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:31:"Matt: Open Sourcing Resolutions";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=9841";s:4:"link";s:47:"http://ma.tt/2009/01/open-sourcing-resolutions/";s:11:"description";s:697:"<p>Every year <a href="http://ma.tt/2007/02/2007-resolutions/">I make resolutions</a>. Some years I do them. This year I want to try something different and open source them by opening it up to you guys. Here&#8217;s how we&#8217;ll try it: <strong><a href="http://ma.tt/2009/01/open-sourcing-resolutions/">leave a comment</a> with what you think my resolution(s) should be for 2009.</strong> I&#8217;ll pick the best ones, and if you&#8217;re the first to propose one I pick I&#8217;ll credit you in the follow-up post. I&#8217;ll print out the winning resolutions and put them on my desk for the year, so hopefully they&#8217;ll have a lasting effect. Remember, measurable things are better!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:17:52 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:697:"<p>Every year <a href="http://ma.tt/2007/02/2007-resolutions/">I make resolutions</a>. Some years I do them. This year I want to try something different and open source them by opening it up to you guys. Here&#8217;s how we&#8217;ll try it: <strong><a href="http://ma.tt/2009/01/open-sourcing-resolutions/">leave a comment</a> with what you think my resolution(s) should be for 2009.</strong> I&#8217;ll pick the best ones, and if you&#8217;re the first to propose one I pick I&#8217;ll credit you in the follow-up post. I&#8217;ll print out the winning resolutions and put them on my desk for the year, so hopefully they&#8217;ll have a lasting effect. Remember, measurable things are better!</p>";}i:1;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 01/06";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4923";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/06/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0106/";s:11:"description";s:4373:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.blogtrafficexchange.com/wordpress-backup/">WordPress Backup</a></p>
<p>Performs regular backups of your upload (images) and current theme directories. Backup files are available for download and optionally emailed to a specified email. Don’t get caught without a recent backup of your theme or images.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.improvingtheweb.com/automatic-blog-stats/">Automatic Blog Stats</a></p>
<p>This plugin makes available a number of statistics about your blog, including pagerank, Alexa rank, Technorati rank, Feedburner RSS count and more which you can use as shortcodes in your posts. Automatically updates all statistics daily.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/plain-gtalk-status-sync/">Plain Gtalk Status Sync</a></p>
<p>This plugin will automatically show your GTalk status on your WordPress blog. You can set a max-shown number and the cache interval to make it works more smoothly.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tobias-battenberg.de/add-a-separator-wordpress-plugin/">Add a Separator</a></p>
<p>Simple Plugin to add a separator between the intro and the (more&#8230;) content. This plugin adds a separator between the intro text and the extended (more&#8230;) text of the content of a post. It simply replaces the span id more tag with the separator that is set in the plugins php file.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.ericlamb.net/wp-click-track/">WP Click Track</a></p>
<p>Scans posts and extracts all the hrefs, rewrites them to include an onclick event which handles the tracking. Basic reports are displayed on the post and page modification areas.</p>
<p><a href="http://playground.ebiene.de/1137/antispam-bee-wordpress-plugin/#download">Antispam Bee</a></p>
<p>Protects your blog from spam by replacing the comment field. <em>Page in German</em></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/email-alerts/">Email Alerts</a></p>
<p>Allows users to configure whether they wish to be alerted when a comment is added, comment held, post posted.</p>
<p><a href="http://transientmonkey.com/wp-slimbox2">WP-Slimbox2</a></p>
<p>An WordPress implementation of the Slimbox2 JavaScript.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gudlyf.com/2009/01/05/wordpress-plugin-pending-posts-indicator/">Pending Posts Indicator</a></p>
<p>Will show a bubble in the left-hand admin menu of the number of posts pending review, if more than zero.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.michael-baker.com/simple_shortcodes.html">Simple Shortcodes</a></p>
<p>Simple Shortcodes provides an easy to use mechanism for creating and using custom shortcodes. Added in this version are options to control how the configuration page works and the 255 character limit on shortcode values has been removed.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addthis/">AddThis</a></p>
<p>The AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget allows your users to bookmark your site easily with over 45 popular services, and to share it with friends via email.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.alleba.com/blog/2007/03/27/wordpress-plugin-daily-top-10-posts/">Daily Top 10</a></p>
<p>Track the hits of each blog post for the current day and cumulatively at the same time. You may also display sidebar widgets containing a list of the most popular posts for the day and most popular posts overall.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpresssupplies.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-decoratr/">WP Decoratr</a></p>
<p>WP Decoratr can automatically find images relevant to your post content from Flickr to spice up your posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dandyid-services/">DandyID Services</a></p>
<p>Displays all of your online identities (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, YouTube, more) as clickable links in your sidebar.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/textile-live-preview-ajax-version/">Textile Live Preview</a></p>
<p>Allows you to place a realtime comment preview with support for Textile.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/quote-comments/">Quote Comments</a></p>
<p>Creates a little quote icon in comment boxes which, when clicked, copies that comment to the comment box wrapped in blockquote.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sem-admin-menu/">Admin Menu</a></p>
<p>The admin menu plugin for WordPress sticks key admin menu links to the top of your blog&#8217;s screen.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:30:05 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:4373:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.blogtrafficexchange.com/wordpress-backup/">WordPress Backup</a></p>
<p>Performs regular backups of your upload (images) and current theme directories. Backup files are available for download and optionally emailed to a specified email. Don’t get caught without a recent backup of your theme or images.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.improvingtheweb.com/automatic-blog-stats/">Automatic Blog Stats</a></p>
<p>This plugin makes available a number of statistics about your blog, including pagerank, Alexa rank, Technorati rank, Feedburner RSS count and more which you can use as shortcodes in your posts. Automatically updates all statistics daily.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/plain-gtalk-status-sync/">Plain Gtalk Status Sync</a></p>
<p>This plugin will automatically show your GTalk status on your WordPress blog. You can set a max-shown number and the cache interval to make it works more smoothly.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tobias-battenberg.de/add-a-separator-wordpress-plugin/">Add a Separator</a></p>
<p>Simple Plugin to add a separator between the intro and the (more&#8230;) content. This plugin adds a separator between the intro text and the extended (more&#8230;) text of the content of a post. It simply replaces the span id more tag with the separator that is set in the plugins php file.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.ericlamb.net/wp-click-track/">WP Click Track</a></p>
<p>Scans posts and extracts all the hrefs, rewrites them to include an onclick event which handles the tracking. Basic reports are displayed on the post and page modification areas.</p>
<p><a href="http://playground.ebiene.de/1137/antispam-bee-wordpress-plugin/#download">Antispam Bee</a></p>
<p>Protects your blog from spam by replacing the comment field. <em>Page in German</em></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/email-alerts/">Email Alerts</a></p>
<p>Allows users to configure whether they wish to be alerted when a comment is added, comment held, post posted.</p>
<p><a href="http://transientmonkey.com/wp-slimbox2">WP-Slimbox2</a></p>
<p>An WordPress implementation of the Slimbox2 JavaScript.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gudlyf.com/2009/01/05/wordpress-plugin-pending-posts-indicator/">Pending Posts Indicator</a></p>
<p>Will show a bubble in the left-hand admin menu of the number of posts pending review, if more than zero.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.michael-baker.com/simple_shortcodes.html">Simple Shortcodes</a></p>
