We’ve made it, everybody! 50 great weeks of 50 great episodes of this great podcast. To celebrate, we had a great party on this week’s show, with not only Dave and Kym, but we even dragged along Lorelle VanFossen, Liz Strauss and and Jonathan Bailey!

Episode 50:

• Liz’s butt is still rocking.
• And so is SOBCon 2009!
• WordPress 2.8 is soon to come!
• WP devs want feedback on the new Widgets API for 2.8.

Thanks to Derek K. Miller for our music.

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Thank you all for your support over the past year. We couldn’t have done it without you! Thanks for all the laughs, and here’s to another 50 episodes full of even more. - Dave

• WordPress 2.8 delayed until April
• WordPress is in Google’s Summer of Code 2009 and they want ideas
  
• WordCamp Toronto gets how to run a WordCamp
• Celebrity Pressers: Lorelle wants your help!
• WordPress for iPhone now in the app store!
• Jane Wells wants EVERYONE to contribute to WordPress. Here’s how.
• Michael Pick launches Making WordPress.tv, and we want more of the good stuff.
• WordPress Tip of the Week: Tweaking the comment system to your liking
• Kym’s pick: NextOfKin death alert Plugin
• Lorelle’s pick: New widgets API
• Dave’s pick: The “Pretty Blue Admin”

Thanks to Derek K. Miller for our theme music

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Lorelle is back for her third and final week as fill in (Kym will be back for our next episode). From LIVE coverage of the first ever WordPress tattoo to even more WTFs, we’ve got an incredibly informative, entertaining, and oh-so-irreverelevant show for you this week. PS. I MEANT TUESDAY, NOT THURSDAY! – Dave

Episode 45:

• First EVER WordPress tattoo!
• Justin Tadlock wants cool new widgets (what’s your favorite, and LEAST favorite?)
• Andy Skelton got married!
• WordPress 2.7.1 RC 1 released (and also Weblog Tools Collection is redesigned!)
• BuddyPress coming out on Thursday the 12th
• Donncha looking for WP SuperCache testers
• WPHacks: Using WordPress Consultants wisely
• Vladimir needs help picking a cover for his book!
• WordPress Tip of the Week: Customize your WordPress login with RegisterPlus
• Celebrity Pressers: PEOPLE TV Watch, Emeril LeGasse, Hot for Words
• Twestival is on Thursday!
• Lorelle’s pick: Page Mashup plugin
• Dave’s pick: My Page Order plugin

Thanks to Derek K. Miller for our music.

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Kym shares some great design tips, WordPress 2.5 has lots of features (but we still want more) and our first few emails!

Topics and links from this week’s show:

• Kym’s design idea
• Widget Tutorial
• Options Theme
• Plugin of the Week: Akismet – Spam protection bundled with WP
• CuteFTP
• SmartFTP

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