Otto will join the WP Late Night crew for tonight’s episode

By 21 hours agoMay 22, 2012

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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.

Podcast sponsorship available this week

By 1 day agoMay 22, 2012

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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.

Have any questions for the BuddyPress Core team?

By 7 days agoMay 16, 2012

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This week’s WPCandy Roundtable will be filled with BuddyPress Core developers: John James Jacoby, Boone Gorges, and Paul Gibbs will be sitting down to chat. If you caught last week’s show with the marketplace theme developers, you’ll know a thing or two about what to expect tomorrow afternoon.

We’ll be streaming the Roundtable on the WPCandy Stream at 2pm EDT (18 UTC) with the chatroom buzzing if you’d like to swing by and get your question answered by the group.

Speaking of questions, if you have one (or a few) that you’d like to see posed to these BuddyPress pros leave it in the comments below. Make ‘em good ones!

New Roundtable Podcast recording today at 2pm EDT

By 13 days agoMay 10, 2012

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Today I’m excited to introduce a new feature on WPCandy: The Roundtable Podcast, a weekly WordPress panel of experts. Each Thursday afternoon I’ll be sitting down with a new group of true professionals to quiz them on what they do and how they do it.

This week (or rather, today) the panel consists of developers Mike McAlister, Jake Caputo, Chris Molitor, and Pippin Williamson. The topics on the table are developing for theme and plugin marketplaces, building a brand yourself, and (very likely) dragons.

Join us for the Roundtable Podcast recording today at 2pm EDT on the WPCandy Stream. If you have any questions or topics you’d be interested in these gents tackling, just leave it in the comments and I’ll add it to the list.

Don’t forget to head over to the WPCandy Stream at 2pm EDT today!

New in WPCandy Labs: WordPress plugin and theme header creators

By 14 days agoMay 9, 2012

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You might have noticed a new addition to the primary blog navigation above: Labs. WPCandy Labs is just a section of the site where I can tuck away fun little ideas and projects and test them out. Initially the WPCandy Labs page was empty, but I added it up in the navigation regardless as a reminder that I need to spend time on new ideas and fill that section of the site up.

I’m happy to point you to two new, simple additions to the Labs today. First is the WordPress Theme CSS Header Creator, and second is the WordPress Plugin Header Creator.

Those names just roll right off the tongue, don’t they?

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Meet the slightly realigned WPCandy design

By 14 days agoMay 9, 2012

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Posting about Sucuri Security’s redesign yesterday reminded me that I haven’t done a proper post talking about some of the recent updates to the WPCandy site design. If you normally read only via RSS, now’s a good time to pop over to the site proper and check out the (kind of new) look.

There are a number of updates to the design that you might have noticed already. I’ll run through my favorites in this post.

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Frederick Townes will join the WP Late Night crew for tonight’s podcast

By 14 days agoMay 9, 2012

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Frederick Townes, creator of the W3 Total Cache plugin and Senior Technical Advisor at Mashable, will be joining the WP Late Night crew for tonight’s podcast. We’ll be recording live on the WPCandy Stream at 8:00 PM EDT, and every one of you is invited to join us.

We’ll be broadcasting from the Stream at 8:00 PM EDT, and of course we’ll have the WPCandy chat room open (#wpcandy on freenode) throughout the show. We’ll be talking about all the big WordPress news of the last week — you don’t want to miss tonight’s show! If there are any topics you’d like to see discussed, or questions for Mr. Townes even, drop them in the comments below.

Note: We do keep a broadcast calendar, with dates of live broadcasts and scheduled guests. Refer to that any time you’re wondering when the next time we’ll be going live with a new podcast.

Support quality WordPress discussion by sponsoring WPCandy podcasts

By 35 days agoApril 18, 2012

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Just a quick announcement to let you know that any interested WordPress businesses or services (or products that would be relevant to the WordPress community, of course) are welcome to get in touch regarding podcast sponsorships. Sponsorship opportunities are now available for the three major WPCandy podcasts: WP Late Night, The WPCandy Podcast, and The Weekly Theme Show.

There’s more information on available sponsorships over on the revamped advertisement page, where you can also get in touch regarding Pressed Ads advertisements.

Don’t miss out on this week’s live podcast recordings

By 36 days agoApril 17, 2012

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If you’re around your computer working in the next couple of days, flip over to the WPCandy Stream and tune in for the live recordings of this week’s episodes of The Weekly Theme Show and WP Late Night podcasts. There are normally a couple dozen folks in the chatroom during live recordings, with discussion that (dare I say) rivals the show’s discussion.

The live recordings are tonight and tomorrow night. Details:

  • (Tonight) April 17, 8:00pm EDT: The Weekly Theme Show #4 with Ryan Imel, Justin Jones and Nicholas Weaver
  • April 18, 8:00pm EDT: WP Late Night #5 with Dre Armeda, Brad Williams and Ryan Imel

Join us then (or any time of day, really) on the WPCandy Stream and in the #wpcandy IRC room.