<p>Simple Shortcodes provides an easy to use mechanism for creating and using custom shortcodes. Added in this version are options to control how the configuration page works and the 255 character limit on shortcode values has been removed.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addthis/">AddThis</a></p>
<p>The AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget allows your users to bookmark your site easily with over 45 popular services, and to share it with friends via email.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.alleba.com/blog/2007/03/27/wordpress-plugin-daily-top-10-posts/">Daily Top 10</a></p>
<p>Track the hits of each blog post for the current day and cumulatively at the same time. You may also display sidebar widgets containing a list of the most popular posts for the day and most popular posts overall.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpresssupplies.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-decoratr/">WP Decoratr</a></p>
<p>WP Decoratr can automatically find images relevant to your post content from Flickr to spice up your posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dandyid-services/">DandyID Services</a></p>
<p>Displays all of your online identities (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, YouTube, more) as clickable links in your sidebar.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/textile-live-preview-ajax-version/">Textile Live Preview</a></p>
<p>Allows you to place a realtime comment preview with support for Textile.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/quote-comments/">Quote Comments</a></p>
<p>Creates a little quote icon in comment boxes which, when clicked, copies that comment to the comment box wrapped in blockquote.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sem-admin-menu/">Admin Menu</a></p>
<p>The admin menu plugin for WordPress sticks key admin menu links to the top of your blog&#8217;s screen.</p>";}i:2;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 01/05";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4918";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/05/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0105/";s:11:"description";s:3705:"<p><a href="http://www.samirkamble.com/pcworld-wordpress-theme/"><strong>PCworld</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.demo.samirkamble.com/index.php?wptheme=PC+World"><img title="pcworld" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/pcworld.png" border="0" alt="pcworld" width="152" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>PC World two column, widget ready theme is built for technology oriented guys who wants to devote their blogs for computer technology. Blog uses a beautiful header image with great typography.</p>
<p><strong>WP Commerce Steel [Removed, Sponsored]<br />
</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://demo.wpcontempo.com/?wptheme=WP_Commerce_Steel"> <img title="wp-commerce-steel" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/wpcommercesteel.jpg" border="0" alt="wp-commerce-steel" width="158" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Sleek and versatile Wordpress theme specifically designed to work with eBay and Amazon affiliate programs, also works great for regular Blogs.</p>
<p><a href="http://andreamignolo.com/oulipo"><strong>Oulipo</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://labs.andreamignolo.com/oulipo"><img title="oulipo" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/oulipo.jpg" border="0" alt="oulipo" width="200" height="73" /></a></p>
<p>Oulipo is a clean, minimal, thee-column, widget-ready theme with great typography and a grid-based layout. Oulipo supports threaded comments and sticky posts in WordPress 2.7.</p>
<p><a href="http://techysociety.com/technology-blog-free-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Technology Blog</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.acosmin.com/wptest/?theme=technology_blog"><img title="technologyblog" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/technologyblog.jpg" border="0" alt="technologyblog" width="177" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Three column, widget ready, gravatar ready theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://3oneseven.com/10/nash-wp-theme/"><strong>Nash Magazine</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://wp2.3oneseven.com/index.php?wptheme=Nash"><img title="NashMag" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/nashmag.png" border="0" alt="NashMag" width="84" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>The Nash WP theme comes along with with a multi column red / black / white color scheme, eleven recent posts and two bars for the splash page with pagination enabled, one lead posts, followed by your twitter messages, &#8220;about blurbs&#8221; and six random posts with additional six posts underneath,<br />
the sidebar is meant to be as an additional ads place and it shows only at the front page.</p>
<p><a href="http://3oneseven.com/04/raw-business-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Raw Corporate</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://wp2.3oneseven.com/index.php?wptheme=RAW"><img title="RawCorporate" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/rawcorporate.png" border="0" alt="RawCorporate" width="155" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>The Raw WP theme comes along with with a red / black / white color scheme, three recent posts and one widgetized bar for the inner pages with pagination enabled, the front slider is meant to be as an additional info place and it shows only at the front page. Configurable via the themes admin panel to show your custom messages</p>
<p><a href="http://thethemeblog.com/theme/kallista-10-a-quality-minimal-free-wordpress-theme"><strong>Kallista</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://thethemeblog.com/demo/"><img title="Kallista" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/kallista.png" border="0" alt="Kallista" width="152" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>A minimalistic wordpress theme, Kallista features Gravatar support, microformats, widgets and great typography. Content focused, an excellent theme for any blog.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:30:05 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:3705:"<p><a href="http://www.samirkamble.com/pcworld-wordpress-theme/"><strong>PCworld</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.demo.samirkamble.com/index.php?wptheme=PC+World"><img title="pcworld" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/pcworld.png" border="0" alt="pcworld" width="152" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>PC World two column, widget ready theme is built for technology oriented guys who wants to devote their blogs for computer technology. Blog uses a beautiful header image with great typography.</p>
<p><strong>WP Commerce Steel [Removed, Sponsored]<br />
</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://demo.wpcontempo.com/?wptheme=WP_Commerce_Steel"> <img title="wp-commerce-steel" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/wpcommercesteel.jpg" border="0" alt="wp-commerce-steel" width="158" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Sleek and versatile Wordpress theme specifically designed to work with eBay and Amazon affiliate programs, also works great for regular Blogs.</p>
<p><a href="http://andreamignolo.com/oulipo"><strong>Oulipo</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://labs.andreamignolo.com/oulipo"><img title="oulipo" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/oulipo.jpg" border="0" alt="oulipo" width="200" height="73" /></a></p>
<p>Oulipo is a clean, minimal, thee-column, widget-ready theme with great typography and a grid-based layout. Oulipo supports threaded comments and sticky posts in WordPress 2.7.</p>
<p><a href="http://techysociety.com/technology-blog-free-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Technology Blog</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.acosmin.com/wptest/?theme=technology_blog"><img title="technologyblog" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/technologyblog.jpg" border="0" alt="technologyblog" width="177" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Three column, widget ready, gravatar ready theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://3oneseven.com/10/nash-wp-theme/"><strong>Nash Magazine</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://wp2.3oneseven.com/index.php?wptheme=Nash"><img title="NashMag" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/nashmag.png" border="0" alt="NashMag" width="84" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>The Nash WP theme comes along with with a multi column red / black / white color scheme, eleven recent posts and two bars for the splash page with pagination enabled, one lead posts, followed by your twitter messages, &#8220;about blurbs&#8221; and six random posts with additional six posts underneath,<br />
the sidebar is meant to be as an additional ads place and it shows only at the front page.</p>
