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If you’ve got specific questions or suggestions <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/contact/">contact us</a> and we’ll do our best to get them answered.</p> ";}i:1;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:13:"WordPress 2.6";s:4:"link";s:60:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26-tyner/";s:8:"comments";s:69:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26-tyner/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:38:42 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:8:"category";s:8:"Releases";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=246";s:11:"description";s:340:" I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:10270:"<p><iframe src='http://digg.com/api/diggthis.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdigg.com%2Fsoftware%2FWordPress_2_6_Tyner_Released' height='82' width='55' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' style='float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 4px 0 2px 4px; background: #fff;'></iframe> I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">is now available</a>, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCoy_Tyner">McCoy Tyner</a>, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-brecker/">version 2.5</a>.</p> <p>We’ve prepared a brief video tour of 2.6, if you have 3 minutes and 29 seconds to spare, it’s worth a watch:</p> <p><embed src="http://v.wordpress.com/mARhRBcT/fmt_dvd" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="385" flashvars="blog_domain=http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26/&width=640&height=385"> </embed></p> <p>If you’d like to embed the tour video in your blog, copy and paste this code for the high quality version:</p> <pre name="code" class="html"> <embed src="http://v.wordpress.com/mARhRBcT/fmt_dvd" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="385" flashvars="blog_domain=http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26/&width=640&height=385"> </embed> </pre> <p>And here’s a smaller version, 400 pixels wide:</p> <pre name="code" class="html"> <embed src="http://v.wordpress.com/mARhRBcT/fmt_std" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="250" flashvars="blog_domain=http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26/&width=400&height=250"> </embed> </pre> <p>Here’s a more textual overview of what’s hawt in 2.6:</p> <h3>Post Revisions: Wiki-like tracking of edits</h3> <p>With the power of modern computers, it’s silly that we still use save and editing metaphors from the time when the most common method of storage was floppy disks. WordPress has always respected the importance of your writing with auto-save, and now we’re taking that to another level by allowing you to view who made what changes when to any post or page through a super-easy interface, much like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia&action=history">Wikipedia</a> or a <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Subversion">version control system</a>.</p> <p><img src="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/diff.gif" alt="Differences between two versions of posts." class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3" /></p> <p>This is handy on any blog in case you make a mistake and want to go back to an older version of a post, and it’s super handy for multi-author blogs where you can see every change tracked by person.</p> <h3>Press This!: Post from wherever you are on the web</h3> <p>A few months ago on my blog we <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/05/favorite-posting-bookmarklet/">started a conversation about the posting bookmarklet</a> in WordPress and which systems we should look to for inspiration, like Flock, FriendFeed, Facebook, Tumblr, and Delicious. From these suggestions and the Quick Post plugin by Josh Kenzer, we developed a Press This bookmark you can add to your toolbar that provides a fast and smart popup to do posts to your WordPress blog:</p> <p><img src="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/press-this.gif" alt="Screenshot of Press This interface." title="press-this" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4" /></p> <p>For example, if you click “Press This” from a <a href="http://youtube.com/">Youtube</a> page it’ll magically extract the video embed code, and if you do it from a <a href="http://flickr.com/">Flickr</a> page it’ll make it easy for you to put the image in your post. On my blog I’ve been experimenting with using different categories and the <code>in_category()</code> function — such as video, quote, aside, et cetera — to create a more tumblelog-like format.</p> <h3>Shift Gears: Turbo-speed your blogging</h3> <p><a href="http://gears.google.com/">Gears</a> is an open source browser extension project started by Google that developers like us can use to give you features we wouldn’t normally be able to. There are a lot of things we can do with Gears in the future, but in this release we’ve stuck to using what’s called a “Local Server” to cache or keep a copy of commonly-used Javascript and CSS files on your computer, which can speed up the loading of some pages by several seconds (they just pop right up!). You can install Gears for Firefox or Internet Explorer, with support for Safari and Opera pending. WordPress works just fine without it, you just get a little extra juice when you have it installed.</p> <h3>Theme Previews: See it before your audience does</h3> <p>Now when you select a theme it pops up a window that shows the theme live with all your content, instead of immediately making it active on your site. This is great for just test driving themes before making a switch over publicly, and it is also helpful when you are developing a theme and need to test it but don’t want everybody to see your ongoing <del datetime="2008-07-14T21:23:41+00:00">mistakes</del> development.</p> <p>Here are some of the smaller features and improvements in 2.6:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Word count!</strong> Never guess how many words are in your post anymore.</li> <li><strong>Image captions</strong>, so you can add sweet captions <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/">like Political Ticker does</a> under your images.</li> <li><strong>Bulk management</strong> of plugins.</li> <li>A completely <strong>revamped image control</strong> to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It’s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG.</li> <li>Drag-and-drop <strong>reordering of Galleries</strong>.</li> <li><strong>Plugin update</strong> notification bubble.</li> <li>Customizable default avatars.</li> <li>You can now upload media when in full-screen mode.</li> <li>Remote publishing via XML-RPC and APP is now secure (off) by default, but you can turn it on easily through the options screen.</li> <li>Full <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer">SSL support</a> in the core, and the ability to <strong>force SSL</strong> for security.</li> <li>You can now have many thousands of pages or categories with no interface issues.</li> <li>Ability to move your <code>wp-config</code> file and <code>wp-content</code> directories to a custom location, for “clean” SVN checkouts.</li> <li>Select a range of checkboxes with “shift-click.”</li> <li>You can toggle between the Flash uploader and the classic one.</li> <li>A number of proactive security enhancements, including cookies and database interactions.</li> <li>Stronger better faster versions of TinyMCE, jQuery, and jQuery UI.</li> <li>Version 2.6 <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&milestone=2.6">fixes approximately 194 bugs</a>.</li> </ul> <h3>Developer Notes</h3> <p>WordPress.org had over 75 people contributing code to WordPress 2.6. In addition to the <a href="http://wordpress.org/about/">core commit team</a> we had contributions from <a href="http://dd32.id.au/">Dion Hulse</a>, <a href="http://www.ilfilosofo.com/">Austin Matzko</a>, <a href="http://ottodestruct.com/blog/">Otto42</a>, <a href="http://extralogical.net/">Benedict Eastaugh</a>, and <a href="http://www.freecharity.org.uk/">pishmishy</a>. <a href="http://xavisys.com/">AaronCampbell</a> and <a href="http://www.marcozehe.de/">Marco Zehe</a> provided more than a few patches. Back among the top code contributors is <a href="http://www.santosj.name/">Jacob Santos</a>. <a href="http://www.buayacorp.com/">Alex Concha</a> continues to have WordPress’ back. Joining bug reporting and gardening elite are <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Hakre">hakre</a>, <a href="http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/">Simon Wheatley</a>, mtekk, and <a href="http://www.prescriber.org.uk/">Matty Rob</a>. Finally, congratulations to our <a href="http://westi.wordpress.com/">Peter Westwood</a> on your recent wedding! I’m also proud to announce we’re adding a new core committer to the team: Andrew Ozz (azaozz) has been a huge help to the core team this year, particularly around TinyMCE and making the WYSIWYG something that works for you, not against you.</p> <p>Because of the new capabilities to make WordPress a clean SVN checkout, plugin and theme authors should do their best to handle forms and posts through WP rather than trying to post to their files directly, here’s a quick Codex article about <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Handling_POST_and_AJAX_Requests">how to do it using our forward-compatible APIs</a>.</p> <h3>Upgrading</h3> <p>2.6 is pretty much identical to 2.5 from a plugin and theme compatibility point of view, so upgrades from 2.5 should be pretty painless. The 2.5 branch will no longer be maintain so everyone is encouraged to upgrade. <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress">Our standard 3-step upgrade instructions apply to this release</a>. There were at least 1,984,047 downloads of the 2.5 series, the fastest growing release we’ve ever had, and I think all of those people will find 2.6 adds a level of polish that really makes WP a pleasure to use every day. (At least I do. :))</p> <h3>Easter Egg</h3> <p>There have been rumors and allegations that there was a so-called “easter egg” added to 2.6 early in its development. These rumors and allegations are completely false!</p> <p>P.S. If you’re a fan of WordPress, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/WordPress/6427302910">consider joining our fan page on Facebook</a>.</p> ";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:65:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26-tyner/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:340:" I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:10270:"<p><iframe src='http://digg.com/api/diggthis.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdigg.com%2Fsoftware%2FWordPress_2_6_Tyner_Released' height='82' width='55' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' style='float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 4px 0 2px 4px; background: #fff;'></iframe> I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">is now available</a>, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCoy_Tyner">McCoy Tyner</a>, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-brecker/">version 2.5</a>.</p> <p>We’ve prepared a brief video tour of 2.6, if you have 3 minutes and 29 seconds to spare, it’s worth a watch:</p> <p><embed src="http://v.wordpress.com/mARhRBcT/fmt_dvd" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="385" flashvars="blog_domain=http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26/&width=640&height=385"> </embed></p> <p>If you’d like to embed the tour video in your blog, copy and paste this code for the high quality version:</p> <pre name="code" class="html"> <embed src="http://v.wordpress.com/mARhRBcT/fmt_dvd" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="385" flashvars="blog_domain=http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26/&width=640&height=385"> </embed> </pre> <p>And here’s a smaller version, 400 pixels wide:</p> <pre name="code" class="html"> <embed src="http://v.wordpress.com/mARhRBcT/fmt_std" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="250" flashvars="blog_domain=http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26/&width=400&height=250"> </embed> </pre> <p>Here’s a more textual overview of what’s hawt in 2.6:</p> <h3>Post Revisions: Wiki-like tracking of edits</h3> <p>With the power of modern computers, it’s silly that we still use save and editing metaphors from the time when the most common method of storage was floppy disks. WordPress has always respected the importance of your writing with auto-save, and now we’re taking that to another level by allowing you to view who made what changes when to any post or page through a super-easy interface, much like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia&action=history">Wikipedia</a> or a <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Subversion">version control system</a>.</p> <p><img src="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/diff.gif" alt="Differences between two versions of posts." class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3" /></p> <p>This is handy on any blog in case you make a mistake and want to go back to an older version of a post, and it’s super handy for multi-author blogs where you can see every change tracked by person.</p> <h3>Press This!: Post from wherever you are on the web</h3> <p>A few months ago on my blog we <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/05/favorite-posting-bookmarklet/">started a conversation about the posting bookmarklet</a> in WordPress and which systems we should look to for inspiration, like Flock, FriendFeed, Facebook, Tumblr, and Delicious. From these suggestions and the Quick Post plugin by Josh Kenzer, we developed a Press This bookmark you can add to your toolbar that provides a fast and smart popup to do posts to your WordPress blog:</p> <p><img src="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/press-this.gif" alt="Screenshot of Press This interface." title="press-this" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4" /></p> <p>For example, if you click “Press This” from a <a href="http://youtube.com/">Youtube</a> page it’ll magically extract the video embed code, and if you do it from a <a href="http://flickr.com/">Flickr</a> page it’ll make it easy for you to put the image in your post. On my blog I’ve been experimenting with using different categories and the <code>in_category()</code> function — such as video, quote, aside, et cetera — to create a more tumblelog-like format.</p> <h3>Shift Gears: Turbo-speed your blogging</h3> <p><a href="http://gears.google.com/">Gears</a> is an open source browser extension project started by Google that developers like us can use to give you features we wouldn’t normally be able to. There are a lot of things we can do with Gears in the future, but in this release we’ve stuck to using what’s called a “Local Server” to cache or keep a copy of commonly-used Javascript and CSS files on your computer, which can speed up the loading of some pages by several seconds (they just pop right up!). You can install Gears for Firefox or Internet Explorer, with support for Safari and Opera pending. WordPress works just fine without it, you just get a little extra juice when you have it installed.</p> <h3>Theme Previews: See it before your audience does</h3> <p>Now when you select a theme it pops up a window that shows the theme live with all your content, instead of immediately making it active on your site. This is great for just test driving themes before making a switch over publicly, and it is also helpful when you are developing a theme and need to test it but don’t want everybody to see your ongoing <del datetime="2008-07-14T21:23:41+00:00">mistakes</del> development.</p> <p>Here are some of the smaller features and improvements in 2.6:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Word count!</strong> Never guess how many words are in your post anymore.</li> <li><strong>Image captions</strong>, so you can add sweet captions <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/">like Political Ticker does</a> under your images.</li> <li><strong>Bulk management</strong> of plugins.</li> <li>A completely <strong>revamped image control</strong> to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It’s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG.</li> <li>Drag-and-drop <strong>reordering of Galleries</strong>.</li> <li><strong>Plugin update</strong> notification bubble.</li> <li>Customizable default avatars.</li> <li>You can now upload media when in full-screen mode.</li> <li>Remote publishing via XML-RPC and APP is now secure (off) by default, but you can turn it on easily through the options screen.</li> <li>Full <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer">SSL support</a> in the core, and the ability to <strong>force SSL</strong> for security.</li> <li>You can now have many thousands of pages or categories with no interface issues.</li> <li>Ability to move your <code>wp-config</code> file and <code>wp-content</code> directories to a custom location, for “clean” SVN checkouts.</li> <li>Select a range of checkboxes with “shift-click.”</li> <li>You can toggle between the Flash uploader and the classic one.</li> <li>A number of proactive security enhancements, including cookies and database interactions.</li> <li>Stronger better faster versions of TinyMCE, jQuery, and jQuery UI.</li> <li>Version 2.6 <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&milestone=2.6">fixes approximately 194 bugs</a>.</li> </ul> <h3>Developer Notes</h3> <p>WordPress.org had over 75 people contributing code to WordPress 2.6. In addition to the <a href="http://wordpress.org/about/">core commit team</a> we had contributions from <a href="http://dd32.id.au/">Dion Hulse</a>, <a href="http://www.ilfilosofo.com/">Austin Matzko</a>, <a href="http://ottodestruct.com/blog/">Otto42</a>, <a href="http://extralogical.net/">Benedict Eastaugh</a>, and <a href="http://www.freecharity.org.uk/">pishmishy</a>. <a href="http://xavisys.com/">AaronCampbell</a> and <a href="http://www.marcozehe.de/">Marco Zehe</a> provided more than a few patches. Back among the top code contributors is <a href="http://www.santosj.name/">Jacob Santos</a>. <a href="http://www.buayacorp.com/">Alex Concha</a> continues to have WordPress’ back. Joining bug reporting and gardening elite are <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Hakre">hakre</a>, <a href="http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/">Simon Wheatley</a>, mtekk, and <a href="http://www.prescriber.org.uk/">Matty Rob</a>. Finally, congratulations to our <a href="http://westi.wordpress.com/">Peter Westwood</a> on your recent wedding! I’m also proud to announce we’re adding a new core committer to the team: Andrew Ozz (azaozz) has been a huge help to the core team this year, particularly around TinyMCE and making the WYSIWYG something that works for you, not against you.</p> <p>Because of the new capabilities to make WordPress a clean SVN checkout, plugin and theme authors should do their best to handle forms and posts through WP rather than trying to post to their files directly, here’s a quick Codex article about <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Handling_POST_and_AJAX_Requests">how to do it using our forward-compatible APIs</a>.</p> <h3>Upgrading</h3> <p>2.6 is pretty much identical to 2.5 from a plugin and theme compatibility point of view, so upgrades from 2.5 should be pretty painless. The 2.5 branch will no longer be maintain so everyone is encouraged to upgrade. <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress">Our standard 3-step upgrade instructions apply to this release</a>. There were at least 1,984,047 downloads of the 2.5 series, the fastest growing release we’ve ever had, and I think all of those people will find 2.6 adds a level of polish that really makes WP a pleasure to use every day. (At least I do. :))</p> <h3>Easter Egg</h3> <p>There have been rumors and allegations that there was a so-called “easter egg” added to 2.6 early in its development. These rumors and allegations are completely false!</p> <p>P.S. If you’re a fan of WordPress, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/WordPress/6427302910">consider joining our fan page on Facebook</a>.</p> ";}i:2;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:24:"WordPress Birthday Party";s:4:"link";s:56:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/05/birthday-party/";s:8:"comments";s:65:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/05/birthday-party/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 25 May 2008 05:51:03 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:8:"category";s:6:"Events";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=243";s:11:"description";s:321:"On Tuesday, May 27th, WordPress will turn 5 years old. We’ve come a long way from that original 0.7 release. To celebrate we’re throwing a party in San Francisco at 111 Minna, starting at 9PM. You can get the full details and RSVP on Upcoming.org or on Facebook. I hope you see some of you there, should [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:874:"<p>On Tuesday, May 27th, WordPress will turn 5 years old. We’ve come a long way from <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2003/05/wordpress-now-available/">that original 0.7 release</a>.</p> <p>To celebrate we’re throwing a party in San Francisco at 111 Minna, starting at 9PM. You can get the full details and RSVP <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/714298">on Upcoming.org</a> or <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=44552835108">on Facebook</a>.</p> <p>I hope you see some of you there, should be a fun time.</p> <p>If you host a party in your area for WordPress’ 5th, let us know and we’ll post it here.</p> <p><strong>Update:</strong> Party in Sydney! <a href="http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/05/25/wordpress-party-sydney-style/">Blog post</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=13815594694">Facebook</a>.</p> ";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:61:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/05/birthday-party/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:321:"On Tuesday, May 27th, WordPress will turn 5 years old. We’ve come a long way from that original 0.7 release. To celebrate we’re throwing a party in San Francisco at 111 Minna, starting at 9PM. You can get the full details and RSVP on Upcoming.org or on Facebook. I hope you see some of you there, should [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:874:"<p>On Tuesday, May 27th, WordPress will turn 5 years old. We’ve come a long way from <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2003/05/wordpress-now-available/">that original 0.7 release</a>.</p> <p>To celebrate we’re throwing a party in San Francisco at 111 Minna, starting at 9PM. You can get the full details and RSVP <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/714298">on Upcoming.org</a> or <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=44552835108">on Facebook</a>.</p> <p>I hope you see some of you there, should be a fun time.</p> <p>If you host a party in your area for WordPress’ 5th, let us know and we’ll post it here.</p> <p><strong>Update:</strong> Party in Sydney! <a href="http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/05/25/wordpress-party-sydney-style/">Blog post</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=13815594694">Facebook</a>.</p> ";}i:3;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:29:"Usability Testing in New York";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/05/usability-testing-in-new-york/";s:8:"comments";s:80:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/05/usability-testing-in-new-york/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 20 May 2008 22:13:49 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ryan";}s:8:"category";s:11:"Development";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=241";s:11:"description";s:98:"We’re doing some usability testing in New York City. 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Join in if you’re in the area.</p> ";}i:4;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:18:"Upcoming WordCamps";s:4:"link";s:60:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/upcoming-wordcamps/";s:8:"comments";s:69:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/upcoming-wordcamps/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:54:48 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:8:"category";s:6:"Events";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=240";s:11:"description";s:343:"WordCamps are my favorite events to go to because there’s something about the core WordPress community that attracts smart folks with good philosophies that are fun to hang out with. In this post I’ve collated the upcoming WordCamps we know about, including the one in San Francisco. Hopefully there will be one nearby so you [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1446:"<p>WordCamps are my favorite events to go to because there’s something about the core WordPress community that attracts smart folks with good philosophies that are fun to hang out with. In this post I’ve collated the upcoming WordCamps we know about, including the one in San Francisco. Hopefully there will be one nearby so you can meet other WordPressers in your area.</p> <p><strong>WordCamp San Francisco</strong> will be August 16 at the Mission Bay Conference Center.</p> <p><a href="http://barcamp.org/WordCampParis">WordCamp Paris will be on May 3rd</a>. <a href="http://wordcamp.fr/">Here’s their official site</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://iwordpresscamp.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/european-wordcamp-beta/">WordCamp Italy in Milan will be May 10th</a>. (And I believe I’ll be there.)</p> <p><a href="http://wiki.wordcampuk.tonyscott.org.uk/Main_Page">WordCamp Birmingham UK</a> will be July 19-20.</p> <p><a href="http://wordcamptoronto.eventbrite.com/">WordCamp Toronto will be October 4th</a>.</p> <p>There are people in the planning stages in <a href="http://australia.wordcamp.org/">Australia</a>, Philippines, Beijing, Utah, Hawaii, UK, NYC, and possibly others, so if you live in one of those areas and would like to help set up a WordCamp in your area Google around or connect with bloggers in your area.</p> <p>You can always find out more at <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Central</a>.</p> ";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:65:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/upcoming-wordcamps/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:343:"WordCamps are my favorite events to go to because there’s something about the core WordPress community that attracts smart folks with good philosophies that are fun to hang out with. 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(And I believe I’ll be there.)</p> <p><a href="http://wiki.wordcampuk.tonyscott.org.uk/Main_Page">WordCamp Birmingham UK</a> will be July 19-20.</p> <p><a href="http://wordcamptoronto.eventbrite.com/">WordCamp Toronto will be October 4th</a>.</p> <p>There are people in the planning stages in <a href="http://australia.wordcamp.org/">Australia</a>, Philippines, Beijing, Utah, Hawaii, UK, NYC, and possibly others, so if you live in one of those areas and would like to help set up a WordCamp in your area Google around or connect with bloggers in your area.</p> <p>You can always find out more at <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Central</a>.</p> ";}i:5;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:15:"WordPress 2.5.1";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251/";s:8:"comments";s:64:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:54:19 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ryan";}s:8:"category";s:8:"Releases";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=231";s:11:"description";s:360:"Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if your blog has open registration. The vulnerability is not public but it will be shortly. In addition to the security fix, 2.5.1 contains many bug fixes. [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2251:"<p>Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if your blog has open registration. The vulnerability is not public but it will be shortly.</p> <p>In addition to the security fix, 2.5.1 contains many bug fixes. If you are interested only in the security fixes, you can download these corrected copies of <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.1/wp-includes/pluggable.php?format=raw">wp-includes/pluggable.php</a>, <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.1/wp-admin/includes/media.php?format=raw">wp-admin/includes/media.php</a>, and <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.1/wp-admin/media.php?format=raw">wp-admin/media.php</a>. Replace your existing copies of these files with these new copies.</p> <p>If you download the entire 2.5.1 release, you will be getting <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&milestone=2.5.1&resolution=fixed&order=priority">over 70 other fixes</a>. 2.5.1 focuses on fixing the most annoying bugs and improving performance. Here are some highlights:</p> <ul> <li>Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.</li> <li>Better performance for those who have many categories</li> <li>Media Uploader fixes</li> <li>An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7</li> <li>Widget Administration fixes</li> <li>Various usability improvements</li> <li>Layout fixes for IE</li> </ul> <h3>Secret lives of blogs</h3> <p>Since 2.5 your <code>wp-config.php</code> file allows a new constant called <code>SECRET_KEY</code> which basically is meant to introduce a little permanent randomness into the cryptographic functions used for cookies in WordPress. You can <a href="http://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.0/">visit this link we set up to get a unique secret key</a> for your config file. (It’s unique and random on every page load.) Having this line in your config file helps secure your blog.</p> <p>Many thanks to <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/">Steven Murdoch</a> for responsibly reporting the security issue (CVE-2008-1930) and Alex Concha for reporting an XSS issue.</p> ";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:60:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:360:"Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if your blog has open registration. The vulnerability is not public but it will be shortly. In addition to the security fix, 2.5.1 contains many bug fixes. [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:2251:"<p>Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. 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Replace your existing copies of these files with these new copies.</p> <p>If you download the entire 2.5.1 release, you will be getting <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&milestone=2.5.1&resolution=fixed&order=priority">over 70 other fixes</a>. 2.5.1 focuses on fixing the most annoying bugs and improving performance. Here are some highlights:</p> <ul> <li>Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.