Donate to Your Favorite WordPress Project: Support a WordPress Developer Day
By Dave Moyer, posted Mar 1 2010 at 8:44 am | 1 Comment »
One of the primary reasons the open source WordPress content management system is so powerful is its’ extensibility. If you’ve been thinking about donating to a WordPress development project like a plugin or a theme, or even if you haven’t, today is definitely a great time to do so. Scott Ellis has designated March 1st as “Support a WordPress Developer Day!”
WordCast Conversations 4: Andy Peatling on BuddyPress
By Dave Moyer, posted Feb 9 2010 at 11:01 am | 1 Comment »
Dave Moyer and Lorelle VanFossen are talking BuddyPress, the project that adds a social networking layer to WordPress. Don’t miss an exclusive interview with Andy Peatling, the project’s founder, plus our own thoughts and opinions on the project.
Get Blog Visitors Involved With the WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin
By Dave Moyer, posted Jan 19 2010 at 12:00 pm | 2 Comments »
No matter where a visitor to your blog came from, it can be difficult to turn that single visitor into a member of your site’s community. Today we’re taking a look at a plugin that aims to help keep visitors involved.
Official bbPress WordPress Plugin Surfaces, Speculation Abounds
By Dave Moyer, posted Jan 18 2010 at 6:00 am | 6 Comments »
bbPress, created in 2006 by Matt Mullenweg, creator of WordPress, aimed to be a simple, clean, fast forum platform. An official plugin has surfaced that appears to be trying to make installing bbPress in a WordPress blog as simple as installing a plugin! Will users take the bait?
Visually Manage Your Post Publication Dates with the Editorial Calendar WordPress Plugin
By Dave Moyer, posted Jan 12 2010 at 1:00 pm | 1 Comment »
If you publish a lot of posts on your blog, and if those posts are often scheduled to go live at certain times of day, it’s easy to run into problems trying to keep track of it all. We show you a plugin that can help you keep it all in check.
podPress Resumes Development… Eventually?
By Dave Moyer, posted Oct 23 2009 at 11:33 am | No Comments »
Dan Kuykendall, the founder and developer of the podPress WordPress podcasting plugin, announced on his Mighty Seek blog in August that, after a confusing and messy hiatus, he will be returning to develop what was once the most popular plugin to podcast with WordPress. But will users return, or will wariness get the best of them?
Deactivate All WordPress Plugins Via the Database
By Dave Moyer, posted Oct 20 2009 at 2:05 am | 1 Comment »
As discussed on WordCast 73 with Cali Lewis on BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2009, sometimes a plugin doesn’t work as it should and ends up crashing your blog.
If you’ve gone through all the steps talked about on that episode (deactivate the plugin, rename/delete it via FTP), it’s come down to the database and the force deactivation [...]
WordCast 73: Blog World and New Media Expo 2009
By Dave Moyer, posted Oct 20 2009 at 2:00 am | No Comments »
Cali Lewis on Blog World and New Media Expo 2009, when a plugin breaks your WordPress, filtering spam themes, and more.
WordCast 3: Beth has problems
By Dave Moyer, posted Mar 4 2008 at 5:35 pm | No Comments »
In this week’s WordCast, we’ll find out why Beth has problems. Andy Staines.
Topics and links from this week’s show:
WP Theme Kit: Theme creator/generator
bbPress: Automattic’s forum application
Adapting your theme to Gravatar
WordPress Gravatar Plugin: Download wp_gravatar.zip
PhotoDropper: Plugin of the Week, adding safe photos easily
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