<p><a href="http://3oneseven.com/04/raw-business-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Raw Corporate</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://wp2.3oneseven.com/index.php?wptheme=RAW"><img title="RawCorporate" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/rawcorporate.png" border="0" alt="RawCorporate" width="155" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>The Raw WP theme comes along with with a red / black / white color scheme, three recent posts and one widgetized bar for the inner pages with pagination enabled, the front slider is meant to be as an additional info place and it shows only at the front page. Configurable via the themes admin panel to show your custom messages</p>
<p><a href="http://thethemeblog.com/theme/kallista-10-a-quality-minimal-free-wordpress-theme"><strong>Kallista</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://thethemeblog.com/demo/"><img title="Kallista" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/01/kallista.png" border="0" alt="Kallista" width="152" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>A minimalistic wordpress theme, Kallista features Gravatar support, microformats, widgets and great typography. Content focused, an excellent theme for any blog.</p>";}i:3;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:55:"Weblog Tools Collection: Great Explanation Of Community";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4904";s:4:"link";s:84:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/05/great-explanation-of-community/";s:11:"description";s:1439:"<p>Just over two weeks ago, the community was abuzz about the disappearance of 200 to 300 themes being removed from the theme repository. During that blip of time, there were many posts dedicated to covering the subject of not only the theme removals, but of community, GPL and much more. Andrew Rickmann who I consider to be a &#8216;<strong>thought leader</strong>&#8216; within the WordPress community <a href="http://www.wp-fun.co.uk/2008/12/17/whats-the-point-of-community/" target="_blank">published an excellent post</a> which has had my head churning through thoughts and ideas ever since I read it. The article goes into detail on what the point of community is.</p>
<p>However, despite the overall article being a great read, question number five that Andrew raises is the one that continuously has me thinking. In question five, Andrew asks what is it that you value? He then gives eight different perspectives which I find to be very interesting. Here is one of them:</p>
<blockquote><p>Do you agree that: A person that makes a plugin freely available is appropriately compensated by the thousands of other plugins and themes that are available to him for free?</p></blockquote>
<p>Just that thought alone was enough to stop me in my tracks and really think about it. I wanted to share this article to the WordPress community because I think Andrew did a great job raising some interesting points worthy of more discussion.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:28:28 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1439:"<p>Just over two weeks ago, the community was abuzz about the disappearance of 200 to 300 themes being removed from the theme repository. During that blip of time, there were many posts dedicated to covering the subject of not only the theme removals, but of community, GPL and much more. Andrew Rickmann who I consider to be a &#8216;<strong>thought leader</strong>&#8216; within the WordPress community <a href="http://www.wp-fun.co.uk/2008/12/17/whats-the-point-of-community/" target="_blank">published an excellent post</a> which has had my head churning through thoughts and ideas ever since I read it. The article goes into detail on what the point of community is.</p>
<p>However, despite the overall article being a great read, question number five that Andrew raises is the one that continuously has me thinking. In question five, Andrew asks what is it that you value? He then gives eight different perspectives which I find to be very interesting. Here is one of them:</p>
<blockquote><p>Do you agree that: A person that makes a plugin freely available is appropriately compensated by the thousands of other plugins and themes that are available to him for free?</p></blockquote>
<p>Just that thought alone was enough to stop me in my tracks and really think about it. I wanted to share this article to the WordPress community because I think Andrew did a great job raising some interesting points worthy of more discussion.</p>";}i:4;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:72:"Lorelle on WP: WordCamp Las Vegas: Gambling on WordPress in the New Year";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=3560";s:4:"link";s:97:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/wordcamp-las-vegas-gambling-on-wordpress-in-the-new-year/";s:11:"description";s:9421:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?s=wordpress+events" title="WordPress Events"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/wpevents.png" alt="WordPress Events" align="right" /></a>We&#8217;re starting the WordPress year out right with an exciting <a href="http://lasvegaswordcamp.com/" title="WordCamp Las Vegas">WordCamp Las Vegas</a>, the very first WordCamp of 2009. I&#8217;m flying out this week for this weekend&#8217;s star-studded blogger event.</p>
<p>The two day event on January 10-11 has an awesome <a href="http://lasvegaswordcamp.com/agenda/" title="full agenda here">line up of speakers</a> covering all things blogging, social media, and WordPress:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://ma.tt/" title="Matt Mullenweg">Matt Mullenweg</a></li>
<li><a href="http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/" title="Joseph Scott">Joseph Scott</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.aaronhockley.com/" title="Aaron Hockley">Aaron Hockley</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle VanFossen">Lorelle VanFossen</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.jimkukral.com/" title="Jim Kukral">Jim Kukral</a></li>
<li><a href="http://geoff.kleinman.com/" title="Geoff Kleinman">Geoff Kleinman</a></li>
<li><a href="http://successful-blog.com/" title="Liz Strauss">Liz Strauss</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blog.planetc1.com/" title="Planet Chiropractic">Michael Dorausch</a></li>
<li><a href="http://learntoduck.com/" title="Micah Baldwin">Micah Baldwin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://askdavetaylor.com/" title="Dave Taylor">Dave Taylor</a></li>
<li><a href="http://learntoduck.com/" title="Micah Baldwin">Micah Baldwin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.stasticdesigns.com/" title="Shayne Sanderson">Shayne Sanderson</a></li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://lasvegaswordcamp.com/" title="WordCamp Las Vegas"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/wordcamplasvegas.jpg" alt="WordCamp Las Vegas" title="WordCamp Las Vegas" width="266" height="72" class="alignright size-full wp-image-9768" /></a><a href="http://lvwordcamp.eventbrite.com/" title="Register for WordCamp Las Vegas">Register now</a> to start your year off focused on WordPress and to get your blog in line with the latest technologies and trends in blogging.</p>
<p>Recently, many WordPress events and WordCamps have been livestreaming their presentations, and the <a href="http://lasvegaswordcamp.com/register-for-the-wordcamp-live-stream/" title="Register for the WordCamp Live Stream">WordCamp Las Vegas Live Stream</a> will be on for what we hope is the entire event. You need to register to watch the event live at <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wordcamp-las-vegas" title="Live Ustream of WordCamp Las Vegas">Ustream WordCamp Las Vegas</a>, so you can enjoy the program and participate no matter where you are in the world. </p>
<p>With top social media experts like Liz Strauss onboard, social will be a key topic. To encourage more social, participants are urged to <a href="http://lasvegaswordcamp.com/attendees-add-your-twitter-id/" title="Attendees - Add your twitter id">submit their Twitter ID</a> so everyone can track each other during the event. </p>
<p>The <a href="http://lasvegaswordcamp.com/hashtag-for-wordcamp-las-vegas/" title="Las Vegas">Hashtag and tag for WordCamp Las Vegas</a> is #wordcamplv. </p>
<p>Also check out the <a href="http://lasvegaswordcamp.com/wordcamp-after-party/" title="WordCamp after party">WordCamp after party</a> for any WordPress fans in the area at Jack’s Irish Pub inside of Palace Station. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=53927164516" title="RSVP for the event on Facebook">RSVP for the after party event on Facebook</a>. </p>
<p>All are invited, but if you can&#8217;t come, help <a href="http://lasvegaswordcamp.com/help-promote-wordcamplas-vegas/" title="Las Vegas">WordCamp Las Vegas promote the event</a>.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t forget that I&#8217;ll also be the keynote at <a href="http://www.wordcampwhistler.com/" title="WordCamp Whistler official site">WordCamp Whistler</a> on January 24 in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada.</p>
<h4>Lorelle Speaks at WordCamp Las Vegas</h4>
<p>I will be taking about &#8220;numbers&#8221; and basic web analytics at WordCamp Las Vegas, showing examples of how to use <a href="http://www.woopra.com/" title="Woopra - blog statistics package" rel="tag">Woopra</a>, the hottest web analytics tool around. Woopra tracks your blog traffic and activity live, in real time. Currently, Woopra is in closed beta, but I will have a limited number of beta invitations available.</p>
