Episode 32: Automattic Rumors, Lorelle Provides WordPress.com News
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| Introducing Jonathan Bailey, author and plagiarism expert. Jonathan will join us again soon for an episode dedicated to combating spammers, spinners and other copyright thieves so be sure and e-mail in your questions for that. | 00:34 |
| News: Automattic, Inc. turns down $200M, receives additional funding Rumors abound surrounding Automattic, Inc. including their turning down US$200 million in acquisition money, the founders receiving US$50 million and Matt Mullenweg’s peculiar jazz-themed home decorations. Interesting… but it turns out most all of them aren’t true. |
05:04 |
| News: BlogTheme.com Modified Themes Tainted It’s been reported that BlogTheme.com (No, I will not link to them) has been caught taking themes authored by others and released under GPL and modifying them to include links back to their site and malware links. Please get your themes from their original authors and/or reputable sites. |
10:09 |
| News: Mullenweg Mulls WordPress.com Premium Theme Marketplace Project leader Matt Mullenweg first announced and later clarified his intentions to offer premium themes to WordPress.com users under a profit sharing arrangement with the theme’s authors. Lorelle also weighs in on some of the debate surrounding the idea. |
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| News: Lorelle Joins the Podcast to Provide WordPress.com News In her first official appearance as our WordPress.com reporter, Lorelle tells us of The Journalist theme addition bringing the total available to 25, November statistics, the continued theme marketplace idea and holiday gift ideas for the WordPress enthusiast. Lorelle’s articles at The Blog Herald are must-reads, particularly WordPress Wednesdays. |
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| Plugins: Donncha O Caoimh’s WP-Super-Cache takes over for the now defunct WP-Cache 2 plugin, fixing a couple of bugs, adding some hooks and new features and making WP-Cache more flexible. This is a must have! | 19:17 |
| Plugins: WordPress Comment Moderation Notifier alerts you when comments to your blogs are sent into the moderation queue. There are Windows and Mac versions available. | 27:09 |
| Plugins: Absolute Comments Manager gives you the ability to reply to comments from within the same page as where you manage them. | 30:00 |
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Some discussion of the Matt Mullenweg “trumpet as fruit bowl” story on The WordPress Podcast. Presenters could do with some of that sense of humour thing, but nice to hear anyway
5:04 - 10:09 is the relevant portion.
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The one reputable site you link to is a closed loop now, since no themes can be added or updated.
Most definitely a friend of the podcast! Another great episode.
Caching isn’t something I’m particularly knowledgable about. I imagine why it isn’t in core today, is because of the complexity of the problem and the solution. If a robust, general solution is developed then I’m sure we will see it championed for inclusion in core. As this is file based cahce, in a shared hosting environment file access (often nfs mounted) can be slower than database queries. If you have the traffic, then you have the support or expertize hopefully, and this is only one part of your strategy.
w00t, comments
But, erm, no podcast (at lest to play on teh page) as podpress is broken, see here: http://wp-community.org/wp/podpress_trac/web/61/0/wordpress-podcast-032.mp3
BTW, install subscribe to comment please.
I’d love to listen to this podcast, but the little slider in the player just keeps on showing “Buffering…” for a veeeery long time, and when I try to download the show I get an error message that reads:
Fatal error: Using $this when not in object context in /home/fourohco/public_html/wp-community/wp/wp-content/plugins/podpress/podpress_functions.php on line 851
(FireFox 2.0.0.11)
Que pasa?
Please fix the problem with the mp3 and push back to the feed for us RSS readers. Please.
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Its weird but… I have the same problems as the people above, the podcast is broke on the page. It however plays in google reader directly if you are subscibed to the rss feed….
Yep, the download file is b0rked. Instead of an MP3, you get:
Fatal error: Using $this when not in object context in /home/fourohco/public_html/wp-community/wp/wp-content/plugins/podpress/podpress_functions.php on line 851
I am working on the problem. Keep in mind I’ve moved to a new server and things aren’t quite the same as they were.Fixed. I think it had something to do with permissions being wrong.
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you wondered why people will pay $10 for this and $50 for that while talking about specialty themes instead of just rolling their own to get what they want. the answer is really simple. content people are content people and may not know CSS, php, mysql etc. and perhaps don’t care to learn these things either. they’re content people and that’s what they should focus on. and this is fine. one can only do so much in a day.
if there’s a great design /layout that people can choose from, pay something nominal that supports great designers and contributors to the community, I don’t see the problem.
Hey guys,
Lloyd answered your question about including wp-cache in core pretty well, but I wanted to add that the last time it came up in wp-hackers (mailing list) the conclusion was that there were enough people running systems that were better served by other methods at the server level (memcache and other server tweaks) and enough people who for whatever reason would be unable to use wp-cache that it would just add bloat to the system to include it in all Wordpress downloads. There were a few people who were pretty upset at the idea actually. Like you said though, 99% of users with shared hosting should turn it on, especially if they are installing all the other plugins you guys recommend!