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“WordPress Web Trends for 2013” we are joined with Suzette Franck, Elizabeth Shilling, Sé Reed, Steve Zehngut, Jon Brown, Dave Jesch, Chris Lema and out host Jason Tucker. Recording starts at 11:00am PST on Mondays. Might be a little difficult to talk about… Alex has nice hair. Pasadena WordPress Meetup 1/29th. Talking about the latest and greatest in WordPress. Jason brings up the revamp of working with Post Format UI. Post formats is a way to add image, video,etc to posts. Alex asks how many really use post formats with projects working on. Steve discusses what it currently offers. Jason mentions that your looking to do custom post type with post formats mix together. Steve agrees he that he would want that. Sé realizes that you can't do that, expand post formats. Sé asks, “Why not make your own custom post type?” Steve explains how they work differently; post format is basically a display mechanism. It's a different way to templating. You could use custom post types for the way he's using them,

We had a full crew on today's show talking about WordPress New Years resolutions. We're joined by Chris Lema, Patrick Rauland, Suzette Franck, Dave Jesch, Wes Chyrchel, Steve Zehngut, Sé Reed, Devin Walker and your host Jason Tucker See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's show we talked about our favorite plugins. * Jason Tucker – Easy Invitation Codes * Chris Lema – Microkid's Related Posts * Dave Jesch – Shopp SEO Glue * Suzette Franck – WordFence * Gregg Franklin – Advanced Custom Fields * Jon Brown – Tabify Edit Screen * Drew Poland – Gravity Forms * Wes Chyrchel – Markdown on Save * Steve Zehngut – Custom Post Type UI * Sé Reed – Yoast SEO & Yoast SEO Video Happy Holidays! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

WordPress Ecommerce Plugins – Today we are joined with Sé Reed, Chris Lema, Wes Chyrchel, Scott Bolinger, Dave Jesch and our host Jason Tucker Holy War of E-Commerce Plugins WooCommerce and Shopp Sé did a 4 hour conference on Shopp, she had previous issues with it and learned quite a bit from this talk. Her fave thing is when it makes cart pages it makes virtual pages not custom post types. Dave talks a bit about virtual pages ins Shopp Scott says that Shopp is complicated and the 4 hour webinar would help with learning it. Se talks about the method of teaching Shopp that they did in the webinar. Scott and his company likes Woocommerce and how simple it is to use. Se thinks that Woo, WooCommerce and WooThemes is a bit bloaty. Chris has gone years not receiving an emailed from Shopp, he received an email from them and he thinks they are ramping up on their marketing. Chris also like Easy Digital Downloads by Pippin. Chris also mentioned how Woo has made the theming cleaner and most of their options are uncheck

Mobile Responsive WordPress – Today we are joined with Suzette Franck, Elizabeth Shilling, Patrick Raul, Jon Brown, Dave Jesch, Steve Zehngut, Cody Landefeld, Wes Chyrchel, Chris Lema and Jason Tucker. Jon goes in to explain how responsive and mobile are different. Elizabeth mentions that a lot people use their sites as mobile. Jon wants the difference between a responsive site and mobile site known and that they are different. Wes gives the benefit of using responsive as mobile ready site. Steve Zehngut speaks to his clients regarding their site in terms of how the site will be viewed. Cody Landefeld asks the group what they think of the saying, “There’s no need to do a mobile site, if you’re not doing it responsive you’re not doing it right?” Steve mentions how it depends on the project. Patrick agrees, that’s about 95% of the projects. Chris shares his take regarding it being an information/architectural question, not a visual question. Jon describes how he thinks of it as a user experience issue, provides

This week we are discussing WordPress 3.5 with Sé Reed, Suzette Franck, Gregg Franklin, Austin Gunter, Patrick Rauland, Steve Zehngut and our host Jason Tucker See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's we will be discussing WordPress Theme Frameworks. Dave Jesch – http://www.davejesch.com Patrick Rauland – http://www.speakinginbytes.com Sé Reed – http://www.sereedmedia.com Steve Zehngut – http://www.zeek.com Gregg Franklin – http://www.greggfranklin.com/ Jason Tucker – http://www.tucker.pro Chris brings up WPMU reviews, Chris Lema’s site, chrislema.com, and Clifford Paulick has two in depth articles regarding frameworks. Jason asks for Chris's favorite frameworks. Chris mentions which frameworks he likes: Catalyst, WooFramework Se mentions which framework she likes, & her views. Steve mentions his thoughts on frameworks. Chris mentions the importance of frameworks. Genesis robust and mentions the results. Chris delivers thoughts about working with frameworks and becoming a tool. Patrick shares his thoughts on the value of frameworks. Steve mentions the value of a freelancer. Chris mentions the value of some other frameworks. Jason mentions Headway and a mention of Genesis, he likes it

Today's discussion is a loose format Show and Tell. Dave Jesch – http://www.davejesch.com Patrick Rauland – http://www.speakinginbytes.com Sé Reed – http://www.sereedmedia.com Steve Zehngut – http://www.zeek.com Jason Tucker – http://www.tucker.pro Jason talks about a plugin called “SimpleMap Store Locator” that does multi store locator using Google Maps. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-map/ Patrick Rauland talks about “Limit Widgets” that limits the number of widgets a widget area can have. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/limit-widgets/ Jason demos the Simple Map and shows a table view of the plugin Patrick demos his plugin Limit Widgets, pretty cool yet crazy simple. Dave Jesch talks about a plugin concept for allowing a client to post bugs and problems and give the developer info about the clients site. Jason demos how White Label CMS works and how hes currently using it with gravity forms to work as the mockup or rev 1 of this plugin Dave was talking about. Patrick asks about usin

