O:9:"MagpieRSS":19:{s:6:"parser";i:0;s:12:"current_item";a:0:{}s:5:"items";a:50:{i:0;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:25:"Peter Westwood: WordPresz";s:4:"guid";s:32:"http://westi.wordpress.com/?p=58";s:4:"link";s:48:"http://westi.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/wordpresz/";s:11:"description";s:2695:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>It seems there has been an attempt recently to distribute a <a href="http://www.craigmurphy.com/blog/?p=874">trojaned version of WordPress</a> via some form of phishing scam.  It seems this attack relied on exploiting an old version of WordPress which had not been upgraded and changing it to point at a different site for one of the dashboard feeds.  The site was then offering a trojaned install of a version of WordPress 2.6.4 which does not exist.  The site has now been shutdown so it is nolonger possible to get hold of this Trojaned version but it does hilight the importance of upgrading when a security release is made.</p>
<p>As I have said in my response in the article on <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/06/trojanised_wordpress/">The Register</a></p>
<blockquote><p>We recommend that people upgrade as soon as possible when we release a security release so as to ensure they are not vulnerable to issues which will likely have exploits in the wild. Also in the upcoming 2.7 release of WordPress we are including a built-in upgrade mechanism within WordPress which will allow people to upgrade automatically with ease.</p>
<p>I would however stress the need with any piece of software to check that an upgrade is real by visiting the website of the software provider manually rather than relying on a link that you have been provided. Otherwise, as with bank phishing scams there is the potential for someone to trick you into doing something you didn&#8217;t want to do.</p></blockquote>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Tagged: security, wordpresz&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/westi.wordpress.com/58/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/westi.wordpress.com/58/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/westi.wordpress.com/58/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/westi.wordpress.com/58/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/westi.wordpress.com/58/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/westi.wordpress.com/58/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/westi.wordpress.com/58/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/westi.wordpress.com/58/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/westi.wordpress.com/58/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/westi.wordpress.com/58/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westi.wordpress.com&blog=15396&post=58&subd=westi&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:50:08 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:14:"Peter Westwood";}s:7:"summary";s:2695:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>It seems there has been an attempt recently to distribute a <a href="http://www.craigmurphy.com/blog/?p=874">trojaned version of WordPress</a> via some form of phishing scam.  It seems this attack relied on exploiting an old version of WordPress which had not been upgraded and changing it to point at a different site for one of the dashboard feeds.  The site was then offering a trojaned install of a version of WordPress 2.6.4 which does not exist.  The site has now been shutdown so it is nolonger possible to get hold of this Trojaned version but it does hilight the importance of upgrading when a security release is made.</p>
<p>As I have said in my response in the article on <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/06/trojanised_wordpress/">The Register</a></p>
<blockquote><p>We recommend that people upgrade as soon as possible when we release a security release so as to ensure they are not vulnerable to issues which will likely have exploits in the wild. Also in the upcoming 2.7 release of WordPress we are including a built-in upgrade mechanism within WordPress which will allow people to upgrade automatically with ease.</p>
<p>I would however stress the need with any piece of software to check that an upgrade is real by visiting the website of the software provider manually rather than relying on a link that you have been provided. Otherwise, as with bank phishing scams there is the potential for someone to trick you into doing something you didn&#8217;t want to do.</p></blockquote>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Tagged: security, wordpresz&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/westi.wordpress.com/58/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/westi.wordpress.com/58/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/westi.wordpress.com/58/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/westi.wordpress.com/58/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/westi.wordpress.com/58/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/westi.wordpress.com/58/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/westi.wordpress.com/58/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/westi.wordpress.com/58/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/westi.wordpress.com/58/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/westi.wordpress.com/58/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westi.wordpress.com&blog=15396&post=58&subd=westi&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:1;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:44:"Weblog Tools Collection: Fake WordPress Site";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4510";s:4:"link";s:73:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/06/fake-wordpress-site/";s:11:"description";s:2674:"<p><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/06/trojanised_wordpress/">Many</a> <a href="http://www.craigmurphy.com/blog/?p=874">sites</a> <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2129">across</a> the blogosphere are reporting a fake website that is distributing a backdoored version of WordPress. Though these are few and far between, it behooves all users to be careful when downloading any kind of code to run on their blog. The <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/06/trojanised_wordpress/">Register report</a> contains an update from <a href="http://westi.wordpress.com/">Peter Westwood</a> (a WordPress lead dev) about the code being distributed and his suggestions on how to avoid being duped. Though the fake site is down now and If you believe that you might have been the victim of this site, please download a fresh copy of WordPress from WordPress.org and upgrade your blog to be safe.</p>
<p>I personally follow a few simple rules to make sure that I never fall for a social engineering or covert code trap on my blogs.</p>
<ul>
<li>Always download core WordPress code from <a href="http://WordPress.org">http://WordPress.org</a>. Type the link into your browser address bar rather than following a link from another blog or site. This includes updates and security fixes. If your web host offers one click installs or upgrades through their control panel, they are probably safe (they are safe if they are on a current version). I still suggest either installing a fresh copy from WordPress.org or using WordPress.com, but I do understand that one click installs are convenient.</li>
<li>Try to download plugins and themes <em>only</em> from the official <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/">WordPress Extend</a>. There are way too many themes and plugins (though much less plugins) that contain convert code and new WordPress theme download sites seem to be popping up everyday. We have covered shady themes many times on this blog.</li>
<li>Never download &#8220;hacks&#8221; or &#8220;patches&#8221; to WordPress from anywhere. If you are unfamiliar with PHP, I would suggest that you ask people in the <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/">WordPress forums</a> for help or contact us through our form on this blog for help. Always download official patches, updates and installs from the WordPress.org site.</li>
<li>If you find a cool new trick, theme, plugin or hack for WordPress via a Google search, please be careful. I know the following is a cliche&#8217;, but if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.</li>
</ul>
<p>Do you have any suggestions for our other readers? Have you found strange code on your blog or theme?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:26:35 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:2674:"<p><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/06/trojanised_wordpress/">Many</a> <a href="http://www.craigmurphy.com/blog/?p=874">sites</a> <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2129">across</a> the blogosphere are reporting a fake website that is distributing a backdoored version of WordPress. Though these are few and far between, it behooves all users to be careful when downloading any kind of code to run on their blog. The <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/06/trojanised_wordpress/">Register report</a> contains an update from <a href="http://westi.wordpress.com/">Peter Westwood</a> (a WordPress lead dev) about the code being distributed and his suggestions on how to avoid being duped. Though the fake site is down now and If you believe that you might have been the victim of this site, please download a fresh copy of WordPress from WordPress.org and upgrade your blog to be safe.</p>
<p>I personally follow a few simple rules to make sure that I never fall for a social engineering or covert code trap on my blogs.</p>
<ul>
<li>Always download core WordPress code from <a href="http://WordPress.org">http://WordPress.org</a>. Type the link into your browser address bar rather than following a link from another blog or site. This includes updates and security fixes. If your web host offers one click installs or upgrades through their control panel, they are probably safe (they are safe if they are on a current version). I still suggest either installing a fresh copy from WordPress.org or using WordPress.com, but I do understand that one click installs are convenient.</li>
<li>Try to download plugins and themes <em>only</em> from the official <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/">WordPress Extend</a>. There are way too many themes and plugins (though much less plugins) that contain convert code and new WordPress theme download sites seem to be popping up everyday. We have covered shady themes many times on this blog.</li>
<li>Never download &#8220;hacks&#8221; or &#8220;patches&#8221; to WordPress from anywhere. If you are unfamiliar with PHP, I would suggest that you ask people in the <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/">WordPress forums</a> for help or contact us through our form on this blog for help. Always download official patches, updates and installs from the WordPress.org site.</li>
<li>If you find a cool new trick, theme, plugin or hack for WordPress via a Google search, please be careful. I know the following is a cliche&#8217;, but if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.</li>
</ul>
<p>Do you have any suggestions for our other readers? Have you found strange code on your blog or theme?</p>";}i:2;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:30:"Dev Blog: WordPress 2.7 Beta 2";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=415";s:4:"link";s:61:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-27-beta-2/";s:11:"description";s:1725:"<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.7-beta2.zip">WordPress 2.7 Beta 2 is ready</a>.  Here is a quick rundown of changes since beta 1.</p>
<ul>
<li>The Upload button didn&#8217;t always show. Fixed.</li>
<li>JS on the Dashboard broke for blogs with no comments, causing several UI elements to &#8220;freeze&#8221;. Fixed.</li>
<li>Recent Drafts Dashboard module didn&#8217;t show correct times. Fixed.</li>
<li>Various Autosave fixes.</li>
<li>Redirect after deleting a page from the editor went back to the deleted page. Fixed.</li>
<li>Fixed loading of translations for default TinyMCE plugins.</li>
<li>Added avatars to the edit users list.</li>
<li>Added some missing translations.</li>
<li>Fixed some validation errors.</li>
<li>Fixed some PHP warnings and notices.</li>
<li>Handle inconsistent file permissions during auto upgrade</li>
<li>Change Publish box layout to better accommodate internationalized text</li>
<li>Fix quick editing of the last page in the Edit Pages list</li>
<li>Fix Screen Options for IE</li>
<li>Fixes for choose tag from tag cloud</li>
<li>Rewrite rules fixes for certain hosts</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t check for updates on every page load</li>
<li>Easier post box dropping</li>
<li>Preview fixes</li>
<li>RTL fixes</li>
<li>Fixed broken wp-mail</li>
<li>Plugin update and install fixes</li>
<li>First draft of contextual help tab</li>
</ul>
<p>If you have already installed beta 1, you can update to beta 2 via the Tools -&gt; Update menu.  Beta 1 does have a bug in the automatic upgrade that breaks certain setups, so be prepared to download and install Beta 2 manually if you experience problems.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.7-beta2.zip">Get 2.7 Beta 2</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:03:57 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Ryan Boren";}s:7:"summary";s:1725:"<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.7-beta2.zip">WordPress 2.7 Beta 2 is ready</a>.  Here is a quick rundown of changes since beta 1.</p>
<ul>
<li>The Upload button didn&#8217;t always show. Fixed.</li>
<li>JS on the Dashboard broke for blogs with no comments, causing several UI elements to &#8220;freeze&#8221;. Fixed.</li>
<li>Recent Drafts Dashboard module didn&#8217;t show correct times. Fixed.</li>
<li>Various Autosave fixes.</li>
<li>Redirect after deleting a page from the editor went back to the deleted page. Fixed.</li>
<li>Fixed loading of translations for default TinyMCE plugins.</li>
<li>Added avatars to the edit users list.</li>
<li>Added some missing translations.</li>
<li>Fixed some validation errors.</li>
<li>Fixed some PHP warnings and notices.</li>
<li>Handle inconsistent file permissions during auto upgrade</li>
<li>Change Publish box layout to better accommodate internationalized text</li>
<li>Fix quick editing of the last page in the Edit Pages list</li>
<li>Fix Screen Options for IE</li>
<li>Fixes for choose tag from tag cloud</li>
<li>Rewrite rules fixes for certain hosts</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t check for updates on every page load</li>
<li>Easier post box dropping</li>
<li>Preview fixes</li>
<li>RTL fixes</li>
<li>Fixed broken wp-mail</li>
<li>Plugin update and install fixes</li>
<li>First draft of contextual help tab</li>
</ul>
<p>If you have already installed beta 1, you can update to beta 2 via the Tools -&gt; Update menu.  Beta 1 does have a bug in the automatic upgrade that breaks certain setups, so be prepared to download and install Beta 2 manually if you experience problems.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.7-beta2.zip">Get 2.7 Beta 2</a>.</p>";}i:3;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:77:"Mark Jaquith: WordPress 2.7 Feature Preview: Customizable Post Editing Screen";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/?p=198";s:4:"link";s:106:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/wordpress-27-feature-preview-customizable-post-editing-screen/";s:11:"description";s:2632:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Work continues on WordPress 2.7, but I can&#8217;t keep it to myself! Here&#8217;s another sneak peek at one of the upcoming features in WordPress 2.7: the ability to customize your post editing screen.</p>
<p>Here it is in action:</p>
<p></p>
<p>And here are some example layouts:</p>
<p> </p>
<div id="attachment_201" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-large wp-image-201" title="Layout 001" src="http://markjaquith.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/db-layout-001.png?w=700&#038;h=624" alt="Publish Module in the main column, right column empty" width="700" height="624" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Publish Module in the main column, right column empty</p></div>
<p> </p>
<div id="attachment_203" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-large wp-image-203" title="Layout 002" src="http://markjaquith.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/db-layout-002.png?w=700&#038;h=477" alt="Tags and Publish Module on the right" width="700" height="477" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Tags and Publish Module on the right</p></div>
<p> </p>
<div id="attachment_204" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-large wp-image-204" title="Layout 003" src="http://markjaquith.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/db-layout-003.png?w=700&#038;h=678" alt="Tall layout, categories, tags, Publish Module" width="700" height="678" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Tall layout, categories, tags, Publish Module</p></div>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/198/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/198/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/198/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/198/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/198/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/198/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/198/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/198/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/198/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/198/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=198&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:34:56 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Mark Jaquith";}s:7:"summary";s:2632:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Work continues on WordPress 2.7, but I can&#8217;t keep it to myself! Here&#8217;s another sneak peek at one of the upcoming features in WordPress 2.7: the ability to customize your post editing screen.</p>
<p>Here it is in action:</p>
<p></p>
<p>And here are some example layouts:</p>
<p> </p>
<div id="attachment_201" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-large wp-image-201" title="Layout 001" src="http://markjaquith.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/db-layout-001.png?w=700&#038;h=624" alt="Publish Module in the main column, right column empty" width="700" height="624" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Publish Module in the main column, right column empty</p></div>
<p> </p>
<div id="attachment_203" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-large wp-image-203" title="Layout 002" src="http://markjaquith.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/db-layout-002.png?w=700&#038;h=477" alt="Tags and Publish Module on the right" width="700" height="477" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Tags and Publish Module on the right</p></div>
<p> </p>
<div id="attachment_204" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-large wp-image-204" title="Layout 003" src="http://markjaquith.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/db-layout-003.png?w=700&#038;h=678" alt="Tall layout, categories, tags, Publish Module" width="700" height="678" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Tall layout, categories, tags, Publish Module</p></div>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/198/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/198/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/198/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/198/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/198/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/198/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/198/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/198/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/198/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/198/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=198&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:4;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/05";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4508";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/05/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1105/";s:11:"description";s:3163:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/2008/11/04/wp-commentnavi-100-beta/">WP-CommentNavi</a></p>
<p>Have nicer/advanced pagination for your comments in WordPress 2.7</p>
<p><a href="http://www.stratos.me/wp-plugins/lolcats-widget/">Lolcats Widget Plugin</a></p>
<p>This simple plugin retreives the latest lolcat and displays it on a widget. It caches it for two hours so it won’t slow up the process of loading each time.</p>
<p><a href="http://ehogan.itis5am.com:8080/popupper/">Popupper</a></p>
<p>Allows a blogger to insert links that when the reader mouses over the links it shows a popup.</p>
<p><a href="http://danielgilbert.de/nospamuser/">WP-NoSpamUser</a></p>
<p>&#8220;WP-NoSpamUser&#8221; is all about blocking potential spammers from registering on your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.misternifty.com/easysms/">EasySMS</a></p>
<p>EasySMS is a great way for WordPress administrators to txt message their registered users and broadcast a new post to user’s cell phones.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/auto-post-images-api/">Auto Post Images (API)</a></p>
<p>This plugin will automatically put images into each post. The images are automatically added to posts and not to pages. Good for sites that host recipes.</p>
<p><a href="http://web-argument.com/wordpress-alphabetical-list-plugin/">Alphabetical List</a></p>
<p>Order your posts alphabetically for each selected categories.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.yakupgovler.com/?p=291">Comment Approved Notifier</a></p>
<p>The plugin sends an e-mail to your commenters when you approve their comments.</p>
<p> </p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.whoismanu.com/blog/2008/09/photoq-wordpress-photoblog-plugin-15-brings-tons-of-new-features-to-your-photoblog/">PhotoQ</a></p>
<p>Turns your blog into a photoblog. If you have a lot of pictures to post, PhotoQ is your ideal companion. PhotoQ allows batch uploading and editing photos and has support for EXIF and watermarking.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.studiograsshopper.ch/wordpress-plugins/dynamic-content-gallery-v2/">Dynamic Content Gallery</a></p>
<p>This plugin creates a dynamic gallery of images for latest and/or featured posts. Using JonDesign’s excellent <a href="http://jondesigns.net">SmoothGallery</a> script, this plugin makes the gallery truly dynamic so that it automatically creates the gallery from your latest and/or featured posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.richardkmiller.com/blog/wordpress-plugin-what-would-seth-godin-do">What Would Seth Godin Do</a></p>
<p>Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors and another to return visitors.</p>
<p><a href="http://pancake.org/zina">Zina</a></p>
<p>Zina is a graphical interface to your MP3 collection, a personal jukebox, an MP3 streamer.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sajithmr.com/wordpress-announcement-plugin/">WordPress Announcement</a></p>
<p>Display an announcement to visitors on your blog.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><em>Have you released a plugin and want to see it listed in our daily releases</em>? Then head over and make a detailed post in our <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/">News forum</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:00:53 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:3163:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/2008/11/04/wp-commentnavi-100-beta/">WP-CommentNavi</a></p>
<p>Have nicer/advanced pagination for your comments in WordPress 2.7</p>
<p><a href="http://www.stratos.me/wp-plugins/lolcats-widget/">Lolcats Widget Plugin</a></p>
<p>This simple plugin retreives the latest lolcat and displays it on a widget. It caches it for two hours so it won’t slow up the process of loading each time.</p>
<p><a href="http://ehogan.itis5am.com:8080/popupper/">Popupper</a></p>
<p>Allows a blogger to insert links that when the reader mouses over the links it shows a popup.</p>
<p><a href="http://danielgilbert.de/nospamuser/">WP-NoSpamUser</a></p>
<p>&#8220;WP-NoSpamUser&#8221; is all about blocking potential spammers from registering on your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.misternifty.com/easysms/">EasySMS</a></p>
<p>EasySMS is a great way for WordPress administrators to txt message their registered users and broadcast a new post to user’s cell phones.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/auto-post-images-api/">Auto Post Images (API)</a></p>
<p>This plugin will automatically put images into each post. The images are automatically added to posts and not to pages. Good for sites that host recipes.</p>
<p><a href="http://web-argument.com/wordpress-alphabetical-list-plugin/">Alphabetical List</a></p>
<p>Order your posts alphabetically for each selected categories.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.yakupgovler.com/?p=291">Comment Approved Notifier</a></p>
<p>The plugin sends an e-mail to your commenters when you approve their comments.</p>
<p> </p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.whoismanu.com/blog/2008/09/photoq-wordpress-photoblog-plugin-15-brings-tons-of-new-features-to-your-photoblog/">PhotoQ</a></p>
<p>Turns your blog into a photoblog. If you have a lot of pictures to post, PhotoQ is your ideal companion. PhotoQ allows batch uploading and editing photos and has support for EXIF and watermarking.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.studiograsshopper.ch/wordpress-plugins/dynamic-content-gallery-v2/">Dynamic Content Gallery</a></p>
<p>This plugin creates a dynamic gallery of images for latest and/or featured posts. Using JonDesign’s excellent <a href="http://jondesigns.net">SmoothGallery</a> script, this plugin makes the gallery truly dynamic so that it automatically creates the gallery from your latest and/or featured posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.richardkmiller.com/blog/wordpress-plugin-what-would-seth-godin-do">What Would Seth Godin Do</a></p>
<p>Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors and another to return visitors.</p>
<p><a href="http://pancake.org/zina">Zina</a></p>
<p>Zina is a graphical interface to your MP3 collection, a personal jukebox, an MP3 streamer.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sajithmr.com/wordpress-announcement-plugin/">WordPress Announcement</a></p>
