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Real-Time, Productive Communication (using P2).
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:24:33 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:172:\"Real-Time, Productive Communication (using P2).
\";}i:1;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:47:\"WordPress.tv: Brad Williams: WordPress Security\";s:4:\"guid\";s:27:\"http://wordpress.tv/?p=2236\";s:4:\"link\";s:65:\"http://wordpress.tv/2009/07/11/brad-williams-security-montreal09/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1375:\" ![](\"http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/gvJtZr7D/wordpressmontreal-wordcampmontreal09thefutureofwordpresswithjanewells955_std.original.jpg\")
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Metisca is a 2-column right sidebar SEO optimized theme designed especially for Google Adsense 336×280 Ad unit and commonly available 300×250 Ad Units from Advertisers. The header has a simple yet elegant look with pearl white title and slogan text over a beautiful Sky Blue background.
\n![\"electricxhtml\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/electricxhtml.png\" "\\"electricxhtml\\"")
Two column, widget ready theme in black
\n![\"darkside\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/darkside.jpg\" "\\"darkside\\"")
A dark colored, two column, widget ready and WordPress 2.5-2.8 compatible WordPress theme. Also, check out Enlighten from the same author.
\n![\"Playground\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Playground.png\" "\\"Playground\\"")
A two column theme that comes widget ready. With Sociable and WP-PageNavi plugins preloaded. Using a green-brown color scheme.
\n![\"IMYJ\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/IMYJ.png\" "\\"IMYJ\\"")
Simple two column theme in white, with black text, and blue links.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:40:00 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:7:\"Perurry\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2266:\"
Metisca is a 2-column right sidebar SEO optimized theme designed especially for Google Adsense 336×280 Ad unit and commonly available 300×250 Ad Units from Advertisers. The header has a simple yet elegant look with pearl white title and slogan text over a beautiful Sky Blue background.
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Two column, widget ready theme in black
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A dark colored, two column, widget ready and WordPress 2.5-2.8 compatible WordPress theme. Also, check out Enlighten from the same author.
\n
A two column theme that comes widget ready. With Sociable and WP-PageNavi plugins preloaded. Using a green-brown color scheme.
\n
Simple two column theme in white, with black text, and blue links.
\";}i:4;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:27:\"Donncha: WordPress MU 2.8.4\";s:4:\"guid\";s:29:\"http://ocaoimh.ie/?p=89495230\";s:4:\"link\";s:37:\"http://ocaoimh.ie/wordpress-mu-2-8-4/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2381:\"WordPress MU is a multi user or multi blog version of WordPress that is used to run sites like WordPress.com.
\nToday’s WordPress MU release is 2.8.4, a security release that fixes an annoying bug that allowed any user to change the admin password. Your password was never at risk however so it’s more an annoyance than anything else.
\nOh, thanks to everyone who tested the exploit on my blog. See? You didn’t get my password! ![\":P\"](\"http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif\"){kind=icon}
Upgrade automatically from within your dashboard (first fix the upgrader if you haven’t updated to 2.8.3 yet), or download the new release from the download page and upgrade manually, overwriting your current install with the new files.
\nEdit: James Collins noticed that line 164 of wp-login.php wasn’t merged properly. If you downloaded 2.8.4, please grab 2.8.4a. Thanks James for the prompt feedback!
\nRelated Posts
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\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:06:24 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:7:\"Donncha\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2381:\"WordPress MU is a multi user or multi blog version of WordPress that is used to run sites like WordPress.com.
\nToday’s WordPress MU release is 2.8.4, a security release that fixes an annoying bug that allowed any user to change the admin password. Your password was never at risk however so it’s more an annoyance than anything else.
\nOh, thanks to everyone who tested the exploit on my blog. See? You didn’t get my password!
Upgrade automatically from within your dashboard (first fix the upgrader if you haven’t updated to 2.8.3 yet), or download the new release from the download page and upgrade manually, overwriting your current install with the new files.
\nEdit: James Collins noticed that line 164 of wp-login.php wasn’t merged properly. If you downloaded 2.8.4, please grab 2.8.4a. Thanks James for the prompt feedback!
\nRelated Posts
\";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:82:\"Weblog Tools Collection: The Correct Way To Report A Security Issue With WordPress\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6475\";s:4:\"link\";s:111:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/12/the-correct-way-to-report-a-security-issue-with-wordpress/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3306:\"![\"wordpress-security1\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/wordpress-security1-150x150.png\" "\\"wordpress-security1\\"")
If you don’t know by now, WordPress 2.8.4 has hit the public and it addresses a mild but hugely annoying issue. There was no advanced warning regarding the vulnerability but it was quickly patched in the core of WordPress for the next release. Unfortunately, word quickly spread and in fact, even my site WPTavern.com was affected by the problem as I received an email letting me know what my new password was even though I didn’t request one. Here are the details regarding the annoyance:
\na specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset. As a result, the first account without a key in the database (usually the admin account) would have its password reset and a new password would be emailed to the account owner. This doesn’t allow remote access, but it is very annoying.
Thus WordPress 2.8.4. However, there are certain ways in which to respectfully report security vulnerabilities. An article on the vulnerability published by Programmerfish.com in my opinion did more harm than good. The article discusses the vulnerability, explains how to put it in practice, then goes on to show some examples of the vulnerability in action which the author performed on sites they didn’t own. The author tries to justify his/her actions by stating that it was just a proof-of-concept. The author has taken plenty of heat from folks in the comments which I believe to be appropriate.
\nIf you discover a security problem with WordPress, this is the correct way to go about it. If you believe you’ve found a security problem in a release of WordPress please send mail to security at the WordPress.org domain and we’ll do our best to address it as soon as possible.
\nIt is standard practice to notify the vendor (the WordPress developers, in this case) of a security problem before publicizing so a fix can be prepared and public damage due to the vulnerability minimized.
\nIf you would like to see this method put into practice, check out the report time line from CoreLabs, a research and development company that discovered the privileges unchecked in admin.php problem which lead to the release of WordPress 2.8.1. They notified the WordPress team on June 6th of the problem. By communicating back and forth, the issue was resolved by July 8th. A day after, the new versions of WordPress and WordPress MU were released to the public to minimize damage of the exploit. In this situation, everyone wins.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:15:06 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:13:\"Jeff Chandler\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3306:\"If you don’t know by now, WordPress 2.8.4 has hit the public and it addresses a mild but hugely annoying issue. There was no advanced warning regarding the vulnerability but it was quickly patched in the core of WordPress for the next release. Unfortunately, word quickly spread and in fact, even my site WPTavern.com was affected by the problem as I received an email letting me know what my new password was even though I didn’t request one. Here are the details regarding the annoyance:
\na specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset. As a result, the first account without a key in the database (usually the admin account) would have its password reset and a new password would be emailed to the account owner. This doesn’t allow remote access, but it is very annoying.
Thus WordPress 2.8.4. However, there are certain ways in which to respectfully report security vulnerabilities. An article on the vulnerability published by Programmerfish.com in my opinion did more harm than good. The article discusses the vulnerability, explains how to put it in practice, then goes on to show some examples of the vulnerability in action which the author performed on sites they didn’t own. The author tries to justify his/her actions by stating that it was just a proof-of-concept. The author has taken plenty of heat from folks in the comments which I believe to be appropriate.
\nIf you discover a security problem with WordPress, this is the correct way to go about it. If you believe you’ve found a security problem in a release of WordPress please send mail to security at the WordPress.org domain and we’ll do our best to address it as soon as possible.
\nIt is standard practice to notify the vendor (the WordPress developers, in this case) of a security problem before publicizing so a fix can be prepared and public damage due to the vulnerability minimized.
\nIf you would like to see this method put into practice, check out the report time line from CoreLabs, a research and development company that discovered the privileges unchecked in admin.php problem which lead to the release of WordPress 2.8.1. They notified the WordPress team on June 6th of the problem. By communicating back and forth, the issue was resolved by July 8th. A day after, the new versions of WordPress and WordPress MU were released to the public to minimize damage of the exploit. In this situation, everyone wins.
\";}i:6;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:29:\"Alex King: Analytics360° 1.1\";s:4:\"guid\";s:27:\"http://alexking.org/?p=3555\";s:4:\"link\";s:52:\"http://alexking.org/blog/2009/08/11/analytics360-1-1\";s:11:\"description\";s:1525:\"I’m pleased to announce that version 1.1 of Analytics360°, a great WordPress plugin from MailChimp that provides awesome Google and MailChimp analytics data and visualizations in your WordPress admin, is now available.
\n\nThis release addresses a handful of issues that were reported in version 1.0, and has been well received in testing on the Google Group. Hopefully the revisions in version 1.1 will make the plugin compatible with most server configurations.
\nIf you do have problems, the best places to go for answers are:
\nMy thanks to the MailChimp team who have been awesome to work with. My team at Crowd Favorite and I are very pleased to have been the developers for this plugin and are excited about the new release.
\nEnjoy!
\nI’m pleased to announce that version 1.1 of Analytics360°, a great WordPress plugin from MailChimp that provides awesome Google and MailChimp analytics data and visualizations in your WordPress admin, is now available.
\n\nThis release addresses a handful of issues that were reported in version 1.0, and has been well received in testing on the Google Group. Hopefully the revisions in version 1.1 will make the plugin compatible with most server configurations.
\nIf you do have problems, the best places to go for answers are:
\nMy thanks to the MailChimp team who have been awesome to work with. My team at Crowd Favorite and I are very pleased to have been the developers for this plugin and are excited about the new release.
\nEnjoy!
\nYesterday a vulnerability was discovered: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset. As a result, the first account without a key in the database (usually the admin account) would have its password reset and a new password would be emailed to the account owner. This doesn’t allow remote access, but it is very annoying.
\nWe fixed this problem last night and have been testing the fixes and looking for other problems since then. Version 2.8.4 which fixes all known problems is now available for download and is highly recommended for all users of WordPress.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:41:54 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:723:\"Yesterday a vulnerability was discovered: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset. As a result, the first account without a key in the database (usually the admin account) would have its password reset and a new password would be emailed to the account owner. This doesn’t allow remote access, but it is very annoying.
\nWe fixed this problem last night and have been testing the fixes and looking for other problems since then. Version 2.8.4 which fixes all known problems is now available for download and is highly recommended for all users of WordPress.
\";}i:8;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:55:\"Publisher Blog: OnStar Selects WordPress MU and bbPress\";s:4:\"guid\";s:42:\"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/?p=619\";s:4:\"link\";s:80:\"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2009/08/11/onstar-selects-wordpress-bbpress/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2241:\"Thanks Dave for letting us know that OnStar, the vehicle safety and security service, has selected WordPress MU and the discussion forum platform bbPress for their new OnStar Connections site:
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There is some lively discussions going on in the forums, which also have Gravatar support turned on.
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Thanks Dave for letting us know that OnStar, the vehicle safety and security service, has selected WordPress MU and the discussion forum platform bbPress for their new OnStar Connections site:
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There is some lively discussions going on in the forums, which also have Gravatar support turned on.
\n[ Visit OnStar Connections ]
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UPDATE: As from the comments below and various emails I have received, this might be an isolated issue related to my combination of code and plugins. Many people continue to use Feedburner Feed Replacement without any issues.
\nIf you have been using the Feedburner Feed Replacement Plugin originally from Steve Smith, and have not checked your feeds lately, it might be worth a few minutes of your time to do so. Just browse to your blog’s feed address (http://yourblog.com/feed/) and if you are redirected to your Feedburner feed, you are fine. Otherwise you need to uninstall the Feedburner plugin and get something else.
\nAbout a month ago, this blog’s feed count lost about 5000 readers in one feel swoop which is a huge number and a rude wake up call for us. This has happened before with Feedburner and I thought the count would go back up once Feedburner straightened out their data. But alas, that was not to be. I was relegated to thinking that either our posts have reduced so much in quality that people are unsubscribing in droves or there is some errant code on this blog somewhere. Even before this occurred, we had started putting more effort and resources into writing better articles and publishing more useful news for you. So I started trimming the fat (I had a bunch of stats javascripts and the like which are now gone, a good result of this exercise) and looking through plugins. Little did it occur to me that the Feedburner plugin might be the culprit.
\nIn all honesty, I have not had the chance to figure out why the plugin stopped working but I did some research on the web and no-one seems to have noticed the problem. It might be an isolated case where my configurations or combination of plugins on this blog is causing the issue but I highly doubt it. The Feedburner plugin page says that the plugin works with WordPress 2.5 and below. I replaced that plugin with the one from John Watson and everything seems to be working fine again. The feed counts might not go up right away (we are putting more effort and resources into writing better articles and publishing more useful news for you) but I feel better knowing that everything is kosher on the feed side.
\nDo you use the Feedburner Feed Replacement Plugin? Was feed broken? What other Feedburner plugins do you use and like?
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:03:29 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2713:\"UPDATE: As from the comments below and various emails I have received, this might be an isolated issue related to my combination of code and plugins. Many people continue to use Feedburner Feed Replacement without any issues.
\nIf you have been using the Feedburner Feed Replacement Plugin originally from Steve Smith, and have not checked your feeds lately, it might be worth a few minutes of your time to do so. Just browse to your blog’s feed address (http://yourblog.com/feed/) and if you are redirected to your Feedburner feed, you are fine. Otherwise you need to uninstall the Feedburner plugin and get something else.
\nAbout a month ago, this blog’s feed count lost about 5000 readers in one feel swoop which is a huge number and a rude wake up call for us. This has happened before with Feedburner and I thought the count would go back up once Feedburner straightened out their data. But alas, that was not to be. I was relegated to thinking that either our posts have reduced so much in quality that people are unsubscribing in droves or there is some errant code on this blog somewhere. Even before this occurred, we had started putting more effort and resources into writing better articles and publishing more useful news for you. So I started trimming the fat (I had a bunch of stats javascripts and the like which are now gone, a good result of this exercise) and looking through plugins. Little did it occur to me that the Feedburner plugin might be the culprit.
