It was announced back in April 2010 by Clearspring (the third party provider of the current Talkshoe Wdigets) that they were turning off their API coding that controlled the embed and sharing capabilities of these widgets. Now, the wiidgets still remain functional, for the most part, however, you cannot obtain a new embed code, so new users or anyone that wants to get their embed codes for these widgets, are flat out of luck! At the same time, Clearspring has also announced that by January 2011, the rest of the widgets will cease to exist…in other words, they will go away permanently.

In light of the fact that so many Talkshoe users rely on these widgets to not only function, but have the capability to be added to not only their site, but other sites as well, two alternatives have come about as replacements for these widgets until such a time that Talkshoe posts new widgets on their site again.

The first widget is for WordPress.org Self Hosted users. In other words, persons that have their own hosting available for the WordPress scripts to run on. Sorry, WordPress.com users, until WordPress adds this widget to their current lineup, you will not be able to use it.

The WP_Talkshoe Plugin can be obtain from the WordPress Repository and at it’s home page too. This plugin is compatible with WordPress v3.0 and higher and will allow for many options that are changeable and more to come as the widget continues to be developed. It is unlikely that Talkshoe will develop anything like this, so this widget will be around for a long time to come yet!

The second widget is available for other blog sites and web sites that can utilize flash and javascript coding. This widget allows for options to set your Show ID and the background color. It is available in the one size currently, however, a smaller version is being worked on and should be released soon. We’ll let you know when that happens!

I will talk more about these widgets on my Friday Night Show, The Community Collective, at 8:00pm Every Friday Night.

If you have any future update ideas, please let me know. I am always looking for feedback on projects like this!

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We did a complete (well almost) refit of the WP_Talkshoe plugin and now the background color works and overrides the default theme background. You can still leave the color blank to use the theme’s default background colors. I also added a new color chart to the options page that gives you many options for colors that you can use. You can now change the font colors on the Host Title, the Past Episodes title, the Next Episode Title and the Now Playing Title.

Some graphics have been reworked to improve them and some others have been totally replaced.

Since WordPress 3.0.1 was just released, this plugin has been fully tested and works great! In fact, the automatic plugin upgrade notification now works, so if you were unable to upgrade before and was not receiving the notifications, you should be now!

More improvements coming soon! If you have any ideas for future upgrades, please let me know!

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In our most recent update, we added an options page instead of using the widget to set the options. This will allow for future expansion of the options. We had a slight bug in this page and the options could not be saved. This has been corrected and the modifications have been uploaded to the repository.

We are still working on getting the automatic upgrades to function. Not sure what the problem is, but we hope to have this ironed out soon! In the meantime, you will need to go and download the current versions as they come out. Sorry for this inconvenience.

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For anyone that is attempting to use the Talkshoe Dynamic Widgets, you are finding that the embed code is missing! To get around this issue right now, The NMP Network has released a new WordPress Plugin called WP_Talkshoe that is a replacement for the Talkshoe Dynamic Widgets. This plugin has been released to the WordPress Repository and is currently available. Just search Talkshoe in the repository or download it direct from our plugins page at http://www.talkshoesupport.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-talkshoe/

We also have a standard widget available for other web sites and blogs that are not WordPress Powered. You can obtain those widgets from http://www.talkshoesupport.com/widgets/

There may be more widgets added soon, so if you have any ideas for features or upgrades, please let us know!

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Many times in past episodes, you have heard me mention using WordPress, not only for blogging, but as a web site too. Since it’s early days, WordPress has developed into, what many feel, is the Number One software for blogging.

Tonight, we will discuss using WordPress as a platform for your podcast. No, not to host your podcast, but to give your podcast an additional presence in the Internet Real Estate Arena.

To begin with, let’s talk about what WordPress is. WordPress is a software package that you run on the Internet and it is commonly known as a Content Management System or CMS. With the availability of literally thousands of plugins and themes, you can easily make your WordPress site do anything you need and look completely different from the millions of other WordPress sites running today.

Podcaster Training and it’s parent site, The NMP Network, each operate a WordPress site. Using a News Style or Magazine Style Theme, these sites do not resemble a typical blog, but they are organized and easy to use. Along with several plugins, oh, a plugin is a smaller extension program that adds functionality and normally provides a specific task to the site, each site has lots of features not normally found in your typical blog. Again, giving a unique perspective to your site.