<p>Display an announcement to visitors on your blog.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><em>Have you released a plugin and want to see it listed in our daily releases</em>? Then head over and make a detailed post in our <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/">News forum</a>.</p>";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:52:"Weblog Tools Collection: We’re Not Done Voting Yet";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4505";s:4:"link";s:78:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/05/were-not-done-voting-yet/";s:11:"description";s:2551:"<p>While the U.S. Presidential election has come and gone, there are still plenty of things to vote for such as <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/" target="_blank">WordPress Ideas</a>. WordPress Ideas is used as a central location where users of WordPress from all across the world share their ideas on how to improve the software, plugins to integrate, etc. At this time, the idea of <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=44" target="_blank">Easy Updating Of WordPress</a> leads the pack with 910 votes and a rating of five stars. As it turns out, this will be one of the features in WordPress 2.7 known as <strong>Core Upgrade.</strong> Next on the list is <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=40" target="_blank">Open ID Integration</a>. Although there are plenty of plugins that easily provide this functionality, considering the amount of steam the idea has, I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to see it in a future version of WordPress. </p>
<p>In order to participate in the WordPress idea center, you must have a WordPress.org user account. This will enable you to create ideas, rate ideas and comment on ideas that have already been submitted. </p>
<p><strong>Examples of ideas that have been implemented into the core of WordPress:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=149" target="_blank">Create a better plugin-database</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=553" target="_blank">Remove Sponsored Themes from WordPress.org</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=13" target="_blank">Thumbnail and image resizing</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=19" target="_blank">Default searching of both posts and pages</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=59" target="_blank">Tags!</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=7" target="_blank">Improved Draft System</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=30" target="_blank">Plugin Update Notification</a></li>
</ul>
<p>So while many within the WordPress community may think that they have no voice concerning the direction in which WordPress is heading, that thought couldn&#8217;t be farther from the truth. The fact of the matter is, you do have a voice. Ultimately, the decision is up to the team on whether or not to include an idea into the core of WordPress, but with a grassroots effort, you can easily make your idea known.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:58:50 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:2551:"<p>While the U.S. Presidential election has come and gone, there are still plenty of things to vote for such as <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/" target="_blank">WordPress Ideas</a>. WordPress Ideas is used as a central location where users of WordPress from all across the world share their ideas on how to improve the software, plugins to integrate, etc. At this time, the idea of <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=44" target="_blank">Easy Updating Of WordPress</a> leads the pack with 910 votes and a rating of five stars. As it turns out, this will be one of the features in WordPress 2.7 known as <strong>Core Upgrade.</strong> Next on the list is <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=40" target="_blank">Open ID Integration</a>. Although there are plenty of plugins that easily provide this functionality, considering the amount of steam the idea has, I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to see it in a future version of WordPress. </p>
<p>In order to participate in the WordPress idea center, you must have a WordPress.org user account. This will enable you to create ideas, rate ideas and comment on ideas that have already been submitted. </p>
<p><strong>Examples of ideas that have been implemented into the core of WordPress:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=149" target="_blank">Create a better plugin-database</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=553" target="_blank">Remove Sponsored Themes from WordPress.org</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=13" target="_blank">Thumbnail and image resizing</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=19" target="_blank">Default searching of both posts and pages</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=59" target="_blank">Tags!</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=7" target="_blank">Improved Draft System</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=30" target="_blank">Plugin Update Notification</a></li>
</ul>
<p>So while many within the WordPress community may think that they have no voice concerning the direction in which WordPress is heading, that thought couldn&#8217;t be farther from the truth. The fact of the matter is, you do have a voice. Ultimately, the decision is up to the team on whether or not to include an idea into the core of WordPress, but with a grassroots effort, you can easily make your idea known.</p>";}i:6;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:27:"Matt: WordPress + Education";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=8654";s:4:"link";s:41:"http://ma.tt/2008/11/wordpress-education/";s:11:"description";s:230:"<p><a href="http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-edu">There&#8217;s a new mailing list for discussion of WordPress and education</a>. If you&#8217;re passionate about these subjects be sure to join the conversation.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:45:13 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:230:"<p><a href="http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-edu">There&#8217;s a new mailing list for discussion of WordPress and education</a>. If you&#8217;re passionate about these subjects be sure to join the conversation.</p>";}i:7;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 11/04";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4501";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/04/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1104/";s:11:"description";s:2056:"<p><a href="http://3oneseven.com/26/garden-wp-theme/">Garden</a></p>
<p><a href="http://wp2.3oneseven.com/index.php?wptheme=Garden"><img title="gardenwpthemeqg4" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/gardenwpthemeqg4.png" border="0" alt="gardenwpthemeqg4" width="137" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Garden consists of a fluid three column outfit with widgetized bars and columns, featuring an custom fields enabled news slider jQuery powered, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled.<br />
The frontpage shows the latest posts followed by footer action. Flickr, Delicio is enabled in the themes options panel.</p>
<p><a href="http://web.instah.com/wordpress-themes/ieleg-2-column-widget-ready-wordpress-theme/">iEleg</a></p>
<p><a href="http://web.instah.com/instah/index.php?wptheme=iEleg"><img title="ieleg" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/ieleg.jpg" border="0" alt="ieleg" width="181" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>iEleg is a 2 column widget ready wordpress theme. Theme uses 2 small images for faster download. Feel free to get back if you face any problem. I would be very happy to help.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.divitodesign.com/2008/11/wordpress-theme-simple-brown/">Simple Brown</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.divitodesign.com/themes-demo/index.php?wptheme=Simple+Brown"><img title="simple-brown-screenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/simplebrownscreenshot.jpg" border="0" alt="simple-brown-screenshot" width="147" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, widget ready and search engine optimized with a different style for the latest article.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.spotonseoservices.com/spotonseo-red-free-wordpress-theme/">SpotOnSEO</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.spotonseoservices.com/wordpress-themes/"><img title="spotonseo1" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/spotonseo1.png" border="0" alt="spotonseo1" width="127" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two Column, fixed width, widget ready, SEO Friendly, AJAX tabbed theme</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:00:24 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2056:"<p><a href="http://3oneseven.com/26/garden-wp-theme/">Garden</a></p>
<p><a href="http://wp2.3oneseven.com/index.php?wptheme=Garden"><img title="gardenwpthemeqg4" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/gardenwpthemeqg4.png" border="0" alt="gardenwpthemeqg4" width="137" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Garden consists of a fluid three column outfit with widgetized bars and columns, featuring an custom fields enabled news slider jQuery powered, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled.<br />
The frontpage shows the latest posts followed by footer action. Flickr, Delicio is enabled in the themes options panel.</p>
<p><a href="http://web.instah.com/wordpress-themes/ieleg-2-column-widget-ready-wordpress-theme/">iEleg</a></p>
<p><a href="http://web.instah.com/instah/index.php?wptheme=iEleg"><img title="ieleg" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/ieleg.jpg" border="0" alt="ieleg" width="181" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>iEleg is a 2 column widget ready wordpress theme. Theme uses 2 small images for faster download. Feel free to get back if you face any problem. I would be very happy to help.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.divitodesign.com/2008/11/wordpress-theme-simple-brown/">Simple Brown</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.divitodesign.com/themes-demo/index.php?wptheme=Simple+Brown"><img title="simple-brown-screenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/simplebrownscreenshot.jpg" border="0" alt="simple-brown-screenshot" width="147" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, widget ready and search engine optimized with a different style for the latest article.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.spotonseoservices.com/spotonseo-red-free-wordpress-theme/">SpotOnSEO</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.spotonseoservices.com/wordpress-themes/"><img title="spotonseo1" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/spotonseo1.png" border="0" alt="spotonseo1" width="127" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two Column, fixed width, widget ready, SEO Friendly, AJAX tabbed theme</p>";}i:8;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:78:"Weblog Tools Collection: Are your theme’s comments WordPress 2.7 compatible?";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4491";s:4:"link";s:111:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/04/are-your-theme%e2%80%99s-comments-wordpress-27-compatible/";s:11:"description";s:1189:"<p><a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/11/01/making-your-themes-comments-compatible-with-wordpress-27-and-earlier-versions">Making your theme’s comments compatible with WordPress 2.7 and earlier versions</a>.: If you are a theme designer or author, you need to know that your legacy theme&#8217;s comments page will not be compatible with WordPress 2.7 Justin Tadlock has written up a simple (and clean) procedure to make the comments page compatible with WordPress 2.7 and still be backwards compatible with slightly older version of WordPress.</p>
<p>While we are on the subject of comments and WordPress 2.7, <a href="http://ottodestruct.com/blog/2008/09/29/wordpress-27-comments-enhancements/">Otto has also written a detailed post on the new comment enhancements in WordPress 2.7</a>. Judging from the comments and reading through the article, it is a very well written peice and should answer most questions on the new features.</p>
<p>[EDIT] As astutely pointed out in the comments, all themes should continue to work fine with original functionality. However to use the newly introduced commenting features of WordPress 2.7, older themes will have to be modified.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:18:04 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1189:"<p><a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/11/01/making-your-themes-comments-compatible-with-wordpress-27-and-earlier-versions">Making your theme’s comments compatible with WordPress 2.7 and earlier versions</a>.: If you are a theme designer or author, you need to know that your legacy theme&#8217;s comments page will not be compatible with WordPress 2.7 Justin Tadlock has written up a simple (and clean) procedure to make the comments page compatible with WordPress 2.7 and still be backwards compatible with slightly older version of WordPress.</p>
<p>While we are on the subject of comments and WordPress 2.7, <a href="http://ottodestruct.com/blog/2008/09/29/wordpress-27-comments-enhancements/">Otto has also written a detailed post on the new comment enhancements in WordPress 2.7</a>. Judging from the comments and reading through the article, it is a very well written peice and should answer most questions on the new features.</p>
<p>[EDIT] As astutely pointed out in the comments, all themes should continue to work fine with original functionality. However to use the newly introduced commenting features of WordPress 2.7, older themes will have to be modified.</p>";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:18:"Matt: Facebook Fan";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=8652";s:4:"link";s:34:"http://ma.tt/2008/11/facebook-fan/";s:11:"description";s:756:"<p>If you&#8217;re a Facebook user and a reader of this blog <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Matt-Mullenweg/26606306650">you can now add me to your Facebook</a>. The &#8220;pages&#8221; feature of Facebook is neat because before I was conflicted because I wanted to add everyone I met at various conferences or WordPress users as a &#8220;friend&#8221; but then news feeds and such basically become unusable. I&#8217;m going to try to use it like a mailing list sending out some travel and life updates, like if I&#8217;m going to be in a particular country. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Matt-Mullenweg/26606306650">Sign up here</a>. <img src="http://ma.tt/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:44:51 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:756:"<p>If you&#8217;re a Facebook user and a reader of this blog <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Matt-Mullenweg/26606306650">you can now add me to your Facebook</a>. The &#8220;pages&#8221; feature of Facebook is neat because before I was conflicted because I wanted to add everyone I met at various conferences or WordPress users as a &#8220;friend&#8221; but then news feeds and such basically become unusable. I&#8217;m going to try to use it like a mailing list sending out some travel and life updates, like if I&#8217;m going to be in a particular country. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Matt-Mullenweg/26606306650">Sign up here</a>. <img src="http://ma.tt/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/03";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4494";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/03/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1103/";s:11:"description";s:3040:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://michael.tyson.id.au/wordpress/plugins/custom-permalinks/"><strong>Custom Permalinks</strong></a></p>
<p>Custom Permalinks is a WordPress plugin that gives you ultimate control over your site structure.</p>
<p><a href="http://wp.gdragon.info/2008/11/01/gd-star-rating-100/"><strong>GD Star Rating</strong></a></p>
<p>GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, has a widget build in and shortcode support.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.yakupgovler.com/?p=402"><strong>Random Tags Cloud</strong></a></p>
<p>Random Tags Cloud displays your tags by selecting randomly. You can customize other tag cloud&#8217;s settings. It allows you to display your site&#8217;s tags on your sidebar. It works just like a regular tags cloud, but you can customize it. If you set, it gets your tags by selecting randomly.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.yakupgovler.com/?p=291"><strong>Comment Approved Notifier</strong></a></p>
<p>The plugin sends an e-mail to your commenters when you approve their comments.</p>
<p><a href="http://rickbeckman.org/freebies/results-count-remix/"><strong>Results Count Remix</strong></a></p>
<p>Adds both the number of displayed posts as well as the total number of returned posts to search and archive pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://greenfabric.com/page/integration_api_home_page"><strong>Rails Integration API</strong></a></p>
<p>The Rails Integration_API plugin enables single sign-on between a Rails application and any number of WordPress installations.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.pretzlaff.info/wp/wordpress-plugins/xxternal-rss"><strong>Xxternal-RSS</strong></a><strong> </strong></p>
<p>Include external RSS-Feed into your posts and pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://andrerenaut.ovh.org/wp/?page_id=70"><strong>MailPress</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin allows you to send beautiful and styled html and plain text mails based on dedicated themes and templates.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/"><strong>WordPress Link Directory</strong></a></p>
<p>A link directory plugin for WordPress which allows other webmasters to add their link to your site. It can check for reciprocal links and even check the Pagerank of the other site and accept or refuse the link based on criteria you specify.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.joedolson.com/articles/wp-to-twitter/"><strong>WP to Twitter</strong></a></p>
<p>Posts a Twitter status update when you update your blog, using the Cli.gs URL shortening service.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hyperdb/"><strong>HyperDB</strong></a></p>
<p>HyperDB is an advanced database class that supports partitioning, replication, failover, and federation.</p>
<p><a href="http://emailthis.seoblog.cz/"><strong>EmailThis</strong></a></p>
<p>EmailThis provides an easy way for visitors of your site to send your posts via email.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:50:41 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:3040:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://michael.tyson.id.au/wordpress/plugins/custom-permalinks/"><strong>Custom Permalinks</strong></a></p>
<p>Custom Permalinks is a WordPress plugin that gives you ultimate control over your site structure.</p>
<p><a href="http://wp.gdragon.info/2008/11/01/gd-star-rating-100/"><strong>GD Star Rating</strong></a></p>
<p>GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, has a widget build in and shortcode support.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.yakupgovler.com/?p=402"><strong>Random Tags Cloud</strong></a></p>
<p>Random Tags Cloud displays your tags by selecting randomly. You can customize other tag cloud&#8217;s settings. It allows you to display your site&#8217;s tags on your sidebar. It works just like a regular tags cloud, but you can customize it. If you set, it gets your tags by selecting randomly.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.yakupgovler.com/?p=291"><strong>Comment Approved Notifier</strong></a></p>
<p>The plugin sends an e-mail to your commenters when you approve their comments.</p>
<p><a href="http://rickbeckman.org/freebies/results-count-remix/"><strong>Results Count Remix</strong></a></p>
<p>Adds both the number of displayed posts as well as the total number of returned posts to search and archive pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://greenfabric.com/page/integration_api_home_page"><strong>Rails Integration API</strong></a></p>
<p>The Rails Integration_API plugin enables single sign-on between a Rails application and any number of WordPress installations.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.pretzlaff.info/wp/wordpress-plugins/xxternal-rss"><strong>Xxternal-RSS</strong></a><strong> </strong></p>
<p>Include external RSS-Feed into your posts and pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://andrerenaut.ovh.org/wp/?page_id=70"><strong>MailPress</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin allows you to send beautiful and styled html and plain text mails based on dedicated themes and templates.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/"><strong>WordPress Link Directory</strong></a></p>
<p>A link directory plugin for WordPress which allows other webmasters to add their link to your site. It can check for reciprocal links and even check the Pagerank of the other site and accept or refuse the link based on criteria you specify.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.joedolson.com/articles/wp-to-twitter/"><strong>WP to Twitter</strong></a></p>
<p>Posts a Twitter status update when you update your blog, using the Cli.gs URL shortening service.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hyperdb/"><strong>HyperDB</strong></a></p>
<p>HyperDB is an advanced database class that supports partitioning, replication, failover, and federation.</p>
<p><a href="http://emailthis.seoblog.cz/"><strong>EmailThis</strong></a></p>
<p>EmailThis provides an easy way for visitors of your site to send your posts via email.</p>";}i:11;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:57:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress 2.7 Keyboard Shortcuts";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4489";s:4:"link";s:85:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/03/wordpress-27-keyboard-shortcuts/";s:11:"description";s:919:"<p><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Keyboard_Shortcuts">WordPress 2.7 Keyboard Shortcuts in the WordPress Codex</a> is a nice page to figure out the neat little tricks to make your job of administering a blog easier and more user friendly. <em>WordPress 2.7 adds the ability to use keyboard shortcuts to browse and moderate comments. These keyboard shortcuts are designed to save time by allowing you to rapidly navigate and perform actions on comments.</em> If your blog receives a lot of comments for moderation and/or spam, these shortcuts might come handy.</p>
<p>Speaking of new features added to WordPress 2.7, Demetris has written a post on the <a href="http://op111.net/p63">Ten New Features in WordPress 2.7</a> that strikes him as the most useful. I really like his illustrated style of writing. It is worthy of note that some of the features he mentions are dependant on compatibility with your theme.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:03:48 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:919:"<p><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Keyboard_Shortcuts">WordPress 2.7 Keyboard Shortcuts in the WordPress Codex</a> is a nice page to figure out the neat little tricks to make your job of administering a blog easier and more user friendly. <em>WordPress 2.7 adds the ability to use keyboard shortcuts to browse and moderate comments. These keyboard shortcuts are designed to save time by allowing you to rapidly navigate and perform actions on comments.</em> If your blog receives a lot of comments for moderation and/or spam, these shortcuts might come handy.</p>
<p>Speaking of new features added to WordPress 2.7, Demetris has written a post on the <a href="http://op111.net/p63">Ten New Features in WordPress 2.7</a> that strikes him as the most useful. I really like his illustrated style of writing. It is worthy of note that some of the features he mentions are dependant on compatibility with your theme.</p>";}i:12;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:31:"Akismet: A trio of developments";s:4:"guid";s:35:"http://akismet.wordpress.com/?p=114";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://blog.akismet.com/2008/10/26/a-trio-of-developments/";s:11:"description";s:1698:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>The latest release of <a href="http://gallery.menalto.com/">Gallery (2.3)</a> now has Akismet support built in. Thanks to Chris for letting us know.</p>
<p>Kevin at <a href="http://www.bigace.de/">BIGACE CMS</a> has developed a <a href="http://wiki.bigace.de/bigace:extensions:addon:comments">commenting extension</a> which uses Akismet. </p>
<p>And lastly but by no means least the latest version of <a href="http://www.vbulletin.com/features_blog.php">vBulletin blog</a> also has Akismet support by default.</p>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/akismet.wordpress.com/114/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/akismet.wordpress.com/114/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/akismet.wordpress.com/114/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/akismet.wordpress.com/114/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/akismet.wordpress.com/114/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/akismet.wordpress.com/114/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/akismet.wordpress.com/114/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/akismet.wordpress.com/114/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/akismet.wordpress.com/114/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/akismet.wordpress.com/114/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.akismet.com&blog=116920&post=114&subd=akismet&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:00:04 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:1698:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>The latest release of <a href="http://gallery.menalto.com/">Gallery (2.3)</a> now has Akismet support built in. Thanks to Chris for letting us know.</p>
<p>Kevin at <a href="http://www.bigace.de/">BIGACE CMS</a> has developed a <a href="http://wiki.bigace.de/bigace:extensions:addon:comments">commenting extension</a> which uses Akismet. </p>
<p>And lastly but by no means least the latest version of <a href="http://www.vbulletin.com/features_blog.php">vBulletin blog</a> also has Akismet support by default.</p>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/akismet.wordpress.com/114/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/akismet.wordpress.com/114/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/akismet.wordpress.com/114/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/akismet.wordpress.com/114/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/akismet.wordpress.com/114/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/akismet.wordpress.com/114/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/akismet.wordpress.com/114/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/akismet.wordpress.com/114/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/akismet.wordpress.com/114/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/akismet.wordpress.com/114/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.akismet.com&blog=116920&post=114&subd=akismet&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:13;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Dev Blog: What’s your favorite thing about the 2.7 Beta?";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=396";s:4:"link";s:85:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/whats-your-favorite-thing-about-the-27-beta/";s:11:"description";s:898:"<p>There have been a lot of posts and <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=wordpress+2.7">twitter announcements</a> by people checking out the WordPress 2.7 Beta since it was announced yesterday. What&#8217;s your favorite thing about 2.7 so far? Or if you haven&#8217;t made the leap yet, to which feature are you most looking forward? Tell us in the poll below. </p>
