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\nIf you would like to automatically upgrade from 2.8 to 2.8.1 Beta 1, follow these instructions. Thanks for testing WordPress.
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\nIf you would like to automatically upgrade from 2.8 to 2.8.1 Beta 1, follow these instructions. Thanks for testing WordPress.
\n\";}i:1;a:13:{s:5:\"title\";s:37:\"2.8 Release Jazzes Themes and Widgets\";s:4:\"link\";s:54:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/06/wordpress-28/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:63:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/06/wordpress-28/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:01:39 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:8:\"category\";s:8:\"Releases\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=788\";s:11:\"description\";s:366:\"I’m very excited to announce to everyone that the latest and greatest version of WordPress, version 2.8 “Baker,” is immediately available for download. 2.8 represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. We also fixed over 790 bugs. This release is named in honor of [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:3161:\"I’m very excited to announce to everyone that the latest and greatest version of WordPress, version 2.8 “Baker,” is immediately available for download. 2.8 represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. We also fixed over 790 bugs. This release is named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker. Here’s a quick video overview of everything in the new release:
\n\nThe first thing you’ll notice is that visually 2.8 feels a lot like 2.7, just with some minor tweaks here and there. However once you’ll dig in you’ll begin to appreciate the changes.
\nFirst and foremost, 2.8 is way faster to use. We’ve changed the way WordPress does style and scripting.
\nThe core and plugin updaters in previous versions of WordPress have been such a success we decided to bring the same to themes. You can now browse the entire theme directory and install a theme with one click from the comfort of your WordPress dashboard.
\nIf you make edits or tweaks to themes or plugins from your dashboard, you’ll appreciate the new CodePress editor which gives syntax highlighting to the previously-plain editor. Also there is now contextual documentation for the functions in the file you’re editing linked right below the editor.
\nIf you were ever frustrated with widgets before, this release should be your savior. We’ve completely redesigned the widgets interface (which we didn’t have time to in 2.7) to allow you to do things like edit widgets on the fly, have multiple copies of the same widget, drag and drop widgets between sidebars, and save inactive widgets so you don’t lose all their settings. Developers now have access to a much cleaner and robust API for creating widgets as well.
\nFinally you should explore the new Screen Options on every page. It’s the tab in the top right. Now, for example, if you have a wide monitor you could set up your dashboard to have four columns of widgets instead of the two it has by default. On other pages you can change how many items show per page.
\nYou can read the full list of over 180 new features, changes, upgrades, and improvements on the Codex. The list is exhausting!
\nWe’re already thinking hard about the next versions, 2.9 and 3.0. Keep an eye out for improved media handling, better dependency checking, versioning of templates and themes, and of course the fabled merging of WordPress and MU announced at WordCamp San Francisco two weeks ago.
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\nFirst and foremost, 2.8 is way faster to use. We’ve changed the way WordPress does style and scripting.
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\nIf you make edits or tweaks to themes or plugins from your dashboard, you’ll appreciate the new CodePress editor which gives syntax highlighting to the previously-plain editor. Also there is now contextual documentation for the functions in the file you’re editing linked right below the editor.
\nIf you were ever frustrated with widgets before, this release should be your savior. We’ve completely redesigned the widgets interface (which we didn’t have time to in 2.7) to allow you to do things like edit widgets on the fly, have multiple copies of the same widget, drag and drop widgets between sidebars, and save inactive widgets so you don’t lose all their settings. Developers now have access to a much cleaner and robust API for creating widgets as well.
\nFinally you should explore the new Screen Options on every page. It’s the tab in the top right. Now, for example, if you have a wide monitor you could set up your dashboard to have four columns of widgets instead of the two it has by default. On other pages you can change how many items show per page.
\nYou can read the full list of over 180 new features, changes, upgrades, and improvements on the Codex. The list is exhausting!
\nWe’re already thinking hard about the next versions, 2.9 and 3.0. Keep an eye out for improved media handling, better dependency checking, versioning of templates and themes, and of course the fabled merging of WordPress and MU announced at WordCamp San Francisco two weeks ago.
\n\";}i:2;a:13:{s:5:\"title\";s:33:\"WordPress 2.8 Release Candidate 1\";s:4:\"link\";s:75:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/06/wordpress-2-8-release-candidate-1/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:84:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/06/wordpress-2-8-release-candidate-1/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:29:49 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Ryan Boren\";}s:8:\"category\";s:11:\"Development\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=783\";s:11:\"description\";s:295:\"With Release Candidate 1, we think WordPress 2.8 is ready and complete. Download it, test it, and tell us what you think. If you don’t uncover any bad bugs, 2.8 will be released on Wednesday the 10th.\nIf you’re interested in what has changed since beta 2, consult the changelog.\n\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:505:\"With Release Candidate 1, we think WordPress 2.8 is ready and complete. Download it, test it, and tell us what you think. If you don’t uncover any bad bugs, 2.8 will be released on Wednesday the 10th.
\nIf you’re interested in what has changed since beta 2, consult the changelog.
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\n\";}i:3;a:13:{s:5:\"title\";s:49:\"Summary of #wordpress-dev IRC meetup for 20090603\";s:4:\"link\";s:90:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/06/summary-of-wordpress-dev-irc-meetup-for-20090603/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:99:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/06/summary-of-wordpress-dev-irc-meetup-for-20090603/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:30:51 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Ryan Boren\";}s:8:\"category\";s:11:\"Development\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=778\";s:11:\"description\";s:358:\"\nNext Wednesday, June 10th, is the target date for the release of\nWordPress 2.8. Tickets against the 2.8 milestone that are not\nblockers will be postponed to another release.\nWP 2.9 will require MySQL 4.1.2 or greater. This is raised from the current requirement of 4.0.\nChecks will be added to the automatic upgrader that will prevent upgrading to [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:848:\"Download beta 2. See changes since beta 1.
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\nWhat’s new? All of this.
\nGood hunting, all you testers.
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\nWhat’s new? All of this.
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\n\";}i:6;a:13:{s:5:\"title\";s:61:\"Contributing to WordPress, Part IV: Ideas, Opinions, Feedback\";s:4:\"link\";s:47:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/05/ideas/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:56:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/05/ideas/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 09 May 2009 16:20:53 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Jane Wells\";}s:8:\"category\";s:19:\"DevelopmentFeatures\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=731\";s:11:\"description\";s:396:\"“I wish they’d implement feature x.”\n“Why won’t they put feature y into core? It’s rated really high in the Ideas forum!”\n“It doesn’t matter what I think, all the decisions get made by an elite crime-fighting squad funded by an anonymous millionaire. Er, I mean the four core devs.”\nThese sentiments, and others like them, are the [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:7489:\"“I wish they’d implement feature x.”
\n“Why won’t they put feature y into core? It’s rated really high in the Ideas forum!”
\n“It doesn’t matter what I think, all the decisions get made by an elite crime-fighting squad funded by an anonymous millionaire. Er, I mean the four core devs.”
\nThese sentiments, and others like them, are the focus of today’s post. Setting aside the similarities between Ryan, Andrew, Mark and Peter to Charlie’s Angels for a moment, the question of how decisions about features are made needs to be addressed. There are a number of mechanisms in place for communication between the community and the core team, but with so many different channels, it’s hard to keep up with them all and still focus on production. Here’s where we are now…
\n#wordpress-dev IRC channel: The IRC channel used to be more active. These days there’s rarely more than a dozen or two people online at any given time, and hours go by with no activity. When a question pops up, it’s often a tech question from a less experienced developer or site manager looking for help, as opposed to ongoing discussions about the best way to approach core code and features. When core-focused discussions do occur, they tend to fade out as time zone variances cause people to log off before a core dev enters the room.
\nwp-hackers list: The hackers mailing list reaches thousands of contributing developers, plugin developers, and lurking interested parties. Discussions range from how to use hooks to whether or not something in core should be changed to troubleshooting for other list members. Conversations on this list sometimes can get heated and occasionally stray into rudeness, which makes some people hesitate to utilize this communication channel.
\nThis dev blog: This blog is used mostly for “official” announcements, and more recently, for surveys and polls intended to give the core devs an idea of community opinion on things being considered for future versions. Posting is irregular, sometimes with new content every other day, sometimes with nothing for a couple of weeks.
\nwpdevel.wordpress.com: Another blog, also an “official” outlet, in which the core team posts about any big code changes they’re working on. This gives plugin authors and contributing developers a heads-up, and provides a place for community discussion around specific issues like the new widgets API.
\nTrac: The ticket system used for active development has gotten out of control. Hundreds of tickets are already lined up for future versions because they were punted from current releases; many aren’t even relevant anymore. Trac has wound being a place where people report bugs, suggest code changes, request features and debate methodologies; some of these conversations are years old. This broad use of the system makes it harder to power through tickets and get bugs fixed.
\nIdeas forum: The Ideas forum is a place where anyone can suggest a new feature, rate features suggested by others, leave comments, and generally discuss the future of the WordPress application. However, like Trac, some of the items here are years old. Because of the way the rating system works, older items remain at the top of the list. Some threads are simply he said/she said preference arguments, as opposed to contructive discussions about the value of implementing certain features or changes. There’s no direct connection between the Ideas forum and Trac.
\nWordPress is an open source project, successful because of the community that both develops and uses it. At the same time, some people find it difficult to become involved in the project, and are unsure of how to engage with the core team and community at large. The channels listed above can be overwhleming to someone just joining the community, and/or frustrating to longtime community members who feel like they used to have more influence. We need to fix this. The WordPress project needs to be welcoming, easy to navigate as a contributor, and provide useful feedback to help grow the expertise of its community members.
\nI think we should figure this out together. You, members of this community, know how you feel about the communication channels available to you. You probably have ideas about how to make it better. Some of you may even have sketched out digrams of systems that you think would work better. Link Ideas to Trac? Change the Ideas rating algorithm? Close Trac tickets that don’t get resolved within a certain period of time? Just do everything through Trac? What do you think? What would make it easier for you to keep up with development progress and get involved with the varius contribution opportunities? I *know* you have an opinion.
\nOver the next few weeks, we’ll be gathering your input about how we can improve communication and participation, and then we’ll embark on a project to fix/create a system for collecting ideas, opinions and feedback that will allow WordPress to grow as an inclusive community. Here’s the plan: Gather ideas from people via IRC, forums, live chats, surveys, etc. Assemble a small group of interested parties to help figure out possible approaches, put suggested approaches to a community vote. If redesigning something (like the Ideas forum) is deemed necessary, utilize community designers to create layouts. Beta test it to see if it does work as hoped. Launch and make everyone happy with the new, improved communication/ideas/feedback system!
\nUp First
\nUse this forum thread to post your suggestions about this. What do you think needs to be changed or improved? How would you structure it? How do the existing channels fit into your suggestion?
\nOn Tuesday, May 12 at 21:00 UTC (5pm New York time), hop into the #wordpress-dev IRC channel (irc.freenode.com) and talk about your suggestions for how to improve communication. I’ll be there, taking notes and answering questions, and asking follow-up questions when someone pitches a good idea. An hour later, I’ll be joining the WordCast Podcast to talk about this issue. They’re trying to set up a call-in format; if that pans out, we’ll post the call-in info in the dev channel. Otherwise, A call-in number has been set up through TalkShoe.
\n1-724-444-7444
\nMeeting ID: 50127
\nPin (if you don’t have a TalkShoe account): enter 1#
We’ll also read off suggestions being made in the dev channel and discuss them.
\nMore opportunities to weigh in on this issue to come. Also, further investigation into the similarities between the core devs and Charlie’s Angels.
“I wish they’d implement feature x.”
\n“Why won’t they put feature y into core? It’s rated really high in the Ideas forum!”
\n“It doesn’t matter what I think, all the decisions get made by an elite crime-fighting squad funded by an anonymous millionaire. Er, I mean the four core devs.”
\nThese sentiments, and others like them, are the focus of today’s post. Setting aside the similarities between Ryan, Andrew, Mark and Peter to Charlie’s Angels for a moment, the question of how decisions about features are made needs to be addressed. There are a number of mechanisms in place for communication between the community and the core team, but with so many different channels, it’s hard to keep up with them all and still focus on production. Here’s where we are now…
\n#wordpress-dev IRC channel: The IRC channel used to be more active. These days there’s rarely more than a dozen or two people online at any given time, and hours go by with no activity. When a question pops up, it’s often a tech question from a less experienced developer or site manager looking for help, as opposed to ongoing discussions about the best way to approach core code and features. When core-focused discussions do occur, they tend to fade out as time zone variances cause people to log off before a core dev enters the room.
\nwp-hackers list: The hackers mailing list reaches thousands of contributing developers, plugin developers, and lurking interested parties. Discussions range from how to use hooks to whether or not something in core should be changed to troubleshooting for other list members. Conversations on this list sometimes can get heated and occasionally stray into rudeness, which makes some people hesitate to utilize this communication channel.
\nThis dev blog: This blog is used mostly for “official” announcements, and more recently, for surveys and polls intended to give the core devs an idea of community opinion on things being considered for future versions. Posting is irregular, sometimes with new content every other day, sometimes with nothing for a couple of weeks.
\nwpdevel.wordpress.com: Another blog, also an “official” outlet, in which the core team posts about any big code changes they’re working on. This gives plugin authors and contributing developers a heads-up, and provides a place for community discussion around specific issues like the new widgets API.
\nTrac: The ticket system used for active development has gotten out of control. Hundreds of tickets are already lined up for future versions because they were punted from current releases; many aren’t even relevant anymore. Trac has wound being a place where people report bugs, suggest code changes, request features and debate methodologies; some of these conversations are years old. This broad use of the system makes it harder to power through tickets and get bugs fixed.
\nIdeas forum: The Ideas forum is a place where anyone can suggest a new feature, rate features suggested by others, leave comments, and generally discuss the future of the WordPress application. However, like Trac, some of the items here are years old. Because of the way the rating system works, older items remain at the top of the list. Some threads are simply he said/she said preference arguments, as opposed to contructive discussions about the value of implementing certain features or changes. There’s no direct connection between the Ideas forum and Trac.
\nWordPress is an open source project, successful because of the community that both develops and uses it. At the same time, some people find it difficult to become involved in the project, and are unsure of how to engage with the core team and community at large. The channels listed above can be overwhleming to someone just joining the community, and/or frustrating to longtime community members who feel like they used to have more influence. We need to fix this. The WordPress project needs to be welcoming, easy to navigate as a contributor, and provide useful feedback to help grow the expertise of its community members.
\nI think we should figure this out together. You, members of this community, know how you feel about the communication channels available to you. You probably have ideas about how to make it better. Some of you may even have sketched out digrams of systems that you think would work better. Link Ideas to Trac? Change the Ideas rating algorithm? Close Trac tickets that don’t get resolved within a certain period of time? Just do everything through Trac? What do you think? What would make it easier for you to keep up with development progress and get involved with the varius contribution opportunities? I *know* you have an opinion.
\nOver the next few weeks, we’ll be gathering your input about how we can improve communication and participation, and then we’ll embark on a project to fix/create a system for collecting ideas, opinions and feedback that will allow WordPress to grow as an inclusive community. Here’s the plan: Gather ideas from people via IRC, forums, live chats, surveys, etc. Assemble a small group of interested parties to help figure out possible approaches, put suggested approaches to a community vote. If redesigning something (like the Ideas forum) is deemed necessary, utilize community designers to create layouts. Beta test it to see if it does work as hoped. Launch and make everyone happy with the new, improved communication/ideas/feedback system!
\nUp First
\nUse this forum thread to post your suggestions about this. What do you think needs to be changed or improved? How would you structure it? How do the existing channels fit into your suggestion?
\nOn Tuesday, May 12 at 21:00 UTC (5pm New York time), hop into the #wordpress-dev IRC channel (irc.freenode.com) and talk about your suggestions for how to improve communication. I’ll be there, taking notes and answering questions, and asking follow-up questions when someone pitches a good idea. An hour later, I’ll be joining the WordCast Podcast to talk about this issue. They’re trying to set up a call-in format; if that pans out, we’ll post the call-in info in the dev channel. Otherwise, A call-in number has been set up through TalkShoe.
\n1-724-444-7444
\nMeeting ID: 50127
\nPin (if you don’t have a TalkShoe account): enter 1#
We’ll also read off suggestions being made in the dev channel and discuss them.
\nMore opportunities to weigh in on this issue to come. Also, further investigation into the similarities between the core devs and Charlie’s Angels.
One of the reasons WordPress 2.7 was such a success is the amount of usability testing that took place during the development cycle. Starting with testing 2.5 and the Crazyhorse prototype and following with the 2.7 beta, the testing program looked at almost every feature and function in the application. That kind of thing? Takes a lot of time.
For readers who aren’t familiar with the process behind usability testing, here’s an overview. First, determine the scope of your test and create a test protocol/script. Determine the audience segments to be included in the test group(s), and begin recruiting. Recruiting may mean hiring an agency to find participants, but for testing WordPress, it makes more sense to recruit from within this community, so that means making a screening survey, reading all the responses, segmenting the respondents into categories and contacting people until you’ve filled your desired quotas (for whatever segments you’re seeking, such as newbie, experienced user, developer, CMS user, photoblogger, mobile user, etc. ). Then come the test sessions.
\nDepending on what is being tested, these last anywhere from half an hour to an hour and half apiece. Sessions are generally recorded using screen capture and web cam, with a video camera for backup. The moderator(s) generally take notes during sessions and/or (depending on what software is being used for the session capture) set markers in the video to indicate task completion, comments of interest, etc. In some cases, auxiliary test methods such as eye-tracking may be included. When the sessions are complete, the results are analyzed. All the notes and videos are reviewed, patterns are identified, and ultimately a report is written and the feedback informs the next round of revisions.
\nSome people think it shouldn’t take much time to do all this. I’ve lost count of the number of people who cite an old article by Jakob Nielsen that says you don’t need to test with more than 5 users because usability issues become clear right away. While I’ve found that to be generally true, when your user base is as diverse in experience level, usage, platform configuration, language (right to left languages have a pretty different experience) and demography as the WordPress community is, 5 users really isn’t enough to get a clear picture. We try to test with at least a dozen people each round, but then we are limited to a geographic region (test in NY, test in SF, or test wherever we can schedule enough people back to back to make it worthwhile), while WordPress users are located all over the globe.
\nTo address this, we’re introducing a set of new contribution opportunities to expand our usability testing program. As with development and graphic design, we’re going to create an infrastructure to allow community participation in usability testing on a regular basis and in a much broader capacity than existed before, when it was limited to announcements that we needed participants in x city on y date. We’ll be looking for volunteer moderators as well as participants, hopefully from all over the world.
