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For those of you in the San Francisco area after WordCamp 2008, there’s another WordPress-based event taking place the following day that promises to be a cavalcade of fun for everyone - a scavenger hunt! Read more…

A few days ago we wrote about two upcoming WordCamps: San Francisco and New York City. Shortly after posting, even more details emerged about the upcoming WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco, CA. This particular WordCamp is usually the biggest and greatest WordPress event of the year, showcasing an abundance of speakers, workshops, and more.

When?

WordCamp 2008 will be held in San Francisco, CA on Saturday, August 16, 2008. This year, the event is located at the Mission Bay Conference Center, just down the road from AT&T park along the shore of Mission Bay. Tickets are just $20 and include admission for the day and a free t-shirt. You can still sign up online, so get your ticket soon!

Speakers

WordCamp 2008 features a great list of speakers. Those conducting presentations at the conference include Lloyd Budd, Andy Peatling, Sam Bauers, Tom Coates, Liz Danzico, Tantek Çelik, and Chris Lea.

Topics Of Discussion

Among these speakers, a variety of topics will be discussed such as “Secure Coding with WordPress”, “Open Source business models”, “Crazyhorse, Next-generation WordPress”, “WordPress APIs — iPhone and Beyond!”, and “Hassle-free Upgrades”. Sounds like it’s going to be one hell of a party.

Gravatar Badges

Do you have a gravatar on the web? Well, this year’s WordCamp SF badges will include a gravatar (up to 512×512 pixels) with an image of your choice. If you plan on going, make sure to set up your badge before attending!

So Who’s going?

If you’re going, let us know in the comments! We’re hoping that a few people who go will either do a live blog, Twitter the event, or set up a live video feed. WPCandy is also looking for a person to do some stuff for us while at the event, so if you’re interested, please let us know!

One of the conferences we’ve seen growing in popularity lately is WordCamp. These events are great opportunities to get together and meet other WordPress users from around the area. Most of these events aren’t hosted by Automattic. Rather, they can be planned and organized by anyone who has the time, resources, and organization skills to host a conference in their area. Here are two major WordCamps coming up in the US that we thought you might like to know about. Read more…

Not long ago, our team was online 9 a.m to 4 p.m. PDT to answer your questions and keep your blog running smoothly. Soon after, we brought it up to 24-hour support, five days and week, so those across the country and across the globe wouldn’t have to wait for their answers.

The time has come for help without delay. We hereby announce 24-7 support on WordPress.com.

WordPress.com Blog

The WordPress support team has decided to go to full 24-hour, 7-day free support for WordPress.com-hosted blogs. First they were 9am to 4pm PST, then 24-hours for five days a week, and now you can get support on weekends too.

The official WordPress support team handles issues pertaining to blogs hosted on WordPress.com. If you have a WordPress.com blog, you can contact them if you come across any functionality problems or have a question about how to use the system.

If you’re looking for support for a self-hosted weblog, you can visit the support forums where there are a number of experienced developers waiting to help answer your questions.

Adii and the Premium News Theme development crew have recently re-branded as the all-new WooThemes. This new branding will allow them to offer a larger variety of premium WordPress themes to the public. Along with their new brand, they’ve added Elliot Jay Stocks, ex-senior designer of web startup Carsonified, to the team, where he will be designing themes for the rest of the crew to develop. Elliot has already released ProudFolio, his first theme for WooThemes. Read more…

Last Friday, like every usual Friday night, I tuned into WordPress Weekly, with host Jeff Chandler and a few guys from the WordPress community.

For the first 35 minutes of the show, Jeff interviewed Patrick O’ Keefe, book author and owner of the online network iFroggy. Patrick talked about managing forums and online communities, and issues that coincide. It was pretty sweet to get the insight by someone with so much experience in the field.

After that interview, Jeff interviewed yours truly, Dan Philibin. Dan was asked questions about our new design and different aspects of it. It was a fairly sudden interview with no previous preparation, but Dan did pretty well, if you ask me.

Next, Jeff talked about the Show125 plugin (via a post by HackWordPress.com) and the All-In-SEO plugin not being supported anymore for future versions (which is now being supported by hallsofmontezuma at WordPress.org). Jeff also brings on Richard Paul who shared his opinions on the All-In-SEO plugin and how it should be implemented into WordPress.

Anyways, I don’t want to spoil all the fun, so check out the episode for more WordPress news. And If you’ve never tuned into WordPress Weekly, there’s one usually every Friday night at 10pm, so make sure to stop on by!

Blogalized is a site that provides well-designed WordPress themes for low prices. They also have a Blog Club for members who are in need of a lot of themes. With the BlogClub, you’ll initially start off with 6 themes and receive another 11 themes (1 a month), for a total for 17 themes. That’s not bad at all for only $49.95. Of course, as an alternative, you can purchase themes separately at the price of $14.00 per theme.

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To put it simple, Blogalized is an affordable place to purchase themes to freshen up your site. With that being said, Blogalized has provided WPCandy with a coupon for our readers, which is you guys. For the first 25 users to sign up with the coupon code “wpcandy”, you’ll receive 50% off the Blog Club membership fee. The coupon expires on June 25th, so make sure to take advantage of this incredible deal.

Finally! Pawel Ciszewski, the new owner of WPDesigner.com, has introduced himself. In his brief introductory post, Pawel touches on a few questions people have been asking.

Who are you and what are your plans with WPDesigner?

“My names Pawel Ciszewski, the names Polish but I’ve was born and raised in Milwaukee, WI and currently reside in Miami Beach, FL.

I’m an online entrepreneur who actively pursues many differenet internet ventures and actively acquire sites that I feel are valuable resources to the Internet and will be profitable long term.”

What are your plans for WPDesigner?

“I will try to keep the blog posts and blog designs as good as they where by SP but that will be a challenge and nobody will replace SP.

Expanding the themes club will be my main objective. I myself won’t be actively posting or building themes, not by expertise and leave that to those who are.”

What do you guys think of Pawel? Has he made a good first impression? Do you think he will really go on to fulfilling Small Potato’s legacy? I hope so!

Oh and don’t be shy. Go introduce yourself to Pawel.