Daniel Brusilovsky of Teens in Tech (it’s an internet startup!) and Apple Universe (podcast.com) joins us today to help us power the good, the bad, the ugly, and the everything else of WordPress up to your ears for yet another week. From good news to bad news, and parties to potatoes (Small Potatoes!), you’ll find it all in this week’s show.

P.S.: Sorry for the echo! I can’t run this studio very well, it appears. Maybe I should write myself a manual. – Dave

Episode 33:

• Small Potato offers refunds
• WordPress 2.6.3 released!
• Liz hosts SOB Birthday party!
• YouTube supports deep linking
• Blogging Idol 2 now open
• WordPress Tip of the Week: Using Smilies
• Daniel’s Pick: Leopard Admin
• [submiminal: appleuniversepodcast.com]
• Kym’s pick: Moderator (thanks to Jeff for that one)
• Dave’s pick: Flutter (confusing but cool)
• What should we do to give away a $50 value?

Thanks to Derek K. Miller for our music.

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It’s a wild, wild, WordCast, folks! We’ve even got the Jeopardy music. Kym and Dave join you alone this week to talk about running a WordCamp, Gravatars, and even screaming babies on blogs. Umm… yeah.

Episode 32:

• What to think about when running a WordCamp, based upon WordCamp Portland
• DiscoverMagazine on WP
• Stephen Fry’s blog looks good, and it’s on WP
• Gravatars: Why Both Commenters and Publishers Should Use It
• Revolution Themes going open source, and the current ones going away. Like, forever
• Neil Patel will give you $250,000. Maybe
• Hack WordPress now WPHacks (Thanks to Nicolas in the forums)
• Kym’s pick: Managing Multiple Blogs’ Comments: An idea for the future
• Dave’s pick: NKSnow (and it kind of sucks)
• WordPress Tip of the Week: Delaying a post’s publication
• The WP 2.7 Admin interface is amazing

Voicemail from Cameron: People should join the forums. Like, now.

Thanks to Derek K. Miller for our music.

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That’s right! Automattic has finally announced the long-awaited WordPress 2.7 user interface! (Took long enough, didn’t it?) Please enjoy this screenshot, and a quote from the official post:

As you know, one of the goals of 2.7 was to reduce the necessity to load new screens just to access sub-navigation menus; we wanted the most-used screens to be within a click or two at most. If you’ve been using the nightly builds, you got used to the arrow controls that allowed you to expand and contract the menus. Then you got used to the box-style with icons that not only opened and closed vertically, but could be minimized horizontally as well, leaving a remnant of icons to provide a kind of “advanced mode,” though you don’t need to be particularly advanced to use it. Now that we have real button styles (the icons are still placeholders, and we hope to have some new ones soonish), we’ve nailed down the menu functionality.

We’ll give you a more in-depth look on the next episode of WordCast!

In this week’s episode, Beth’s still gone. But don’t worry! We’ve got an able and awesome gust host this week, Liz Strauss of Successful and Outstanding Blog! From conspiracy theories to lists of influential people, you can count on this week’s WordCast to be a great source of information of entertainment.

Episode 30:

• 2.7 Wireframes
• Matt on the State of WordPress
• Solostream sold out
• 50 of the Most Powerful and Influential Women in Social Media
• WordPress Tip of the Week: Getting back to disappearing documents
• Tags in a dropdown menu
• Readability and blog themes
• Liz’s pick: WordPress Related posts and Zemanta
• Kym’s pick: Blue Grace Theme by Vlad
• Dave’s pick: WP DB Manager plugin
• WordCamp Update from http://wordcamp.info
• The forums are cool.
  

Thanks to Derek K. Miller for our absolutely incredible theme music.

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We rejected this list in episode 31, so we decided to make our OWN list of influential people. (Everyone’s equal- we love them the same!)

• Liz Strauss
• Lorelle VanFossen
• Vladimir Prelovac
• Beth Skinner
• Kym Huynh
• Dave Moyer
• Jeff Chandler
• Small Potato
• Jonathan Bailey

On today’s WordCast, we’re stepping down off our soapboxes to take a few minutes (or maybe an hour) with arguably WordPress’s most prolific plugin developer these days, Vladimir Prelovac. From the plugins he makes to the plugins he uses, Vlad sits down with us for a bit to have a chat!

Episode 30:

• Vlad’s amazing plugin: Insights
• Exploit scanner
• SEB – Pension (music video)

Thanks to Derek K. Miller for our theme music

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Here’s WordCast’s customized tag cloud, courtesy of Wordle!