\nModerators. Observational usability testing isn’t rocket science, but neither is it a simple task to reduce bias. Because of this, at first we’ll choose only moderators who have professional experience conducting usability tests. People who conduct testing for design agencies, software companies, usability consulting firms and the like will be our first round draft picks. In the future, when we have a group of regular volunteers and have ironed out any kinks in the process, we’ll ideally match up experienced testers with aspiring ones, using a mentorship model to increase the number of people who can contribute in this fashion.
\nParticipants. If you use WordPress, chances are you could participant in a usability test at some point. In some cases we’re looking for particular behaviors (people who upload large video files, people who blog from their iPhone, people who manage more than 5 blogs, etc.), while other times the behaviors we’re looking for are much more common (do you have widgets in your sidebar, have you changed themes in the last 6 months, is there more than one author on your blog, etc.).
\nSo how will these opportunities come into play, and how will it make WordPress better?
\nWe’ll start with the moderators, and try to get volunteers with a decent geographic spread. Then, we’ll start signing up potential test participants in those areas (though we’ll also allow at-large registrations, since traveling testing will still be happening). We’re working on a registration process for potential participants. You’ll enter your basic info (location, contact info) and answer some questions about your WordPress usage to be entered in the database, and when there’s a testing opportunity coming up that’s appropriate for you, a local moderator will get in touch to see if you’re interested. Further down the road we may experiment with remote testing and other methods, but for now, this approach will broaden the geographic scope of our testing.
\nAll moderators will follow the same test protocols and script, and their results/reports/video will be reviewed and collated, with a composite report (including the protocol/script that was used) published to the community. This will provide designers and developers with broader feedback during the dev cycle, and will allow the wider community to both understand and participate in the testing program.
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For readers who aren’t familiar with the process behind usability testing, here’s an overview. First, determine the scope of your test and create a test protocol/script. Determine the audience segments to be included in the test group(s), and begin recruiting. Recruiting may mean hiring an agency to find participants, but for testing WordPress, it makes more sense to recruit from within this community, so that means making a screening survey, reading all the responses, segmenting the respondents into categories and contacting people until you’ve filled your desired quotas (for whatever segments you’re seeking, such as newbie, experienced user, developer, CMS user, photoblogger, mobile user, etc. ). Then come the test sessions.
\nDepending on what is being tested, these last anywhere from half an hour to an hour and half apiece. Sessions are generally recorded using screen capture and web cam, with a video camera for backup. The moderator(s) generally take notes during sessions and/or (depending on what software is being used for the session capture) set markers in the video to indicate task completion, comments of interest, etc. In some cases, auxiliary test methods such as eye-tracking may be included. When the sessions are complete, the results are analyzed. All the notes and videos are reviewed, patterns are identified, and ultimately a report is written and the feedback informs the next round of revisions.
\nSome people think it shouldn’t take much time to do all this. I’ve lost count of the number of people who cite an old article by Jakob Nielsen that says you don’t need to test with more than 5 users because usability issues become clear right away. While I’ve found that to be generally true, when your user base is as diverse in experience level, usage, platform configuration, language (right to left languages have a pretty different experience) and demography as the WordPress community is, 5 users really isn’t enough to get a clear picture. We try to test with at least a dozen people each round, but then we are limited to a geographic region (test in NY, test in SF, or test wherever we can schedule enough people back to back to make it worthwhile), while WordPress users are located all over the globe.
\nTo address this, we’re introducing a set of new contribution opportunities to expand our usability testing program. As with development and graphic design, we’re going to create an infrastructure to allow community participation in usability testing on a regular basis and in a much broader capacity than existed before, when it was limited to announcements that we needed participants in x city on y date. We’ll be looking for volunteer moderators as well as participants, hopefully from all over the world.
\nModerators. Observational usability testing isn’t rocket science, but neither is it a simple task to reduce bias. Because of this, at first we’ll choose only moderators who have professional experience conducting usability tests. People who conduct testing for design agencies, software companies, usability consulting firms and the like will be our first round draft picks. In the future, when we have a group of regular volunteers and have ironed out any kinks in the process, we’ll ideally match up experienced testers with aspiring ones, using a mentorship model to increase the number of people who can contribute in this fashion.
\nParticipants. If you use WordPress, chances are you could participant in a usability test at some point. In some cases we’re looking for particular behaviors (people who upload large video files, people who blog from their iPhone, people who manage more than 5 blogs, etc.), while other times the behaviors we’re looking for are much more common (do you have widgets in your sidebar, have you changed themes in the last 6 months, is there more than one author on your blog, etc.).
\nSo how will these opportunities come into play, and how will it make WordPress better?
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\nIn WordPress we have a robust and extensible base that can scale to many millions of users, and BuddyPress is essentially a set of plugins on top of WordPress that add private messaging, profiles, friends, groups, activity streams, and everything else you’ve come to expect from your favorite social network, like a Facebook-in-a-box.
\nI don’t think BuddyPress will be something you use instead of your existing social networks, I mean all your friends are already on Myspace, but if you wanted to start something new maybe with more control, friendlier terms of service, or just something customized and tweaked to fit exactly into your existing site, then BuddyPress is a great framework to use. Maybe even someday you’ll be able to connect your BuddyPresses to each other and to the existing monolithic social networks.
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\nWhat’s more interesting to me is the overall style that seems to be preferred among voters, as Matt’s comp has some stylistic similarities to Dean’s (see image at left). It also would be interesting to know how many of the votes for the current 2.7 interface were based on thinking it looked the best vs. how many were votes against changing the interface at all so soon after the 2.7 redesign. If you want to comment on what you liked best and/or least about any of the designs, this thread is a good place.
\nSo what happens now? However we look at it, the Fluency-style designs clearly have a lot of fans. Then again, so do the designs of Matt Thomas (he’s behind the current style of 2.7, remember, in addition to the comp labeled MT). To give the interface the attention it is due, and to take seriously some of the interface feedback around usability and accessibility, we’re going to leave the looks alone for 2.8. It’s our guess that a revised style will make into 2.9 early in the development cycle to allow us plenty of time for user testing and revision. How close it winds up being to the comps submitted in this design tweaks challenge will depend, but in the meantime:
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\nWhat’s more interesting to me is the overall style that seems to be preferred among voters, as Matt’s comp has some stylistic similarities to Dean’s (see image at left). It also would be interesting to know how many of the votes for the current 2.7 interface were based on thinking it looked the best vs. how many were votes against changing the interface at all so soon after the 2.7 redesign. If you want to comment on what you liked best and/or least about any of the designs, this thread is a good place.
\nSo what happens now? However we look at it, the Fluency-style designs clearly have a lot of fans. Then again, so do the designs of Matt Thomas (he’s behind the current style of 2.7, remember, in addition to the comp labeled MT). To give the interface the attention it is due, and to take seriously some of the interface feedback around usability and accessibility, we’re going to leave the looks alone for 2.8. It’s our guess that a revised style will make into 2.9 early in the development cycle to allow us plenty of time for user testing and revision. How close it winds up being to the comps submitted in this design tweaks challenge will depend, but in the meantime:
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So why would you want to use a plugin like this? For starters, based on my experience with blogging, the conversation on any particular blog post usually only lasts 24-72 hours after it has been published. Rarely do I see an onslaught of comments after a period of seven days have gone by. I know that here on WeblogToolsCollection.com, we receive comments on articles that were published around 2005! But in a normal scenario, you could probably get by with auto closing comments 30 days after the post was published.
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Episode 40 of WordPress Weekly discussed a wide range of topics from the release of WordPress MU 2.7 to the All In One SEO Plugin reaching one million downloads. Also sad to say that this was Keith Murray’s last episode as co-host. I wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors.
Kym Huynh co-host of the WordPress centric podcast, WordCast was in a terrible car accident. Kym was in the middle of a three week vacation celebrating his recent graduation from law school when he ended up in a bad car accident. Unfortunately, Kym suffered quite a few broken bones and now has a metal arm. Dave Moyer of DaveMoyer.org, producer of show published an email he received from Kym earlier today that can be read on the DaveMoyer.org website. I personally wish Kym a fast and speedy recovery. Please visit DaveMoyer.org to find out how to send your get well wishes to Kym.
\nWordPress MU 2.7 Released
\nBuddyPress 1.0 Beta 2 Released
\nAll In One SEO Plugin Hits One Million Downloads
\nWordPress.TV Launches
\nThank A Plugin Developer Day
\nCForms 2 Removed From The Plugin Repository
\nWordCamp Denver, Feb 28th
\nWordPress Documentation Project
\nDoes The Post Revisions Feature Need To Be Revised?
Each week from now on, I’ll be featuring a new listener poll question on WPTavern.com The poll is located in the sidebar on the right hand side of the site.
\nThis weeks poll question was: Has the visual post editor ever made you angry?
\nOut of a total of 22 votes, 20 of you said yes while only 2 of you voted no.
\nNext Weeks Poll Question Is: Do you think configuration options need to be added to WordPress to configure Post Revisions?
\nPlugin Picks Of The Week:
\nJeff - Revision Control - Revision control gives users control over post/page revisions. With it, you can choose a blog-global setting which is found in SETTINGS - REVISIONS in the WordPress administration panel for pages/posts to enable/disable or limit the number of revisions which are saved per post/page. This setting can even be controlled on an individual level since the revision control shows up as a meta box in the WordPress Write Panel.
Keith - TweetSuite - TweetSuite is one of the most complete plugins available for Twitter-minded individuals. The tool allows for all the usual twitter features that we’ve come to expect (tweet my post, widget my tweets) but goes further: widget for favorite tweets, and most importantly TWEETBACKS. Becoming as important as trackbacks from other blogs are tweetbacks. When someone tweets your post with one of the major URL shortening services (tinyurl, is.gd etc) TweetSuite will find that tweet and add a tweetback to your post. Super cool. If you’re into twitter and have a blog, TweetSuite is a must-have.
\nAnnouncements: The next episode of WordPress Weekly will have a new co-host. Who will it be? Tune in to find out.
\nNext Episode: Friday February 6th, 2009 8P.M. EST
\nSubscribe To WPWeekly Via Itunes: Click here to subscribe
\nLength Of Episode: 56 Minutes
\nDownload The Show: WordPressWeeklyEpisode40.mp3
\nListen To Episode #40:
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Episode 40 of WordPress Weekly discussed a wide range of topics from the release of WordPress MU 2.7 to the All In One SEO Plugin reaching one million downloads. Also sad to say that this was Keith Murray’s last episode as co-host. I wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors.
Kym Huynh co-host of the WordPress centric podcast, WordCast was in a terrible car accident. Kym was in the middle of a three week vacation celebrating his recent graduation from law school when he ended up in a bad car accident. Unfortunately, Kym suffered quite a few broken bones and now has a metal arm. Dave Moyer of DaveMoyer.org, producer of show published an email he received from Kym earlier today that can be read on the DaveMoyer.org website. I personally wish Kym a fast and speedy recovery. Please visit DaveMoyer.org to find out how to send your get well wishes to Kym.
\nWordPress MU 2.7 Released
\nBuddyPress 1.0 Beta 2 Released
\nAll In One SEO Plugin Hits One Million Downloads
\nWordPress.TV Launches
\nThank A Plugin Developer Day
\nCForms 2 Removed From The Plugin Repository
\nWordCamp Denver, Feb 28th
\nWordPress Documentation Project
\nDoes The Post Revisions Feature Need To Be Revised?
Each week from now on, I’ll be featuring a new listener poll question on WPTavern.com The poll is located in the sidebar on the right hand side of the site.
\nThis weeks poll question was: Has the visual post editor ever made you angry?
\nOut of a total of 22 votes, 20 of you said yes while only 2 of you voted no.
\nNext Weeks Poll Question Is: Do you think configuration options need to be added to WordPress to configure Post Revisions?
\nPlugin Picks Of The Week:
\nJeff - Revision Control - Revision control gives users control over post/page revisions. With it, you can choose a blog-global setting which is found in SETTINGS - REVISIONS in the WordPress administration panel for pages/posts to enable/disable or limit the number of revisions which are saved per post/page. This setting can even be controlled on an individual level since the revision control shows up as a meta box in the WordPress Write Panel.
Keith - TweetSuite - TweetSuite is one of the most complete plugins available for Twitter-minded individuals. The tool allows for all the usual twitter features that we’ve come to expect (tweet my post, widget my tweets) but goes further: widget for favorite tweets, and most importantly TWEETBACKS. Becoming as important as trackbacks from other blogs are tweetbacks. When someone tweets your post with one of the major URL shortening services (tinyurl, is.gd etc) TweetSuite will find that tweet and add a tweetback to your post. Super cool. If you’re into twitter and have a blog, TweetSuite is a must-have.
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The plugin displays for all your bookmarks with a separately saved feed-url, when the most recent update has occured at the bookmarked site.
\n\nThis is a store locator / location finder plugin that provides mapping tools for web designers & developers who create sites in WordPress & web site owners who need to show store locations or any set of locations on their website(s). Uses Google Maps.
\n\nThis plugin collects the comments you posted on other people’s websites and lets you display them on your own blog. The process is entirely automated and works across all websites.
\n\nThis plugin allows you to embed Instapaper ‘Read Later’ links adjacent to each post on your blog. Either use the template tag to display the links wherever you wish or let the plugin automatically display the links for you.
\n\nA simple plugin that displays full comments on the Recent Comments dashboard box.
\n\nA nice plugin which creates a widget which shows your scheduled posts or drafts with excerpt and more infos.
\n\nImport friends from Hyves, a social networking website.
\n\nWP-Validate collects all the pages on your site and runs them through the W3C’s HTML Validator.
\nNo Sub-Category Posts in Loops
\nOnce activated, only posts from the current category are displayed in your loop (no posts from sub cats).
\n\nA user can twitter your blog post over the web.
\n\nThis plugin makes it easy to create a simple, modifiable popup window.
\n\nSimple PayPal Donate is a WordPress plugin that provides a basic ability to display PayPal donation buttons on your blog.
\nDisplay a list of contextually related posts for the current post. You can select the number of posts to display and if you want to automatically display the related posts in your content / feed.
\n\nStray Random Quotes helps you collects and display random quotes everywhere on your blog. The plugin is widget compatible, and the appearance of the quotes can be highly customized. It comes with a easy to use, advanced management tool and a option page.
\n\nAutomatically resize (i.e. scale down) images after uploading.
\n\nDisplay FLV and YouTube Video in you blog in a Custom Player. Usage: [zdvideo]url[/zdvideo].
\n\nDodo is a Wordpress plugin that personalizes your blog homepage to any of your registered users.
\n\nSimple widget that displays the recent posts with a short content preview.
\n\nGrabs your visitor IP addresses and generates a map for those visits. You can define most parameters from it’s options page.
\n\nAn elegant and easy way to present your archives.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:30:06 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:4595:\"The plugin displays for all your bookmarks with a separately saved feed-url, when the most recent update has occured at the bookmarked site.
\n\nThis is a store locator / location finder plugin that provides mapping tools for web designers & developers who create sites in WordPress & web site owners who need to show store locations or any set of locations on their website(s). Uses Google Maps.
\n\nThis plugin collects the comments you posted on other people’s websites and lets you display them on your own blog. The process is entirely automated and works across all websites.
\n\nThis plugin allows you to embed Instapaper ‘Read Later’ links adjacent to each post on your blog. Either use the template tag to display the links wherever you wish or let the plugin automatically display the links for you.
\n\nA simple plugin that displays full comments on the Recent Comments dashboard box.
\n\nA nice plugin which creates a widget which shows your scheduled posts or drafts with excerpt and more infos.
\n\nImport friends from Hyves, a social networking website.
\n\nWP-Validate collects all the pages on your site and runs them through the W3C’s HTML Validator.
\nNo Sub-Category Posts in Loops
\nOnce activated, only posts from the current category are displayed in your loop (no posts from sub cats).
\n\nA user can twitter your blog post over the web.
\n\nThis plugin makes it easy to create a simple, modifiable popup window.
\n\nSimple PayPal Donate is a WordPress plugin that provides a basic ability to display PayPal donation buttons on your blog.
\nDisplay a list of contextually related posts for the current post. You can select the number of posts to display and if you want to automatically display the related posts in your content / feed.
\n\nStray Random Quotes helps you collects and display random quotes everywhere on your blog. The plugin is widget compatible, and the appearance of the quotes can be highly customized. It comes with a easy to use, advanced management tool and a option page.
\n\nAutomatically resize (i.e. scale down) images after uploading.
\n\nDisplay FLV and YouTube Video in you blog in a Custom Player. Usage: [zdvideo]url[/zdvideo].
\n\nDodo is a Wordpress plugin that personalizes your blog homepage to any of your registered users.
\n\nSimple widget that displays the recent posts with a short content preview.
\n\nGrabs your visitor IP addresses and generates a map for those visits. You can define most parameters from it’s options page.
\n\nAn elegant and easy way to present your archives.
\";}i:4;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:60:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Et Tu Google? Then Fail, Net Safety\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5087\";s:4:\"link\";s:87:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/31/et-tu-google-then-fail-net-safety/\";s:11:\"description\";s:6943:\"I trust Google. I use GMail as my primary email address and store stuff in my mailbox that is of crucial importance to my existence as a citizen of this modern world. Over the past couple of months, Google’s Orkut has dealt a deadly blow to that trust that is making me rethink my allegiance towards anything Google.
\nI am the owner of a midly popular community on Orkut with about 25k users. Since I was given the privilege of being a beta tester on Orkut, I had created a community called Calcutta many years ago and that community has since, taken on a life of its own. It is run by moderators who report to me and I log in every so often to perform maintenance and help the moderators out. My existence is not only a mystery to the members of the community, it is also the source of much speculation and conspiracy theories, which was fine and dandy.
\nThe Orkut application itself is full of holes and though Google seems to respond to major public reports of vulnerabilities, they keep coming back. Support for Orkut from Google is almost non-existent with what appears to be zero accountability. If one plows through the Google help sections to try and solicit help, they are either faced with a page not found or convoluted help screens that barely ever actually lead to a form to request support. Pleas for help and more often answered by the “Orkut hackers” than by actual Google employees. The Orkut application is so dangerous that people do not click on any links that are not Orkut generated and even then accounts and communities are compromised all the time. Hacking scripts and techniques are easily found via a simple Google search.
\nNow I am just as selfish of an individual as everyone else. I barely cared about any of these issues until something bad happened to me that I needed help for. I was the target of a phishing attack on Orkut and I fell for it hook line and sinker. My Google login is associated with my Orkut login. As soon as I realized that I had just sent my username and password to a phisher (within a few seconds of me hitting enter), I changed my Google account password. But alas, the damage had already been done.
\nThis is where things get really weird. Apparently, a group of “hackers” had taken over my Orkut profile and were making drastic changes to the Calcutta community. Emails, IMs and phone calls started to roll in and I was in full panic. I was immediately concerned that my Google account was still compromised and all my personal stuff in my email would be in jeopardy. I went into damage control mode. I changed all my authentication credentials for everything Google.My Gmail account seemed to be untouched but my Orkut account, which uses the same login credentials (I know that was my own fault), seemed to still be under rogue control.
