This is Episode 2 of our WPwatercooler show.

• Twenty Twelve theme released to the repo – mixed feelings from all of the panel.

• WordPress 3.5 beta 1

• Overhaul of the media library

• XMLRPC enabled – They did this to allow their mobile apps to work with WordPress installation without users having to enable it.

• Comparing the changes to the new changes in the Facebook Images

• We feel this is not finished yet, which is isn't.

• Links “blogroll” functionality removed.

• Privacy settings moved

• Press This

• Jetpack Mobile Theme

• Problems with Jetpack conflicting

• Quality Control – webapp for WordPress

• Customizing can be a pain with most webapps which makes it harder for the developer to recommend them to clients.

• AppSumo – Great place to get deals for WordPress related stuff

• InfiniteWP is the new hotness

• A few of us host it on a webserver

• Security questions regarding it
• Jason had issues with Deny ALL, Allow specific IP

• Most of us charge our clients to do maint agreements by leveraging InfiniteWP

• Themes that suck – Avada | Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme

• Justin Tadlock brings the awesomeness – Unique: Customizable WordPress Magazine Theme

• Bloated themes

• The “plugin in a theme” makes things hard for a developer to work with

• Making a newly installed theme look like the demo requires lots of work and confuses users
• Documentation, Documentation, Documentation and Documentation!
• Woothemes take work to make them look like the demo
• ThemeForest take work to make them look like the demo
• It shouldn't take a consultant to make easy changes to a theme that should work “out of the box”

• Not documenting the prerequisite plugins

• Post Type Switcher doesn't work with Press This.

• You can download this show as an Audio Podcast in iTunes.

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