In this week’s episode of the WPCandy Podcast I chat with both Startbox’s Brian Richards and Automattic’s Lance Willett. Brian and I discussed the WordPress news of the last week, and Lance recapped the last year of commercial themes on WordPress.com with me.

See the various listening options below, or have a listen right now:

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This week’s episode went a little on the long side, and clocks in at 1 hour and 15 minutes. If you’d like to jump ahead:

• 00:00:30 WordPress news discussion with Brian Richards and Ryan Imel. Topics included WordPress 3.4 development, Envato’s price adjustment tool, theme trends in 2012, and a shameless plug for the Quarterly.
• 00:35:15 Interview with Lance Willett about the last year of commercial themes on WordPress.com.

The interview with Lance Willett was edited for time, but keep an eye on the blog for the full, unedited interview to be posted soon.

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, or directly to the RSS feed. As always you can send any emails you would like to have included on the show to podcast@wpcandy.com. The download link is just after the jump.

If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.

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In this, episode 30 of the WPCandy Podcast, we officially adopt a new format for the official show. In short, the goal is for the WPCandy Podcast to deliver a higher awesome per minute ratio, and be the “if you only listen to one WordPress podcast, listen to this one” podcast.

But that’s not all. In this episode Brian and I recap on 2011 at WPCandy, and I sit down to interview Andy Skelton and Joen Asmussen from Automattic about the WordPress.com/Jetpack year-end reports (example).

You can listen to the podcast here:

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This week’s episode is just over 41 minutes long. If you want to jump ahead:

• 00:50 Ryan and Brian reminisce on 2011
• 14:55 Interview with Andy Skelton and Joen Asmussen

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, or directly to the RSS feed. As always you can send any emails you would like to have included on the show to podcast@wpcandy.com. The download link is just after the jump.

If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.

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This episode of the WPCandy Podcast sees Ryan, Brian, and Daniel discuss the most interesting news items of the WordPress community this holiday week. Grab a cup of coffee, maybe cocoa or eggnog, and enjoy the Christmas (Christmas, and Christmas) edition of the podcast.

This week’s podcast was a bit longer than normal (approximately 90 minutes) so the breakdown of topics discussed below also include approximate time codes, just in case you want to jump to a specific discussion that you care about.

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This is a bit of a long podcast, so to make things easier on you I’ve broken down what we talked about minute by minute. It’s just because we love you all so much:

• 1:45 What’s everyone building this week?
• 12:00 WPCandy Awards discussion
• 18:00 Quarterly update
• 20:30 Custom plugin header images (funny one)
• 29:00 BuddyPress activity admin screens and BuddyPress general discussion
• 36:00 WordPress for Android, mobile WordPress apps
• 45:45 WooThemes infographic
• 1:07:00 Theme Foundry post
• 1:14:15 Infographic again
• 1:17:00 Post formats and UI
• 1:21:15 Editor’s picks (see below)

This week Brian’s pick was the very recently released Gravity Forms add-on for the WooCommerce plugin (demonstrated), which he picked up yesterday. Ryan’s pick was the User Switching plugin, and Daniel opted out of picks this week.

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If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.

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What better way to round out a work week but with the WPCandy Podcast? Okay don’t answer that, because I’m sure there are much better ways. Let’s just forget I said anything.

Brian, Daniel and myself are all present this time around, and quite a bit happened this week for us to talk about. WordPress 3.3 came out, which of course is a worthwhile topic. In addition DevPress has changed gears, a ThemeForest author crossed the million dollar mark in sales, and—wait, why don’t you just listen to the episode already?

Jump straight into the podcast audio here:

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Link-wise, this week we discussed:

• WordPress 3.3 was released (see our full series for more)
• An author on Envato’s ThemeForest marketplace crossed one million in sales
• DevPress has become a team of one
• Brian has been helping with WordCamp Birmingham
• AdSanity launched as a new ad management plugin
• Lorelle will be teaching a WordPress course at a University
• Okay Themes launched (I also mentioned the name reminds me of Sandwich Video)

Daniel’s pick this episode was the recently launched WP LifeGuard, Brian picked the Stripe payment gateway, and my own pick was the Featured Image Column plugin.

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, or directly to the RSS feed. As always you can send any emails you would like to have included on the show to podcast@wpcandy.com. Download links are after the jump.

