comment is favorable or not is the main issue, but disclosing whether it is is a paid post or you have a vested interest seems like a good thing when the relationship is not clear. As you say there will likely soon be a legal requirement.
GPL: GNU General Public License, not the common mistakes of thinking the P is for Purpose or Protection. I asked about the origin of the license’s name’ a couple of years ago.
Podz prefers Mark now.
Keep up the incredible and essential work!
PS. the homepage looks odd with “episode n” bold for 11-13 but not 14 or 15.
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The site looks great ! Thanks for all your help ( past, present and future !)