O:9:"MagpieRSS":17:{s:6:"parser";i:0;s:12:"current_item";a:0:{}s:5:"items";a:50:{i:0;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 06/30";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6160";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/30/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0630/";s:11:"description";s:3978:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://blog.avirtualhome.com/wordpress-plugins/avh-themed-by-browser/">AVH Themed By Browser</a></p>
<p>The AVH Themed By Browser plugin gives you the ability to set a correlation between browser and theme. The theme of your blog can change dynamically based on the browser the visitor is using.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.everfluxx.com/follow-my-links/">Follow My Links</a></p>
<p>Follow My Links is a very simple plugin that prevents WordPress from automaticaly adding a &#8220;rel=nofollow&#8221; attribute to links in the post authors URL and comments.</p>
<p><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/yourls-wordpress-to-twitter-a-short-url-plugin/">YOURLS: WordPress to Twitter</a></p>
<p>This plugin is the bridge between <a href="http://yourls.org/">YOURLS</a>, Twitter and your blog: when you publish a post or a page, it will use your own YOURLS install, either hosted on the same webserver, or another server, to create a short URL for your post and send it to your Twitter account.</p>
<p><a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/06/25/sliding-panel-wordpress-plugin">Sliding Panel</a></p>
<p>It is a panel that can be opened and closed with a click of a mouse that will allow you to house additional content on your site without it getting in the way.</p>
<p><a href="http://brut.bukve.net/?p=1209">Injection attack protector</a></p>
<p>Protects a list of web pages and files that are likely to be targeted by injection attack by restoring files from local backup whenever they are modified.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nathanrice.net/plugins/single-post-template-plugin/">Single Post Template</a></p>
<p>Single Post Template gives you the ability to create and use &#8220;Post Templates&#8221; in much the same way you create and use &#8220;Page Templates&#8221; in WordPress.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.samuelfolkes.com/projects/geosmart/">GeoSmart</a></p>
<p>GeoSmart is a plugin for WordPress which allows you to determine where in the world the people who comment on your posts are located based on their IP addresses.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/wordpress-seo/">SEO Ultimate</a></p>
<p>This SEO plugin can rewrite title tags, noindex archives, edit meta data, and insert &#8220;link rel canonical&#8221; tags. Version 0.4 adds a 404 logger.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/06/24/gd-press-tools-1-4-0/">GD Press Tools</a></p>
<p>GD Press Tools is a collection of various administration, seo, maintenance and security related tools. This tools can be integrated into the various WordPress admin panels, can perform maintenance operations, change some aspects of WordPress, see detailed server settings and information.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogtrafficexchange.com/related-websites/">Related Websites</a></p>
<p>Related Websites is a cloud based traffic exchange. Readers interested in additional reading are presented related posts from other blogs. Your posts are presented on other blogs when related. Balancing the exchange is traffic based.</p>
<p><a href="http://sivel.net/wordpress/twitter-hash-tag-widget/">Twitter Hash Tag Widget</a></p>
<p>A widget for displaying the most recent twitter status updates for a particular hash tag.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/transpose-email-plugin/">Transpose Email</a></p>
<p>Transpose Email plugin allows you to use JavaScript to create an encoded link. Clicking that link will trigger the user’s email client to open and create an email.</p>
<p><a href="http://sivel.net/wordpress/shadowbox-js/">Shadowbox JS</a></p>
<p>Shadowbox is an online media viewing application that supports all of the web&#8217;s most popular media publishing formats.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/30/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0630/">WordPress Plugin Releases for 06/30</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:02:58 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:3978:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://blog.avirtualhome.com/wordpress-plugins/avh-themed-by-browser/">AVH Themed By Browser</a></p>
<p>The AVH Themed By Browser plugin gives you the ability to set a correlation between browser and theme. The theme of your blog can change dynamically based on the browser the visitor is using.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.everfluxx.com/follow-my-links/">Follow My Links</a></p>
<p>Follow My Links is a very simple plugin that prevents WordPress from automaticaly adding a &#8220;rel=nofollow&#8221; attribute to links in the post authors URL and comments.</p>
<p><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/yourls-wordpress-to-twitter-a-short-url-plugin/">YOURLS: WordPress to Twitter</a></p>
<p>This plugin is the bridge between <a href="http://yourls.org/">YOURLS</a>, Twitter and your blog: when you publish a post or a page, it will use your own YOURLS install, either hosted on the same webserver, or another server, to create a short URL for your post and send it to your Twitter account.</p>
<p><a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/06/25/sliding-panel-wordpress-plugin">Sliding Panel</a></p>
<p>It is a panel that can be opened and closed with a click of a mouse that will allow you to house additional content on your site without it getting in the way.</p>
<p><a href="http://brut.bukve.net/?p=1209">Injection attack protector</a></p>
<p>Protects a list of web pages and files that are likely to be targeted by injection attack by restoring files from local backup whenever they are modified.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nathanrice.net/plugins/single-post-template-plugin/">Single Post Template</a></p>
<p>Single Post Template gives you the ability to create and use &#8220;Post Templates&#8221; in much the same way you create and use &#8220;Page Templates&#8221; in WordPress.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.samuelfolkes.com/projects/geosmart/">GeoSmart</a></p>
<p>GeoSmart is a plugin for WordPress which allows you to determine where in the world the people who comment on your posts are located based on their IP addresses.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/wordpress-seo/">SEO Ultimate</a></p>
<p>This SEO plugin can rewrite title tags, noindex archives, edit meta data, and insert &#8220;link rel canonical&#8221; tags. Version 0.4 adds a 404 logger.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/06/24/gd-press-tools-1-4-0/">GD Press Tools</a></p>
<p>GD Press Tools is a collection of various administration, seo, maintenance and security related tools. This tools can be integrated into the various WordPress admin panels, can perform maintenance operations, change some aspects of WordPress, see detailed server settings and information.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogtrafficexchange.com/related-websites/">Related Websites</a></p>
<p>Related Websites is a cloud based traffic exchange. Readers interested in additional reading are presented related posts from other blogs. Your posts are presented on other blogs when related. Balancing the exchange is traffic based.</p>
<p><a href="http://sivel.net/wordpress/twitter-hash-tag-widget/">Twitter Hash Tag Widget</a></p>
<p>A widget for displaying the most recent twitter status updates for a particular hash tag.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/transpose-email-plugin/">Transpose Email</a></p>
<p>Transpose Email plugin allows you to use JavaScript to create an encoded link. Clicking that link will trigger the user’s email client to open and create an email.</p>
<p><a href="http://sivel.net/wordpress/shadowbox-js/">Shadowbox JS</a></p>
<p>Shadowbox is an online media viewing application that supports all of the web&#8217;s most popular media publishing formats.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/30/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0630/">WordPress Plugin Releases for 06/30</a></p>";}i:1;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:55:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Configuration Tricks";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6156";s:4:"link";s:84:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/29/wordpress-configuration-tricks/";s:11:"description";s:1225:"<p><a href="http://diggingintowordpress.com/2009/06/wordpress-configuration-tricks/"> WordPress Configuration Tricks </a>: If you have ever installed WordPress and wanted to know what else you could do with your wp-config.php file, this is the blog post to read. As Ozh points out in the comments, a couple of tricks were left out but nothing that could not be remedied with a simple Google search (e.g. <a href="http://phpdoc.wordpress.org/trunk/WordPress/HTTP/WP_Http.html">WP_HTTP</a>) as long as you know what you are looking for.</p>
<p>Tips from that page that got me thinking (things that make you go hmmmmm?) include moving your wp-content directory, increasing your memory limit, changing the autosave interval, turning on debugging and finally the ability to specify a log file for errors. All of this through the wondrous wp-config.php file. The list is quite exhaustive.</p>
<p>While you are there, make sure you subscribe to the blog. Chris and Jeff are putting out some good stuff!</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/29/wordpress-configuration-tricks/">WordPress Configuration Tricks</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:13:25 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1225:"<p><a href="http://diggingintowordpress.com/2009/06/wordpress-configuration-tricks/"> WordPress Configuration Tricks </a>: If you have ever installed WordPress and wanted to know what else you could do with your wp-config.php file, this is the blog post to read. As Ozh points out in the comments, a couple of tricks were left out but nothing that could not be remedied with a simple Google search (e.g. <a href="http://phpdoc.wordpress.org/trunk/WordPress/HTTP/WP_Http.html">WP_HTTP</a>) as long as you know what you are looking for.</p>
<p>Tips from that page that got me thinking (things that make you go hmmmmm?) include moving your wp-content directory, increasing your memory limit, changing the autosave interval, turning on debugging and finally the ability to specify a log file for errors. All of this through the wondrous wp-config.php file. The list is quite exhaustive.</p>
<p>While you are there, make sure you subscribe to the blog. Chris and Jeff are putting out some good stuff!</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/29/wordpress-configuration-tricks/">WordPress Configuration Tricks</a></p>";}i:2;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:63:"Weblog Tools Collection: Benchmarking the WordPress Admin Panel";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6152";s:4:"link";s:92:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/29/benchmarking-the-wordpress-admin-panel/";s:11:"description";s:1927:"<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/benchmark_admin_load.png"><img class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6153" title="Benchmark WordPress Admin Load" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/benchmark_admin_load-250x127.png" alt="Benchmark WordPress Admin Load" width="250" height="127" /></a>Dev4Press has done some interesting work on <a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/06/29/benchmarking-wordpress/">benchmarking various aspects of WordPress</a> and then testing out some popular questions on page loads etc. The methodologies are well documented and the <a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/06/26/wp-benchmark-setup/">benchmarking setup is standardized</a>. They are testing three version of WordPress including 2.6.5, 2.7.1 and 2.8 (I wish they would have waited for 2.8.1 to be released). <a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/06/29/wp-benchmark-administration/">This first set of tests were performed on the WordPress admin interface</a> and other benchmarks will follow. While the quantities are not as important, I think the trends are interesting. Though not independently confirmed, the growing girth of the admin interface is obvious. In contrast, my test WordPress 2.8.1 blog has shown marked improvements in load times and memory usage as compared to WordPress 2.8. It will be interesting to see how the load and memory usage trends of the WordPress admin interface change with future versions as the WordPress team turns their attention towards optimizing the admin panel under the hood. (as Matt has said in many of his State of the Word addresses) via <a href="http://twitter.com/weblogtooltips">@weblogtooltips</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/29/benchmarking-the-wordpress-admin-panel/">Benchmarking the WordPress Admin Panel</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:48:27 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1927:"<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/benchmark_admin_load.png"><img class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6153" title="Benchmark WordPress Admin Load" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/benchmark_admin_load-250x127.png" alt="Benchmark WordPress Admin Load" width="250" height="127" /></a>Dev4Press has done some interesting work on <a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/06/29/benchmarking-wordpress/">benchmarking various aspects of WordPress</a> and then testing out some popular questions on page loads etc. The methodologies are well documented and the <a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/06/26/wp-benchmark-setup/">benchmarking setup is standardized</a>. They are testing three version of WordPress including 2.6.5, 2.7.1 and 2.8 (I wish they would have waited for 2.8.1 to be released). <a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/06/29/wp-benchmark-administration/">This first set of tests were performed on the WordPress admin interface</a> and other benchmarks will follow. While the quantities are not as important, I think the trends are interesting. Though not independently confirmed, the growing girth of the admin interface is obvious. In contrast, my test WordPress 2.8.1 blog has shown marked improvements in load times and memory usage as compared to WordPress 2.8. It will be interesting to see how the load and memory usage trends of the WordPress admin interface change with future versions as the WordPress team turns their attention towards optimizing the admin panel under the hood. (as Matt has said in many of his State of the Word addresses) via <a href="http://twitter.com/weblogtooltips">@weblogtooltips</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/29/benchmarking-the-wordpress-admin-panel/">Benchmarking the WordPress Admin Panel</a></p>";}i:3;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:33:"Matt: Real-time Systems Knowledge";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=14341";s:4:"link";s:49:"http://ma.tt/2009/06/real-time-systems-knowledge/";s:11:"description";s:155:"<p>Scoble: <a href="http://scobleizer.com/2009/06/28/real-time-systems-hurting-long-term-knowledge/">Real-time systems hurting long-term knowledge?</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:24:11 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:155:"<p>Scoble: <a href="http://scobleizer.com/2009/06/28/real-time-systems-hurting-long-term-knowledge/">Real-time systems hurting long-term knowledge?</a></p>";}i:4;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:52:"WordPress.tv: Upgrade WordPress 2.7 to 2.8 in CPanel";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=2005";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/06/29/upgrade-wordpress-2-7-to-2-8-in-cpanel/";s:11:"description";s:1389:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
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<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/06/29/upgrade-wordpress-2-7-to-2-8-in-cpanel/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/JTOmP7jG/wordpress-2-8-upgrade.thumbnail.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2005&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:17:02 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Michael Pick";}s:7:"summary";s:1389:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
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<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/06/29/upgrade-wordpress-2-7-to-2-8-in-cpanel/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/JTOmP7jG/wordpress-2-8-upgrade.thumbnail.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2005&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 06/28";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6144";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/28/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0628/";s:11:"description";s:1797:"<h4><a href="http://www.webdesignlessons.com/hanging-wp-theme/">Hanging</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.webdesignlessons.com/demo/index.php?wptheme=Hanging"><img title="Hanging" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/hanging1.gif" alt="Hanging" width="200" height="129" /></a></p>
<p>In Greens and Browns this theme has a healthy balance of color with the main content area a very clear two column layout with a light background.</p>
<h4><a href="http://wpgpl.com/themes/vina/">Vina</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://demo.wpgpl.com/?wptheme=Vina"><img title="Vina" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/vina.jpg" alt="Vina" width="200" height="118" /></a></p>
<p>Vina is unique layout and auto grabbed image, multi widget, threaded comment and many more</p>
<h4><a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/freshmade-software-wordpress-theme/">Freshmade Software</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/demo/freshmade-software-wordpress-theme/"><img title="Freshmade Software" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/freshmadesoftware.jpg" alt="Freshmade Software" width="200" height="100" /></a></p>
<p>A software company styled theme in light colors of white, orange and brown. Supporting widgets and nested comments.</p>
<h4><a href="http://softwarelogia.com/2009/06/23/mi-primer-theme-de-wordpress-fancypress/">FancyPress</a></h4>
<p><img title="FancyPress" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/fancypress.png" alt="FancyPress" width="200" height="132" /></p>
<p>2 columns, fixed width, widget ready theme</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/28/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0628/">WordPress Theme Releases for 06/28</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:28:53 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:1797:"<h4><a href="http://www.webdesignlessons.com/hanging-wp-theme/">Hanging</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.webdesignlessons.com/demo/index.php?wptheme=Hanging"><img title="Hanging" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/hanging1.gif" alt="Hanging" width="200" height="129" /></a></p>
<p>In Greens and Browns this theme has a healthy balance of color with the main content area a very clear two column layout with a light background.</p>
<h4><a href="http://wpgpl.com/themes/vina/">Vina</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://demo.wpgpl.com/?wptheme=Vina"><img title="Vina" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/vina.jpg" alt="Vina" width="200" height="118" /></a></p>
<p>Vina is unique layout and auto grabbed image, multi widget, threaded comment and many more</p>
<h4><a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/freshmade-software-wordpress-theme/">Freshmade Software</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/demo/freshmade-software-wordpress-theme/"><img title="Freshmade Software" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/freshmadesoftware.jpg" alt="Freshmade Software" width="200" height="100" /></a></p>
<p>A software company styled theme in light colors of white, orange and brown. Supporting widgets and nested comments.</p>
<h4><a href="http://softwarelogia.com/2009/06/23/mi-primer-theme-de-wordpress-fancypress/">FancyPress</a></h4>
<p><img title="FancyPress" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/fancypress.png" alt="FancyPress" width="200" height="132" /></p>
<p>2 columns, fixed width, widget ready theme</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/28/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0628/">WordPress Theme Releases for 06/28</a></p>";}i:6;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:66:"Weblog Tools Collection: Live Stream and Chat from WordCamp Dallas";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6134";s:4:"link";s:95:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/27/live-stream-and-chat-from-wordcamp-dallas/";s:11:"description";s:636:"<p>Live Streaming video from WordCamp Dallas thanks to <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cali-live">Cali Lewis</a> of <a href="http://www.geekbrief.tv/">GeekBrief.tv</a>. Thanks to <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/live-stream-of-wordcamp-dallas">WPTavern</a> for the link.</p>
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<p>I was at WordCamp Dallas last year but could not make it to this one. I am jealous!</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/27/live-stream-and-chat-from-wordcamp-dallas/">Live Stream and Chat from WordCamp Dallas</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:28:34 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:636:"<p>Live Streaming video from WordCamp Dallas thanks to <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cali-live">Cali Lewis</a> of <a href="http://www.geekbrief.tv/">GeekBrief.tv</a>. Thanks to <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/live-stream-of-wordcamp-dallas">WPTavern</a> for the link.</p>
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<p>I was at WordCamp Dallas last year but could not make it to this one. I am jealous!</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/27/live-stream-and-chat-from-wordcamp-dallas/">Live Stream and Chat from WordCamp Dallas</a></p>";}i:7;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:96:"WordPress.tv: Timothy Ferriss: Blogging Without Killing Yourself – WordCamp San Francisco 2009";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=1992";s:4:"link";s:105:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/06/26/tim-ferriss-blogging-without-killing-yourself-wordcamp-san-francisco-2009/";s:11:"description";s:1418:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
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<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/06/26/tim-ferriss-blogging-without-killing-yourself-wordcamp-san-francisco-2009/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/cbG17WXi/tim-ferriss-web.thumbnail.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/1992/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/1992/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1992/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1992/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1992/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1992/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/1992/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/1992/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1992/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1992/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=1992&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:8;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:47:"WP iPhone: OS 3.0 Version Still “In Review”";s:4:"guid";s:34:"http://iphone.wordpress.org/?p=395";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://iphone.wordpress.org/2009/06/26/still-in-review/";s:11:"description";s:1934:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>From the &#8220;no news&#8221; category of news, we have no update unfortunately since last week when the <a href="http://iphone.wordpress.org/2009/06/17/os-3-0-compatible-version-uploaded/">new OS 3.0 compatible version was uploaded</a>.  It&#8217;s currently listed as &#8220;In Review&#8221; on the iTunes Connect screen.</p>
<p>Our outstanding is that Apple is fairly backed up with the avalanche of updates and hopefully will be caught up soon. </p>
<p>In the meantime you may want to fire-up your iPhone simulator and check out some of the new UI treatments that are showing up in <a href="http://iphone.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk">SVN trunk</a> which will be part of the next release.</p>
<p>As always, we&#8217;ll post here as soon as it&#8217;s live.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iphone.wordpress.org&blog=3882653&post=395&subd=wpiphone&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:16:"Raanan Bar-Cohen";}s:7:"summary";s:1934:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>From the &#8220;no news&#8221; category of news, we have no update unfortunately since last week when the <a href="http://iphone.wordpress.org/2009/06/17/os-3-0-compatible-version-uploaded/">new OS 3.0 compatible version was uploaded</a>.  It&#8217;s currently listed as &#8220;In Review&#8221; on the iTunes Connect screen.</p>
<p>Our outstanding is that Apple is fairly backed up with the avalanche of updates and hopefully will be caught up soon. </p>
<p>In the meantime you may want to fire-up your iPhone simulator and check out some of the new UI treatments that are showing up in <a href="http://iphone.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk">SVN trunk</a> which will be part of the next release.</p>
<p>As always, we&#8217;ll post here as soon as it&#8217;s live.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iphone.wordpress.org&blog=3882653&post=395&subd=wpiphone&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:32:"Dev Blog: WordPress 2.8.1 Beta 2";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=801";s:4:"link";s:64:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/06/wordpress-2-8-1-beta-2/";s:11:"description";s:1209:"<p>2.8.1 Beta 2 is ready for testing.  <a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8.1-beta2.zip">Download it</a>, check out the <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/log/branches/2.8/?action=stop_on_copy&amp;mode=stop_on_copy&amp;rev=11654&amp;stop_rev=11622&amp;limit=100">changes since beta 1</a>, and review <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;group=resolution&amp;order=priority&amp;milestone=2.8.1&amp;resolution=fixed">all tickets fixed in 2.8.1</a>.  We especially suggest, recommend, and beg that plugin developers test their plugins against beta 2 and let us know of any issues.  Notable fixes in beta 2:</p>
<ul>
<li>Translation of role names fixed</li>
<li>wp_page_menu() defaults to sorting by the user specified menu order rather than the page title</li>
<li>Upload error messages are now correctly reported</li>
<li>Autosave error experienced by some IE users is fixed</li>
<li>Styling glitch in the plugin editor fixed</li>
<li>SSH2 filesystem requirements updated</li>
<li>Switched back to curl as the default transport</li>
<li>Updated the translation library to avoid a problem with mbstring.func_overload</li>
</ul>
<p>Thanks again for testing WordPress.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:06:31 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Ryan Boren";}s:7:"summary";s:1209:"<p>2.8.1 Beta 2 is ready for testing.  <a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8.1-beta2.zip">Download it</a>, check out the <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/log/branches/2.8/?action=stop_on_copy&amp;mode=stop_on_copy&amp;rev=11654&amp;stop_rev=11622&amp;limit=100">changes since beta 1</a>, and review <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;group=resolution&amp;order=priority&amp;milestone=2.8.1&amp;resolution=fixed">all tickets fixed in 2.8.1</a>.  We especially suggest, recommend, and beg that plugin developers test their plugins against beta 2 and let us know of any issues.  Notable fixes in beta 2:</p>
<ul>
<li>Translation of role names fixed</li>
<li>wp_page_menu() defaults to sorting by the user specified menu order rather than the page title</li>
<li>Upload error messages are now correctly reported</li>
<li>Autosave error experienced by some IE users is fixed</li>
<li>Styling glitch in the plugin editor fixed</li>
<li>SSH2 filesystem requirements updated</li>
<li>Switched back to curl as the default transport</li>
<li>Updated the translation library to avoid a problem with mbstring.func_overload</li>
</ul>
<p>Thanks again for testing WordPress.</p>";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:39:"Lloyd: A 20-minute Snooze in the Office";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://foolswisdom.com/?p=1954";s:4:"link";s:32:"http://foolswisdom.com/photonap/";s:11:"description";s:1360:"<div class="wp-caption alignnone"><img title="Taking a Matt Nap" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3353/3661842860_8df9b15680.jpg" alt="Taking a Matt Nap" width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Taking a Matt Nap</p></div>
<p>In &#8220;<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/06/the-way-i-work-annotated/">The Way I Work, annotated</a>&#8221; my boss Matt Mullenweg shares additional insights and linkifies his Inc. Magazine’s &#8220;<a href="http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090601/the-way-i-work-matt-mullenweg.html">The Way I Work</a>” column (July issue). Both versions are excellent reads, but the post at ma.tt benefits from Matt answering a lot of additional questions in the comments.</p>
<p>Here is an excerpt from the article that inspired me to share this photo (<strong>emphasis</strong> mine):</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I do my best work mid-morning and super late at night, from one to five in the morning. Some people don’t need sleep, but I actually need a ton. I just sleep all the time, catching naps in the afternoon or <strong>a 20-minute snooze in the office</strong>. Our business is 24 hours — folks in Australia start their day around 4 PM my time and our guys and girls in Europe get going around midnight. Sometimes I’ll go out at night, come home from the bar at 2 or 3 AM, and then go back to work.&#8221;</p></blockquote>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:28:04 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:5:"Lloyd";}s:7:"summary";s:1360:"<div class="wp-caption alignnone"><img title="Taking a Matt Nap" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3353/3661842860_8df9b15680.jpg" alt="Taking a Matt Nap" width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Taking a Matt Nap</p></div>
<p>In &#8220;<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/06/the-way-i-work-annotated/">The Way I Work, annotated</a>&#8221; my boss Matt Mullenweg shares additional insights and linkifies his Inc. Magazine’s &#8220;<a href="http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090601/the-way-i-work-matt-mullenweg.html">The Way I Work</a>” column (July issue). Both versions are excellent reads, but the post at ma.tt benefits from Matt answering a lot of additional questions in the comments.</p>
<p>Here is an excerpt from the article that inspired me to share this photo (<strong>emphasis</strong> mine):</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I do my best work mid-morning and super late at night, from one to five in the morning. Some people don’t need sleep, but I actually need a ton. I just sleep all the time, catching naps in the afternoon or <strong>a 20-minute snooze in the office</strong>. Our business is 24 hours — folks in Australia start their day around 4 PM my time and our guys and girls in Europe get going around midnight. Sometimes I’ll go out at night, come home from the bar at 2 or 3 AM, and then go back to work.&#8221;</p></blockquote>";}i:11;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:28:"BuddyPress: BuddyPress 1.0.2";s:4:"guid";s:28:"http://buddypress.org/?p=487";s:4:"link";s:47:"http://buddypress.org/blog/news/buddypress-102/";s:11:"description";s:1251:"<p><a href="http://buddypress.org/download">BuddyPress 1.0.2</a> is out now. </p>
<p>As with previous upgrades, the best way to get the latest is through the plugin browser in your WordPress installation (de-activate BuddyPress before auto-upgrading).</p>
<p>If you are using a language file with your installation you will need to re-download this after your upgrade. From version 1.1 onwards, we&#8217;ll bundle as many language files as possible to make the upgrade process smoother for non-english installations.</p>
<p>If you would like to upgrade manually you can <a href="http://buddypress.org/download">download the latest</a> then simply overwrite your existing plugin files (and themes if you are using the defaults). Please make sure you backup everything first.</p>
