In this Aftertaste episode Otto sticks around after WP Late Night #10 and we discuss P2 theme version 1.4, SVN versus Git, Mac versus Windows versus Linux, and the finer qualities of crappy beers. Oh and Nacin joined in for a few minutes toward the end to talk about WordPress.org issues a bit, just for fun.

This after show episode is actually twice the length as the show it follows, by the way. Enjoy.

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The infamous Otto Wood joined the WP Late Night crew this week to discuss WordPress.org, WordPress plugins, PressNomics, Code Poet, and all sorts of other stuff. If you enjoy WordPress discussion, particularly if you’re a WordPress developer, this is an episode you don’t want to miss.

This week the show had no sponsors. If you’d like to support WPCandy podcasts, and get your message out to thousands of interested WordPress users and developers, see the advertising page for more information.

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Episode #10 Show Notes

• WordPress.org plugins can be favorited, improved forum integration
• The new plugins /make blog
• WordCamp NYC Saturday sessions
• Brad speaking on WordPress security at WordCamp NYC
• PressNomics invitations
• Year of the Meetup blog post on WordPress.org
• Code Poet relaunches, expands beyond a listing service
• Books available for free on Code Poet
• Better Internal Link Search
• Client Oriented WordPress Development book
• Show Template plugin
• Otto’s favorite plugins
• Otto on Facebook
• Otto on the WordPress Settings API
• Otto on the WordPress 3.4 theme customizer
• WordPress BBQ team

The world-famous Otto — of ottopress.com, Audrey Capital, WordPress.org, and awesome plugin fame — will join the regular WP Late Night crew for the podcast tonight. Potential discussion topics include WordPress 3.4, the recent updates to WordPress.org, or even the quality of the BBQ he enjoyed the last week in Memphis.

Join the live stream and chatroom tonight at 8pm EDT on the WPCandy Stream. If you have any questions or topics you’d like to hear us discuss with Otto, you can leave them in the comments below.

I’ll definitely be attending this year’s PressNomics event in November. Who else is planning on attending, either by invite or standard registration she€n it’s available?

If you haven’t yet, be sure to read over the PressNomics feature I published when they announced the event.

About a month ago I began accepting podcast sponsorships for the WordPress podcasts we publish here on the blog. This week is the first available sponsorship slot since that announcement.

If you’d like to support the shows on WPCandy and want to reach a very interested community of WordPress users and developers, see the advertising page and get in touch. That page also includes up to date statistics on episode downloads.

Speaking of podcasts, there will be a slew of them going up later today. We rescheduled WP Late Night to tonight, and we also have the standard Weekly Theme Show and WPCandy Podcast recording times. I’d say it will be a good day for fans of WordPress audio.

If you spend any time on the WordPress.org plugin directory (or heard us talking about it on any of WPCandy’s podcasts last week) then you likely noticed a few updates. Matt Mullenweg described the tweaks himself over on the WordPress.org news blog, which is worth reading if you want to know the thinking behind the changes.

Briefly, the updates included:

• Support forum threads are now pulled into their own tab, complete with the plugin’s header graphic at the top (assuming your plugin uses one of these).
• Logged in users can now favorite plugins, which will display on their WordPress.org profile page.
• Plugin authors are back in the right sidebar, and styled a bit nicer than before.
• The plugin sidebar also includes the number of forum threads resolved in the last couple of weeks to help and point out active plugins.

If you’d like to take a look at these updates in action, check out the BuddyPress plugin page for an example, complete with header image.

The WordPress.org team completed the updates last week (along with the latest addition to Audrey Capital) during a BBQ week in Memphis. As Matt said in his post:

This is why WordCamps usually have BBQ – it imparts magical coding powers.

Had you noticed the updates to the plugin directory before seeing the announcement, or this post? Let us know what you think of them in the comments.

Why should you be limited to whatever features the theme author has stuffed in that may or may not be relevant to you? You should be able to choose your own SEO plugin to accomplish what you want.

If you’ve awaited news on WordCamp Edinburgh UK 2012 and when ticket sales start, then today is your lucky day. You can now get your hands on an early bird ticket for £35, as long as you order it before June 1st when it increases to £45. The ticket price entitles you to two days worth of speakers and a social event on Saturday night. What more could you want?

Sponsorships are also available, ranging from £75 to £1,000 (which covers the official social event on Saturday night).

So are you looking forward to WordCamp Edinburgh UK and your visit to Scotland?

WordPress developer and self-described “prolific plugin developer” Scott Reilly has joined Audrey Capital, Matt Mullenweg’s angel investment and research company. Reilly joins Audrey’s other developers Andrew Nacin and Samuel (Otto) Wood to work on WordPress.org and whatever other special projects come their way.

Reilly has contributed to WordPress since 2004, both by contributing patches to core and by developing and releasing many, many plugins. Odds are you’ve used at least one of his slew of plugins at one point or another — I’ve certainly praised his plugin work time and time again.

Developers at Audrey Capital, put simply, work on whatever projects Mullenweg assigns. Their work often includes work on WordPress.org (the website) and other community initiatives. The work often coincides with the consumption of barbecue, as it did this past week.