\nIn spite of changing my passwords multiple times, changing login names, changing email addresses and trying all authentication tricks to fix Orkut, the miscreants still regained control of my profile. Instead of falling for the FUD about viruses and worms on my computer (many well wishers who reported the problem to me suggested that I format my computer because i had a key logger that was sending my password to the hackers, completely untrue), I decided to do some research on the problem. The more I learned, the less confidence I had in Orkut and Google’s intention and/or ability to fix the problems.
\nNow the only reason I disclose this issue is because I have not only reported it to Orkut (and received no answer), it appears to be the same an age old vulerability and one of many similar issues that were purportedly fixed. You can recreate this at home if you please.
\nThe Orkut application stores cookies in such a way that if your cookie is ever recreated by someone else or transmitted to someone else, they can use that cookie to log in to Orkut as you. forever. No matter how you change your credentials, you have no recourse of regaining control. So if you ever get caught in a phishing scam that sends your password to someone else and they recreate your orkut_state cookie, they can login as you forever. I will not go into the technical details but the link above discusses it. If you log into your Orkut account using Firefox, using a cookie editing plugin, look for a cookie called orkut_state and copy the contents. Then log out of Orkut. After logging out, re-add the orkut_state cookie to Firefox with the cookie editing plugin and then visit www.orkut.com You will find yourself logged back in. Now I have tried changing my password, using a different browser, using a different machine from another location and other tricks with the same cookie and I have been granted access in all cases. From my research, it appears that Orkut expires the state cookie after 1 day (other reports talk about a 14 day expiration) but that problem is easily circumvented.
\nSo essentially, I am completely at the mercy of the people that have re-created my orkut_state cookie using my old password that I disclosed on the phishing site. I have tried to contact Orkut help, posted messages in the help groups, emailed and complained to Google, emailed and complained via the Orkut complaint forms and even tried sending messages to places that are not meant to be Orkut related. It has been over two weeks and I have yet to receive a single acknowledgment. Nothing, nada, zip.
\nI don’t mind telling you that it is despicable for a company like Google to run an extremely popular application with a complete lack of care for its netizens. While I acknowledge that Orkut is not the most important product that Google offers, I think Google should still stand by their product. I also acknowledge that the fact that I am in this mess is my own fault, but shouldn’t there be some recourse? Would Facebook or MySpace do the same thing? Are we all under the false hope that someone in these big companies actually cares about the people that use their products? Is the online world doomed to failure in circumstances or are we willing to make a stand only when it affects us?
\nWho can I contact at Google that can even pretend to help? I am NOT “negotiating” with the hackers who have control over my profile, which has also been suggested and immidiately turned down by me. Or is my community a complete loss because I made a mistake and fell for a phishing attack?
\nI am not sure how I feel about trusting my life’s contents to Google if this is how Google treats compromises in security.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:51:44 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:6943:\"I trust Google. I use GMail as my primary email address and store stuff in my mailbox that is of crucial importance to my existence as a citizen of this modern world. Over the past couple of months, Google’s Orkut has dealt a deadly blow to that trust that is making me rethink my allegiance towards anything Google.
\nI am the owner of a midly popular community on Orkut with about 25k users. Since I was given the privilege of being a beta tester on Orkut, I had created a community called Calcutta many years ago and that community has since, taken on a life of its own. It is run by moderators who report to me and I log in every so often to perform maintenance and help the moderators out. My existence is not only a mystery to the members of the community, it is also the source of much speculation and conspiracy theories, which was fine and dandy.
\nThe Orkut application itself is full of holes and though Google seems to respond to major public reports of vulnerabilities, they keep coming back. Support for Orkut from Google is almost non-existent with what appears to be zero accountability. If one plows through the Google help sections to try and solicit help, they are either faced with a page not found or convoluted help screens that barely ever actually lead to a form to request support. Pleas for help and more often answered by the “Orkut hackers” than by actual Google employees. The Orkut application is so dangerous that people do not click on any links that are not Orkut generated and even then accounts and communities are compromised all the time. Hacking scripts and techniques are easily found via a simple Google search.
\nNow I am just as selfish of an individual as everyone else. I barely cared about any of these issues until something bad happened to me that I needed help for. I was the target of a phishing attack on Orkut and I fell for it hook line and sinker. My Google login is associated with my Orkut login. As soon as I realized that I had just sent my username and password to a phisher (within a few seconds of me hitting enter), I changed my Google account password. But alas, the damage had already been done.
\nThis is where things get really weird. Apparently, a group of “hackers” had taken over my Orkut profile and were making drastic changes to the Calcutta community. Emails, IMs and phone calls started to roll in and I was in full panic. I was immediately concerned that my Google account was still compromised and all my personal stuff in my email would be in jeopardy. I went into damage control mode. I changed all my authentication credentials for everything Google.My Gmail account seemed to be untouched but my Orkut account, which uses the same login credentials (I know that was my own fault), seemed to still be under rogue control.
\nIn spite of changing my passwords multiple times, changing login names, changing email addresses and trying all authentication tricks to fix Orkut, the miscreants still regained control of my profile. Instead of falling for the FUD about viruses and worms on my computer (many well wishers who reported the problem to me suggested that I format my computer because i had a key logger that was sending my password to the hackers, completely untrue), I decided to do some research on the problem. The more I learned, the less confidence I had in Orkut and Google’s intention and/or ability to fix the problems.
\nNow the only reason I disclose this issue is because I have not only reported it to Orkut (and received no answer), it appears to be the same an age old vulerability and one of many similar issues that were purportedly fixed. You can recreate this at home if you please.
\nThe Orkut application stores cookies in such a way that if your cookie is ever recreated by someone else or transmitted to someone else, they can use that cookie to log in to Orkut as you. forever. No matter how you change your credentials, you have no recourse of regaining control. So if you ever get caught in a phishing scam that sends your password to someone else and they recreate your orkut_state cookie, they can login as you forever. I will not go into the technical details but the link above discusses it. If you log into your Orkut account using Firefox, using a cookie editing plugin, look for a cookie called orkut_state and copy the contents. Then log out of Orkut. After logging out, re-add the orkut_state cookie to Firefox with the cookie editing plugin and then visit www.orkut.com You will find yourself logged back in. Now I have tried changing my password, using a different browser, using a different machine from another location and other tricks with the same cookie and I have been granted access in all cases. From my research, it appears that Orkut expires the state cookie after 1 day (other reports talk about a 14 day expiration) but that problem is easily circumvented.
\nSo essentially, I am completely at the mercy of the people that have re-created my orkut_state cookie using my old password that I disclosed on the phishing site. I have tried to contact Orkut help, posted messages in the help groups, emailed and complained to Google, emailed and complained via the Orkut complaint forms and even tried sending messages to places that are not meant to be Orkut related. It has been over two weeks and I have yet to receive a single acknowledgment. Nothing, nada, zip.
\nI don’t mind telling you that it is despicable for a company like Google to run an extremely popular application with a complete lack of care for its netizens. While I acknowledge that Orkut is not the most important product that Google offers, I think Google should still stand by their product. I also acknowledge that the fact that I am in this mess is my own fault, but shouldn’t there be some recourse? Would Facebook or MySpace do the same thing? Are we all under the false hope that someone in these big companies actually cares about the people that use their products? Is the online world doomed to failure in circumstances or are we willing to make a stand only when it affects us?
\nWho can I contact at Google that can even pretend to help? I am NOT “negotiating” with the hackers who have control over my profile, which has also been suggested and immidiately turned down by me. Or is my community a complete loss because I made a mistake and fell for a phishing attack?
\nI am not sure how I feel about trusting my life’s contents to Google if this is how Google treats compromises in security.
\";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:60:\"Lorelle on WP: WordCast News: Broken Kym on Road to Recovery\";s:4:\"guid\";s:36:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=3800\";s:4:\"link\";s:85:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/wordcast-news-broken-kym-on-road-to-recovery/\";s:11:\"description\";s:4515:\"![\"Kym](\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/kyminhospital.jpg?w=231&h=304\" "\\"Kym")
According to news filtering out of South America and Australia, Kym Huynh of the popular, WordCast, weekly WordPress podcast, has been in a terrible car accident and managed to escape with a new metal arm.
Dave Moyer of WordCast has the latest news. Kym spent five days in the hospital undergoing massive surgery to replace his arm with titanium parts and pieces to hold it together.
\nDave has set up Get Well Soon, Kym on Drop.io for WordCast and the WordPress Community to share their good will messages.
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According to news filtering out of South America and Australia, Kym Huynh of the popular, WordCast, weekly WordPress podcast, has been in a terrible car accident and managed to escape with a new metal arm.
Dave Moyer of WordCast has the latest news. Kym spent five days in the hospital undergoing massive surgery to replace his arm with titanium parts and pieces to hold it together.
\nDave has set up Get Well Soon, Kym on Drop.io for WordCast and the WordPress Community to share their good will messages.
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As mentioned in WordPress News: Logogate, WordPress.tv, WordPressMU, BuddyPress, and More, WordPress Logogate continues.
As announced, Matt Mullenweg has added a script to WordPress.com that forces all the variations of WordPress to the proper spelling with a capital P in the “Press” part of the name. It is the trademark way it should be spelled, and it’s annoying to many in the WordPress community to see it uncapitalized.
\nThere are a variety of WordPress Plugins you can add to your blog to do the same thing, making it easy to not miss your p’s:
\nIf you like to do things manually, you can add the code manually, as WPEngineer shows in “Spelling WordPress Always Correctly”.
\nMany are asking what the font is used in the Official WordPress logo. According to mentions in the WordPress Mailing Lists and on the WordPress Support Forums, it is Mrs. Eaves.
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As mentioned in WordPress News: Logogate, WordPress.tv, WordPressMU, BuddyPress, and More, WordPress Logogate continues.
As announced, Matt Mullenweg has added a script to WordPress.com that forces all the variations of WordPress to the proper spelling with a capital P in the “Press” part of the name. It is the trademark way it should be spelled, and it’s annoying to many in the WordPress community to see it uncapitalized.
\nThere are a variety of WordPress Plugins you can add to your blog to do the same thing, making it easy to not miss your p’s:
\nIf you like to do things manually, you can add the code manually, as WPEngineer shows in “Spelling WordPress Always Correctly”.
\nMany are asking what the font is used in the Official WordPress logo. According to mentions in the WordPress Mailing Lists and on the WordPress Support Forums, it is Mrs. Eaves.
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Last week, we gave you two plugins to play with. And this week we’re back with yet another plugin.
\nWay back in 2005, Mark released the Top 10 posts plugin that allowed you to track page views and display them on your blog post. You could also display a list of popular posts.
\nWith WordPress 2.7, a update was necessary and here it is.
\nThe Top 10 plugin for WordPress will track page views on single and post pages and store them safely in a table in the WordPress database. You can then display the count in your post automatically, or either manually.
\nThe best part about Top 10 is that it is compatibile with WP Super Cache. It will count page views even with WP Super Cache enabled and a unique feature with this plugin is that it will display the latest count from the database even on cached posts.
\nThis plugin, though fully functional, is still in its nascent phase. There are several features that can be added and I already have a few planned. I’m looking forward to suggestions and feature requests to make Top 10 a truly useful plugin for all of you!
\nWe have it running on this blog and I also have it running on Techtites. Check out the bottom of the posts for a demo.
\nSo, pen down your comments on the plugin page or in the comments section below.
\n\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:06:56 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2229:\"Last week, we gave you two plugins to play with. And this week we’re back with yet another plugin.
\nWay back in 2005, Mark released the Top 10 posts plugin that allowed you to track page views and display them on your blog post. You could also display a list of popular posts.
\nWith WordPress 2.7, a update was necessary and here it is.
\nThe Top 10 plugin for WordPress will track page views on single and post pages and store them safely in a table in the WordPress database. You can then display the count in your post automatically, or either manually.
\nThe best part about Top 10 is that it is compatibile with WP Super Cache. It will count page views even with WP Super Cache enabled and a unique feature with this plugin is that it will display the latest count from the database even on cached posts.
\nThis plugin, though fully functional, is still in its nascent phase. There are several features that can be added and I already have a few planned. I’m looking forward to suggestions and feature requests to make Top 10 a truly useful plugin for all of you!
\nWe have it running on this blog and I also have it running on Techtites. Check out the bottom of the posts for a demo.
\nSo, pen down your comments on the plugin page or in the comments section below.
\n\";}i:8;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:25:\"Matt: Venture Destruction\";s:4:\"guid\";s:21:\"http://ma.tt/?p=11069\";s:4:\"link\";s:41:\"http://ma.tt/2009/01/venture-destruction/\";s:11:\"description\";s:222:\"Asleep at the Wheel of Creative Destruction. Umair Haque’s thoughts on venture capital and the current crisis.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:44:18 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:222:\"Asleep at the Wheel of Creative Destruction. Umair Haque’s thoughts on venture capital and the current crisis.
\";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:20:\"Matt: MobileMe Notes\";s:4:\"guid\";s:21:\"http://ma.tt/?p=11067\";s:4:\"link\";s:36:\"http://ma.tt/2009/01/mobileme-notes/\";s:11:\"description\";s:588:\"Dear MobileMe / Me.com, I really think you’re swell. I’ve been dreaming dreams of sync since my first Handspring, and you are the best I’ve used. Two things would put you over the top. First, the notes application on the iPhone is handy, but please sync this to a quickie app on Me.com so I can put stuff in and out of notes easily. Second, and this is a stretch, I know you don’t like to-do applications, but I also have an inkling you could do something that would make me stop using paper and pen for to-dos. And synchronize it. With love, Matt.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:38:34 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:588:\"Dear MobileMe / Me.com, I really think you’re swell. I’ve been dreaming dreams of sync since my first Handspring, and you are the best I’ve used. Two things would put you over the top. First, the notes application on the iPhone is handy, but please sync this to a quickie app on Me.com so I can put stuff in and out of notes easily. Second, and this is a stretch, I know you don’t like to-do applications, but I also have an inkling you could do something that would make me stop using paper and pen for to-dos. And synchronize it. With love, Matt.
\";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:64:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Screencasting Resources at WordPress.tv\";s:4:\"guid\";s:92:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/30/screencasting-resources-at-wordpresstv/\";s:4:\"link\";s:92:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/30/screencasting-resources-at-wordpresstv/\";s:11:\"description\";s:442:\"Screencasting Resources (Part One).: Michael Pick of WordPress.tv fame has started to put together a list of resources for screencasting. The goal is of course to add this user generated content to WordPress.tv for everyone to avail of. You could also add your videos and screencasts to WeblogToolsVideos.com
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This week’s Blog Herald WordPress News is WordPress News: Logogate, WordCamps Everywhere, WordPress.tv, BuddyPress, WordPressMU, WordPress Plugin Podcast, and More:
\nWordPress Logogate continues. New WordCamps announced worldwide. WordPress.tv is changing WordPress tutorials and resources. WordPressMU updated. BuddyPress released any day. Super Cache new version released. Matt featured in USAToday. Did you hug a WordPress Plugin developer recently? New podcast on WordPress Plugins announced. And tons more WordPress news, tips, techniques, Plugins, and Themes.
Some WordPress news highlights you need to know include:
\nAmong Matt’s new year’s resolutions is to get the WordPress Community using the correct WordPress logo. He’s created a comparison image to convince everyone to use the right logo, but that wasn’t enough. Many thought the difference between the two was the color when it’s reallyl the font. So he’s created a new specific version to help you understand:
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Color it whatever you want, but use the right base to start with. The font counts. When playing with the WordPress logo, start with the Official WordPress logos.
\nAlso, WordPress is spelled WordPress not Wordpress. To make this part of his new year’s resolutions come true, he’s written a script to force Wordpress into WordPress across all of the 5 million plus blogs on WordPress.com. Instant gratification.
\nWordPressMU 2.7 is now available, the multi-user version of WordPress than runs WordPress.com and other blog networks. This new version includes the latest version of WordPress and a lot of bug fixes. It also includes the exciting announcement that Viper007bond’s admin bar has been added to the core to make it even easier to use.
\nAndy Peatling announced BuddyPress Beta 2 would be delayed until WordPressMU’s latest version was released, but now that WordPressMU 2.7 is out, he has no excuses. Stay tuned for more news on this exciting social media WordPress Theme for WordPressMU blog networks.
\nWP Super Cache has undergone a variety of patches and updates recently, and is now at version 0.9 with some great improvements for mobile user agents, reduction of cache files for sites with a lot of anonymous visitors, improvved compression and expiry times. Reports are that the new version is faster than ever.
\nLoading JavaScript In Footer In WordPress 2.8 is another tutorial for WordPress Plugin authors by Lester Chan on how to improve your WordPress Plugin’s use of code and JavaScript. This one tackles how to load JavaScript properly into the footer in preparation for WordPress 2.8.
\nFor more WordPress news, check out my weekly Blog Herald WordPress News. For more WordCamp news, check out the The WordCamp Report.
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This week’s Blog Herald WordPress News is WordPress News: Logogate, WordCamps Everywhere, WordPress.tv, BuddyPress, WordPressMU, WordPress Plugin Podcast, and More:
\nWordPress Logogate continues. New WordCamps announced worldwide. WordPress.tv is changing WordPress tutorials and resources. WordPressMU updated. BuddyPress released any day. Super Cache new version released. Matt featured in USAToday. Did you hug a WordPress Plugin developer recently? New podcast on WordPress Plugins announced. And tons more WordPress news, tips, techniques, Plugins, and Themes.
Some WordPress news highlights you need to know include:
\nAmong Matt’s new year’s resolutions is to get the WordPress Community using the correct WordPress logo. He’s created a comparison image to convince everyone to use the right logo, but that wasn’t enough. Many thought the difference between the two was the color when it’s reallyl the font. So he’s created a new specific version to help you understand:
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Color it whatever you want, but use the right base to start with. The font counts. When playing with the WordPress logo, start with the Official WordPress logos.
\nAlso, WordPress is spelled WordPress not Wordpress. To make this part of his new year’s resolutions come true, he’s written a script to force Wordpress into WordPress across all of the 5 million plus blogs on WordPress.com. Instant gratification.
\nWordPressMU 2.7 is now available, the multi-user version of WordPress than runs WordPress.com and other blog networks. This new version includes the latest version of WordPress and a lot of bug fixes. It also includes the exciting announcement that Viper007bond’s admin bar has been added to the core to make it even easier to use.
\nAndy Peatling announced BuddyPress Beta 2 would be delayed until WordPressMU’s latest version was released, but now that WordPressMU 2.7 is out, he has no excuses. Stay tuned for more news on this exciting social media WordPress Theme for WordPressMU blog networks.
