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In episode seven I share my thoughts on something I’ve tried to do on a daily basis to be more efficient when working in the WordPress dashboard. I’m curious what you think of this idea.
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Jake Goldman and Brad Williams hung around for a few minutes after the end of WP Late Night episode 3, and we chatted casually a bit more. Aftertaste is, of course, our podcast for the after show. Listen to this one for episode title debates, some amount of inside baseball, and to find out why I start cursing at Brad toward the end.
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In episode 3 of WP Late Night, the “BruddyPress” edition, Jake Goldman of 10up joins Brad and I as guest host. Dre Armeda was feeling under the weather this week, so we wish him well and a speedy recovery. In this episode we discussed upcoming WordCamps, the BuddyPress codex, version control, complex themes, and — well, at this point you’d be best just listening to the episode. It’s a good one.
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The WP Late Night crew (that’s myself, Brad Williams, and Dre Armeda) are recording episode three of the show tonight live on the WPCandy Stream. The show will start at 8pm EST, so don’t forget to set those alarm clocks fancy iPhone alarm apps whatever the cool kids are using nowadays.
Until then, why not catch up on WP Late Night episodes one and two? Episode two is part of the current WPCandy Stream playlist, so you could just hang out there too.
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Hope to see you in the chatroom tonight!
This Aftertaste episode was recorded after recording the first-ever episode of The Weekly Theme Show. It’s mostly a rehash of what was discussed, what could be done better, and a bit of thinking for future shows. It is just what the Aftertaste specializes in: casual conversations on any topic whatsoever.
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With our ongoing clients we are commonly engaged in building new features and functionality while also needing to be able to make smaller changes (hotfixes) that are pushed up immediately. With Git it is easy for us to maintain development of more involved functionality in feature branches and still being able to push up quick changes as needed.
Alex King’s blog post explains their thought process, and a bit about their new setup.
This is the Week of New PodcastsTM, is it not? The Weekly Theme Show is a brand new audio production featuring myself and two people you probably don’t know. This show will discuss WordPress themes, weekly, from a user’s perspective (and not a developer’s).
Justin Jones and Nicholas Weaver, who I can now proudly call co-hosts as well as friends, are both WordPress users here in my city. You’ll get to know them better as the show goes on and they post here more often, but right now all you need to know is that they use WordPress and WordPress themes a lot.
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Commercial themes are sometimes a bit on the complex side. WordPress theme shop Obox is attempting to improve their own theme setup process, or what David Perel calls “a nightmare“. Perel says Obox is working on a number of different ideas now, but their first is just recently out the door: color-coded widgets.
He explains:
Since our theme home pages use widgets for flexibility we have decided that that is where we should focus our attention. The result is color coding our widgets. […]
This way we can explain items in their simplest form. No longer do we have to come up with documentation to fix a fundamental problem in theme design. We can now say, “Put blue in the blue box.”
Perel and his team hope that color-coding their widgets (pictured above, larger version at Obox) will help reduce the documentation and steps needed to set up their themes. Right now they are available in their selecta, Casual, Handmade, and Handmade eCommerce themes.
Personally I’m not sold on the usefulness of this yet, but I’m intrigued by the idea. What do you think?
After recording the Community Interview with Lance Willett, Lance stuck around and we chatted further about pronunciations, upcoming WordCamps, and how to talk about themes with users. This clip runs about ten minutes.
Remember, we’re chatting about WordPress and recording awesome stuff live over on the WPCandy Stream pretty much every day. That’s where this clip was recorded, in fact. If you’re looking for some solid background noise while working on that next WordPress project, do check it out.
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February makes 12 months since commercial (or “premium”) themes were introduced on WordPress.com. I spoke with Lance Willett last year about the announcement, and thought it only proper to sit down and speak with him about it again.
This interview was included, edited for time, in the second half of WPCandy Podcast #31. The full interview is just under an hour long.
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