<p>The price of my book, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/books/blogging-tips/" title="Blogging Tips Book By Lorelle VanFossen"><em>Blogging Tips, What Bloggers Won't Tell You About Blogging</em></a>, is going up, but I will have copies available for sale at the introductory price. Unless the publisher says otherwise, this will be the last chance to get the book at the lower price - and avoid shipping costs!</p>
<p>I love going to Vegas and the last few times I&#8217;ve not had time to see a single show - one of the most important reasons to go. This time, watch out Barry Manilow and Bette Midler - I&#8217;m planning on coming to see you. Don&#8217;t know how but that&#8217;s my goal. Anyone got any Las Vegas ticket finding tips? <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
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<p>The two day event on January 10-11 has an awesome <a href="http://lasvegaswordcamp.com/agenda/" title="full agenda here">line up of speakers</a> covering all things blogging, social media, and WordPress:</p>
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<li><a href="http://ma.tt/" title="Matt Mullenweg">Matt Mullenweg</a></li>
<li><a href="http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/" title="Joseph Scott">Joseph Scott</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.aaronhockley.com/" title="Aaron Hockley">Aaron Hockley</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle VanFossen">Lorelle VanFossen</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.jimkukral.com/" title="Jim Kukral">Jim Kukral</a></li>
<li><a href="http://geoff.kleinman.com/" title="Geoff Kleinman">Geoff Kleinman</a></li>
<li><a href="http://successful-blog.com/" title="Liz Strauss">Liz Strauss</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blog.planetc1.com/" title="Planet Chiropractic">Michael Dorausch</a></li>
<li><a href="http://learntoduck.com/" title="Micah Baldwin">Micah Baldwin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://askdavetaylor.com/" title="Dave Taylor">Dave Taylor</a></li>
<li><a href="http://learntoduck.com/" title="Micah Baldwin">Micah Baldwin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.stasticdesigns.com/" title="Shayne Sanderson">Shayne Sanderson</a></li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://lasvegaswordcamp.com/" title="WordCamp Las Vegas"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/wordcamplasvegas.jpg" alt="WordCamp Las Vegas" title="WordCamp Las Vegas" width="266" height="72" class="alignright size-full wp-image-9768" /></a><a href="http://lvwordcamp.eventbrite.com/" title="Register for WordCamp Las Vegas">Register now</a> to start your year off focused on WordPress and to get your blog in line with the latest technologies and trends in blogging.</p>
<p>Recently, many WordPress events and WordCamps have been livestreaming their presentations, and the <a href="http://lasvegaswordcamp.com/register-for-the-wordcamp-live-stream/" title="Register for the WordCamp Live Stream">WordCamp Las Vegas Live Stream</a> will be on for what we hope is the entire event. You need to register to watch the event live at <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wordcamp-las-vegas" title="Live Ustream of WordCamp Las Vegas">Ustream WordCamp Las Vegas</a>, so you can enjoy the program and participate no matter where you are in the world. </p>
<p>With top social media experts like Liz Strauss onboard, social will be a key topic. To encourage more social, participants are urged to <a href="http://lasvegaswordcamp.com/attendees-add-your-twitter-id/" title="Attendees - Add your twitter id">submit their Twitter ID</a> so everyone can track each other during the event. </p>
<p>The <a href="http://lasvegaswordcamp.com/hashtag-for-wordcamp-las-vegas/" title="Las Vegas">Hashtag and tag for WordCamp Las Vegas</a> is #wordcamplv. </p>
<p>Also check out the <a href="http://lasvegaswordcamp.com/wordcamp-after-party/" title="WordCamp after party">WordCamp after party</a> for any WordPress fans in the area at Jack’s Irish Pub inside of Palace Station. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=53927164516" title="RSVP for the event on Facebook">RSVP for the after party event on Facebook</a>. </p>
<p>All are invited, but if you can&#8217;t come, help <a href="http://lasvegaswordcamp.com/help-promote-wordcamplas-vegas/" title="Las Vegas">WordCamp Las Vegas promote the event</a>.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t forget that I&#8217;ll also be the keynote at <a href="http://www.wordcampwhistler.com/" title="WordCamp Whistler official site">WordCamp Whistler</a> on January 24 in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada.</p>
<h4>Lorelle Speaks at WordCamp Las Vegas</h4>
<p>I will be taking about &#8220;numbers&#8221; and basic web analytics at WordCamp Las Vegas, showing examples of how to use <a href="http://www.woopra.com/" title="Woopra - blog statistics package" rel="tag">Woopra</a>, the hottest web analytics tool around. Woopra tracks your blog traffic and activity live, in real time. Currently, Woopra is in closed beta, but I will have a limited number of beta invitations available.</p>
<p>The price of my book, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/books/blogging-tips/" title="Blogging Tips Book By Lorelle VanFossen"><em>Blogging Tips, What Bloggers Won't Tell You About Blogging</em></a>, is going up, but I will have copies available for sale at the introductory price. Unless the publisher says otherwise, this will be the last chance to get the book at the lower price - and avoid shipping costs!</p>
<p>I love going to Vegas and the last few times I&#8217;ve not had time to see a single show - one of the most important reasons to go. This time, watch out Barry Manilow and Bette Midler - I&#8217;m planning on coming to see you. Don&#8217;t know how but that&#8217;s my goal. Anyone got any Las Vegas ticket finding tips? <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
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Posted in WordPress News&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3560/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3560/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3560/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3560/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3560/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3560/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3560/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3560/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3560/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3560/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=3560&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:47:"Lorelle on WP: Ski With Me to WordCamp Whistler";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=3556";s:4:"link";s:73:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/ski-with-me-to-wordcamp-whistler/";s:11:"description";s:10053:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?s=wordpress+events" title="WordPress Events"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/wpevents.png" alt="WordPress Events" align="right" /></a>One of the most unique WordCamps ever will be January 24, 2009, in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. <a href="http://www.wordcampwhistler.com/" title="WordCamp Whistler official site">WordCamp Whistler</a> is a combination ski, photowalk, and WordCamp event for winter and blogging fans around the world at the <a href="http://www.fairmont.com/whistler/" title="Fairmont Chateau Whistler Resort">Fairmont Chateau Whistler Resort</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistler,_British_Columbia" title="Whistler , British Columbia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">Whistler, British Columbia</a>, is a very popular and beautiful ski resort in the Pacific Range of the Coast Mountains of Canada, only a few hours drive from Vancouver. In the early 1960s, a group was determined to bring the Winter Olympics to Whistler, and their dream comes true as Whistler is the host mountain for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Winter_Olympics" title="Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic">Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games</a>. This is your chance to visit and ski a world class mountain before the crowds arrive next year.</p>
<p>I grew up in Seattle, a few hours south of Vancouver and Whistler, and skied all the mountains including Whistler and its sister, Blackcomb. It has changed a lot as it prepares for the upcoming Olympics, so this is a very exciting opportunity for me to visit not only a world class ski range, but also one of the most beautiful places in the world. </p>
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<p>This WordCamp event is different from the others because while its focus is on WordPress, it&#8217;s also ideal for photography and photo bloggers. Not only is the area eye candy galore, there will be time for photography and some of the speakers will be covering photography, video, and photo blogging. </p>