\nWP Super Cache has undergone a variety of patches and updates recently, and is now at version 0.9 with some great improvements for mobile user agents, reduction of cache files for sites with a lot of anonymous visitors, improvved compression and expiry times. Reports are that the new version is faster than ever.
\nLoading JavaScript In Footer In WordPress 2.8 is another tutorial for WordPress Plugin authors by Lester Chan on how to improve your WordPress Plugin’s use of code and JavaScript. This one tackles how to load JavaScript properly into the footer in preparation for WordPress 2.8.
\nFor more WordPress news, check out my weekly Blog Herald WordPress News. For more WordCamp news, check out the The WordCamp Report.
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We’ve improved the accuracy of the Akismet stats feature that was introduced in Akismet 2.2.1. You might notice a slight change in the total spam, comments and accuracy figures reported at the top of your stats page, and the percentages shown in the pie chart. The Historical Stats figures and time graphs are unaffected - these were correct all along.
\nThere’s no plugin upgrade required.
\nOur overall spam statistics remain unchanged, and Akismet is as accurate as ever.
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We’ve improved the accuracy of the Akismet stats feature that was introduced in Akismet 2.2.1. You might notice a slight change in the total spam, comments and accuracy figures reported at the top of your stats page, and the percentages shown in the pie chart. The Historical Stats figures and time graphs are unaffected - these were correct all along.
\nThere’s no plugin upgrade required.
\nOur overall spam statistics remain unchanged, and Akismet is as accurate as ever.
\n LinkCurl grabs related links from Google Blog Search based on post titles, tags, or categories and appends them to your entry.
\n\nWhen people visit your website using an outdated browser, a subtle upgrade link is shown at the top right hand corner of the screen. They can click this link to visit the upgrade website for that browser, or choose to be reminded after a time you specify.
\n\nDRegister (which stands for Dr. Register) is a clean and easy plugin that allows you to force your user to provide First and Last name upon registration and create custom fields and specify if they have to be alphanumeric or numeric only , plus if they are required to complete registration.
\n\nSimple AdSense Insert is a WordPress plugin that provides a basic ability to display AdSense adverts on your blog.
\n\nWith WP_FlashTime Widget you can add a flash clock to your wordpress.This plugin include 25 different flash clocks.
\n\nFloatbox Plus is a plugin that implements Floatbox (a JavaScript similar to Lightview) and is based on the WP-Plugin Lightview Plus by Thorsten Puzich
\n\nA picasa plugin, insert flash album, single/multiple picture(s) by clicks.
\nGreg’s Threaded Comment Numbering
\nNumbers comments sequentially and hierarchically; handles comments which are threaded, paged and/or reversed.
\n\nAllows to extend your blog with class-based skinnable widgets, optionally arranged in page areas (sidebars).
\nSearch Engine query in Wordpress
\nIf the visitor comes from a known search engine, the widget grabs the used search query and shows internal blog posts that match that query.
\nThis plugin provides a widget and a shortcode which allow you to show lists of avatars of blog users.
\n\nFortunate is a random quote generator for your blog. It differs from other random quotation plugins in that it is designed to be hassle free - you don’t need to install or configure a ‘fortune’ database or maintain your own list of random quotes. You’ll have instant access to a selection of over 100,000 random quotes in several languages (English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, and Russian).
\n\nWP Super Cache is a page caching plugin for WordPress that will significantly speed up your website.
\n\nDeveloper Formatter system to WordPress. Powered by GeSHi server-side highlight system.
\n\nAutomatically translates your blog in 34 different languages!
\n\nThis plugin adds a footer link to add the current post or page to a Facebook Mini-Feed.
\n\nEasily manage and display images in post excerpts, feeds etc. using custom fields.
\n\nDisplay recent commentators with gravator icon. This widget will not display you and your sites publishers.
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\n\nWhen people visit your website using an outdated browser, a subtle upgrade link is shown at the top right hand corner of the screen. They can click this link to visit the upgrade website for that browser, or choose to be reminded after a time you specify.
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\n\nSimple AdSense Insert is a WordPress plugin that provides a basic ability to display AdSense adverts on your blog.
\n\nWith WP_FlashTime Widget you can add a flash clock to your wordpress.This plugin include 25 different flash clocks.
\n\nFloatbox Plus is a plugin that implements Floatbox (a JavaScript similar to Lightview) and is based on the WP-Plugin Lightview Plus by Thorsten Puzich
\n\nA picasa plugin, insert flash album, single/multiple picture(s) by clicks.
\nGreg’s Threaded Comment Numbering
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\n\nAllows to extend your blog with class-based skinnable widgets, optionally arranged in page areas (sidebars).
\nSearch Engine query in Wordpress
\nIf the visitor comes from a known search engine, the widget grabs the used search query and shows internal blog posts that match that query.
\nThis plugin provides a widget and a shortcode which allow you to show lists of avatars of blog users.
\n\nFortunate is a random quote generator for your blog. It differs from other random quotation plugins in that it is designed to be hassle free - you don’t need to install or configure a ‘fortune’ database or maintain your own list of random quotes. You’ll have instant access to a selection of over 100,000 random quotes in several languages (English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, and Russian).
\n\nWP Super Cache is a page caching plugin for WordPress that will significantly speed up your website.
\n\nDeveloper Formatter system to WordPress. Powered by GeSHi server-side highlight system.
\n\nAutomatically translates your blog in 34 different languages!
\n\nThis plugin adds a footer link to add the current post or page to a Facebook Mini-Feed.
\n\nEasily manage and display images in post excerpts, feeds etc. using custom fields.
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\";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:22:\"Matt: WordCamp Roundup\";s:4:\"guid\";s:21:\"http://ma.tt/?p=11049\";s:4:\"link\";s:38:\"http://ma.tt/2009/01/wordcamp-roundup/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1320:\"This month there were three WordCamps around the world: WordCamp Las Vegas, WordCamp Indonesia, and WordCamp Whistler. Here’s what’s coming up in the next two months. Asterisks indicate WordCamps I’ll be attending:
\nThis month there were three WordCamps around the world: WordCamp Las Vegas, WordCamp Indonesia, and WordCamp Whistler. Here’s what’s coming up in the next two months. Asterisks indicate WordCamps I’ll be attending:
\nWordPress by itself is very simple — what makes it compelling for most of its users is the wide array of plugins (and themes) available for WP. The average WordPress blog has about 5 plugins installed! Today we just passed 4,000 plugins available in our plugin directory. (Which is also embedded into everyone’s WordPress 2.7 or above.)
\nI declare January 28th our official “Thank a Plugin Developer” day. To celebrate take a look at the plugins you use and love, visit the author’s site, find their contact form, and drop them a note thanking them. (Or Paypal!) Look for the links in the plugin directory to “author homepage” and also to donate directly if they’ve specified a Paypal address.
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WordPress by itself is very simple — what makes it compelling for most of its users is the wide array of plugins (and themes) available for WP. The average WordPress blog has about 5 plugins installed! Today we just passed 4,000 plugins available in our plugin directory. (Which is also embedded into everyone’s WordPress 2.7 or above.)
\nI declare January 28th our official “Thank a Plugin Developer” day. To celebrate take a look at the plugins you use and love, visit the author’s site, find their contact form, and drop them a note thanking them. (Or Paypal!) Look for the links in the plugin directory to “author homepage” and also to donate directly if they’ve specified a Paypal address.
\nThank you to everyone who has ever written a plugin for WordPress, and here’s to the next four thousand.
After a lengthy delay, WordPress MU 2.7 is now available. WordPress MU is the software that runs on WordPress.com and many other sites.
\nThis is a sync of the code from WordPress 2.7 released last December. It’s taken a while but I think it’s worth the wait as there are many bugs fixed. Besides the merge with WordPress 2.7 there are also a few new features, including Viper007bond’s admin bar which is the most user visible addition.
\nCheck the timeline for further info.
Upgrading from WordPress MU 2.6.5 should be as easy as copying over your existing install but please backup everything. Blog databases must be upgraded but that will occur in the background as usual.
\nI would really like to thank everyone who helped me bring this release out and offered me encouragement along the way. I’d name names but I’m bound to miss someone! It’s great hearing what everyone is doing with WordPress MU. There’s quite a community out there!
\nRelated Posts
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:27:37 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:7:\"Donncha\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1873:\"After a lengthy delay, WordPress MU 2.7 is now available. WordPress MU is the software that runs on WordPress.com and many other sites.
\nThis is a sync of the code from WordPress 2.7 released last December. It’s taken a while but I think it’s worth the wait as there are many bugs fixed. Besides the merge with WordPress 2.7 there are also a few new features, including Viper007bond’s admin bar which is the most user visible addition.
\nCheck the timeline for further info.
Upgrading from WordPress MU 2.6.5 should be as easy as copying over your existing install but please backup everything. Blog databases must be upgraded but that will occur in the background as usual.
\nI would really like to thank everyone who helped me bring this release out and offered me encouragement along the way. I’d name names but I’m bound to miss someone! It’s great hearing what everyone is doing with WordPress MU. There’s quite a community out there!
\nRelated Posts
\";}i:17;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:19:\"Matt: 4,000 Plugins\";s:4:\"guid\";s:21:\"http://ma.tt/?p=11047\";s:4:\"link\";s:34:\"http://ma.tt/2009/01/4000-plugins/\";s:11:\"description\";s:372:\"WordPress.org plugin directory just reached its 4,000th plugin! I declare January 28th our official “Thank a Plugin Developer” day. To celebrate take a look at the plugins you use and love, visit the author’s site, find their contact form, and drop them a note. (Or Paypal!)
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:27:22 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:372:\"WordPress.org plugin directory just reached its 4,000th plugin! I declare January 28th our official “Thank a Plugin Developer” day. To celebrate take a look at the plugins you use and love, visit the author’s site, find their contact form, and drop them a note. (Or Paypal!)
\";}i:18;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:53:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Michael Pick Of WordPress.TV\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5074\";s:4:\"link\";s:81:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/28/michael-pick-of-wordpresstv/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2490:\" On the evening of Tuesday, January 27th, I had the pleasure to converse with Michael Pick, an employee of Automattic and also the guy behind the newly launched WordPress.TV. WordPress.TV is a new website which aggregates all sorts of WordPress content in video form. The site has already made a name for itself by showcasing many of the videos from recent WordCamps. Here is just a sampling of what we discussed during the show.
Here are some of the questions we covered on the show:
\nNear the end of the show, I let my curiosity get the best of me.
\nPlug For A Podcast: Plugins Podcast is a podcast which aims to cover one WordPress plugin a week with occasional interviews of plugin developers as well as heavy plugin users. Episodes range between 10-15 minutes and are in mp3 format. Angelo already has a podcast available on the pluginspodcast.com website where he discusses the CForms2 Custom Forms plugin. So if you’re a plugin junkie, this sounds like the show for you.
\nAnnouncements: This Friday will be Keith Murray’s last episode as co-host of the show. Please stop by for the going away party as we send Keith off to greener pastures.
\nSubscribe To WPWeekly Via Itunes: Click here to subscribe
\nLength Of Episode:47 Minutes
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\nListen To Episode #39:
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On the evening of Tuesday, January 27th, I had the pleasure to converse with Michael Pick, an employee of Automattic and also the guy behind the newly launched WordPress.TV. WordPress.TV is a new website which aggregates all sorts of WordPress content in video form. The site has already made a name for itself by showcasing many of the videos from recent WordCamps. Here is just a sampling of what we discussed during the show.
Here are some of the questions we covered on the show:
\nNear the end of the show, I let my curiosity get the best of me.
\nPlug For A Podcast: Plugins Podcast is a podcast which aims to cover one WordPress plugin a week with occasional interviews of plugin developers as well as heavy plugin users. Episodes range between 10-15 minutes and are in mp3 format. Angelo already has a podcast available on the pluginspodcast.com website where he discusses the CForms2 Custom Forms plugin. So if you’re a plugin junkie, this sounds like the show for you.
\nAnnouncements: This Friday will be Keith Murray’s last episode as co-host of the show. Please stop by for the going away party as we send Keith off to greener pastures.
\nSubscribe To WPWeekly Via Itunes: Click here to subscribe
\nLength Of Episode:47 Minutes
\nDownload The Show: WordPressWeeklyEpisode39.mp3
\nListen To Episode #39:
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Not that we do not hear enough of Ma.tt and his history with WordPress, but USA Today had a nice article on Matt, WordPress and his fans. Mom says her son is so focused on WordPress, “Sometimes he forgets to eat and sleep. He’s a young man in a hurry. He never stops. I keep telling him to slow down.”
\nAlso of interest, via a review on Mashable, is of a service called Errorlytics. It is a 404 redirect service that lets a website owner track 404 page hits, transparently redirect 404 pages to other content within a blog and/or website and possibly increases pageviews and SEO. They have a custom WordPress plugin for the purpose and the service is free for one domain and 5 rules. Now is it worth it? I will never use it because I do not want to depend on another remotely hosted service for my uptime. There are many WordPress plugins that acheive the same purpose and do it for free. There are many ways to handle 404 pages efficiently and with good results. This service might be useful to those who either do not have the experience to put other solutions in place or are looking to make use of the other features associated with the service. If you have Errorlytics installed, what did you think of the service?
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:08:07 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1492:\"Not that we do not hear enough of Ma.tt and his history with WordPress, but USA Today had a nice article on Matt, WordPress and his fans. Mom says her son is so focused on WordPress, “Sometimes he forgets to eat and sleep. He’s a young man in a hurry. He never stops. I keep telling him to slow down.”
\nAlso of interest, via a review on Mashable, is of a service called Errorlytics. It is a 404 redirect service that lets a website owner track 404 page hits, transparently redirect 404 pages to other content within a blog and/or website and possibly increases pageviews and SEO. They have a custom WordPress plugin for the purpose and the service is free for one domain and 5 rules. Now is it worth it? I will never use it because I do not want to depend on another remotely hosted service for my uptime. There are many WordPress plugins that acheive the same purpose and do it for free. There are many ways to handle 404 pages efficiently and with good results. This service might be useful to those who either do not have the experience to put other solutions in place or are looking to make use of the other features associated with the service. If you have Errorlytics installed, what did you think of the service?
\";}i:20;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:23:\"Matt: USA Today Article\";s:4:\"guid\";s:21:\"http://ma.tt/?p=11044\";s:4:\"link\";s:39:\"http://ma.tt/2009/01/usa-today-article/\";s:11:\"description\";s:320:\"WordPress creator Mullenweg is many bloggers’ best friend - USATODAY.com. We got some nice press in USA Today in an article by Jefferson Graham, pick up a dead tree copy today if you can to check out the article.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:40:21 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:320:\"WordPress creator Mullenweg is many bloggers’ best friend - USATODAY.com. We got some nice press in USA Today in an article by Jefferson Graham, pick up a dead tree copy today if you can to check out the article.
\";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:26:\"Akismet: Congrats Defensio\";s:4:\"guid\";s:30:\"http://blog.akismet.com/?p=122\";s:4:\"link\";s:53:\"http://blog.akismet.com/2009/01/27/congrats-defensio/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2647:\"Just a bit after a year after we welcomed Defensio to the market it’s just been announced that that they’re being swallowed by the public security company Websense.
\nGiven the size of Defensio’s team and user base it probably wasn’t a huge acquisition, but this is still an important validation of the space in general as traditional email anti-spam and security companies have been completely blind to web spam thus far, and in my opinion it’s the fastest growing threat to most businesses today.
\n(Think about it: if you get a spam in your email, it’s annoying but not the end of the world; if you get a spam on your website it’s immediately visible to your customers who probably won’t be impressed by “buy viagra’s” contribution to the conversation when thinking about your products or services.)
\n2009 is shaping up to be a pretty interesting year in our world. We’ll definitely be keeping an eye on the ever-increasing players in this market, but more importantly we’ll be listening to you guys and do our best to be as invisible and effective as possible. (Especially as we approach 10 billion spams blocked!)
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Just a bit after a year after we welcomed Defensio to the market it’s just been announced that that they’re being swallowed by the public security company Websense.
\nGiven the size of Defensio’s team and user base it probably wasn’t a huge acquisition, but this is still an important validation of the space in general as traditional email anti-spam and security companies have been completely blind to web spam thus far, and in my opinion it’s the fastest growing threat to most businesses today.
\n(Think about it: if you get a spam in your email, it’s annoying but not the end of the world; if you get a spam on your website it’s immediately visible to your customers who probably won’t be impressed by “buy viagra’s” contribution to the conversation when thinking about your products or services.)
\n2009 is shaping up to be a pretty interesting year in our world. We’ll definitely be keeping an eye on the ever-increasing players in this market, but more importantly we’ll be listening to you guys and do our best to be as invisible and effective as possible. (Especially as we approach 10 billion spams blocked!)
\n 10 Must-See Videos on WordPress.TV.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:35:05 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:128:\"10 Must-See Videos on WordPress.TV.
\";}i:23;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 01/27\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5070\";s:4:\"link\";s:87:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/27/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0127/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1207:\"\n![\"SimpleOrange\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/simpleorange.png\" "\\"SimpleOrange\\"")
White and grey, three column theme with touches of Orange.
\n\n![\"PinkValentines\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/pinkvalentines.gif\" "\\"PinkValentines\\"")
Two column, pink, grunge-style theme just in time for Valentine’s day
\n\n![\"TooNewsy\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/toonewsy.jpg\" "\\"TooNewsy\\"")
Too Newsy Performancing Theme for WordPress is a three-column widget and gravatar ready WordPress theme with complete support for WordPress 2.7 features including threaded comments.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:45:07 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1207:\"\n
White and grey, three column theme with touches of Orange.
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Two column, pink, grunge-style theme just in time for Valentine’s day
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Too Newsy Performancing Theme for WordPress is a three-column widget and gravatar ready WordPress theme with complete support for WordPress 2.7 features including threaded comments.
\";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:27:\"Donncha: WP Super Cache 0.9\";s:4:\"guid\";s:29:\"http://ocaoimh.ie/?p=89494459\";s:4:\"link\";s:47:\"http://ocaoimh.ie/2009/01/27/wp-super-cache-09/\";s:11:\"description\";s:4057:\"WP Super Cache version 0.9 is now available. WP Super Cache is a page caching plugin for WordPress that will significantly speed up your website.
\nUpdate - if your blog is installed in a sub directory instead of at the root of your server, the .htaccess file might be wrong. Download and install the development version which corrects this. You’ll have to edit the .htaccess file (anyone want to volunteer to write an auto-upgrader?) and remove the rules between the lines # BEGIN WPSuperCache and # END WPSuperCache. Delete those lines too and visit your admin page. The plugin should do it’s stuff and spit out correct mod_rewrite rules for you. The dev version also has a few other bug fixes so if you’re adventurous have fun upgrading!
