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<p>2.6.1 offers several improvements for international users. Styling of the admin for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-directional_text">right-to-left languages</a> is much improved thanks to the efforts of the Farsi and Hebrew translation teams, and a mysterious <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettext">gettext</a> bug caused by certain PHP configurations is now fixed. For IIS users, 2.6.1 fixes several permalink problems. Image insertion problems in the Press This feature experienced by IE users are also fixed. Of note to everyone is a fix for a performance bug in the admin where those with a lot of plugins would experience slowness on some pages.</p>
<p>Check out the <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&milestone=2.6.1&resolution=fixed&order=priority">full list of over 60 fixes</a> to see if 2.6.1 has something to offer you. A <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=tags%2F2.6&old=8652&new_path=tags%2F2.6.1&new=8652">full diff and list of changed files</a> is also available. <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">Download 2.6.1</a> and enjoy.</p>
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<p>Check out the <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&milestone=2.6.1&resolution=fixed&order=priority">full list of over 60 fixes</a> to see if 2.6.1 has something to offer you. A <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=tags%2F2.6&old=8652&new_path=tags%2F2.6.1&new=8652">full diff and list of changed files</a> is also available. <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">Download 2.6.1</a> and enjoy.</p>
";}i:1;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:15:"Theme Directory";s:4:"link";s:57:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/theme-directory/";s:8:"comments";s:66:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/theme-directory/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:11:13 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Joseph Scott";}s:8:"category";s:10:"Metathemes";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=266";s:11:"description";s:353:"It’s been a long time since themes.wordpress.net stopped accepting new themes. Since then most theme authors have been distributing their themes from their own sites, without a good centralized place for people to browse, search, comment on, and rate themes. With the success of the plugins directory, we’ve wanted to have those same [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2453:"<p>It’s been a long time since <a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/blog/4426/upcoming-changes/">themes.wordpress.net</a> stopped accepting new themes. Since then most theme authors have been distributing their themes from their own sites, without a good centralized place for people to browse, search, comment on, and rate themes. With the success of the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/">plugins directory</a>, we’ve wanted to have those same benefits in a theme directory. Today is the day we start making that happen, with the introduction of <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/">wordpress.org/extend/themes/</a>.</p>
<p>Bringing the new theme directory under the WordPress “<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/">extend</a>” umbrella allowed us to take advantage of all the infrastructure that has already been built up to support WordPress.org. If you’ve browsed through the plugin directory, you’ll feel right at home in the new theme directory.</p>
<p>We’ve gone through great lengths to make this as painless as possible for theme authors. You don’t need to know anything about Subversion (our back end magic takes care of all that for you), just login with your WordPress.org username and password and go to the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/upload/">upload page</a>. From there you upload your regular theme zip file and we take care of the rest.</p>
<p>Once you upload your new theme we do a few automated checks for some of the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/about/#requirements">requirements</a> for each theme. If we find one that you missed we’ll provide you an error and description of what needs to be fixed. When a theme upload has been accepted we’ll send you an email and put it in the queue to be reviewed, to make sure we didn’t miss anything. After the theme has been approved you’ll get another email letting you know that the theme is now live.</p>
<p>That catches you up to where we’re at today. When you finish that theme you’ve been slaving over, upload it to the new directory and let us know what you think. Since so much has changed since the old theme directory we’re starting fresh from zero. 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>
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<p>Bringing the new theme directory under the WordPress “<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/">extend</a>” umbrella allowed us to take advantage of all the infrastructure that has already been built up to support WordPress.org. If you’ve browsed through the plugin directory, you’ll feel right at home in the new theme directory.</p>
<p>We’ve gone through great lengths to make this as painless as possible for theme authors. You don’t need to know anything about Subversion (our back end magic takes care of all that for you), just login with your WordPress.org username and password and go to the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/upload/">upload page</a>. From there you upload your regular theme zip file and we take care of the rest.</p>
<p>Once you upload your new theme we do a few automated checks for some of the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/about/#requirements">requirements</a> for each theme. If we find one that you missed we’ll provide you an error and description of what needs to be fixed. When a theme upload has been accepted we’ll send you an email and put it in the queue to be reviewed, to make sure we didn’t miss anything. After the theme has been approved you’ll get another email letting you know that the theme is now live.</p>
<p>That catches you up to where we’re at today. When you finish that theme you’ve been slaving over, upload it to the new directory and let us know what you think. Since so much has changed since the old theme directory we’re starting fresh from zero. 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:2;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:3;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.
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<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:4;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. Join in if you’re in the area.
";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:187:"<p><a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/new-york-usability-testing/">We’re doing some usability testing in New York City</a>. Join in if you’re in the area.</p>
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";s:12:"atom_content";s:187:"<p><a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/new-york-usability-testing/">We’re doing some usability testing in New York City</a>. Join in if you’re in the area.</p>
";}i:5;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>
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<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>
";}i:6;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.
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<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>
";}i:7;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:8;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>
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<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>
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<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. Plugins that work with the admin may require updating to take advantage of the new, cleaner UI in WordPress 2.5.</p>
<p>The community has started to <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Plugin_Compatibility/2.5">keep a list here of which plugins work great and which don’t</a>. It’s worth looking at, or even better just deactivate your plugins before upgrading for 2.5 and let the built-in updater notify and give you one-click upgrades to plugins you have installed, assuming the developer is cool and has updated their code for 2.5 already.</p>
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<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. Plugins that work with the admin may require updating to take advantage of the new, cleaner UI in WordPress 2.5.</p>
<p>The community has started to <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Plugin_Compatibility/2.5">keep a list here of which plugins work great and which don’t</a>. It’s worth looking at, or even better just deactivate your plugins before upgrading for 2.5 and let the built-in updater notify and give you one-click upgrades to plugins you have installed, assuming the developer is cool and has updated their code for 2.5 already.</p>
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<p>If you like a theme, want to make small changes to the way it looks but do not want to make changes to the core theme files (for future updates etc.), child themes are the way to go. Remember to send Demetris a thank you if you like the work he has put into this documentation.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:46:02 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:800:"<p><a href="http://op111.net/p53">How to make a “child theme” for WordPress. A pictorial introduction for beginners</a>: Demetris has put together a comprehensive, step by step pictorial instruction set for creating your own Child Themes for WordPress. He assures me that the set of instructions are easy to follow. Child themes are WordPress themes that behave like parent themes (or a main theme on which the child is based) and inherits all the characteristics of parent themes including options pages.</p>
<p>If you like a theme, want to make small changes to the way it looks but do not want to make changes to the core theme files (for future updates etc.), child themes are the way to go. Remember to send Demetris a thank you if you like the work he has put into this documentation.</p>";}i:2;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/04";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4090";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/04/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0904/";s:11:"description";s:2308:"<p><a href="http://www.openx.org/openx-plugin-for-wordpress"><strong>OpenX Plugin</strong></a></p>
<p>Integrate <a href="http://www.openx.org/">OpenX</a> on your blog</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/auto-blogroll/"><strong>Auto Blogroll</strong></a></p>
<p>This plug-in makes easier for website links exchange, you only need to set up pr value minimum limit at background, to achieve link exchange without need of manual check in front.</p>
<p><a href="http://gaboink.net/2008/05/facebook-badge-wordpress-plugin/"><strong>Facebook Badge</strong></a></p>
<p>With the Facelook Plugin you can easily display a facebook Badge in the Sider Bar of your on a self-hosted WordPress Blog without having to hard-code your WordPress template or use the sometimes unreliable Text Widget.</p>
<p><a href="http://wpmu.org/plugin-submission-featplug/"><strong>Featplug</strong></a></p>
<p>Featplug is a Wordpress plugin that can mine your blog’s content and generate ‘featured content’ section for your site using the suitable stories. Output can be rendered as slideshows or banners.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-ticker/"><strong>Post Ticker</strong></a></p>
<p>Displays a scrolling list of post titles and excerpts with links to post.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addfreestats/"><strong>Add Free Stats</strong></a></p>
<p>AddFreeStats.com allows you to select the button displayed on your blog pages. Invisible or visible: this is your choice! and It’s absolutely free!</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rss-includes-pages/"><strong>RSS Include Pages</strong></a></p>
<p>Modifies RSS feeds so that they include pages and not just posts. Deactivating the plugin restores RSS feeds to their default state.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/favicon-images-for-comments/"><strong>Favicon Images for Comments</strong></a></p>
<p>Favicon Images for WordPress Comments lets you add favicon images to your blog comments using the URL of your visitor’s website.</p>
<p><a href="http://fullthrottledevelopment.com/signature-manager"><strong>Signature Manager</strong></a></p>
<p>Gives each author on your blog the ability to setup a signature and to include it at the bottom of their posts.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:11:30 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2308:"<p><a href="http://www.openx.org/openx-plugin-for-wordpress"><strong>OpenX Plugin</strong></a></p>
<p>Integrate <a href="http://www.openx.org/">OpenX</a> on your blog</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/auto-blogroll/"><strong>Auto Blogroll</strong></a></p>
<p>This plug-in makes easier for website links exchange, you only need to set up pr value minimum limit at background, to achieve link exchange without need of manual check in front.</p>
<p><a href="http://gaboink.net/2008/05/facebook-badge-wordpress-plugin/"><strong>Facebook Badge</strong></a></p>
<p>With the Facelook Plugin you can easily display a facebook Badge in the Sider Bar of your on a self-hosted WordPress Blog without having to hard-code your WordPress template or use the sometimes unreliable Text Widget.</p>
<p><a href="http://wpmu.org/plugin-submission-featplug/"><strong>Featplug</strong></a></p>
<p>Featplug is a Wordpress plugin that can mine your blog’s content and generate ‘featured content’ section for your site using the suitable stories. Output can be rendered as slideshows or banners.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-ticker/"><strong>Post Ticker</strong></a></p>
<p>Displays a scrolling list of post titles and excerpts with links to post.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addfreestats/"><strong>Add Free Stats</strong></a></p>
<p>AddFreeStats.com allows you to select the button displayed on your blog pages. Invisible or visible: this is your choice! and It’s absolutely free!</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rss-includes-pages/"><strong>RSS Include Pages</strong></a></p>
<p>Modifies RSS feeds so that they include pages and not just posts. Deactivating the plugin restores RSS feeds to their default state.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/favicon-images-for-comments/"><strong>Favicon Images for Comments</strong></a></p>
<p>Favicon Images for WordPress Comments lets you add favicon images to your blog comments using the URL of your visitor’s website.</p>
<p><a href="http://fullthrottledevelopment.com/signature-manager"><strong>Signature Manager</strong></a></p>
<p>Gives each author on your blog the ability to setup a signature and to include it at the bottom of their posts.</p>";}i:3;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:78:"Lorelle on WP: Do You Remember Your First Blog Post? If You Do, You Could Win!";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=2952";s:4:"link";s:101:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/do-you-remember-your-first-blog-post-if-you-do-you-could-win/";s:11:"description";s:8261:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://www.successful-blog.com/1/bring-back-that-brand-new-blogging-feeling-event/" title="Bring Back That “Brand New” Blogging Feeling Event!!">Liz Strauss is holding the “Bring Back That ‘Brand New’ Blogging Feeling Event” contest</a> and giving you a chance to win a premium WordPress Theme from Blog Design Studio and a copy of her ebook. Whether you win or not, it’s a chance to really push your blogging creativity.</p>
<p>The challenge is to take a picture of something that shows that “brand new feeling” such as you feel when you published that very first blog post. That’s right, your first. Can you remember back that far? (I can’t <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" class="wp-smiley" /> ) Compose a one sentence caption and head over to the <a href="http://www.successful-blog.com/brand-new-blog-event/" title="BRAND NEW BLOGGING FEELING EVENT.">contact form</a> to upload the photo and your contact information.</p>
<p>There are so many emotions tangled up with that very first blog post, how would you display that in a photograph? I’m fascinated by the concept and eager to see what people come up with. Bloggers are such creative folks, and the almost USD $4,000 value of the prizes is definitely an incentive.</p>
<p>I gave it some thought and here is my version of that “brand new blogging feeling event” dredged from the depths of my memory.</p>
<p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/brandnewblogfeeling-lorelle.jpg?w=360&h=330" alt="" title="Brand New Blogging Feeling by Lorelle VanFossen" width="360" height="330" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2954" /></p>
<p>When I began “blogging” the name soon became “online journaling” as we ventured forth with the first web pages and websites in the world. We didn’t call them web pages back then. They were “homepages” and these were our “homesites” as the web wasn’t the Web but the beginnings of the Internet in those rough and tumble days. It was a new world, a new universe, and technology that was part of the rush into space. Since we couldn’t seem to push our government to support travel through outer space, we plunged into cyberspace along what would come to be known as the Information Highway. It wasn’t a smooth ride but this was the future and we were on board our virtual space ships, navigating by keyboard, mouse, and browser, ready for our grand adventure to seek out new life and new adventures. To boldly go where no Internet Connection would ever be lost!</p>
<p>I didn’t realize how far this galactic journey would take me, deep into the wilderness of HTML, web design, CSS, SEO, JavaScript, PHP, the rugged beginnings of <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/" title="WordPress" rel="tag">WordPress</a>, the stumbling steps of social networking and social media, tags, categories, comment spam, blog trolls…in a way, much like the journey in <a href="http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html">Zork</a>, the original of the popular <a href="http://www.ifarchive.org/" title="Interactive Fiction Archives">IF Games (Interactive Fiction)</a> text-based adventure games. A rough journey of exploration and discovery, with a few trolls and grues to fight off.</p>
<p>There will be 50 winners choose to receive a premium WordPress Theme from <a href="http://blogdesignstudio.com/" title="Blog Design Studio" rel="tag">Blog Design Studio</a> and a copy of the ebook <a href="http://www.lizstrauss.com/lizs-products/" title="Insider’s Guide to the Conversation eBook!!">Insider’s Guide to the Conversation eBook</a> by Liz Strauss.</p>
<p>There is also a bonus round. Be the first fifty to <em>follow the directions exactly</em> and submit “clever pictures” and you will be featured on her blog, <a href="http://www.successful-blog.com/" title="Liz Strauss - Successful and Outstanding Bloggers" rel="tag">Successful and Outstanding Bloggers</a> with a link back to your blog.</p>
<p>Don’t forget that Liz Strauss is also the honoree of one of the most popular new WordPress Plugins, the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/liz-comment-counter-by-ozh/" title="Liz Strauss Comment Counter by Ozh WordPress Plugin">Liz Strauss Comment Counter by Ozh WordPress Plugin</a>, a nice addition to your blog’s sidebar. I wrote about it recently <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/my-comment-count-is-bigger-than-your-comment-count/" title="My Comment Count is Bigger Than Your Comment Count!">on my blog</a> and on the <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/08/25/the-liz-strauss-comment-counter-plugin-stirs-comment-controversy/" title="The Liz Strauss Comment Counter Plugin Stirs Comment Controversy">Blog Herald</a>.</p>
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<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/lorelle.wordpress.com/2952/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/lorelle.wordpress.com/2952/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2952/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2952/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2952/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2952/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2952/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2952/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2952/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2952/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2952/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2952/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=2952&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:02:32 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:17:"Lorelle VanFossen";}s:7:"summary";s:8261:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://www.successful-blog.com/1/bring-back-that-brand-new-blogging-feeling-event/" title="Bring Back That “Brand New” Blogging Feeling Event!!">Liz Strauss is holding the “Bring Back That ‘Brand New’ Blogging Feeling Event” contest</a> and giving you a chance to win a premium WordPress Theme from Blog Design Studio and a copy of her ebook. Whether you win or not, it’s a chance to really push your blogging creativity.</p>
<p>The challenge is to take a picture of something that shows that “brand new feeling” such as you feel when you published that very first blog post. That’s right, your first. Can you remember back that far? (I can’t <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" class="wp-smiley" /> ) Compose a one sentence caption and head over to the <a href="http://www.successful-blog.com/brand-new-blog-event/" title="BRAND NEW BLOGGING FEELING EVENT.">contact form</a> to upload the photo and your contact information.</p>
<p>There are so many emotions tangled up with that very first blog post, how would you display that in a photograph? I’m fascinated by the concept and eager to see what people come up with. Bloggers are such creative folks, and the almost USD $4,000 value of the prizes is definitely an incentive.</p>
<p>I gave it some thought and here is my version of that “brand new blogging feeling event” dredged from the depths of my memory.</p>
<p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/brandnewblogfeeling-lorelle.jpg?w=360&h=330" alt="" title="Brand New Blogging Feeling by Lorelle VanFossen" width="360" height="330" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2954" /></p>
<p>When I began “blogging” the name soon became “online journaling” as we ventured forth with the first web pages and websites in the world. We didn’t call them web pages back then. They were “homepages” and these were our “homesites” as the web wasn’t the Web but the beginnings of the Internet in those rough and tumble days. It was a new world, a new universe, and technology that was part of the rush into space. Since we couldn’t seem to push our government to support travel through outer space, we plunged into cyberspace along what would come to be known as the Information Highway. It wasn’t a smooth ride but this was the future and we were on board our virtual space ships, navigating by keyboard, mouse, and browser, ready for our grand adventure to seek out new life and new adventures. To boldly go where no Internet Connection would ever be lost!</p>
<p>I didn’t realize how far this galactic journey would take me, deep into the wilderness of HTML, web design, CSS, SEO, JavaScript, PHP, the rugged beginnings of <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/" title="WordPress" rel="tag">WordPress</a>, the stumbling steps of social networking and social media, tags, categories, comment spam, blog trolls…in a way, much like the journey in <a href="http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html">Zork</a>, the original of the popular <a href="http://www.ifarchive.org/" title="Interactive Fiction Archives">IF Games (Interactive Fiction)</a> text-based adventure games. A rough journey of exploration and discovery, with a few trolls and grues to fight off.</p>
<p>There will be 50 winners choose to receive a premium WordPress Theme from <a href="http://blogdesignstudio.com/" title="Blog Design Studio" rel="tag">Blog Design Studio</a> and a copy of the ebook <a href="http://www.lizstrauss.com/lizs-products/" title="Insider’s Guide to the Conversation eBook!!">Insider’s Guide to the Conversation eBook</a> by Liz Strauss.</p>
<p>There is also a bonus round. Be the first fifty to <em>follow the directions exactly</em> and submit “clever pictures” and you will be featured on her blog, <a href="http://www.successful-blog.com/" title="Liz Strauss - Successful and Outstanding Bloggers" rel="tag">Successful and Outstanding Bloggers</a> with a link back to your blog.</p>
<p>Don’t forget that Liz Strauss is also the honoree of one of the most popular new WordPress Plugins, the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/liz-comment-counter-by-ozh/" title="Liz Strauss Comment Counter by Ozh WordPress Plugin">Liz Strauss Comment Counter by Ozh WordPress Plugin</a>, a nice addition to your blog’s sidebar. I wrote about it recently <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/my-comment-count-is-bigger-than-your-comment-count/" title="My Comment Count is Bigger Than Your Comment Count!">on my blog</a> and on the <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/08/25/the-liz-strauss-comment-counter-plugin-stirs-comment-controversy/" title="The Liz Strauss Comment Counter Plugin Stirs Comment Controversy">Blog Herald</a>.</p>
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<p>If you haven’t already heard, <a href="http://birmingham.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Birmingham</a> is coming up on September 27 & 28, 2008. And for those of you not in the States, that’s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham,_Alabama">Birmingham, Alabama</a>, not <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham">England</a>. If you are in, or can travel to, the Southeast U.S., you won’t want to miss the first WordCamp in the Deep South! And besides the great tech stuff at WordCamp, there are <a href="http://birmingham.wordcamp.org/faq/what-to-do/">other fun events in Birmingham</a> that weekend, too.</p>
<p>Oh, and did I mention that I am one of the <a href="http://birmingham.wordcamp.org/schedule/speakers/">Speakers</a> (*gulp*)? I will be speaking on “The Future of WordPress”. This will be the first time I’ve given a presentation of this type, so I’m quite nervous about it. If anyone has any public speaking tips that don’t involve imagining people in their underwear, let me know. Or, if you have any particular points that you think I should address, I’d be interested in hearing those, too. I don’t know that I’ll be able to discuss everything that everyone wants, and I don’t claim to have a crystal ball that tells me any more about the timeline of WordPress features than anyone else. But I have some ideas of what I want to touch on, both in general and in the specific.</p>
<p>If you make it to the event, please feel free to find me and say hi! I’m really looking forward to meeting people and putting faces with names. I also figure I’ll be reconfiguring my blogroll, with a bunch of new XFN ‘met’ links. <img src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> I’m not sure whether or not I’ll be there for the entire event, but I hope to have a better idea once the schedule is filled in, and I have my travel plans finalized.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:43:12 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Dougal";}s:7:"summary";s:2307:"<div class="pull-quote"><img class="size-full wp-image-1075" title="WordCamp Birmingham" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/gobham_copy_attendee.gif" alt="WordCamp Birmingham September 27-28, 2008" width="211" height="177" /></div>
<p>If you haven’t already heard, <a href="http://birmingham.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Birmingham</a> is coming up on September 27 & 28, 2008. And for those of you not in the States, that’s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham,_Alabama">Birmingham, Alabama</a>, not <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham">England</a>. If you are in, or can travel to, the Southeast U.S., you won’t want to miss the first WordCamp in the Deep South! And besides the great tech stuff at WordCamp, there are <a href="http://birmingham.wordcamp.org/faq/what-to-do/">other fun events in Birmingham</a> that weekend, too.</p>
<p>Oh, and did I mention that I am one of the <a href="http://birmingham.wordcamp.org/schedule/speakers/">Speakers</a> (*gulp*)? I will be speaking on “The Future of WordPress”. This will be the first time I’ve given a presentation of this type, so I’m quite nervous about it. If anyone has any public speaking tips that don’t involve imagining people in their underwear, let me know. Or, if you have any particular points that you think I should address, I’d be interested in hearing those, too. I don’t know that I’ll be able to discuss everything that everyone wants, and I don’t claim to have a crystal ball that tells me any more about the timeline of WordPress features than anyone else. But I have some ideas of what I want to touch on, both in general and in the specific.</p>
<p>If you make it to the event, please feel free to find me and say hi! I’m really looking forward to meeting people and putting faces with names. I also figure I’ll be reconfiguring my blogroll, with a bunch of new XFN ‘met’ links. <img src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> I’m not sure whether or not I’ll be there for the entire event, but I hope to have a better idea once the schedule is filled in, and I have my travel plans finalized.</p>";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:87:"Lorelle on WP: Blogs Offer Communication, Information, and Connections During Disasters";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=2930";s:4:"link";s:111:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/blogs-offer-communication-information-and-connections-during-disasters/";s:11:"description";s:24162:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><div id="attachment_2931" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gustav08onCuba.jpg"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/hurricanegustavphoto.jpg?w=280&h=344" alt="Hurricane Gustav satellite photo" width="280" height="344" class="size-full wp-image-2931" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Hurricane Gustav satellite photo</p></div><a href="http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/" title="Plagiarism Today">Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today</a> just called me from Northern Louisiana to report that he and his family have survived the evacuation from their home in Shreveport, Louisiana, though Hurricane Gustav appears to have done more damage where they evacuated to rather than where they left from.</p>
<p>Jonathan and I were both victims of Hurricane Katrina three years ago when that storm ripped our lives apart in its wake, and <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/" title="WordPress" rel="tag">WordPress</a> played an important role in our lives then as well as now. I was in Mobile, Alabama, at the time, having just started <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle on WordPress" rel="tag">Lorelle on WordPress</a> on the brand new <a href="http://www.wordpress.com/" title="WordPress.com free blogs" rel="tag">WordPress.com</a> a week or so before the hurricane hit the Gulf Coast, causing destruction over tens of thousands of square miles along the coast and deep into the country. The hurricane’s storm surge plowed 22 feet of water up the Dog River to where we lived, bringing destruction in it’s wake and retreat. Tornado force winds ripped out trees and turned them into missiles. Nary a <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/08/28/one-year-anniversary-review-hurricane-katrina/" title="Hurricane Katrina">sign, building, nor person was safe</a> with the winds and the force of the storm surge waters.</p>
<p>While running from the storm to Atlanta at the last minute when the score <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/05/visual-impact-of-hurricane-katrina/" title="Visual Impact of Hurricane Katrina">turned from Category 4 to Category 5</a>, only to have Katrina follow us and beat us down, causing death and destruction in <a href="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/oceanspringsdamagedhouse.jpg"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/oceanspringsdamagedhouse.jpg?w=300&h=224" alt="" width="300" height="224" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2933" /></a>Atlanta a few days later, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/08/29/blogs-about-hurricane-katrina/" title="Blogs About Hurricane Katrina">I blogged about many of the first blogs about Hurricane Katrina</a> and about how <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/11/blogging-katrina-upclose-and-personal/" title="Blogging Katrina Up Close and Personal">blogs helped</a> and <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/19/the-blog-rumor-heard-around-the-world-blaming-katrina/" title="The Blog Rumor Heard Around the World - Blaming Katrina">impacted our lives</a> in the <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/23/katrina-katrina-hurricane-katrina-everywhere-you-look/" title="Katrina, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina Everywhere You Look">wake of the storm</a>. Katrina also impacted <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/19/katrina-comment-spam-assaults-blogs/" title="Katrina Comment Spam Assaults Blogs">bloggers hit by spammer abusing Katrina fascination with their comment spams</a> within a couple weeks of the hurricane’s landfall.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/09/01/blogging-in-a-disaster/" title="Blogging in a Disaster">Blogging in a Disaster</a> on the <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/" title="Blog Herald" rel="tag">Blog Herald</a>, Jonathan Bailey reported on how he continues to blog even as an evacuee, maintaining his online work as well as staying in touch and reporting on his own hurricane experience. He offers some great tips, including a new one I wished I’d had during my own disaster experiences. He recommends your site is hosted on the server cloud or grid, which I <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/lessons-from-ltpact-2008-cloud-servers-and-gambling/" title="Cloud Servers and Gambling">spoke about recently</a>:<br />
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<blockquote><p><strong>3. Move Data to The Cloud</strong></p>
<p>Any information that you need to run your site, put it in a secure place on the Web. Remember that you will likely be using a strange computer so any URLs that you can’t remember and type by hand, put those on the Web too. If you use a program to store your passwords, store a cache of those on the Web also. Obviously, you’ll want to encrypt and secure such information before posting it.</p>
<p>Even if you have your own browser on a thumb drive, as recommended above, it is best to make sure everything is in multiple places. I have been repeatedly saved by my private bookmarks on Diigo.</p></blockquote>
<p>Today, we have more resources for backups and protecting our site, so take advantage of them now in safe times, as well as for disaster protection and backups. For those with blogs on the cloud or grid and using cache Plugins and the latest version of <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/" title="WordPress" rel="tag">WordPress</a> with improved cache, their sites could easily flex and withstand the sudden influx of traffic without crashing or breaking bandwidth restrictions. </p>
<p>In addition to Jonathan’s tips on blogging a disaster, I’d add:</p>
<ul>
<li>Bring cameras, video, and audio recording equipment to preserve your memories and experiences for uploading to your blog and for your own records.</li>
<li>Bring more than plenty of all the appropriate batteries for your various equipment. </li>
<li>Have your blog setup with image, audio, and video uploading WordPress Plugins installed and be familiar with how they work.</li>
<li>Sign up in advance with video, audio, and image hosting services so you can quickly upload, store, and link to those images from within your blog.</li>
<li>Backup your evacuation and escape routes. Have at least two backup plans for evacuation and escape, before evacuating and for during the evacuation. Evacuation routes shift as the storm changes its course, and the storm may suddenly change speed, arriving ahead of schedule or behind. Be prepared to move fast and stay long.</li>
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<h3>Blogs Offer Communication, Information, and Connections During Disasters</h3>
<p><a href="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/hwy90bridgetoriver.jpg"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/hwy90bridgetoriver.jpg?w=300&h=224" alt="" width="300" height="224" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2932" /></a>In the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina, blogs served up information and first hand experiences of the wait for the massive hurricane. People provided resources for help, evacuation, and reports on what they were doing to prepare for the hurricane. With the fast and easy set up for a <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/" title="WordPress" rel="tag">WordPress</a> blog, and the newly created <a href="http://www.wordpress.com/" title="WordPress.com free blogs" rel="tag">WordPress.com</a> free blog hosting service, many of those Hurricane Katrina blogs were powered by WordPress, as are many blogs with Hurricane Gustav news and reports.</p>
<p>During the hurricane, a few blogs, typically ones supported by news agencies and the media with generators and situated in defensible and protected locations, kept us up-to-date with the disaster as it happened from their perspective, as did the media in general. </p>
<p>I remember watching weather reporters hanging onto railings as debris flew all around them, microphones clutched in their white knuckled hands screaming and shouting to be recorded over the strong winds and crashing water sounds. I thought then as I do now, “We don’t need to have a blow by blow report <em>that bad</em>. We can wait.” But the media needed the sensational perspective to keep watchers glued to their televisions and websites for the up-to-the-minute status of the ent. And some bloggers tried to emulate the journalists, putting their lives at risk. </p>
<p>With uploading and embedding of video with WordPress Plugins like <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/#post-566" title="PodPress plugin">PodPress</a> as well as the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/smart-youtube/" title="Smart YouTube">Smart YouTube</a>, <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/" title="NextGEN Gallery">NextGEN Gallery</a>, <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tantan-flickr/" title="Flickr Photo Album">Flickr Photo Album</a>, and the popular <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/" title="Viper's Video Quicktags">Viper’s Video Quicktags</a>, it’s fast and simple to add video of all types to your WordPress blog. However, never risk your life for the sake of images for your blog. Leave that to the professionals - whom we hope are better trained and skilled at surviving the hazards mother nature throws their way.</p>
<p>With debris covering the highways and access points, it took a while for rescue and recovery services to get into many areas, as well as for evacuees to return. For those still connected to the web with generators and satellite or still working cell phones, blogs brought information faster than most news and government agencies. They also spread rumors like wild fire.</p>
<p>After the hurricane, blogs played a huge role in not only reporting on the activity, but exaggerating it. In my article series <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/19/i-want-to-start-a-controversy/" title="I Want To Start a Controversy">on controversies and blogs</a>, I wrote about <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/23/finding-conspiracy-blogs-and-the-truth/" title="Finding Conspiracy Blogs…and The Truth">how the events in the New Orleans Astrodome</a> were exaggerated and turned into an urban legend due to a blogger faking the story:</p>
<blockquote><p>Hurricane Katrina brought of a lot conspiracy theories and hoaxes into play, including a huge one which played into the <a href="http://www.snopes.com/katrina/personal/volunteer.asp" title="New Orleans Astrodome myth" rel="tag">New Orleans Astrodome myth</a> in the wake of the disaster. Since it was easy to believe that people will descend into violence and “ugly” at the drop of a social hat, and that the government is useless in such situations, many believed what was reported as an “eye-witness account” instead of looking at all the information before judging. Supposedly eye witness accounts reported on horrors that were later found to be untrue, and there is a lot of confusion over who actually wrote this and whether or not they were even there. Yet, many bloggers continue to point to these as proof of whatever theory they support on what happened in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and the dikes breaking.</p></blockquote>
<p>We’ll have to watch out for Gustav scams, but in general, blogs did more good than bad as many bloggers stepped up to help by checking out their neighborhoods and communities and reporting on the status of individual homes and businesses, by helping to connect families and friends separated by the storm, by recruiting and directing volunteers and donations for delivery to the needy all along the Gulf Coast, not just to New Orleans. Bloggers pitched in, reported, helped, and aided others all over the country, including opening their homes up to those in need.</p>
<p><a href="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/peopleokayhousegone.jpg"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/peopleokayhousegone.jpg?w=224&h=300" alt="" width="224" height="300" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2939" /></a>Learning from the past, many popular and high traffic blogs jumped up to offer links, resources, and references to help with those confronting or trying to comprehend Hurricane Gustav including <a href="http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/08/hurricane-gusta.html" title="Hurricane Gustav **Updated** | Geekdad from Wired.com">HGeekdad from Wired.com</a>, <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hurricane_gustav_on_the_web_reference_guide.php" title="A Reference Guide for Our Readers ...">Read/Write/Web</a>, and others.</p>
