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 Standard Podcast [44:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I’ve been busy with other things and sitting on this episode, which Jonathan and I recorded several weekends ago. I’ve finally gotten around to editing it down and it includes:

• WordPress 2.5.1 was released April 25th, and includes a significant security fix, so you should update as soon as possible if you haven’t done so already. This version does break the reset password feature, however. (Thanks to Ryan McCue for providing a patch file.)
• Matt Mullenweg announced Sphere integration into blog content to display related posts, and automatic theme-creation for photo bloggers at the Web 2.0 expo in San Francisco.
• WordPress and WordPress.com are Webware 100 award winners in the Publishing category.
• Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror took a lot of heat for his characterization of WordPress as a “Destroyer of CPUs“, and the subject of caching reared its ugly heat once again.
• Raj Dash loves WordPress, but hates WordPress 2.5. Jonathan asks for a way to change the color scheme of the admin panel.
• A new search feature allows for the search of over 3 million WordPress.com blogs. Search results can be ordered by relevancy, our magic secret sauce algorithm that’s the default, or by most recent, so you can see the latest and greatest on any given subject. There are also language-specific engines for every language WordPress.com supports.
• WordPress.com now includes many of the same features available to WordPress 2.5 users.
• WordPress.com blocked in Brazil.
• When you attempt to login to a WordPress account, you are given fairly specific error messages if you enter the username or password incorrectly. This can be helpful to an attacker if they are trying to guess usernames and/or passwords. Login Error Cleanup simply returns the message “Error” if the combination submitted is not valid.
• Widgetized Admin Dashboard is a Wordpress Plugin for 2.5+ that lets you edit the Wordpress Dashboard in the Design > Widgets area. It also removes the WordPress Developer News and WP Planet News that many consider to be “Dashboard Spam” and lets you see exactly what you want to see on your dashboard.

Episode 42 was also recorded a while back and I’ll be publishing that over the next week or so.

 

 Voices of WordCamp Dallas [32:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Note: I didn’t mean to publish this to the podcast feed, but I guess podPress assumed it was a episode and published it anyway. Cest la vie! So, consider this lagniappe. - Charles

This is a collection of voices and interviews from WordCamp Dallas 2008 with Lorelle VanFossen of Lorelle on WordPress and the The WordPress Podcast.

Lorelle wandered around during the breaks at WordCamp Dallas asking participants for their opinions on the weekend event and their thoughts on WordPress and blogging in general. Everyone was so open and sincere in their appreciation of the event, excited to meet Matt Mullenweg and the rest of the Automattic team, and the top notch speakers, some of whom shared their thoughts on the event with me in this interview.

The variety of bloggers present were incredibly diverse, covering everything from life blogging to cooking to high technology. DB Ferguson of No Fact Zone, one of the top Steve Colbert fan sites shared her blog post and thoughts about sitting behind the famous Matt Mullenweg during the conference - close enough to touch!

Dorian Karthauser of DK Enterprises had only been blogging for three weeks, one of the “youngest” bloggers present. She took time out to share her thoughts on being new to blogging and WordPress, citing some of the challenges she’s had learning how to blog with WordPress as well as the lessons she took away from the conference.

Charlene Mullenweg shared some thoughts and insights into being the sister of one of the most famous “Matts” around, and about her own experiences blogging, and being in a blogging family.

Lorelle enjoyed talking to people about their thoughts on WordCamp Dallas, WordPress and their personal experience with blogging. Sit back and enjoy the next 32 minutes of insights and lessons learned.

The voices include:

00:10 Bill Sholar of Webfratelli
00:37 Dan Bates
00:59 Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today
01:45 Ptah Dunbar
02:34 Bryan Lee
03:14 Cory Miller of iThemes Media
03:44 Henry Pugsley
04:07 Kerry Webster of WEBsmith internet consultants
04:44 Wendi McGowan of Wendistry, LLC and Scott Ellis of vsellis.com
05:36 Dave Curlee and Katherine Curlee of RealCookN.tv
06:28 DB Ferguson of No Fact Zone
07:48 Alexander Frison of Not a Niche
09:18 Tony Cecala of Holistic Networker
10:04 Mike Borschow of MetroQ.com
11:55 Mark Ghosh of Weblog Tools Collection
12:30 Dorian Karthauser of DK Enterprises (beginner blogger)
17:35 Charlene Mullenweg (sister of Matt Mullenweg)
23:15 Jim Halloran of AlcoholismDiseaseFree.com
24:13 Ryan Joy and Michelle Greer of Volusion and Michelle’s Blog
26:41 Kathleen Ratliff
27:14 William Addington of Williamedia
28:31 Doug Smith of smithsrus.com and Hide a Pod
29:25 Ronald Huereca of Readers Appreciation Project and Weblog Tools Collection
30:23 Dimitri (blog not public - biotech)