John Pozadzides: 45 Ways to Power Up Your Blog (Woopra Launch)
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WordCamp Dallas‘ 2nd session came from John Pozadzides, who gave the session entitled 45 Ways to Power Up Your Blog. (Despite anything you may hear on the video, I later ruled that, because John spent extra time answering questions from the audience, that he actually was successful in presenting all 45 tips within 45 minutes.)
Toward the end, John previews Woopra, an amazing stats program. Here’s a special deal for listeners of The WordPress Podcast (or, at the very least, people who read this blog): There are currently 8 reviews for The WordPress Podcast on the iTunes Music Store Podcast Directory. I’ll be picking 7 reviews added to the 8 that exist already that I find creative and awarding Woopra invite codes accordingly.
Change in plans!
The first 7 people (who subsequently request a Woopra invite) who link to this post will receive a free Woopra invite.
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Episode 39: WordPress 2.5 released - Live from WordCamp Dallas
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I’d intended to release this episode during the week of March 30th, days after it was recorded live at WordCamp Dallas, but problems with the recorded audio prevented doing so. The audio you’ll hear was actually ripped from the video John Pozadzides released, so thanks, John!
Joining me on the dais were Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today, Mark Jaquith of b5media, later Mark Ghosh of Weblog Tools Collection, and later still, Matt Mullenweg of Automattic. Lorelle Van Fossen was nice enough to run around handing the wireless mic around so people could comment and ask questions. Subjects discussed and links to items mentioned in this episode include:
- WordPress 2.5 had been released exactly 24 hours prior. Some people have experienced problems with IE7 and other plugins. Expect 2.5.1 within about a month.
- Beginning with WordPress 2.2 incoming links were changed from Technorati to Google Blog Search. If you’d prefer to revert back or use some other link reporter, find the Incoming Links Box’s “Edit” link in the Dashboard and change it to the RSS feed of your choosing.
- Issues with “disappearing plugins” relate to the plugin updater’s requirement that plugin authors build in additional functionality to work properly with the updater and submitting it to the plugin directory.
- Mark Jaquith discusses the genesis of his Comment Inbox plugin. Lorelle chimes in with Comment Ninja, a Firefox Greasemonkey script.
- We discussed security, including the possibility of an independent review of the core, as well as the direction themes and theme development might take in the future.
- Matt expressed a desire for improved client-side JavaScript performance.
- Ronald Huereca asked an interesting question about how developers might store data without creating new database tables.
- Scott Ellis asked for examples of WordPress being used as a CMS or other unusual uses, and the panel offers up Automattic’s Publisher Blog, Trumors and 71 Miles, amongst others.
- Rick Ankrum’s question about changes made to the default theme leads to an interesting throw-away comment by Mark Ghosh concerning a possible file integrity-checker making its way into future versions of WordPress.
- Jill McKeever’s question about image borders and a “word wrap button” stumps the panel. (Did we ever come up with an answer for this?)
- Someone asks about the future of Sandbox, and the possibility of incorporating its best features into the core. Several themes are discussed, including the Options theme and Regulus.
- Matt expressed frustration with the way WordPress handles menus as static pages and sub-pages, raising the possibility of choosing which items appear in the navigation menu. Mark Jaquith brings up his Page Links To plugin which allows you to point pages and menus to links outside of your blog’s domain.
- Matt also expressed frustration with the disparity between the image uploader and inserting an image from within the WYSIWYG editor, and brought up the possibility of an easy “image caption” function.
- Jeff Chandler’s frustration with the perception of WordPress not being able to withstand the “Digg effect” leads to a minor debate on caching. Matt effectively debunks the issue, blaming bad server configurations and cautioning against reliance on WP-Cache and WP-Super Cache. Mark Ghosh cautions against the use of Bad Behavior for high-traffic sites.
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Matt Mullenweg: WordPress 2.5 and Beyond
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Because (I believe) the sessions at WordCamp Dallas to be of interest to my friends who listen to The WordPress Podcast, I will be reposting here over the next few days the videos made possible by my co-organizer, John Pozadzides, of each WordCamp Dallas session, beginning with Matt Mullenweg ’s WordPress 2.5 and Beyond.
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PHP Sessions Video Tutorials - Part 2 of 3
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Original PostThis is the part 2 of 3 of my videos that introduces the beginner to PHP sessions.
In this video, I get into practical examples where we see basic PHP sessions in action.