<p>Social media in general, including microblogs like Twitter, Friendfeed, and Tumblr, played a huge role in preparation, response, and reaction to Hurricane Gustav. According to <a href="http://www.weberence.com/2008/08/31/gustav-hurricane-on-twitter/" title="Weberence.com">Weberence.com</a>, Hurricane Gustav is the first major US hurricane covered by microblogging services like Twitter. Within a short time, a specific <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Gustav" title="Twitter Search Gustav">Twitter Search for Gustav</a> became a popular search and feed. <a href="http://noturnonred.org/2008/08/30/hurricane-gustav-home-depot-and-twitter/" title="Hurricane Gustav, Home Depot, and Twitter - No Turn On Red">No Turn on Red reported</a> on how <a href="http://twitter.com/thehomedepot" title="Home Depot Twitter account">Home Depot is using their Twitter account</a> for tips on how to prepare for the upcoming hurricane, <a href="http://noturnonred.org/2008/08/31/more-corporations-offering-gustav-information-on-twitter/" title="More Corporations Offering Gustav Information on Twitter">one of many using Twitter</a> this way. <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/SmartHome/story?id=5703281&page=1" title="Social Media Proves Itself as Emergency Tool">Ki Mae Heussner of ABC News even covered the impact of social media</a> as an “emergency tool” for reporting on the hurricane.</p>
<p>Legitimate news media used Twitter, too. The <a href="http://twitter.com/NOLAnews/" title="Tweets from NOLA.com">New Orleans Times-Picayune (NOLA.com)</a>, the <a href="http://twitter.com/USATWeatherGuys" title="USA Today Weather Guys' tweets">USA Today Weather Guys</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/GustavReporter" title="Chicago Tribune reporters on Hurricane Gustav">Reporters from the Chicago Tribune</a>, and even the <a href="http://twitter.com/RedCross" title="Tweets from the Red Cross">Red Cross</a> all used Twitter to microblog the news, tips, resources, references, and information. </p>
<p>Jazzy Chad created the <a href="http://www.jazzychad.com/twitter/gustav/widget.php" title="Hurricane Gustav Twitter Widget">Hurricane Gustav Twitter Widget</a> if you wanted to track Hurricane Gustav news on your blog through Twitter.</p>
<p>A <a href="http://friendfeed.com/rooms/hurricane" title="FriendFeed Hurricane Room">FriendFeed Hurricane Room</a> for chatting was also started, incorporating Twitter and Friendfeed and online chatting. </p>
<p>A Facebook page was created called the <a href="http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=25689101658" title="Hurricane Gustav Digital Support Brigade (Facebook)">Hurricane Gustav Digital Support Brigade</a> to help connect those seeking help and information on the storm.</p>
<p><a href="http://gustav08.ning.com/" title="Gustav Information Center">Gustav Information Center</a> on Ning became a major resource for many, including <a href="http://www.fcw.com/online/news/153664-1.html" title="FCW News on Hurricane Gustav">media and government sources</a>. It featured a forum, blog posts, Twitter, news, links, video, photos, and a variety of feeds from all over with information on the hurricane, responses, and services, as well as individual bloggers covering the hurricane on their blogs, much in the style of the upcoming WordPress Theme for social media, <a href="http://buddypress.org/" title="BuddyPress project">BuddyPress</a>. Another <a href="http://www.youcit.com/hurricanegustav/" title="Hurricane Gustav aggregator">Hurricane Gustav aggregator</a> was created to collect information from Twitter, Google, YouTube, Flickr, and more.</p>
<p>Weather bloggers were in their prime, many using <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/index.html?range=updated" title="WunderBlogs">Wunderground’s WunderBlogs</a> network to link together their blogs. <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html" title="Dr. Jeff Masters' Weather Blog">Dr. Jeff Masters’ Weather Blog</a>, <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/RickyRood/show.html" title="Climate Change Blog">Climate Change Blog</a>, <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/MikeTheiss/show.html" title="Ultimate Chase Photo Blog">Ultimate Chase Photo Blog</a>, <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/sullivanweather/show.html" title="Northeast Weather Blog">Northeast Weather Blog</a>, <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/LRandyB/show.html" title="Tropical Weather Discussion">Tropical Weather Discussion</a>, <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/StormW/show.html" title="StormW's Tropical Forecast Desk">StormW’s Tropical Forecast Desk</a>, <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/vortfix/show.html" title="vortfix">vortfix</a>, <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/Tazmanian/show.html" title="Tazmanian">Tazmanian</a>, <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/vortfix/show.html" title="vortfix">vortfix</a>, <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/mysticmoondancer/show.html" title="mysticmoondancer">mysticmoondancer</a>, and <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/cyclonebuster/show.html" title="cyclonebuster">cyclonebuster</a> had hundreds of comments, the comments often containing more information than their blog posts as many discussed the reality on the ground versus the satellite and weather images and reports and their perceptions of the information posted. The <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/weathernerd/" title="The Weather Nerd">The Weather Nerd</a> and <a href="http://www.behindtheweather.com/" title="BehindtheWeather.com">BehindtheWeather.com</a> were recommended by many for coverage of the storm. </p>
<p>Within minutes of the first announcement that Gustav was heading towards landfall, a Wikipedia page for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Gustav_%282008%29" title="Hurricane Gustav">Hurricane Gustav</a> was created and updated through the storm’s course, and will continue to be updated as more information is added as the facts come in.</p>
<p>Today, we have more sources than ever to track what is going on with a disaster as well as a way for individuals to express themselves before, during, and after disasters. </p>
<p>For the bloggers living, working, and surviving in disaster areas, they have a lot to teach us about how blogs can help and serve our online community. Those who want to help from outside the impacted areas are learning more about how to integrate multiple media and blog sources into a single aggregator without impinging upon copyrights, creating central clearing houses for news and information. The more we learn about how useful blogs are in a disaster, the more our blogs will improve overall. </p>
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<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/lorelle.wordpress.com/2930/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/lorelle.wordpress.com/2930/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2930/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2930/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2930/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2930/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2930/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2930/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2930/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2930/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2930/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2930/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=2930&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:54:24 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:17:"Lorelle VanFossen";}s:7:"summary";s:24162:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><div id="attachment_2931" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gustav08onCuba.jpg"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/hurricanegustavphoto.jpg?w=280&h=344" alt="Hurricane Gustav satellite photo" width="280" height="344" class="size-full wp-image-2931" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Hurricane Gustav satellite photo</p></div><a href="http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/" title="Plagiarism Today">Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today</a> just called me from Northern Louisiana to report that he and his family have survived the evacuation from their home in Shreveport, Louisiana, though Hurricane Gustav appears to have done more damage where they evacuated to rather than where they left from.</p>
<p>Jonathan and I were both victims of Hurricane Katrina three years ago when that storm ripped our lives apart in its wake, and <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/" title="WordPress" rel="tag">WordPress</a> played an important role in our lives then as well as now. I was in Mobile, Alabama, at the time, having just started <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle on WordPress" rel="tag">Lorelle on WordPress</a> on the brand new <a href="http://www.wordpress.com/" title="WordPress.com free blogs" rel="tag">WordPress.com</a> a week or so before the hurricane hit the Gulf Coast, causing destruction over tens of thousands of square miles along the coast and deep into the country. The hurricane’s storm surge plowed 22 feet of water up the Dog River to where we lived, bringing destruction in it’s wake and retreat. Tornado force winds ripped out trees and turned them into missiles. Nary a <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/08/28/one-year-anniversary-review-hurricane-katrina/" title="Hurricane Katrina">sign, building, nor person was safe</a> with the winds and the force of the storm surge waters.</p>
<p>While running from the storm to Atlanta at the last minute when the score <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/05/visual-impact-of-hurricane-katrina/" title="Visual Impact of Hurricane Katrina">turned from Category 4 to Category 5</a>, only to have Katrina follow us and beat us down, causing death and destruction in <a href="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/oceanspringsdamagedhouse.jpg"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/oceanspringsdamagedhouse.jpg?w=300&h=224" alt="" width="300" height="224" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2933" /></a>Atlanta a few days later, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/08/29/blogs-about-hurricane-katrina/" title="Blogs About Hurricane Katrina">I blogged about many of the first blogs about Hurricane Katrina</a> and about how <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/11/blogging-katrina-upclose-and-personal/" title="Blogging Katrina Up Close and Personal">blogs helped</a> and <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/19/the-blog-rumor-heard-around-the-world-blaming-katrina/" title="The Blog Rumor Heard Around the World - Blaming Katrina">impacted our lives</a> in the <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/23/katrina-katrina-hurricane-katrina-everywhere-you-look/" title="Katrina, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina Everywhere You Look">wake of the storm</a>. Katrina also impacted <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/19/katrina-comment-spam-assaults-blogs/" title="Katrina Comment Spam Assaults Blogs">bloggers hit by spammer abusing Katrina fascination with their comment spams</a> within a couple weeks of the hurricane’s landfall.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/09/01/blogging-in-a-disaster/" title="Blogging in a Disaster">Blogging in a Disaster</a> on the <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/" title="Blog Herald" rel="tag">Blog Herald</a>, Jonathan Bailey reported on how he continues to blog even as an evacuee, maintaining his online work as well as staying in touch and reporting on his own hurricane experience. He offers some great tips, including a new one I wished I’d had during my own disaster experiences. He recommends your site is hosted on the server cloud or grid, which I <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/lessons-from-ltpact-2008-cloud-servers-and-gambling/" title="Cloud Servers and Gambling">spoke about recently</a>:<br />
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<blockquote><p><strong>3. Move Data to The Cloud</strong></p>
<p>Any information that you need to run your site, put it in a secure place on the Web. Remember that you will likely be using a strange computer so any URLs that you can’t remember and type by hand, put those on the Web too. If you use a program to store your passwords, store a cache of those on the Web also. Obviously, you’ll want to encrypt and secure such information before posting it.</p>
<p>Even if you have your own browser on a thumb drive, as recommended above, it is best to make sure everything is in multiple places. I have been repeatedly saved by my private bookmarks on Diigo.</p></blockquote>
<p>Today, we have more resources for backups and protecting our site, so take advantage of them now in safe times, as well as for disaster protection and backups. For those with blogs on the cloud or grid and using cache Plugins and the latest version of <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/" title="WordPress" rel="tag">WordPress</a> with improved cache, their sites could easily flex and withstand the sudden influx of traffic without crashing or breaking bandwidth restrictions. </p>
<p>In addition to Jonathan’s tips on blogging a disaster, I’d add:</p>
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<li>Bring cameras, video, and audio recording equipment to preserve your memories and experiences for uploading to your blog and for your own records.</li>
<li>Bring more than plenty of all the appropriate batteries for your various equipment. </li>
<li>Have your blog setup with image, audio, and video uploading WordPress Plugins installed and be familiar with how they work.</li>
<li>Sign up in advance with video, audio, and image hosting services so you can quickly upload, store, and link to those images from within your blog.</li>
<li>Backup your evacuation and escape routes. Have at least two backup plans for evacuation and escape, before evacuating and for during the evacuation. Evacuation routes shift as the storm changes its course, and the storm may suddenly change speed, arriving ahead of schedule or behind. Be prepared to move fast and stay long.</li>
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<h3>Blogs Offer Communication, Information, and Connections During Disasters</h3>
<p><a href="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/hwy90bridgetoriver.jpg"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/hwy90bridgetoriver.jpg?w=300&h=224" alt="" width="300" height="224" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2932" /></a>In the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina, blogs served up information and first hand experiences of the wait for the massive hurricane. People provided resources for help, evacuation, and reports on what they were doing to prepare for the hurricane. With the fast and easy set up for a <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/" title="WordPress" rel="tag">WordPress</a> blog, and the newly created <a href="http://www.wordpress.com/" title="WordPress.com free blogs" rel="tag">WordPress.com</a> free blog hosting service, many of those Hurricane Katrina blogs were powered by WordPress, as are many blogs with Hurricane Gustav news and reports.</p>
<p>During the hurricane, a few blogs, typically ones supported by news agencies and the media with generators and situated in defensible and protected locations, kept us up-to-date with the disaster as it happened from their perspective, as did the media in general. </p>
<p>I remember watching weather reporters hanging onto railings as debris flew all around them, microphones clutched in their white knuckled hands screaming and shouting to be recorded over the strong winds and crashing water sounds. I thought then as I do now, “We don’t need to have a blow by blow report <em>that bad</em>. We can wait.” But the media needed the sensational perspective to keep watchers glued to their televisions and websites for the up-to-the-minute status of the ent. And some bloggers tried to emulate the journalists, putting their lives at risk. </p>
<p>With uploading and embedding of video with WordPress Plugins like <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/#post-566" title="PodPress plugin">PodPress</a> as well as the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/smart-youtube/" title="Smart YouTube">Smart YouTube</a>, <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/" title="NextGEN Gallery">NextGEN Gallery</a>, <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tantan-flickr/" title="Flickr Photo Album">Flickr Photo Album</a>, and the popular <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/" title="Viper's Video Quicktags">Viper’s Video Quicktags</a>, it’s fast and simple to add video of all types to your WordPress blog. However, never risk your life for the sake of images for your blog. Leave that to the professionals - whom we hope are better trained and skilled at surviving the hazards mother nature throws their way.</p>
<p>With debris covering the highways and access points, it took a while for rescue and recovery services to get into many areas, as well as for evacuees to return. For those still connected to the web with generators and satellite or still working cell phones, blogs brought information faster than most news and government agencies. They also spread rumors like wild fire.</p>
<p>After the hurricane, blogs played a huge role in not only reporting on the activity, but exaggerating it. In my article series <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/19/i-want-to-start-a-controversy/" title="I Want To Start a Controversy">on controversies and blogs</a>, I wrote about <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/23/finding-conspiracy-blogs-and-the-truth/" title="Finding Conspiracy Blogs…and The Truth">how the events in the New Orleans Astrodome</a> were exaggerated and turned into an urban legend due to a blogger faking the story:</p>
<blockquote><p>Hurricane Katrina brought of a lot conspiracy theories and hoaxes into play, including a huge one which played into the <a href="http://www.snopes.com/katrina/personal/volunteer.asp" title="New Orleans Astrodome myth" rel="tag">New Orleans Astrodome myth</a> in the wake of the disaster. Since it was easy to believe that people will descend into violence and “ugly” at the drop of a social hat, and that the government is useless in such situations, many believed what was reported as an “eye-witness account” instead of looking at all the information before judging. Supposedly eye witness accounts reported on horrors that were later found to be untrue, and there is a lot of confusion over who actually wrote this and whether or not they were even there. Yet, many bloggers continue to point to these as proof of whatever theory they support on what happened in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and the dikes breaking.</p></blockquote>
<p>We’ll have to watch out for Gustav scams, but in general, blogs did more good than bad as many bloggers stepped up to help by checking out their neighborhoods and communities and reporting on the status of individual homes and businesses, by helping to connect families and friends separated by the storm, by recruiting and directing volunteers and donations for delivery to the needy all along the Gulf Coast, not just to New Orleans. Bloggers pitched in, reported, helped, and aided others all over the country, including opening their homes up to those in need.</p>
<p><a href="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/peopleokayhousegone.jpg"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/peopleokayhousegone.jpg?w=224&h=300" alt="" width="224" height="300" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2939" /></a>Learning from the past, many popular and high traffic blogs jumped up to offer links, resources, and references to help with those confronting or trying to comprehend Hurricane Gustav including <a href="http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/08/hurricane-gusta.html" title="Hurricane Gustav **Updated** | Geekdad from Wired.com">HGeekdad from Wired.com</a>, <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hurricane_gustav_on_the_web_reference_guide.php" title="A Reference Guide for Our Readers ...">Read/Write/Web</a>, and others.</p>
<p>Social media in general, including microblogs like Twitter, Friendfeed, and Tumblr, played a huge role in preparation, response, and reaction to Hurricane Gustav. According to <a href="http://www.weberence.com/2008/08/31/gustav-hurricane-on-twitter/" title="Weberence.com">Weberence.com</a>, Hurricane Gustav is the first major US hurricane covered by microblogging services like Twitter. Within a short time, a specific <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Gustav" title="Twitter Search Gustav">Twitter Search for Gustav</a> became a popular search and feed. <a href="http://noturnonred.org/2008/08/30/hurricane-gustav-home-depot-and-twitter/" title="Hurricane Gustav, Home Depot, and Twitter - No Turn On Red">No Turn on Red reported</a> on how <a href="http://twitter.com/thehomedepot" title="Home Depot Twitter account">Home Depot is using their Twitter account</a> for tips on how to prepare for the upcoming hurricane, <a href="http://noturnonred.org/2008/08/31/more-corporations-offering-gustav-information-on-twitter/" title="More Corporations Offering Gustav Information on Twitter">one of many using Twitter</a> this way. <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/SmartHome/story?id=5703281&page=1" title="Social Media Proves Itself as Emergency Tool">Ki Mae Heussner of ABC News even covered the impact of social media</a> as an “emergency tool” for reporting on the hurricane.</p>
<p>Legitimate news media used Twitter, too. The <a href="http://twitter.com/NOLAnews/" title="Tweets from NOLA.com">New Orleans Times-Picayune (NOLA.com)</a>, the <a href="http://twitter.com/USATWeatherGuys" title="USA Today Weather Guys' tweets">USA Today Weather Guys</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/GustavReporter" title="Chicago Tribune reporters on Hurricane Gustav">Reporters from the Chicago Tribune</a>, and even the <a href="http://twitter.com/RedCross" title="Tweets from the Red Cross">Red Cross</a> all used Twitter to microblog the news, tips, resources, references, and information. </p>
<p>Jazzy Chad created the <a href="http://www.jazzychad.com/twitter/gustav/widget.php" title="Hurricane Gustav Twitter Widget">Hurricane Gustav Twitter Widget</a> if you wanted to track Hurricane Gustav news on your blog through Twitter.</p>
<p>A <a href="http://friendfeed.com/rooms/hurricane" title="FriendFeed Hurricane Room">FriendFeed Hurricane Room</a> for chatting was also started, incorporating Twitter and Friendfeed and online chatting. </p>
<p>A Facebook page was created called the <a href="http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=25689101658" title="Hurricane Gustav Digital Support Brigade (Facebook)">Hurricane Gustav Digital Support Brigade</a> to help connect those seeking help and information on the storm.</p>
<p><a href="http://gustav08.ning.com/" title="Gustav Information Center">Gustav Information Center</a> on Ning became a major resource for many, including <a href="http://www.fcw.com/online/news/153664-1.html" title="FCW News on Hurricane Gustav">media and government sources</a>. It featured a forum, blog posts, Twitter, news, links, video, photos, and a variety of feeds from all over with information on the hurricane, responses, and services, as well as individual bloggers covering the hurricane on their blogs, much in the style of the upcoming WordPress Theme for social media, <a href="http://buddypress.org/" title="BuddyPress project">BuddyPress</a>. Another <a href="http://www.youcit.com/hurricanegustav/" title="Hurricane Gustav aggregator">Hurricane Gustav aggregator</a> was created to collect information from Twitter, Google, YouTube, Flickr, and more.</p>
<p>Weather bloggers were in their prime, many using <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/index.html?range=updated" title="WunderBlogs">Wunderground’s WunderBlogs</a> network to link together their blogs. <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html" title="Dr. Jeff Masters' Weather Blog">Dr. Jeff Masters’ Weather Blog</a>, <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/RickyRood/show.html" title="Climate Change Blog">Climate Change Blog</a>, <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/MikeTheiss/show.html" title="Ultimate Chase Photo Blog">Ultimate Chase Photo Blog</a>, <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/sullivanweather/show.html" title="Northeast Weather Blog">Northeast Weather Blog</a>, <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/LRandyB/show.html" title="Tropical Weather Discussion">Tropical Weather Discussion</a>, <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/StormW/show.html" title="StormW's Tropical Forecast Desk">StormW’s Tropical Forecast Desk</a>, <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/vortfix/show.html" title="vortfix">vortfix</a>, <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/Tazmanian/show.html" title="Tazmanian">Tazmanian</a>, <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/vortfix/show.html" title="vortfix">vortfix</a>, <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/mysticmoondancer/show.html" title="mysticmoondancer">mysticmoondancer</a>, and <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/cyclonebuster/show.html" title="cyclonebuster">cyclonebuster</a> had hundreds of comments, the comments often containing more information than their blog posts as many discussed the reality on the ground versus the satellite and weather images and reports and their perceptions of the information posted. The <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/weathernerd/" title="The Weather Nerd">The Weather Nerd</a> and <a href="http://www.behindtheweather.com/" title="BehindtheWeather.com">BehindtheWeather.com</a> were recommended by many for coverage of the storm. </p>
<p>Within minutes of the first announcement that Gustav was heading towards landfall, a Wikipedia page for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Gustav_%282008%29" title="Hurricane Gustav">Hurricane Gustav</a> was created and updated through the storm’s course, and will continue to be updated as more information is added as the facts come in.</p>
<p>Today, we have more sources than ever to track what is going on with a disaster as well as a way for individuals to express themselves before, during, and after disasters. </p>
<p>For the bloggers living, working, and surviving in disaster areas, they have a lot to teach us about how blogs can help and serve our online community. Those who want to help from outside the impacted areas are learning more about how to integrate multiple media and blog sources into a single aggregator without impinging upon copyrights, creating central clearing houses for news and information. The more we learn about how useful blogs are in a disaster, the more our blogs will improve overall. </p>
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<p>The object-cache plugin is a bit of code added to WordPress which communicates with a caching service in order to reduce the number of database queries it needs to make when building your pages. Together, this helps reduce the <acronym>CPU</acronym> load on your web server.</p>
<p><a href="http://dailyfreeware.net/plugins/"><strong>Paopaobing Smiley plugin</strong></a></p>
<p>Funny and cute smiley plugin for your blog</p>
<p><a href="http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/tweet-this"><strong>Tweet This</strong></a></p>
<p>A plugin that adds a Twitter icon to every post and page, so your readers can share your blog entries on their Twitter accounts with ease.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/youtuber/"><strong>Youtuber</strong></a></p>
<p>Youtuber lets you embed YouTube videos in your posts very easily, and offers a few benefits over simply copying in YouTube’s embed code.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multiple-category-selection-widget/"><strong>Multiple Category Selection Widget</strong></a></p>
<p>Turn your Wordpress post categories into a search powerhouse! This plugin gives you the ability to provide your users with a widget full of dropdowns based upon parent categories and their sub-categories.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:58:53 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1437:"<p><a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/08/29/xcache-object-cache-plugin-for-wordpress-25"><strong>XCache Object Cache Plugin for WordPress 2.5+</strong></a></p>
<p>The object-cache plugin is a bit of code added to WordPress which communicates with a caching service in order to reduce the number of database queries it needs to make when building your pages. Together, this helps reduce the <acronym>CPU</acronym> load on your web server.</p>
<p><a href="http://dailyfreeware.net/plugins/"><strong>Paopaobing Smiley plugin</strong></a></p>
<p>Funny and cute smiley plugin for your blog</p>
<p><a href="http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/tweet-this"><strong>Tweet This</strong></a></p>
<p>A plugin that adds a Twitter icon to every post and page, so your readers can share your blog entries on their Twitter accounts with ease.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/youtuber/"><strong>Youtuber</strong></a></p>
<p>Youtuber lets you embed YouTube videos in your posts very easily, and offers a few benefits over simply copying in YouTube’s embed code.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multiple-category-selection-widget/"><strong>Multiple Category Selection Widget</strong></a></p>
<p>Turn your Wordpress post categories into a search powerhouse! This plugin gives you the ability to provide your users with a widget full of dropdowns based upon parent categories and their sub-categories.</p>";}i:7;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:47:"Lloyd: WordCamp Shirt, Do You Do Spelling Bees?";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://foolswisdom.com/?p=1522";s:4:"link";s:62:"http://foolswisdom.com/wordcamp-shirt-do-you-do-spelling-bees/";s:11:"description";s:6095:"<p>One of the many things that <a href="http://headrush.typepad.com/">Kathy Seirra</a>’s <a href="http://foolswisdom.com/wordcamp-kicking-ass-passionate-video/">session at WordCamp SF 2008</a> has me thinking about is what does WordPress say about us using it. And what do WordPress shirts say about the us wearing them.</p>
<p>About half way through her session she talks about “T-Shirt First Development (<a href="http://www.guykawasaki.com/">Guy Kawasaki</a>)”. I have about 7 WordPress shirts. Occasionally, the ones with the WordPress logo will lead to a conversation — even here in quiet Victoria — with a blogger or web developer, but the ones that spark the most conversations are the WordCamp ones.</p>
<p>Here are some photos from <a href="http://flickr.com/">Flickr</a> of people rocking each year’s WordCamp SF shirts:</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/61939218@N00/357424343/"><img title="Joshua Wiltshire in WordCamp 2006 Shirt" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/357424343_8a1b3a810e_m.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="180" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Joshua Wiltshire in WordCamp 2006 Tee</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/27403767@N00/872848414/"><img title="Chris Heuer in WordCamp 2007 Shirt" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1347/872848414_3ca9584d05_m.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="159" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Chris Heuer in WordCamp SF 2007 Tee. Photo by Laughing Squid.</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/37996646802@N01/2779958048/"><img title="Alan Levine in WordCamp 2008 Shirt" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3286/2779958048_5700171b14_m.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="180" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Alan Levine in WordCamp SF 2008 Tee.</p></div>
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<p>Although <a href="http://wordcamp.org/">WordCamps</a> are happening all over the world, understandably, for most, shirts are not in the budget.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/michaelcummings/2768701571/"><img title="#mightaswell" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3210/2768701571_820736f39d.jpg" alt="Shirt not in the budget." width="500" height="375" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Shirt not in the budget for Dane Hurtubise. Photo by Michael Cummings.</p></div>
<p>I have found only one photo of a WordCamp tee from another WordCamp:</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8286547@N07/2790478860/"><img title="WordCamp South Africa 2008 T-Shirts" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3026/2790478860_ba766ae8b6.jpg" alt="WordCamp South Africa 2008 Tee" width="500" height="375" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">WordCamp South Africa 2008 Tee</p></div>
<p>When wearing a WordCamp shirt, conversations with strangers often start, “WordCamp, do you do spelling bees?” After I get over my initial little bit of embarrassment, I explain “WordCamps are WordPress conferences. WordPress is the blogging software that I use and contribute to.” It’s a great ice breaker, and lets me pimp the Press.</p>
<p>I haven’t had any particular funny conversations or found myself in any strange situations, but I like to imagine that others have.</p>
<p><a href="http://kriskrug.com/">Kris Krug</a> captured what looks like master of creating conversations <a href="http://blog.stealthmode.com/">Francine Hardaway</a> giving everyone a flash of WordCamp during her <a href="http://www.gnomedex.com/">Gnomedex</a> session:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/2787606611/"><img class="aligncenter" title="Francene - Gnomedex 2008 " src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3207/2787606611_61630590bf.jpg" alt="" width="333" height="500" /></a></p>
<p>Jokes. Kris’s <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/2788463092/in/set-72157606889580388/">next</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/2788464166/in/set-72157606889580388/">photos</a> reveal that Francine was doing an on stage costume change, or maybe transforming from mild mannered Francine (can’t imagine) to part of <a href="http://www.gnomedex.com/meet-generation-y/">Generation Y</a> (which her session was about). I can’t wait for the video!</p>
<p>Has a WordCamp shirt taken you to any strange places?</p>
<p><small><br />
Photos Used (because WordPress captions feature doesn’t yet support links):</small></p>
<ol>
<li><small><a href="http://jwiltshire.org/">Joshua Wiltshire</a> self-portrait.</small></li>
<li><small><a href="http://www.chrisheuer.com/">Chris Heuer</a> photo by <a href="http://laughingsquid.com/">Scott Beale</a>.</small></li>
<li><small><a href="http://cogdogblog.com/">Alan Levine</a> self-portrait.</small></li>
<li><small><a href="http://imdane.com/">Dane Hurtubise</a> photo by <a href="http://idreaminpictures.com/">Michael Cummings</a>.</small></li>
<li><small>Photo by Flickr member <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8286547@N07/">StrategyOnline</a>.<br />
</small></li>
<li><small><a href="http://blog.stealthmode.com/">Francine Hardaway</a> photo by <a href="http://kriskrug.com/">Kris Krug</a>.</small></li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Thursday Update:</strong> <a href="http://aizadgreat.com/">Aiza</a> sent me a link to “<a href="http://workwithria.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/wordcamp-preparations/">WordCamp [Philippines] Preparation</a>”</p>
<p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://workwithria.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/wordcamp-preparations/"><img title="WordCamp Philippines 2008 Shirt" src="http://workwithria.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/wordcamp-stuff-15.jpg?w=333&h=500" alt="WordCamp Philippines 2008 Tee." width="333" height="444" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">WordCamp Philippines 2008 Tee.</p></div>
<p><small></small></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:01:56 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:5:"Lloyd";}s:7:"summary";s:6095:"<p>One of the many things that <a href="http://headrush.typepad.com/">Kathy Seirra</a>’s <a href="http://foolswisdom.com/wordcamp-kicking-ass-passionate-video/">session at WordCamp SF 2008</a> has me thinking about is what does WordPress say about us using it. And what do WordPress shirts say about the us wearing them.</p>
<p>About half way through her session she talks about “T-Shirt First Development (<a href="http://www.guykawasaki.com/">Guy Kawasaki</a>)”. I have about 7 WordPress shirts. Occasionally, the ones with the WordPress logo will lead to a conversation — even here in quiet Victoria — with a blogger or web developer, but the ones that spark the most conversations are the WordCamp ones.</p>
<p>Here are some photos from <a href="http://flickr.com/">Flickr</a> of people rocking each year’s WordCamp SF shirts:</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/61939218@N00/357424343/"><img title="Joshua Wiltshire in WordCamp 2006 Shirt" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/357424343_8a1b3a810e_m.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="180" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Joshua Wiltshire in WordCamp 2006 Tee</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/27403767@N00/872848414/"><img title="Chris Heuer in WordCamp 2007 Shirt" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1347/872848414_3ca9584d05_m.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="159" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Chris Heuer in WordCamp SF 2007 Tee. Photo by Laughing Squid.</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/37996646802@N01/2779958048/"><img title="Alan Levine in WordCamp 2008 Shirt" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3286/2779958048_5700171b14_m.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="180" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Alan Levine in WordCamp SF 2008 Tee.</p></div>
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<p>Although <a href="http://wordcamp.org/">WordCamps</a> are happening all over the world, understandably, for most, shirts are not in the budget.</p>
<p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/michaelcummings/2768701571/"><img title="#mightaswell" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3210/2768701571_820736f39d.jpg" alt="Shirt not in the budget." width="500" height="375" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Shirt not in the budget for Dane Hurtubise. Photo by Michael Cummings.</p></div>
<p>I have found only one photo of a WordCamp tee from another WordCamp:</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8286547@N07/2790478860/"><img title="WordCamp South Africa 2008 T-Shirts" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3026/2790478860_ba766ae8b6.jpg" alt="WordCamp South Africa 2008 Tee" width="500" height="375" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">WordCamp South Africa 2008 Tee</p></div>
<p>When wearing a WordCamp shirt, conversations with strangers often start, “WordCamp, do you do spelling bees?” After I get over my initial little bit of embarrassment, I explain “WordCamps are WordPress conferences. WordPress is the blogging software that I use and contribute to.” It’s a great ice breaker, and lets me pimp the Press.</p>
<p>I haven’t had any particular funny conversations or found myself in any strange situations, but I like to imagine that others have.</p>
<p><a href="http://kriskrug.com/">Kris Krug</a> captured what looks like master of creating conversations <a href="http://blog.stealthmode.com/">Francine Hardaway</a> giving everyone a flash of WordCamp during her <a href="http://www.gnomedex.com/">Gnomedex</a> session:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/2787606611/"><img class="aligncenter" title="Francene - Gnomedex 2008 " src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3207/2787606611_61630590bf.jpg" alt="" width="333" height="500" /></a></p>
<p>Jokes. Kris’s <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/2788463092/in/set-72157606889580388/">next</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/2788464166/in/set-72157606889580388/">photos</a> reveal that Francine was doing an on stage costume change, or maybe transforming from mild mannered Francine (can’t imagine) to part of <a href="http://www.gnomedex.com/meet-generation-y/">Generation Y</a> (which her session was about). I can’t wait for the video!</p>
<p>Has a WordCamp shirt taken you to any strange places?</p>
<p><small><br />
Photos Used (because WordPress captions feature doesn’t yet support links):</small></p>
<ol>
<li><small><a href="http://jwiltshire.org/">Joshua Wiltshire</a> self-portrait.</small></li>
<li><small><a href="http://www.chrisheuer.com/">Chris Heuer</a> photo by <a href="http://laughingsquid.com/">Scott Beale</a>.</small></li>
<li><small><a href="http://cogdogblog.com/">Alan Levine</a> self-portrait.</small></li>
<li><small><a href="http://imdane.com/">Dane Hurtubise</a> photo by <a href="http://idreaminpictures.com/">Michael Cummings</a>.</small></li>
<li><small>Photo by Flickr member <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8286547@N07/">StrategyOnline</a>.<br />
</small></li>
<li><small><a href="http://blog.stealthmode.com/">Francine Hardaway</a> photo by <a href="http://kriskrug.com/">Kris Krug</a>.</small></li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Thursday Update:</strong> <a href="http://aizadgreat.com/">Aiza</a> sent me a link to “<a href="http://workwithria.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/wordcamp-preparations/">WordCamp [Philippines] Preparation</a>”</p>
<p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://workwithria.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/wordcamp-preparations/"><img title="WordCamp Philippines 2008 Shirt" src="http://workwithria.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/wordcamp-stuff-15.jpg?w=333&h=500" alt="WordCamp Philippines 2008 Tee." width="333" height="444" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">WordCamp Philippines 2008 Tee.</p></div>
