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In this Aftertaste episode Otto sticks around after WP Late Night #10 and we discuss P2 theme version 1.4, SVN versus Git, Mac versus Windows versus Linux, and the finer qualities of crappy beers. Oh and Nacin joined in for a few minutes toward the end to talk about WordPress.org issues a bit, just for fun.
This after show episode is actually twice the length as the show it follows, by the way. Enjoy.
The infamous Otto Wood joined the WP Late Night crew this week to discuss WordPress.org, WordPress plugins, PressNomics, Code Poet, and all sorts of other stuff. If you enjoy WordPress discussion, particularly if you’re a WordPress developer, this is an episode you don’t want to miss.
This week the show had no sponsors. If you’d like to support WPCandy podcasts, and get your message out to thousands of interested WordPress users and developers, see the advertising page for more information.
The world-famous Otto — of ottopress.com, Audrey Capital, WordPress.org, and awesome plugin fame — will join the regular WP Late Night crew for the podcast tonight. Potential discussion topics include WordPress 3.4, the recent updates to WordPress.org, or even the quality of the BBQ he enjoyed the last week in Memphis.
Join the live stream and chatroom tonight at 8pm EDT on the WPCandy Stream. If you have any questions or topics you’d like to hear us discuss with Otto, you can leave them in the comments below.
Renku is a service, yet in beta, that will offer a plugin purchasing experience through the WordPress dashboard. Ryan McCue explained how Renku works in a recent blog post.
I’ll definitely be attending this year’s PressNomics event in November. Who else is planning on attending, either by invite or standard registration she€n it’s available?
If you haven’t yet, be sure to read over the PressNomics feature I published when they announced the event.
About a month ago I began accepting podcast sponsorships for the WordPress podcasts we publish here on the blog. This week is the first available sponsorship slot since that announcement.
If you’d like to support the shows on WPCandy and want to reach a very interested community of WordPress users and developers, see the advertising page and get in touch. That page also includes up to date statistics on episode downloads.
Speaking of podcasts, there will be a slew of them going up later today. We rescheduled WP Late Night to tonight, and we also have the standard Weekly Theme Show and WPCandy Podcast recording times. I’d say it will be a good day for fans of WordPress audio.
If you spend any time on the WordPress.org plugin directory (or heard us talking about it on any of WPCandy’s podcasts last week) then you likely noticed a few updates. Matt Mullenweg described the tweaks himself over on the WordPress.org news blog, which is worth reading if you want to know the thinking behind the changes.
Briefly, the updates included:
If you’d like to take a look at these updates in action, check out the BuddyPress plugin page for an example, complete with header image.
The WordPress.org team completed the updates last week (along with the latest addition to Audrey Capital) during a BBQ week in Memphis. As Matt said in his post:
This is why WordCamps usually have BBQ – it imparts magical coding powers.
Had you noticed the updates to the plugin directory before seeing the announcement, or this post? Let us know what you think of them in the comments.
Developer Jason Bobich:
Why should you be limited to whatever features the theme author has stuffed in that may or may not be relevant to you? You should be able to choose your own SEO plugin to accomplish what you want.
WordPress developer and self-described “prolific plugin developer” Scott Reilly has joined Audrey Capital, Matt Mullenweg’s angel investment and research company. Reilly joins Audrey’s other developers Andrew Nacin and Samuel (Otto) Wood to work on WordPress.org and whatever other special projects come their way.
Reilly has contributed to WordPress since 2004, both by contributing patches to core and by developing and releasing many, many plugins. Odds are you’ve used at least one of his slew of plugins at one point or another — I’ve certainly praised his plugin work time and time again.
Developers at Audrey Capital, put simply, work on whatever projects Mullenweg assigns. Their work often includes work on WordPress.org (the website) and other community initiatives. The work often coincides with the consumption of barbecue, as it did this past week.
WordCamp Seattle and WordCamp Austin are happening this weekend. Actually, they’re happening right now. Since it’s far too late to snag a ticket and run over there (far, far too late), I suggest you attend the events in whatever way you can:
Just because you can’t be there doesn’t mean you can’t still enjoy (part of) the show. And hey, while you’re here in this post, why don’t you share the next WordCamp you plan to attend in the flesh. Visit WordCamp Central to see the events happening all over planet Earth in the near future.
