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<p>If you&#8217;re looking to find out what the scope will be for WordPress 3.0 and are wondering about how the merging process will take place, I invite you to join the WordPress Developers chat being held today at 4PM EST. In fact, here is the detailed information regarding the chat. Note you&#8217;ll need an <a href="http://www.mirc.com/">mIRC</a> client in order to participate. There is a <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/IRC">host of documents</a> that explain how to configure IRC and connect to the appropriate channel. The meeting agenda is usually posted before the meeting on the <a href="http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/">WordPress Developments Prologue</a> site.</p>
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<p>No doubt about it, the interfaces look the same albeit with MT&#8217;s added touches. While many fans of WordPress are giving Six Apart an earful, I&#8217;ve taken a bit more relaxed approach. One of the things that people constantly refer to WordPress for is its publishing interface. Since this interface is loved by many, is it really any surprise that something similar to it would appear in other publishing platforms? Also, I highly doubt WordPress was the first to have the layout that it does now.</p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:55:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress 2.9.1 Final Released";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:84:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/01/04/wordpress-2-9-1-final-released/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:84:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/01/04/wordpress-2-9-1-final-released/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:1235:"<p>WordPress 2.9.1 has <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2010/01/wordpress-2-9-1/" target="_blank">been released</a>, and is now available for downloads. This release fixes several minor issues, and the bugs which caused problems with scheduling posts and pingbacks. Upgrade is not really necessary unless you are facing any of the issues listed <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;group=resolution&amp;order=priority&amp;milestone=2.9.1&amp;resolution=fixed" target="_blank">here</a>. </p>
<p>Another interesting fact shared by Ryan Boren is that WordPress 2.9 has already clocked a million downloads till date, now that is really good. If you have not yet upgraded to WordPress 2.9, read my earlier posts describing some of the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/03/wordpress-2-9-packs-in-loads-of-features-hands-on-review/" target="_blank">best features in WordPress 2.9</a> or visit this <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.9" target="_blank">entry</a> on WordPress Codex.</p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:25:"Dev Blog: WordPress 2.9.1";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1140";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:57:"http://wordpress.org/development/2010/01/wordpress-2-9-1/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:680:"<p>After over a million downloads of WordPress 2.9 and lots of feedback from all of you, we&#8217;re releasing WordPress  2.9.1.  This release addresses a handful of minor issues as well as a rather annoying problem where scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly due to incompatibilities with some hosts.  If any of <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;group=resolution&amp;order=priority&amp;milestone=2.9.1&amp;resolution=fixed">these issues</a> affect you, give 2.9.1 a try.  <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">Download 2.9.1</a> or upgrade automatically from the Tools-&gt;Upgrade menu in your blog&#8217;s admin area.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:35:31 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:10:"Ryan Boren";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:9;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<p>I&#8217;d love to gather some explicit bug reports (this thing breaks here, this code on line X appears to fail, works with all other plugins turned off but not with plugin Y enabled as well, etc.) and/oor access (both WP admin and file editing) to an environment where this is  <img src="http://alexking.org/images/smilies/ak_scare1.gif" alt=":scare:" class="wp-smiley" />  breaking  <img src="http://alexking.org/images/smilies/ak_scare2.gif" alt=":/scare:" class="wp-smiley" />  consistently with WP 2.9 and previously worked with WP 2.8.x.</p>
<p>If you use Twitter Tools, could you take a moment to <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/" rel="external">vote if it works for you with WordPress 2.9</a>?<sup><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/topic/wordpress/feed#fn1262643118144n" id="fn1262643118144" class="footnote">1</a></sup></p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>UPDATE: Interesting &#8211; when I posted this the vote was 12 working vs. 17 broken. The current vote is now 31 working to 20 broken. So far since I posted this another 22 votes have been cast and 19 of them indicate it is working. This seems to be far from a widespread issue, which probably helps explain why no one I know can reproduce it.</p>
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<li id="fn1262643118144n">I realize that this type of call to action will by nature result in more unhapy voters (more &#8220;broken&#8221; votes) than otherwise &#8211; this is the nature of such things. [<a href="http://alexking.org/blog/topic/wordpress/feed#fn1262643118144">back</a>]</li>
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<p>A clean and minimalistic two column, fixed width theme</p>
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<p>Pico is a grid-based magazine theme based on the famous <a href="http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2007/08/05/wordpress-magazine-theme-released/">Mimbo theme</a> by Darren Hoyt, designed to work right out-of-the-box without having to install additional plugins. Features smart post thumbnail handling (supports 2.9 Canonical Post thumbnail or use first image on post), 10 widget areas (including four columns on footer), 3 page templates (Archives, List Authors and Sitemap), a custom Featured Categories widget, breadcrumb navigation and support for threaded comments.</p>
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<p>January 8–9: <a href="http://atlantawordcamp.com/">WordCamp Atlanta</a><br />
January 23: <a href="http://wordcampboston.com/">WordCamp Boston</a><br />
January 30: <a href="http://www.wordcamp.gr/">WordCamp Greece</a> in Thessaloniki<br />
January 30: <a href="http://id.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Indonesia</a> in Jakarta<br />
February 27: <a href="http://2010.wordcampfukuoka.com/">WordCamp Fukuoka</a><br />
March 6–7: <a href="http://www.wordcampireland.com/">WordCamp Ireland</a> in Kilkenny<br />
March 27–28: <a href="http://wordcamptoronto.com/">WordCamp Toronto</a></p>
<h4>NORTH AMERICA</h4>
<p><strong>January 8–9: <a href="http://atlantawordcamp.com/">WordCamp Atlanta</a>.</strong> First WordCamp of the year, and it&#8217;s already sold out &#8212; twice! They changed to a bigger venue based on demand, from Georgia Tech to the Atlanta campus of Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). They&#8217;re still letting people onto <a href="http://wordcampatl.eventbrite.com/">the waitlist</a>, if you&#8217;re interested. A guaranteed way to get in would be to <a href="http://atlantawordcamp.com/sponsor/sponsorship-opportunities/">sponsor</a> the event, and they&#8217;re taking last-minute sponsors right now. Atlanta will have sessions on Friday evening and all day Saturday. I&#8217;ll be opening the Saturday program with <em>WordPress Resolutions: What to Expect in 2010</em>. After a day of design, development and content track sessions, Lead Developer <a href="http://markjaquith.com/">Mark Jaquith</a> will take the closing slot for a Town Hall-style Q&amp;A.  The <a href="http://wordcampatl.eventbrite.com/">attendee list</a> (follow link, scroll down) includes a number of WordPress core contributors, theme/plugin developers, and support providers as well as proof that Atlanta has a strong WordPress user base.</p>
<p><strong>January 23: <a href="http://wordcampboston.com/">WordCamp Boston</a>.</strong> I think WordCamp Boston is trying to one-up every WordCamp the organizers have been to, including the awesome NYC from November, and it looks like they might succeed. From <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/">Doc Searls</a> and <a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/">David Weinberger</a> as keynote speakers to the multiple-track, unconference and Ignite sessions to the sweet-looking venue and the party plans, this one has got it going on. I credit it in part to the fact that they are one of the few WordCamps to follow the advice of having an organizing team of more than just 2 or 3 people, so the work is better distributed. I see a number of familiar names on the <a href="http://wordcampboston.com/registration/attendees/">attendee list</a>, but even more that I don&#8217;t know, so I&#8217;m looking forward to meeting the Boston WordPress community. They&#8217;re still <a href="http://wordcampboston.com/registration/">selling tickets</a>, so if you&#8217;re in the northeast, you should try to make it. I&#8217;ll be at this one also, talking about how the merge with MU will affect the WordPress admin (by then we should have started figuring it out!).</p>
<p><strong>March 27–28: <a href="http://wordcamptoronto.com/">WordCamp Toronto</a>.</strong> The last two Toronto WordCamps have been really good. I heard there would be one in March, but their site right now is just <a href="http://wordcamptoronto.com/">taking emails</a> for notification. I&#8217;ve contacted the organizer to see what&#8217;s up, and he says the site will likely go live this week. They&#8217;re looking for volunteers to help organize this year&#8217;s event, so if you&#8217;re interested, it would be a great opportunity to get involved. Believe me, volunteering at a WordCamp is one of the best ways to make sure you meet a lot of other attendees.</p>
<h4>ASIA</h4>
<p><strong>January 30: <a href="http://id.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Indonesia</a>.</strong> WordCamp Indonesia will be in Jakarta again this year. I love how they worded the beginning of their <a href="http://id.wordcamp.org/conference-sessions/">sessions</a> page. &#8220;Come in, we’ll get you breakfast and coffee, you’ll register, there’ll be networking. It’ll be great.&#8221; There will be a single track of sessions, but there are several time slots set aside for ad-hoc discussion and breakout sessions.</p>
<p><strong>February 27: <a href="http://2010.wordcampfukuoka.com/">WordCamp Fukuoka</a>.</strong> WordCamp Fukuoka is just getting its site up, too, so check back periodically a little later for more information. One of their visiting speakers will be <a href="http://noel.io/">Noel Jackson</a>, developer of the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Press_This">Press This</a> bookmarklet as well as themes like <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/p2">P2</a> and <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/monotone">Monotone</a>/<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/duotone">Duotone</a>.</p>
<h4>EUROPE</h4>
<p><strong>January 30: <a href="http://www.wordcamp.gr/">WordCamp Greece</a>.</strong> WordCamp Greece will be held in Thessaloniki, and they expect about 100-150 people to attend.The program includes regular sessions on the usual topics (how-to, programming, SEO, multi-language sites, etc) as well as &#8220;QuickRounds,&#8221; which will showcase Greek projects based on WordPress. I&#8217;m especially intrigued by the &#8220;WordPress vs. Expression Engine&#8221; session. Whenever people compare different publishing platforms, it&#8217;s interesting to see which features they highlight. I hope someone gets video from this one and posts it to the <a href="http://wordpress.tv/category/wordcamptv/">WordCamp section of WordPress.tv</a>.</p>
<p><strong>March 6–7: <a href="http://www.wordcampireland.com/">WordCamp Ireland</a>.</strong> WordCamp Ireland will be in Kilkenny, and for such a geographically small country, it&#8217;s got an impressive list of <a href="http://www.wordcampireland.com/info/speakers/">speakers</a>, including <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/">Donncha O Caoimh</a>, lead developer of <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/">WordPress MU</a>. The program includes three tracks: Intro, Blogger, and Developer, and I think this will be the first WordCamp I&#8217;ve heard of that is deliberately <a href="http://www.wordcampireland.com/about/family-and-partner-friendly/">family-friendly</a>, with on-site child care. They&#8217;re also going to have a charging station for mobile devices, which is clever. It&#8217;s not confirmed yet, but I think I&#8217;ll be at this one, too.</p>
<p>If you want to attend a WordCamp but don&#8217;t know of one near you, check out <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp.org</a> for the official list (updated frequently). That&#8217;s also where you would start if you wanted to <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/guidelines/">organize a WordCamp</a> in your area. </p>
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<p> ** Alpha **</p>
<p>* Collect feature ideas from ideas forum, support forums, most popular plugins, dev brainstorms, and other sources.<br />
* #wordpress-dev meetup to decide on which features we want to commit to and set the scope of the release<br />
* While this is going on, do some trac gardening of things that got punted from the previous release. We&#8217;re pretty bad about this sometimes, but with 3.0 Peter and I have been going through some of the backlog.<br />
* With features decided, create &#8220;task&#8221; tickets for all features targeted for the release.  Set existing &#8220;enhancement&#8221; tickets that made the cut to &#8220;task&#8221;. Start developing and submitting patches to the tickets.<br />
* At the same time, more trac gardening on existing tickets.<br />
* Continuous integration in trunk, committing feature work early and often. Trunk may break at times, but we&#8217;re all dogfooding the latest bits.</p>
<p>** Feature Freeze **</p>
<p>* Once all features are deemed complete via meeting on #wordpress-dev, we enter feature freeze. Sometimes we have features that aren&#8217;t quite ready that are noted as exceptions to the freeze.  Everything else is put in feature freeze with the hope of driving to beta on everything else. Ideally, there would be no freeze exceptions.<br />
* Drive to remove all beta &#8220;blocker&#8221; bugs in prep for entering the beta cycle</p>
<p>** Beta **</p>
<p>* &#8220;blocker&#8221; tickets are cleared.  Beta 1 is released to kick off the public beta cycle.<br />
* Fix bugs and start punting enhancements.<br />
* Release Beta 2 about a week later.<br />
* Fix bugs and start punting less severe tickets.<br />
* Release Beta 3 a week later.<br />
* Punt everything but blockers and fix those blockers.</p>
<p>** RC **</p>
<p>* Release RC1<br />
* Wait x days. In the past this has been from 1 day to a week or so.<br />
* If more bugs, release RC2. (We haven&#8217;t done this in awhile).</p>
<p>** Final Release **</p>
<p>* Release it<br />
