What’s the deal with Podpress?
Aug 18th, 2007 by Jane Ullah
Okay, for over a week, the Podpress plugin author’s site has been down. I’ve just read on the Wordpress.org site that they didn’t have enough money to keep the site running. Really? His plugin was very popular and I can imagine that must have tasked his webhosting providers. However, I think something else is at play here. Still, I have been able to pick up the pieces of my blog w/out podpress. I have relied on the 1pixelout plugin to play my mp3 files. Now, if only I can get Wordpress to delete the extra user that Podpress added without my request. Grrh. I had thought Owen Winkler’s Role Manager plugin would help me do the trick of deleting the “Premium Subscriber” role, but it doesn’t work with Wordpress 2.2. series. Enter another Role Manager plugin by Thomas. And Voila! It did the trick. 
Now, all I have left to do is find a way to remove the meta cruft that Podpress left behind. It’s one of the messier plugins that doesn’t do a clean uninstall. This behaviour by the plugin gives me cause for pause as to the true cause of the site’s downtime. Almost like wanting the Wordpress community to pony up money before further development can occur. Now, I’m just being gossipy here. In any case, I won’t be installing this plugin anymore.
In other news, Matt’s been wanting me to read a book by Eckhart Tolle titled “A New Earth: Awakening to your life’s purpose.” For whatever reasons, I’ve avoided reading the book, but I promised him I’d start today so wish me luck. I’m more of a fiction buff, but we’ll see how I do.
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