Show Notes Host The guest host of Episode #26 was Noel Tock. What were they sippin’ on? Noel was sippin’ on a Appenzeller Holzfass Bier Brad a Chub Soda Dre a water with a pink straw How did the Noel get into WordPress? Noel did his first website back in 1995, then went into finance. When building a website for a friend’s pub, he choose WordPress and after his first sale he realized that this was what he wanted to do. He is now a Partner at Human Made, a top tier WordPress agency (and VIP Partner). As Chief Product […]
2nd Release Candidate of WordPress 3.7 Available for Testing
In a WordPress.org blog post dated October 23 (tomorrow?), Andrew Nacin announced that the second release candidate of WordPress 3.7 is now available for testing. Who’s game? People already testing 3.7 will be automatically updated to RC2, which is convenient. And for those of you who would like to start testing now, you can try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin, or download the the zip of release candidate from Nacin’s post. He asks that testers please post to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums to report bugs. You’ll also be able to see any known issues here. For more on […]
Designing Responsively
How many websites have you viewed on a desktop or laptop computer lately? How many websites have you viewed on your smartphone or tablet in the same period of time? The statistics on several sites I manage show that an average of about 50% of the visitors are using tablets or smartphones, and some sites are higher than that! The more important question is: how satisfied were you with the version served up on the mobile device? Much has been written lately about making websites “responsive” to the device(s) being used to view the site, but what does that mean, […]
Interview with Vladimir Prelovac of ManageWP.org
Community-powered WordPress news aggregation site ManageWP.org has been in action for one week and people are loving it! Upon first hearing about the project in mid-August, I was very interested in the idea and wanted to learn more. I signed up right away to be a beta tester, but for some reason I didn’t get an email back. So I wrote about the news of ManageWP having an aggregation site in the works, without yet having the chance to test it. Instead, I focused on finding out how people were currently organizing and consuming their WordPress news on their own, without […]
Putting on a Business Conference for the WordPress Ecosystem
Pressnomics 2.0 is underway and their formula has, once again, demonstrated what’s critical about events like these. When you put on a business conference for the WordPress ecosystem, one thing is more important than anything else. And no, it’s not the speaker selection. It’s not about speakers. Speakers are important. I really like good speakers. Heck, this year I was one of them. But speakers create a one-way information exchange. That’s nice, but truly secondary. No, what Josh & Sally Strebel really understand about putting on a business conference for the WordPress ecosystem is that two-way information exchange is most […]

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