<p>This is <strong>not</strong> a critical upgrade, so it is not essential that you install this update. It does however fix a number of bugs that will improve your BuddyPress experience. For a full list of fixes, please see the updated <a href="http://buddypress.org/about/release-history">release history</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> Please make sure you de-activate any 3rd party BuddyPress plugins before deactivating BuddyPress and running the auto-update.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:13:12 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Andy Peatling";}s:7:"summary";s:1251:"<p><a href="http://buddypress.org/download">BuddyPress 1.0.2</a> is out now. </p>
<p>As with previous upgrades, the best way to get the latest is through the plugin browser in your WordPress installation (de-activate BuddyPress before auto-upgrading).</p>
<p>If you are using a language file with your installation you will need to re-download this after your upgrade. From version 1.1 onwards, we&#8217;ll bundle as many language files as possible to make the upgrade process smoother for non-english installations.</p>
<p>If you would like to upgrade manually you can <a href="http://buddypress.org/download">download the latest</a> then simply overwrite your existing plugin files (and themes if you are using the defaults). Please make sure you backup everything first.</p>
<p>This is <strong>not</strong> a critical upgrade, so it is not essential that you install this update. It does however fix a number of bugs that will improve your BuddyPress experience. For a full list of fixes, please see the updated <a href="http://buddypress.org/about/release-history">release history</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> Please make sure you de-activate any 3rd party BuddyPress plugins before deactivating BuddyPress and running the auto-update.</p>";}i:12;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases on 06/24";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6132";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/24/wordpress-plugin-releases-on-0624/";s:11:"description";s:4600:"<h3>News Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-files/">External Files</a></p>
<p>External Files provides a shortcode [external] that wraps around a file path or url. The contents of the file/url are imported and outputted in an xhtml-friendly way. What&#8217;s more, the plugin auto-guesses the syntax of the file (by looking at the extension of the path or the content-type of the url).</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/06/introducing-the-wordpress-console/">WordPress Console</a></p>
<p>It provides an in-browser interactive console for the WordPress environment.</p>
<p><a href="http://labs.wordtracker.com/seo-blogger/">SEO Blogger</a></p>
<p>Whether you blog about business, politics or the hot topic of the moment, SEO Blogger allows you to find the most sought-after keywords for your subject without ever leaving your blog editing screen.</p>
<p><a href="http://exclusivewordpress.com/searchterms-tagging-2-plugin/">SearchTerms Tagging 2</a></p>
<p>The function of this plugin is to displays some of the last unique keywords (default is 30, adjustable from plugin admin page) that visitors used to find the blog post from search engine. Each keyword will be changed into a link to that page. The goal is to get more traffic to the blog post by adding related search terms below the blog post.</p>
<p><a href="http://clickcha.com/">Clickcha</a></p>
<p>Clickcha is a unique CAPTCHA system that more secure than traditional text based CAPTCHAs yet easier to use. Clickcha will replace the Wordpress post comment button with an image based CAPTCHA that requires a single click to solve and post the comment.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.blogos.dk/showcaseext/">WP Theme Showcase</a></p>
<p>WP Theme Showcase ext and i18n (Showcase ext for short) displays uploaded themes with information extracted from the style.css of each theme as well as links to readme files. Showcase ext supports internationalization, CSS-styling, and is highly configurable with user-defined screenshots etc.</p>
<p><a href="http://geeklad.com/build-your-own-amazon-niche-store">Amazon Niche Store</a></p>
<p>Allows you to automatically display Amazon products on your blog. You just add a simple tag to a post or page, along with your Amazon Tracking ID, and the relevant keywords for the products to be displayed.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wp-simpleviewer.fuggi82.de/">WP-Simpleviewer</a></p>
<p>WP-Simpleviewer enables you to easily add SimpleViewer Flash galleries to your posts and pages. The admin interface helps you to create the thumbs for a new gallery and change its settings, it is now compatible with WP 2.8.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gdstarrating.com/2009/06/18/gd-star-rating-1-4-5/">GD Star Rating</a></p>
<p>GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating and review plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, multi ratings, templated rendering, has a widgets build in and extensive shortcode support.</p>
<p><a href="http://tinsology.net/plugins/wp-simplemail/">WP SimpleMail</a></p>
<p>WP SimpleMail allows you to access your email directly from wordpress.</p>
<p><a href="http://sivel.net/wordpress/possibly-related-recent-posts/">Possibly Related Recent Posts</a></p>
<p>Automatically displays possibly related posts at the end of each post using a filter on the_content. List generated on the fly by recency and the categories the current post is in. Does NOT use tags.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/imageshack-offloader">ImageShack Offloader</a></p>
<p>Saves you bandwidth by offloading your images to <a href="http://imageshack.us">ImageShack</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viadat.com/store-locator/">Store Locator</a></p>
<p>Store locator plugin for WordPress web developers &amp; web site owners who need to show any set of important locations on a website. Locations are easily searchable. Uses Google Maps.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/06/22/gd-simple-widgets-1-2-0/">GD Simple Widgets</a></p>
<p>This plugin contains several widgets with simple functionality. Some of them are based on standard WordPress widgets but with extended options and rendering. You can also disable default WordPress widgets if you choose to use Simple Widgets versions.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/24/wordpress-plugin-releases-on-0624/">WordPress Plugin Releases on 06/24</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:47:40 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:4600:"<h3>News Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-files/">External Files</a></p>
<p>External Files provides a shortcode [external] that wraps around a file path or url. The contents of the file/url are imported and outputted in an xhtml-friendly way. What&#8217;s more, the plugin auto-guesses the syntax of the file (by looking at the extension of the path or the content-type of the url).</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/06/introducing-the-wordpress-console/">WordPress Console</a></p>
<p>It provides an in-browser interactive console for the WordPress environment.</p>
<p><a href="http://labs.wordtracker.com/seo-blogger/">SEO Blogger</a></p>
<p>Whether you blog about business, politics or the hot topic of the moment, SEO Blogger allows you to find the most sought-after keywords for your subject without ever leaving your blog editing screen.</p>
<p><a href="http://exclusivewordpress.com/searchterms-tagging-2-plugin/">SearchTerms Tagging 2</a></p>
<p>The function of this plugin is to displays some of the last unique keywords (default is 30, adjustable from plugin admin page) that visitors used to find the blog post from search engine. Each keyword will be changed into a link to that page. The goal is to get more traffic to the blog post by adding related search terms below the blog post.</p>
<p><a href="http://clickcha.com/">Clickcha</a></p>
<p>Clickcha is a unique CAPTCHA system that more secure than traditional text based CAPTCHAs yet easier to use. Clickcha will replace the Wordpress post comment button with an image based CAPTCHA that requires a single click to solve and post the comment.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.blogos.dk/showcaseext/">WP Theme Showcase</a></p>
<p>WP Theme Showcase ext and i18n (Showcase ext for short) displays uploaded themes with information extracted from the style.css of each theme as well as links to readme files. Showcase ext supports internationalization, CSS-styling, and is highly configurable with user-defined screenshots etc.</p>
<p><a href="http://geeklad.com/build-your-own-amazon-niche-store">Amazon Niche Store</a></p>
<p>Allows you to automatically display Amazon products on your blog. You just add a simple tag to a post or page, along with your Amazon Tracking ID, and the relevant keywords for the products to be displayed.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wp-simpleviewer.fuggi82.de/">WP-Simpleviewer</a></p>
<p>WP-Simpleviewer enables you to easily add SimpleViewer Flash galleries to your posts and pages. The admin interface helps you to create the thumbs for a new gallery and change its settings, it is now compatible with WP 2.8.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gdstarrating.com/2009/06/18/gd-star-rating-1-4-5/">GD Star Rating</a></p>
<p>GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating and review plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, multi ratings, templated rendering, has a widgets build in and extensive shortcode support.</p>
<p><a href="http://tinsology.net/plugins/wp-simplemail/">WP SimpleMail</a></p>
<p>WP SimpleMail allows you to access your email directly from wordpress.</p>
<p><a href="http://sivel.net/wordpress/possibly-related-recent-posts/">Possibly Related Recent Posts</a></p>
<p>Automatically displays possibly related posts at the end of each post using a filter on the_content. List generated on the fly by recency and the categories the current post is in. Does NOT use tags.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/imageshack-offloader">ImageShack Offloader</a></p>
<p>Saves you bandwidth by offloading your images to <a href="http://imageshack.us">ImageShack</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viadat.com/store-locator/">Store Locator</a></p>
<p>Store locator plugin for WordPress web developers &amp; web site owners who need to show any set of important locations on a website. Locations are easily searchable. Uses Google Maps.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/06/22/gd-simple-widgets-1-2-0/">GD Simple Widgets</a></p>
<p>This plugin contains several widgets with simple functionality. Some of them are based on standard WordPress widgets but with extended options and rendering. You can also disable default WordPress widgets if you choose to use Simple Widgets versions.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/24/wordpress-plugin-releases-on-0624/">WordPress Plugin Releases on 06/24</a></p>";}i:13;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:66:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress 2.8 Crosses 1 Million Downloads";s:4:"guid";s:94:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/23/wordpress-28-crosses-1-million-downloads/";s:4:"link";s:94:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/23/wordpress-28-crosses-1-million-downloads/";s:11:"description";s:1172:"<p>WordPress 2.8 just crossed the 1 million download mark today, you can see the live counter for WordPress downloads on the download <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/counter/" target="_blank">counter page</a>.</p>
<p>This is definitely great news since this milestone was reached in 12 days, have you upgraded to WordPress 2.8 yet?</p>
<p>Here is a screenshot when WordPress 2.8 hit the 1 million download mark, thanks to <a href="http://twitter.com/scoutdude/status/2304069238" target="_blank">@scoutdude</a>.</p>
<p><img title="wordpress28_million_downloads" border="0" alt="wordpress28_million_downloads" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/wordpress28-million-downloads.png" width="363" height="227" /> </p>
<p>Thanks <a href="http://twitter.com/photomatt/status/2303970872" target="_blank">@photomatt</a> via twitter. Follow us <a href="http://twitter.com/weblogtooltips">@weblogtooltips</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/23/wordpress-28-crosses-1-million-downloads/">WordPress 2.8 Crosses 1 Million Downloads</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:03:17 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:1172:"<p>WordPress 2.8 just crossed the 1 million download mark today, you can see the live counter for WordPress downloads on the download <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/counter/" target="_blank">counter page</a>.</p>
<p>This is definitely great news since this milestone was reached in 12 days, have you upgraded to WordPress 2.8 yet?</p>
<p>Here is a screenshot when WordPress 2.8 hit the 1 million download mark, thanks to <a href="http://twitter.com/scoutdude/status/2304069238" target="_blank">@scoutdude</a>.</p>
<p><img title="wordpress28_million_downloads" border="0" alt="wordpress28_million_downloads" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/wordpress28-million-downloads.png" width="363" height="227" /> </p>
<p>Thanks <a href="http://twitter.com/photomatt/status/2303970872" target="_blank">@photomatt</a> via twitter. Follow us <a href="http://twitter.com/weblogtooltips">@weblogtooltips</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/23/wordpress-28-crosses-1-million-downloads/">WordPress 2.8 Crosses 1 Million Downloads</a></p>";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:79:"Lloyd: WordPress.com’s Job System – Cron for PHP in Distributed Environment";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://foolswisdom.com/?p=1948";s:4:"link";s:63:"http://foolswisdom.com/cron-for-php-in-distributed-environment/";s:11:"description";s:1449:"<p><a href="http://automattic.com/">Colleague</a> <a href="http://blog.apokalyptik.com/">Demitrious Kelly</a> (meech, Apokalyptik) earlier this month open sourced the (Unix process) jobs system he (primarily) has been developing for WordPress.com. Not that I really understand it, but &#8220;<a href="http://code.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jobs">jobs</a>&#8221; is described as</p>
<blockquote><p>A fast, distributed, horizontally scalable system built upon linux, php5.2, and mysql 5.1 wherein work can be stored in a database, and processed outside the flow of script execution. Examples of common things that are part of script execution but not necessary to the rendering of the response to the user might be spam scanning, statistical analysis, email notification sending, processing input data, etc. Also included is an equally distributed cron mechanism to remove single servers as a point of failure for scheduled jobs.</p></blockquote>
<p>There are a lot of terms I like in there like fast, distributed, horizontally scalable, scheduled. It could probably benefit from robust and fault tolerant. Any others?</p>
<p>Anyway, this crontab-like system for PHP scripts is an essential part of our WordPress.com infrastructure, and I&#8217;m really excited to see it open sourced!</p>
<p>Check out <a href="http://code.trac.wordpress.org/">code.trac.wordpress.org </a>for other pieces of our puzzle that don&#8217;t have pretty project pages.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:21:23 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:5:"Lloyd";}s:7:"summary";s:1449:"<p><a href="http://automattic.com/">Colleague</a> <a href="http://blog.apokalyptik.com/">Demitrious Kelly</a> (meech, Apokalyptik) earlier this month open sourced the (Unix process) jobs system he (primarily) has been developing for WordPress.com. Not that I really understand it, but &#8220;<a href="http://code.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jobs">jobs</a>&#8221; is described as</p>
<blockquote><p>A fast, distributed, horizontally scalable system built upon linux, php5.2, and mysql 5.1 wherein work can be stored in a database, and processed outside the flow of script execution. Examples of common things that are part of script execution but not necessary to the rendering of the response to the user might be spam scanning, statistical analysis, email notification sending, processing input data, etc. Also included is an equally distributed cron mechanism to remove single servers as a point of failure for scheduled jobs.</p></blockquote>
<p>There are a lot of terms I like in there like fast, distributed, horizontally scalable, scheduled. It could probably benefit from robust and fault tolerant. Any others?</p>
<p>Anyway, this crontab-like system for PHP scripts is an essential part of our WordPress.com infrastructure, and I&#8217;m really excited to see it open sourced!</p>
<p>Check out <a href="http://code.trac.wordpress.org/">code.trac.wordpress.org </a>for other pieces of our puzzle that don&#8217;t have pretty project pages.</p>";}i:15;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Lloyd: New Project to Find Movable Type Community’s Melody";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://foolswisdom.com/?p=1923";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://foolswisdom.com/movable-type-communitys-melody/";s:11:"description";s:5807:"<p>Interesting development today in the blog publishing space with the announcement of <a href="http://openmelody.org/">Melody</a> and the Open Melody Software Group.</p>
<p>Melody is a new <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> competitor &#8212; bring it! <img src="http://foolswisdom.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>Based on Movable Type Open Source (MTOS), <a href="http://www.majordojo.com/">Byrne Reese</a> writes &#8220;<a href="http://openmelody.org/blog/2009/06/introducing-melody">[the project's] focus initially</a> is consciously not about <em>features</em>, but rather upon laying the groundwork through a well-documented set of processes by which future features and contributions can be made.&#8221; to live up to it&#8217;s tag line &#8220;Community Powered Publishing&#8221;.</p>
<p>The tag line seems to directly take aim at Movable Type for not being community powered, though <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10270621-2.html">in interview</a> Byrne suggests that may be part of the overhead of Movable Type being an enterprise product.</p>
<p>From my position looking over the fence, I&#8217;m sympathetic to how the Movable Type community has suffered since &#8220;<a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/movable-type-mtos-forks-hello-open-melody-004890.php">in 2008</a> [when] the hyper dedicated Movable Type product manager, Byrne Reese, was laid off from Six Apart&#8221;. Sure, the MT community isn&#8217;t just that one person, but he sure was a catalyst and one of the only open channels to the inners of Six Apart. Since then there doesn&#8217;t seem to have been anyone there for the developer community, or for me, as a member of another project, to collaborate with. Even Byrne&#8217;s own recent email to the  MTOS-dev list <a href="http://www.sixapart.com/pipermail/mtos-dev/2009-June/002969.html">asking</a> &#8220;Who is the lead engineer of MTOS?&#8221; went unanswered. Here is that email:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I hate to ask such a seemingly odd question, but I have recently had questions I wanted to address to the lead engineer of MTOS &#8212; offlist, but am honestly not sure who that might be right now. Who is the best person to address questions about governance and process to? Is there one?&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Mark Carey <a href="http://mt-hacks.com/20090623-open-melody-movable-type-forked.html">writes today on mt-hacks.com</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong> </strong>&#8220;Over two years ago, Six Apart, the creator of Movable Type open sourced the code for the core Movable Type application. While its was an exciting and bold move, the announcement and product naming choices were confusing to many &#8212; the differences between Movable Type Open Source and the Movable Type Commercial product and closed source add-ons sold by Six Apart weren&#8217;t easy to grasp, and some even disputed the newly open source nature of core application.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Although Six Apart promised that they would  continue &#8220;fighting for openness&#8221; when they announced &#8220;<a href="http://www.movabletype.org/2007/12/movable_type_open_source.html">Open Source Movable Type </a>&#8221; at the end of 2007, Melody is now the hope for a Movable Type-based openly developed product. The <a href="http://openmelody.org/faq">Open Melody FAQ</a>s includes:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The community created Melody out a shared passion for Movable Type and a shared desire to see it flourish as a platform. We felt that the best and quickest way to achieve that goal was to create a product in which the community was inherently entrusted with a greater degree of control over its direction, communication channels and roadmap, and rewarded with more transparency and a greater sense of belonging.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/06/melody_movable.html">Serdar Yegulalp writes</a> &#8220;To see a new way for the same framework to be improved, and to allow for feedback and suggestions that stem from my own use, is deeply heartening&#8221;</p>
<p>I&#8217;m very interested to see how the source code flows. The greatest gift of open source isn’t the right to fork, but the ability to merge.</p>
<p>Wih founding members and leadership including<span id="articleBody"> the likes of Byrne, </span><a href="http://appnel.com/">Tim Appnel</a><span id="articleBody">, <a href="http://jayallen.org/">Jay Allen</a> , and </span><a href="http://plasticmind.com/">Jesse Gardner</a>,<span id="articleBody"> Open Melody is off to an incredible start. </span><span id="articleBody">((By <a href="http://openmelody.org/about/omsg">incorporating as a </a></span><a href="http://openmelody.org/about/omsg">US non-profit</a> there commitment is beyond doubt &#8212; if only in surviving the painful process that the WordPress Foundation has recently come out the other end of.))<span id="articleBody"> <a href="http://openmelody.org/">The web site</a> looks great, and they&#8217;ve chosen open and friendly development tools.</span></p>
<p>What is good for blogging and open source is good for WordPress, and Melody seems very good for both:</p>
<ul>
<li>I&#8217;m eager to put my frustrations trying to collaborate with the often opaque Six Apart behind me, and collaborate through the Open Melody conduit.</li>
<li>I can&#8217;t wait to see a leaner, more modular open source MT based product emerges that is also more feature rich &#8212; further confirmation of WordPress&#8217;s own approaches, and more good open source products are great for open source.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you love blogging or open source, then Melody needs our love, <a href="http://openmelody.org/join">participate</a>! (hence this post)</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:56:57 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:5:"Lloyd";}s:7:"summary";s:5807:"<p>Interesting development today in the blog publishing space with the announcement of <a href="http://openmelody.org/">Melody</a> and the Open Melody Software Group.</p>
<p>Melody is a new <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> competitor &#8212; bring it! <img src="http://foolswisdom.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>Based on Movable Type Open Source (MTOS), <a href="http://www.majordojo.com/">Byrne Reese</a> writes &#8220;<a href="http://openmelody.org/blog/2009/06/introducing-melody">[the project's] focus initially</a> is consciously not about <em>features</em>, but rather upon laying the groundwork through a well-documented set of processes by which future features and contributions can be made.&#8221; to live up to it&#8217;s tag line &#8220;Community Powered Publishing&#8221;.</p>
<p>The tag line seems to directly take aim at Movable Type for not being community powered, though <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10270621-2.html">in interview</a> Byrne suggests that may be part of the overhead of Movable Type being an enterprise product.</p>
<p>From my position looking over the fence, I&#8217;m sympathetic to how the Movable Type community has suffered since &#8220;<a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/movable-type-mtos-forks-hello-open-melody-004890.php">in 2008</a> [when] the hyper dedicated Movable Type product manager, Byrne Reese, was laid off from Six Apart&#8221;. Sure, the MT community isn&#8217;t just that one person, but he sure was a catalyst and one of the only open channels to the inners of Six Apart. Since then there doesn&#8217;t seem to have been anyone there for the developer community, or for me, as a member of another project, to collaborate with. Even Byrne&#8217;s own recent email to the  MTOS-dev list <a href="http://www.sixapart.com/pipermail/mtos-dev/2009-June/002969.html">asking</a> &#8220;Who is the lead engineer of MTOS?&#8221; went unanswered. Here is that email:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I hate to ask such a seemingly odd question, but I have recently had questions I wanted to address to the lead engineer of MTOS &#8212; offlist, but am honestly not sure who that might be right now. Who is the best person to address questions about governance and process to? Is there one?&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Mark Carey <a href="http://mt-hacks.com/20090623-open-melody-movable-type-forked.html">writes today on mt-hacks.com</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong> </strong>&#8220;Over two years ago, Six Apart, the creator of Movable Type open sourced the code for the core Movable Type application. While its was an exciting and bold move, the announcement and product naming choices were confusing to many &#8212; the differences between Movable Type Open Source and the Movable Type Commercial product and closed source add-ons sold by Six Apart weren&#8217;t easy to grasp, and some even disputed the newly open source nature of core application.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Although Six Apart promised that they would  continue &#8220;fighting for openness&#8221; when they announced &#8220;<a href="http://www.movabletype.org/2007/12/movable_type_open_source.html">Open Source Movable Type </a>&#8221; at the end of 2007, Melody is now the hope for a Movable Type-based openly developed product. The <a href="http://openmelody.org/faq">Open Melody FAQ</a>s includes:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The community created Melody out a shared passion for Movable Type and a shared desire to see it flourish as a platform. We felt that the best and quickest way to achieve that goal was to create a product in which the community was inherently entrusted with a greater degree of control over its direction, communication channels and roadmap, and rewarded with more transparency and a greater sense of belonging.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/06/melody_movable.html">Serdar Yegulalp writes</a> &#8220;To see a new way for the same framework to be improved, and to allow for feedback and suggestions that stem from my own use, is deeply heartening&#8221;</p>
<p>I&#8217;m very interested to see how the source code flows. The greatest gift of open source isn’t the right to fork, but the ability to merge.</p>
<p>Wih founding members and leadership including<span id="articleBody"> the likes of Byrne, </span><a href="http://appnel.com/">Tim Appnel</a><span id="articleBody">, <a href="http://jayallen.org/">Jay Allen</a> , and </span><a href="http://plasticmind.com/">Jesse Gardner</a>,<span id="articleBody"> Open Melody is off to an incredible start. </span><span id="articleBody">((By <a href="http://openmelody.org/about/omsg">incorporating as a </a></span><a href="http://openmelody.org/about/omsg">US non-profit</a> there commitment is beyond doubt &#8212; if only in surviving the painful process that the WordPress Foundation has recently come out the other end of.))<span id="articleBody"> <a href="http://openmelody.org/">The web site</a> looks great, and they&#8217;ve chosen open and friendly development tools.</span></p>
<p>What is good for blogging and open source is good for WordPress, and Melody seems very good for both:</p>
<ul>
<li>I&#8217;m eager to put my frustrations trying to collaborate with the often opaque Six Apart behind me, and collaborate through the Open Melody conduit.</li>
<li>I can&#8217;t wait to see a leaner, more modular open source MT based product emerges that is also more feature rich &#8212; further confirmation of WordPress&#8217;s own approaches, and more good open source products are great for open source.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you love blogging or open source, then Melody needs our love, <a href="http://openmelody.org/join">participate</a>! (hence this post)</p>";}i:16;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:81:"Weblog Tools Collection: What is going on with WordPress Plugin Competition 2009?";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6115";s:4:"link";s:109:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/22/what-is-going-on-with-wordpress-plugin-competition-2009/";s:11:"description";s:3396:"<p>Short answer? It is jumpin! Have you checked out the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog">Plugin Competition Blog</a> recently? There are six new plugins announced for the competition and all of them look fantastic. The comments have been very positive and visitors have been actively rating the entries as they come in. Here is what we have so far:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.webmaster-source.com/tweetable-twitter-plugin-wordpress/">Tweetable</a>: Another Twitter integration plugin for WordPress (we really need to consolidate these, but there is feature differentiation)</li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/live-blogging/installation/">Live Blogging Plugin</a>: Setup a live blog within minutes, needs <a href="http://meteorserver.org">Meteor</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/imageshack-offloader/">ImageShack Offloader</a>: Move your image hosting to ImageShack</li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/max-image-size-control/">Max Image Size Contro</a>l: Finer granular control of image sizes in WordPress</li>
<li><a href="http://webdevstudios.com/support/wordpress-plugins/wp-devel-plugin-for-wordpress/">WP Devel</a>: Add a <em>whole bunch</em> of debug options to your WordPress blog</li>
<li><a href="http://www.jenst.se/2009/06/18/wp-update-message/">WP Update Message</a>: Tweak and refine the update messages in your WordPress admin panel</li>
</ul>
<p>In addition to these plugins, I know of at least 10 others that are being developed for the competition and I am hoping for many more. A couple of links and stats of interest:</p>
<ul>
<li>There is now a page for the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/plugin-competition-2009-rules/">Rules and Regulations for the WordPress Plugin Competition 2009</a></li>
<li>Sponsors and well wishers <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/plugin-competition-prizes/">have donated almost $3000 as prize money for the competition</a>. They include: <a href="http://wp.mu/">WPMU</a>/<a href="http://premium.wpmudev.org/">WPMUDEV</a>, <a href="http://buysellads.com/">BuySellAds</a>, <a href="http://w-shadow.com/">White Shadow</a>, <a href="http://WPWebHost.com/">WPWebHost</a> and <a href="http://planetozh.com/">Ozh</a></li>
<li>Use the <a href="http://midout.com/groups/wordpress-plugins/forum/topic/12">WLTC Community Plugin Groups</a> page to post ideas for new plugins and offer to create new ones</li>
<li>Send us tips and ideas through Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/weblogtooltips">@weblogtooltips</a></li>
<li>The Plugin Compeition Blog is checked by hundreds of visitors every day for new entries and to download the old ones</li>
</ul>