WordPress Community Summit is the topic for todays 30 minute roundtable at the WPwatercooler. We're joined with Steve Zehngut, Oscar Gonzalez, Dave Jesch, Jon Brown, Chris Lema, Dre Armeda, Sé Reed, Ben Metcalfe, Brandon Dove and Jason Tucker. Se Reed mentions that WordPress Community Summit is the Bohemian Grove of WordPress. Se very excited about WordPress Community Summit. Ben Metcalfe jokingly discusses about WordPress going to ‘rails' …Dre Armeda adds ‘merging with Joomla'. Dre opens up about WordPress Community Summit in Georgia at the chapel Miley Cyrus built for her film. Dre describes the scene at WordPress Community Summit.  Open sessions, round table sessions…topic at each table than strong points, bad issues that there having, how to make it better, creating actionable items Chris Lema asks about where the attendees are coming from Core are they well known. Brandon Dove got a lot of info for running WordCamps, meeting up with other WC organizers. Dre mentions ‘The Foundation and Transparency Arou

Advanced Custom Fields is the topic for todays 30 minute roundtable at the WPwatercooler. Suzette Franck has used this on an art gallery website that had 7 years of data, she made a custom form on the back end to be put into an custom post type. Se Reed asks what is the difference between using custom fields and Advanced Custom Fields plugin. Steve Zenhgut talks about how quicker and easier it is to use Advanced Custom Fields and be able to export the resulting code to be used elsewhere. Chris Lema talks about a project he used this on where he used both the import and the export feature. The CMS he was using had 18 CPT and each had 5 to 10 different fields. He states that you can assign with mapping the various meta boxes and where they will be used. Steve talks about the various addons, they recently purchased the “Repeater” addon and it works well. Chris talks about how he has used this Repeater addon and how it is all stored in Post Meta. Jason Tucker asks how portable the resulting code is and if the plu

On today's show we talk about Form Plugins and we later get into ethics. Forms Plugins – Gravity Forms we missed Lucy Beer Se uses Contact Form 7 on her clients sites mainly because it's free Jeff uses Gravity Forms Chris says its $39 for a personal license, Formidable Lite is Free Linda talks about Gravity Forms and licensing Se wants her clients to be self sufficient and Contact Form 7 fills that need. Why do we all not like Contact Form 7? Se likes it and uses it daily. Verious and Linda like it Jeff doesn't hate Contact Form 7 Chris mentions that it Contact Form 7 does store the data in the DB. Se doesn't mind this for her starter clients. Chris “wants that data” Dave says he knows of a plugin to add this functionality Verious talks about WP-CRM to create forms Se has used Gravity Forms for a quoting system Steve mentions that you can use Gravity Forms for their clients. Se cant use her developer license due to ethics issues for one of her clients Who lets the dogs out? Chris talks abou

Today we are discussing “Billing for site maintenance” for our WordPress clients with Suzette Franck, Lucy Beer, Steve Zehngut, Dave Jesch, Andrew Behla, Chris Lema, Gregg Franklin, Oscar Gonzalez, and our host Jason Tucker. ** Billing for site maintenance Maintenance defined: Clients that are already launched a phase 1 of a project and now we are moving into scope increase and changes. Any hours that we are going to be spending time on. Oscar does web development and includes a support contract. Steve is talking about scope increases and feature changes. Steve does not write maintenance into their original contract. As he approaches launch he determines how much maintenance is needed for the project. Hourly, monthly & retainer. Chris upfront during the quote he quotes different rates if they want to post delivery in video format. If the customer is getting all that they need from the videos then the price will go down. If they need handholding then the development cost goes up. Handholding costs more. St

Today we're discussing WordCamps with: Lucy Beer, Suzette Franck, Jon Brown, Verious Smith III, Cody Landefeld, Chris Lema, Steve Zehngut, Dre Armeda, Jeff Hester and our host Jason Tucker. WordCamps * Meeting people face to face and that awkward moment when you realize you aren't following someone you just met. * Networking and social aspects are key for these events. * Observing knowledge and learning, after attending a few events you tend to pick and choose the talks to want to see. * Hallway discussions are used more with the seasoned WordCampers. * Meeting in person makes it feel more like a community then just knowing people online. * Meetups are great for local networking, WordCamps bring in talented people from all over the country/world. * Dre speaks about WordCamp San Diego and how he brings in people that make his WordCamp a great event. * Intensive learning in 1 day is important to Suzette * Best sessions for Steve Z are the ones with more discussions occurring during the talk then just a present

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 lev

This is the first episode of WPwatercooler. We recorded our first episode of WPwatercooler today. A bunch of folks from the OC WordPress community got together and joined in. Topics discussed: Woothemes. Woocommerce. InfiniteWP. pricing models. Building an managing virtual teams by Chris Lema. Done Done. WordPress TV. OC WordCamp and video uploading. Crowd sourcing ebooks? Idontgivearatsass@gmail.com Loud typing!