
In this episode of our podcast David Bisset was kind enough to join me to discuss his upcoming event WordCamp Miami, BuddyPress, and other noteworthy WordPress news of the week. David even gets greedy and offers up somewhere around 3 or 4 WordPress picks for the week. Honestly, I lost count.
You can follow David on Twitter, visit his website (and hire him!) and of course register/sponsor/adore WordCamp Miami in April.
Show notes and download links are after the jump.
Show Notes
* 0:00 – 18:15 WordCamp Miami
* 18:15 – 36:30 BuddyPress.org guest post, bbPress beta, and Achievements 3
* 36:30 – 45:51 Ryan’s pick is Edit Flow, David’s picks are PostStat.us and a recent discussion there, and the BPMail newsletter
David also recommended this video overviewing the upcoming BuddyPress 1.7.
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Feb 2, 2013
45 min

Jake Caputo started up quite a discussion this week centered on his being prohibited from speaking at WordCamps due to listing split licensed themes on the ThemeForest marketplace. Jake was kind enough to join me on The WPCandy Podcast to chat about his editorial and the state of the community on this divisive issue.
He also stuck around to discuss other WordPress news this week, and offer a couple of WordPress tips. It’s a fun episode, have a listen below!
You can follow Jake on Twitter, see his work and read his blog at Design Crumbs, and listen to his podcast Please Advise.
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Show Notes
* 0:00 – 0:28 Discussion on Jake’s blog post and community discussion
* 0:28 – 0:39 WordSesh, congrats Sergey, and WordPress 3.6 cycle
* 0:39 – 0:44 Picks: Fullscreen Editor Preview Button for WordPress, WP Email Capture
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Jan 25, 2013
44 min

This week Brian Krogsgard and I sat down and discussed a couple of recent topics that have been popping up in the WordPress community: WordPress dot org plugin reviews and the Theme Hook Alliance.
If you’d like to jump quickly to one discussion or another, the plugin discussion is first and the theme hook talk starts up at sixteen minutes in.
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Episode 34 Show Notes
Show notes for this episode include:
* WordPress dot org plugin review discussion blog
* Theme Hook Alliance on Github
* Dougal on the Theme Hook Alliance
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Aug 22, 2012
28 min

Meet episode 33 of the WPCandy Podcast (“Robot Brian”), the latest from the shortest and most straightforward podcast on WPCandy. This is the show for those who aren’t crazy about hours and hours of podcasts, but want to know what’s most important in the WordPress community in a given week.
This week the show had no sponsors. Awww. 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.
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Episode 33 Show Notes
* WordPress DC Meetup Group
* WordPress Columbus Meetup Group
* Updates to WordPress.org plugin directory
* Plugin authors can now add custom header images on WordPress.org
* Plugin developers now notified of commits via email
* Update on WordPress 3.4
* Code Poet relaunches
* Code Poet books
* P2 theme 1.4
* P2 theme 1.4 x and o update
* PressNomics invitations have gone out
* PressNomics
* WordCamp San Francisco 2012
* Scott Reilly joins Audrey Capital
* Hiring at Audrey Capital
* Blog Time plugin, currently managed by Scott Reilly
* Ryan’s pick: Better Internal Link Search by Brady Vercher (Twitter and his website)
* <a title="Easy Table wordPress plugin" href="http://wordpress.
May 24, 2012
38 min

Episode #32 of the WPCandy Podcast sees Brian Krogsgard and I (yeah, seriously!) running down the most important WordPress news of the week in just about 30 minutes. I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it here again: if the other podcasts we produce here overwhelm you, the WPCandy Podcast proper is likely the show for you. Very little discussion, but quite a bit news and links.
If you only listen to one WordPress podcast this week, make it this one.
This episode is sponsored by the Typecase plugin by UpThemes and the upcoming WordPress service Raft.io.
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Episode 32 Show Notes
* WP App Store
* Kevinjohn Gallagher will be releasing his company’s WordPress plugins soon
* Nathan Rice is blogging again!
* QueryPosts.com
* Plugin directory messages on WordPress.org
* Hacker News article on Automattic’s estimated earnings this year
* Example of favorite plugins on Michael Fields’ WordPress profile
* WPCandy Labs
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May 15, 2012
37 min

In this week’s episode of the WPCandy Podcast I chat with both Startbox’s Brian Richards and Automattic’s Lance Willett. Brian and I discussed the WordPress news of the last week, and Lance recapped the last year of commercial themes on WordPress.com with me.
See the various listening options below, or have a listen right now:
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This week’s episode went a little on the long side, and clocks in at 1 hour and 15 minutes. If you’d like to jump ahead:
* 00:00:30 WordPress news discussion with Brian Richards and Ryan Imel. Topics included WordPress 3.4 development, Envato’s price adjustment tool, theme trends in 2012, and a shameless plug for the Quarterly.
* 00:35:15 Interview with Lance Willett about the last year of commercial themes on WordPress.com.
The interview with Lance Willett was edited for time, but keep an eye on the blog for the full, unedited interview to be posted soon.
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If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.
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Feb 13, 2012
1 hr 15 min