</li> <li>Better performance for those who have many categories</li> <li>Media Uploader fixes</li> <li>An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7</li> <li>Widget Administration fixes</li> <li>Various usability improvements</li> <li>Layout fixes for IE</li> </ul> <h3>Secret lives of blogs</h3> <p>Since 2.5 your <code>wp-config.php</code> file allows a new constant called <code>SECRET_KEY</code> which basically is meant to introduce a little permanent randomness into the cryptographic functions used for cookies in WordPress. You can <a href="http://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.0/">visit this link we set up to get a unique secret key</a> for your config file. (It’s unique and random on every page load.) Having this line in your config file helps secure your blog.</p> <p>Many thanks to <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/">Steven Murdoch</a> for responsibly reporting the security issue (CVE-2008-1930) and Alex Concha for reporting an XSS issue.</p> ";}i:6;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:23:"An Event Apart Discount";s:4:"link";s:65:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/an-event-apart-discount/";s:8:"comments";s:74:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/an-event-apart-discount/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:33:19 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:8:"category";s:36:"Eventsan event aparthappy cogzeldman";s:4:"guid";s:65:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/an-event-apart-discount/";s:11:"description";s:321:"An Event Apart is a web design and development conference which features some of the same fine folks who helped out with WordPress 2.5. (And many others.) I attended the one in Chicago a while back and was engaged the whole day in interesting talks on design, writing copy as interface, advanced CSS, and creativity [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1194:"<p><a href="http://aneventapart.com/">An Event Apart</a> is a web design and development conference which features some of the same fine folks who helped out with WordPress 2.5. (And many others.) I attended the one in Chicago a while back and was engaged the whole day in interesting talks on design, writing copy as interface, advanced CSS, and creativity — each topic presented by the leading folks in the field.</p> <p>The conference normally costs just under a thousand dollars to attend, which is well worth it, but because of our association with the folks they’ve set up a discount for WordPress users.</p> <p>If you enter AEAWP on checkout the price drops to $795, or $200 below the regular registration fee. The coupon is unlimited, and can be used for one ticket or five. They have events coming up in New Orleans, Boston, San Francisco, and Chicago. <a href="http://aneventapart.com/">You can learn more and register on their site at aneventapart.com</a>.</p> <p>We’ll also have some final dates for WordCamp San Francisco coming up, I’ll be posting those soonish so people can start making vacation and travel plans. (Nothing like a blogging vacation.)</p> ";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:70:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/an-event-apart-discount/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:321:"An Event Apart is a web design and development conference which features some of the same fine folks who helped out with WordPress 2.5. (And many others.) I attended the one in Chicago a while back and was engaged the whole day in interesting talks on design, writing copy as interface, advanced CSS, and creativity [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1194:"<p><a href="http://aneventapart.com/">An Event Apart</a> is a web design and development conference which features some of the same fine folks who helped out with WordPress 2.5. (And many others.) I attended the one in Chicago a while back and was engaged the whole day in interesting talks on design, writing copy as interface, advanced CSS, and creativity — each topic presented by the leading folks in the field.</p> <p>The conference normally costs just under a thousand dollars to attend, which is well worth it, but because of our association with the folks they’ve set up a discount for WordPress users.</p> <p>If you enter AEAWP on checkout the price drops to $795, or $200 below the regular registration fee. The coupon is unlimited, and can be used for one ticket or five. They have events coming up in New Orleans, Boston, San Francisco, and Chicago. <a href="http://aneventapart.com/">You can learn more and register on their site at aneventapart.com</a>.</p> <p>We’ll also have some final dates for WordCamp San Francisco coming up, I’ll be posting those soonish so people can start making vacation and travel plans. (Nothing like a blogging vacation.)</p> ";}i:7;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:13:"WordPress 2.5";s:4:"link";s:62:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-brecker/";s:8:"comments";s:71:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-brecker/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:49:45 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:8:"category";s:8:"Releases";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=228";s:11:"description";s:391:"WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:15112:"<p>WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, concurrent post editing protection, full-screen writing, and search that covers posts <em>and</em> pages.</p> <p>For a short overview of the features with screenshots, it’d be best to <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/25-sneak-peek/">visit our sneak peek announcement for RC1</a>. Or check out <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-rc2/">a 4-minute screencast of the new interface in action</a>. If you just want to jump straight to the good stuff <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">here’s where you can find 2.5 upgrade and download information</a>.</p> <p>If you want to see everything I would grab a cup of coffee or a mojito, because this post is epic.</p> <h3>User Features</h3> <p><strong>Cleaner, faster, less cluttered dashboard</strong> — we’ve worked hard to take your feedback about what’s most important in the dashboard and organize things to allow you to focus on what’s important — your blog — and get out of your way. In collaboration with <a href="http://happycog.com/">Happy Cog</a> and the community we’ve taken the first major step forward in the WordPress interface since version 1.5.</p> <p><strong>Dashboard Widgets</strong> — the dashboard home page is now a series of widgets, including ones to show you fun stats about your posting, latest comments, people linking to you, new and popular plugins, and of course WordPress news. You can customize any of the dashboard widgets to show, for example, news from your local paper instead of WP news. Plugins can also hook in, for example the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/">WordPress.com stats widget</a> adds a handy double-wide stats box.</p> <p><img src="http://s.wordpress.org/screenshots/2.5/stats-widget.png" alt="" width="690" /></p> <p><strong>Multi-file upload with progress bar</strong> — before when you would upload a large file you’d wait forever, never knowing how far along it was. And uploading more than one photo was an exercise in patience, as you could only do one at a time. Now you can select a whole of folder images or music or videos at once and it’ll show you the progress of each upload.</p> <p><strong>Bonus: EXIF extraction</strong> — if you upload JPEG files with EXIF metadata like camera make and model, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, et al. WordPress will extract all the data into custom fields you can use in your template. If you use the EXIF title fields or similar those will be put into their equivalent fields in WP. Most modern digital cameras generate EXIF data.</p> <p><strong>Search posts and pages</strong> — search used to cover just posts, now it includes pages too, a great boon for those using WordPress as a CMS. New themes can style or sort pages differently in results.</p> <p><strong>Tag management</strong> — you can now add, rename, delete, and do whatever else you like to tags from inside WordPress, no plugins needed.</p> <p><strong>Password strength meter</strong> — when you change your password on your profile it’ll tell you how strong your password is to help you pick a good one.</p> <p><strong>Concurrent editing protection</strong> — for those of you on multi-author blogs, have you ever opened a post while someone was already editing it, and your auto-saves kept overwriting each other, irrecoverably losing hours of work? I bet that added a few words to your vocabulary. Now if you open a post that someone else is editing, WordPress magically locks it and prevents you from saving until the other person is done. You’ll see a message like below.</p> <p><img src="http://s.wordpress.org/screenshots/2.5/write-currently-editing.png" alt="" /></p> <p><strong>Few-click plugin upgrades</strong> — if the plugins you use are part of the plugin directory since 2.3 we’ve told you when they have an update available. Now we take that to the next logical step — downloading and installing the upgrade for you. This is dependent a little bit on your host setup, and it may ask you for your FTP password much like OS X or Windows will ask you for a password, but it works well on majority of hosts we were able to test, your mileage may very, plugins in mirror may be larger than they appear.</p> <p><strong>Friendlier visual post editor</strong> — I’m not sure how to articulate this improvement except to say “it doesn’t mess with your code anymore.” We’re now using version 3.0 of TinyMCE, which means better compatibility with Safari, and we’ve paid particular attention this release to its integration and interaction with complex HTML. It also now has a “no-distractions” mode which is like Writeroom for your browser.</p> <p><strong>Built-in galleries</strong> — when you take advantage of multi-file upload to upload a bunch of photos, we have a new shortcode that lets you to easily embed galleries by just putting [ gallery] (without the space) in your post. It’ll display all your thumbnails and captions and each will link each to a page where people can comment on the individual photos. I’ve been using this feature on my blog and have already uploaded over <a href="http://ma.tt/category/gallery/">1,200 pictures into 23 galleries</a>. The shortcode has some hidden options too, <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_the_gallery_shortcode">check out this documentation</a>.</p> <h3>Developer Features</h3> <p>Now for the geeky stuff. While we’re excited about the above features, each one represents a new opportunity or API for other developers to take to another level. (The best of which we’ll someday integrate back into WP.)</p> <p><strong>Salted passwords</strong> — we now use the <a href="http://www.openwall.com/phpass/">phpass</a> library to stretch and salt all passwords stored in the database, which makes brute-forcing them impractical. If you use something like <a href="http://modauthmysql.sourceforge.net/">mod_auth_mysql</a> we’ve <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/md5-password-hashes/">created a plugin that will allow you to use legacy MD5 hashing</a>. (The hashing is completely pluggable.) Users will automatically switch to the more secure passwords next time they log in.</p> <p><strong>Secure cookies</strong> — cookies are now encrypted based on the protocol described <a href="http://www.cse.msu.edu/~alexliu/publications/Cookie/cookie.pdf">in this PDF paper</a>. which is something like <code>user name|expiration time|HMAC( user name|expiration time, k)</code> where <code>k = HMAC(user name|expiration time, sk)</code> and where <code>sk</code> is a secret key, which you can define in your config.</p> <p><strong>Easy taxonomy and URL creation</strong> — probably best illustrated with an example: I can call <code>register_taxonomy()</code> with <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/6357/taxes.php">a few arguments</a> to register a “people” taxonomy and whenever I edit an image I’ll see a UI like tags has for identifying the people in a photo, and these will be URL addressable with <code>/person/firstname-lastname/</code>. All with a single function call.</p> <p><strong>Inline documentation</strong> — the vast majority of the new code going into WordPress include inline documentation that explains the functions and documents their arguments.</p> <p><strong>Database optimization</strong> — we haven’t changed the table layout in this release, which is one of the reasons so many plugins work fine with 2.5. We have added a few new indicies and made a few default fields more flexible based on some bottlenecks we found on WordPress.com, which now hosts 2.7 million WordPress blogs. It should be invisible to the application, just a bit faster on the database side.</p> <p><strong>$wpdb->prepare()</strong> — now almost all of the SQL in WordPress is prepared first, and the same functions are available to your plugins. This should prevent elementary SQL escaping issues.</p> <p><strong>Media buttons</strong> — the add media buttons above the post are both expandable, so you could have an “Add Google Map” button if you like, They can be overridden, so if you think you can do the video or audio tab better than we have you can replace the default.</p> <p><strong>Shortcode API</strong> — the new gallery functionality is powered by the new shortcode API. Shortcodes are little bracket-delineated strings that can be magically expanded at runtime to something more interesting. They give users a short, easy to type and copy/paste string they can move around their post without worrying about messing up complex HTML or embed codes. <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API">The Shortcode API is fully documented</a>.</p> <p>Now you see why 2.5 took a little extra time. <img src='http://wordpress.org/development/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p> <h3>Upgrade Notes</h3> <p>2.5 does include security fixes so it is recommended for all users, the 2.3 branch will no longer be updated. <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress">The upgrade instructions for this version are pretty much the same as any other version</a>. The most important thing to check is your plugins, so if for example everything works except the new uploader, a legacy plugin might be causing a javascript error on the page and breaking it. If something goes wrong, the safest thing to do is turn your plugins off (we have a button to do them all at once, now) and turn them back on one-by-one, testing the problem along the way. This has solved almost everybody’s problems in testing, and it also lets you know which plugin author to show some love to so they’ll update their plugin, and which plugin authors already have so you can shower them with praises on your blog.</p> <p>One brief note about some of the new upload and plugin upgrade features, there are some edge-case hosting platforms, like versions of Lighttpd before 1.5 or over-agressive mod_security rules, which can break. If something isn’t working like it was looked in the screenshot, ask your host if there’s something on the server side which may be interfering. Hosts, feel free to join and post to <a href="http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers">our wp-testers mailing list</a> if you have an environment that requires some extra code to work around. We’d be happy to include it in the next update.</p> <p><em>Quick tip:</em> in 2.5 you click the name of things to edit them, like your username to edit your profile or the title of a post to edit it.</p> <h3>The Community is Growing</h3> <p>More than growing, it’s on fire. We always talk about things like downloads, and the 2.3 branch has already had <strong>1.92 million downloads</strong> as I write this post, but this time we have some far more interesting information I’d like to share.</p> <p>There were over 1,200 commits to our repository since 2.3.0 and <strong>over 90 people were credited</strong> in them. This means in our core code, not plugins, there were at least 90 individual folks that contributed something high-quality enough that it made the cut to be part of the download you guys get today. I had no idea this group of people was so large.</p> <p>Outside of the <a href="http://wordpress.org/about/">core commit team</a>, there was particular help from these people, in rough order of number of credits and tickets: <a href="http://blogwaffe.com/">mdawaffe (Michael Adams)</a>, <a href="http://www.laptoptips.ca/">azaozz (Andrew Ozz)</a>, <a href="http://nb.niichavo.org/">nbachiyski (Nikolay Bachiyski)</a>, <a href="http://skeltoac.com/">andy (Andy Skelton)</a>, <a href="http://iammattthomas.com/">iammattthomas (Matt Thomas)</a>, <a href="http://thresholdstate.com/">tellyworth (Alex Shiels)</a>, <a href="http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/">josephscott (Joseph Scott)</a>, <a href="http://foolswisdom.com/">lloydbudd (Lloyd Budd)</a>, <a href="http://dd32.id.au/">DD32 (Dion)</a>, <a href="http://www.ilfilosofo.com/">filosofo (Austin Matzko)</a>, <a href="http://engel.uk.to/">hansengel (Hans Engel)</a>, <a href="http://www.freecharity.org.uk/">pishmishy</a>, ffemtcj, <a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/">Viper007Bond</a>, <a href="http://extralogical.net/">ionfish (Benedict Eastaugh)</a>, <a href="http://www.poplarware.com/">jhodgdon (Jennifer Hodgdon)</a>, <a href="http://ottodestruct.com/blog/">Otto42</a>, <a href="http://www.cefm.ca/">thee17 (Charles E. Free-Melvin)</a>, and <a href="http://www.buayacorp.com/">xknown</a>. Also want to thank MichaelH and Lorelle on the documentation side, and moshu, Kafkaesqui, whooami, MichaelH, Otto42, and jeremyclark13 for helping with support.</p> <p>The 2.5 branch is nicknamed “Brecker” in honor of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Brecker">Michael Brecker</a>, an exceptionally talented saxophonist who could cross styles effortlessly and never stopped experimenting and pushing himself until he passed away last year.</p> <h3>New WordPress.org</h3> <p>All of this wasn’t enough, so in our copious spare time we decided to redesign WordPress.org to better match the aesthetics of the new dashboard and also to spruce up a few areas that needed lovin’. Some parts of the site, like the Codex, might show the old style for a day or two. We know, just give us a bit of time. Thanks to <a href="http://iammattthomas.com/">Matt Thomas</a> for his epic effort in designing and coding the new site.</p> <h3>What’s Next</h3> <p>As always with WordPress, we don’t claim any of these features to be perfect, or to be better than everyone else in the world, but they are done by and for the people and the one thing we do promise is that with every release we listen and do our best to improve. </p> <p>2.5 is a major milestone for WordPress not because it added dozens of user-requested features, but because it reaffirms that we’re as passionate about blogging as the day we started. Our community is too fierce to rest on its laurels — contrary to what pundits claim, blogging is far from “finished” and every improvement just whets our appetite for more. And more is coming.</p> <p>It’s a good thing WordPress doesn’t limit the length of posts, because this one would have hit it. If you made it this far, thanks for sharing a bit of your day with us. I sincerely hope this new version of WordPress helps you do what you love to do.</p> ";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:67:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-brecker/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:391:"WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:15112:"<p>WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, concurrent post editing protection, full-screen writing, and search that covers posts <em>and</em> pages.</p> <p>For a short overview of the features with screenshots, it’d be best to <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/25-sneak-peek/">visit our sneak peek announcement for RC1</a>. Or check out <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-rc2/">a 4-minute screencast of the new interface in action</a>. If you just want to jump straight to the good stuff <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">here’s where you can find 2.5 upgrade and download information</a>.</p> <p>If you want to see everything I would grab a cup of coffee or a mojito, because this post is epic.</p> <h3>User Features</h3> <p><strong>Cleaner, faster, less cluttered dashboard</strong> — we’ve worked hard to take your feedback about what’s most important in the dashboard and organize things to allow you to focus on what’s important — your blog — and get out of your way. In collaboration with <a href="http://happycog.com/">Happy Cog</a> and the community we’ve taken the first major step forward in the WordPress interface since version 1.5.</p> <p><strong>Dashboard Widgets</strong> — the dashboard home page is now a series of widgets, including ones to show you fun stats about your posting, latest comments, people linking to you, new and popular plugins, and of course WordPress news. You can customize any of the dashboard widgets to show, for example, news from your local paper instead of WP news. Plugins can also hook in, for example the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/">WordPress.com stats widget</a> adds a handy double-wide stats box.</p> <p><img src="http://s.wordpress.org/screenshots/2.5/stats-widget.png" alt="" width="690" /></p> <p><strong>Multi-file upload with progress bar</strong> — before when you would upload a large file you’d wait forever, never knowing how far along it was. And uploading more than one photo was an exercise in patience, as you could only do one at a time. Now you can select a whole of folder images or music or videos at once and it’ll show you the progress of each upload.</p> <p><strong>Bonus: EXIF extraction</strong> — if you upload JPEG files with EXIF metadata like camera make and model, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, et al. WordPress will extract all the data into custom fields you can use in your template. If you use the EXIF title fields or similar those will be put into their equivalent fields in WP. Most modern digital cameras generate EXIF data.</p> <p><strong>Search posts and pages</strong> — search used to cover just posts, now it includes pages too, a great boon for those using WordPress as a CMS. New themes can style or sort pages differently in results.</p> <p><strong>Tag management</strong> — you can now add, rename, delete, and do whatever else you like to tags from inside WordPress, no plugins needed.</p> <p><strong>Password strength meter</strong> — when you change your password on your profile it’ll tell you how strong your password is to help you pick a good one.</p> <p><strong>Concurrent editing protection</strong> — for those of you on multi-author blogs, have you ever opened a post while someone was already editing it, and your auto-saves kept overwriting each other, irrecoverably losing hours of work? I bet that added a few words to your vocabulary. Now if you open a post that someone else is editing, WordPress magically locks it and prevents you from saving until the other person is done. You’ll see a message like below.</p> <p><img src="http://s.wordpress.org/screenshots/2.5/write-currently-editing.png" alt="" /></p> <p><strong>Few-click plugin upgrades</strong> — if the plugins you use are part of the plugin directory since 2.3 we’ve told you when they have an update available. Now we take that to the next logical step — downloading and installing the upgrade for you. This is dependent a little bit on your host setup, and it may ask you for your FTP password much like OS X or Windows will ask you for a password, but it works well on majority of hosts we were able to test, your mileage may very, plugins in mirror may be larger than they appear.</p> <p><strong>Friendlier visual post editor</strong> — I’m not sure how to articulate this improvement except to say “it doesn’t mess with your code anymore.” We’re now using version 3.0 of TinyMCE, which means better compatibility with Safari, and we’ve paid particular attention this release to its integration and interaction with complex HTML. It also now has a “no-distractions” mode which is like Writeroom for your browser.</p> <p><strong>Built-in galleries</strong> — when you take advantage of multi-file upload to upload a bunch of photos, we have a new shortcode that lets you to easily embed galleries by just putting [ gallery] (without the space) in your post. It’ll display all your thumbnails and captions and each will link each to a page where people can comment on the individual photos. I’ve been using this feature on my blog and have already uploaded over <a href="http://ma.tt/category/gallery/">1,200 pictures into 23 galleries</a>. The shortcode has some hidden options too, <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_the_gallery_shortcode">check out this documentation</a>.</p> <h3>Developer Features</h3> <p>Now for the geeky stuff. While we’re excited about the above features, each one represents a new opportunity or API for other developers to take to another level. (The best of which we’ll someday integrate back into WP.)</p> <p><strong>Salted passwords</strong> — we now use the <a href="http://www.openwall.com/phpass/">phpass</a> library to stretch and salt all passwords stored in the database, which makes brute-forcing them impractical. If you use something like <a href="http://modauthmysql.sourceforge.net/">mod_auth_mysql</a> we’ve <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/md5-password-hashes/">created a plugin that will allow you to use legacy MD5 hashing</a>. (The hashing is completely pluggable.) Users will automatically switch to the more secure passwords next time they log in.</p> <p><strong>Secure cookies</strong> — cookies are now encrypted based on the protocol described <a href="http://www.cse.msu.edu/~alexliu/publications/Cookie/cookie.pdf">in this PDF paper</a>. which is something like <code>user name|expiration time|HMAC( user name|expiration time, k)</code> where <code>k = HMAC(user name|expiration time, sk)</code> and where <code>sk</code> is a secret key, which you can define in your config.</p> <p><strong>Easy taxonomy and URL creation</strong> — probably best illustrated with an example: I can call <code>register_taxonomy()</code> with <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/6357/taxes.php">a few arguments</a> to register a “people” taxonomy and whenever I edit an image I’ll see a UI like tags has for identifying the people in a photo, and these will be URL addressable with <code>/person/firstname-lastname/</code>. All with a single function call.</p> <p><strong>Inline documentation</strong> — the vast majority of the new code going into WordPress include inline documentation that explains the functions and documents their arguments.</p> <p><strong>Database optimization</strong> — we haven’t changed the table layout in this release, which is one of the reasons so many plugins work fine with 2.5. We have added a few new indicies and made a few default fields more flexible based on some bottlenecks we found on WordPress.com, which now hosts 2.7 million WordPress blogs. It should be invisible to the application, just a bit faster on the database side.</p> <p><strong>$wpdb->prepare()</strong> — now almost all of the SQL in WordPress is prepared first, and the same functions are available to your plugins. This should prevent elementary SQL escaping issues.</p> <p><strong>Media buttons</strong> — the add media buttons above the post are both expandable, so you could have an “Add Google Map” button if you like, They can be overridden, so if you think you can do the video or audio tab better than we have you can replace the default.</p> <p><strong>Shortcode API</strong> — the new gallery functionality is powered by the new shortcode API. Shortcodes are little bracket-delineated strings that can be magically expanded at runtime to something more interesting. They give users a short, easy to type and copy/paste string they can move around their post without worrying about messing up complex HTML or embed codes. <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API">The Shortcode API is fully documented</a>.</p> <p>Now you see why 2.5 took a little extra time. <img src='http://wordpress.org/development/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p> <h3>Upgrade Notes</h3> <p>2.5 does include security fixes so it is recommended for all users, the 2.3 branch will no longer be updated. <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress">The upgrade instructions for this version are pretty much the same as any other version</a>. The most important thing to check is your plugins, so if for example everything works except the new uploader, a legacy plugin might be causing a javascript error on the page and breaking it. If something goes wrong, the safest thing to do is turn your plugins off (we have a button to do them all at once, now) and turn them back on one-by-one, testing the problem along the way. This has solved almost everybody’s problems in testing, and it also lets you know which plugin author to show some love to so they’ll update their plugin, and which plugin authors already have so you can shower them with praises on your blog.</p> <p>One brief note about some of the new upload and plugin upgrade features, there are some edge-case hosting platforms, like versions of Lighttpd before 1.5 or over-agressive mod_security rules, which can break. If something isn’t working like it was looked in the screenshot, ask your host if there’s something on the server side which may be interfering. Hosts, feel free to join and post to <a href="http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers">our wp-testers mailing list</a> if you have an environment that requires some extra code to work around. We’d be happy to include it in the next update.</p> <p><em>Quick tip:</em> in 2.5 you click the name of things to edit them, like your username to edit your profile or the title of a post to edit it.</p> <h3>The Community is Growing</h3> <p>More than growing, it’s on fire. We always talk about things like downloads, and the 2.3 branch has already had <strong>1.92 million downloads</strong> as I write this post, but this time we have some far more interesting information I’d like to share.</p> <p>There were over 1,200 commits to our repository since 2.3.0 and <strong>over 90 people were credited</strong> in them. This means in our core code, not plugins, there were at least 90 individual folks that contributed something high-quality enough that it made the cut to be part of the download you guys get today. I had no idea this group of people was so large.</p> <p>Outside of the <a href="http://wordpress.org/about/">core commit team</a>, there was particular help from these people, in rough order of number of credits and tickets: <a href="http://blogwaffe.com/">mdawaffe (Michael Adams)</a>, <a href="http://www.laptoptips.ca/">azaozz (Andrew Ozz)</a>, <a href="http://nb.niichavo.org/">nbachiyski (Nikolay Bachiyski)</a>, <a href="http://skeltoac.com/">andy (Andy Skelton)</a>, <a href="http://iammattthomas.com/">iammattthomas (Matt Thomas)</a>, <a href="http://thresholdstate.com/">tellyworth (Alex Shiels)</a>, <a href="http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/">josephscott (Joseph Scott)</a>, <a href="http://foolswisdom.com/">lloydbudd (Lloyd Budd)</a>, <a href="http://dd32.id.au/">DD32 (Dion)</a>, <a href="http://www.ilfilosofo.com/">filosofo (Austin Matzko)</a>, <a href="http://engel.uk.to/">hansengel (Hans Engel)</a>, <a href="http://www.freecharity.org.uk/">pishmishy</a>, ffemtcj, <a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/">Viper007Bond</a>, <a href="http://extralogical.net/">ionfish (Benedict Eastaugh)</a>, <a href="http://www.poplarware.com/">jhodgdon (Jennifer Hodgdon)</a>, <a href="http://ottodestruct.com/blog/">Otto42</a>, <a href="http://www.cefm.ca/">thee17 (Charles E. Free-Melvin)</a>, and <a href="http://www.buayacorp.com/">xknown</a>. Also want to thank MichaelH and Lorelle on the documentation side, and moshu, Kafkaesqui, whooami, MichaelH, Otto42, and jeremyclark13 for helping with support.