* Monitor feedback and start collecting fixes for a maintenance release.</p>
<p>** Alpha **</p>
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<p>where editor-style.css will be applied to TinyMCE&#8217;s iframe.</p>
<p>There is also an option to define CSS classes that can be inserted by the user and to add the &#8220;Styles&#8221; drop-down selector to the editor toolbar. This is probably most useful for developers when creating a custom theme for a client as these classes would stop working if the theme is changed.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve put together a small package with examples of how to enable this. If you are creating WordPress themes, <a href="http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/tinymce-advanced/branches/tinymce-kit/">download it or have a look</a>, it&#8217;s quite simple. If not, perhaps ask the author of your theme to add it to the next update. <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p><ins datetime="2010-01-03T20:41:06+00:00">Update:</ins> as Dion points out in the comments, this is not meant for adding the whole &#8220;style.css&#8221; to the editor. That could bring problems and most of the styling won&#8217;t apply there anyways. It works best when a separate stylesheet is made specifically for use in the editor (editor-style.css in the example). It should contain a small subset from style.css, usually the part that is applied to the actual posts.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.wordpressbackup.org/">Automatic WordPress Backup</a></p>
<p>Backup your entire WordPress website regularly and automatically</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/peoplepond-online-identity-widget/">PeoplePond Online Identity Widget</a></p>
<p>Extend the reach and usability of your <a href="http://www.peoplepond.com">PeoplePond</a> profile, including your verified identity, with the PeoplePond Identity Widget in the sidebar of your WordPress blog. It will display a badge to your blog readers detailing who you are and what other services they can follow you on.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.toppa.com/shashin-wordpress-plugin/">Shashin</a></p>
<p>Shashin has many features for displaying your Picasa photos and videos in your WordPress posts and pages</p>
<p><a href="http://josephscott.org/code/wordpress/plugin-libxml2-fix/">LibXML2 Fix</a></p>
<p>Work around for some versions of libxml2 2.7.x that strip out brackets when parsing XML. This plugin fixes XML-RPC requests that are mangled because of this problem. The real fix for this (making the use of this plugin unnecessary) is to use PHP 5.2.9+ with libxml2 2.7.3+.</p>
<p><a href="http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/custom-post-limits/">Custom Post Limits</a></p>
<p>Control the number of posts that appear on the front page, search results, and author, category, tag, and date archives, independent of each other, including specific archives.</p>
<p><a href="http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/allow-multiple-accounts">Allow Multiple Accounts</a></p>
<p>Allow multiple user accounts to be created from the same email address.</p>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/transpose-email-plugin/">Transpose Email</a></p>
<p>Keeps your email safe from spammers when you want to use mailto: links.</p>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/where-did-they-go-from-here/">Where did they go from here</a></p>
<p>Show &#8220;Readers who viewed this page, also viewed&#8221; links on your page. Much like Amazon.com&#8217;s product pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://markbeljaars.com/plugins/tocc-plugin/">Table of Contents Creator</a></p>
<p>Table of Contents Creator (TOCC) will generate a table of contents for your pages, posts and forum comments. New comments, pages, posts and post catagories will automatically appear as soon as they are published. A great new feature of TOCC is the ability to include automatically generated page and post summaries below each item in the table of contents.</p>
<p><a href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/robots-meta/">Robots Meta </a></p>
<p>Easy way to add meta robots tags to WordPress pages</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viadat.com/store-locator">Store Locator</a></p>
<p>The Store Locator plugin for WordPress empowers web developers &amp; web site owners to easily manage and display any set of important stores, products, or other locations on their website in an easily searchable manner. Uses Google Maps.</p>
<p><a href="http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/no-update-nag/">No Update Nag</a></p>
<p>Removes the WordPress update nag that appears at the top of all admin pages when a new version of WordPress is released.</p>
<p><a href="http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/configure-smtp">Configure SMTP</a></p>
<p>Configure SMTP mailing in WordPress, including support for sending e-mail via SSL/TLS (such as GMail).</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/front-end-editor">Front-end Editor</a></p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:58:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Search Based DOS Attack";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7462";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/01/01/wordpress-search-based-dos-attack/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:1100:"<p>I was notified on Twitter the other day that there was a new 0 Day denial of service exploit for WordPress. When asking on Twitter if it worked, numerous people replied that the published code did work and was taking down their sites. This raised some red flags for me so I jumped into the WordPress-Dev IRC channel to figure out what was going on.</p>
<p>The way this denial of service attack works is that a random search string is sent to the search form of a WordPress based website. Caching plugins do not work against this because the search string is randomized. It&#8217;s quite simple but what I&#8217;ve been told is that this is not an issue for WordPress to handle. Instead, this attack should be dealt with by the webhost on a firewall level. At one point, <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11685" target="_blank">a ticket was created</a> by Scribu but has since been closed as won&#8217;t fix.</p>
<p>So at the end of the day, the best defense you have is a competent webhost that will do their part to prevent these attacks from happening. No reason to be alarmed. </p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:23:13 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:17;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:57:"Publisher Blog: RIM Selects WordPress for BlackBerry Blog";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:42:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/?p=739";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:89:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2009/12/31/rim-selects-wordpress-for-blackberry-blog/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:2180:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Great to see that <a href="http://blogs.blackberry.com/2009/12/welcome-to-the-new-inside-blackberry/">RIM has relaunched their official BlackBerry blog</a>, using <a href="http://wordpress.org">WordPress</a>.  </p>
<p>The blog is called <a href="http://blogs.blackberry.com">Inside BlackBerry</a>, and aims at &#8220;bringing you authoritative content about BlackBerry® smartphones directly from the people who make them&#8221;:<br />
<a href="http://blogs.blackberry.com/"><img src="http://wordpresspublishers.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/rim-blackberry-wordpress.png?w=640&#038;h=379" alt="" title="rim-blackberry-wordpress" width="640" height="379" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-740" /></a></p>
<p>[ Visit <a href="http://blogs.blackberry.com">Inside BlackBerry</a> &amp; be sure to check out the <a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org">WordPress for BlackBerry</a> app ]</p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:49:"Weblog Tools Collection: Best Of WLTC 2009 Part 2";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7453";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:78:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/31/best-of-wltc-2009-part-2/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:15440:"<p>Part two of our best of series. While were looking back, feel free to post in the comments a link to what you consider to be one of the best articles about WordPress you&#8217;ve read all year. If enough submissions are received, we may just create one more best of 2009 post featuring articles submitted by you. Please do not submit links to articles on sites you own or maintain. </p>
<h2>July:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/01/official-wordpress-commercial-theme-directory-is-live/" title="Official WordPress Commercial Theme Directory is live">Official WordPress Commercial Theme Directory is live</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/02/how-do-you-post-content-to-your-blog/" title="How Do You Post Content To Your Blog?">How Do You Post Content To Your Blog?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/03/best-method-to-post-content-to-wordpress/" title="Best Method To Post Content To WordPress">Best Method To Post Content To WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/05/licensing-is-the-vehicle-our-users-are-the-environment/" title="Licensing is the vehicle, our users are the environment">Licensing is the vehicle, our users are the environment</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/07/wordpress-troubleshooting-tips/" title="Tips For Troubleshooting Problems With WordPress">Tips For Troubleshooting Problems With WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/15/should-you-update-all-plugins/" title="Should I Update a Plugin if an Update is Available?">Should I Update a Plugin if an Update is Available?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/15/wordpress-for-beginners-publish-post-tips-and-tricks/" title="WordPress for Beginners: Publish post tips and tricks">WordPress for Beginners: Publish post tips and tricks</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/19/what-would-you-like-in-a-wordpress-plugin/" title="What would you like in a WordPress Plugin?">What would you like in a WordPress Plugin?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/20/developing-post-ideas-for-your-wordpress-site/" title="Developing Post Ideas for Your WordPress Site">Developing Post Ideas for Your WordPress Site</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/23/create-private-twitter-like-site-with-wordpress/" title="Create Private Twitter Like Site With WordPress">Create Private Twitter Like Site With WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/23/benefits-of-adding-plugin-to-wordpress-extend/" title="Why Should You Add Your Plugin to WordPress Extend?">Why Should You Add Your Plugin to WordPress Extend?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/28/do-you-use-the-wordpress-codex/" title="Do you use the WordPress Codex?">Do you use the WordPress Codex?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/31/wordpress-scheduled-posts/" title="Do You Use Scheduled Posts Feature In WordPress?">Do You Use Scheduled Posts Feature In WordPress?</a></p>
<h2>August:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/02/fare-thee-well-wordpress-2-0/" title="Fare Thee Well WordPress 2.0">Fare Thee Well WordPress 2.0</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/04/wordpress-for-business-portfolio-website/" title="Use WordPress To Highlight Your Business/Portfolio">Use WordPress To Highlight Your Business/Portfolio</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/05/26-places-to-find-free-multimedia-for-your-blog/" title="26 Places to Find Free Multimedia for Your Blog">26 Places to Find Free Multimedia for Your Blog</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/07/convert-psd-files-to-wordpress-themes/" title="Convert PSD Files To WordPress Themes">Convert PSD Files To WordPress Themes</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/07/notifying-unconfirmed-feedburner-email-subscribers/" title="Notifying Unconfirmed Feedburner Email Subscribers">Notifying Unconfirmed Feedburner Email Subscribers</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/09/download-all-the-competition-plugins/" title="Download all the Competition Plugins!">Download all the Competition Plugins!</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/12/the-correct-way-to-report-a-security-issue-with-wordpress/" title="The Correct Way To Report A Security Issue With WordPress">The Correct Way To Report A Security Issue With WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/14/wordpress-url-shortening-service/" title="WP.me: URL Shortening Service From WordPress">WP.me: URL Shortening Service From WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/17/why-is-gravatar-still-not-mainstream/" title="Why Is Gravatar Still Not Mainstream?">Why Is Gravatar Still Not Mainstream?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/18/10-useful-wordpress-hook-hacks/" title="10 Useful WordPress Hook Hacks">10 Useful WordPress Hook Hacks</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/24/21-great-plugins-for-manage-multi-author-blogs/" title="21 Great Plugins for Manage Multi-Author Blogs">21 Great Plugins for Manage Multi-Author Blogs</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/26/actions-and-filters-and-classes-oh-my/" title="Actions and Filters and Classes, Oh My!">Actions and Filters and Classes, Oh My!</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/27/display-thumbnails-for-related-posts-in-wordpress/" title="Display Thumbnails For Related Posts in Wordpress">Display Thumbnails For Related Posts in Wordpress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/30/wordpress-stats-plug-in-review/" title="WordPress Stats Plug-in Review">WordPress Stats Plug-in Review</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/31/roles-and-capibilities-in-plain-english/" title="Roles And Capabilities In Plain English">Roles And Capabilities In Plain English</a></p>
<h2>September:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/09/01/habla-html/" title="¿Habla HTML?">¿Habla HTML?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/09/04/old-wordpress-version-attack-warning-please-upgrade/" title="Old WordPress version? Attack warning. Please upgrade!">Old WordPress version? Attack warning. Please upgrade!</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/09/07/understanding-wordpress-user-roles/" title="WordPress For Beginners: Understanding User Roles">WordPress For Beginners: Understanding User Roles</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/09/11/wordpress-cheatsheet/" title="WordPress Cheatsheet">WordPress Cheatsheet</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/09/12/are-you-responsible-enough-to-run-wordpress/" title="Are You Responsible Enough To Run WordPress?">Are You Responsible Enough To Run WordPress?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/09/19/the-best-of-series-seo-tools/" title="The Best-Of Series: SEO Tools">The Best-Of Series: SEO Tools</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/09/24/excellent-guide-to-make-most-of-your-wordpress-install/" title="Excellent Guide To Make Most of Your WordPress Install">Excellent Guide To Make Most of Your WordPress Install</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/09/27/dealing-with-404-errors-permanent-redirects-in-wordpress/" title="Dealing With 404 Errors &amp; Permanent Redirects In WordPress">Dealing With 404 Errors &amp; Permanent Redirects In WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/09/27/wordpress-plugin-competition-2009-runner-ups/" title="WordPress Plugin Competition 2009 Runner Ups!">WordPress Plugin Competition 2009 Runner Ups!</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/09/28/wordpress-plugin-competition-2009-winner/" title="WordPress Plugin Competition 2009 Winner!">WordPress Plugin Competition 2009 Winner!</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/09/29/the-best-of-series-contact-forms/" title="The Best-Of Series: Contact Forms">The Best-Of Series: Contact Forms</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/09/30/when-is-a-plugin-considered-a-ripoff/" title="When Is A Plugin Considered A Ripoff?">When Is A Plugin Considered A Ripoff?</a></p>
