This is Episode 2 of our WPwatercooler show.
- Twenty Twelve theme released to the repo – mixed feelings from all of the panel.
- WordPress 3.5 beta 1
- Overhaul of the media library
- XMLRPC enabled – They did this to allow their mobile apps to work with WordPress installation without users having to enable it.
- Comparing the changes to the new changes in the Facebook Images
- We feel this is not finished yet, which is isn’t.
- Links “blogroll” functionality removed.
- Privacy settings moved
- Press This
- Jetpack Mobile Theme
- Problems with Jetpack conflicting
- Quality Control – webapp for WordPress
- Customizing can be a pain with most webapps which makes it harder for the developer to recommend them to clients.
- AppSumo – Great place to get deals for WordPress related stuff
- InfiniteWP is the new hotness
- A few of us host it on a webserver
- Security questions regarding it
- Jason had issues with Deny ALL, Allow specific IP
- Most of us charge our clients to do maint agreements by leveraging InfiniteWP
- Themes that suck – Avada | Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme
- Justin Tadlock brings the awesomeness – Unique: Customizable WordPress Magazine Theme
- Bloated themes
- The “plugin in a theme” makes things hard for a developer to work with
- Making a newly installed theme look like the demo requires lots of work and confuses users
- Documentation, Documentation, Documentation and Documentation!
- Woothemes take work to make them look like the demo
- ThemeForest take work to make them look like the demo
- It shouldn’t take a consultant to make easy changes to a theme that should work “out of the box”
- Not documenting the prerequisite plugins
- Post Type Switcher doesn’t work with Press This.
- You can download this show as an Audio Podcast in iTunes.
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