<p>So if you are a plugin author and would like to get your name out or would like to win the prize purse for the best plugin, be sure to throw your hat into the competition and show us what you are made of. If you are a corporate sponsor and would like to help us reward the plugin development community, please drop us a line.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t need to be shy. Come on in, the water is just fine.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/22/what-is-going-on-with-wordpress-plugin-competition-2009/">What is going on with WordPress Plugin Competition 2009?</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:42:54 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:3396:"<p>Short answer? It is jumpin! Have you checked out the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog">Plugin Competition Blog</a> recently? There are six new plugins announced for the competition and all of them look fantastic. The comments have been very positive and visitors have been actively rating the entries as they come in. Here is what we have so far:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.webmaster-source.com/tweetable-twitter-plugin-wordpress/">Tweetable</a>: Another Twitter integration plugin for WordPress (we really need to consolidate these, but there is feature differentiation)</li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/live-blogging/installation/">Live Blogging Plugin</a>: Setup a live blog within minutes, needs <a href="http://meteorserver.org">Meteor</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/imageshack-offloader/">ImageShack Offloader</a>: Move your image hosting to ImageShack</li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/max-image-size-control/">Max Image Size Contro</a>l: Finer granular control of image sizes in WordPress</li>
<li><a href="http://webdevstudios.com/support/wordpress-plugins/wp-devel-plugin-for-wordpress/">WP Devel</a>: Add a <em>whole bunch</em> of debug options to your WordPress blog</li>
<li><a href="http://www.jenst.se/2009/06/18/wp-update-message/">WP Update Message</a>: Tweak and refine the update messages in your WordPress admin panel</li>
</ul>
<p>In addition to these plugins, I know of at least 10 others that are being developed for the competition and I am hoping for many more. A couple of links and stats of interest:</p>
<ul>
<li>There is now a page for the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/plugin-competition-2009-rules/">Rules and Regulations for the WordPress Plugin Competition 2009</a></li>
<li>Sponsors and well wishers <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/plugin-competition-prizes/">have donated almost $3000 as prize money for the competition</a>. They include: <a href="http://wp.mu/">WPMU</a>/<a href="http://premium.wpmudev.org/">WPMUDEV</a>, <a href="http://buysellads.com/">BuySellAds</a>, <a href="http://w-shadow.com/">White Shadow</a>, <a href="http://WPWebHost.com/">WPWebHost</a> and <a href="http://planetozh.com/">Ozh</a></li>
<li>Use the <a href="http://midout.com/groups/wordpress-plugins/forum/topic/12">WLTC Community Plugin Groups</a> page to post ideas for new plugins and offer to create new ones</li>
<li>Send us tips and ideas through Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/weblogtooltips">@weblogtooltips</a></li>
<li>The Plugin Compeition Blog is checked by hundreds of visitors every day for new entries and to download the old ones</li>
</ul>
<p>So if you are a plugin author and would like to get your name out or would like to win the prize purse for the best plugin, be sure to throw your hat into the competition and show us what you are made of. If you are a corporate sponsor and would like to help us reward the plugin development community, please drop us a line.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t need to be shy. Come on in, the water is just fine.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/22/what-is-going-on-with-wordpress-plugin-competition-2009/">What is going on with WordPress Plugin Competition 2009?</a></p>";}i:17;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:84:"WordPress.tv: Andy Peatling – Cooking With BuddyPress: WordCamp San Francisco 2009";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=1981";s:4:"link";s:97:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/06/23/andy-peatling-cooking-with-buddypress-wordcamp-san-francisco-2009/";s:11:"description";s:1412:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
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<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/06/23/andy-peatling-cooking-with-buddypress-wordcamp-san-francisco-2009/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/kBCigRXc/andy-peatling-web.thumbnail.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/1981/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/1981/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1981/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1981/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1981/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1981/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/1981/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/1981/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1981/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1981/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=1981&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:50:39 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Michael Pick";}s:7:"summary";s:1412:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
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<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/06/23/andy-peatling-cooking-with-buddypress-wordcamp-san-francisco-2009/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/kBCigRXc/andy-peatling-web.thumbnail.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/1981/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/1981/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1981/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1981/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1981/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1981/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/1981/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/1981/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1981/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1981/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=1981&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:18;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:76:"Weblog Tools Collection: FTC to go after blogger freebies and non disclosure";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6124";s:4:"link";s:120:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/22/report-ftc-to-go-after-blogger-freebies-politics-and-law-cnet-news/";s:11:"description";s:2803:"<p><em>The Federal Trade Commission is planning to crack down on bloggers who review or promote products while earning freebies or payments, the Associated Press reported Sunday. &#8220;New guidelines, expected to be approved late this summer with possible modifications, would clarify that the agency can go after bloggers&#8211;as well as the companies that compensate them&#8211;for any false claims or failure to disclose conflicts of interest,&#8221; the article explained. <span>via </span><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10269962-38.html"><span>Report: FTC to go after blogger freebies | Politics and Law - CNET News</span></a><span>.</span></em></p>
<p><em></em>While I am not a big fan of government scrutiny and general &#8220;big brother&#8221; mentality, I do believe that this will add to the believability and authenticity of the blogging medium. We at Weblog Tools Collection try very hard to keep commercial interests completely out of the content that we generate and only rely on what we consider to be ethical ads to make ends meet. We also follow a strict full disclosure policy.</p>
<p>Bloggers who have regularly received freebies in the past and/or write reviews of products that they then received in lieu of the review (I was approached by a bean bag chair maker a couple of times, occasional reviewers need not care) might want to stay on top of this issue and practice full disclosure if you have not already done so. However in playing devil&#8217;s advocate, it would be very difficult to correctly identify the human behind the blogging persona without a criminal complaint and even then it might be in a legal grey area at the least (think DMCA). I am afraid that this level of scrutiny combined with general FUD might also dissuade some casual bloggers from posting reviews and reduce the general alacrity with which weekend bloggers post reviews. My thought is that the companies that offer the freebies (Lexus Automobiles?) and encourage non-disclosure should have to deal with the regulations and not the general blogging public (which is hard to enforce anyways). <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/090622/p25#a090622p25">Techmeme has a bunch of good examples and discussion pieces</a>.</p>
<p>All the transparency and legal issues aside, I think that this might be a good development if well defined and uniformly enforced. Writing reviews is a fun way to get into blogging and I would hate for things to get so formal that the casual reviewers get their hands slapped.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/22/report-ftc-to-go-after-blogger-freebies-politics-and-law-cnet-news/">FTC to go after blogger freebies and non disclosure</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:51:36 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:2803:"<p><em>The Federal Trade Commission is planning to crack down on bloggers who review or promote products while earning freebies or payments, the Associated Press reported Sunday. &#8220;New guidelines, expected to be approved late this summer with possible modifications, would clarify that the agency can go after bloggers&#8211;as well as the companies that compensate them&#8211;for any false claims or failure to disclose conflicts of interest,&#8221; the article explained. <span>via </span><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10269962-38.html"><span>Report: FTC to go after blogger freebies | Politics and Law - CNET News</span></a><span>.</span></em></p>
<p><em></em>While I am not a big fan of government scrutiny and general &#8220;big brother&#8221; mentality, I do believe that this will add to the believability and authenticity of the blogging medium. We at Weblog Tools Collection try very hard to keep commercial interests completely out of the content that we generate and only rely on what we consider to be ethical ads to make ends meet. We also follow a strict full disclosure policy.</p>
<p>Bloggers who have regularly received freebies in the past and/or write reviews of products that they then received in lieu of the review (I was approached by a bean bag chair maker a couple of times, occasional reviewers need not care) might want to stay on top of this issue and practice full disclosure if you have not already done so. However in playing devil&#8217;s advocate, it would be very difficult to correctly identify the human behind the blogging persona without a criminal complaint and even then it might be in a legal grey area at the least (think DMCA). I am afraid that this level of scrutiny combined with general FUD might also dissuade some casual bloggers from posting reviews and reduce the general alacrity with which weekend bloggers post reviews. My thought is that the companies that offer the freebies (Lexus Automobiles?) and encourage non-disclosure should have to deal with the regulations and not the general blogging public (which is hard to enforce anyways). <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/090622/p25#a090622p25">Techmeme has a bunch of good examples and discussion pieces</a>.</p>
<p>All the transparency and legal issues aside, I think that this might be a good development if well defined and uniformly enforced. Writing reviews is a fun way to get into blogging and I would hate for things to get so formal that the casual reviewers get their hands slapped.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/22/report-ftc-to-go-after-blogger-freebies-politics-and-law-cnet-news/">FTC to go after blogger freebies and non disclosure</a></p>";}i:19;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:36:"Ryan Boren: 2.8 Plugin Compatibility";s:4:"guid";s:23:"http://boren.nu/?p=1704";s:4:"link";s:61:"http://boren.nu/archives/2009/06/23/2-8-plugin-compatibility/";s:11:"description";s:778:"<p>Some plugins are causing grief for those upgrading to 2.8.</p>
<ul>
<li>HyperDB needs to be updated to the latest version, otherwise tags won&#8217;t save.</li>
<li>DB Cache also prevents tags from being saved. I haven&#8217;t seen an update for it yet.</li>
<li>Plugins that load old versions of jQuery for all admin pages will break all kinds of stuff.  Plugins should use the version of jQuery that ships with WP.  If a plugin must use a particular version of jQuery, that version should be queued only for the plugin&#8217;s own pages.</li>
<li>Themes that call get_categories() from functions.php before the init action fires will fail.  2.8.1 will workaround this, but ideally these themes should update so that they can handle custom taxonomies properly.</li>
</ul>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:54:23 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ryan";}s:7:"summary";s:778:"<p>Some plugins are causing grief for those upgrading to 2.8.</p>
<ul>
<li>HyperDB needs to be updated to the latest version, otherwise tags won&#8217;t save.</li>
<li>DB Cache also prevents tags from being saved. I haven&#8217;t seen an update for it yet.</li>
<li>Plugins that load old versions of jQuery for all admin pages will break all kinds of stuff.  Plugins should use the version of jQuery that ships with WP.  If a plugin must use a particular version of jQuery, that version should be queued only for the plugin&#8217;s own pages.</li>
<li>Themes that call get_categories() from functions.php before the init action fires will fail.  2.8.1 will workaround this, but ideally these themes should update so that they can handle custom taxonomies properly.</li>
</ul>";}i:20;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:53:"Dougal Campbell: Drupal shop gives props to WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=1552";s:4:"link";s:78:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/06/22/drupal-shop-gives-props-to-wordpress";s:11:"description";s:2082:"<p><a href="http://www.digitaldivas.net/">My wife</a> sent me a link by <a href="http://volacci.com/">Volacci</a>, a Drupal <acronym title="Search Engine Optimization"><span class="caps">SEO</span></acronym> development shop, giving some nice <a href="http://volacci.com/blog/ben-finklea/2009/june/18/drupal%E2%80%99s-competition-stiffens-wordpress-28">kudos to WordPress 2.8</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Last week the much anticipated new version of WordPress (version 2.8) was released for download. Many webmasters, bloggers and <acronym title="Content Management System"><span class="caps">CMS</span></acronym> fans alike have come to expect great things out of the seasoned system, so the expectations were high. According to the earliest reports, WordPress 2.8 not only lives up to the hype, it presents some stiff competition for Volacci’s favorite platform, Drupal.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s always nice to see compliments coming from someone who doesn&#8217;t have a vested interest in making them. That&#8217;s a good indication that you&#8217;re doing something right, so congrats to the development team and to the <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> community. And to give <a href="http://drupal.org/">Drupal</a> its due, there are certain types of site setups that are easier to manage in that <acronym title="Content Management System"><span class="caps">CMS</span></acronym>. And with the <a href="http://www.d7ux.org/">Drupal 7 UX</a> effort going on now, it looks like the next release is going to be much easier to administer than it has been in the past.</p>
<p>I have a feeling, though, that future releases of WordPress will be adding more general <acronym title="Content Management System"><span class="caps">CMS</span></acronym> functionality. And we&#8217;ll find more folks in the Drupal camp looking at WordPress as a possible alternative for projects. Really, though, this kind of &#8220;competition&#8221; only helps to improve both systems. I think users of both WordPress and Drupal can look forward to many improvements in the future.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:30:36 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Dougal";}s:7:"summary";s:2082:"<p><a href="http://www.digitaldivas.net/">My wife</a> sent me a link by <a href="http://volacci.com/">Volacci</a>, a Drupal <acronym title="Search Engine Optimization"><span class="caps">SEO</span></acronym> development shop, giving some nice <a href="http://volacci.com/blog/ben-finklea/2009/june/18/drupal%E2%80%99s-competition-stiffens-wordpress-28">kudos to WordPress 2.8</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Last week the much anticipated new version of WordPress (version 2.8) was released for download. Many webmasters, bloggers and <acronym title="Content Management System"><span class="caps">CMS</span></acronym> fans alike have come to expect great things out of the seasoned system, so the expectations were high. According to the earliest reports, WordPress 2.8 not only lives up to the hype, it presents some stiff competition for Volacci’s favorite platform, Drupal.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s always nice to see compliments coming from someone who doesn&#8217;t have a vested interest in making them. That&#8217;s a good indication that you&#8217;re doing something right, so congrats to the development team and to the <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> community. And to give <a href="http://drupal.org/">Drupal</a> its due, there are certain types of site setups that are easier to manage in that <acronym title="Content Management System"><span class="caps">CMS</span></acronym>. And with the <a href="http://www.d7ux.org/">Drupal 7 UX</a> effort going on now, it looks like the next release is going to be much easier to administer than it has been in the past.</p>
<p>I have a feeling, though, that future releases of WordPress will be adding more general <acronym title="Content Management System"><span class="caps">CMS</span></acronym> functionality. And we&#8217;ll find more folks in the Drupal camp looking at WordPress as a possible alternative for projects. Really, though, this kind of &#8220;competition&#8221; only helps to improve both systems. I think users of both WordPress and Drupal can look forward to many improvements in the future.</p>";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:55:"Peter Westwood: Making it easy to be a WordPress Tester";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://westi.wordpress.com/?p=100";s:4:"link";s:78:"http://westi.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/making-it-easy-to-be-a-wordpress-tester/";s:11:"description";s:3530:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>The other day <a href="http://boren.nu/archives/2009/06/19/auto-upgrading-to-nightly-builds/">Ryan shared a simple way of switching a WordPress install to the nightly builds</a> so as to get involved with testing.</p>
<p>The only problem with this method is that you have to redo every time a WordPress release is made because it involves hacking a core file and the update mechanism will only offer you a nightly build if you already appear to be running one.</p>
<p>This got me thinking about whether or not you could create a plugin which would allow a blog to always track a particular type of nightly build stream so as to avoid the need to ever hack core files again.  This morning I am please to announce the first release of my <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/">WordPress Beta Tester</a> plugin which is inspired by Ryans example but achieves it in a plugin and will keep your blog on one of the two nightly tracks.  The choice you have is:</p>
<ul>
<li>Point release nightlies &#8211; This contains the work that is occuring on a branch in preperation for a x.x.x point release.  This should also be fairly stable but will be available before the branch is ready for beta.</li>
<li>Bleeding edge nightlies &#8211; This is the bleeding edge development code which may be unstable at times. <strong><em>Only use this if you really know what you are doing</em></strong>.</li>
</ul>
<p>Once you enable the plugin it will by default switch your blog to the &#8220;Point release&#8221; stream and if you want to switch to the &#8220;Bleeding edge&#8221; stream then you will need to go to the Tools &#8230; Beta Testing page and configure the plugin there:</p>
<div id="attachment_101" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://westi.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/wordpress-beta-tester-admin.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-101" title="wordpress-beta-tester-admin" src="http://westi.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/wordpress-beta-tester-admin.png?w=700&#038;h=350" alt="The administration panel for the plugin" width="700" height="350" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The administration panel for the plugin</p></div>
<p><strong>Please note:</strong> Once you have switched your blog to one of these beta versions of software it will not always be possible to downgrade as the database structure maybe updated during the development of a major release.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/westi.wordpress.com/100/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/westi.wordpress.com/100/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/westi.wordpress.com/100/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/westi.wordpress.com/100/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/westi.wordpress.com/100/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/westi.wordpress.com/100/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/westi.wordpress.com/100/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/westi.wordpress.com/100/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/westi.wordpress.com/100/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/westi.wordpress.com/100/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westi.wordpress.com&blog=15396&post=100&subd=westi&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:36:02 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:14:"Peter Westwood";}s:7:"summary";s:3530:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>The other day <a href="http://boren.nu/archives/2009/06/19/auto-upgrading-to-nightly-builds/">Ryan shared a simple way of switching a WordPress install to the nightly builds</a> so as to get involved with testing.</p>
<p>The only problem with this method is that you have to redo every time a WordPress release is made because it involves hacking a core file and the update mechanism will only offer you a nightly build if you already appear to be running one.</p>
<p>This got me thinking about whether or not you could create a plugin which would allow a blog to always track a particular type of nightly build stream so as to avoid the need to ever hack core files again.  This morning I am please to announce the first release of my <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/">WordPress Beta Tester</a> plugin which is inspired by Ryans example but achieves it in a plugin and will keep your blog on one of the two nightly tracks.  The choice you have is:</p>
<ul>
<li>Point release nightlies &#8211; This contains the work that is occuring on a branch in preperation for a x.x.x point release.  This should also be fairly stable but will be available before the branch is ready for beta.</li>
<li>Bleeding edge nightlies &#8211; This is the bleeding edge development code which may be unstable at times. <strong><em>Only use this if you really know what you are doing</em></strong>.</li>
</ul>
<p>Once you enable the plugin it will by default switch your blog to the &#8220;Point release&#8221; stream and if you want to switch to the &#8220;Bleeding edge&#8221; stream then you will need to go to the Tools &#8230; Beta Testing page and configure the plugin there:</p>
<div id="attachment_101" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://westi.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/wordpress-beta-tester-admin.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-101" title="wordpress-beta-tester-admin" src="http://westi.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/wordpress-beta-tester-admin.png?w=700&#038;h=350" alt="The administration panel for the plugin" width="700" height="350" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The administration panel for the plugin</p></div>
<p><strong>Please note:</strong> Once you have switched your blog to one of these beta versions of software it will not always be possible to downgrade as the database structure maybe updated during the development of a major release.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/westi.wordpress.com/100/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/westi.wordpress.com/100/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/westi.wordpress.com/100/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/westi.wordpress.com/100/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/westi.wordpress.com/100/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/westi.wordpress.com/100/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/westi.wordpress.com/100/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/westi.wordpress.com/100/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/westi.wordpress.com/100/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/westi.wordpress.com/100/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westi.wordpress.com&blog=15396&post=100&subd=westi&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:22;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:61:"Weblog Tools Collection: Plugin Updates Email Notifier Plugin";s:4:"guid";s:90:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/21/plugin-updates-email-notifier-plugin/";s:4:"link";s:90:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/21/plugin-updates-email-notifier-plugin/";s:11:"description";s:1840:"<p>Many of us seldom visit the admin dashboard in WordPress, even if we do we may not really pay attention to the updates available to the plugins we use, one of our <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/15/send-us-your-wordpress-tips-and-tricks-on-twitter/" target="_blank">twitter followers</a> for <a href="http://twitter.com/weblogtooltips">@weblogtooltips</a> Avaz <a href="http://twitter.com/uzblogger/status/2250402331" target="_blank">tweeted this</a>.</p>
<p><img title="twitter_uzblogger_status" border="0" alt="twitter_uzblogger_status" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/twitter-uzblogger-status.png" width="367" height="176" /> </p>
<p>Taking cue from that I quickly wrote a plugin that will do what Avaz suggested, it will send out updates via email to administrators whenever there are new plugin updates available to install.</p>
<p>You can setup the updates to go out daily, weekly or monthly and also choose to receive intimations for deactivated plugins.</p>
<p>The plugin requires you to setup the options before it actually works, you will see a message in the admin header to setup the option if you haven’t done that at-least once.</p>
<p>For for information and downloading visit the <a href="http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/plugin-updates-email-notifier.html" target="_blank">Plugin Updates Email Notifier homepage</a>.</p>
<p>We keep a hawk eye on our twitter account, so don’t forget to send us your tips, questions and more to <a href="http://twitter.com/weblogtooltips" target="_blank">@weblogtooltips</a> on twitter.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/21/plugin-updates-email-notifier-plugin/">Plugin Updates Email Notifier Plugin</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:10:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:1840:"<p>Many of us seldom visit the admin dashboard in WordPress, even if we do we may not really pay attention to the updates available to the plugins we use, one of our <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/15/send-us-your-wordpress-tips-and-tricks-on-twitter/" target="_blank">twitter followers</a> for <a href="http://twitter.com/weblogtooltips">@weblogtooltips</a> Avaz <a href="http://twitter.com/uzblogger/status/2250402331" target="_blank">tweeted this</a>.</p>
<p><img title="twitter_uzblogger_status" border="0" alt="twitter_uzblogger_status" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/twitter-uzblogger-status.png" width="367" height="176" /> </p>
<p>Taking cue from that I quickly wrote a plugin that will do what Avaz suggested, it will send out updates via email to administrators whenever there are new plugin updates available to install.</p>
<p>You can setup the updates to go out daily, weekly or monthly and also choose to receive intimations for deactivated plugins.</p>
<p>The plugin requires you to setup the options before it actually works, you will see a message in the admin header to setup the option if you haven’t done that at-least once.</p>
<p>For for information and downloading visit the <a href="http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/plugin-updates-email-notifier.html" target="_blank">Plugin Updates Email Notifier homepage</a>.</p>
<p>We keep a hawk eye on our twitter account, so don’t forget to send us your tips, questions and more to <a href="http://twitter.com/weblogtooltips" target="_blank">@weblogtooltips</a> on twitter.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/21/plugin-updates-email-notifier-plugin/">Plugin Updates Email Notifier Plugin</a></p>";}i:23;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: You might be a WordPress Geek . . .";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6117";s:4:"link";s:83:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/21/you-might-be-a-wordpress-geek/";s:11:"description";s:2774:"<ol>
<li>When the first thing you do at a new blog is scroll down to see who did the theme, you might be a WordPress Geek. via <a href="http://twitter.com/SherryDedman">@SherryDedman</a></li>
<li>When you mention Dexter Gordon, you have to qualify that he is a saxophonist and not the WordPress release, you might be a WordPress Geek. via <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/21/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-community-interview/">Matt</a></li>
<li>More than one of your Twitter saved searches includes the word &#8220;wordpress&#8221;, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>You read Weblog Tools Collection daily and have withdrawal when we do not have a release post, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>You visit a well known publisher and can instantly recognize the permalinks as created by WordPress. Heck, if you know what a permalink is, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If all your vacations are to WordCamps, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If the word &#8220;dashboard&#8221; reminds you of the WordPress admin panel, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If you have <em>multiple</em> Google Alerts setup with the word &#8220;WordPress&#8221; in it, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If your toddler has a &#8220;W&#8221; t shirt, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>if your browser homepage is set to the <a href="http://planet.wordpress.org">WordPress Planet</a>, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If you bitch when Matt writes about the Kindle and not about WordPress, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If you have tried to convert your day job&#8217;s website to WordPress, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If you know of Kubrick but do not know who he was, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If you spend more time on WordPress Extend looking for plugins and themes than writing posts, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If you have ever met <a href="http://ma.tt">Matt</a> and had a picture taken with him, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If you know what Akismet is, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If you met most of your friends because of WordPress, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If you make your living from WordPress, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If your significant other complains that WordPress gets more attention, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If you have ever suggested WordPress to others, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
</ol>
<p>I could go on forever. Are you a WordPress Geek?</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/21/you-might-be-a-wordpress-geek/">You might be a WordPress Geek . . .</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:15:31 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:2774:"<ol>
<li>When the first thing you do at a new blog is scroll down to see who did the theme, you might be a WordPress Geek. via <a href="http://twitter.com/SherryDedman">@SherryDedman</a></li>
<li>When you mention Dexter Gordon, you have to qualify that he is a saxophonist and not the WordPress release, you might be a WordPress Geek. via <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/21/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-community-interview/">Matt</a></li>