</p> <p>The 2.5 branch is nicknamed “Brecker” in honor of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Brecker">Michael Brecker</a>, an exceptionally talented saxophonist who could cross styles effortlessly and never stopped experimenting and pushing himself until he passed away last year.</p> <h3>New WordPress.org</h3> <p>All of this wasn’t enough, so in our copious spare time we decided to redesign WordPress.org to better match the aesthetics of the new dashboard and also to spruce up a few areas that needed lovin’. Some parts of the site, like the Codex, might show the old style for a day or two. We know, just give us a bit of time. Thanks to <a href="http://iammattthomas.com/">Matt Thomas</a> for his epic effort in designing and coding the new site.</p> <h3>What’s Next</h3> <p>As always with WordPress, we don’t claim any of these features to be perfect, or to be better than everyone else in the world, but they are done by and for the people and the one thing we do promise is that with every release we listen and do our best to improve. </p> <p>2.5 is a major milestone for WordPress not because it added dozens of user-requested features, but because it reaffirms that we’re as passionate about blogging as the day we started. Our community is too fierce to rest on its laurels — contrary to what pundits claim, blogging is far from “finished” and every improvement just whets our appetite for more. And more is coming.</p> <p>It’s a good thing WordPress doesn’t limit the length of posts, because this one would have hit it. If you made it this far, thanks for sharing a bit of your day with us. I sincerely hope this new version of WordPress helps you do what you love to do.</p> ";}i:8;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:32:"Screencast and WordPress 2.5 RC2";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-rc2/";s:8:"comments";s:67:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-rc2/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:36:25 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:8:"category";s:11:"Development";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=227";s:11:"description";s:334:"2.5 is coming along thanks to the fantastic feedback you guys provided on RC1 (over 580 pingbacks and counting), and we’re now ready to show you a bit more of a peek with a short screencast covering the new dashboard and uploader and Release Candidate 2. 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First here’s the screencast, which is also available embedded below, <a href="http://s.wordpress.org/resources/2.5/dashboard-and-images.swf">as a Flash movie</a>, or as a <a href="http://s.wordpress.org/resources/2.5/dashboard-and-images.avi">17mb AVI download</a>:</p> <p> <object id="csSWF" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="640" height="355" codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash7/cabs/ swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0"><param name="src" value=""/><param name="bgcolor" value="#1a1a1a"/><param name="quality" value="best"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="scale" value="showall"/><param name="flashVars" value="autostart=false"/><embed name="csSWF" src="http://s.wordpress.org/resources/2.5/dashboard-and-images.swf" width="549" height="304" bgcolor="#1a1a1a" quality="best" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" scale="showall" flashVars="autostart=false" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object></p> <p>I’ve <a href="http://ma.tt/category/gallery/">uploaded more than a thousand photos already</a> into the new gallery system — it works.</p> <p>(This was my first screencast, but I hope we can have more on WordPress.org and our documentation in the future.)</p> <p>If you make frequent backups and you’re interested in helping us out with development by testing the very latest, <a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.5-RC2.zip">download</a> and install <a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.5-RC2.zip">Release Candidate 2</a> of WordPress 2.5, and <a href="http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers">join our testers mailing list</a> to report any bugs you find in the code.</p> <p>Finally with regards to theme and plugin compatibility, we’ve had no reports of any broken themes in this upgrade, which makes sense because we didn’t really change anything core about themes, just added new optional capabilities like Gravatars. 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I’d like to hear how well it works for you.</p> <p>I’m submitting this plugin to the <a href="http://wpmu.org/2008-wpmu-plugin-competition/">WordPress MU plugin competition</a>. There are only 2 other entries so the odds on my winning are pretty good!</p> <p>I should have a <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags/">Sitewide Tags</a> update later this week, with thanks to <a href="http://www.im-web-gefunden.de/2008/08/08/programming-together-with-donncha-on-the-sitewide-tags-plugin-for-wordpress-mu/">Thomas Schneider</a> who came on board last week to help and has done some super work!</p> <p>Ron and <a href="http://atypicalife.net/blog/">Andrea</a> found a bug in pre release testing that I forgot to fix in 0.1, so grab 0.2 if you were (un)lucky enough to grab the first release! Thanks <a href="http://trentadams.com/">Trent</a> for testing too. <a href="http://twitter.com/donncha">Follow me on Twitter</a> to get the inside scoop on my WordPress plugins, including a sort of super secret Twitter plugin..</p> <p><a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/">WordPress MU</a> is the multi blog version of WordPress that runs on WordPress.com and many other sites.</p> <p><img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/?voyeur=1" /></p><p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress MU Domain Mapping">WordPress MU Domain Mapping</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2005/02/16/validate-email-address-in-php/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Validate Email Address in PHP">Validate Email Address in PHP</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2007/04/09/how-i-move-a-wordpress-blog-to-a-new-host/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: How I move a WordPress blog to a new host">How I move a WordPress blog to a new host</a></li></ul></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:30:34 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Donncha";}s:7:"summary";s:3025:"<p>A long sought after feature in <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/">WordPress MU</a> is domain mapping. That’s where a blog on a WordPress MU site can be “mapped” to a new domain. WordPress.com has an advanced <a href="http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/11/10/domain-mapping/">domain mapping</a> feature that has proved to be very popular with users even though it’s a paid-for upgrade.</p> <p>This domain mapping plugin isn’t quite as powerful and still requires plenty of testing. So, while domains and “sub domains” or hostnames can be mapped to individual blogs, there are a number of caveats:</p> <ol> <li> Remote login does not work. It’s possible to be logged in on the main site, logged in on the domain mapped blog as a different user or not logged in at all there!</li> <li> It only works if your WordPress MU site is using sub domains.</li> <li> It’s the <strike>0.1</strike> 0.2 release. It’s basic.</li> </ol> <p>Here’s the <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/">plugin page</a>, and the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/">download page</a>. I’d like to hear how well it works for you.</p> <p>I’m submitting this plugin to the <a href="http://wpmu.org/2008-wpmu-plugin-competition/">WordPress MU plugin competition</a>. There are only 2 other entries so the odds on my winning are pretty good!</p> <p>I should have a <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags/">Sitewide Tags</a> update later this week, with thanks to <a href="http://www.im-web-gefunden.de/2008/08/08/programming-together-with-donncha-on-the-sitewide-tags-plugin-for-wordpress-mu/">Thomas Schneider</a> who came on board last week to help and has done some super work!</p> <p>Ron and <a href="http://atypicalife.net/blog/">Andrea</a> found a bug in pre release testing that I forgot to fix in 0.1, so grab 0.2 if you were (un)lucky enough to grab the first release! Thanks <a href="http://trentadams.com/">Trent</a> for testing too. <a href="http://twitter.com/donncha">Follow me on Twitter</a> to get the inside scoop on my WordPress plugins, including a sort of super secret Twitter plugin..</p> <p><a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/">WordPress MU</a> is the multi blog version of WordPress that runs on WordPress.com and many other sites.</p> <p><img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/?voyeur=1" /></p><p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress MU Domain Mapping">WordPress MU Domain Mapping</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2005/02/16/validate-email-address-in-php/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Validate Email Address in PHP">Validate Email Address in PHP</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2007/04/09/how-i-move-a-wordpress-blog-to-a-new-host/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: How I move a WordPress blog to a new host">How I move a WordPress blog to a new host</a></li></ul></p>";}i:2;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/11";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3899";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/11/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0811/";s:11:"description";s:2113:"<p><a href="http://www.openwebanalytics.com/"><strong>Open Web Analytics</strong></a></p> <p>A full featured web analytics framework that provides detailed analysis of site users, click behavior, traffic sources, feed subscriptions and content consumption.</p> <p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cross-references-plugin/"><strong>Cross References</strong></a></p> <p>Insert cross-references between posts or pages with [cref postID], such as [cref 1], or optionally with [cref post-slug], for example [cref hello-world], and get all backward references automatically at the end of each post or page.</p> <p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-microsummary-comments-track/"><strong>WP Microsummary Comment Track</strong></a></p> <p>Using Firefox 2+ <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Microsummaries">Microsummaries</a>, this plugin only displays the amount of * Approved * Pending * Spam comments that you have on your Wordpress blog.</p> <p><a href="http://www.thaslayer.com/2008/08/10/wordpress-plugin-slayers-ad-integration-v-10/"><strong>Slayer’s Ad Integration Plugin</strong></a></p> <p>Integrate ads in your posts. It doesn’t matter what ad you want to ad: Google Adsense, Bidvertiser, or just a link to an image this plugin can handle it, and just as every plugin it comes with a cool options panel.</p> <p><a href="http://simply-basic.com/rssless-plugin"><strong>RSSLess</strong></a></p> <p>RSSless is a WordPress plugin which allows you to hide specific post content from RSS readers using short codes. This is helpful for bloggers who embed videos, images, or other content which doesn’t display or embed correctly in RSS readers.</p> <p><a href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/minimum-comment-length/"><strong>Minimum Comment Length</strong></a></p> <p>Allows you to set the minimum length of a comment that a user can leave.</p> <p><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-admin-menu-drop-down-css/"><strong>Admin Menu Drop Down</strong></a></p> <p>Creates a CSS based drop down menu in your wp-admin for easy navigation through the administration area</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:10:55 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2113:"<p><a href="http://www.openwebanalytics.com/"><strong>Open Web Analytics</strong></a></p> <p>A full featured web analytics framework that provides detailed analysis of site users, click behavior, traffic sources, feed subscriptions and content consumption.</p> <p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cross-references-plugin/"><strong>Cross References</strong></a></p> <p>Insert cross-references between posts or pages with [cref postID], such as [cref 1], or optionally with [cref post-slug], for example [cref hello-world], and get all backward references automatically at the end of each post or page.</p> <p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-microsummary-comments-track/"><strong>WP Microsummary Comment Track</strong></a></p> <p>Using Firefox 2+ <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Microsummaries">Microsummaries</a>, this plugin only displays the amount of * Approved * Pending * Spam comments that you have on your Wordpress blog.</p> <p><a href="http://www.thaslayer.com/2008/08/10/wordpress-plugin-slayers-ad-integration-v-10/"><strong>Slayer’s Ad Integration Plugin</strong></a></p> <p>Integrate ads in your posts. It doesn’t matter what ad you want to ad: Google Adsense, Bidvertiser, or just a link to an image this plugin can handle it, and just as every plugin it comes with a cool options panel.</p> <p><a href="http://simply-basic.com/rssless-plugin"><strong>RSSLess</strong></a></p> <p>RSSless is a WordPress plugin which allows you to hide specific post content from RSS readers using short codes. This is helpful for bloggers who embed videos, images, or other content which doesn’t display or embed correctly in RSS readers.</p> <p><a href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/minimum-comment-length/"><strong>Minimum Comment Length</strong></a></p> <p>Allows you to set the minimum length of a comment that a user can leave.</p> <p><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-admin-menu-drop-down-css/"><strong>Admin Menu Drop Down</strong></a></p> <p>Creates a CSS based drop down menu in your wp-admin for easy navigation through the administration area</p>";}i:3;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:28:"Matt: Testing Comment Rating";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=6840";s:4:"link";s:44:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/testing-comment-rating/";s:11:"description";s:73:"<p>A new comment rating plugin is in effect on this site, try it out!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:25:31 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:73:"<p>A new comment rating plugin is in effect on this site, try it out!</p>";}i:4;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:33:"bbPress: bbPress 1.0 alpha series";s:4:"guid";s:24:"http://bbpress.org/?p=89";s:4:"link";s:56:"http://bbpress.org/blog/2008/08/bbpress-10-alpha-series/";s:11:"description";s:749:"<p>Over the coming weeks we will be releasing a series of 1.0 alpha versions for download.</p> <p>The more adventurous among you may want to help out with testing these alpha versions. Probably the best thing to do is create a duplicate version of your installation (including a duplicate database) and then test there.</p> <p>We would appreciate help with people looking for issues with upgrading, the user interface and any bugs in the new admin interface.</p> <p>You can download the alpha releases via the <a href="http://bbpress.org/download/">download</a> page.</p> <p>You can use <a href="http://trac.bbpress.org/">trac</a> to report bugs as you would with the normal release. Please remember to add the version number to any new tickets.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:55:28 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Sam Bauers";}s:7:"summary";s:749:"<p>Over the coming weeks we will be releasing a series of 1.0 alpha versions for download.</p> <p>The more adventurous among you may want to help out with testing these alpha versions. Probably the best thing to do is create a duplicate version of your installation (including a duplicate database) and then test there.</p> <p>We would appreciate help with people looking for issues with upgrading, the user interface and any bugs in the new admin interface.</p> <p>You can download the alpha releases via the <a href="http://bbpress.org/download/">download</a> page.</p> <p>You can use <a href="http://trac.bbpress.org/">trac</a> to report bugs as you would with the normal release. Please remember to add the version number to any new tickets.</p>";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:39:"Weblog Tools Collection: If, Then, Else";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3894";s:4:"link";s:66:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/09/if-then-else/";s:11:"description";s:2784:"<p>Ever become brave enough to look inside of a WordPress php file? Specifically, a php file from a theme? If you have, you may have noticed that they are filled with If, Then, and Else statements. If you have no idea what these mean, this post is for you.</p> <p>Php has always been a pain for me to understand, but if you think about it in a logical manner, it begins to make sense. If, then and else statements are used as a means of making decisions, similar to the way you and I make decisions in the real world. Here is an example of how this logic works in WordPress.</p> <p><strong>< ?php if (have_posts()) : ?></strong></p> <p>The if statement within that php function is asking if there are posts. If the blog has posts, WordPress begins processing what is known as “<a title="http://codex.wordpress.org/the_loop" href="http://codex.wordpress.org/the_loop" target="_blank">The Loop</a>“.</p> <p><strong><? php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?></strong></p> <p>This piece of code tells WordPress to grab the posts from the MySQL database and display them on your blog. The loop then closes with this function.</p> <p><strong><?php endwhile; ?></strong></p> <p>If the answer to the <strong>if</strong> question turns out to be no, WordPress bypasses the loop and displays a message that no posts exist. This is where the <strong>else</strong> statement comes into play.</p> <p><strong><br /> < h2 class=”center”>Not Found< /h2><br /> < p class=”center”>Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.< /p><br /> < ?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . “/searchform.php”); ?><br /> < ?php endif; ?></strong></p> <p>That last line of code is the if statement and concludes the function.</p> <p><strong>If</strong>, <strong>then</strong>, and <strong>else</strong> are easy to remember when you think of how you <strong>function</strong> on a daily basis. A real world example, (<strong>If</strong> I am hungry, <strong>Then</strong> I’ll eat some food, or <strong>Else</strong> I’ll starve). Maybe not the best example in the world, but you should be able to get the picture.</p> <p>I’m no coder by any means but when I read explanations about statements and functions inside of WordPress via Lisa Sabin Wilson’s <a title="WordPress For Dummies At Amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/WordPress-Dummies-Computer-Tech/dp/0470149469/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218309580&sr=1-1" target="_blank">WordPress For Dummies</a>, it’s as if light bulbs turn on inside of my head. One of those “Ohhhh, so thats what that does” sort of moments.</p> <p>Be sure to let me know if this post was of any help to you.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:27:09 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:2784:"<p>Ever become brave enough to look inside of a WordPress php file? Specifically, a php file from a theme? If you have, you may have noticed that they are filled with If, Then, and Else statements. If you have no idea what these mean, this post is for you.</p> <p>Php has always been a pain for me to understand, but if you think about it in a logical manner, it begins to make sense. If, then and else statements are used as a means of making decisions, similar to the way you and I make decisions in the real world. Here is an example of how this logic works in WordPress.</p> <p><strong>< ?php if (have_posts()) : ?></strong></p> <p>The if statement within that php function is asking if there are posts. If the blog has posts, WordPress begins processing what is known as “<a title="http://codex.wordpress.org/the_loop" href="http://codex.wordpress.org/the_loop" target="_blank">The Loop</a>“.</p> <p><strong><? php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?></strong></p> <p>This piece of code tells WordPress to grab the posts from the MySQL database and display them on your blog. The loop then closes with this function.</p> <p><strong><?php endwhile; ?></strong></p> <p>If the answer to the <strong>if</strong> question turns out to be no, WordPress bypasses the loop and displays a message that no posts exist. This is where the <strong>else</strong> statement comes into play.</p> <p><strong><br /> < h2 class=”center”>Not Found< /h2><br /> < p class=”center”>Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.< /p><br /> < ?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . “/searchform.php”); ?><br /> < ?php endif; ?></strong></p> <p>That last line of code is the if statement and concludes the function.</p> <p><strong>If</strong>, <strong>then</strong>, and <strong>else</strong> are easy to remember when you think of how you <strong>function</strong> on a daily basis. A real world example, (<strong>If</strong> I am hungry, <strong>Then</strong> I’ll eat some food, or <strong>Else</strong> I’ll starve). Maybe not the best example in the world, but you should be able to get the picture.</p> <p>I’m no coder by any means but when I read explanations about statements and functions inside of WordPress via Lisa Sabin Wilson’s <a title="WordPress For Dummies At Amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/WordPress-Dummies-Computer-Tech/dp/0470149469/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218309580&sr=1-1" target="_blank">WordPress For Dummies</a>, it’s as if light bulbs turn on inside of my head. One of those “Ohhhh, so thats what that does” sort of moments.</p> <p>Be sure to let me know if this post was of any help to you.</p>";}i:6;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 08/09";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3892";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/09/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0809/";s:11:"description";s:2200:"<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/wpthemes/connections-reloaded/"><strong>Connections Reloaded</strong></a></p> <p><a href="http://demoblog.ajaydsouza.net/index.php?wptheme=Connections+Reloaded"><img alt="ConnectionsReloaded" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/connectionsreloaded.jpg" border="0" width="146" height="114" /></a></p> <p>Connections Reloaded is a complete reload of the highly popular and extremely beautiful Connections theme by Patricia Muller. Connections Reloaded 2.0.1 is a two column, widget and Gravatar ready theme. Includes few inbuilt widgets as well as many page templates.</p> <p><a href="http://doc5.com/GinsengCoffee/"><strong>Ginseng Coffee</strong></a></p> <p><img alt="GinsengCoffee" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/ginsengcoffee.jpg" border="0" width="185" height="114" /></p> <p>Ginseng Coffee is a three column, brown, widget and Gravatar and tag ready theme.</p> <p><a href="http://www.simplywp.net/2008/08/08/its-friday-its-floralday/"><strong>Floral Day</strong></a></p> <p><a href="http://simplywp.net/demo/index.php?wptheme=floral_day"><img alt="FloralDay" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/floralday.jpg" border="0" width="170" height="114" /></a></p> <p>2 columns, widget ready, right side bar, with Ajax picture viewer enable</p> <p><a href="http://easternwest.com/simplist-a-simple-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Simplest</strong></a></p> <p><img alt="simplist" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/simplist.png" border="0" width="200" height="90" /></p> <p>A simple two-column WordPress theme with a small splash of color.</p> <p>While on the topic of themes, you might like to take a look at <a href="http://max.limpag.com/2008/08/08/create-wordpress-theme-yahoo-ui-css-aptana/">Building with WordPress: From sketch to prototype to company website in 5 hours</a> and <a href="http://themeshaper.com/collapsing-wordpress-widget-ready-areas-sidebars/">Collapsing WordPress Widget-Ready Areas & Sidebars</a> and <a href="http://www.flisterz.com/2008/08/09/wordpress-show-latest-comments-for-each-post-on-main-page/">Show latest comment(s) for each post on main page</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:44:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2200:"<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/wpthemes/connections-reloaded/"><strong>Connections Reloaded</strong></a></p> <p><a href="http://demoblog.ajaydsouza.net/index.php?wptheme=Connections+Reloaded"><img alt="ConnectionsReloaded" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/connectionsreloaded.jpg" border="0" width="146" height="114" /></a></p> <p>Connections Reloaded is a complete reload of the highly popular and extremely beautiful Connections theme by Patricia Muller. Connections Reloaded 2.0.1 is a two column, widget and Gravatar ready theme. Includes few inbuilt widgets as well as many page templates.</p> <p><a href="http://doc5.com/GinsengCoffee/"><strong>Ginseng Coffee</strong></a></p> <p><img alt="GinsengCoffee" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/ginsengcoffee.jpg" border="0" width="185" height="114" /></p> <p>Ginseng Coffee is a three column, brown, widget and Gravatar and tag ready theme.</p> <p><a href="http://www.simplywp.net/2008/08/08/its-friday-its-floralday/"><strong>Floral Day</strong></a></p> <p><a href="http://simplywp.net/demo/index.php?wptheme=floral_day"><img alt="FloralDay" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/floralday.jpg" border="0" width="170" height="114" /></a></p> <p>2 columns, widget ready, right side bar, with Ajax picture viewer enable</p> <p><a href="http://easternwest.com/simplist-a-simple-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Simplest</strong></a></p> <p><img alt="simplist" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/simplist.png" border="0" width="200" height="90" /></p> <p>A simple two-column WordPress theme with a small splash of color.</p> <p>While on the topic of themes, you might like to take a look at <a href="http://max.limpag.com/2008/08/08/create-wordpress-theme-yahoo-ui-css-aptana/">Building with WordPress: From sketch to prototype to company website in 5 hours</a> and <a href="http://themeshaper.com/collapsing-wordpress-widget-ready-areas-sidebars/">Collapsing WordPress Widget-Ready Areas & Sidebars</a> and <a href="http://www.flisterz.com/2008/08/09/wordpress-show-latest-comments-for-each-post-on-main-page/">Show latest comment(s) for each post on main page</a>.</p>";}i:7;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:64:"Lorelle on WP: Exclusive First Interview with Woopra Co-Founders";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=2744";s:4:"link";s:90:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/exclusive-first-interview-with-woopra-co-founders/";s:11:"description";s:5620:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://www.woopra.com/"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/woopra_badge_160px.jpg?w=160&h=52" alt="" width="160" height="52" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2745" /></a>I was honored to be the first to interview Elie Khoury and Jad Younan, co-founders of <a href="http://www.woopra.com/" title="Woopra - blog statistics package" rel="tag">Woopra</a>, the exciting new web analytics program currently in beta. We were at the <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/lessons-from-ltpact-2008-cloud-servers-and-gambling/img_0204/" title="LTPact 2008 photographs by Lorelle VanFossen - fifth place winner ...">LT Pact Conference in Las Vegas</a>.</p> <p>The interview is featured in <a href="http://wp-community.org/2008/08/04/episode-44/" title="WordPress 2.6 released, iPhone app, XML-RPC controversy, theme repository, and an exclusive interview with Woopra developers">this week’s WordPress Podcast</a> with Charles Stricklin. We talked about Woopra and the <a href="http://static.woopra.com/woopra_wordpress.zip" title="Woopra WordPress Plugin">Woopra WordPress Plugin</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/img_0074.jpg"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/img_0074.jpg?w=300&h=214&h=214" alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2641" width="300" height="214" /></a>Woopra is currently under private beta testing and will be approving more beta testers soon, as resources become available. Elie and Jad shared some of the new features they have in mind for the Woopra WordPress Plugin including the ability to track your blog stats and analytics from within the WordPress Administration Panel, as well as with the desktop client program and through the Woopra Members Page on their site. The Plugin makes it very easy to add Woopra to your WordPress blog, too.</p> <p>This was the first interview Elie and Jad had done in English after having arrived in the country from Lebanon only a few days before. They were nervous about their English, but both speak it fluently and were delightful to talk to. I’ll have more interviews coming up with them over the next few months.</p> <p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/sig.gif" alt="" /><br /> <hr /> <p><font size="-1"><b>Site Search Tags:</b> <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=woopra" rel="tag">woopra</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=woopra+news" rel="tag">woopra news</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=interivew" rel="tag">interivew</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+podcast" rel="tag">wordpress podcast</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=elie+khoury" rel="tag">elie khoury</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=jad+younan" rel="tag">jad younan</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=woopra+wordpress+plugin" rel="tag">woopra wordpress plugin</a> </p> <p><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/feed/" title="Feed on Lorelle on WordPress"><img class="wp-smiley" src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/rss.png" alt="Feed on Lorelle on WordPress" /></a> <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/feed/" title="Feed on Lorelle on WordPress">Subscribe</a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/LorelleOnWordPress" title="Feedburner Lorelle on WordPress Feed"><img class="wp-smiley" src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/feedburnericon.gif" alt="Feedburner icon" />Via Feedburner</a> <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=182399" title="Lorelle on WordPress - full site feed email subscription"><img class="wp-smiley" src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/email.gif" alt="" />Subscribe by Email</a> <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Visit Lorelle on WordPress"><img class="wp-smiley" src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/pointer.gif" alt="" />Visit</a><br /><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/about/" title="Copyright Protected by Brent and Lorelle VanFossen">Copyright Lorelle VanFossen</a>, the author of <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/books/blogging-tips/" title="Blogging Tips Book By Lorelle VanFossen"><em>Blogging Tips, What Bloggers Won't Tell You About Blogging</em></a>.