<h2>October:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/10/01/inject-plugin-ideas-here/" title="Inject Plugin Ideas Here -&gt;">Inject Plugin Ideas Here -&gt;</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/10/03/do-you-check-your-spam-comments-tips-to-deal-with-spam/" title="Do You Check Your Spam Comments? Tips to Deal With Spam.">Do You Check Your Spam Comments? Tips to Deal With Spam.</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/10/04/pinging-your-own-blog-posts-good-or-bad/" title="Pinging Your Own Blog Posts? Good or Bad?">Pinging Your Own Blog Posts? Good or Bad?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/10/05/ftc-says-bloggers-must-disclose-payments-and-freebies/" title="FTC says bloggers must disclose payments and freebies">FTC says bloggers must disclose payments and freebies</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/10/16/theme-authenticity-checker/" title="Theme Authenticity Checker">Theme Authenticity Checker</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/10/19/gravatar-encouragement/" title="Gravatar Encouragement ">Gravatar Encouragement </a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/10/22/using-conditional-statements-in-wordpress/" title="Using Conditional Statements In WordPress">Using Conditional Statements In WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/10/27/are-your-plugins-compatible/" title="Are Your Plugins Compatible?">Are Your Plugins Compatible?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/10/29/bulk-plugin-upgrades-in-2-9/" title="Bulk Plugin Upgrades In 2.9">Bulk Plugin Upgrades In 2.9</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/10/30/how-would-you-leverage-the-wordpress-community/" title="How Would You Leverage The WordPress Community?">How Would You Leverage The WordPress Community?</a></p>
<h2>November:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/03/wordpress-warriors-from-across-the-world/" title="WordPress Warriors From Across The World">WordPress Warriors From Across The World</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/04/wordpress-for-the-desktop-would-you-use-it/" title="WordPress for the Desktop… Would You Use It?">WordPress for the Desktop… Would You Use It?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/06/the-best-of-series-download-managers/" title="The Best-Of Series: Download Managers">The Best-Of Series: Download Managers</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/08/darn-you-wordpress/" title="Darn You WordPress!!">Darn You WordPress!!</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/17/how-to-create-an-author-info-section-in-wordpress/" title="How to Create an Author Info Section in WordPress">How to Create an Author Info Section in WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/18/how-do-you-do-that/" title="How Do You Do That?">How Do You Do That?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/18/is-automattic-evil/" title="Is Automattic Evil?">Is Automattic Evil?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/21/how-to-create-micro-blogs-within-wordpress/" title="How to Create Micro Blogs Within WordPress">How to Create Micro Blogs Within WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/22/so-we-tried-intense-debate/" title="So we tried Intense Debate . . .">So we tried Intense Debate . . .</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/23/google-to-help-notify-you-of-new-updates/" title="Google To Help Notify You Of New Updates">Google To Help Notify You Of New Updates</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/25/how-to-disable-delete-post-functionality-for-everyone-except-administrator/" title="How To Disable Delete Post Functionality For Everyone Except Administrator">How To Disable Delete Post Functionality For Everyone Except Administrator</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/25/translators-thank-you/" title="Translators – Thank You">Translators – Thank You</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/28/the-geekier-side-of-wordpress-2-9/" title="The Geekier Side Of WordPress 2.9">The Geekier Side Of WordPress 2.9</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/29/why-are-good-plugins-becoming-orphans/" title="Why are good plugins becoming orphans?">Why are good plugins becoming orphans?</a></p>
<h2>December:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/02/wordpress-trademark-usage/" title="WordPress Trademark Usage">WordPress Trademark Usage</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/03/wordpress-2-9-packs-in-loads-of-features-hands-on-review/" title="WordPress 2.9 Packs in Loads of Features: Hands-on Review">WordPress 2.9 Packs in Loads of Features: Hands-on Review</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/04/do-you-use-the-code-editor/" title="Do You Use The Code Editor?">Do You Use The Code Editor?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/04/how-often-do-you-use-functions-php-in-themes/" title="How Often do You Use Functions.php in Themes?">How Often do You Use Functions.php in Themes?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/05/publish-the-feed-later/" title="Publish The Feed Later">Publish The Feed Later</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/10/is-wordpress-spyware/" title="Is WordPress Spyware?">Is WordPress Spyware?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/11/bbpress-lives/" title="bbPress Lives">bbPress Lives</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/17/assortment-of-tips-for-consultants/" title="Assortment Of Tips For Consultants">Assortment Of Tips For Consultants</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/22/2-9-1-around-the-corner/" title="2.9.1 Around The Corner">2.9.1 Around The Corner</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/23/trend-for-2010-paying-for-plugins/" title="Trend For 2010 – Paying For Plugins">Trend For 2010 – Paying For Plugins</a><br />
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<p><img title="Debt_theme" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Debt_theme.png" alt="Debt_theme" width="191" height="162" /></p>
<p>Two column, widget ready theme with support for threaded comments and an options page for customizing the theme</p>
<h4><a href="http://cgbaran.com/2009/12/cgbaran-theme/">CgBaran</a></h4>
<p><img title="cgbaran" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/cgbaran.jpg" alt="cgbaran" width="191" height="146" /></p>
<p>2-3 column widget ready and adsense ready theme</p>
<h4><a href="http://customtheme.com/themes/blogwave/">Blogwave</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://demo.customtheme.com/?wptheme=Blogwave"><img title="Blogwave" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Blogwave.png" alt="Blogwave" width="191" height="143" /></a></p>
<p>The theme includes four different color schemes which you can conveniently switch to in the built-in theme options page.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.blogging-inside.de/2009/12/kostenloses-happy2010-theme-fuer-wordpress/">Happy2010</a></h4>
<p><img title="happy2010" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/happy2010.jpg" alt="happy2010" width="191" height="127" /></p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:22:"Andrew: PodPress 8.8.2";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:34:"http://azaozz.wordpress.com/?p=125";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:54:"http://azaozz.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/podpress-8-8-2/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:1569:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/">PodPress</a> version 8.8.2 is a maintenance and bugfix release including patches by <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/ntm/">Tim Berger</a>. It makes podPress compatible with WordPress 2.9 and fixes several other bugs. If someone has other patches please open tickets on the <a href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/">plugins trac</a> and leave a comment here.</p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:49:"Weblog Tools Collection: Best Of WLTC 2009 Part 1";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7450";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:78:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/30/best-of-wltc-2009-part-1/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:14013:"<p>Throughout the course of a year on WeblogToolsCollection.com, there is a ton of information published about WordPress whether it be a link to something cool or a home grown guide covering a specific feature of WordPress. The purpose of this two part series is to look back at the best articles published on the site but it&#8217;s also to reflect on the achievements the software has undergone during 2009. While it&#8217;s good to keep things moving along into the future, it&#8217;s healthy to look at the past every once in awhile to measure progress. </p>
<p>From all of us here at WLTC, we wish you a safe and happy New Year!</p>
<h2>January:</h2>
<p>	<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/04/plugin-review-simplepress-forum/" title="Plugin Review: Simple:Press Forum">Plugin Review: Simple:Press Forum</a><br />
	<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/05/great-explanation-of-community/" title="Great Explanation Of Community">Great Explanation Of Community</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/10/phpbb-and-wordpress/" title="PHPBB And WordPress">PHPBB And WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/11/plugin-review-referrer-detector/" title="Plugin Review: Referrer Detector">Plugin Review: Referrer Detector</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/15/do-you-post-by-email/" title="Do You Post By Email?">Do You Post By Email?</a><br />
	<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/18/plugin-review-wp-greet-box/" title="Plugin Review: WP Greet Box">Plugin Review: WP Greet Box</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/25/plugin-review-wp125/" title="Plugin Review: WP125">Plugin Review: WP125</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/28/michael-pick-of-wordpresstv/" title="Michael Pick Of WordPress.TV">Michael Pick Of WordPress.TV</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/31/et-tu-google-then-fail-net-safety/" title="Et Tu Google? Then Fail, Net Safety">Et Tu Google? Then Fail, Net Safety</a></p>
<h2>February:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/01/plugin-review-autoclose/" title="Plugin Review: Autoclose">Plugin Review: Autoclose</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/04/want-to-buy-sandbox/" title="Want To Buy Sandbox?">Want To Buy Sandbox?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/05/updated-wp-plugin-where-did-they-go-from-here/" title="Updated WP Plugin: Where did they go from here?">Updated WP Plugin: Where did they go from here?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/08/plugin-review-mailpress/" title="Plugin Review: MailPress">Plugin Review: MailPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/11/mastering-wordpress-shortcodes/" title="Mastering WordPress Shortcodes">Mastering WordPress Shortcodes</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/12/feedburner-is-dead-long-live-feedburner/" title="FeedBurner is Dead, Long Live Feedburner">FeedBurner is Dead, Long Live Feedburner</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/15/plugin-review-yawasp/" title="Plugin Review: Yawasp">Plugin Review: Yawasp</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/19/plugin-authors-are-you-making-the-best-of-readmetxt/" title="Plugin Authors, Are you making the best of Readme.txt?">Plugin Authors, Are you making the best of Readme.txt?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/22/plugin-review-post-avatar/" title="Plugin Review: Post Avatar">Plugin Review: Post Avatar</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/24/the-manual-excerpt-in-wordpress-what-why-how-tips-and-plugins/" title="The manual Excerpt in WordPress. What, why, how, tips and plugins">The manual Excerpt in WordPress. What, why, how, tips and plugins</a></p>
<h2>March:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/01/plugin-review-improved-plugin-installation/" title="Plugin Review: Improved Plugin Installation">Plugin Review: Improved Plugin Installation</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/05/wordpress-plugin-development-beginners-guide/" title="WordPress Plugin Development Beginner’s Guide">WordPress Plugin Development Beginner’s Guide</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/07/wplookup-find-functions-and-template-tags-fast/" title="WPLookup – Find Functions and Template Tags Fast">WPLookup – Find Functions and Template Tags Fast</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/15/how-to-track-rss-subscribers-in-a-blog-contest/" title="How to Track RSS Subscribers in a Blog Contest">How to Track RSS Subscribers in a Blog Contest</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/15/plugin-review-wp-mollom/" title="Plugin Review: WP Mollom">Plugin Review: WP Mollom</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/19/ie-8-and-wordpress/" title="IE 8 and WordPress">IE 8 and WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/20/how-to-write-a-good-plugin-review/" title="How to write a good plugin review">How to write a good plugin review</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/20/new-wordpress-plugin-better-search/" title="New WordPress Plugin: Better Search">New WordPress Plugin: Better Search</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/22/plugin-review-wordpress-filter/" title="Plugin Review: WordPress Filter">Plugin Review: WordPress Filter</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/24/microsoft-web-platform-featured-app-wordpress/" title="Microsoft Web Platform Featured App: WordPress">Microsoft Web Platform Featured App: WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/28/top-10-characteristics-of-a-great-wordpress-plugin/" title="Top 10 Characteristics of a Great WordPress Plugin">Top 10 Characteristics of a Great WordPress Plugin</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/29/plugin-review-csprites-for-wordpress/" title="Plugin Review: cSprites for WordPress">Plugin Review: cSprites for WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/30/is-it-time-for-kubrick-to-retire/" title="Is It Time For Kubrick To Retire?">Is It Time For Kubrick To Retire?</a></p>