<li>More than one of your Twitter saved searches includes the word &#8220;wordpress&#8221;, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>You read Weblog Tools Collection daily and have withdrawal when we do not have a release post, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>You visit a well known publisher and can instantly recognize the permalinks as created by WordPress. Heck, if you know what a permalink is, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If all your vacations are to WordCamps, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If the word &#8220;dashboard&#8221; reminds you of the WordPress admin panel, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If you have <em>multiple</em> Google Alerts setup with the word &#8220;WordPress&#8221; in it, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If your toddler has a &#8220;W&#8221; t shirt, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>if your browser homepage is set to the <a href="http://planet.wordpress.org">WordPress Planet</a>, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If you bitch when Matt writes about the Kindle and not about WordPress, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If you have tried to convert your day job&#8217;s website to WordPress, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If you know of Kubrick but do not know who he was, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If you spend more time on WordPress Extend looking for plugins and themes than writing posts, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If you have ever met <a href="http://ma.tt">Matt</a> and had a picture taken with him, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If you know what Akismet is, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If you met most of your friends because of WordPress, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If you make your living from WordPress, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If your significant other complains that WordPress gets more attention, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
<li>If you have ever suggested WordPress to others, you might be a WordPress Geek.</li>
</ol>
<p>I could go on forever. Are you a WordPress Geek?</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/21/you-might-be-a-wordpress-geek/">You might be a WordPress Geek . . .</a></p>";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:76:"Weblog Tools Collection: Interviews: Matt Mullenweg – WordPress Co-Founder";s:4:"guid";s:98:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/21/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-community-interview/";s:4:"link";s:98:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/21/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-community-interview/";s:11:"description";s:7829:"<p>Many of us use WordPress on a day to day basis and many of us <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/18/how-has-wordpress-changed-blogging/" target="_blank">love using it</a>, but don’t you want to know the people who have made WordPress what it is today, the people behind the software and the people who are helping the WordPress community grow.</p>
<p><img title="matt-mullenweg" border="0" alt="matt-mullenweg" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/mattmullenweg.jpg" width="353" height="250" /> </p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://ckon.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/matt-mullenweg.jpg" target="_blank">Image Credit</a></p>
<p>To get you up and close with the WordPress rock stars, we are starting a community interview series where we will quiz people who have helped WordPress evolve and grow, and we could think of no one better than <a href="http://ma.tt/" target="_blank">Matt Mullenweg</a>, the co-founder of <a title="Articles Tagged WordPress on Techie Buzz" href="http://wordpress.org/" target="_blank">WordPress</a> to start this off with. Here is the interview we did with Matt.</p>
<p><strong>WLTC: First of All thanks for taking the time to do this interview, I      <br />really appreciate it more than I can tell you, here is the first question. What does WordPress mean to you as a co-founder and when you think of it as a individual user?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Matt:</strong> It&#8217;s always been about expressing yourself online. For me, that&#8217;s a <a href="http://ma.tt/" target="_blank">blog with lots of photography elements</a>. For other folks it might just be a website that doesn&#8217;t look like a blog at all. But before b2 and later WordPress I never really felt comfortable with an online presence, there was just too much friction in the tools and they made it too frustrating to do what I wanted. WordPress exists to remove that friction.</p>
<p><strong>WLTC: Happy 6th Anniversary WordPress. It has been 6 long years now, can      <br />you tell us some of your experiences from day 1 to day 2190?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Matt:</strong> One day I&#8217;ll always remember is the first time someone translated WordPress into another language, I believe it was a project in Japan. To put this in perspective, WordPress had no translation framework at the time so this meant someone went through every single file and line of code and edited it.</p>
<p>This blew me away at the time, and I believe it also had a big effect on Ryan, who went on to lead the long and tedious work of making WordPress gettext-compatible so translators had a robust and efficient way to translate WordPress.</p>
<p>Today there are as many WordPress users outside of the U.S. as inside, and international is the fastest growing part of our community.</p>
<p><strong>WLTC: How has WordPress evolved in community building, what steps does      <br />it take towards it?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Matt:</strong> Everything we&#8217;ve always done has been trial and error. I think our problem then and now has been it&#8217;s too hard for folks to volunteer around WordPress. People break through the trouble and pitch in, but it could be a lot easier of a process and I&#8217;d love to recognized everyone who contributes a lot more, which is one of the ideas behind redoing how profiles work on WordPress.org.</p>
<p><strong>WLTC: The GPL issue has been lagging around for sometime now, can you      <br />provide some views on why GPL is the best way to go forward with?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Matt:</strong> WordPress wouldn&#8217;t exist if B2 wasn&#8217;t GPL &#8212; it&#8217;s the core of our existence. Plugins and themes use hooks, filters, functions, and core data structures in a way which makes them linked and they can&#8217;t take away freedoms from users granted by the GPL, which means they must be under the GPL or a compatible license. End of story.</p>
<p><strong>WLTC: A couple of years ago WordPress was seen as a excellent blogging      <br />platform, these days people see it more as a CMS in addition to a       <br />blogging platform. What are your thoughts, and what steps is WordPress       <br />taking towards it?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Matt:</strong> More and more people are discovering that the only limits with WordPress are your imagination. You don&#8217;t need bloated, seldom-updated, expensive, or never-backward-compatible "content management software" to create beautiful and powerful sites. I think people are starting to realize this because of <a href="http://buddypress.org/" target="_blank">BuddyPress</a> and the <a href="http://wordpress.org/showcase/" target="_blank">WordPress Showcase</a>.</p>
<p><strong>WLTC: As a personal question, do you follow developments in other      <br />softwares such as Blogger, Joomla and Drupal?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Matt:</strong> Absolutely, in fact earlier today at CMS Brazil I watched a presentation on Drupal 7.</p>
<p><strong>WLTC: What are the core values from WordPress you might want or like      <br />other companies to incorporate?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Matt:</strong> That&#8217;s a tough one &#8212; there&#8217;s a lot of opinions and philosophies embedded in how WordPress works that I&#8217;ve internalized so it&#8217;s hard to look at them from afar. Maybe one of the days I&#8217;ll get a page on WordPress.org about it.</p>
<p><strong>WLTC: Bugs in WordPress, how do you handle those? Any advice to people      <br />who want to share their bugs and problems or contribute towards solving       <br />them?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Matt:</strong> We squish bugs with extreme prejudice. If you&#8217;re not sure if something is a bug or not the <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/" target="_blank">support forums</a> are probably your best bet. If you&#8217;re tech savvy and know how to file a bug report, then I&#8217;d recommend to drop it on <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/" target="_blank">Trac</a>. In the Drupal presentation I saw earlier they called it a "do-ocracy" where people who do things get things done, and recommended if there was something that you couldn&#8217;t code yourself to commission someone to do it on your behalf, which will probably be pretty cheap (a few hundred dollars). I thought that was an interesting idea.</p>
<p><strong>WLTC: One suggestion you would give to someone starting out as a newbie      <br />in WordPress?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Matt:</strong> Check out a book on WordPress, spend a little time clicking around the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page" target="_blank">Codex</a> and on <a href="http://wordpress.tv/" target="_blank">WordPress.tv</a>, and of course subscribe to the WordPress Planet and WLTC. <img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p><strong>WLTC: One suggestion you would give to experienced WordPress users?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Matt:</strong> Check out the taxonomy system, and Dexter Gordon. (The saxophonist, not the WordPress release.)</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> To learn more about what Matt and team are doing and planning to do with <a title="Articles Tagged WordPress on Techie Buzz" href="http://techie-buzz.com/tag/wordpress" rel="tag">WordPress</a> don’t forget to check the State of the Art Video From WordCamp SF.</p>
<p></p>
<p>Once again thanks Matt for taking out the time for us and answering the questions, it was absolutely nice to have you with us, we hope the readers of WLTC love it too.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/21/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-community-interview/">Interviews: Matt Mullenweg &ndash; WordPress Co-Founder</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:20:48 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:7829:"<p>Many of us use WordPress on a day to day basis and many of us <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/18/how-has-wordpress-changed-blogging/" target="_blank">love using it</a>, but don’t you want to know the people who have made WordPress what it is today, the people behind the software and the people who are helping the WordPress community grow.</p>
<p><img title="matt-mullenweg" border="0" alt="matt-mullenweg" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/mattmullenweg.jpg" width="353" height="250" /> </p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://ckon.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/matt-mullenweg.jpg" target="_blank">Image Credit</a></p>
<p>To get you up and close with the WordPress rock stars, we are starting a community interview series where we will quiz people who have helped WordPress evolve and grow, and we could think of no one better than <a href="http://ma.tt/" target="_blank">Matt Mullenweg</a>, the co-founder of <a title="Articles Tagged WordPress on Techie Buzz" href="http://wordpress.org/" target="_blank">WordPress</a> to start this off with. Here is the interview we did with Matt.</p>
<p><strong>WLTC: First of All thanks for taking the time to do this interview, I      <br />really appreciate it more than I can tell you, here is the first question. What does WordPress mean to you as a co-founder and when you think of it as a individual user?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Matt:</strong> It&#8217;s always been about expressing yourself online. For me, that&#8217;s a <a href="http://ma.tt/" target="_blank">blog with lots of photography elements</a>. For other folks it might just be a website that doesn&#8217;t look like a blog at all. But before b2 and later WordPress I never really felt comfortable with an online presence, there was just too much friction in the tools and they made it too frustrating to do what I wanted. WordPress exists to remove that friction.</p>
<p><strong>WLTC: Happy 6th Anniversary WordPress. It has been 6 long years now, can      <br />you tell us some of your experiences from day 1 to day 2190?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Matt:</strong> One day I&#8217;ll always remember is the first time someone translated WordPress into another language, I believe it was a project in Japan. To put this in perspective, WordPress had no translation framework at the time so this meant someone went through every single file and line of code and edited it.</p>
<p>This blew me away at the time, and I believe it also had a big effect on Ryan, who went on to lead the long and tedious work of making WordPress gettext-compatible so translators had a robust and efficient way to translate WordPress.</p>
<p>Today there are as many WordPress users outside of the U.S. as inside, and international is the fastest growing part of our community.</p>
<p><strong>WLTC: How has WordPress evolved in community building, what steps does      <br />it take towards it?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Matt:</strong> Everything we&#8217;ve always done has been trial and error. I think our problem then and now has been it&#8217;s too hard for folks to volunteer around WordPress. People break through the trouble and pitch in, but it could be a lot easier of a process and I&#8217;d love to recognized everyone who contributes a lot more, which is one of the ideas behind redoing how profiles work on WordPress.org.</p>
<p><strong>WLTC: The GPL issue has been lagging around for sometime now, can you      <br />provide some views on why GPL is the best way to go forward with?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Matt:</strong> WordPress wouldn&#8217;t exist if B2 wasn&#8217;t GPL &#8212; it&#8217;s the core of our existence. Plugins and themes use hooks, filters, functions, and core data structures in a way which makes them linked and they can&#8217;t take away freedoms from users granted by the GPL, which means they must be under the GPL or a compatible license. End of story.</p>
<p><strong>WLTC: A couple of years ago WordPress was seen as a excellent blogging      <br />platform, these days people see it more as a CMS in addition to a       <br />blogging platform. What are your thoughts, and what steps is WordPress       <br />taking towards it?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Matt:</strong> More and more people are discovering that the only limits with WordPress are your imagination. You don&#8217;t need bloated, seldom-updated, expensive, or never-backward-compatible "content management software" to create beautiful and powerful sites. I think people are starting to realize this because of <a href="http://buddypress.org/" target="_blank">BuddyPress</a> and the <a href="http://wordpress.org/showcase/" target="_blank">WordPress Showcase</a>.</p>
<p><strong>WLTC: As a personal question, do you follow developments in other      <br />softwares such as Blogger, Joomla and Drupal?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Matt:</strong> Absolutely, in fact earlier today at CMS Brazil I watched a presentation on Drupal 7.</p>
<p><strong>WLTC: What are the core values from WordPress you might want or like      <br />other companies to incorporate?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Matt:</strong> That&#8217;s a tough one &#8212; there&#8217;s a lot of opinions and philosophies embedded in how WordPress works that I&#8217;ve internalized so it&#8217;s hard to look at them from afar. Maybe one of the days I&#8217;ll get a page on WordPress.org about it.</p>
<p><strong>WLTC: Bugs in WordPress, how do you handle those? Any advice to people      <br />who want to share their bugs and problems or contribute towards solving       <br />them?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Matt:</strong> We squish bugs with extreme prejudice. If you&#8217;re not sure if something is a bug or not the <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/" target="_blank">support forums</a> are probably your best bet. If you&#8217;re tech savvy and know how to file a bug report, then I&#8217;d recommend to drop it on <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/" target="_blank">Trac</a>. In the Drupal presentation I saw earlier they called it a "do-ocracy" where people who do things get things done, and recommended if there was something that you couldn&#8217;t code yourself to commission someone to do it on your behalf, which will probably be pretty cheap (a few hundred dollars). I thought that was an interesting idea.</p>
<p><strong>WLTC: One suggestion you would give to someone starting out as a newbie      <br />in WordPress?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Matt:</strong> Check out a book on WordPress, spend a little time clicking around the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page" target="_blank">Codex</a> and on <a href="http://wordpress.tv/" target="_blank">WordPress.tv</a>, and of course subscribe to the WordPress Planet and WLTC. <img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p><strong>WLTC: One suggestion you would give to experienced WordPress users?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Matt:</strong> Check out the taxonomy system, and Dexter Gordon. (The saxophonist, not the WordPress release.)</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> To learn more about what Matt and team are doing and planning to do with <a title="Articles Tagged WordPress on Techie Buzz" href="http://techie-buzz.com/tag/wordpress" rel="tag">WordPress</a> don’t forget to check the State of the Art Video From WordCamp SF.</p>
<p></p>
<p>Once again thanks Matt for taking out the time for us and answering the questions, it was absolutely nice to have you with us, we hope the readers of WLTC love it too.</p>
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<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/06/21/matt-mullenwegs-state-of-the-word-wordcamp-san-francisco-2009/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/MFn82Gps/state-of-the-word-web.thumbnail.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/1973/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/1973/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1973/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1973/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1973/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1973/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/1973/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/1973/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1973/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1973/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=1973&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:26;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:32:"Dev Blog: WordPress 2.8.1 Beta 1";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=794";s:4:"link";s:64:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/06/wordpress-2-8-1-beta-1/";s:11:"description";s:1370:"<p>We&#8217;ve started work on the first maintenance release to 2.8.  2.8.1 will fix a handful of bugs that turned up in 2.8.  Today we&#8217;re releasing the first beta of 2.8.1.  <a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8.1-beta1.zip">Download</a> it, and check out the <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;group=resolution&amp;order=priority&amp;milestone=2.8.1&amp;resolution=fixed">bugs fixed so far</a>.  Here are some of the notable issues that are fixed in beta 1.</p>
<ul>
<li>Certain themes were calling get_categories() in such a way that it would fail in 2.8. 2.8.1 works around this so these themes won&#8217;t have to change.</li>
<li>Dashboard memory usage is reduced.  Some people were running out of memory when loading the dashboard, resulting in an incomplete page.</li>
<li>The automatic upgrade no longer accidentally deletes files when cleaning up from a failed upgrade.</li>
<li>A problem where the rich text editor wasn&#8217;t being loaded due to compression issues has been worked around.</li>
<li>Extra security has been put in place to better protect you from plugins that do not do explicit permission checks.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you would like to automatically upgrade from 2.8 to 2.8.1 Beta 1, follow <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/nightly/">these instructions</a>.  Thanks for testing WordPress.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:05:14 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Ryan Boren";}s:7:"summary";s:1370:"<p>We&#8217;ve started work on the first maintenance release to 2.8.  2.8.1 will fix a handful of bugs that turned up in 2.8.  Today we&#8217;re releasing the first beta of 2.8.1.  <a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8.1-beta1.zip">Download</a> it, and check out the <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;group=resolution&amp;order=priority&amp;milestone=2.8.1&amp;resolution=fixed">bugs fixed so far</a>.  Here are some of the notable issues that are fixed in beta 1.</p>
<ul>
<li>Certain themes were calling get_categories() in such a way that it would fail in 2.8. 2.8.1 works around this so these themes won&#8217;t have to change.</li>
<li>Dashboard memory usage is reduced.  Some people were running out of memory when loading the dashboard, resulting in an incomplete page.</li>
<li>The automatic upgrade no longer accidentally deletes files when cleaning up from a failed upgrade.</li>
<li>A problem where the rich text editor wasn&#8217;t being loaded due to compression issues has been worked around.</li>
<li>Extra security has been put in place to better protect you from plugins that do not do explicit permission checks.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you would like to automatically upgrade from 2.8 to 2.8.1 Beta 1, follow <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/nightly/">these instructions</a>.  Thanks for testing WordPress.</p>";}i:27;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 06/20";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6109";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/20/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0620/";s:11:"description";s:1353:"<h4><a href="http://bizzartic.com/2009/06/16/rask-publishing-news-wordpress-theme/">Rask Publishing News Theme</a></h4>
<p><img title="Rask" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/rask.gif" alt="Rask" width="200" height="144" /></p>
<p>Two column, widget ready, ajax based theme with tonnes of features</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.iheartpc.com/minion-wordpress-theme/">Minion</a></h4>
<p><img title="Minion" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/minion.png" alt="Minion" width="200" height="160" /></p>
<p>It has 3 columns, and 3 colors (black, white and red links). The content area is 400 pixels wide.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.webdesignlessons.com/hanging-wp-theme/">Hanging</a></h4>
<p><img title="Hanging" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/hanging.gif" alt="Hanging" width="200" height="129" /></p>
<p>In Greens and Browns this theme has a healthy balance of color with the main content area a very clear two column layout with a light background.</p>
<p>Are you theme author? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Submit your theme</a> to us.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/20/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0620/">WordPress Theme Releases for 06/20</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:07:29 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:1353:"<h4><a href="http://bizzartic.com/2009/06/16/rask-publishing-news-wordpress-theme/">Rask Publishing News Theme</a></h4>
<p><img title="Rask" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/rask.gif" alt="Rask" width="200" height="144" /></p>
<p>Two column, widget ready, ajax based theme with tonnes of features</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.iheartpc.com/minion-wordpress-theme/">Minion</a></h4>
<p><img title="Minion" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/minion.png" alt="Minion" width="200" height="160" /></p>
<p>It has 3 columns, and 3 colors (black, white and red links). The content area is 400 pixels wide.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.webdesignlessons.com/hanging-wp-theme/">Hanging</a></h4>
<p><img title="Hanging" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/hanging.gif" alt="Hanging" width="200" height="129" /></p>
<p>In Greens and Browns this theme has a healthy balance of color with the main content area a very clear two column layout with a light background.</p>
<p>Are you theme author? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Submit your theme</a> to us.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/20/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0620/">WordPress Theme Releases for 06/20</a></p>";}i:28;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:53:"Weblog Tools Collection: Attention All Plugin Authors";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6102";s:4:"link";s:82:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/20/attention-all-plugin-authors/";s:11:"description";s:2417:"<p>Today is the day of <strong>changelogs</strong> for plugins in the WordPress plugin repository. Back on <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/plugins-and-the-lack-of-change-logs">June 15th</a>, I vented about the fact that most Plugins didn&#8217;t provide an easily accessible changlog that notified me of why I should upgrade to the latest version of their plugin. Some plugins provided this information in the description tab while others placed it within the Other Notes link. Still others linked directly to a blog post explaining what had changed. The end user experience of trying to figure out why a plugin should be upgraded was a nightmare which is why I proposed that a new top level link be added along side Installation, Other Notes, etc called <strong>Changelog</strong> which provides a short and sweet history of version numbers and changes. This idea had been proposed before but no one managed to find time to address it.</p>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/changeloginaction.png" alt="changeloginaction" title="changeloginaction" width="516" height="217" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6103" /></p>
<p>Thanks to some great work by <strong>Peter Westwood and Mdawaffe</strong>, the example <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/readme.txt">Readme.txt</a> file which is used by all plugin authors to manage their plugins now has an example of the changelog in action. In fact, if you&#8217;d like to know how to implement this right away for your plugin, please <a href="http://westi.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/changelogs-changelogs-changelogs/">read this blog post by Peter Westwood</a> as it clearly illustrates how easy it is to add. </p>
<p>I encourage every single one of you plugin authors out there to add a changelog to your plugin. As an end user, I want to know up front and center why I should upgrade to the latest version without having to search the web for a blog post regarding the release. I think this is a change that benefits everyone.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re an end user, please chime in and let me know if you think this information is important enough to deserve its own link on the plugin information page.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/20/attention-all-plugin-authors/">Attention All Plugin Authors</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:49:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:2417:"<p>Today is the day of <strong>changelogs</strong> for plugins in the WordPress plugin repository. Back on <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/plugins-and-the-lack-of-change-logs">June 15th</a>, I vented about the fact that most Plugins didn&#8217;t provide an easily accessible changlog that notified me of why I should upgrade to the latest version of their plugin. Some plugins provided this information in the description tab while others placed it within the Other Notes link. Still others linked directly to a blog post explaining what had changed. The end user experience of trying to figure out why a plugin should be upgraded was a nightmare which is why I proposed that a new top level link be added along side Installation, Other Notes, etc called <strong>Changelog</strong> which provides a short and sweet history of version numbers and changes. This idea had been proposed before but no one managed to find time to address it.</p>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/changeloginaction.png" alt="changeloginaction" title="changeloginaction" width="516" height="217" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6103" /></p>
<p>Thanks to some great work by <strong>Peter Westwood and Mdawaffe</strong>, the example <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/readme.txt">Readme.txt</a> file which is used by all plugin authors to manage their plugins now has an example of the changelog in action. In fact, if you&#8217;d like to know how to implement this right away for your plugin, please <a href="http://westi.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/changelogs-changelogs-changelogs/">read this blog post by Peter Westwood</a> as it clearly illustrates how easy it is to add. </p>
<p>I encourage every single one of you plugin authors out there to add a changelog to your plugin. As an end user, I want to know up front and center why I should upgrade to the latest version without having to search the web for a blog post regarding the release. I think this is a change that benefits everyone.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re an end user, please chime in and let me know if you think this information is important enough to deserve its own link on the plugin information page.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/20/attention-all-plugin-authors/">Attention All Plugin Authors</a></p>";}i:29;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:50:"Peter Westwood: Changelogs, Changelogs, Changelogs";s:4:"guid";s:32:"http://westi.wordpress.com/?p=87";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://westi.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/changelogs-changelogs-changelogs/";s:11:"description";s:4152:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changelog">Changelog</a> is a very important thing for a project and until recently it wasn&#8217;t easy to add one to your WordPress plugin hosted in <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/">Extend</a>.  Some plugin authors understood the benefit of providing there users with the information and were adding it in different places but it was not easy to track down where it was and it some cases your only hope was a trail of clicks across the web to the plugin Authors site to hunt down the post detailing what had changed in this version.</p>
<p>For me, a changelog is a very important thing it is all about justifying to your users why they should upgrade to the latest version of your plugin as well as reassuring them that the changes made have been made for specific reasons and helping them to understand the impact the changes may have on there usage of your plugin.</p>
<p>This has been a <a href="http://twitter.com/wptavern/status/2160882740">hot topic</a> of late and we were discussing it on last nights <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/wpweekly-episode-59-roundtable-featuring-peter-westwood">WP Weekly</a> podcast so I set off to see if I could track down the right person to get a change made to give all plugins a separate top level Changelog tab on there WordPress extend page.</p>
<p>This morning to my delight I found that a Changelog feature had been added and now we have a standardised way for plugins to add Changelogs.  Basically there is a new section in the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/readme.txt">readme.txt standard</a> which allows for you to document your changelog as your plugin develops.  The new section looks like this:</p>
<pre name="code" class="css">

== Changelog ==

= 1.0 =
* A change since the previous version.