If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.

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I know what you’re thinking—it isn’t possible. Could this really be a new WPCandy Podcast? Indeed it is. After a shamefully long gap since the last podcast we’re back at it, this time joined by the newest contributor to WPCandy, Daniel Immke. In this episode we discuss the Quarterly a bit (by the way, pre-order yours), WordPress 3.3 RC1, WordAds, and a couple of fun stories that popped up in the last week or so.

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Link-wise, this week we discussed:

• WordPress 3.3 RC1
• The announcement of The WPCandy Quarterly publication
• WordPress.com’s announcement of WordAds
• Plugin duplicates may result in rejection from WordPress.org
• The PressTrends preview we published last week
• Seshn is ambitious, plans to be biggest by 2013

Then we have picks. This week Brian chose the Ambrosite Next/Previous Post Link Plus plugin, which is entirely a mouthful to say. Daniel’s pick was the Headway Themes redesign that went up recently, and my pick (though I’ve yet to play with it) is the Social plugin from Crowd Favorite and MailChimp.

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, or directly to the RSS feed. As always you can send any emails you would like to have included on the show to podcast@wpcandy.com. Download links are after the jump.

If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.

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It’s time again on WPCandy for another podcast about WordPress. Of course, saying it’s “about WordPress” is a bit unnecessary right? Would you expect it to be a podcast about tacos?

In this episode Brian Krogsgard and I discuss the WordPress news that interested us the most in the last week. That includes the 3.3 feature freeze, the state of WordPress marketplaces, and how WordCamp Louisville was last weekend.

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Link-wise, this week we discussed:

• What’s coming in 3.3, The WordPress 3.3 feature freeze (and Theme.fm’s demo of pointers)
• WordCamp Central update, camps coming in November
• ThemeGarden scaling back, refocusing as an alternative marketplace
• Stop telling users they shouldn’t be running very many plugins
• bbPress 2.0 and BuddyPress 1.5 released
• Pods Foundation raising over $4,000 on Kickstarter

Brian’s pick was a snippet of code he pulled from Noel Tock’s work at Theme Force. Mine was oEmbed Gist, a plugin I like but have yet to try, that I found via Remkus de Vries.

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, or directly to the RSS feed. As always you can send any emails you would like to have included on the show to podcast@wpcandy.com. Download links are after the jump.

If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.

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It’s time again for another WPCandy Podcast! This time we’re at episode number 25, otherwise known as the “Too elite to be free” edition. In this episode Brian and I discuss the WordPress news of the last week or so, talk a lot about plugins, and of course dish our WordPress picks for the episode.

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Link-wise, this week we discussed:

• The launch of WP101Plugin.com
• The Events Calendar Pro news
• Peter Butler’s TimThumb scanning plugin
• Max Foundry’s Starter Kits news
• The launch of Pressed Ads

Brian’s pick this week was Query Posts(which has been featured on the Sweet Plugin), a plugin by Justin Tadlock. My pick was Advanced Post Manager from Shane and Peter, which I admittedly haven’t tried yet but think looks cool.

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, or directly to the RSS feed. As always you can send any emails you would like to have included on the show to podcast@wpcandy.com. Download links are after the jump.

If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.

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I’m happy to be publishing episode 24 of the WPCandy Podcast. Brian Krogsgard joined me for the recording, as usual. We discuss the latest WordPress news and our thoughts on what’s been going on. Oh, and apologies for the poor audio quality on my end; my dog ate my mic’s recording and it’s the best I could do.

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Link-wise, this week we covered:

• The WooCommerce/Jigoshop news
• The RAMP plugin from Crowd Favorite
• GetWellPtah.com
• Improved permalink performance in 3.3

Brian’s pick this week the WPAlchemy metabox class. My pick was Drafts Dropdown, a plugin I’ve started using recently.

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, or directly to the RSS feed. As always you can send any emails you would like to have included on the show to podcast@wpcandy.com. Download links are after the jump.

If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.

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This week the show was dedicated to (big surprise here) the release of WordPress 3.2. We run down the list of features, pick out our favorites, and chat a bit about the reactions we noticed within the community. We didn’t stick to 3.2 only, though: DevPress was discussed, as well as Miniraffe, the upcoming project from Adii Pienaar.