\nIn all honesty, I have not had the chance to figure out why the plugin stopped working but I did some research on the web and no-one seems to have noticed the problem. It might be an isolated case where my configurations or combination of plugins on this blog is causing the issue but I highly doubt it. The Feedburner plugin page says that the plugin works with WordPress 2.5 and below. I replaced that plugin with the one from John Watson and everything seems to be working fine again. The feed counts might not go up right away (we are putting more effort and resources into writing better articles and publishing more useful news for you) but I feel better knowing that everything is kosher on the feed side.
\nDo you use the Feedburner Feed Replacement Plugin? Was feed broken? What other Feedburner plugins do you use and like?
\";}i:11;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:39:\"Dougal Campbell: Analytics Observations\";s:4:\"guid\";s:33:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=1622\";s:11:\"description\";s:10772:\"Over the years, I’ve variously either obsessed over or ignored my site stats. I’ve always found website analytics interesting, but since I’m not selling anything here, I don’t have a lot of motivation to really dig in and try to make sweeping changes for the sake of increasing clicks or search engine rankings. Oh, I have dabbled with things here and there — related posts links, the SEO Super Comments plugin, etc. — but my major motivation is typically to 1) make it easier for my readers to find useful content, and 2) make it harder for spammers to slip through my nets.
\nStill, I do glance at things from time to time, and my interest was piqued again recently by playing with the Analytics360 plugin. A couple of things caught my eye, surprised me, and got me to look a little closer. I thought I’d share a few of those observations here. “SEO Experts” can probably go ahead and move along — you’ll probably just chuckle at my amateur findings.
\n\n
First, it’s important to note that due to my inclusion on Planet Wordpress, and therefore in the Dashboard of numerous WordPress users, my WordPress posts get big surges of traffic (relatively speaking). On the first day of a new WordPress post, my site typically sees 2-3 times as many hits as it does during a quiet phase when I haven’t posted in a while. This usually tapers off over the course of the next few days until traffic returns to ambient levels. So you’d expect that over time, those posts would stay on top of the list of most visited articles on this site. However, I’ve found some exceptions that surprised me.
\n![\"Web](\"http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/analytics_screenshot_july_2009-150x150.png\" "\\"Analytics360")
\n\nFirst, take a look at my traffic graph for the month of July 2009. Those orange dots are when I made blog posts. As I said, the traffic spike is pretty obvious. This is the result of several hundred people clicking in from their WordPress Dashboard, or to a lesser degree from RSS aggregators like Google Reader.
\nNow, look at what happens when you look at page visit totals over the month:
\n| \n | Page | \nPageviews? | \nUnique Pageviews | \nAvg. Time on Page | \n
| 1 | \n/blog/2009/06/26/must-have-iphone-apps | \n3375 | \n2433 | \n00:02:43 | \n
| 2 | \n/ | \n2370 | \n2064 | \n00:02:03 | \n
| 3 | \n/blog/2007/07/16/14-awesome-wordpress-powered-sites | \n2128 | \n1224 | \n00:01:44 | \n
| 4 | \n/blog/2009/07/08/wordpress-mailchimp-analytics-awesomeness | \n1880 | \n1722 | \n00:03:38 | \n
| 5 | \n/blog/2009/07/01/wordpress-themes-tutorial | \n1255 | \n1068 | \n00:03:03 | \n
| 6 | \n/blog/2009/07/14/analytics360-plugin-for-wordpress | \n888 | \n789 | \n00:02:33 | \n
| 7 | \n/blog/2004/12/15/firefox-inline-autocomplete | \n554 | \n483 | \n00:03:24 | \n
| 8 | \n/blog/2009/06/15/plugin-fancybox-gallery-0-3-1 | \n512 | \n368 | \n00:02:02 | \n
| 9 | \n/blog/2009/02/04/efficient-wordpress-permalinks | \n385 | \n351 | \n00:06:52 | \n
| 10 | \n/blog/2009/06/18/wordpress-2-8-1-coming-soon | \n382 | \n362 | \n00:02:46 | \n
Notice how my six-week-old post on Must-Have iPhone Apps got more traffic over time than some fairly popular WordPress posts, despite the obvious initial advantage that the WP posts had. And that post on Firefox Autocomplete is hanging in there even though it’s nearly five years old? Crazy! Conclusion: content really is king.
\nI won’t bore you with another table, but I’ll also point out that “organic” (search engine) hits account for roughly 50% of my overall traffic. From what I understand, this is a Good Thing, and is obviously the reason why those older, “off-topic” posts rank in the chart above. And in fact, the phrase “must have iphone apps” was the top keyword drive here for the month of July. And yes, this does tempt me to write more posts about the iPhone. Will I? We’ll just have to see. I write about whatever strikes me, but I’m only human, and I do like the ego boost of a popular post. ![\";)\"](\"http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif\"){kind=icon}
Have you found anything in your own stats that surprised you?
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:00:24 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:6:\"Dougal\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:10772:\"Over the years, I’ve variously either obsessed over or ignored my site stats. I’ve always found website analytics interesting, but since I’m not selling anything here, I don’t have a lot of motivation to really dig in and try to make sweeping changes for the sake of increasing clicks or search engine rankings. Oh, I have dabbled with things here and there — related posts links, the SEO Super Comments plugin, etc. — but my major motivation is typically to 1) make it easier for my readers to find useful content, and 2) make it harder for spammers to slip through my nets.
\nStill, I do glance at things from time to time, and my interest was piqued again recently by playing with the Analytics360 plugin. A couple of things caught my eye, surprised me, and got me to look a little closer. I thought I’d share a few of those observations here. “SEO Experts” can probably go ahead and move along — you’ll probably just chuckle at my amateur findings.
\n\n
First, it’s important to note that due to my inclusion on Planet Wordpress, and therefore in the Dashboard of numerous WordPress users, my WordPress posts get big surges of traffic (relatively speaking). On the first day of a new WordPress post, my site typically sees 2-3 times as many hits as it does during a quiet phase when I haven’t posted in a while. This usually tapers off over the course of the next few days until traffic returns to ambient levels. So you’d expect that over time, those posts would stay on top of the list of most visited articles on this site. However, I’ve found some exceptions that surprised me.
\n\n\nFirst, take a look at my traffic graph for the month of July 2009. Those orange dots are when I made blog posts. As I said, the traffic spike is pretty obvious. This is the result of several hundred people clicking in from their WordPress Dashboard, or to a lesser degree from RSS aggregators like Google Reader.
\nNow, look at what happens when you look at page visit totals over the month:
\n| \n | Page | \nPageviews? | \nUnique Pageviews | \nAvg. Time on Page | \n
| 1 | \n/blog/2009/06/26/must-have-iphone-apps | \n3375 | \n2433 | \n00:02:43 | \n
| 2 | \n/ | \n2370 | \n2064 | \n00:02:03 | \n
| 3 | \n/blog/2007/07/16/14-awesome-wordpress-powered-sites | \n2128 | \n1224 | \n00:01:44 | \n
| 4 | \n/blog/2009/07/08/wordpress-mailchimp-analytics-awesomeness | \n1880 | \n1722 | \n00:03:38 | \n
| 5 | \n/blog/2009/07/01/wordpress-themes-tutorial | \n1255 | \n1068 | \n00:03:03 | \n
| 6 | \n/blog/2009/07/14/analytics360-plugin-for-wordpress | \n888 | \n789 | \n00:02:33 | \n
| 7 | \n/blog/2004/12/15/firefox-inline-autocomplete | \n554 | \n483 | \n00:03:24 | \n
| 8 | \n/blog/2009/06/15/plugin-fancybox-gallery-0-3-1 | \n512 | \n368 | \n00:02:02 | \n
| 9 | \n/blog/2009/02/04/efficient-wordpress-permalinks | \n385 | \n351 | \n00:06:52 | \n
| 10 | \n/blog/2009/06/18/wordpress-2-8-1-coming-soon | \n382 | \n362 | \n00:02:46 | \n
Notice how my six-week-old post on Must-Have iPhone Apps got more traffic over time than some fairly popular WordPress posts, despite the obvious initial advantage that the WP posts had. And that post on Firefox Autocomplete is hanging in there even though it’s nearly five years old? Crazy! Conclusion: content really is king.
\nI won’t bore you with another table, but I’ll also point out that “organic” (search engine) hits account for roughly 50% of my overall traffic. From what I understand, this is a Good Thing, and is obviously the reason why those older, “off-topic” posts rank in the chart above. And in fact, the phrase “must have iphone apps” was the top keyword drive here for the month of July. And yes, this does tempt me to write more posts about the iPhone. Will I? We’ll just have to see. I write about whatever strikes me, but I’m only human, and I do like the ego boost of a popular post.
Have you found anything in your own stats that surprised you?
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This widget will list random posts from a chosen category. You can choose how many posts to display, and whether to show the excerpt or the full content in addition to the post title. You may also link the widget title to the category archive if you like.
\n\nThe very simplest of notepads for your Dashboard. The widget settings allow you to choose which roles can edit the notes, and which roles can merely read them.
\n\nUsing your blog as the seed, find quality content from the Blog Traffic Exchange and tweet it automatically. Provide your followers with interesting and relevant content within the niche of your blog. Supplement your twitter account with quality content related to your blogging niche using the our powerful content search engine.
\nThe plugin allows to change theme (template) on desired dates. If you want a Christmas theme automatically on your blog just for 5 days (or more), the plugin will do it for you.
\n\nContextual Related Posts lets you display a list of contextually related posts for the current post. It does this by analyzing the title and content of your post and finding the most relevant posts based on this.
\n\nHelps you improve the search results on your blog. The plugin tries to find highly relevant search results for your blog based on the title and content of the posts on your blog.
\n\nGD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating and review plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, multi ratings, templated rendering, has a widgets build in and extensive shortcode support. Plugin can be integrated with comments for making a review website.
\n\nThis plugin contains several widgets with simple functionality. Some of them are based on standard WordPress widgets but with extended options and rendering. You can also disable default WordPress widgets if you choose to use Simple Widgets versions.
\n\nAllows you to edit various parts of your site without going through the admin interface.
\n\nThis SEO plugin can handle titles, meta, noindex, canonical tags, 404 monitoring, linkboxes, and robots.txt. Version 0.9.3 fixes bugs and adds slug optimization.
\nAre you a plugin author? Submit your plugin to get featured in our release posts.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:43:51 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:7:\"Perurry\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3402:\"This widget will list random posts from a chosen category. You can choose how many posts to display, and whether to show the excerpt or the full content in addition to the post title. You may also link the widget title to the category archive if you like.
\n\nThe very simplest of notepads for your Dashboard. The widget settings allow you to choose which roles can edit the notes, and which roles can merely read them.
\n\nUsing your blog as the seed, find quality content from the Blog Traffic Exchange and tweet it automatically. Provide your followers with interesting and relevant content within the niche of your blog. Supplement your twitter account with quality content related to your blogging niche using the our powerful content search engine.
\nThe plugin allows to change theme (template) on desired dates. If you want a Christmas theme automatically on your blog just for 5 days (or more), the plugin will do it for you.
\n\nContextual Related Posts lets you display a list of contextually related posts for the current post. It does this by analyzing the title and content of your post and finding the most relevant posts based on this.
\n\nHelps you improve the search results on your blog. The plugin tries to find highly relevant search results for your blog based on the title and content of the posts on your blog.
\n\nGD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating and review plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, multi ratings, templated rendering, has a widgets build in and extensive shortcode support. Plugin can be integrated with comments for making a review website.
\n\nThis plugin contains several widgets with simple functionality. Some of them are based on standard WordPress widgets but with extended options and rendering. You can also disable default WordPress widgets if you choose to use Simple Widgets versions.
\n\nAllows you to edit various parts of your site without going through the admin interface.
\n\nThis SEO plugin can handle titles, meta, noindex, canonical tags, 404 monitoring, linkboxes, and robots.txt. Version 0.9.3 fixes bugs and adds slug optimization.
\nAre you a plugin author? Submit your plugin to get featured in our release posts.
\";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:57:\"Gravatar: What has been going on in the world of Gravatar\";s:4:\"guid\";s:31:\"http://blog.gravatar.com/?p=150\";s:4:\"link\";s:84:\"http://blog.gravatar.com/2009/08/10/what-has-been-going-on-in-the-world-of-gravatar/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3589:\"Now you can watch Gravatar, the motion picture! Which was put together by the ever helpful Michael Pick. If you’ve ever had trouble explaining exactly what Gravatar.com does to your friends, family, neighbors, long lost friends, and that dude down the street, then this is the screen cast for you!
\nIt may not be a groundbreaking feature, but there is some a small new addition to the Gravatar API. You can now specify a default value of 404 to make the image… well… return a 404 not found error if there is no image for the given email address. This probably wont change the life of you website developers out there, but it just might make it easier for you application developers (you know… the people who have to actually compile their code before it works…)
\nToday we have TWO “Did you know” tidbits for the price of one.
\nThat’s all I have for now but, as always, there is more to come from Gravatar.com
\nCheers!
\nDK
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Now you can watch Gravatar, the motion picture! Which was put together by the ever helpful Michael Pick. If you’ve ever had trouble explaining exactly what Gravatar.com does to your friends, family, neighbors, long lost friends, and that dude down the street, then this is the screen cast for you!
\nIt may not be a groundbreaking feature, but there is some a small new addition to the Gravatar API. You can now specify a default value of 404 to make the image… well… return a 404 not found error if there is no image for the given email address. This probably wont change the life of you website developers out there, but it just might make it easier for you application developers (you know… the people who have to actually compile their code before it works…)
\nToday we have TWO “Did you know” tidbits for the price of one.