\nThere’s no need to touch wp-content/cache/.htaccess
Are we nearing version 1? Possibly. In this release a number of bugs have been fixed and the following new features added:\n
![\"cache-contents\"](\"http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/cache-contents.png\" "\\"cache-contents\\"")
Unfortunately wp-content/advanced-cache.php will have to be updated again and it’s not as simple as copying the file from the plugin directory. Full instructions are printed on the admin page and it should auto update in most cases.
\nPS. Test your upgraded blog on Is my blog working, a project by fellow Automattican Alex Shiels.
\nHere’s the page for this site. 102ms page generation time is rather fast!
Related Posts
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:51:31 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:7:\"Donncha\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:4057:\"WP Super Cache version 0.9 is now available. WP Super Cache is a page caching plugin for WordPress that will significantly speed up your website.
\nUpdate - if your blog is installed in a sub directory instead of at the root of your server, the .htaccess file might be wrong. Download and install the development version which corrects this. You’ll have to edit the .htaccess file (anyone want to volunteer to write an auto-upgrader?) and remove the rules between the lines # BEGIN WPSuperCache and # END WPSuperCache. Delete those lines too and visit your admin page. The plugin should do it’s stuff and spit out correct mod_rewrite rules for you. The dev version also has a few other bug fixes so if you’re adventurous have fun upgrading!
\nThere’s no need to touch wp-content/cache/.htaccess
Are we nearing version 1? Possibly. In this release a number of bugs have been fixed and the following new features added:\n
Unfortunately wp-content/advanced-cache.php will have to be updated again and it’s not as simple as copying the file from the plugin directory. Full instructions are printed on the admin page and it should auto update in most cases.
\nPS. Test your upgraded blog on Is my blog working, a project by fellow Automattican Alex Shiels.
\nHere’s the page for this site. 102ms page generation time is rather fast!
Related Posts
\";}i:25;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:60:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 01/26\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5063\";s:4:\"link\";s:88:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/26/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0126/\";s:11:\"description\";s:4415:\"Many web sites try to load your content into their own frame, to help sell ads on their sites. This simple plugin ensure your site is protect from this using a simple piece of code in your document header.
\n\nShows all the categories in the checklist on the Add New Post screen
\n\nIntegrate the FancyBox jQuery plugin with WordPress galleries. FancyBox is a “lightbox” plugin for displaying images in a nice overlay.
\n\nPopuList allows you to track the popularity of your posts on social bookmarking sites reddit, stumbleupon, del.icio.us and digg. When PopuList is activated, a page is added to your dashboard giving the number of times a page has been saved or upvoted.
\n\nCreate a dynamic Google gadget for your WordPress blog. Allow People to add your gadget to iGoogle.
\n\nWP Dropdown Metas allows you to output a dropdown input based on the values of a certain custom field.
\n\nAutomatically give WordPress users a bbPress role of member when registering.
\n\nxili-language provides an automatic selection of language (.mo files) in theme according to the language of one post.
\n\nOur Progress allows WordPress to display a thermometer to measure progress such as fundraising.
\n\nAutomatically generates a copyright notice based on the first and last post published in the WordPress database.
\nPopulates the favorites drop down menu, introduced in 2.7, with links based on actual page accesses. Lists the pages you actually use most.
\n\nOld Post Promoter randomly chooses an old post and promotes the post into either the 1st or 2nd position. The effect is to republish the post and insert the post back onto the front page and the rss feed.
\n\nWP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.
\nConstant Contact WordPress Widget
\nThis widget adds a Constant Contact signup form to your sidebar and allows you to configure the display.
\n\nVery small plugin that forces users to login to view the blog.
\n\nInsert Flickr sets, tags or individual photos in your posts by using a special tag.
\n\nTaglets Feeder is a Wordpress plug-in that pushes updates to Taglets.org when you publish a post.
\nVertical Response Newsletter Widget
\nAdd a Vertical Response signup form to your sidebar. Lots of configuration options.
\n\nAutomatically generates XML Sitemaps for your site and notifies search engines when they’re updated.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:30:14 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:4415:\"Many web sites try to load your content into their own frame, to help sell ads on their sites. This simple plugin ensure your site is protect from this using a simple piece of code in your document header.
\n\nShows all the categories in the checklist on the Add New Post screen
\n\nIntegrate the FancyBox jQuery plugin with WordPress galleries. FancyBox is a “lightbox” plugin for displaying images in a nice overlay.
\n\nPopuList allows you to track the popularity of your posts on social bookmarking sites reddit, stumbleupon, del.icio.us and digg. When PopuList is activated, a page is added to your dashboard giving the number of times a page has been saved or upvoted.
\n\nCreate a dynamic Google gadget for your WordPress blog. Allow People to add your gadget to iGoogle.
\n\nWP Dropdown Metas allows you to output a dropdown input based on the values of a certain custom field.
\n\nAutomatically give WordPress users a bbPress role of member when registering.
\n\nxili-language provides an automatic selection of language (.mo files) in theme according to the language of one post.
\n\nOur Progress allows WordPress to display a thermometer to measure progress such as fundraising.
\n\nAutomatically generates a copyright notice based on the first and last post published in the WordPress database.
\nPopulates the favorites drop down menu, introduced in 2.7, with links based on actual page accesses. Lists the pages you actually use most.
\n\nOld Post Promoter randomly chooses an old post and promotes the post into either the 1st or 2nd position. The effect is to republish the post and insert the post back onto the front page and the rss feed.
\n\nWP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.
\nConstant Contact WordPress Widget
\nThis widget adds a Constant Contact signup form to your sidebar and allows you to configure the display.
\n\nVery small plugin that forces users to login to view the blog.
\n\nInsert Flickr sets, tags or individual photos in your posts by using a special tag.
\n\nTaglets Feeder is a Wordpress plug-in that pushes updates to Taglets.org when you publish a post.
\nVertical Response Newsletter Widget
\nAdd a Vertical Response signup form to your sidebar. Lots of configuration options.
\n\nAutomatically generates XML Sitemaps for your site and notifies search engines when they’re updated.
\";}i:26;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:37:\"Dougal Campbell: FancyBox Gallery 0.1\";s:4:\"guid\";s:33:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=1417\";s:4:\"link\";s:61:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/01/26/fancybox-gallery-01\";s:11:\"description\";s:1298:\"![\"WordPress\"](\"http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/wplogo-notext-rgb-150x150.png\" "\\"WordPress\\"")
\nI decided to go ahead a release my FancyBox Gallery plugin as-is. Version 0.1 0.2 is very bare-bones: there are no options that you can set. Once you activate the plugin, thumbnails generated by the standard WordPress gallery shortcode will be handled by FancyBox. This works best if you use the link=’file’ option (see the documentation for more details). I’ll eventually add user-settable options for more control.
If you’re interested in trying it out now, download it from the WordPress Plugins Directory: FancyBox Gallery
\nUpdate: Updated the plugin to version 0.2. The new version adds styles which should keep the image captions from breaking under certain themes.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:59:28 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:6:\"Dougal\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1298:\"
\nI decided to go ahead a release my FancyBox Gallery plugin as-is. Version 0.1 0.2 is very bare-bones: there are no options that you can set. Once you activate the plugin, thumbnails generated by the standard WordPress gallery shortcode will be handled by FancyBox. This works best if you use the link=’file’ option (see the documentation for more details). I’ll eventually add user-settable options for more control.
If you’re interested in trying it out now, download it from the WordPress Plugins Directory: FancyBox Gallery
\nUpdate: Updated the plugin to version 0.2. The new version adds styles which should keep the image captions from breaking under certain themes.
\";}i:27;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:65:\"Lorelle on WP: WordCamp Whistler: WordPress Power Tips Slide Show\";s:4:\"guid\";s:36:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=3771\";s:4:\"link\";s:90:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/wordcamp-whistler-wordpress-power-tips-slide-show/\";s:11:\"description\";s:6013:\"![\"WordPress](\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/wpevents.png\")
Whew! What a day. WordCamp Whistler 2009 in Whistler, BC, Canada, today has been one non-stop WordPress packed WordCamp. I’ll have more details, but you can see my Slideshare version of my presentation below on WordPress Power Tips.
I also showed my popular “WordCamp Portland: How WordPress Changes Lives” including the fabulous video by Glenda Watson Hyatt of the Do It Myself Blog on how she, the famous Left Thumb Blogger, had her life changed by WordPress.
\nI’ll be doing a video version of my presentation with notes in the next few days.
\nI’m heading to Vancouver, BC, tomorrow and hoping to spend Monday in Chinatown for the Chinese New Year’s festivities.
\nI have so many exciting stories, photos, and summaries of this powerful WordPress event…just stay tuned. Until then, here’s a little tidbit to thrill you from our WordPress Tattoo Contest winner, April of Fearless City.
\n![\"April](\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/april-wptattoowinner-wcw09.jpg\" "\\"April")
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Whew! What a day. WordCamp Whistler 2009 in Whistler, BC, Canada, today has been one non-stop WordPress packed WordCamp. I’ll have more details, but you can see my Slideshare version of my presentation below on WordPress Power Tips.
I also showed my popular “WordCamp Portland: How WordPress Changes Lives” including the fabulous video by Glenda Watson Hyatt of the Do It Myself Blog on how she, the famous Left Thumb Blogger, had her life changed by WordPress.
\nI’ll be doing a video version of my presentation with notes in the next few days.
\nI’m heading to Vancouver, BC, tomorrow and hoping to spend Monday in Chinatown for the Chinese New Year’s festivities.
\nI have so many exciting stories, photos, and summaries of this powerful WordPress event…just stay tuned. Until then, here’s a little tidbit to thrill you from our WordPress Tattoo Contest winner, April of Fearless City.
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If you’ve finally decided to start selling ads on your WordPress blog, you either signup for an advertising network like Google Adsense or sell ads directly on your own.
\n125 x 125 button advertising has become a rage with almost every blog / site selling advertisement. Out here at Weblog Tools Collection, we use OIO Publisher for this. However, if you’re not interested in purchasing the plugin, then WP125 is an excellent choice for the same.
\nThe WP125 plugin is designed to make it easy to manage 125×125 banner ads on your blog. The plugin adds a new “Ads” menu to the WordPress admin, featuring submenus for tweaking display settings and adding and removing ads. It’s very customizable, allowing you plenty of options for displaying the ads. It can optionally track the number of times the ads are clicked. The best part is you don’t have to count forward on your calendar anymore. You can just set how long an ad should run, and it will figure out the end date for you, and it will take the ad down automatically. The plugin does a lot to make it easy for you to manage your 125×125 ads quickly so you can get back to what’s really important: Blogging.
\nGetting started with WP125 is easy. Download the plugin from the repository and install it on your WordPress blog.
\nThe plugin creates a new Ads menu that you can use to configure all settings. You can select the number of ads you want to sell as well as if you want to stack them in one or two columns.
\nThe next step is to integrate them into your blog template. You have two options for this. One is to use <?php wp125_write_ads(); ?> where you want to display the ads. I suggest putting this into your sidebar.
If you don’t like the one or two column setting, you can choose to custom layout your advertisements. Use <?php wp125_single_ad(num); ?> where num is the number of the ad you wish to display.
Overall this is a really good plugin that will get you started with selling adverting on your blog. There are several features that can be added to this.
\nThe author has the following plans:
\nOne more option that can be added is the creation of ad slots. This will ensure you don’t need to use the code for displaying single ads all over but instead use a code for ad slots.
\nI know the plugin is called WP125, but it would be great to see added support for other banner sizes including the popular 468×60 etc.
\nDo you sell advertising on your blog? If so, what service do you use for the same?
\nAre you using WP125? What is it that you love about the plugin? And what is it that you would love to see improved? If you’re not using WP125, which plugin are you using for advertising?
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:15:06 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:4791:\"If you’ve finally decided to start selling ads on your WordPress blog, you either signup for an advertising network like Google Adsense or sell ads directly on your own.
\n125 x 125 button advertising has become a rage with almost every blog / site selling advertisement. Out here at Weblog Tools Collection, we use OIO Publisher for this. However, if you’re not interested in purchasing the plugin, then WP125 is an excellent choice for the same.
\nThe WP125 plugin is designed to make it easy to manage 125×125 banner ads on your blog. The plugin adds a new “Ads” menu to the WordPress admin, featuring submenus for tweaking display settings and adding and removing ads. It’s very customizable, allowing you plenty of options for displaying the ads. It can optionally track the number of times the ads are clicked. The best part is you don’t have to count forward on your calendar anymore. You can just set how long an ad should run, and it will figure out the end date for you, and it will take the ad down automatically. The plugin does a lot to make it easy for you to manage your 125×125 ads quickly so you can get back to what’s really important: Blogging.
\nGetting started with WP125 is easy. Download the plugin from the repository and install it on your WordPress blog.
\nThe plugin creates a new Ads menu that you can use to configure all settings. You can select the number of ads you want to sell as well as if you want to stack them in one or two columns.
\nThe next step is to integrate them into your blog template. You have two options for this. One is to use <?php wp125_write_ads(); ?> where you want to display the ads. I suggest putting this into your sidebar.
If you don’t like the one or two column setting, you can choose to custom layout your advertisements. Use <?php wp125_single_ad(num); ?> where num is the number of the ad you wish to display.
Overall this is a really good plugin that will get you started with selling adverting on your blog. There are several features that can be added to this.
\nThe author has the following plans:
\nOne more option that can be added is the creation of ad slots. This will ensure you don’t need to use the code for displaying single ads all over but instead use a code for ad slots.
\nI know the plugin is called WP125, but it would be great to see added support for other banner sizes including the popular 468×60 etc.
\nDo you sell advertising on your blog? If so, what service do you use for the same?
\nAre you using WP125? What is it that you love about the plugin? And what is it that you would love to see improved? If you’re not using WP125, which plugin are you using for advertising?
\";}i:29;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:21:\"Matt: Dilemma No More\";s:4:\"guid\";s:21:\"http://ma.tt/?p=10424\";s:4:\"link\";s:47:\"http://ma.tt/2009/01/blogging-software-dilemma/\";s:11:\"description\";s:304:\"The Blogging Software Dilemma. On this day, 6 years ago, WordPress was conceived in the comments section of this blog. Hat tip: Mike Little!
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:31:32 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:304:\"The Blogging Software Dilemma. On this day, 6 years ago, WordPress was conceived in the comments section of this blog. Hat tip: Mike Little!
\";}i:30;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:39:\"Mike Little: WordPress is 6 - or is it?\";s:4:\"guid\";s:35:\"http://zed1.com/journalized/?p=1369\";s:4:\"link\";s:63:\"http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2009/01/25/wordpress-is-6/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1085:\"At this time of year, I normally say Happy Birthday to WordPress. After all it was 6 years ago today I made the comment on Matt’s blog that started the whole thing off.
\nHowever last year, Matt held a birthday party for WordPress’ 5th in May. May 27th to be precise, which is the anniversary of the first WordPress release.
\nIf the birth of WordPress was the first release, then I guess I’ve been celebrating the conception. ![\":-)\"](\"http://zed1.com/journalized/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif\"){kind=icon}
Regardless, WordPress has come a long way. The baby has grown into a world beating piece of software. It’s so good I’ve bet the house on it (more of that soon).
\nAnyway “Happy Conception” to WordPress and I hope there are many more to come.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:00:36 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"mike\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1085:\"At this time of year, I normally say Happy Birthday to WordPress. After all it was 6 years ago today I made the comment on Matt’s blog that started the whole thing off.
\nHowever last year, Matt held a birthday party for WordPress’ 5th in May. May 27th to be precise, which is the anniversary of the first WordPress release.
\nIf the birth of WordPress was the first release, then I guess I’ve been celebrating the conception.
Regardless, WordPress has come a long way. The baby has grown into a world beating piece of software. It’s so good I’ve bet the house on it (more of that soon).
\nAnyway “Happy Conception” to WordPress and I hope there are many more to come.
\";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 01/24\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5058\";s:4:\"link\";s:87:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/24/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0124/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2917:\"\n![\"Master\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/master.png\" "\\"Master\\"")
Two column, fixed width, widget ready theme. Premium paid versions of the theme are also available.
\n\n![\"EversonNews\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/eversonnews.gif\" "\\"EversonNews\\"")
2-3 column, magazine style, gravatar ready theme with jQuery tabbed slider/teaser and movable / collapsible blocks with cookie support
\n\n![\"disaster\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/disaster.png\" "\\"disaster\\"")
Two column, fixed width, widget and gravatar ready theme with custom sidebar search, with 125×125 advertisement spots. Right sidebar version also available.
\n\n![\"JournalLight\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/journallight.png\" "\\"JournalLight\\"")
Template consists of two columns, supports widgets, comments, is static in size. In the pattern dominated by black and red.
\n\n![\"AnonymouseElegance\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/anonymouseelegance.png\" "\\"AnonymouseElegance\\"")
Clean 2 Column theme with one sidebar on the left side, widget-ready fixed width theme sporting a basic elegance featuring pretty mauve and pinkish colors. It has an author info page, gravatars and author box along with Custom Archives, Sitemap and full width No Sidebars page templates.
\n\n![\"SoSimple\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/sosimple.jpg\" "\\"SoSimple\\"")
So Simple is a white, 2-column WordPress Theme with one-widget ready sidebar, containing mostly texts . Simple and clean, with very lightweight HTML and CSS. It’s compatible with WordPress 2.7. Check out the other themes as well on the same page.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:00:09 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2917:\"\n
Two column, fixed width, widget ready theme. Premium paid versions of the theme are also available.
\n\n
2-3 column, magazine style, gravatar ready theme with jQuery tabbed slider/teaser and movable / collapsible blocks with cookie support
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Two column, fixed width, widget and gravatar ready theme with custom sidebar search, with 125×125 advertisement spots. Right sidebar version also available.
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Template consists of two columns, supports widgets, comments, is static in size. In the pattern dominated by black and red.
\n\n
Clean 2 Column theme with one sidebar on the left side, widget-ready fixed width theme sporting a basic elegance featuring pretty mauve and pinkish colors. It has an author info page, gravatars and author box along with Custom Archives, Sitemap and full width No Sidebars page templates.
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So Simple is a white, 2-column WordPress Theme with one-widget ready sidebar, containing mostly texts . Simple and clean, with very lightweight HTML and CSS. It’s compatible with WordPress 2.7. Check out the other themes as well on the same page.
\";}i:32;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:60:\"Mark Jaquith: Show all categories on the post editing screen\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/?p=245\";s:4:\"link\";s:91:\"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/show-all-categories-on-the-post-editing-screen/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2274:\"Isn’t it annoying when you have a site with a reasonable number of categories, say 15, and WordPress only shows you the first 8 in the category checkbox widget? Ugh, scrolling is annoying.
\nTry this super-simple plugin. It’s so simple that the plugin’s content is embedded into that link (seriously). There, now you’ll never see a scrollbar in the category widget. You’re welcome!
\n(Requires WordPress 2.7… upgrade already!)