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<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8849/" title="mcm_8849"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8849-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8850/" title="mcm_8850"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8850-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8851/" title="mcm_8851"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8851-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8852/" title="mcm_8852"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8852-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8853/" title="mcm_8853"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8853-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8854/" title="mcm_8854"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8854-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8855/" title="mcm_8855"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8855-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8857/" title="mcm_8857"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8857-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8859/" title="mcm_8859"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8859-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8860/" title="mcm_8860"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8860-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8861/" title="mcm_8861"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8861-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8863/" title="mcm_8863"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8863-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8864/" title="mcm_8864"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8864-195x130.jpg" width="195" height="130" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8865/" title="mcm_8865"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8865-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8866/" title="mcm_8866"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8866-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8868/" title="mcm_8868"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8868-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8856/" title="mcm_8856"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8856-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8870/" title="mcm_8870"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8870-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8871/" title="mcm_8871"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8871-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8872/" title="mcm_8872"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8872-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8873/" title="mcm_8873"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8873-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8874/" title="mcm_8874"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8874-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8875/" title="mcm_8875"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8875-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8876/" title="mcm_8876"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8876-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8877/" title="mcm_8877"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8877-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8878/" title="mcm_8878"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8878-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8879/" title="mcm_8879"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8879-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8880/" title="mcm_8880"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8880-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8881/" title="mcm_8881"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8881-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8884/" title="mcm_8884"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8884-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8886/" title="mcm_8886"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8886-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8888/" title="mcm_8888"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8888-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8890/" title="mcm_8890"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8890-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8891/" title="mcm_8891"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8891-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8892/" title="mcm_8892"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8892-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8895/" title="mcm_8895"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8895-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8896/" title="mcm_8896"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8896-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8897/" title="mcm_8897"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8897-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8899/" title="mcm_8899"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8899-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8900/" title="mcm_8900"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8900-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8903/" title="mcm_8903"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8903-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8904/" title="mcm_8904"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8904-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8905/" title="mcm_8905"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8905-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8908/" title="mcm_8908"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8908-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8909/" title="mcm_8909"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8909-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8910/" title="mcm_8910"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8910-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8911/" title="mcm_8911"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8911-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8914/" title="mcm_8914"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8914-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8915/" title="mcm_8915"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8915-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8916/" title="mcm_8916"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8916-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8917/" title="mcm_8917"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8917-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8919/" title="mcm_8919"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8919-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8920/" title="mcm_8920"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8920-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8922/" title="mcm_8922"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8922-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8924/" title="mcm_8924"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8924-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8925/" title="mcm_8925"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8925-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8928/" title="mcm_8928"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8928-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8930/" title="mcm_8930"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8930-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8931/" title="mcm_8931"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8931-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8934/" title="mcm_8934"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8934-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8935/" title="mcm_8935"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8935-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8936/" title="mcm_8936"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8936-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8937/" title="mcm_8937"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8937-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8938/" title="mcm_8938"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8938-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8943/" title="mcm_8943"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8943-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8946/" title="mcm_8946"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8946-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8947/" title="mcm_8947"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8947-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8948/" title="mcm_8948"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8948-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8950/" title="mcm_8950"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8950-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8952/" title="mcm_8952"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8952-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:00:53 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:15294:"<p>Arriving in Davao from Manila, dinner, and drinks.</p>
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<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8841/" title="mcm_8841"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8841-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8842/" title="mcm_8842"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8842-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8843/" title="mcm_8843"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8843-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8844/" title="mcm_8844"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8844-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8845/" title="mcm_8845"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8845-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8847/" title="mcm_8847"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8847-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8849/" title="mcm_8849"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8849-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8850/" title="mcm_8850"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8850-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8851/" title="mcm_8851"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8851-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8852/" title="mcm_8852"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8852-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8853/" title="mcm_8853"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8853-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8854/" title="mcm_8854"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8854-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8855/" title="mcm_8855"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8855-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8857/" title="mcm_8857"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8857-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8859/" title="mcm_8859"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8859-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8860/" title="mcm_8860"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8860-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8861/" title="mcm_8861"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8861-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8863/" title="mcm_8863"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8863-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8864/" title="mcm_8864"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8864-195x130.jpg" width="195" height="130" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8865/" title="mcm_8865"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8865-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8866/" title="mcm_8866"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8866-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8868/" title="mcm_8868"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8868-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8856/" title="mcm_8856"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8856-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8870/" title="mcm_8870"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8870-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8871/" title="mcm_8871"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8871-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8872/" title="mcm_8872"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8872-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8873/" title="mcm_8873"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8873-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8874/" title="mcm_8874"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8874-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8875/" title="mcm_8875"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8875-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8876/" title="mcm_8876"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8876-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8877/" title="mcm_8877"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8877-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8878/" title="mcm_8878"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8878-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8879/" title="mcm_8879"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8879-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8880/" title="mcm_8880"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8880-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8881/" title="mcm_8881"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8881-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8884/" title="mcm_8884"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8884-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8886/" title="mcm_8886"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8886-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8888/" title="mcm_8888"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8888-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8890/" title="mcm_8890"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8890-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8891/" title="mcm_8891"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8891-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8892/" title="mcm_8892"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8892-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8895/" title="mcm_8895"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8895-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8896/" title="mcm_8896"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8896-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8897/" title="mcm_8897"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8897-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8899/" title="mcm_8899"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8899-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8900/" title="mcm_8900"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8900-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8903/" title="mcm_8903"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8903-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8904/" title="mcm_8904"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8904-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8905/" title="mcm_8905"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8905-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8908/" title="mcm_8908"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8908-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8909/" title="mcm_8909"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8909-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8910/" title="mcm_8910"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8910-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8911/" title="mcm_8911"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8911-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8914/" title="mcm_8914"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8914-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8915/" title="mcm_8915"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8915-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8916/" title="mcm_8916"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8916-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8917/" title="mcm_8917"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8917-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8919/" title="mcm_8919"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8919-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8920/" title="mcm_8920"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8920-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8922/" title="mcm_8922"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8922-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8924/" title="mcm_8924"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8924-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8925/" title="mcm_8925"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8925-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8928/" title="mcm_8928"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8928-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8930/" title="mcm_8930"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8930-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8931/" title="mcm_8931"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8931-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8934/" title="mcm_8934"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8934-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8935/" title="mcm_8935"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8935-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8936/" title="mcm_8936"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8936-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8937/" title="mcm_8937"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8937-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8938/" title="mcm_8938"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8938-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8943/" title="mcm_8943"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8943-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8946/" title="mcm_8946"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8946-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8947/" title="mcm_8947"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8947-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8948/" title="mcm_8948"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8948-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8950/" title="mcm_8950"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8950-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/day-in-davao/mcm_8952/" title="mcm_8952"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/09/mcm_8952-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:32:"Matt: Social Media Bible Podcast";s:4:"guid";s:48:"http://ma.tt/2008/09/social-media-bible-podcast/";s:4:"link";s:48:"http://ma.tt/2008/09/social-media-bible-podcast/";s:11:"description";s:145:"<p><a href="http://thesocialmediabible.com/2008/08/29/matt-mullenweg-founder-ceo-of-wordpress/">The Social Media Bible Podcast interview</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:22:31 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:145:"<p><a href="http://thesocialmediabible.com/2008/08/29/matt-mullenweg-founder-ceo-of-wordpress/">The Social Media Bible Podcast interview</a>.</p>";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:20:"Matt: In Philippines";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=7547";s:4:"link";s:36:"http://ma.tt/2008/09/in-philippines/";s:11:"description";s:380:"<p>Landed in the Philippines a few hours ago. Looking forward to meeting WordPress users in Davao and Manila! In other news, the immigration/customs forms here <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/photomatt/2823117536/">are sponsored by a booze company</a>. Smartly, though, they use carbon copy so you don’t have to write the exact same thing twice, like you do in the US.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:18:26 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:380:"<p>Landed in the Philippines a few hours ago. Looking forward to meeting WordPress users in Davao and Manila! In other news, the immigration/customs forms here <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/photomatt/2823117536/">are sponsored by a booze company</a>. Smartly, though, they use carbon copy so you don’t have to write the exact same thing twice, like you do in the US.</p>";}i:11;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:32:"Gravatar: Better Image Detection";s:4:"guid";s:35:"http://gravatar.wordpress.com/?p=67";s:4:"link";s:59:"http://blog.gravatar.com/2008/09/02/better-image-detection/";s:11:"description";s:1877:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Just a quick note on a subtle improvement…</p>
<p>In the past when you have uploaded an image to gravatar.com that was not a png, jpeg, or gif, we presented you with a big fat error page (which nobody, ourselves included, likes to see.) So as of now we do some back end trickery to attempt to get any image you try to use into a format that we can handle. It wont work with every possible image type, but most of the really commonly attempted ones should be handled (such as svg, bmp, and tif!)</p>
<p>Happy uploading!</p>
<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/gravatar.wordpress.com/67/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/gravatar.wordpress.com/67/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/gravatar.wordpress.com/67/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/gravatar.wordpress.com/67/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/67/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/67/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/67/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/67/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/gravatar.wordpress.com/67/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/gravatar.wordpress.com/67/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/67/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/67/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gravatar.com&blog=1886259&post=67&subd=gravatar&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:30:40 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:11:"apokalyptik";}s:7:"summary";s:1877:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Just a quick note on a subtle improvement…</p>
<p>In the past when you have uploaded an image to gravatar.com that was not a png, jpeg, or gif, we presented you with a big fat error page (which nobody, ourselves included, likes to see.) So as of now we do some back end trickery to attempt to get any image you try to use into a format that we can handle. It wont work with every possible image type, but most of the really commonly attempted ones should be handled (such as svg, bmp, and tif!)</p>
<p>Happy uploading!</p>
<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/gravatar.wordpress.com/67/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/gravatar.wordpress.com/67/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/gravatar.wordpress.com/67/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/gravatar.wordpress.com/67/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/67/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/67/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/67/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/67/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/gravatar.wordpress.com/67/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/gravatar.wordpress.com/67/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/67/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/67/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gravatar.com&blog=1886259&post=67&subd=gravatar&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:12;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:27:"Donncha: WordPress MU 2.6.1";s:4:"guid";s:29:"http://ocaoimh.ie/?p=89493984";s:4:"link";s:46:"http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/09/02/wordpress-mu-261/";s:11:"description";s:1536:"<p><a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/">WordPress MU</a> version 2.6.1 has just been released. This is a sync of the <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/08/wordpress-261/">WordPress maintenance release</a> that saw the light of day a few weeks ago.</p>
<p>This is a required upgrade as it fixes a number of critical bugs, particularly in deleting users and blogs. Upgrading is as easy as copying over the files of your current install.</p>
<p>For a more comprehensive list of changes, check the <a href="http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/timeline">timeline</a>, but in short, yes you do need to upgrade!</p>
<p><a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/">WordPress MU</a> is a multi blog version of WordPress that runs many sites such as <a href="http://blogs.linux.ie/">Linux.ie Blogs</a> and <a href="http://wordpress.com/">WordPress.com</a>. If you run the single blog version of WordPress you can probably ignore this message.</p>
<p><img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/?voyeur=1" /></p><p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2005/08/17/whats-this-wordpresscom-thing-anyway/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: What’s this WordPress.com thing anyway?">What’s this WordPress.com thing anyway?</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/01/26/wordpress-mu-132/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress MU 1.3.2">WordPress MU 1.3.2</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/02/05/wordpress-mu-133/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress MU 1.3.3">WordPress MU 1.3.3</a></li></ul></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:05:01 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Donncha";}s:7:"summary";s:1536:"<p><a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/">WordPress MU</a> version 2.6.1 has just been released. This is a sync of the <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/08/wordpress-261/">WordPress maintenance release</a> that saw the light of day a few weeks ago.</p>
<p>This is a required upgrade as it fixes a number of critical bugs, particularly in deleting users and blogs. Upgrading is as easy as copying over the files of your current install.</p>
<p>For a more comprehensive list of changes, check the <a href="http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/timeline">timeline</a>, but in short, yes you do need to upgrade!</p>
<p><a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/">WordPress MU</a> is a multi blog version of WordPress that runs many sites such as <a href="http://blogs.linux.ie/">Linux.ie Blogs</a> and <a href="http://wordpress.com/">WordPress.com</a>. If you run the single blog version of WordPress you can probably ignore this message.</p>
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<p><a rel="nofollow" title="Download version 0.7c of xcache-plugin.zip" href="http://dougal.gunters.org/download/xcache-plugin.zip"><img src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/drain-hole/images/download.png" alt="download" width="128" height="128" /></a></p>
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<th>Download:</th>
<td><a rel="nofollow" title="Download version 0.7c of xcache-plugin.zip" href="http://dougal.gunters.org/download/xcache-plugin.zip">xcache-plugin.zip</a></td>
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<th>Version:</th>
<td>0.7c</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Updated:</th>
<td>8/29/2008</td>
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<td>1.88 <acronym title="Kilobyte"><span class="caps">KB</span></acronym></td>
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This is another one of those articles that will be of interest to a minority of <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> users. In particular, if you use the <a href="http://xcache.lighttpd.net/">XCache <acronym title="Php Hypertext Processor"><span class="caps">PHP</span></acronym> opcode cache</a> and <a href="http://neosmart.net/blog/2007/xcache-and-eaccelerator-plugins-for-wordpress/">Neosmart’s XCache object-cache plugin for WordPress</a>. For those of you who don’t know what the heck I’m babbling about, a <acronym title="Php Hypertext Processor"><span class="caps">PHP</span></acronym> opcode cache is a bit of software which helps your web server do less work when turning all your <acronym title="Php Hypertext Processor"><span class="caps">PHP</span></acronym> code into web pages that a browser can render. The object-cache plugin is a bit of code added to WordPress which communicates with a caching service in order to reduce the number of database queries it needs to make when building your pages. Together, this helps reduce the <acronym title="Central Processing Unit"><span class="caps">CPU</span></acronym> load on your web server.</p>
<p>When WordPress 2.5 was released, it introduced some changes to the object cache <acronym title="Application Interface"><span class="caps">API</span></acronym>. Specifically, it introduced ‘global groups’ and ‘non-persistent groups’, which are just ways for WP to organize and optimize the data it stores in the cache. However, if you didn’t have an updated version of your object-cache.php plugin, you’d start to see some ‘quirks’ in your system. The things I noticed the most were that my comment moderation counts and plugin update counts would not update properly when I flagged comments or upgraded my plugins. I had hoped that Neosmart would update the plugin, but I never saw any news about it, so I ended up just disabling the object-cache on my site.</p>
<p>Then recently, I had to do some work on the <a title="memcache daemon" href="http://www.danga.com/memcached/">memcached</a> version of the object-cache plugin for a client. This inspired me to go ahead and take a look at the code myself, and update the XCache plugin. By looking at the changes to the memcached plugin, I was able to see that it really wasn’t very hard to make similar changes to the XCache plugin.</p>
<p>I’ve sent my changes to the author of the original plugin, but until any official update comes out, you’re welcome to download my changes.</p>
<p><strong>NOTE</strong>: this is <em>not</em> a normal WordPress plugin, it does not go in your <code>plugins</code> directory! Install the ‘<code>object-cache.php</code>‘ file directly in your ‘<code>wp-content</code>‘ directory! <del datetime="2008-09-04T22:23:54+00:00">You must also add the following line to your <code>wp-config.php</code> file, just before the comment that says ’stop editing’:</p>
<p><code>define('ENABLE_CACHE', 'yes');</code></del><ins datetime="2008-09-04T22:23:54+00:00">This no longer required in newer versions of WordPress.</ins></p>
<p>For more information, see my previous article, <a title="How to use the WP object cache in your own plugin code." href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2006/07/21/using-the-wordpress-object-cache">Using the WordPress Object Cache</a>.</p>
<p><ins datetime="2008-09-03T00:20:04+00:00"><strong>UPDATE 2008-09-02</strong>: After seeing comments about people getting errors, I took a closer look and found a couple of typos. Version 0.7c should clear those up.</ins></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:00:15 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Dougal";}s:7:"summary";s:4520:"<div>
<p><a rel="nofollow" title="Download version 0.7c of xcache-plugin.zip" href="http://dougal.gunters.org/download/xcache-plugin.zip"><img src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/drain-hole/images/download.png" alt="download" width="128" height="128" /></a></p>
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<th>Download:</th>
<td><a rel="nofollow" title="Download version 0.7c of xcache-plugin.zip" href="http://dougal.gunters.org/download/xcache-plugin.zip">xcache-plugin.zip</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Version:</th>
<td>0.7c</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Updated:</th>
<td>8/29/2008</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Size:</th>
<td>1.88 <acronym title="Kilobyte"><span class="caps">KB</span></acronym></td>
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<br />
This is another one of those articles that will be of interest to a minority of <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> users. In particular, if you use the <a href="http://xcache.lighttpd.net/">XCache <acronym title="Php Hypertext Processor"><span class="caps">PHP</span></acronym> opcode cache</a> and <a href="http://neosmart.net/blog/2007/xcache-and-eaccelerator-plugins-for-wordpress/">Neosmart’s XCache object-cache plugin for WordPress</a>. For those of you who don’t know what the heck I’m babbling about, a <acronym title="Php Hypertext Processor"><span class="caps">PHP</span></acronym> opcode cache is a bit of software which helps your web server do less work when turning all your <acronym title="Php Hypertext Processor"><span class="caps">PHP</span></acronym> code into web pages that a browser can render. The object-cache plugin is a bit of code added to WordPress which communicates with a caching service in order to reduce the number of database queries it needs to make when building your pages. Together, this helps reduce the <acronym title="Central Processing Unit"><span class="caps">CPU</span></acronym> load on your web server.</p>
<p>When WordPress 2.5 was released, it introduced some changes to the object cache <acronym title="Application Interface"><span class="caps">API</span></acronym>. Specifically, it introduced ‘global groups’ and ‘non-persistent groups’, which are just ways for WP to organize and optimize the data it stores in the cache. However, if you didn’t have an updated version of your object-cache.php plugin, you’d start to see some ‘quirks’ in your system. The things I noticed the most were that my comment moderation counts and plugin update counts would not update properly when I flagged comments or upgraded my plugins. I had hoped that Neosmart would update the plugin, but I never saw any news about it, so I ended up just disabling the object-cache on my site.</p>
<p>Then recently, I had to do some work on the <a title="memcache daemon" href="http://www.danga.com/memcached/">memcached</a> version of the object-cache plugin for a client. This inspired me to go ahead and take a look at the code myself, and update the XCache plugin. By looking at the changes to the memcached plugin, I was able to see that it really wasn’t very hard to make similar changes to the XCache plugin.</p>
<p>I’ve sent my changes to the author of the original plugin, but until any official update comes out, you’re welcome to download my changes.</p>
<p><strong>NOTE</strong>: this is <em>not</em> a normal WordPress plugin, it does not go in your <code>plugins</code> directory! Install the ‘<code>object-cache.php</code>‘ file directly in your ‘<code>wp-content</code>‘ directory! <del datetime="2008-09-04T22:23:54+00:00">You must also add the following line to your <code>wp-config.php</code> file, just before the comment that says ’stop editing’:</p>
<p><code>define('ENABLE_CACHE', 'yes');</code></del><ins datetime="2008-09-04T22:23:54+00:00">This no longer required in newer versions of WordPress.</ins></p>
<p>For more information, see my previous article, <a title="How to use the WP object cache in your own plugin code." href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2006/07/21/using-the-wordpress-object-cache">Using the WordPress Object Cache</a>.</p>
<p><ins datetime="2008-09-03T00:20:04+00:00"><strong>UPDATE 2008-09-02</strong>: After seeing comments about people getting errors, I took a closer look and found a couple of typos. Version 0.7c should clear those up.</ins></p>";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:52:"Weblog Tools Collection: First Look At WordPress 2.7";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4040";s:4:"link";s:80:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/02/first-look-at-wordpress-27/";s:11:"description";s:14986:"<p>Although tentatively scheduled for <a title="http://wordpress.org/about/roadmap/" href="http://wordpress.org/about/roadmap/" target="_blank">November</a>, WordPress 2.7 looks to be as big of a release since WordPress 2.5, perhaps even bigger. <strong>Before reading the rest of this post, please keep in mind that what you see in the following screenshots is by no means a representation of the final product. Also keep in mind that WordPress 2.7 should not be used on a live blog as 2.7 is no where near stable. What you see here is not necessarily what you’ll get. This post will highlight WordPress 2.7 at its current stage of development. Please keep this in mind as you read through the post and make comments. </strong>Also, click on any of the thumbnails to see the full size of the image.</p>
<h2>Back End User Interface:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/userinterface.png"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4042" title="WordPress 2.7 Backend User Interface" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/userinterface-150x150.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Right from the get go, you’ll notice that just about every facet of the dashboard has been changed. There is now a left hand side navigational column. This column is displayed no matter which part of the administration panel you are viewing. From what I have read on the WP-Hackers mailing list, the decision to go with a side column for navigation was to cut down on the amount of vertical scrolling. This will also allow plugin authors more room to use the top navigation column. After using this version of WordPress, I have noticed that I don’t scroll up or down as much as I used to. One thing worthy of noting is that, when a navigational item contains child elements, clicking on the parent initiates a smooth drop down animation. While this means some elements of the administration area will require an extra mouse click, I don’t find it to be that big of a deal. I imagine if people raise a ruckus about this, the team may decide to initiate the drop down effect during a mouse over.</p>
<p>Although this feature was not available in this prototype, each content block within the dashboard contains an edit link. I’m not sure if these will be drag and drop-able like Widgets but at least you’ll be able to edit their contents or configure them. Speaking of the dashboard, you’ll notice in the screenshot that there is a new block labeled QuickPress. QuickPress is a quick and easy way to publish posts. Although in this iteration, it does not give you the chance to attach a category. So far, it seems to me as though QuickPress could serve to be a quick and easy draft manager/creator.</p>
<p>On the left hand side, we have a box labeled <strong>InBox</strong>. Again, I am not sure what the plans are for this area of the dashboard. Any details for this feature are speculative at this point. However, I think it would be pretty cool if it served as a private messaging area. A simple way to contact other WordPress site administrators. Sure, we could use email or IM to accomplish this goal, but doing it from within WordPress sounds pretty good to me.</p>
<p>As an aside, the black headers for the various blocks in the dashboard appear more stylish to me versus the light blue colored ones in the current implementation.</p>
<p>Before we move on, we need to acknowledge the <strong>WordPress admin bar</strong> at the top of the administration area. This bar looks and works similar to the way in which the WordPress.com admin bar works. <strong>My Account</strong> acts as a profile link as it takes you directly to your account profile. <strong>New Post</strong> takes you straight to the <strong>Write Panel</strong> and of course, you can see how many new comments you have in the moderation queue which will take you to the comment management panel when clicked on.</p>
<p>Last but not least, it is important to notice that some of the naming conventions have changed in terms of navigation. For example, Templates have taken the place of Design. There is also a brand new menu item called Utilities. So far, this link houses the following items: <strong>InBox, Tags, Categories, Link Categories, Users, Import, and Export</strong>. This addition seems pretty logical to me. Instead of clicking on the Management tab where you would then gain access to manage content, there is now a parent navigational menu item called Content. Underneath of this element you’ll find links for <strong>Posts, Comments, Media Library, Links, and Pages.</strong></p>
<p>I’ve had discussions with a few people already about why the change from Design to Template has taken place as I don’t understand why it has changed. Templates seem like they would be a good fit underneath Design. Now, we have the possibility of Themes showing up underneath Templates.</p>
<h2>The Write Panel:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/writepanel1.png"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4044" title="Write Panel In 2.7" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/writepanel1-150x150.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>The Write Panel in WordPress 2.7 has gone through an overhaul as well. I think you’ll really enjoy the fact that drag and drop elements are back. You can now drag elements to the sidebar or to the bottom of the panel. I am thoroughly excited for this element alone. We can now configure the write panel so it is best suited for our needs instead of using a static configuration. There is a cool new tab on the right-hand sidebar called settings.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/writepanelsettings.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4045" title="WordPress 2.7 Write Panel Settings" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/writepanelsettings.png" alt="" width="342" height="119" /></a></p>
<p>If you click on this tab, you’ll be able to select which elements are displayed and which ones are hidden. An extra bonus in terms of configuring the write panel! Not only can you configure the layout to your liking, you can even exclude the non used items from showing up. With todays average monitor resolutions being as big as they are, these two changes to the write panel may end the need for vertical scrolling. This was a major complaint with the WordPress 2.5 write panel.</p>
<p>Here is what the Write Panel looks like with all of the settings turned off:</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/emptywritepanel.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4047" title="WordPress 2.7 Write Panel With Settings Turned Off" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/emptywritepanel-300x137.png" alt="" width="300" height="137" /></a></p>
<p>One last thing about the write panel that I noticed. Instead of the add media buttons that are present within todays WordPress write panel, this version showcases a single Add Media button. For now, this only supports the addition of images into posts but I imagine the other media functionality will be added before its release.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/stickypost.png"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4059" title="Stickypost In WordPress 2.7" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/stickypost-150x150.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Another item worthy of mentioning is that the <strong>Publish tab</strong> now includes an additional option that will allow you to stick a post to the front page. Subsequent posts will be published underneath of this sticky post until the sticky option item is unchecked.</p>
<h2>Even More Plugin Goodness:</h2>
