Keith, Andrew, Jacob and I discussed the news of the week. In fact, I tried to break the world record by opening up as many cans of worms as possible within a 60 minute period. You’ll have to listen to the show to hear if I was successful.
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The WolfHound Segment:
Bill needs some help working with WordPress. He came away from WordCamp Dallas excited to use the software but has run into a few roadblocks and thus, needs our help. So to help Bill out, we have created the WolfHound segment because we know that not everything we cover on the show is addressed to a specific audience. I’ve been told numerous times by new comers who listen to the show that the content flies over their head. If this sounds familiar, this segment is for you.
The Short History Of The Blog And Near Term Goals:
Here is a quick history of Bills blog. – Installed a late 1.x version and have been updating along the way and experimenting with themes. Just recently I finally installed Akismet after I starting get hit with spam. Being that I still considered it to be “in work” I never really let the world know it was out there. I guess you could say that I have two sets of goals. One being near term and the other long term.
First, the near term goals.
1) Get my logo to work on my chosen theme (Chameleon 1.0 by Ainslie Johnson)
2) Only have most recent articles (2 max) appear on front page
3) Settle on what should be considered “must-have” plug-ins
Listen to the show to hear our responses. If you disagree and feel you can help Bill out better than we did, leave a comment with your tips and suggestions.
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Listen To Episode #30:
– Loving 2.7 beta 3 and new features so far in my testing on webhost PHP5. Auto upgrade from 2.7 beta 1 to beta 2 was a breeze with no problems even with plugins enabled (I know, disable plugins first, but I was testing). Running wp-admin/upgrade-core.php to upgrade to beta 3 with plugins disabled was easy as well.
– Enjoying the QuickPress feature but I hope someone will add categories there 🙂
– Problem encountered in Appearance-Theme viewer doesn’t work on all themes uploaded – same themes previously showed up in 2.6.3, 2.7 and 2.7.2 Themes viewer/tester
It’s weird that so many people want the quickpress area to have categories. In that case, might as well just place the write panel on the dashboard.
I will find a way to take away that Publish button or the whole QuickPress entirely so that the bloggers will go to the Write Post Page to add all necessary media plus categories 🙂
You can easily remove the QuickPress box from the ‘Screen Options’ box.
Yes Patrick, but the other bloggers would still see the QuickPress widget. Hacked wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php to user level who can delete_user, that’s moi. Cheers.
Thanks for the linkage. I haven’t had a chance to listen to the show, but will today. I wish I could have called in, but kids, man, kids. Anyway, can’t wait to hear the lastest show.
Also, in regards to mercime’s comment, if it had everything, it wouldn’t be ‘Quick’. 🙂
Oh yea, the topic created great a discussion on the show just like I thought it would. We sort of went in depth on it heh.
Listing Pages The 2.7 Way link is wrong, thought I’d tell you. 🙂
Yes, I noticed that also. The correct link is:
http://www.wprecipes.com/how-t.....ess-27-way
Definitely a handy little bit of code.
Thank you two for letting me know, I’ve since corrected the link.
Hi Jeff,
The link to download the show above seems to be to Episode 29 rather than 30. I thought I was going crazy, it all seemed so familiar!
Aww man, what a boneheaded mistake! I wrote up the show notes during a time when I was a breath away from passing out. I guess this is a lesson not to do that again! Thanks for listening and letting me know.
Great, looks like I’ve got it now, so can listen in on the train tomorrow! Thanks for fixing it so quickly.