\nThat’s all I have for now but, as always, there is more to come from Gravatar.com
\nCheers!
\nDK
Check out this demo video of a new plugin by mitcho, called HookPress. HookPress adds the ability to use webhooks as WordPress actions and filters. Since webhooks run from a web server (not directly inside WordPress), this means that you could, for example, use scripts in python, perl, ruby, or whatever to extend WordPress. How’s that for nifty? And what’s extra nice is that the user interface for it on the WordPress side looks super simple to use.
\n\n
Click here to view the embedded video.
\nIf you want to do some quick experimentation, you can try out the scriptlets server, where you can code up a quick server-side function in Javascript, and immediately get a URL for your own custom webhook.
\nSee the original HookPress post on mitcho’s blog. Download HookPress from the plugin repository.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:40:10 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:6:\"Dougal\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1336:\"Check out this demo video of a new plugin by mitcho, called HookPress. HookPress adds the ability to use webhooks as WordPress actions and filters. Since webhooks run from a web server (not directly inside WordPress), this means that you could, for example, use scripts in python, perl, ruby, or whatever to extend WordPress. How’s that for nifty? And what’s extra nice is that the user interface for it on the WordPress side looks super simple to use.
\n\n
Click here to view the embedded video.
\nIf you want to do some quick experimentation, you can try out the scriptlets server, where you can code up a quick server-side function in Javascript, and immediately get a URL for your own custom webhook.
\nSee the original HookPress post on mitcho’s blog. Download HookPress from the plugin repository.
\";}i:16;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:40:\"Alex King: More Carrington Documentation\";s:4:\"guid\";s:27:\"http://alexking.org/?p=3549\";s:4:\"link\";s:65:\"http://alexking.org/blog/2009/08/09/more-carrington-documentation\";s:11:\"description\";s:926:\"I’ve published more documentation on Carrington, the CMS theme framework for WordPress we created and use at Crowd Favorite. These docs cover the three contexts used in Carrington, and examples of how you may want to use them:
\n\nI’m working on a follow-up to the Carrington Q&A as well, so if you have specific questions please send them in.
\nI’ve published more documentation on Carrington, the CMS theme framework for WordPress we created and use at Crowd Favorite. These docs cover the three contexts used in Carrington, and examples of how you may want to use them:
\n\nI’m working on a follow-up to the Carrington Q&A as well, so if you have specific questions please send them in.
\nAll the entries into the WordPress Plugin competition have been tallied and have been passed on to the judges. There are 43 entries in total that we have received. They are all listed below with an announcement about each plugin. You can also download a zip file with all the plugins in it, use them at your leisure and then rate them on the plugin competition blog. (If the plugin is not listed on the plugin competition blog, the authors have not followed the rules and they will not benefit from the user ratings) These plugins are listed in no particular order. If you submitted your plugin and it is not on this list, please contact us using the form above.
\n| W3 Total Cache is a plugin designed to improve user experience via a suite of performance enhancements consisting of a database cache, page cache, minify support with content delivery network support, media library import and more. | \n
| This simple to use plugin enables you to login to your WordPress weblog using passwords which are valid for one session only. One-time passwords prevent stealing of your main WordPress password in less trustworthy environments, like internet cafés, for example by keyloggers. For each login you can choose between using your main password or a one-time password. The one-time password system conforms to RFC 2289 of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). | \n
| This all-in-one SEO plugin can handle titles, noindex, meta data, canonical tags, 404 error tracking, and more. | \n
| An Ajax Plugin Helper for the WordPress admin plugin page. Adds Ajax activate, deactivate, delete and upgrade functionality. Allows a user to activate, deactive, delete and upgrade plugins from the admin plugins page without leaving the plugins page. Also provides an Ajax Upgrade All button for upgrading all plugins requiring upgrades using Ajax. This plugin was designed to meet the needs of bulk plugin upgrades and a more efficient upgrade process to decrease the amount of time required to update the plugins for your blog. | \n
| WordPress Beta Tester allows you to get involved with the WordPress development process by making it easy for you to get early access to nightly builds and beta releases using the core upgrader. | \n
| This plugin provides a way to display section-sepecific content on your sidebar with an easy to use interface. This new version comes with tabs support, so creating your tabbed section widget is just a few clicks away. Plus, with shortcode support, the possibilities are limit-less! | \n
| Fitr Theme Options helps theme designers to make a diverse and rich option page for their themes. It makes template customizing easy and bring more fun to WordPress! | \n
| Creates widgets that list your most recent posts with excerpts, optionally limited to a category. The number of posts and excerpts is configurable; for example, you could show five posts but include the excerpt for only the most recent. Supports the_excerpt Reloaded and Advanced Excerpt for excerpts with HTML formatting. | \n
| This plugin imports a directory of files as either pages or posts, according to configurable settings. | \n
| The purpose of the plugin is to facilitate related posts functionality where posts can be enriched with groups of links to blog posts (or other sites), defined by headline and thumbnail. | \n
| Get Shortlink places a button in your theme which allows visitors to grab the short url of that page by copying the shortlink to their clipboard. Supports shortening services tinyurl, digg, is.gd, and also allows you to generate custom shortlinks based on your site’s domain name. | \n
| EG-Delicious-Sync is a set of tools, to backup Delicious, or synchronize links and tags between WordPress and Delicious. | \n
| “Amr personalise” allows one to personalise wordpress emails, or content for a logged in user. It offers shortcode type functionality in any email template or page or post. It extracts the user data of the logged in viewer or email address. A default text can be specified for situations where there are no stored name details (ie not logged in, or no names provided – eg: with the plugin subscribe2. | \n
| The amr-users plugin allows an administrator to design their own users lists or reports. It offers a basic set of lists to start with to get you going and almost unlimited ability to dig deep into user meta values and generate focused tailored listings. | \n
| This plugin provides a simple way for inter-user communication to multi-user blogs. | \n
| WP-IRC Plugin is a WordPress Plugin which can fetch the number of users online in any IRC channel and can be scheduled to auto refresh it every x minutes. | \n
| Tweetbacks Helper is a helper Plugin for Tweetbacks Plugin to help it detect more tweets. Tweetbacks is a great Plugin by Yoast which can be used to retrieve tweets about your blog posts from Twitter and import them as comments in your WordPress blog. | \n
| Posts by Tag WordPress Plugin, provides sidebar widgets which can be used to display posts from a specific set of tags in the sidebar.The Plugin caches the posts of each widget separately, and issues database queries only when needed. This will reduce the amount of database queries involved for each page load and will therefore be light on your server. | \n
| Geo Mark is a WordPress Plugin which will automatically locate Geo information in your WordPress posts using Yahoo Placemaker and YQL API’s. | \n
| Easy ReTweet is a WordPress Plugin, which let’s you add retweet or Tweet this buttons for your WordPress posts, together with the retweet count. | \n
| WP-Table Reloaded enables you to create and manage tables in your WP’s admin area. No HTML knowledge is needed. A comfortable backend allows to easily edit table data. You can include the tables into your posts, on your pages or in text widgets by using a shortcode or a template tag function. Tables can be imported and exported from/to CSV, XML and HTML. | \n
| Adds an SEO friendly, accessible regular or dropdown menu to your WordPress blog. You can style the menu by using our easy to use editor interface to create the perfect looking menu for your site. | \n
| This plugin adds Theme Options to any theme and provides a way to add and manage code snippets. | \n
| The main goal of this plugin is the definition of languages that WordPress backend can be used with. This definition can only be managed by administrators, any other user can’t change this settings. | \n
| Twitter is everywhere. So why not in your WordPress Dashboard? WordPress Dashboard Twitter lets you update your status, send direct messages, follow your mentions, list direct messages, sent messages and your favorites in a simple tab interface. All in a single widget. WordPress Dashboard Twitter turns your Dashboard into a Twitter client. | \n
| User Count is a Wordpress plugin that simply displays the number of users who have an account on your blog to the Wordpress admin dashboard. It also lists the number of users per role. | \n
| Greg’s High Performance SEO configures over 100 characteristics important for on-page SEO, while loading only around 600 lines of code per ordinary page view and playing nicely with other plugins. No output buffer hacks, no unnecessary admin code overhead foisted on ordinary readers, just high performance SEO goodness. | \n
| The WP-Announcements plugin is ideal for websites or blogs that would like to display a site wide announcement, featured post, important message, community notice, advertisement, survey form, email subscription form, emergency alert or anything you can publish in a post as a marquee or popup window using ShadowBox-JS or ThickBox. | \n
| This plugin allows you to add multiple addresses to a post/page and have those addresses automatically plotted on a Google Map in a sidebar widget. This is a great plugin to help localize your stories, events, news, etc. | \n
| The WP-Devel plugin for WordPress features a ton of debug options to help developers. Debug information is easily turned on/off from the WP-Devel toolbar. | \n
| This plugin provides shortcodes and template tags for next, previous, and parent navigation in pages. It allows WordPress pages to emulate Drupal’s book navigation. | \n
| For many many people a changelog is a very important thing; it is all about justifying to the users why they should upgrade to the latest version of a plugin. Changelogger shows the latest changelog right on the plugin listing page, whenever there’s a plugin ready to be updated. | \n
| Seen the DiggBar on Digg.com? Add a similar feature to your Wordpress blog. Use your blog as a short link service with Easy Link Creation. Feature any link on the internet with a custom URL such as http://www.internetriot.com/?bing. Also feature social network links such as Facebook, Twitter, and Digg. | \n
| ImageShack Offloader is a plugin that allows you to seamlessly offload your images to ImageShack to save server resources. | \n
| The Plugin Debug Objects (Blogpost) provides the user, which has the appropriate rights, normally the administrator, a large number of information. Values and content get displayed at the frontend of the blog, to analyze errors but also to better understand WordPress. | \n
| Live Blogging is a plugin developed to support blogs that are doing live micro blogging of running events, such as major sport events or tech conferences. | \n
| Navbar is a WordPress admin plugin which adds a handy navigation bar to organize your WordPress blog shortcuts. | \n
| Add a short note about the latest changes in the current post or page. Activate it and it work instantly. All the settings are optional. | \n
| Max Image Size Control plugin adds the functionality to change the max image size each category and post. | \n
| Tweetable is a WordPress Plugin intended to help integrate Twitter into your blog. It can tweet your blog posts as they are published. (URLs are shortened with the URL shortener of your choice, and Google Analytics campaign tags can be included.) You can display your latest tweet(s) in your blog sidebar with a customizable widget, which can also display your follower count. | \n
| Create “Block” widgets that can be set up to only display on certain pages. This lightweight plugin is similar to Drupal Blocks. You can use this plugin to avoid having to create several different widget “regions”. Once activated, you’ll see a new type of widget: “Block”. | \n
| Working with a single large export file can be difficult. Use this plugin to create multiple export files that contain sections of your blog. This plugin has been tested on WP& WPMU versions 2.7 – 2.8.2 | \n
| We’ve all had this problem. A group of spammers from mail.ru are registering to your blog, but you want to keep registration open. How do you kill the spammers without bothering your clientele? While you could edit your functions.php and block the domain, once you get past a few bad eggs, you have to escalate. | \n
All the entries into the WordPress Plugin competition have been tallied and have been passed on to the judges. There are 43 entries in total that we have received. They are all listed below with an announcement about each plugin. You can also download a zip file with all the plugins in it, use them at your leisure and then rate them on the plugin competition blog. (If the plugin is not listed on the plugin competition blog, the authors have not followed the rules and they will not benefit from the user ratings) These plugins are listed in no particular order. If you submitted your plugin and it is not on this list, please contact us using the form above.