<p>Browsing and installing plugins from the respository looks to become even more convenient now that you can do both from the WordPress back end.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/pluginbrowser.png"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4049" title="WordPress 2.7 Plugin Browser/Installer" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/pluginbrowser-150x150.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>WordPress 2.7 essentially brings all of the features of the plugin repository and makes them accessible in the back end. The plugin installation area presents you with a myriad of different ways in which to search the respository for plugins. For example, you can search by <strong>Term, Tag, or Author</strong>. I tested the search function by selecting Term and then looking for WP Ajax Edit Comments which is a plugin written by our own Ronald Huereca. The search was fast but didn’t show the plugin I searched for as the first result. In fact, the plugin was listed on page four at the bottom. This is a good example as to why the Plugin repository search needs to be improved. There is no reason why a plugin should not be listed as the first result if you type in its exact name into the search field.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/pluginsearch.png"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4050" title="WordPress 2.7 Plugin Search In Action" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/pluginsearch-150x150.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Each search result provides a <strong>version number, rating, description and an install link</strong>. When I clicked on the install link, the detailed plugin information page opened in a Lightbox sort of fashion providing me with a button from which to install from. Clicking the install link from the detailed information page will initiate the download of the plugin. The plugin will automatically be unpacked and installed into WordPress. This is what a successful plugin installation screen looks like in 2.7.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/successfulinstall.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4051" title="Successful Plugin Install" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/successfulinstall-300x162.png" alt="" width="300" height="162" /></a></p>
<p>If the plugin was installed successfully, the only thing you’ll have left to do is activate and then configure it.</p>
<p><span>Although this is great for end users, plugin authors will be pleased to know that they will be able to upload plugins to the repository from the WordPress back end.</span> The Upload Plugin feature in the backend will allow the uploading of plugin archives to your own site while installing them directly from the zip file. This feature was not present in the prototype version but it appears as though the uploading will utilize SwfUpload if available and will unzip .zip packages.</p>
<p>The whole idea of being able to install and upgrade plugins automatically from within WordPress is cool but to see it become a reality is awesome. We can thank the team for building a quality plugin repository API for allowing much of this to happen. I have a feeling that the theme repository and the back end of WordPress will end up going down a similar route with a future version of WordPress.</p>
<h2>More Image Settings:</h2>
<p>Within the Miscellaneous section of settings, there are now a few more options for customizing the display of images within posts. You can now configure <strong>a large image size, default image size, default image alignment, and default image links</strong>. Very nice, time saving options.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/moreimageoptions.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4052" title="More Configuration Options For Images" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/moreimageoptions-300x203.png" alt="" width="300" height="203" /></a></p>
<h2>Plugin Users/Authors:</h2>
<p>If you happen to test WordPress 2.7 either on a live site or a local install, please check to see which plugins you have installed work or break with the new version. Then, add your results to the WordPress <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Plugin_Compatibility/2.7">2.7 Plugin Compatibility page</a> within the Codex. Note to contributors: Please include the version number of the plugin you tested. This will help both WordPress users and plugin developers determine what needs to be addressed.</p>
<h2>Make This The Best Release Ever:</h2>
<p>There are a number of ways in which you can help make this the best release of WordPress thus far. First, there are the mailing lists which you can subscribe and participate in.</p>
<p><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Mailing_Lists#Testers">WP-Testers Mailing List</a> - You can download the pre-releases of WordPress and test them, so that the WordPress developers can fix problems before the new version is made available to the public. If you would like to get involved in this effort, join this mailing list, where new releases are announced and discussed.</p>
<p><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Mailing_Lists#Hackers">WP-Hackers Mailing List</a> - All contributions, ideas and suggestions are welcome at the mailing list. Sometimes, requests are also made on the list asking for the help of volunteers to assist in the improvement and development of specific functionality.</p>
<p>Occasionally there are also bug days on the <strong>#wordpress-bugs</strong> IRC channel. You can read about what happens in a bug day in <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Bug_Hunts">WordPress Bug Hunts</a>, and subscribe to either the wp-hackers or wp-testers mailing list to find out when they happen.</p>
<p>Also, bookmark this <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.7">Codex page dedicated to WordPress 2.7</a>. It will be updated as the day of release gets closer.</p>
<h2>Conclusion:</h2>
<p>Considering WordPress 2.5 was released not too long ago, seeing another User Interface design in the administration panel frustrated me a little at first. I was just beginning to get used to the way the 2.5 admin area looks and feels. However, I <em>must</em> admit that the more I use this new design, the more I enjoy using it. There might be a few users who are upset with the left hand navigation column being displayed on every page. I know I was, especially on the Write panel where I felt squeezed in. However, after using the test version for a little while, I am actually starting to appreciate the vertical navigational column as I don’t need to scroll my mouse wheel up and down as much as I used to. The re-introduction of drag and drop elements within the Write panel is a huge sigh of relief.</p>
<p>Overall, I really like what I’ve seen thus far in this very, very early build of WordPress 2.7. There is still a lot of time before 2.7 is released. Things can and probably will change from now until then but as of right now, things are looking really good.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:15:09 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:14986:"<p>Although tentatively scheduled for <a title="http://wordpress.org/about/roadmap/" href="http://wordpress.org/about/roadmap/" target="_blank">November</a>, WordPress 2.7 looks to be as big of a release since WordPress 2.5, perhaps even bigger. <strong>Before reading the rest of this post, please keep in mind that what you see in the following screenshots is by no means a representation of the final product. Also keep in mind that WordPress 2.7 should not be used on a live blog as 2.7 is no where near stable. What you see here is not necessarily what you’ll get. This post will highlight WordPress 2.7 at its current stage of development. Please keep this in mind as you read through the post and make comments. </strong>Also, click on any of the thumbnails to see the full size of the image.</p>
<h2>Back End User Interface:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/userinterface.png"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4042" title="WordPress 2.7 Backend User Interface" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/userinterface-150x150.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Right from the get go, you’ll notice that just about every facet of the dashboard has been changed. There is now a left hand side navigational column. This column is displayed no matter which part of the administration panel you are viewing. From what I have read on the WP-Hackers mailing list, the decision to go with a side column for navigation was to cut down on the amount of vertical scrolling. This will also allow plugin authors more room to use the top navigation column. After using this version of WordPress, I have noticed that I don’t scroll up or down as much as I used to. One thing worthy of noting is that, when a navigational item contains child elements, clicking on the parent initiates a smooth drop down animation. While this means some elements of the administration area will require an extra mouse click, I don’t find it to be that big of a deal. I imagine if people raise a ruckus about this, the team may decide to initiate the drop down effect during a mouse over.</p>
<p>Although this feature was not available in this prototype, each content block within the dashboard contains an edit link. I’m not sure if these will be drag and drop-able like Widgets but at least you’ll be able to edit their contents or configure them. Speaking of the dashboard, you’ll notice in the screenshot that there is a new block labeled QuickPress. QuickPress is a quick and easy way to publish posts. Although in this iteration, it does not give you the chance to attach a category. So far, it seems to me as though QuickPress could serve to be a quick and easy draft manager/creator.</p>
<p>On the left hand side, we have a box labeled <strong>InBox</strong>. Again, I am not sure what the plans are for this area of the dashboard. Any details for this feature are speculative at this point. However, I think it would be pretty cool if it served as a private messaging area. A simple way to contact other WordPress site administrators. Sure, we could use email or IM to accomplish this goal, but doing it from within WordPress sounds pretty good to me.</p>
<p>As an aside, the black headers for the various blocks in the dashboard appear more stylish to me versus the light blue colored ones in the current implementation.</p>
<p>Before we move on, we need to acknowledge the <strong>WordPress admin bar</strong> at the top of the administration area. This bar looks and works similar to the way in which the WordPress.com admin bar works. <strong>My Account</strong> acts as a profile link as it takes you directly to your account profile. <strong>New Post</strong> takes you straight to the <strong>Write Panel</strong> and of course, you can see how many new comments you have in the moderation queue which will take you to the comment management panel when clicked on.</p>
<p>Last but not least, it is important to notice that some of the naming conventions have changed in terms of navigation. For example, Templates have taken the place of Design. There is also a brand new menu item called Utilities. So far, this link houses the following items: <strong>InBox, Tags, Categories, Link Categories, Users, Import, and Export</strong>. This addition seems pretty logical to me. Instead of clicking on the Management tab where you would then gain access to manage content, there is now a parent navigational menu item called Content. Underneath of this element you’ll find links for <strong>Posts, Comments, Media Library, Links, and Pages.</strong></p>
<p>I’ve had discussions with a few people already about why the change from Design to Template has taken place as I don’t understand why it has changed. Templates seem like they would be a good fit underneath Design. Now, we have the possibility of Themes showing up underneath Templates.</p>
<h2>The Write Panel:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/writepanel1.png"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4044" title="Write Panel In 2.7" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/writepanel1-150x150.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>The Write Panel in WordPress 2.7 has gone through an overhaul as well. I think you’ll really enjoy the fact that drag and drop elements are back. You can now drag elements to the sidebar or to the bottom of the panel. I am thoroughly excited for this element alone. We can now configure the write panel so it is best suited for our needs instead of using a static configuration. There is a cool new tab on the right-hand sidebar called settings.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/writepanelsettings.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4045" title="WordPress 2.7 Write Panel Settings" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/writepanelsettings.png" alt="" width="342" height="119" /></a></p>
<p>If you click on this tab, you’ll be able to select which elements are displayed and which ones are hidden. An extra bonus in terms of configuring the write panel! Not only can you configure the layout to your liking, you can even exclude the non used items from showing up. With todays average monitor resolutions being as big as they are, these two changes to the write panel may end the need for vertical scrolling. This was a major complaint with the WordPress 2.5 write panel.</p>
<p>Here is what the Write Panel looks like with all of the settings turned off:</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/emptywritepanel.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4047" title="WordPress 2.7 Write Panel With Settings Turned Off" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/emptywritepanel-300x137.png" alt="" width="300" height="137" /></a></p>
<p>One last thing about the write panel that I noticed. Instead of the add media buttons that are present within todays WordPress write panel, this version showcases a single Add Media button. For now, this only supports the addition of images into posts but I imagine the other media functionality will be added before its release.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/stickypost.png"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4059" title="Stickypost In WordPress 2.7" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/stickypost-150x150.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Another item worthy of mentioning is that the <strong>Publish tab</strong> now includes an additional option that will allow you to stick a post to the front page. Subsequent posts will be published underneath of this sticky post until the sticky option item is unchecked.</p>
<h2>Even More Plugin Goodness:</h2>
<p>Browsing and installing plugins from the respository looks to become even more convenient now that you can do both from the WordPress back end.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/pluginbrowser.png"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4049" title="WordPress 2.7 Plugin Browser/Installer" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/pluginbrowser-150x150.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>WordPress 2.7 essentially brings all of the features of the plugin repository and makes them accessible in the back end. The plugin installation area presents you with a myriad of different ways in which to search the respository for plugins. For example, you can search by <strong>Term, Tag, or Author</strong>. I tested the search function by selecting Term and then looking for WP Ajax Edit Comments which is a plugin written by our own Ronald Huereca. The search was fast but didn’t show the plugin I searched for as the first result. In fact, the plugin was listed on page four at the bottom. This is a good example as to why the Plugin repository search needs to be improved. There is no reason why a plugin should not be listed as the first result if you type in its exact name into the search field.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/pluginsearch.png"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4050" title="WordPress 2.7 Plugin Search In Action" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/pluginsearch-150x150.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Each search result provides a <strong>version number, rating, description and an install link</strong>. When I clicked on the install link, the detailed plugin information page opened in a Lightbox sort of fashion providing me with a button from which to install from. Clicking the install link from the detailed information page will initiate the download of the plugin. The plugin will automatically be unpacked and installed into WordPress. This is what a successful plugin installation screen looks like in 2.7.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/successfulinstall.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4051" title="Successful Plugin Install" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/successfulinstall-300x162.png" alt="" width="300" height="162" /></a></p>
<p>If the plugin was installed successfully, the only thing you’ll have left to do is activate and then configure it.</p>
<p><span>Although this is great for end users, plugin authors will be pleased to know that they will be able to upload plugins to the repository from the WordPress back end.</span> The Upload Plugin feature in the backend will allow the uploading of plugin archives to your own site while installing them directly from the zip file. This feature was not present in the prototype version but it appears as though the uploading will utilize SwfUpload if available and will unzip .zip packages.</p>
<p>The whole idea of being able to install and upgrade plugins automatically from within WordPress is cool but to see it become a reality is awesome. We can thank the team for building a quality plugin repository API for allowing much of this to happen. I have a feeling that the theme repository and the back end of WordPress will end up going down a similar route with a future version of WordPress.</p>
<h2>More Image Settings:</h2>
<p>Within the Miscellaneous section of settings, there are now a few more options for customizing the display of images within posts. You can now configure <strong>a large image size, default image size, default image alignment, and default image links</strong>. Very nice, time saving options.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/moreimageoptions.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4052" title="More Configuration Options For Images" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/moreimageoptions-300x203.png" alt="" width="300" height="203" /></a></p>
<h2>Plugin Users/Authors:</h2>
<p>If you happen to test WordPress 2.7 either on a live site or a local install, please check to see which plugins you have installed work or break with the new version. Then, add your results to the WordPress <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Plugin_Compatibility/2.7">2.7 Plugin Compatibility page</a> within the Codex. Note to contributors: Please include the version number of the plugin you tested. This will help both WordPress users and plugin developers determine what needs to be addressed.</p>
<h2>Make This The Best Release Ever:</h2>
<p>There are a number of ways in which you can help make this the best release of WordPress thus far. First, there are the mailing lists which you can subscribe and participate in.</p>
<p><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Mailing_Lists#Testers">WP-Testers Mailing List</a> - You can download the pre-releases of WordPress and test them, so that the WordPress developers can fix problems before the new version is made available to the public. If you would like to get involved in this effort, join this mailing list, where new releases are announced and discussed.</p>
<p><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Mailing_Lists#Hackers">WP-Hackers Mailing List</a> - All contributions, ideas and suggestions are welcome at the mailing list. Sometimes, requests are also made on the list asking for the help of volunteers to assist in the improvement and development of specific functionality.</p>
<p>Occasionally there are also bug days on the <strong>#wordpress-bugs</strong> IRC channel. You can read about what happens in a bug day in <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Bug_Hunts">WordPress Bug Hunts</a>, and subscribe to either the wp-hackers or wp-testers mailing list to find out when they happen.</p>
<p>Also, bookmark this <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.7">Codex page dedicated to WordPress 2.7</a>. It will be updated as the day of release gets closer.</p>
<h2>Conclusion:</h2>
<p>Considering WordPress 2.5 was released not too long ago, seeing another User Interface design in the administration panel frustrated me a little at first. I was just beginning to get used to the way the 2.5 admin area looks and feels. However, I <em>must</em> admit that the more I use this new design, the more I enjoy using it. There might be a few users who are upset with the left hand navigation column being displayed on every page. I know I was, especially on the Write panel where I felt squeezed in. However, after using the test version for a little while, I am actually starting to appreciate the vertical navigational column as I don’t need to scroll my mouse wheel up and down as much as I used to. The re-introduction of drag and drop elements within the Write panel is a huge sigh of relief.</p>
<p>Overall, I really like what I’ve seen thus far in this very, very early build of WordPress 2.7. There is still a lot of time before 2.7 is released. Things can and probably will change from now until then but as of right now, things are looking really good.</p>";}i:15;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 09/02";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4082";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/02/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0902/";s:11:"description";s:4187:"<p><a href="http://blog.raptxt.it/temi/tema-wordpress-keepitsimple/"><strong>Keep It Simple</strong></a></p>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/keepitsimple.jpg" border="0" alt="keepitsimple" width="172" height="114" /></p>
<p>Two columns, widget ready, elegant theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://deuced.net/fatmary/"><strong>Fat Mary</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://deuced.net/fatmary/?wptheme=Fat+Mary"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/fatmary.jpg" border="0" alt="fatmary" width="186" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Fat Mary is a green-like, three column, rounded corners theme with the header and footer in the main column.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.urbanlife.jayhafling.com/"><strong>Urban Life</strong></a></p>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/urbanlife.jpg" border="0" alt="UrbanLife" width="177" height="114" /></p>
<p>Urban Life is 2 columns green-gray, widget ready WordPress theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://resourcepile.com/square-splatter-free-wordpress-theme-has-arrived/"><strong>Square Splatter</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://dev.kerplunc.com/wordpress/?wptheme=Square%20Splatter"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/squaresplatter.jpg" border="0" alt="SquareSplatter" width="186" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Single column theme with information at the bottom</p>
<p><a href="http://gaboink.net/prologue-gaboogle-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Prologue Gaboogle</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://gaboink.net/themes/wordpress/gaboogle/"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/gaboogle-prologue-out-205x249.gif" border="0" alt="gaboogle-prologue-out-205x249" width="94" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Inspired by social networks such as twitter, Jaiku, plurk, and Pownce, the Prologue Gaboogle? WordPress theme is an extended version of Automatic’s Prologue theme for WordPress. It’s perfect for bloggers wanting to offer social streaming with a few of the standard WordPress bells and whistles readily available.</p>
<p><a href="http://3oneseven.com/02/scuba-wp-theme/"><strong>Scuba</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://wp.3oneseven.com/index.php?wptheme=Scuba"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/scuba.jpg" border="0" alt="scuba" width="80" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Scuba consists of a fixed two column outfit with a header image rotator built in: widgetized sidebar and footer columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled. Flickr is enabled in the themes options panel.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thematology.com/2008/08/29/free-wordpress-theme-horoscope/"><strong>Horoscope</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://demo.thematology.com/?wptheme=horoscope"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/horoscope.png" border="0" alt="horoscope" width="145" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column fixed-width, free WordPress theme, with righthand sidebar, enabled for widgets - dark background…</p>
<p><a href="http://thebuckmaker.com/fireandice/"><strong>Fire And Ice</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://thebuckmaker.com/index.php?wptheme=FireAndIce"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/fireandice.png" border="0" alt="fireandice" width="152" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, dark colored theme with a left sidebar and flames on both sides</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogsdna.com/774/blogsdna-lab-xeiro-11-professional-wordpress-theme.htm"><strong>Xeiro</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://xeiro.blogsdna.com/"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/xeiro.png" border="0" alt="xeiro" width="100" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Three column blue and white widget, adsense and gravatar ready theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://theme.clarktech.no-ip.com/2008/08/26/web-20-simplified-theme/"><strong>Web 2.0 Simplified</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://demo.clarktech.no-ip.com/index.php?wptheme=Web+20+Simplified"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/web20simplified.jpg" border="0" alt="web20simplified" width="193" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Three column, blue and white, widget and gravatar ready theme.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:53:26 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:4187:"<p><a href="http://blog.raptxt.it/temi/tema-wordpress-keepitsimple/"><strong>Keep It Simple</strong></a></p>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/keepitsimple.jpg" border="0" alt="keepitsimple" width="172" height="114" /></p>
<p>Two columns, widget ready, elegant theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://deuced.net/fatmary/"><strong>Fat Mary</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://deuced.net/fatmary/?wptheme=Fat+Mary"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/fatmary.jpg" border="0" alt="fatmary" width="186" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Fat Mary is a green-like, three column, rounded corners theme with the header and footer in the main column.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.urbanlife.jayhafling.com/"><strong>Urban Life</strong></a></p>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/urbanlife.jpg" border="0" alt="UrbanLife" width="177" height="114" /></p>
<p>Urban Life is 2 columns green-gray, widget ready WordPress theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://resourcepile.com/square-splatter-free-wordpress-theme-has-arrived/"><strong>Square Splatter</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://dev.kerplunc.com/wordpress/?wptheme=Square%20Splatter"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/squaresplatter.jpg" border="0" alt="SquareSplatter" width="186" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Single column theme with information at the bottom</p>
<p><a href="http://gaboink.net/prologue-gaboogle-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Prologue Gaboogle</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://gaboink.net/themes/wordpress/gaboogle/"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/gaboogle-prologue-out-205x249.gif" border="0" alt="gaboogle-prologue-out-205x249" width="94" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Inspired by social networks such as twitter, Jaiku, plurk, and Pownce, the Prologue Gaboogle? WordPress theme is an extended version of Automatic’s Prologue theme for WordPress. It’s perfect for bloggers wanting to offer social streaming with a few of the standard WordPress bells and whistles readily available.</p>
<p><a href="http://3oneseven.com/02/scuba-wp-theme/"><strong>Scuba</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://wp.3oneseven.com/index.php?wptheme=Scuba"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/scuba.jpg" border="0" alt="scuba" width="80" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Scuba consists of a fixed two column outfit with a header image rotator built in: widgetized sidebar and footer columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled. Flickr is enabled in the themes options panel.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thematology.com/2008/08/29/free-wordpress-theme-horoscope/"><strong>Horoscope</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://demo.thematology.com/?wptheme=horoscope"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/horoscope.png" border="0" alt="horoscope" width="145" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column fixed-width, free WordPress theme, with righthand sidebar, enabled for widgets - dark background…</p>
<p><a href="http://thebuckmaker.com/fireandice/"><strong>Fire And Ice</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://thebuckmaker.com/index.php?wptheme=FireAndIce"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/fireandice.png" border="0" alt="fireandice" width="152" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, dark colored theme with a left sidebar and flames on both sides</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogsdna.com/774/blogsdna-lab-xeiro-11-professional-wordpress-theme.htm"><strong>Xeiro</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://xeiro.blogsdna.com/"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/xeiro.png" border="0" alt="xeiro" width="100" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Three column blue and white widget, adsense and gravatar ready theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://theme.clarktech.no-ip.com/2008/08/26/web-20-simplified-theme/"><strong>Web 2.0 Simplified</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://demo.clarktech.no-ip.com/index.php?wptheme=Web+20+Simplified"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/web20simplified.jpg" border="0" alt="web20simplified" width="193" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Three column, blue and white, widget and gravatar ready theme.</p>";}i:16;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:49:"Weblog Tools Collection: Mark Surman on WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:78:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/01/mark-surman-on-wordpress/";s:4:"link";s:78:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/01/mark-surman-on-wordpress/";s:11:"description";s:832:"<p><a href="http://commonspace.wordpress.com/">commonspace</a>: Mark Surman, <a href="http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/me-and-mozilla/">incumbent</a> <a href="http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2008/07/17/mark-surman-and-the-mozilla-foundation/">Executive Director</a> of the Mozilla Foundation is now blogging on WordPress (.com) after <a href="http://commonspace.typepad.com/commonspace/2008/09/moving-to-wordpress-finally.html">having mostly successfully moved his Typepad blog to WordPress</a>. If you take a look around Mark’s blog and read his musings, the incessant flow of energy, the unending passion for the Open Source movement and the push for <em>community, conversation and collaboration</em> in various forms become quite evident.</p>
<p>Good luck in him in his new position and welcome to WordPress!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:44:48 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:832:"<p><a href="http://commonspace.wordpress.com/">commonspace</a>: Mark Surman, <a href="http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/me-and-mozilla/">incumbent</a> <a href="http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2008/07/17/mark-surman-and-the-mozilla-foundation/">Executive Director</a> of the Mozilla Foundation is now blogging on WordPress (.com) after <a href="http://commonspace.typepad.com/commonspace/2008/09/moving-to-wordpress-finally.html">having mostly successfully moved his Typepad blog to WordPress</a>. If you take a look around Mark’s blog and read his musings, the incessant flow of energy, the unending passion for the Open Source movement and the push for <em>community, conversation and collaboration</em> in various forms become quite evident.</p>
<p>Good luck in him in his new position and welcome to WordPress!</p>";}i:17;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/01";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4065";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/01/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0901/";s:11:"description";s:1846:"<p><a href="http://www.askapache.com/seo/404-google-wordpress-plugin.html"><strong>Apache Google 404</strong></a></p>
<p>AskApache Google 404 is a must-have WordPress plugin that uses some ajax and a couple tricks to display a very helpful and SEO Error Page. The default displays Google Search Results for images, news, blogs, videos, web, custom search engine, and your own site.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/"><strong>Regenerate Thumbnails</strong></a></p>
<p>Regenerate all attachment thumbnails in one-click. Useful if you change your thumbnail dimensions (either the small one or the medium one) after uploading images.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bencoleman.co.uk/wordpress-widget-amazon-wishlists/"><strong>Amazon Wishlists</strong></a></p>
<p>Show the contents of any Amazon wishlist in the sidebar on your blog</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/projects/smart-archives-reloaded.html"><strong>Smart Archives Reloaded</strong></a></p>
<p>Customize how your archives page should look like</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-scribd/"><strong>WP-Scribd</strong></a></p>
<p>Add Scribd docs inside a post</p>
<p><a href="http://code.google.com/p/mippin-dev/wiki/WordPressPlugin"><strong>Mobilize by Mippin</strong></a></p>
<p>The Mobilize by Mippin Wordpress Plugin is a configuration free add on. Once installed any cell phone accessing your URL will be redirected to the Mippin rendering of your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/agenda/"><strong>Agenda</strong></a></p>
<p>Create and manipulate events like you do on Google Calendar.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-engine-keywords/"><strong>Search Engine Keywords</strong></a></p>
<p>Display a custom message to users coming to your site from search engines.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:44:13 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1846:"<p><a href="http://www.askapache.com/seo/404-google-wordpress-plugin.html"><strong>Apache Google 404</strong></a></p>
<p>AskApache Google 404 is a must-have WordPress plugin that uses some ajax and a couple tricks to display a very helpful and SEO Error Page. The default displays Google Search Results for images, news, blogs, videos, web, custom search engine, and your own site.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/"><strong>Regenerate Thumbnails</strong></a></p>
<p>Regenerate all attachment thumbnails in one-click. Useful if you change your thumbnail dimensions (either the small one or the medium one) after uploading images.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bencoleman.co.uk/wordpress-widget-amazon-wishlists/"><strong>Amazon Wishlists</strong></a></p>
<p>Show the contents of any Amazon wishlist in the sidebar on your blog</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/projects/smart-archives-reloaded.html"><strong>Smart Archives Reloaded</strong></a></p>
<p>Customize how your archives page should look like</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-scribd/"><strong>WP-Scribd</strong></a></p>
<p>Add Scribd docs inside a post</p>
<p><a href="http://code.google.com/p/mippin-dev/wiki/WordPressPlugin"><strong>Mobilize by Mippin</strong></a></p>
<p>The Mobilize by Mippin Wordpress Plugin is a configuration free add on. Once installed any cell phone accessing your URL will be redirected to the Mippin rendering of your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/agenda/"><strong>Agenda</strong></a></p>
<p>Create and manipulate events like you do on Google Calendar.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-engine-keywords/"><strong>Search Engine Keywords</strong></a></p>
<p>Display a custom message to users coming to your site from search engines.</p>";}i:18;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:49:"Mark Jaquith: Upcoming events I’ll be attending";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/?p=179";s:4:"link";s:77:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/upcoming-events-ill-be-attending/";s:11:"description";s:2552:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Here’s a list of upcoming blogging/WordPress/tech events that I’m planning on attending:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://blogorlando.com/">Blog Orlando</a> - September 27th<br />
This event has been a bunch of fun the last two years — wouldn’t miss it.</li>
<li><a href="http://wordcamptoronto.com/">WordCamp Toronto</a> - October 4th and 5th<br />
About 90% sure I’ll be going to this.</li>
<li><a href="http://barcamptampabay.com/">BarCamp Tampa Bay</a> - October 11th and 12th<br />
The tech/blogging community in Tampa has recently started to get more organized, and this should be a good way of meeting more of the local people.</li>
<li><a href="http://cltwordcamp.wordpress.com/">WordCamp Charlotte</a> - November 15th<br />
I’ll be giving the keynote presentation at this WordCamp event.</li>
</ul>
<p>Hope to see you at one of those events! And if you’re in New York City, be sure to check out <a href="http://newyork.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp New York</a>, on October 5th (hey, there’s a testament to WordPress’ gaining popularity — there are two WordPress camps on the same day!)</p>
<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/markjaquith.wordpress.com/179/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/markjaquith.wordpress.com/179/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/179/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/179/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/179/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/179/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/179/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/179/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/179/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/179/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/179/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/179/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=179&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:22:54 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Mark Jaquith";}s:7:"summary";s:2552:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Here’s a list of upcoming blogging/WordPress/tech events that I’m planning on attending:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://blogorlando.com/">Blog Orlando</a> - September 27th<br />
This event has been a bunch of fun the last two years — wouldn’t miss it.</li>
<li><a href="http://wordcamptoronto.com/">WordCamp Toronto</a> - October 4th and 5th<br />
About 90% sure I’ll be going to this.</li>
<li><a href="http://barcamptampabay.com/">BarCamp Tampa Bay</a> - October 11th and 12th<br />
The tech/blogging community in Tampa has recently started to get more organized, and this should be a good way of meeting more of the local people.</li>
<li><a href="http://cltwordcamp.wordpress.com/">WordCamp Charlotte</a> - November 15th<br />
I’ll be giving the keynote presentation at this WordCamp event.</li>
</ul>
<p>Hope to see you at one of those events! And if you’re in New York City, be sure to check out <a href="http://newyork.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp New York</a>, on October 5th (hey, there’s a testament to WordPress’ gaining popularity — there are two WordPress camps on the same day!)</p>
<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/markjaquith.wordpress.com/179/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/markjaquith.wordpress.com/179/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/179/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/179/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/179/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/179/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/179/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/179/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/179/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/179/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/179/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/179/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=179&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:19;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/30";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4038";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/30/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0830/";s:11:"description";s:2378:"<p><a href="http://blog.avirtualhome.com/wordpress-plugins/avh-extended-categories/"><strong>Extended Categories Widget</strong></a></p>
<p>A replacement of the category widget to allow for greater customization of the category widget.</p>
<p><a href="http://me.abelcheung.org/devel/protected-post-password-hint/"><strong>Protected Post Password Hint</strong></a></p>
<p>Traditionally all password protected posts contain a boiler-plate password form without any hints. Without any capability to change the string, one must provide the hint in another post, which is a bit clumsy. Not to mention, people viewing the single protected post only will be unable to see the hint at all. With this plugin protected posts are more usable.</p>
<p><a href="http://p.osting.it/my-works/babel/"><strong>Babel</strong></a></p>
<p>It allows you to write your blog in multiple languages, and switch between these with a simple click on a flag.</p>
<p><a href="http://somejunkwelike.com/wordpress/development/wordpress-plugin-no-href-in-comment-author/"><strong>No Href in Comment Author</strong></a></p>
<p>Disable HREF URL linking in the comment author of your WordPress posts</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-lijit-wijit/"><strong>Lijit Search</strong></a></p>
<p>The Lijit search ‘wijit’ allows your visitors to search through not only your blog content, but also your extended social network.</p>
<p><a href="http://watershedstudio.com/portfolio/software-development/flag-comments/"><strong>WordPress Flag Comments</strong></a></p>
<p>Allows readers to flag WordPress comments as inappropriate and then allow an administrator control on how to handle that.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.alleba.com/blog/2007/03/27/wordpress-plugin-daily-top-10-posts/"><strong>Daily Top 10 Posts</strong></a></p>
<p>Track the hits of each blog post for the current day and cumulatively at the same time.</p>
<p><a href="http://techblissonline.com/broken-links-remover/"><strong>Broken Links Remover</strong></a></p>
