WordCast 34: The WordPress Carvers Strike Again
By davemoyer, posted November 4, 2008 at 12:00 am | No Comments »
Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today joins us this week to tackle the latest and greatest in WordPress news. During our entertaining little hour, you’ll learn all about the notorious WordPress carvers, the WordPress showcase, and even about what’s under Kym’s desk!
Episode 34:
- Eric Martin’s WordPress pumpkin
- RevolutionTwo released
- WordPress showcase released
- WP Comment Remix has a severe security vulnerability – UPGRADE NOW!
- WordPress 2.7 Beta 1 is out, and the world is topsy turvey
- LinkedIn adds application support
- WordPress Theme Design in Photoshop
- Tip of the Week: Comment Keyboard Shortcuts in 2.7
- Kym’s pick: Color Paper theme by SmashMagazine
- There’s a GOOD NEWS BLOG! Dave LOVES it!
- Jonathan’s pick: Comment Approved Notifier plugin
- Dave’s pick: Custom Permalinks plugin
- Voicemail Contest! Ryan of pixopoint.com
Thanks to Derek K. Miller for our music.
Emails:
Hi,
It’s a fairly specific prize so hopefully one of your listeners actually have a use for it. I should have some more blogging specific products available in the next month or so and will send some freebies along then which should be of more use to your listeners.And yep, the premium membership is expensive, but it costs more than that to get a proper menu coded from scratch (if it’s done properly). Plus I give lots of free support on my forum anyway, so those who sign up for the premium membership are usually looking to do something quite unique with their menu, hence I charge quite a bit for the service. Most of the users of the service aren’t bloggers, it’s mainly web design companies trying to set up WordPress as a CMS for their clients and they don’t seem bothered by the cost at all 
I have a new system in development at the moment which gives even more options for the menu system, the price will probably stay the same though.
And yep, the premium membership is expensive, but it costs more than that to get a proper menu coded from scratch (if it’s done properly). Plus I give lots of free support on my forum anyway, so those who sign up for the premium membership are usually looking to do something quite unique with their menu, hence I charge quite a bit for the service. Most of the users of the service aren’t bloggers, it’s mainly web design companies trying to set up WordPress as a CMS for their clients and they don’t seem bothered by the cost at all I have a new system in development at the moment which gives even more options for the menu system, the price will probably stay the same though.
Thanks,
Ryan
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Just wanted to point out 2 bad links in your blogroll on wordcastpodcast.com
Hack WordPress is now WordPressHacks (wphacks.com). I know from listening, you know all about that.
Also, The Blog Herald is at http://blogherald.com . That’s been a bug-a-boo for me for a LONG time.
theblogherald.com is a link farm. blogherald.com is The Blog Herald.
You would think The Blog Herald would either drop the “THE” or try to acquire the domain “theblogherald.com”
Whew. Just tryin’ to help!
Brian
