Episode 24: WordPress 2.2 and the Search for New Co-hosts
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News: David Peralty leaves the podcast/The search for one of more co-hosts begins David Peralty, citing personal reasons and a general desire to limit his work load, has left his co-host duties both with The WordPress Podcast and the TechCanuck podcast. Aaron Brazell from b5media and technosailor.com fills in as co-host for episode #24, but we’re in need of one or more new co-hosts in order to continue. So, if you’re a WordPress aficionado with a Skype address and would like to be considered, send us an e-mail at the address mentioned in the podcast. |
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News: WordPress v2.2 released, voice your preferences for v2.3’s feature list WordPress version 2.2 was released. The main features added or improved are:
(From Aaron Brazell’s 10 Things You Should Know About WordPress 2.2.) Discussion is beginning to percolate about the features that should be included in the next version, and you can add your opinion to the mix either here in the comments section and/or at the WordPress site. |
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Plug-in: Mass Post Manager v1.0.1 This plug-in allows you to delete all posts and/or comments in selected category as well as move all of the posts from one category to another. |
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Plug-in: AntiLeech v1.8 AntiLeech produces a fake set of content especially for splogger bots that includes links back to your site. When they steal this content, it appears online just like normal, except now you’ve turned the tables on them and have provided them with useless content. |
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Plug-in: Genki YouTube Comments v1.0 Grabs comments from YouTube videos you’ve posted and inserts them into the associated post on your blog. |
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Another great podcast Charles!
Just a small FYI, LobsterMan’s name is Joe. He and I have worked together on a few WordPress projects.
I love how you made him sound like a super hero. If he hasn’t heard this podcast yet, I’ll make sure he’s aware of it
Haven’t had a chance to listen to the podcast yet, but I’d be willing to offer up my non-stentorian pipes for some podcasting work…
1st of all, I’m not from Maine or Florida, It’s Jerusalem, Israel.
It’s not only a web alias, but also a real life nickname I got somehow. (But I’m not red, and I don’t have claws) I’m otherwise know as Rubin, or Joe, or both 
I’d offer myself for the co-host position, but I really hate the way I sound on recording. Good luck with finding a new co-host.
@LobsterMan: “I really hate the way I sound on recording” so I guess that means I shouldn’t release the Geek With Laptop podcast with our late night coding conversations?
[...] Pleasantly surprised to find Genki YouTube Comments among the 3 plugins to be featured on the latest podcast Episode 24: WordPress 2.2 and the Search for New Co-hosts. [...]
Actually Genki YouTube Comments will work on any video. You need not be the owner of the vid
Thanks for featuring my plugin btw
Why is this post dated April 26?
April 26th was when I created the draft. I’ve corrected it now. Are you guys happy?!
[...] those of you with nothing to do, pop on over and have a listen to the WordPress podcast where I was a guest cohost for a second episode in a row. It was a lot of fun. Charles is a great [...]
[...] Have a listen to episode 24. [...]
Good luck on a co-host, sounds like a cool “job” to have
Hello, Charles, and Aaron,
Listening toward the end about Aaron’s experiment regarding a strict RSS feed-based avenue of content distribution. The idea’s intriguing to me.
But - I think then the idea of having a web-based front-end (and administration panel) is actually over-kill. Submission would be better handled through online service from either email or a GUI on the client-side - and the admin panel would be better served/focused on handling technical aspects of the content. Then again - perhaps a GUI on the client could handle those tasks as well - but - we run into an issue with plugins, and how they’re structured, installed, hooked, maintained.
Anyway. Just a thought. I’m all for the idea of XML ‘entity’-type content distribution, because I think in a distant future, that’s where the Web has an incredible amount of potential. The idea of being able to give and take information so that it can be ‘automatically’ shared to add value to all of us, is a more intriguing idea than actually the branding portion of information. (Meaning that branding is in essence a more ’shallow’ necessity in the current model - whereas true sharing is independent of brand [though can be branded].)
Although it is the popular opinion that pages are just like posts, the response to Tom Johnson’s question about whether or not WordPress places a limit on pages may not be correct. There is related performance problem for large numbers of pages.
Scaling issue with hundreds of pages
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3614
Too many static pages crashing database?
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/99953