On this week’s episode of The Weekly Theme Show, we discuss buying themes via a plugin like WP App Store, the results of the ThemeThrift project, and all sorts of options and dashboard notification fun stuff. Sounds like fun, doesn’t it?

This episode is sponsored by the upcoming WordPress service Raft.io and the Typecase plugin by UpThemes.

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Just in case you hadn’t had your fill of yesterday’s panel on WordPress themes and the ThemeForest marketplace, this episode of Aftertaste directly followed the panel discussion. Mike McAlister had to step away, but Chris Molitor and Jake Caputo discuss a few more topics before the chat room and the mic were switched off.

In this, the first ever episode of the Roundtable Podcast, I chatted with Mike McAlisterJake Caputo, and Chris Molitor. (Pippin Williamson had a baby today — congrats Pippin! — so we’ll get him on a future episode of the show.)

Mike, Jake, and Chris have all built their businesses by selling WordPress themes in the ThemeForest marketplace. Naturally, we discussed the nature of marketplaces and selling themes quite a bit. We talked support, typical customers, pricing, building your own brand, and theme business models. In other words if you like WordPress theme discussions, you should like this episode.

Be sure to check out Mike’s Okay Themes, Jake’s ThemeThrift, Chris’s themes on ThemeForest, and of course Pippin’s plugins when you get a chance. And keep an eye on the Stream broadcast schedule so you know the next time we’re planning to go live with a new podcast recording!

Frederick Townes, creator of the W3 Total Cache plugin and Senior Technical Advisor at Mashable, joined in last night for WP Late Night #8. We followed up on the WPMods and ThemeThrift discussions from last week, went over freelancer prices and books about WordPress, and finished up with a bit of a back and forth over issues facing WordCamp organizers. We were also briefly joined by Tony Perez (who wrote last week’s blog post that had everyone talking) when we discussed WordCamps.

This episode is sponsored by WordPress theme shop CSSIgniter and SeedProd’s Coming Soon Pro plugin.

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