PHP session video tutorial - part 2
Thanks,
Stefan Mischook
www.killerphp.com
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PHP Sessions Video Tutorials - Part 1 of 3
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Hi,
I’ve just released a new beginners video tutorial that introduces people to PHP sessions:
PHP sessions are one of the most important mechanisms in PHP because they solve a fundamental issue in web application development: keeping state on a user.
If what I just says confuses you, no worries, it’s explained in the video.
This is video 1 of 2 on sessions.
Thanks,
Stefan Mischook
www.killerphp.com
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Configuring Wordpress 6 of 8
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I just got back from a trip to Thailand, so I should be back creating new videos and articles on PHP. In the meantime, I have a few Wordpress videos that might interest some of you.
About the videos:
I cover just the basics in the videos I have up now, but I am working on new videos that will teach you how to create Wordpress themes from scratch.
How does this relate to PHP?
… Though not required, PHP knowledge can help when creating themes for Wordpress. This leads me to why I posted this on Killerphp.com: part of the reason I created killerphp.com is because Wordpress is written in PHP. Wordpress is a good example of object oriented PHP and is a great piece of software that can be used as the foundation for other projects - Wordpress platform?
From my killersites.com blog:
I decided to create a dedicated Wordpress section on killersites.com
Right now, I only a have a few videos (with a bunch more coming) but I am also thinking of maybe some written tutorials etc…
The videos:
wordpress-logo
So far I’ve only added a few videos but have another 40 minutes of video to edit that should be up this week.
Any comments or suggest are welcome.
Thanks,
Stefan Mischook
www.killersites.com
www.killerphp.com
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Configuring Wordpress 4 of 8
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I just got back from a trip to Thailand, so I should be back creating new videos and articles on PHP. In the meantime, I have a few Wordpress videos that might interest some of you.
About the videos:
I cover just the basics in the videos I have up now, but I am working on new videos that will teach you how to create Wordpress themes from scratch.
How does this relate to PHP?
… Though not required, PHP knowledge can help when creating themes for Wordpress. This leads me to why I posted this on Killerphp.com: part of the reason I created killerphp.com is because Wordpress is written in PHP. Wordpress is a good example of object oriented PHP and is a great piece of software that can be used as the foundation for other projects - Wordpress platform?
From my killersites.com blog:
I decided to create a dedicated Wordpress section on killersites.com
Right now, I only a have a few videos (with a bunch more coming) but I am also thinking of maybe some written tutorials etc…
The videos:
wordpress-logo
So far I’ve only added a few videos but have another 40 minutes of video to edit that should be up this week.
Any comments or suggest are welcome.
Thanks,
Stefan Mischook
www.killersites.com
www.killerphp.com
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Installing Drupal 6
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This video shows you how to Install Drupal 6 and shows off the new, improved installer. It walks you through all the steps, including downloading Drupal, putting it on your site with FTP, setting up a database and running the installation script. It also looks at some common roadblocks and how to get around them.
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Configuring Wordpress 3 of 8
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I just got back from a trip to Thailand, so I should be back creating new videos and articles on PHP. In the meantime, I have a few Wordpress videos that might interest some of you.
About the videos:
I cover just the basics in the videos I have up now, but I am working on new videos that will teach you how to create Wordpress themes from scratch.
How does this relate to PHP?
… Though not required, PHP knowledge can help when creating themes for Wordpress. This leads me to why I posted this on Killerphp.com: part of the reason I created killerphp.com is because Wordpress is written in PHP. Wordpress is a good example of object oriented PHP and is a great piece of software that can be used as the foundation for other projects - Wordpress platform?
From my killersites.com blog:
I decided to create a dedicated Wordpress section on killersites.com
Right now, I only a have a few videos (with a bunch more coming) but I am also thinking of maybe some written tutorials etc…
The videos:
wordpress-logo
So far I’ve only added a few videos but have another 40 minutes of video to edit that should be up this week.
Any comments or suggest are welcome.
Thanks,
Stefan Mischook
www.killersites.com
www.killerphp.com
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Create a Module Release
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This video walks through creating a new release on drupal.org for a contributed module. I needed to do this for my Nice Menus module so I went ahead and captured what I did. It starts by applying a patch from the queue, committing the changes to CVS, tagging the release and then finishing up by creating the release node on d.o.
There is a slide with handbook references for the things that are covered but I'll list them here as well.
Patching: http://drupal.org/patch/apply
CVS command line: http://drupal.org/handbook/cvs/quickstart
Handling release nodes: http://drupal.org/node/94151