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Isn’t it annoying when you have a site with a reasonable number of categories, say 15, and WordPress only shows you the first 8 in the category checkbox widget? Ugh, scrolling is annoying.
\nTry this super-simple plugin. It’s so simple that the plugin’s content is embedded into that link (seriously). There, now you’ll never see a scrollbar in the category widget. You’re welcome!
\n(Requires WordPress 2.7… upgrade already!)
\n Continuing with the theme of E-Commerce, this week I had the chance to interview Dan Milward who is the man in charge of the WP E-Commerce plugin. During the hour long conversation, we discussed the feature set of WP E-Commerce, e commerce in general, what its been like to operate a business in and around WordPress and much more. If you have used WP E-Commerce in the past or are just interested in hearing what Dan has to say regarding the plugin, definitely tune in to this episode.
Disclaimer: This interview was not purchased or is sponsored in any way.
\nHere are some of the questions we covered on the show:
\nAnnouncements: Next week will be Keith Murray’s last episode as co-host of the show. Please stop by for the going away party as we send Keith off to greener pastures.
\nSubscribe To WPWeekly Via Itunes: Click here to subscribe
\nLength Of Episode: 1 Hour 12 Minutes
\nDownload The Show: WordPressWeeklyEpisode38.mp3
\nListen To Episode #38:
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Continuing with the theme of E-Commerce, this week I had the chance to interview Dan Milward who is the man in charge of the WP E-Commerce plugin. During the hour long conversation, we discussed the feature set of WP E-Commerce, e commerce in general, what its been like to operate a business in and around WordPress and much more. If you have used WP E-Commerce in the past or are just interested in hearing what Dan has to say regarding the plugin, definitely tune in to this episode.
Disclaimer: This interview was not purchased or is sponsored in any way.
\nHere are some of the questions we covered on the show:
\nAnnouncements: Next week will be Keith Murray’s last episode as co-host of the show. Please stop by for the going away party as we send Keith off to greener pastures.
\nSubscribe To WPWeekly Via Itunes: Click here to subscribe
\nLength Of Episode: 1 Hour 12 Minutes
\nDownload The Show: WordPressWeeklyEpisode38.mp3
\nListen To Episode #38:
\n
WP Super Cache version 0.8.9 is now available. WP Super Cache is a page caching plugin for WordPress that will significantly speed up your website.
\nThis version fixes a number of bugs and adds two new features, but in case you run into problems upgrading, make sure you delete wp-content/advanced-cache.php before copying plugins/wp-super-cache/advanced-cache.php over it. Go on, read that again. Delete that file. Jonathan Dingman didn’t and when he copied the file over the symlink he overwrote wp-super-cache/wp-cache-phase1.php. His site went belly up and he started screaming for my head!!! Err no, he appeared on #wordpress asking why it didn’t work. Thanks Jonathan for working through the problem with me. My fault for not making the instructions clearer!
\nIf this happens to you, take a deep breath and unzip the plugin again in the plugins folder and delete wp-content/advanced-cache.php
\nAnyway, the new features are:
\nBesides those, I got rid of the symlinked file in wp-content/, and the plugin now copies a file called “advanced-cache.php” from the plugin directory to simplify things. Especially on operating systems where symlink isn’t available. Yes, that’s Windows.
\nIf your site is horrendously busy and you get a ton of comments every day and you’re too broke to buy a new server, then the cache rebuild feature will help you a lot. You should see the load on your server go way down if you enable this. Anonymous users who visit a page where a comment has just been left will be served a static cache file from the supercache instead of all the requests trying to generate a brand new page. The page served to them might be a few seconds out of date but that trade off is worth it.
\nHere’s the original thread that inspired the idea. Thanks Tigertech for writing the patch and for sharing the performance graphs. Check out the load on his server, before and after the rebuild function was switch on:
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If you’ve had problems with deleting the cache on your blog it *might* be because of file locks. Some hosts just have problems with them. The file locking in the plugin is very coarse. When the plugin wants to do any sort of write operation it grabs a lock, does the writes (which could include clearing expired files, or creating wp-cache and supercache cache files), and then releases the lock.
\nAny other process running the plugin that tries that won’t get a lock: new cache files won’t be created, and cache files won’t be cleared.
\nIt isn’t a huge problem that the lock is so coarse because the writes don’t take very long (the lock is enabled after the page is generated), but some very busy sites take quite a while to clear their cache files.
\nOn the downside, disabling the file lock won’t stop multiple cached files being generated simultaneously (great), but it also won’t stop multiple “clear cache” attempts either (boo!)
\nFrom what I recall of looking at the other cache plugins for WordPress, most of them don’t have any file locking and seem to do just fine.
I almost forgot! There is also a new debug mode. Edit wp-content/wp-cache-config.php and look for “$wp_cache_debug” and follow the instructions. It will send you a few emails when things don’t go right and may help track down any problems.
\nAs a final note, I would like to sincerely thank Robert Wolf who spruced up the admin page and gave it a nice lick of paint and Michael Torbert for helping me debug the plugin a while back.
\nRelated Posts
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:25:28 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:7:\"Donncha\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:5210:\"WP Super Cache version 0.8.9 is now available. WP Super Cache is a page caching plugin for WordPress that will significantly speed up your website.
\nThis version fixes a number of bugs and adds two new features, but in case you run into problems upgrading, make sure you delete wp-content/advanced-cache.php before copying plugins/wp-super-cache/advanced-cache.php over it. Go on, read that again. Delete that file. Jonathan Dingman didn’t and when he copied the file over the symlink he overwrote wp-super-cache/wp-cache-phase1.php. His site went belly up and he started screaming for my head!!! Err no, he appeared on #wordpress asking why it didn’t work. Thanks Jonathan for working through the problem with me. My fault for not making the instructions clearer!
\nIf this happens to you, take a deep breath and unzip the plugin again in the plugins folder and delete wp-content/advanced-cache.php
\nAnyway, the new features are:
\nBesides those, I got rid of the symlinked file in wp-content/, and the plugin now copies a file called “advanced-cache.php” from the plugin directory to simplify things. Especially on operating systems where symlink isn’t available. Yes, that’s Windows.
\nIf your site is horrendously busy and you get a ton of comments every day and you’re too broke to buy a new server, then the cache rebuild feature will help you a lot. You should see the load on your server go way down if you enable this. Anonymous users who visit a page where a comment has just been left will be served a static cache file from the supercache instead of all the requests trying to generate a brand new page. The page served to them might be a few seconds out of date but that trade off is worth it.
\nHere’s the original thread that inspired the idea. Thanks Tigertech for writing the patch and for sharing the performance graphs. Check out the load on his server, before and after the rebuild function was switch on:
If you’ve had problems with deleting the cache on your blog it *might* be because of file locks. Some hosts just have problems with them. The file locking in the plugin is very coarse. When the plugin wants to do any sort of write operation it grabs a lock, does the writes (which could include clearing expired files, or creating wp-cache and supercache cache files), and then releases the lock.
\nAny other process running the plugin that tries that won’t get a lock: new cache files won’t be created, and cache files won’t be cleared.
\nIt isn’t a huge problem that the lock is so coarse because the writes don’t take very long (the lock is enabled after the page is generated), but some very busy sites take quite a while to clear their cache files.
\nOn the downside, disabling the file lock won’t stop multiple cached files being generated simultaneously (great), but it also won’t stop multiple “clear cache” attempts either (boo!)
\nFrom what I recall of looking at the other cache plugins for WordPress, most of them don’t have any file locking and seem to do just fine.
I almost forgot! There is also a new debug mode. Edit wp-content/wp-cache-config.php and look for “$wp_cache_debug” and follow the instructions. It will send you a few emails when things don’t go right and may help track down any problems.
\nAs a final note, I would like to sincerely thank Robert Wolf who spruced up the admin page and gave it a nice lick of paint and Michael Torbert for helping me debug the plugin a while back.
\nRelated Posts
\";}i:35;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:60:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 01/23\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5043\";s:4:\"link\";s:88:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/23/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0123/\";s:11:\"description\";s:5678:\"This plugin changes the format of the dates and times of your posts and comments to match Associated Press Style. This is perfect for news and magazine sites running WordPress and for those blog writers with a penchant for style consistency.
\n\nThe archives widgets plugin for WordPress replaces its default, single archive widget with multiple archive widgets.
\n\nPut more than 6000+ of the Internet’s most addictive, fun games on your blog.
\n\nAddmarx allows your visitors to Share, Bookmark, Email and Link to your posts and pages
\n\nWP-Optimize is a wordpress 2.7++ database cleanup and optimization tool. It doesn’t require PhpMyAdmin to optimize your database tables. It allows you to remove post revisions, comments in the spam queue, un-approved comments within few clicks. Additionally you can rename any username to another username too.
\n\nPhotoSmash Galleries adds easy to use photo galleries to your posts and pages. Galleries can be community galleries, where you permit registered users to upload photos through Ajax right inside your posts.
\n\nThis new plugin allows you to add external (off-site) permalinks to your posts. This is great for guest posts, traffic exchanges, or cross promoting your blog posts across your network of blogs.
\nGenerates a link back to the archive page the current entry is on. Makes it easier for users to retrieve the chronology of a blog.
\n\nMulti-author blogs: Plugin generates mailto links on the dashboard referring to all user groups of the blog. Quite handy way of internal staff communication.
\n\nThe Easy Admin Color Schemes plugin allows users to easily customize the colors of the administration interface for WordPress. It works by adding a new page to the Settings area in the WordPress admin interface. Users can use the simple form to change the look of the admin interface without needing to know a great deal about WordPress. The plugin generates a new stylesheet file for each color scheme created. This allows for seamless integration with the color scheme functions already available in the WordPress 2.5+ core. In version 2.0 and later of Easy Admin Color Schemes, you can also import/export color schemes.
\n\nThis WordPress plugin allows you to easily create columns within your posts. Useful for sites with a magazine / newspaper style layout, or if you want text to appear on one side of the post with an image displayed opposite. It is much easier than creating html tables within posts, perfect for users with no coding experience.
\n\nThe avh-amazon WordPress plugin gives you the ability to add a widget or use a shortcode in your post or page to display a random item from your Amazon wish list, baby registry and/or wedding registry.
\n\nDisplays a list of posts similar to the current post with similarity being determined based on tags or categories (your option) that are assigned to the posts . You can configure the output format with a set of simple tags.
\n\nThe Featured Content Gallery plugin is a JavaScript gallery that creates an automated, customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site. The gallery displays images associated with your pages or posts, overlay text, and a selectable thumbnail carousel on top. You can select the featured content by entering in the post or page IDs in the options page, and add main images, thumbnails and custom overlay text via the custom fields section on your selected content. Customization options include gallery size, style, and color, as well as simple automation features that auto-crop for thumbnails and pull the first few lines of page or post text. Version 3.0 of the Featured Content Gallery plugin developed, supported and maintained by iePlexus.
\n\nPut any code or script (e.g. JavaScript) in my posts and display it to the visitor unmodified.
\n\nBlog Copyright injects a copyright statement into the footer of a WordPress blog. The year is automatically adjusted and there are various styling options.
\n\nUse Shadowbox.js for viewing media files
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:15:11 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:5678:\"This plugin changes the format of the dates and times of your posts and comments to match Associated Press Style. This is perfect for news and magazine sites running WordPress and for those blog writers with a penchant for style consistency.
\n\nThe archives widgets plugin for WordPress replaces its default, single archive widget with multiple archive widgets.
\n\nPut more than 6000+ of the Internet’s most addictive, fun games on your blog.
\n\nAddmarx allows your visitors to Share, Bookmark, Email and Link to your posts and pages
\n\nWP-Optimize is a wordpress 2.7++ database cleanup and optimization tool. It doesn’t require PhpMyAdmin to optimize your database tables. It allows you to remove post revisions, comments in the spam queue, un-approved comments within few clicks. Additionally you can rename any username to another username too.
\n\nPhotoSmash Galleries adds easy to use photo galleries to your posts and pages. Galleries can be community galleries, where you permit registered users to upload photos through Ajax right inside your posts.
\n\nThis new plugin allows you to add external (off-site) permalinks to your posts. This is great for guest posts, traffic exchanges, or cross promoting your blog posts across your network of blogs.
\nGenerates a link back to the archive page the current entry is on. Makes it easier for users to retrieve the chronology of a blog.
\n\nMulti-author blogs: Plugin generates mailto links on the dashboard referring to all user groups of the blog. Quite handy way of internal staff communication.
\n\nThe Easy Admin Color Schemes plugin allows users to easily customize the colors of the administration interface for WordPress. It works by adding a new page to the Settings area in the WordPress admin interface. Users can use the simple form to change the look of the admin interface without needing to know a great deal about WordPress. The plugin generates a new stylesheet file for each color scheme created. This allows for seamless integration with the color scheme functions already available in the WordPress 2.5+ core. In version 2.0 and later of Easy Admin Color Schemes, you can also import/export color schemes.
\n\nThis WordPress plugin allows you to easily create columns within your posts. Useful for sites with a magazine / newspaper style layout, or if you want text to appear on one side of the post with an image displayed opposite. It is much easier than creating html tables within posts, perfect for users with no coding experience.
\n\nThe avh-amazon WordPress plugin gives you the ability to add a widget or use a shortcode in your post or page to display a random item from your Amazon wish list, baby registry and/or wedding registry.
\n\nDisplays a list of posts similar to the current post with similarity being determined based on tags or categories (your option) that are assigned to the posts . You can configure the output format with a set of simple tags.
\n\nThe Featured Content Gallery plugin is a JavaScript gallery that creates an automated, customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site. The gallery displays images associated with your pages or posts, overlay text, and a selectable thumbnail carousel on top. You can select the featured content by entering in the post or page IDs in the options page, and add main images, thumbnails and custom overlay text via the custom fields section on your selected content. Customization options include gallery size, style, and color, as well as simple automation features that auto-crop for thumbnails and pull the first few lines of page or post text. Version 3.0 of the Featured Content Gallery plugin developed, supported and maintained by iePlexus.
\n\nPut any code or script (e.g. JavaScript) in my posts and display it to the visitor unmodified.
\n\nBlog Copyright injects a copyright statement into the footer of a WordPress blog. The year is automatically adjusted and there are various styling options.
\n\nUse Shadowbox.js for viewing media files
\";}i:36;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:32:\"Matt: WordCamp Registration Open\";s:4:\"guid\";s:21:\"http://ma.tt/?p=10081\";s:4:\"link\";s:50:\"http://ma.tt/2009/01/wordcamp-registration-open-2/\";s:11:\"description\";s:442:\"If you check out the WordCamp San Francisco site you’ll see that registration is open and we’ve already announced some great speakers: Matt Cutts, Tim Ferriss, Philip Greenspun, Doug Hanna, Tara Hunt, yours truly, Andy Peatling, and Steve Souders. (More coming.) It’s going to be a killer event. Mark your calendars: May 30.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:51:45 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:442:\"If you check out the WordCamp San Francisco site you’ll see that registration is open and we’ve already announced some great speakers: Matt Cutts, Tim Ferriss, Philip Greenspun, Doug Hanna, Tara Hunt, yours truly, Andy Peatling, and Steve Souders. (More coming.) It’s going to be a killer event. Mark your calendars: May 30.
\";}i:37;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:21:\"Matt: Dubai Timelapse\";s:4:\"guid\";s:21:\"http://ma.tt/?p=10078\";s:4:\"link\";s:39:\"http://ma.tt/2009/01/dubai-stop-motion/\";s:11:\"description\";s:939:\"A month or so ago I got a tilt-shift lens (Nikon PC-E Micro Nikkor 45mm f/2.8D ED) and one of the first things I wanted to try was interval shooting to make a stop-motion like tilt-shifted video like these awesome ones from Australia photographer Keith Loutit. Haven’t quite figured out how to make them look that cool yet but here’s one of the first efforts, taken from the Burj Al Arab looking down at its car entrance at night. Watch how the lights come in and out of focus, and how fast the cars are at the intersection. The video is available in full HD if your computer can handle it just toggle it in the top-right and go full-screen.
\n\nBig thanks to Michael Pick of WordPress.tv fame for doing all the video magic here.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:15:27 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:939:\"A month or so ago I got a tilt-shift lens (Nikon PC-E Micro Nikkor 45mm f/2.8D ED) and one of the first things I wanted to try was interval shooting to make a stop-motion like tilt-shifted video like these awesome ones from Australia photographer Keith Loutit. Haven’t quite figured out how to make them look that cool yet but here’s one of the first efforts, taken from the Burj Al Arab looking down at its car entrance at night. Watch how the lights come in and out of focus, and how fast the cars are at the intersection. The video is available in full HD if your computer can handle it just toggle it in the top-right and go full-screen.
\n\nBig thanks to Michael Pick of WordPress.tv fame for doing all the video magic here.
\";}i:38;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:25:\"Matt on WP: Dubai Video 1\";s:4:\"guid\";s:32:\"http://matt.wordpress.com/?p=173\";s:4:\"link\";s:51:\"http://matt.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/dubai-video-1/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1224:\"A stop-motion video collab from Dubai.
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A stop-motion video collab from Dubai.
\n\nPosted in Uncategorizednbah A beta version of WordPress MU 2.7, the multi blog version of WordPress that runs on such sites as WordPress.com has just been uploaded and is available here.
\nThis is quite a stable release and has been tested by many but it’s not the final 2.7 release so there are probably bugs we haven’t found yet. Don’t put it into production just yet, but if you’re working on a new site, you’re better off using this rather than 2.6.5 as the final WordPress MU 2.7 will be along soon.
\nCheck the timeline for more info, there are still plenty of open tickets and keep an eye on the forums and please help out if you can.
\nI also want to extend a big thank you to everyone who has helped with this release, be it entering tickets, updating them, creating patches, or helping out on the forums and of course the WordPress community. This software wouldn’t be where it is today without you.
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A beta version of WordPress MU 2.7, the multi blog version of WordPress that runs on such sites as WordPress.com has just been uploaded and is available here.
\nThis is quite a stable release and has been tested by many but it’s not the final 2.7 release so there are probably bugs we haven’t found yet. Don’t put it into production just yet, but if you’re working on a new site, you’re better off using this rather than 2.6.5 as the final WordPress MU 2.7 will be along soon.
\nCheck the timeline for more info, there are still plenty of open tickets and keep an eye on the forums and please help out if you can.
\nI also want to extend a big thank you to everyone who has helped with this release, be it entering tickets, updating them, creating patches, or helping out on the forums and of course the WordPress community. This software wouldn’t be where it is today without you.
\nRelated Posts
I gave a Carrington Theme Framework overview presentation tonight at Refresh Denver. This was a very condensed preview of what I have planned for my session at WordCamp Denver next month. I didn’t touch on half the stuff I want to, but still took 20 minutes or so to cover what I did. I’m going to need to refine the message a bit.