<p>As the event <a href="http://www.wordcampwhistler.com/2009/01/were-getting-close/" title="We’re Getting Close!">grows near</a>, WordCamp Whistler planners announced that there are still <a href="http://www.wordcampwhistler.com/sponsorship/" title="sponsorship spots available">sponsorship spots available</a>. A <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=32574477561" title="Facebook event that you can sign up to">Facebook event</a> is up. The <a href="http://www.wordcampwhistler.com/speakers/" title="line-up in the works">list of speakers is great</a> and <a href="http://wordcampwhistler.eventbrite.com/" title="the time to pick up your tickets">registration is going fast</a> for this limited seating event. They&#8217;ve planned photo walks and skiing events along with the WordPress fun. </p>
<p>The speakers are also top notch, covering some interesting WordPress and blogging topics, including:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle VanFossen">Lorelle VanFossen</a> - WordPress Power Blogging Tips</li>
<li>Andy Peatling of <a href="http://buddypress.org/" title="BuddyPress">BuddyPress</a></li>
<li>Dave Olson of <a href="http://uncleweed.com/" title="uncleweed">uncleweed</a> - Are you Worthy?</li>
<li>Dale Mugford of <a href="http://bravenewcode.com/" title="BraveNewCode">BraveNewCode</a> - WordPress On The Go</li>
<li>John Biehler  - How To Sex Up Your Blog With Photos And Video</li>
</ul>
<p>For those who registered early, there was a discount rate for the hotel, so check to see if it is still available. I&#8217;ve checked with <a href="http://www.kayak.com/" title="Kayak travel discounts">Kayak</a> and found hotel rooms are still available starting at $99 and going up, though staying at the <a href="http://www.fairmont.com/whistler/" title="Fairmont Chateau Whistler Resort">Fairmont Chateau Whistler Resort</a> puts you right near the skiing access and is a top class hotel. </p>
<p>Transportation to Whistler currently is by vehicle, bus, or train. Flights come into Vancouver, and Whistler is a 2-hour drive along the Sea to Sky Highway (Highway 99) from Vancouver, or two to three hour bus or train ride.</p>
<p>There are a variety of <a title="Tourism Whistler transportation options" href="http://www.tourismwhistler.com/www/plan_your_trip/transportation/">transportation options</a> for travel to Whistler. Many fly into Vancouver and rent a car, while others fly to Seattle and rent a car from there. Check to ensure the car rental company permits taking the car across the border. <a href="http://www.greyhound.ca/" title="Greyhound">Greyhound</a>, <a href="http://tickets.amtrak.com/itd/amtrak/FareFinder?_tripType=Return&amp;_origin=Vancouver%2C+BC+(VAC)&amp;_depmonthyear=2009-01&amp;_depday=23&amp;_dephourmin=&amp;_destination=wsl&amp;_retmonthyear=2009-01&amp;_retday=25&amp;_rethourmin=&amp;_adults=1&amp;_children=0&amp;_infants=0&amp;_searchBy=fare&amp;x=27&amp;y=12" title="Amtrak from Vancouver to Whistler">Amtrak</a>, and <a href="http://www.pacificcoach.com/" title="Pacific Coast">Pacific Coast</a> offer bus service. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.whistlermountaineer.com/destinations/whistler/" title="Whistler Mountaineer Train">Whistler Mountaineer Train</a> offers a three hour &#8220;tour&#8221; train ride to Whistler which leaves in the morning and returns in the afternoon, which you can plan your trip around. They also offer a four day, three nights <a href="http://www.whistlermountaineer.com/vacation_packages/escapes/tour_6.aspx" title="Whistler Rail Escape">Whistler Rail Escape</a>, with accomodation at the Hilton Whistler. <a href="http://www.westcoastair.com/" title="West Coast Air">West Coast Air</a> has a <a href="http://www.westcoastair.com/HTML/Documents/StandbySpecial.pdf" title="West Coast Air Standby Special">Standby Special</a> with a 50% discount for those flying between 10AM and 2PM daily with flights from Victoria to Whistler only.</p>
<p>This kind of WordCamp event is rare, placed in a lovely landscape with so many winter activities wrapped around it. Don&#8217;t miss it. </p>
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Posted in WordPress News&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3556/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3556/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3556/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3556/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3556/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3556/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3556/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3556/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3556/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3556/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=3556&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:23:29 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:17:"Lorelle VanFossen";}s:7:"summary";s:10053:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?s=wordpress+events" title="WordPress Events"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/wpevents.png" alt="WordPress Events" align="right" /></a>One of the most unique WordCamps ever will be January 24, 2009, in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. <a href="http://www.wordcampwhistler.com/" title="WordCamp Whistler official site">WordCamp Whistler</a> is a combination ski, photowalk, and WordCamp event for winter and blogging fans around the world at the <a href="http://www.fairmont.com/whistler/" title="Fairmont Chateau Whistler Resort">Fairmont Chateau Whistler Resort</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistler,_British_Columbia" title="Whistler , British Columbia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">Whistler, British Columbia</a>, is a very popular and beautiful ski resort in the Pacific Range of the Coast Mountains of Canada, only a few hours drive from Vancouver. In the early 1960s, a group was determined to bring the Winter Olympics to Whistler, and their dream comes true as Whistler is the host mountain for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Winter_Olympics" title="Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic">Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games</a>. This is your chance to visit and ski a world class mountain before the crowds arrive next year.</p>
<p>I grew up in Seattle, a few hours south of Vancouver and Whistler, and skied all the mountains including Whistler and its sister, Blackcomb. It has changed a lot as it prepares for the upcoming Olympics, so this is a very exciting opportunity for me to visit not only a world class ski range, but also one of the most beautiful places in the world. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.wordcampwhistler.com/" title="WordCamp Whistler official site"><img src="http://www.blogherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/wordcampwhistler.jpg" alt="WordCamp Whistler" title="WordCamp Whistler" width="286" height="118" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-9769" /></a></p>
<p>This WordCamp event is different from the others because while its focus is on WordPress, it&#8217;s also ideal for photography and photo bloggers. Not only is the area eye candy galore, there will be time for photography and some of the speakers will be covering photography, video, and photo blogging. </p>
<p>As the event <a href="http://www.wordcampwhistler.com/2009/01/were-getting-close/" title="We’re Getting Close!">grows near</a>, WordCamp Whistler planners announced that there are still <a href="http://www.wordcampwhistler.com/sponsorship/" title="sponsorship spots available">sponsorship spots available</a>. A <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=32574477561" title="Facebook event that you can sign up to">Facebook event</a> is up. The <a href="http://www.wordcampwhistler.com/speakers/" title="line-up in the works">list of speakers is great</a> and <a href="http://wordcampwhistler.eventbrite.com/" title="the time to pick up your tickets">registration is going fast</a> for this limited seating event. They&#8217;ve planned photo walks and skiing events along with the WordPress fun. </p>
<p>The speakers are also top notch, covering some interesting WordPress and blogging topics, including:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle VanFossen">Lorelle VanFossen</a> - WordPress Power Blogging Tips</li>
<li>Andy Peatling of <a href="http://buddypress.org/" title="BuddyPress">BuddyPress</a></li>
<li>Dave Olson of <a href="http://uncleweed.com/" title="uncleweed">uncleweed</a> - Are you Worthy?</li>
<li>Dale Mugford of <a href="http://bravenewcode.com/" title="BraveNewCode">BraveNewCode</a> - WordPress On The Go</li>
<li>John Biehler  - How To Sex Up Your Blog With Photos And Video</li>
</ul>
<p>For those who registered early, there was a discount rate for the hotel, so check to see if it is still available. I&#8217;ve checked with <a href="http://www.kayak.com/" title="Kayak travel discounts">Kayak</a> and found hotel rooms are still available starting at $99 and going up, though staying at the <a href="http://www.fairmont.com/whistler/" title="Fairmont Chateau Whistler Resort">Fairmont Chateau Whistler Resort</a> puts you right near the skiing access and is a top class hotel. </p>