<p> <a href="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1068887/">What is your favorite feature in WordPress 2.7?</a>  <br /> <span> (<a href="http://www.polldaddy.com">  polls</a>)</span></p>
<p>If you have a extra minute or two, we&#8217;ve also put together a survey that lists all the new features and allows you to rate them, as well as give additional feedback if you&#8217;re so inclined. If you want to participate, <a href="http://www.polldaddy.com/s/96BC7ED0D63500E4/">take the 2.7 Beta Favorite Features survey</a>. </p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:09:19 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:7:"summary";s:898:"<p>There have been a lot of posts and <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=wordpress+2.7">twitter announcements</a> by people checking out the WordPress 2.7 Beta since it was announced yesterday. What&#8217;s your favorite thing about 2.7 so far? Or if you haven&#8217;t made the leap yet, to which feature are you most looking forward? Tell us in the poll below. </p>
<p> <a href="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1068887/">What is your favorite feature in WordPress 2.7?</a>  <br /> <span> (<a href="http://www.polldaddy.com">  polls</a>)</span></p>
<p>If you have a extra minute or two, we&#8217;ve also put together a survey that lists all the new features and allows you to rate them, as well as give additional feedback if you&#8217;re so inclined. If you want to participate, <a href="http://www.polldaddy.com/s/96BC7ED0D63500E4/">take the 2.7 Beta Favorite Features survey</a>. </p>";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:56:"Weblog Tools Collection: Comment Remix Security Bulletin";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4486";s:4:"link";s:85:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/01/comment-remix-security-bulletin/";s:11:"description";s:1424:"<p>Normally, we usually keep a maximum of two posts a day that are published on WeblogTooolsCollection as a means of keeping your dashboard from being overcome by us. However, considering that the following security bulletin has been published concerning the plugin (<a href="http://pressography.com/plugins/wp-comment-remix/" target="_blank">WP Comment Remix</a>) and it won the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/" target="_blank">WeblogToolsCollection plugin competition</a>, I felt it was important to pass along <a href="http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-wp-comment-remix-143/" target="_blank">this security bulletin</a> to you.</p>
<p>According to the bulletin that was published by <a href="http://chxsecurity.org/advisories/adv-3-full.txt" target="_blank">Chxsecurity.org</a> version 1.4.3 contains the following vulnerabilities:</p>
<ul>
<li>SQL Injection: caused by unsanitized variable “p” in the ajax_comments.php file.</li>
<li>Cross Site Scripting: This affects authenticated and unauthenticated users.</li>
<li>Cross Site Request Forgery: the form generated through wpcr_do_options_page lacks the WordPress wp_nonce security function.</li>
</ul>
<p>These vulnerabilities are considered HIGH risks however, the latest version (1.4.4) apparently addresses these issues. If you are using this plugin on your blog, be sure to upgrade it to the latest version.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:22:49 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1424:"<p>Normally, we usually keep a maximum of two posts a day that are published on WeblogTooolsCollection as a means of keeping your dashboard from being overcome by us. However, considering that the following security bulletin has been published concerning the plugin (<a href="http://pressography.com/plugins/wp-comment-remix/" target="_blank">WP Comment Remix</a>) and it won the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/" target="_blank">WeblogToolsCollection plugin competition</a>, I felt it was important to pass along <a href="http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-wp-comment-remix-143/" target="_blank">this security bulletin</a> to you.</p>
<p>According to the bulletin that was published by <a href="http://chxsecurity.org/advisories/adv-3-full.txt" target="_blank">Chxsecurity.org</a> version 1.4.3 contains the following vulnerabilities:</p>
<ul>
<li>SQL Injection: caused by unsanitized variable “p” in the ajax_comments.php file.</li>
<li>Cross Site Scripting: This affects authenticated and unauthenticated users.</li>
<li>Cross Site Request Forgery: the form generated through wpcr_do_options_page lacks the WordPress wp_nonce security function.</li>
</ul>
<p>These vulnerabilities are considered HIGH risks however, the latest version (1.4.4) apparently addresses these issues. If you are using this plugin on your blog, be sure to upgrade it to the latest version.</p>";}i:15;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:45:"Donncha: Make your WordPress plugin talk AJAX";s:4:"guid";s:29:"http://ocaoimh.ie/?p=89494197";s:4:"link";s:66:"http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/11/01/make-your-wordpress-plugin-talk-ajax/";s:11:"description";s:4441:"<p>This morning at <a href="http://www.barcampcork.com/">BarCamp Cork</a> I gave a short talk on how to add AJAX functionality to WordPress plugins.</p>
<p>Here are the example scripts I used during the talk. Rename the files to .php and install as you would normal WordPress plugins.</p>
<ol>
<li> <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/helloworld1.txt">helloworld1.txt</a> - very simple and basic &#8220;Hello World&#8221; plugin.</li>
<li> <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/helloworld2.txt">helloworld2.txt</a> - script that will display the text &#8220;Hello World&#8221; using an AJAX request to get the text from the server.</li>
<li> <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/helloworld3.txt">helloworld3.txt</a> - script that displays &#8220;Hello World&#8221; text, and an &#8220;update&#8221; link that increments a counter via an AJAX http request.</li>
<li> <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/helloworld4.txt">helloworld4.txt</a> - script that displays a simple form. The form has one text box, a &#8220;Random&#8221; button and a &#8220;Save&#8221; button. Clicking the &#8220;Random&#8221; button makes a request to the server to get a random number. &#8220;Save&#8221; sends the number to the server.</li>
<li> <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/helloworld5.txt">helloworld5.txt</a> and <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/rate.txt">rate.txt</a> - &#8220;Rating&#8221; script to rate a post (Originally from <a href="http://jquery.bassistance.de/jquery-getting-started.html#rate">here</a>). Makes an AJAX request to the server with the rating. Server returns randomly generated stats on rating. Place rate.php in wp-content/</li>
</ol>
<p>All scripts that operate in the Settings page in the Dashboard use a nonce for security and access admin-ajax.php when making AJAX requests. The wp_ajax_$POST[ 'action' ] hook is used to execute the actual code that does something useful.</p>
<p>The rating script uses wp_enqueue_script() to load the jQuery class.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re an Irish O2 user, and use Twitter you might like to install the new <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tweet-tweet/">Tweet Tweet</a> WordPress plugin. Thanks to <a href="http://contrar.ie/">Enda</a> who let me use his O2 account briefly, I created a plugin that sends Twitter sms notifications using the free O2.ie web texts. That means Meteor, Vodafone and O2 are now covered. Anyone want to contribute a plugin for 3?</p>
<p>PS. I was very proud that Automattic was able to sponsor BarCamp Cork, and hopefully most of the WordPress badges found good homes! Conor <a href="http://twitter.com/conoro/statuses/986226621">says</a> 116 signed up for the event, with just over 100 showing up. That&#8217;s a great number to pull in for a Saturday tech event!</p>
<div align="center"><a href="http://pix.ie/donncha/738799" title="IMG_4625 by donncha"><img src="http://photos4.pix.ie/30/6D/306D1E33CE1446F4AD58BDB00E207DF5-240.jpg" alt="IMG_4625" width="172" height="240" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://pix.ie/donncha/736680" title="IMG_4724 by donncha"><img src="http://photos4.pix.ie/DF/C4/DFC4E2072ABA425D88EF273DC38BD5C5-500.jpg" alt="IMG_4724" width="500" height="332" /></a></div>
<p>More photos can be found on <a href="http://pix.ie/explore/tag/barcampcork">pix.ie</a> and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/barcampcork/">flickr</a>. Looks like <a href="http://iced-coffee.com/">Phil</a> hasn&#8217;t uploaded any of his shots yet! Can&#8217;t wait to see what came of his afternoon photo session. I had to leave early and missed it unfortunately.<br />
Discovered <a href="http://www.blackdog.ie/blog/barcamp-kicks-off/">photos</a> of my presentation. Yes, I used Vi (or Vim if you want to be pedantic) to give my talk!</p>
<p><img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/?voyeur=1" /></p><p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/09/30/wordpress-mu-262/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress MU 2.6.2">WordPress MU 2.6.2</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2005/08/13/ajax-in-ie-without-activex/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: AJAX in IE without ActiveX">AJAX in IE without ActiveX</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/07/10/anti-spam-blog-plugin-for-wordpress-mu/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Anti spam-blog plugin for WordPress MU">Anti spam-blog plugin for WordPress MU</a></li></ul></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:56:21 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Donncha";}s:7:"summary";s:4441:"<p>This morning at <a href="http://www.barcampcork.com/">BarCamp Cork</a> I gave a short talk on how to add AJAX functionality to WordPress plugins.</p>
<p>Here are the example scripts I used during the talk. Rename the files to .php and install as you would normal WordPress plugins.</p>
<ol>
<li> <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/helloworld1.txt">helloworld1.txt</a> - very simple and basic &#8220;Hello World&#8221; plugin.</li>
<li> <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/helloworld2.txt">helloworld2.txt</a> - script that will display the text &#8220;Hello World&#8221; using an AJAX request to get the text from the server.</li>
<li> <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/helloworld3.txt">helloworld3.txt</a> - script that displays &#8220;Hello World&#8221; text, and an &#8220;update&#8221; link that increments a counter via an AJAX http request.</li>
<li> <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/helloworld4.txt">helloworld4.txt</a> - script that displays a simple form. The form has one text box, a &#8220;Random&#8221; button and a &#8220;Save&#8221; button. Clicking the &#8220;Random&#8221; button makes a request to the server to get a random number. &#8220;Save&#8221; sends the number to the server.</li>
<li> <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/helloworld5.txt">helloworld5.txt</a> and <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/rate.txt">rate.txt</a> - &#8220;Rating&#8221; script to rate a post (Originally from <a href="http://jquery.bassistance.de/jquery-getting-started.html#rate">here</a>). Makes an AJAX request to the server with the rating. Server returns randomly generated stats on rating. Place rate.php in wp-content/</li>
</ol>
<p>All scripts that operate in the Settings page in the Dashboard use a nonce for security and access admin-ajax.php when making AJAX requests. The wp_ajax_$POST[ 'action' ] hook is used to execute the actual code that does something useful.</p>
<p>The rating script uses wp_enqueue_script() to load the jQuery class.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re an Irish O2 user, and use Twitter you might like to install the new <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tweet-tweet/">Tweet Tweet</a> WordPress plugin. Thanks to <a href="http://contrar.ie/">Enda</a> who let me use his O2 account briefly, I created a plugin that sends Twitter sms notifications using the free O2.ie web texts. That means Meteor, Vodafone and O2 are now covered. Anyone want to contribute a plugin for 3?</p>
<p>PS. I was very proud that Automattic was able to sponsor BarCamp Cork, and hopefully most of the WordPress badges found good homes! Conor <a href="http://twitter.com/conoro/statuses/986226621">says</a> 116 signed up for the event, with just over 100 showing up. That&#8217;s a great number to pull in for a Saturday tech event!</p>
<div align="center"><a href="http://pix.ie/donncha/738799" title="IMG_4625 by donncha"><img src="http://photos4.pix.ie/30/6D/306D1E33CE1446F4AD58BDB00E207DF5-240.jpg" alt="IMG_4625" width="172" height="240" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://pix.ie/donncha/736680" title="IMG_4724 by donncha"><img src="http://photos4.pix.ie/DF/C4/DFC4E2072ABA425D88EF273DC38BD5C5-500.jpg" alt="IMG_4724" width="500" height="332" /></a></div>
<p>More photos can be found on <a href="http://pix.ie/explore/tag/barcampcork">pix.ie</a> and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/barcampcork/">flickr</a>. Looks like <a href="http://iced-coffee.com/">Phil</a> hasn&#8217;t uploaded any of his shots yet! Can&#8217;t wait to see what came of his afternoon photo session. I had to leave early and missed it unfortunately.<br />
Discovered <a href="http://www.blackdog.ie/blog/barcamp-kicks-off/">photos</a> of my presentation. Yes, I used Vi (or Vim if you want to be pedantic) to give my talk!</p>
<p><img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/?voyeur=1" /></p><p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/09/30/wordpress-mu-262/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress MU 2.6.2">WordPress MU 2.6.2</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2005/08/13/ajax-in-ie-without-activex/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: AJAX in IE without ActiveX">AJAX in IE without ActiveX</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/07/10/anti-spam-blog-plugin-for-wordpress-mu/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Anti spam-blog plugin for WordPress MU">Anti spam-blog plugin for WordPress MU</a></li></ul></p>";}i:16;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:64:"Weblog Tools Collection: Learn How To Cook “WordPress Style”";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4481";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/01/learn-how-to-cook-wordpress-style/";s:11:"description";s:1244:"<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/wprecipeslogo.png"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/wprecipeslogo.png" alt="" title="wprecipeslogo" width="322" height="90" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4482" /></a></p>
<p>Not too long ago, a new WordPress based site was launched on the web called <a href="http://www.wprecipes.com/" target="_blank">WPRecipes.com</a>. The site aims to cut all of the fluff and just publish the bits and pieces of code you need to know in order to accomplish a specific task. The site is maintained by the Jean-Baptiste Jung who also runs <a href="http://www.catswhocode.com/" target="_blank">Cats Who Code</a>. Here are a few articles worth looking into:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-display-a-random-header-image" target="_blank">How to: Display a random header image</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-display-subpages-on-your-sidebar" target="_blank">How to: Display subpages on your sidebar</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-change-author-attribution-on-all-posts-at-once" target="_blank">How to: Change author attribution on all posts at once</a></p>
<p>Definitely worthy of being added to your feedreader.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:32:49 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1244:"<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/wprecipeslogo.png"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/wprecipeslogo.png" alt="" title="wprecipeslogo" width="322" height="90" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4482" /></a></p>
<p>Not too long ago, a new WordPress based site was launched on the web called <a href="http://www.wprecipes.com/" target="_blank">WPRecipes.com</a>. The site aims to cut all of the fluff and just publish the bits and pieces of code you need to know in order to accomplish a specific task. The site is maintained by the Jean-Baptiste Jung who also runs <a href="http://www.catswhocode.com/" target="_blank">Cats Who Code</a>. Here are a few articles worth looking into:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-display-a-random-header-image" target="_blank">How to: Display a random header image</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-display-subpages-on-your-sidebar" target="_blank">How to: Display subpages on your sidebar</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-change-author-attribution-on-all-posts-at-once" target="_blank">How to: Change author attribution on all posts at once</a></p>
<p>Definitely worthy of being added to your feedreader.</p>";}i:17;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 11/01";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4479";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/01/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1101/";s:11:"description";s:2366:"<p><a href="http://labs.kotakwarna.com/?p=38"><strong>Natureal</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="Natureal" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/natureal.jpg" border="0" alt="Natureal" width="153" height="114" /></p>
<p>3 columns fixed width, widget ready, gravatar ready theme</p>
<p><a href="http://3oneseven.com/23/the-vegan-theme/"><strong>Vegan</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://wp.3oneseven.com/index.php?wptheme=Vegan"><img title="veganwpthemeyb1" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/veganwpthemeyb1.jpg" border="0" alt="veganwpthemeyb1" width="155" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Vegan consists of a fluid two column outfit with eight widgetized bars and columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled. Flickr, Delicious is enabled in the themes options panel.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.junglejar.com/templatejar/clockwork/"><strong>Clockwork2</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="Clockwork2" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/clockwork2.png" border="0" alt="Clockwork2" width="152" height="114" /></p>
<p>Two columns fixed width, widget ready, gravatar ready theme</p>
<p><a href="http://the-cloisters.net/blog/wordpress-themes/misanthropic-realm-theme/"><strong>Misanthropic Realm</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://the-cloisters.net/themedemos/?SelectedTheme=Misanthropic+Realm"><img title="misanthropicrealm" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/misanthropicrealm.png" border="0" alt="misanthropicrealm" width="111" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>6 Column consisting of the main content, 2 sidebars and 3 footer sections, widget-ready fixed width theme with minimal images for fast loading and easy customization featuring an author box, author info page, gravatars and highlighted author comments in the comments section along with Custom Archives, Custom Intro Box, Sitemap and full width No Sidebars page templates.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/30/color-paper-a-free-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Color Paper</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://freethemelayouts.com/blog/index.php?wptheme=Color%20Paper"><img title="colorpaper" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/colorpaper.jpg" border="0" alt="colorpaper" width="142" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, image rich theme with a stylesheet switcher</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:50:59 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2366:"<p><a href="http://labs.kotakwarna.com/?p=38"><strong>Natureal</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="Natureal" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/natureal.jpg" border="0" alt="Natureal" width="153" height="114" /></p>
<p>3 columns fixed width, widget ready, gravatar ready theme</p>
<p><a href="http://3oneseven.com/23/the-vegan-theme/"><strong>Vegan</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://wp.3oneseven.com/index.php?wptheme=Vegan"><img title="veganwpthemeyb1" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/veganwpthemeyb1.jpg" border="0" alt="veganwpthemeyb1" width="155" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Vegan consists of a fluid two column outfit with eight widgetized bars and columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled. Flickr, Delicious is enabled in the themes options panel.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.junglejar.com/templatejar/clockwork/"><strong>Clockwork2</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="Clockwork2" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/clockwork2.png" border="0" alt="Clockwork2" width="152" height="114" /></p>
<p>Two columns fixed width, widget ready, gravatar ready theme</p>
<p><a href="http://the-cloisters.net/blog/wordpress-themes/misanthropic-realm-theme/"><strong>Misanthropic Realm</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://the-cloisters.net/themedemos/?SelectedTheme=Misanthropic+Realm"><img title="misanthropicrealm" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/misanthropicrealm.png" border="0" alt="misanthropicrealm" width="111" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>6 Column consisting of the main content, 2 sidebars and 3 footer sections, widget-ready fixed width theme with minimal images for fast loading and easy customization featuring an author box, author info page, gravatars and highlighted author comments in the comments section along with Custom Archives, Custom Intro Box, Sitemap and full width No Sidebars page templates.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/30/color-paper-a-free-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Color Paper</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://freethemelayouts.com/blog/index.php?wptheme=Color%20Paper"><img title="colorpaper" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/colorpaper.jpg" border="0" alt="colorpaper" width="142" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, image rich theme with a stylesheet switcher</p>";}i:18;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:69:"Mark Jaquith: WordPress 2.7 Feature Preview: Publish Module (UPDATED)";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/?p=189";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/wordpress-27-feature-preview-publish-module/";s:11:"description";s:2087:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>I made a screencast showing off the new Publish Module that I&#8217;ve been working on for WordPress 2.7 (due in November).</p>
<p>It is different from the current (2.6) Publish Module in look, form, and function.  It elegantly adapts to your actions, and presents you with clear choices. You&#8217;ll never again wonder what will happen when you hit that button and send your post off into the ether.  I hope you like it!</p>
<p></p>
<p>If you&#8217;d like to try this out for yourself, <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-27-beta-1/">WordPress 2.7-beta-1 is available now</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve slightly rearranged the Publish Module due to some issues with translations and wide buttons. The result isn&#8217;t functionally different, just more structurally flexible. Check it out:</p>
<p></p>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/189/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/189/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/189/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/189/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/189/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/189/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/189/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/189/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/189/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/189/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=189&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:14:46 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Mark Jaquith";}s:7:"summary";s:2087:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>I made a screencast showing off the new Publish Module that I&#8217;ve been working on for WordPress 2.7 (due in November).</p>
<p>It is different from the current (2.6) Publish Module in look, form, and function.  It elegantly adapts to your actions, and presents you with clear choices. You&#8217;ll never again wonder what will happen when you hit that button and send your post off into the ether.  I hope you like it!</p>
<p></p>
<p>If you&#8217;d like to try this out for yourself, <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-27-beta-1/">WordPress 2.7-beta-1 is available now</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve slightly rearranged the Publish Module due to some issues with translations and wide buttons. The result isn&#8217;t functionally different, just more structurally flexible. Check it out:</p>
<p></p>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/189/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/189/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/189/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/189/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/189/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/189/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/189/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/189/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/189/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/189/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=189&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:19;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:22:"Ryan Boren: 2.7 Beta 1";s:4:"guid";s:23:"http://boren.nu/?p=1629";s:4:"link";s:46:"http://boren.nu/archives/2008/11/01/27-beta-1/";s:11:"description";s:671:"<p>We&#8217;ve been working our asses off and <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-27-beta-1/">finally have a beta to share</a>.  Download, test, and enjoy the pretty visuals.  The word most people use when first seeing it is &#8220;sexy&#8221;.   This is a great design, and I&#8217;m very pleased with how it has turned out.  When the visuals are complete and the new icons are in, 2.7 will be a very good looking release.</p>
<p>Try this exercise.  Load up the Write Post page in 2.6 and in 2.7.   Compare the location of the title field between the two.  Notice the vertical distance.  That&#8217;s one of my favorite 2.7 features.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:31:16 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ryan";}s:7:"summary";s:671:"<p>We&#8217;ve been working our asses off and <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-27-beta-1/">finally have a beta to share</a>.  Download, test, and enjoy the pretty visuals.  The word most people use when first seeing it is &#8220;sexy&#8221;.   This is a great design, and I&#8217;m very pleased with how it has turned out.  When the visuals are complete and the new icons are in, 2.7 will be a very good looking release.</p>