\n| W3 Total Cache is a plugin designed to improve user experience via a suite of performance enhancements consisting of a database cache, page cache, minify support with content delivery network support, media library import and more. | \n
| This simple to use plugin enables you to login to your WordPress weblog using passwords which are valid for one session only. One-time passwords prevent stealing of your main WordPress password in less trustworthy environments, like internet cafés, for example by keyloggers. For each login you can choose between using your main password or a one-time password. The one-time password system conforms to RFC 2289 of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). | \n
| This all-in-one SEO plugin can handle titles, noindex, meta data, canonical tags, 404 error tracking, and more. | \n
| An Ajax Plugin Helper for the WordPress admin plugin page. Adds Ajax activate, deactivate, delete and upgrade functionality. Allows a user to activate, deactive, delete and upgrade plugins from the admin plugins page without leaving the plugins page. Also provides an Ajax Upgrade All button for upgrading all plugins requiring upgrades using Ajax. This plugin was designed to meet the needs of bulk plugin upgrades and a more efficient upgrade process to decrease the amount of time required to update the plugins for your blog. | \n
| WordPress Beta Tester allows you to get involved with the WordPress development process by making it easy for you to get early access to nightly builds and beta releases using the core upgrader. | \n
| This plugin provides a way to display section-sepecific content on your sidebar with an easy to use interface. This new version comes with tabs support, so creating your tabbed section widget is just a few clicks away. Plus, with shortcode support, the possibilities are limit-less! | \n
| Fitr Theme Options helps theme designers to make a diverse and rich option page for their themes. It makes template customizing easy and bring more fun to WordPress! | \n
| Creates widgets that list your most recent posts with excerpts, optionally limited to a category. The number of posts and excerpts is configurable; for example, you could show five posts but include the excerpt for only the most recent. Supports the_excerpt Reloaded and Advanced Excerpt for excerpts with HTML formatting. | \n
| This plugin imports a directory of files as either pages or posts, according to configurable settings. | \n
| The purpose of the plugin is to facilitate related posts functionality where posts can be enriched with groups of links to blog posts (or other sites), defined by headline and thumbnail. | \n
| Get Shortlink places a button in your theme which allows visitors to grab the short url of that page by copying the shortlink to their clipboard. Supports shortening services tinyurl, digg, is.gd, and also allows you to generate custom shortlinks based on your site’s domain name. | \n
| EG-Delicious-Sync is a set of tools, to backup Delicious, or synchronize links and tags between WordPress and Delicious. | \n
| “Amr personalise” allows one to personalise wordpress emails, or content for a logged in user. It offers shortcode type functionality in any email template or page or post. It extracts the user data of the logged in viewer or email address. A default text can be specified for situations where there are no stored name details (ie not logged in, or no names provided – eg: with the plugin subscribe2. | \n
| The amr-users plugin allows an administrator to design their own users lists or reports. It offers a basic set of lists to start with to get you going and almost unlimited ability to dig deep into user meta values and generate focused tailored listings. | \n
| This plugin provides a simple way for inter-user communication to multi-user blogs. | \n
| WP-IRC Plugin is a WordPress Plugin which can fetch the number of users online in any IRC channel and can be scheduled to auto refresh it every x minutes. | \n
| Tweetbacks Helper is a helper Plugin for Tweetbacks Plugin to help it detect more tweets. Tweetbacks is a great Plugin by Yoast which can be used to retrieve tweets about your blog posts from Twitter and import them as comments in your WordPress blog. | \n
| Posts by Tag WordPress Plugin, provides sidebar widgets which can be used to display posts from a specific set of tags in the sidebar.The Plugin caches the posts of each widget separately, and issues database queries only when needed. This will reduce the amount of database queries involved for each page load and will therefore be light on your server. | \n
| Geo Mark is a WordPress Plugin which will automatically locate Geo information in your WordPress posts using Yahoo Placemaker and YQL API’s. | \n
| Easy ReTweet is a WordPress Plugin, which let’s you add retweet or Tweet this buttons for your WordPress posts, together with the retweet count. | \n
| WP-Table Reloaded enables you to create and manage tables in your WP’s admin area. No HTML knowledge is needed. A comfortable backend allows to easily edit table data. You can include the tables into your posts, on your pages or in text widgets by using a shortcode or a template tag function. Tables can be imported and exported from/to CSV, XML and HTML. | \n
| Adds an SEO friendly, accessible regular or dropdown menu to your WordPress blog. You can style the menu by using our easy to use editor interface to create the perfect looking menu for your site. | \n
| This plugin adds Theme Options to any theme and provides a way to add and manage code snippets. | \n
| The main goal of this plugin is the definition of languages that WordPress backend can be used with. This definition can only be managed by administrators, any other user can’t change this settings. | \n
| Twitter is everywhere. So why not in your WordPress Dashboard? WordPress Dashboard Twitter lets you update your status, send direct messages, follow your mentions, list direct messages, sent messages and your favorites in a simple tab interface. All in a single widget. WordPress Dashboard Twitter turns your Dashboard into a Twitter client. | \n
| User Count is a Wordpress plugin that simply displays the number of users who have an account on your blog to the Wordpress admin dashboard. It also lists the number of users per role. | \n
| Greg’s High Performance SEO configures over 100 characteristics important for on-page SEO, while loading only around 600 lines of code per ordinary page view and playing nicely with other plugins. No output buffer hacks, no unnecessary admin code overhead foisted on ordinary readers, just high performance SEO goodness. | \n
| The WP-Announcements plugin is ideal for websites or blogs that would like to display a site wide announcement, featured post, important message, community notice, advertisement, survey form, email subscription form, emergency alert or anything you can publish in a post as a marquee or popup window using ShadowBox-JS or ThickBox. | \n
| This plugin allows you to add multiple addresses to a post/page and have those addresses automatically plotted on a Google Map in a sidebar widget. This is a great plugin to help localize your stories, events, news, etc. | \n
| The WP-Devel plugin for WordPress features a ton of debug options to help developers. Debug information is easily turned on/off from the WP-Devel toolbar. | \n
| This plugin provides shortcodes and template tags for next, previous, and parent navigation in pages. It allows WordPress pages to emulate Drupal’s book navigation. | \n
| For many many people a changelog is a very important thing; it is all about justifying to the users why they should upgrade to the latest version of a plugin. Changelogger shows the latest changelog right on the plugin listing page, whenever there’s a plugin ready to be updated. | \n
| Seen the DiggBar on Digg.com? Add a similar feature to your Wordpress blog. Use your blog as a short link service with Easy Link Creation. Feature any link on the internet with a custom URL such as http://www.internetriot.com/?bing. Also feature social network links such as Facebook, Twitter, and Digg. | \n
| ImageShack Offloader is a plugin that allows you to seamlessly offload your images to ImageShack to save server resources. | \n
| The Plugin Debug Objects (Blogpost) provides the user, which has the appropriate rights, normally the administrator, a large number of information. Values and content get displayed at the frontend of the blog, to analyze errors but also to better understand WordPress. | \n
| Live Blogging is a plugin developed to support blogs that are doing live micro blogging of running events, such as major sport events or tech conferences. | \n
| Navbar is a WordPress admin plugin which adds a handy navigation bar to organize your WordPress blog shortcuts. | \n
| Add a short note about the latest changes in the current post or page. Activate it and it work instantly. All the settings are optional. | \n
| Max Image Size Control plugin adds the functionality to change the max image size each category and post. | \n
| Tweetable is a WordPress Plugin intended to help integrate Twitter into your blog. It can tweet your blog posts as they are published. (URLs are shortened with the URL shortener of your choice, and Google Analytics campaign tags can be included.) You can display your latest tweet(s) in your blog sidebar with a customizable widget, which can also display your follower count. | \n
| Create “Block” widgets that can be set up to only display on certain pages. This lightweight plugin is similar to Drupal Blocks. You can use this plugin to avoid having to create several different widget “regions”. Once activated, you’ll see a new type of widget: “Block”. | \n
| Working with a single large export file can be difficult. Use this plugin to create multiple export files that contain sections of your blog. This plugin has been tested on WP& WPMU versions 2.7 – 2.8.2 | \n
| We’ve all had this problem. A group of spammers from mail.ru are registering to your blog, but you want to keep registration open. How do you kill the spammers without bothering your clientele? While you could edit your functions.php and block the domain, once you get past a few bad eggs, you have to escalate. | \n
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:40:00 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:15:\"WindowsObserver\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:6283:\"I work with a group of people in the development and production of a podcast called The PC/Mac Smackdown. The show is going through significant changes in the near future and we decided it would be great to have some type of collaborative site for us to share ideas, files, schedules, etc.
\nRather than use commercial services like Google Docs, Google Groups or Multiply we thought it would be much more functional to build our own site and customize it to our preferences. I volunteered to get that site up and running and I was actually able to have something online overnight that met our needs. It really proved just how flexible WordPress is and how talented the plug-in developer community is to be able to provide such a wide range of functionality with plug-ins.
\nAfter getting our domain registered I got the latest version of WordPress (2.8.3) uploaded and installed. If you have ever set up a brand new WordPress site then you know how easy and quick the 5 minute install is.
\nAfter spending some time tweaking all the everyday settings for the blog I started off with a search for a theme that would support the mix of PC and Mac people that were involved. The one I finally settled on is iBlog2 by Andrew Powers. I picked it because the layout is very clean and it is compatible with popular browsers on both the Windows and Mac operating systems.
\nThe next thing I went in search for was a calendar/event plug-in that we could use to keep track of upcoming shows, meeting coordination, travel schedules and other events for the show. I must have tried 3 or 4 plug-ins before I finally settled on the Event Calendar 3 by Alex Tingle (91,000 downloads). This plug-in also utilizes the Event Calendar Widget by Darrell Schulte which provides the sidebar calendar widget that interfaces with the Event Calendar 3 plug-in. This plug-in creates an additional editing box at the very bottom of the Post Page that lets you select a start and end date/time for an event.
\nHere is what that Event Editor box looks like:
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Then you put the subject line as the event name and type any further details in the post. What you get then is a positing that looks like this:
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And that in turn shows up on the sidebar calendar widget as a highlighted day in red and if you hover over the date you will see the event in a small pop-up box:
\n\n
The next thing we wanted to be able to do was share files on the site and I immediately went for a plug-in I am already familiar with and grabbed the Wordpress Download Monitor plug-in by Mike Jolley which I use on my WindowsObserver.com website to host a selection of Windows 7 Themes. It is another very simple to use plug-in that has great functionality, flexibility as well as stats tracking for all downloadable files. It has been downloaded 95,000 times so it is also in wide use and obviously popular.
\nThat wrapped up the bulk of the functionality we needed within the site – the next thing was to lock it down for our own private use. After trying a few plug-ins I found many were either dated in their development or not able to meet our needs. It was then that I happened upon the Absolute Privacy plug-in by John Kolbert. This is a fairly new plug-in that has only been available since Feb 2009 and with just over 3,300 downloads to its name.
\nHowever, don’t let that low number lull you into thinking it is not well made and good at its intended use.
\nThis plug-in has one main option – to either enable or disable the plug-in:
\n\n
It gives you a new user category – Unapproved User – and this is assigned to anyone who signs up for an account so an Admin can approve or disapprove someone’s access to the site. Once they are approved you can assign them to whatever level of access they need. At that point their access to the site functions like it would on any other WordPress site except they must be signed in to see/access the entries, admin panel, etc.
\n\n
Using this plug-in your site is locked down quite well and even the RSS feeds are inaccessible unless your logged in.
\nSo there you have it – with an idea, a handful of plug-ins and some time you can also build your own personal and private collaboration site with WordPress.
\nSo for discussion – what is the most unique, non-traditional site you have ever built with WordPress?
\";}i:19;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 08/08\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6424\";s:4:\"link\";s:87:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/08/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0808/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1704:\"I work with a group of people in the development and production of a podcast called The PC/Mac Smackdown. The show is going through significant changes in the near future and we decided it would be great to have some type of collaborative site for us to share ideas, files, schedules, etc.
\nRather than use commercial services like Google Docs, Google Groups or Multiply we thought it would be much more functional to build our own site and customize it to our preferences. I volunteered to get that site up and running and I was actually able to have something online overnight that met our needs. It really proved just how flexible WordPress is and how talented the plug-in developer community is to be able to provide such a wide range of functionality with plug-ins.
\nAfter getting our domain registered I got the latest version of WordPress (2.8.3) uploaded and installed. If you have ever set up a brand new WordPress site then you know how easy and quick the 5 minute install is.
\nAfter spending some time tweaking all the everyday settings for the blog I started off with a search for a theme that would support the mix of PC and Mac people that were involved. The one I finally settled on is iBlog2 by Andrew Powers. I picked it because the layout is very clean and it is compatible with popular browsers on both the Windows and Mac operating systems.
\nThe next thing I went in search for was a calendar/event plug-in that we could use to keep track of upcoming shows, meeting coordination, travel schedules and other events for the show. I must have tried 3 or 4 plug-ins before I finally settled on the Event Calendar 3 by Alex Tingle (91,000 downloads). This plug-in also utilizes the Event Calendar Widget by Darrell Schulte which provides the sidebar calendar widget that interfaces with the Event Calendar 3 plug-in. This plug-in creates an additional editing box at the very bottom of the Post Page that lets you select a start and end date/time for an event.
\nHere is what that Event Editor box looks like:
\n\n
Then you put the subject line as the event name and type any further details in the post. What you get then is a positing that looks like this:
\n\n
And that in turn shows up on the sidebar calendar widget as a highlighted day in red and if you hover over the date you will see the event in a small pop-up box:
\n\n
The next thing we wanted to be able to do was share files on the site and I immediately went for a plug-in I am already familiar with and grabbed the Wordpress Download Monitor plug-in by Mike Jolley which I use on my WindowsObserver.com website to host a selection of Windows 7 Themes. It is another very simple to use plug-in that has great functionality, flexibility as well as stats tracking for all downloadable files. It has been downloaded 95,000 times so it is also in wide use and obviously popular.
\nThat wrapped up the bulk of the functionality we needed within the site – the next thing was to lock it down for our own private use. After trying a few plug-ins I found many were either dated in their development or not able to meet our needs. It was then that I happened upon the Absolute Privacy plug-in by John Kolbert. This is a fairly new plug-in that has only been available since Feb 2009 and with just over 3,300 downloads to its name.
\nHowever, don’t let that low number lull you into thinking it is not well made and good at its intended use.
\nThis plug-in has one main option – to either enable or disable the plug-in:
\n\n
It gives you a new user category – Unapproved User – and this is assigned to anyone who signs up for an account so an Admin can approve or disapprove someone’s access to the site. Once they are approved you can assign them to whatever level of access they need. At that point their access to the site functions like it would on any other WordPress site except they must be signed in to see/access the entries, admin panel, etc.
\n\n
Using this plug-in your site is locked down quite well and even the RSS feeds are inaccessible unless your logged in.
\nSo there you have it – with an idea, a handful of plug-ins and some time you can also build your own personal and private collaboration site with WordPress.
\nSo for discussion – what is the most unique, non-traditional site you have ever built with WordPress?
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Single column, gravatar ready theme with a gravatar based author avatar image
\n![\"xhtmlam\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/xhtmlam.png\" "\\"xhtmlam\\"")
Widget ready, two column blue, white and grey theme
\n![\"Brownie\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Brownie.gif\" "\\"Brownie\\"")
Three-column WordPress theme in soft brown colors and two widget ready sidebars. Has Google adsense support and 125×125 ad management.