<p>Transportation to Whistler currently is by vehicle, bus, or train. Flights come into Vancouver, and Whistler is a 2-hour drive along the Sea to Sky Highway (Highway 99) from Vancouver, or two to three hour bus or train ride.</p>
<p>There are a variety of <a title="Tourism Whistler transportation options" href="http://www.tourismwhistler.com/www/plan_your_trip/transportation/">transportation options</a> for travel to Whistler. Many fly into Vancouver and rent a car, while others fly to Seattle and rent a car from there. Check to ensure the car rental company permits taking the car across the border. <a href="http://www.greyhound.ca/" title="Greyhound">Greyhound</a>, <a href="http://tickets.amtrak.com/itd/amtrak/FareFinder?_tripType=Return&amp;_origin=Vancouver%2C+BC+(VAC)&amp;_depmonthyear=2009-01&amp;_depday=23&amp;_dephourmin=&amp;_destination=wsl&amp;_retmonthyear=2009-01&amp;_retday=25&amp;_rethourmin=&amp;_adults=1&amp;_children=0&amp;_infants=0&amp;_searchBy=fare&amp;x=27&amp;y=12" title="Amtrak from Vancouver to Whistler">Amtrak</a>, and <a href="http://www.pacificcoach.com/" title="Pacific Coast">Pacific Coast</a> offer bus service. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.whistlermountaineer.com/destinations/whistler/" title="Whistler Mountaineer Train">Whistler Mountaineer Train</a> offers a three hour &#8220;tour&#8221; train ride to Whistler which leaves in the morning and returns in the afternoon, which you can plan your trip around. They also offer a four day, three nights <a href="http://www.whistlermountaineer.com/vacation_packages/escapes/tour_6.aspx" title="Whistler Rail Escape">Whistler Rail Escape</a>, with accomodation at the Hilton Whistler. <a href="http://www.westcoastair.com/" title="West Coast Air">West Coast Air</a> has a <a href="http://www.westcoastair.com/HTML/Documents/StandbySpecial.pdf" title="West Coast Air Standby Special">Standby Special</a> with a 50% discount for those flying between 10AM and 2PM daily with flights from Victoria to Whistler only.</p>
<p>This kind of WordCamp event is rare, placed in a lovely landscape with so many winter activities wrapped around it. Don&#8217;t miss it. </p>
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<h3>So what is Simple:Press?</h3>
<p>Simple:Press is a feature rich forum plugin for WordPress. It fully integrates into your WP based site utilizing the same user records and database and displaying on a single WP page. It is fully customizable and comes with a number of skins and sets of icons to get your started. Current users have shown it to be fully scalable whether your site membership numbers the tens or the thousands.</p>
<p>Through it’s powerful and flexible permissions system it is suitable for those who wish to run private, specialist forums with invited members but is equally able to accommodate open, public forums that allow guest posting.</p>
<p>Also included is a Private Messaging sub-system, the ability to link blog posts with forum topics, the capability to extend the forum display with custom code, a number of template tags for use outside of the forums, extensive online help that explains every option and full language support.</p>
<h3>Features:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fully integrated with WordPress user registrations and logins</li>
<li>Creates &#8216;pretty/SEO friendly&#8217; permalinks</li>
<li>Underpinned by a powerful user and permission system</li>
<li>Can create private forums</li>
<li>Forums can be &#8216;Members Only&#8217; or can allow for Guests</li>
<li>Private Messaging system</li>
<li>Admins can allow for post moderation (approval)</li>
<li>Built in Search tool</li>
<li>Fully customizable skins and icons</li>
<li>Most rendering functions are &#8216;pluggable&#8217;</li>
<li>Member Profile updating - users can change own passwords</li>
<li>Choice of Editors (RTE, HTML, bbCODE)</li>
<li>Options Signatures, Signature Image, Avatars, and Rankings</li>
<li>A variety of Template Tags - recent posts etc</li>
<li>Programmable Hooks for user extension</li>
<li>Optional Spam Prevention tools</li>
<li>Optional Cookies to track Guests and Members</li>
<li>Fully Localized for language support</li>
<li>Optional and various RSS feeds and email subscription to topics</li>
<li>Various display options to suit your needs and theme</li>
<li>An Admin toolset to perform many tasks from within the forum itself</li>
<li>Blog Posts and Forum Topics can be linked</li>
<li>Support for the Democracy Polls plugin</li>
<li>Support for the Gravatars 2 plugin</li>
<li>Forum Statistics - including who is online</li>
<li>Complete uninstall/removal option</li>
<li>Support for the All In One SEO Pack Plugin (Browser title bar)</li>
<li>View Admins New Post Queue from ALL views with &#8216;Quick Reply&#8217;</li>
<li>Right-to-left language support in the TinyMCE editor</li>
<li>Topic Status Tracking</li>
<li>Custom Smileys</li>
<li>RTE Toolbar Customization</li>
<li>Pre-registration Policy display option</li>
<li>Post Ratings</li>
<li>Add Custom Profile data items</li>
<li>&#8216;Watched&#8217; topics</li>
<li>Multiple forum Admins</li>
<li>Members List</li>
</ul>
<h3>Demo</h3>
<p>A live demo of the forum is the <a href="http://simplepressforum.com/support-forum">Support Forum for the plugin</a> itself on the developers’ site.</p>
<h3>Our Review</h3>
<p>Simple:Press forum is a staunch competitor of <a href="http://bbpress.org/">bbPress</a>. Looking at the features and from the demo, it seems like Simple:Press has a lot more to offer than bbPress.</p>
<p>Installation of the plugin is extremely simple. You install it just like you would any other WordPress plugin. Upload the entire folder (2.2MB) to your plugins folder of your blog and activate the plugin. The forum has an inbuilt installation program.</p>
<p>You can then use the administration interface of the forum to create new forums.</p>
<h3>Improvements?</h3>
<p>As for the plugin, one feature could be the ability to install it on a separate domain as in the case with bbPress.</p>
<p>Looking beyond the plugin, one thing we advocate is a well kept plugin page. Simple:Press does well in this respect as it has its very own domain and support system.</p>
<p>What I would love to see is a detailed installation page with screenshots. As well as detailed tutorials and documentation on using and customizing the forum.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Are you a user of Simple:Press Forum? What has been your experience with the same? Why did you choose this plugin over other full-fledged forums? What features would you like to see added / improved / removed?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:30:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:4697:"<p>We’re kicking of our <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/25/merry-christmas-its-plugin-review-time-again-at-wltc/">plugin review process</a> with a feature rich plugin labeled <a href="http://simplepressforum.com/">Simple:Press Forum</a>. This was also the first plugin review request that we received.</p>
<h3>So what is Simple:Press?</h3>
<p>Simple:Press is a feature rich forum plugin for WordPress. It fully integrates into your WP based site utilizing the same user records and database and displaying on a single WP page. It is fully customizable and comes with a number of skins and sets of icons to get your started. Current users have shown it to be fully scalable whether your site membership numbers the tens or the thousands.</p>
<p>Through it’s powerful and flexible permissions system it is suitable for those who wish to run private, specialist forums with invited members but is equally able to accommodate open, public forums that allow guest posting.</p>
<p>Also included is a Private Messaging sub-system, the ability to link blog posts with forum topics, the capability to extend the forum display with custom code, a number of template tags for use outside of the forums, extensive online help that explains every option and full language support.</p>
<h3>Features:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fully integrated with WordPress user registrations and logins</li>
<li>Creates &#8216;pretty/SEO friendly&#8217; permalinks</li>
<li>Underpinned by a powerful user and permission system</li>
<li>Can create private forums</li>
<li>Forums can be &#8216;Members Only&#8217; or can allow for Guests</li>
<li>Private Messaging system</li>
<li>Admins can allow for post moderation (approval)</li>
<li>Built in Search tool</li>
<li>Fully customizable skins and icons</li>
<li>Most rendering functions are &#8216;pluggable&#8217;</li>
<li>Member Profile updating - users can change own passwords</li>
<li>Choice of Editors (RTE, HTML, bbCODE)</li>
<li>Options Signatures, Signature Image, Avatars, and Rankings</li>
<li>A variety of Template Tags - recent posts etc</li>
<li>Programmable Hooks for user extension</li>
<li>Optional Spam Prevention tools</li>
<li>Optional Cookies to track Guests and Members</li>
<li>Fully Localized for language support</li>
<li>Optional and various RSS feeds and email subscription to topics</li>
<li>Various display options to suit your needs and theme</li>
<li>An Admin toolset to perform many tasks from within the forum itself</li>
<li>Blog Posts and Forum Topics can be linked</li>
<li>Support for the Democracy Polls plugin</li>