<p>Try this exercise.  Load up the Write Post page in 2.6 and in 2.7.   Compare the location of the title field between the two.  Notice the vertical distance.  That&#8217;s one of my favorite 2.7 features.</p>";}i:20;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:30:"Dev Blog: WordPress 2.7 Beta 1";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=387";s:4:"link";s:61:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-27-beta-1/";s:11:"description";s:1661:"<p>The first public beta of WordPress 2.7 is here at last.  Join the thousands of people already testing 2.7 by <a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.7-beta1.zip">downloading 2.7 Beta 1</a>.  As previously mentioned on this blog, 2.7 is bringing a new visual design.  This design is almost completely implemented, but there are still a few areas that aren&#8217;t quite finished in Beta 1.  There are also several glitches in certain browsers.  Beta 1 provides the best experience in Firefox and Safari. Don&#8217;t worry, we are working on IE and Opera and will have those looking good in time for the final release.</p>
<p>Speaking of the final release, it will not be available on November 10th as originally scheduled.  We are two weeks behind schedule at the moment.  We need a little more time to finish the visual design, do a round of user testing against that finished design, and do a proper round of public beta testing. Our plan is to keep working as if Nov. 10 is still the release date.  However, instead of releasing the final 2.7 on the 10th, we will make a release candidate available instead.  The release candidate is intended to be a high-quality, almost-finished release that we are comfortable recommending for broad use.  After Nov. 10, the focus will be on fixing high impact bugs turned up by those of you testing the release candidate. I suspect 2.7 will be ready for final release by the end of November.  A specific date will be set as we progress through the public beta cycle and get a feel for how solid the release is.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.7-beta1.zip">Get WordPress 2.7 Beta 1</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:00:11 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Ryan Boren";}s:7:"summary";s:1661:"<p>The first public beta of WordPress 2.7 is here at last.  Join the thousands of people already testing 2.7 by <a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.7-beta1.zip">downloading 2.7 Beta 1</a>.  As previously mentioned on this blog, 2.7 is bringing a new visual design.  This design is almost completely implemented, but there are still a few areas that aren&#8217;t quite finished in Beta 1.  There are also several glitches in certain browsers.  Beta 1 provides the best experience in Firefox and Safari. Don&#8217;t worry, we are working on IE and Opera and will have those looking good in time for the final release.</p>
<p>Speaking of the final release, it will not be available on November 10th as originally scheduled.  We are two weeks behind schedule at the moment.  We need a little more time to finish the visual design, do a round of user testing against that finished design, and do a proper round of public beta testing. Our plan is to keep working as if Nov. 10 is still the release date.  However, instead of releasing the final 2.7 on the 10th, we will make a release candidate available instead.  The release candidate is intended to be a high-quality, almost-finished release that we are comfortable recommending for broad use.  After Nov. 10, the focus will be on fixing high impact bugs turned up by those of you testing the release candidate. I suspect 2.7 will be ready for final release by the end of November.  A specific date will be set as we progress through the public beta cycle and get a feel for how solid the release is.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.7-beta1.zip">Get WordPress 2.7 Beta 1</a>.</p>";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Weblog Tools Collection: Usability, WordPress 2.7 And More";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4470";s:4:"link";s:85:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/01/usability-wordpress-27-and-more/";s:11:"description";s:1767:"<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/newwwpweeklylogo.png" align="right" />Our special guest on Halloween night was <a href="http://jane.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Jane Wells</a> of Automattic. On this episode, Keith, Jane and I discussed a wide assortment of topics and issues surrounding WordPress and usability. Here is a short list:</p>
<ul>
<li>The Definition Of Usability</li>
<li>WordPress 2.7 And Usability</li>
<li>The Usability Testing Centers/Environment</li>
<li>How WordPress 2.7 Came To Be</li>
<li>Is WordPress Bloated?</li>
<li>Lessons Learned After WordPress 2.5 Was Released</li>
<li>The Status Of WordPress 2.7 And Whether Or Not It Is Delayed</li>
<li>In Depth Discussion Of Many Of The New Features And Enhancements In 2.7</li>
</ul>
<p>And much much more. Be sure to download the show and give it a listen and then come back here to leave a comment letting us know your thoughts regarding what was discussed. I easily consider this episode to be another classic WordPress Weekly.</p>
<h2>Ad Copy:</h2>
<p> If you are interested in advertising on WordPress Weekly, please contact Mark Ghosh via <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/contact-me/" target="_blank">this contact form</a>.</p>
<h2>WPWeekly Meta:</h2>
<p><strong>Next Episode:</strong> Friday November 7th, 2008 8P.M. EST</p>
<p><strong>Subscribe To WPWeekly Via Itunes: </strong><a href="itpc://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss34224.xml" target="_blank">Click here to subscribe</a></p>
<p><strong>Length Of Episode:</strong> 1 Hour 34 Minutes</p>
<p><strong>Download The Show:</strong> <a href="http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-34224/TS-158709.mp3" target="_blank">WordPressWeeklyEpisode27.mp3</a></p>
<p><strong>Listen To Episode #27:</strong><br />
</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 01 Nov 2008 07:09:40 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1767:"<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/newwwpweeklylogo.png" align="right" />Our special guest on Halloween night was <a href="http://jane.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Jane Wells</a> of Automattic. On this episode, Keith, Jane and I discussed a wide assortment of topics and issues surrounding WordPress and usability. Here is a short list:</p>
<ul>
<li>The Definition Of Usability</li>
<li>WordPress 2.7 And Usability</li>
<li>The Usability Testing Centers/Environment</li>
<li>How WordPress 2.7 Came To Be</li>
<li>Is WordPress Bloated?</li>
<li>Lessons Learned After WordPress 2.5 Was Released</li>
<li>The Status Of WordPress 2.7 And Whether Or Not It Is Delayed</li>
<li>In Depth Discussion Of Many Of The New Features And Enhancements In 2.7</li>
</ul>
<p>And much much more. Be sure to download the show and give it a listen and then come back here to leave a comment letting us know your thoughts regarding what was discussed. I easily consider this episode to be another classic WordPress Weekly.</p>
<h2>Ad Copy:</h2>
<p> If you are interested in advertising on WordPress Weekly, please contact Mark Ghosh via <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/contact-me/" target="_blank">this contact form</a>.</p>
<h2>WPWeekly Meta:</h2>
<p><strong>Next Episode:</strong> Friday November 7th, 2008 8P.M. EST</p>
<p><strong>Subscribe To WPWeekly Via Itunes: </strong><a href="itpc://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss34224.xml" target="_blank">Click here to subscribe</a></p>
<p><strong>Length Of Episode:</strong> 1 Hour 34 Minutes</p>
<p><strong>Download The Show:</strong> <a href="http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-34224/TS-158709.mp3" target="_blank">WordPressWeeklyEpisode27.mp3</a></p>
<p><strong>Listen To Episode #27:</strong><br />
</p>";}i:22;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:18:"Dev Blog: Showcase";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=380";s:4:"link";s:50:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/showcase/";s:11:"description";s:959:"<p>Today we launched the <a title="WordPress Showcase" href="http://wordpress.org/showcase/">WordPress Showcase</a>, a display of some of the best and brightest WordPress users, who are using it to do a whole lot more than blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/showcase/"><img title="Showcase Screenshot" src="http://wpdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/showcase-screenshot.png" alt="Duke Center for International Studies" width="567" height="605" /></a></p>
<p>Pick your flavor and check out the possibilities available through WordPress MU, WordPress.com, WordPress.com VIP and WordPress.org.</p>
<p>Site screenshots are constantly updated, so what you see is a realtime look at what&#8217;s going on with our hottest users.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t see something there that should be? <a href="http://wordpress.org/showcase/submit-a-wordpress-site/">Suggest an addition!</a> We&#8217;ll check it out and add it to the bunch if we think it makes the cut.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:36:27 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:11:"Nick Momrik";}s:7:"summary";s:959:"<p>Today we launched the <a title="WordPress Showcase" href="http://wordpress.org/showcase/">WordPress Showcase</a>, a display of some of the best and brightest WordPress users, who are using it to do a whole lot more than blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/showcase/"><img title="Showcase Screenshot" src="http://wpdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/showcase-screenshot.png" alt="Duke Center for International Studies" width="567" height="605" /></a></p>
<p>Pick your flavor and check out the possibilities available through WordPress MU, WordPress.com, WordPress.com VIP and WordPress.org.</p>
<p>Site screenshots are constantly updated, so what you see is a realtime look at what&#8217;s going on with our hottest users.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t see something there that should be? <a href="http://wordpress.org/showcase/submit-a-wordpress-site/">Suggest an addition!</a> We&#8217;ll check it out and add it to the bunch if we think it makes the cut.</p>";}i:23;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:44:"Ryan Boren: WordPress 2.7 UI Configurability";s:4:"guid";s:23:"http://boren.nu/?p=1622";s:4:"link";s:68:"http://boren.nu/archives/2008/10/31/wordpress-27-ui-configurability/";s:11:"description";s:741:"<p>Implementation of the new visual design of WordPress 2.7 is almost done.  One of our primary objectives with the new design is to offer interface flexibility and customization.  You can drag-and-drop and show or hide many UI elements.  Here&#8217;s the Write Post page stripped down the way I like it.  Title, Content, Categories, and Publish.  That&#8217;s all I use and now that&#8217;s all I have to see.  Even the navigation is tucked away on the left so I can concentrate on writing.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanboren/2990547560/" title="My Write Post by ryancboren, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3034/2990547560_76e92e9b8a.jpg" alt="My Write Post" width="500" height="343" /></a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:41:10 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ryan";}s:7:"summary";s:741:"<p>Implementation of the new visual design of WordPress 2.7 is almost done.  One of our primary objectives with the new design is to offer interface flexibility and customization.  You can drag-and-drop and show or hide many UI elements.  Here&#8217;s the Write Post page stripped down the way I like it.  Title, Content, Categories, and Publish.  That&#8217;s all I use and now that&#8217;s all I have to see.  Even the navigation is tucked away on the left so I can concentrate on writing.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanboren/2990547560/" title="My Write Post by ryancboren, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3034/2990547560_76e92e9b8a.jpg" alt="My Write Post" width="500" height="343" /></a></p>";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:19:"Matt: Brazil Meetup";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=8648";s:4:"link";s:35:"http://ma.tt/2008/10/brazil-meetup/";s:11:"description";s:444:"<p>I&#8217;ll be at the WordPress meetup at <a href="http://2008.latinoware.org/">Latinoware</a> tomorrow (Saturday) at 17:00. I&#8217;m speaking earlier in the day at 11:00. Been around the conference today and been really impressed with the breadth of subjects covered and the number of attendees. Confused about the logo though. (Is South America tucked into Africa?) <em>Se você fala Português passar esta sobre a sua audiência.</em></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:55:23 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:444:"<p>I&#8217;ll be at the WordPress meetup at <a href="http://2008.latinoware.org/">Latinoware</a> tomorrow (Saturday) at 17:00. I&#8217;m speaking earlier in the day at 11:00. Been around the conference today and been really impressed with the breadth of subjects covered and the number of attendees. Confused about the logo though. (Is South America tucked into Africa?) <em>Se você fala Português passar esta sobre a sua audiência.</em></p>";}i:25;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:48:"Weblog Tools Collection: Scary WordPress Moments";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4462";s:4:"link";s:77:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/31/scary-wordpress-moments/";s:11:"description";s:3496:"<p><a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/wordpress-pumpkin/">Happy Halloween</a> to everyone! At this All Hallows Eve, I would like to talk about Scary WordPress Moments. Since I have been working with WordPress for some time, I have had quite a few scary moments with WordPress. One stands out in recent memory.</p>
<div id="attachment_4463" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/2986187518_23d0727f1b_o.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4463" title="WordPress Pumpkin" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/2986187518_23d0727f1b_o-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">WordPress Pumpkin by Eric Martin Displayed with permission</p></div>
<p>Let me start by saying that I am a huge proponent of backing up my blog. I put together <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/">the original WP-DB-Backup</a> which has been enhanced and fixed through the years and is a fantastic plugin. I use it religiously combined with a couple of tricks I picked up from readers along the way. I have the plugin backup my databases everyday and email them to a &#8220;backup&#8221; gmail account. I also have filters setup in the gmail account to delete daily backups as they come in, thus managing space (gmail keeps deleted emails for 30 days). So I have a rolling 30 day backup of all my blog and all of it is automattic.</p>
<p>That being said, about two WordPress point releases ago, I had sat down to backup, upgrade and fix Weblog Tools Collection after the release of the major upgrade. This blog is not that big or popular but it is <em>my baby</em>. It has taken on a life of its own and I have mangled and modified the code in many places to do things my way. Even though the code is fun to play with, the modifications cause me huge headaches when upgrading (my own fault). So my obsession for the blog and the custom modifications combined with a large database and a complex theme structure makes upgrades harrowing to say the least. Heck Matt has goaded me to upgrade this blog many times in the past after I had failed to do so for many weeks after a release. So I have an established and documented procedure to upgrade this blog which I keep up to date with all the changes required to counter and/or fix the modified code. However, during this one upgrade, I somehow missed a crucial step. You see this blog uses a table prefix from the Cafelog days and I had forgotten to change it in the config file before uploading it. Some reader managed to run the &#8220;new&#8221; setup for the blog between me uploading the files and then going over to the admin panel to upgrade it.</p>
<p>I thought I had somehow lost my blog and that the original tables with my precious data in it had been replaced with fresh new ones. I remember my blood running cold and panic starting to set in. I know WordPress quite well and I know how it works. I had made a backup before I started upgrading and I had followed all the steps for the upgrade. But for a brief few minutes that Saturday morning, I was truly sweating bullets. What bothers me now is that I did not recognize the problem soon enough. It took me almost five minutes to realize what had happened and take steps to fix it. As a reminder of that day, i never deleted that set of tables and have left them intact.</p>
<p><span><strong>What Scary Moments have you had with WordPress? What did you learn from them?</strong></span></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:23:26 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:3496:"<p><a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/wordpress-pumpkin/">Happy Halloween</a> to everyone! At this All Hallows Eve, I would like to talk about Scary WordPress Moments. Since I have been working with WordPress for some time, I have had quite a few scary moments with WordPress. One stands out in recent memory.</p>
<div id="attachment_4463" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/2986187518_23d0727f1b_o.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4463" title="WordPress Pumpkin" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/2986187518_23d0727f1b_o-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">WordPress Pumpkin by Eric Martin Displayed with permission</p></div>
<p>Let me start by saying that I am a huge proponent of backing up my blog. I put together <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/">the original WP-DB-Backup</a> which has been enhanced and fixed through the years and is a fantastic plugin. I use it religiously combined with a couple of tricks I picked up from readers along the way. I have the plugin backup my databases everyday and email them to a &#8220;backup&#8221; gmail account. I also have filters setup in the gmail account to delete daily backups as they come in, thus managing space (gmail keeps deleted emails for 30 days). So I have a rolling 30 day backup of all my blog and all of it is automattic.</p>
<p>That being said, about two WordPress point releases ago, I had sat down to backup, upgrade and fix Weblog Tools Collection after the release of the major upgrade. This blog is not that big or popular but it is <em>my baby</em>. It has taken on a life of its own and I have mangled and modified the code in many places to do things my way. Even though the code is fun to play with, the modifications cause me huge headaches when upgrading (my own fault). So my obsession for the blog and the custom modifications combined with a large database and a complex theme structure makes upgrades harrowing to say the least. Heck Matt has goaded me to upgrade this blog many times in the past after I had failed to do so for many weeks after a release. So I have an established and documented procedure to upgrade this blog which I keep up to date with all the changes required to counter and/or fix the modified code. However, during this one upgrade, I somehow missed a crucial step. You see this blog uses a table prefix from the Cafelog days and I had forgotten to change it in the config file before uploading it. Some reader managed to run the &#8220;new&#8221; setup for the blog between me uploading the files and then going over to the admin panel to upgrade it.</p>
<p>I thought I had somehow lost my blog and that the original tables with my precious data in it had been replaced with fresh new ones. I remember my blood running cold and panic starting to set in. I know WordPress quite well and I know how it works. I had made a backup before I started upgrading and I had followed all the steps for the upgrade. But for a brief few minutes that Saturday morning, I was truly sweating bullets. What bothers me now is that I did not recognize the problem soon enough. It took me almost five minutes to realize what had happened and take steps to fix it. As a reminder of that day, i never deleted that set of tables and have left them intact.</p>
<p><span><strong>What Scary Moments have you had with WordPress? What did you learn from them?</strong></span></p>";}i:26;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:30:"Alex King: Carrington Blog 1.2";s:4:"guid";s:54:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/10/30/carrington-blog-12";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/10/30/carrington-blog-12";s:11:"description";s:2445:"<p>(cross-posted to the <a href="http://carringtontheme.com/2008/10/new-in-12/">Carrington web site</a>)</p>
<p>Version 1.2 of Carrington Blog is now available for <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/carrington-blog">download</a>.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s been great seeing developers picking up the Carrington theme framework and using it. We wanted to get these fixes and features out ASAP as a result.</p>
<p>This version has a couple of changes - both bug fixes and new features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Added support for meta-{key}.php content templates (previously supported only meta-{key}-{value}.php templates) as <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=1712">requested</a>.</li>
<li>Added a field for entering the About text that is shown in the sidebar. If this is present, the /about page content is not used. The content of this field is passed through regular WordPress filters for formatting, etc.</li>
<li>Fixed a layout bug with comment links.</li>
<li>Adjusted some header tag spacing.</li>
<li>Abstracted all general templates (header, sidebar, etc.) - this was not working completely in 1.1.</li>
<li>Updated <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/wordpress/carrington/readme/">documentation</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>Enjoy! Let us know in the <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/forums/">forums</a> if you run into trouble.</p>
<p><a href="http://sharethis.com/item?&wp=2.2.3&amp;publisher=a1583af8-28eb-4210-97bd-2bb5c02bc265&amp;title=Carrington+Blog+1.2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Falexking.org%2Fblog%2F2008%2F10%2F30%2Fcarrington-blog-12">ShareThis</a></p>
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<p>Version 1.2 of Carrington Blog is now available for <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/carrington-blog">download</a>.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s been great seeing developers picking up the Carrington theme framework and using it. We wanted to get these fixes and features out ASAP as a result.</p>
<p>This version has a couple of changes - both bug fixes and new features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Added support for meta-{key}.php content templates (previously supported only meta-{key}-{value}.php templates) as <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=1712">requested</a>.</li>
<li>Added a field for entering the About text that is shown in the sidebar. If this is present, the /about page content is not used. The content of this field is passed through regular WordPress filters for formatting, etc.</li>
<li>Fixed a layout bug with comment links.</li>
<li>Adjusted some header tag spacing.</li>
<li>Abstracted all general templates (header, sidebar, etc.) - this was not working completely in 1.1.</li>
<li>Updated <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/wordpress/carrington/readme/">documentation</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>Enjoy! Let us know in the <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/forums/">forums</a> if you run into trouble.</p>
<p><a href="http://sharethis.com/item?&wp=2.2.3&amp;publisher=a1583af8-28eb-4210-97bd-2bb5c02bc265&amp;title=Carrington+Blog+1.2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Falexking.org%2Fblog%2F2008%2F10%2F30%2Fcarrington-blog-12">ShareThis</a></p>
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	-->";}i:27;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:23:"Matt: WordPress Pumpkin";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://ma.tt/2008/10/wordpress-pumpkin/";s:4:"link";s:39:"http://ma.tt/2008/10/wordpress-pumpkin/";s:11:"description";s:235:"<p><a href="http://www.ericmmartin.com/wordpress-pumpkin/">Eric Martin carved a WordPress pumpkin</a>. Happy Halloween everybody. <img src="http://ma.tt/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:45:23 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:235:"<p><a href="http://www.ericmmartin.com/wordpress-pumpkin/">Eric Martin carved a WordPress pumpkin</a>. Happy Halloween everybody. <img src="http://ma.tt/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>";}i:28;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:61:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugins Releases for 10/30";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4460";s:4:"link";s:89:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/30/wordpress-plugins-releases-for-1030/";s:11:"description";s:4130:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://lud.icro.us/wordpress-plugin-magpierss-hotfix/"><strong>MagpieRSS Hotfix for Enclosures</strong></a></p>
<p>This hotfix adds support for RSS enclosures to MagpieRSS, the RSS feed parser behind the fetch_rss() function in WordPress.</p>
<p><a href="http://tylercraft.com/portfolio/tylr-slidr/"><strong>Tylr Slidr</strong></a></p>
<p>This is a WordPress plugin that makes the process of adding a Flickr slideshow to your site much easier.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/upload-rapidshare/"><strong>Upload RapidShare</strong></a></p>
<p>Upload your file to Rapidshare</p>
<p><a href="http://bobrik.name/2008/10/29/ie-warning/"><strong>IE Warning</strong></a><strong> </strong></p>
<p>Shows nice and simple splash to your visitors with Internet Explorer</p>
<p><a href="http://geekytalks.com/2008/09/wp-unique-article-header-image-plugin-for-wordpress.html"><strong>WP Unique Article Header Image</strong></a></p>
<p>Allows you to add/associate unique header image with each single post/page.So you can spice your blog to have a unique header image per post/page.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wayner.org/wp/"><strong>LinkShare Link Locator (L3) Description</strong></a></p>
<p>LinkShare Link Lookup (L3) is designed to make it easy for you to integrate LinkShare links in your posts, right from the actual write post page! Simply click the red arrows on the top right of the posting page and start earning today.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.picklewagon.com/wordpress/new-user-approve"><strong>New User Approve</strong></a></p>