Now, to bring a very unique perspective to this discussion, Jeff Chandler from WordPress Weekly is with us tonight and I hope he will share his insights on this topic with you.

We discussed the various themes and plugins that Jeff, Josh and myself use and had some input from a new listener about his site and how he uses WordPress.

You will definitely want to listen to this episode to find out more and be sure to tune into Jeff’s WordPress Weekly show on Talkshoe every Friday Night at 8:00pm EST (or you can at least subscribe to his RSS Feed so that you don’t miss my show!)

Be sure to follow Podcaster Training on Twitter @podcasttraining and Jeff @wptavern and Josh @buddemedia

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P2 Now In The Repository – Back in March, I let you know that P2 was on the horizon for self installed WordPress users and that it was already available for WordPress.com users. Fast forward to today and Prologue 2 is now on the WordPress.org theme repository. The theme features perks such as threaded comment display on the front page, in-line editing for posts and comments, real-time notifications and much more. http://www.wptavern.com/p2-officially-on-the-theme-repository

WordPress help Center – Alex King, who is most well known for his popular WordPress plugins and more recently, his Carrington theme framework, made a big announcement the other day regarding a project that his company Crowd Favorite has partnered with called the WordPress HelpCenter. he HelpCenter is not aimed at replacing forums, email, comment forms, or other means of support. Instead, you’ll be able to pick up the phone Mon-Fri between the hours of 9am-7pm Pacific time and give them a call to answer any WordPress questions you might have instead of waiting around on a forum for someone to reply. In fact, any phone call under 3 minutes is free. Check out my review of the helpcenter on WPCandy.com – http://wpcandy.com/articles/one-more-way-to-get-wordpress-help.html

Matt On TechCrunch –Matt Mullenweg was recently interviewed on TechCrunch.com in a video from the Amsterdam Next Web conference. In this interview, Matt explains why Twitter is not sucking the life out of blogging. He also chats about the acquisitions Automattic made in 2008 with a hint that more could be on the horizon. Lat but not least, Matt shares some details regarding the success of both WordPress.org and WordPress.com. – http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/16/interview-with-automattics-matt-mullenweg-blogging-is-not-slowing-down/

Plugin Pick Of The Week – DiggBar Killer – DiggBar Killer adds a little snippet of Javascript to your WordPress website to remove any frames or iframes, such as the Digg Bar, which are surrounding it. DiggBar Killer also has a (100% optional) annoy feature. You can choose to annoy users coming from digg.com by showing an obnoxious message. The default “annoy” folder comes with some ugly animated GIFs and a MIDI file, but can be easily customized using plain-ole HTML & CSS (no PHP knowledge required). http://ibot.tv/2009/04/13/digg-bar-killer-wordpress-plugin/

If you’re looking for more information regarding WordPress or just want to be part of a community centered around WordPress, please head on over to WPTavern.com. The forum has received a new paint job, advertising options are now open on the site and much more. Remember, the drinks are always on the house.

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TalkPress On Its Way – Do you remember a little something called TalkPress? The idea was first mentioned in the public limelight back on January 1st, 2008 in a Houston Chronicle article where Dwight Silverman interviewed Matt Mullenweg. According to a blog post on the bbPress.org website, the software which will power TalkPress, TalkPress will be the WordPress.com of forums. Details are still sketchy at this point but it looks like at some capacity, WordPress.com users will be able to integrate a forum with their blog. – http://www.wptavern.com/talkpress-is-alive-and-well

WPSeek – This one is for you developer types out there or for those curious. Ever wish you could search for WordPress functions, template tags, function sources, user notes, etc all from one place? That is exactly what WPSeek.com allows you to do as it acts as a very slick WordPress centric search engine. WPSeek was originally used to be a gateway page for the WordPress Helper FireFox extension but the site has expanded into something much more. While the Codex is the official manual for WordPress, WPSeek.com provides an awesome way to tap into all of that information without all the crud surrounding it. – http://www.wptavern.com/wpseek-an-awesome-research-tool

WordPress Meetup – If you’re located in Ohio, more specifically the Youngstown, Akron, Cleveland areas, be sure to join me for the WordPress meetup that is taking place on April 23rd 2009 at 7PM EDT at a place called Office Space CoWorking located in Akron Ohio. The meetup is being conducted by myself along with Brian Layman of b5 media. The first meetup will be a meet and greet as well as a preview to the WordCamp Columbus event in May. While doing all this crazy new media blogging stuff is great behind the computer, nothing beats being around a group of similar passioned people where you can talk face to face.