</font></p> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/lorelle.wordpress.com/2744/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/lorelle.wordpress.com/2744/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2744/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2744/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2744/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2744/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2744/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2744/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2744/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2744/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2744/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2744/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=2744&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:32:05 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:17:"Lorelle VanFossen";}s:7:"summary";s:5620:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://www.woopra.com/"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/woopra_badge_160px.jpg?w=160&h=52" alt="" width="160" height="52" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2745" /></a>I was honored to be the first to interview Elie Khoury and Jad Younan, co-founders of <a href="http://www.woopra.com/" title="Woopra - blog statistics package" rel="tag">Woopra</a>, the exciting new web analytics program currently in beta. We were at the <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/lessons-from-ltpact-2008-cloud-servers-and-gambling/img_0204/" title="LTPact 2008 photographs by Lorelle VanFossen - fifth place winner ...">LT Pact Conference in Las Vegas</a>.</p> <p>The interview is featured in <a href="http://wp-community.org/2008/08/04/episode-44/" title="WordPress 2.6 released, iPhone app, XML-RPC controversy, theme repository, and an exclusive interview with Woopra developers">this week’s WordPress Podcast</a> with Charles Stricklin. We talked about Woopra and the <a href="http://static.woopra.com/woopra_wordpress.zip" title="Woopra WordPress Plugin">Woopra WordPress Plugin</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/img_0074.jpg"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/img_0074.jpg?w=300&h=214&h=214" alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2641" width="300" height="214" /></a>Woopra is currently under private beta testing and will be approving more beta testers soon, as resources become available. Elie and Jad shared some of the new features they have in mind for the Woopra WordPress Plugin including the ability to track your blog stats and analytics from within the WordPress Administration Panel, as well as with the desktop client program and through the Woopra Members Page on their site. The Plugin makes it very easy to add Woopra to your WordPress blog, too.</p> <p>This was the first interview Elie and Jad had done in English after having arrived in the country from Lebanon only a few days before. They were nervous about their English, but both speak it fluently and were delightful to talk to. I’ll have more interviews coming up with them over the next few months.</p> <p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/sig.gif" alt="" /><br /> <hr /> <p><font size="-1"><b>Site Search Tags:</b> <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=woopra" rel="tag">woopra</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=woopra+news" rel="tag">woopra news</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=interivew" rel="tag">interivew</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+podcast" rel="tag">wordpress podcast</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=elie+khoury" rel="tag">elie khoury</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=jad+younan" rel="tag">jad younan</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=woopra+wordpress+plugin" rel="tag">woopra wordpress plugin</a> </p> <p><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/feed/" title="Feed on Lorelle on WordPress"><img class="wp-smiley" src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/rss.png" alt="Feed on Lorelle on WordPress" /></a> <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/feed/" title="Feed on Lorelle on WordPress">Subscribe</a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/LorelleOnWordPress" title="Feedburner Lorelle on WordPress Feed"><img class="wp-smiley" src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/feedburnericon.gif" alt="Feedburner icon" />Via Feedburner</a> <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=182399" title="Lorelle on WordPress - full site feed email subscription"><img class="wp-smiley" src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/email.gif" alt="" />Subscribe by Email</a> <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Visit Lorelle on WordPress"><img class="wp-smiley" src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/pointer.gif" alt="" />Visit</a><br /><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/about/" title="Copyright Protected by Brent and Lorelle VanFossen">Copyright Lorelle VanFossen</a>, the author of <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/books/blogging-tips/" title="Blogging Tips Book By Lorelle VanFossen"><em>Blogging Tips, What Bloggers Won't Tell You About Blogging</em></a>.</font></p> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/lorelle.wordpress.com/2744/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/lorelle.wordpress.com/2744/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2744/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2744/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2744/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2744/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2744/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2744/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2744/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2744/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2744/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2744/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=2744&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:8;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:62:"Lorelle on WP: Speaking at WordCamp San Francisco Next Weekend";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=2740";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/speaking-at-wordcamp-san-francisco-next-weekend/";s:11:"description";s:8078:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/wordcamplogo.jpg?w=204&h=174" alt="" width="204" height="174" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2741" />I will be speaking at <a href="http://2008.sf.wordcamp.org/" title="WordCamp San Francisco">WordCamp San Francisco</a> next week, covering <strong>260 Ways to Break WordPress</strong> and asking WordPress fans for their tips and techniques for breaking WordPress, and putting it back together again. What about you? Have you broken WordPress? How?</p> <p>The <a href="http://wordcamp.info/2008/08/06/the-speakers-for-wordcamp-2008/" title="This year’s WordCamp speaker lineup">line up of speakers</a> for next weekend’s one-day event is the best of the best and I’m so honored to be among them. They include:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Jane Wells">Jane Wells</a></li> <li><a href="http://andyskelton.com/" title="Andy Skelton">Andy Skelton</a></li> <li><a href="http://apeatling.wordpress.com/" title="Andy Peatling">Andy Peatling</a></li> <li><a href="http://cogdogblog.com/" title="Alan Levine">Alan Levine</a></li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantek_%C3%87elik" title="Tantek Çelik - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">Tantek Çelik</a></li> <li><a href="http://jcksn.com/" title="Noel Jackson">Noel Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/" title="Joseph Scott">Joseph Scott</a></li> <li><a href="http://lloydbudd.com/" title="Lloyd Budd">Lloyd Budd</a></li> <li><a href="http://markjaquith.com/" title="Mark Jaquith">Mark Jaquith</a></li> <li><a href="http://redmonk.com/sogrady" title="Stephen O'Grady">Stephen O’Grady</a></li> <li><a href="http://simianuprising.com/" title="Jeremy Clarke">Jeremy Clarke</a></li> <li><a href="http://technosailor.com/" title="Aaron Brazell">Aaron Brazell</a></li> <li><a href="http://unlettered.org/" title="Sam Bauers">Sam Bauers</a></li> <li><a href="http://will.norris.name/" title="Will Norris">Will Norris</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.bobulate.com/" title="Liz Danzico">Liz Danzico</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.chrislea.com/" title="Chris Lea">Chris Lea</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.plasticbag.org/" title="plasticbag.org - a weblog by Tom Coates">Tom Coates</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.poeticprophet.net/" title="Chuck Lewis">Chuck Lewis</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.stephanspencer.com/" title="Stephan Spencer">Stephan Spencer</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/" title="Steve Souders">Steve Souders</a></li> </ul> <p>With plenty more brilliant minds sharing their WordPress, blogging, SEO, and business tips and tricks and wisdom. </p> <p>There will be a <a href="http://foolswisdom.com/geniuses-for-wordcamp-sf-bar/" title="WordPress Genius Bar">WordPress Genius Bar</a> to get personal one-on-one WordPress help and advice on Saturday, and I’ll be pitching in to help out.</p> <p>On Sunday, there is a special fundraising charity event for <a href="http://www.826valencia.org/" title="826 Valencia">826 Valencia</a>, a non-profit that helps students with their writing skills, called the <a href="http://wpscavengerhunt.eventbrite.com/" title="the WordPress Charity Scavenger Hunt">WordPress Charity Scavenger Hunt</a>. I’ve signed up with one of my dearest friends who lives in San Francisco and knows it like the back of her hand, so the rest of you scavengers watch out. I’ll be playing with a stacked deck! (Want to be on my team? <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" class="wp-smiley" /> )</p> <p>There is still time to <a href="http://2008.sf.wordcamp.org/signup/" title="WordCamp site to register">register for WordCamp 2008</a>. I can’t wait for the WordPress event of the year. Hope to see you there.</p> <p>You can see <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/08/08/lorelle-live-at-wordcamp-2007/" title="Lorelle Live at WordCamp 2007">last year’s talk I gave at WordCamp 2007</a> to get you warmed up.</p> <p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/sig.gif" alt="" /><br /> <hr /> <p><font size="-1"><b>Site Search Tags:</b> <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordcamp" rel="tag">wordcamp</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordcamp+2008" rel="tag">wordcamp 2008</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordcamp+san+francisco" rel="tag">wordcamp san francisco</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordcxamp2008" rel="tag">wordcxamp2008</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=san+francisco" rel="tag">san francisco</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+scavenger+hunt" rel="tag">wordpress scavenger hunt</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+fundraiser" rel="tag">wordpress fundraiser</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=speakers" rel="tag">speakers</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=speaking" rel="tag">speaking</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=event" rel="tag">event</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+news" rel="tag">wordpress news</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+events" rel="tag">wordpress events</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+community" rel="tag">wordpress community</a> </p> <p><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/feed/" title="Feed on Lorelle on WordPress"><img class="wp-smiley" src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/rss.png" alt="Feed on Lorelle on WordPress" /></a> <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/feed/" title="Feed on Lorelle on WordPress">Subscribe</a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/LorelleOnWordPress" title="Feedburner Lorelle on WordPress Feed"><img class="wp-smiley" src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/feedburnericon.gif" alt="Feedburner icon" />Via Feedburner</a> <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=182399" title="Lorelle on WordPress - full site feed email subscription"><img class="wp-smiley" src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/email.gif" alt="" />Subscribe by Email</a> <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Visit Lorelle on WordPress"><img class="wp-smiley" src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/pointer.gif" alt="" />Visit</a><br /><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/about/" title="Copyright Protected by Brent and Lorelle VanFossen">Copyright Lorelle VanFossen</a>, the author of <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/books/blogging-tips/" title="Blogging Tips Book By Lorelle VanFossen"><em>Blogging Tips, What Bloggers Won't Tell You About Blogging</em></a>.</font></p> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/lorelle.wordpress.com/2740/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/lorelle.wordpress.com/2740/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2740/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2740/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2740/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2740/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2740/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2740/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2740/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2740/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2740/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2740/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=2740&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:55:54 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:17:"Lorelle VanFossen";}s:7:"summary";s:8078:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/wordcamplogo.jpg?w=204&h=174" alt="" width="204" height="174" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2741" />I will be speaking at <a href="http://2008.sf.wordcamp.org/" title="WordCamp San Francisco">WordCamp San Francisco</a> next week, covering <strong>260 Ways to Break WordPress</strong> and asking WordPress fans for their tips and techniques for breaking WordPress, and putting it back together again. What about you? Have you broken WordPress? How?</p> <p>The <a href="http://wordcamp.info/2008/08/06/the-speakers-for-wordcamp-2008/" title="This year’s WordCamp speaker lineup">line up of speakers</a> for next weekend’s one-day event is the best of the best and I’m so honored to be among them. They include:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Jane Wells">Jane Wells</a></li> <li><a href="http://andyskelton.com/" title="Andy Skelton">Andy Skelton</a></li> <li><a href="http://apeatling.wordpress.com/" title="Andy Peatling">Andy Peatling</a></li> <li><a href="http://cogdogblog.com/" title="Alan Levine">Alan Levine</a></li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantek_%C3%87elik" title="Tantek Çelik - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">Tantek Çelik</a></li> <li><a href="http://jcksn.com/" title="Noel Jackson">Noel Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/" title="Joseph Scott">Joseph Scott</a></li> <li><a href="http://lloydbudd.com/" title="Lloyd Budd">Lloyd Budd</a></li> <li><a href="http://markjaquith.com/" title="Mark Jaquith">Mark Jaquith</a></li> <li><a href="http://redmonk.com/sogrady" title="Stephen O'Grady">Stephen O’Grady</a></li> <li><a href="http://simianuprising.com/" title="Jeremy Clarke">Jeremy Clarke</a></li> <li><a href="http://technosailor.com/" title="Aaron Brazell">Aaron Brazell</a></li> <li><a href="http://unlettered.org/" title="Sam Bauers">Sam Bauers</a></li> <li><a href="http://will.norris.name/" title="Will Norris">Will Norris</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.bobulate.com/" title="Liz Danzico">Liz Danzico</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.chrislea.com/" title="Chris Lea">Chris Lea</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.plasticbag.org/" title="plasticbag.org - a weblog by Tom Coates">Tom Coates</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.poeticprophet.net/" title="Chuck Lewis">Chuck Lewis</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.stephanspencer.com/" title="Stephan Spencer">Stephan Spencer</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/" title="Steve Souders">Steve Souders</a></li> </ul> <p>With plenty more brilliant minds sharing their WordPress, blogging, SEO, and business tips and tricks and wisdom. </p> <p>There will be a <a href="http://foolswisdom.com/geniuses-for-wordcamp-sf-bar/" title="WordPress Genius Bar">WordPress Genius Bar</a> to get personal one-on-one WordPress help and advice on Saturday, and I’ll be pitching in to help out.</p> <p>On Sunday, there is a special fundraising charity event for <a href="http://www.826valencia.org/" title="826 Valencia">826 Valencia</a>, a non-profit that helps students with their writing skills, called the <a href="http://wpscavengerhunt.eventbrite.com/" title="the WordPress Charity Scavenger Hunt">WordPress Charity Scavenger Hunt</a>. I’ve signed up with one of my dearest friends who lives in San Francisco and knows it like the back of her hand, so the rest of you scavengers watch out. I’ll be playing with a stacked deck! (Want to be on my team? <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" class="wp-smiley" /> )</p> <p>There is still time to <a href="http://2008.sf.wordcamp.org/signup/" title="WordCamp site to register">register for WordCamp 2008</a>. I can’t wait for the WordPress event of the year. Hope to see you there.</p> <p>You can see <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/08/08/lorelle-live-at-wordcamp-2007/" title="Lorelle Live at WordCamp 2007">last year’s talk I gave at WordCamp 2007</a> to get you warmed up.</p> <p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/sig.gif" alt="" /><br /> <hr /> <p><font size="-1"><b>Site Search Tags:</b> <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordcamp" rel="tag">wordcamp</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordcamp+2008" rel="tag">wordcamp 2008</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordcamp+san+francisco" rel="tag">wordcamp san francisco</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordcxamp2008" rel="tag">wordcxamp2008</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=san+francisco" rel="tag">san francisco</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+scavenger+hunt" rel="tag">wordpress scavenger hunt</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+fundraiser" rel="tag">wordpress fundraiser</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=speakers" rel="tag">speakers</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=speaking" rel="tag">speaking</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=event" rel="tag">event</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+news" rel="tag">wordpress news</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+events" rel="tag">wordpress events</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+community" rel="tag">wordpress community</a> </p> <p><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/feed/" title="Feed on Lorelle on WordPress"><img class="wp-smiley" src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/rss.png" alt="Feed on Lorelle on WordPress" /></a> <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/feed/" title="Feed on Lorelle on WordPress">Subscribe</a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/LorelleOnWordPress" title="Feedburner Lorelle on WordPress Feed"><img class="wp-smiley" src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/feedburnericon.gif" alt="Feedburner icon" />Via Feedburner</a> <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=182399" title="Lorelle on WordPress - full site feed email subscription"><img class="wp-smiley" src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/email.gif" alt="" />Subscribe by Email</a> <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Visit Lorelle on WordPress"><img class="wp-smiley" src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/pointer.gif" alt="" />Visit</a><br /><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/about/" title="Copyright Protected by Brent and Lorelle VanFossen">Copyright Lorelle VanFossen</a>, the author of <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/books/blogging-tips/" title="Blogging Tips Book By Lorelle VanFossen"><em>Blogging Tips, What Bloggers Won't Tell You About Blogging</em></a>.</font></p> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/lorelle.wordpress.com/2740/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/lorelle.wordpress.com/2740/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2740/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2740/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2740/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2740/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2740/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2740/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2740/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2740/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2740/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2740/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=2740&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:63:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress 2.7 Plugin Uninstall Methods";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3882";s:4:"link";s:91:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/08/wordpress-27-plugin-uninstall-methods/";s:11:"description";s:595:"<p><a href="http://www.santosj.name/general/wordpress-27-plugin-uninstall-methods/">WordPress 2.7 Plugin Uninstall Methods</a>: A tutorial from Jacob Santos on the WordPress 2.7 Plugin Uninstall functionality and how to use it to make the uninstall process easy and seamless. Jacob adds a note to all plugin authors that I believe is worth mentioning: <em>Special care then should be taken when using this method to ensure that your plugin isn’t doing anything it shouldn’t when uninstalling. </em>In other words, please be careful and do not break other plugins and/or the core.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:24:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:595:"<p><a href="http://www.santosj.name/general/wordpress-27-plugin-uninstall-methods/">WordPress 2.7 Plugin Uninstall Methods</a>: A tutorial from Jacob Santos on the WordPress 2.7 Plugin Uninstall functionality and how to use it to make the uninstall process easy and seamless. Jacob adds a note to all plugin authors that I believe is worth mentioning: <em>Special care then should be taken when using this method to ensure that your plugin isn’t doing anything it shouldn’t when uninstalling. </em>In other words, please be careful and do not break other plugins and/or the core.</p>";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/08";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3884";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/08/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0808/";s:11:"description";s:2018:"<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/random-redirect/"><strong>Random Redirect</strong></a></p> <p>Allows you to create a link to yourblog.example.com/?random which will redirect someone to a random post on your blog, in a StumbleUpon-like fashion.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ajaxray.com/blog/2008/08/08/my-bookmarks-a-wordpress-plugin-to-show-bookmarks-on-sidebar/"><strong>My Bookmarks</strong></a></p> <p>If you are using delicious or simpy as your bookmarking tool, this plugin is for you. This will help a WordPress user to show his valuable bookmarks on sidebar.</p> <p><a href="http://www.coolchecks.net/blog/blogging-tips/blogging-tips-plugin-for-wordpress.html"><strong>Blogging Tips</strong></a></p> <p>Similar to the Hello Dolly format, which puts a line of lyrics in the upper right hand space in the Word Press Administration screen, the blogging tips plugins displays random blogging tips and suggestions. The tips are just some ideas of what you can do to improve the popularity of your blog and improve the content. All of the tips are designed to inspire you to be a better blogger.</p> <p><a href="http://www.huseyinuslu.net/wp-post-banners/"><strong>WP-Post-Banners</strong></a></p> <p>Display banners(resized images) from your posts automatically. You can supply it parameters like banner size, post filters and maximum amount of banners to be shown.</p> <p><a href="http://www.zen-dreams.com/en/2008/08/06/new-wordpress-plugin-gravatar-top-commenters/"><strong>Gravatar Recent Comments</strong></a></p> <p>ZdWidgetComments, also named Gravatar recent comments is a plugin providing you with a “Top/last commenters” widget but instead of just displaying names, it also displays gravatars.</p> <p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/open-picture-window-plugin/"><strong>Open Picture Window</strong></a></p> <p>Opens a new browser window containing the image specified using JavaScript. You have the option to choose the features as well as choose if you want it to be centered.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:16:32 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2018:"<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/random-redirect/"><strong>Random Redirect</strong></a></p> <p>Allows you to create a link to yourblog.example.com/?random which will redirect someone to a random post on your blog, in a StumbleUpon-like fashion.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ajaxray.com/blog/2008/08/08/my-bookmarks-a-wordpress-plugin-to-show-bookmarks-on-sidebar/"><strong>My Bookmarks</strong></a></p> <p>If you are using delicious or simpy as your bookmarking tool, this plugin is for you. This will help a WordPress user to show his valuable bookmarks on sidebar.</p> <p><a href="http://www.coolchecks.net/blog/blogging-tips/blogging-tips-plugin-for-wordpress.html"><strong>Blogging Tips</strong></a></p> <p>Similar to the Hello Dolly format, which puts a line of lyrics in the upper right hand space in the Word Press Administration screen, the blogging tips plugins displays random blogging tips and suggestions. The tips are just some ideas of what you can do to improve the popularity of your blog and improve the content. All of the tips are designed to inspire you to be a better blogger.</p> <p><a href="http://www.huseyinuslu.net/wp-post-banners/"><strong>WP-Post-Banners</strong></a></p> <p>Display banners(resized images) from your posts automatically. You can supply it parameters like banner size, post filters and maximum amount of banners to be shown.</p> <p><a href="http://www.zen-dreams.com/en/2008/08/06/new-wordpress-plugin-gravatar-top-commenters/"><strong>Gravatar Recent Comments</strong></a></p> <p>ZdWidgetComments, also named Gravatar recent comments is a plugin providing you with a “Top/last commenters” widget but instead of just displaying names, it also displays gravatars.</p> <p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/open-picture-window-plugin/"><strong>Open Picture Window</strong></a></p> <p>Opens a new browser window containing the image specified using JavaScript. You have the option to choose the features as well as choose if you want it to be centered.</p>";}i:11;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:34:"Ryan Boren: WordPress 2.6.1 Beta 1";s:4:"guid";s:23:"http://boren.nu/?p=1605";s:4:"link";s:57:"http://boren.nu/archives/2008/08/07/wordpress-261-beta-1/";s:11:"description";s:1056:"<p>With 2.6.1, we’re continuing our trend of releasing a dot one release about a month after dot zero. We want to get fixes for the inevitable dot zero bugs into your hands without a long wait. If you’re happy with 2.6, you can ignore 2.6.1.</p> <p>If you are an IIS or i18n user, we’ve fixed a few annoying bugs that might be bothering you depending on your hosting setup. If you are an IE user who uses Press This, we fixed some image insertion problems for you. Check out the <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&milestone=2.6.1&resolution=fixed&order=priority">full list of almost 50 fixes</a> and see if 2.6.1 has something to offer you.</p> <p>If 2.6.1 looks interesting or if you just want to help us test and make sure we didn’t break anything else, go <a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.6.1-beta1.zip">grab the 2.6.1 beta 1 package</a>. If all goes well, expect the final 2.6.1 release before <a href="http://2008.sf.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp San Francisco</a> rolls around.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:40:21 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ryan";}s:7:"summary";s:1056:"<p>With 2.6.1, we’re continuing our trend of releasing a dot one release about a month after dot zero. We want to get fixes for the inevitable dot zero bugs into your hands without a long wait. If you’re happy with 2.6, you can ignore 2.6.1.</p> <p>If you are an IIS or i18n user, we’ve fixed a few annoying bugs that might be bothering you depending on your hosting setup. If you are an IE user who uses Press This, we fixed some image insertion problems for you. Check out the <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&milestone=2.6.1&resolution=fixed&order=priority">full list of almost 50 fixes</a> and see if 2.6.1 has something to offer you.</p> <p>If 2.6.1 looks interesting or if you just want to help us test and make sure we didn’t break anything else, go <a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.6.1-beta1.zip">grab the 2.6.1 beta 1 package</a>. If all goes well, expect the final 2.6.1 release before <a href="http://2008.sf.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp San Francisco</a> rolls around.</p>";}i:12;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:38:"Dougal Campbell: WordPress 2.6.1-beta1";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=1026";s:4:"link";s:61:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/08/07/wordpress-261-beta1";s:11:"description";s:1013:"<p>I’m surprised that I haven’t seen mention of this from other channels yet (official or unofficial), but two days ago, SVN revision 8561 of the <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.6">WordPress 2.6 branch</a> was labled as <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/8561">WordPress version 2.6.1-beta1</a>. The <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/log/branches/2.6">log messages</a> reveal that most changes since the 2.6 release are minor bug and typo fixes. A few of the more interesting bits that jump out at me are:</p> <ul> <li>Allow disabling password reset per-user.