\n![\"A](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/ADaringInspiration.png\" "\\"A")
Two column, left sidebar WordPress theme
\nAre you a theme author? Submit your theme to us to get it listed in our release posts.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:50:39 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:7:\"Perurry\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1704:\"
Single column, gravatar ready theme with a gravatar based author avatar image
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Widget ready, two column blue, white and grey theme
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Three-column WordPress theme in soft brown colors and two widget ready sidebars. Has Google adsense support and 125×125 ad management.
\n
Two column, left sidebar WordPress theme
\nAre you a theme author? Submit your theme to us to get it listed in our release posts.
\";}i:20;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:23:\"Matt: Clunker Broadband\";s:4:\"guid\";s:21:\"http://ma.tt/?p=14542\";s:4:\"link\";s:39:\"http://ma.tt/2009/08/clunker-broadband/\";s:11:\"description\";s:125:\"Cash for Broadband instead of Clunkers.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:26:59 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:125:\"Cash for Broadband instead of Clunkers.
\";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:27:\"Donncha: WordPress MU 2.8.3\";s:4:\"guid\";s:29:\"http://ocaoimh.ie/?p=89495221\";s:4:\"link\";s:37:\"http://ocaoimh.ie/wordpress-mu-2-8-3/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3433:\"WordPress MU is a multi user or multi blog version of WordPress that is used to run sites like WordPress.com.
\nWordPress MU 2.8.3 is a security and bugfix release based on the fixes in WordPress 2.8.3 but also contains many other changes.
\nIt’s a required upgrade for security reasons but also fixes a number of annoying bugs, especially #1067 and #1076.
\nUnfortunately the automatic upgrader in MU 2.8.2 is broken but it’s simple to fix:
\nif ( !$wp_filesystem->copy($working_dir . ‘/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/update-core.php’, $wp_dir . ‘wp-admin/includes/update-core.php’, true) ) {\n
if ( !$wp_filesystem->copy($working_dir . ‘/wordpress-mu/wp-admin/includes/update-core.php’, $wp_dir . ‘wp-admin/includes/update-core.php’, true) ) {\n
Do not copy and paste the line above as WordPress will have changed the quotes to “smart quotes”. Actually go in and type “-mu” after “wordpress”. No copy and pasting please!
\nIf auto upgrading still doesn’t work, don’t sweat it. Download the new release from the download page and upgrade manually, overwriting your current install with the new files.
\nRelated Posts
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\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:22:35 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:7:\"Donncha\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3433:\"WordPress MU is a multi user or multi blog version of WordPress that is used to run sites like WordPress.com.
\nWordPress MU 2.8.3 is a security and bugfix release based on the fixes in WordPress 2.8.3 but also contains many other changes.
\nIt’s a required upgrade for security reasons but also fixes a number of annoying bugs, especially #1067 and #1076.
\nUnfortunately the automatic upgrader in MU 2.8.2 is broken but it’s simple to fix:
\nif ( !$wp_filesystem->copy($working_dir . ‘/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/update-core.php’, $wp_dir . ‘wp-admin/includes/update-core.php’, true) ) {\n
if ( !$wp_filesystem->copy($working_dir . ‘/wordpress-mu/wp-admin/includes/update-core.php’, $wp_dir . ‘wp-admin/includes/update-core.php’, true) ) {\n
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\nIf auto upgrading still doesn’t work, don’t sweat it. Download the new release from the download page and upgrade manually, overwriting your current install with the new files.
\nRelated Posts
\";}i:22;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:42:\"WP iPhone: WordCamp New Zealand Sneak Peak\";s:4:\"guid\";s:34:\"http://iphone.wordpress.org/?p=417\";s:4:\"link\";s:71:\"http://iphone.wordpress.org/2009/08/07/wordcamp-new-zealand-sneak-peak/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2751:\"This weekend there is a WordCamp happening in Wellington, New Zealand.
\n\n\nWordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. WordCamps are open to WordPress.com and WordPress.org users alike.
I will be there, speaking on Saturday afternoon about the changes we’ve been making to the WordPress for iPhone application, along with some of the plans for the future. If you’re attending, please don’t hesitate to come and talk to me. I won’t bite ![\":)\"](\"http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif\"){kind=icon}
Also, for those of your who are not developers and have not had the pleasure of pouring through the latest commits to trunk, here is a sneak peak (although we may be tweaking this a bit before the next release):
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This weekend there is a WordCamp happening in Wellington, New Zealand.
\n\n\nWordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. WordCamps are open to WordPress.com and WordPress.org users alike.
I will be there, speaking on Saturday afternoon about the changes we’ve been making to the WordPress for iPhone application, along with some of the plans for the future. If you’re attending, please don’t hesitate to come and talk to me. I won’t bite
Also, for those of your who are not developers and have not had the pleasure of pouring through the latest commits to trunk, here is a sneak peak (although we may be tweaking this a bit before the next release):
\n
Feedburner provides users with a easy way to burn RSS feeds and allow users to subscribe to them using either a RSS feed reader or through email, however when a user chooses to subscribe through email, they have to confirm their subscription through a link they will receive in the confirmation email.
\nHowever the problem arises that many users do not confirm their subscriptions and it could involve many reasons, like the confirmation email landing up in the spam folder among other things.
\nFeedburner does provide users with an option to view the subscribers that are unconfirmed however dealing with each and every unconfirmed subscriber can be a pain.
\nIf you are Firefox user there is a Greasemonkey script (via Instant Fundas) that will copy all the unconfirmed subscribers email address to the clipboard whenever you visit the email subscribers page, you can then use that information to send out emails to the unconfirmed subscribers.
\nAnother option for WordPress users is to use the Notify Unconfirmed Subscribers (written by yours truly ![\":-)\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif\"){kind=icon}
) plugin to fetch all unconfirmed subscribers and send a friendly message asking them to confirm their subscription.
The plugin will ask you for your account credentials and login to your account to fetch all the unconfirmed subscribers and allow you to send a friendly message to all of them. Please note no account credentials are stored.
\nThe advantages of using this plugin are quite a few, here are some of them.
\nIt’s definitely worked out well for me, have you tried it yet? If not you can install it from the plugin dashboard or directly download it from WordPress extend.
\nIf you find problems with the plugin, please add it to the support forum and please suggest your feature requests in the comments or much better to add it to the plugin feature requests.
\nDownload Notify Unconfirmed Subscribers
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:46:46 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:12:\"Keith Dsouza\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3145:\"Feedburner provides users with a easy way to burn RSS feeds and allow users to subscribe to them using either a RSS feed reader or through email, however when a user chooses to subscribe through email, they have to confirm their subscription through a link they will receive in the confirmation email.
\nHowever the problem arises that many users do not confirm their subscriptions and it could involve many reasons, like the confirmation email landing up in the spam folder among other things.
\nFeedburner does provide users with an option to view the subscribers that are unconfirmed however dealing with each and every unconfirmed subscriber can be a pain.
\nIf you are Firefox user there is a Greasemonkey script (via Instant Fundas) that will copy all the unconfirmed subscribers email address to the clipboard whenever you visit the email subscribers page, you can then use that information to send out emails to the unconfirmed subscribers.
\nAnother option for WordPress users is to use the Notify Unconfirmed Subscribers (written by yours truly ) plugin to fetch all unconfirmed subscribers and send a friendly message asking them to confirm their subscription.
The plugin will ask you for your account credentials and login to your account to fetch all the unconfirmed subscribers and allow you to send a friendly message to all of them. Please note no account credentials are stored.
\nThe advantages of using this plugin are quite a few, here are some of them.
\nIt’s definitely worked out well for me, have you tried it yet? If not you can install it from the plugin dashboard or directly download it from WordPress extend.
\nIf you find problems with the plugin, please add it to the support forum and please suggest your feature requests in the comments or much better to add it to the plugin feature requests.
\nDownload Notify Unconfirmed Subscribers
\";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:62:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Convert PSD Files To WordPress Themes\";s:4:\"guid\";s:91:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/07/convert-psd-files-to-wordpress-themes/\";s:4:\"link\";s:91:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/07/convert-psd-files-to-wordpress-themes/\";s:11:\"description\";s:993:\"WordPress themes are enhance the look and feel of the blog and kudos to all those theme developers who spend time to dish out those wonderful themes.
\nHowever not all Photoshop designers are developers and they eventually require help to convert a PSD file to an actual WordPress theme.
\nDivine PSD to WordPress Themes is a excellent plugin for Photoshop users that will help you convert your PSD file to a theme without any development efforts.
\nSo what are you waiting for? Now it is more than easy to release your themes to the world, and don’t forget to add you themes to the Theme News section on WLTC so that we can feature it in our theme releases.
\nDownload Divine Plugin for Photoshop
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:29:07 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:12:\"Keith Dsouza\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:993:\"WordPress themes are enhance the look and feel of the blog and kudos to all those theme developers who spend time to dish out those wonderful themes.
\nHowever not all Photoshop designers are developers and they eventually require help to convert a PSD file to an actual WordPress theme.
\nDivine PSD to WordPress Themes is a excellent plugin for Photoshop users that will help you convert your PSD file to a theme without any development efforts.
\nSo what are you waiting for? Now it is more than easy to release your themes to the world, and don’t forget to add you themes to the Theme News section on WLTC so that we can feature it in our theme releases.
\nDownload Divine Plugin for Photoshop
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Every now and then I see someone ask in the dev channel how they can meet up with other local WordPress developers. We’re thinking about ways to make WordPress.org more of a resource to facilitate local connections, but in the meantime, I thought it might be helpful to publicize some upcoming WordCamps, the weekend conferences organized by local communities to talk about all things WordPress.
\nWordCamp New Zealand: Wellington, New Zealand, August 8-9, 2009
\nWordCamp Huntsville: Huntsville, Alabama, USA, August 15–16, 2009
\nWordCamp Los Angeles: Los Angeles, California, USA, September 12, 2009
\nWordCamp Philippines: Makati City, Philippines, September 19, 2009
\nWordCamp Portland: Portland, Oregon, USA, September 19-20, 2009 (Last year’s PDX WordCamp was awesome, IMO.)
\nWordCamp Seattle: Seattle, Washington, USA, September 26, 2009
\nWordCamp Birmingham: Birmingham, Alabama, USA, September 26-27, 2009
\nWordCamp Netherlands: Utrecht, Netherlands, October 31, 2009
\nWordCamp NYC: New York, New York, USA, November 14-15, 2009 (Logo contest in progress!)
\nWordCamp Mexico: Mexico City, Mexico, November 20, 2009
\nIf any of these are within a reasonable distance to you, consider attending. WordCamps are a great way to meet other WordPress users, find collaborators, and expand your t-shirt collection*. I know I’ll be hitting at least a few of these; WordCamps are also a great way to get user feedback to take into consideration while we’re making decisions about what to include in core.
\nYou can always find an up-to-date list of upcoming WordCamps at WordCamp Central. You can also try searching for WordPress groups at Meetup.com to find more regular monthly gatherings in your area.
\n*Most WordCamps include an event t-shirt in the registration fee.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:07:03 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Jane Wells\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2707:\"Every now and then I see someone ask in the dev channel how they can meet up with other local WordPress developers. We’re thinking about ways to make WordPress.org more of a resource to facilitate local connections, but in the meantime, I thought it might be helpful to publicize some upcoming WordCamps, the weekend conferences organized by local communities to talk about all things WordPress.
\nWordCamp New Zealand: Wellington, New Zealand, August 8-9, 2009
\nWordCamp Huntsville: Huntsville, Alabama, USA, August 15–16, 2009
\nWordCamp Los Angeles: Los Angeles, California, USA, September 12, 2009
\nWordCamp Philippines: Makati City, Philippines, September 19, 2009
\nWordCamp Portland: Portland, Oregon, USA, September 19-20, 2009 (Last year’s PDX WordCamp was awesome, IMO.)
\nWordCamp Seattle: Seattle, Washington, USA, September 26, 2009
\nWordCamp Birmingham: Birmingham, Alabama, USA, September 26-27, 2009
\nWordCamp Netherlands: Utrecht, Netherlands, October 31, 2009
\nWordCamp NYC: New York, New York, USA, November 14-15, 2009 (Logo contest in progress!)
\nWordCamp Mexico: Mexico City, Mexico, November 20, 2009
\nIf any of these are within a reasonable distance to you, consider attending. WordCamps are a great way to meet other WordPress users, find collaborators, and expand your t-shirt collection*. I know I’ll be hitting at least a few of these; WordCamps are also a great way to get user feedback to take into consideration while we’re making decisions about what to include in core.
\nYou can always find an up-to-date list of upcoming WordCamps at WordCamp Central. You can also try searching for WordPress groups at Meetup.com to find more regular monthly gatherings in your area.
\n*Most WordCamps include an event t-shirt in the registration fee.
\";}i:27;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:36:\"Matt: 6 Steps to Kill Your Community\";s:4:\"guid\";s:21:\"http://ma.tt/?p=14536\";s:4:\"link\";s:41:\"http://ma.tt/2009/08/kill-your-community/\";s:11:\"description\";s:6182:\"There have been a number of new platforms popping up recently that claim to increase your user engagement, get you more comments, increase your traffic, and more, through means that I consider short-sighted and harmful. Since people seem not to mind, I thought I’d write a guide for how to increase the number of comments you get by 400-1,000% and ruin whatever shred of community you had on your site.
\nAs a bonus, here are a few extra that don’t make any sense to me, but seem to be popular:
\nShameless: IntenseDebate does all of the software stuff right, or will shortly. Core WordPress threading, moderation, and whitelists are already built in but also check out Subscribe to Comments and of course Akismet.
\nWhat are your pet peeves and rules?
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:42:01 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:6182:\"There have been a number of new platforms popping up recently that claim to increase your user engagement, get you more comments, increase your traffic, and more, through means that I consider short-sighted and harmful. Since people seem not to mind, I thought I’d write a guide for how to increase the number of comments you get by 400-1,000% and ruin whatever shred of community you had on your site.