<p>Automatically remove the bad and broken links from the view of human visitors and search engine robots.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/reply-w-comment-preview/"><strong>@reply \w comment preview</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin allows you to add Twitter-like @reply links to comments, including a preview of the comment replied to.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:38:36 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2378:"<p><a href="http://blog.avirtualhome.com/wordpress-plugins/avh-extended-categories/"><strong>Extended Categories Widget</strong></a></p>
<p>A replacement of the category widget to allow for greater customization of the category widget.</p>
<p><a href="http://me.abelcheung.org/devel/protected-post-password-hint/"><strong>Protected Post Password Hint</strong></a></p>
<p>Traditionally all password protected posts contain a boiler-plate password form without any hints. Without any capability to change the string, one must provide the hint in another post, which is a bit clumsy. Not to mention, people viewing the single protected post only will be unable to see the hint at all. With this plugin protected posts are more usable.</p>
<p><a href="http://p.osting.it/my-works/babel/"><strong>Babel</strong></a></p>
<p>It allows you to write your blog in multiple languages, and switch between these with a simple click on a flag.</p>
<p><a href="http://somejunkwelike.com/wordpress/development/wordpress-plugin-no-href-in-comment-author/"><strong>No Href in Comment Author</strong></a></p>
<p>Disable HREF URL linking in the comment author of your WordPress posts</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-lijit-wijit/"><strong>Lijit Search</strong></a></p>
<p>The Lijit search ‘wijit’ allows your visitors to search through not only your blog content, but also your extended social network.</p>
<p><a href="http://watershedstudio.com/portfolio/software-development/flag-comments/"><strong>WordPress Flag Comments</strong></a></p>
<p>Allows readers to flag WordPress comments as inappropriate and then allow an administrator control on how to handle that.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.alleba.com/blog/2007/03/27/wordpress-plugin-daily-top-10-posts/"><strong>Daily Top 10 Posts</strong></a></p>
<p>Track the hits of each blog post for the current day and cumulatively at the same time.</p>
<p><a href="http://techblissonline.com/broken-links-remover/"><strong>Broken Links Remover</strong></a></p>
<p>Automatically remove the bad and broken links from the view of human visitors and search engine robots.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/reply-w-comment-preview/"><strong>@reply \w comment preview</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin allows you to add Twitter-like @reply links to comments, including a preview of the comment replied to.</p>";}i:20;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:38:"Dougal Campbell: WordPress 2.6.2-beta1";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=1054";s:4:"link";s:61:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/08/29/wordpress-262-beta1";s:11:"description";s:692:"<p>It looks like there’s going to be another point-release of WordPress coming soon. <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/8775">WordPress version 2.6.2-beta1</a> was just branded in svn a short while ago. <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/log/branches/2.6">Looking over the logs</a>, I don’t see anything major — a fix for the Textpattern importer, a bug fix that prevents an attempt to make a revision of a revision, a new ‘login_redirect’ filter, a new ‘wp_rand()’ function, and a handful of other minor bugfixes.</p>
<p>I’m kind of wondering if there’s something bigger that’s going to be added before release…</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:17:42 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Dougal";}s:7:"summary";s:692:"<p>It looks like there’s going to be another point-release of WordPress coming soon. <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/8775">WordPress version 2.6.2-beta1</a> was just branded in svn a short while ago. <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/log/branches/2.6">Looking over the logs</a>, I don’t see anything major — a fix for the Textpattern importer, a bug fix that prevents an attempt to make a revision of a revision, a new ‘login_redirect’ filter, a new ‘wp_rand()’ function, and a handful of other minor bugfixes.</p>
<p>I’m kind of wondering if there’s something bigger that’s going to be added before release…</p>";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:23:"Matt: Captcha is Broken";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/captcha-is-broken/";s:4:"link";s:39:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/captcha-is-broken/";s:11:"description";s:232:"<p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/aug/28/internet.captcha">Captcha is broken - now what? The Guardian</a>. I was quoted in today’s Guardian, which consistently has some of the best tech coverage around.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:06:46 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:232:"<p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/aug/28/internet.captcha">Captcha is broken - now what? The Guardian</a>. I was quoted in today’s Guardian, which consistently has some of the best tech coverage around.</p>";}i:22;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:44:"Lloyd: WordCamp Kicking Ass Passionate Video";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://foolswisdom.com/?p=1490";s:4:"link";s:61:"http://foolswisdom.com/wordcamp-kicking-ass-passionate-video/";s:11:"description";s:523:"<p>Any way I put together the title it was this long monstrosity, so I just removed the filler words and then some.</p>
<p>So, one of the <a href="http://2008.sf.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp SF sessions</a> that I was eagerly awaiting the video being available to share is <a href="http://headrush.typepad.com/">Kathy Seirra’s</a> “Kicking Ass and Creating Passionate Users”:</p>
<p></p>
<p>Kathy Seirra is one of my favorite speakers, because she makes me feel like I can kick fleshy parts you sit on too!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:24:56 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:5:"Lloyd";}s:7:"summary";s:523:"<p>Any way I put together the title it was this long monstrosity, so I just removed the filler words and then some.</p>
<p>So, one of the <a href="http://2008.sf.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp SF sessions</a> that I was eagerly awaiting the video being available to share is <a href="http://headrush.typepad.com/">Kathy Seirra’s</a> “Kicking Ass and Creating Passionate Users”:</p>
<p></p>
<p>Kathy Seirra is one of my favorite speakers, because she makes me feel like I can kick fleshy parts you sit on too!</p>";}i:23;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 08/28";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4036";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/28/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0828/";s:11:"description";s:1628:"<p><a href="http://easternwest.com/transport-a-stylish-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Transport</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://easternwest.com/demo/index.php?wptheme=Transport"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/transportscreen.png" border="0" alt="transportscreen" width="200" height="108" /></a></p>
<p>It’s dark, and stylish, with a static patterned background, it’s grey with a dash of blue. It has two columns, and is widget ready.</p>
<p><a href="http://easternwest.com/simple-white-wordpress-theme/"><strong>White 2 cols</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://easternwest.com/demo/index.php?wptheme=White"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/whitescreen.png" border="0" alt="whitescreen" width="200" height="105" /></a></p>
<p>it is plain, simple, and grey and white.</p>
<p><a href="http://easternwest.com/blue-a-simple-blue-obviously-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Blue</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://easternwest.com/demo/index.php?wptheme=WP%20Blue"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/bluescreen1.png" border="0" alt="bluescreen1" width="200" height="99" /></a></p>
<p>Simple two column, blue theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.web-templates.nu/2008/08/22/green-island/"><strong>Green Island</strong></a></p>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/greenisland.png" border="0" alt="greenisland" width="133" height="114" /></p>
<p>Two column, green and blue theme. This theme uses the frontpage as a summery of the blog/site. Not only can you see the latest posts, you can also see the about-page, the categories and the tags.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:18:28 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1628:"<p><a href="http://easternwest.com/transport-a-stylish-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Transport</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://easternwest.com/demo/index.php?wptheme=Transport"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/transportscreen.png" border="0" alt="transportscreen" width="200" height="108" /></a></p>
<p>It’s dark, and stylish, with a static patterned background, it’s grey with a dash of blue. It has two columns, and is widget ready.</p>
<p><a href="http://easternwest.com/simple-white-wordpress-theme/"><strong>White 2 cols</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://easternwest.com/demo/index.php?wptheme=White"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/whitescreen.png" border="0" alt="whitescreen" width="200" height="105" /></a></p>
<p>it is plain, simple, and grey and white.</p>
<p><a href="http://easternwest.com/blue-a-simple-blue-obviously-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Blue</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://easternwest.com/demo/index.php?wptheme=WP%20Blue"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/bluescreen1.png" border="0" alt="bluescreen1" width="200" height="99" /></a></p>
<p>Simple two column, blue theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.web-templates.nu/2008/08/22/green-island/"><strong>Green Island</strong></a></p>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/greenisland.png" border="0" alt="greenisland" width="133" height="114" /></p>
<p>Two column, green and blue theme. This theme uses the frontpage as a summery of the blog/site. Not only can you see the latest posts, you can also see the about-page, the categories and the tags.</p>";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:67:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Hacks: 21 tips to make you smile";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4028";s:4:"link";s:95:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/28/wordpress-hacks-21-tips-to-make-you-smile/";s:11:"description";s:1072:"<p>Well there are two links that showcase 11 and 10 fixes and hacks respectively.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.noupe.com/wordpress/most-desired-wordpress-hacks-11-common-requests-and-fixes.html">Most Desired WordPress Hacks: 11 Common Requests and Fixes</a>: Noupe lists 11 commonly requested WordPress hacks and elegant fixes for them. They include avoiding duplicate content, having category specific menus, sidebar login boxes, most wanted categories etc.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogohblog.com/10-wordpress-hacks-to-make-your-life-easy/">10 WordPress Hacks to make Your Life Easy</a>: Jai lists another 10 hacks to play with. His hack tutorials include adding gravatars to comments, Twitter, image gallery, author bio etc.</p>
<p>Some of these are just tutorials on how features work within WordPress and how to incorporate them into existing themes while others are all our modifications of code in themes and in various other places. None of them look too difficult and some of them can be accomplished with plugins. However, all of them are worth checking out.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:29:09 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1072:"<p>Well there are two links that showcase 11 and 10 fixes and hacks respectively.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.noupe.com/wordpress/most-desired-wordpress-hacks-11-common-requests-and-fixes.html">Most Desired WordPress Hacks: 11 Common Requests and Fixes</a>: Noupe lists 11 commonly requested WordPress hacks and elegant fixes for them. They include avoiding duplicate content, having category specific menus, sidebar login boxes, most wanted categories etc.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogohblog.com/10-wordpress-hacks-to-make-your-life-easy/">10 WordPress Hacks to make Your Life Easy</a>: Jai lists another 10 hacks to play with. His hack tutorials include adding gravatars to comments, Twitter, image gallery, author bio etc.</p>
<p>Some of these are just tutorials on how features work within WordPress and how to incorporate them into existing themes while others are all our modifications of code in themes and in various other places. None of them look too difficult and some of them can be accomplished with plugins. However, all of them are worth checking out.</p>";}i:25;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:89:"Weblog Tools Collection: Tackle Plugin Compatibility Issues While Using Popular Libraries";s:4:"guid";s:118:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/27/tackle-plugin-compatibility-issues-while-using-popular-libraries/";s:4:"link";s:118:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/27/tackle-plugin-compatibility-issues-while-using-popular-libraries/";s:11:"description";s:4063:"<p>I recently got a email from a plugin developer, with regards to him having compatibility issues with one of the plugins I had developed. It turned out that both our plugins used a popular library called PclZip for adding archiving features. Due to the compatibility issue, accessing his plugin would cause a fatal PHP error saying that the PclZip class cannot be re-declared, when both our plugins were activated.</p>
<p>The compatibility issue arose because of two things;</p>
<ol>
<li>A mistake on his part while checking for existence of class objects in the code. </li>
<li>A mistake on my part of using custom libraries, instead of using those provided by WordPress core. </li>
</ol>
<p>Here is a code snippet used to check for class existence.</p>
<blockquote><p>if(! function_exists(’class_name’)) { <br />   require_once(’myclass.php’); <br />} <br />$object = new class_name();</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The above code is wrong, since:</p>
<ol>
<li>Class names cannot be accessed as functions. </li>
<li>The internal methods of a class are not available for checks, unless one decides to instantiate the class and use the method_exists instead. </li>
</ol>
<p>The correct way to check if a class exists or not can be seen in the following code.</p>
<blockquote><p>if(! class_exists(’class_name’)) { <br />   require_once(’myclass.php’); <br />} <br />$object = new class_name();</p>
</blockquote>
<p>This change in code actually solved the compatibility issue, but I would like to discuss a bit further on why one should rely on libraries provided by WordPress core instead of using their own custom libraries. The fatal error could have been avoided, if my plugin made use of the the library files from core WordPress, instead of using custom libraries included with my plugin.</p>
<p>If both our plugins had relied on the library files provided by WordPress, the require_once directive would not have re-evaluated the “same file” again, thus avoiding the duplicate class issue. Earlier versions of WordPress did not include many popular libraries, and many plugins include those libraries to provide backward compatibility. If you have to provide backward compatibility for your plugins, be sure to add in a WordPress version check so that you can rely on your own libraries, only when a version of WordPress does not provide it, doing this will certainly do away with having to tackle the compatibility issues caused by plugins using different files for the same libraries.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> Including files for backward compatibility can be accomplished by using the following code.</p>
<blockquote><p>if(!class_exists(’PclZip’)) { <br />  if(file_exists(ABSPATH.’wp-admin/includes/class-pclzip.php’)) { <br />    require_once(ABSPATH.’wp-admin/includes/class-pclzip.php’); <br />  } <br />  else { <br />    require_once(’/path/to/your/lib/class-pclzip.php’); <br />  } <br />}</p>
</blockquote>
<p>It is also a good practice to include the classes only when you require them, and later destroy the object by using the unset() method. This is a non-exhaustive resource for tackling compatibility issues between plugins, and I will try and research more on other things that can help avoid these issues and keep informing you about them.</p>
<p>If you have your own advice about avoiding such issues, please do share them with us.</p>
</p>
</p>
<p><strong>Further reading from PHP documentation:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.class-exists.php">class_exists</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.function-exists.php">function_exists</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.method-exists.php">method_exists</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.require-once.php">require_once</a> </li>
</ul>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:20:51 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:4063:"<p>I recently got a email from a plugin developer, with regards to him having compatibility issues with one of the plugins I had developed. It turned out that both our plugins used a popular library called PclZip for adding archiving features. Due to the compatibility issue, accessing his plugin would cause a fatal PHP error saying that the PclZip class cannot be re-declared, when both our plugins were activated.</p>
<p>The compatibility issue arose because of two things;</p>
<ol>
<li>A mistake on his part while checking for existence of class objects in the code. </li>
<li>A mistake on my part of using custom libraries, instead of using those provided by WordPress core. </li>
</ol>
<p>Here is a code snippet used to check for class existence.</p>
<blockquote><p>if(! function_exists(’class_name’)) { <br />   require_once(’myclass.php’); <br />} <br />$object = new class_name();</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The above code is wrong, since:</p>
<ol>
<li>Class names cannot be accessed as functions. </li>
<li>The internal methods of a class are not available for checks, unless one decides to instantiate the class and use the method_exists instead. </li>
</ol>
<p>The correct way to check if a class exists or not can be seen in the following code.</p>
<blockquote><p>if(! class_exists(’class_name’)) { <br />   require_once(’myclass.php’); <br />} <br />$object = new class_name();</p>
</blockquote>
<p>This change in code actually solved the compatibility issue, but I would like to discuss a bit further on why one should rely on libraries provided by WordPress core instead of using their own custom libraries. The fatal error could have been avoided, if my plugin made use of the the library files from core WordPress, instead of using custom libraries included with my plugin.</p>
<p>If both our plugins had relied on the library files provided by WordPress, the require_once directive would not have re-evaluated the “same file” again, thus avoiding the duplicate class issue. Earlier versions of WordPress did not include many popular libraries, and many plugins include those libraries to provide backward compatibility. If you have to provide backward compatibility for your plugins, be sure to add in a WordPress version check so that you can rely on your own libraries, only when a version of WordPress does not provide it, doing this will certainly do away with having to tackle the compatibility issues caused by plugins using different files for the same libraries.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> Including files for backward compatibility can be accomplished by using the following code.</p>
<blockquote><p>if(!class_exists(’PclZip’)) { <br />  if(file_exists(ABSPATH.’wp-admin/includes/class-pclzip.php’)) { <br />    require_once(ABSPATH.’wp-admin/includes/class-pclzip.php’); <br />  } <br />  else { <br />    require_once(’/path/to/your/lib/class-pclzip.php’); <br />  } <br />}</p>
</blockquote>
<p>It is also a good practice to include the classes only when you require them, and later destroy the object by using the unset() method. This is a non-exhaustive resource for tackling compatibility issues between plugins, and I will try and research more on other things that can help avoid these issues and keep informing you about them.</p>
<p>If you have your own advice about avoiding such issues, please do share them with us.</p>
</p>
</p>
<p><strong>Further reading from PHP documentation:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.class-exists.php">class_exists</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.function-exists.php">function_exists</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.method-exists.php">method_exists</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.require-once.php">require_once</a> </li>
</ul>";}i:26;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:53:"Donncha: WP Super Cache 0.7 - the dupe content killer";s:4:"guid";s:29:"http://ocaoimh.ie/?p=89493908";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/08/27/wp-super-cache-07-the-dupe-content-killer/";s:11:"description";s:6163:"<p><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/08/27/wp-super-cache-07-the-dupe-content-killer/wsc-rewriterules/" rel="attachment wp-att-89493915"><img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/wsc-rewriterules-150x150.png" align="right" alt="" title="wsc-rewriterules" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-89493915" /></a> WordPress.org user, “definitelynot” <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/199542?replies=6">discovered a bug</a> in the WordPress plugin, WP Super Cache that could expose blogs to duplicate content penalties. Unfortunately this affects every blog that uses the plugin in “ON” or full “Super Cache” mode, and has URLs that end with the “/” (forward slash) character. If the plugin is on “half on” mode, you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>The problem is that an anonymous user might visit a legitimate URL, ending with a slash, the plugin then creates a static file out of that page, which is then used when people visit the same URL. Unfortunately if someone links to that URL without the ending slash, a visiting browser or search engine bot won’t be redirected to the proper URL, they’ll be served the static html file. <br clear="all" /></p>
<p>For example:
<ol>
<li> John visits the URL <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2007/05/23/why-the-nurses-cant-go-on-strike/">/2007/05/23/why-the-nurses-cant-go-on-strike/</a> on my site. WP Super Cache creates a html file of that page.</li>
<li> In his enthusiasm for that post, John publishes a post about those zany doctors, but he forgets the ending “/”.</li>
<li> Googlebot, seeing fresh content on John’s site, crawls it and sees the link, visits my site eventually and wonders why it’s seeing the exact same page at two different URLs.</li>
</ol>
<p>To be fair, Google is pretty good at figuring out where duplicate content is supposed to go but it’s better to avoid the issue completely. It also only matters if there are links to your site without the ending slash. The most common will probably be to your homepage as it’s likely internal URLs will be copy/pasted.</p>
<p><strong>How to Fix</strong><br />
You should update to version 0.7 of the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/">plugin</a> which checks if your blog is affected by this problem. It also has instructions for updating the mod_rewrite rules in your .htaccess. It’s fairly easy to fix. Thank you “andylav” for the mod rewrite magic!</p>
<ol>
<li> Edit the .htaccess in the root of your WordPress install.</li>
<li> You’ll see two groups of rules that look like this:<br />
<blockquote>
<pre>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*s=.*
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*wp-subscription-manager=.*
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*attachment_id=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} .*gzip.*
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*s=.*
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*wp-subscription-manager=.*
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*attachment_id=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html [L]
</pre>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li> You need to add the following 2 rules above each block of “RewriteCond” lines:<br />
<blockquote>
<pre>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^/]$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*//.*$
</pre>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>The rules should eventually look like this:<br />
<blockquote>
<pre>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^/]$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*//.*$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*s=.*
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*wp-subscription-manager=.*
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*attachment_id=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} .*gzip.*
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^/]$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*//.*$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*s=.*
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*wp-subscription-manager=.*
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*attachment_id=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html [L]
</pre>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li> Or you could just delete those rules and let the plugin regenerate them for you again.</li>
</ol>
<p>PS. Thanks also to <a href="http://foolswisdom.com/">Lloyd</a> for noticing the “enable the plugin” link was pointing at the wrong URL, and to <a href="http://cubegames.net/">Ryan</a> who spotted a minor problem with the admin page and was kind enough to send <a href="http://twitter.com/donncha">me</a> a Tweet about it.<br />
PPS. I’ve just tagged 0.7.1 to fix some problems with the updating of the .htaccess, mainly for new users. If 0.7 of the plugin works for you, there’s no need to upgrade!</p>
<p><img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/?voyeur=1" /></p><p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/08/12/wordpress-at-no-10/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress at No. 10">WordPress at No. 10</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/03/13/wp-super-cache-06/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WP Super Cache 0.6">WP Super Cache 0.6</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/08/20/wp-super-cache-067/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WP Super Cache 0.6.7">WP Super Cache 0.6.7</a></li></ul></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:07:46 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Donncha";}s:7:"summary";s:6163:"<p><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/08/27/wp-super-cache-07-the-dupe-content-killer/wsc-rewriterules/" rel="attachment wp-att-89493915"><img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/wsc-rewriterules-150x150.png" align="right" alt="" title="wsc-rewriterules" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-89493915" /></a> WordPress.org user, “definitelynot” <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/199542?replies=6">discovered a bug</a> in the WordPress plugin, WP Super Cache that could expose blogs to duplicate content penalties. Unfortunately this affects every blog that uses the plugin in “ON” or full “Super Cache” mode, and has URLs that end with the “/” (forward slash) character. If the plugin is on “half on” mode, you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>The problem is that an anonymous user might visit a legitimate URL, ending with a slash, the plugin then creates a static file out of that page, which is then used when people visit the same URL. Unfortunately if someone links to that URL without the ending slash, a visiting browser or search engine bot won’t be redirected to the proper URL, they’ll be served the static html file. <br clear="all" /></p>
<p>For example:
<ol>
<li> John visits the URL <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2007/05/23/why-the-nurses-cant-go-on-strike/">/2007/05/23/why-the-nurses-cant-go-on-strike/</a> on my site. WP Super Cache creates a html file of that page.</li>
<li> In his enthusiasm for that post, John publishes a post about those zany doctors, but he forgets the ending “/”.</li>
<li> Googlebot, seeing fresh content on John’s site, crawls it and sees the link, visits my site eventually and wonders why it’s seeing the exact same page at two different URLs.</li>
</ol>
<p>To be fair, Google is pretty good at figuring out where duplicate content is supposed to go but it’s better to avoid the issue completely. It also only matters if there are links to your site without the ending slash. The most common will probably be to your homepage as it’s likely internal URLs will be copy/pasted.</p>
<p><strong>How to Fix</strong><br />
You should update to version 0.7 of the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/">plugin</a> which checks if your blog is affected by this problem. It also has instructions for updating the mod_rewrite rules in your .htaccess. It’s fairly easy to fix. Thank you “andylav” for the mod rewrite magic!</p>
<ol>
<li> Edit the .htaccess in the root of your WordPress install.</li>
<li> You’ll see two groups of rules that look like this:<br />
<blockquote>
<pre>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*s=.*
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*wp-subscription-manager=.*
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*attachment_id=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} .*gzip.*
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*s=.*
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*wp-subscription-manager=.*
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*attachment_id=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html [L]
</pre>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li> You need to add the following 2 rules above each block of “RewriteCond” lines:<br />
<blockquote>
<pre>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^/]$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*//.*$
</pre>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>The rules should eventually look like this:<br />
<blockquote>
<pre>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^/]$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*//.*$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*s=.*
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*wp-subscription-manager=.*
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*attachment_id=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} .*gzip.*
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^/]$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*//.*$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*s=.*
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*wp-subscription-manager=.*
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*attachment_id=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html [L]
</pre>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li> Or you could just delete those rules and let the plugin regenerate them for you again.</li>
</ol>
<p>PS. Thanks also to <a href="http://foolswisdom.com/">Lloyd</a> for noticing the “enable the plugin” link was pointing at the wrong URL, and to <a href="http://cubegames.net/">Ryan</a> who spotted a minor problem with the admin page and was kind enough to send <a href="http://twitter.com/donncha">me</a> a Tweet about it.<br />
PPS. I’ve just tagged 0.7.1 to fix some problems with the updating of the .htaccess, mainly for new users. If 0.7 of the plugin works for you, there’s no need to upgrade!</p>
<p><img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/?voyeur=1" /></p><p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/08/12/wordpress-at-no-10/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress at No. 10">WordPress at No. 10</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/03/13/wp-super-cache-06/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WP Super Cache 0.6">WP Super Cache 0.6</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/08/20/wp-super-cache-067/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WP Super Cache 0.6.7">WP Super Cache 0.6.7</a></li></ul></p>";}i:27;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:30:"Alex King: Twitter Tools 1.5b2";s:4:"guid";s:54:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/08/27/twitter-tools-15b2";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/08/27/twitter-tools-15b2";s:11:"description";s:2421:"<p>I’ve got a new beta version of Twitter Tools ready for testing. Twitter Tools is a <a href="http://wordpress.org/" rel="external">WordPress</a> plugin that creates an integration between your blog and your Twitter account.</p>
<p>This release has a couple of bug fixes (from <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2008/08/05/twitter-tools-15b1">version 1.5b1</a>) and a couple of new features:</p>
<ul>
<li>fixed a logical bug that made the “exclude replies” option work backwards (oops!)</li>
<li>removed a try/catch for PHP 4 compatibility (oops!)</li>
<li>added support for hashtags (linked to search.twitter.com)</li>
<li>abstracted all API endpoints and URLs so that it can theoretically support any service that implements the Twitter API</li>
</ul>
<p>Hopefully this will be ready for a full release shortly, with only minor changes (if any). I guess we’ll find out soon. <img src="http://alexking.org/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </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><a href="http://sharethis.com/item?&wp=2.2.3&publisher=06654962-d77d-102a-861d-00161729a8a2&title=Twitter+Tools+1.5b2&url=http%3A%2F%2Falexking.org%2Fblog%2F2008%2F08%2F27%2Ftwitter-tools-15b2">ShareThis</a></p>
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<p>This release has a couple of bug fixes (from <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2008/08/05/twitter-tools-15b1">version 1.5b1</a>) and a couple of new features:</p>
<ul>
<li>fixed a logical bug that made the “exclude replies” option work backwards (oops!)</li>
<li>removed a try/catch for PHP 4 compatibility (oops!)</li>
<li>added support for hashtags (linked to search.twitter.com)</li>
<li>abstracted all API endpoints and URLs so that it can theoretically support any service that implements the Twitter API</li>
</ul>
<p>Hopefully this will be ready for a full release shortly, with only minor changes (if any). I guess we’ll find out soon. <img src="http://alexking.org/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </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>
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<p>This plugin renders inline sheet music fragments inside posts and comments into images. It supports ABC, GUIDO, Lilypond and Mup music notations.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.coolchecks.net/blog/wordpress/wordpressplugin.html"><strong>Submit Your Blog</strong></a></p>
<p>A new WordPress plugin has been created that will have direct links to 20 different places to submit your blog. These twenty blog submission directories are popular places to advertise your new WordPress blog. They appear as links inside the back office of your WordPress blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.stefanoverna.com/projects/wp_markitup"><strong>MarkItUp</strong></a></p>
<p>WP MarkItUp! is the Wordpress plugin that replaces the old “quicktags” toolbar with MarkItUp!, a lightweight jQuery plugin that allows to turn any textarea into an highly customizable markup editor. XHTML, Textile, Wiki, Markdown and BBcode toolbars are already provided out-of-the-box, but even your own markup syntax can be easily implemented with this system.</p>
<p><a href="http://fairyfish.com/2008/06/02/top-friends/"><strong>Top Friends</strong></a></p>
<p>Top Friends is a WordPress blogroll enhancement plugin. The plugin will fetch your friends’ feeds, and then display the feed’s name and status icon base on last update time and latest two posts of the feed.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tabbed-widgets/"><strong>Tabbed Widgets</strong></a></p>
<p>Tabbed interfaces are the most common on newspaper type website where they can save a lot of vertical space and make it look less cluttered.</p>
<p><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/liz-strauss-comment-count-badge-widget-wordpress/"><strong>Liz Strauss Comment Count Badge</strong></a></p>
<p>Liz Strauss Comment Counter is a highly configurable “internet badge” that shows the number of comments your WordPress blog has. Use it either to show off how social your blog is, as an incentive for commenters to be part of it, or just because it’s fun.</p>
<p><a href="http://deanjrobinson.com/projects/fluency-admin/"><strong>Fluency Admin</strong></a></p>
<p>Gives your WordPress WP-Admin interface a complete overhaul!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.web-templates.nu/2008/08/25/wp-extra-template-tags/"><strong>WP Extra Template Tags</strong></a></p>
<p>Provide Wordpress users with extra template tags.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:30:08 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2461:"<p><a href="http://scorerender.abelcheung.org/"><strong>ScoreRenderer</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin renders inline sheet music fragments inside posts and comments into images. It supports ABC, GUIDO, Lilypond and Mup music notations.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.coolchecks.net/blog/wordpress/wordpressplugin.html"><strong>Submit Your Blog</strong></a></p>
<p>A new WordPress plugin has been created that will have direct links to 20 different places to submit your blog. These twenty blog submission directories are popular places to advertise your new WordPress blog. They appear as links inside the back office of your WordPress blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.stefanoverna.com/projects/wp_markitup"><strong>MarkItUp</strong></a></p>
<p>WP MarkItUp! is the Wordpress plugin that replaces the old “quicktags” toolbar with MarkItUp!, a lightweight jQuery plugin that allows to turn any textarea into an highly customizable markup editor. XHTML, Textile, Wiki, Markdown and BBcode toolbars are already provided out-of-the-box, but even your own markup syntax can be easily implemented with this system.</p>
<p><a href="http://fairyfish.com/2008/06/02/top-friends/"><strong>Top Friends</strong></a></p>
<p>Top Friends is a WordPress blogroll enhancement plugin. The plugin will fetch your friends’ feeds, and then display the feed’s name and status icon base on last update time and latest two posts of the feed.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tabbed-widgets/"><strong>Tabbed Widgets</strong></a></p>
<p>Tabbed interfaces are the most common on newspaper type website where they can save a lot of vertical space and make it look less cluttered.</p>
<p><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/liz-strauss-comment-count-badge-widget-wordpress/"><strong>Liz Strauss Comment Count Badge</strong></a></p>
<p>Liz Strauss Comment Counter is a highly configurable “internet badge” that shows the number of comments your WordPress blog has. Use it either to show off how social your blog is, as an incentive for commenters to be part of it, or just because it’s fun.</p>
<p><a href="http://deanjrobinson.com/projects/fluency-admin/"><strong>Fluency Admin</strong></a></p>
<p>Gives your WordPress WP-Admin interface a complete overhaul!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.web-templates.nu/2008/08/25/wp-extra-template-tags/"><strong>WP Extra Template Tags</strong></a></p>
<p>Provide Wordpress users with extra template tags.</p>";}i:29;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:49:"Lloyd: Broken WordPress Plugin or Theme, Blame Me";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://foolswisdom.com/?p=1440";s:4:"link";s:65:"http://foolswisdom.com/broken-wordpress-plugin-or-theme-blame-me/";s:11:"description";s:2028:"<p>WordPress community superstar and regular <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/">web tools collection</a> contributor <a href="http://www.jeffro2pt0.com/">Jeff Chandler (jeffr0)</a> recently published a passionate article, “<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/24/stop-blaming-the-wordpress-team/" title="Permanent Link to Stop Blaming The WordPress Team" rel="bookmark">Stop Blaming The WordPress Team</a>“. The article is about plugin developers blaming WordPress for too frequent updates without testing of popular plugins. His conclusion ends “So the next time you upgrade WordPress and realize your favorite plugin is broke, don’t blame the WordPress team, blame the source.” There are almost 200 comments on the article, and reading through them I imagine almost all perspectives are represented.</p>
<p>My hope is you don’t blame anyone. Maybe, it’s the core WordPress developers fault, maybe it’s the plugin or theme’s author, but that matters much less than everyone involved staying positively pumped.</p>
<p><strong> The worse possible outcome is plugin developer and theme designer exhaustion. </strong>These people are as much<strong> the WordPress team </strong>as anyone is<strong>!</strong></p>
<p><strong>T</strong><strong>hank contributors</strong>. For many that is all the compensation they are looking for, but don’t berate the contributor that is looking for more.</p>
<p>The blame game doesn’t help. Instead, if the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/">plugins</a> or <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/">themes</a> you use are a gift to you (<a href="http://foolswisdom.com/no-free-lunch/">free</a>), blog about, comment on forums, write the authors directly thanking them for the work that you miss because it isn’t working with the newest version of WordPress. Why wait till there is a problem, thank them today.</p>
<p>If you really need to blame someone, blame me. I can take it.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:40:40 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:5:"Lloyd";}s:7:"summary";s:2028:"<p>WordPress community superstar and regular <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/">web tools collection</a> contributor <a href="http://www.jeffro2pt0.com/">Jeff Chandler (jeffr0)</a> recently published a passionate article, “<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/24/stop-blaming-the-wordpress-team/" title="Permanent Link to Stop Blaming The WordPress Team" rel="bookmark">Stop Blaming The WordPress Team</a>“. The article is about plugin developers blaming WordPress for too frequent updates without testing of popular plugins. His conclusion ends “So the next time you upgrade WordPress and realize your favorite plugin is broke, don’t blame the WordPress team, blame the source.” There are almost 200 comments on the article, and reading through them I imagine almost all perspectives are represented.</p>
