The WordPress Podcast

Archive for March, 2007

Episode 21: WordCamp, an official plug-in directory and Charles’ troubles with upgrades

00:00 Mindless Banter: David is still recovering from his cold and Charles missed SXSW.
03:11 News: WordCamp scheduled for July 21st and 22nd.
07:11 News: WordPress now has an official plug-in directory.
12:42 News: How to get your OpenID URL account to work on WordPress.com blogs.
15:24 News: WordPress.com adds slideshows and maps.
17:13 News: Add WordPress Wednesdays to your must-read lists.
18:29 News: Mark Jaquith is getting married!
19:36 Plug-In: InstantUpgrade v0.1 mostly worked as advertised, but read the instructions carefully!
24:04 Plug-In: Database Backup v1.7 backs up your database, except it failed to backup mine, but that wasn’t its fault.
26:05 Plug-In: Enhanced Plug-In Manager v1.1 supposedly deactivates all your plug-ins in one fell swoop, but I couldn’t get it to work.
29:44 Plug-In: Visualize Advanced Features v0.03 adds an icon to the end of the default editor bar that brings up the advanced featured editor bar when clicked.
31:34 Theme: Blogging Pro’s theme has been released in three different flavors: one requiring certain plug-ins, one requiring no plug-ins and one supporting widgets.
34:18 Feedback: Jeremy Visser suggests the WordPress 2.0 branch is being updated because of its in Debian Etch, the next stable release of Debian, which requires a commitment for security updates.
35:30 Feedback: Toni Schneider informs us that the KnowNow WordPress Enterprise Edition is being used in Fortune 1000 companies such as AMD, First Republic, HP, Sun, Union Bank, and Wells Fargo.
38:04 Feedback: Both Lloyd Budd and Byrne Reese weighed in on OpenID as well as the new Blogger importer.
 
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Episode 20: WordPress 2.1.1 Contains Some Bad Mojo!

00:00 Mindless Banter: Charles’ hard disk failed and yet he managed to launch Podcast Planning on the Podango Podcast Mastery Network. David returned from Northern Voice, having met bloggers Robert Scoble and Lloyd Budd.
04:00 News: WordPress 2.0.9 and 2.1.1 released.
06:04 News: WordPress 2.1.1 compromised, update to 2.1.2 ASAP!
07:45 News: WordPress.com is now an OpenID provider.
12:02 Plug-In: BookCover v1.1 displays a book’s cover using its ISBN number.
12:55 Plug-In: Ultimate Google Analytics v1.5.3 lets you track your blog pages using Google Analytics without having to hard-code your tracker in each theme’s files. You can even track downloads and ignore your own log-ins to the WordPress admin pages.
14:56 Plug-In ImageShack Uploader v1.0.1b allows you to upload images to ImageShack, a free and easy-to-use hosting service which allows you to share your images with others, from your post screen and to insert them, along with the thumbnail, into your post with a few clicks.
16:09 Plug-In: OpenID v86 lets visitors to a WordPress blog quickly register, login, and leave comments using their OpenID Identity.
17:23 Plug-In: MarketingTrick v 1.0 gives access to full text of posts only to registered users, but also has some additional functionalities other than just to force users to register/login: You can specify a time delay before showing full text to not-registered(or logged) users; You can allow bots (google, yahoo, msn, archive etc) to view your full text always; You can show the short text in full text mode to not-registered users; and you can set the text that is displayed before the login form.
18:59 Feedback: Jeremy Visser corrects my mispronunciation of LaTeX.
20:04 Feedback: Erik J. Barzeski complains that Gravatar is still having problems.
22:08 Feedback: Lloyd Budd tells us the new Blogger Importer is in the trunk.
23:57 Feedback: Dave Shepard found the keystrokes necessary to bring up the additional editing features in WordPress v2.1 confusing and different in different operating systems. (And David continues to say OSX as “Mac OS X”.)
25:46 Feedback: Gene Desepoli inquires about the Tarski theme, which, until recently, was the theme used on the blog here.
27:25 Feedback: Alex Neihaus compliments us on the podcast, particularly our coverage of the permalink migration plug-in.
29:20 Open Question: David wonders aloud, “Whatever happened with the KnowNow Enterprise Edition of WordPress?”
 
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