<p>New User Approve is a Wordpress plugin that allows a blog administrator to approve a user before they are able to access and login to the blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://clifgriffin.com/2008/10/28/simple-post-template-wordpress-plugin/"><strong>Simple Post Template</strong></a></p>
<p>Allows you to define a post template for all new posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.yakupgovler.com/?p=402"><strong>Random Tags Cloud Widget</strong></a></p>
<p>Random Tags Cloud displays your tags by selecting randomly. Of course, you can customize other tag cloud&#8217;s settings.</p>
<p><a href="http://adrian3.com/2008/10/iphone-control-panel-wordpress-plugin/"><strong>iPhone Control Panel</strong></a></p>
<p>Configure how iPhones and iPod touches see your site. Add custom css, a home screen bookmark icon, change the viewport, or redirect to another url.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://kaltura.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=4&amp;t=3"><strong>All in One Video Pack</strong></a></p>
<p>Easily add full video capabilities to your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/my-trustedones-recommendations/"><strong>My TrustedOnes Recommendations</strong></a></p>
<p>The plugin shows your TrustedOnes recommendations, according to topics and wisdom of your choice.</p>
<p><a href="http://tech.shantanugoel.com/projects/wordpress/shantz-wordpress-prefix-suffix"><strong>Shantz Wordpress Prefix Suffix</strong></a></p>
<p>Shantz WP Prefix Suffix is a light plugin to quickly add text/htm/css before and/or after your posts and/or pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/eshop/"><strong>eShop</strong></a></p>
<p>An accessible Paypal Shopping Cart plugin.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/youtube-with-style/"><strong>YouTube with Style</strong></a></p>
<p>The YouTube with style plugin allows WordPress users to easily embed a YouTube video without the default YouTube player.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.badspiderbites.com/paginated-comments/"><strong>Paginated Comments</strong></a></p>
<p>Breaks down comments into a number of search engine optimized pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.roytanck.com/2008/03/15/wp-cumulus-released"><strong>WP-Cumulus</strong></a></p>
<p>WP-Cumulus displays your tags and/or categories in 3D by placing them on a rotating sphere.</p>
<p><a href="http://stephanreiter.info/2008/10/wordpress-plugin-scissors/"><strong>Scissors</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin adds cropping and resizing functionality to Wordpress&#8217; image upload and management dialogs.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:48:21 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:4130:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://lud.icro.us/wordpress-plugin-magpierss-hotfix/"><strong>MagpieRSS Hotfix for Enclosures</strong></a></p>
<p>This hotfix adds support for RSS enclosures to MagpieRSS, the RSS feed parser behind the fetch_rss() function in WordPress.</p>
<p><a href="http://tylercraft.com/portfolio/tylr-slidr/"><strong>Tylr Slidr</strong></a></p>
<p>This is a WordPress plugin that makes the process of adding a Flickr slideshow to your site much easier.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/upload-rapidshare/"><strong>Upload RapidShare</strong></a></p>
<p>Upload your file to Rapidshare</p>
<p><a href="http://bobrik.name/2008/10/29/ie-warning/"><strong>IE Warning</strong></a><strong> </strong></p>
<p>Shows nice and simple splash to your visitors with Internet Explorer</p>
<p><a href="http://geekytalks.com/2008/09/wp-unique-article-header-image-plugin-for-wordpress.html"><strong>WP Unique Article Header Image</strong></a></p>
<p>Allows you to add/associate unique header image with each single post/page.So you can spice your blog to have a unique header image per post/page.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wayner.org/wp/"><strong>LinkShare Link Locator (L3) Description</strong></a></p>
<p>LinkShare Link Lookup (L3) is designed to make it easy for you to integrate LinkShare links in your posts, right from the actual write post page! Simply click the red arrows on the top right of the posting page and start earning today.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.picklewagon.com/wordpress/new-user-approve"><strong>New User Approve</strong></a></p>
<p>New User Approve is a Wordpress plugin that allows a blog administrator to approve a user before they are able to access and login to the blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://clifgriffin.com/2008/10/28/simple-post-template-wordpress-plugin/"><strong>Simple Post Template</strong></a></p>
<p>Allows you to define a post template for all new posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.yakupgovler.com/?p=402"><strong>Random Tags Cloud Widget</strong></a></p>
<p>Random Tags Cloud displays your tags by selecting randomly. Of course, you can customize other tag cloud&#8217;s settings.</p>
<p><a href="http://adrian3.com/2008/10/iphone-control-panel-wordpress-plugin/"><strong>iPhone Control Panel</strong></a></p>
<p>Configure how iPhones and iPod touches see your site. Add custom css, a home screen bookmark icon, change the viewport, or redirect to another url.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://kaltura.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=4&amp;t=3"><strong>All in One Video Pack</strong></a></p>
<p>Easily add full video capabilities to your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/my-trustedones-recommendations/"><strong>My TrustedOnes Recommendations</strong></a></p>
<p>The plugin shows your TrustedOnes recommendations, according to topics and wisdom of your choice.</p>
<p><a href="http://tech.shantanugoel.com/projects/wordpress/shantz-wordpress-prefix-suffix"><strong>Shantz Wordpress Prefix Suffix</strong></a></p>
<p>Shantz WP Prefix Suffix is a light plugin to quickly add text/htm/css before and/or after your posts and/or pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/eshop/"><strong>eShop</strong></a></p>
<p>An accessible Paypal Shopping Cart plugin.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/youtube-with-style/"><strong>YouTube with Style</strong></a></p>
<p>The YouTube with style plugin allows WordPress users to easily embed a YouTube video without the default YouTube player.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.badspiderbites.com/paginated-comments/"><strong>Paginated Comments</strong></a></p>
<p>Breaks down comments into a number of search engine optimized pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.roytanck.com/2008/03/15/wp-cumulus-released"><strong>WP-Cumulus</strong></a></p>
<p>WP-Cumulus displays your tags and/or categories in 3D by placing them on a rotating sphere.</p>
<p><a href="http://stephanreiter.info/2008/10/wordpress-plugin-scissors/"><strong>Scissors</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin adds cropping and resizing functionality to Wordpress&#8217; image upload and management dialogs.</p>";}i:29;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:37:"Andy Skelton: WordPress include stack";s:4:"guid";s:32:"http://andy.wordpress.com/?p=214";s:4:"link";s:61:"http://andy.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/wordpress-include-stack/";s:11:"description";s:1637:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Inspired by the new and sublimely useful <a href="http://wp-roadmap.com/">WP Roadmap</a>, here is a high-level diagram of WordPress in three sizes: <a href="http://andy.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/wp-stack-512.png">512</a>, <a href="http://andy.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/wp-stack-1024.png">1024</a>, <a href="http://andy.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/wp-stack-2048.png">2048</a>. Made with <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/pro/">OmniGraffle Professional</a>.</p>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/andy.wordpress.com/214/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/andy.wordpress.com/214/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/andy.wordpress.com/214/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/andy.wordpress.com/214/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/andy.wordpress.com/214/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/andy.wordpress.com/214/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/andy.wordpress.com/214/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/andy.wordpress.com/214/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/andy.wordpress.com/214/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/andy.wordpress.com/214/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andy.wordpress.com&blog=155&post=214&subd=andy&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:20:13 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Andy";}s:7:"summary";s:1637:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Inspired by the new and sublimely useful <a href="http://wp-roadmap.com/">WP Roadmap</a>, here is a high-level diagram of WordPress in three sizes: <a href="http://andy.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/wp-stack-512.png">512</a>, <a href="http://andy.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/wp-stack-1024.png">1024</a>, <a href="http://andy.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/wp-stack-2048.png">2048</a>. Made with <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/pro/">OmniGraffle Professional</a>.</p>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/andy.wordpress.com/214/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/andy.wordpress.com/214/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/andy.wordpress.com/214/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/andy.wordpress.com/214/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/andy.wordpress.com/214/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/andy.wordpress.com/214/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/andy.wordpress.com/214/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/andy.wordpress.com/214/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/andy.wordpress.com/214/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/andy.wordpress.com/214/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andy.wordpress.com&blog=155&post=214&subd=andy&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:30;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 10/29";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4458";s:4:"link";s:89:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/29/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1029-2/";s:11:"description";s:1508:"<p><a href="http://www.whypad.com/posts/con-wordpress-theme-released/283/"><strong>Contender</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="contender" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/contender.png" border="0" alt="contender" width="165" height="114" /></p>
<p>Contender is a three column, fixed width, adsense ready theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://neewee.com/wordpress/neewee-wordpress-theme/"><strong>NeeWee</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="NeeWee" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/neewee.png" border="0" alt="NeeWee" width="140" height="114" /></p>
<p>Fixed width, three column, gravatar and widget ready theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/lib/155"><strong>Pink Orchid</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="PinkOrchid" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/pinkorchid.png" border="0" alt="PinkOrchid" width="152" height="114" /></p>
<p>A clean simple SEO optimized three column template in soft pink colors. The theme has two widget ready sidebars, gravatar support and is ad ready. The theme features a bio box that can be edited independently of the side bars and is unaffected by the use of widgets.</p>
<p><a href="http://masnikov.com/grey_matter/"><strong>Grey Matter</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="GreyMatter" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/greymatter.png" border="0" alt="GreyMatter" width="152" height="114" /></p>
<p>Grey Matter is an two column, gravatar &amp; widget ready, free and easy to use WordPress theme.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:06:43 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1508:"<p><a href="http://www.whypad.com/posts/con-wordpress-theme-released/283/"><strong>Contender</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="contender" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/contender.png" border="0" alt="contender" width="165" height="114" /></p>
<p>Contender is a three column, fixed width, adsense ready theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://neewee.com/wordpress/neewee-wordpress-theme/"><strong>NeeWee</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="NeeWee" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/neewee.png" border="0" alt="NeeWee" width="140" height="114" /></p>
<p>Fixed width, three column, gravatar and widget ready theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/lib/155"><strong>Pink Orchid</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="PinkOrchid" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/pinkorchid.png" border="0" alt="PinkOrchid" width="152" height="114" /></p>
<p>A clean simple SEO optimized three column template in soft pink colors. The theme has two widget ready sidebars, gravatar support and is ad ready. The theme features a bio box that can be edited independently of the side bars and is unaffected by the use of widgets.</p>
<p><a href="http://masnikov.com/grey_matter/"><strong>Grey Matter</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="GreyMatter" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/greymatter.png" border="0" alt="GreyMatter" width="152" height="114" /></p>
<p>Grey Matter is an two column, gravatar &amp; widget ready, free and easy to use WordPress theme.</p>";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:51:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress App for LinkedIn";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4451";s:4:"link";s:80:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/29/wordpress-app-for-linkedin/";s:11:"description";s:921:"<p><a href="http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2008/10/28/wordpress-for-linkedin/">WordPress for LinkedIn</a>.: The WordPress Publisher Blog reports that the WordPress application is available for LinkedIn. Once this app is added and setup, your LinkedIn network will be alerted when you post something to your WordPress.com or self hosted WordPress.org blogs. <em>To add the WordPress App to your LinkedIn account, visit the LinkedIn Application Directory. Select the WordPress App, enter your blog’s URL, and choose to display either all of your blog posts or just those tagged with “LinkedIn.” Save, and you’re all set.</em> <a href="http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/10/linkedins-new-a.html">Wired</a>, <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/enterprisealley/?p=302">ZDNet</a> and <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/081028/p127#a081028p127">others</a> have writeups on the new Application platform from LinkedIn.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:34:02 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:921:"<p><a href="http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2008/10/28/wordpress-for-linkedin/">WordPress for LinkedIn</a>.: The WordPress Publisher Blog reports that the WordPress application is available for LinkedIn. Once this app is added and setup, your LinkedIn network will be alerted when you post something to your WordPress.com or self hosted WordPress.org blogs. <em>To add the WordPress App to your LinkedIn account, visit the LinkedIn Application Directory. Select the WordPress App, enter your blog’s URL, and choose to display either all of your blog posts or just those tagged with “LinkedIn.” Save, and you’re all set.</em> <a href="http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/10/linkedins-new-a.html">Wired</a>, <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/enterprisealley/?p=302">ZDNet</a> and <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/081028/p127#a081028p127">others</a> have writeups on the new Application platform from LinkedIn.</p>";}i:32;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:48:"Dougal Campbell: WordPress themes for developers";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=1165";s:4:"link";s:73:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/10/29/wordpress-themes-for-developers";s:11:"description";s:6504:"<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1150" title="WordPress Wednesday" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/wordpress-wednesday.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></p>
<p><em>This is the article that I had originally intended to post last week, before I suffered a <a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/10/22/auto-fail">self-induced glitch</a> which caused me to lose my work-in-progress. Thanks to my friend <a title="Geof F. Morris" href="http://gfmorris.net/">Geof Morris</a> who prompted me to double-check my database for saved revisions. As it turns out, there was indeed a revision stored there which did not show up in the list of revisions given in the editor. That copy contained a fair amount of the original post &#8212; enough to give me a good head-start on recreating it.</em></p>
<p>This week, we&#8217;re going to take a quick look at some WordPress themes that have caught my eye recently. In particular, these are themes that don&#8217;t just look pretty, they have some muscle under the hood that a web developer like me can sink his teeth into. I won&#8217;t go into too much detail, but I&#8217;ll try to point out what it is about each theme that might make it attractive to a developer using WordPress as a site platform.<br />
<span id="more-1165"></span></p>
<h3><a href="http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/">Sandbox</a></h3>
<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned Sandbox numerous times before, and it is the current underpinning for this site. Unlike the other themes mentioned below, Sandbox is not designed to be pretty out-of-the-box &#8212; you have to add your own design work.While it does come with some sample stylesheets which demonstrate placing sidebars on the left, right, or one on either side, it&#8217;s up to you to touch it up with graphics, colors, typography, etc.</p>
<p>What Sandbox does is to provide a semantically rich framework to hang your own visual design on. Sandbox&#8217;s class generation functions have become the inspiration for many other themes that followed. It also gives you hAtom and hContact <a href="http://microformats.org/">microformats</a>, which can be consumed by web tools like the <a href="http://flock.com/">Flock browser</a> or <a href="http://developer.search.yahoo.com/wizard/index">Yahoo&#8217;s SearchMonkey</a>.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.techtrot.com/primepress/">PrimePress</a></h3>
<p>PrimePress has strong semantic underpinnings, but also pays a lot of attention to the design and typography of the site. One interesting feature is that it lets you create your own <code>custom.css</code> file for overriding its styles. Just put your own rules in there, and the theme will automatically load them up.</p>
<p>This theme supports rotating header images, and there is an article on the site explaining how to modify the theme to support per-page custom header images.</p>
<h3><a title="Thematic for WordPress" href="http://themeshaper.com/thematic-for-wordpress/">Thematic</a></h3>
<p>Thematic is a highly adaptable, <acronym title="Search Engine Optimization"><span class="caps">SEO</span></acronym>-friendly theme, which was based on Sandbox. It comes with a nice visual style, and some stylesheet variations which give you different sidebar configuations. The sample themes are based on the <a title="960 Grid System" href="http://960.gs/">960px grid system</a> which is becoming more and more popular. What&#8217;s particularly interesting about this theme is that it gives you 13 separate widget containers to work with.</p>
<p>There also some <a href="http://themeshaper.com/blog/functions-php-wordpress-child-themes/">child themes</a> available for Thematic which show off how you can really change the layout of a site with nothing more than a new stylesheet: <a href="http://www.themelab.com/2008/08/30/monochromatic-a-thematic-child-theme/">Monochromatic</a>, <a href="http://patdryburgh.net/blamatic/">Blamatic</a>, <a href="http://patdryburgh.net/junction/">Junction</a></p>
<h3><a title="Agregado Lifestream Theme" href="http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/09/08/agregado-lifestream-theme-for-wordpress-released/">Agregado</a></h3>
<p>This one isn&#8217;t as generically useful as the others, but is still quite interesting. Agregado is geared towards highlighting your &#8220;lifestream&#8221;, an aggregated view of your activity on a variety of social networking sites. It can collect your updates from Twitter, Flickr, Delicious, Last.fm, Facebook, and a ton of other sites, displaying them prominently in the sidebar next to your blog posts. And it&#8217;s wrapped up in a pretty design, to boot. You might not use it much for client work, but it&#8217;s a heck of an interesting starting point for a personal site.</p>
<h3><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2008/10/22/introducing-carrington">Carrington</a></h3>
<p>Carrington is a new uber theme framework from my buddies at <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/">CrowdFavorite</a>. This theme takes the existing flexibility of the WordPress theme system to a new order of magnitude. The normal WordPress theme <acronym title="Application Interface"><span class="caps">API</span></acronym> lets you customize the look of the site based on view types like &#8220;home page&#8221;, &#8220;single post&#8221;, &#8220;date archives&#8221;, &#8220;author archives&#8221;, etc.</p>
<p>With Carringon, things break down even further, with definable sub-templates for your post and comment loops, among other things. Plus, it also defines &#8220;contexts&#8221; which let you use more specific views for certain special circumstances like &#8220;single post by Joe Smith&#8221;, posts by guest authors, and the like. It also lets you easily use different headers/footers/sidebars depending on category, or for specific pages.</p>
<p>I think Carrington is going to define the next generation of WordPress themes. Particularly when combined with the new template file overrides for child themes, coming in WordPress 2.7 next month.</p>
<h3>Just a few</h3>
<p>As I said earlier, these are just a few of the themes that I have noticed recently. There are many other excellent themes available which are great starting points for theme customization. Of course, every project is different, and no one theme is going to be absolutely perfect for all possible sites, so you have to look at the features to find the best fit for your purposes.</p>
<p>If you have done custom theme work before, what themes have you used, and why?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:00:59 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Dougal";}s:7:"summary";s:6504:"<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1150" title="WordPress Wednesday" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/wordpress-wednesday.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></p>
<p><em>This is the article that I had originally intended to post last week, before I suffered a <a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/10/22/auto-fail">self-induced glitch</a> which caused me to lose my work-in-progress. Thanks to my friend <a title="Geof F. Morris" href="http://gfmorris.net/">Geof Morris</a> who prompted me to double-check my database for saved revisions. As it turns out, there was indeed a revision stored there which did not show up in the list of revisions given in the editor. That copy contained a fair amount of the original post &#8212; enough to give me a good head-start on recreating it.</em></p>
<p>This week, we&#8217;re going to take a quick look at some WordPress themes that have caught my eye recently. In particular, these are themes that don&#8217;t just look pretty, they have some muscle under the hood that a web developer like me can sink his teeth into. I won&#8217;t go into too much detail, but I&#8217;ll try to point out what it is about each theme that might make it attractive to a developer using WordPress as a site platform.<br />
<span id="more-1165"></span></p>
<h3><a href="http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/">Sandbox</a></h3>
<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned Sandbox numerous times before, and it is the current underpinning for this site. Unlike the other themes mentioned below, Sandbox is not designed to be pretty out-of-the-box &#8212; you have to add your own design work.While it does come with some sample stylesheets which demonstrate placing sidebars on the left, right, or one on either side, it&#8217;s up to you to touch it up with graphics, colors, typography, etc.</p>
<p>What Sandbox does is to provide a semantically rich framework to hang your own visual design on. Sandbox&#8217;s class generation functions have become the inspiration for many other themes that followed. It also gives you hAtom and hContact <a href="http://microformats.org/">microformats</a>, which can be consumed by web tools like the <a href="http://flock.com/">Flock browser</a> or <a href="http://developer.search.yahoo.com/wizard/index">Yahoo&#8217;s SearchMonkey</a>.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.techtrot.com/primepress/">PrimePress</a></h3>
<p>PrimePress has strong semantic underpinnings, but also pays a lot of attention to the design and typography of the site. One interesting feature is that it lets you create your own <code>custom.css</code> file for overriding its styles. Just put your own rules in there, and the theme will automatically load them up.</p>
<p>This theme supports rotating header images, and there is an article on the site explaining how to modify the theme to support per-page custom header images.</p>
<h3><a title="Thematic for WordPress" href="http://themeshaper.com/thematic-for-wordpress/">Thematic</a></h3>
<p>Thematic is a highly adaptable, <acronym title="Search Engine Optimization"><span class="caps">SEO</span></acronym>-friendly theme, which was based on Sandbox. It comes with a nice visual style, and some stylesheet variations which give you different sidebar configuations. The sample themes are based on the <a title="960 Grid System" href="http://960.gs/">960px grid system</a> which is becoming more and more popular. What&#8217;s particularly interesting about this theme is that it gives you 13 separate widget containers to work with.</p>
<p>There also some <a href="http://themeshaper.com/blog/functions-php-wordpress-child-themes/">child themes</a> available for Thematic which show off how you can really change the layout of a site with nothing more than a new stylesheet: <a href="http://www.themelab.com/2008/08/30/monochromatic-a-thematic-child-theme/">Monochromatic</a>, <a href="http://patdryburgh.net/blamatic/">Blamatic</a>, <a href="http://patdryburgh.net/junction/">Junction</a></p>