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Link-wise, this week we covered:

• WordPress 3.2, of course. Rather than link to each of our posts about it, check out our series rundown.
• DevPress and their new $5/year club
• Miniraffe, the upcoming plugin shop from Adii Pienaar

Brian’s pick this week was the custom taxonomy generator (driven by Gravity Forms) over at Themergency. My pick was a plugin called Search Meter, which will soon be featured on The Daily Plugin.

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, or directly to the RSS feed. As always you can send any emails you would like to have included on the show to podcast@wpcandy.com. Download links are after the jump.

If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.

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This week brings us episode 22 of the WPCandy Podcast, where we talk WordPress for an absurd amount of time every 7 days. This week we discuss blog comments, Single Serving Plugins^TM, and just what constitutes a rumor.

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Link-wise, this week we covered:

• Mark Jaquith’s Menu Humility plugin and how these relate, in philosophy to single serving sites
• WordPress.com allows comments via Twitter and Facebook
• WPMU DEV/Joost de Valk
• Custom theme option screens (editorial to follow soon)
• We talk more about Twenty Eleven, which we haven’t done nearly enough
• New alerts that VaultPress is now serving up
• Briefly, the relaunch of DevPress
• A possible thing StudioPress might be up to

Brian’s pick was a plugin called Nyan Cat that really makes distraction free writing better. Ryan’s was the Blog Metrics plugin by Joost de Valk.

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, or directly to the RSS feed. As always you can send any emails you would like to have included on the show to podcast@wpcandy.com. Download links are after the jump.

If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.

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This week’s new WPCandy Podcast is all baked up and ready for you! In this week’s episode, Brian and I spend a few minutes talking about WordPress’ progress over the last 8 years, WordPress winning a Critter award, and the recent Mojo/Themify partnership. We also spend far too long relating theme frameworks to Betty Crocker, microwaves, and 300 year old cheese.

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In link form, we discussed the following:

• Brian’s “ship code” blog post
• WordPress turned 8 years old
• Mashable’s showcase of past WordPress Dashboards
• WordPress wins a Critter (oh, and Disapora)
• MOJO and Themify partnership

Brian’s pick was a book on jQuery that he’s reading right now, and Ryan’s was the upcoming plugin from BraveNewCode called WordTwit Pro.

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, or directly to the RSS feed. As always you can send any emails you would like to have included on the show to podcast@wpcandy.com. Download links are after the jump.

If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.

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I’m excited to offer up episode 20 of the WPCAndy Podcast, Nearly lost forever edition. In this episode Brian and I discuss Pros, the buzz around marketplace editorials on the site, and functionality plugins. Oh yeah, and this should have gone up days ago.

Jump straight into the podcast audio here:

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This week we discussed:

• The launch of Pros
• Collis’ op-ed response
• Theme Madness results
• Functionality plugin
• WordPress and Tumblr are apples and oranges

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, or directly to the RSS feed. As always you can send any emails you would like to have included on the show to podcast@wpcandy.com. Download links are after the jump.

If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.

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I’m happy to present episode 19 of the WPCandy Podcast, Birth of the Ambassador edition. In this episode Brian and I discussed our thoughts on the theme pricing editorial from Mike McAlister last week, as well as a number of other fun things that have happened on the site.

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This week we discussed:

• Our own joys about reaching 100,000 visits on WPCandy
• How the Powered By system works
• The recent activity from the Theme Madness competition
• The $35 theme editorial
• WordPress’ 3.1.2 security update

Brian’s pick was the CPT generator, using Gravity Forms. Mine was (shamelessly) my own Hover Intent plugin.

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, or directly to the RSS feed. As always you can send any emails you would like to have included on the show to podcast@wpcandy.com. Download links are after the jump.

If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.

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It’s with great pleasure I present episode 18 of the WPCandy Podcast, the “I’m all teary eyed” edition. This week Brian and I were joined by special guest Otto, a prominent member of the WordPress community and Tech Ninja at Audrey Capital. You can follow Otto on Twitter at @otto42 and at his two blogs.

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This week we discussed:

• Theme Madness and why you should be playing along
• Custom post types and custom taxonomies, including Otto’s take on each
• bbPress, how cool it is, and what it represents
• WooThemes’ refocus on WordPress

Brian’s pick was twofold: the replicator plugin and the snack bar plugin. My pick was Vanilla Forums and their various plugins for integrating with WordPress. Otto’s pick was OnSwipe (see our coverage of OnSwipe).