\nDave and Jay did a great job presenting coathangr and reminded me that I need to bring the funny along with the information. ![\":)\"](\"http://alexking.org/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif\"){kind=icon}
For those interested, here are the slides:
\n\n\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:26:34 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Alex\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1708:\"I gave a Carrington Theme Framework overview presentation tonight at Refresh Denver. This was a very condensed preview of what I have planned for my session at WordCamp Denver next month. I didn’t touch on half the stuff I want to, but still took 20 minutes or so to cover what I did. I’m going to need to refine the message a bit.
\nDave and Jay did a great job presenting coathangr and reminded me that I need to bring the funny along with the information.
For those interested, here are the slides:
\n\n\";}i:41;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:96:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Updated WP Plugins: Contextual Related Posts & Moderation Author Notify\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5037\";s:4:\"link\";s:122:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/21/updated-wp-plugins-contextual-related-posts-moderation-author-notify/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2462:\"One lesser known skills of our very own Mark Ghosh is his strong coding abilities and his occasional WordPress Plugins that he makes available to all our readers.
\nTwo such plugins were the Moderation Notify Author and Contextual Related Posts, written long long ago. With the arrival of WordPress 2.7, we felt it time to update the plugins and so here we are!
\nThe problem on multiple-author blogs running WordPress is that it doesn’t automatically notify the author of a post about waiting comments. Instead all comment moderation requests go to the admin.
\nThis plugin will notify the author of the post in addition to the admin and thus allow the author to share the responsibility of moderating comments on his posts.
\nThe plugin is smart enough to ensure that the admin does not get a duplicate email.
\nRunning a multi-author blog? Read more and download Moderation Author Notify.
\nChecked out the Related Posts that you see at the bottom of this post?
\nThis plugin will allow you to display a list of contextually related posts for the current post. The number of posts can be configured via the admin panel as well as the title you want to display before the list of posts.
\nYou can also choose to automatically display the posts after the content of your post as well as in feeds. You can also choose to manually display the posts where you want.
\nThe posts displayed are based on a “fuzzy” search and so will display related posts even for those with no tags.
\nRead more and download Contextual Related Posts
\nWe’re running both the plugins on this blog. I also have both plugins installed on my technology blog Techtites and Contextual Related Posts on my personal blog.
\nWe’re looking to improve the features of both these plugins, so either comment below or on their individual pages with suggestions and feature requests.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:33:39 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2462:\"One lesser known skills of our very own Mark Ghosh is his strong coding abilities and his occasional WordPress Plugins that he makes available to all our readers.
\nTwo such plugins were the Moderation Notify Author and Contextual Related Posts, written long long ago. With the arrival of WordPress 2.7, we felt it time to update the plugins and so here we are!
\nThe problem on multiple-author blogs running WordPress is that it doesn’t automatically notify the author of a post about waiting comments. Instead all comment moderation requests go to the admin.
\nThis plugin will notify the author of the post in addition to the admin and thus allow the author to share the responsibility of moderating comments on his posts.
\nThe plugin is smart enough to ensure that the admin does not get a duplicate email.
\nRunning a multi-author blog? Read more and download Moderation Author Notify.
\nChecked out the Related Posts that you see at the bottom of this post?
\nThis plugin will allow you to display a list of contextually related posts for the current post. The number of posts can be configured via the admin panel as well as the title you want to display before the list of posts.
\nYou can also choose to automatically display the posts after the content of your post as well as in feeds. You can also choose to manually display the posts where you want.
\nThe posts displayed are based on a “fuzzy” search and so will display related posts even for those with no tags.
\nRead more and download Contextual Related Posts
\nWe’re running both the plugins on this blog. I also have both plugins installed on my technology blog Techtites and Contextual Related Posts on my personal blog.
\nWe’re looking to improve the features of both these plugins, so either comment below or on their individual pages with suggestions and feature requests.
\";}i:42;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:49:\"Dougal Campbell: Plugin preview: FancyBox Gallery\";s:4:\"guid\";s:33:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=1405\";s:4:\"link\";s:73:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/01/21/plugin-preview-fancybox-gallery\";s:11:\"description\";s:1630:\"![\"\"](\"http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/wordpress-wednesday.png\" "\\"WordPress")
I don’t have it ready for release yet, but I’m working on a new WordPress plugin which will integrate the FancyBox jQuery plugin with WordPress galleries. FancyBox is a “lightbox” plugin for displaying images in a nice overlay. I have the basics working, but I need to add an options screen, and resolve some CSS issues when it’s used with certain themes.
\nI hope to have it ready by next week (depends on how much spare time I can find). In the meantime, click these images for a preview…
\n\n![\"\"](\"http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/drummajor-150x150.jpg\")
\n![\"\"](\"http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/crusaders2-150x150.jpg\")
\n\nWhen I feel like the code is a little more ready for prime-time, I’ll announce it here, and release the plugin in the WordPress Plugins Directory.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:13:57 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:6:\"Dougal\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1630:\"
I don’t have it ready for release yet, but I’m working on a new WordPress plugin which will integrate the FancyBox jQuery plugin with WordPress galleries. FancyBox is a “lightbox” plugin for displaying images in a nice overlay. I have the basics working, but I need to add an options screen, and resolve some CSS issues when it’s used with certain themes.
\nI hope to have it ready by next week (depends on how much spare time I can find). In the meantime, click these images for a preview…
\n\n\n\n\nWhen I feel like the code is a little more ready for prime-time, I’ll announce it here, and release the plugin in the WordPress Plugins Directory.
\";}i:43;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 01/20\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5028\";s:4:\"link\";s:87:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/20/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0120/\";s:11:\"description\";s:4065:\"\n![\"AcidRain\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/acidrain.png\" "\\"AcidRain\\"")
A two-column Wordpress theme, backwards compatibility with WP versions 2.3 through 2.6, but updated to work with 2.7
\nWidget-ready, Gravatar-compatible.
![\"Enormous\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/enormous.png\" "\\"Enormous\\"")
Two column theme with big typography and minimalist styling
\n\n![\"fantastic-flowery-screenshot\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/fantasticfloweryscreenshot.jpg\" "\\"fantastic-flowery-screenshot\\"")
Fantastic Flowery is fixed width, two column, widget and gravatar ready theme
\n\n![\"blue-business-screenshot\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/bluebusinessscreenshot.jpg\" "\\"blue-business-screenshot\\"")
2 columns, right sidebar, widget ready theme with support for Gravatars
\n\n![\"i20-theme-screenshot-5-in-1\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/i20themescreenshot5in1.png\" "\\"i20-theme-screenshot-5-in-1\\"")
i20 Theme Series is glossy style with fixed width 2 columns, widget ready, gravatar ready WordPress theme.
\n\n![\"MiniMoo\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/minimoo.png\" "\\"MiniMoo\\"")
A clean looking lightweight 2 column theme based on MooTools 1.2
\nGrunge [removed]
\n
![\"grunge-homepage-295x150\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/grungehomepage295x150.jpg\" "\\"grunge-homepage-295x150\\"")
Two column WordPress theme not only for grunge bands and the 90’s Seattle scene, but also designers, musicians and artists.
\n\n![\"simplisimo\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/simplisimo.png\" "\\"simplisimo\\"")
Two column, fixed width, widget ready, gravatar ready theme. Also, check out Evelon and CoolBreez by the same author.
\n\n![\"wp-contempo-black\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/wpcontempoblack.gif\" "\\"wp-contempo-black\\"")
A simple, elegant wordpress theme. Clean black and white color scheme offers seamless integration with your existing blog. Easily customizable
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:30:06 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:4065:\"\n
A two-column Wordpress theme, backwards compatibility with WP versions 2.3 through 2.6, but updated to work with 2.7
\nWidget-ready, Gravatar-compatible.
Two column theme with big typography and minimalist styling
\n\n
Fantastic Flowery is fixed width, two column, widget and gravatar ready theme
\n\n
2 columns, right sidebar, widget ready theme with support for Gravatars
\n\n
i20 Theme Series is glossy style with fixed width 2 columns, widget ready, gravatar ready WordPress theme.
\n\n
A clean looking lightweight 2 column theme based on MooTools 1.2
\nGrunge [removed]
\n
Two column WordPress theme not only for grunge bands and the 90’s Seattle scene, but also designers, musicians and artists.
\n\n
Two column, fixed width, widget ready, gravatar ready theme. Also, check out Evelon and CoolBreez by the same author.
\n\n
A simple, elegant wordpress theme. Clean black and white color scheme offers seamless integration with your existing blog. Easily customizable
\";}i:44;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:19:\"Matt: Albert Lea WP\";s:4:\"guid\";s:21:\"http://ma.tt/?p=10076\";s:4:\"link\";s:35:\"http://ma.tt/2009/01/albert-lea-wp/\";s:11:\"description\";s:271:\"Albert Lea government launches new Web site. Hat tip: Using WordPress city saves $19,000.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:43:52 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:271:\"Albert Lea government launches new Web site. Hat tip: Using WordPress city saves $19,000.
\";}i:45;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:46:\"Lorelle on WP: WordCamp Las Vegas 2009 Summary\";s:4:\"guid\";s:36:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=3648\";s:4:\"link\";s:72:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/wordcamp-las-vegas-2009-summary/\";s:11:\"description\";s:12191:\"Here is a summary of videos, social media coverage, and blog posts with WordCamp Las Vegas coverage. The event was timed to coincide with the 2009 International CES (Consumer Electronics Show), bringing in some top bloggers to speak at the WordCamp event.
The event was streamed live via the Ustream WordCamp Las Vegas Live Stream, and most of the speakers’ presentations were archived there so you can share in the WordCamp Las Vegas experience, and they are available through the new WordCampTV. They include:
\nMy presentation was not archived due to a Ustream glitch, and a summary screencast can be found at WordCamp Las Vegas: By the Numbers Presentation.
\nThere was a lot of coverage of WordCamp Las Vegas. The social media coverage included:
\nThe blog posts and reports of WordCamp Las Vegas include:
\nKudos and congrats to John Hawkins of John Hawkins Unrated who produced this incredible event almost single handed, and his incredible family and team of volunteers who put on a fantastic WordCamp event.
\n
\n
Site Search Tags: wordcamp, wordpress events, wordcamp las vegas, wordcamplv, las vegas, vegas, videos, wordcamp videos, wordpress videos, events
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Copyright Lorelle VanFossen, the author of Blogging Tips, What Bloggers Won\'t Tell You About Blogging.
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Here is a summary of videos, social media coverage, and blog posts with WordCamp Las Vegas coverage. The event was timed to coincide with the 2009 International CES (Consumer Electronics Show), bringing in some top bloggers to speak at the WordCamp event.
The event was streamed live via the Ustream WordCamp Las Vegas Live Stream, and most of the speakers’ presentations were archived there so you can share in the WordCamp Las Vegas experience, and they are available through the new WordCampTV. They include:
\nMy presentation was not archived due to a Ustream glitch, and a summary screencast can be found at WordCamp Las Vegas: By the Numbers Presentation.
\nThere was a lot of coverage of WordCamp Las Vegas. The social media coverage included:
\nThe blog posts and reports of WordCamp Las Vegas include:
\nKudos and congrats to John Hawkins of John Hawkins Unrated who produced this incredible event almost single handed, and his incredible family and team of volunteers who put on a fantastic WordCamp event.
\n
\n
Site Search Tags: wordcamp, wordpress events, wordcamp las vegas, wordcamplv, las vegas, vegas, videos, wordcamp videos, wordpress videos, events
\n Subscribe Via Feedburner Subscribe by Email Visit
Copyright Lorelle VanFossen, the author of Blogging Tips, What Bloggers Won\'t Tell You About Blogging.
Andy writes in to tell us that he has instructions for using Gravatar with Castle MonoRail projects in his blog post Integrating Gravatar with Castle MonoRail.
\nThanks, Andy!
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Andy writes in to tell us that he has instructions for using Gravatar with Castle MonoRail projects in his blog post Integrating Gravatar with Castle MonoRail.
\nThanks, Andy!
\n Emo Vote let’s you encourage your users be letting them express their feelings by “emoting” rather then voting. Emoting is a fairly simple activity, just press the button that describes your feeling towards the post you just read.
\n\nThis plugin allows you to change the permalink of any post by adding a custom field to containing the external URL to the post.
\n\nThread Twitter will fetch your tweets and display them in thread from.
\n\nCreate multiple graphs in your sidebar with this plugin. Track personal and financial goals.
\n\nScans posts and extracts all the hrefs, rewrites them to include an onclick event which handles the tracking. Includes an extensive reporting area, the addition of tracking on links created in the Links area of the admin, incompatibility checking for Google Analytics plugin and an upgrade notification nag.
\n\nTrollGuard is a free WordPress plugin that protects your blog from spam comments. As it being used it learns to filter from your training. After a short while it has adapted to your personal blog and will detect incoming spam.
\n\nThe WordPress widget visitor counter is a simple counter widget displaying the number of readers in the sidebar of your WordPress blog. Scroll down for the English text.
\n\nThis Plugin displays your latest photos uploaded to your MobileMe Web gallery.
\n\nA tiny WordPress plugin which, when activated, disables posting of new comments to all pages and hides existing ones.
\nThe plugin generates the code necessary to create a Son of Suckerfish horizontal dropdown, vertical flyout or horizontal slider menu.
\n\nThe plugin displays for all your blogroll-bookmarks with a separately saved feed-url, when the most recent update has occurred at the bookmarked site. The latest update brings “Sorting by latest Update”, to sort the blogroll by the date of the latest post on the bookmarked sites.
\n\nAutomatically adds advertisements to the beginning and end of posts based on the post length, age of post, category, or blog member status.
\n\nAJAXed Wordpress (AWP) is a WordPress plugin that adds the power, usability and beauty of AJAX to any blog or WordPress based website. Its features improve the user experience, the administration capabilities and the design potential of any Wordpress based blog. It works on all WordPress versions from 2.1 - 2.7.*.
\n\nThe LinkLaunder SEO Wordpress plugin sets out to automate link building between wordpress sites, quite automatically.
\n\nPlugin to embed Wordpress Blog into Facebook Platform.
\nFast Cat - fast categories widget
\nA highly optimized category list/tree widget for WordPress
\n\nProvides a dashboard widget for showing links from a certain link category on the dashboard.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:30:05 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:4352:\"Emo Vote let’s you encourage your users be letting them express their feelings by “emoting” rather then voting. Emoting is a fairly simple activity, just press the button that describes your feeling towards the post you just read.
\n\nThis plugin allows you to change the permalink of any post by adding a custom field to containing the external URL to the post.
\n\nThread Twitter will fetch your tweets and display them in thread from.
\n\nCreate multiple graphs in your sidebar with this plugin. Track personal and financial goals.
\n\nScans posts and extracts all the hrefs, rewrites them to include an onclick event which handles the tracking. Includes an extensive reporting area, the addition of tracking on links created in the Links area of the admin, incompatibility checking for Google Analytics plugin and an upgrade notification nag.
\n\nTrollGuard is a free WordPress plugin that protects your blog from spam comments. As it being used it learns to filter from your training. After a short while it has adapted to your personal blog and will detect incoming spam.
\n\nThe WordPress widget visitor counter is a simple counter widget displaying the number of readers in the sidebar of your WordPress blog. Scroll down for the English text.
\n\nThis Plugin displays your latest photos uploaded to your MobileMe Web gallery.
\n\nA tiny WordPress plugin which, when activated, disables posting of new comments to all pages and hides existing ones.
\nThe plugin generates the code necessary to create a Son of Suckerfish horizontal dropdown, vertical flyout or horizontal slider menu.
\n\nThe plugin displays for all your blogroll-bookmarks with a separately saved feed-url, when the most recent update has occurred at the bookmarked site. The latest update brings “Sorting by latest Update”, to sort the blogroll by the date of the latest post on the bookmarked sites.
\n\nAutomatically adds advertisements to the beginning and end of posts based on the post length, age of post, category, or blog member status.
\n\nAJAXed Wordpress (AWP) is a WordPress plugin that adds the power, usability and beauty of AJAX to any blog or WordPress based website. Its features improve the user experience, the administration capabilities and the design potential of any Wordpress based blog. It works on all WordPress versions from 2.1 - 2.7.*.
\n\nThe LinkLaunder SEO Wordpress plugin sets out to automate link building between wordpress sites, quite automatically.
\n\nPlugin to embed Wordpress Blog into Facebook Platform.
\nFast Cat - fast categories widget
\nA highly optimized category list/tree widget for WordPress
\n\nProvides a dashboard widget for showing links from a certain link category on the dashboard.
\";}i:48;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:52:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Plugin Review: WP Greet Box\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5013\";s:4:\"link\";s:80:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/18/plugin-review-wp-greet-box/\";s:11:\"description\";s:5176:\"Last week we reviewed Referrer Detector. This week we review a similar plugin called WP Greet Box.
\nThis plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer URL.
\nFor example, when a Digg user clicks through from Digg, they will see a message reminding them to digg your post if they like it. Another example, when a visitor clicks through from Twitter, they will see a message suggesting them to twit the post and follow you on Twitter. You can also set a default greeting message for new visitors (not matching any referrer URLs) suggesting them to subscribe to your RSS feed.
\nHaving these targeted suggestions will help your blog increase exposure, loyal readership, and reader interaction.
\n![\"Example](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/image.png\" "\\"Example")
WP Greet Box comes really feature packed as compared to Referrer Detector, possibly because WP Greet Box is more mature plugin as of this date.
\nInstallation of plugin is extremely simple. You can download it from the WordPress Plugin Directory, unzip it to your host and activate the plugin. I chose to use the new Add New Plugin feature in WordPress 2.7 to install it on my blog Techtites from within WP-admin itself.
\nAfter activating the plugin, you can add / edit / delete referrers to your blog. The plugin comes inbuilt with several referrers including a default referrer who do not come from the fixed set of sites listed above. There are also a few referrers that are not activated by default, so you choose to activate those. I chose to stick with the default list.
\nIt also has the ability to display related posts, though it displayed no related posts for a query that definitely had related posts.
\nThe plugin has its documentation in place, however, it could do well with more detailed instructions. Also, the documentation is a readme.txt file at the plugin repository, which isn’t the most presentable layout.
\nI would also like to see Ajaxed tabs as was in the case of Referrer Detector, as it make updating across options extremely quick. The plugin already uses AJAX for editing / updating referrer details.
\nI believe the author has plans for the plugin, though it is currently kept a secret.
\nAre you currently using WP Greet Box? Since when have you been using the plugin? Has it helped increase visitor loyalty, number of hits? What additions would you like to see to the plugin features?
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:45:04 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:5176:\"Last week we reviewed Referrer Detector. This week we review a similar plugin called WP Greet Box.
\nThis plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer URL.
\nFor example, when a Digg user clicks through from Digg, they will see a message reminding them to digg your post if they like it. Another example, when a visitor clicks through from Twitter, they will see a message suggesting them to twit the post and follow you on Twitter. You can also set a default greeting message for new visitors (not matching any referrer URLs) suggesting them to subscribe to your RSS feed.