\nAs a bonus, here are a few extra that don’t make any sense to me, but seem to be popular:
\nShameless: IntenseDebate does all of the software stuff right, or will shortly. Core WordPress threading, moderation, and whitelists are already built in but also check out Subscribe to Comments and of course Akismet.
\nWhat are your pet peeves and rules?
\";}i:28;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:40:\"Alex King: Carrington Framework Overview\";s:4:\"guid\";s:27:\"http://alexking.org/?p=3536\";s:4:\"link\";s:54:\"http://carringtontheme.com/2009/08/framework-overview/\";s:11:\"description\";s:603:\"I’ve published a Carrington theme framework overview article (a follow up to the Q&A) on the Carrington web site. Hopefully folks will find it useful in describing some of the approaches taken in the framework, and some of the resulting benefits.\n
\nI’ve published a Carrington theme framework overview article (a follow up to the Q&A) on the Carrington web site. Hopefully folks will find it useful in describing some of the approaches taken in the framework, and some of the resulting benefits.\n
\nOn order to protect email servers from a possible denial of service attack from the blog by email feature of WordPress I have committed a change today to ensure that WordPress will not contact the mail server more that once every 5 minutes however often wp-mail.php is accessed.
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Message displayed when rejecting request
The 5 minute interval, is itself, configurable using a define in your wp-config.php file it you wish to set a longer or shorter interval.
You would configure this by adding the following to the wp-config.php:
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On order to protect email servers from a possible denial of service attack from the blog by email feature of WordPress I have committed a change today to ensure that WordPress will not contact the mail server more that once every 5 minutes however often wp-mail.php is accessed.
\nMessage displayed when rejecting request
The 5 minute interval, is itself, configurable using a define in your wp-config.php file it you wish to set a longer or shorter interval.
You would configure this by adding the following to the wp-config.php:
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Theme is widget ready and has 6 widget placeholders (Left Sidebar, Right Sidebar and Footer). Footer has 4 placeholder and in any of it you can use as many widgets as you want.
\n![\"Minimalist\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Minimalist.png\" "\\"Minimalist\\"")
Inspired by Kubrick WordPress theme, Minimalist is a three column, widget ready theme.
\n![\"Celestial_Aura\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Celestial_Aura.png\" "\\"Celestial_Aura\\"")
SEO-friendly WordPress theme that is widget-ready and has two sidebars of Wide Skyscraper width (160×600) on either side of the post area. It has a beautiful cosmic header with a slick menu bar elegantly blended in a sky blue background. The article area is suitable for a adsense banner ad of 468×60 pixels.
\n![\"Portico\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Portico.jpg\" "\\"Portico\\"")
Two-column, widget and Google Adsense (or any other ad network) ready theme theme that is simple to use and offers elegant design.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:34:52 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:7:\"Perurry\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1826:\"
Theme is widget ready and has 6 widget placeholders (Left Sidebar, Right Sidebar and Footer). Footer has 4 placeholder and in any of it you can use as many widgets as you want.
\n
Inspired by Kubrick WordPress theme, Minimalist is a three column, widget ready theme.
\n
SEO-friendly WordPress theme that is widget-ready and has two sidebars of Wide Skyscraper width (160×600) on either side of the post area. It has a beautiful cosmic header with a slick menu bar elegantly blended in a sky blue background. The article area is suitable for a adsense banner ad of 468×60 pixels.
\n
Two-column, widget and Google Adsense (or any other ad network) ready theme theme that is simple to use and offers elegant design.
\";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:72:\"Weblog Tools Collection: 26 Places to Find Free Multimedia for Your Blog\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6400\";s:4:\"link\";s:101:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/05/26-places-to-find-free-multimedia-for-your-blog/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1229:\"![\"Lots](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/85515856_e56aae92bf.jpg\" "\\"85515856_e56aae92bf\\"")
Lots of bloggers in the UK!
26 Places to Find Free Multimedia for Your Blog: Mashable lists 26 places to find various pieces of free multimedia for your blog or website. Some of these are pretty commonly known (such as Flickr) but the video and audio resources were fun to browse through. Please do me a favor and not set auto-play on any audio/video you add to your blog. Thanks Dan Ross via Twitter
Picture credits Annie Mole found via Flick CC search.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:53:53 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1229:\"Lots of bloggers in the UK!
26 Places to Find Free Multimedia for Your Blog: Mashable lists 26 places to find various pieces of free multimedia for your blog or website. Some of these are pretty commonly known (such as Flickr) but the video and audio resources were fun to browse through. Please do me a favor and not set auto-play on any audio/video you add to your blog. Thanks Dan Ross via Twitter
Picture credits Annie Mole found via Flick CC search.
\";}i:32;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:34:\"Dougal Campbell: Time for Redesign\";s:4:\"guid\";s:33:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=1643\";s:11:\"description\";s:3173:\"![\"\"](\"http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/wordpress-wednesday.png\" "\\"WordPress")
\nI’ve been threatening to do it for years, but I think it’s really time — time to redesign this site, for real. If what I have now (or will accomplish in the end) can be called ‘design’. Maybe it would be better to say ‘re-theme‘, so as to avoid ridicule from actual designers. And speaking of which, I’ll happily accept any design advice along the way!
So. Time to start over. I’m really going to do it this time. No more of this “one day…” stuff. In the next few days (by the beginning of next week), I will start with a fresh, unaltered theme, then I will customize it over time. As I go along, I’ll try to document the changes I make as much as possible (at least, as much as time and my poor memory will allow).
\nIn any case, my Rockem-Sockem theme is getting a bit long in the tooth. It’s built on Sandbox, with a few custom tweaks, a bucket full of plugins, and a heaping handful of custom CSS. I still like Sandbox, but it’s time for me to move on (it’s not you, it’s me). There are glitches that I don’t like, but I’ve never gotten around to fixing (like how the ‘Related Posts’ section is only supposed to show up on posts, not pages; or the ugly formatting on single post views when there are no tags).
\nFirst decision: what base theme to use. I’m mainly considering three choices for my starting point: Carrington, Thematic, or a semi-from-scratch theme based on Ian Stewart’s recent theme tutorial. My current leaning is towards building a Thematic child theme. I like the ideas in Carrington a lot, but I think it’s overkill for what I want to do (I might use it on another domain of mine, though). And building a child theme on top of Thematic still means that a lot of the grunt-work is already done for me.
\nSo, as you visit my site over the next several days and weeks, bear with me. I hope that some of you will find this an interesting experience as we see what changes I make, what decisions drive those changes, and how you, my audience, affect my decisions with your feedback. You are going to give me feedback, right? Look around — what changes do you think I should make? What’s good, and what’s bad? Think more in terms in information and functionality than in visual/graphic design, for now.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:00:17 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:6:\"Dougal\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3173:\"
\nI’ve been threatening to do it for years, but I think it’s really time — time to redesign this site, for real. If what I have now (or will accomplish in the end) can be called ‘design’. Maybe it would be better to say ‘re-theme‘, so as to avoid ridicule from actual designers. And speaking of which, I’ll happily accept any design advice along the way!
So. Time to start over. I’m really going to do it this time. No more of this “one day…” stuff. In the next few days (by the beginning of next week), I will start with a fresh, unaltered theme, then I will customize it over time. As I go along, I’ll try to document the changes I make as much as possible (at least, as much as time and my poor memory will allow).
\nIn any case, my Rockem-Sockem theme is getting a bit long in the tooth. It’s built on Sandbox, with a few custom tweaks, a bucket full of plugins, and a heaping handful of custom CSS. I still like Sandbox, but it’s time for me to move on (it’s not you, it’s me). There are glitches that I don’t like, but I’ve never gotten around to fixing (like how the ‘Related Posts’ section is only supposed to show up on posts, not pages; or the ugly formatting on single post views when there are no tags).
\nFirst decision: what base theme to use. I’m mainly considering three choices for my starting point: Carrington, Thematic, or a semi-from-scratch theme based on Ian Stewart’s recent theme tutorial. My current leaning is towards building a Thematic child theme. I like the ideas in Carrington a lot, but I think it’s overkill for what I want to do (I might use it on another domain of mine, though). And building a child theme on top of Thematic still means that a lot of the grunt-work is already done for me.
\nSo, as you visit my site over the next several days and weeks, bear with me. I hope that some of you will find this an interesting experience as we see what changes I make, what decisions drive those changes, and how you, my audience, affect my decisions with your feedback. You are going to give me feedback, right? Look around — what changes do you think I should make? What’s good, and what’s bad? Think more in terms in information and functionality than in visual/graphic design, for now.
\";}i:33;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:53:\"Alex King: Which DOCTYPE to use for WordPress Themes?\";s:4:\"guid\";s:32:\"http://alexking.org/blog/?p=3311\";s:4:\"link\";s:77:\"http://alexking.org/blog/2009/08/04/which-doctype-to-use-for-wordpress-themes\";s:11:\"description\";s:1523:\"I received some feedback on one of our Carrington themes recently, letting me know that while we were declaring the DOCTYPE of the theme as XHTML 1.0 Transitional, it would be simple to go to XHTML 1.1 Strict based on the markup in the theme.
\nThis didn’t surprise me, we always code to pretty strict web standard best practices at Crowd Favorite so XHTML 1.1 compatibility is generally just a matter of a tweak here or there. However, just because it’s an easy change doesn’t mean it’s a good change.
\nThe main reason we choose to use XHTML 1.0 Transitional for our WordPress themes is simple: we have no idea what someone might decide to do with it. ![\":)\"](\"http://alexking.org/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif\"){kind=icon}
It doesn’t matter if the theme validates strictly if the content doesn’t – and with all of the great tools and widgets available for WordPress, it’s pretty easy to add something that breaks your strict validation.
\nThis is something you should consider if you’re a theme developer. Don’t just think about the code you’ve written to build the theme, think about what people using your theme will be doing with it; and make the best choice you can.
\nI received some feedback on one of our Carrington themes recently, letting me know that while we were declaring the DOCTYPE of the theme as XHTML 1.0 Transitional, it would be simple to go to XHTML 1.1 Strict based on the markup in the theme.
\nThis didn’t surprise me, we always code to pretty strict web standard best practices at Crowd Favorite so XHTML 1.1 compatibility is generally just a matter of a tweak here or there. However, just because it’s an easy change doesn’t mean it’s a good change.
\nThe main reason we choose to use XHTML 1.0 Transitional for our WordPress themes is simple: we have no idea what someone might decide to do with it.
It doesn’t matter if the theme validates strictly if the content doesn’t – and with all of the great tools and widgets available for WordPress, it’s pretty easy to add something that breaks your strict validation.
\nThis is something you should consider if you’re a theme developer. Don’t just think about the code you’ve written to build the theme, think about what people using your theme will be doing with it; and make the best choice you can.
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Though many of you may already know this, you can use WordPress not only as a blog, but also as a website to highlight your portfolio or business.
\nThe Tutorial Blog has written a excellent tutorial on how you can use WordPress to showcase your business or portfolio and also use it as a blogging platform.
\nThe trick involves changing the home page to a static page and rearranging the pages alphabetically by changing the page order.
\nHead over to the tutorial blog to read Turn Your WordPress Blog into a Business Website.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:24:53 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:12:\"Keith Dsouza\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:638:\"Though many of you may already know this, you can use WordPress not only as a blog, but also as a website to highlight your portfolio or business.
\nThe Tutorial Blog has written a excellent tutorial on how you can use WordPress to showcase your business or portfolio and also use it as a blogging platform.
\nThe trick involves changing the home page to a static page and rearranging the pages alphabetically by changing the page order.
\nHead over to the tutorial blog to read Turn Your WordPress Blog into a Business Website.
\";}i:37;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:60:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/04\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6397\";s:4:\"link\";s:88:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/04/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0804/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2841:\"Imports well-formed static HTML files into WordPress. Requires PHP 5.
\nEasy Clickheat WordPress Intergration Plugin
\nA plugin to easily and quickly integrate the Labs Media Clickheat tracking system in your WordPress site.
\n\nAdd smooth ajax during login, avoid screen refreshes and choose where users get redirected to upon login/logout.
\n\nAdds a simple bar at the bottom of the site indicating that you’re working on a development version, so you don’t accidentally break the live site.
\n\nBase on the Open Encryptor authentication, add the one-time password security for WordPress. Distributed through Open Encryptor.
\n\nAdds an AJAX based mail form to the sidebar.
\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\nWith Poppy´s Videos, you can embed videos from the most popular video sharing portals, as well as files in .flv, .divx and .mp3 format. Also, the videos and files you embed with Poppy´s Videos will be included in your RSS feeds, so your followers won’t have to visit your site to enjoy them.
\n\nThis plugin provides a way to display section-sepecific content on your sidebar with an easy to use interface. This new version comes with tabs support, so creating your tabbed section widget is just a few clicks away.
\n\nTwitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.
\n\nSpamTask is a spam protection plugin for WordPress, created to prevent comment spam in the most efficient way. The blog spam filter is known to catch all spam robots.
\n\nTurns your blog into the ultimate private blog.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:13:00 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:7:\"Perurry\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2841:\"Imports well-formed static HTML files into WordPress. Requires PHP 5.
\nEasy Clickheat WordPress Intergration Plugin
\nA plugin to easily and quickly integrate the Labs Media Clickheat tracking system in your WordPress site.
\n\nAdd smooth ajax during login, avoid screen refreshes and choose where users get redirected to upon login/logout.
\n\nAdds a simple bar at the bottom of the site indicating that you’re working on a development version, so you don’t accidentally break the live site.
\n\nBase on the Open Encryptor authentication, add the one-time password security for WordPress. Distributed through Open Encryptor.
\n\nAdds an AJAX based mail form to the sidebar.
