A Taste of WPCandy: Your Breaking Community News Source

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Frederick Townes | 12 Comments
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Ryan Imel

Ryan Imel, Editor-in-Chief of WP Candy transformed what was once a tutorial site for the past years into a face-paced breaking WordPress news site. Ryan is a serial entrepreneur having created projects like COMMENTbits and others. On the show we review Ryan’s goals for the transformation and how he feels value is provided to the readership. Upon visiting WP Candy, users will find the latest and greatest news, WordCamp recaps, reviews, podcasts, interviews, podcasts, plugins, themes and of course tutorials as always. Among the interesting goodies tucked away in the site is the theme finder. We also discuss mechanics of getting a new site started including site structure, taxonomies and uses of tags and tag clouds.

We invite everyone to submit reviews and tips at WP Candy and help Ryan and his team continue to help us all stay up-to-date with WordPress news.

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About Frederick Townes

Frederick Townes is the Chief Technical Officer of Mashable.com, one of the top 3 blogs worldwide. As designer, search / social media marketer and WordPress consultant Frederick’s projects are typically based on WordPress. One of his largest contributions to the WordPress community was his performance plugin W3 Total Cache.

Since 2003 his agency W3 EDGE has assisted startups and brands like: Smashing Magazine, CVS Pharmacy, Hyatt, Kodak, Microsoft, Sanyo, Sherwin Williams, Southwest Airlines, Staples, Sony, R.E.I., Weight Watchers, Yahoo and others.

A serial web entrepreneur, one of Frederick’s latest projects was W3 MARKUP. Quickly rising to the #2 web site production outsourcing services in 2008, W3 MARKUP was so disruptive it was acquired by the market leader after 11 short months.

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12 Responses to A Taste of WPCandy: Your Breaking Community News Source

  1. affiliatesea says:
    October 28, 2010 at 1:01 pm

    Nice Interview.Thanks Frederick and Ryan.

  2. jason says:
    October 28, 2010 at 4:03 pm

    What the hell is face-paced? How do I know the pace at which his face moves. Does he have a nervous tic?

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  4. mirtha says:
    October 29, 2010 at 1:39 pm

    es muy interesante

  5. Funny man says:
    November 1, 2010 at 1:14 am

    The podcast is not what it has been entitled in this article, it’s all about a core wordpress developer called Andrew Naison!!!!! Where is the Ryan Imel from WpCandy’s interview?????????????????

  6. Web Design Showroom says:
    November 3, 2010 at 6:02 am

    Really enjoyed listening to that Podcast. There’s so much going on in the WordPress Community that it was crying out for a resource like WP Candy.

    Paul

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  8. Sylvia says:
    November 3, 2010 at 7:59 am

    Ryan still gives me goosebumps. I love WPCandy and honored to have met him. Great interview!

  9. Theo says:
    November 3, 2010 at 10:55 pm

    Nice and interesting interview.Thanks!

  10. Nicholas Weaver says:
    November 5, 2010 at 1:33 pm

    Enjoyed the interview, solid ideas from Ryan!