<h3><a title="Agregado Lifestream Theme" href="http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/09/08/agregado-lifestream-theme-for-wordpress-released/">Agregado</a></h3>
<p>This one isn&#8217;t as generically useful as the others, but is still quite interesting. Agregado is geared towards highlighting your &#8220;lifestream&#8221;, an aggregated view of your activity on a variety of social networking sites. It can collect your updates from Twitter, Flickr, Delicious, Last.fm, Facebook, and a ton of other sites, displaying them prominently in the sidebar next to your blog posts. And it&#8217;s wrapped up in a pretty design, to boot. You might not use it much for client work, but it&#8217;s a heck of an interesting starting point for a personal site.</p>
<h3><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2008/10/22/introducing-carrington">Carrington</a></h3>
<p>Carrington is a new uber theme framework from my buddies at <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/">CrowdFavorite</a>. This theme takes the existing flexibility of the WordPress theme system to a new order of magnitude. The normal WordPress theme <acronym title="Application Interface"><span class="caps">API</span></acronym> lets you customize the look of the site based on view types like &#8220;home page&#8221;, &#8220;single post&#8221;, &#8220;date archives&#8221;, &#8220;author archives&#8221;, etc.</p>
<p>With Carringon, things break down even further, with definable sub-templates for your post and comment loops, among other things. Plus, it also defines &#8220;contexts&#8221; which let you use more specific views for certain special circumstances like &#8220;single post by Joe Smith&#8221;, posts by guest authors, and the like. It also lets you easily use different headers/footers/sidebars depending on category, or for specific pages.</p>
<p>I think Carrington is going to define the next generation of WordPress themes. Particularly when combined with the new template file overrides for child themes, coming in WordPress 2.7 next month.</p>
<h3>Just a few</h3>
<p>As I said earlier, these are just a few of the themes that I have noticed recently. There are many other excellent themes available which are great starting points for theme customization. Of course, every project is different, and no one theme is going to be absolutely perfect for all possible sites, so you have to look at the features to find the best fit for your purposes.</p>
<p>If you have done custom theme work before, what themes have you used, and why?</p>";}i:33;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:54:"Dev Blog: Usability Testing Report: 2.5 and Crazyhorse";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=375";s:4:"link";s:84:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/10/usability-testing-report-25-and-crazyhorse/";s:11:"description";s:4402:"<p>A question I hear pretty frequently is, &#8220;Why a redesign of the admin panel so soon after 2.5?&#8221; Those who have attended WordCamps in the past few months have already heard the answer, but for the people who haven&#8217;t had that opportunity, this post is for you. </p>
<p>When the community response to the 2.5 admin redesign was mixed, it seemed like a good idea to do usability testing to find out which issues were based on actual interface problems vs. which complaints were just a result of not liking change. To prevent bias, a third party was contracted to conduct usability testing, <a href="http://cms.bsu.edu/Academics/CentersandInstitutes/CMD/InsightandResearch.aspx">Ball State University&#8217;s Center for Media Design, Insight and Research</a> division. Try saying that three times fast with a mouth full of peanut butter. Or fitting it on a business card. To save time, we&#8217;ll just call that third party CMD, since that&#8217;s what they call themselves.</p>
<p>The plan that was developed involved multiple rounds of testing, as well as the creation of two prototypes, hardcore! The first phase involved a usability review of 2.5 by CMD, the results of which were discussed with lead developers. A quick prototype was created that addressed some of the lightweight issues, so that the test participants could use both 2.5 on their own blogs and the prototype on a test site. Results would be analyzed and compared, leading to a second round of suggestions. A second prototype would be developed over a week or two, which would then be tested with the same participants, and a final report delivered. But you know what they say&#8230; the best laid plans of designers and developers often go awry. </p>
<p>After the first round of testing, it was clear that a prototype delivering the kind of fixes that could be coded in a week or two wouldn&#8217;t make much of a difference overall. We all decided a more ambitious prototype was in order, one that would experiment with a new approach to screen real estate and attempt to address as many of the issues from 2.5 as was possible with a few extra weeks of time. A rapid design process was followed by an even more rapid development cycle. The second prototype is what you know as Crazyhorse. </p>
<p>The second round of testing blew everyone away. The research team had never seen such consistent results. Tasks were completed faster, participant opinions rated it higher, understanding of how interface elements worked was greater, and it wasn&#8217;t even a fully functional application. Of the test participants, every single one said they would choose the prototype over their current administrative interface, and it wasn&#8217;t even pretty (those of you who remember the original Crazyhorse will vouch for this). </p>
<p>A presentation on the process from start to finish was part of the schedule at WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco, and the <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/edanzico/riding-the-crazyhorse-future-generation-wordpress-presentation">slides are available online</a>, but as always the slides only tell you so much without the videos, live demo and verbal narration that went with it. (Use Google and you can see audience videos of the presentation.)</p>
<p>Here, then, is a PDF of reasonable size that you can download and peruse at your leisure that outlines the usability testing project in some detail. I wanted to include some eye tracking videos, but the file was so huge it would have been ridiculous for anyone to download it, so I stuck with eye tracking outputs called gaze trails to illustrate the findings. I also tried to pare down the text to the more salient points, since more than 50 hours of test video really does reveal an insane amount of data. I also cut out the section about designing Crazyhorse in the interest of staying under 25 pages. Hopefully you&#8217;ll think it&#8217;s a good balance. I&#8217;ll try to put together a separate document on the design process of 2.7 in a couple of weeks that will include the early Crazyhorse material. </p>
<p>So, if you want to know what we learned from the usability testing this summer that caused us to create what is now 2.7, go ahead and read the report. </p>
<p><a href="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/wp-testreport-205-crazyhorse-1028a08jw.pdf">WordPress 2.5/Crazyhorse Usability Testing Report (PDF)</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:06:33 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:7:"summary";s:4402:"<p>A question I hear pretty frequently is, &#8220;Why a redesign of the admin panel so soon after 2.5?&#8221; Those who have attended WordCamps in the past few months have already heard the answer, but for the people who haven&#8217;t had that opportunity, this post is for you. </p>
<p>When the community response to the 2.5 admin redesign was mixed, it seemed like a good idea to do usability testing to find out which issues were based on actual interface problems vs. which complaints were just a result of not liking change. To prevent bias, a third party was contracted to conduct usability testing, <a href="http://cms.bsu.edu/Academics/CentersandInstitutes/CMD/InsightandResearch.aspx">Ball State University&#8217;s Center for Media Design, Insight and Research</a> division. Try saying that three times fast with a mouth full of peanut butter. Or fitting it on a business card. To save time, we&#8217;ll just call that third party CMD, since that&#8217;s what they call themselves.</p>
<p>The plan that was developed involved multiple rounds of testing, as well as the creation of two prototypes, hardcore! The first phase involved a usability review of 2.5 by CMD, the results of which were discussed with lead developers. A quick prototype was created that addressed some of the lightweight issues, so that the test participants could use both 2.5 on their own blogs and the prototype on a test site. Results would be analyzed and compared, leading to a second round of suggestions. A second prototype would be developed over a week or two, which would then be tested with the same participants, and a final report delivered. But you know what they say&#8230; the best laid plans of designers and developers often go awry. </p>
<p>After the first round of testing, it was clear that a prototype delivering the kind of fixes that could be coded in a week or two wouldn&#8217;t make much of a difference overall. We all decided a more ambitious prototype was in order, one that would experiment with a new approach to screen real estate and attempt to address as many of the issues from 2.5 as was possible with a few extra weeks of time. A rapid design process was followed by an even more rapid development cycle. The second prototype is what you know as Crazyhorse. </p>
<p>The second round of testing blew everyone away. The research team had never seen such consistent results. Tasks were completed faster, participant opinions rated it higher, understanding of how interface elements worked was greater, and it wasn&#8217;t even a fully functional application. Of the test participants, every single one said they would choose the prototype over their current administrative interface, and it wasn&#8217;t even pretty (those of you who remember the original Crazyhorse will vouch for this). </p>
<p>A presentation on the process from start to finish was part of the schedule at WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco, and the <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/edanzico/riding-the-crazyhorse-future-generation-wordpress-presentation">slides are available online</a>, but as always the slides only tell you so much without the videos, live demo and verbal narration that went with it. (Use Google and you can see audience videos of the presentation.)</p>
<p>Here, then, is a PDF of reasonable size that you can download and peruse at your leisure that outlines the usability testing project in some detail. I wanted to include some eye tracking videos, but the file was so huge it would have been ridiculous for anyone to download it, so I stuck with eye tracking outputs called gaze trails to illustrate the findings. I also tried to pare down the text to the more salient points, since more than 50 hours of test video really does reveal an insane amount of data. I also cut out the section about designing Crazyhorse in the interest of staying under 25 pages. Hopefully you&#8217;ll think it&#8217;s a good balance. I&#8217;ll try to put together a separate document on the design process of 2.7 in a couple of weeks that will include the early Crazyhorse material. </p>
<p>So, if you want to know what we learned from the usability testing this summer that caused us to create what is now 2.7, go ahead and read the report. </p>
<p><a href="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/wp-testreport-205-crazyhorse-1028a08jw.pdf">WordPress 2.5/Crazyhorse Usability Testing Report (PDF)</a></p>";}i:34;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/28";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4449";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/28/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1028/";s:11:"description";s:3160:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://sww.co.nz/wordpress-plugins/flexi-quote-rotator/"><strong>Flexi Quote Rotator</strong></a></p>
<p>Add the quotations to your site using a shortcode or php snippet in template. You can use this plugin to display quotes or testimonials or other rotating snippets of content on your web site.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.danieldura.com/code/moderator"><strong>Moderator</strong></a></p>
<p>Moderator is a WordPress Plugin and associated desktop application, built using Adobe AIR, that allows you to view and moderate comments from your desktop.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.fontburner.com/the-font-burner-wordpress-plugin/"><strong>Font Burner Control Panel</strong></a></p>
<p>The Font Burner Plugin allows you to easily add Font Burner Fonts to your WordPress theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://fadvisor.net/blog/2008/10/wp-rtl/"><strong>WP-RTL</strong></a></p>
<p>Adds two buttons to the TinyMCE editor to enable writing text in Left to Right (LTR) and Right to Left (RTL) directions.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.royakhosravi.com/?p=63"><strong>PHPInclusion</strong></a></p>
<p>PHP File Inclusion in posts &amp; pages using require, include or similar statements.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/glassy/"><strong>Glassy</strong></a></p>
<p>An automatic glassy effect for all your post&#8217;s images.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.axdimensions.com/pixelnotes/category/wordpress/tags-2-meta-generator/"><strong>Tags 2 Meta Generator</strong></a></p>
<p>Generates META tags automatically from your post tags!</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.vishalon.net/tabid/244/Default.aspx"><strong>IndicIME</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin enables user to write into 9 Indian scripts (Bengali, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Devnagari, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu) within post, page, comment, searchbox and on every page where user can write.</p>
<p><a href="http://projects.bovendeur.org/2007/07/06/download-counter/"><strong>Download Counter</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin will keep track of the amount of downloads for specific files. It will also store the last time the file was downloaded.</p>
<p><a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/headspace2/"><strong>HeadSpace2</strong></a></p>
<p>Controls almost every aspect of your site&#8217;s meta-data, including advanced tagging, Analytics, and dozens of plugins.</p>
<p><a href="http://accordingtoduck.com/web-dev-design/ducks-timestamp-inserter/"><strong>Duck&#8217;s Timestamp Inserter</strong></a></p>
<p>Allows the current UNIX Timestamp to be used in Wordpress Content, without the possible security risks associated with PHP &#8216;eval&#8217; plugins.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.improveseo.info/category/sociofluid/"><strong>SocioFluid</strong></a></p>
<p>SocioFluid is a Social Bookmarking Plugin, displaying small icons, which grows when the mouse is moved over, similar to mac effect.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.visionmasterdesigns.com/wordpress-plugins/myadmanager/"><strong>MyADManager</strong></a></p>
<p>Manages 125&#215;125 ADs.Automatic activation and deactivation of ads.Ads can bought directly,accepts payments via Paypal.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:54:35 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:3160:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://sww.co.nz/wordpress-plugins/flexi-quote-rotator/"><strong>Flexi Quote Rotator</strong></a></p>
<p>Add the quotations to your site using a shortcode or php snippet in template. You can use this plugin to display quotes or testimonials or other rotating snippets of content on your web site.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.danieldura.com/code/moderator"><strong>Moderator</strong></a></p>
<p>Moderator is a WordPress Plugin and associated desktop application, built using Adobe AIR, that allows you to view and moderate comments from your desktop.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.fontburner.com/the-font-burner-wordpress-plugin/"><strong>Font Burner Control Panel</strong></a></p>
<p>The Font Burner Plugin allows you to easily add Font Burner Fonts to your WordPress theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://fadvisor.net/blog/2008/10/wp-rtl/"><strong>WP-RTL</strong></a></p>
<p>Adds two buttons to the TinyMCE editor to enable writing text in Left to Right (LTR) and Right to Left (RTL) directions.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.royakhosravi.com/?p=63"><strong>PHPInclusion</strong></a></p>
<p>PHP File Inclusion in posts &amp; pages using require, include or similar statements.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/glassy/"><strong>Glassy</strong></a></p>
<p>An automatic glassy effect for all your post&#8217;s images.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.axdimensions.com/pixelnotes/category/wordpress/tags-2-meta-generator/"><strong>Tags 2 Meta Generator</strong></a></p>
<p>Generates META tags automatically from your post tags!</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.vishalon.net/tabid/244/Default.aspx"><strong>IndicIME</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin enables user to write into 9 Indian scripts (Bengali, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Devnagari, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu) within post, page, comment, searchbox and on every page where user can write.</p>
<p><a href="http://projects.bovendeur.org/2007/07/06/download-counter/"><strong>Download Counter</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin will keep track of the amount of downloads for specific files. It will also store the last time the file was downloaded.</p>
<p><a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/headspace2/"><strong>HeadSpace2</strong></a></p>
<p>Controls almost every aspect of your site&#8217;s meta-data, including advanced tagging, Analytics, and dozens of plugins.</p>
<p><a href="http://accordingtoduck.com/web-dev-design/ducks-timestamp-inserter/"><strong>Duck&#8217;s Timestamp Inserter</strong></a></p>
<p>Allows the current UNIX Timestamp to be used in Wordpress Content, without the possible security risks associated with PHP &#8216;eval&#8217; plugins.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.improveseo.info/category/sociofluid/"><strong>SocioFluid</strong></a></p>
<p>SocioFluid is a Social Bookmarking Plugin, displaying small icons, which grows when the mouse is moved over, similar to mac effect.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.visionmasterdesigns.com/wordpress-plugins/myadmanager/"><strong>MyADManager</strong></a></p>
<p>Manages 125&#215;125 ADs.Automatic activation and deactivation of ads.Ads can bought directly,accepts payments via Paypal.</p>";}i:35;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:140:"WordPress Podcast: Episode 46: WordPress 2.7 preview, Automattic aquires PollDaddy, Podcasting for Dummies and Practical Web Design Magazine";s:4:"guid";s:29:"http://wp-community.org/?p=97";s:4:"link";s:153:"http://wp-community.org/2008/10/28/episode-46-wordpress-27-preview-automattic-aquires-polldaddy-podcasting-for-dummies-and-practical-web-design-magazine/";s:11:"description";s:2454:"<ul>
<li><a title="WordPress 2.7" href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/wordpress-27-coming-soon/">WordPress 2.7</a> is set for release November 10th.</li>
<li><a href="http://automattic.com">Automattic</a> acquires <a title="PollDaddy" href="http://www.polldaddy.com">PollDaddy</a>, polls integrated into <a href="http://wordpress.com">WordPress.com</a> blogs.</li>
<li>The WordPress Podcast was mentioned favorably in both <a title="Podcasting for Dummies" href="http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesTitle/Podcasting-For-Dummies-2nd-Edition.productCd-047027557X.html"><em>Podcasting for Dummies</em></a> (2nd edition) and <a title="Practical Web Design" href="http://www.netmag.co.uk/"><em>Practical Web Design</em></a> magazine.</li>
<li>Please take a few moments to <a title="survey" href="http://wordpresspodcast.org/survey/">take our new survey</a> and help shape the direction of the podcast going forward.</li>
<li>Take a <a href="http://four-oh.com/files/Mockup.jpg">sneak peek at our new blog design</a>.</li>
<li>The <a title="Amazon S3 Plugin" href="http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/wordpress-s3/">Amazon S3 Plugin</a> allows you to use <a href="http://amazon.com/s3">Amazon&#8217;s Simple Storage Service</a> to host your media for your <a title="WordPress" href="http://wordpress.org">WordPress</a>-powered blog.</li>
<li><a title="MobilePress" href="http://mobilepress.co.za/">MobilePress</a> will render your WordPress blog on mobile handsets, with the ability to use customized themes. The plugin also allows specific themes for specific devices/mobile browsers, such as iPhone, Opera Mini, Windows CE Mobile and other generic handset browsers.</li>
<li>We attempt to answer <a title="Folk Media" href="http://folkmedia.org">Joel Mark Witt</a>&#8217;s question, &#8220;How the heck do I turn off commenting for my entire WordPress blog past and future posts?&#8221; We, in turn, ask our listeners if there&#8217;s an easier way than a MySQL query to accomplish this.</li>
<li>There are only a few WordCamps left before the end of the year: <a title="WordCamp Charlotte" href="http://cltwordcamp.wordpress.com/">WordCamp Charlotte</a> (not mentioned in the audio), <a title="WordCamp Israel" href="http://2008.wordcamp.co.il">WordCamp Israel</a>, <a title="WordCamp Ed DC" href="http://dc2008.wordcamped.org/">WordCamp Ed DC</a> and <a title="WordCamp Australia" href="http://wordcamp.com.au/">WordCamp Australia</a>.</li>
</ul>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:49:39 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:17:"Charles Stricklin";}s:7:"summary";s:2454:"<ul>
<li><a title="WordPress 2.7" href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/wordpress-27-coming-soon/">WordPress 2.7</a> is set for release November 10th.</li>
<li><a href="http://automattic.com">Automattic</a> acquires <a title="PollDaddy" href="http://www.polldaddy.com">PollDaddy</a>, polls integrated into <a href="http://wordpress.com">WordPress.com</a> blogs.</li>
<li>The WordPress Podcast was mentioned favorably in both <a title="Podcasting for Dummies" href="http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesTitle/Podcasting-For-Dummies-2nd-Edition.productCd-047027557X.html"><em>Podcasting for Dummies</em></a> (2nd edition) and <a title="Practical Web Design" href="http://www.netmag.co.uk/"><em>Practical Web Design</em></a> magazine.</li>
<li>Please take a few moments to <a title="survey" href="http://wordpresspodcast.org/survey/">take our new survey</a> and help shape the direction of the podcast going forward.</li>
<li>Take a <a href="http://four-oh.com/files/Mockup.jpg">sneak peek at our new blog design</a>.</li>
<li>The <a title="Amazon S3 Plugin" href="http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/wordpress-s3/">Amazon S3 Plugin</a> allows you to use <a href="http://amazon.com/s3">Amazon&#8217;s Simple Storage Service</a> to host your media for your <a title="WordPress" href="http://wordpress.org">WordPress</a>-powered blog.</li>
<li><a title="MobilePress" href="http://mobilepress.co.za/">MobilePress</a> will render your WordPress blog on mobile handsets, with the ability to use customized themes. The plugin also allows specific themes for specific devices/mobile browsers, such as iPhone, Opera Mini, Windows CE Mobile and other generic handset browsers.</li>
<li>We attempt to answer <a title="Folk Media" href="http://folkmedia.org">Joel Mark Witt</a>&#8217;s question, &#8220;How the heck do I turn off commenting for my entire WordPress blog past and future posts?&#8221; We, in turn, ask our listeners if there&#8217;s an easier way than a MySQL query to accomplish this.</li>
<li>There are only a few WordCamps left before the end of the year: <a title="WordCamp Charlotte" href="http://cltwordcamp.wordpress.com/">WordCamp Charlotte</a> (not mentioned in the audio), <a title="WordCamp Israel" href="http://2008.wordcamp.co.il">WordCamp Israel</a>, <a title="WordCamp Ed DC" href="http://dc2008.wordcamped.org/">WordCamp Ed DC</a> and <a title="WordCamp Australia" href="http://wordcamp.com.au/">WordCamp Australia</a>.</li>
</ul>";}i:36;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 10/27";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4445";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/27/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1027/";s:11:"description";s:2106:"<p><a href="http://wcs.ofimdavarzea.com/free-wordpress-theme-fluid-blogging/"><strong>Fluid Blogging</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://themes.ofimdavarzea.com/index.php?wptheme=fluid_blogging"><img title="fluid_blogging" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/fluid-blogging.jpg" border="0" alt="fluid_blogging" width="174" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Fluid Blogging is a very light weight theme, with less than 36KB. It uses almost no images and is fully optimized to make your blog fly like the wind. Fluid width, works fine in resolutions from 800&#215;600 up to 1024&#215;768 pixels, two columns, widget ready, gravatar ready, Adsense ready.</p>
<p><a href="http://kerrywebster.com/design/retro-theme-released/"><strong>Retro</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://retro.kerrywebster.com/"><img title="retro-screenshot-small" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/retroscreenshotsmall.png" border="0" alt="retro-screenshot-small" width="136" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Back to a time when mainframes ruled the computing world and amber and green CRT’s were the only access to these beasts. Retro is based on the Sandbox theme with the Blueprint CSS framework added to give it a grid design if one chooses to modify the theme to their liking.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jauhari.net/themes/pemuda"><strong>Pemuda</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://demo.jauhari.net/?wptheme=Pemuda"><img title="wordpress-theme-pemuda-500x1126" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/wordpressthemepemuda500x1126.jpg" border="0" alt="wordpress-theme-pemuda-500x1126" width="182" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, fixed width, widget and gravatar ready theme with inbuilt space for ads.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.saumendra.com/wordpress-themes/"><strong>Aapna Theme</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="aapna-wordpress-theme" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/aapnawordpresstheme.png" border="0" alt="aapna-wordpress-theme" width="162" height="114" /></p>
<p>Fixed width, three column theme best for Personal Blog with Dynamically Rotating Album Pictures.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:06:52 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2106:"<p><a href="http://wcs.ofimdavarzea.com/free-wordpress-theme-fluid-blogging/"><strong>Fluid Blogging</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://themes.ofimdavarzea.com/index.php?wptheme=fluid_blogging"><img title="fluid_blogging" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/fluid-blogging.jpg" border="0" alt="fluid_blogging" width="174" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Fluid Blogging is a very light weight theme, with less than 36KB. It uses almost no images and is fully optimized to make your blog fly like the wind. Fluid width, works fine in resolutions from 800&#215;600 up to 1024&#215;768 pixels, two columns, widget ready, gravatar ready, Adsense ready.</p>