<li>Support for the Gravatars 2 plugin</li>
<li>Forum Statistics - including who is online</li>
<li>Complete uninstall/removal option</li>
<li>Support for the All In One SEO Pack Plugin (Browser title bar)</li>
<li>View Admins New Post Queue from ALL views with &#8216;Quick Reply&#8217;</li>
<li>Right-to-left language support in the TinyMCE editor</li>
<li>Topic Status Tracking</li>
<li>Custom Smileys</li>
<li>RTE Toolbar Customization</li>
<li>Pre-registration Policy display option</li>
<li>Post Ratings</li>
<li>Add Custom Profile data items</li>
<li>&#8216;Watched&#8217; topics</li>
<li>Multiple forum Admins</li>
<li>Members List</li>
</ul>
<h3>Demo</h3>
<p>A live demo of the forum is the <a href="http://simplepressforum.com/support-forum">Support Forum for the plugin</a> itself on the developers’ site.</p>
<h3>Our Review</h3>
<p>Simple:Press forum is a staunch competitor of <a href="http://bbpress.org/">bbPress</a>. Looking at the features and from the demo, it seems like Simple:Press has a lot more to offer than bbPress.</p>
<p>Installation of the plugin is extremely simple. You install it just like you would any other WordPress plugin. Upload the entire folder (2.2MB) to your plugins folder of your blog and activate the plugin. The forum has an inbuilt installation program.</p>
<p>You can then use the administration interface of the forum to create new forums.</p>
<h3>Improvements?</h3>
<p>As for the plugin, one feature could be the ability to install it on a separate domain as in the case with bbPress.</p>
<p>Looking beyond the plugin, one thing we advocate is a well kept plugin page. Simple:Press does well in this respect as it has its very own domain and support system.</p>
<p>What I would love to see is a detailed installation page with screenshots. As well as detailed tutorials and documentation on using and customizing the forum.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Are you a user of Simple:Press Forum? What has been your experience with the same? Why did you choose this plugin over other full-fledged forums? What features would you like to see added / improved / removed?</p>";}i:7;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 01/03";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4902";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/03/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0103/";s:11:"description";s:3906:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.webmaster-source.com/wordpress-favorites-menu-manager/">Favorites Menu Manager</a></p>
<p>Favorites Menu Manager allows you to easily add, remove, and reorder items in the dropdown favorites menu.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bretteleben.de/lang-en/wordpress/google-anzeigenmanager-plugin.html">WP Google Ad Manager</a></p>
<p>The bretteleben.de &#8220;WP Google Ad Manager Plugin&#8221; for Wordpress allows to use the Google Ad Manager with Wordpress. It gives you the possibility to add ads to your posts, widgets and template.</p>
<p><a href="http://themoneymakingwebsite.com/wp-directory-list/">WP Directory List</a></p>
<p>All your users to submit links to a directory. This could be used for a business directory when you allow full address and contact information on the form.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.semiologic.com/software/publishing/auto-thickbox/">Auto Thickbox</a></p>
<p>The Auto Thickbox plugin for WordPress automatically enables thickbox on thumbnail images (i.e. opens the images in a fancy pop-up), through the use of WordPress&#8217; built-in thickbox library.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/private-only/">Private Only</a></p>
<p>Do you have a private blog that you only want your friends and family to see and read it? This plugin will redirect all users who aren&#8217;t logged in to the login form where they are shown a user-friendly message.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hityou.net/wp-note/">WP-Note</a></p>
<p>Make nice notes with WP-Note in your post.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/autoclose/">Auto Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks</a></p>
<p>Automatically close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks on posts and pages of your WordPress blog. v1.3.1 now allows you to close these separately on posts and pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mystat/">mySTAT</a></p>
<p>myStat is a flexible and versatile system intended for accumulation and analysis of the site attendance statistics.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sermon-browser/">Sermon Browser</a></p>
<p>Upload sermons to your website, where they can be searched, listened to, and downloaded. Easy to use with comprehensive help and tutorials.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/parent-category-toggler/">Parent Category Toggler</a></p>
<p>Automatically toggle the parent categories when a sub category is selected.</p>
<p><a href="http://pods.uproot.us/">Pods</a></p>
<p>Pods is a CMS (Content Management System) plugin for Wordpress.</p>
<p><a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/headspace2/">HeadSpace2</a></p>
<p>Controls almost every aspect of your site&#8217;s meta-data, including advanced tagging, Analytics, and dozens of plugins. The best WordPress SEO solution!</p>
<p><a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/">Redirection</a></p>
<p>Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections and keep track of 404 errors without requiring knowledge of Apache .htaccess files.</p>
<p><a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/drain-hole/">Drain Hole</a></p>
<p>Drain Hole is a centralized download manager with full monitoring, statistics, versioning, SVN support, and proper SEO download URLs.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-video-plugin/">Wordpress Video Plugin</a></p>
<p>A filter for WordPress that displays videos from myvideo.de, youtube, google video, Brightcove, Aniboom, 123video.nl, MyspaceTV, Yahoo! Video.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podcast-channels/">Podcast Channels</a></p>
<p>Podcast Channels lets you setup &#8216;Category-Casting&#8217; &#8212; a different podcast per category.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.district30.net/random-image-widget">Random Image widget</a></p>
<p>Display a random image from a directory located on the webserver.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:15:04 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:3906:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.webmaster-source.com/wordpress-favorites-menu-manager/">Favorites Menu Manager</a></p>
<p>Favorites Menu Manager allows you to easily add, remove, and reorder items in the dropdown favorites menu.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bretteleben.de/lang-en/wordpress/google-anzeigenmanager-plugin.html">WP Google Ad Manager</a></p>
<p>The bretteleben.de &#8220;WP Google Ad Manager Plugin&#8221; for Wordpress allows to use the Google Ad Manager with Wordpress. It gives you the possibility to add ads to your posts, widgets and template.</p>
<p><a href="http://themoneymakingwebsite.com/wp-directory-list/">WP Directory List</a></p>
<p>All your users to submit links to a directory. This could be used for a business directory when you allow full address and contact information on the form.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.semiologic.com/software/publishing/auto-thickbox/">Auto Thickbox</a></p>
<p>The Auto Thickbox plugin for WordPress automatically enables thickbox on thumbnail images (i.e. opens the images in a fancy pop-up), through the use of WordPress&#8217; built-in thickbox library.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/private-only/">Private Only</a></p>
<p>Do you have a private blog that you only want your friends and family to see and read it? This plugin will redirect all users who aren&#8217;t logged in to the login form where they are shown a user-friendly message.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hityou.net/wp-note/">WP-Note</a></p>
<p>Make nice notes with WP-Note in your post.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/autoclose/">Auto Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks</a></p>
<p>Automatically close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks on posts and pages of your WordPress blog. v1.3.1 now allows you to close these separately on posts and pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mystat/">mySTAT</a></p>
<p>myStat is a flexible and versatile system intended for accumulation and analysis of the site attendance statistics.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sermon-browser/">Sermon Browser</a></p>
<p>Upload sermons to your website, where they can be searched, listened to, and downloaded. Easy to use with comprehensive help and tutorials.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/parent-category-toggler/">Parent Category Toggler</a></p>
<p>Automatically toggle the parent categories when a sub category is selected.</p>
<p><a href="http://pods.uproot.us/">Pods</a></p>
<p>Pods is a CMS (Content Management System) plugin for Wordpress.</p>
<p><a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/headspace2/">HeadSpace2</a></p>
