Join us for Episode 9 where we’ll discuss the Buddy Press acquisition, Gravatars with and without a plugin, Ebay decided to use WordPress?. We’ll mention the WordPress icon pack and the WordPress.com February wrap up.
Panel Members:
Brad of Strangwork.com
Ronald Huereca of ReadersAppreciationProject.com
Jacob Santos of Santosj.name
Patricia Mayo of ComHacker.org
Show Notes:
WordPress is welcomed to the social thanks to BuddyPress – BuddyPress backed by Automattic
The Avatar function is confirmed to be part of WordPress 2.5 – Gravatars Without A Plugin
MetBlogs moves from Movabe Type to WordPress MU – MetBlogs
Easy Gravatars 1.2 Released – Gravatars With A Plugin
Ebay Now Using WordPress – Ebay has decided to jump on board the WordPress bandwagon by launching a blog dedicated to their desktop software
An interesting post published by Freakonomics that delves into the topic of Who Comments on blogs and why. WeblogToolsCollection.com also picked up on this story and there is a conversation taking place within their comment section as well.
Lorelle highlights more goodies for us to expect when WP 2.5 is released next Monday.
AOD Design released a stylish WordPress icon pack that you can use to pimp your love for WordPress.
Turn WordPress into a Membership Directory – Chris Cagle wrote a guest blog post on WP Designer which explains how to build a membership directory within WordPress using the default WordPress 2.3 install with two plugins.
The WordPress.com wrap up for February has been published and it looks like WordPress.com is moving forward with a full head of steam.
WordPress Tips Of The Week:
Jeffro2pt0 - Jeremy Clarke mentioned to me about a way to search the Codex, WordPress support area and the plugin repository all from within FireFox. Simply click on the links of the search engines you want to add into the search bar within FireFox and install. Searching these various resources from within FireFox has already saved me a ton of time. To find out how to do this, check out the article I wrote explaining how to install these search engines into FireFox.
Brad - Give your blog readers the option to easily print out your blog posts, pages, along with or without the comments attached to them with the WP Print plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-print/
Ronald – Separate Trackbacks from Comments by using this nifty article as a guide.
Patricia – http://authorityblackbook.com/ – free ebook with a blatant Wordpress slant on how to develop an authority blogging presence.
Listener Participation:
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My tip of the week deals with my post on WLTC.
Do something with your trackbacks other than the default behavior. Please!
Ok dokey, show notes have been completed.
Excellent podcast Jeff… really informative. Like you were saying, the future of Wordpress or any type of blogging platform is have an integrated social network within the content management system. The service that not follow the industry changes may be in trouble of survival.
Again Jeff, your podcast is a resource that deserved to be download.
Continue the good job man…
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