* Another change.

= 0.5 =
* List versions from most recent at top to oldest at bottom.
</pre>
<p>Which produces the follow style of display on the plugins page in Extend:</p>
<div id="attachment_91" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-91" src="http://westi.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/changelog-example.png?w=556&#038;h=420" alt="Example of the changelog output" width="556" height="420" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Example of the changelog output</p></div>
<p>And the information will also be displayed in a separate tab in the administration section of your WordPress blog by the plugin installer and updater:</p>
<div id="attachment_93" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-93" title="backend-changelog-example" src="http://westi.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/backend-changelog-example.png?w=700&#038;h=380" alt="The view of the changelog in the WordPress admin pages" width="700" height="380" /><p class="wp-caption-text">The view of the changelog in the WordPress administration pages</p></div>
<p>So please go forth and update your plugins readme.txt file and let your users benifit from the information about what has changed between versions.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/westi.wordpress.com/87/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/westi.wordpress.com/87/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/westi.wordpress.com/87/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/westi.wordpress.com/87/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/westi.wordpress.com/87/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/westi.wordpress.com/87/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/westi.wordpress.com/87/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/westi.wordpress.com/87/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/westi.wordpress.com/87/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/westi.wordpress.com/87/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westi.wordpress.com&blog=15396&post=87&subd=westi&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:04:59 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:14:"Peter Westwood";}s:7:"summary";s:4152:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changelog">Changelog</a> is a very important thing for a project and until recently it wasn&#8217;t easy to add one to your WordPress plugin hosted in <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/">Extend</a>.  Some plugin authors understood the benefit of providing there users with the information and were adding it in different places but it was not easy to track down where it was and it some cases your only hope was a trail of clicks across the web to the plugin Authors site to hunt down the post detailing what had changed in this version.</p>
<p>For me, a changelog is a very important thing it is all about justifying to your users why they should upgrade to the latest version of your plugin as well as reassuring them that the changes made have been made for specific reasons and helping them to understand the impact the changes may have on there usage of your plugin.</p>
<p>This has been a <a href="http://twitter.com/wptavern/status/2160882740">hot topic</a> of late and we were discussing it on last nights <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/wpweekly-episode-59-roundtable-featuring-peter-westwood">WP Weekly</a> podcast so I set off to see if I could track down the right person to get a change made to give all plugins a separate top level Changelog tab on there WordPress extend page.</p>
<p>This morning to my delight I found that a Changelog feature had been added and now we have a standardised way for plugins to add Changelogs.  Basically there is a new section in the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/readme.txt">readme.txt standard</a> which allows for you to document your changelog as your plugin develops.  The new section looks like this:</p>
<pre name="code" class="css">

== Changelog ==

= 1.0 =
* A change since the previous version.
* Another change.

= 0.5 =
* List versions from most recent at top to oldest at bottom.
</pre>
<p>Which produces the follow style of display on the plugins page in Extend:</p>
<div id="attachment_91" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-91" src="http://westi.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/changelog-example.png?w=556&#038;h=420" alt="Example of the changelog output" width="556" height="420" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Example of the changelog output</p></div>
<p>And the information will also be displayed in a separate tab in the administration section of your WordPress blog by the plugin installer and updater:</p>
<div id="attachment_93" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-93" title="backend-changelog-example" src="http://westi.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/backend-changelog-example.png?w=700&#038;h=380" alt="The view of the changelog in the WordPress admin pages" width="700" height="380" /><p class="wp-caption-text">The view of the changelog in the WordPress administration pages</p></div>
<p>So please go forth and update your plugins readme.txt file and let your users benifit from the information about what has changed between versions.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/westi.wordpress.com/87/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/westi.wordpress.com/87/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/westi.wordpress.com/87/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/westi.wordpress.com/87/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/westi.wordpress.com/87/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/westi.wordpress.com/87/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/westi.wordpress.com/87/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/westi.wordpress.com/87/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/westi.wordpress.com/87/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/westi.wordpress.com/87/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westi.wordpress.com&blog=15396&post=87&subd=westi&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:30;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:75:"Mark Jaquith: Public response to Chris Anderson’s “Free” on WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/?p=329";s:4:"link";s:97:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/public-response-to-chris-andersons-free-on-wordpress/";s:11:"description";s:3400:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>I got a tip that Chris Anderson&#8217;s upcoming book <em>Free</em> has the following to say about WordPress:</p>
<blockquote><p>2. Feature limited (Basic version free, more sophisticated version paid. This is the WordPress model.)</p>
<ul>
<li>Upside: Best way to maximize reach. When customers convert to paid, they&#8217;re doing it for the right reason (they understand the value of what they&#8217;re paying for) and are likely to be more loyal and less price sensitive.</li>
<li>Downside: Need to create two versions of the product. If you put too many features in the free version, not enough people will convert. If you put too few, not enough will use it long enough to convert.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>This is most assuredly <strong>not</strong> the WordPress model. Anyone and everyone can go to <a href="http://wordpress.org/">wordpress.org</a> and download a completely free, completely unrestricted, and completely feature-complete version of WordPress to run for any purpose. <strong>There is no feature limited version of WordPress.</strong></p>
<p>Chris might be getting confused by WordPress.com, which is a hosted WordPress solution (the biggest one, but certainly not the only one). It is true that WordPress.com charges money for certain features, such as CSS editing capabilities. But this is completely within the rights of Automattic, the company which operates the WordPress.com service. That one company is charging for certain aspects of a <strong>hosted WordPress solution</strong> does not change the fact that WordPress itself is free/open source software and has no monetization model and no tiered versioning system.</p>
<p>As we talked about at SXSW, Chris, it is WordPress <em>services</em> that are the &#8220;freemium&#8221; portion of WordPress. We give the software away, and thus create a vibrant market for third party WordPress services (this marketplace, to quote this blog&#8217;s quite literal catchphrase, puts food on my table).</p>
<p>Note that it would be correct to say that this is the <em>Movable Type</em> model, whereby Movable Type Pro and Movable Type Enterprise get features not available in the free/open source version of Movable Type.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/329/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/329/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/329/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/329/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/329/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/329/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/329/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/329/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/329/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/329/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=329&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:27:45 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Mark Jaquith";}s:7:"summary";s:3400:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>I got a tip that Chris Anderson&#8217;s upcoming book <em>Free</em> has the following to say about WordPress:</p>
<blockquote><p>2. Feature limited (Basic version free, more sophisticated version paid. This is the WordPress model.)</p>
<ul>
<li>Upside: Best way to maximize reach. When customers convert to paid, they&#8217;re doing it for the right reason (they understand the value of what they&#8217;re paying for) and are likely to be more loyal and less price sensitive.</li>
<li>Downside: Need to create two versions of the product. If you put too many features in the free version, not enough people will convert. If you put too few, not enough will use it long enough to convert.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>This is most assuredly <strong>not</strong> the WordPress model. Anyone and everyone can go to <a href="http://wordpress.org/">wordpress.org</a> and download a completely free, completely unrestricted, and completely feature-complete version of WordPress to run for any purpose. <strong>There is no feature limited version of WordPress.</strong></p>
<p>Chris might be getting confused by WordPress.com, which is a hosted WordPress solution (the biggest one, but certainly not the only one). It is true that WordPress.com charges money for certain features, such as CSS editing capabilities. But this is completely within the rights of Automattic, the company which operates the WordPress.com service. That one company is charging for certain aspects of a <strong>hosted WordPress solution</strong> does not change the fact that WordPress itself is free/open source software and has no monetization model and no tiered versioning system.</p>
<p>As we talked about at SXSW, Chris, it is WordPress <em>services</em> that are the &#8220;freemium&#8221; portion of WordPress. We give the software away, and thus create a vibrant market for third party WordPress services (this marketplace, to quote this blog&#8217;s quite literal catchphrase, puts food on my table).</p>
<p>Note that it would be correct to say that this is the <em>Movable Type</em> model, whereby Movable Type Pro and Movable Type Enterprise get features not available in the free/open source version of Movable Type.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/329/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/329/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/329/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/329/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/329/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/329/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/329/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/329/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/329/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/329/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=329&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:74:"Weblog Tools Collection: Does It Matter If I Use 1 Plugin Or 100s Of Them?";s:4:"guid";s:82:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/19/wordpress-plugins-usage-faqs/";s:4:"link";s:82:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/19/wordpress-plugins-usage-faqs/";s:11:"description";s:3241:"<p>One of my friends recently asked me a question whether using too many plugins made any difference on how his blog worked and performed, I thought it best to give that answer to a broader audience, so here goes.</p>
<h3>Does It Matter If You Use 1 or 100s of Plugins?</h3>
<p>The answer is yes, it does matter, each and every plugin you use has to be processed before an actual page is generated, so all the plugin files are compiled in order to get the intended output.</p>
<p>This may in the end not actually make a big difference in your blogs load time, however it may eventually slow it down a little bit.</p>
<h3>Do Plugins Add Overhead To Your Site?</h3>
<p>Yes at times they do add overhead to your site, for example quite recently I was using a plugin that added 180Kbs of JavaScript code to each and every page on the site, however that plugins functionality was only useful on a single page.</p>
<p>You should periodically check these things out as you may be unnecessarily increasing your page load times, if possible try and find an alternative or contact the plugin author to add an option to limit overheads to only those pages where the plugin functions.</p>
<h3>Should I Stop Using Too Many Plugins Then?</h3>
<p>Not exactly, like I said it does affect your blog load times and you might want to take a look at your plugins to see which of them are really useful and maybe remove some of them.</p>
<p>I usually change several things on the site quite often, and with that I stop using the functionality provided by certain plugins. I run a weekly or bi-weekly maintenance or spring cleaning of the blog, in which I take a look at all the active plugins and see whether I am using them or not, and disable those that I no longer use.</p>
<p>Many a times you will find that there are plugins that are unused and are still active, it is best to disable those plugins while you are not using them and enable them back whenever you need to use their functionality.</p>
<h3>What Type Of Plugins Should I Avoid?</h3>
<p>There is no real rule-of-thumb for me to say what to avoid and what to use, each plugin’s functionality is different and useful, however something that is useful to me may not be useful to someone else and vice versa.</p>
<p>However as a general rule, on a high traffic blog try and avoid plugins that make many database calls, since it may affect performance, it is ok to make around 10-20 queries per page, however anything more than that degrades performance and <em>may</em> crash the DB on high traffic sites.</p>
<h3>What Else? Tell Us Your Tips</h3>
<p>There may be several other things you might want to add, go ahead and tell us what you think should be ideal when it comes to using plugins, we would love to hear your opinions.</p>
<p>Also, I will be doing a follow up post addressing several things that have been left unanswered in this post, if you have any questions feel free to leave a comment, I will try and answer them in the follow up post.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/19/wordpress-plugins-usage-faqs/">Does It Matter If I Use 1 Plugin Or 100s Of Them?</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:40:45 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:3241:"<p>One of my friends recently asked me a question whether using too many plugins made any difference on how his blog worked and performed, I thought it best to give that answer to a broader audience, so here goes.</p>
<h3>Does It Matter If You Use 1 or 100s of Plugins?</h3>
<p>The answer is yes, it does matter, each and every plugin you use has to be processed before an actual page is generated, so all the plugin files are compiled in order to get the intended output.</p>
<p>This may in the end not actually make a big difference in your blogs load time, however it may eventually slow it down a little bit.</p>
<h3>Do Plugins Add Overhead To Your Site?</h3>
<p>Yes at times they do add overhead to your site, for example quite recently I was using a plugin that added 180Kbs of JavaScript code to each and every page on the site, however that plugins functionality was only useful on a single page.</p>
<p>You should periodically check these things out as you may be unnecessarily increasing your page load times, if possible try and find an alternative or contact the plugin author to add an option to limit overheads to only those pages where the plugin functions.</p>
<h3>Should I Stop Using Too Many Plugins Then?</h3>
<p>Not exactly, like I said it does affect your blog load times and you might want to take a look at your plugins to see which of them are really useful and maybe remove some of them.</p>
<p>I usually change several things on the site quite often, and with that I stop using the functionality provided by certain plugins. I run a weekly or bi-weekly maintenance or spring cleaning of the blog, in which I take a look at all the active plugins and see whether I am using them or not, and disable those that I no longer use.</p>
<p>Many a times you will find that there are plugins that are unused and are still active, it is best to disable those plugins while you are not using them and enable them back whenever you need to use their functionality.</p>
<h3>What Type Of Plugins Should I Avoid?</h3>
<p>There is no real rule-of-thumb for me to say what to avoid and what to use, each plugin’s functionality is different and useful, however something that is useful to me may not be useful to someone else and vice versa.</p>
<p>However as a general rule, on a high traffic blog try and avoid plugins that make many database calls, since it may affect performance, it is ok to make around 10-20 queries per page, however anything more than that degrades performance and <em>may</em> crash the DB on high traffic sites.</p>
<h3>What Else? Tell Us Your Tips</h3>
<p>There may be several other things you might want to add, go ahead and tell us what you think should be ideal when it comes to using plugins, we would love to hear your opinions.</p>
<p>Also, I will be doing a follow up post addressing several things that have been left unanswered in this post, if you have any questions feel free to leave a comment, I will try and answer them in the follow up post.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/19/wordpress-plugins-usage-faqs/">Does It Matter If I Use 1 Plugin Or 100s Of Them?</a></p>";}i:32;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:31:"Matt: The Way I Work, annotated";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=14322";s:4:"link";s:46:"http://ma.tt/2009/06/the-way-i-work-annotated/";s:11:"description";s:14683:"<p><a href="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/06/pna.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-14327" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/06/pna-400x300.jpg" alt="pna" width="400" height="300" /></a> <em>I was fortunate enough to be featured in the July issue of </em><em>Inc. magazine’s &#8220;The Way I Work&#8221; column. (Page 114, the one with <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/">Paul Graham</a> on the cover.) The article is great and the photography very flattering, but it&#8217;s a little misleading. All <abbr title="The Way I Work">TWIW</abbr> articles are written in the first person, but not directly authored by the subjects, and we’re not allowed to see them before they&#8217;re published. These bizarre rules have some unexpected outcomes, and I&#8217;ve taken the liberty of rewriting the article in my own words and with lots of extra links. (<a href="http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090601/the-way-i-work-matt-mullenweg.html">You can read the original here</a>.)</em></p>
<p>On a good morning there&#8217;s no alarm clock. I wake up with the sun and do my best to resist the instinctive urge to look at the computer or check email for at least an hour.</p>
<p>My vice of choice isn&#8217;t coffee, but <a href="http://ma.tt/2009/03/hoi-an/mcm_2095/">the Kindle</a>. Its electronic shelves are filled mostly with the business books  I read in order to grow up to be a <a href="http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/06/23/this-is-serious-business/">real businessman</a> (before someone figures out I&#8217;m not). At any point in time I have about 120 books downloaded. Interspersed between <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drucker">Drucker</a>, <a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/">Godin</a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Snowball-Warren-Buffett-Business-Life/dp/0553805096">Buffett</a> are classics <a href="http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/04/24/on-the-shortness-of-life-an-introduction-to-seneca">like Seneca</a>, which I wish I could read more often but only get to a few times a year.</p>
<p><a href="http://automattic.com/">Automattic</a>, the holding company behind <a href="http://wordpress.com/">WordPress.com</a>, finally got an office late last year at Pier 38, a <a href="http://ma.tt/2009/03/wordpress-party-pictures/mcm_4054-3/">beautiful open-floorplan space</a> right <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/niallkennedy/3400378403/">on the Embarcadero</a>. It’s about a five-minute walk from my apartment, but my preference is to work from home. We&#8217;re very much a virtual company where everyone primarily works from home (or their coffee shop of choice). The half dozen of us in the Bay Area will go in on Thursdays to have a little company, but six days out of the week the space is usually empty. <a href="http://ma.tt/2009/03/wordpress-party-pictures/">But we throw some great parties there</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://ma.tt/2009/05/how-p2-changed-automattic/">The team communicates mostly via P2</a>, something a little like Twitter but password-protected, with real-time updates and threaded inline conversations. P2 is almost like a chat channel, but structured like a blog, and we&#8217;ve evolved to have almost a dozen across the 40 people at Automattic – serving a variety of purposes. We fill any gaps in communication by IRC, Skype, and, in a pinch, <a href="http://www.mozillamessaging.com/thunderbird/">email</a>.</p>
<p>In my home office there are two 30-inch monitors &#8212; a <a href="http://www.apple.com/macmini/">Mac</a> and a PC. They share the same mouse and keyboard <a href="http://synergy2.sourceforge.net">using Synergy</a> so I can copy and paste between them. The Mac is mostly used for email and <a href="http://adium.im/">chat</a>, while web stuff and coding happen on the PC. <a href="http://ma.tt/2003/08/on-the-dvorak-keyboard-layout/">The keyboard is, of course, Dvorak</a>, a more efficient keyboard layout that I switched to 10 years ago. I also have a<a href="http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-16668-Sony+Vaio+Z+Series+(Z90)+Unboxing.html"> Sony Z90 laptop</a> with me all the time, whether I&#8217;m going overseas or just to the doctor&#8217;s office. I&#8217;m pretty rough on laptops, sometimes going through two a year. At home I like to <a href="http://www.qnap.com/">geek out with home servers</a> and networking, and sometimes find myself doing IT support for family, friends, and colleagues.</p>
<p>One of my favorite programs that we didn&#8217;t make is <a href="http://www.rescuetime.com/">RescueTime</a>. Hackers all know that you have to <a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ProfileBeforeOptimizing">profile before you can optimize</a>, and RescueTime runs in the trap of my computers and tracks how much time I spend on different things, sometimes with surprising results. My biggest time-suck is email, and to help out I wrote a WordPress plugin that filters people into folders based on their email address and priority settings which helps keep my inbox relatively clean. <a href="http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/">Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Work Week</a>, advocates checking email only twice a week but that&#8217;s too severe for me. I&#8217;m currently trying <a href="http://thepowerofless.com/">Leo Babauta&#8217;s approach from The Power of Less</a>, which suggests small steps like checking email five set times a day instead of constantly. It&#8217;s like dieting: People who binge diet gain it all back. That happens to me with email.</p>
<p>Music is my muse and I listen to it all day. There&#8217;s a lot of jazz &#8212; Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins &#8212; but I’m also a big fan of Jay-Z, Beyoncé, and Method Man. I have an analog <a href="http://www.shindo-laboratory.co.jp">Shindo stereo</a> that was hand built in Japan and the aural experience is mind-blowing. When you&#8217;re coding you really have to be in the zone so I&#8217;ll listen to a single song over and over on repeat, hundreds of times. It helps me focus. The other best way to <a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html">focus</a> is to turn off email and instant messenger. The moment that little toaster pops up and says &#8220;you&#8217;ve got mail&#8221; you&#8217;re taken out of the flow. You&#8217;re juggling variables and functions and layouts and the moment you look away it all falls to the ground &#8212; <a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000068.html">it takes you 10 minutes getting it back in the air again</a>.</p>
<p>A big part of my job is to manage the support, usability, and product development people who are scattered all over the globe, <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=113869743175067729104.00000112d8fd60502d894&amp;ll=13.239945,-52.734375&amp;spn=166.689576,360&amp;z=1&amp;om=1">from Alabama to Ireland to Bulgaria</a>. My management strategy is <a href="http://automattic.com/jobs/">centered on hiring</a>: find extremely self-motivated and curious people and then give them the autonomy to succeed. There&#8217;s no manager looking over anybody&#8217;s shoulder, so everyone needs to be self-directed. For every person we hire there are hundreds of applications. We always start people on a contract basis first; <a href="http://automattic.com/about/how-we-work/">that way we mutually understand what it&#8217;s like to work with each other</a>. One of the most important things I look for in résumés is a history of contributing to <a href="http://opensource.org/">Open Source projects</a>, because I know these people will understand our ethos.</p>
<p>For four years I was the only developer on <a href="http://akismet.com/">Akismet, our anti-spam service</a>. It started because my mom had wanted to start a blog but I was scared she&#8217;d be bombarded by spam for Viagra and worse, think that&#8217;s what I looked at all day. We finally added a second engineer to the project at the end of 2008, which was weird for me but was necessary for growth, especially as I&#8217;m pulled in more and more directions.</p>
<p>I go out for lunch whenever I can, which fits well with my preference for no meetings before 11 AM. There&#8217;s something very personal about sharing food with someone; it&#8217;s a deeper connection than shaking hands in a boardroom. Often when I&#8217;m in town I&#8217;ll have lunch with <a href="http://toni.org/">Toni Schneider, my CEO</a>. He and I get along super well which is one of the reasons I think the business has worked. He brings gravitas because he&#8217;s a digital native but also has great startup experience including being the CEO of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oddpost">Oddpost</a>, a webmail company <a href="http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-acquires-Oddpost-to-bolster-e-mail/2100-1038_3-5266019.html">Yahoo acquired in 2004</a>. Sometimes we&#8217;ll go to lunch at 12:30 and stay until 5.</p>
<p>In general, I&#8217;m pretty darn disorganized, late as often as not, and really bad at keeping a schedule. My PA is now focusing on office and event tasks so I&#8217;m in the market for someone new. <a href="http://www.dopplr.com/traveller/photomatt">Last year I was on the road 212 days and clocked 175,000 miles</a>, which is seven times around the globe (according to Dopplr, a great travel journal I use). The bulk of my travel is to <a href="http://wordcamp.org/">WordCamps, which are educational and networking events that celebrate blogging</a>. Automattic held our first annual WordCamp in San Francisco in 2006, thrown together just a few weeks before the event happened. Now they&#8217;ve exploded all over the world and I&#8217;ve been to over 30 community-organized events from <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/">South Africa</a> to the Philippines. I say they&#8217;re a great bargain: a full day of quality speakers, BBQ lunch, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/naokomc/3604736422/">a cool t-shirt</a>, and a party for $25. We just wrapped the <a href="http://2009.sf.wordcamp.org/">largest WordCamp ever</a> here in San Francisco with over 700 people.  Though I’d love to, if I went to every WordCamp I wouldn&#8217;t have any time to actually build WordPress, so I&#8217;m cutting back and trying to go to every other one. They are great fun, though; it&#8217;s a chance to be a rockstar for a day. In the Philippines after the conference was done I stayed almost two hours afterward taking pictures and autographing badges and laptops. I&#8217;ve even been asked to sign body parts. Really.</p>