In this, episode 30 of the WPCandy Podcast, we officially adopt a new format for the official show. In short, the goal is for the WPCandy Podcast to deliver a higher awesome per minute ratio, and be the “if you only listen to one WordPress podcast, listen to this one” podcast.
But that’s not all. In this episode Brian and I recap on 2011 at WPCandy, and I sit down to interview Andy Skelton and Joen Asmussen from Automattic about the WordPress.com/Jetpack year-end reports (example).
You can listen to the podcast here:
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This week’s episode is just over 41 minutes long. If you want to jump ahead:
* 00:50 Ryan and Brian reminisce on 2011
* 14:55 Interview with Andy Skelton and Joen Asmussen
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If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.
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Feb 2, 2012
41 min

This episode of the WPCandy Podcast sees Ryan, Brian, and Daniel discuss the most interesting news items of the WordPress community this holiday week. Grab a cup of coffee, maybe cocoa or eggnog, and enjoy the Christmas (Christmas, and Christmas) edition of the podcast.
This week’s podcast was a bit longer than normal (approximately 90 minutes) so the breakdown of topics discussed below also include approximate time codes, just in case you want to jump to a specific discussion that you care about.
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This is a bit of a long podcast, so to make things easier on you I’ve broken down what we talked about minute by minute. It’s just because we love you all so much:
* 1:45 What’s everyone building this week?
* 12:00 WPCandy Awards discussion
* 18:00 Quarterly update
* 20:30 Custom plugin header images (funny one)
* 29:00 BuddyPress activity admin screens and BuddyPress general discussion
* 36:00 WordPress for Android, mobile WordPress apps
* 45:45 WooThemes infographic
* 1:07:00 Theme Foundry post
* 1:14:15 Infographic again
* 1:17:00 Post formats and UI
* 1:21:15 Editor’s picks (see below)
This week Brian’s pick was the very recently released Gravity Forms add-on for the WooCommerce plugin (demonstrated), which he picked up yesterday. Ryan’s pick was the User Switching plugin, and Daniel opted out of picks this week.
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If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.
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Dec 23, 2011
1 hr 33 min

I know what you’re thinking—it isn’t possible. Could this really be a new WPCandy Podcast? Indeed it is. After a shamefully long gap since the last podcast we’re back at it, this time joined by the newest contributor to WPCandy, Daniel Immke. In this episode we discuss the Quarterly a bit (by the way, pre-order yours), WordPress 3.3 RC1, WordAds, and a couple of fun stories that popped up in the last week or so.
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Link-wise, this week we discussed:
* WordPress 3.3 RC1
* The announcement of The WPCandy Quarterly publication
* WordPress.com’s announcement of WordAds
* Plugin duplicates may result in rejection from WordPress.org
* The PressTrends preview we published last week
* Seshn is ambitious, plans to be biggest by 2013
Then we have picks. This week Brian chose the Ambrosite Next/Previous Post Link Plus plugin, which is entirely a mouthful to say. Daniel’s pick was the Headway Themes redesign that went up recently, and my pick (though I’ve yet to play with it) is the Social plugin from Crowd Favorite and MailChimp.
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If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.
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Dec 6, 2011
1 hr 8 min

It’s time again on WPCandy for another podcast about WordPress. Of course, saying it’s “about WordPress” is a bit unnecessary right? Would you expect it to be a podcast about tacos?
In this episode Brian Krogsgard and I discuss the WordPress news that interested us the most in the last week. That includes the 3.3 feature freeze, the state of WordPress marketplaces, and how WordCamp Louisville was last weekend.
Jump straight into the podcast audio here:
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Link-wise, this week we discussed:
* What’s coming in 3.3, The WordPress 3.3 feature freeze (and Theme.fm’s demo of pointers)
* WordCamp Central update, camps coming in November
* ThemeGarden scaling back, refocusing as an alternative marketplace
* Stop telling users they shouldn’t be running very many plugins
* bbPress 2.0 and BuddyPress 1.5 released
* Pods Foundation raising over $4,000 on Kickstarter
Brian’s pick was a snippet of code he pulled from Noel Tock’s work at Theme Force. Mine was oEmbed Gist, a plugin I like but have yet to try, that I found via Remkus de Vries.
Subscribe to the show on iTunes, or directly to the RSS feed. As always you can send any emails you would like to have included on the show to [email protected]. Download links are after the jump.
If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.
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Oct 5, 2011
58 min
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