Plugin Pick Of The Week – Blog Minder – The plugin allows your users to configure a reminder to be sent to them if they haven’t posted in the last ‘#‘ of days. Settings for the reminder range from no reminder to seven days. With everything that is taking place on the web, I can see a good reason to be sent a blogminder – http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/wordpress/pjw-blogminder/

If you’re looking for more information regarding WordPress or just want to be part of a community centered around WordPress, please head on over to WPTavern.com. The forum has received a new paint job, advertising options are now open on the site and much more. Remember, the drinks are always on the house.

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Twitter Comes To WordPress.com –If you’re a user of WordPress.com as well as Twitter, you’ll be delighted to know that the folks at Automattic have added a Twitter widget that you can place on your sidebar. All the links that you post to Twitter remain clickable in the widget, and your @ replies link to user profiles. The widget went live on March 26th and is currently available to use.- http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/twitter-widget/

Vote For WordPress – At about this time every year, the folks over at Webware present their Webware 100 finalists on which to vote on to see who will take the crown in their respective category. In 2008, WordPress was the winner of the publishing category. This year, the category is called Social Networking and Publishing in which WordPress.com along with the WordPress Platform are among one of the choices to vote for. The poll is being conducted via PollDaddy and the results will be announced on April 19th.

3 Plugins To Speed Up WordPress – If you’re finding your WordPress powered site to be running a bit sluggishly, then consider the information presented within a blog post on ConnectedInternet.co.uk. The site features three different WordPress plugins which will help optimize your site. On top of that, the site also features a few tips to put into practice to ensure that your site is not bogged down over time.

Plugin Pick Of The Week – Twitter User – Twitter User is a simple plugin which adds an additional field to the authors profile in which they can add their twitter username. Single author blogs will find this plugin useful however Multi Author blogs should really love this plugin as it allows all authors of a blog to quickly and easily share their Twitter username with readers.

If you’re looking for more information regarding WordPress or just want to be part of a community centered around WordPress, please head on over to WPTavern.com where the drinks, are always on the house.

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I have recently updated the LearnToPodcast.com site to a WordPress Self Hosted blog site. I am utilizing a new theme that allows WordPress to act as a landing page site. By using this theme, I will not only get the same results as I would by using a standard landing page, however, I will also get the built-in SEO (search engine optimization) from WordPress and this will enable me to get my site onto the search engines faster and more efficiently.

Check out the new redesign today and let me know what you think! Oh, and if you are looking for a theme like this to create your own landing pages using WordPress, I will have this theme available for purchase soon!

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Prologue 2 Released – During WordCamp Germany, Matt Mullenweg mentioned something called Prologue 2. This new version of the Prologue theme introduces Ajax like real-time commenting meaning, if I place a comment on the blog and someone else is staring at the site, they will see that comment appear before them as it happens. Heather over at the WordPress.com blog sheds some light on the project, including a video showcasing the new theme. Heather mentions that P2 is already available for WordPress.com users but to look for it on the WordPress.org theme repository in the coming days. – http://www.wptavern.com/prologue-2-sees-the-light-of-day

WordPress 2.8 Delayed Until April – WordPress 2.8 which was originally scheduled to be released in March has now been delayed until sometime in April. The roadmap currently has 2.8 scheduled to be released on April first but just think that it will probably be released at some point during the month, not really the first.

Multi Use Widgets In WordPress 2.8 – Earlier this week, it was announced by the developers that a new Multi Widget class has been added to WordPress 2.8? What does this mean? It simply means that in WordPress 2.8, all of the default widgets as well as widgets that are recoded with the new class will be able to be used multiple times instead of only once. We had a similar feature back in WordPress 2.3 so it’s great to see this one making a return.

If you’re looking for more information regarding WordPress or just want to be part of a community centered around WordPress, please head on over to WPTavern.com. The site contains news, reviews, editorials and much more on not only WordPress, but all projects under the Automattic umbrella. We also have a forum which has been rocking as of late so stop on by and join the party. The drinks at the tavern are always on the house.

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