\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\nWith Poppy´s Videos, you can embed videos from the most popular video sharing portals, as well as files in .flv, .divx and .mp3 format. Also, the videos and files you embed with Poppy´s Videos will be included in your RSS feeds, so your followers won’t have to visit your site to enjoy them.
\n\nThis plugin provides a way to display section-sepecific content on your sidebar with an easy to use interface. This new version comes with tabs support, so creating your tabbed section widget is just a few clicks away.
\n\nTwitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.
\n\nSpamTask is a spam protection plugin for WordPress, created to prevent comment spam in the most efficient way. The blog spam filter is known to catch all spam robots.
\n\nTurns your blog into the ultimate private blog.
\";}i:38;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:65:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Version 2.8.3 Security Release\";s:4:\"guid\";s:94:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/03/wordpress-version-2-8-3-security-release/\";s:4:\"link\";s:94:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/03/wordpress-version-2-8-3-security-release/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2125:\"Weren’t we just talking about upgrading to the latest and greatest version of WordPress just yesterday?
\nWell today Ryan Boren has just posted at the WordPress.org blog about the release of the WordPress 2.8.3 Security Release. As he mentions in the posting this fix is related to the privilege escalation issues in version 2.8.1.
\nWhat he says next is the real reason why WordPress is so popular and well supported:
\n\nLuckily, the entire WordPress community has our backs. Several folks in the community dug deeper and discovered areas that were overlooked. With their help, the remaining issues are fixed in 2.8.3.
\n
Ryan is right – it is the community that looks after each other. Where else would you have such a diverse and talented group who points out any issues instead of just taking them public even though it would draw a lot of attention and maybe fame for themselves? How easy might it have been for someone to just point out those additional areas/issues for someone to exploit and get all the traffic?
\nWell, it could have been very easy – just send that info to the web instead of into the hands of the developers of WordPress.
\nThis site is another great example of the community around WordPress and the help everyone provides each other to make their understanding of WordPress even better and to share their experience. I think there are many places that could look at what happens in the WordPress Community and see the positive impact an open environment can do for things.
\nThanks to all of you here at WLTC and your willingness to be frank with us on each and every post and to assist each other in the comments and forums. You all definitely rock!
\nSo the next question is – how do we make it even better?
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:15:37 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:15:\"WindowsObserver\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2125:\"Weren’t we just talking about upgrading to the latest and greatest version of WordPress just yesterday?
\nWell today Ryan Boren has just posted at the WordPress.org blog about the release of the WordPress 2.8.3 Security Release. As he mentions in the posting this fix is related to the privilege escalation issues in version 2.8.1.
\nWhat he says next is the real reason why WordPress is so popular and well supported:
\n\nLuckily, the entire WordPress community has our backs. Several folks in the community dug deeper and discovered areas that were overlooked. With their help, the remaining issues are fixed in 2.8.3.
\n
Ryan is right – it is the community that looks after each other. Where else would you have such a diverse and talented group who points out any issues instead of just taking them public even though it would draw a lot of attention and maybe fame for themselves? How easy might it have been for someone to just point out those additional areas/issues for someone to exploit and get all the traffic?
\nWell, it could have been very easy – just send that info to the web instead of into the hands of the developers of WordPress.
\nThis site is another great example of the community around WordPress and the help everyone provides each other to make their understanding of WordPress even better and to share their experience. I think there are many places that could look at what happens in the WordPress Community and see the positive impact an open environment can do for things.
\nThanks to all of you here at WLTC and your willingness to be frank with us on each and every post and to assist each other in the comments and forums. You all definitely rock!
\nSo the next question is – how do we make it even better?
\";}i:39;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:28:\"Alex King: Twitter Tools 2.0\";s:4:\"guid\";s:27:\"http://alexking.org/?p=3421\";s:4:\"link\";s:53:\"http://alexking.org/blog/2009/08/03/twitter-tools-2-0\";s:11:\"description\";s:3591:\"I’m very pleased to announce that Twitter Tools 2.0 is now available!
\nTwitter Tools is a WordPress plugin that creates a complete, two-way integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Version 2.0 of Twitter Tools makes the plugin extensible in the same way WordPress itself is. I’ve added hooks and filters that allow other plugins to be created for Twitter Tools and extend/change/customize the way Twitter Tools works.
\nI get a lot of requests for features/changes that are specific to someone’s particular needs. Unfortunately I can’t build specific features for each user into the general plugin, but now other people can build plugins for it to make things work just as they want it to.
\nTo make sure these hooks and filters work properly, I created three plugins for Twitter Tools that provide commonly requested features:
\nEach of these plugins can to be activated individually from your Plugins page, and adds their configuration options to the Twitter Tools settings page. These should be great examples for anyone wanting to build a plugin for Twitter Tools.
\nHere are some ideas for other Twitter Tools plugins that I’ve seen requests for:
\nHopefully we’ll see lots of interesting Twitter Tools plugins from folks who have been requesting these features. I’m very interested to see what people build.
\nI’ve also added some additional CSS classes to the tweet output and a commonly requested feature to customize the tweet prefix for new blog post notifications. I had resisted this in the past due to some edge cases that could cause problems, but I believe only a rare situation (annoyance, not fatal) is possible and I doubt folks will run into it – sounds like famous last words, right?
The download and more information are available on my WordPress Plugins page.
\nIf you have any trouble with this, please contact the WordPress HelpCenter (512-788-9236) or you can try the WP Support Forums.
\nI’m very pleased to announce that Twitter Tools 2.0 is now available!
\nTwitter Tools is a WordPress plugin that creates a complete, two-way integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Version 2.0 of Twitter Tools makes the plugin extensible in the same way WordPress itself is. I’ve added hooks and filters that allow other plugins to be created for Twitter Tools and extend/change/customize the way Twitter Tools works.
\nI get a lot of requests for features/changes that are specific to someone’s particular needs. Unfortunately I can’t build specific features for each user into the general plugin, but now other people can build plugins for it to make things work just as they want it to.
\nTo make sure these hooks and filters work properly, I created three plugins for Twitter Tools that provide commonly requested features:
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\n\";}i:3;a:13:{s:5:\"title\";s:25:\"2.9 Features Vote Results\";s:4:\"link\";s:58:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/2-9-vote-results/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:67:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/2-9-vote-results/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:26:29 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Jane Wells\";}s:8:\"category\";s:24:\"Features2.9resultssurvey\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=877\";s:11:\"description\";s:308:\"Earlier this month, over 3500 of you responded to our survey asking you to help us prioritize some of the media features that had been suggested for the 2.9 release. While the exact features for 2.9 have not been hammered out yet, as we continue to match up developers with features, we wanted to share [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:8608:\"Earlier this month, over 3500 of you responded to our survey asking you to help us prioritize some of the media features that had been suggested for the 2.9 release. While the exact features for 2.9 have not been hammered out yet, as we continue to match up developers with features, we wanted to share the survey results and let you know what we’re thinking in terms of approach.
\nFirst, the results. The first question, and the only one that was mandatory, asked what single media feature you would choose to include in version 2.9. The top vote-getter was standalone editable photo albums (as opposed to the current per-post gallery) at 17.5%, followed closely by easier embeds for videos and other third-party content at 16.5%. Next came basic image editing (such as rotating, cropping and resizing) at 13.7%, and post thumbnails (image teasers for posts featured on the home page) at 12.9%. The rest of the features each took less than ten percent of the vote. The full list came in like this:
\n![\"Results](\"http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/q1.png\")
The second question was optional (3406 people answered it), and asked you to rate each feature on a scale going from top priority down to definitely not for implementation priority. Results here were in line with the results from the first question, with most features rated as nice to have more often than anything else. The features that scored the highest in question 1 were more likely to have earned higher votes in the Top Priority column, but no feature was ranked as a Top Priority more often than it was ranked as a Nice to Have (though Media Albums, Easier Embeds and Post Thumbnails came close). The complete tabulations are shown in the chart below.
\n![\"Results](\"http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/q2.png\")
Question three was getting at the same thing, but in a more granular fashion, asking you to rank the eleven features in order of priority to you. As only one feature could be assigned to each position, this prevented people from assigning the same priority to multiple features, and we wondered if it would alter the results. Though some features got more recognition in this question, the overall rankings were still in line with the results from question 1. Here are the exact votes per feature/per position:
\n![\"Results](\"http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/q3.png\")
The fourth question asked for your preferences regarding including new media features in core, bundling them as plugins with the core download, or developing them as plugins but not bundling them with the core download. This vote was more interesting to watch. As the notice for the voting went first to the development community, then to the user community, it was possible to see a shift in the voting. Earlier in the voting cycle, there were more votes for bundling ‘core plugins’ for the advanced media features, while later votes skewed heavily toward just putting the features in core. This vote shows, I think, one of the differences between developer and user perspectives. While developers are heavily interested in keeping the core code lean and relying on plugins for advanced functionality, many users would prefer features they want to be included in core rather than being a separate plugin. The final tally on this question was 56.2% for including features in core, 38.1% for bundled plugins, and 5.7% for non-bundled plugins. The actual numbers:
\n![\"Results](\"http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/q4.png\")
Clearly this issue deserves more discussion, and the concept of how we move toward a system of canonical plugins and/or core “packages” intended for different use cases (CMS, photoblog, portfolio, etc) will be a big topic in the months ahead.
\nSo where does that leave us regarding features coming down the road? When the vote closed, the results were discussed in the #wordpress-dev IRC chat to divvy up feature development.
\nThe top-voted feature, standalone photo albums, is being worked on as a Google Summer of Code project by Rudolf Lai, under the mentorship of WordPress Lead Developer Mark Jaquith. The “pencils down” date for GSOC is in less than two weeks, at which point we’ll be assessing the state of Rudolf’s project. Hopefully, we’ll be able to incorporate it with 2.9 development, do some testing, amend the code and/or UI as needed, and have this launch with the 2.9 release (in core or as plugin TBD). Undoubtedly, additional functionality will be contributed by core contributors who have also been working on media plugins.
\nEasier embeds, the second most popular feature, is being looked at in a couple of ways. One, more shortcodes for third-party services. Work on this has already begun. In addition, Viper007Bond, of Viper’s Video Quicktags plugin fame, has taken on the task of working on a way to improve the embed experience in core. We’re not sure quite how this will work yet, but stay tuned.
\nAdding some basic editing functions like 90-degree rotation, cropping and resizing was considered an obvious winner in the dev chat, and as several plugins handle this functionality, we’re hopeful it will be included soon.
\nPost thumbnails are being handled by Mark Jaquith, who has created this functionality before, with an assist from Scribu, who has a similar plugin in the repository.
\nLower ranked features aren’t off the radar, but may take lower priority than some other (non-media) features we have in the works. One of my favorite 2.9 features is in trunk now, and changes the way we delete content. Goodbye, annoying popup asking me if I’m sure I want to delete a comment/post/etc. Hello, fast and quiet removal into a trash can, from which the content can be retrieved if it was deleted by accident. Think Gmail style. We’re also hoping to work on improving page management, though that has a number of technical issues that may cause it to be a 3.0 feature instead.
\nAs always, you can keep track of development progress in a number of ways:
\n1. Keep track of Trac. Contribute a patch, test a patch, just read through tickets if you have some time to kill, whatever. There are over 500 tickets against the 2.9 milestone currently. Patches and testing can help us get that number down.
2. Follow Trac commits on Twitter. Don’t want to get involved in the nitty gritty, just want to see what’s getting committed? Follow wpdevel on Twitter and you’ll get core commit updates in your stream.
\n3. See what’s on the dev agenda. Each week for the IRC dev chat, there’s an agenda, created based on developer suggestions posted at wpdevel.wordpress.com. This blog also contains discussions about specific development issues.
\n4. Join the dev chat. The day changed this week, to accommodate European schedules. Chats are now held for one hour each week on Thursday at 21:00 UTC. That’s 5pm NYC, 2pm in California, etc. Chats are in the #wordpress-dev room at irc.freenode.com.
\n5. Watch this blog. If you’re not a developer and prefer to stick to major announcements, the occasional survey to help decide a feature, and security notices, just keep doing what you’re doing. Reading this blog will get you all of these things.
\nThanks again for your help in prioritizing features for version 2.9, hopefully coming toward the end of the year to a server near you!
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\nFirst, the results. The first question, and the only one that was mandatory, asked what single media feature you would choose to include in version 2.9. The top vote-getter was standalone editable photo albums (as opposed to the current per-post gallery) at 17.5%, followed closely by easier embeds for videos and other third-party content at 16.5%. Next came basic image editing (such as rotating, cropping and resizing) at 13.7%, and post thumbnails (image teasers for posts featured on the home page) at 12.9%. The rest of the features each took less than ten percent of the vote. The full list came in like this:
\n
The second question was optional (3406 people answered it), and asked you to rate each feature on a scale going from top priority down to definitely not for implementation priority. Results here were in line with the results from the first question, with most features rated as nice to have more often than anything else. The features that scored the highest in question 1 were more likely to have earned higher votes in the Top Priority column, but no feature was ranked as a Top Priority more often than it was ranked as a Nice to Have (though Media Albums, Easier Embeds and Post Thumbnails came close). The complete tabulations are shown in the chart below.