<p>My hope is you don’t blame anyone. Maybe, it’s the core WordPress developers fault, maybe it’s the plugin or theme’s author, but that matters much less than everyone involved staying positively pumped.</p>
<p><strong> The worse possible outcome is plugin developer and theme designer exhaustion. </strong>These people are as much<strong> the WordPress team </strong>as anyone is<strong>!</strong></p>
<p><strong>T</strong><strong>hank contributors</strong>. For many that is all the compensation they are looking for, but don’t berate the contributor that is looking for more.</p>
<p>The blame game doesn’t help. Instead, if the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/">plugins</a> or <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/">themes</a> you use are a gift to you (<a href="http://foolswisdom.com/no-free-lunch/">free</a>), blog about, comment on forums, write the authors directly thanking them for the work that you miss because it isn’t working with the newest version of WordPress. Why wait till there is a problem, thank them today.</p>
<p>If you really need to blame someone, blame me. I can take it.</p>";}i:30;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:34:"Matt: South Africa: Stormhoek Tour";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=7287";s:4:"link";s:49:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/south-africa-stormhoek-tour/";s:11:"description";s:36904:"<p>Sunday tour of the <a href="http://www.stormhoek.co.za/">Stormhoek wine farm</a>; pizza + pool.</p>
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<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/south-africa-stormhoek-tour/mcm_7089/" title="mcm_7089"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_7089-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/south-africa-stormhoek-tour/mcm_7096/" title="mcm_7096"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_7096-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/south-africa-stormhoek-tour/mcm_7099/" title="mcm_7099"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_7099-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/south-africa-stormhoek-tour/mcm_7106/" title="mcm_7106"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_7106-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/south-africa-stormhoek-tour/mcm_7109/" title="mcm_7109"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_7109-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/south-africa-stormhoek-tour/mcm_7110/" title="mcm_7110"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_7110-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/south-africa-stormhoek-tour/mcm_7112/" title="mcm_7112"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_7112-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/south-africa-stormhoek-tour/mcm_7113/" title="mcm_7113"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_7113-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/south-africa-stormhoek-tour/mcm_7115/" title="mcm_7115"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_7115-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/south-africa-stormhoek-tour/mcm_7055/" title="mcm_7055"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_7055-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:26:"Matt: SxSW 2009 Panel Vote";s:4:"guid";s:42:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/sxsw-2009-panel-vote/";s:4:"link";s:42:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/sxsw-2009-panel-vote/";s:11:"description";s:354:"<p><a href="http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/2064">Riding the Crazyhorse: Iterative Testing and Design of WordPress</a>. If that sounds like something you’d want to see at SxSW 2009 presented by Liz Danzico, Jane Wells, and yours truly then <a href="http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/2064">vote early and often</a>. Polls close soon.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:31:26 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:354:"<p><a href="http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/2064">Riding the Crazyhorse: Iterative Testing and Design of WordPress</a>. If that sounds like something you’d want to see at SxSW 2009 presented by Liz Danzico, Jane Wells, and yours truly then <a href="http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/2064">vote early and often</a>. Polls close soon.</p>";}i:32;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:64:"Donncha: Howto: Twitter sms notification for Meteor and Vodafone";s:4:"guid";s:29:"http://ocaoimh.ie/?p=89493899";s:4:"link";s:84:"http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/08/26/howto-twitter-sms-notification-for-meteor-and-vodafone/";s:11:"description";s:3187:"<p>A few weeks ago Twitter annoyed a lot of European users when they <a href="http://blog.twitter.com/2008/08/changes-for-some-sms-usersgood-and-bad.html">stopped sending sms notifications</a> to their users. I never really used that facility so I didn’t miss it but many Tweeters did. Outrage and blue murder were spoken of in the same sentence. People marched in the streets, there were riots.</p>
<p>OK, maybe not, but it annoyed a few prolific Tweeters and <a href="http://twitter.com/donncha/statuses/896719107">I wondered aloud</a> if I could make <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tweet-tweet/">Tweet Tweet</a> send me sms notifications when I got replies or direct messages. After quite a bit of testing and playing around with <a href="http://meteor.ie/">Meteor’s website</a> I’m glad to say I cracked it. I added hooks to my plugin for other plugins to latch on to, and wrote a small bit of code that logs in to Meteor.ie and uses their free web text to notify me of replies or direct messages.</p>
<p>Following on from that success, <a href="http://www.jason-roe.com/blog/">Jason Roe</a> added code so Irish <a href="http://vodafone.ie/">Vodafone</a> customers could get sms notifications too!</p>
<p>So, if you really miss the sms notifications from Twitter, and you’re an Irish Meteor or Vodafone customer, download <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-tweet/">Tweet Tweet</a>, install it in your WordPress blog and enjoy getting those sms notifications from Twitter again!</p>
<div align="center"><img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/tweet-tweet-config.png" alt="" title="tweet-tweet-config" width="412" height="573" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-89493900" /></div>
<p>Developers - if your phone company isn’t covered just yet, please take a look at the existing Meteor and Vodafone plugins. The framework is there. Using curl to login and send texts can be a little daunting but it’s not impossible. Get in touch by leaving a comment here, or using the contact form on the about page.</p>
<p>PS. Almost forgot to mention <a href="http://tweetrush.com/">Tweetrush</a> went live yesterday with some very nice Twitter stats. Check out what my friend <a href="http://aj.mc-kee.com/2008/08/25/tweetrushcom-is-live-thank-you-to/">AJ has to say</a> about the launch!<br />
PPS. I’ll be demoing Tweet Tweet at <a href="http://digitalmediaisland.com/2008/08/09/event-digital-island-meetup-techludd-cork/">Techludd Cork</a> on Thursday night. If you’re there, please say hi!</p>
<p><img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/?voyeur=1" /></p><p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2005/01/05/my-meteor-why-dont-you-work-in-firefox/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: My Meteor - why don’t you work in Firefox?">My Meteor - why don’t you work in Firefox?</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2004/06/28/phone-upgrade/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Phone Upgrade">Phone Upgrade</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2003/03/19/vodafone-pricing-revealed/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Vodafone pricing revealed">Vodafone pricing revealed</a></li></ul></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:40:37 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Donncha";}s:7:"summary";s:3187:"<p>A few weeks ago Twitter annoyed a lot of European users when they <a href="http://blog.twitter.com/2008/08/changes-for-some-sms-usersgood-and-bad.html">stopped sending sms notifications</a> to their users. I never really used that facility so I didn’t miss it but many Tweeters did. Outrage and blue murder were spoken of in the same sentence. People marched in the streets, there were riots.</p>
<p>OK, maybe not, but it annoyed a few prolific Tweeters and <a href="http://twitter.com/donncha/statuses/896719107">I wondered aloud</a> if I could make <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tweet-tweet/">Tweet Tweet</a> send me sms notifications when I got replies or direct messages. After quite a bit of testing and playing around with <a href="http://meteor.ie/">Meteor’s website</a> I’m glad to say I cracked it. I added hooks to my plugin for other plugins to latch on to, and wrote a small bit of code that logs in to Meteor.ie and uses their free web text to notify me of replies or direct messages.</p>
<p>Following on from that success, <a href="http://www.jason-roe.com/blog/">Jason Roe</a> added code so Irish <a href="http://vodafone.ie/">Vodafone</a> customers could get sms notifications too!</p>
<p>So, if you really miss the sms notifications from Twitter, and you’re an Irish Meteor or Vodafone customer, download <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-tweet/">Tweet Tweet</a>, install it in your WordPress blog and enjoy getting those sms notifications from Twitter again!</p>
<div align="center"><img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/tweet-tweet-config.png" alt="" title="tweet-tweet-config" width="412" height="573" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-89493900" /></div>
<p>Developers - if your phone company isn’t covered just yet, please take a look at the existing Meteor and Vodafone plugins. The framework is there. Using curl to login and send texts can be a little daunting but it’s not impossible. Get in touch by leaving a comment here, or using the contact form on the about page.</p>
<p>PS. Almost forgot to mention <a href="http://tweetrush.com/">Tweetrush</a> went live yesterday with some very nice Twitter stats. Check out what my friend <a href="http://aj.mc-kee.com/2008/08/25/tweetrushcom-is-live-thank-you-to/">AJ has to say</a> about the launch!<br />
PPS. I’ll be demoing Tweet Tweet at <a href="http://digitalmediaisland.com/2008/08/09/event-digital-island-meetup-techludd-cork/">Techludd Cork</a> on Thursday night. If you’re there, please say hi!</p>
<p><img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/?voyeur=1" /></p><p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2005/01/05/my-meteor-why-dont-you-work-in-firefox/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: My Meteor - why don’t you work in Firefox?">My Meteor - why don’t you work in Firefox?</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2004/06/28/phone-upgrade/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Phone Upgrade">Phone Upgrade</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2003/03/19/vodafone-pricing-revealed/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Vodafone pricing revealed">Vodafone pricing revealed</a></li></ul></p>";}i:33;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:34:"Matt: WordCamp South Africa Photos";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=7197";s:4:"link";s:50:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/";s:11:"description";s:18683:"<p>Photos from WordCamp South Africa and Wembley Square afterward.</p>
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<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6206/" title="mcm_6206"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6206-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6209/" title="mcm_6209"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6209-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6211/" title="mcm_6211"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6211-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6213/" title="mcm_6213"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6213-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6215/" title="mcm_6215"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6215-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6217/" title="mcm_6217"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6217-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6219/" title="mcm_6219"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6219-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6220/" title="mcm_6220"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6220-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6224/" title="mcm_6224"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6224-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6227/" title="mcm_6227"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6227-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6229/" title="mcm_6229"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6229-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6231/" title="mcm_6231"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6231-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6234/" title="mcm_6234"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6234-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6236/" title="mcm_6236"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6236-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6238/" title="mcm_6238"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6238-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6241/" title="mcm_6241"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6241-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6244/" title="mcm_6244"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6244-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6245/" title="mcm_6245"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6245-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6247/" title="mcm_6247"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6247-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6250/" title="mcm_6250"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6250-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6253/" title="mcm_6253"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6253-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6257/" title="mcm_6257"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6257-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6261/" title="mcm_6261"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6261-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6264/" title="mcm_6264"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6264-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6265/" title="mcm_6265"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6265-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6270/" title="mcm_6270"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6270-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6274/" title="mcm_6274"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6274-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6276/" title="mcm_6276"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6276-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6281/" title="mcm_6281"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6281-194x129.jpg" width="194" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6283/" title="mcm_6283"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6283-194x129.jpg" width="194" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6285/" title="mcm_6285"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6285-194x129.jpg" width="194" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6287/" title="mcm_6287"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6287-194x129.jpg" width="194" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6289/" title="mcm_6289"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6289-194x129.jpg" width="194" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6291/" title="mcm_6291"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6291-194x129.jpg" width="194" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6292/" title="mcm_6292"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6292-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6294/" title="mcm_6294"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6294-194x129.jpg" width="194" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6297/" title="mcm_6297"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6297-194x129.jpg" width="194" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6299/" title="mcm_6299"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6299-194x129.jpg" width="194" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6300/" title="mcm_6300"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6300-194x129.jpg" width="194" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6301/" title="mcm_6301"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6301-194x129.jpg" width="194" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6302/" title="mcm_6302"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6302-194x129.jpg" width="194" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6304/" title="mcm_6304"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6304-194x129.jpg" width="194" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6305/" title="mcm_6305"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6305-194x129.jpg" width="194" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6306/" title="mcm_6306"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6306-194x129.jpg" width="194" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6307/" title="mcm_6307"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6307-194x129.jpg" width="194" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6309/" title="mcm_6309"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6309-194x129.jpg" width="194" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6310/" title="mcm_6310"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6310-194x129.jpg" width="194" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6312/" title="mcm_6312"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6312-194x129.jpg" width="194" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
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<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6696/" title="mcm_6696"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6696-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6702/" title="mcm_6702"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6702-194x129.jpg" width="194" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6708/" title="mcm_6708"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6708-194x129.jpg" width="194" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6709/" title="mcm_6709"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6709-194x129.jpg" width="194" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:00:18 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:18683:"<p>Photos from WordCamp South Africa and Wembley Square afterward.</p>
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<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6708/" title="mcm_6708"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6708-194x129.jpg" width="194" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/mcm_6709/" title="mcm_6709"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6709-194x129.jpg" width="194" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>";}i:34;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:28:"Matt: Travel to South Africa";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=7158";s:4:"link";s:44:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/travel-to-south-africa/";s:11:"description";s:7861:"<p>Arriving to Cape Town and geek drinks at Asoka.</p>
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<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/travel-to-south-africa/mcm_6203/" title="mcm_6203"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6203-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:15:13 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:7861:"<p>Arriving to Cape Town and geek drinks at Asoka.</p>
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<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/travel-to-south-africa/mcm_6136/" title="mcm_6136"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6136-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
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<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/travel-to-south-africa/mcm_6139/" title="mcm_6139"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6139-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/travel-to-south-africa/mcm_6141/" title="mcm_6141"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6141-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/travel-to-south-africa/mcm_6142/" title="mcm_6142"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6142-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/travel-to-south-africa/mcm_6145/" title="mcm_6145"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6145-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/travel-to-south-africa/mcm_6149/" title="mcm_6149"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6149-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/travel-to-south-africa/mcm_6152/" title="mcm_6152"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6152-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/travel-to-south-africa/mcm_6153/" title="mcm_6153"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6153-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/travel-to-south-africa/mcm_6157/" title="mcm_6157"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6157-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/travel-to-south-africa/mcm_6160/" title="mcm_6160"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6160-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/travel-to-south-africa/mcm_6163/" title="mcm_6163"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6163-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/travel-to-south-africa/mcm_6171/" title="mcm_6171"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6171-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/travel-to-south-africa/mcm_6174/" title="mcm_6174"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6174-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/travel-to-south-africa/mcm_6180/" title="mcm_6180"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6180-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/travel-to-south-africa/mcm_6181/" title="mcm_6181"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6181-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/travel-to-south-africa/mcm_6187/" title="mcm_6187"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6187-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/travel-to-south-africa/mcm_6189/" title="mcm_6189"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6189-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/travel-to-south-africa/mcm_6195/" title="mcm_6195"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6195-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/travel-to-south-africa/mcm_6198/" title="mcm_6198"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6198-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/travel-to-south-africa/mcm_6201/" title="mcm_6201"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6201-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/travel-to-south-africa/mcm_6202/" title="mcm_6202"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6202-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/travel-to-south-africa/mcm_6203/" title="mcm_6203"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_6203-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>";}i:35;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:19:"Matt: Ballot Design";s:4:"guid";s:35:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/ballot-design/";s:4:"link";s:35:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/ballot-design/";s:11:"description";s:163:"<p><a href="http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/how-design-can-save-democracy/">How Design Can Save Democracy</a>. AIGA tackles election ballots.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:07:17 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:163:"<p><a href="http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/how-design-can-save-democracy/">How Design Can Save Democracy</a>. AIGA tackles election ballots.</p>";}i:36;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 08/25";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4020";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/25/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0825/";s:11:"description";s:2852:"<p><a href="http://www.onlineshopping1a.de/wordpress-layout/wp-plasmashot.htm"><strong>WP Plasmashot</strong></a></p>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/wp-plasmashot-preview.jpg" border="0" alt="wp_plasmashot_preview" width="148" height="114" /></p>
<p>Two columns, widget ready, left side bar WordPress theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://stylizedweb.com/2008/08/25/miniblog-wordpress-theme/"><strong>miniBlog</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://stylizedweb.com/wp-content/themes/miniblog/index.html"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/miniblog.jpg" border="0" alt="miniblog" width="126" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Simple two column white and grey theme</p>
<p><a href="http://ericulous.com/2007/06/11/popurls-clone-using-wordpress/"><strong>OneNews</strong></a></p>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/onenews.png" border="0" alt="onenews" width="123" height="114" /></p>
<p>Turn WordPress into your personalized news aggregator.</p>
<p><a href="http://easternwest.com/teal-a-simple-teal-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Teal</strong></a></p>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/tealscreen.png" border="0" alt="tealscreen" width="200" height="100" /></p>
<p>Simple two color theme made up of two colors, teal and white.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.acosmin.com/acosmintech-v1-free-wordpress-theme/"><strong>AcosminTECH</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://acosmintech.acosmin.com/"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/acosmintech-free-wordpress-theme.jpg" border="0" alt="acosmintech-free-wordpress-theme" width="200" height="18" /></a></p>
<p>Three column, widget, gravatar and ad ready theme</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webdesign-in.de/mts/wordpress-theme-mts-journey/"><strong>mts Journey</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.webdesign-in.de/wp-themes/index.php?wptheme=mts+journey"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/screenshot-mts-journey.jpg" border="0" alt="screenshot-mts-journey" width="152" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>A classic 3column, widgetready, gettexted and flexible width theme that supports print and PDAs.</p>
<p><a href="http://andreamignolo.com/themes/wordpress/ocular-professor"><strong>Ocular Professor</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://labs.andreamignolo.com/ocularprof/"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/ocprof2.jpg" border="0" alt="ocprof2" width="200" height="73" /></a></p>
<p>Ocular Professor (OP) is a WordPress theme designed expressly for photobloggers. Designed to incorporate the new gallery features of WP 2.5+, OP also includes a widget-enabled footer; a “Featured Post” section that, when enabled, allows posts to sit outside the normal flow of blog posts; special formatting, such as drop-caps and image captions; and author comment highlighting.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:49:45 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2852:"<p><a href="http://www.onlineshopping1a.de/wordpress-layout/wp-plasmashot.htm"><strong>WP Plasmashot</strong></a></p>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/wp-plasmashot-preview.jpg" border="0" alt="wp_plasmashot_preview" width="148" height="114" /></p>
<p>Two columns, widget ready, left side bar WordPress theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://stylizedweb.com/2008/08/25/miniblog-wordpress-theme/"><strong>miniBlog</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://stylizedweb.com/wp-content/themes/miniblog/index.html"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/miniblog.jpg" border="0" alt="miniblog" width="126" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Simple two column white and grey theme</p>
<p><a href="http://ericulous.com/2007/06/11/popurls-clone-using-wordpress/"><strong>OneNews</strong></a></p>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/onenews.png" border="0" alt="onenews" width="123" height="114" /></p>
<p>Turn WordPress into your personalized news aggregator.</p>
<p><a href="http://easternwest.com/teal-a-simple-teal-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Teal</strong></a></p>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/tealscreen.png" border="0" alt="tealscreen" width="200" height="100" /></p>
<p>Simple two color theme made up of two colors, teal and white.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.acosmin.com/acosmintech-v1-free-wordpress-theme/"><strong>AcosminTECH</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://acosmintech.acosmin.com/"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/acosmintech-free-wordpress-theme.jpg" border="0" alt="acosmintech-free-wordpress-theme" width="200" height="18" /></a></p>
<p>Three column, widget, gravatar and ad ready theme</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webdesign-in.de/mts/wordpress-theme-mts-journey/"><strong>mts Journey</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.webdesign-in.de/wp-themes/index.php?wptheme=mts+journey"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/screenshot-mts-journey.jpg" border="0" alt="screenshot-mts-journey" width="152" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>A classic 3column, widgetready, gettexted and flexible width theme that supports print and PDAs.</p>
<p><a href="http://andreamignolo.com/themes/wordpress/ocular-professor"><strong>Ocular Professor</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://labs.andreamignolo.com/ocularprof/"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/ocprof2.jpg" border="0" alt="ocprof2" width="200" height="73" /></a></p>
<p>Ocular Professor (OP) is a WordPress theme designed expressly for photobloggers. Designed to incorporate the new gallery features of WP 2.5+, OP also includes a widget-enabled footer; a “Featured Post” section that, when enabled, allows posts to sit outside the normal flow of blog posts; special formatting, such as drop-caps and image captions; and author comment highlighting.</p>";}i:37;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:56:"Weblog Tools Collection: Stop Blaming The WordPress Team";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3999";s:4:"link";s:85:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/24/stop-blaming-the-wordpress-team/";s:11:"description";s:6087:"<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/blamegame.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4004" title="The WordPress Blame Game" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/blamegame-300x84.png" alt="" width="300" height="84" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Disclaimer: I am not a plugin author. This post is filled with my own opinions and is taken from an end user point of view. If you are a plugin author, be sure to add your point of view in the comments. </strong></p>
<p>Traversing through my feed reader after a major version of WordPress is released is always interesting to me because I’ll never know what types of reactions I’ll find. Unfortunately, I’ve been noticing a trend that is unacceptable. The basis of this post will be focused around a line of thought which I find to be anger inducing.</p>
<blockquote><p>The biggest problem lies in the fact that Wordpress is continually pushing updates too often without much in the way of testing with the most popular plugins. Podpress is huge! how could they have released 2.6 without seeing if one of the most popular plugins will work? To me the fault lies in Wordpress updating too soon. As I am on a hosted install of Wordpress, I can’t roll back, so now I am stuck. From now on, I will clearly be waiting at least two months before pushing any hosted updates of anything Wordpress related! - <a title="http://www.canonblogger.com/" href="http://www.canonblogger.com/" target="_blank">Comment Written By Jason Of Canonblogger.com</a></p></blockquote>
<p>This is the type of comment I’ve been reading lately on blogs which discuss the PodPress incompatibility issue. Time to break this line of thought down. First off, lets take a look at this years timeline of WordPress releases thus far.</p>
<ul>
<li>Version 2.5 / March 29, 2008</li>
<li>Version 2.5.1 / April 25, 2008</li>
<li>Version 2.6 / July 15, 2008</li>
<li>Version 2.6.1 / August 15, 2008</li>
<li>Version 2.7 <strong>TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED FOR</strong> November 10, 2008</li>
</ul>
<p>By looking at the release dates for actual versions used by the public, we can see that at one point, two full months went by without a release. Further that with the fact that a maintenance/security release follows a major release one month later. WordPress is publishing software which is extremely popular and this popularity has its pitfalls, mainly with security as the popularity of the platform makes for a nice target. Would you rather WordPress release updates twice a year? What happens if a major security vulnerability is discovered at the halfway point between releases? Would you want WordPress not to deviate from their release cycle? As far as I’m concerned, I’m pretty happy and relieved to see the WordPress development team up on their game, releasing updates to the software multiple times per year. With plugins such as Automatic Upgrade taking the pain out of upgrading through FTP, I don’t understand why the number of updates per year is such a hassle.</p>
<p>One of the statements in the comment above describes the fact that the WordPress team must test out the software with the most popular plugins before releasing it to the public. Since when did the responsibility of testing every plugin known to man for WordPress fall on the shoulders of the WordPress team? The answer, never! In a <a href="http://foolswisdom.com/movable-type-pro-setting-social-networking-free-vaporware-wordpress-buddypress/" target="_blank">recent post written by Lloyd Budd</a> he happened to write a statement which I whole heartedly agree with:</p>
<blockquote><p>I see the Automattic team as the WordPress guide. WordPress is completely community created and supported. Automattic takes on the big (scalability) problems that the community doesn’t have the resources for like: providing the free WordPress.com service and funding usability testing of a new WordPress dashboard experience.</p></blockquote>
<p>Based on what I’ve seen, what happens with plugins and their compatibility to WordPress is outside of the teams control. I hate to pick on PodPress in this post but it makes for a great example. Before WordPress 2.6 was released, it went through three different Beta releases with one release candidate. The first beta release happened on <a href="http://boren.nu/archives/2008/06/23/wordpress-26-beta-1/" target="_blank">Monday June 23rd, 2008.</a> The actual release of 2.6 occurred on July 15th. That makes for a total of 22 days which passed between the first beta and the actual release. In my opinion, 22 days is plenty of time to figure out if a plugin is compatible or not. Granted, there may be personal issues, lack of time, or some other reason why the plugin author has not updated a plugin. Suffice to say, a plugin not working lies on the shoulders of the plugin author, not the WordPress development team.</p>
<p>PodPress is a special case in that the WordPress team actually created a patch for the plugin and then sent it to the plugin author. This was reported by Matt himself on a <a href="http://xfep.com/podcast-tips/podpress-and-wordpress-26-a-quick-update/" target="_blank">post written by David Peralty</a>. Apparently, the patch never made it to PodPress and to this day, the plugin is incompatible thanks to an issue with the post revision feature. Matt did comment on the fact that there is not much they could do except commit the code directly without Dan’s permission.</p>
<h2>Conclusion:</h2>
<p>The bottom line is this. WordPress has a good release cycle and in my opinion, provides plenty of time for plugin authors to test their plugins with the newest version of WordPress before the public gets a hold of it. My opinion is that, the WordPress team can not and probably will not take it upon themselves to insure that all major plugins work correctly with current/future versions of WordPress. So the next time you upgrade WordPress and realize your favorite plugin is broke, don’t blame the WordPress team, blame the source.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:31:35 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:6087:"<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/blamegame.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4004" title="The WordPress Blame Game" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/blamegame-300x84.png" alt="" width="300" height="84" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Disclaimer: I am not a plugin author. This post is filled with my own opinions and is taken from an end user point of view. If you are a plugin author, be sure to add your point of view in the comments. </strong></p>
<p>Traversing through my feed reader after a major version of WordPress is released is always interesting to me because I’ll never know what types of reactions I’ll find. Unfortunately, I’ve been noticing a trend that is unacceptable. The basis of this post will be focused around a line of thought which I find to be anger inducing.</p>
<blockquote><p>The biggest problem lies in the fact that Wordpress is continually pushing updates too often without much in the way of testing with the most popular plugins. Podpress is huge! how could they have released 2.6 without seeing if one of the most popular plugins will work? To me the fault lies in Wordpress updating too soon. As I am on a hosted install of Wordpress, I can’t roll back, so now I am stuck. From now on, I will clearly be waiting at least two months before pushing any hosted updates of anything Wordpress related! - <a title="http://www.canonblogger.com/" href="http://www.canonblogger.com/" target="_blank">Comment Written By Jason Of Canonblogger.com</a></p></blockquote>
<p>This is the type of comment I’ve been reading lately on blogs which discuss the PodPress incompatibility issue. Time to break this line of thought down. First off, lets take a look at this years timeline of WordPress releases thus far.</p>
<ul>
<li>Version 2.5 / March 29, 2008</li>
<li>Version 2.5.1 / April 25, 2008</li>
<li>Version 2.6 / July 15, 2008</li>
<li>Version 2.6.1 / August 15, 2008</li>
<li>Version 2.7 <strong>TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED FOR</strong> November 10, 2008</li>
</ul>
<p>By looking at the release dates for actual versions used by the public, we can see that at one point, two full months went by without a release. Further that with the fact that a maintenance/security release follows a major release one month later. WordPress is publishing software which is extremely popular and this popularity has its pitfalls, mainly with security as the popularity of the platform makes for a nice target. Would you rather WordPress release updates twice a year? What happens if a major security vulnerability is discovered at the halfway point between releases? Would you want WordPress not to deviate from their release cycle? As far as I’m concerned, I’m pretty happy and relieved to see the WordPress development team up on their game, releasing updates to the software multiple times per year. With plugins such as Automatic Upgrade taking the pain out of upgrading through FTP, I don’t understand why the number of updates per year is such a hassle.</p>
<p>One of the statements in the comment above describes the fact that the WordPress team must test out the software with the most popular plugins before releasing it to the public. Since when did the responsibility of testing every plugin known to man for WordPress fall on the shoulders of the WordPress team? The answer, never! In a <a href="http://foolswisdom.com/movable-type-pro-setting-social-networking-free-vaporware-wordpress-buddypress/" target="_blank">recent post written by Lloyd Budd</a> he happened to write a statement which I whole heartedly agree with:</p>
<blockquote><p>I see the Automattic team as the WordPress guide. WordPress is completely community created and supported. Automattic takes on the big (scalability) problems that the community doesn’t have the resources for like: providing the free WordPress.com service and funding usability testing of a new WordPress dashboard experience.</p></blockquote>
<p>Based on what I’ve seen, what happens with plugins and their compatibility to WordPress is outside of the teams control. I hate to pick on PodPress in this post but it makes for a great example. Before WordPress 2.6 was released, it went through three different Beta releases with one release candidate. The first beta release happened on <a href="http://boren.nu/archives/2008/06/23/wordpress-26-beta-1/" target="_blank">Monday June 23rd, 2008.</a> The actual release of 2.6 occurred on July 15th. That makes for a total of 22 days which passed between the first beta and the actual release. In my opinion, 22 days is plenty of time to figure out if a plugin is compatible or not. Granted, there may be personal issues, lack of time, or some other reason why the plugin author has not updated a plugin. Suffice to say, a plugin not working lies on the shoulders of the plugin author, not the WordPress development team.</p>
<p>PodPress is a special case in that the WordPress team actually created a patch for the plugin and then sent it to the plugin author. This was reported by Matt himself on a <a href="http://xfep.com/podcast-tips/podpress-and-wordpress-26-a-quick-update/" target="_blank">post written by David Peralty</a>. Apparently, the patch never made it to PodPress and to this day, the plugin is incompatible thanks to an issue with the post revision feature. Matt did comment on the fact that there is not much they could do except commit the code directly without Dan’s permission.</p>
<h2>Conclusion:</h2>
