Episode 42 – How Could WordPress Die?

Episode 42 of WordPress Weekly which fell on the same day as Friday the 13th contained a round table discussion where we talked about the various events or circumstances that would need to take place in order for WordPress to meet its demise. Although in the end, none us believed that WordPress would be disappearing anytime soon.

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WordPress Trivia Question:

Give me the exact date the first post was published on the WordPress.org blog. Date should be in month, day, year format.

Discussion Panel:

Brad Williams
Jeremy Clarke
Jacob Santos

Stories Discussed:

WordPress 2.7.1 Released

WordPress Tavern Listener Poll:

Each week from now on, I’ll be featuring a new listener poll question on WPTavern.com The poll is located in the sidebar on the right hand side of the site.

Last weeks poll question was: Should The Sandbox Theme Be The Next Default Theme In WordPress?

Out of a total of 30 votes, 47% or 14 of you voted Keep Kubric But Remove Classic Theme. 37% or 11 of you said Yes and 17% or 5 of you voted No.

This Weeks Poll Question Is: Is Friday The 13th Lucky Or Unlucky?

Plugin Picks Of The Week:

Jeff – Supple forms – Supple Forms is a CMS plugin for WordPress that lets you easily add a custom write panel or meta box to the Write Post/Write Page screen. It differs from other custom write panel plugins in that you can store your data in either WordPress Custom Fields or your own custom table that the plugin will create for you. Additionally, it provides a powerful HTML snippet tool that lets you format and insert your data into pages and posts with shortcodes, and without tweaking templates.

David – SEO Blogroll – Lets you decide which blogroll links have the nofollow attribute.

WordPress Trivia Answer:

April 6th, 2003

Brian Gardner Theme Giveaway:

Member ID 12 was the lucky recipient of a single site license for a Revolution theme of their choosing. Member ID 12 on the WPTavern forum is ksolomon. If ksolomon does not claim the prize or chooses not to accept, I’ll use the random number picker to choose another winner.

Announcements:

There will be no episode of WordPress Weekly next Week. Instead, the next episode will be on February 27th.

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Next Episode: Friday February 27th, 2009 8P.M. EST

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Length Of Episode: 1 Hour 30 Minutes

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