</li> <li>Query functions now allow a comma-separated list of post_status values.</li> <li>Several more link generation bits are made SSL-aware.</li> <li>Advertise the Atom 1.0 feed in the default theme.</li> <li>Atom <acronym title="Application Interface"><span class="caps">API</span></acronym> uses the newer WP authentication functions.</li> <li>Fix for an object caching bug in plugin updates.</li> </ul>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:00:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Dougal";}s:7:"summary";s:1013:"<p>I’m surprised that I haven’t seen mention of this from other channels yet (official or unofficial), but two days ago, SVN revision 8561 of the <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.6">WordPress 2.6 branch</a> was labled as <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/8561">WordPress version 2.6.1-beta1</a>. The <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/log/branches/2.6">log messages</a> reveal that most changes since the 2.6 release are minor bug and typo fixes. A few of the more interesting bits that jump out at me are:</p> <ul> <li>Allow disabling password reset per-user.</li> <li>Query functions now allow a comma-separated list of post_status values.</li> <li>Several more link generation bits are made SSL-aware.</li> <li>Advertise the Atom 1.0 feed in the default theme.</li> <li>Atom <acronym title="Application Interface"><span class="caps">API</span></acronym> uses the newer WP authentication functions.</li> <li>Fix for an object caching bug in plugin updates.</li> </ul>";}i:13;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 08/07";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3877";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/07/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0807/";s:11:"description";s:1729:"<p><a href="http://easternwest.com/simplifi-dark-red-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Simplifi Dark (Red)</strong></a> and <a href="http://easternwest.com/simplifi-dark-grey-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Simplifi Dark (Grey)</strong></a></p> <p><img alt="simplifidarkred" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/simplifidarkred.png" width="200" border="0" height="90" /></p> <p>Simple, two column, red and grey themes</p> <p><a href="http://will.ph/projects/freshd/"><strong>Fresh’d</strong></a></p> <p>Fresh’d is a two-column, widget and gravatar ready theme with a left sidebar, and colors and layout greatly inspired by the WordPress Administration interface introduced in WordPress version 2.5. This theme has a built-in “Recent Comments” and “Previous Posts” section in the sidebar.</p> <p><a href="http://not-a-sheep.com/mad-meg"><strong>Mad Meg</strong></a></p> <p><img alt="madmeg" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/madmeg.jpg" width="178" border="0" height="114" /></p> <p>Mad Meg is a 2 column fixed-width theme with right-hand sidebar, enabled for widgets. The Mag Meg theme is based around the painting, Dulle Griet. It a dark theme to match the subject matter of the painting and is ideal for blogs on political satire, art, poetry or any dark writing especially that poking fun at the establishment.</p> <p><a href="http://otomot.net/2008/07/24/wordpress-theme-unknown-theme-v30/"><strong>Unknown Theme</strong></a></p> <p><img alt="unknownv3" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/unknownv3.jpg" width="141" border="0" height="114" /></p> <p>Unknown Theme v3.0is a grey and white, two column theme ideal for news, video and reviews blogs.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:02:07 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1729:"<p><a href="http://easternwest.com/simplifi-dark-red-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Simplifi Dark (Red)</strong></a> and <a href="http://easternwest.com/simplifi-dark-grey-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Simplifi Dark (Grey)</strong></a></p> <p><img alt="simplifidarkred" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/simplifidarkred.png" width="200" border="0" height="90" /></p> <p>Simple, two column, red and grey themes</p> <p><a href="http://will.ph/projects/freshd/"><strong>Fresh’d</strong></a></p> <p>Fresh’d is a two-column, widget and gravatar ready theme with a left sidebar, and colors and layout greatly inspired by the WordPress Administration interface introduced in WordPress version 2.5. This theme has a built-in “Recent Comments” and “Previous Posts” section in the sidebar.</p> <p><a href="http://not-a-sheep.com/mad-meg"><strong>Mad Meg</strong></a></p> <p><img alt="madmeg" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/madmeg.jpg" width="178" border="0" height="114" /></p> <p>Mad Meg is a 2 column fixed-width theme with right-hand sidebar, enabled for widgets. The Mag Meg theme is based around the painting, Dulle Griet. It a dark theme to match the subject matter of the painting and is ideal for blogs on political satire, art, poetry or any dark writing especially that poking fun at the establishment.</p> <p><a href="http://otomot.net/2008/07/24/wordpress-theme-unknown-theme-v30/"><strong>Unknown Theme</strong></a></p> <p><img alt="unknownv3" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/unknownv3.jpg" width="141" border="0" height="114" /></p> <p>Unknown Theme v3.0is a grey and white, two column theme ideal for news, video and reviews blogs.</p>";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:66:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordCamp San Francisco Speakers Announced";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3870";s:4:"link";s:95:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/06/wordcamp-san-francisco-speakers-announced/";s:11:"description";s:5585:"<p>The speaker list for the grand daddy of all WordCamps, <a title="http://2008.sf.wordcamp.org/" href="http://2008.sf.wordcamp.org/" target="_blank">WordCamp San Francisco</a> has been announced. The list includes many notable people such as Lloyd Budd, Matt Mullenweg and others. Here are the details.</p> <blockquote><p><strong>When -</strong> Saturday, August 16, 2008<br /> <strong>Where -</strong> Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco — Map<br /> <strong>Why -</strong> To get WordPress users together, learn from each other, figure out the future of publishing the web, and have a good time.</p></blockquote> <p><strong>Sam Bauers</strong> - Sam will be speaking about upgrading WordPress and how to do it hassle free.</p> <p><strong>Lloyd Budd</strong> - Lloyd will be discussing the aspect of switching to WordPress. I’ll be particularly interested in what Lloyd has to say in terms of migrating from one system to WordPress.</p> <p><strong>Aaron Brazell</strong> - Aaron should be no stranger to most within the WordPress community. He’ll be discussing the aspect of search and findability.</p> <p><strong>Tantek Celik</strong> - Tantek will be discussing a subject I’m not too familiar with and that is Microformats. He’ll be discussing their past, present and future.</p> <p><strong>Jeremy Clarke</strong> - Jeremy will talk about democratizing the web through global voices.</p> <p><strong>Tom Coastes</strong> - Tom’s sessions will be about ’something’. According to the speaker list, they have him listed as mystery meat.</p> <p><strong>Liz Danzico</strong> - Liz will be talking about Crazyhorse, the new branch of WordPress which is used as a User Interface testing bed.</p> <p><strong>Ben Huh</strong> - Ben huh who runs the I Can Has Cheezburger blog will be talking about LOLcats as well as the topic of virility.</p> <p><strong>Noel Jackson</strong> - Noel who is known for producing the Monotone WordPress theme will be talking about color theory and the making of Monotone.</p> <p><strong>Mark Jaquith</strong> - Mark, author of the popular Subscribe to comments plugin will be discussing secure coding with WordPress. A topic that all plugin authors should be interested in.</p> <p><strong>Chris Lea</strong> - Chris will be speaking about Nginx for Fun and Profit.</p> <p><strong>Alan Levine</strong> - Alan will be talking about the future of education and WordPress. It will be interesting to see how many educational institutions are tapping into WordPress and what they are doing with the platform.</p> <p><strong>SEO Rapper</strong> - That’s right, Chuck Lewis also known as the SEO Rapper will be performing at the event. That should be fun!</p> <p><strong>Matt Mullenweg</strong> - You can’t have a WordCamp without Matt Mullenweg! His session will be about the state of WordPress.</p> <p><strong>Will Norris</strong> - Will (will) be talking about OpenId, OpenAuth, and OpenStandards. Perhaps this session will unearth the possibility of WordPress supporting OpenID out of the box, sometime in the future.</p> <p><strong>Stephen O’ Grady</strong> - Stephen will be discussing open source business models. I imagine a prime example of such a company who is currently operating under an open source business model is Automattic. This session should be very interesting to those who don’t believe open source and business model should be in the same sentence.</p> <p><strong>Andy Peatling</strong> - Andy Peatling, the creator of the BuddyPress project will be on hand to discuss the state of BuddyPress.</p> <p><strong>Joseph Scott</strong> - Joseph will be talking about the WordPress APIs as well as the iPhone. will be interesting to learn where the WordPress APIs are going and how the team plans on extending or using the API for future versions of WordPress.</p> <p><strong>Kathy Sierra</strong> - Kathy will be talking about a subject that is very interesting to me right now and that is, kicking ass and creating passionate users. Passionate users are something I think all bloggers would like to have but never succeed in doing so.</p> <p><strong>Andy Skelton</strong> - Andy will be on hand to perform live.</p> <p><strong>Lorelle Van Fossen</strong> - Another WordCamp fan favorite Lorelle Van Fossen, will on hand to provide bloggers with 260 different ways to break WordPress. If anyone can break WordPress, It’s Lorelle. Someone get this session on Ustream!</p> <p><strong>Jane Wells</strong> - Jane will also be discussing the Crazyhorse branch of WordPress.</p> <p><strong>Jeremy Zilar</strong> - Jeremy will be discussing how the New York Times transformed into using WordPress. I bet this will be an interesting session as well considering how large of a site the New York Times is.</p> <p>Thats it. Those are the people who will be sharing their abundance of knowledge this year at WordCamp San Francisco. For those of you attending the event, you must choose wisely which sessions you plan on attending considering this is a one day event. The schedule has yet to be posted so keep an eye out on the official <a href="http://2008.sf.wordcamp.org/" target="_blank">WordCamp San Francisco</a> website for details.</p> <h2>For Those Attending:</h2> <p>Which of these sessions appears to be the most interesting to you? Also, if you will be Ustreaming, live blogging or Twittering the event, be sure to comment and leave us a link so those of us who are not able to make it this year can at least pretend we are there in real-time with your updates.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:09:59 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:5585:"<p>The speaker list for the grand daddy of all WordCamps, <a title="http://2008.sf.wordcamp.org/" href="http://2008.sf.wordcamp.org/" target="_blank">WordCamp San Francisco</a> has been announced. The list includes many notable people such as Lloyd Budd, Matt Mullenweg and others. Here are the details.</p> <blockquote><p><strong>When -</strong> Saturday, August 16, 2008<br /> <strong>Where -</strong> Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco — Map<br /> <strong>Why -</strong> To get WordPress users together, learn from each other, figure out the future of publishing the web, and have a good time.</p></blockquote> <p><strong>Sam Bauers</strong> - Sam will be speaking about upgrading WordPress and how to do it hassle free.</p> <p><strong>Lloyd Budd</strong> - Lloyd will be discussing the aspect of switching to WordPress. I’ll be particularly interested in what Lloyd has to say in terms of migrating from one system to WordPress.</p> <p><strong>Aaron Brazell</strong> - Aaron should be no stranger to most within the WordPress community. He’ll be discussing the aspect of search and findability.</p> <p><strong>Tantek Celik</strong> - Tantek will be discussing a subject I’m not too familiar with and that is Microformats. He’ll be discussing their past, present and future.</p> <p><strong>Jeremy Clarke</strong> - Jeremy will talk about democratizing the web through global voices.</p> <p><strong>Tom Coastes</strong> - Tom’s sessions will be about ’something’. According to the speaker list, they have him listed as mystery meat.</p> <p><strong>Liz Danzico</strong> - Liz will be talking about Crazyhorse, the new branch of WordPress which is used as a User Interface testing bed.</p> <p><strong>Ben Huh</strong> - Ben huh who runs the I Can Has Cheezburger blog will be talking about LOLcats as well as the topic of virility.</p> <p><strong>Noel Jackson</strong> - Noel who is known for producing the Monotone WordPress theme will be talking about color theory and the making of Monotone.</p> <p><strong>Mark Jaquith</strong> - Mark, author of the popular Subscribe to comments plugin will be discussing secure coding with WordPress. A topic that all plugin authors should be interested in.</p> <p><strong>Chris Lea</strong> - Chris will be speaking about Nginx for Fun and Profit.</p> <p><strong>Alan Levine</strong> - Alan will be talking about the future of education and WordPress. It will be interesting to see how many educational institutions are tapping into WordPress and what they are doing with the platform.</p> <p><strong>SEO Rapper</strong> - That’s right, Chuck Lewis also known as the SEO Rapper will be performing at the event. That should be fun!</p> <p><strong>Matt Mullenweg</strong> - You can’t have a WordCamp without Matt Mullenweg! His session will be about the state of WordPress.</p> <p><strong>Will Norris</strong> - Will (will) be talking about OpenId, OpenAuth, and OpenStandards. Perhaps this session will unearth the possibility of WordPress supporting OpenID out of the box, sometime in the future.</p> <p><strong>Stephen O’ Grady</strong> - Stephen will be discussing open source business models. I imagine a prime example of such a company who is currently operating under an open source business model is Automattic. This session should be very interesting to those who don’t believe open source and business model should be in the same sentence.</p> <p><strong>Andy Peatling</strong> - Andy Peatling, the creator of the BuddyPress project will be on hand to discuss the state of BuddyPress.</p> <p><strong>Joseph Scott</strong> - Joseph will be talking about the WordPress APIs as well as the iPhone. will be interesting to learn where the WordPress APIs are going and how the team plans on extending or using the API for future versions of WordPress.</p> <p><strong>Kathy Sierra</strong> - Kathy will be talking about a subject that is very interesting to me right now and that is, kicking ass and creating passionate users. Passionate users are something I think all bloggers would like to have but never succeed in doing so.</p> <p><strong>Andy Skelton</strong> - Andy will be on hand to perform live.</p> <p><strong>Lorelle Van Fossen</strong> - Another WordCamp fan favorite Lorelle Van Fossen, will on hand to provide bloggers with 260 different ways to break WordPress. If anyone can break WordPress, It’s Lorelle. Someone get this session on Ustream!</p> <p><strong>Jane Wells</strong> - Jane will also be discussing the Crazyhorse branch of WordPress.</p> <p><strong>Jeremy Zilar</strong> - Jeremy will be discussing how the New York Times transformed into using WordPress. I bet this will be an interesting session as well considering how large of a site the New York Times is.</p> <p>Thats it. Those are the people who will be sharing their abundance of knowledge this year at WordCamp San Francisco. For those of you attending the event, you must choose wisely which sessions you plan on attending considering this is a one day event. The schedule has yet to be posted so keep an eye out on the official <a href="http://2008.sf.wordcamp.org/" target="_blank">WordCamp San Francisco</a> website for details.</p> <h2>For Those Attending:</h2> <p>Which of these sessions appears to be the most interesting to you? Also, if you will be Ustreaming, live blogging or Twittering the event, be sure to comment and leave us a link so those of us who are not able to make it this year can at least pretend we are there in real-time with your updates.</p>";}i:15;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/06";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3868";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/06/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0806/";s:11:"description";s:2670:"<p><a href="http://kaltura.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3"><strong>Interactive Video Plugin</strong></a></p> <p>Add interactive video capabilities to your blog! Enhance your WordPress blog with a full video experience. Enable playing and editing of video remixes.</p> <p><a href="http://perishablepress.com/press/2008/08/06/wordpress-plugin-authenticate-lite/"><strong>Authenticate Lite</strong></a></p> <p>Authenticate Lite enables universal and/or targeted inclusion of custom content for both feeds and posts. Ideal for adding copyright information, distribution policy, thank-you messages, custom links, special offers, etc.</p> <p><a href="http://neminis.org/software/wordpress/plugin-wp-unitpngfix/"><strong>WP-UnitPNGfix</strong></a></p> <p>WP-UnitPNGfix includes the ‘unitpngfix.js’ javascript file if the browser is IE6 or lower. In plain words, it implements the solution for the PNG transparency provided by <a href="http://labs.unitinteractive.com/unitpngfix.php">Unit Interactive Labs</a>. It works on both img objects and background-image attributes.</p> <p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/constant-contact-signup-form-widget/"><strong>Constant Contact WordPress Widget</strong></a></p> <p>Adds Constant Contact signup form to your sidebar without touching code. Includes options for Title, Button Text, Tag Wrapper, Form ID Code, and Intro Paragraph. The form code is as standards-compliant as possible while still working with Constant Contact.</p> <p><a href="http://matthewgrichmond.com/blog/?page_id=26"><strong>Weather Postin’</strong></a></p> <p>Weather Postin’ retrieves the current weather provided from <a href="http://www.rssweather.com">RSS Weather</a> when your post is published. After that, when you view your posts the weather conditions will display at the end of your post. This does not alter the original text of the post; it is only displayed at run-time.</p> <p><a href="http://neop.gbtopia.com/?p=108"><strong>Postalicious</strong></a></p> <p>Postalicious is a WordPress plugin that automatically posts your <a href="http://delicious.com/">delicious</a>, <a href="http://ma.gnolia.com">ma.gnolia</a>, <a href="http://reader.google.com">Google Reader</a>, <a href="http://www.reddit.com">Reddit</a>, or <a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/">Yahoo Pipes</a> bookmarks to your blog. The exact details of how your bookmarks are posted is very customizable and is designed to meet your specific needs.</p> <p><a href="http://leandrow.net/lastfm/"><strong>iLast.Fm</strong></a></p> <p>The plugin iLast.Fm provides a complete integration between your blog and your <a href="http://Last.fm">Last.fm</a> account.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:15:35 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2670:"<p><a href="http://kaltura.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3"><strong>Interactive Video Plugin</strong></a></p> <p>Add interactive video capabilities to your blog! Enhance your WordPress blog with a full video experience. Enable playing and editing of video remixes.</p> <p><a href="http://perishablepress.com/press/2008/08/06/wordpress-plugin-authenticate-lite/"><strong>Authenticate Lite</strong></a></p> <p>Authenticate Lite enables universal and/or targeted inclusion of custom content for both feeds and posts. Ideal for adding copyright information, distribution policy, thank-you messages, custom links, special offers, etc.</p> <p><a href="http://neminis.org/software/wordpress/plugin-wp-unitpngfix/"><strong>WP-UnitPNGfix</strong></a></p> <p>WP-UnitPNGfix includes the ‘unitpngfix.js’ javascript file if the browser is IE6 or lower. In plain words, it implements the solution for the PNG transparency provided by <a href="http://labs.unitinteractive.com/unitpngfix.php">Unit Interactive Labs</a>. It works on both img objects and background-image attributes.</p> <p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/constant-contact-signup-form-widget/"><strong>Constant Contact WordPress Widget</strong></a></p> <p>Adds Constant Contact signup form to your sidebar without touching code. Includes options for Title, Button Text, Tag Wrapper, Form ID Code, and Intro Paragraph. The form code is as standards-compliant as possible while still working with Constant Contact.</p> <p><a href="http://matthewgrichmond.com/blog/?page_id=26"><strong>Weather Postin’</strong></a></p> <p>Weather Postin’ retrieves the current weather provided from <a href="http://www.rssweather.com">RSS Weather</a> when your post is published. After that, when you view your posts the weather conditions will display at the end of your post. This does not alter the original text of the post; it is only displayed at run-time.</p> <p><a href="http://neop.gbtopia.com/?p=108"><strong>Postalicious</strong></a></p> <p>Postalicious is a WordPress plugin that automatically posts your <a href="http://delicious.com/">delicious</a>, <a href="http://ma.gnolia.com">ma.gnolia</a>, <a href="http://reader.google.com">Google Reader</a>, <a href="http://www.reddit.com">Reddit</a>, or <a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/">Yahoo Pipes</a> bookmarks to your blog. The exact details of how your bookmarks are posted is very customizable and is designed to meet your specific needs.</p> <p><a href="http://leandrow.net/lastfm/"><strong>iLast.Fm</strong></a></p> <p>The plugin iLast.Fm provides a complete integration between your blog and your <a href="http://Last.fm">Last.fm</a> account.</p>";}i:16;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:41:"Donncha: Gravatar enabled WordCamp Badges";s:4:"guid";s:29:"http://ocaoimh.ie/?p=89493835";s:4:"link";s:62:"http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/08/06/gravatar-enabled-wordcamp-badges/";s:11:"description";s:2163:"<p>Andy has the <a href="http://apeatling.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/get-a-gravatar-ready-for-wordcamp-2008-badges/">very exciting news</a> that <a href="http://gravatar.com/">Gravatar icons</a> will be printed on attendee’s <a href="http://2008.sf.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp San Francisco</a> badges this year!</p> <div align="center"><img src="http://apeatling.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/picture-4.png?w=400" alt="gravatar badge" title="gravatar badge" /></div> <p>On supporting websites, Gravatars have become a de-facto identity for comment threads and discussions so to carry through the identity to the conference floor is just a logical conclusion.</p> <p>There is one caveat. Gravatars can now be up to 512×512 pixels. The bigger they are, the better they’ll print. If your Gravatar is a measly 32×32 pixels it’s going to look like a dirty smudge next to the shiny badges of the big boys. Andy has created <a href="http://2008.sf.wordcamp.org/badge-gen/check-yours/">a handy form</a> for checking if your image is the right size. If not, please upload <a href="http://gravatar.com/">a new Gravatar</a> before August 14th!</p> <p>I won’t be at WordCamp this year but after seeing the line up of speakers I’m looking forward to seeing the blog coverage afterwards.</p> <p>PS. Andy has a new post showing <a href="http://apeatling.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/creating-gravatar-enabled-conference-badges-a-how-to/">how to create those badges</a> with the help of a PDF library.</p> <p><img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/?voyeur=1" /></p><p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/05/26/wordpress-stickers-and-badges/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress Stickers and Badges">WordPress Stickers and Badges</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2006/08/05/wordcamp-today/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordCamp Today!">WordCamp Today!</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2007/07/14/have-you-completed-your-wordcamp-registration/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Have you completed your WordCamp registration?">Have you completed your WordCamp registration?</a></li></ul></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:04:25 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Donncha";}s:7:"summary";s:2163:"<p>Andy has the <a href="http://apeatling.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/get-a-gravatar-ready-for-wordcamp-2008-badges/">very exciting news</a> that <a href="http://gravatar.com/">Gravatar icons</a> will be printed on attendee’s <a href="http://2008.sf.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp San Francisco</a> badges this year!</p> <div align="center"><img src="http://apeatling.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/picture-4.png?w=400" alt="gravatar badge" title="gravatar badge" /></div> <p>On supporting websites, Gravatars have become a de-facto identity for comment threads and discussions so to carry through the identity to the conference floor is just a logical conclusion.</p> <p>There is one caveat. Gravatars can now be up to 512×512 pixels. The bigger they are, the better they’ll print. If your Gravatar is a measly 32×32 pixels it’s going to look like a dirty smudge next to the shiny badges of the big boys. Andy has created <a href="http://2008.sf.wordcamp.org/badge-gen/check-yours/">a handy form</a> for checking if your image is the right size. If not, please upload <a href="http://gravatar.com/">a new Gravatar</a> before August 14th!</p> <p>I won’t be at WordCamp this year but after seeing the line up of speakers I’m looking forward to seeing the blog coverage afterwards.</p> <p>PS. Andy has a new post showing <a href="http://apeatling.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/creating-gravatar-enabled-conference-badges-a-how-to/">how to create those badges</a> with the help of a PDF library.</p> <p><img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/?voyeur=1" /></p><p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/05/26/wordpress-stickers-and-badges/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress Stickers and Badges">WordPress Stickers and Badges</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2006/08/05/wordcamp-today/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordCamp Today!">WordCamp Today!</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2007/07/14/have-you-completed-your-wordcamp-registration/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Have you completed your WordCamp registration?">Have you completed your WordCamp registration?</a></li></ul></p>";}i:17;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:39:"Gravatar: Gravatar + WordCamp = Awesome";s:4:"guid";s:35:"http://gravatar.wordpress.com/?p=62";s:4:"link";s:62:"http://blog.gravatar.com/2008/08/06/gravatar-wordcamp-awesome/";s:11:"description";s:2266:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://2008.sf.wordcamp.org/signup/" target="_blank">WordCamp San Francisco 2008 </a>badges will be printed with your Gravatar image. Check out <a href="http://apeatling.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/get-a-gravatar-ready-for-wordcamp-2008-badges/" target="_blank">Andy’s sweet mockup</a> to see what it will look like.</p> <p>Be sure <a href="http://en.gravatar.com/emails" target="_blank">your Gravatar email </a>matches the one you use for registration, and have your image ready to go before August 14. If you haven’t already, try uploading a higher res image, up to 512×512 pixels. Then <a href="http://2008.sf.wordcamp.org/badge-gen/check-yours/" target="_blank">use the badge checker</a> to see what it will look like.</p> <p>Those without a Gravatar will have an <a href="http://blog.gravatar.com/2008/04/22/identicons-monsterids-and-wavatars-oh-my/" target="_blank">identicon</a> printed.</p> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/gravatar.wordpress.com/62/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/gravatar.wordpress.com/62/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/gravatar.wordpress.com/62/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/gravatar.wordpress.com/62/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/62/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/62/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/62/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/62/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/gravatar.wordpress.com/62/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/gravatar.wordpress.com/62/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/62/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/62/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gravatar.com&blog=1886259&post=62&subd=gravatar&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:09:03 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Heather";}s:7:"summary";s:2266:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://2008.sf.wordcamp.org/signup/" target="_blank">WordCamp San Francisco 2008 </a>badges will be printed with your Gravatar image. Check out <a href="http://apeatling.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/get-a-gravatar-ready-for-wordcamp-2008-badges/" target="_blank">Andy’s sweet mockup</a> to see what it will look like.</p> <p>Be sure <a href="http://en.gravatar.com/emails" target="_blank">your Gravatar email </a>matches the one you use for registration, and have your image ready to go before August 14. If you haven’t already, try uploading a higher res image, up to 512×512 pixels. Then <a href="http://2008.sf.wordcamp.org/badge-gen/check-yours/" target="_blank">use the badge checker</a> to see what it will look like.</p> <p>Those without a Gravatar will have an <a href="http://blog.gravatar.com/2008/04/22/identicons-monsterids-and-wavatars-oh-my/" target="_blank">identicon</a> printed.</p> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/gravatar.wordpress.com/62/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/gravatar.wordpress.com/62/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/gravatar.wordpress.com/62/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/gravatar.wordpress.com/62/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/62/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/62/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/62/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/62/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/gravatar.wordpress.com/62/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/gravatar.wordpress.com/62/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/62/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/62/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gravatar.com&blog=1886259&post=62&subd=gravatar&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:18;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:26:"Matt: WordCamp 2008 Badges";s:4:"guid";s:42:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-2008-badges/";s:4:"link";s:42:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-2008-badges/";s:11:"description";s:308:"<p><a href="http://apeatling.