<h2>April:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/05/plugin-review-post-templates/" title="Plugin Review: Post Templates">Plugin Review: Post Templates</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/07/an-introduction-and-a-plugin-review-admin-links-widget/" title="An Introduction and a Plugin Review: Admin Links Widget">An Introduction and a Plugin Review: Admin Links Widget</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/10/how-to-highlight-search-terms-with-jquery/" title="How to Highlight Search Terms with jQuery">How to Highlight Search Terms with jQuery</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/13/wordpress-download-monitor-review/" title="WordPress Download Monitor Review">WordPress Download Monitor Review</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/15/wordpress-add-twitter-rss-plugin-review/" title="WordPress Add Twitter RSS Plugin Review">WordPress Add Twitter RSS Plugin Review</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/21/automattic-buys-blogs/" title="Automattic buys Blo.gs ">Automattic buys Blo.gs </a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/26/announcing-wordpress-plugin-competition-2009-30/" title="Announcing Wordpress Plugin Competition 2009 (3.0)">Announcing Wordpress Plugin Competition 2009 (3.0)</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/27/the-hiddem-gem-of-wordpress/" title="The Hidden Gem Of WordPress">The Hidden Gem Of WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/29/9-ways-to-make-your-wordpress-blog-smart/" title="9 Ways to Make Your WordPress Blog “Smart”">9 Ways to Make Your WordPress Blog “Smart”</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/30/buddypress-10-has-arrived/" title="BuddyPress 1.0 Has Arrived!!">BuddyPress 1.0 Has Arrived!!</a></p>
<h2>May:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/01/smarter-theme-development/" title="Smarter Theme Development">Smarter Theme Development</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/06/five-tools-to-increase-the-rss-subscribers-for-your-wordpress-blog/" title="Five Tools to Increase the RSS Subscribers for your WordPress Blog">Five Tools to Increase the RSS Subscribers for your WordPress Blog</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/09/plugins-to-spruce-up-your-wordpress-based-website/" title="Plugins to Spruce Up Your WordPress Based Website">Plugins to Spruce Up Your WordPress Based Website</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/10/i-am-sick-of-splogs-copying-our-content/" title="I am sick of splogs Copying our Content!">I am sick of splogs Copying our Content!</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/11/need-help-with-that/" title="Need Help With That?">Need Help With That?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/12/theme-development-checklist/" title="Theme Development Checklist">Theme Development Checklist</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/14/wp-pluginsused-a-plugin-review/" title="WP PluginsUsed: A Plugin Review">WP PluginsUsed: A Plugin Review</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/18/what-are-your-theme-standards/" title="What Are Your Theme Standards?">What Are Your Theme Standards?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/18/five-comment-related-plugins-for-wordpress/" title="Five Comment Related Plugins for WordPress">Five Comment Related Plugins for WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/23/five-image-related-plugins-for-your-wordpress-site/" title="Five Image Related Plugins for your WordPress Site">Five Image Related Plugins for your WordPress Site</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/27/what-can-wordpress-do-for-you/" title="What can WordPress do for you?">What can WordPress do for you?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/29/five-ad-manager-plugins-for-wordpress/" title="Five Ad Manager Plugins for WordPress">Five Ad Manager Plugins for WordPress</a></p>
<h2>June:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/04/wordpress-plugin-compatibility-checker/" title="WordPress Plugin Compatibility Checker">WordPress Plugin Compatibility Checker</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/05/publish-blog-posts-in-wordpress-from-yahoo-mail/" title="Publish Blog Posts In WordPress From Yahoo Mail">Publish Blog Posts In WordPress From Yahoo Mail</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/06/wordpress-plugin-theme-development-resources/" title="Resources To Get You Kick Started With WordPress Plugin And Theme Development">Resources To Get You Kick Started With WordPress Plugin And Theme Development</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/08/checklist-for-new-wordpress-installation/" title="Checklist For New WordPress Installation">Checklist For New WordPress Installation</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/10/join-wordpress-community-solving-bugs-and-helping-users/" title="Killing The WordPress Bugs and Helping Out With User Problems [WordPress Community]">Killing The WordPress Bugs and Helping Out With User Problems [WordPress Community]</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/12/should-you-use-a-mobile-wordpress-plugin/" title="Should you use a Mobile WordPress Plugin?">Should you use a Mobile WordPress Plugin?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/14/antivirus-plugin-for-wordpress/" title="Antivirus Plugin For WordPress">Antivirus Plugin For WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/15/security-and-anti-spam-plugins-for-wordpress/" title="Security And Anti-spam Plugins For WordPress">Security And Anti-spam Plugins For WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/18/how-has-wordpress-changed-blogging/" title="How Has WordPress Changed Your {Blogging} Life?">How Has WordPress Changed Your {Blogging} Life?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/19/wordpress-plugins-usage-faqs/" title="Does It Matter If I Use 1 Plugin Or 100s Of Them?">Does It Matter If I Use 1 Plugin Or 100s Of Them?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/20/attention-all-plugin-authors/" title="Attention All Plugin Authors">Attention All Plugin Authors</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/21/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-community-interview/" title="Interviews: Matt Mullenweg – WordPress Co-Founder">Interviews: Matt Mullenweg – WordPress Co-Founder</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/29/benchmarking-the-wordpress-admin-panel/" title="Benchmarking the WordPress Admin Panel">Benchmarking the WordPress Admin Panel</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/29/wordpress-configuration-tricks/" title="WordPress Configuration Tricks">WordPress Configuration Tricks	</a></p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:00:37 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:22;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:48:"Peter Westwood: Giving your WordPress a check up";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:33:"http://westi.wordpress.com/?p=141";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:71:"http://westi.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/giving-your-wordpress-a-check-up/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:4142:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Every now and then someone finds something wrong with a WordPress install which, rather than be caused by a bug in WordPress itself, is caused by a server configuration error, an interaction between WordPress and something else installed on the server or is just a recommend optimisation for better site performance.</p>
<p>Everyone has a different set of pitfalls that they have come across and I would like to collect together all these little things into a comprehensive community developed plugin which can hopefully become one of the first &#8220;<a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/canonical-plugins/">canonical</a>&#8221; plugins that we have talked about.</p>
<p>To that end I have developed a framework for this plugin, in the style of a unit test framework, to make it really easy to write tests and I am hoping that some of you will have ideas for tests and also that you will want to get involved.</p>
<p>For a while I have tagged tickets in the main WordPress trac where there are is possible inspiration for tests &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/healthchecktickets">http://bit.ly/healthchecktickets</a>.</p>
<p>The following is an example of the code required to carry out one of these tests which recommends users of PHP4 upgrade to PHP5.</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">

/**
 * Check that we are running at least PHP 5
 *
 * @todo Provide a link to a codex article
 * @link http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9751
 * @author peterwestwood
 */
class HealthCheck_PHP_Version extends HealthCheckTest {
    function run_test() {
        $this-&gt;assertTrue(    version_compare('5.0.0', PHP_VERSION, '&lt;'),
        sprintf( __( 'Your Webserver is running PHP version %s, which is no longer receiving security updates and will no longer be supported by a future version of WordPress.', 'health-check' ), PHP_VERSION ),
        HEALTH_CHECK_RECOMMENDATION );
    }
}
HealthCheck::register_test('HealthCheck_PHP_Version');
</pre>
<p>If you would like to get involved in the development of the plugin then you can check the source code out from the WordPress plugins subversion repository here: <a href="http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/health-check/branches/alpha/"><code>http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/health-check/branches/alpha/</code></a> and you can follow the development progress using the WordPress plugins trac here: <a href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/health-check/branches/alpha"><code>http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/health-check/branches/alpha</code></a>.</p>
<p>As the plugin is not yet ready for its first release we will be doing the development in this alpha branch and then move to trunk once we make the first release.</p>
<p>I am actively looking for fellow developers for this project as a community team we can make this a success.</p>
<p>So if you would like commit access to write some tests then drop me a note using the <a href="http://westi.wordpress.com/contact/">contact form</a> with a bit about yourself and I will give you access.</p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:44:"Joseph: WordPress Plugin Update: LibXML2 Fix";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:30:"http://josephscott.org/?p=1665";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:76:"http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/12/wordpress-plugin-update-libxml2-fix/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:1551:"<p>A small update to the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/libxml2-fix/">LibXML2 Fix</a> WordPress plugin is now available, version 0.2.3.</p>
<p>The only change was the addition of 2.6.27 to the list of libxml versions that the plugin looks for.  I&#8217;ve had a few reports that this version also has problems with stripping brackets.</p>
<p>For those that haven&#8217;t been following this problem here&#8217;s the <a href="http://josephscott.org/code/wordpress/plugin-libxml2-fix/">short version of the story</a>.  Some combinations of libxml and PHP don&#8217;t play nice with each other, the result being that brackets get stripped out of XML content.  This is a particular problem for XML-RPC requests in WordPress.  This plugin injects a small hack into the XML-RPC data before it gets processed in an attempt to preserve the brackets.</p>


<p>Related posts:<ol><li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/03/wordpress-libxml2-episode-iv-a-new-plugin/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress &#038; libxml2 Episode IV: A New Plugin">WordPress &#038; libxml2 Episode IV: A New Plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/10/rsscloud-wordpress-plugin-update-0-4-1/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: rssCloud WordPress Plugin Update &#8211; 0.4.1">rssCloud WordPress Plugin Update &#8211; 0.4.1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/02/update-on-libxml2-issues/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Update On libxml2 Issues">Update On libxml2 Issues</a></li>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:45:"Dev Blog: WordPress 2.9.1 Release Candidate 1";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1119";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:77:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9-1-release-candidate-1/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:681:"<p>Thanks to everyone who tested <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9-1-beta-1/">2.9.1 Beta 1</a>.  We&#8217;re following that up with Release Candidate 1.  RC1 contains a few more fixes, bringing the number of <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;group=resolution&amp;order=priority&amp;milestone=2.9.1&amp;resolution=fixed">fixed tickets</a> up to 23.  If you are already running Beta 1, visit Tools-&gt;Upgrade in your blog&#8217;s admin to get RC1.  You can also  <a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.9.1-RC1.zip">download the RC1 package</a> and install manually.  If all goes well, 2.9.1 will be here soon.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:27:23 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:10:"Ryan Boren";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:25;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:45:"Weblog Tools Collection: Four Great Questions";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7445";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:74:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/29/four-great-questions/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:1923:"<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/wpshoutlogo.png" rel="thumbnail"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/wpshoutlogo.png" alt="" title="wpshoutlogo" class="alignright size-full wp-image-7446" height="54" width="287" /></a>Alex Denning who is the man behind WPShout.com has published the last of a four-part series which asks notable members within the WordPress community four interesting questions. The questions are as follows.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://wpshout.com/why-wordpress-21-of-the-wordpress-community-answer/">Why WordPress?</a><br />
<a target="_blank" href="http://wpshout.com/you-can-change-anything-in-wordpress-what/">What Would You Change In WordPress?</a><br />
<a target="_blank" href="http://wpshout.com/what-problems-face-the-wordpress-community-it-answers/">What Problems Currently Face The WordPress Community?</a><br />
<a target="_blank" href="http://wpshout.com/the-future-of-wordpress/">What Is The Future Of WordPress?</a></p>
<p>I had the opportunity to participate in this community survey with the question regarding the future of WordPress being my favorite. Here is what I had to say:</p>
<blockquote><p>WordPress will continue to be used as a platform to do things that go far beyond blogging. As these projects end up in the showcase and acquire press, more people will begin to realize that WordPress is an excellent blogging tool but it’s by far the not only thing it is capable of doing. WordPress will continue to evolve as a framework or a platform that will enable these creative uses of the software. Hopefully one day, when Matt is asked what is WordPress capable of doing, his response will be, anything you can imagine.