<p>The bottom line is this. WordPress has a good release cycle and in my opinion, provides plenty of time for plugin authors to test their plugins with the newest version of WordPress before the public gets a hold of it. My opinion is that, the WordPress team can not and probably will not take it upon themselves to insure that all major plugins work correctly with current/future versions of WordPress. So the next time you upgrade WordPress and realize your favorite plugin is broke, don’t blame the WordPress team, blame the source.</p>";}i:38;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:66:"Lorelle on WP: My Comment Count is Bigger Than Your Comment Count!";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=2916";s:4:"link";s:91:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/my-comment-count-is-bigger-than-your-comment-count/";s:11:"description";s:13240:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/liz-strauss-comment-count-badge-widget-wordpress/" title="Liz Strauss Comment Counter"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/lizstrausscommentplugin.gif?w=229&h=143" alt="" width="229" height="143" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2922" /></a>With the push towards a successful blog being defined by its comments, a new WordPress Plugin has appeared that may push the comment frenzy even more.</p>
<p><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/liz-strauss-comment-count-badge-widget-wordpress/" title="Liz Strauss Comment Counter">PlanetOzh has created</a> the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/liz-comment-counter-by-ozh/" title="Liz Comment Counter by Ozh">Liz Strauss Comment Counter by Ozh WordPress Plugin</a> which honors the popular blog conversation expert, <a href="http://www.successful-blog.com/" title="Liz Strauss - Successful and Outstanding Bloggers" rel="tag">Liz Strauss</a>. </p>
<p><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/liz-strauss-comment-count-badge-widget-wordpress/" title="Liz Strauss Comment Counter"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/commentcountinterface.png?w=437&h=214" alt="" width="437" height="214" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2920" /></a>If you want to brag about your blog’s comment count, this is the Plugin to try. The Liz Strauss Comment Counter Plugin adds a chicklet comment counter similar to Feedburner to your blog. You can configure it with a variety of colors and styles. Ozh has included a lot of great features to customize the look to match your blog’s color scheme and styles. This is a great way to show off the number of comments on your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/commentcountermomworx.jpg"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/commentcountermomworx.jpg?w=192&h=300" alt="" width="192" height="300" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2919" /></a>Think about it. Instead of the arbitrary judgment of how many feed subscribers or visitors you have on your blog, you could give valuable feedback to your blog visitors on how social your blog really is. Every time someone leaves a comment, the count increases. Think of the possibilities!</p>
<p>You could have contests that help drive up the comment count. You could ask people to bet on when your comment count will break a significant score like 10,000, 100,000, or maybe even 100. Blogs could compete against each other to raise their comment count. Or it could just sit there and let the world know that you welcome comments. The more the merrier.</p>
<p>The Comment Count Plugin is getting rave reviews and can be seen in action at <a href="http://www.hotforwords.com/" title="Hot For Words">Hot for Words</a> and <a href="http://momworx.de/" title="Momworx">Momworx</a>. The Plugin has been translated into Italian, too.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hotforwords.com/" title="Hot For Words"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/commentcounterhotforwords.jpg?w=486&h=384" alt="" width="486" height="384" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2918" /></a></p>
<p>So what would you do with your blog’s comment count score?</p>
<h3>Who Are Liz and Ozh?</h3>
<p>Thanks to Ozh for honoring the great work Liz Strauss does for the blogging community. If you don’t know Liz, she is the author of <a href="http://www.successful-blog.com/" title="Liz Strauss - Successful and Outstanding Bloggers" rel="tag">Successful and Outstanding Bloggers</a> and founder of the <a href="http://www.successful-blog.com/301-what-is-an-sob/" title="What IS an SOB?!">SOB Award</a> which honors unique and original bloggers, author of <a href="http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=APmWG&m=1d159CSKg4mbT1&b=MWqcjwihb7T81romV7OXMA" title="The Secret to Writing a Successful and Outstanding Blog — The Insider’s Guide to the Conversation That’s Changing How Business Works">The Secret to Writing a Successful and Outstanding Blog — The Insider’s Guide to the Conversation That’s Changing How Business Works</a>, and founder of <a href="http://www.sobevent.com/" title="SOBCon">Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference (SOBCon)</a>, the annual conference which brings together top bloggers with top blogging and business and marketing experts. With more than 70,000 comments on her blog, she’s a leader in the art of the blog conversation. </p>
<p><a href="http://planetozh.com/" title="Ozh of PlanetOzh">Ozh of PlanetOzh</a> is one of the top award-winning WordPress Plugin experts in the WordPress Community - probably the world. His Plugins have been top winners in the <a href="http://www.weblogtoolscollection.com/" title="Weblog Tools Collection" rel="tag">Weblog Tools Collection</a> WordPress Plugin Competition and are frequently featured in the most popular and top download lists on the various WordPress Plugin directories, listings, and repositories. He has done <a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/" title="Projects by Ozh">amazing work</a> with WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, WordPress tools and utilities, web design, coding, and more non-WordPress projects. A few of his most popular Plugins include:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/archives/2004/09/17/click-counter-plugin-for-wordpress/" title="Click Counter for WordPress">Click Counter for WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/archives/2004/10/02/wordpress-category-map/" title="WordPress Category Map">WordPress Category Map</a></li>
<li><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/admin-css-designer-tool-colourlover-wordpress-plugin/" title="Admin CSS Designer">Admin CSS Designer</a></li>
<li><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-better-plugin-page/" title="Better Plugin Page">Better Plugin Page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-theme-toolkit-admin-menu/" title="WordPress Theme Toolkit">WordPress Theme Toolkit</a></li>
<li><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-youtube-favorite-videos/" title="Your Youtube Favorite Videos">Your Youtube Favorite Videos</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-absolute-comments/" title="Ozh' Absolute Comments">Ozh’ Absolute Comments</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-admin-drop-down-menu/" title="Ozh' Admin Drop Down Menu">Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-auto-moderate-comments/" title="Ozh' Auto Moderate Comments">Ozh’ Auto Moderate Comments</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-avatar-popup/" title="Ozh' Avatar Popup">Ozh’ Avatar Popup</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-better-feed/" title="Ozh' Better Feed">Ozh’ Better Feed</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-better-plugin-page/" title="Ozh' Better Plugin Page">Ozh’ Better Plugin Page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-click-counter/" title="Ozh' Click Counter">Ozh’ Click Counter</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-colourlovers-admin-css-designer/" title="Ozh & COLOURlovers' Admin CSS Designer">Ozh & COLOURlovers’ Admin CSS Designer</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-faq-auto-responder/" title="Ozh' FAQ Auto Responder">Ozh’ FAQ Auto Responder</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-random-words/" title="Ozh' Random Words">Ozh’ Random Words</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-who-sees-ads/" title="Ozh' Who Sees Ads">Ozh’ Who Sees Ads</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozhs-correctly-spell-wordpress/" title="Ozh' Correctly Spell WordPress">Ozh’ Correctly Spell WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozhs-ip-to-nation/" title="Ozh's IP To Nation">Ozh’s IP To Nation</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>What About WordPress.com Bloggers? We Want to Count Our Comments!</h4>
<p>If you are interested in requesting the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/liz-comment-counter-by-ozh/" title="Liz Comment Counter by Ozh">Liz Strauss Comment Counter by Ozh WordPress Plugin</a> be among the Widget sidebar options for <a href="http://www.wordpress.com/" title="WordPress.com free blogs" rel="tag">WordPress.com</a> blogs, let them know. Ask in the <a href="http://wordpress.com/forums/" title="WordPress.com Forums">WordPress.com Forums</a> and chime in behind those who asked first.</p>
<p>One of the ways a WordPress Plugin or Widget makes it into WordPress.com is by being among the top downloaded and most popular Plugins on the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/" title="WordPress Plugins Extends">WordPress Plugin Directory</a>. If you have the full version of WordPress, have your say on how you like it, and encourage others to download and install it.</p>
<p>I really think that the blog comment war is going to heat up with this new hot Plugin.</p>
<p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/sig.gif" alt="" /><br />
<hr />
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<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/lorelle.wordpress.com/2916/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/lorelle.wordpress.com/2916/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2916/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2916/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2916/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2916/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2916/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2916/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2916/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2916/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2916/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2916/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=2916&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:15:18 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:17:"Lorelle VanFossen";}s:7:"summary";s:13240:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/liz-strauss-comment-count-badge-widget-wordpress/" title="Liz Strauss Comment Counter"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/lizstrausscommentplugin.gif?w=229&h=143" alt="" width="229" height="143" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2922" /></a>With the push towards a successful blog being defined by its comments, a new WordPress Plugin has appeared that may push the comment frenzy even more.</p>
<p><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/liz-strauss-comment-count-badge-widget-wordpress/" title="Liz Strauss Comment Counter">PlanetOzh has created</a> the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/liz-comment-counter-by-ozh/" title="Liz Comment Counter by Ozh">Liz Strauss Comment Counter by Ozh WordPress Plugin</a> which honors the popular blog conversation expert, <a href="http://www.successful-blog.com/" title="Liz Strauss - Successful and Outstanding Bloggers" rel="tag">Liz Strauss</a>. </p>
<p><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/liz-strauss-comment-count-badge-widget-wordpress/" title="Liz Strauss Comment Counter"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/commentcountinterface.png?w=437&h=214" alt="" width="437" height="214" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2920" /></a>If you want to brag about your blog’s comment count, this is the Plugin to try. The Liz Strauss Comment Counter Plugin adds a chicklet comment counter similar to Feedburner to your blog. You can configure it with a variety of colors and styles. Ozh has included a lot of great features to customize the look to match your blog’s color scheme and styles. This is a great way to show off the number of comments on your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/commentcountermomworx.jpg"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/commentcountermomworx.jpg?w=192&h=300" alt="" width="192" height="300" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2919" /></a>Think about it. Instead of the arbitrary judgment of how many feed subscribers or visitors you have on your blog, you could give valuable feedback to your blog visitors on how social your blog really is. Every time someone leaves a comment, the count increases. Think of the possibilities!</p>
<p>You could have contests that help drive up the comment count. You could ask people to bet on when your comment count will break a significant score like 10,000, 100,000, or maybe even 100. Blogs could compete against each other to raise their comment count. Or it could just sit there and let the world know that you welcome comments. The more the merrier.</p>
<p>The Comment Count Plugin is getting rave reviews and can be seen in action at <a href="http://www.hotforwords.com/" title="Hot For Words">Hot for Words</a> and <a href="http://momworx.de/" title="Momworx">Momworx</a>. The Plugin has been translated into Italian, too.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hotforwords.com/" title="Hot For Words"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/commentcounterhotforwords.jpg?w=486&h=384" alt="" width="486" height="384" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2918" /></a></p>
<p>So what would you do with your blog’s comment count score?</p>
<h3>Who Are Liz and Ozh?</h3>
<p>Thanks to Ozh for honoring the great work Liz Strauss does for the blogging community. If you don’t know Liz, she is the author of <a href="http://www.successful-blog.com/" title="Liz Strauss - Successful and Outstanding Bloggers" rel="tag">Successful and Outstanding Bloggers</a> and founder of the <a href="http://www.successful-blog.com/301-what-is-an-sob/" title="What IS an SOB?!">SOB Award</a> which honors unique and original bloggers, author of <a href="http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=APmWG&m=1d159CSKg4mbT1&b=MWqcjwihb7T81romV7OXMA" title="The Secret to Writing a Successful and Outstanding Blog — The Insider’s Guide to the Conversation That’s Changing How Business Works">The Secret to Writing a Successful and Outstanding Blog — The Insider’s Guide to the Conversation That’s Changing How Business Works</a>, and founder of <a href="http://www.sobevent.com/" title="SOBCon">Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference (SOBCon)</a>, the annual conference which brings together top bloggers with top blogging and business and marketing experts. With more than 70,000 comments on her blog, she’s a leader in the art of the blog conversation. </p>
<p><a href="http://planetozh.com/" title="Ozh of PlanetOzh">Ozh of PlanetOzh</a> is one of the top award-winning WordPress Plugin experts in the WordPress Community - probably the world. His Plugins have been top winners in the <a href="http://www.weblogtoolscollection.com/" title="Weblog Tools Collection" rel="tag">Weblog Tools Collection</a> WordPress Plugin Competition and are frequently featured in the most popular and top download lists on the various WordPress Plugin directories, listings, and repositories. He has done <a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/" title="Projects by Ozh">amazing work</a> with WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, WordPress tools and utilities, web design, coding, and more non-WordPress projects. A few of his most popular Plugins include:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/archives/2004/09/17/click-counter-plugin-for-wordpress/" title="Click Counter for WordPress">Click Counter for WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/archives/2004/10/02/wordpress-category-map/" title="WordPress Category Map">WordPress Category Map</a></li>
<li><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/admin-css-designer-tool-colourlover-wordpress-plugin/" title="Admin CSS Designer">Admin CSS Designer</a></li>
<li><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-better-plugin-page/" title="Better Plugin Page">Better Plugin Page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-theme-toolkit-admin-menu/" title="WordPress Theme Toolkit">WordPress Theme Toolkit</a></li>
<li><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-youtube-favorite-videos/" title="Your Youtube Favorite Videos">Your Youtube Favorite Videos</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-absolute-comments/" title="Ozh' Absolute Comments">Ozh’ Absolute Comments</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-admin-drop-down-menu/" title="Ozh' Admin Drop Down Menu">Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-auto-moderate-comments/" title="Ozh' Auto Moderate Comments">Ozh’ Auto Moderate Comments</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-avatar-popup/" title="Ozh' Avatar Popup">Ozh’ Avatar Popup</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-better-feed/" title="Ozh' Better Feed">Ozh’ Better Feed</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-better-plugin-page/" title="Ozh' Better Plugin Page">Ozh’ Better Plugin Page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-click-counter/" title="Ozh' Click Counter">Ozh’ Click Counter</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-colourlovers-admin-css-designer/" title="Ozh & COLOURlovers' Admin CSS Designer">Ozh & COLOURlovers’ Admin CSS Designer</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-faq-auto-responder/" title="Ozh' FAQ Auto Responder">Ozh’ FAQ Auto Responder</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-random-words/" title="Ozh' Random Words">Ozh’ Random Words</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-who-sees-ads/" title="Ozh' Who Sees Ads">Ozh’ Who Sees Ads</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozhs-correctly-spell-wordpress/" title="Ozh' Correctly Spell WordPress">Ozh’ Correctly Spell WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozhs-ip-to-nation/" title="Ozh's IP To Nation">Ozh’s IP To Nation</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>What About WordPress.com Bloggers? We Want to Count Our Comments!</h4>
<p>If you are interested in requesting the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/liz-comment-counter-by-ozh/" title="Liz Comment Counter by Ozh">Liz Strauss Comment Counter by Ozh WordPress Plugin</a> be among the Widget sidebar options for <a href="http://www.wordpress.com/" title="WordPress.com free blogs" rel="tag">WordPress.com</a> blogs, let them know. Ask in the <a href="http://wordpress.com/forums/" title="WordPress.com Forums">WordPress.com Forums</a> and chime in behind those who asked first.</p>
<p>One of the ways a WordPress Plugin or Widget makes it into WordPress.com is by being among the top downloaded and most popular Plugins on the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/" title="WordPress Plugins Extends">WordPress Plugin Directory</a>. If you have the full version of WordPress, have your say on how you like it, and encourage others to download and install it.</p>
<p>I really think that the blog comment war is going to heat up with this new hot Plugin.</p>
<p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/sig.gif" alt="" /><br />
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<p>I will be talking about how <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/" title="WordPress" rel="tag">WordPress</a> is changing lives, not just from the blogging experience but truly changing your life from stem to stern.</p>
<p>WordPress and <a href="http://www.wordpress.com/" title="WordPress.com free blogs" rel="tag">WordPress.com</a> free blogs give a voice to those who may never have had the chance to express themselves. With WordPress, they have the chance to be heard. I want to honor those people.</p>
<p>WordPress fans are amazingly supportive of each other. There have been a variety of aggregators, directories, Digg-style voting sites for WordPress fans only, forums, and more as WordPress brings people together to collaborate based upon their love of WordPress. Fans are willing to pick WordPress apart and put it back together even stronger. Has your life been changed by being a part of the WordPress Community? I want to honor you.</p>
<p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/img_0488.jpg?w=224" alt="" width="224" height="300" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2801" />WordPress allows those with no money and no expertise in web publishing or design to setup a website to promote their opinion, ideas, products, services, and lives, but also works hard for communities such as small towns, member associations, non-profits, political movements, researchers, educators, hobbyists, and families. I want to honor the communities whose lives have been changed by WordPress.</p>
<p>WordPress has turned many fans of web design, development, and blogging into experts. Was your life heading in one direction and then turned into a web-related business through your enthusiasm for WordPress? I want to honor you, too.</p>
<p>To contact me with your “How WordPress has changed my life” stories, you can blog it on your blog and trackback to here (or post a link), write it up with <em>valid contact information and blog URL</em> in the comment form (not the comment box) in this post’s comments, or <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/category/wordpress-news/feed/lorelleonwordpress@gmail.com" title="Email Lorelle">email me</a> with <strong>WordCamp Portland Talk</strong> in the subject title. I may include you in my presentation.</p>
<h3>WordCamp Portland 2008</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.wordcampportland.org/" title="WordCamp Portland" rel="tag"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/wordcampportland2008.png" alt="" width="323" height="134" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2910" /></a>September 27, 2008, the place to be will be in Portland, Oregon, for <a href="http://www.wordcampportland.org/" title="WordCamp Portland" rel="tag">WordCamp Portland</a> at <a href="http://www.cubespacepdx.com/" title="CubeSpace">CubeSpace</a>. <a href="http://www.wordcampportland.org/register" title="accepting registrations">Registration is now open</a> and space is limited, so get registered now to guarantee a place in this exciting event.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.wordcampportland.org/agenda/" title="WordCamp Portland Speakers">list of speakers and topics</a> is exciting and covers a wide spectrum of the needs of WordPress members. </p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle VanFossen">Lorelle VanFossen</a> - Changing Lives with WordPress</li>
<li><a href="http://www.ourpdx.net/" title="Betsy Richter">Betsy Richter</a> - From Concept to Execution in Eight Days</li>
<li><a href="http://www.aaronhockley.com/" title="Aaron Hockley">Aaron Hockley</a> - An Introduction to Copyright for Bloggers</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cdcstudios.com/" title="Chris O’Rourke">Chris O’Rourke</a> - Ten Proven Plugins to Make Your Blog Pop</li>
<li><a href="http://sewmyheadon.com/" title="Eric Amundson">Eric Amundson</a> - Design & Debug Themes with Free Tools</li>
<li><a href="http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/" title="Josh Bancroft">Josh Bancroft</a> - Tying Your Tubes: Integration with WordPress</li>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle VanFossen">Lorelle VanFossen</a> - Woopra: Web Analytics from a “Right Now” Viewpoint</li>
<li><a href="http://thebananaverse.com/" title="Kelly Guimont">Kelly Guimont</a> - Considerations for Choosing a Theme</li>
<li><a href="http://marshallk.com/" title="Marshall Kirkpatrick">Marshall Kirkpatrick</a> - Feed Your Blog with RSS</li>
<li><a href="http://justinkistner.com/" title="Justin Kistner">Justin Kistner</a> - Using WordPress to Manage a Social Relations Program</li>
</ul>
<p>Before dinner, there is an “Ask the Experts” panel with myself, <a href="http://siliconflorist.com/" title="Rick Turoczy">Rick Turoczy</a>, <a href="http://justinkistner.com/" title="Justin Kistner">Justin Kistner</a>, and <a href="http://www.cdcstudios.com/" title="Chris O’Rourke">Chris O’Rourke</a>. There will also be rooms available for unconference sessions that pop up through the day’s events.</p>
<p>Advance registration is USD $10 and includes lunch, dinner, WordCamp Portland T-shirt, and door prizes. The price is low thanks to the awesome support of the <a href="http://www.wordcampportland.org/sponsors" title="sponsors">WordCamp Portland sponsors</a> including <a href="http://www.cubespacepdx.com/" title="CubeSpace PDX">CubeSpace PDX</a>, <a href="http://www.nemodesign.com/" title="Nemo Design">Nemo Design</a>, <a href="http://www.siliconflorist.com/" title="Silicon Florist">Silicon Florist</a>, <a href="http://vocecommunications.com/" title="Voce Communications">Voce Communications</a>, <a href="http://www.ivycat.com/" title="IvyCat">IvyCat</a>, <a href="http://www.ourpdx.net/" title="OurPDX Network">OurPDX Network</a>, and <a href="http://www.hockleyphoto.com/" title="Hockley Photography">Hockley Photography</a>. Sponsors are still welcome to join and get exposure to the best in blogging and WordPress.</p>
<p>For more information on <a href="http://www.wordcampportland.org/" title="WordCamp Portland" rel="tag">WordCamp Portland</a>, check out their helpful <a href="http://www.wordcampportland.org/faq" title="FAQ page">FAQ page</a>. </p>
<p>You can follow WordCamp Portland on Twitter at <a href="http://twitter.com/wordcampdx" title="@wordcampdx">@wordcampdx</a>, too. </p>
<p>I can’t wait to see you there and I’m looking forward to your stories about how WordPress has changed your life. Who knows, I might select your story to share with the attendees at WordCamp Portland.</p>
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<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/lorelle.wordpress.com/2909/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/lorelle.wordpress.com/2909/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2909/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2909/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2909/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2909/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2909/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2909/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2909/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2909/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2909/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2909/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=2909&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:55:32 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:17:"Lorelle VanFossen";}s:7:"summary";s:11102:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/wordcamplogo.jpg" class="alignright" alt="WordCamp logo" /><a href="http://www.wordcampportland.org/2008/08/agenda-announced-registration-now-open-for-wordcamp-portland/" title="Agenda Announced; Registration Now Open for WordCamp Portland">The agenda of speakers</a> for <a href="http://www.wordcampportland.org/" title="WordCamp Portland" rel="tag">WordCamp Portland</a> is out and I’m the keynote speaker. And I need your help.</p>
<p>I will be talking about how <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/" title="WordPress" rel="tag">WordPress</a> is changing lives, not just from the blogging experience but truly changing your life from stem to stern.</p>
<p>WordPress and <a href="http://www.wordpress.com/" title="WordPress.com free blogs" rel="tag">WordPress.com</a> free blogs give a voice to those who may never have had the chance to express themselves. With WordPress, they have the chance to be heard. I want to honor those people.</p>
<p>WordPress fans are amazingly supportive of each other. There have been a variety of aggregators, directories, Digg-style voting sites for WordPress fans only, forums, and more as WordPress brings people together to collaborate based upon their love of WordPress. Fans are willing to pick WordPress apart and put it back together even stronger. Has your life been changed by being a part of the WordPress Community? I want to honor you.</p>
<p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/img_0488.jpg?w=224" alt="" width="224" height="300" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2801" />WordPress allows those with no money and no expertise in web publishing or design to setup a website to promote their opinion, ideas, products, services, and lives, but also works hard for communities such as small towns, member associations, non-profits, political movements, researchers, educators, hobbyists, and families. I want to honor the communities whose lives have been changed by WordPress.</p>
<p>WordPress has turned many fans of web design, development, and blogging into experts. Was your life heading in one direction and then turned into a web-related business through your enthusiasm for WordPress? I want to honor you, too.</p>
<p>To contact me with your “How WordPress has changed my life” stories, you can blog it on your blog and trackback to here (or post a link), write it up with <em>valid contact information and blog URL</em> in the comment form (not the comment box) in this post’s comments, or <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/category/wordpress-news/feed/lorelleonwordpress@gmail.com" title="Email Lorelle">email me</a> with <strong>WordCamp Portland Talk</strong> in the subject title. I may include you in my presentation.</p>
<h3>WordCamp Portland 2008</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.wordcampportland.org/" title="WordCamp Portland" rel="tag"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/wordcampportland2008.png" alt="" width="323" height="134" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2910" /></a>September 27, 2008, the place to be will be in Portland, Oregon, for <a href="http://www.wordcampportland.org/" title="WordCamp Portland" rel="tag">WordCamp Portland</a> at <a href="http://www.cubespacepdx.com/" title="CubeSpace">CubeSpace</a>. <a href="http://www.wordcampportland.org/register" title="accepting registrations">Registration is now open</a> and space is limited, so get registered now to guarantee a place in this exciting event.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.wordcampportland.org/agenda/" title="WordCamp Portland Speakers">list of speakers and topics</a> is exciting and covers a wide spectrum of the needs of WordPress members. </p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle VanFossen">Lorelle VanFossen</a> - Changing Lives with WordPress</li>
<li><a href="http://www.ourpdx.net/" title="Betsy Richter">Betsy Richter</a> - From Concept to Execution in Eight Days</li>
<li><a href="http://www.aaronhockley.com/" title="Aaron Hockley">Aaron Hockley</a> - An Introduction to Copyright for Bloggers</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cdcstudios.com/" title="Chris O’Rourke">Chris O’Rourke</a> - Ten Proven Plugins to Make Your Blog Pop</li>
<li><a href="http://sewmyheadon.com/" title="Eric Amundson">Eric Amundson</a> - Design & Debug Themes with Free Tools</li>
<li><a href="http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/" title="Josh Bancroft">Josh Bancroft</a> - Tying Your Tubes: Integration with WordPress</li>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle VanFossen">Lorelle VanFossen</a> - Woopra: Web Analytics from a “Right Now” Viewpoint</li>
<li><a href="http://thebananaverse.com/" title="Kelly Guimont">Kelly Guimont</a> - Considerations for Choosing a Theme</li>
<li><a href="http://marshallk.com/" title="Marshall Kirkpatrick">Marshall Kirkpatrick</a> - Feed Your Blog with RSS</li>
<li><a href="http://justinkistner.com/" title="Justin Kistner">Justin Kistner</a> - Using WordPress to Manage a Social Relations Program</li>
</ul>
<p>Before dinner, there is an “Ask the Experts” panel with myself, <a href="http://siliconflorist.com/" title="Rick Turoczy">Rick Turoczy</a>, <a href="http://justinkistner.com/" title="Justin Kistner">Justin Kistner</a>, and <a href="http://www.cdcstudios.com/" title="Chris O’Rourke">Chris O’Rourke</a>. There will also be rooms available for unconference sessions that pop up through the day’s events.</p>
<p>Advance registration is USD $10 and includes lunch, dinner, WordCamp Portland T-shirt, and door prizes. The price is low thanks to the awesome support of the <a href="http://www.wordcampportland.org/sponsors" title="sponsors">WordCamp Portland sponsors</a> including <a href="http://www.cubespacepdx.com/" title="CubeSpace PDX">CubeSpace PDX</a>, <a href="http://www.nemodesign.com/" title="Nemo Design">Nemo Design</a>, <a href="http://www.siliconflorist.com/" title="Silicon Florist">Silicon Florist</a>, <a href="http://vocecommunications.com/" title="Voce Communications">Voce Communications</a>, <a href="http://www.ivycat.com/" title="IvyCat">IvyCat</a>, <a href="http://www.ourpdx.net/" title="OurPDX Network">OurPDX Network</a>, and <a href="http://www.hockleyphoto.com/" title="Hockley Photography">Hockley Photography</a>. Sponsors are still welcome to join and get exposure to the best in blogging and WordPress.</p>
<p>For more information on <a href="http://www.wordcampportland.org/" title="WordCamp Portland" rel="tag">WordCamp Portland</a>, check out their helpful <a href="http://www.wordcampportland.org/faq" title="FAQ page">FAQ page</a>. </p>
<p>You can follow WordCamp Portland on Twitter at <a href="http://twitter.com/wordcampdx" title="@wordcampdx">@wordcampdx</a>, too. </p>
<p>I can’t wait to see you there and I’m looking forward to your stories about how WordPress has changed your life. Who knows, I might select your story to share with the attendees at WordCamp Portland.</p>
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<p>With the FTP Plugin for the WP Database Backup Plugin you can perform <strong>manual</strong> or <strong>scheduled</strong> database backups and send the backup files via FTP to another server with more or maybe cheaper disk space.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:19:02 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1883:"<p><a href="http://www.drunkadmin.com/projects/plugin-manager/"><strong>Plugin Manager</strong></a></p>
<p>Plugin Manager lets you to view, download and install plugins from WordPress.org from an AJAX’ed interface, instead of manually downloading, extracting and uploading each plugin.</p>
<p><a href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/breadcrumbs/"><strong>Yoast Breadcrumbs</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin allows you to add breadcrumbs to your theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-lijit-wijit/"><strong>Lijit Search</strong></a></p>
<p>The Lijit search ‘wijit’ allows your visitors to search through not only your blog content, but also your extended social network.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.themoviequotes.com/tools/wordpress"><strong>Movie Quotes Widget</strong></a></p>
<p>Wordpress Widget will take the latest, random or top rated quotes from this website, and display them on your blog</p>
<p><a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress/readme?project=share-this"><strong>Share This</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin will allow your visitors to share your content via social bookmarking sites and/or e-mailing the post to a friend.</p>
<p><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/"><strong>WP Super Cache</strong></a></p>
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<p><a href="http://undeuxoutrois.de/wp-db-backup-via-ftp.shtml"><strong>FTP Plugin for WP Database Backup Plugin</strong></a></p>
<p>With the FTP Plugin for the WP Database Backup Plugin you can perform <strong>manual</strong> or <strong>scheduled</strong> database backups and send the backup files via FTP to another server with more or maybe cheaper disk space.</p>";}i:41;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:77:"Lorelle on WP: WordCamp 2008 San Francisco Summary, Tweets, Flickrs, and More";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=2906";s:4:"link";s:100:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/wordcamp-2008-san-francisco-summary-tweets-flickrs-and-more/";s:11:"description";s:4863:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/wordcamplogo.jpg" class="alignright" alt="WordCamp logo" />I just published <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/08/22/wordcamp-2008-snapshot-of-the-changing-social-of-conferences/" title="WordCamp 2008 - Snapshot of the Changing Social of Conferences">WordCamp 2008 - Snapshot of the Changing Social of Conferences</a> on the <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/" title="Blog Herald" rel="tag">Blog Herald</a> with a ton of <a href="http://2008.sf.wordcamp.org/" title="WordCamp San Francisco">WordCamp 2008</a> in San Francisco live blogging, Twitter tweets, Flickr flicks, YouTube videos, and more. There is also a list of the speaker’s slide shows, blogs, and video that are currently available. </p>
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<p><a href="http://www.wordcamp.co.za/" title="WordCamp South Africa 2008">WordCamp South Africa</a> is this weekend, August 23, 2008, in Cape Town. I’ll be looking for news to report on the event, so let me know if you are involved or a participant and give me the scoop! </p>
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<p>This is just the tip of the ice berg of WordCamp reviews, commentary, and live blogging. I’ll update that post as more information comes in.</p>
<p>Whew!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wordcamp.co.za/" title="WordCamp South Africa 2008">WordCamp South Africa</a> is this weekend, August 23, 2008, in Cape Town. I’ll be looking for news to report on the event, so let me know if you are involved or a participant and give me the scoop! </p>
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<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5251/" title="mcm_5251"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5251-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
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<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5262/" title="mcm_5262"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5262-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5264/" title="mcm_5264"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5264-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5265/" title="mcm_5265"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5265-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5267/" title="mcm_5267"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5267-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5269/" title="mcm_5269"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5269-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5273/" title="mcm_5273"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5273-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5280/" title="mcm_5280"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5280-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5282/" title="mcm_5282"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5282-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5284/" title="mcm_5284"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5284-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5286/" title="mcm_5286"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5286-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5290/" title="mcm_5290"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5290-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5293/" title="mcm_5293"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5293-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5295/" title="mcm_5295"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5295-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5297/" title="mcm_5297"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5297-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5305/" title="mcm_5305"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5305-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5317/" title="mcm_5317"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5317-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5320/" title="mcm_5320"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5320-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5322/" title="mcm_5322"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5322-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5324/" title="mcm_5324"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5324-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5329/" title="mcm_5329"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5329-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5335/" title="mcm_5335"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5335-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5340/" title="mcm_5340"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5340-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5341/" title="mcm_5341"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5341-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5346/" title="mcm_5346"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5346-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5348/" title="mcm_5348"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5348-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5352/" title="mcm_5352"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5352-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5354/" title="mcm_5354"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5354-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5356/" title="mcm_5356"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5356-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5357/" title="mcm_5357"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5357-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5359/" title="mcm_5359"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5359-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5361/" title="mcm_5361"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5361-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5363/" title="mcm_5363"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5363-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5367/" title="mcm_5367"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5367-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5369/" title="mcm_5369"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5369-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5371/" title="mcm_5371"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5371-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5374/" title="mcm_5374"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5374-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5376/" title="mcm_5376"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5376-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5377/" title="mcm_5377"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5377-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5380/" title="mcm_5380"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5380-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5381/" title="mcm_5381"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5381-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5384/" title="mcm_5384"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5384-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5388/" title="mcm_5388"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5388-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5389/" title="mcm_5389"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5389-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5391/" title="mcm_5391"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5391-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5392/" title="mcm_5392"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5392-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5403/" title="mcm_5403"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5403-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:00:14 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:10344:"<p>A series of snaps from the excellent <a href="http://thestartconference.com/">Start Conference</a>, which I spoke at in the morning after Ev Williams and before Mena Trott.</p>
