Latest Show Episodes & Updates
BuddyPress Social NetworkingAir Date: March 9, 2010
This weeks guest was Andy Peatling of the BuddyPress.org Project. BuddyPress is a social networking plugin for WordPress which ads many of the features found on sites like Facebook to WordPress blogs in as few as 10 minutes. We discussed how BuddyPress came about, some of the ways its used, some tips on getting started, customizing it and most importantly the features it provides.
Air Date: March 2, 2010
This week Joost is joined by Jeff Chandler of the WordPress Tavern and Grant Griffiths of the Headway theme. They discussed all of the implications of themes and plugins being GPL or not, and why people would and in Joost’s opinion should choose to be GPL. Also some discussion came up about how theme and plugin authors should be credited.
Air Date: February 23, 2010
Joost and Frederick talk to Dougal Campbell, one of the original WordPress developers. They discuss various topics: from differences between WordPress and Drupal, and how they handle automatic testing and custom data types (for which WordPress has the upcoming custom post types and the pods plugin), to donations (or lack thereof) for plugins. They go in-depth about microformats and RDFa and how you could use the custom field functionality in WordPress (which Dougal wrote) to make use of those. Last but not least, WordPress 3 comes around the corner a couple of times, discussing all the cool new features in it (like author specific templates and background support) and what should and should not be in core, like multi site and multi domain settings.
Air Date: February 16, 2010
Frederick and Joost talk to Dennis Mortensen, Director of Data Insights at Yahoo! and responsible for Yahoo! Web Analytics. They discuss what YWA offers and how people can and could use all the cool new data that’s becoming available in all the better web analytics solutions out there. From geeky stuff like using microformats to extend web analytics tagging (which Dennis did a post on) to how you can see gender and age demographics for your blogs visitors and how to use all that info to improve your site.
Air Date: February 9, 2010
Web developer Chris Pearson, who specializes in building detailed, robust WordPress themes, most notably the Thesis Wordpress theme, joins Joost and Frederick to discuss how he created Thesis to become the ultimate publishing platform on the web.
Air Date: February 2, 2010
Joost and Frederick discuss the WordPress Advanced Ticket System, plus how WordPress and WordPress MU have merged and multi-site functionality wil be included in the upcoming Wordpress 3.0.
Air Date: January 19, 2010
Joost welcomes the In-House Director of Search Engine Optimization for the Tribune Company, Brent Payne, who has over 7-years of experience in the search engine optimization field.
