WordPress
Power, Politics, and WordPress
We call it quits for WPwatercooler and then this happens weeks later.
WordPress
Almost 12 years of WordPress Podcasting
Almost 12 years of punditry on the state of WordPress - the people, themes, plugins and companies that made the ecosystem
ActivityPub
What's with ActivityPub + WordPress + Cloudflare not working?
I’ve been on a journey to get WPwatercooler.com to be on the fediverse and it hasn’t been as easy as I was thinking it was going to be. Folks that run a website and want to use Mastodon to build community around it have a few options
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Using ChatGPT to optimize YouTube content for WPwatercooler
I recently started using ChatGPT to try and optimize the YouTube content for my website, WPwatercooler. In the past, I struggled with writing descriptive text for the “in the description down below” section of my videos and found the process of creating metadata for my episodes to be tedious. I
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Playing in the metaverse
Recently on WPwatercooler EP436 – A New Dimension of WordPress we had Anthony Burchell on the show to discuss with us the use of 3D in the WordPress block editor. I’ve been playing around with metaverse environments for the last few years with the Meta Quest 2 and found that
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How I cleaned my MailChimp mailing list
Back in August I did a little of spring cleaning and cleaned out my mailing list for my WordPress podcast network WPwatercooler. The idea was that the number of opens and click through’s are pretty low and the number of people that were joining the show as participants was
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Videos from January 2017 OC WordPress developer meetup
At the January 9th 2017 OC WordPress developer meetup Brandon Dove and Jacob Arriola did presentations that I recorded. If you are into WordPress you may enjoy and learn from these mrxuzsi.
technology
WordPress 3.6 “Oscar” version released: advanced autosave, Spotify
The latest version of WordPress, version 3.6, is now available and includes a beautiful new blog-centric theme, autosave and post locking, a redesigned revision browser, native support for audio and video embeds, and improved integrations with Spotify, Rdio, and SoundCloud. Matt Mullenweg Co-Founder of WordPress speaking about the future
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Website Development Podcasts
I’m always looking for new things to inspire me in my work. Running my own company and not having anyone on staff to bounce ideas off of can seem tricky at times. Inspiration comes in may forms, and one of them for me is podcasting. I like the idea
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Using Git with Dandelion for staging and production deployments.
I’ve been recently setting up my local development environment using a combination of a few pieces of software and web services to get this going. In upcoming blog posts I’ll be going over each of these in detail, for now here is my list: * DesktopServer Local development server
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OC WordPress General Meeting 2/28/12
Last night I attended my OC WordPress meeting at Zeek Interactive in Huntington Beach. I hitched a ride with my friend Cindy Ronzoni, and talked it up doing our drive out from Whittier. Cindy is a treat to talk to, she’s a PR person that doesn’t mind me
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OC WordPress Meetup 7/25/2011
Last night we had our OC WordPress Meetup at Zeek Interactive in Huntington Beach. I streamed the event live using uStream and then posted the files to YouTube. As like with my previous recordings this one had some faults too… the main one was Auto Focus. The recording went very