<p>To document my experiences when I travel I use my Nikon D3 camera. <a href="http://ma.tt/category/gallery/">My photos are autobiographical</a> &#8212; my memory is so bad (and the travel pretty grueling) that I&#8217;ll forget everything about a trip, and the photos help trigger my memories. On the plane ride home I&#8217;ll process and edit the photos as a narrative of each day, a visual diary. On my <a href="http://ma.tt/category/gallery/?s=vietnam">trip to Vietnam last February I took 2-3 thousand photos</a>. I’ve heard that the difference between an amateur photographer and a pro is that the amateur shows you everything they shoot. I&#8217;m somewhere in between &#8212; I&#8217;ll post maybe a quarter of what I take.</p>
<p>I used to think constantly about building an audience for my blog but now my attitude is that if I&#8217;m not blogging for myself it&#8217;s not worth it. I don&#8217;t force myself to post once a day, I just do it when it feels natural. Sometimes people complain &#8212; &#8220;Write more about WordPress; we don&#8217;t want to see photos of kids in Vietnam&#8221; &#8212; but I don’t really care. For my 25th birthday in January I published a list of 2009 goals on my blog. It included learning Spanish, learning how to cook, and posting 10,000 photos. Cooking has been a total fail so far; I go out for every meal. If you open my refrigerator you&#8217;ll find Girl Scout cookies and barbecue sauce. Photos are blazing along, half-way through the year and I&#8217;ve taken 20,000 photos and posted about 4,000 of them.</p>
<p>My blog is fortunate enough to get lot of comments and I read and manually approve each one. I think the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixing_Broken_Windows">broken windows theory</a> &#8212; a broken window or graffiti in a neighborhood begets more of the same &#8212; applies online. I&#8217;ll happily approve a comment from someone who completely disagrees with everything I believe in, but if I get a positive comment with a curse word in it I&#8217;ll edit it out. My blog is like my living room: If someone was acting out in my house, I&#8217;d ask that person to leave.<br />
I look at our numbers every day, usually after 5 PM PST when GMT goes into a new day. We have an internal dashboard where we track 500 to 600 statistics about everything from how often people are logging in to WordPress.com to how many words they&#8217;re pressing per day. Almost all of the numbers are real-time.</p>
<p>I do my best work mid-morning and super late at night, from one to five in the morning. Some people don&#8217;t need sleep, but I actually need a ton. I just sleep all the time, catching naps in the afternoon or a 20-minute snooze in the office. Our business is 24 hours &#8212; folks in Australia start their day around 4 PM my time and our guys and girls in Europe get going around midnight. Sometimes I&#8217;ll go out at night, come home from the bar at 2 or 3 AM, and then go back to work.</p>
<p>For WordPress we&#8217;re trying to set up a community that will be around 10 to 30 years from now, one that&#8217;s independent from the whims of the market. My role is somewhat like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds">Linus</a> for Linux or <a href="http://www.markshuttleworth.com/">Shuttleworth</a> for Ubuntu, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_Dictator_For_Life">affectionately referred to as BDFL</a>, and it&#8217;s my responsibility to meet as many users as possible and direct the software in a way that reflects their interest. Last year I probably met 5,000 or 6,000 WordPress users, about half of them who make their living from it. We want to be like Google, eBay, Amazon &#8212; they all enable other people to make far more money than the company captures. That&#8217;s ultimately what we&#8217;re trying to do, we&#8217;re trying to create a movement.</p>
<p>My Mom started a blog a couple of months ago. Six years into this, and we finally made it easy enough for my Mom to use. (She hates it when I say that.)</p>
<p><em>If you ask questions in the comments, I&#8217;ll do my best to answer them.</em></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:13:43 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:14683:"<p><a href="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/06/pna.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-14327" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/06/pna-400x300.jpg" alt="pna" width="400" height="300" /></a> <em>I was fortunate enough to be featured in the July issue of </em><em>Inc. magazine’s &#8220;The Way I Work&#8221; column. (Page 114, the one with <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/">Paul Graham</a> on the cover.) The article is great and the photography very flattering, but it&#8217;s a little misleading. All <abbr title="The Way I Work">TWIW</abbr> articles are written in the first person, but not directly authored by the subjects, and we’re not allowed to see them before they&#8217;re published. These bizarre rules have some unexpected outcomes, and I&#8217;ve taken the liberty of rewriting the article in my own words and with lots of extra links. (<a href="http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090601/the-way-i-work-matt-mullenweg.html">You can read the original here</a>.)</em></p>
<p>On a good morning there&#8217;s no alarm clock. I wake up with the sun and do my best to resist the instinctive urge to look at the computer or check email for at least an hour.</p>
<p>My vice of choice isn&#8217;t coffee, but <a href="http://ma.tt/2009/03/hoi-an/mcm_2095/">the Kindle</a>. Its electronic shelves are filled mostly with the business books  I read in order to grow up to be a <a href="http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/06/23/this-is-serious-business/">real businessman</a> (before someone figures out I&#8217;m not). At any point in time I have about 120 books downloaded. Interspersed between <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drucker">Drucker</a>, <a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/">Godin</a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Snowball-Warren-Buffett-Business-Life/dp/0553805096">Buffett</a> are classics <a href="http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/04/24/on-the-shortness-of-life-an-introduction-to-seneca">like Seneca</a>, which I wish I could read more often but only get to a few times a year.</p>
<p><a href="http://automattic.com/">Automattic</a>, the holding company behind <a href="http://wordpress.com/">WordPress.com</a>, finally got an office late last year at Pier 38, a <a href="http://ma.tt/2009/03/wordpress-party-pictures/mcm_4054-3/">beautiful open-floorplan space</a> right <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/niallkennedy/3400378403/">on the Embarcadero</a>. It’s about a five-minute walk from my apartment, but my preference is to work from home. We&#8217;re very much a virtual company where everyone primarily works from home (or their coffee shop of choice). The half dozen of us in the Bay Area will go in on Thursdays to have a little company, but six days out of the week the space is usually empty. <a href="http://ma.tt/2009/03/wordpress-party-pictures/">But we throw some great parties there</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://ma.tt/2009/05/how-p2-changed-automattic/">The team communicates mostly via P2</a>, something a little like Twitter but password-protected, with real-time updates and threaded inline conversations. P2 is almost like a chat channel, but structured like a blog, and we&#8217;ve evolved to have almost a dozen across the 40 people at Automattic – serving a variety of purposes. We fill any gaps in communication by IRC, Skype, and, in a pinch, <a href="http://www.mozillamessaging.com/thunderbird/">email</a>.</p>
<p>In my home office there are two 30-inch monitors &#8212; a <a href="http://www.apple.com/macmini/">Mac</a> and a PC. They share the same mouse and keyboard <a href="http://synergy2.sourceforge.net">using Synergy</a> so I can copy and paste between them. The Mac is mostly used for email and <a href="http://adium.im/">chat</a>, while web stuff and coding happen on the PC. <a href="http://ma.tt/2003/08/on-the-dvorak-keyboard-layout/">The keyboard is, of course, Dvorak</a>, a more efficient keyboard layout that I switched to 10 years ago. I also have a<a href="http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-16668-Sony+Vaio+Z+Series+(Z90)+Unboxing.html"> Sony Z90 laptop</a> with me all the time, whether I&#8217;m going overseas or just to the doctor&#8217;s office. I&#8217;m pretty rough on laptops, sometimes going through two a year. At home I like to <a href="http://www.qnap.com/">geek out with home servers</a> and networking, and sometimes find myself doing IT support for family, friends, and colleagues.</p>
<p>One of my favorite programs that we didn&#8217;t make is <a href="http://www.rescuetime.com/">RescueTime</a>. Hackers all know that you have to <a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ProfileBeforeOptimizing">profile before you can optimize</a>, and RescueTime runs in the trap of my computers and tracks how much time I spend on different things, sometimes with surprising results. My biggest time-suck is email, and to help out I wrote a WordPress plugin that filters people into folders based on their email address and priority settings which helps keep my inbox relatively clean. <a href="http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/">Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Work Week</a>, advocates checking email only twice a week but that&#8217;s too severe for me. I&#8217;m currently trying <a href="http://thepowerofless.com/">Leo Babauta&#8217;s approach from The Power of Less</a>, which suggests small steps like checking email five set times a day instead of constantly. It&#8217;s like dieting: People who binge diet gain it all back. That happens to me with email.</p>
<p>Music is my muse and I listen to it all day. There&#8217;s a lot of jazz &#8212; Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins &#8212; but I’m also a big fan of Jay-Z, Beyoncé, and Method Man. I have an analog <a href="http://www.shindo-laboratory.co.jp">Shindo stereo</a> that was hand built in Japan and the aural experience is mind-blowing. When you&#8217;re coding you really have to be in the zone so I&#8217;ll listen to a single song over and over on repeat, hundreds of times. It helps me focus. The other best way to <a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html">focus</a> is to turn off email and instant messenger. The moment that little toaster pops up and says &#8220;you&#8217;ve got mail&#8221; you&#8217;re taken out of the flow. You&#8217;re juggling variables and functions and layouts and the moment you look away it all falls to the ground &#8212; <a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000068.html">it takes you 10 minutes getting it back in the air again</a>.</p>
<p>A big part of my job is to manage the support, usability, and product development people who are scattered all over the globe, <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=113869743175067729104.00000112d8fd60502d894&amp;ll=13.239945,-52.734375&amp;spn=166.689576,360&amp;z=1&amp;om=1">from Alabama to Ireland to Bulgaria</a>. My management strategy is <a href="http://automattic.com/jobs/">centered on hiring</a>: find extremely self-motivated and curious people and then give them the autonomy to succeed. There&#8217;s no manager looking over anybody&#8217;s shoulder, so everyone needs to be self-directed. For every person we hire there are hundreds of applications. We always start people on a contract basis first; <a href="http://automattic.com/about/how-we-work/">that way we mutually understand what it&#8217;s like to work with each other</a>. One of the most important things I look for in résumés is a history of contributing to <a href="http://opensource.org/">Open Source projects</a>, because I know these people will understand our ethos.</p>
<p>For four years I was the only developer on <a href="http://akismet.com/">Akismet, our anti-spam service</a>. It started because my mom had wanted to start a blog but I was scared she&#8217;d be bombarded by spam for Viagra and worse, think that&#8217;s what I looked at all day. We finally added a second engineer to the project at the end of 2008, which was weird for me but was necessary for growth, especially as I&#8217;m pulled in more and more directions.</p>
<p>I go out for lunch whenever I can, which fits well with my preference for no meetings before 11 AM. There&#8217;s something very personal about sharing food with someone; it&#8217;s a deeper connection than shaking hands in a boardroom. Often when I&#8217;m in town I&#8217;ll have lunch with <a href="http://toni.org/">Toni Schneider, my CEO</a>. He and I get along super well which is one of the reasons I think the business has worked. He brings gravitas because he&#8217;s a digital native but also has great startup experience including being the CEO of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oddpost">Oddpost</a>, a webmail company <a href="http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-acquires-Oddpost-to-bolster-e-mail/2100-1038_3-5266019.html">Yahoo acquired in 2004</a>. Sometimes we&#8217;ll go to lunch at 12:30 and stay until 5.</p>
<p>In general, I&#8217;m pretty darn disorganized, late as often as not, and really bad at keeping a schedule. My PA is now focusing on office and event tasks so I&#8217;m in the market for someone new. <a href="http://www.dopplr.com/traveller/photomatt">Last year I was on the road 212 days and clocked 175,000 miles</a>, which is seven times around the globe (according to Dopplr, a great travel journal I use). The bulk of my travel is to <a href="http://wordcamp.org/">WordCamps, which are educational and networking events that celebrate blogging</a>. Automattic held our first annual WordCamp in San Francisco in 2006, thrown together just a few weeks before the event happened. Now they&#8217;ve exploded all over the world and I&#8217;ve been to over 30 community-organized events from <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/08/wordcamp-south-africa-photos/">South Africa</a> to the Philippines. I say they&#8217;re a great bargain: a full day of quality speakers, BBQ lunch, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/naokomc/3604736422/">a cool t-shirt</a>, and a party for $25. We just wrapped the <a href="http://2009.sf.wordcamp.org/">largest WordCamp ever</a> here in San Francisco with over 700 people.  Though I’d love to, if I went to every WordCamp I wouldn&#8217;t have any time to actually build WordPress, so I&#8217;m cutting back and trying to go to every other one. They are great fun, though; it&#8217;s a chance to be a rockstar for a day. In the Philippines after the conference was done I stayed almost two hours afterward taking pictures and autographing badges and laptops. I&#8217;ve even been asked to sign body parts. Really.</p>
<p>To document my experiences when I travel I use my Nikon D3 camera. <a href="http://ma.tt/category/gallery/">My photos are autobiographical</a> &#8212; my memory is so bad (and the travel pretty grueling) that I&#8217;ll forget everything about a trip, and the photos help trigger my memories. On the plane ride home I&#8217;ll process and edit the photos as a narrative of each day, a visual diary. On my <a href="http://ma.tt/category/gallery/?s=vietnam">trip to Vietnam last February I took 2-3 thousand photos</a>. I’ve heard that the difference between an amateur photographer and a pro is that the amateur shows you everything they shoot. I&#8217;m somewhere in between &#8212; I&#8217;ll post maybe a quarter of what I take.</p>
<p>I used to think constantly about building an audience for my blog but now my attitude is that if I&#8217;m not blogging for myself it&#8217;s not worth it. I don&#8217;t force myself to post once a day, I just do it when it feels natural. Sometimes people complain &#8212; &#8220;Write more about WordPress; we don&#8217;t want to see photos of kids in Vietnam&#8221; &#8212; but I don’t really care. For my 25th birthday in January I published a list of 2009 goals on my blog. It included learning Spanish, learning how to cook, and posting 10,000 photos. Cooking has been a total fail so far; I go out for every meal. If you open my refrigerator you&#8217;ll find Girl Scout cookies and barbecue sauce. Photos are blazing along, half-way through the year and I&#8217;ve taken 20,000 photos and posted about 4,000 of them.</p>
<p>My blog is fortunate enough to get lot of comments and I read and manually approve each one. I think the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixing_Broken_Windows">broken windows theory</a> &#8212; a broken window or graffiti in a neighborhood begets more of the same &#8212; applies online. I&#8217;ll happily approve a comment from someone who completely disagrees with everything I believe in, but if I get a positive comment with a curse word in it I&#8217;ll edit it out. My blog is like my living room: If someone was acting out in my house, I&#8217;d ask that person to leave.<br />
I look at our numbers every day, usually after 5 PM PST when GMT goes into a new day. We have an internal dashboard where we track 500 to 600 statistics about everything from how often people are logging in to WordPress.com to how many words they&#8217;re pressing per day. Almost all of the numbers are real-time.</p>
<p>I do my best work mid-morning and super late at night, from one to five in the morning. Some people don&#8217;t need sleep, but I actually need a ton. I just sleep all the time, catching naps in the afternoon or a 20-minute snooze in the office. Our business is 24 hours &#8212; folks in Australia start their day around 4 PM my time and our guys and girls in Europe get going around midnight. Sometimes I&#8217;ll go out at night, come home from the bar at 2 or 3 AM, and then go back to work.</p>
<p>For WordPress we&#8217;re trying to set up a community that will be around 10 to 30 years from now, one that&#8217;s independent from the whims of the market. My role is somewhat like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds">Linus</a> for Linux or <a href="http://www.markshuttleworth.com/">Shuttleworth</a> for Ubuntu, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_Dictator_For_Life">affectionately referred to as BDFL</a>, and it&#8217;s my responsibility to meet as many users as possible and direct the software in a way that reflects their interest. Last year I probably met 5,000 or 6,000 WordPress users, about half of them who make their living from it. We want to be like Google, eBay, Amazon &#8212; they all enable other people to make far more money than the company captures. That&#8217;s ultimately what we&#8217;re trying to do, we&#8217;re trying to create a movement.</p>
<p>My Mom started a blog a couple of months ago. Six years into this, and we finally made it easy enough for my Mom to use. (She hates it when I say that.)</p>
<p><em>If you ask questions in the comments, I&#8217;ll do my best to answer them.</em></p>";}i:33;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:34:"Donncha: Go Mobile with Supercache";s:4:"guid";s:29:"http://ocaoimh.ie/?p=89494989";s:4:"link";s:44:"http://ocaoimh.ie/go-mobile-with-supercache/";s:11:"description";s:3669:"<p>I&#8217;ll be honest, I don&#8217;t have much experience with mobile content. I&#8217;ve rarely browsed the net on a mobile device. I don&#8217;t have an iPhone and don&#8217;t intend buying one but lots of people do use mobile devices to browse online.</p>
<p>With that in mind, and after some pestering by <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5wcmVsb3ZhYy5jb20v">Vladimir</a> I modified <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvd3Atc3VwZXItY2FjaGUv">WP Super Cache</a> so it will support mobile devices <em>and</em> operate in full super caching mode!</p>
<p>The plugin now filters out requests from the most common mobile user agents and serves those requests in &#8220;half on&#8221; WP-Cache mode while serving the rest of your visitors static html files. As I&#8217;ve said many times before, the speed differences between both modes is negligible for normal traffic but it&#8217;s a nice safety net in case your site is inundated.</p>
<p>Only thing is, I want people to test it first before making a final release. Grab the development version from <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3dvcmRwcmVzcy5vcmcvZXh0ZW5kL3BsdWdpbnMvd3Atc3VwZXItY2FjaGUvZG93bmxvYWQv">the download page</a> and give it a whirl.<br />
Your mod_rewrite rules in the .htaccess file have to be updated but if you delete the &#8220;WPSuperCache&#8221; rules they can be regenerated by the plugin next time you load the admin page.<br />
There are also a number of other bugfixes and enhancements too so check out the <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3N2bi53cC1wbHVnaW5zLm9yZy93cC1zdXBlci1jYWNoZS90cnVuay9DaGFuZ2Vsb2cudHh0">Changelog.txt</a> for more details.</p>
<p>I use <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3dvcmRwcmVzcy5vcmcvZXh0ZW5kL3BsdWdpbnMvd29yZHByZXNzLW1vYmlsZS1lZGl0aW9uLw==">WordPress Mobile Edition</a> here and last Sunday I noticed an extra 10,000 requests from Google using odd looking &#8220;mobile useragents&#8221; like this one:<br />
<blockquote>SAMSUNG-SGH-E250/1.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 UP.Browser/6.2.3.3.c.1.101 (GUI) MMP/2.0 (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)</p></blockquote>
<p>The actual mobile device changed but the Google bit stayed the same and all requests came from 66.249.71.2<br />
Eventually I figured out that Google was adding my site to the &#8220;mobile&#8221; section of their index. Presumably to be served from <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5nb29nbGUuY29tL20=">here</a>. Cool, another way of getting to my site.</p>
<p>PS. the development version also has a small modification to make it go faster by not checking file modification time on each request. This could help on really busy servers.</p>
<p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvbW9iaWxlLWdhbWluZy1mb3ItYWwv" rel="">Mobile gaming for all ages! &#8230;</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvdGhlLXR3by1pcmlzaC1tb2JpbGUv" rel="">The two Irish mobile phone com &#8230;</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvZ2V0dGluZy1jaGVhcC1jYWxscy1pbi1pcmVsYW5kLw==" rel="">Getting cheap calls in Ireland</a></li></ul></p> <img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?view=1&post_id=89494989" width="1" height="1" />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:57:42 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Donncha";}s:7:"summary";s:3669:"<p>I&#8217;ll be honest, I don&#8217;t have much experience with mobile content. I&#8217;ve rarely browsed the net on a mobile device. I don&#8217;t have an iPhone and don&#8217;t intend buying one but lots of people do use mobile devices to browse online.</p>
<p>With that in mind, and after some pestering by <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5wcmVsb3ZhYy5jb20v">Vladimir</a> I modified <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvd3Atc3VwZXItY2FjaGUv">WP Super Cache</a> so it will support mobile devices <em>and</em> operate in full super caching mode!</p>
<p>The plugin now filters out requests from the most common mobile user agents and serves those requests in &#8220;half on&#8221; WP-Cache mode while serving the rest of your visitors static html files. As I&#8217;ve said many times before, the speed differences between both modes is negligible for normal traffic but it&#8217;s a nice safety net in case your site is inundated.</p>
<p>Only thing is, I want people to test it first before making a final release. Grab the development version from <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3dvcmRwcmVzcy5vcmcvZXh0ZW5kL3BsdWdpbnMvd3Atc3VwZXItY2FjaGUvZG93bmxvYWQv">the download page</a> and give it a whirl.<br />
Your mod_rewrite rules in the .htaccess file have to be updated but if you delete the &#8220;WPSuperCache&#8221; rules they can be regenerated by the plugin next time you load the admin page.<br />
There are also a number of other bugfixes and enhancements too so check out the <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3N2bi53cC1wbHVnaW5zLm9yZy93cC1zdXBlci1jYWNoZS90cnVuay9DaGFuZ2Vsb2cudHh0">Changelog.txt</a> for more details.</p>
<p>I use <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3dvcmRwcmVzcy5vcmcvZXh0ZW5kL3BsdWdpbnMvd29yZHByZXNzLW1vYmlsZS1lZGl0aW9uLw==">WordPress Mobile Edition</a> here and last Sunday I noticed an extra 10,000 requests from Google using odd looking &#8220;mobile useragents&#8221; like this one:<br />
<blockquote>SAMSUNG-SGH-E250/1.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 UP.Browser/6.2.3.3.c.1.101 (GUI) MMP/2.0 (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)</p></blockquote>
<p>The actual mobile device changed but the Google bit stayed the same and all requests came from 66.249.71.2<br />
Eventually I figured out that Google was adding my site to the &#8220;mobile&#8221; section of their index. Presumably to be served from <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5nb29nbGUuY29tL20=">here</a>. Cool, another way of getting to my site.</p>
<p>PS. the development version also has a small modification to make it go faster by not checking file modification time on each request. This could help on really busy servers.</p>
<p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvbW9iaWxlLWdhbWluZy1mb3ItYWwv" rel="">Mobile gaming for all ages! &#8230;</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvdGhlLXR3by1pcmlzaC1tb2JpbGUv" rel="">The two Irish mobile phone com &#8230;</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvZ2V0dGluZy1jaGVhcC1jYWxscy1pbi1pcmVsYW5kLw==" rel="">Getting cheap calls in Ireland</a></li></ul></p> <img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?view=1&post_id=89494989" width="1" height="1" />";}i:34;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:72:"Weblog Tools Collection: How Has WordPress Changed Your {Blogging} Life?";s:4:"guid";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/18/how-has-wordpress-changed-blogging/";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/18/how-has-wordpress-changed-blogging/";s:11:"description";s:2130:"<p>WordPress has had a huge role to play in how we blog and how we let our thoughts out to the world in a matter of few seconds (with Quick Press) or minutes, however WordPress has definitely changed the way I look at blogging.</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/51/194422321_255ef04efb_o.jpg" width="267" height="384" /> </p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/51/194422321_255ef04efb_o.jpg" target="_blank"><font size="1">Image Credit</font></a></p>
<p>Not only is it very easy now, but it also has so many features in itself and those provided by plugins that make it even better, not to forget you can also decide how your blog looks by choosing from 1000s of free themes and customizing them without problems.</p>
<p>I have been using WordPress for almost 3 years now, and I definitely think it has changed the way I look at blogging, and has made it much more easier than ever, before WordPress I used Joomla for 6 months, however I definitely think switching to WordPress has changed everything for good.</p>
<p>The thing about WordPress that has changed my blogging life is that I can write and post my thoughts from practically anywhere and that makes my life much more easier when it comes to blogging, of course there are several other things that I love WordPress for, however this is the defining one for me.</p>
<p>What is that something in the WordPress platform that has made you change how you blog, you could be a new WordPress user or may have switched from a different platform, however everyone has something about WordPress that make them use it, what is yours?</p>
<p>It could be one thing, it could be ten, we would love to know them, use the comments form, write a blog post about it and tell the world how WordPress has changed your {blogging} life, don’t forget to tell us too through your comments.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/18/how-has-wordpress-changed-blogging/">How Has WordPress Changed Your {Blogging} Life?</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:34:08 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:2130:"<p>WordPress has had a huge role to play in how we blog and how we let our thoughts out to the world in a matter of few seconds (with Quick Press) or minutes, however WordPress has definitely changed the way I look at blogging.</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/51/194422321_255ef04efb_o.jpg" width="267" height="384" /> </p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/51/194422321_255ef04efb_o.jpg" target="_blank"><font size="1">Image Credit</font></a></p>
<p>Not only is it very easy now, but it also has so many features in itself and those provided by plugins that make it even better, not to forget you can also decide how your blog looks by choosing from 1000s of free themes and customizing them without problems.</p>
<p>I have been using WordPress for almost 3 years now, and I definitely think it has changed the way I look at blogging, and has made it much more easier than ever, before WordPress I used Joomla for 6 months, however I definitely think switching to WordPress has changed everything for good.</p>
<p>The thing about WordPress that has changed my blogging life is that I can write and post my thoughts from practically anywhere and that makes my life much more easier when it comes to blogging, of course there are several other things that I love WordPress for, however this is the defining one for me.</p>
<p>What is that something in the WordPress platform that has made you change how you blog, you could be a new WordPress user or may have switched from a different platform, however everyone has something about WordPress that make them use it, what is yours?</p>