</p></blockquote>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 12/29";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7443";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/29/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1229/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:1586:"<h4><a href="http://slackrthemes.com/2009/free-wordpress-theme-macha/">Macha</a></h4>
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<p>It is a single-column theme with bold headers and focuses on easy reading. There are no images used, it is SEO optimized, and is perfect for people that don’t want to get bogged down in all of the technicalities of other themes. There is also a widgetized footer with 3 places to put widgets in to help compensate for a lack of a sidebar.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.diovo.com/links/clear/">Clear</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://clear.kera.la/2009/12/a-wonderful-theme-for-writers/"><img title="Clear" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Clear.png" alt="Clear" width="191" height="143" /></a></p>
<p>It is minimalistic one-column theme with the widgets all arranged at the bottom. Clear was designed to make your content stand out and make everything else get out of the way.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.appchain.com/slidette/">Slidette</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/slidette"><img title="Slidette" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Slidette.jpg" alt="Slidette" width="191" height="141" /></a></p>
<p>It comes in 3 colors (green default, blue and black) , with a slideshow and a featured first page 4 posts from a category, two columns and dynamic widgets for the sidebar on the right and in the footer.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:48:09 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:7:"Perurry";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:27;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<p><a href="http://hdlns.com/hdlns_today_plugin.php">HDLNS Today</a></p>
<p>Automatically insert HDLNS headlines as a widget using the post date.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.technozeast.com/strip-ad">Strip Ad</a></p>
<p>Add a Strip Ad above the header to your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://pixopoint.com/code-comments/">Code Comments</a></p>
<p>Automatically Escape HTML Entities of Code Fragments in Comments</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/top-10/">Top 10</a></p>
<p>Count page views on posts and display a list of top posts by page views.</p>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/contextual-related-posts/">Contextual Related Posts</a></p>
<p>Display a list of contextually related posts for the current post. You can select the number of posts to display and if you want to automatically display the related posts in your content / feed.</p>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/where-did-they-go-from-here/">Where did they go from here?</a></p>
<p>This plugin will show “Readers who viewed this page, also viewed” links on your page. This is similar to Amazon’s product pages which state “Readers who have bought this, also bought”</p>
<p><a href="http://tobias.baethge.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-table-reloaded-english/">WP-Table Reloaded</a></p>
<p>This plugin enables you to create and manage tables in the admin-area of WordPress. You can then show them in your posts, on your pages or in text widgets by using a shortcode.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.watchcount.com/ebay-wordpress-plugin.php">WatchCount.com WordPress Plugin (WCCWPPI)</a></p>
<p>The WatchCount.com WordPress Plugin (WCCWPPI) is a free plugin that allows you to display Most Popular eBay items and auctions in real-time, directly on your blog. You can also display eBay items from any particular seller.</p>
<p><a href="http://deuced.net/shout-stream/">Shout Stream</a></p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:23:"Dev Blog: Setting Scope";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1096";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:55:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/setting-scope/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:4721:"<p>Merry Christmas! One of the things that was discussed at the core commit team meetup was release scope (and scope creep). Now that 2.9 is out and it&#8217;s time to start thinking about 3.0, we think it would be appropriate to stop and take a breath before diving in, and make a plan in advance. What winds up happening is that during each release cycle a few new features are selected for inclusion, but then right up until feature freeze (and/or beta cycle), people keep adding feature requests, patches for enhancements, and ongoing bug reports. This means each release winds up getting pushed out later than planned, and with so many things going in per release, it becomes harder to catch new bugs.</p>
<p>The as-long-as-we&#8217;re-not-in-freeze-yet model isn&#8217;t working. People wind up waiting months longer for new features they want, like Trash and Image Editing, because we&#8217;re still adding other things and then we need to test them all. If we kept the releases smaller feature-wise, we could push out the new stuff sooner (3 releases per year is the goal) and have more focused beta testing, making the releases themselves better. It&#8217;s hard, because everyone has their pet features and fixes, and if there&#8217;s a patch, why not get it in this release rather than waiting? Sometimes people complain that a patch has been waiting to be committed for weeks or months, but what no one ever seems to bring up is that sometimes patches introduce new bugs, and the more we add at once, the harder it is to keep it all well-tested on various platforms, in different hosting environments, etc. So. What&#8217;s our proposal?</p>
<p>We take a page from the world of project management and we make a project plan <strong>before</strong> we jump into the dev cycle. We let everyone propose features and enhancements, and we choose a limited number to include in 3.0 (in this case we need to be especially stringent, because the merge of WordPress and WordPress MU will automatically mean a lot of work) and set a realistic release date that we stick to. We create a tentative set of features for the next two releases, to be re-evaluated at the beginning of the next cycle, so that people know the community is committed to certain features, as opposed to the vague &#8220;future release&#8221; label we now use for everything not included in the current version. We fix bugs that are reproducible and affect a large number of users before focusing on edge case bugs or bugs that haven&#8217;t been well-described or reproduced. We stop diverting our attention from agreed-upon goals when a &#8220;squeaky wheel&#8221; decides we should all be focused on something else. There are always things that pop up unexpectedly, but we need to do a better job of restraining ourselves when it comes to trying to sneak things into the current release (I include myself in this, of course&#8230;as a UX person I always wish we could do everything all at once!).</p>
<p>As an open source project, we accomplish more when we work together than we do following individual agendas, and we need to keep our project focused on commonly-agreed-upon goals instead of following tangents whenever a community member starts to take us on one, regardless of whether it&#8217;s to follow a cool idea that everyone loves or a suggestion based on a personal agenda, and regardless of whether it&#8217;s a newbie who doesn&#8217;t know any better or a frequent contributor or committer who has a strong opinion and a loud voice (so to speak). The issue here is that it&#8217;s easy to get distracted, so we need to create a structure that will help us keep moving forward instead of getting sidetracked. We need to keep Trac clean for the current dev cycle so that it includes confirmed features and bug reports, and all new feature suggestions go into a different milestone.</p>
<p>We think it&#8217;s at least worth a try. When we re-start the weekly IRC dev chats in 2010, the first meeting will be to talk about the scope of 3.0. When we&#8217;ve got a general agreement about what will be included, we&#8217;ll create the appropriate Trac tickets, and punt tickets for non-3.0 feature requests/enhancements to a future release so we can stay focused. New bug reports will still come in to the current milestone. It&#8217;s going to be hard. There are at least a dozen new features that I feel like we&#8217;ve pushed back multiple times that I&#8217;d like to see in core, but for this experiment, I&#8217;m just going to keep reminding myself, &#8220;You can do that with a plugin!&#8221;</p>
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<p>Feature rich theme with support for thumbnails, feedburner, twitter, widgets and gravatars</p>
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<p>Crispp is a minimal theme with clean lines that lets visitors focus on your content. A separate administrative section allows you to change the color scheme however you like. The theme is very flexible</p>
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<h4><a href="http://www.blogging-inside.de/2009/12/dusty-city-theme-fuer-wordpress-drupal-und-joomla/">Dusty City</a></h4>
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<p>Dusty City is a WordPress Theme with 5 Sidebar / Widget positions. One below the navigation, one left and right, one between them, and one at the bottom. If you combine the Theme with the <a href="http://alkivia.org/wordpress/sideposts">Side Posts Plugin</a>, you will have a great flexible Magazine Theme. There is also an Option Page to populate the Footer. <em>Page in German</em></p>
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<p>The new version is not immediately available for downloads through the automatic upgrade, however you can download the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/" target="_blank">WordPress Beta tester plugin</a> and go to Tools-&gt;Upgrade and perform an automatic upgrade.</p>
<p>Please remember that this is not the final WordPress 2.9.1 release, so you might want to wait for another day or two for a stable release, if you are not comfortable using beta versions.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:36:52 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:35;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:62:"Weblog Tools Collection: Trend For 2010 – Paying For Plugins";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7416";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/23/trend-for-2010-paying-for-plugins/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:3053:"<p>While paying for plugins is nothing new, I&#8217;m predicting that by the end of 2010, there will be a large assortment of plugins for WordPress that will be available for purchase. As we wind down 2009, I&#8217;m already beginning to see the trend in action with at least 3 of my 31 installed plugins switching to a paid model. Each person is doing something a little different but the end result is the same. I have to pay to keep using it.</p>
<p>Now I don&#8217;t particularly have a problem with plugin authors charging for support or for services around the plugin but I&#8217;m seeing the plugin being bundled as part of the purchase. So in a way, you&#8217;re not only paying for the plugin, you&#8217;re paying for access to support. In most cases, the free plugin becomes dormant and I&#8217;m forced to either stick with what works until a version of WordPress is released which breaks the plugin or I pony up the cash to receive upgrades. Shopp, GravityForms and now Ajax Edit Comments each have their own repository server that enables customers to receive upgrades. This is all part of the deal.</p>
<p>I remember a post a year or so ago asking people what would they pay for that they currently did&#8217;nt have to. WordPress was one of the things people would pay for if it had a price tag. My question is slightly different. What if every plugin you use on your site requires you to pay money before you get access to upgrades, support, etc? Personally, I don&#8217;t mind paying for great work and I can part with my cash for three or five plugins but not for 31. </p>
<p>Not to put down the work of those making a business out of their plugin but something to keep in mind is that as it stands, plugins hosted in the WordPress.org plugin repository contain no price tags. However, some of them do have links, wording, and such to up-sell services or the pro version of the plugin. I don&#8217;t have a problem with that as long as the slimmed down version is not crippled to the point where it doesn&#8217;t make sense to use the lower end version.</p>
<p>If the authors of the plugins I use on my own site all decided to ditch the free version in favor of a paid model in order to help them make a living, that is their decision to make. However, one of the greatest assets of the WordPress plugin world is that there is an abundant amount of choices for most tasks. Some better than others.</p>
