Since our guest couldn’t make it due to illness, Marcus Couch and I took the opportunity to thank all of the wonderful listeners who responded to our call to action in episode 169. I followed up the first segment with a 10-15 minute rant beginning at 13:25 on WP Drama. Marcus and I agree that it’s a dismissive term and doesn’t offer anything productive to the WordPress ecosystem. After the rant, we discuss the news of the week and Marcus gives his two-word review of Ghost.
Stories Discussed:
WooConf, The First Ever Conference Dedicated to WooCommerce Deemed a Success
Why WordPress Doesn’t Need to Fear Ghost, Yet
John James Jacoby Launches Indiegogo Campaign to Fund BuddyPress, bbPress, and GlotPress Development
Happy Joe Uses WordPress to Train and Help Veterans Find Careers in Web Technology
Plugins Picked By Marcus:
Google Webfont Optimizer finds every Google Fonts request and bulks them together so the site only asks Google once for the fonts instead of multiple times.
Note is a simple and easy to use widget for editing bits of text, live, in your WordPress front-end Customizer. Note was recently reviewed on WP Tavern.
BAW Login/Logout menu enables you to add a real login/logout item menu that autoswitches when a user is logged in or out. You can also configure a redirect for the login/logout action.
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Hey Jeff, I pretty much ignore twitter nowadays, especially re. any kind of drama, for the same reasons you mentioned. So I’m glad if you or anyone else gives more thought to an issue that may have some merit or lead to greater thought. Maybe it would help if you clarified that intention when you take on some of these topics. Remind us that what may be seem like a non-issue can be seen differently by others, and there might be something to learn from them.