\n
Question three was getting at the same thing, but in a more granular fashion, asking you to rank the eleven features in order of priority to you. As only one feature could be assigned to each position, this prevented people from assigning the same priority to multiple features, and we wondered if it would alter the results. Though some features got more recognition in this question, the overall rankings were still in line with the results from question 1. Here are the exact votes per feature/per position:
\n
The fourth question asked for your preferences regarding including new media features in core, bundling them as plugins with the core download, or developing them as plugins but not bundling them with the core download. This vote was more interesting to watch. As the notice for the voting went first to the development community, then to the user community, it was possible to see a shift in the voting. Earlier in the voting cycle, there were more votes for bundling ‘core plugins’ for the advanced media features, while later votes skewed heavily toward just putting the features in core. This vote shows, I think, one of the differences between developer and user perspectives. While developers are heavily interested in keeping the core code lean and relying on plugins for advanced functionality, many users would prefer features they want to be included in core rather than being a separate plugin. The final tally on this question was 56.2% for including features in core, 38.1% for bundled plugins, and 5.7% for non-bundled plugins. The actual numbers:
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Clearly this issue deserves more discussion, and the concept of how we move toward a system of canonical plugins and/or core “packages” intended for different use cases (CMS, photoblog, portfolio, etc) will be a big topic in the months ahead.
\nSo where does that leave us regarding features coming down the road? When the vote closed, the results were discussed in the #wordpress-dev IRC chat to divvy up feature development.
\nThe top-voted feature, standalone photo albums, is being worked on as a Google Summer of Code project by Rudolf Lai, under the mentorship of WordPress Lead Developer Mark Jaquith. The “pencils down” date for GSOC is in less than two weeks, at which point we’ll be assessing the state of Rudolf’s project. Hopefully, we’ll be able to incorporate it with 2.9 development, do some testing, amend the code and/or UI as needed, and have this launch with the 2.9 release (in core or as plugin TBD). Undoubtedly, additional functionality will be contributed by core contributors who have also been working on media plugins.
\nEasier embeds, the second most popular feature, is being looked at in a couple of ways. One, more shortcodes for third-party services. Work on this has already begun. In addition, Viper007Bond, of Viper’s Video Quicktags plugin fame, has taken on the task of working on a way to improve the embed experience in core. We’re not sure quite how this will work yet, but stay tuned.
\nAdding some basic editing functions like 90-degree rotation, cropping and resizing was considered an obvious winner in the dev chat, and as several plugins handle this functionality, we’re hopeful it will be included soon.
\nPost thumbnails are being handled by Mark Jaquith, who has created this functionality before, with an assist from Scribu, who has a similar plugin in the repository.
\nLower ranked features aren’t off the radar, but may take lower priority than some other (non-media) features we have in the works. One of my favorite 2.9 features is in trunk now, and changes the way we delete content. Goodbye, annoying popup asking me if I’m sure I want to delete a comment/post/etc. Hello, fast and quiet removal into a trash can, from which the content can be retrieved if it was deleted by accident. Think Gmail style. We’re also hoping to work on improving page management, though that has a number of technical issues that may cause it to be a 3.0 feature instead.
\nAs always, you can keep track of development progress in a number of ways:
\n1. Keep track of Trac. Contribute a patch, test a patch, just read through tickets if you have some time to kill, whatever. There are over 500 tickets against the 2.9 milestone currently. Patches and testing can help us get that number down.
2. Follow Trac commits on Twitter. Don’t want to get involved in the nitty gritty, just want to see what’s getting committed? Follow wpdevel on Twitter and you’ll get core commit updates in your stream.
\n3. See what’s on the dev agenda. Each week for the IRC dev chat, there’s an agenda, created based on developer suggestions posted at wpdevel.wordpress.com. This blog also contains discussions about specific development issues.
\n4. Join the dev chat. The day changed this week, to accommodate European schedules. Chats are now held for one hour each week on Thursday at 21:00 UTC. That’s 5pm NYC, 2pm in California, etc. Chats are in the #wordpress-dev room at irc.freenode.com.
\n5. Watch this blog. If you’re not a developer and prefer to stick to major announcements, the occasional survey to help decide a feature, and security notices, just keep doing what you’re doing. Reading this blog will get you all of these things.
\nThanks again for your help in prioritizing features for version 2.9, hopefully coming toward the end of the year to a server near you!
\n\";}i:4;a:13:{s:5:\"title\";s:47:\"The WordPress 2.0.x Legacy Branch is Deprecated\";s:4:\"link\";s:89:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/the-wordpress-2-0-x-legacy-branch-is-deprecated/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:98:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/the-wordpress-2-0-x-legacy-branch-is-deprecated/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:07:23 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:12:\"Mark Jaquith\";}s:8:\"category\";s:45:\"DevelopmentSecurity2.0branchdeprecationlegacy\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=866\";s:11:\"description\";s:344:\"The WordPress team had initially committed to maintaining the WordPress 2.0.x legacy branch until 2010. Unfortunately, we bit off more than we could chew—the 2.0.x branch is now retired and deprecated, a few months shy of 2010.\nMany of the security improvements to the new versions of WordPress in the last couple of years were complete [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:1149:\"The WordPress team had initially committed to maintaining the WordPress 2.0.x legacy branch until 2010. Unfortunately, we bit off more than we could chew—the 2.0.x branch is now retired and deprecated, a few months shy of 2010.
\nMany of the security improvements to the new versions of WordPress in the last couple of years were complete reworks of how various systems were handled. Porting those changes to the 2.0.x branch would have been a monumental task and could have introduced instability or new bugs. We had to make hard decisions between stability and merging in the latest security enhancements. Additionally, far fewer people stayed on the 2.0.x branch than we anticipated. I take that as a testament to the new features in WordPress and perhaps even more the features offered by plugins, many of which don’t support older versions of WordPress!
\nI’m disappointed that we weren’t able to keep the branch maintained until 2010, but since one of the big reasons for that failure was the massive scope of our security improvements for the newer versions of WordPress, 2.0.x doesn’t die in vain!
\n\";}s:3:\"wfw\";a:1:{s:10:\"commentrss\";s:94:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/the-wordpress-2-0-x-legacy-branch-is-deprecated/feed/\";}s:5:\"slash\";a:1:{s:8:\"comments\";s:2:\"18\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:344:\"The WordPress team had initially committed to maintaining the WordPress 2.0.x legacy branch until 2010. Unfortunately, we bit off more than we could chew—the 2.0.x branch is now retired and deprecated, a few months shy of 2010.\nMany of the security improvements to the new versions of WordPress in the last couple of years were complete [...]\";s:12:\"atom_content\";s:1149:\"The WordPress team had initially committed to maintaining the WordPress 2.0.x legacy branch until 2010. Unfortunately, we bit off more than we could chew—the 2.0.x branch is now retired and deprecated, a few months shy of 2010.
\nMany of the security improvements to the new versions of WordPress in the last couple of years were complete reworks of how various systems were handled. Porting those changes to the 2.0.x branch would have been a monumental task and could have introduced instability or new bugs. We had to make hard decisions between stability and merging in the latest security enhancements. Additionally, far fewer people stayed on the 2.0.x branch than we anticipated. I take that as a testament to the new features in WordPress and perhaps even more the features offered by plugins, many of which don’t support older versions of WordPress!
\nI’m disappointed that we weren’t able to keep the branch maintained until 2010, but since one of the big reasons for that failure was the massive scope of our security improvements for the newer versions of WordPress, 2.0.x doesn’t die in vain!
\n\";}i:5;a:13:{s:5:\"title\";s:36:\"Improving your plugin – Changelogs\";s:4:\"link\";s:74:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/improving-your-plugin-changelogs/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:83:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/improving-your-plugin-changelogs/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:28:34 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:14:\"Peter Westwood\";}s:8:\"category\";s:29:\"Documentationpluginstutorials\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=848\";s:11:\"description\";s:340:\"We’ve recently made some changes to help improve the communication between plugin authors and plugin users about the changes that are made between versions.\nWe feel that all software should have a changelog that details, at a high level, what changes have been made in each version so that the user can make an informed decision [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:1507:\"We’ve recently made some changes to help improve the communication between plugin authors and plugin users about the changes that are made between versions.
\nWe feel that all software should have a changelog that details, at a high level, what changes have been made in each version so that the user can make an informed decision about when to upgrade and how much testing they should do with their site.
\nIn order to make this an easy and open communication channel we have added support for a Changelog section in the plugins readme.txt file. This changelog information is then displayed as a separate tab in the plugin directory and also in the back end of your WordPress blog when you view the details on a new version of a plugin.
The new section is formatted as follows:
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We would also like to recommend that you also provide meaningful log messages when you commit changes to the subversion repository for your plugin so that people who want to dig further into your changes can see why things are changing (At the moment is seems a large number of plugin authors leave this field blank which isn’t very helpful).
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\nWe feel that all software should have a changelog that details, at a high level, what changes have been made in each version so that the user can make an informed decision about when to upgrade and how much testing they should do with their site.
\nIn order to make this an easy and open communication channel we have added support for a Changelog section in the plugins readme.txt file. This changelog information is then displayed as a separate tab in the plugin directory and also in the back end of your WordPress blog when you view the details on a new version of a plugin.
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We would also like to recommend that you also provide meaningful log messages when you commit changes to the subversion repository for your plugin so that people who want to dig further into your changes can see why things are changing (At the moment is seems a large number of plugin authors leave this field blank which isn’t very helpful).
\n\";}i:6;a:13:{s:5:\"title\";s:15:\"WordPress 2.8.2\";s:4:\"link\";s:57:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:66:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:35:45 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Ryan Boren\";}s:8:\"category\";s:8:\"Releases\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=856\";s:11:\"description\";s:298:\"WordPress 2.8.2 fixes an XSS vulnerability. Comment author URLs were not fully sanitized when displayed in the admin. This could be exploited to redirect you away from the admin to another site. Download 2.8.2 or automatically upgrade from the Tools->Upgrade page of your blog’s admin.\n\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:349:\"WordPress 2.8.2 fixes an XSS vulnerability. Comment author URLs were not fully sanitized when displayed in the admin. This could be exploited to redirect you away from the admin to another site. Download 2.8.2 or automatically upgrade from the Tools->Upgrade page of your blog’s admin.
\n\";}s:3:\"wfw\";a:1:{s:10:\"commentrss\";s:62:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/feed/\";}s:5:\"slash\";a:1:{s:8:\"comments\";s:3:\"244\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:298:\"WordPress 2.8.2 fixes an XSS vulnerability. Comment author URLs were not fully sanitized when displayed in the admin. This could be exploited to redirect you away from the admin to another site. Download 2.8.2 or automatically upgrade from the Tools->Upgrade page of your blog’s admin.\n\";s:12:\"atom_content\";s:349:\"WordPress 2.8.2 fixes an XSS vulnerability. Comment author URLs were not fully sanitized when displayed in the admin. This could be exploited to redirect you away from the admin to another site. Download 2.8.2 or automatically upgrade from the Tools->Upgrade page of your blog’s admin.
\n\";}i:7;a:13:{s:5:\"title\";s:15:\"WordPress 2.8.1\";s:4:\"link\";s:57:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-1/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:66:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-1/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:20:54 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Ryan Boren\";}s:8:\"category\";s:8:\"Releases\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=836\";s:11:\"description\";s:352:\"WordPress 2.8.1 fixes many bugs and tightens security for plugin administration pages. Core Security Technologies notified us that admin pages added by certain plugins could be viewed by unprivileged users, resulting in information being leaked. Not all plugins are vulnerable to this problem, but we advise upgrading to 2.8.1 to be safe.\nWhat [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:2224:\"WordPress 2.8.1 fixes many bugs and tightens security for plugin administration pages. Core Security Technologies notified us that admin pages added by certain plugins could be viewed by unprivileged users, resulting in information being leaked. Not all plugins are vulnerable to this problem, but we advise upgrading to 2.8.1 to be safe.
\nWhat else is new since 2.8? Read through the highlights below, or view all changes since 2.8
\nWordPress 2.8.1 fixes many bugs and tightens security for plugin administration pages. Core Security Technologies notified us that admin pages added by certain plugins could be viewed by unprivileged users, resulting in information being leaked. Not all plugins are vulnerable to this problem, but we advise upgrading to 2.8.1 to be safe.
\nWhat else is new since 2.8? Read through the highlights below, or view all changes since 2.8
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\n· Buckthorn Bark – Supports muscular control in bowels and decreases constipation
\n· Senna – Controls bowel regularity and prevents colon muscle spasms
\n\n\nNatural herbal ingredients are proven to be gentler on the body’s gastrointestinal tract. By including a daily regime of water (which acts as the body’s natural cleanser for waste and toxins), super colon cleanse promotes healthy colon and intestinal functions.','Super Colon Cleanse: Natural Remedy for Intestinal Problems',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','12-revision','','','2009-05-14 10:02:50','2009-05-14 17:02:50','',12,'http://www.andcoloncleanse.com/12-revision-13.html',0,'revision','',0),(17,1,'2009-05-14 12:28:00','2009-05-14 19:28:00','People are unaware that harmful parasites are living inside their body. 85% of the world’s population is affected by these dangerous parasites. Parasites are organisms which feeds off and live off a host body (such as humans). They feed on the cells, blood and organs of humans. They reproduce quickly by depositing eggs or through cell division within the body’s cells and tissues.\r\n\r\nHuman parasites can be transmitted by animal contact, ingesting meat (such as fish and poultry), and person to person contact. Good hygiene can decrease parasite infection but isn’t a guarantee that you are safe from parasitic transmission. A natural colon cleanse is a safe, natural alternative to rid the body of harmful parasites. When parasites are eliminated from the colon, disease and illness is decreased and people feel healthier and more energetic\r\n\r\nParasites Cause Long Term Damage on Body \r\n\r\nParasites can infest the intestines and colon causing serious medical conditions in the process. Medical scientists attribute parasitic infection to cancer and liver dysfunction. Parasites can also seep through the intestines and colons and travel into the blood stream which can cause very serious medical problems. The best way to determine if you have human parasites is through a blood and stool analysis.\r\n\r\nA natural colon cleanse eliminates these harmful parasites from overtaking the body. If left untreated, parasites can damage the body and cause the following symptoms:\r\n