<p>My hope is that the WordPress plugin repository will continue to be free of pay-for plugins. This will insure that I will always have a place to browse an assortment of free alternatives. If the plugin repository were to ever allow commercial plugins to be listed alongside free ones, I&#8217;m thinking that the commercial choices would far outweigh the free ones. I really don&#8217;t want to go down the road I traveled with Joomla where anytime I wanted to have cool functionality added to my site, I had to pay for it. </p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:26:"bbPress: 2009-12-23 Meetup";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:25:"http://bbpress.org/?p=302";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:50:"http://bbpress.org/blog/2009/12/2009-12-23-meetup/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:14141:"<p>What, just because it&#8217;s two days before Christmas we can&#8217;t rock the bbPress? In summary: anonymous comments from filosofo and email from photomatt (me) on deck, bug fixes to make things sing, PeteMall will be directly committing fixes, and hajii will be bug gardening.</p>
<p>Meetup log after the jump:</p>
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<p>[13:01] &lt;photomatt&gt;  &lt;meetup&gt;<br />
[13:02] &lt;photomatt&gt; merry christmas everyone <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:02] &lt;filosofo&gt; merry Christmas, photomatt <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:02] &lt;photomatt&gt; what is everyone up to these holidays?<br />
[13:03] &lt;hajii&gt; workin <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:03] &lt;filosofo&gt; Visiting the in-laws<br />
[13:03] &lt;filosofo&gt; photomatt, didn&#8217;t you write bbPress over Christmas?  If I&#8217;m remembering correctly.<br />
[13:04] &lt;photomatt&gt; yep, 4 years ago?<br />
[13:04] &lt;photomatt&gt; 5?<br />
[13:04] &lt;photomatt&gt; I was young and foolish<br />
[13:05] &lt;hajii&gt; young-ER<br />
[13:05] &lt;photomatt&gt; ha <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:05] &lt;hajii&gt; anything on the agenda this week?<br />
[13:06] &lt;photomatt&gt; I cut my teeth yesterday, silly fix<br />
[13:06] &lt;photomatt&gt; some error notification stuff with 5.3<br />
[13:07] &lt;photomatt&gt; so now you don&#8217;t see a page of white errors when trying to install<br />
[13:07] &lt;photomatt&gt; but on the bright side I got my bbpress env all up and kicking<br />
[13:08] &lt;filosofo&gt; So what&#8217;s the roadmap for bbPress development?  How can we get things moving?<br />
[13:09] &lt;filosofo&gt; For example, should we start tackling the conversion to wp canonical plugin?<br />
[13:09] &lt;photomatt&gt; my todo for the holiday is 1 thing: email notification<br />
[13:10] &lt;filosofo&gt; There&#8217;s a plugin already for that, right?<br />
[13:10] &lt;filosofo&gt; Can you just roll in the code?<br />
[13:10] &lt;westi|gone&gt; howdy all<br />
[13:11] * westi|gone is now known as westi<br />
[13:11] &lt;filosofo&gt; hello westi <br />
[13:11] &lt;photomatt&gt; filosofo: buddypress has a pretty good integration method already<br />
[13:11] &lt;photomatt&gt; filosofo: do you have a fav plugin for it? could just roll in code<br />
[13:11] &lt;westi&gt; photomatt: did you see my note regarding your first 5.3 related change &#8211; I think you might have broken the PHP4 compat of the code before you had the right error hiding<br />
[13:12] &lt;filosofo&gt; photomatt, I haven&#8217;t used email notification on bbPress, I just know of the plugin[s]&#8216; existence.<br />
[13:13] &lt;hajii&gt; What is 5.3, the PHP Version 5.3 where people where getting warnings?<br />
[13:13] &lt;hajii&gt; -h<br />
[13:13] &lt;westi&gt; hajii: yes PHP 5.3<br />
[13:13] &lt;photomatt&gt; westi: yes, the glotpress and backpress changes?<br />
[13:13] &lt;photomatt&gt; I shall fix those<br />
[13:13] &lt;westi&gt; photomatt: yes those<br />
[13:14] &lt;hajii&gt; Can I propose a plan of attack?<br />
[13:14] &lt;westi&gt; my tentacles don&#8217;t stretch far enough to revert them <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:14] &lt;filosofo&gt; photomatt, what are your thoughts about buddyPress / bbPress integration?  Are you thinking of doing that instead of making bbPress a canonical plugin?<br />
[13:14] &lt;photomatt&gt; they&#8217;re not mutually exclusive<br />
[13:15] &lt;photomatt&gt; have you tried out the buddypress integration? I didn&#8217;t realize it had gotten as good as it has<br />
[13:16] &lt;filosofo&gt; What makes it different from a non-BuddyPress WP/bbPress integration?<br />
[13:16] &lt;photomatt&gt; they basically embed/bundle the whole thing<br />
[13:19] &lt;photomatt&gt; I&#8217;m pretty chill about 1.1 specifically, I think it can be a feature or two, and a cleanup of trac<br />
[13:19] &lt;PeteMall&gt; ok I&#8217;m late<br />
[13:19] &lt;photomatt&gt; I guess I&#8217;m a little scared of the plugin-thing so I&#8217;m procrastinating <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:19] &lt;hajii&gt; I vote no new features, fix what is included first<br />
[13:19] &lt;hajii&gt; maybe it&#8217;s 1.0.4 (or 3 or whatever we&#8217;re at)<br />
[13:20] &lt;hajii&gt; hpguru opened a bunch of trac tickets recently pointing out things that are included that just don&#8217;t work correctly<br />
[13:20] &lt;filosofo&gt; I was thinking bbPress as plugin integration would mean, e.g., using WP custom post types, or the like, instead of bbPress&#8217;s separate table structure.<br />
[13:20] &lt;filosofo&gt; Or maybe like P2<br />
[13:21] &lt;filosofo&gt; bbPress "posts" as WP comments on "forum" WP posts<br />
[13:22] &lt;photomatt&gt; hajii: links? which do you think are the most important?<br />
[13:23] &lt;photomatt&gt; I&#8217;m down with "no new features before bugs" in principle<br />
[13:23] &lt;PeteMall&gt; photomatt: r u the only one committing to trac now?<br />
[13:23] &lt;PeteMall&gt; I&#8217;m gonna work on a few tickets this week<br />
[13:24] &lt;PeteMall&gt; christmas shutdown is good for open source projects<br />
[13:24] &lt;photomatt&gt; yep <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:24] &lt;photomatt&gt; if you&#8217;ve got some stuff you want to knock out I can give you SVN access too<br />
[13:24] &lt;photomatt&gt; it&#8217;s easy peasy right now<br />
[13:24] &lt;PeteMall&gt; that would be nice<br />
[13:25] &lt;filosofo&gt; Regarding bbPress / WP integration, it would be nice to be able to use WP template functions for bbPress.<br />
[13:25] &lt;PeteMall&gt; photomatt: u manage mullenweg.com right?<br />
[13:25] &lt;filosofo&gt; I don&#8217;t think you can do that with the buddyPress stuff, right?<br />
[13:25] * Salt is now known as Salt|afk<br />
[13:25] &lt;photomatt&gt; yep<br />
[13:25] &lt;PeteMall&gt; pm<br />
[13:26] &lt;hajii&gt; for the record, I think the "<br />
[13:26] * Thomas_Clausen (n=Ejer@1010ds1-rdo.0.fullrate.dk) has joined #bbpress<br />
[13:26] &lt;hajii&gt; feature poll" was a bad idea.<br />
[13:26] &lt;hajii&gt; open a can of worms<br />
[13:26] &lt;hajii&gt; bug free == feature<br />
[13:27] &lt;filosofo&gt; hajii, asking for suggestions isn&#8217;t the same as taking them <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:27] &lt;photomatt&gt; exactly<br />
[13:27] &lt;photomatt&gt; and perhaps we&#8217;re religious on a few things, I&#8217;m pretty anti-bbcode, for example<br />
[13:27] &lt;hajii&gt; that&#8217;s true.  But it&#8217;s also demoralizing to some people to give feedback and then never see it go anywhere<br />
[13:27] &lt;PeteMall&gt; lol<br />
[13:27] &lt;hajii&gt; not me, for example<br />
[13:28] &lt;hajii&gt; but, people will EXPECT after submitting their suggestion in a feature poll<br />
[13:28] &lt;PeteMall&gt; so whats the long term plan wrt to close wp integration as filosofo has been talking about<br />
[13:28] &lt;photomatt&gt; hajii: I tried to make it clear it was feedback-oriented, not necessarily a edict<br />
[13:28] &lt;filosofo&gt; hajii, same thing with http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/<br />
[13:28] &lt;photomatt&gt; speaking of that though, I was really surprised by "anonymous posting"<br />
[13:29] &lt;photomatt&gt; what exactly does that mean?<br />
[13:29] &lt;filosofo&gt; you don&#8217;t have to log in, like wp comments<br />
[13:29] &lt;photomatt&gt; I mean I know, but I don&#8217;t understand the why I guess<br />
[13:29] &lt;hajii&gt; some people feel  that asking people to log in is a barrier to participation<br />
[13:29] &lt;filosofo&gt; why do you see it as different from WP comments?<br />
[13:30] &lt;hajii&gt; some people feel facebook connect will also remove a barrier to participation<br />
[13:30] &lt;filosofo&gt; You don&#8217;t require commenters to log into ma.tt to comment, for example<br />
[13:30] &lt;PeteMall&gt; alter egos of forum members<br />
[13:30] &lt;photomatt&gt; interesting &#8212; that wouldn&#8217;t be too hard<br />
[13:30] &lt;photomatt&gt; we&#8217;ll need better anti-spam and moderation though<br />
[13:30] &lt;filosofo&gt; I have a bbPress plugin for "anonymous comments" that&#8217;s 98% done<br />
[13:30] &lt;hajii&gt; that is/was a plugin as well, anonymous posting<br />
[13:31] &lt;photomatt&gt; filosofo: could you put it as a patch on trac?<br />
[13:31] &lt;filosofo&gt; sure<br />
[13:31] &lt;hajii&gt; better moderation (forum specific) is the oldest ticket on trac, I think <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":-D" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:31] &lt;hajii&gt; one of the two oldest anyway<br />
[13:31] &lt;photomatt&gt; hajii: I&#8217;m a big believer in moderation &#8212; it&#8217;s my fav feature in WP<br />
[13:34] &lt;photomatt&gt; did my connection drop?<br />
[13:34] &lt;filosofo&gt; photomatt, for future reference, what&#8217;s the best way to get your attention for a trac ticket?<br />
02[13:34] * tewwy_ (n=tychay@208.80.69.102) Quit<br />
[13:35] &lt;filosofo&gt; since you&#8217;re the committer <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:35] &lt;PeteMall&gt; everyone got quiet =)<br />
[13:35] &lt;photomatt&gt; filosofo: skype, actually<br />
[13:35] &lt;photomatt&gt; saxmatt02 is me on skype<br />
[13:36] &lt;filosofo&gt; So you don&#8217;t mind if I ping you about a patch on skype?<br />
[13:36] &lt;photomatt&gt; for bbpress, not at all<br />
[13:36] &lt;filosofo&gt; ok, cool<br />
[13:38] &lt;PeteMall&gt; anything else on the agenda for today?<br />
[13:38] &lt;photomatt&gt; so it sounds like we have email notif and filosofo&#8217;s anon comments on deck<br />
[13:38] &lt;photomatt&gt; hajii and PeteMall are into bugs, and we&#8217;ll go through trac<br />
[13:39] &lt;hajii&gt; do you want me to do anything specific for those bugs in trac that currently exist?<br />
[13:39] &lt;photomatt&gt; PeteMall has asked for direct SVN access<br />
[13:39] &lt;Thomas_Clausen&gt; @PeteMall I&#8217;ll like to throw something in there!<br />
[13:40] &lt;Thomas_Clausen&gt; Will porting posibilities from other forumsoftware be a concern in future releases of bbPress?<br />
[13:40] &lt;photomatt&gt; PeteMall: the main rule is to put everything possible through trac, post patches there, get feedback and review<br />
[13:40] &lt;PeteMall&gt; yup<br />
[13:41] &lt;photomatt&gt; but in trunk we can be loosey goosey a little bit, the beautiful thing about SVN is it&#8217;s easy to roll back<br />
[13:41] &lt;photomatt&gt; oh! and coding style<br />
[13:41] &lt;photomatt&gt; http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Coding_Standards<br />
[13:41] &lt;PeteMall&gt; I&#8217;ve been meaning to talk about that<br />
[13:42] &lt;PeteMall&gt; stick to the coding standards&#8230; remember &#8211; code is poetry<br />
[13:42] &lt;hajii&gt; Wait, what was the slogan from 2weeks ago?  We suck a little less with each release?<br />
[13:43] &lt;filosofo&gt; Not sucking is the goal of all great poets. <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:43] &lt;photomatt&gt; <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:44] &lt;photomatt&gt; hajii: in trac I&#8217;d say most helpful is verifying bugs<br />
[13:44] &lt;photomatt&gt; testing patches<br />
[13:45] &lt;photomatt&gt; setting priorities and milestones<br />
[13:45] &lt;photomatt&gt; being nice to new people that drop by, helping mentor them through getting a patch or idea in the right place<br />
[13:46] &lt;photomatt&gt; generally what we call bug gardening in WP, though that is a weird term<br />
[13:46] &lt;photomatt&gt; when you think about it<br />
[13:47] &lt;hajii&gt; tending to the bugs, lovingly<br />
[13:47] &lt;PeteMall&gt; yea&#8230; helping them grow. nurturing<br />
[13:47] &lt;photomatt&gt; I like tummelling<br />
[13:47] &lt;photomatt&gt; http://indexmb.com/tummling-have-you-heard-of-it/<br />
[13:47] &lt;hajii&gt; like the dude who raised the moths in  the silence of the lambs, kept them warm, fed them, gave them love<br />
[13:48] &lt;hajii&gt; Death&#8217;s Head Moth<br />
[13:48] &lt;hajii&gt; <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:49] &lt;filosofo&gt; well, on that note&#8230; <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:50] &lt;photomatt&gt; haha yes<br />
[13:50] &lt;hajii&gt; heh<br />
[13:50] &lt;photomatt&gt; that&#8217;s a good ending point, unless someone else has anything they want to raise<br />
[13:50] &lt;hajii&gt; nope, I will focux on bugs<br />
[13:50] &lt;hajii&gt; in trac<br />
[13:50] * Guest3427 is now known as Nightgunner5<br />
[13:51] &lt;photomatt&gt; well thank you everybody<br />
[13:51] &lt;PeteMall&gt; &amp;lt;/meetup<br />
[13:51] &lt;PeteMall&gt; <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:52] &lt;PeteMall&gt; missed the other side<br />