<p>It could be one thing, it could be ten, we would love to know them, use the comments form, write a blog post about it and tell the world how WordPress has changed your {blogging} life, don’t forget to tell us too through your comments.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/18/how-has-wordpress-changed-blogging/">How Has WordPress Changed Your {Blogging} Life?</a></p>";}i:35;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:38:"Andy Skelton: Help test Stats 1.5 beta";s:4:"guid";s:32:"http://andy.wordpress.com/?p=259";s:4:"link";s:62:"http://andy.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/help-test-stats-1-5-beta/";s:11:"description";s:3995:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>At first we thought it was a good idea to use iframes to display reports in the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/">Stats plugin</a>. We&#8217;ve seen since then a lot of problems with browsers and cookies. To help resolve these issues, and in anticipation of future features, I am updating the plugin and the WordPress.com stats reporting system to remove the iframes. I just posted <a href="http://svn.wp-plugins.org/stats/trunk/stats.php">1.5 beta 1</a>. If you host your own WordPress 2.7+ blog and you use the Stats plugin, why not contribute to its development by installing this testing version? Anyone can download the beta but I don&#8217;t recommend it unless you are able to cope with potentially unstable software.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>What are the risks of using this beta?</strong><br />
You won&#8217;t lose any stats. If something goes horribly wrong it&#8217;s probably a bad download; just reinstall the latest version of Stats.</li>
<li><strong>How does it work?<br />
</strong>The plugin connects to WordPress.com to get the stats reports when you request them. It uses the API key to authenticate.</li>
<li><strong>Aside from fixing cookie problems, how is this better?</strong><br />
Now it&#8217;s possible for anyone who can publish posts on your blog to see blog stats. They don&#8217;t have to be logged into a WordPress.com account. They only need the publish_posts capability (Author role) to view stats reports.</li>
<li><strong>Where did the dropdown blog switcher go?<br />
</strong>Because the plugin uses a single API key to authenticate, the service doesn&#8217;t know whether the visitor is the owner of that key or some other user. So it doesn&#8217;t make much sense to show the list of blogs belonging to the API key owner. You can still use the switcher if you view your stats on any WordPress.com dashboard.</li>
<li><strong>Where did the Stats Access panel go?<br />
</strong>This is also related to single API key authentication. Maybe in future we will bring administrative access back to the plugin. But until then, we have left the Stats Access panel intact on WordPress.com dashboards. You might want to bookmark <a href="http://dashboard.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=stats">dashboard.wordpress.com</a> if you need these features on a regular basis.</li>
<li><strong>Will this be a required upgrade?</strong><br />
You mean will older version of stats be broken? Not by 1.5. Later versions may break compatibility but for now you can keep using earlier versions of Stats if you like.</li>
<li><strong>What if I install this and still see iframes?<br />
</strong>This happens because your server is unable to connect to WordPress.com. I set it up to use SSL (https) in the hopes that most hosts support this. If yours does not work, I&#8217;d like to hear from you and do some testing on your host.</li>
</ul>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/andy.wordpress.com/259/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/andy.wordpress.com/259/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/andy.wordpress.com/259/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/andy.wordpress.com/259/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/andy.wordpress.com/259/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/andy.wordpress.com/259/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/andy.wordpress.com/259/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/andy.wordpress.com/259/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/andy.wordpress.com/259/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/andy.wordpress.com/259/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andy.wordpress.com&blog=155&post=259&subd=andy&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:37:53 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Andy";}s:7:"summary";s:3995:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>At first we thought it was a good idea to use iframes to display reports in the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/">Stats plugin</a>. We&#8217;ve seen since then a lot of problems with browsers and cookies. To help resolve these issues, and in anticipation of future features, I am updating the plugin and the WordPress.com stats reporting system to remove the iframes. I just posted <a href="http://svn.wp-plugins.org/stats/trunk/stats.php">1.5 beta 1</a>. If you host your own WordPress 2.7+ blog and you use the Stats plugin, why not contribute to its development by installing this testing version? Anyone can download the beta but I don&#8217;t recommend it unless you are able to cope with potentially unstable software.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>What are the risks of using this beta?</strong><br />
You won&#8217;t lose any stats. If something goes horribly wrong it&#8217;s probably a bad download; just reinstall the latest version of Stats.</li>
<li><strong>How does it work?<br />
</strong>The plugin connects to WordPress.com to get the stats reports when you request them. It uses the API key to authenticate.</li>
<li><strong>Aside from fixing cookie problems, how is this better?</strong><br />
Now it&#8217;s possible for anyone who can publish posts on your blog to see blog stats. They don&#8217;t have to be logged into a WordPress.com account. They only need the publish_posts capability (Author role) to view stats reports.</li>
<li><strong>Where did the dropdown blog switcher go?<br />
</strong>Because the plugin uses a single API key to authenticate, the service doesn&#8217;t know whether the visitor is the owner of that key or some other user. So it doesn&#8217;t make much sense to show the list of blogs belonging to the API key owner. You can still use the switcher if you view your stats on any WordPress.com dashboard.</li>
<li><strong>Where did the Stats Access panel go?<br />
</strong>This is also related to single API key authentication. Maybe in future we will bring administrative access back to the plugin. But until then, we have left the Stats Access panel intact on WordPress.com dashboards. You might want to bookmark <a href="http://dashboard.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=stats">dashboard.wordpress.com</a> if you need these features on a regular basis.</li>
<li><strong>Will this be a required upgrade?</strong><br />
You mean will older version of stats be broken? Not by 1.5. Later versions may break compatibility but for now you can keep using earlier versions of Stats if you like.</li>
<li><strong>What if I install this and still see iframes?<br />
</strong>This happens because your server is unable to connect to WordPress.com. I set it up to use SSL (https) in the hopes that most hosts support this. If yours does not work, I&#8217;d like to hear from you and do some testing on your host.</li>
</ul>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/andy.wordpress.com/259/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/andy.wordpress.com/259/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/andy.wordpress.com/259/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/andy.wordpress.com/259/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/andy.wordpress.com/259/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/andy.wordpress.com/259/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/andy.wordpress.com/259/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/andy.wordpress.com/259/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/andy.wordpress.com/259/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/andy.wordpress.com/259/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andy.wordpress.com&blog=155&post=259&subd=andy&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:36;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:44:"Ryan Boren: Auto Upgrading to Nightly Builds";s:4:"guid";s:23:"http://boren.nu/?p=1701";s:4:"link";s:69:"http://boren.nu/archives/2009/06/19/auto-upgrading-to-nightly-builds/";s:11:"description";s:1639:"<p>WP&#8217;s automatic upgrade can be used to automatically upgrade to betas and nightly builds for the development branch or the latest stable branch.  To get onto a development upgrade path you must first make a small change to wp-includes/version.php.</p>
<p>The current release of WP is 2.8.  If you peek in the version.php file, you will see this:</p>
<p><code>$wp_version = '2.8';</code></p>
<p>If you would like to try out the latest development builds for the upcoming 2.8.1 release, change that line to this:</p>
<p><code>$wp_version = '2.8.1-dev';</code></p>
<p>&#8220;dev&#8221; can be any string.  The presence of a suffix on the version tells the automatic upgrade to put you on the upgrade path for 2.8.1 development releases.  You will be able to automatically upgrade to each nightly, beta, and RC build for 2.8.1.  Once the final 2.8.1 release comes out, automatic upgrade will upgrade you to that official release and put you back on the stable release path.  To get back on the 2.8 development branch upgrade path after the release of 2.8.1, you would have to change your version to &#8220;2.8.2-dev&#8221;.</p>
<p>If you are feeling really experimental, you can get on the 2.9 development path by setting the version to &#8220;2.9-dev&#8221;.  Unlike the 2.8 development path which contains only fixes to high-impact bugs, the 2.9 path is where new feature development is happening. You probably want the 2.9 path only if you are a developer.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> Peter wrote a <a href="http://westi.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/making-it-easy-to-be-a-wordpress-tester/">plugin</a> that makes this easier.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:05:01 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ryan";}s:7:"summary";s:1639:"<p>WP&#8217;s automatic upgrade can be used to automatically upgrade to betas and nightly builds for the development branch or the latest stable branch.  To get onto a development upgrade path you must first make a small change to wp-includes/version.php.</p>
<p>The current release of WP is 2.8.  If you peek in the version.php file, you will see this:</p>
<p><code>$wp_version = '2.8';</code></p>
<p>If you would like to try out the latest development builds for the upcoming 2.8.1 release, change that line to this:</p>
<p><code>$wp_version = '2.8.1-dev';</code></p>
<p>&#8220;dev&#8221; can be any string.  The presence of a suffix on the version tells the automatic upgrade to put you on the upgrade path for 2.8.1 development releases.  You will be able to automatically upgrade to each nightly, beta, and RC build for 2.8.1.  Once the final 2.8.1 release comes out, automatic upgrade will upgrade you to that official release and put you back on the stable release path.  To get back on the 2.8 development branch upgrade path after the release of 2.8.1, you would have to change your version to &#8220;2.8.2-dev&#8221;.</p>
<p>If you are feeling really experimental, you can get on the 2.9 development path by setting the version to &#8220;2.9-dev&#8221;.  Unlike the 2.8 development path which contains only fixes to high-impact bugs, the 2.9 path is where new feature development is happening. You probably want the 2.9 path only if you are a developer.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> Peter wrote a <a href="http://westi.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/making-it-easy-to-be-a-wordpress-tester/">plugin</a> that makes this easier.</p>";}i:37;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:44:"Dougal Campbell: WordPress 2.8.1 Coming Soon";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=1547";s:4:"link";s:69:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/06/18/wordpress-2-8-1-coming-soon";s:11:"description";s:2061:"<p>Right on the heels of version 2.8, we will be seeing a WordPress 2.8.1 release soon. There are several minor bugfixes in so far, mostly dealing with tweaks to plugin and menu management. But the big problem driving a quick update is a bug in the core upgrade feature. It seems that in the case where the upgrade can&#8217;t be completed for some reason, the upgrade feature was deleting the wrong files when it attempted to clean up. Oops!</p>
<p>On the bright side, when this did happen, it would only delete files that are part of the core package, not any of your plugin or theme files. So the failure could be fixed pretty easily, by just manually re-installing the 2.7.1 or 2.8 files from a zip archive. Nothing would be lost except perhaps a few heartbeats of panic.</p>
<p>Looking at the auto-upgrade process, here are the steps outlined in the code:</p>
<ol>
<li>Test unzipped location for select files to ensure that unzipped worked.</li>
<li>Create the .maintenance file in current WordPress base.</li>
<li>Copy new WordPress directory over old WordPress files.</li>
<li>Upgrade WordPress to new version.</li>
<li>Delete new WordPress directory path.</li>
<li>Delete .maintenance file.</li>
<li>Remove old files.</li>
<li>Delete &#8216;update_core&#8217; option.</li>
</ol>
<p>What can happen is that if an error was detected in step 3, where it tried to copy the new files into place (probably due to file ownership or permissions), it was supposed to delete the directory of new files that it had downloaded and unzipped. Instead, it deleted from the main site directory. It was simply a case of the wrong variable being used. For those of you following the SVN repository, this has been corrected in trunk and in the 2.8 branch, where the 2.8.1 update will come from.</p>
<p>If you haven&#8217;t upgraded to WordPress 2.8 yet, but you want to, and you&#8217;re nervous about possibly running into this bug, you can either wait for 2.8.1 to be released or upgrade the &#8220;old fashioned&#8221; way, by unzipping and uploading the new files.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:30:09 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Dougal";}s:7:"summary";s:2061:"<p>Right on the heels of version 2.8, we will be seeing a WordPress 2.8.1 release soon. There are several minor bugfixes in so far, mostly dealing with tweaks to plugin and menu management. But the big problem driving a quick update is a bug in the core upgrade feature. It seems that in the case where the upgrade can&#8217;t be completed for some reason, the upgrade feature was deleting the wrong files when it attempted to clean up. Oops!</p>
<p>On the bright side, when this did happen, it would only delete files that are part of the core package, not any of your plugin or theme files. So the failure could be fixed pretty easily, by just manually re-installing the 2.7.1 or 2.8 files from a zip archive. Nothing would be lost except perhaps a few heartbeats of panic.</p>
<p>Looking at the auto-upgrade process, here are the steps outlined in the code:</p>
<ol>
<li>Test unzipped location for select files to ensure that unzipped worked.</li>
<li>Create the .maintenance file in current WordPress base.</li>
<li>Copy new WordPress directory over old WordPress files.</li>
<li>Upgrade WordPress to new version.</li>
<li>Delete new WordPress directory path.</li>
<li>Delete .maintenance file.</li>
<li>Remove old files.</li>
<li>Delete &#8216;update_core&#8217; option.</li>
</ol>
<p>What can happen is that if an error was detected in step 3, where it tried to copy the new files into place (probably due to file ownership or permissions), it was supposed to delete the directory of new files that it had downloaded and unzipped. Instead, it deleted from the main site directory. It was simply a case of the wrong variable being used. For those of you following the SVN repository, this has been corrected in trunk and in the 2.8 branch, where the 2.8.1 update will come from.</p>
<p>If you haven&#8217;t upgraded to WordPress 2.8 yet, but you want to, and you&#8217;re nervous about possibly running into this bug, you can either wait for 2.8.1 to be released or upgrade the &#8220;old fashioned&#8221; way, by unzipping and uploading the new files.</p>";}i:38;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:82:"Weblog Tools Collection: Notify Users About Changes In Plugins In Plugin Dashboard";s:4:"guid";s:111:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/18/notify-users-about-changes-in-plugins-in-plugin-dashboard/";s:4:"link";s:111:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/18/notify-users-about-changes-in-plugins-in-plugin-dashboard/";s:11:"description";s:1475:"<p>WordPress plugins are updated quite frequently and that is not a hassle anymore due to WordPress having a inbuilt mechanism to allow users to update their plugins from the plugins dashboard.</p>
<p>However a problem arises when the plugins readme files are not updated to add in information about the latest available updates.</p>
<p>As a plugin developer myself I would really want to show the users some information about the changes available in the new version, so that they have the information, before they actually updated the plugin, but how do you do it?</p>
<p>As part of our send us <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/15/send-us-your-wordpress-tips-and-tricks-on-twitter/">tips on twitter</a>, I came across something that will help plugin developers show some information about the updates in the plugin, as to what has changed in the newer version, by adding few lines of code to their plugins.</p>
<p>Definitely useful and helps in giving users more information on the updates. For more information on how you can add notices to plugin upgrades visit <a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/05/28/expanding-plugins-panel/">Expanding Plugins Panel</a>.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/18/notify-users-about-changes-in-plugins-in-plugin-dashboard/">Notify Users About Changes In Plugins In Plugin Dashboard</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:59:07 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:1475:"<p>WordPress plugins are updated quite frequently and that is not a hassle anymore due to WordPress having a inbuilt mechanism to allow users to update their plugins from the plugins dashboard.</p>
<p>However a problem arises when the plugins readme files are not updated to add in information about the latest available updates.</p>
<p>As a plugin developer myself I would really want to show the users some information about the changes available in the new version, so that they have the information, before they actually updated the plugin, but how do you do it?</p>
<p>As part of our send us <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/15/send-us-your-wordpress-tips-and-tricks-on-twitter/">tips on twitter</a>, I came across something that will help plugin developers show some information about the updates in the plugin, as to what has changed in the newer version, by adding few lines of code to their plugins.</p>
<p>Definitely useful and helps in giving users more information on the updates. For more information on how you can add notices to plugin upgrades visit <a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/05/28/expanding-plugins-panel/">Expanding Plugins Panel</a>.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/18/notify-users-about-changes-in-plugins-in-plugin-dashboard/">Notify Users About Changes In Plugins In Plugin Dashboard</a></p>";}i:39;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:61:"WordPress.tv: Installing the Viper’s Video QuickTags Plugin";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=1969";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/06/18/wordpress-plugin-vipers-video-quicktags/";s:11:"description";s:1196:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><span> </span></p>
<div><a href="http://vodpod.com/wordpress"></a></div>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/1969/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/1969/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1969/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1969/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1969/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1969/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/1969/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/1969/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1969/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1969/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=1969&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:00:52 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Michael Pick";}s:7:"summary";s:1196:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><span> </span></p>
<div><a href="http://vodpod.com/wordpress"></a></div>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/1969/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/1969/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1969/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1969/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1969/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1969/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/1969/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/1969/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1969/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1969/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=1969&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:40;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:63:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Tips From Twitter, Digest #1";s:4:"guid";s:90:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/17/wordpress-tips-from-twitter-digest-1/";s:4:"link";s:90:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/17/wordpress-tips-from-twitter-digest-1/";s:11:"description";s:2124:"<p>Just a few days ago <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/15/send-us-your-wordpress-tips-and-tricks-on-twitter/">we asked users</a> to send us WordPress tips to our twitter account <a href="http://twitter.com/weblogtooltips">@weblogtooltips</a>, and there are several interesting things we came across. Here is the first digest of interesting news that we came across on twitter.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/05/28/expanding-plugins-panel/">Expanding Plugin Panel</a> – Handy tips for plugin developers to show messages to users about new updates in their plugins, making it easier for users to know what they are getting into before they update a plugin.</p>
<p><a href="http://speckyboy.com/2009/06/17/14-essential-wordpress-development-and-design-cheat-sheets/">14 Essential WordPress Development and Design Cheat Sheets</a> – A cheat sheet for tweaking plugins and themes.</p>
<p><a href="http://mashable.com/2009/06/16/wordpress-social-media-profile/">Top 10 WordPress plugins to promote Social Media Profile</a> – Social networking is a major part of blogs, here are 10 plugins that will help you promote your social media profiles.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nouveller.com/quick-tips/quick-tip-3-writing-your-own-is_page-function-similar-to-the-one-in-wordpress/">Writing your own is_page function</a> – By default WordPress allows you to check whether users are on a page using is_page() function, these tips will help you determine which exact page users are on currently and display appropriate messages to them.</p>
<p>That sums up the first edition of the tips we received at <a href="http://twitter.com/weblogtooltips">@weblogtooltips</a>, don’t forget to keep sending us your WordPress tips and tricks to the twitter account, we will be featuring them here regularly and also tweeting about them on a regular basis.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/17/wordpress-tips-from-twitter-digest-1/">WordPress Tips From Twitter, Digest #1</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:51:22 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:2124:"<p>Just a few days ago <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/15/send-us-your-wordpress-tips-and-tricks-on-twitter/">we asked users</a> to send us WordPress tips to our twitter account <a href="http://twitter.com/weblogtooltips">@weblogtooltips</a>, and there are several interesting things we came across. Here is the first digest of interesting news that we came across on twitter.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/05/28/expanding-plugins-panel/">Expanding Plugin Panel</a> – Handy tips for plugin developers to show messages to users about new updates in their plugins, making it easier for users to know what they are getting into before they update a plugin.</p>
<p><a href="http://speckyboy.com/2009/06/17/14-essential-wordpress-development-and-design-cheat-sheets/">14 Essential WordPress Development and Design Cheat Sheets</a> – A cheat sheet for tweaking plugins and themes.</p>
<p><a href="http://mashable.com/2009/06/16/wordpress-social-media-profile/">Top 10 WordPress plugins to promote Social Media Profile</a> – Social networking is a major part of blogs, here are 10 plugins that will help you promote your social media profiles.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nouveller.com/quick-tips/quick-tip-3-writing-your-own-is_page-function-similar-to-the-one-in-wordpress/">Writing your own is_page function</a> – By default WordPress allows you to check whether users are on a page using is_page() function, these tips will help you determine which exact page users are on currently and display appropriate messages to them.</p>
<p>That sums up the first edition of the tips we received at <a href="http://twitter.com/weblogtooltips">@weblogtooltips</a>, don’t forget to keep sending us your WordPress tips and tricks to the twitter account, we will be featuring them here regularly and also tweeting about them on a regular basis.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/17/wordpress-tips-from-twitter-digest-1/">WordPress Tips From Twitter, Digest #1</a></p>";}i:41;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 06/17";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6089";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/17/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0617/";s:11:"description";s:2927:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://exclusivewordpress.com/searchterms-tagging-2-plugin/">Searchterms Tagging 2</a></p>
<p>The function of this plugins is to displays some of the last unique keywords (default is 30, adjustable from plugin admin page) that visitors used to find the blog post from search engine. Each keyword will be changed into a link to that page. The goal is to get more traffic to the blog post by adding related search terms below the blog post.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-greet-box-wordpress-plugin/">WP Greet Box</a></p>
<p>This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/wordpress-seo/">SEO Ultimate</a></p>
<p>This SEO plugin can rewrite title tags, noindex archives, and edit meta data (with many more features coming soon). Version 0.3 fixes bugs and adds support for &#8220;link rel canonical&#8221; tags.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.23systems.net/plugins/lightbox-plus/">Lightbox Plus</a></p>
<p>Lightbox Plus permits users to view larger versions of images without having to leave the current page, and is also able to display simple slide shows. The use of the dark or light background, which dims the page over which the image has been overlaid, also serves to highlight the image being viewed. Lightbox Plus captures the image title for display in the overlay.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.23systems.net/plugins/facelift-image-replacement-flir/">Facelift Image Replacment for WordPress</a></p>
<p>Facelift Image Replacement (or FLIR, pronounced fleer) is an image replacement script that dynamically generates image representations of text on your web page in fonts that otherwise might not be visible to your visitors. The generated image will be automatically inserted into your web page via Javascript and visible to all modern browsers. Any element with text can be replaced: from headers (h1, h2) to span elements and everything in between!</p>
<p><a href="http://konstruktors.com/blog/projects-services/wordpress-plugins/widget-context/">Widget Context</a></p>
<p>Display widgets in context.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.johnkolbert.com/portfolio/wp-plugins/absolute-privacy/">Absolute Privacy</a></p>
<p>Turns your blog into the ultimate private blog: user moderation, blog lock-down, users can chose their own password and must enter their name when registering.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/front-end-editor">Front-end Editor</a></p>
<p>Enables &#8220;edit in place&#8221; functionality on your site. Version 1.0 allows editing of individual paragraphs of a post.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/17/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0617/">WordPress Plugin Releases for 06/17</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:36:16 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:2927:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://exclusivewordpress.com/searchterms-tagging-2-plugin/">Searchterms Tagging 2</a></p>
<p>The function of this plugins is to displays some of the last unique keywords (default is 30, adjustable from plugin admin page) that visitors used to find the blog post from search engine. Each keyword will be changed into a link to that page. The goal is to get more traffic to the blog post by adding related search terms below the blog post.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-greet-box-wordpress-plugin/">WP Greet Box</a></p>
<p>This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/wordpress-seo/">SEO Ultimate</a></p>