<p><span id="more-7057"></span></p>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5251/" title="mcm_5251"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5251-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5253/" title="mcm_5253"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5253-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5262/" title="mcm_5262"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5262-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5264/" title="mcm_5264"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5264-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5265/" title="mcm_5265"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5265-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5267/" title="mcm_5267"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5267-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5269/" title="mcm_5269"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5269-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5273/" title="mcm_5273"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5273-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5280/" title="mcm_5280"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5280-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5282/" title="mcm_5282"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5282-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5284/" title="mcm_5284"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5284-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5286/" title="mcm_5286"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5286-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5290/" title="mcm_5290"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5290-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5293/" title="mcm_5293"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5293-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5295/" title="mcm_5295"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5295-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5297/" title="mcm_5297"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5297-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5305/" title="mcm_5305"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5305-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5317/" title="mcm_5317"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5317-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5320/" title="mcm_5320"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5320-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5322/" title="mcm_5322"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5322-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5324/" title="mcm_5324"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5324-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5329/" title="mcm_5329"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5329-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5335/" title="mcm_5335"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5335-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5340/" title="mcm_5340"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5340-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5341/" title="mcm_5341"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5341-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5346/" title="mcm_5346"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5346-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5348/" title="mcm_5348"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5348-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5352/" title="mcm_5352"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5352-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5354/" title="mcm_5354"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5354-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5356/" title="mcm_5356"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5356-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5357/" title="mcm_5357"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5357-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5359/" title="mcm_5359"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5359-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5361/" title="mcm_5361"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5361-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5363/" title="mcm_5363"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5363-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5367/" title="mcm_5367"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5367-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5369/" title="mcm_5369"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5369-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5371/" title="mcm_5371"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5371-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5374/" title="mcm_5374"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5374-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5376/" title="mcm_5376"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5376-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5377/" title="mcm_5377"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5377-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5380/" title="mcm_5380"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5380-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5381/" title="mcm_5381"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5381-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5384/" title="mcm_5384"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5384-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5388/" title="mcm_5388"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5388-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5389/" title="mcm_5389"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5389-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5391/" title="mcm_5391"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5391-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5392/" title="mcm_5392"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5392-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/start-conference-photos/mcm_5403/" title="mcm_5403"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/08/mcm_5403-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>";}i:43;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:21:"Matt: Olympians on WP";s:4:"guid";s:37:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/olympians-on-wp/";s:4:"link";s:37:"http://ma.tt/2008/08/olympians-on-wp/";s:11:"description";s:436:"<p><a href="http://www.shawnjohnson.dreamhosters.com/">Shawn Johnson</a>, a gold medalist and WordPress-powered blogger. <a href="http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/08/21/dime-a-dozen/">Dreamhost says</a> “So far we haven’t had to do anything special to keep her blog up,” even though the first entry has over 1,100 <em>comments</em>. (Man, those things pop up everywhere now.) Any other Olympians on WP you’ve seen?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:51:40 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:436:"<p><a href="http://www.shawnjohnson.dreamhosters.com/">Shawn Johnson</a>, a gold medalist and WordPress-powered blogger. <a href="http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/08/21/dime-a-dozen/">Dreamhost says</a> “So far we haven’t had to do anything special to keep her blog up,” even though the first entry has over 1,100 <em>comments</em>. (Man, those things pop up everywhere now.) Any other Olympians on WP you’ve seen?</p>";}i:44;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 08/22";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3997";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/22/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0822/";s:11:"description";s:2040:"<p><a href="http://3oneseven.com/20/dust-wp-theme/"><strong>Dust</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://wp.3oneseven.com/index.php?wptheme=Dust"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/dustvq2.png" border="0" alt="dustvq2" width="122" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>A fluid three column outfit with a header image rotator built in: widgetized sidebar and footer columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled. Delicio bookmarks, Twitter and Flickr is enabled in the themes options panel.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.simplywp.net/2008/08/22/free-wordpress-theme-brown-stitch/"><strong>Brown Stitch</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://simplywp.net/demo/index.php?wptheme=brown-stitch"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/brown-stitch-theme.jpg" border="0" alt="brown-stitch-theme" width="194" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>2 columns theme with widget ready on right sidebar. The bottom 3 columns were fixed though.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/20/notepad-chaos-a-free-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Notepad Chaos</strong></a></p>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/notepad-preview.jpg" border="0" alt="notepad-preview" width="175" height="114" /></p>
<p>The theme has 2 columns, a quite vibrant design including “personal” design elements such as handwritten headings, stick-it-notes, clips and pins.</p>
<p><a href="http://helemaalniet.nl/2008/08/whitewash/"><strong>WhiteWash</strong></a></p>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/screenshot-whitewash.jpg" border="0" alt="screenshot-whitewash" width="190" height="114" /></p>
<p>A fast loading theme without distractions, images and cluttering. WhiteWash is easy to customize and it’s ideal for users who don’t want a blog with many colors or stuffed with features. Because of the wide spaces, this Theme is easy to read. Image-styling, when a picture is linked with a larger image or URL, there’s a nice hover-effect.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:35:47 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2040:"<p><a href="http://3oneseven.com/20/dust-wp-theme/"><strong>Dust</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://wp.3oneseven.com/index.php?wptheme=Dust"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/dustvq2.png" border="0" alt="dustvq2" width="122" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>A fluid three column outfit with a header image rotator built in: widgetized sidebar and footer columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled. Delicio bookmarks, Twitter and Flickr is enabled in the themes options panel.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.simplywp.net/2008/08/22/free-wordpress-theme-brown-stitch/"><strong>Brown Stitch</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://simplywp.net/demo/index.php?wptheme=brown-stitch"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/brown-stitch-theme.jpg" border="0" alt="brown-stitch-theme" width="194" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>2 columns theme with widget ready on right sidebar. The bottom 3 columns were fixed though.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/20/notepad-chaos-a-free-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Notepad Chaos</strong></a></p>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/notepad-preview.jpg" border="0" alt="notepad-preview" width="175" height="114" /></p>
<p>The theme has 2 columns, a quite vibrant design including “personal” design elements such as handwritten headings, stick-it-notes, clips and pins.</p>
<p><a href="http://helemaalniet.nl/2008/08/whitewash/"><strong>WhiteWash</strong></a></p>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/08/screenshot-whitewash.jpg" border="0" alt="screenshot-whitewash" width="190" height="114" /></p>
<p>A fast loading theme without distractions, images and cluttering. WhiteWash is easy to customize and it’s ideal for users who don’t want a blog with many colors or stuffed with features. Because of the wide spaces, this Theme is easy to read. Image-styling, when a picture is linked with a larger image or URL, there’s a nice hover-effect.</p>";}i:45;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:23:"Lloyd: The TypePad Trap";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://foolswisdom.com/?p=1422";s:4:"link";s:40:"http://foolswisdom.com/the-typepad-trap/";s:11:"description";s:5297:"<p>So during my talk “Switching to WordPress Painlessly” at WordCamp, (<a href="http://onemansblog.com/">video coming soon</a>!) Six Apart’s Open Platforms Tech Lead <a href="http://www.davidrecordon.com/"><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">David</span> <span class="family-name">Recordon</span></span></a><span class="fn n"><span class="family-name"> was in the audience and rather than have a chat with me at any one of the numerous times we passed during the day, he made this cute <a href="http://twitter.com/daveman692/statuses/889667170">tweat</a> instead:<br />
</span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lloyds-screenies/2779395568/" title="Twitter / David Recordon: TypePad's API is AtomPub, a... by lloydsscreenies, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3138/2779395568_7e2a8100c7.jpg" alt="TypePad's API is AtomPub, an IETF standard, which includes all the URLs for your posts; despite what Lloyd Budd just said. #WordCamp" width="500" height="229" /></a></p>
<p>There are a couple of things immediately apparent from David’s tweat:</p>
<ol>
<li>He has never exported a blog from TypePad</li>
<li>He has never written a blog exporter using AtomPub</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Never exported a blog from TypePad</strong></p>
<p>I know this because I’ve done numerous TypePad exports and also working through my customers trying to get support from Six Apart in the export. For most TypePad blogs, it’s impossible to truly export the blog. Six Apart provides no tools or documentation on how to export in a way that preserves the permalinks, and because of a <a href="http://foolswisdom.com/typepad-seo-blows/">bug in TypePad</a> and an unpublished permalink creation rules that have changed over the years, it guarantees a tedious, manual process to truly export the blog.</p>
<p>About a year ago, I approached members of the Six Apart leadership team in the hopes that they would commit to fix this issue. I was really nice back then and the whole time until recently. Now, I’ve concluded they were playing games.</p>
<p>Six Apart CEO Christopher Alden’s even promised “<a href="http://everything.typepad.com/blog/2008/01/a-bright-new-ty.html">A Bright New TypePad in 2008</a>“, “TypePad is the only blogging service that gives you complete ownership of your blog”. Appreciate the humor of that? You are trapped on TypePad.</p>
<p>Chris, and all the leadership team will wave their hands, “AtomPub is the answer.”</p>
<p><strong>Never written a blog exporter using AtomPub</strong></p>
<p>Having tried to guide <a href="http://cavemonkey50.com/">Ronald Heft Jr</a> in creating AtomPub exporters for TypePad and Movable Type, my only conclusion is that no member of Six Apart has written a blog exporter using AtomPub.</p>
<p>Six Apart VP <a href="http://dashes.com/anil/">Anil Dash</a> likes to brag about them having helped create Atom and AtomPub. An exporter would have been one of the perfect real world applications to create as part of the creation of the specification. And wouldn’t you think if they were going to tell everyone that is the solution to exporting from TypePad that they would have built such an exporter? They couldn’t have because<strong> you can’t without hacking around AtomPub</strong>, a lot, which is what Ronald has done.</p>
<p>Then as we had it working, hacks and all, this past weekend, TypePad changed it, fixing one aspect of their AtomPub (drafts are identified), changing a few things that we can adjust to (changed the URL endpoints, switched to MT tag names for consistentency), but also <strong>breaking our importer</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li>Can no longer retrieve comments on posts.</li>
<li>No longer contains Pages.</li>
<li>XML-RPC for trackback retrieval broke.</li>
</ul>
<p>These issues have been reported to Six Apart and hopefully they will be fixed soon, but there is <strong>absolutely zero transparency</strong>. There is no way for us to check on the status of these issues. Wouldn’t you expect the changes to be documented on the “<a href="http://everything.typepad.com/">The Official Everything TypePad weblog</a>” and mentioned on <a href="http://status.sixapart.com/">“Six Apart Status</a>“?</p>
<p>I cringe to think of the mess it would have been if we had already included the TypePad AtomPub importer in a release.</p>
<p>It seems that independent developers are left out in the cold.</p>
<p><strong>The <a href="http://openwebfoundation.org/">open web</a> starts at home</strong></p>
<p>Although, I’m excited by the work Ronald is doing, should it really be necessary for TypePad customers to come to the WordPress community to export their blogs?</p>
<p>I’m reminded of Dave Winer’s excellent article “<a href="http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/05/26/howToDoDataPortability.html">How to do data portability</a>” which includes “The best way to achieve data portability is to just do it”. That article really moved me, data portability, and by extension the open web, starts at your own company, on your own product.</p>
<p>How much longer do TypePad customers have to wait before they can export their blog?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:10:30 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:5:"Lloyd";}s:7:"summary";s:5297:"<p>So during my talk “Switching to WordPress Painlessly” at WordCamp, (<a href="http://onemansblog.com/">video coming soon</a>!) Six Apart’s Open Platforms Tech Lead <a href="http://www.davidrecordon.com/"><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">David</span> <span class="family-name">Recordon</span></span></a><span class="fn n"><span class="family-name"> was in the audience and rather than have a chat with me at any one of the numerous times we passed during the day, he made this cute <a href="http://twitter.com/daveman692/statuses/889667170">tweat</a> instead:<br />
</span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lloyds-screenies/2779395568/" title="Twitter / David Recordon: TypePad's API is AtomPub, a... by lloydsscreenies, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3138/2779395568_7e2a8100c7.jpg" alt="TypePad's API is AtomPub, an IETF standard, which includes all the URLs for your posts; despite what Lloyd Budd just said. #WordCamp" width="500" height="229" /></a></p>
<p>There are a couple of things immediately apparent from David’s tweat:</p>
<ol>
<li>He has never exported a blog from TypePad</li>
<li>He has never written a blog exporter using AtomPub</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Never exported a blog from TypePad</strong></p>
<p>I know this because I’ve done numerous TypePad exports and also working through my customers trying to get support from Six Apart in the export. For most TypePad blogs, it’s impossible to truly export the blog. Six Apart provides no tools or documentation on how to export in a way that preserves the permalinks, and because of a <a href="http://foolswisdom.com/typepad-seo-blows/">bug in TypePad</a> and an unpublished permalink creation rules that have changed over the years, it guarantees a tedious, manual process to truly export the blog.</p>
<p>About a year ago, I approached members of the Six Apart leadership team in the hopes that they would commit to fix this issue. I was really nice back then and the whole time until recently. Now, I’ve concluded they were playing games.</p>
<p>Six Apart CEO Christopher Alden’s even promised “<a href="http://everything.typepad.com/blog/2008/01/a-bright-new-ty.html">A Bright New TypePad in 2008</a>“, “TypePad is the only blogging service that gives you complete ownership of your blog”. Appreciate the humor of that? You are trapped on TypePad.</p>
<p>Chris, and all the leadership team will wave their hands, “AtomPub is the answer.”</p>
<p><strong>Never written a blog exporter using AtomPub</strong></p>
<p>Having tried to guide <a href="http://cavemonkey50.com/">Ronald Heft Jr</a> in creating AtomPub exporters for TypePad and Movable Type, my only conclusion is that no member of Six Apart has written a blog exporter using AtomPub.</p>
<p>Six Apart VP <a href="http://dashes.com/anil/">Anil Dash</a> likes to brag about them having helped create Atom and AtomPub. An exporter would have been one of the perfect real world applications to create as part of the creation of the specification. And wouldn’t you think if they were going to tell everyone that is the solution to exporting from TypePad that they would have built such an exporter? They couldn’t have because<strong> you can’t without hacking around AtomPub</strong>, a lot, which is what Ronald has done.</p>
<p>Then as we had it working, hacks and all, this past weekend, TypePad changed it, fixing one aspect of their AtomPub (drafts are identified), changing a few things that we can adjust to (changed the URL endpoints, switched to MT tag names for consistentency), but also <strong>breaking our importer</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li>Can no longer retrieve comments on posts.</li>
<li>No longer contains Pages.</li>
<li>XML-RPC for trackback retrieval broke.</li>
</ul>
<p>These issues have been reported to Six Apart and hopefully they will be fixed soon, but there is <strong>absolutely zero transparency</strong>. There is no way for us to check on the status of these issues. Wouldn’t you expect the changes to be documented on the “<a href="http://everything.typepad.com/">The Official Everything TypePad weblog</a>” and mentioned on <a href="http://status.sixapart.com/">“Six Apart Status</a>“?</p>
<p>I cringe to think of the mess it would have been if we had already included the TypePad AtomPub importer in a release.</p>
<p>It seems that independent developers are left out in the cold.</p>
<p><strong>The <a href="http://openwebfoundation.org/">open web</a> starts at home</strong></p>
<p>Although, I’m excited by the work Ronald is doing, should it really be necessary for TypePad customers to come to the WordPress community to export their blogs?</p>
<p>I’m reminded of Dave Winer’s excellent article “<a href="http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/05/26/howToDoDataPortability.html">How to do data portability</a>” which includes “The best way to achieve data portability is to just do it”. That article really moved me, data portability, and by extension the open web, starts at your own company, on your own product.</p>
<p>How much longer do TypePad customers have to wait before they can export their blog?</p>";}i:46;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:56:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Mu Plugin Competition";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3984";s:4:"link";s:85:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/21/wordpress-mu-plugin-competition/";s:11:"description";s:1149:"<p>Hot in the heels of our own WordPress Plugin Competition (of which the results should be declared very soon), the folks at <a href="http://wpmu.org">WPMU.org</a> are running a <a href="http://wpmu.org/2008-wpmu-plugin-competition/">WordPress MU plugin competition</a>! The competition is already very much underway, with almost US$1500 worth of prizes already pledged and 8 great plugins submitted, ranging from XML-RPC add ons to simple domain mapping.</p>
<p>And there’s still a month to go (entries close September 24th), so get your MU hats on and submit your best and brightest! The process is much the same as at Weblog Tools Collection. Plugin authors can register at the site and write up their own plugins for publication, guidelines and more on that can be found <a href="http://wpmu.org/wordpress-mu-plugin-competition/">here</a>. Then there will be prizes (and some rather snazzy badges) for judged and peoples choice winners and ranking entries.</p>
<p>If you’re interested in adding to the prize pool, Andrew and James would love to hear from you too - just <a href="http://wpmu.org/contact/">send them an email</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:46:41 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1149:"<p>Hot in the heels of our own WordPress Plugin Competition (of which the results should be declared very soon), the folks at <a href="http://wpmu.org">WPMU.org</a> are running a <a href="http://wpmu.org/2008-wpmu-plugin-competition/">WordPress MU plugin competition</a>! The competition is already very much underway, with almost US$1500 worth of prizes already pledged and 8 great plugins submitted, ranging from XML-RPC add ons to simple domain mapping.</p>
<p>And there’s still a month to go (entries close September 24th), so get your MU hats on and submit your best and brightest! The process is much the same as at Weblog Tools Collection. Plugin authors can register at the site and write up their own plugins for publication, guidelines and more on that can be found <a href="http://wpmu.org/wordpress-mu-plugin-competition/">here</a>. Then there will be prizes (and some rather snazzy badges) for judged and peoples choice winners and ranking entries.</p>
<p>If you’re interested in adding to the prize pool, Andrew and James would love to hear from you too - just <a href="http://wpmu.org/contact/">send them an email</a>.</p>";}i:47;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:24:"Alex King: ShareThis 2.3";s:4:"guid";s:48:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/08/21/sharethis-23";s:4:"link";s:48:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/08/21/sharethis-23";s:11:"description";s:1980:"<p>There’s a new version of <a href="http://sharethis.com" rel="external">ShareThis</a> out this evening. This release fixes a bug in version 2.2 where the ShareThis button might not be visible correctly if your WordPress theme shows post excerpts on certain pages.</p>
<p>ShareThis is a plugin that makes it easy for your visitors to share your content to other people or online destinations and social web sites. You can see it in action by clicking the <strong>ShareThis</strong> link at the bottom of any of the posts or pages on this site.</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://forums.sharethis.com/" rel="external">ShareThis Support Forums</a> and the team will be happy to help you out.</p>
<p><a href="http://sharethis.com/item?&wp=2.2.3&publisher=06654962-d77d-102a-861d-00161729a8a2&title=ShareThis+2.3&url=http%3A%2F%2Falexking.org%2Fblog%2F2008%2F08%2F21%2Fsharethis-23">ShareThis</a></p>
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<p>ShareThis is a plugin that makes it easy for your visitors to share your content to other people or online destinations and social web sites. You can see it in action by clicking the <strong>ShareThis</strong> link at the bottom of any of the posts or pages on this site.</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://forums.sharethis.com/" rel="external">ShareThis Support Forums</a> and the team will be happy to help you out.</p>
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<p>I talked about how important it is that we push WordPress as far as possible, even to the breaking point, to make sure it will work across all operating systems, all hosts, all browsers, all setups - in every way we can. The more we push WordPress, the more the community benefits from the fixes. Trust me, WordPress can take it, but we need to do more.</p>
<p>Examples covered in the presentation include:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/liz-strauss-is-breaking-the-web-and-pushing-wordpress/" title="Liz Strauss is Breaking the Web and Pushing WordPress">Liz Strauss is Breaking the Web and Pushing WordPress</a> as an example of how Liz wanted to publish 260 posts, one a minute, using the <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/01/working-ahead-future-posts-with-wordpress/" title="Working Ahead - Future Posts with WordPress">future post/timestamp feature</a> of WordPress. Would it work?</li>
<li><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/absolute-comments-manager-instant-reply/" title="Comment Manager with Instant Reply">Absolute Comments WordPress Plugin</a> and <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/2008/05/30/wp-comment-remix/" title="WP Comment Remix">WP Comment Remix WordPress Plugin</a> add improved functionality for responding to comments from the Comments Panel in WordPress.</li>
<li>When you can’t use WordPress Plugins, like on WordPress.com blogs, creative people like Engtech of <a href="http://internetducttape.com/" title="Internet Duct Tape">Internet Duct Tape</a> said, “We can do more!” He created some <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748" title="Greasemonkey">Greasemonkey FireFox Extension</a> scripts that improve how WordPress works for WordPress and WordPress.com blogs. <a href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/12239" title="WordPress Comment Ninja">WordPress Comment Ninja</a> adds comment replies from the Comments Panel. <a href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7037" title="Akismet Auntie Spam for WordPress">Auntie Akismet Spam for WordPress</a> condenses Akismet spam to two lines and combines redundant comment spam to speed up comment spam checking for false/positives by an incredible amount. Both of these save you a LOT of time.</li>
<li><strong>Extra Tip:</strong> <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/power-blogging-tips-comment-on-blogs-from-within-google-feed-reader/" title="Comment on Blogs From Within Google Feed Reader">Power Blogging Tips: Comment on Blogs From Within Google Feed Reader</a> - another Greasemonkey script that allows you to comment on blogs from inside of your Google Feed Reader without opening the page in a new tab.</li>
</ul>
<p></p>
<div id="__ss_564173"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Lorelle/lorelle-at-wordcamp-2008-260-ways-to-break-wordpress-presentation?src=embed" title="Lorelle at WordCamp 2008 - 260 Ways to Break WordPress">Lorelle at WordCamp 2008 - 260 Ways to Break WordPress</a>
<div>View SlideShare <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Lorelle/lorelle-at-wordcamp-2008-260-ways-to-break-wordpress-presentation?src=embed" title="View Lorelle at WordCamp 2008 - 260 Ways to Break WordPress on SlideShare">presentation</a> or <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/upload?src=embed">Upload</a> your own. (tags: <a href="http://slideshare.net/tag/wordcamp">wordcamp</a> <a href="http://slideshare.net/tag/wordcamp2008">wordcamp2008</a>)</div>
</div>
<p>Here are some of the other presenters from WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jeremyclarke/global-voices-democratising-the-web-with-wordpress-and-love-presentation/" title="Global Voices - Democratising the web with Wordpres...">Global Voices - Democratising the web with WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/josephscott/wordpress-apis-presentation/" title="WordPress APIs">WordPress APIs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jcksn/color-theory-and-the-making-of-monotone-presentation/" title="Color Theory and the Making of Monotone">Color Theory and the Making of Monotone</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/emilong/quercus-wordcamp-2008-presentation/" title="Quercus WordCamp 2008">Quercus WordCamp 2008</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/markjaquith/secure-coding-with-wordpress-wordcamp-sf-2008-presentation-559310/" title="Secure Coding with WordPress - WordCamp SF 2008">Secure Coding with WordPress - WordCamp SF 2008</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/apeatling/buddypress-wordcamp-presentation/" title="BuddyPress @ WordCamp">BuddyPress @ WordCamp</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/willnorris/wordpress-oauth-presentation/" title="WordPress + OAuth">WordPress + OAuth</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sogrady/open-source-and-money-presentation/" title="Make Cash. Using Open Source. And WordPress.">Make Cash. Using Open Source. And WordPress.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/technosailor/findability-abwc2008-presentation?src=embed" title="Findability Abwc2008">Findability Abwc2008</a> (<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TechnosailorFeed/~3/366645666/" title="Search and Findability">blog post</a>)</li>
</ul>
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<p>I talked about how important it is that we push WordPress as far as possible, even to the breaking point, to make sure it will work across all operating systems, all hosts, all browsers, all setups - in every way we can. The more we push WordPress, the more the community benefits from the fixes. Trust me, WordPress can take it, but we need to do more.</p>
<p>Examples covered in the presentation include:</p>
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<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/liz-strauss-is-breaking-the-web-and-pushing-wordpress/" title="Liz Strauss is Breaking the Web and Pushing WordPress">Liz Strauss is Breaking the Web and Pushing WordPress</a> as an example of how Liz wanted to publish 260 posts, one a minute, using the <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/01/working-ahead-future-posts-with-wordpress/" title="Working Ahead - Future Posts with WordPress">future post/timestamp feature</a> of WordPress. Would it work?</li>
<li><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/absolute-comments-manager-instant-reply/" title="Comment Manager with Instant Reply">Absolute Comments WordPress Plugin</a> and <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/2008/05/30/wp-comment-remix/" title="WP Comment Remix">WP Comment Remix WordPress Plugin</a> add improved functionality for responding to comments from the Comments Panel in WordPress.</li>
<li>When you can’t use WordPress Plugins, like on WordPress.com blogs, creative people like Engtech of <a href="http://internetducttape.com/" title="Internet Duct Tape">Internet Duct Tape</a> said, “We can do more!” He created some <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748" title="Greasemonkey">Greasemonkey FireFox Extension</a> scripts that improve how WordPress works for WordPress and WordPress.com blogs. <a href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/12239" title="WordPress Comment Ninja">WordPress Comment Ninja</a> adds comment replies from the Comments Panel. <a href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7037" title="Akismet Auntie Spam for WordPress">Auntie Akismet Spam for WordPress</a> condenses Akismet spam to two lines and combines redundant comment spam to speed up comment spam checking for false/positives by an incredible amount. Both of these save you a LOT of time.</li>
<li><strong>Extra Tip:</strong> <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/power-blogging-tips-comment-on-blogs-from-within-google-feed-reader/" title="Comment on Blogs From Within Google Feed Reader">Power Blogging Tips: Comment on Blogs From Within Google Feed Reader</a> - another Greasemonkey script that allows you to comment on blogs from inside of your Google Feed Reader without opening the page in a new tab.</li>
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<div id="__ss_564173"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Lorelle/lorelle-at-wordcamp-2008-260-ways-to-break-wordpress-presentation?src=embed" title="Lorelle at WordCamp 2008 - 260 Ways to Break WordPress">Lorelle at WordCamp 2008 - 260 Ways to Break WordPress</a>
<div>View SlideShare <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Lorelle/lorelle-at-wordcamp-2008-260-ways-to-break-wordpress-presentation?src=embed" title="View Lorelle at WordCamp 2008 - 260 Ways to Break WordPress on SlideShare">presentation</a> or <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/upload?src=embed">Upload</a> your own. (tags: <a href="http://slideshare.net/tag/wordcamp">wordcamp</a> <a href="http://slideshare.net/tag/wordcamp2008">wordcamp2008</a>)</div>
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<p>Here are some of the other presenters from WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jeremyclarke/global-voices-democratising-the-web-with-wordpress-and-love-presentation/" title="Global Voices - Democratising the web with Wordpres...">Global Voices - Democratising the web with WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/josephscott/wordpress-apis-presentation/" title="WordPress APIs">WordPress APIs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jcksn/color-theory-and-the-making-of-monotone-presentation/" title="Color Theory and the Making of Monotone">Color Theory and the Making of Monotone</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/emilong/quercus-wordcamp-2008-presentation/" title="Quercus WordCamp 2008">Quercus WordCamp 2008</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/markjaquith/secure-coding-with-wordpress-wordcamp-sf-2008-presentation-559310/" title="Secure Coding with WordPress - WordCamp SF 2008">Secure Coding with WordPress - WordCamp SF 2008</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/apeatling/buddypress-wordcamp-presentation/" title="BuddyPress @ WordCamp">BuddyPress @ WordCamp</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/willnorris/wordpress-oauth-presentation/" title="WordPress + OAuth">WordPress + OAuth</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sogrady/open-source-and-money-presentation/" title="Make Cash. Using Open Source. And WordPress.">Make Cash. Using Open Source. And WordPress.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/technosailor/findability-abwc2008-presentation?src=embed" title="Findability Abwc2008">Findability Abwc2008</a> (<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TechnosailorFeed/~3/366645666/" title="Search and Findability">blog post</a>)</li>
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<p>This WordPress plugin allows you to generate a list of posts separated by category. You can choose to display all categories, or just those you select. Under each category heading, the posts are sorted by date, with the most recent first. Additionally, the date for each post is shown next to the link.</p>
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<p>Plugin with a widget which enables us to change the theme of a blog without having to login to the administrator’s room first. This is just like allowing visitors to change the theme of the blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emrahustun.com/gorsel-koru"><strong>Gorsel Koru</strong></a></p>
<p>If a site uses an image hosted on your site, a message you define, appears on it, i.e. prevents hotlinking of images. <em>(Site in Turkish)</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.jarinteractive.com/code/photojar/photojar-post-thumbnailer/"><strong>PhotoJAR: Post Thumbnail</strong></a></p>
<p>PhotoJAR: Post Thumbnail displays a post thumbnail for posts with galleries. When paired with a JavaScript viewer, the full gallery can be displayed when the thumbnail is clicked. PhotoJAR: Post Thumbnail requires <a href="http://www.jarinteractive.com/code/photojar/photojar-base/">PhotoJAR: Base</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.avirtualhome.com/wordpress-plugins/avh-amazon/"><strong>AVH Amazon</strong></a></p>
<p>AVH Amazon plugin give you the ability to add multiple widgets which will display a random item from your Amazon wishlist, baby registry and/or wedding registry. In the plugin reference is made to Wishlist only but you can use your Baby Registry ID or Wedding Registry ID as well.</p>
<p><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/liz-strauss-comment-count-badge-widget-wordpress/"><strong>Liz Strauss Comment Counter</strong></a></p>
<p>Liz Strauss Comment Counter is a highly configurable badge (very similar to the Feedburner one, except it’s more configurable) to show off the number of comments your blog has.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wesg.ca/2008/08/wordpress-widget-most-popular/"><strong>Most Popular Posts</strong></a></p>
<p>This is a very simple widget that displays a link to the top commented posts on your blog.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:00:42 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2468:"<p><a href="http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/archives-by-selected-categories-plugin-for-wordpress/"><strong>Archives by Selected Categories</strong></a></p>
<p>This WordPress plugin allows you to generate a list of posts separated by category. You can choose to display all categories, or just those you select. Under each category heading, the posts are sorted by date, with the most recent first. Additionally, the date for each post is shown next to the link.</p>
<p><a href="http://visikita.net/wordpress-theme-changer-and-showcase-plugin.php/"><strong>WordPress Theme Changer & Showcase Plugin</strong></a></p>
<p>Plugin with a widget which enables us to change the theme of a blog without having to login to the administrator’s room first. This is just like allowing visitors to change the theme of the blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emrahustun.com/gorsel-koru"><strong>Gorsel Koru</strong></a></p>
<p>If a site uses an image hosted on your site, a message you define, appears on it, i.e. prevents hotlinking of images. <em>(Site in Turkish)</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.jarinteractive.com/code/photojar/photojar-post-thumbnailer/"><strong>PhotoJAR: Post Thumbnail</strong></a></p>
<p>PhotoJAR: Post Thumbnail displays a post thumbnail for posts with galleries. When paired with a JavaScript viewer, the full gallery can be displayed when the thumbnail is clicked. PhotoJAR: Post Thumbnail requires <a href="http://www.jarinteractive.com/code/photojar/photojar-base/">PhotoJAR: Base</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.avirtualhome.com/wordpress-plugins/avh-amazon/"><strong>AVH Amazon</strong></a></p>
<p>AVH Amazon plugin give you the ability to add multiple widgets which will display a random item from your Amazon wishlist, baby registry and/or wedding registry. In the plugin reference is made to Wishlist only but you can use your Baby Registry ID or Wedding Registry ID as well.</p>
<p><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/liz-strauss-comment-count-badge-widget-wordpress/"><strong>Liz Strauss Comment Counter</strong></a></p>
<p>Liz Strauss Comment Counter is a highly configurable badge (very similar to the Feedburner one, except it’s more configurable) to show off the number of comments your blog has.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wesg.ca/2008/08/wordpress-widget-most-popular/"><strong>Most Popular Posts</strong></a></p>
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