Ryan Imel

Ryan Imel, Editor-in-Chief of WP Candy transformed what was once a tutorial site for the past years into a face-paced breaking WordPress news site. Ryan is a serial entrepreneur having created projects like COMMENTbits and others. On the show we review Ryan’s goals for the transformation and how he feels value is provided to the readership. Upon visiting WP Candy, users will find the latest and greatest news, WordCamp recaps, reviews, podcasts, interviews, podcasts, plugins, themes and of course tutorials as always. Among the interesting goodies tucked away in the site is the theme finder. We also discuss mechanics of getting a new site started including site structure, taxonomies and uses of tags and tag clouds.

We invite everyone to submit reviews and tips at WP Candy and help Ryan and his team continue to help us all stay up-to-date with WordPress news.

Plugin Picks of the Week:

• Post Revision Display: Displays post-publication revisions along with differences/changes from current revision on single post views.
• oEmbed Provider: oEmbed is a powerful protocol that allows sites to automatically embed content from 3rd parties directly into their site in whatever way they choose.

Brian Clark

This weeks guest was Brian Clark of Copyblogger. Copyblogger recently merged with StudioPress to form Copyblogger Media, and as Brian was also already involved with the Scribe SEO plugin too, that was added to the group as well. This means the Copyblogger Media group is now a serious powerhouse of WordPress knowledge, which is what we discussed with Brian.

Due to some technical issues the show ended a bit early, which is why we’ll do another show with Brian soon on the topic of SEO for your blog. Nonetheless, this is a very interesting show to listen to!