Is it WordPress?
A fun little tool just launched from the folks at Web Factory tells you whether WordPress powers a website or not.
Otto’s goal for favorite plugins
Speaking of Otto, I’m really excited by the screenshot he tweeted showing the direction he hopes to go with plugin favorites in the future. Seriously, how cool would that be?
Moody Ques WordPress BBQ booth sketch
The above sketch for the Moody Ques BBQ team booth building includes the WordPress banner, since it’s a booth sponsored (and heavily attended) by the folks at Audrey Capital. Matt posted a sped-up video of the building’s construction.
I like seeing planning sketches like this, and it’s cool that to see the WordPress banner drawn in. Otto told us all about the BBQ week during WP Late Night and (crazy long) Aftertaste last night.
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.
My PressNomics invitation
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.
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.
“I’m just a huge supporter of having all these small businesses built around WordPress, whether individuals or small companies,” Pete Davies told me over the phone. “And I know there’s stuff that people struggle with everyday, and stuff you can’t help them with in the WordPress forums.”
Davies is the Premium Services Lead at Automattic, and the lead on the latest Code Poet project. He and his team have expanded CodePoet.com from a directory of high-end WordPress consultants into a resource site for anyone building website — or ”making things” — with WordPress.
The new CodePoet.com, or rather build.CodePoet.com, offers two free ebooks, interviews with WordPress professionals, and a collection of resources the team has curated that they think other Code Poets would find useful. The listings, or Code Poet Directory, can now be found at directory.codepoet.com.