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/get-a-gravatar-ready-for-wordcamp-2008-badges/">Get A Gravatar Ready For WordCamp 2008 Badges</a>. I think this is the first time Gravatars have gone physical. Really excited about it! They’re generated on the fly using PHP and the PDF library.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:42:51 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:308:"<p><a href="http://apeatling.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/get-a-gravatar-ready-for-wordcamp-2008-badges/">Get A Gravatar Ready For WordCamp 2008 Badges</a>. I think this is the first time Gravatars have gone physical. Really excited about it! They’re generated on the fly using PHP and the PDF library.</p>";}i:19;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:30:"Alex King: Twitter Tools 1.5b1";s:4:"guid";s:54:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/08/05/twitter-tools-15b1";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/08/05/twitter-tools-15b1";s:11:"description";s:3133:"<p>I’ve got a new version of Twitter Tools ready to test. This version has a number of changes, including one that has been very frequently requested:</p> <ul> <li>Weekly digests! This needs a good deal of testing, help us find bugs</li> <li>Ability to exclude @replies from daily and weekly digests and blog posts</li> <li>Updates to match Twitter API changes so that “in reply to” links are properly created</li> <li>A bunch of little things I’m forgetting now <img src="http://alexking.org/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </li> </ul> <p>Weekly digests is a rather complicated feature to build, and took a good chunk of time. Luckily, we had a development sponsor for this feature, who I will thank properly in the final release (once I receive permission to give them credit).</p> <p>I realize that version 1.2 never got to a final release version, but we had an opportunity to get these features built, so I took advantage of it.</p> <p>Finding time to test, package and release plugins has been a bit challenging of late.<sup><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/feed?cat=16#fn1217971764381n" id="fn1217971764381" class="footnote">1</a></sup> Hopefully I’ll have more time to get things pushed out going forward.</p> <p>The download and more information are available on my <a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress">WordPress Plugins page</a>.</p> <p>If you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/" rel="external">WP Support Forums</a> and send me the link.</p> <p>UPDATE: looks like some PHP 5 specific code (a try/catch) snuck in here. If your server uses PHP 4, I recommend waiting until the next beta release.</p> <ol class="footnotes"> <li id="fn1217971764381n">My <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com">business</a> has been growing which has brought a number of interesting and time consuming challenges. [<a href="http://alexking.org/blog/feed?cat=16#fn1217971764381">back</a>]</li> </ol> <p><a href="http://sharethis.com/item?&wp=2.2.3&publisher=06654962-d77d-102a-861d-00161729a8a2&title=Twitter+Tools+1.5b1&url=http%3A%2F%2Falexking.org%2Fblog%2F2008%2F08%2F05%2Ftwitter-tools-15b1">ShareThis</a></p> <!-- <rdf:RDF xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"> <Work rdf:about=""> <license rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/" /> <dc:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" /> </Work> <License rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/"><permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"/><permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"/><requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"/><requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"/><prohibits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/CommercialUse"/><permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"/><requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/ShareAlike"/></License></rdf:RDF> -->";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:39:32 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:7:"summary";s:3133:"<p>I’ve got a new version of Twitter Tools ready to test. This version has a number of changes, including one that has been very frequently requested:</p> <ul> <li>Weekly digests! This needs a good deal of testing, help us find bugs</li> <li>Ability to exclude @replies from daily and weekly digests and blog posts</li> <li>Updates to match Twitter API changes so that “in reply to” links are properly created</li> <li>A bunch of little things I’m forgetting now <img src="http://alexking.org/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </li> </ul> <p>Weekly digests is a rather complicated feature to build, and took a good chunk of time. Luckily, we had a development sponsor for this feature, who I will thank properly in the final release (once I receive permission to give them credit).</p> <p>I realize that version 1.2 never got to a final release version, but we had an opportunity to get these features built, so I took advantage of it.</p> <p>Finding time to test, package and release plugins has been a bit challenging of late.<sup><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/feed?cat=16#fn1217971764381n" id="fn1217971764381" class="footnote">1</a></sup> Hopefully I’ll have more time to get things pushed out going forward.</p> <p>The download and more information are available on my <a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress">WordPress Plugins page</a>.</p> <p>If you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/" rel="external">WP Support Forums</a> and send me the link.</p> <p>UPDATE: looks like some PHP 5 specific code (a try/catch) snuck in here. If your server uses PHP 4, I recommend waiting until the next beta release.</p> <ol class="footnotes"> <li id="fn1217971764381n">My <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com">business</a> has been growing which has brought a number of interesting and time consuming challenges. 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Remember that there is a lot at stake in this competition and it would do justice for the plugin authors to receive your esteemed vote!</p> <p>Meanwhile, our judges are busy testing and evaluating the plugins and we should have the results pretty soon.</p> <p><strong>Have you placed your vote yet?</strong> If not, then hurry before the voting closes!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:46:44 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:861:"<p>About 10 days back we announced that <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/2008/07/26/its-time-to-cast-your-vote/">user voting has been opened up</a> for the plugins in the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/">WordPress Plugin Competition</a>.</p> <p>As of this post, the various plugins have received over 960 votes.</p> <p>While this may seem to be a sizable number, it also means that many of our visitors have still not given their votes to their favorite plugins. Remember that there is a lot at stake in this competition and it would do justice for the plugin authors to receive your esteemed vote!</p> <p>Meanwhile, our judges are busy testing and evaluating the plugins and we should have the results pretty soon.</p> <p><strong>Have you placed your vote yet?</strong> If not, then hurry before the voting closes!</p>";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:65:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress And Subversion A Perfect Match";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3864";s:4:"link";s:94:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/05/wordpress-and-subversion-a-perfect-match/";s:11:"description";s:1047:"<p>The longer you participate in the WordPress community, the more you’ll hear the term ‘Subversion’. Subversion is what allows WordPress installations to be upgraded automatically as new releases are committed to the WordPress versioning system. In other words, using subversion is a great way to use the bleeding edge of WordPress.</p> <p>David Peralty has published an <a href="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/08/05/how-to-upgrade-wordpress-using-subversion/" target="_blank">extensive guide</a> on the GeeksareSexy website which contains all of the information you’ll need to know on how to run WordPress with Subversion. Grab your favorite beverage because the article is quite lengthy.</p> <p>I’ve been wanting to setup a WordPress/subversion install on my local machine but never quite figured out how to do it. This article has inspired me though and I plan on going through with the process within the next few days. If you end up installing WordPress with Subversion, let me know about your experience.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:42:15 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1047:"<p>The longer you participate in the WordPress community, the more you’ll hear the term ‘Subversion’. Subversion is what allows WordPress installations to be upgraded automatically as new releases are committed to the WordPress versioning system. In other words, using subversion is a great way to use the bleeding edge of WordPress.</p> <p>David Peralty has published an <a href="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/08/05/how-to-upgrade-wordpress-using-subversion/" target="_blank">extensive guide</a> on the GeeksareSexy website which contains all of the information you’ll need to know on how to run WordPress with Subversion. Grab your favorite beverage because the article is quite lengthy.</p> <p>I’ve been wanting to setup a WordPress/subversion install on my local machine but never quite figured out how to do it. This article has inspired me though and I plan on going through with the process within the next few days. If you end up installing WordPress with Subversion, let me know about your experience.</p>";}i:22;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:155:"WordPress Podcast: Episode 44: WordPress 2.6 released, iPhone app, XML-RPC controversy, theme repository, and an exclusive interview with Woopra developers";s:4:"guid";s:29:"http://wp-community.org/?p=80";s:4:"link";s:46:"http://wp-community.org/2008/08/04/episode-44/";s:11:"description";s:298:"<p>Okay, here’s the episode…</p> <p>I’ll be writing the show notes when I have some time.</p> <p>Fair warning: The entire episode clocks in at over 1 hour 20 minutes because we had so much material to slog through. Rest assured, as soon as I am able, I’ll be posting it.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:27:48 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:17:"Charles Stricklin";}s:7:"summary";s:298:"<p>Okay, here’s the episode…</p> <p>I’ll be writing the show notes when I have some time.</p> <p>Fair warning: The entire episode clocks in at over 1 hour 20 minutes because we had so much material to slog through. Rest assured, as soon as I am able, I’ll be posting it.</p>";}i:23;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:40:"Ryan Boren: iPhone 2.0.1 with WP App 1.1";s:4:"guid";s:62:"http://boren.nu/archives/2008/08/04/iphone-201-with-wp-app-11/";s:4:"link";s:62:"http://boren.nu/archives/2008/08/04/iphone-201-with-wp-app-11/";s:11:"description";s:341:"<p>I’m trying out the iPhone 2.0.1 firmware along with WP App 1.1. Both were released today. 2.0.1 seems to fix the keyboard lag that was coaxing expletives out of me. WP 1.1 is solid so far. We’ve been working on extending the WP XML-RPC API to allow the iPhone App (and other XML-RPC clients) to do some cool new stuff.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:15:10 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ryan";}s:7:"summary";s:341:"<p>I’m trying out the iPhone 2.0.1 firmware along with WP App 1.1. Both were released today. 2.0.1 seems to fix the keyboard lag that was coaxing expletives out of me. WP 1.1 is solid so far. We’ve been working on extending the WP XML-RPC API to allow the iPhone App (and other XML-RPC clients) to do some cool new stuff.</p>";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:23:"Matt: Community Tagging";s:4:"guid";s:41:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/community-tagging-2/";s:4:"link";s:41:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/community-tagging-2/";s:11:"description";s:411:"<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/matts-community-tags/">Matt’s Community Tags</a>. This is the VERY BETA plugin I’m using for the community tagging on my photos, which allows people to submit tags which then go into a moderation queue to be approved or modified by an admin. Not recommended for general use yet, just getting it out there since a lot of people have asked about it.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:20:50 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:411:"<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/matts-community-tags/">Matt’s Community Tags</a>. This is the VERY BETA plugin I’m using for the community tagging on my photos, which allows people to submit tags which then go into a moderation queue to be approved or modified by an admin. Not recommended for general use yet, just getting it out there since a lot of people have asked about it.</p>";}i:25;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 08/04";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3859";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/04/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0804/";s:11:"description";s:1809:"<p><a href="http://daus.trala.la/2008/08/02/refreshed-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Refreshed</strong></a></p> <p><img alt="refreshed" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/refreshed.jpg" border="0" width="200" height="114" /></p> <p>Refreshed is a one column, white-spaced, and clean design with a lifestream feature outside the regular post stream. So your lifestream will not junks to any RSS reader.</p> <p><a href="http://www.codescheme.net/2008/08/04/free-wordpress-theme-ringbinder/"><strong>RingBinder</strong></a></p> <p><a href="http://demo.codescheme.net/?wptheme=ringbinder"><img alt="ringbinder" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/ringbinder.gif" border="0" width="146" height="114" /></a></p> <p>RingBinder is a 2 column fixed-width, free WordPress theme, with righthand sidebar, enabled for widgets - the name is reasonably self-explanatory.</p> <p><a href="http://www.simplywp.net/2008/08/04/entrecard-theme-is-here/"><strong>Entrecard</strong></a></p> <p><img alt="entrecard_theme" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/entrecard-theme.png" border="0" width="188" height="114" /></p> <p>4 columns, widget ready, right sidebar, login menu at the header</p> <p><a href="http://easternwest.com/simplifi-dark-brown-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Simplifi Dark (brown)</strong></a></p> <p><img alt="simplifidarkbrown" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/simplifidarkbrown.png" border="0" width="200" height="97" /></p> <p>Dark brown, two column theme</p> <p><a href="http://www.azmoney.co.uk/wordpress-themes/vista"><strong>Vista</strong></a></p> <p><img alt="vista" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/vista.png" border="0" width="152" height="114" /></p> <p>Three column, widget and gravatar ready, SEO optimized theme</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:19:59 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1809:"<p><a href="http://daus.trala.la/2008/08/02/refreshed-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Refreshed</strong></a></p> <p><img alt="refreshed" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/refreshed.jpg" border="0" width="200" height="114" /></p> <p>Refreshed is a one column, white-spaced, and clean design with a lifestream feature outside the regular post stream. So your lifestream will not junks to any RSS reader.</p> <p><a href="http://www.codescheme.net/2008/08/04/free-wordpress-theme-ringbinder/"><strong>RingBinder</strong></a></p> <p><a href="http://demo.codescheme.net/?wptheme=ringbinder"><img alt="ringbinder" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/ringbinder.gif" border="0" width="146" height="114" /></a></p> <p>RingBinder is a 2 column fixed-width, free WordPress theme, with righthand sidebar, enabled for widgets - the name is reasonably self-explanatory.</p> <p><a href="http://www.simplywp.net/2008/08/04/entrecard-theme-is-here/"><strong>Entrecard</strong></a></p> <p><img alt="entrecard_theme" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/entrecard-theme.png" border="0" width="188" height="114" /></p> <p>4 columns, widget ready, right sidebar, login menu at the header</p> <p><a href="http://easternwest.com/simplifi-dark-brown-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Simplifi Dark (brown)</strong></a></p> <p><img alt="simplifidarkbrown" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/simplifidarkbrown.png" border="0" width="200" height="97" /></p> <p>Dark brown, two column theme</p> <p><a href="http://www.azmoney.co.uk/wordpress-themes/vista"><strong>Vista</strong></a></p> <p><img alt="vista" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/vista.png" border="0" width="152" height="114" /></p> <p>Three column, widget and gravatar ready, SEO optimized theme</p>";}i:26;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:28:"Matt: Random Redirect Plugin";s:4:"guid";s:46:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/random-redirect-plugin-2/";s:4:"link";s:46:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/random-redirect-plugin-2/";s:11:"description";s:145:"<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/random-redirect/">I just updated the Random Redirect plugin</a>, with two extra parameters.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:25:36 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:145:"<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/random-redirect/">I just updated the Random Redirect plugin</a>, with two extra parameters.</p>";}i:27;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/03";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3851";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/03/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0803/";s:11:"description";s:2700:"<p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/jquery-lightbox-for-native-galleries/"><strong>jQuery Lightbox for Native Galleries</strong></a></p> <p>Makes the native WordPress galleries introduced in WordPress 2.5 use <a href="http://plugins.jquery.com/project/jquerylightbox_bal">jQuery Lightbox by balupton</a> to display the fullsize images.</p> <p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/disable-theme-preview/"><strong>Disable Theme Preview</strong></a></p> <p>Disables the cool but sometimes annoying theme preview feature added in WordPress 2.6. You’ll still be able to preview themes by clicking a link located below the theme’s description.</p> <p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/direct-image-urls-for-galleries/"><strong>Direct Image URLs For Galleries</strong></a></p> <p>Modifies thumbnails to link to fullsize image instead of the page containing the medium thumbnail.</p> <p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/statrix/"><strong>Statrix</strong></a></p> <p>Statrix plugin collects data about your blog visits. It creates charts and lists of the full data history in real-time, which you can browse, filter and export immediately after plugin activation. The plugin keeps the full visits history, so you can make reports about any period of time you want.</p> <p><a href="http://www.basilv.com/psd/software#VersionInformation"><strong>Version Information</strong></a></p> <p>This plugin displays version and configuration information for WordPress, PHP, MySQL, and the web server. A summary is displayed in the Site Admin dashboard and more details are displayed under a Version Information page under the Site Admin Plugins menu.</p> <p><a href="http://www.theblog.ca/wordpress-collaboration-emails"><strong>Peter’s Collaboration Emails</strong></a></p> <p>Enhance the “Submit for Review” feature for Contributor users in WordPress 2.3 and above. This plugin enables automatic e-mails to the relevant users when posts are pending and when they are approved.</p> <p><a href="http://www.theblog.ca/anti-spam"><strong>Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam Image</strong></a></p> <p>This differs from the other image plugins in that it creates an anti-spam jpg using random words of your choice (adding a fun element) and it does not require visitors to have cookies or JavaScript enabled. It also generates audio files for visually impaired visitors.</p> <p><a href="http://scribu.net/projects/extra-feed-links.html"><strong>Extra Feed Links</strong></a></p> <p>Adds links to the specific feed for each page type in Wordpress. Ex: Comments Feed for single posts and pages; Category Feed for category pages etc.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:03:42 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2700:"<p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/jquery-lightbox-for-native-galleries/"><strong>jQuery Lightbox for Native Galleries</strong></a></p> <p>Makes the native WordPress galleries introduced in WordPress 2.5 use <a href="http://plugins.jquery.com/project/jquerylightbox_bal">jQuery Lightbox by balupton</a> to display the fullsize images.</p> <p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/disable-theme-preview/"><strong>Disable Theme Preview</strong></a></p> <p>Disables the cool but sometimes annoying theme preview feature added in WordPress 2.6. You’ll still be able to preview themes by clicking a link located below the theme’s description.</p> <p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/direct-image-urls-for-galleries/"><strong>Direct Image URLs For Galleries</strong></a></p> <p>Modifies thumbnails to link to fullsize image instead of the page containing the medium thumbnail.</p> <p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/statrix/"><strong>Statrix</strong></a></p> <p>Statrix plugin collects data about your blog visits. It creates charts and lists of the full data history in real-time, which you can browse, filter and export immediately after plugin activation. The plugin keeps the full visits history, so you can make reports about any period of time you want.</p> <p><a href="http://www.basilv.com/psd/software#VersionInformation"><strong>Version Information</strong></a></p> <p>This plugin displays version and configuration information for WordPress, PHP, MySQL, and the web server. A summary is displayed in the Site Admin dashboard and more details are displayed under a Version Information page under the Site Admin Plugins menu.</p> <p><a href="http://www.theblog.ca/wordpress-collaboration-emails"><strong>Peter’s Collaboration Emails</strong></a></p> <p>Enhance the “Submit for Review” feature for Contributor users in WordPress 2.3 and above. This plugin enables automatic e-mails to the relevant users when posts are pending and when they are approved.</p> <p><a href="http://www.theblog.ca/anti-spam"><strong>Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam Image</strong></a></p> <p>This differs from the other image plugins in that it creates an anti-spam jpg using random words of your choice (adding a fun element) and it does not require visitors to have cookies or JavaScript enabled. It also generates audio files for visually impaired visitors.</p> <p><a href="http://scribu.net/projects/extra-feed-links.html"><strong>Extra Feed Links</strong></a></p> <p>Adds links to the specific feed for each page type in Wordpress. Ex: Comments Feed for single posts and pages; Category Feed for category pages etc.</p>";}i:28;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:61:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress.com announces 24/7 support";s:4:"guid";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/03/wordpresscom-announces-247-support/";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/03/wordpresscom-announces-247-support/";s:11:"description";s:1111:"<p>WordPress.com has <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/announcing-24-7-support/" target="_blank">announced 24/7 support</a> where people from across the world can ask their support questions without having to worry about time differences. The WordPress.com engineers will cater to all the questions sent using the <a href="http://wordpress.com/contact-support/" target="_blank">contact form</a> and reply within 24 hours or lesser.</p> <blockquote><p>Not long ago, our team was online 9 a.m to 4 p.m. PDT to answer your questions and keep your blog running smoothly. Soon after, we brought it up to 24-hour support, five days and week, so those across the country and across the globe wouldn’t have to wait for their answers. </p> <p>The time has come for help without delay. We hereby announce <a href="http://wordpress.com/features/support/" target="_blank">24-7 support on WordPress.com</a>.</p> </blockquote> <p>Remember to use the <a href="http://wordpress.com/contact-support/" target="_blank">contact form</a> to send your questions to the WordPress.com team, to get a quicker reply.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:16:25 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:1111:"<p>WordPress.com has <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/announcing-24-7-support/" target="_blank">announced 24/7 support</a> where people from across the world can ask their support questions without having to worry about time differences. The WordPress.com engineers will cater to all the questions sent using the <a href="http://wordpress.com/contact-support/" target="_blank">contact form</a> and reply within 24 hours or lesser.</p> <blockquote><p>Not long ago, our team was online 9 a.m to 4 p.m. PDT to answer your questions and keep your blog running smoothly. Soon after, we brought it up to 24-hour support, five days and week, so those across the country and across the globe wouldn’t have to wait for their answers. </p> <p>The time has come for help without delay. We hereby announce <a href="http://wordpress.com/features/support/" target="_blank">24-7 support on WordPress.com</a>.</p> </blockquote> <p>Remember to use the <a href="http://wordpress.com/contact-support/" target="_blank">contact form</a> to send your questions to the WordPress.com team, to get a quicker reply.</p>";}i:29;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:26:"Matt: Theme Video Tutorial";s:4:"guid";s:42:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/theme-video-tutorial/";s:4:"link";s:42:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/theme-video-tutorial/";s:11:"description";s:192:"<p><a href="http://css-tricks.com/designing-for-wordpress-complete-series-downloads/">A series of videos, Designing for WordPress, that walks you through all steps of creating a theme</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:35:19 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:192:"<p><a href="http://css-tricks.com/designing-for-wordpress-complete-series-downloads/">A series of videos, Designing for WordPress, that walks you through all steps of creating a theme</a>.</p>";}i:30;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:61:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Facebook Community / Group";s:4:"guid";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/02/wordpress-facebook-community-group/";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/02/wordpress-facebook-community-group/";s:11:"description";s:220:"<p>If you are a Facebook user, you may want to <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/WordPress/6427302910" target="_blank">add this group</a> to your favorites to get good inputs from Facebook users about WordPress.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:11:56 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:220:"<p>If you are a Facebook user, you may want to <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/WordPress/6427302910" target="_blank">add this group</a> to your favorites to get good inputs from Facebook users about WordPress.</p>";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 08/02";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3846";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/02/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0802/";s:11:"description";s:1792:"<p><a href="http://www.ofimdavarzea.com/wp/free-wordpress-theme-not-so-serious/"><strong>[Not] So Serious</strong></a></p> <p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/not-so-serious1.jpg"><img alt="not_so_serious1" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/not-so-serious1-thumb.jpg" width="204" border="0" height="142" /></a></p> <p>Three column, fixed widget, gravatar and adsense ready theme</p> <p><a href="http://www.teckitech.com/08/wordpress-theme-web-20-pinky/"><strong>Web 2.0 Pinky</strong></a></p> <p><a href="http://ourfather.co.cc/index.php?wptheme=Web+2.0+Pinky"><img alt="Web2Pinky" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/web2pinky.jpg" width="191" border="0" height="204" /></a></p> <p>Has a great use of colors and neatly centered in the browser. Gorgeous web 2.0 looks and can edit the top sidebar if you know some coding. It support widget and can easily modify colors and other thing if you have some basic knowledge in HTML and CSS.</p> <p><a href="http://www.magznetwork.com/indomagz-premium-wordpress-theme"><strong>Indomagz</strong></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.demo.magznetwork.com/"><img alt="indomagz-2-preview" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/indomagz-2-preview.jpg" width="204" border="0" height="176" /></a></p> <p>Simple, two column, highly customizable theme. <em>Credit Removal requires $20</em>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.simplywp.net/2008/08/01/its-friday-its-theme-day/"><strong>Simplest Blue Theme</strong></a></p> <p><a href="http://simplywp.net/demo/index.php?wptheme=simplest_blue"><img alt="simplest_blue" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/simplest-blue.png" width="204" border="0" height="130" /></a></p> <p>3 columns theme and widget ready, blue and white theme</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:36:21 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1792:"<p><a href="http://www.ofimdavarzea.com/wp/free-wordpress-theme-not-so-serious/"><strong>[Not] So Serious</strong></a></p> <p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/not-so-serious1.jpg"><img alt="not_so_serious1" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/not-so-serious1-thumb.jpg" width="204" border="0" height="142" /></a></p> <p>Three column, fixed widget, gravatar and adsense ready theme</p> <p><a href="http://www.teckitech.com/08/wordpress-theme-web-20-pinky/"><strong>Web 2.0 Pinky</strong></a></p> <p><a href="http://ourfather.co.cc/index.php?wptheme=Web+2.0+Pinky"><img alt="Web2Pinky" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/web2pinky.jpg" width="191" border="0" height="204" /></a></p> <p>Has a great use of colors and neatly centered in the browser. Gorgeous web 2.0 looks and can edit the top sidebar if you know some coding. It support widget and can easily modify colors and other thing if you have some basic knowledge in HTML and CSS.