<p>This SEO plugin can rewrite title tags, noindex archives, and edit meta data (with many more features coming soon). Version 0.3 fixes bugs and adds support for &#8220;link rel canonical&#8221; tags.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.23systems.net/plugins/lightbox-plus/">Lightbox Plus</a></p>
<p>Lightbox Plus permits users to view larger versions of images without having to leave the current page, and is also able to display simple slide shows. The use of the dark or light background, which dims the page over which the image has been overlaid, also serves to highlight the image being viewed. Lightbox Plus captures the image title for display in the overlay.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.23systems.net/plugins/facelift-image-replacement-flir/">Facelift Image Replacment for WordPress</a></p>
<p>Facelift Image Replacement (or FLIR, pronounced fleer) is an image replacement script that dynamically generates image representations of text on your web page in fonts that otherwise might not be visible to your visitors. The generated image will be automatically inserted into your web page via Javascript and visible to all modern browsers. Any element with text can be replaced: from headers (h1, h2) to span elements and everything in between!</p>
<p><a href="http://konstruktors.com/blog/projects-services/wordpress-plugins/widget-context/">Widget Context</a></p>
<p>Display widgets in context.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.johnkolbert.com/portfolio/wp-plugins/absolute-privacy/">Absolute Privacy</a></p>
<p>Turns your blog into the ultimate private blog: user moderation, blog lock-down, users can chose their own password and must enter their name when registering.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/front-end-editor">Front-end Editor</a></p>
<p>Enables &#8220;edit in place&#8221; functionality on your site. Version 1.0 allows editing of individual paragraphs of a post.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/17/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0617/">WordPress Plugin Releases for 06/17</a></p>";}i:42;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:40:"bbPress: bbPress 1.0 Release Candidate 3";s:4:"guid";s:25:"http://bbpress.org/?p=237";s:4:"link";s:63:"http://bbpress.org/blog/2009/06/bbpress-10-release-candidate-3/";s:11:"description";s:722:"<p>After the release of 1.0-RC-2 there was a lot of great feedback both in the support forums and on Trac. Some new issues came up around WordPress integration, caching and SQL query performance which were simply too important to leave out of the final 1.0 release.</p>
<p>After taking careful aim at these issues I&#8217;ve decided to make one last release candidate available. There is still a little cosmetic work to do in the admin area, but you will find a few new improvements there too, like better handling of .htaccess auto-generation and full timezone support, including automatic daylight savings switching.</p>
<p>1.0-RC-3 is available now from the <a href="http://bbpress.org/download/">download page</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:24:16 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Sam Bauers";}s:7:"summary";s:722:"<p>After the release of 1.0-RC-2 there was a lot of great feedback both in the support forums and on Trac. Some new issues came up around WordPress integration, caching and SQL query performance which were simply too important to leave out of the final 1.0 release.</p>
<p>After taking careful aim at these issues I&#8217;ve decided to make one last release candidate available. There is still a little cosmetic work to do in the admin area, but you will find a few new improvements there too, like better handling of .htaccess auto-generation and full timezone support, including automatic daylight savings switching.</p>
<p>1.0-RC-3 is available now from the <a href="http://bbpress.org/download/">download page</a>.</p>";}i:43;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:45:"WP iPhone: OS 3.0 Compatible Version Uploaded";s:4:"guid";s:34:"http://iphone.wordpress.org/?p=390";s:4:"link";s:74:"http://iphone.wordpress.org/2009/06/17/os-3-0-compatible-version-uploaded/";s:11:"description";s:1643:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Excited for iPhone OS 3.0 ?  We certainly are ! </p>
<p>Yesterday we submitted version 1.3 of the WordPress for iPhone app which includes a number of tweaks to make the app OS 3.0 compatible.</p>
<p>As soon as it&#8217;s live in the iTunes App store we&#8217;ll post an update.</p>
<p>The bigger UI changes we <a href="http://iphone.wordpress.org/2009/06/01/a-change-is-in-the-air/">discussed earlier </a> are well underway and will begin appearing soon in a future release.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wpiphone.wordpress.com/390/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wpiphone.wordpress.com/390/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wpiphone.wordpress.com/390/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wpiphone.wordpress.com/390/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wpiphone.wordpress.com/390/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wpiphone.wordpress.com/390/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wpiphone.wordpress.com/390/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wpiphone.wordpress.com/390/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wpiphone.wordpress.com/390/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wpiphone.wordpress.com/390/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iphone.wordpress.org&blog=3882653&post=390&subd=wpiphone&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:05:27 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:16:"Raanan Bar-Cohen";}s:7:"summary";s:1643:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Excited for iPhone OS 3.0 ?  We certainly are ! </p>
<p>Yesterday we submitted version 1.3 of the WordPress for iPhone app which includes a number of tweaks to make the app OS 3.0 compatible.</p>
<p>As soon as it&#8217;s live in the iTunes App store we&#8217;ll post an update.</p>
<p>The bigger UI changes we <a href="http://iphone.wordpress.org/2009/06/01/a-change-is-in-the-air/">discussed earlier </a> are well underway and will begin appearing soon in a future release.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wpiphone.wordpress.com/390/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wpiphone.wordpress.com/390/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wpiphone.wordpress.com/390/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wpiphone.wordpress.com/390/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wpiphone.wordpress.com/390/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wpiphone.wordpress.com/390/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wpiphone.wordpress.com/390/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wpiphone.wordpress.com/390/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wpiphone.wordpress.com/390/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wpiphone.wordpress.com/390/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iphone.wordpress.org&blog=3882653&post=390&subd=wpiphone&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:44;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:38:"BuddyPress: BuddyPress Project Roadmap";s:4:"guid";s:28:"http://buddypress.org/?p=471";s:4:"link";s:59:"http://buddypress.org/blog/news/buddypress-project-roadmap/";s:11:"description";s:1567:"<p>The votes are in, tallied, and the <a href="http://buddypress.org/about/roadmap/" title="BuddyPress Roadmap">BuddyPress roadmap</a> is now complete, ready for all to see. Thank you to everyone who gave their input.</p>
<p>The roadmap should give everyone a good idea of what they should expect to see in the next four versions of BuddyPress. You will also see both the status updates and albums components show up within these versions.</p>
<p>I really want to encourage developers to get involved with the project. If you&#8217;re a developer and would like to see some of these features (in v1.2+) appear sooner, here&#8217;s your chance to help make a big difference.</p>
<p>Group creation is now open on this site, why not pick a feature you&#8217;d be interested in working on and create a group for it? By doing this you&#8217;ll encourage other BuddyPress developers to join in, discuss the feature and give feedback. I&#8217;ll be more than happy to take a look at plugins that add roadmap features and consider them for inclusion in the core of BuddyPress. You may even end up as a core committer.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re interested in development, you should also be spending time in the <a href="http://java.freenode.net/?nick=BPuser&amp;channel=buddypress-dev">#buddypress-dev IRC room on Freenode</a> (don&#8217;t rely on the Java client though). We frequently have BuddyPress development and plugin discussions in there.</p>
<p>If you have any specific questions, please feel free to DM me or comment on this post, I&#8217;ll do my best to answer.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:41:11 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Andy Peatling";}s:7:"summary";s:1567:"<p>The votes are in, tallied, and the <a href="http://buddypress.org/about/roadmap/" title="BuddyPress Roadmap">BuddyPress roadmap</a> is now complete, ready for all to see. Thank you to everyone who gave their input.</p>
<p>The roadmap should give everyone a good idea of what they should expect to see in the next four versions of BuddyPress. You will also see both the status updates and albums components show up within these versions.</p>
<p>I really want to encourage developers to get involved with the project. If you&#8217;re a developer and would like to see some of these features (in v1.2+) appear sooner, here&#8217;s your chance to help make a big difference.</p>
<p>Group creation is now open on this site, why not pick a feature you&#8217;d be interested in working on and create a group for it? By doing this you&#8217;ll encourage other BuddyPress developers to join in, discuss the feature and give feedback. I&#8217;ll be more than happy to take a look at plugins that add roadmap features and consider them for inclusion in the core of BuddyPress. You may even end up as a core committer.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re interested in development, you should also be spending time in the <a href="http://java.freenode.net/?nick=BPuser&amp;channel=buddypress-dev">#buddypress-dev IRC room on Freenode</a> (don&#8217;t rely on the Java client though). We frequently have BuddyPress development and plugin discussions in there.</p>
<p>If you have any specific questions, please feel free to DM me or comment on this post, I&#8217;ll do my best to answer.</p>";}i:45;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:74:"Weblog Tools Collection: Send Us Your WordPress Tips and Tricks On Twitter";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6086";s:4:"link";s:103:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/15/send-us-your-wordpress-tips-and-tricks-on-twitter/";s:11:"description";s:1722:"<p>Twitter has been increasingly growing to become a useful tool for many (and not that useful for some), to find information and real time news, with people finding it the quickest way to share information and news with friends and followers.</p>
<p><img title="weblogtooltips_twitter" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/weblogtooltips-twitter.png" border="0" alt="weblogtooltips_twitter" width="314" height="131" /></p>
<p>Likewise we often look to find and highlight the best WordPress news through Weblog Tools Collection, to make it easier for everyone who want to share their tips and tricks with us, we now have a twitter account <a href="http://twitter.com/weblogtooltips">@weblogtooltips</a> where you can send us WordPress tips and tricks, WordPress news and other things related to WordPress.</p>
<p>We will also be regularly sending out tweets consisting of tips you send to us and highlighting the best news here at Weblog Tools Collection on a regular basis.</p>
<p>Don’t forget to follow <a href="http://twitter.com/weblogtooltips">@weblogtooltips</a> to send us your tips and get interesting information and news about WordPress.</p>
<p>Our <a href="http://midout.com">WLTC Community</a> is also growing quickly and conversations and announcements are happening there that might be of interest to the WordPress connoisseur. If you are not registered, head over to our BuddyPress install and sign up to receive updates.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/15/send-us-your-wordpress-tips-and-tricks-on-twitter/">Send Us Your WordPress Tips and Tricks On Twitter</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:00:08 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:1722:"<p>Twitter has been increasingly growing to become a useful tool for many (and not that useful for some), to find information and real time news, with people finding it the quickest way to share information and news with friends and followers.</p>
<p><img title="weblogtooltips_twitter" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/weblogtooltips-twitter.png" border="0" alt="weblogtooltips_twitter" width="314" height="131" /></p>
<p>Likewise we often look to find and highlight the best WordPress news through Weblog Tools Collection, to make it easier for everyone who want to share their tips and tricks with us, we now have a twitter account <a href="http://twitter.com/weblogtooltips">@weblogtooltips</a> where you can send us WordPress tips and tricks, WordPress news and other things related to WordPress.</p>
<p>We will also be regularly sending out tweets consisting of tips you send to us and highlighting the best news here at Weblog Tools Collection on a regular basis.</p>
<p>Don’t forget to follow <a href="http://twitter.com/weblogtooltips">@weblogtooltips</a> to send us your tips and get interesting information and news about WordPress.</p>
<p>Our <a href="http://midout.com">WLTC Community</a> is also growing quickly and conversations and announcements are happening there that might be of interest to the WordPress connoisseur. If you are not registered, head over to our BuddyPress install and sign up to receive updates.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/15/send-us-your-wordpress-tips-and-tricks-on-twitter/">Send Us Your WordPress Tips and Tricks On Twitter</a></p>";}i:46;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:46:"WordPress.tv: Como instalar temas no WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=1962";s:4:"link";s:64:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/06/16/como-instalar-temas-no-wordpress/";s:11:"description";s:1390:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
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<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/06/16/como-instalar-temas-no-wordpress/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/liymLbs2/ricardouk-wordpress_temas982.thumbnail.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/1962/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/1962/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1962/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1962/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1962/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1962/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/1962/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/1962/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1962/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1962/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=1962&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:23:10 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Michael Pick";}s:7:"summary";s:1390:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
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<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/06/16/como-instalar-temas-no-wordpress/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/liymLbs2/ricardouk-wordpress_temas982.thumbnail.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/1962/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/1962/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1962/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1962/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1962/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1962/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/1962/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/1962/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1962/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1962/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=1962&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:47;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:40:"WordPress.tv: Novidades no WordPress 2.8";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=1959";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/06/16/novidades-no-wordpress-2-8/";s:11:"description";s:1373:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
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<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/06/16/novidades-no-wordpress-2-8/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/OxNqHOxG/wordpress1280x720.thumbnail.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/1959/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/1959/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1959/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1959/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1959/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1959/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/1959/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/1959/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1959/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1959/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=1959&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:48;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 06/15";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6083";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/15/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0615/";s:11:"description";s:1355:"<p>Just two themes for you in this post.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.magznetwork.com/wordpress-themes/dellistore-wordpress-theme.html">Dellistore</a></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.magznetwork.com/dellistore/"><img title="Dellistore" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/dellistore.jpg" alt="Dellistore" width="200" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>DelliStore template is a full px-based, cross-browser-compliant (X)HTML/CSS-template (IE 6, IE 7, Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome) Based on the template released on <a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/02/dellistore-a-free-professional-cssxhtmlpsd-template/">Smashing Magazine</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://izandi.net/2009/06/free-wordpress-theme-blare/">Blare</a></p>
<p><a href="http://izandi.net/Free_WordPress_Themes/Blare/"><img title="Blare" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/blare.gif" alt="Blare" width="200" height="125" /></a></p>
<p>Three column, widget and gravatar ready, orange and grey Wordpress theme</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/15/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0615/">WordPress Theme Releases for 06/15</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:53:21 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:1355:"<p>Just two themes for you in this post.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.magznetwork.com/wordpress-themes/dellistore-wordpress-theme.html">Dellistore</a></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.magznetwork.com/dellistore/"><img title="Dellistore" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/dellistore.jpg" alt="Dellistore" width="200" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>DelliStore template is a full px-based, cross-browser-compliant (X)HTML/CSS-template (IE 6, IE 7, Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome) Based on the template released on <a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/02/dellistore-a-free-professional-cssxhtmlpsd-template/">Smashing Magazine</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://izandi.net/2009/06/free-wordpress-theme-blare/">Blare</a></p>
<p><a href="http://izandi.net/Free_WordPress_Themes/Blare/"><img title="Blare" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/blare.gif" alt="Blare" width="200" height="125" /></a></p>
<p>Three column, widget and gravatar ready, orange and grey Wordpress theme</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/15/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0615/">WordPress Theme Releases for 06/15</a></p>";}i:49;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:47:"Dougal Campbell: Plugin: Fancybox Gallery 0.3.1";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=1532";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/06/15/plugin-fancybox-gallery-0-3-1";s:11:"description";s:4918:"<p>I have updated my <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fancybox-gallery/">Fancybox Gallery plugin</a> to version 0.3.1.</p>
<p>Fancybox Gallery will automatically turn your photo galleries generated by the WordPress &#8216;gallery&#8217; shorttag into a dynamic lightbox.</p>
<p>New in version 0.3 is the ability to navigate to the next/previous image while in lightbox mode. Another change is that this version requires jQuery version 1.3.2, and thus you&#8217;ll need to be using WordPress 2.8. If you are running an older version of WordPress, but the newer version of jQuery, the plugin should work, but I don&#8217;t think that the navigation feature will be present (I believe that the changes in the gallery code which enabled me to add it are new in WP 2.8).</p>
<p><span id="more-1532"></span></p>
<p>Here is an example of the plugin in action. Click on an image to load the larger view. Note that you can navigate to the next or previous images by clicking on the right or left side of the image. Click the &#8216;X&#8217; close icon or anywhere outside of the image to dismiss the lightbox.</p>

<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/06/15/plugin-fancybox-gallery-0-3-1/img_0325" title="Basil Stir-fry with Chicken" rel="gallery-1532"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/IMG_0325-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="At Spoon Thai Restaurant" title="Basil Stir-fry with Chicken" /></a>
<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/06/15/plugin-fancybox-gallery-0-3-1/dsc00533-jpg" title="DSC00533.JPG" rel="gallery-1532"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/dougal_snow-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="DSC00533.JPG" /></a>
<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/06/15/plugin-fancybox-gallery-0-3-1/img_0322" title="Atlanta Skyline" rel="gallery-1532"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/IMG_0322-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="The Atlanta skyline from the roof of the MailChimp offices" title="Atlanta Skyline" /></a>
<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/06/15/plugin-fancybox-gallery-0-3-1/twituallogo3" title="TwitualLogo3" rel="gallery-1532"><img width="150" height="125" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/TwitualLogo3-150x125.png" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="TwitualLogo3" /></a>
<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/06/15/plugin-fancybox-gallery-0-3-1/img_0278" title="Claire with Hat" rel="gallery-1532"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/IMG_0278-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Claire wearing Jesse&#039;s cowgirl hat" title="Claire with Hat" /></a>
<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/06/15/plugin-fancybox-gallery-0-3-1/recent-2" title="Recent 2" rel="gallery-1532"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/dougal_closeup-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="Recent 2" /></a>
<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/06/15/plugin-fancybox-gallery-0-3-1/img_0305" title="Coffee" rel="gallery-1532"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/IMG_0305-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="A cup of joe at the Original Pancake House" title="Coffee" /></a>
<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/06/15/plugin-fancybox-gallery-0-3-1/img_0333" title="Sleeping Beauty" rel="gallery-1532"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/IMG_0333-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Claire taking a (rare) nap" title="Sleeping Beauty" /></a>
<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/06/15/plugin-fancybox-gallery-0-3-1/colorsplash1" title="Colorsplash1" rel="gallery-1532"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/Colorsplash1-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="Colorsplash1" /></a>
<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/06/15/plugin-fancybox-gallery-0-3-1/img_0331" title="Lizard" rel="gallery-1532"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/IMG_0331-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="A lizard hunting for breakfast outside the MailChimp offices" title="Lizard" /></a>
<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/06/15/plugin-fancybox-gallery-0-3-1/img_0274" title="Cat in the Hat" rel="gallery-1532"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/IMG_0274-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Spazo wearing Jesse&#039;s cowgirl hat" title="Cat in the Hat" /></a>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:00:55 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Dougal";}s:7:"summary";s:4918:"<p>I have updated my <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fancybox-gallery/">Fancybox Gallery plugin</a> to version 0.3.1.</p>
<p>Fancybox Gallery will automatically turn your photo galleries generated by the WordPress &#8216;gallery&#8217; shorttag into a dynamic lightbox.</p>
<p>New in version 0.3 is the ability to navigate to the next/previous image while in lightbox mode. Another change is that this version requires jQuery version 1.3.2, and thus you&#8217;ll need to be using WordPress 2.8. If you are running an older version of WordPress, but the newer version of jQuery, the plugin should work, but I don&#8217;t think that the navigation feature will be present (I believe that the changes in the gallery code which enabled me to add it are new in WP 2.8).</p>
<p><span id="more-1532"></span></p>
<p>Here is an example of the plugin in action. Click on an image to load the larger view. Note that you can navigate to the next or previous images by clicking on the right or left side of the image. Click the &#8216;X&#8217; close icon or anywhere outside of the image to dismiss the lightbox.</p>

<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/06/15/plugin-fancybox-gallery-0-3-1/img_0325" title="Basil Stir-fry with Chicken" rel="gallery-1532"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/IMG_0325-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="At Spoon Thai Restaurant" title="Basil Stir-fry with Chicken" /></a>
<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/06/15/plugin-fancybox-gallery-0-3-1/dsc00533-jpg" title="DSC00533.JPG" rel="gallery-1532"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/dougal_snow-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="DSC00533.JPG" /></a>
<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/06/15/plugin-fancybox-gallery-0-3-1/img_0322" title="Atlanta Skyline" rel="gallery-1532"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/IMG_0322-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="The Atlanta skyline from the roof of the MailChimp offices" title="Atlanta Skyline" /></a>
<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/06/15/plugin-fancybox-gallery-0-3-1/twituallogo3" title="TwitualLogo3" rel="gallery-1532"><img width="150" height="125" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/TwitualLogo3-150x125.png" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="TwitualLogo3" /></a>
<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/06/15/plugin-fancybox-gallery-0-3-1/img_0278" title="Claire with Hat" rel="gallery-1532"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/IMG_0278-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Claire wearing Jesse&#039;s cowgirl hat" title="Claire with Hat" /></a>
<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/06/15/plugin-fancybox-gallery-0-3-1/recent-2" title="Recent 2" rel="gallery-1532"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/dougal_closeup-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="Recent 2" /></a>
<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/06/15/plugin-fancybox-gallery-0-3-1/img_0305" title="Coffee" rel="gallery-1532"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/IMG_0305-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="A cup of joe at the Original Pancake House" title="Coffee" /></a>
<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/06/15/plugin-fancybox-gallery-0-3-1/img_0333" title="Sleeping Beauty" rel="gallery-1532"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/IMG_0333-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Claire taking a (rare) nap" title="Sleeping Beauty" /></a>
<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/06/15/plugin-fancybox-gallery-0-3-1/colorsplash1" title="Colorsplash1" rel="gallery-1532"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/Colorsplash1-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="Colorsplash1" /></a>
<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/06/15/plugin-fancybox-gallery-0-3-1/img_0331" title="Lizard" rel="gallery-1532"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/IMG_0331-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="A lizard hunting for breakfast outside the MailChimp offices" title="Lizard" /></a>
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