<p><a href="http://kerrywebster.com/design/retro-theme-released/"><strong>Retro</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://retro.kerrywebster.com/"><img title="retro-screenshot-small" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/retroscreenshotsmall.png" border="0" alt="retro-screenshot-small" width="136" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Back to a time when mainframes ruled the computing world and amber and green CRT’s were the only access to these beasts. Retro is based on the Sandbox theme with the Blueprint CSS framework added to give it a grid design if one chooses to modify the theme to their liking.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jauhari.net/themes/pemuda"><strong>Pemuda</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://demo.jauhari.net/?wptheme=Pemuda"><img title="wordpress-theme-pemuda-500x1126" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/wordpressthemepemuda500x1126.jpg" border="0" alt="wordpress-theme-pemuda-500x1126" width="182" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, fixed width, widget and gravatar ready theme with inbuilt space for ads.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.saumendra.com/wordpress-themes/"><strong>Aapna Theme</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="aapna-wordpress-theme" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/aapnawordpresstheme.png" border="0" alt="aapna-wordpress-theme" width="162" height="114" /></p>
<p>Fixed width, three column theme best for Personal Blog with Dynamically Rotating Album Pictures.</p>";}i:37;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:75:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Favorite Actions and Custom Write Panels";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4439";s:4:"link";s:104:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/27/wordpress-favorite-actions-and-custom-write-panels/";s:11:"description";s:1828:"<p><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/2008/10/wordpress-27-featuring-your-favorite-actions/">Ozh has written up a nice article on the new WordPress 2.7 Favorite Actions menu</a> and puts out the call to developers to write a plugin that would automagically determine the favorite actions of a particular blogger and populate that menu with those options. That would be a truly useful plugin and I would love to see it. Now that we are talking about the Favorite Actions menu and we know that actions can be removed, is there going to be competition/confusion between plugin authors who want to add a link to their plugin&#8217;s admin page to the top of that menu? Anyone plan on writing such a plugin?</p>
<p>I recently talked about a <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/20/tutorial-creating-custom-write-panels-in-wordpress/">tutorial on creating Custom Write Panels in WordPress</a> and <a href="http://wpcandy.com/plugins/creating-custom-content-type-with-flutter-plugin.html">thanks to WPCandy</a>, have now found a pretty slick plugin that mimics that feature and adds a lot more. <a href="http://freshout.us/goodies/fresh-post-for-wordpress-wordpress-cms/">Flutter</a> lets your modify your write page and post screens to your liking and adds the ability to add custom content types and write panels to these screens. From WP Candy&#8217;s review and from the <a href="http://freshout.us/files/Flutter_Documentation.pdf">Flutter documentation</a>, it appears that the plugin is not only under active development and quite complex and mature, it also has a lot of potential for the future. For those that are planning to use Flutter, please remember that it is still in beta and there are lots of broken features and options. Upgrades and uninstallations seem to be the most fraught with issues.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:01:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1828:"<p><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/2008/10/wordpress-27-featuring-your-favorite-actions/">Ozh has written up a nice article on the new WordPress 2.7 Favorite Actions menu</a> and puts out the call to developers to write a plugin that would automagically determine the favorite actions of a particular blogger and populate that menu with those options. That would be a truly useful plugin and I would love to see it. Now that we are talking about the Favorite Actions menu and we know that actions can be removed, is there going to be competition/confusion between plugin authors who want to add a link to their plugin&#8217;s admin page to the top of that menu? Anyone plan on writing such a plugin?</p>
<p>I recently talked about a <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/20/tutorial-creating-custom-write-panels-in-wordpress/">tutorial on creating Custom Write Panels in WordPress</a> and <a href="http://wpcandy.com/plugins/creating-custom-content-type-with-flutter-plugin.html">thanks to WPCandy</a>, have now found a pretty slick plugin that mimics that feature and adds a lot more. <a href="http://freshout.us/goodies/fresh-post-for-wordpress-wordpress-cms/">Flutter</a> lets your modify your write page and post screens to your liking and adds the ability to add custom content types and write panels to these screens. From WP Candy&#8217;s review and from the <a href="http://freshout.us/files/Flutter_Documentation.pdf">Flutter documentation</a>, it appears that the plugin is not only under active development and quite complex and mature, it also has a lot of potential for the future. For those that are planning to use Flutter, please remember that it is still in beta and there are lots of broken features and options. Upgrades and uninstallations seem to be the most fraught with issues.</p>";}i:38;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: Moderate Comments From Your Desktop";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4432";s:4:"link";s:89:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/26/moderate-comments-from-your-desktop/";s:11:"description";s:2506:"<p>Searching through my feeds today, I came across a very cool plugin/application combo. It&#8217;s called <a href="http://www.danieldura.com/code/moderator" target="_blank">Moderator</a> and was written by Daniel Dura. Moderator is a combination of a WordPress plugin and an Adobe Air Application. With the Adobe AIR app, you can:</p>
<ul>
<li>Viewing unmoderated comments.</li>
<li>Dock and system tray notifications of the number of unmoderated comments.</li>
<li>Accept, delete, and spam comments from within the desktop client.</li>
<li>Close application window, or minimize it to the system tray while running.</li>
<li>Shows the Gravatar icons for the user who posted the comment.</li>
</ul>
<p>After installing and then activating the plugin, I installed the application. Installation went smoothly and now I have access to my comment moderation queue right from my desktop. An additional touch is that, my Windows taskbar now has an icon that mimics the comment moderation bubble graphic with a number that represents the amount of comments in the moderation queue. Pretty cool stuff. <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/taskbaricon.png"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/taskbaricon.png" alt="" title="taskbaricon" width="147" height="30" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4434" /></a></p>
<p>For those of you that have hundreds of comments in your moderation queue, you may see some performance issues. However, Daniel explains that those will be fixed in the next version. Daniel will also modify the theme of the application to align it&#8217;s design with the WordPress 2.7 backend. Last but not least, as soon as 2.7 is released, the application will support the comment moderation methods that will be included. This should allow the App to run without installing a plugin.</p>
<p><center><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/moderatorscreenshot.png"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/moderatorscreenshot.png" alt="" title="moderatorscreenshot" width="298" height="498" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4433" /></a><br />
<strong>Emails were covered for privacy reasons.</strong></center></p>
<p>Considering the WordPress team is working on a comment API, I imagine that in the future, we&#8217;ll be able to reply to comments as well as moderating them from the desktop with this application. It will be interesting to see if Moderator evolves into something more than just a Moderation app.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:51:49 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:2506:"<p>Searching through my feeds today, I came across a very cool plugin/application combo. It&#8217;s called <a href="http://www.danieldura.com/code/moderator" target="_blank">Moderator</a> and was written by Daniel Dura. Moderator is a combination of a WordPress plugin and an Adobe Air Application. With the Adobe AIR app, you can:</p>
<ul>
<li>Viewing unmoderated comments.</li>
<li>Dock and system tray notifications of the number of unmoderated comments.</li>
<li>Accept, delete, and spam comments from within the desktop client.</li>
<li>Close application window, or minimize it to the system tray while running.</li>
<li>Shows the Gravatar icons for the user who posted the comment.</li>
</ul>
<p>After installing and then activating the plugin, I installed the application. Installation went smoothly and now I have access to my comment moderation queue right from my desktop. An additional touch is that, my Windows taskbar now has an icon that mimics the comment moderation bubble graphic with a number that represents the amount of comments in the moderation queue. Pretty cool stuff. <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/taskbaricon.png"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/taskbaricon.png" alt="" title="taskbaricon" width="147" height="30" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4434" /></a></p>
<p>For those of you that have hundreds of comments in your moderation queue, you may see some performance issues. However, Daniel explains that those will be fixed in the next version. Daniel will also modify the theme of the application to align it&#8217;s design with the WordPress 2.7 backend. Last but not least, as soon as 2.7 is released, the application will support the comment moderation methods that will be included. This should allow the App to run without installing a plugin.</p>
<p><center><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/moderatorscreenshot.png"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/moderatorscreenshot.png" alt="" title="moderatorscreenshot" width="298" height="498" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4433" /></a><br />
<strong>Emails were covered for privacy reasons.</strong></center></p>
<p>Considering the WordPress team is working on a comment API, I imagine that in the future, we&#8217;ll be able to reply to comments as well as moderating them from the desktop with this application. It will be interesting to see if Moderator evolves into something more than just a Moderation app.</p>";}i:39;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/26";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4430";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/26/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1026/";s:11:"description";s:2820:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://karlkevilus.com/wordpress-google-maps-geocoder/"><strong>Google Maps Geocoder</strong></a></p>
<p>WPGMG will create a custom fields on any post containing custom fields of street, city, state, zip and will add two new custom fields to the post: lat &amp; lng. lat being latitude. lng being longitude.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.seanbluestone.com/wordpress-carbon-footprint"><strong>WordPress Carbon Footprint</strong></a></p>
<p>WordPress Carbon Footprint is a simple plugin for WordPress which works out and displays the carbon footprint of your blog. It works out how many words and images are on your blog and then calculates how many sheets of paper it would take to print a copy of your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/conveythis-language-translation-plugin/"><strong>ConveyThis Language Translation Plugin</strong></a></p>
<p>Allows your users to translate your blog into many different languages. The button is added to the bottom of every post.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://likemind.co.uk/wordpress-side-content-plugin"><strong>Side Content</strong></a></p>
<p>It enables you to define a set of widgets which are effectively placeholders. Each one is empty until you assign content to it when editing a page. This enables you to extend the content of the page into the sidebar.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.satollo.com/english/wordpress/bookmark-me"><strong>Bookmark Me</strong></a></p>
<p>Bookmark Me is a plugin to add bookmark buttons (even non english bookmark sites) to your post or page.</p>
<p><a href="http://rdp-photo.net/sspdc"><strong>SlideshowPro Director Connector</strong></a></p>
<p>This WordPress plugin helps you to add pictures and albums from <a href="http://slideshowpro.net/products/slideshowpro_director/slideshowpro_director">SlideshowPro Director</a> to your WordPress blog by either choosing them from the media tab or by inserting some shortcode directly into your post.</p>
<p><a href="http://ideasilo.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/contact-form-7/"><strong>Contact Form 7</strong></a></p>
<p>Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.</p>
<p><a href="http://meandmymac.net/plugins/events/"><strong>Events</strong></a></p>
<p>Create a list with events/appointments/concerts/future happenings and show them on your site. Includes optional widget and advanced page options.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.raproject.com/ajax-edit-comments-20/"><strong>WP Ajax Edit Comments</strong></a></p>
<p>Allows users and admins to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for a limited time, while admins can edit all comments.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:16:43 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2820:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://karlkevilus.com/wordpress-google-maps-geocoder/"><strong>Google Maps Geocoder</strong></a></p>
<p>WPGMG will create a custom fields on any post containing custom fields of street, city, state, zip and will add two new custom fields to the post: lat &amp; lng. lat being latitude. lng being longitude.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.seanbluestone.com/wordpress-carbon-footprint"><strong>WordPress Carbon Footprint</strong></a></p>
<p>WordPress Carbon Footprint is a simple plugin for WordPress which works out and displays the carbon footprint of your blog. It works out how many words and images are on your blog and then calculates how many sheets of paper it would take to print a copy of your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/conveythis-language-translation-plugin/"><strong>ConveyThis Language Translation Plugin</strong></a></p>
<p>Allows your users to translate your blog into many different languages. The button is added to the bottom of every post.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://likemind.co.uk/wordpress-side-content-plugin"><strong>Side Content</strong></a></p>
<p>It enables you to define a set of widgets which are effectively placeholders. Each one is empty until you assign content to it when editing a page. This enables you to extend the content of the page into the sidebar.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.satollo.com/english/wordpress/bookmark-me"><strong>Bookmark Me</strong></a></p>
<p>Bookmark Me is a plugin to add bookmark buttons (even non english bookmark sites) to your post or page.</p>
<p><a href="http://rdp-photo.net/sspdc"><strong>SlideshowPro Director Connector</strong></a></p>
<p>This WordPress plugin helps you to add pictures and albums from <a href="http://slideshowpro.net/products/slideshowpro_director/slideshowpro_director">SlideshowPro Director</a> to your WordPress blog by either choosing them from the media tab or by inserting some shortcode directly into your post.</p>
<p><a href="http://ideasilo.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/contact-form-7/"><strong>Contact Form 7</strong></a></p>
<p>Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.</p>
<p><a href="http://meandmymac.net/plugins/events/"><strong>Events</strong></a></p>
<p>Create a list with events/appointments/concerts/future happenings and show them on your site. Includes optional widget and advanced page options.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.raproject.com/ajax-edit-comments-20/"><strong>WP Ajax Edit Comments</strong></a></p>
<p>Allows users and admins to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for a limited time, while admins can edit all comments.</p>";}i:40;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:42:"Peter Westwood: WordPress in your language";s:4:"guid";s:32:"http://westi.wordpress.com/?p=55";s:4:"link";s:65:"http://westi.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/wordpress-in-your-language/";s:11:"description";s:2906:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>In preparation for a <a href="http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2008/10/25/talking-wordpress-in-wales/">presentation this week</a> I went in search of a WordPress translation file for the Welsh language so that I could demonstrate how WordPress could still be easy to use even if you were not a native english speaker.  I was disappointed to find that the translation effort for the Welsh language has dropped off and so a large number of the strings are not translated so you do not get the cohesive user experience that you could</p>
<p>There is a thriving community of WordPress translators and there work has already been rewarded with the facility to set up localised versions of the WordPress.org website which host a WordPress download file which has already got the relevant translation file included and configured.  These international WordPress.org sites also come with the ability to have a localised set of support forums and are becoming increasingly important.  In fact the core updated that is included in WordPress 2.7 will automatically download a translated version of WordPress as an upgrade if your are using a translation file and the translation is hosted on a international WordPress.org site.</p>
<p>If you would like to get involved in translating WordPress into your language or find out more about translation techniques for your the themes or plugins your develope then I would recommend the following further reading:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language">WordPress in Your Language</a> on the codex.</li>
<li><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress">Translating WordPress</a> on the codex.</li>
<li>The wp-polyglots mailing list.</li>
</ul>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Tagged: i18n, translation&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/westi.wordpress.com/55/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/westi.wordpress.com/55/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/westi.wordpress.com/55/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/westi.wordpress.com/55/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/westi.wordpress.com/55/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/westi.wordpress.com/55/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/westi.wordpress.com/55/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/westi.wordpress.com/55/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/westi.wordpress.com/55/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/westi.wordpress.com/55/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westi.wordpress.com&blog=15396&post=55&subd=westi&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:06:02 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:14:"Peter Westwood";}s:7:"summary";s:2906:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>In preparation for a <a href="http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2008/10/25/talking-wordpress-in-wales/">presentation this week</a> I went in search of a WordPress translation file for the Welsh language so that I could demonstrate how WordPress could still be easy to use even if you were not a native english speaker.  I was disappointed to find that the translation effort for the Welsh language has dropped off and so a large number of the strings are not translated so you do not get the cohesive user experience that you could</p>
<p>There is a thriving community of WordPress translators and there work has already been rewarded with the facility to set up localised versions of the WordPress.org website which host a WordPress download file which has already got the relevant translation file included and configured.  These international WordPress.org sites also come with the ability to have a localised set of support forums and are becoming increasingly important.  In fact the core updated that is included in WordPress 2.7 will automatically download a translated version of WordPress as an upgrade if your are using a translation file and the translation is hosted on a international WordPress.org site.</p>
<p>If you would like to get involved in translating WordPress into your language or find out more about translation techniques for your the themes or plugins your develope then I would recommend the following further reading:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language">WordPress in Your Language</a> on the codex.</li>
<li><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress">Translating WordPress</a> on the codex.</li>
<li>The wp-polyglots mailing list.</li>
</ul>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Tagged: i18n, translation&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/westi.wordpress.com/55/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/westi.wordpress.com/55/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/westi.wordpress.com/55/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/westi.wordpress.com/55/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/westi.wordpress.com/55/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/westi.wordpress.com/55/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/westi.wordpress.com/55/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/westi.wordpress.com/55/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/westi.wordpress.com/55/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/westi.wordpress.com/55/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westi.wordpress.com&blog=15396&post=55&subd=westi&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:41;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:27:"Donncha: WordPress MU 2.6.3";s:4:"guid";s:29:"http://ocaoimh.ie/?p=89494149";s:4:"link";s:46:"http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/10/25/wordpress-mu-263/";s:11:"description";s:1735:"<p><a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/">WordPress MU</a>, the multi blog version of <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> that runs on <a href="http://wordpress.com/">WordPress.com</a> has been updated.</p>
<p>Version 2.6.3 has just been released. This is a security release and a required update. More details about the vulnerability in the Snoopy library that WordPress uses can be found on the <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/10/wordpress-263/">WordPress 2.6.3 announcement</a>. </p>
<p>This release also includes a number of minor bug fixes but if you want to fix the Snoopy bug alone, it&#8217;s sufficient to update these files:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.6/wp-includes/version.php">wp-includes/version.php</a></li>
<li><a href="http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.6/wp-includes/class-snoopy.php">wp-includes/class-snoopy.php</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Those are not download links, click through and download the files using one of the links at the end of each page.</p>
<p>Otherwise, updating from 2.6.2 is as simple as overwriting your current install.</p>
<p><img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/?voyeur=1" /></p><p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/09/02/wordpress-mu-261/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress MU 2.6.1">WordPress MU 2.6.1</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/09/30/wordpress-mu-262/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress MU 2.6.2">WordPress MU 2.6.2</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2005/08/17/whats-this-wordpresscom-thing-anyway/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: What&#8217;s this WordPress.com thing anyway?">What&#8217;s this WordPress.com thing anyway?</a></li></ul></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:14:33 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Donncha";}s:7:"summary";s:1735:"<p><a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/">WordPress MU</a>, the multi blog version of <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> that runs on <a href="http://wordpress.com/">WordPress.com</a> has been updated.</p>
<p>Version 2.6.3 has just been released. This is a security release and a required update. More details about the vulnerability in the Snoopy library that WordPress uses can be found on the <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/10/wordpress-263/">WordPress 2.6.3 announcement</a>. </p>
<p>This release also includes a number of minor bug fixes but if you want to fix the Snoopy bug alone, it&#8217;s sufficient to update these files:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.6/wp-includes/version.php">wp-includes/version.php</a></li>
<li><a href="http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.6/wp-includes/class-snoopy.php">wp-includes/class-snoopy.php</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Those are not download links, click through and download the files using one of the links at the end of each page.</p>
<p>Otherwise, updating from 2.6.2 is as simple as overwriting your current install.</p>
<p><img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/?voyeur=1" /></p><p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/09/02/wordpress-mu-261/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress MU 2.6.1">WordPress MU 2.6.1</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/09/30/wordpress-mu-262/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress MU 2.6.2">WordPress MU 2.6.2</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2005/08/17/whats-this-wordpresscom-thing-anyway/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: What&#8217;s this WordPress.com thing anyway?">What&#8217;s this WordPress.com thing anyway?</a></li></ul></p>";}i:42;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:44:"Weblog Tools Collection: Homemade Yummy Pie!";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4427";s:4:"link";s:72:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/25/homemade-yummy-pie/";s:11:"description";s:5065:"<p>In this episode of WordPress Weekly, <a href="http://kdmurray.net/" target="_blank">Keith</a> and I dissect the news of the week. We discuss why commenter&#8217;s and bloggers should use Gravatar, our thoughts and opinions on the new 2.7 dashboard mock up, Akismet 2.2.1 with stats and much more. We try to solve a problem which was submitted to us by Nicolas and before the end of the show, we give you our plugin picks of the week along with the job of the week. Don&#8217;t forget that next Friday, <strong>(Halloween)</strong> our special one hour guest will be <a href="http://jane.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Jane Wells</a> who works for Automattic in the usability/experience department. As you can imagine, we&#8217;ll be focusing the conversation on WordPress and usability.  </p>