\nHaving these targeted suggestions will help your blog increase exposure, loyal readership, and reader interaction.
\n
WP Greet Box comes really feature packed as compared to Referrer Detector, possibly because WP Greet Box is more mature plugin as of this date.
\nInstallation of plugin is extremely simple. You can download it from the WordPress Plugin Directory, unzip it to your host and activate the plugin. I chose to use the new Add New Plugin feature in WordPress 2.7 to install it on my blog Techtites from within WP-admin itself.
\nAfter activating the plugin, you can add / edit / delete referrers to your blog. The plugin comes inbuilt with several referrers including a default referrer who do not come from the fixed set of sites listed above. There are also a few referrers that are not activated by default, so you choose to activate those. I chose to stick with the default list.
\nIt also has the ability to display related posts, though it displayed no related posts for a query that definitely had related posts.
\nThe plugin has its documentation in place, however, it could do well with more detailed instructions. Also, the documentation is a readme.txt file at the plugin repository, which isn’t the most presentable layout.
\nI would also like to see Ajaxed tabs as was in the case of Referrer Detector, as it make updating across options extremely quick. The plugin already uses AJAX for editing / updating referrer details.
\nI believe the author has plans for the plugin, though it is currently kept a secret.
\nAre you currently using WP Greet Box? Since when have you been using the plugin? Has it helped increase visitor loyalty, number of hits? What additions would you like to see to the plugin features?
\";}i:49;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 01/17\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5009\";s:4:\"link\";s:87:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/17/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0117/\";s:11:\"description\";s:4547:\"\n![\"palestine-wordpress\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/palestinewordpress.jpg\" "\\"palestine-wordpress\\"")
2 columns, widget ready, gravatar, custom header, Grid Layout and more
\n\n![\"checkmate-158x300\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/checkmate158x300.png\" "\\"checkmate-158x300\\"")
Two, Three, or Split Column Design theme available in four colors, with support for gravatars, widgets and ready for WordPress 2.7
\n\n![\"thestars-theme\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/thestarstheme.jpg\" "\\"thestars-theme\\"")
A magazine style WordPress theme ideal for fashion, lifestyle, entertainment, celebrity/gossip, or lifestyle websites. The theme includes a wide range of features including: drop down navigation menus, a featured content section, automatic thumbnail generation, integrated social bookmarking buttons and more.
\n\n![\"glossy-light-screenshot-small\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/glossylightscreenshotsmall.png\" "\\"glossy-light-screenshot-small\\"")
Two column, fixed width, widget ready, gravatar ready theme
\n\n![\"grassy-green-theme\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/grassygreentheme.png\" "\\"grassy-green-theme\\"")
Simple, green and white two column theme with a grass photo in the background.
\n\n![\"wooden\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/wooden.png\" "\\"wooden\\"")
The Wooden WP theme includes a grayed / red / white color scheme, three recent posts ( with pagination enabled ) and two widgetized bars for the inner pages, the front slider looks auto for images attached to your posts. Configurable via the themes admin panel are the flickr widgets.
\n\n![\"pongal-red-wordpress-theme\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/pongalredwordpresstheme.jpg\" "\\"pongal-red-wordpress-theme\\"")
Pongal Red is a 3-column, SEO-optimized, ad-ready, WordPress 2.7 compatible wordpress theme with widgetized sidebars and footer. It is an attractive professional looking theme and is suitable for blogs or websites in any niche.
\n\n![\"WP-ThemesBlogger\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/wpthemesblogger.png\" "\\"WP-ThemesBlogger\\"")
Three column, widget and gravatar ready theme with options page and support for WordPress 2.7
\n\n![\"DanMod\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/danmod.png\" "\\"DanMod\\"")
DanMod is a very simple WordPress theme using a nice serif and italicized font. This is a great WordPress theme for personal bloggers, or people who like to share their writing or photography work online.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:15:04 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:4547:\"\n
2 columns, widget ready, gravatar, custom header, Grid Layout and more
\n\n
Two, Three, or Split Column Design theme available in four colors, with support for gravatars, widgets and ready for WordPress 2.7
\n\n
A magazine style WordPress theme ideal for fashion, lifestyle, entertainment, celebrity/gossip, or lifestyle websites. The theme includes a wide range of features including: drop down navigation menus, a featured content section, automatic thumbnail generation, integrated social bookmarking buttons and more.
\n\n
Two column, fixed width, widget ready, gravatar ready theme
\n\n
Simple, green and white two column theme with a grass photo in the background.
\n\n
The Wooden WP theme includes a grayed / red / white color scheme, three recent posts ( with pagination enabled ) and two widgetized bars for the inner pages, the front slider looks auto for images attached to your posts. Configurable via the themes admin panel are the flickr widgets.
\n\n
Pongal Red is a 3-column, SEO-optimized, ad-ready, WordPress 2.7 compatible wordpress theme with widgetized sidebars and footer. It is an attractive professional looking theme and is suitable for blogs or websites in any niche.
\n\n
Three column, widget and gravatar ready theme with options page and support for WordPress 2.7
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DanMod is a very simple WordPress theme using a nice serif and italicized font. This is a great WordPress theme for personal bloggers, or people who like to share their writing or photography work online.
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Ryan Boren announced today that WordPress 3.1.1 is now available for all to go and update their sites. There were nearly 30 fixes that went into the Maintenance and Security release, which included some performance improvements, fixes for taxonomy and PATHINFO permalinks, and more. So what are you waiting for?
If you never updated to 3.1, then now is the perfect time to make the switch to 3.1.1.
Boren explains the security side of the release on the WordPress.org blog:
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In a interesting business move by WooThemes, the commercial theme company has announced that they will be re-focusing their efforts to be a WordPress centric theme company, again. Another example as to how time flies, it wasn’t too long ago when WooThemes began releasing themes for Expression Engine, Tumblr, Drupal, Joomla, and Magento. This was a move to diversify their business and expand into different markets but after a year into the experiment, it turns out that there is more to it than cranking out themes.
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When I see the term “5K” I would rather it be about money. But alas, Automattic wants to inspire us all to be healthy. They are calling all Automatticians and WordPress users alike to do a worldwide 5 kilometer run, trot, skip, pogostick, something (in non-motorized fashion, at least) this week.
The official day for the Automattic 5k is this Sunday, April 10th. But they’ll take what they can get. After all, it can get tough to organize 80 people across the globe — not to mention the other 30 odd-million of us other yahoos — to do anything, much less excercise.
So instead of playing Halo or World of Warcraft, quilting, drinking oodles of beer, or just snoring PHP like you normally do, think about getting out and moving your body, in some fassion, about 3.1 good ‘ole American miles. Anytime. This week.
And please pester me to do the same.
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We have seen a lot of great feedback and excitement since announcing the Theme Madness 2011 project last week. In short, we’re holding a just-for-fun competition between 64 different WordPress theme shops, as well as a bracket competition (something akin to the USA’s March Madness in fact) to reward those who can anticipate the winners of each round.
We did receive a few questions about the whole thing, and hope that this post will clarify the rules, just how the whole game will play out, and most importantly: how you can win yourself a trophy. First things first, though: if you haven’t seen the Theme Madness announcement yet, go read that first!
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The real fun of all of this will be filling out the brackets as teams win (and lose) and tracking your own guesses along the way. Anyone can fill out a Theme Madness bracket (for free), so you should take a minute to do so if you haven’t already.
We will accept one bracket per person, and we stop accepting brackets on April 10th. We have to, since the games begin on April 11th (Round 1 game schedule below).
At the end of all the games, when the points are tallied and a victor is, well, victorious, we’ll determine who sent in the most accurate bracket and award them the coveted WPCandy trophy. If there is a tie (which would be nuts), the first person who turned in the bracket will win. So don’t hesitate to fill yours out!
One thing I’ve noticed, and have always been happy about, is the healthy competitive spirit amongst WordPress theme shops. Theme Madness will, hopefully, put that healthy competitive spirit to the test. Whichever WordPress theme company wins will receive their own WPCandy trophy, and champion status for all time. Or at least until we play again next year.
So how does a theme shop win? How are the games played? I’m very glad you asked.
Each game will take place over 48 hours to give everyone an ample chance to weigh in on the victor. During these 48 hours, the game will be played at home and away.
The away game will be here and on Twitter. Participants will be able to vote in a poll we host here, as well as comment in the post itself to add to the team’s total. Anyone on Twitter will be able to vote using the #wpmadness hashtag, a link to the poll, and the name of the team they’d like to win.
The home game is just as fun: each competitor can post on their own blog, inviting fans to comment their vote of support there as well. In total, between the home and away games, this gives each fan a potential four votes for your team.
Just to recap, if you want your favorite team to win you can:
That’s four total votes that you can deliver to the team you want to win.
At the end of 48 hours we’ll count up the votes and announce the victors of each round on the blog.]
The schedule for Round 1 is below, so you know when to prep your teams. Each game will run from 12:00am EST the day the games begin, and will run until 11:59pm EST the next day.
| Bracket A | Bracket B | Bracket C | Bracket D | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 11 | WooThemes vs. Themeopoly Theme Team vs. AppThemes | ThemeForest vs. BioThemes Gabfire Themes vs. RichWP | StudioPress vs. Themebaker | Obox Themes vs. Signature Theme BandThemer vs. UpThemes |
| April 12 | Graph Paper Press vs. Panda Themes | Solostream vs. ThemeShift | ThemeHybrid vs. Xtreme Theme | ThemeJam vs. Startbox |
| April 13 | Themify vs. Bizz Themes | Mojo Themes vs. Theme Junkie | WPBundle vs. Catalyst Theme | KreativeThemes vs. Dessign |
| April 14 | Dev4Press vs. Indonez iThemes vs. ThemeWarrior | WPZoom vs. Viva Themes | Gorilla Themes vs. WPShower DIYThemes vs. ThemeForce | Tokokoo vs. Standard Theme |
We’ll post the schedule for Round 2 after Round 1 is complete, but you can expect it to follow a similar schedule as above. If you have any questions about things will go down on game day, just say so in the comments and we’ll let you know.
I’m actually asking this question of both bracket submissions and the players themselves. We’ve seen around 100 bracket submissions and growing (which is awesome) and are wondering: what’s your strategy when choosing who wins? Have you carefully mapped your choices out, or have you chosen based on the prettier logos?
If you’re one of the 64 teams competing, what’s your strategy for bringing the trophy home? Have you let your fans know about it yet, and to plan for it? Have they submitted brackets with you victorious in the end? Share your battle strategies in the comments below.
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Digging Into WordPress, a book by Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr, has been updated to include new features of WordPress 3.1. Digging Into WordPress is a 400+ page WordPress resource that the guys self publish. Scores of people will vouch for it as an impeccable resource for any developer.
The new edition includes what they call a “complete guide” to 3.1, an improved chapter on the Loop, and some general tweaks to “improve overall quality and accuracy.”
As in the past, they are offering DigWP in two ways, via hard copy or pdf. The pdf is available now for $27, and includes lifetime updates and some free themes. Free updates is no small feature, I’ll add, as they are currently on revision 8. The hard copy isn’t quite ready, but will be full color, spiral bound, and include a downloadable copy of the pdf and other features.
As an added bonus, they’re giving away a straggling copy of DigWP 3.0, which has sold out, to a lucky commenter on the blog post.
So, do you own Digging Into WordPress already, or other WordPress books? If not, what’s the holdup?
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\nFirst, make sure that your browser has JavaScript enabled. This is usually the most common cause of the issue, and fortunately the easiest to fix.
\nIf your browser does have JavaScript enabled, use an FTP or SFTP client to access your server and a plain text editor to edit your wp-config.php file. Once the file is open, add define(\'CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS\', false); below the define(\'DB_HOST\' line and save the file.
In most cases, one of the two methods will work for you. If you’re still having trouble, stop by the WordPress Support Forums for further assistance.
\n\nWordPress blog owners can install the free WordPress plugin WP-Smush.it that uses Yahoo’s Smush.it service to reduce the size of images. The plugin works automatically in the background: It sends all uploaded images to Yahoo’s image compression service and uploads that optimized version to the server, instead of the unoptimized original version.
via Reduce Page Loading Time With WP-Smush.it For WordPress Blogs.
\nSmush.it definitely looks like an interesting service to quickly optimize your page loading speeds with shrunken images. However, it’s a pity you can’t perform a batch optimization for multiple images within the plugin although there is a roundabout way of doing it.
\n\n\nRelated posts:
If you’re worried about paying for Akismet in the future or are curious as to what some of the alternatives are, check out this plugin roundup via Themergency where Bradvin takes a look at six alternatives.
\n\n\nRelated posts:
Logan Walters reinterprets classic Wu-Tang covers in the Blue Note aesthetic:
\n\nHat tip: Patrick Jarenwattananone.
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One thing you can pretty much be guaranteed: if you artistically immortalize something in the WordPress family as an animal, we will highlight your work on this blog. It’s just going to happen.
This week’s edition of community links brings a number of interesting reads, some pro-level tutorials, and a number of resources you’ll want to hold on to. What more could you want?
Let’s get straight to the links.
First up are good ‘ole fashioned blog posts:
Next we have a few tutorials to amp up that brain of yours:
And finally, a few items you might want to bookmark for future use:
That’s it for this week’s community links. If you have a link you think should be in our weekly roundup, please do contact us.
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Baza Noclegowa is a clean, clear, and light theme for blogs, corporate websites, and big portals as well.
\n![\"\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/citrus.jpg\" "\\"citrus\\"")
Citrus is based on greens and oranges, and available in narrow (2 column), medium (2 column), and wide (3 column) varieties.
\n![\"\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/myphoto.jpg\" "\\"myphoto\\"")
MyPhoto is a very clean and elegant theme created specifically with photography, portfolio, and other gallery type sites in mind.
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Space Weapons is a two column theme, perfect for personal blogs and space enthusiasts.
\nWebBoy – Episode 1 | WebBoy. Pretty cool comic showing WebBoy has he fights a battle against spam with his trusty sidekick, Akismet. This is one of the coolest uses of the horizontal slider I’ve seen in awhile.
\n\n\nRelated posts:
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April 1st always brings the fun, doesn’t it? Everyone seems to feel the pull to play around and haul out some creative lies on April Fool’s Day. The swath of pranks may only be outweighed by groaning about the day on Twitter. We abstained on WPCandy this year, though we did catch a few folks in the WordPress community happy to carry on the proud internet tradition of trying to make people believe in things that aren’t true.
Come to think of it, April Fool’s Day on the internet might not be very different from every other day on the internet.
In any case, we’ve gathered up the WordPress pranks we caught on to in the post below, just after the jump. If you caught something we missed, please share it in the comments. While you’re there, why don’t you weight in on April Fool’s Day pranks: are they worth a chuckle or a waste of your time?
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Joshua Strebel started the pranks off early this morning with the announcement of Dog.ly and Cat.ly, or a “WordPress service for pets”. According to their press release, “With so many rabid pet owners opening Twitter accounts, creating Facebook pages and even writing blogs, a solution was needed to take some of the pressure off.”
Can’t really argue with them there.
My favorite part of the fake press release is where they discuss the biggest tweaks to the WordPress admin:
Major changes to the interface include a new PawFriendly™ editor and translation on the fly, allowing dogs to use their familiar barks and cats to purr incessantly until something appears on the page.
You can enjoy the fun on their blog.
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Here’s one that will take you from excitement, to cold realization, to a knowing smile: reports have come in that WordPress.com Stats users today were treated with an apparent traffic spike, though only in appearance (see the image above for an in-Dashboard example, provided by @spigot on Twitter).
As long as your daily emotional highs and lows don’t depend on your traffic counts, this one shouldn’t have bothered you. In other words, this prank crushed my soul today.
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Unfortunately this one falls in the “jokes that didn’t bring much joyous laughter today” category. The post has been redacted, but originally described a WordPress backdoor planted in a non-existent WordPress file. A WPCandy reader provided a quote of the original post:
Btw, we have not reported this to WordPress yet, because we think that it is not just a bug, but a careful planted backdoor (probably by Matt, their lead developer). We will explain it in details (yes, full disclosure). We are also calling all WordPress users to get together and sue WordPress.org, Automattic and everyone else involved.
After a brief spurt of reactions in the comments and on Twitter, Sucuri pulled the prank and apologized for the inconvenience.
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It seems Mystique, a free theme from Digital Nature, added unicorns to the theme’s comment threads today. The method used was explained in a comment on their blog, along with a number of other confused, annoyed users. It’s probably fair to chalk this one up to more fizzle than fun, as well.
If you caught a WordPress prank, or even a great April Fool’s Day prank that you enjoyed, chime in and share with us in the comments. If you’d like, weigh in on what’s appropriate to joke about in a prank. What do you think of those listed above?
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The internet has a new super hero: WebBoy made his first appearance today. And we couldn’t be more pleased that he’s making use of his trusty plugin, Akismet.
We’ve seen some great tributes to Akismet over the last few years, but this one must be among the best. If you know of any others that we should be aware of (or would like to make one yourself!) please let us know in the comments.
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WordCamp Seattle April 16th, 2011
I’m Nick Ohrn and I’m one of the co-organizers for the Seattle WordPress meetup as well as WordCamp Seattle. Jeff has graciously allowed me to write an article for WP Tavern about WordCamp Seattle and why you should go.
\nI’ll cut straight to the chase – WordCamp Seattle 2011 is going to be amazing. First, we already have a vibrant and thriving community of WordPress users and developers in Seattle. Our monthly meetup has 300+ members and the March meeting had 90+ actual attendees.
\nNext, WordCamp Seattle 2011 features two keynote sessions that are going to knock people’s socks off. The opening day keynote is by Scott Berkun of Automattic. Scott will be talking about the WordPress.com product, how Automattic decides what features go into WordPress.com and eventually make there way into the self hosted version of WordPress and how a distributed company like Automattic works on a practical level.
\nThe end of day keynote session will be an interview session with Alex King of Crowd Favorite, an early WordPress contributor and amazing business man. I’ll be conducting the interview on stage (similar to the SxSW fireside chat format) and we’re going to be discussing how he came upon WordPress, what he thinks of the WordPress community, how he sees open source work evolving, what the deal was with WP Help Center and more. It’ll be a can’t miss.
\nFinally, there is a ton of awesome content lined up for the rest of the day. I’m not going to delineate the speakers in this post (but you should check out the schedule) but I know a lot of them personally and am very excited to learn new and interesting things.
\nIf you’re on the fence about WordPress Seattle and you think you can make it, I highly recommend you do so. We dropped the ticket prices because we have garnered a lot of support from sponsors across the industry, so you can get in for $30. If you can make it, I highly suggest buying a ticket and joining us as we make this one of the best WordCamps ever.
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