</p> <p><a href="http://www.magznetwork.com/indomagz-premium-wordpress-theme"><strong>Indomagz</strong></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.demo.magznetwork.com/"><img alt="indomagz-2-preview" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/indomagz-2-preview.jpg" width="204" border="0" height="176" /></a></p> <p>Simple, two column, highly customizable theme. <em>Credit Removal requires $20</em>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.simplywp.net/2008/08/01/its-friday-its-theme-day/"><strong>Simplest Blue Theme</strong></a></p> <p><a href="http://simplywp.net/demo/index.php?wptheme=simplest_blue"><img alt="simplest_blue" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/simplest-blue.png" width="204" border="0" height="130" /></a></p> <p>3 columns theme and widget ready, blue and white theme</p>";}i:32;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:21:"Matt: Free Jon Miller";s:4:"guid";s:37:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/free-jon-miller/";s:4:"link";s:37:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/free-jon-miller/";s:11:"description";s:172:"<p><a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080801/boomtown-plea-to-jeff-bewkes-free-jon-miller/">BoomTown Plea to Jeff Bewkes: Free Jon Miller!</a> — Kara Swisher.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:44:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:172:"<p><a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080801/boomtown-plea-to-jeff-bewkes-free-jon-miller/">BoomTown Plea to Jeff Bewkes: Free Jon Miller!</a> — Kara Swisher.</p>";}i:33;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:29:"Matt: Free Software Usability";s:4:"guid";s:45:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/free-software-usability/";s:4:"link";s:45:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/free-software-usability/";s:11:"description";s:266:"<p><a href="http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/01/free-software-usability">Why Free Software is hard to use, and how to improve it</a>, by Matthew Paul Thomas. (The <a href="http://iammattthomas.com/">other</a> Matt Thomas who used to be involved with WordPress.)</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:02:41 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:266:"<p><a href="http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/01/free-software-usability">Why Free Software is hard to use, and how to improve it</a>, by Matthew Paul Thomas. (The <a href="http://iammattthomas.com/">other</a> Matt Thomas who used to be involved with WordPress.)</p>";}i:34;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:30:"Matt: Interference Robustness?";s:4:"guid";s:45:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/interference-robustness/";s:4:"link";s:45:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/interference-robustness/";s:11:"description";s:165:"<p><a href="http://www.macinstruct.com/node/213">What is Interference Robustness?</a> In case you’ve ever wondered what that checkbox under Mac wifi means.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:19:08 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:165:"<p><a href="http://www.macinstruct.com/node/213">What is Interference Robustness?</a> In case you’ve ever wondered what that checkbox under Mac wifi means.</p>";}i:35;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/01";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3839";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/01/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0801/";s:11:"description";s:2085:"<p><a href="http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/features/wp-log-deprecated-calls/"><strong>Log Deprecated Calls</strong></a></p> <p>The plugin on this page, when activated, puts an entry in your PHP log any time a deprecated function is called, or a deprecated file is included. The entry is far more useful than the default WordPress log notice - this one tells you the name of the function, the exact file that called it, the line the call was on, and what new function, if any, you should use instead.</p> <p><a href="http://www.sattes-faction.de/picasaview/"><strong>PicasaView</strong></a></p> <p>With picasaView you can easily view your picasaweb-albums in your WordPress blog.</p> <p><a href="http://wp.gdragon.info/plugins/gd-plugin-core/"><strong>GD Plugin Core</strong></a></p> <p>This is not actually plugin, but base class you can use to extend and create your own plugin. Along with the base class, you have a Wizard for creating plugins using base class.</p> <p><a href="http://www.mkyong.com/blog/digg-digg-wordpress-plugin/"><strong>Digg Digg</strong></a></p> <p>Add Digg Button Into Wordpress Content with four prefix template</p> <p><a href="http://wpimagerotator.com/"><strong>Header Image Rotator</strong></a></p> <p>Displays a new header image in your blog based on different time variables.</p> <p><a href="http://imidea.com/nofollow-links-page-wordpress-plugin/"><strong>Nofollow Links Page</strong></a></p> <p>A simple plugin to create a special links page or blogroll page with embedded nofollow tag to prevent PageRank leak.</p> <p><a href="http://blog.avirtualhome.com/wordpress-plugins/avh-amazon/"><strong>AVH Amazon</strong></a></p> <p>The AVH Amazon plugin give you the abillity to add multiple widgets which will display a random item from your Amazon wishlist, baby registry and/or wedding registry.</p> <p><a href="http://www.wpg2.org/"><strong>WPG2</strong></a></p> <p>WPG2 is a Wordpress Plug-in that embeds Gallery2 within Wordpress to share photos, videos and any other Gallery2 content seamlessly into the Wordpress Sidebar and Blog entries.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:51:38 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2085:"<p><a href="http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/features/wp-log-deprecated-calls/"><strong>Log Deprecated Calls</strong></a></p> <p>The plugin on this page, when activated, puts an entry in your PHP log any time a deprecated function is called, or a deprecated file is included. The entry is far more useful than the default WordPress log notice - this one tells you the name of the function, the exact file that called it, the line the call was on, and what new function, if any, you should use instead.</p> <p><a href="http://www.sattes-faction.de/picasaview/"><strong>PicasaView</strong></a></p> <p>With picasaView you can easily view your picasaweb-albums in your WordPress blog.</p> <p><a href="http://wp.gdragon.info/plugins/gd-plugin-core/"><strong>GD Plugin Core</strong></a></p> <p>This is not actually plugin, but base class you can use to extend and create your own plugin. Along with the base class, you have a Wizard for creating plugins using base class.</p> <p><a href="http://www.mkyong.com/blog/digg-digg-wordpress-plugin/"><strong>Digg Digg</strong></a></p> <p>Add Digg Button Into Wordpress Content with four prefix template</p> <p><a href="http://wpimagerotator.com/"><strong>Header Image Rotator</strong></a></p> <p>Displays a new header image in your blog based on different time variables.</p> <p><a href="http://imidea.com/nofollow-links-page-wordpress-plugin/"><strong>Nofollow Links Page</strong></a></p> <p>A simple plugin to create a special links page or blogroll page with embedded nofollow tag to prevent PageRank leak.</p> <p><a href="http://blog.avirtualhome.com/wordpress-plugins/avh-amazon/"><strong>AVH Amazon</strong></a></p> <p>The AVH Amazon plugin give you the abillity to add multiple widgets which will display a random item from your Amazon wishlist, baby registry and/or wedding registry.</p> <p><a href="http://www.wpg2.org/"><strong>WPG2</strong></a></p> <p>WPG2 is a Wordpress Plug-in that embeds Gallery2 within Wordpress to share photos, videos and any other Gallery2 content seamlessly into the Wordpress Sidebar and Blog entries.</p>";}i:36;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: Features Planned for WordPress 2.7";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3832";s:4:"link";s:80:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/07/31/features-plannwordpress-27/";s:11:"description";s:5866:"<p>It has been only a couple of weeks since WordPress 2.6 has released and there is already talk about a much more feature rich version in the making. WordPress 2.7 has several exciting features <em>planned/proposed</em> as discussed in informal meetings on IRC and the feature votes being posted on the Codex. Though there are very few hints hint of a release date, I expect it to be released by the end of 2008.</p> <p><span><strong>[EDIT] Clarification: Mark Jaquith brings up a very good point that I believe requires re-iteration. The list of <em>proposed</em> features mentioned on weblogtoolscollection.com were just that, proposed features. All or none of them might actually show up in WordPress 2.7 <em>Some things that <em>have</em> already started being worked on are the comments API and automated plugin installation.</em> In hindsight, I realize that though they were represented as proposed, some of the other language in this post might have sounded a lot more definite.</strong></span> <span><strong>We apologize for any confusion that might have caused.</strong></span></p> <p><strong>Here is a list of features that will be introduced into WordPress 2.7:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Comments API</strong> – This according to me is the most exciting feature, it will allow developers to create offline integration of comments management, where users could use desktop clients to manage comments (moderate, edit, reply, delete, spam, unspam).</li> <li><strong>Keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation</strong> – This feature will help users to quickly moderate comments using keyboard shortucts, so you can expect key combinations like Ctrl + S to spam a comment, Ctrl + A to approve and so on.</li> <li><strong>Theme Update API</strong> – WordPress 2.5 and above have really made plugin management quite easy, you automatically receive notices when a new update to a plugin is available and can upgrade it without having to manually upload it to your FTP server. With this addition WordPress aims to bridge the gap between theme developers and the users for publishing updates to themes.</li> <li><strong>One Click Plugin Installs</strong> – Installing a plugin will be much easier with One click plugin installs. A plugin with similar features called <a href="http://anirudhsanjeev.org/oneclick-plugin/" target="_blank">One Click Plugin</a> was the winner of the Plugin Competition last year.</li> <li><strong>WordPress core updates</strong> – This is a feature many users have been waiting for, with core updates you can easily upgrade your WordPress versions. The <a href="http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-12-release.html" target="_blank">WordPress Automatic Upgrade</a> plugin performs the same task.</li> <li><strong>Default Sitemaps</strong> – WordPress 2.7 will include a default sitemap creator, which will create Google XML sitemaps for your blog. <a href="http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/" target="_blank">Google Sitemaps Generator</a> plugin is the best option available right now for creating XML sitemaps.</li> <li><strong>Admin Panel Comment Replies</strong> - This plugin will help administrators to reply to comments using the admin panel. There are several plugins which allow you to do so right now, including <a href="http://www.raproject.com/ajax-edit-comments/">WP AJax Edit Comments</a>, <a href="http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/better-comments-manager-just-got-better.html">Better Comments Manager</a> and <a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/absolute-comments-manager-instant-reply/">Absolute Comments</a>.</li> <li><strong>Comment Threading</strong> – This feature will allow users to reply to other commentators in a threaded manner, where replied comments will display below the actual comment, WordPress already has the ability to scale to accomodate threaded comments, without requiring database changes. <a href="http://meidell.dk/archives/2004/09/04/nested-comments/" target="_blank">Brian’s Threaded Comments</a> is a does the job of allowing users to reply to comments.</li> <li><strong>Subscribe to Comments</strong> – The WordPress team is also planning to include a option to allow commentators to subscribe to follow up comments, but this is marked as a question, so it may not actully make it into WordPress 2.7. The <a href="http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/" target="_blank">Subscribe to Comments</a> plugin does the job to notify commentators on follow up comments.</li> <li><strong>Widgets for Dashboard and Write Box</strong> – This feature will allow users to re-arrange the widgets on the dashboard and write page to suit their preferences.</li> <li><strong>Batch Editing of Posts</strong> – This feature will allow users to batch edit their posts. Though there is not much information available about this right now, and I could not really find more from my research on the topic.</li> </ul> <p>With WordPress 2.7, we may see many popular plugins retire because of direct integration into WordPress core but we should have better functionality and easier management of daily blogging tasks from within the vanilla WordPress install.</p> <p>There are several other interesting features, you can take a look at them by visiting <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.7" target="_blank">WordPress codex</a>. Thanks to <a href="http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2008/07/wordpress-27/" target="_blank">QuickOnlineTips</a> for drawing my attention to the new features.</p> <p>What features are you looking the WordPress team to integrate? Do let me know. It would be great to hear what your expectations are.</p> <p><strong>Dislaimer:</strong> WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin and Better Comments Manager plugin has been written by me.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:00:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:5866:"<p>It has been only a couple of weeks since WordPress 2.6 has released and there is already talk about a much more feature rich version in the making. WordPress 2.7 has several exciting features <em>planned/proposed</em> as discussed in informal meetings on IRC and the feature votes being posted on the Codex. Though there are very few hints hint of a release date, I expect it to be released by the end of 2008.</p> <p><span><strong>[EDIT] Clarification: Mark Jaquith brings up a very good point that I believe requires re-iteration. The list of <em>proposed</em> features mentioned on weblogtoolscollection.com were just that, proposed features. All or none of them might actually show up in WordPress 2.7 <em>Some things that <em>have</em> already started being worked on are the comments API and automated plugin installation.</em> In hindsight, I realize that though they were represented as proposed, some of the other language in this post might have sounded a lot more definite.</strong></span> <span><strong>We apologize for any confusion that might have caused.</strong></span></p> <p><strong>Here is a list of features that will be introduced into WordPress 2.7:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Comments API</strong> – This according to me is the most exciting feature, it will allow developers to create offline integration of comments management, where users could use desktop clients to manage comments (moderate, edit, reply, delete, spam, unspam).</li> <li><strong>Keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation</strong> – This feature will help users to quickly moderate comments using keyboard shortucts, so you can expect key combinations like Ctrl + S to spam a comment, Ctrl + A to approve and so on.</li> <li><strong>Theme Update API</strong> – WordPress 2.5 and above have really made plugin management quite easy, you automatically receive notices when a new update to a plugin is available and can upgrade it without having to manually upload it to your FTP server. With this addition WordPress aims to bridge the gap between theme developers and the users for publishing updates to themes.</li> <li><strong>One Click Plugin Installs</strong> – Installing a plugin will be much easier with One click plugin installs. A plugin with similar features called <a href="http://anirudhsanjeev.org/oneclick-plugin/" target="_blank">One Click Plugin</a> was the winner of the Plugin Competition last year.</li> <li><strong>WordPress core updates</strong> – This is a feature many users have been waiting for, with core updates you can easily upgrade your WordPress versions. The <a href="http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-12-release.html" target="_blank">WordPress Automatic Upgrade</a> plugin performs the same task.</li> <li><strong>Default Sitemaps</strong> – WordPress 2.7 will include a default sitemap creator, which will create Google XML sitemaps for your blog. <a href="http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/" target="_blank">Google Sitemaps Generator</a> plugin is the best option available right now for creating XML sitemaps.</li> <li><strong>Admin Panel Comment Replies</strong> - This plugin will help administrators to reply to comments using the admin panel. There are several plugins which allow you to do so right now, including <a href="http://www.raproject.com/ajax-edit-comments/">WP AJax Edit Comments</a>, <a href="http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/better-comments-manager-just-got-better.html">Better Comments Manager</a> and <a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/absolute-comments-manager-instant-reply/">Absolute Comments</a>.</li> <li><strong>Comment Threading</strong> – This feature will allow users to reply to other commentators in a threaded manner, where replied comments will display below the actual comment, WordPress already has the ability to scale to accomodate threaded comments, without requiring database changes. <a href="http://meidell.dk/archives/2004/09/04/nested-comments/" target="_blank">Brian’s Threaded Comments</a> is a does the job of allowing users to reply to comments.</li> <li><strong>Subscribe to Comments</strong> – The WordPress team is also planning to include a option to allow commentators to subscribe to follow up comments, but this is marked as a question, so it may not actully make it into WordPress 2.7. The <a href="http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/" target="_blank">Subscribe to Comments</a> plugin does the job to notify commentators on follow up comments.</li> <li><strong>Widgets for Dashboard and Write Box</strong> – This feature will allow users to re-arrange the widgets on the dashboard and write page to suit their preferences.</li> <li><strong>Batch Editing of Posts</strong> – This feature will allow users to batch edit their posts. Though there is not much information available about this right now, and I could not really find more from my research on the topic.</li> </ul> <p>With WordPress 2.7, we may see many popular plugins retire because of direct integration into WordPress core but we should have better functionality and easier management of daily blogging tasks from within the vanilla WordPress install.</p> <p>There are several other interesting features, you can take a look at them by visiting <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.7" target="_blank">WordPress codex</a>. Thanks to <a href="http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2008/07/wordpress-27/" target="_blank">QuickOnlineTips</a> for drawing my attention to the new features.</p> <p>What features are you looking the WordPress team to integrate? Do let me know. It would be great to hear what your expectations are.</p> <p><strong>Dislaimer:</strong> WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin and Better Comments Manager plugin has been written by me.</p>";}i:37;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:33:"Andrew: PodPress in WordPress 2.6";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://azaozz.wordpress.com/?p=43";s:4:"link";s:64:"http://azaozz.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/podpress-in-wordpress-26/";s:11:"description";s:2478:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Yesterday had a quick look at <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/">podPress,</a> the premier plugin for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting">podcasting.</a> It has a small incompatibility with the new Post Revisions feature introduced in WordPress 2.6.</p> <p>PodPress seems to be in the middle of a large update. I’ve used the <a href="http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/podpress.experimental.zip">“experimental”</a> version (8.9) of the plugin and emailed the proposed fix to the authors, however for the more impatient here is the patch:</p> <pre name="code" class="php"> function post_edit($post_id) { GLOBAL $post; if($this->justposted) { return; } $this->justposted = true; if ( isset($_POST['post_ID']) && (int) $_POST['post_ID'] ) $post_id = (int) $_POST['post_ID']; $this->settings_item_save($post_id, $_POST); } </pre> <p>It goes in <code>podpress/podpress_admin_class.php,</code> around line 51. What it does is to make sure the custom post meta fields used by podPress are attached to the actual Post, not one of the revisions.</p> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/azaozz.wordpress.com/43/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/azaozz.wordpress.com/43/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/azaozz.wordpress.com/43/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/azaozz.wordpress.com/43/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/azaozz.wordpress.com/43/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/azaozz.wordpress.com/43/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/azaozz.wordpress.com/43/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/azaozz.wordpress.com/43/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/azaozz.wordpress.com/43/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/azaozz.wordpress.com/43/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/azaozz.wordpress.com/43/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/azaozz.wordpress.com/43/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=azaozz.wordpress.com&blog=3380945&post=43&subd=azaozz&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:06:26 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Andrew Ozz";}s:7:"summary";s:2478:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Yesterday had a quick look at <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/">podPress,</a> the premier plugin for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting">podcasting.</a> It has a small incompatibility with the new Post Revisions feature introduced in WordPress 2.6.</p> <p>PodPress seems to be in the middle of a large update. I’ve used the <a href="http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/podpress.experimental.zip">“experimental”</a> version (8.9) of the plugin and emailed the proposed fix to the authors, however for the more impatient here is the patch:</p> <pre name="code" class="php"> function post_edit($post_id) { GLOBAL $post; if($this->justposted) { return; } $this->justposted = true; if ( isset($_POST['post_ID']) && (int) $_POST['post_ID'] ) $post_id = (int) $_POST['post_ID']; $this->settings_item_save($post_id, $_POST); } </pre> <p>It goes in <code>podpress/podpress_admin_class.php,</code> around line 51. What it does is to make sure the custom post meta fields used by podPress are attached to the actual Post, not one of the revisions.</p> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/azaozz.wordpress.com/43/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/azaozz.wordpress.com/43/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/azaozz.wordpress.com/43/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/azaozz.wordpress.com/43/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/azaozz.wordpress.com/43/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/azaozz.wordpress.com/43/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/azaozz.wordpress.com/43/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/azaozz.wordpress.com/43/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/azaozz.wordpress.com/43/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/azaozz.wordpress.com/43/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/azaozz.wordpress.com/43/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/azaozz.wordpress.com/43/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=azaozz.wordpress.com&blog=3380945&post=43&subd=azaozz&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:38;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 07/31";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3828";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/07/31/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0731/";s:11:"description";s:3673:"<p><a href="http://www.quakemedia.com/wordpress-themes/tremor"><strong>Tremor</strong></a></p> <p><img width="189" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/07/tremorss1.png" alt="tremorss" height="125" /></p> <p>This theme is a 3 column widget ready theme. It is XHTML Strict and a CSS 2.1 compliant and uses the author’s comment highlight hack.</p> <p><a href="http://www.giselejaquenod.com.ar/blog/2008/07/31/new-free-wordpress-theme-birdies-blog/"><strong>Birdie’s Blog</strong></a></p> <p><img width="125" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/07/birdie1.jpg" alt="birdie" height="125" /></p> <p>Two column, brown WordPress theme with a birdie calling out!</p> <p><a href="http://design.crushlabs.com/home/news/1-company-news/127-crush-magazine-wordpress-theme"><strong>Crush</strong></a></p> <p><img width="134" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/07/crush1.png" alt="Crush" height="125" /></p> <p>Crush is a simple three column theme with a single column sidebar and two columns for posts.</p> <p><a href="http://www.supersatellite.com/projects/grayplicity/"><strong>Grayplicity</strong></a></p> <p><img width="188" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/07/grayplicity1.png" alt="grayplicity" height="125" /></p> <p>Grayplicity is the public release version of the theme being used for SuperSatellite.com. The default setup is a one column, full width (split ~70%/30% content/sidebar) layout. Has support for several plugins as listed on the theme page.</p> <p><a href="http://easternwest.com/hellowest-wordpress-theme/"><strong>HelloWest</strong></a></p> <p><img width="200" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/07/hellowest1.png" alt="hellowest" height="103" /></p> <p>A dark, simple two column theme based on <a href="http://www.hellowiki.com">HelloWiki’s</a> latest theme release.</p> <p><a href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/bluesensation-wordpress-theme-released/"><strong>BlueSensation</strong></a></p> <p><img width="163" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/07/bluesensation1.png" alt="bluesensation" height="125" /></p> <p>Clean and minimalist theme with 2 columns, and ready to display 125×125 ad blocks</p> <p><a href="http://www.longren.org/wordpress/unwakeable/"><strong>Unwakeable</strong></a></p> <p><img width="200" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/07/unwakeable1.jpg" alt="unwakeable" height="118" /></p> <p>A two column theme based on of <a href="http://www.getk2.com/">K2</a> and <a href="http://openswitch.org/unsleepable">Unsleepable</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/1024px"><strong>1024px</strong></a></p> <p>A light and extremely simple theme with 2 columns. It is based on Andreas’ <a href="http://andreasviklund.com/templates/1024px/">1024px XHTML/CSS template</a>. Updated to support tags, category descriptions, gravatars and more. Validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict. Public domain.</p> <p><a href="http://www.blogchemistry.com/2008/07/28/free-wordpress-theme-alibi/"><strong>Alibi</strong></a></p> <p><img width="191" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/07/wordpress-theme-alibi1.png" alt="wordpress-theme-alibi" height="125" /></p> <p>Alibi is a 2 column fixed-width, free WordPress theme, with righthand sidebar, enabled for widgets.</p> <p><a href="http://www.simplywp.net/2008/07/25/releasing-first-free-wp-theme-starlite-diva/"><strong>Starlite Diva</strong></a></p> <p><img width="200" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/07/starlite-diva1.jpg" alt="starlite_diva" height="108" /></p> <p>3 column, with pinkie violet colors, widget-ready sidebar. Tested on WordPress 2.5.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:35:50 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:3673:"<p><a href="http://www.quakemedia.com/wordpress-themes/tremor"><strong>Tremor</strong></a></p> <p><img width="189" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/07/tremorss1.png" alt="tremorss" height="125" /></p> <p>This theme is a 3 column widget ready theme. It is XHTML Strict and a CSS 2.1 compliant and uses the author’s comment highlight hack.</p> <p><a href="http://www.giselejaquenod.com.ar/blog/2008/07/31/new-free-wordpress-theme-birdies-blog/"><strong>Birdie’s Blog</strong></a></p> <p><img width="125" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/07/birdie1.jpg" alt="birdie" height="125" /></p> <p>Two column, brown WordPress theme with a birdie calling out!</p> <p><a href="http://design.crushlabs.com/home/news/1-company-news/127-crush-magazine-wordpress-theme"><strong>Crush</strong></a></p> <p><img width="134" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/07/crush1.png" alt="Crush" height="125" /></p> <p>Crush is a simple three column theme with a single column sidebar and two columns for posts.</p> <p><a href="http://www.supersatellite.com/projects/grayplicity/"><strong>Grayplicity</strong></a></p> <p><img width="188" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/07/grayplicity1.png" alt="grayplicity" height="125" /></p> <p>Grayplicity is the public release version of the theme being used for SuperSatellite.com. The default setup is a one column, full width (split ~70%/30% content/sidebar) layout. Has support for several plugins as listed on the theme page.</p> <p><a href="http://easternwest.com/hellowest-wordpress-theme/"><strong>HelloWest</strong></a></p> <p><img width="200" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/07/hellowest1.png" alt="hellowest" height="103" /></p> <p>A dark, simple two column theme based on <a href="http://www.hellowiki.com">HelloWiki’s</a> latest theme release.</p> <p><a href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/bluesensation-wordpress-theme-released/"><strong>BlueSensation</strong></a></p> <p><img width="163" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/07/bluesensation1.png" alt="bluesensation" height="125" /></p> <p>Clean and minimalist theme with 2 columns, and ready to display 125×125 ad blocks</p> <p><a href="http://www.longren.org/wordpress/unwakeable/"><strong>Unwakeable</strong></a></p> <p><img width="200" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/07/unwakeable1.jpg" alt="unwakeable" height="118" /></p> <p>A two column theme based on of <a href="http://www.getk2.com/">K2</a> and <a href="http://openswitch.org/unsleepable">Unsleepable</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/1024px"><strong>1024px</strong></a></p> <p>A light and extremely simple theme with 2 columns. It is based on Andreas’ <a href="http://andreasviklund.com/templates/1024px/">1024px XHTML/CSS template</a>. Updated to support tags, category descriptions, gravatars and more. Validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict. Public domain.