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, or directly to the RSS feed. As always you can send any emails you would like to have included on the show to podcast@wpcandy.com. Download links are after the jump.

If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.

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I’m happy to humbly offer up episode 17 of the WPCandy Podcast, deemed the Producership Power Hour edition. In it Brian Krogsgard and I talk the latest WordPress news, perhaps slightly too much inside baseball, and thoroughly entertain ourselves.

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This week we discussed:

• WPCandy was added to the WordPress Planet, the Dashboard feed
• Brian’s first experience at a WordPress meetup
• The (potential) roadmap for WordPress 3.2
• WPVibe is for sale on Flippa
• Onswipe partnership with Automattic
• Gravity Forms redesign and launch of version 1.5
• Various WordCamp updates

Brian’s pick was a Chrome extension called WriteSpace, and mine was a WordPress plugin called Live Blogging.

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, or directly to the RSS feed. As always you can send any emails you would like to have included on the show to podcast@wpcandy.com. Download links are after the jump.

If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.

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I was joined by WPCandy contributor Brian Krogsgard this week, as we talked about Automattic’s recent announcements (Jetpack and guided transfers), Blogger’s recent moves, and of course Brian’s new microphone.

This episode was also recorded live on the WPCandy Stream, along with an accompanying chat room. If you haven’t checked out the stream yet, why don’t you?

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Subscribe to the show on iTunes, or directly to the RSS feed. As always you can send any emails you would like to have included on the show to podcast@wpcandy.com. Download links are after the jump.

If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.

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WPCandy’s very own Brian Krogsgard made his podcasting debut this week on episode 15, also known as the “Best podcast since the last podcast” edition. We talk mainly WordPress 3.1, and are joined by briefly by both Syed Balkhi of WPBeginner and Kim Huynh of WordCast.

This was also the first episode we recorded live on the WPCandy Stream, so you may hear references to a chat room. If you haven’t checked out the stream yet, why don’t you?

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Subscribe to the show on iTunes, or directly to the RSS feed. As always you can send any emails you would like to have included on the show to podcast@wpcandy.com. Download links are after the jump.

If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.

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Darcy Clarke of WordPress theme shop Themify joined me for the WPCandy WordPress Podcast episode 14. This week we talked about last week’s future of WordPress themes post, the Max Foundry story, and the ideal pricing structure for WordPress themes.

I also mentioned the new WPCandy “Powered by Map“, where we keep track of locations all over the world that make this site possible.

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This week’s show hosts were:

• Ryan Imel, @ryanimel
• Darcy Clarke, @darcy_clarke

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, or directly to the RSS feed. As always you can send any emails you would like to have included on the show to podcast@wpcandy.com. Download links are after the jump.

If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.

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In the WPCandy WordPress Podcast episode 13, Anthony Cole joined me as a guest host. Anthony is a WordPress developer who has worked with BuddyPress, bbPress, and plugin development extensively. In this episode we spoke with him about the upcoming WordCamp Melbourne, which he is organizing, the potential of WooThemes hosting and the theme landscape itself, Onswipe, and a bit about the “premium” editorial from last week. There’s quite a bit in here for those interested in making money with themes and plugins, too. Have a listen.

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This week’s show hosts were:

• Ryan Imel, @ryanimel
• Anthony Cole, @anthonycole

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, or directly to the RSS feed. As always you can send any emails you would like to have included on the show to podcast@wpcandy.com. Download links are after the jump.

If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.

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Has it really been weeks since the last podcast? Wow. In WPCandy Podcast 012 we discussed the bbPress plugin project, Giant Theme’s closing, oDesk’s report findings, and the top WordPress stories of 2010.

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This week’s show hosts were:

• Ryan Imel, @ryanimel
• JD Bentley, @jdbentley

JD’s pick was Anthologize, a WordPress plugin that turns content in WordPress into an electronic book. My pick was actually a cheat: Ashley, my girlfriend, is hand stitching the WPCandy and WordPress logos for a couple of projects. Photos after the jump.

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, or directly to the RSS feed. As always you can send any emails you would like to have included on the show to podcast@wpcandy.com. Download links are after the jump.

If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so here.

Hand stitched logos gallery

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