[13:52] &lt;photomatt&gt; man the way mirc stores logs is annoying <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:52] &lt;PeteMall&gt; &amp;lt;&amp;#47meetup&amp;gt;</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:10:35 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:4:"Matt";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:38;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:32:"Dev Blog: WordPress 2.9.1 Beta 1";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1098";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:64:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9-1-beta-1/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:1161:"<p>Unfortunately, the recent 2.9 release triggered a bug in certain versions of PHP&#8217;s curl extension.  With these versions of curl, scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly.  To fix this problem as well as a handful of other, lesser issues, we are quickly releasing 2.9.1, the first maintenance release of the 2.9 line.  Help us get 2.9.1 ready to go by testing 2.9.1 Beta 1.  The easiest way to test Beta 1 is to install the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/">WordPress Beta Tester</a> plugin, elect to get on the point release development track, and then perform an automatic upgrade via the Tools-&gt;Upgrade menu.  You can also <a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.9.1-beta1.zip">download the Beta 1 package</a> and install manually.  <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;group=resolution&amp;order=priority&amp;milestone=2.9.1&amp;resolution=fixed">Fourteen tickets</a> have been fixed in 2.9.1 Beta 1.  Since the curl problem and a couple of other problems are dependent on specific hosting configurations, any and all testing help is greatly appreciated.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:58:34 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:10:"Ryan Boren";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:39;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:25:"Matt: Permanently Deleted";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=16180";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:41:"http://ma.tt/2009/12/permanently-deleted/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:420:"<p>&#8220;The WordPress people, as good as they are, don’t seem to ken why this &#8216;convenient&#8217; and possibly life-saving feature creates repercussions and consequences. Like the Senate, it’s all a game to them.&#8221; <a href="http://www.edrants.com/permanently-deleted/">Permanently Deleted : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits</a>. <cite>Hat tip: <a href="http://joeclark.org/">Joe Clark</a></cite>.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:02:05 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:4:"Matt";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:40;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:68:"Weblog Tools Collection: WPhone Admin Plugin Looking For Fresh Blood";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7405";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:97:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/22/wphone-admin-plugin-looking-for-fresh-blood/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:2239:"<p>My name is Doug Stewart and I, together with <a href="http://tekartist.org">Stephane Daury</a> and <a href="http://viper007bond.com">Viper007Bond</a>, entered and <a href="http://wphoneplugin.org/2007/11/13/and-the-winner-is/">won</a> the &#8220;mobile admin interface contest&#8221; Matt Mullenweg sponsored on the wp-hackers mailing list back at the end of 2007. Our plugin, <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wphone/">WPhone</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8230;creates an option while logging in to replace the default admin interface with one designed for your phone (see screenshots).</p>
<p>It contains two versions of the mobile admin interface:</p>
<ul>
<li>Rich: designed for the iPhone / iPod Touch and other phones supporting full Javascript and CSS featuring fancy AJAX and sliding menus</li>
<li>Lite: a lightweight, simple version designed for all other phone types (no Javascript or anything else required)</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>WPhone was readily picked up by the mobile computing WordPressers of the world and saw a great deal of use in its first months.  Then Automattic announced the release of their iPhone/iPod Touch app and we figured that WPhone&#8217;s days were numbered.  However, folks have continued to use it, particularly on Blackberries, Nokia N-series handsets and yes, even Windows Mobile devices.  This is great, with two caveats:</p>
<ol>
<li>WPhone doesn&#8217;t fully work with versions of WordPress newer than 2.5</li>
<li>Stephane, Viper and I no longer have time to bring it up to snuff</li>
</ol>
<p>So, to put it bluntly, we need your help in bringing a compelling mobile admin experience back to <em>all</em> mobile users, be they Droid, Pre, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, or yes, even iPhone users that don&#8217;t want yet another app clogging up their home screens.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re interested, please visit <a href="http://wphoneplugin.org/2009/12/21/to-the-bat-signal/">this post over on the WPhone site</a> for further details or send an email to <a href="mailto:batsignal@wphoneplugin.org">batsignal@wphoneplugin.org</a>.</p>
<p>Many, <em>many</em> thanks in advance and a big thanks goes out to Mark and the rest of the WTC crew for allowing me to post my plea here.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:00:12 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:8:"dstewart";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:41;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:46:"BuddyPress: What’s Coming in BuddyPress 1.2?";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:28:"http://buddypress.org/?p=728";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:63:"http://buddypress.org/blog/news/whats-coming-in-buddypress-1-2/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:2977:"<p>Development for version 1.2 of BuddyPress is beginning to wind down and we&#8217;re looking at a feature freeze at the end of this month. I&#8217;d expect the new version to be released some time at the end of January after a period of beta testing. We&#8217;ve got a host of new features to look forward to in this new version and I&#8217;d like to give you a glimpse of a few of them.</p>
<p><img src="http://apeatling.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/screen-shot-2009-12-23-at-10-49-29-am.png?w=200" class="alignleft" />One of the biggest changes is the activity stream. There has been a lot of focus on making the activity stream far more interactive in 1.2, and to do this we have merged together some of the features in previous versions of BuddyPress. Instead of having to post messages on a group or profile wire, or posting a separate status update, you can now post messages directly to the site wide stream, your profile stream, or a group activity stream. This stops fragmentation of the interface and brings content posting into one unified input box.</p>
<p>One of the benefits of this interactive activity stream is that we can now provide the ability for other members to post direct replies to your updates. In 1.2 the activity stream includes the ability for threaded commenting. <img src="http://apeatling.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/screen-shot-2009-12-23-at-10-51-51-am.png?w=275" class="alignright" />This allows for full conversations to take place around activities and makes the activity stream that much more of a two way process.</p>
<p>Another major update in 1.2 is the introduction of a new default theme. We&#8217;ve worked hard to produce a theme that will help both end users and developers. The new theme offers a more usable and unified interface with far more personal customization than the previous default. The theme also greatly simplifies the HTML, CSS and Javascript that powers it, allowing for greater ease of customization. If you&#8217;re fully invested in the previous default, don&#8217;t worry, this theme is not going anywhere and has already been updated to support the new features in 1.2. The new default simply provides a fresh alternative.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re itching to start trying out some of the features in the new version, you can head on over to the <a href="http://testbp.org">BuddyPress Test Drive</a>. The test drive runs the latest development version of BuddyPress and represents the state of the newest version as it currently stands. If you&#8217;d like to start working with the development version you can always check out the latest version from our <a href="http://svn.buddypress.org/trunk">svn code repository</a>. However, remember that until the final version is released code is subject to change.</p>
<p>I hope everyone has a wonderful festive season and an even better new year celebration. 2010 is going to be an exciting year for BuddyPress, I&#8217;m looking forward to sharing it with you.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:09:34 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13:"Andy Peatling";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:42;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:57:"Mark Jaquith: New in WordPress 2.9: Post Thumbnail Images";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:39:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/?p=389";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:87:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:7447:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Many WordPress themes, especially those with &#8220;magazine-like&#8221; layouts, use an image to represent each post. It might just be on the front page. It might be alone, or alongside an excerpt. Until now, there was no standardized way to do this. Many themes would require you to tediously enter a Custom Field with the value being the URL you wanted to use. Often you had to do cropping yourself. With WordPress 2.9, theme authors can easily enable Post Thumbnail selection UI and call those image using simple template tags.</p>
<p><img src="http://markjaquith.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/post-thumbnail.png?w=297&#038;h=138" alt="" title="post-thumbnail" width="297" height="138" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-392" /></p>
<p>First, in the theme&#8217;s <code>functions.php</code>, declare that your theme supports this feature. This will enable the UI in the WP Admin.</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );</pre>
<p>That will enable Post Thumbnail UI for both Post and Page content types. If you&#8217;d only like to add it to one, you can do it like this:</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails', array( 'post' ) ); // Add it for posts
add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails', array( 'page' ) ); // Add it for pages</pre>
<p>Simply remove the one you don&#8217;t want to support.</p>
<p>Next, you should specify the dimensions of your post thumbnails. You have two options here: box-resizing and hard-cropping. Box resizing shrinks an image proportionally (that is, without distorting it), until it fits inside the &#8220;box&#8221; you&#8217;ve specified with your width and height parameters. For example, a 100&#215;50 image in a 50&#215;50 box would be resized to 50&#215;25. The benefit here is that the entire image shows. The downside is that the image produced isn&#8217;t always the same size. Sometimes it will be width-limited, and sometimes it will be height-limited. If you&#8217;d like to limit images to a certain width, but don&#8217;t care how tall they are, you can specify your width and then specify a height of 9999 or something ridiculously large that will never be hit.</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">set_post_thumbnail_size( 50, 50 ); // 50 pixels wide by 50 pixels tall, box resize mode</pre>
<p>Your second option is hard-cropping. In this mode, the image is cropped to match the target aspect ratio, and is then shrunk to fit in the specified dimensions <strong>exactly</strong>. The benefit is that you get what you ask for. If you ask for a 50&#215;50 thumbnail, you get a 50&#215;50 thumbnail. The downside is that your image will be cropped (either from the sides, or from the top and bottom) to fit the target aspect ratio, and that part of the image won&#8217;t show up in the thumbnail.</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">set_post_thumbnail_size( 50, 50, true ); // 50 pixels wide by 50 pixels tall, hard crop mode</pre>
<p>Now, you can make use of the template functions to display these images in the theme. These functions should be used in the loop.</p>
<p><code>has_post_thumbnail()</code> returns true/false and indicates whether the current post has a manually-chosen Post Thumbnail (in the loop):</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">&lt;?php
if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {
	// the current post has a thumbnail
} else {
	// the current post lacks a thumbnail
}
?&gt;</pre>
<p><code>the_post_thumbnail()</code> outputs the Post Thumbnail, if it exists (in the loop):</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">&lt;?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?&gt;</pre>
<p>Those are the basics. How about some advanced stuff?</p>
<p>What if you want to use a small 50&#215;50 hard-cropped image for the home page, but want to use a 400 pixel-wide (unlimited height) image on the post&#8217;s permalink page? You&#8217;re in luck. You can specify additional custom sizes! Here&#8217;s the code:</p>
<p><code>functions.php</code></p>
