WordCast

Happy New Year! We’re back and better than ever for 2009 with a brand spankin’ new show. We’ll cover everything from WordPress theme files to fixing hiding dropdowns to when, oh when, will 2.7 hit 1,000,000 downloads. (Dave’s on for January 8th, Kym’s on for the 7th. What do you think?)

Episode 41:

• Malicious theme files… (remv.php) what they are and how to get rid of them
• Jeffro launching a new site: WPTavern.com
• Ozh’s Journey through 5 Years of the WP Admin UI
• BloggingPro’s list of the Top Ten Plugin Developers for 2008
• Weblog Tools Collection news: Scholarships on the horizon, now accepting ONLY GPL licensed plugins and themes for advertisers
• Lorelle took bets on when 2.7 downloads would hit 1 million. Any ideas?
• Celebrity Pressers: Playstation’s Blog, eBay Ink
• Tip of the Week:  Fixing “hiding” CSS dropdowns via WPHacks
• Kym’s Pick: Viewport theme
• Dave’s Pick: My Category Order plugin
• WordCamp Update: Chicago Men’s Breast Cancer Meetup, Atlanta Install/Upgrade Meetup, Toronto Meetup, WordCamp Las Vegas

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Dave comes to you a bit early this week for a December goodbye. See you in ‘09, everyone!

Episode 40:

• Be SURE to join Kym, Dave and many others (the Fairy Blogmother, perhaps?) for the BITWIRE HOLIDAY MARATHON! holidaymarathon.com
• Oh yeah… and WordPress 2.7 is finally released! Get it now.
• A giant kudos to all of you! We couldn’t do anything without the incredible support of all our staff, guests and, most importantly, our listeners.

Thanks to Derek K. Miller for our music.

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Jonathan Bailey joins us rather unexpectedly this week to further anticipate the coming of 2.7, ask the question WHY, and hear an admission from Kym that excites Dave to no end. We’ll also discuss the arrival of Gravatars on WordPress.com (finally) and get the inside scoop on what the WordPress developers really do from one of their own.

Episode 39:

• WordPress.com gets 2.7
• Upgrade your blog via SSH… WHY?
• Gravatars finally on WordPress.com
• Winners for MU site competition announced
• SixApart buys Pownce, shuts it down
• Interview: Jacob Santos, invaluable WordPress developer
• Celebrity ‘Pressers: United Nations University, Mcleans.ca’s blog
• CMS Crap: WP-CMS Plugin
• Tip of the Week: Dropdown Archives [how to use with HTML theme files]
• Kym’s pick: Visual Recent Posts plugin
• Jonathan’s pick: Simple Social Bookmarking plugin
• Dave’s pick: Pre-Publish Reminders plugin
• WordCamp Update: WordCamp Chicago Announced, WordCamp Milano

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It’s a jam-packed show this week, folks (and we mean it this time). Join Dave, Kym and expert iconist Ben Dunkle for a full hour chock full of hilarity. From nasty pictures to WordPress easter eggs to the dirt on WordCamp Australia, you’ll find it all in this week’s episode.

Episode 38:

• Kym hates this picture. Therefore, here it is!



• WordPress 2.6.5 released! Security update!
• WordPress 2.6 has an easter egg!
• Interview: Ben Dunkle, winner of the WP 2.7 Project Icon - bendunkle.com, fieldii.com, conversaticon.com
• Kym’s pick: Comment by (another) Dave: You can route your sideblog category RSS through a Tumblr blog. 
• Ben’s pick: See Codex
• Dave’s pick: Show authors without posts plugin (more CMS stuff, sorry.)
• The WordCamp Australia Report by Kym: Great speakers, new features just around the corner, and much more! Links: Headspace Plugin
• Ryan’s got a great prize, so send those voicemails in!

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We tried, people of the world. We tried to be politically correct, but it’s just not happening. Of course, we’ve got your fix of the latest and greatest news this week, from nonsensical numbering to possible spam tools, but we’re also kicking off a bunch of new segments that we just know you’ll love. It’s all coming up this week on WordCast! Don’t miss it.

Episode 37:

• The Star-Ledger: Blog can help parents stay connected with son in Europe
• Sideblog plugin vs. Tumbler:
• DirectWordPress: Spam tool?
• Vladimir breaks down the many types of hosting
• 2.7 isn’t, and won’t be 3.0. Deal with it. - Matt
• SpeckyBoy has an awesome list of 100+ WordPress videos

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