<div class="rss-widget"><ul><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WordpressTavern/~3/lG5qhD0IUwA/wpweekly-episode-118-hey-get-flywheel' title='In this episode, we covered the headlines of the week, most notable is the open letter published to the NextGen Gallery community. Most of the show was dedicated to an interview with Dusty Davidson of Flywheel.com, a WordPress hosting company catering to designers, freelancers, and creative agencies. What does that all mean? You’ll have to tune in to figure it out. Stories Discussed: The Return Of WordPress Weekly How Do You Use The Dashboard? NextGEN Gallery Publishes Open Letter To Their Community I’ll Be At WordCamp Grand Rapids 2013 Revamping The Content Creation Experience In WordPress WordPress Jobs Board Gets A Facelift WPWeekly Meta: Length Of Episode: 1 Hour 13 Minutes Download The Show: Download Episode 118 Listen To Episode #118:  '>WPTavern: WPWeekly Episode 118 – Hey Get Flywheel</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://wordpress.tv/2013/08/15/nikolay-bachiyski-writing-code-as-user-experience-design/' title='     '>WordPress.tv: Nikolay Bachiyski: Writing Code as User Experience Design</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://wordpress.tv/2013/08/15/george-stephanis-the-seven-deadly-theming-sins/' title='     '>WordPress.tv: George Stephanis: The Seven Deadly Theming Sins</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WordpressTavern/~3/HvlU1KguFpY/the-return-of-wordpress-weekly' title='Beginning this Friday at 9P.M. Eastern, I’ll be back behind the microphone providing you with the news of the week around the WordPress ecosystem. I’ll also be interviewing some of the smartest people in the WordPress community that are making things happen. Unlike the previous episodes which were all conducted on Talkshoe.com, these will be recorded live via Google Hangout. I’m not so much interested in the video portion of the show as I am the audio. I’ve reconfigured the Podcast page so that folks can chat and listen/watch the show on the website. Thanks to using Google Hangout, the audio quality should be better for everyone participating on the show. I decoded to use the embeddable IRC client via Freenode to power the chatroom as it gives users the chance to use their favorite client, is not powered by flash, and updates in real-time. The only downside is the captcha on the form which I can’t do anything about but I haven’t come across any images that were impossible to read.  This weeks episode will feature an interview with the folks behind WordPress hosting company Flywheel. We’ll talk about their beta process, what is it they are trying to accomplish and how their service is different from the large amount of competition that already exists in the managed WP hosting market. If you have any questions you’d like me to ask, just leave them in the comments and I’ll add them to my list. One thing I’m still unsure of is how I’m going to continue using the iTunes feed that was hooked up to Talkshoe or if I should start a brand new one from scratch. I need to find out if I can upload MP3 files to a specific iTunes link without needing the file to go through Talkshoe. I may end up using the Blubrry PowerPress plugin to automate the process of sending the podcast to iTunes.  Next Friday there will not be a live show as I’ll be in Grand Rapids, Michigan for WordCamp. However, I’m already lining up guests for August 30th and beyond. I’m looking forward to talking WordPress again.  '>WPTavern: The Return Of WordPress Weekly</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WordpressTavern/~3/QjrBY23HiVQ/survey-how-do-you-use-the-dashboard' title='Amidst all of the conversation taking place on improving the WordPress back-end user interface, there is now a public survey you are encouraged to participate in that will help determine how people use the dashboard and where improvements need to take place. The survey is only 5 questions long but should provide enough information to determine a direction of travel for improvements. For a moment, let’s take a look at the proposed dashboard for the Ghost platform. Preview Of The Proposed Ghost Dashboard I think a few people, including myself became enamored over the dashboard concept for Ghost but upon looking at it more closely, it’s just a bunch of numbers in my face. Hard to judge something I haven’t been able to play around with but it was nice to see a refreshing take on the entire dashboard concept. In the WordPress Dashboard Survey, I was reminded just how much I don’t use the Dashboard for anything other than getting at-a-glance information. I also realized that if the  Right Now meta box included information from some other dashboard widgets like recent comments, recent drafts, etc, that the Right Now box would be more beneficial to me and provide less widgets to be displayed on the screen at one time.  I’m opening up the conversation by asking what is it that would make the dashboard super useful for you? There is an intricate balance that needs to be observed on the type and amount of data that is shown to the user before it becomes information overload or just a bunch of numbers in front of the users face. There is also the problem of creating a dashboard that’s useful to everyone, not just specific use cases of WordPress. '>WPTavern: Survey – How Do You Use The Dashboard?</a></li></ul></div>