</p> <p><a href="http://www.blogchemistry.com/2008/07/28/free-wordpress-theme-alibi/"><strong>Alibi</strong></a></p> <p><img width="191" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/07/wordpress-theme-alibi1.png" alt="wordpress-theme-alibi" height="125" /></p> <p>Alibi is a 2 column fixed-width, free WordPress theme, with righthand sidebar, enabled for widgets.</p> <p><a href="http://www.simplywp.net/2008/07/25/releasing-first-free-wp-theme-starlite-diva/"><strong>Starlite Diva</strong></a></p> <p><img width="200" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/07/starlite-diva1.jpg" alt="starlite_diva" height="108" /></p> <p>3 column, with pinkie violet colors, widget-ready sidebar. Tested on WordPress 2.5.</p>";}i:39;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:41:"Alex King: 404s and WordPress Server Load";s:4:"guid";s:66:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/07/31/404s-and-wordpress-server-load";s:4:"link";s:66:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/07/31/404s-and-wordpress-server-load";s:11:"description";s:6422:"<p>A few months back <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com">we</a> launched a site redesign/redevelopment project for a client, and made a simple mistake that had some interesting ramifications. It’s worth posting here so others don’t make the same mistake.</p> <h4>What Happened</h4> <p>When redeveloping the site, we moved the <a href="http://wordpress.org/" rel="external">WordPress</a> instance from the web root:</p> <p>/public_html/wp-config.php<br /> /public_html/wp-includes/<br /> /public_html/…</p> <p>to a subdirectory within the web root:</p> <p>/public_html/wordpress/wp-config.php<br /> /public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/<br /> /public_html/…</p> <p>I consider this to be a best practice for WordPress powered sites, as it makes version upgrades a bit easier (among other things).<sup><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/feed?cat=16#fn1217490637389n" id="fn1217490637389" class="footnote">1</a></sup> Some plugins don’t work well with symlinked “plugins” directories, but those generally have easy fixes (use ABSPATH, not dirname() in your plugin).</p> <p>These changes were made and thoroughly tested on our dev server with historical data. We then made the changes in a staging environment under a beta.example.com style domain name before pushing the changes live. In short, we were pretty careful and tested pretty well.</p> <h4>The Result</h4> <p>When we finally pushed everything live, the production server was brought to its knees. Yikes!</p> <p>A little poking around, some bug reports, and very shortly thereafter we figured out the problem. We had failed to set up a rewrite rule to map content from:</p> <p>/wp-content/uploads/</p> <p>to: </p> <p>/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/</p> <p>where it was now located.</p> <p>An omission like this wouldn’t have had much effect on server load in some site configurations, but one of the wonderful features of WordPress - its lovely permalinks - has a hidden caveat that can be exposed if someone makes a configuration mistake (like we did).</p> <p>WordPress’s permalink system basically works like this:</p> <ol> <li>See if a file exists in the location that was requested; if the file exists, serve it. This is how images, media, non-WordPress files, etc. are served without conflicting with WordPress.</li> <li>If no file is found at the location that was requested, then pass the URL to WordPress and see if WordPress can figure out what to show.</li> </ol> <p>It’s a really elegant system and works very well. However, it also means that 404 requests - http requests that result in a “file not found” message - have a much higher impact on the server than a traditional 404 request does. For every 404, the server instantiates WordPress, does some database work to try to see if it can figure out what to serve, etc.</p> <p>When we didn’t set up proper redirects for the content in “uploads”, we basically increased the server load by a factor of 20. Instead of a single request going to WordPress and 20 requests serving static content by Apache, all 21 requests were being sent to WordPress.</p> <p>The increased load on the server had some… adverse effects on performance. Yeah.</p> <h4>Why We Missed It</h4> <p>So this should be a pretty easy thing to catch, right? If the URLs to the images are broken, we’d all be seeing a bunch of broken images all over the place in our testing - right?</p> <p>Not exactly, and for two different reasons:</p> <ol> <li>When we tested on the production server using the beta.example.com hostname, the content was still pointing to example.com and the live production server was dutifully serving the images. It wasn’t until we pushed the changes live that the images were no longer at the previous URLs.</li> <li>Even when the images were no longer in the proper place, our browsers that we were testing in were showing the images properly. This was due to longer expires headers we had just implemented for media on the server in order to reduce overall server load. In casual testing, everything looked to us to be working properly.</li> </ol> <p>Once we tested in browsers that didn’t have the images cached, we immediately saw the problem.</p> <h4>Easy Fix</h4> <p>Luckily, this is a really easy problem to fix. A simple mod_rewrite rule (placed before the standard WordPress rewrite block) fixed everything right up:</p> <div class="code"><code>RewriteRule ^wp-content/uploads/(.*)$ /wordpress/wp-content/uploads/$1 [L,R=301]</code></div> <p>(alternate code, improvements to syntax welcome)</p> <p>With this in place, the old URLs were redirected to the new location and no longer were spinning up WordPress on every image request.</p> <p>Hopefully this will be useful to people who might be doing something similar, or who have made the same mistake and are looking to recover from it. <img src="http://alexking.org/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> <ol class="footnotes"> <li id="fn1217490637389n">Corey has a nice writeup on the <a href="http://coreygilmore.com/blog/2008/04/02/wordpress-upgrade-new-design/">file structure</a> he uses. [<a href="http://alexking.org/blog/feed?cat=16#fn1217490637389">back</a>]</li> </ol> <p><a href="http://sharethis.com/item?&wp=2.2.3&publisher=06654962-d77d-102a-861d-00161729a8a2&title=404s+and+WordPress+Server+Load&url=http%3A%2F%2Falexking.org%2Fblog%2F2008%2F07%2F31%2F404s-and-wordpress-server-load">ShareThis</a></p> <!-- <rdf:RDF xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"> <Work rdf:about=""> <license rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/" /> <dc:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" /> </Work> <License rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/"><permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"/><permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"/><requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"/><requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"/><prohibits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/CommercialUse"/><permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"/><requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/ShareAlike"/></License></rdf:RDF> -->";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:20:17 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:7:"summary";s:6422:"<p>A few months back <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com">we</a> launched a site redesign/redevelopment project for a client, and made a simple mistake that had some interesting ramifications. It’s worth posting here so others don’t make the same mistake.</p> <h4>What Happened</h4> <p>When redeveloping the site, we moved the <a href="http://wordpress.org/" rel="external">WordPress</a> instance from the web root:</p> <p>/public_html/wp-config.php<br /> /public_html/wp-includes/<br /> /public_html/…</p> <p>to a subdirectory within the web root:</p> <p>/public_html/wordpress/wp-config.php<br /> /public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/<br /> /public_html/…</p> <p>I consider this to be a best practice for WordPress powered sites, as it makes version upgrades a bit easier (among other things).<sup><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/feed?cat=16#fn1217490637389n" id="fn1217490637389" class="footnote">1</a></sup> Some plugins don’t work well with symlinked “plugins” directories, but those generally have easy fixes (use ABSPATH, not dirname() in your plugin).</p> <p>These changes were made and thoroughly tested on our dev server with historical data. We then made the changes in a staging environment under a beta.example.com style domain name before pushing the changes live. In short, we were pretty careful and tested pretty well.</p> <h4>The Result</h4> <p>When we finally pushed everything live, the production server was brought to its knees. Yikes!</p> <p>A little poking around, some bug reports, and very shortly thereafter we figured out the problem. We had failed to set up a rewrite rule to map content from:</p> <p>/wp-content/uploads/</p> <p>to: </p> <p>/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/</p> <p>where it was now located.</p> <p>An omission like this wouldn’t have had much effect on server load in some site configurations, but one of the wonderful features of WordPress - its lovely permalinks - has a hidden caveat that can be exposed if someone makes a configuration mistake (like we did).</p> <p>WordPress’s permalink system basically works like this:</p> <ol> <li>See if a file exists in the location that was requested; if the file exists, serve it. This is how images, media, non-WordPress files, etc. are served without conflicting with WordPress.</li> <li>If no file is found at the location that was requested, then pass the URL to WordPress and see if WordPress can figure out what to show.</li> </ol> <p>It’s a really elegant system and works very well. However, it also means that 404 requests - http requests that result in a “file not found” message - have a much higher impact on the server than a traditional 404 request does. For every 404, the server instantiates WordPress, does some database work to try to see if it can figure out what to serve, etc.</p> <p>When we didn’t set up proper redirects for the content in “uploads”, we basically increased the server load by a factor of 20. Instead of a single request going to WordPress and 20 requests serving static content by Apache, all 21 requests were being sent to WordPress.</p> <p>The increased load on the server had some… adverse effects on performance. Yeah.</p> <h4>Why We Missed It</h4> <p>So this should be a pretty easy thing to catch, right? If the URLs to the images are broken, we’d all be seeing a bunch of broken images all over the place in our testing - right?</p> <p>Not exactly, and for two different reasons:</p> <ol> <li>When we tested on the production server using the beta.example.com hostname, the content was still pointing to example.com and the live production server was dutifully serving the images. It wasn’t until we pushed the changes live that the images were no longer at the previous URLs.</li> <li>Even when the images were no longer in the proper place, our browsers that we were testing in were showing the images properly. This was due to longer expires headers we had just implemented for media on the server in order to reduce overall server load. In casual testing, everything looked to us to be working properly.</li> </ol> <p>Once we tested in browsers that didn’t have the images cached, we immediately saw the problem.</p> <h4>Easy Fix</h4> <p>Luckily, this is a really easy problem to fix. A simple mod_rewrite rule (placed before the standard WordPress rewrite block) fixed everything right up:</p> <div class="code"><code>RewriteRule ^wp-content/uploads/(.*)$ /wordpress/wp-content/uploads/$1 [L,R=301]</code></div> <p>(alternate code, improvements to syntax welcome)</p> <p>With this in place, the old URLs were redirected to the new location and no longer were spinning up WordPress on every image request.</p> <p>Hopefully this will be useful to people who might be doing something similar, or who have made the same mistake and are looking to recover from it. <img src="http://alexking.org/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> <ol class="footnotes"> <li id="fn1217490637389n">Corey has a nice writeup on the <a href="http://coreygilmore.com/blog/2008/04/02/wordpress-upgrade-new-design/">file structure</a> he uses. [<a href="http://alexking.org/blog/feed?cat=16#fn1217490637389">back</a>]</li> </ol> <p><a href="http://sharethis.com/item?&wp=2.2.3&publisher=06654962-d77d-102a-861d-00161729a8a2&title=404s+and+WordPress+Server+Load&url=http%3A%2F%2Falexking.org%2Fblog%2F2008%2F07%2F31%2F404s-and-wordpress-server-load">ShareThis</a></p> <!-- <rdf:RDF xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"> <Work rdf:about=""> <license rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/" /> <dc:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" /> </Work> <License rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/"><permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"/><permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"/><requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"/><requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"/><prohibits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/CommercialUse"/><permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"/><requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/ShareAlike"/></License></rdf:RDF> -->";}i:40;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:24:"Matt: Plugin Competition";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://ma.tt/2008/07/plugin-competition/";s:4:"link";s:40:"http://ma.tt/2008/07/plugin-competition/";s:11:"description";s:168:"<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/2008/07/26/its-time-to-cast-your-vote/">The WordPress plugin competition at WLTC is now open for voting</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:37:10 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:168:"<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/2008/07/26/its-time-to-cast-your-vote/">The WordPress plugin competition at WLTC is now open for voting</a>.</p>";}i:41;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:30:"Matt: Using WordPress as a CMS";s:4:"guid";s:46:"http://ma.tt/2008/07/using-wordpress-as-a-cms/";s:4:"link";s:46:"http://ma.tt/2008/07/using-wordpress-as-a-cms/";s:11:"description";s:198:"<p><a href="http://www.devlounge.net/publishing/things-to-consider-when-using-wordpress-as-a-cms">Things To Consider When Using WordPress as a CMS</a>. Would love to see more articles like this.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:36:16 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:198:"<p><a href="http://www.devlounge.net/publishing/things-to-consider-when-using-wordpress-as-a-cms">Things To Consider When Using WordPress as a CMS</a>. Would love to see more articles like this.</p>";}i:42;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:32:"Akismet: The Guardian on Akismet";s:4:"guid";s:34:"http://akismet.wordpress.com/?p=95";s:4:"link";s:59:"http://blog.akismet.com/2008/07/31/the-guardian-on-akismet/";s:11:"description";s:2320:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Guardian’s</a> <a href="http://michaelpollitt.com/wordpress/" target="_blank">Michael Pollitt</a> says some kind words about Akismet in today’s <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology" target="_blank">Technology section</a>, as he notes that <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/31/spam.blogging.technology" target="_blank">Comment spammers never take a holiday</a>. </p> <blockquote><p>Mullenweg publishes a graph on <a href="http://akismet.com/">Akismet.com</a> which shows comments being exceeded by daily spam peaks of more than 25m. Checking out the spam blocked counter on my blog is satisfying, showing that the spammers are going nowhere fast.</p> <p>As an experiment, I turned off my spam protection to watch the spam-a-minute flow.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/31/spam.blogging.technology" target="_blank">Read the full article here.</a></p> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/akismet.wordpress.com/95/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/akismet.wordpress.com/95/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/akismet.wordpress.com/95/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/akismet.wordpress.com/95/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/akismet.wordpress.com/95/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/akismet.wordpress.com/95/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/akismet.wordpress.com/95/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/akismet.wordpress.com/95/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/akismet.wordpress.com/95/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/akismet.wordpress.com/95/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/akismet.wordpress.com/95/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/akismet.wordpress.com/95/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.akismet.com&blog=116920&post=95&subd=akismet&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:59:45 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:2320:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Guardian’s</a> <a href="http://michaelpollitt.com/wordpress/" target="_blank">Michael Pollitt</a> says some kind words about Akismet in today’s <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology" target="_blank">Technology section</a>, as he notes that <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/31/spam.blogging.technology" target="_blank">Comment spammers never take a holiday</a>. </p> <blockquote><p>Mullenweg publishes a graph on <a href="http://akismet.com/">Akismet.com</a> which shows comments being exceeded by daily spam peaks of more than 25m. Checking out the spam blocked counter on my blog is satisfying, showing that the spammers are going nowhere fast.</p> <p>As an experiment, I turned off my spam protection to watch the spam-a-minute flow.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/31/spam.blogging.technology" target="_blank">Read the full article here.</a></p> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/akismet.wordpress.com/95/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/akismet.wordpress.com/95/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/akismet.wordpress.com/95/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/akismet.wordpress.com/95/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/akismet.wordpress.com/95/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/akismet.wordpress.com/95/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/akismet.wordpress.com/95/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/akismet.wordpress.com/95/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/akismet.wordpress.com/95/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/akismet.wordpress.com/95/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/akismet.wordpress.com/95/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/akismet.wordpress.com/95/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.akismet.com&blog=116920&post=95&subd=akismet&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:43;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:67:"Weblog Tools Collection: Firefly’s Chat-On-A-Webpage : Try it out";s:4:"guid";s:91:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/07/30/fireflys-chat-on-a-webpage-try-it-out/";s:4:"link";s:91:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/07/30/fireflys-chat-on-a-webpage-try-it-out/";s:11:"description";s:866:"<p><a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/7/firefly-s-chat-on-a-webpage-goes-live">Firefly’s Chat-On-A-Webpage Goes Live</a>.: Found via GigaOm, Firefly is a cool little Javascript app that sits on tops of your blog or webpage and allows unfettered chatting and interaction ability for visitors. I have enabled it on WeblogToolsCollection for the time being for people to check it out. Enable at the bottom of the page (look for a small bar), click anywhere on the page and chat away! If you want to put it on your own blog, visit <a href="http://firef.ly/">firef.ly</a> WARNING: It is addictive in an “Ooo! Shiny!” sort of way. <img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> <p>[EDIT] Now gone from this blog. Please use the demo on the firef.ly page to test it out.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:25:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:866:"<p><a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/7/firefly-s-chat-on-a-webpage-goes-live">Firefly’s Chat-On-A-Webpage Goes Live</a>.: Found via GigaOm, Firefly is a cool little Javascript app that sits on tops of your blog or webpage and allows unfettered chatting and interaction ability for visitors. I have enabled it on WeblogToolsCollection for the time being for people to check it out. Enable at the bottom of the page (look for a small bar), click anywhere on the page and chat away! If you want to put it on your own blog, visit <a href="http://firef.ly/">firef.ly</a> WARNING: It is addictive in an “Ooo! Shiny!” sort of way. <img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> <p>[EDIT] Now gone from this blog. Please use the demo on the firef.ly page to test it out.</p>";}i:44;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:40:"Mark Jaquith: One-line plugin of the day";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/?p=161";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/one-line-plugin-of-the-day/";s:11:"description";s:1847:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Opens the post timestamp editing fields without you having to click the “Edit” link every time. Great for people who are always scheduling their posts.</p> <pre name="code" class="php"> add_action('admin_head',create_function('$a', "echo \"<script type='text/javascript'>\n<!--\naddLoadEvent(function(){jQuery('.edit-timestamp').click();});\n//-->\n</script>\";"),50); </pre> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/markjaquith.wordpress.com/161/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/markjaquith.wordpress.com/161/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/161/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/161/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/161/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/161/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/161/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/161/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/161/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/161/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/161/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/161/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=161&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:47:19 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Mark Jaquith";}s:7:"summary";s:1847:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Opens the post timestamp editing fields without you having to click the “Edit” link every time. Great for people who are always scheduling their posts.</p> <pre name="code" class="php"> add_action('admin_head',create_function('$a', "echo \"<script type='text/javascript'>\n<!--\naddLoadEvent(function(){jQuery('.edit-timestamp').click();});\n//-->\n</script>\";"),50); </pre> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/markjaquith.wordpress.com/161/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/markjaquith.wordpress.com/161/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/161/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/161/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/161/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/161/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/161/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/161/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/161/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/161/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/161/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/161/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=161&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:45;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:53:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress As A CMS Checklist";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3801";s:4:"link";s:82:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/07/30/wordpress-as-a-cms-checklist/";s:11:"description";s:1829:"<p><strong>Thord Daniel Hedengren</strong> over at <strong>Devlounge</strong> has published an <a href="http://www.devlounge.net/publishing/things-to-consider-when-using-wordpress-as-a-cms" target="_blank">extensive checklist</a> based on his experience of things to consider when using WordPress as a CMS, especially when it will be used for a client. His post covers a number of different situations you should think about ahead of time before you step into your favorite code editor. According to Thord, there are three things you need to consider before committing to WordPress:</p> <blockquote><p><strong>1. Is the functionality needed covered by the WordPress core functions, and/or with the addition of (not too many) plugins?</strong> This is usually managing information pages (using Pages), and publishing news/press releases (using Posts). If I need to add a lot of custom stuff, including the custom fields, then perhaps it gets too complicated for the client.</p> <p><strong>2. Is there a good translation of WordPress available, so that your client can get the backend in their own language?</strong> Why should my Swedish customers not have their CMS in Swedish? There is no reason, of course, and it is easy enough to install a language pack.</p> <p><strong>3. Will my client be able to upgrade WordPress themselves, or do I need to make plans for this as well?</strong> This is true for most platforms out there, but nevertheless you’ll need to have an upgrade strategy.</p></blockquote> <p>I’ve never dived into the realm of setting up WordPress for a client so this is all new to me. However, I know a lot of you install and configure WordPress for your own clients. With that in mind, I’d be interested in knowing your own checklist of things to consider before committing them to WordPress.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:13:11 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1829:"<p><strong>Thord Daniel Hedengren</strong> over at <strong>Devlounge</strong> has published an <a href="http://www.devlounge.net/publishing/things-to-consider-when-using-wordpress-as-a-cms" target="_blank">extensive checklist</a> based on his experience of things to consider when using WordPress as a CMS, especially when it will be used for a client. His post covers a number of different situations you should think about ahead of time before you step into your favorite code editor. According to Thord, there are three things you need to consider before committing to WordPress:</p> <blockquote><p><strong>1. Is the functionality needed covered by the WordPress core functions, and/or with the addition of (not too many) plugins?</strong> This is usually managing information pages (using Pages), and publishing news/press releases (using Posts). If I need to add a lot of custom stuff, including the custom fields, then perhaps it gets too complicated for the client.</p> <p><strong>2. Is there a good translation of WordPress available, so that your client can get the backend in their own language?</strong> Why should my Swedish customers not have their CMS in Swedish? There is no reason, of course, and it is easy enough to install a language pack.</p> <p><strong>3. Will my client be able to upgrade WordPress themselves, or do I need to make plans for this as well?</strong> This is true for most platforms out there, but nevertheless you’ll need to have an upgrade strategy.</p></blockquote> <p>I’ve never dived into the realm of setting up WordPress for a client so this is all new to me. However, I know a lot of you install and configure WordPress for your own clients. With that in mind, I’d be interested in knowing your own checklist of things to consider before committing them to WordPress.</p>";}i:46;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:16:"Matt: ALA Survey";s:4:"guid";s:32:"http://ma.tt/2008/07/ala-survey/";s:4:"link";s:32:"http://ma.tt/2008/07/ala-survey/";s:11:"description";s:101:"<p><a href="http://alistapart.com/articles/survey2008">The new A List Apart for survey is up</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:43:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:101:"<p><a href="http://alistapart.com/articles/survey2008">The new A List Apart for survey is up</a>.</p>";}i:47;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 07/29";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3799";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/07/29/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0729/";s:11:"description";s:2610:"<p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/page-breadcrumbs-for-wptitle/"><strong>Breadcrumb Titles For Pages</strong></a></p> <p>This plugin modifies <code>wp_title()</code> (the function used to create the title of your website to output all parent Pages when viewing a Page.</p> <p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/allow-numeric-stubs/"><strong>Allow Numeric Stubs</strong></a></p> <p>Starting with WordPress 2.5, there is a bug where you cannot have a child Page that’s stub is a number. For example this will not work: <code>/about/5/</code>. That URL conflicts with paged content feature where you can posts and Pages with multiple pages of content by adding <code><!--nextpage--></code> within your content.</p> <p>This plugin allows you to have children Pages with numbers as stubs by giving up the ability to have paged Pages which isn’t a big deal as most people don’t use paged Pages anyway.</p> <p><a href="http://www.briandgoad.com/blog/downloads/p2pconverter/"><strong>p2pConverter</strong></a></p> <p>Converts either a static Page into a Post, or a Post into a static Page! Just click on the Manage tab in the Admin interface, and click the Posts or Pages sub-tab.</p> <p><a href="http://www.briandgoad.com/blog/downloads/status-press-widget/"><strong>Status Press Widget</strong></a></p> <p>Adds a Facebook Status Widget to display your Facebook status in your sidebar. Based on Status Press plugin (not required!) by Adam Walker Cleaveland & C. Scott Andreas.</p> <p><a href="http://www.briandgoad.com/blog/downloads/customizable-search-widget/"><strong>Customizable Search Widget</strong></a></p> <p>Adds a Customizable Search Widget to give you more control over how the search box looks on your sidebar.</p> <p><a href="http://lcb.me.uk/losingit/2008/06/29/list-drafts-widget"><strong>List Drafts Widget</strong></a></p> <p>List Drafts is a simple sidebar widget which outputs a list of the titles of all posts currently saved as drafts. Users can set the title of the widget, and add a label to be used for all untitled drafts.</p> <p><a href="http://www.sillybean.net/code/post-and-page-excerpt-widgets/"><strong>Post and Page Excerpt Widgets</strong></a></p> <p>Creates widgets that display excerpts from posts or pages in the sidebar. 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