<pre class="brush: php;">add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
set_post_thumbnail_size( 50, 50, true ); // Normal post thumbnails
add_image_size( 'single-post-thumbnail', 400, 9999 ); // Permalink thumbnail size</pre>
<p><code>home.php</code> or <code>index.php</code>, depending on your theme structure (in the loop):</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">&lt;?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?&gt;</pre>
<p><code>single.php</code> (in the loop):</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">&lt;?php the_post_thumbnail( 'single-post-thumbnail' ); ?&gt;</pre>
<p>That&#8217;s it! <code>set_post_thumbnail_size()</code> just calls <code>add_image_size( 'post-thumbnail' )</code> &#8212; the default Post Thumbnail &#8220;handle.&#8221; But as you can see, you can add additional ones by calling <code>add_image_size( $handle, $width, $height, {$hard_crop_switch} );</code>, and then you use that new size by passing the handle to <code>the_post_thumbnail( $handle );</code></p>
<p>If you want your theme to support earlier versions of WordPress, you&#8217;ll have to use <code>function_exists()</code> to keep from calling these new functions in those versions. I&#8217;ve omitted that code to keep these examples as simple as possible. Here would be the <code>functions.php</code> example with the wrapper code:</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">if ( function_exists( 'add_theme_support' ) ) { // Added in 2.9
	add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
	set_post_thumbnail_size( 50, 50, true ); // Normal post thumbnails
	add_image_size( 'single-post-thumbnail', 400, 9999 ); // Permalink thumbnail size
}</pre>
<p>There is one caveat for this feature in WordPress 2.9 &#8212; it only works <strong>fully</strong> for new image uploads. We can&#8217;t yet resize images on the fly, although I&#8217;m strongly considering it for a future version. If you call the template functions on a post that has a Post Thumbnail that was uploaded prior to your theme having declared the new sizes, you won&#8217;t be able to do hard-cropping, and the box-resize will be done in the browser. As a temporary solution, Viper007Bond has a great plugin that will go back and create missing image sizes for you: <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/">Regenerate Thumbnails</a>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to see what kinds of sites you can build with this feature!</p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:48:"Weblog Tools Collection: 2.9.1 Around The Corner";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7404";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:77:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/22/2-9-1-around-the-corner/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:3697:"<p>WordPress 2.9 was released last weekend. Yesterday, I was notified that 2.9.1 is most likely around the corner due to <a href="http://www.semiologic.com/2009/12/21/wp-2-9-three-bugs-and-how-to-fix-them/">some issues</a> that arose because of a last-minute addition to the core of WordPress. The issues revolve around scheduled posts not firing because the cron scheduler ends up broken. The patch can be found <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/11505/ticket-11505-full.patch">here</a> which is already a part of 2.9.1.</p>
<p>While <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/343080">reading the support thread</a>, I became concerned with some of the responses that were published. For example, &#8220;<em>How could you release an upgrade that is obviously this problem-filled?</em>&#8221; or &#8220;<em>WordPress should have tested 2.9 before releasing it!</em>&#8220;. I&#8217;m not sure how many times this has to be preached to the choir but each version of WordPress is tested before it&#8217;s release to the public. That is what the Beta releases are for as well as the Release Candidates. WordPress 2.9 went through one release candidate version and two beta releases. In fact, before RC1 hit the public, all of the tickets assigned for that version were closed. Each version was tested by anyone who volunteered. There seems to be this notion that there are thousands of WordPress developers and they should iron out every bug before releasing software to the public. While there are hundreds of WordPress developers submitting patches here and there as well as squashing bugs, not every hosting setup can be tested. This is where the end users come in.</p>
<p>Dion Hulse who has been a long time contributor to the WordPress project illustrates this problem quite well in a blog post entitled <a href="http://dd32.id.au/2009/12/21/a-call-to-arms/">WordPress, A Call To Arms</a>. I think Dion says it best in the first paragraph which illustrates the lack of testing problem quite well.</p>
<blockquote><p>WordPress 2.9 was just released, And several users have run into a bug. Surprising? Not really. There&#8217;s one simple reason for this, While thousands of people Test each and every WordPress release, These users are not <strong>You</strong>.</p></blockquote>
<p>While hundreds or thousands download the betas to perform testing, the real crux of the testing comes when the &#8220;<strong>Stable</strong>&#8221; release is shipped. The stable version is installed by everyone because it&#8217;s considered to be stable only since you now have hundreds of thousands of blogs running the software which translates into more testing environments, you&#8217;re going to run into bugs the testers simply didn&#8217;t find. This gives the perception that the Stable release was not stable at all and therefor, should have never been released. But, if the software were never released, the bug would most likely would not have been found.</p>
<h2>Please Help Out:</h2>
<p>It&#8217;s very easy to setup a test installation of WordPress, especially since the release of Peter Westwoods plugin called <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/">Beta Tester</a>. While testing on a local server is a good idea, most local servers are not setup to mimic the configuration of the public web server. This is why it&#8217;s actually better to test on the same setup as your public facing site than on a local server.</p>
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<p><a href="http://hdlns.com/hdlns_today_plugin.php">HDLNS Today</a></p>
<p>insert one of over 1200 categorized RSS feeds, using the (latest) post date on the page to keep the rss headlined contextually relevant to the blog post</p>
<p><a href="http://www.q2w3.ru/2009/12/06/824/">Q2W3 Inc Manager</a></p>
<p>This plugin was made to easily add html, css, javascript and PHP code to public WordPress pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.q2w3.ru/2009/11/29/748/">Q2W3 Thickbox</a></p>
<p>This plugin enables thickbox pop-up window on thumbnail images. As soon as plugin is installed, all your thumbnail images will be opened in popup window.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/scb-framework">scbFramework</a></p>
<p>A set of useful classes for WordPress plugin developers.</p>
<p> <a href="http://blog.avirtualhome.com/wordpress-plugins/avh-amazon/">AVH Amazon</a></p>
<p>The AVH Amazon plugin gives you the ability to add multiple widgets which will display one or more random item(s) from your Amazon wishlist, baby registry and/or wedding registry. It also has the ability to show an item with its link, in posts and pages by use of shortcode.</p>
<p><a href="http://tobias.baethge.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-table-reloaded-english/">WP-Table Reloaded</a></p>
<p>WP-Table Reloaded enables you to create and manage tables in your WP’s admin area. No HTML knowledge is needed. A comfortable backend allows to easily edit table data.</p>
<p><a href="http://selfexile.com/twitter-fans-widget-wordpress-plugin/">Twitter Fans</a></p>
<p>Twitter Fans plugin will add a widget in WordPress that you can drag and drop into your sidebar and set your username to get it work. No password required.</p>
<p><a href="http://arpitshah.com/plugins/all-in-one-webmaster/">All in One Webmaster</a></p>
<p>This plugin allows you to easily integrate Google Webmaster Tool, Yahoo SiteExplorer and Bing Webmaster Central</p>
<p><a href="http://arpitshah.com/plugins/wp-archive-sitemap-generator/">WP Archive-Sitemap Generator</a></p>
<p>WP Archive-Sitemap Generator plugin generates simple Archives/Sitemap based on your blogs posts and pages. This is not another XML sitemap plugin, but rather a nice post sitemap or page sitemap generator. Now user can show total comments count after posts.</p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:51:"Publisher Blog: UPS Joins WordPress.com VIP Hosting";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:42:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/?p=730";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:77:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2009/12/22/ups-wordpress-com-vip-hosting/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:2260:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>UPS has <a href="http://www.pressroom.ups.com/">announced the launch</a> of their new blog, <a href="http://blog.ups.com/">Upside</a>, which is running on <a href="http://vip.wordpress.com">WordPress.com VIP Hosting</a>:<br />
<a href="http://blog.ups.com"><img src="http://wordpresspublishers.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/ups-blog.png?w=640&#038;h=418" alt="" title="UPS-blog" width="640" height="418" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-731" /></a></p>
<p>The Upside blog, designed and built by <a href="http://www.t-3.com/">T3</a> is a &#8220;blog created by UPS to share personal insights and perspective about the largest transportation company in the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>Some really interesting content posted so far including a video of how <a href="http://blog.ups.com/2009/12/21/one-shoe-in-front-of-the-other-zappos-ups-keep-the-holidays-moving/">UPS and Zappos</a> are working together.</p>
<p>[ Visit <a href="http://blog.ups.com/">blog.ups.com</a> ]</p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:22:"Matt: Stealth Startups";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=16178";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:38:"http://ma.tt/2009/12/stealth-startups/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:212:"<p><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/19/stealth-startupsget-over-yourselves-nobody-cares-about-your-secrets/">Stealth Startups, Get Over Yourselves: Nobody Cares About Your Secrets</a> on TechCrunch.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:54:15 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:4:"Matt";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:47;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:32:"Alex King: WordPress 2.9 Upgrade";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:27:"http://alexking.org/?p=3889";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:57:"http://alexking.org/blog/2009/12/21/wordpress-2-9-upgrade";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:828:"<p>WordPress 2.9 has been released &#8211; time to upgrade! There are some pretty <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9/" rel="external">nice new features</a> in this release. I&#8217;m glad to be able to retire a few plugins now that the post thumbnail feature is built in and we&#8217;re going to wear out the comment meta feature in our custom implementations.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve got a lot of sites to upgrade &#8211; I&#8217;ll have a little more on the process I use for this in a follow-up post.</p>
<p>If you need help with your upgrade, our team at <a href="http://wphelpcenter.com">WordPress HelpCenter</a> is available and happy to help. Give us a call: (303) 395-1346 or email help@wphelpcenter.com.</p>
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<h3>XML-RPC</h3>
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<li>Expose user registration option via wp.getOptions/wp.setOptions ( ticket <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10454">#10454</a> )</li>
<li>Fix bug in wp.getComment that reported spam comments with a status of hold ( ticket <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10510">#10510</a> )</li>
<li>Adjust how the XML-RPC server is activated so that the functions can be reused in other areas ( ticket <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10513">#10513</a> )</li>
<li>Fix bug in setting optional number of pages arguments for wp.getPages ( ticket <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10659">#10659</a> )</li>
<li>Reduced memory usage when processing requests ( ticket <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10698">#10698</a> )</li>
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<h3>AtomPub</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fix a conflict with plugins that redefine wp_set_current_user() ( ticket <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10938">#10938</a> )</li>
</ul>
<p>If you are using the WordPress XML-RPC/AtomPub APIs in your software or service, or are just interested in this part of WordPress, please join the <a href="http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-xmlrpc">WordPress XML-RPC email list</a>.  Code changes and patches can be submitted via tickets at <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/">http://core.trac.wordpress.org/</a>.</p>


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