The WPCandy Podcast

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A weekly roundup of only the most important issues in the WordPress community each week.

Hosted by:Ryan Imel, Brian Krogsgard

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WPCandy Podcast 22: Truthiness of a Rumor edition

By 348 days agoJune 8, 2011

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This week brings us episode 22 of the WPCandy Podcast, where we talk WordPress for an absurd amount of time every 7 days. This week we discuss blog comments, Single Serving PluginsTM, and just what constitutes a rumor.

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Link-wise, this week we covered:

Brian’s pick was a plugin called Nyan Cat that really makes distraction free writing better. Ryan’s was the Blog Metrics plugin by Joost de Valk.

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WPCandy Podcast: 300 Years in a Microwave edition

By 353 days agoJune 3, 2011

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This week’s new WPCandy Podcast is all baked up and ready for you! In this week’s episode, Brian and I spend a few minutes talking about WordPress’ progress over the last 8 years, WordPress winning a Critter award, and the recent Mojo/Themify partnership. We also spend far too long relating theme frameworks to Betty Crocker, microwaves, and 300 year old cheese.

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In link form, we discussed the following:

Brian’s pick was a book on jQuery that he’s reading right now, and Ryan’s was the upcoming plugin from BraveNewCode called WordTwit Pro.

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WPCandy Podcast 20: Nearly lost forever edition

By 354 days agoJune 2, 2011

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I’m excited to offer up episode 20 of the WPCAndy Podcast, Nearly lost forever edition. In this episode Brian and I discuss Pros, the buzz around marketplace editorials on the site, and functionality plugins. Oh yeah, and this should have gone up days ago.

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WPCandy Podcast 19: Birth of the Ambassador edition

By 378 days agoMay 9, 2011

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I’m happy to present episode 19 of the WPCandy Podcast, Birth of the Ambassador edition. In this episode Brian and I discussed our thoughts on the theme pricing editorial from Mike McAlister last week, as well as a number of other fun things that have happened on the site.

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Brian’s pick was the CPT generator, using Gravity Forms. Mine was (shamelessly) my own Hover Intent plugin.

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WPCandy Podcast 18: I’m all teary eyed edition

By 410 days agoApril 7, 2011

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It’s with great pleasure I present episode 18 of the WPCandy Podcast, the “I’m all teary eyed” edition. This week Brian and I were joined by special guest Otto, a prominent member of the WordPress community and Tech Ninja at Audrey Capital. You can follow Otto on Twitter at @otto42 and at his two blogs.

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This week we discussed:

  • Theme Madness and why you should be playing along
  • Custom post types and custom taxonomies, including Otto’s take on each
  • bbPress, how cool it is, and what it represents
  • WooThemes’ refocus on WordPress

Brian’s pick was twofold: the replicator plugin and the snack bar plugin. My pick was Vanilla Forums and their various plugins for integrating with WordPress. Otto’s pick was OnSwipe (see our coverage of OnSwipe).

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WPCandy Podcast 017: Producership Power Hour edition

By 417 days agoMarch 31, 2011

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I’m happy to humbly offer up episode 17 of the WPCandy Podcast, deemed the Producership Power Hour edition. In it Brian Krogsgard and I talk the latest WordPress news, perhaps slightly too much inside baseball, and thoroughly entertain ourselves.

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This week we discussed:

Brian’s pick was a Chrome extension called WriteSpace, and mine was a WordPress plugin called Live Blogging.

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WPCandy Show 016: We should be at SXSW edition

By 432 days agoMarch 16, 2011

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I was joined by WPCandy contributor Brian Krogsgard this week, as we talked about Automattic’s recent announcements (Jetpack and guided transfers), Blogger’s recent moves, and of course Brian’s new microphone.

This episode was also recorded live on the WPCandy Stream, along with an accompanying chat room. If you haven’t checked out the stream yet, why don’t you?

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WPCandy Show 014: Best podcast since the last podcast edition

By 453 days agoFebruary 23, 2011

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WPCandy’s very own Brian Krogsgard made his podcasting debut this week on episode 15, also known as the “Best podcast since the last podcast” edition. We talk mainly WordPress 3.1, and are joined by briefly by both Syed Balkhi of WPBeginner and Kim Huynh of WordCast.

This was also the first episode we recorded live on the WPCandy Stream, so you may hear references to a chat room. If you haven’t checked out the stream yet, why don’t you?

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WPCandy Podcast 014: Cupcakes, tacos, and bacon edition

By 482 days agoJanuary 24, 2011

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Darcy Clarke of WordPress theme shop Themify joined me for the WPCandy WordPress Podcast episode 14. This week we talked about last week’s future of WordPress themes post, the Max Foundry story, and the ideal pricing structure for WordPress themes.

I also mentioned the new WPCandy “Powered by Map“, where we keep track of locations all over the world that make this site possible.

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Podcast 013: Can’t pronounce any names edition

By 489 days agoJanuary 18, 2011

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In the WPCandy WordPress Podcast episode 13, Anthony Cole joined me as a guest host. Anthony is a WordPress developer who has worked with BuddyPress, bbPress, and plugin development extensively. In this episode we spoke with him about the upcoming WordCamp Melbourne, which he is organizing, the potential of WooThemes hosting and the theme landscape itself, Onswipe, and a bit about the “premium” editorial from last week. There’s quite a bit in here for those interested in making money with themes and plugins, too. Have a listen.

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