The Importance of Open Source to WordPress (V2)

Wait, haven’t I already made this post? Well, yes, but it’s a hot issue again.

In case you’ve been living under a rock, here’s the controversial meeting of Matt Mullenweg and Chris Pearson (creator of the Thesis theme).
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046 – Theme Malware and the Theme Authenticity Checker

Wordpress.org/extend/themes is the only place you should get WordPress themes from. Why? Googling for “free WordPress themes” is dangerous. In this episode I show how the first page results for “free WordPress themes” will return you themes full of Very Bad Stuff(tm). How can you avoid this stuff, and find out if your themes are clean? Find out in this week’s episode!
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045 – ClickHeat Open Source Heat Map Software

Heat Maps allow you to see what people are clicking on, and optimize your web site, advertisments, and navigation. Click Heat is a Open Source (free) Heat Map program, and I show you how to set it up on your WordPress site. Enjoy!

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044 – JanRain RPX:Engage Single Signon for OpenID Twitter Facebook and Other

JanRain RPX/Engage is a plugin that allows users to sign into your web site using many different proviers, like twitter, facebook and openid. In this episode I show you how to install and configure JanRain RPX and conifgure it to allow twitter logins.

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Why WordPress is no longer a Hobby for me

UPDATE: The video is now available!

WordPress is great software, which allows people who don’t have much technical knowledge to publish their information on the Internet. For me, the WordPress software was a really interesting ‘gadget’, a cool piece of software that was really easy to hack around with, modify, and yes even to make a . . . → Read More: Why WordPress is no longer a Hobby for me

043 – Make Wordpress Go Faster!

How to install and configure the W3 Total Cache, and set up a CDN (content delivery network) using AWS S3 and Cloudfront. Don’t worry, it’s much easier than it sounds, and you’ll get more visitors to your site!

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042 – Backing up Wordpress and Google Font API

Backing up your wordpress installation (or installations) is extremely important. For all you know, as you read this your web hosting provider could have just gone out of business. Or a hard drive just died. Or somebody just deleted the wrong folder. How will you recover?
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041 – Wordpress SEO Tips

This episode is chock full of SEO tips for your wordpress blog. Tips that are easy for a normal person to impliment! Meta tags suck, Google XML Sitemap, Page Rank checker and more! Visit teachmewp.com for more episodes

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040 – New Media News Roundup

In this episode I cover the facebook controversy (are you a quitter?), the secret history of the kubrick theme, the Wordpress state of the word video, and Inc magazine’s incubation nation. Enjoy!

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039 – Wordpress 3.0 Preview

Wordpress 3.0 is almost here – sometime this month. In this episode I give you a preview of some of the features in Wordpress 3.0 including the new twentyten theme, with customizable headers and background, bulk theme updates and the new multi user stuff. There’s alot in this episode, be sure to check it . . . → Read More: 039 – Wordpress 3.0 Preview