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<h2>Stories Discussed:</h2>
<p><a href="http://www.devlounge.net/publishing/gravatars-why-both-commenters-and-publishers-should-use-it/" target="_blank">Why commenters and bloggers should use Gravatar</a></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/10/the-new-27-dashboard/" target="_blank">The New 2.7 Dashboard</a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.akismet.com/2008/10/20/akismet-221-now-with-stats/" target="_blank">Akismet 2.2.1 With Stats </a></p>
<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/ http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/22/wordpress-ranked-33/" target="_blank">WordPress Ranked #33</a></p>
<p><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2008/10/22/introducing-carrington" target="_blank">Alex King Releases Carrington</a></p>
<h2>Feedback:</h2>
<p> Tune in to see if your comment or email made it on the air!</p>
<p>We encourage any feedback you might have whether it be a question, a suggestion or a rant. You can either email us at feedback@jeffro2pt0.com or you can simply leave us a comment on the blog. </p>
<h2>Plugin Of The Week:</h2>
<p><strong>Jeff -</strong> <a href="http://www.thaslayer.com/2008/10/16/wordpress-plugin-slayers-custom-widgets-v-10/" target="_blank">Slayers Custom Widgets</a> – Slayers custom widgets enables users to select which widgets appear on specific posts, pages, categories, and tag pages. By default, all widgets appear wherever the sidebar is loaded within your theme. With this plugin, you can configure where widgets are displayed on a per post basis. I&#8217;d like to see the ability to control which widgets appear on which template such as configuring a widget to appear on pages that utilize the single.php template while hiding that same widget from other templates.</p>
<p><strong>Keith -</strong> <a href="http://henning.imaginemore.de/pluginstaller/" target="_blank">Pluginstaller</a> - This plugin allows you to control all aspects of plugin management far more effectively than the default behaviour in WP.  It allows for the installation and management of plugins directly from the admin interface with no need for FTP or SSH access to your server&#8217;s file system.  This is the kind of plugin I use on and off.  When I&#8217;m installing a new WP instance and have a whole bunch of plugins to configure, I&#8217;ll use pluginstaller to handle the download, unzip and activate processes, and then sometimes I&#8217;ll turn it off.  Pluginstaller also organizes the interface in a much more aesthetically pleasing way.</p>
<h2>WordPress Job Of The Week:</h2>
<p>  Job was posted on October 22nd, 2008 by a company called Zidalgo. The job description is as follows:</p>
<p>I am in need of altering my loop display options on my index.php file. I currently have everything laid out the way I want it, but the page navigation does not work properly, since I’m utilizing multiple loops. I want four posts normally displayed, then four under them (hopefully in the same loop) that have different layouts. I want the page navigation to work according to all 8 posts.</p>
<p>More details await.</p>
<p>Project should be relatively easy for a PHP/WP experienced coder. Please contact asap for job. Thank you</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re interested you can contact numethod at gmail.com</p>
<h2>WPWeekly Meta:</h2>
<p><strong>Next Episode:</strong> Friday October 31st, 2008 8P.M. EST</p>
<p><strong>Subscribe To WPWeekly Via Itunes: </strong><a href="itpc://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss34224.xml" target="_blank">Click here to subscribe</a></p>
<p><strong>Length Of Episode:</strong> 59 Minutes</p>
<p><strong>Download The Show:</strong> <a href="http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-34224/TS-156901.mp3" target="_blank">WordPressWeeklyEpisode26.mp3</a></p>
<p><strong>Listen To Episode #26:</strong><br />
</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:54:24 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:5065:"<p>In this episode of WordPress Weekly, <a href="http://kdmurray.net/" target="_blank">Keith</a> and I dissect the news of the week. We discuss why commenter&#8217;s and bloggers should use Gravatar, our thoughts and opinions on the new 2.7 dashboard mock up, Akismet 2.2.1 with stats and much more. We try to solve a problem which was submitted to us by Nicolas and before the end of the show, we give you our plugin picks of the week along with the job of the week. Don&#8217;t forget that next Friday, <strong>(Halloween)</strong> our special one hour guest will be <a href="http://jane.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Jane Wells</a> who works for Automattic in the usability/experience department. As you can imagine, we&#8217;ll be focusing the conversation on WordPress and usability.  </p>
<h2>Ad Copy:</h2>
<p> WordPress Weekly is brought to you by the fine advertisers on WeblogToolsCollection.com. Without their continued support, this show would not be possible. Those of you who continue to download the show and share it with friends, your continued support is appreciated. If you are interested in advertising on WordPress Weekly, please contact Mark Ghosh via <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/contact-me/" target="_blank">this contact form</a>.</p>
<h2>Stories Discussed:</h2>
<p><a href="http://www.devlounge.net/publishing/gravatars-why-both-commenters-and-publishers-should-use-it/" target="_blank">Why commenters and bloggers should use Gravatar</a></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/10/the-new-27-dashboard/" target="_blank">The New 2.7 Dashboard</a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.akismet.com/2008/10/20/akismet-221-now-with-stats/" target="_blank">Akismet 2.2.1 With Stats </a></p>
<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/ http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/22/wordpress-ranked-33/" target="_blank">WordPress Ranked #33</a></p>
<p><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2008/10/22/introducing-carrington" target="_blank">Alex King Releases Carrington</a></p>
<h2>Feedback:</h2>
<p> Tune in to see if your comment or email made it on the air!</p>
<p>We encourage any feedback you might have whether it be a question, a suggestion or a rant. You can either email us at feedback@jeffro2pt0.com or you can simply leave us a comment on the blog. </p>
<h2>Plugin Of The Week:</h2>
<p><strong>Jeff -</strong> <a href="http://www.thaslayer.com/2008/10/16/wordpress-plugin-slayers-custom-widgets-v-10/" target="_blank">Slayers Custom Widgets</a> – Slayers custom widgets enables users to select which widgets appear on specific posts, pages, categories, and tag pages. By default, all widgets appear wherever the sidebar is loaded within your theme. With this plugin, you can configure where widgets are displayed on a per post basis. I&#8217;d like to see the ability to control which widgets appear on which template such as configuring a widget to appear on pages that utilize the single.php template while hiding that same widget from other templates.</p>
<p><strong>Keith -</strong> <a href="http://henning.imaginemore.de/pluginstaller/" target="_blank">Pluginstaller</a> - This plugin allows you to control all aspects of plugin management far more effectively than the default behaviour in WP.  It allows for the installation and management of plugins directly from the admin interface with no need for FTP or SSH access to your server&#8217;s file system.  This is the kind of plugin I use on and off.  When I&#8217;m installing a new WP instance and have a whole bunch of plugins to configure, I&#8217;ll use pluginstaller to handle the download, unzip and activate processes, and then sometimes I&#8217;ll turn it off.  Pluginstaller also organizes the interface in a much more aesthetically pleasing way.</p>
<h2>WordPress Job Of The Week:</h2>
<p>  Job was posted on October 22nd, 2008 by a company called Zidalgo. The job description is as follows:</p>
<p>I am in need of altering my loop display options on my index.php file. I currently have everything laid out the way I want it, but the page navigation does not work properly, since I’m utilizing multiple loops. I want four posts normally displayed, then four under them (hopefully in the same loop) that have different layouts. I want the page navigation to work according to all 8 posts.</p>
<p>More details await.</p>
<p>Project should be relatively easy for a PHP/WP experienced coder. Please contact asap for job. Thank you</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re interested you can contact numethod at gmail.com</p>
<h2>WPWeekly Meta:</h2>
<p><strong>Next Episode:</strong> Friday October 31st, 2008 8P.M. EST</p>
<p><strong>Subscribe To WPWeekly Via Itunes: </strong><a href="itpc://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss34224.xml" target="_blank">Click here to subscribe</a></p>
<p><strong>Length Of Episode:</strong> 59 Minutes</p>
<p><strong>Download The Show:</strong> <a href="http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-34224/TS-156901.mp3" target="_blank">WordPressWeeklyEpisode26.mp3</a></p>
<p><strong>Listen To Episode #26:</strong><br />
</p>";}i:43;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:53:"Dev Blog: Calling All WordPress-loving Icon Designers";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=362";s:4:"link";s:85:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/10/calling-all-wordpress-loving-icon-designers/";s:11:"description";s:2938:"<p><img class="alignleft" title="2.7 Menus in Progress" src="http://wpdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/menu_102408a.gif" alt="" align="left" width="157" height="500" />Have you seen the getting-prettier-all-the-time menus in 2.7-almost-beta? They really are. Getting prettier all the time, I mean. Once we drop in the fonts and do a little brushing up of edges and colors, the menu system is going to be <em>smooth</em>. The last thing we&#8217;ll need to do to is replace the icons we&#8217;ve been using as placeholders. Currently, the menus are using icons from <a href="http://www.everaldo.com/crystal/">Crystal Project</a>, which is perfect because they&#8217;re released under LGPL (yay for open source!), but less perfect in that they don&#8217;t quite fit with the new visual style of 2.7, so we&#8217;re thinking custom icons.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m always meeting people at WordCamps or via email who say they wish they could give back to WordPress, but that since they aren&#8217;t PHP developers, they feel like there isn&#8217;t any opportunity for them to be a part of the open source project. Well, here&#8217;s a golden opportunity. Want to design the new WordPress icons?</p>
<p>The icons:<br />
We&#8217;ll need icons for each of the main navigation sections, plus a matching pair of list/excerpt view icons for the table screens like <em>Edit Posts</em>. That&#8217;s a total of 13, and for the navigation icons we&#8217;ll also need a larger size for use in the screen headers. Some of the sections have natural iconography, while others may be more challenging. The sections are: Dashboard, Posts, Media, Links, Pages, Comments, Appearance, Settings, Users, Plugins, Tools.</p>
<p>The style:<br />
Icons should be subtle, with a classic/designed look, nothing cartoonish. Thin lines. Maybe a little old-fashioned looking. They&#8217;ll be grayscale by default, possibly with a color version for active menu items.</p>
<p>The timing:<br />
Fast, fast, fast. 2.7 is due to release on November 10. That means icons need to be ready within two weeks, give or take.</p>
<p>The required experience:<br />
To be taken seriously, you&#8217;ll need to show a background in icon design. It&#8217;s a different skill than web site or application design, and given that there&#8217;s not much time before the 2.7 launch, someone with experience (and possibly existing work they can leverage) is going to be the best candidate.</p>
<p>Interested? <a href="mailto:jane_at-sign_automattic_dot_com">Send us an email</a> and tell us why you want to design the icons, and include a link to your portfolio. How we wind up choosing an icon designer will depend on how many people respond, but we&#8217;ll keep you posted on the process. For now, send in portfolio links by Saturday night, October 25, 2008. We&#8217;ll review them over the weekend and get in touch with people on Monday. Hopefully we can be designing by early next week.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:33:04 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:7:"summary";s:2938:"<p><img class="alignleft" title="2.7 Menus in Progress" src="http://wpdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/menu_102408a.gif" alt="" align="left" width="157" height="500" />Have you seen the getting-prettier-all-the-time menus in 2.7-almost-beta? They really are. Getting prettier all the time, I mean. Once we drop in the fonts and do a little brushing up of edges and colors, the menu system is going to be <em>smooth</em>. The last thing we&#8217;ll need to do to is replace the icons we&#8217;ve been using as placeholders. Currently, the menus are using icons from <a href="http://www.everaldo.com/crystal/">Crystal Project</a>, which is perfect because they&#8217;re released under LGPL (yay for open source!), but less perfect in that they don&#8217;t quite fit with the new visual style of 2.7, so we&#8217;re thinking custom icons.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m always meeting people at WordCamps or via email who say they wish they could give back to WordPress, but that since they aren&#8217;t PHP developers, they feel like there isn&#8217;t any opportunity for them to be a part of the open source project. Well, here&#8217;s a golden opportunity. Want to design the new WordPress icons?</p>
<p>The icons:<br />
We&#8217;ll need icons for each of the main navigation sections, plus a matching pair of list/excerpt view icons for the table screens like <em>Edit Posts</em>. That&#8217;s a total of 13, and for the navigation icons we&#8217;ll also need a larger size for use in the screen headers. Some of the sections have natural iconography, while others may be more challenging. The sections are: Dashboard, Posts, Media, Links, Pages, Comments, Appearance, Settings, Users, Plugins, Tools.</p>
<p>The style:<br />
Icons should be subtle, with a classic/designed look, nothing cartoonish. Thin lines. Maybe a little old-fashioned looking. They&#8217;ll be grayscale by default, possibly with a color version for active menu items.</p>
<p>The timing:<br />
Fast, fast, fast. 2.7 is due to release on November 10. That means icons need to be ready within two weeks, give or take.</p>
<p>The required experience:<br />
To be taken seriously, you&#8217;ll need to show a background in icon design. It&#8217;s a different skill than web site or application design, and given that there&#8217;s not much time before the 2.7 launch, someone with experience (and possibly existing work they can leverage) is going to be the best candidate.</p>
<p>Interested? <a href="mailto:jane_at-sign_automattic_dot_com">Send us an email</a> and tell us why you want to design the icons, and include a link to your portfolio. How we wind up choosing an icon designer will depend on how many people respond, but we&#8217;ll keep you posted on the process. For now, send in portfolio links by Saturday night, October 25, 2008. We&#8217;ll review them over the weekend and get in touch with people on Monday. Hopefully we can be designing by early next week.</p>";}i:44;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/24";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4425";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/24/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1024/";s:11:"description";s:3631:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.farbundstil.de/games/1036-wordpress-game-plugin.php#Hangman"><strong>Hangman</strong></a></p>
<p>Allows you to add the popular game Hangman to your blog</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thaslayer.com/2008/10/16/wordpress-plugin-slayers-custom-widgets-v-10/"><strong>Slayer’s Custom Widgets</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin will make your widgetized sidebars so flexible that you will almost think that your running a more advanced CMS system and not WordPress.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.seanbluestone.com/wordpress-top-referrers"><strong>WordPress Referrers</strong></a></p>
<p>WordPress Referrers is a fully automated, self running referral tracking script.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.stratos.me/2008/10/mini-rss-reader-wordpress-plugin/"><strong>Mini RSS Reader</strong></a></p>
<p>Just like the plugin Twitter for WordPress, this plugin reads an RSS feed and displays the time, title and trimmed description.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/landing-sites/"><strong>Landing sites</strong></a></p>
<p>When visitors is referred to your site from a search engine, the plugin is showing them related posts to their search on your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ericbess.com/ericblog/2008/10/21/wp-donators/"><strong>WP-Donators</strong></a></p>
<p>Wp-Donators provides a smart donation function to autoleave the sponsor information in a container after payment. People can donate and submit name/URL or TextLink ad. The information of the latest donors are displayed in the cloud.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/"><strong>WP Super Cache</strong></a></p>
<p>WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.</p>
<p><a href="http://playground.ebiene.de/498/wordpress-plugin-wpsleep-time-control-for-parts-of-a-post/"><strong>wpSleep</strong></a></p>
<p>WordPress already offers naturally a comfortable possibility to publish articles delayed. The advantages of this convenient function are obvious: Posts can be created in advance and will automatically be published a few days later or on midnight - even if you are not at the pc. wpSLEEP is based on the same thought and actuate parts of a post as the author likes them to.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/free-translation/"><strong>Applied Language Solutions Free Translation Plugin</strong></a></p>
<p>Translation widget that appears in your blog&#8217;s side bar. Readers can translate your blog into 10 different languages, automatically in one click.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mashget.com/2008/09/01/wp-widget-cache-for-wordpress/"><strong>WP Widget Cache</strong></a></p>
<p>Cache the output of your blog widgets. Usually it will significantly reduce the SQL queries to your database and speed up your site.</p>
<p><a href="http://mobilepress.co.za/"><strong>MobilePress</strong></a></p>
<p>MobilePress is a WordPress plugin that will render your WordPress blog on mobile handsets, with the ability to use customized themes. The plugin also allows specific themes for specific devices / mobile browsers, such as iPhone, Opera Mini, Windows CE Mobile and other generic handset browsers.</p>
<p><a href="http://immersion.io/archives/2008/07/html-tidy-for-wordpress/"><strong>htmltidy for WordPress</strong></a></p>
<p>Runs <a href="http://tidy.sourceforge.net/">htmltidy</a> over the complete output of the blog (excluding feeds), not just the post content.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:11:15 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:3631:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.farbundstil.de/games/1036-wordpress-game-plugin.php#Hangman"><strong>Hangman</strong></a></p>
<p>Allows you to add the popular game Hangman to your blog</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thaslayer.com/2008/10/16/wordpress-plugin-slayers-custom-widgets-v-10/"><strong>Slayer’s Custom Widgets</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin will make your widgetized sidebars so flexible that you will almost think that your running a more advanced CMS system and not WordPress.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.seanbluestone.com/wordpress-top-referrers"><strong>WordPress Referrers</strong></a></p>
<p>WordPress Referrers is a fully automated, self running referral tracking script.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.stratos.me/2008/10/mini-rss-reader-wordpress-plugin/"><strong>Mini RSS Reader</strong></a></p>
<p>Just like the plugin Twitter for WordPress, this plugin reads an RSS feed and displays the time, title and trimmed description.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/landing-sites/"><strong>Landing sites</strong></a></p>
<p>When visitors is referred to your site from a search engine, the plugin is showing them related posts to their search on your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ericbess.com/ericblog/2008/10/21/wp-donators/"><strong>WP-Donators</strong></a></p>
<p>Wp-Donators provides a smart donation function to autoleave the sponsor information in a container after payment. People can donate and submit name/URL or TextLink ad. The information of the latest donors are displayed in the cloud.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/"><strong>WP Super Cache</strong></a></p>
<p>WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.</p>
<p><a href="http://playground.ebiene.de/498/wordpress-plugin-wpsleep-time-control-for-parts-of-a-post/"><strong>wpSleep</strong></a></p>
<p>WordPress already offers naturally a comfortable possibility to publish articles delayed. The advantages of this convenient function are obvious: Posts can be created in advance and will automatically be published a few days later or on midnight - even if you are not at the pc. wpSLEEP is based on the same thought and actuate parts of a post as the author likes them to.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/free-translation/"><strong>Applied Language Solutions Free Translation Plugin</strong></a></p>
<p>Translation widget that appears in your blog&#8217;s side bar. Readers can translate your blog into 10 different languages, automatically in one click.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mashget.com/2008/09/01/wp-widget-cache-for-wordpress/"><strong>WP Widget Cache</strong></a></p>
<p>Cache the output of your blog widgets. Usually it will significantly reduce the SQL queries to your database and speed up your site.</p>
<p><a href="http://mobilepress.co.za/"><strong>MobilePress</strong></a></p>
<p>MobilePress is a WordPress plugin that will render your WordPress blog on mobile handsets, with the ability to use customized themes. The plugin also allows specific themes for specific devices / mobile browsers, such as iPhone, Opera Mini, Windows CE Mobile and other generic handset browsers.</p>
<p><a href="http://immersion.io/archives/2008/07/html-tidy-for-wordpress/"><strong>htmltidy for WordPress</strong></a></p>
<p>Runs <a href="http://tidy.sourceforge.net/">htmltidy</a> over the complete output of the blog (excluding feeds), not just the post content.</p>";}i:45;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:52:"Donncha: WP Super Cache 0.8.4, the garbage collector";s:4:"guid";s:29:"http://ocaoimh.ie/?p=89494142";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/10/24/wp-super-cache-084-the-garbage-collector/";s:11:"description";s:1778:"<p><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/">WP Super Cache</a> version 0.8.4 is now <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/">available</a>. WP Super Cache is a page caching plugin for WordPress that will significantly speed up your website.</p>
<p>This is a minor release but was prompted by <a href="http://w-shadow.com/blog/2008/10/22/cache-cleaner-for-wp-super-cache/">White Shadow</a>. He released a plugin that cleans up expired cache files on a periodic basis instead of after X number of hits. Great minds think alike, (or fools seldom differ) because I had the <a href="http://svn.wp-plugins.org/wp-super-cache/trunk/Changelog.txt">same idea</a> a few weeks ago and had the code running on this blog for that time without any problems.</p>
<div align="center"><img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/wp-super-cache-time.png" alt="WP Super Cache 0.8.4" title="WP Super Cache 0.8.4" width="404" height="334" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-89494143" /></div>
<p>The garbage collection system should have operated this way in the first place, but at least now it&#8217;s easier to configure.</p>
<p><img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/?voyeur=1" /></p><p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/10/08/wp-super-cache-083-speedy/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WP Super Cache 0.8.3 &#8220;Speedy&#8221;">WP Super Cache 0.8.3 &#8220;Speedy&#8221;</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/09/29/want-to-test-super-speed-caching/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Want to test super speed caching?">Want to test super speed caching?</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/03/13/wp-super-cache-06/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WP Super Cache 0.6">WP Super Cache 0.6</a></li></ul></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:41:37 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Donncha";}s:7:"summary";s:1778:"<p><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/">WP Super Cache</a> version 0.8.4 is now <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/">available</a>. WP Super Cache is a page caching plugin for WordPress that will significantly speed up your website.</p>
<p>This is a minor release but was prompted by <a href="http://w-shadow.com/blog/2008/10/22/cache-cleaner-for-wp-super-cache/">White Shadow</a>. He released a plugin that cleans up expired cache files on a periodic basis instead of after X number of hits. Great minds think alike, (or fools seldom differ) because I had the <a href="http://svn.wp-plugins.org/wp-super-cache/trunk/Changelog.txt">same idea</a> a few weeks ago and had the code running on this blog for that time without any problems.</p>
<div align="center"><img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/wp-super-cache-time.png" alt="WP Super Cache 0.8.4" title="WP Super Cache 0.8.4" width="404" height="334" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-89494143" /></div>
<p>The garbage collection system should have operated this way in the first place, but at least now it&#8217;s easier to configure.</p>
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<li><a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/export/9310/tags/2.6.3/wp-includes/class-snoopy.php">wp-includes/class-snoopy.php</a></li>
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