<p>Controls almost every aspect of your site&#8217;s meta-data, including advanced tagging, Analytics, and dozens of plugins. The best WordPress SEO solution!</p>
<p><a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/">Redirection</a></p>
<p>Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections and keep track of 404 errors without requiring knowledge of Apache .htaccess files.</p>
<p><a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/drain-hole/">Drain Hole</a></p>
<p>Drain Hole is a centralized download manager with full monitoring, statistics, versioning, SVN support, and proper SEO download URLs.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-video-plugin/">Wordpress Video Plugin</a></p>
<p>A filter for WordPress that displays videos from myvideo.de, youtube, google video, Brightcove, Aniboom, 123video.nl, MyspaceTV, Yahoo! Video.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podcast-channels/">Podcast Channels</a></p>
<p>Podcast Channels lets you setup &#8216;Category-Casting&#8217; &#8212; a different podcast per category.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.district30.net/random-image-widget">Random Image widget</a></p>
<p>Display a random image from a directory located on the webserver.</p>";}i:8;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:28:"Matt: Top Emailers 2008, etc";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=9822";s:4:"link";s:43:"http://ma.tt/2009/01/top-emailers-2008-etc/";s:11:"description";s:3232:"<p>As an update to <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/01/top-emailers/">last year&#8217;s post</a>:</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://toni.org/">Toni Schneider</a> &#8212; 1,052</li>
<li><a href="http://mayadesai.wordpress.com/">Maya Desai</a> &#8212; 826</li>
<li>Mom &#8212; 659</li>
<li><a href="http://raanan.com/">Raanan Bar-Cohen</a> &#8212; 452</li>
<li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/">Donncha O Caoimh</a> &#8212; 424</li>
<li><a href="http://barry.wordpress.com/">Barry Abrahamson</a> &#8212; 386</li>
<li><a href="http://romanticrobot.net/">Mark Riley</a> &#8212; 222</li>
<li><a href="http://jane.wordpress.com/">Jane Wells</a> &#8212; 218</li>
<li><a href="http://boren.nu">Ryan Boren</a> &#8212; 200</li>
<li><a href="http://www.laptoptips.ca/">Andrew Ozz</a> &#8212; 197</li>
<li><a href="http://iammattthomas.com/">Matt Thomas</a> &#8212; 193</li>
<li><a href="http://bobulate.com/">Liz Danzico</a> &#8212; 148</li>
<li><a href="http://vcmike.wordpress.com/">Mike Hirshland</a> &#8212; 144</li>
<li><a href="http://www.heather-rasley.com/">Heather Rasley</a> &#8212; 139</li>
<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/">Joseph Scott</a> &#8212; 129</li>
</ol>
<p>I&#8217;ve expanded the list to 15. A lot of the same folks at the very top, but new faces in Liz and Jane from 2.5 and 2.7 usability cycles. Also three people on the list have changed their domain in the past year, just like I did. It must have been a year for that.</p>
<p>Also for fun here are some yearly posting stats courtesy of <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2007/01/01/sql-for-blog-stats">Alex&#8217;s queries</a>:</p>
<table cellspacing="10">
<tr>
<th width="50"></th>
<th>Posts</th>
<th>Avg. Words</th>
<th>Total Words</th>
<th>Avg. Comments</th>
<th>Total Comments</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2002</td>
<td align="right">360</td>
<td align="right">139</td>
<td align="right">50,190</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right">390</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2003</td>
<td align="right">429</td>
<td align="right">168</td>
<td align="right">72,359</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
<td align="right">1,287</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2004</td>
<td align="right">990</td>
<td align="right">54</td>
<td align="right">54,257</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
<td align="right">6,236</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2005</td>
<td align="right">624</td>
<td align="right">48</td>
<td align="right">30,090</td>
<td align="right">9</td>
<td align="right">5,963</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2006</td>
<td align="right">313</td>
<td align="right">70</td>
<td align="right">22,010</td>
<td align="right">11</td>
<td align="right">3,503</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2007</td>
<td align="right">334</td>
<td align="right">60</td>
<td align="right">20,267</td>
<td align="right">17</td>
<td align="right">5,919</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2008</td>
<td align="right">302</td>
<td align="right">50</td>
<td align="right">15,206</td>
<td align="right">21</td>
<td align="right">6,493</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>As you can see I&#8217;m doing fewer posts with fewer words than ever, but getting more comments. At this rate I&#8217;ll be down to 40 words per post next year. Yay brevity. <img src="http://ma.tt/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>Working on collating some travel / WordCamp stats.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:27:09 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:3232:"<p>As an update to <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/01/top-emailers/">last year&#8217;s post</a>:</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://toni.org/">Toni Schneider</a> &#8212; 1,052</li>
<li><a href="http://mayadesai.wordpress.com/">Maya Desai</a> &#8212; 826</li>
<li>Mom &#8212; 659</li>
<li><a href="http://raanan.com/">Raanan Bar-Cohen</a> &#8212; 452</li>
<li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/">Donncha O Caoimh</a> &#8212; 424</li>
<li><a href="http://barry.wordpress.com/">Barry Abrahamson</a> &#8212; 386</li>
<li><a href="http://romanticrobot.net/">Mark Riley</a> &#8212; 222</li>
<li><a href="http://jane.wordpress.com/">Jane Wells</a> &#8212; 218</li>
<li><a href="http://boren.nu">Ryan Boren</a> &#8212; 200</li>
<li><a href="http://www.laptoptips.ca/">Andrew Ozz</a> &#8212; 197</li>
<li><a href="http://iammattthomas.com/">Matt Thomas</a> &#8212; 193</li>
<li><a href="http://bobulate.com/">Liz Danzico</a> &#8212; 148</li>
<li><a href="http://vcmike.wordpress.com/">Mike Hirshland</a> &#8212; 144</li>
<li><a href="http://www.heather-rasley.com/">Heather Rasley</a> &#8212; 139</li>
<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/">Joseph Scott</a> &#8212; 129</li>
</ol>
<p>I&#8217;ve expanded the list to 15. A lot of the same folks at the very top, but new faces in Liz and Jane from 2.5 and 2.7 usability cycles. Also three people on the list have changed their domain in the past year, just like I did. It must have been a year for that.</p>
<p>Also for fun here are some yearly posting stats courtesy of <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2007/01/01/sql-for-blog-stats">Alex&#8217;s queries</a>:</p>
<table cellspacing="10">
<tr>
<th width="50"></th>
<th>Posts</th>
<th>Avg. Words</th>
<th>Total Words</th>
<th>Avg. Comments</th>
<th>Total Comments</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2002</td>
<td align="right">360</td>
<td align="right">139</td>
<td align="right">50,190</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right">390</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2003</td>
<td align="right">429</td>
<td align="right">168</td>
<td align="right">72,359</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
<td align="right">1,287</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2004</td>
<td align="right">990</td>
<td align="right">54</td>
<td align="right">54,257</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
<td align="right">6,236</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2005</td>
<td align="right">624</td>
<td align="right">48</td>
<td align="right">30,090</td>
<td align="right">9</td>
<td align="right">5,963</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2006</td>
<td align="right">313</td>
<td align="right">70</td>
<td align="right">22,010</td>
<td align="right">11</td>
<td align="right">3,503</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2007</td>
<td align="right">334</td>
<td align="right">60</td>
<td align="right">20,267</td>
<td align="right">17</td>
<td align="right">5,919</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2008</td>
<td align="right">302</td>
<td align="right">50</td>
<td align="right">15,206</td>
<td align="right">21</td>
<td align="right">6,493</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>As you can see I&#8217;m doing fewer posts with fewer words than ever, but getting more comments. At this rate I&#8217;ll be down to 40 words per post next year. Yay brevity. <img src="http://ma.tt/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>Working on collating some travel / WordCamp stats.</p>";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:51:"Weblog Tools Collection: Maximum WordPress Security";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4898";s:4:"link";s:80:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/03/maximum-wordpress-security/";s:11:"description";s:2390:"<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/newwwpweeklylogo.png" align="right" /> I flew solo for episode 35 while Keith cranked out some college work. In this episode, I interviewed Mark E. who is just about ready to release the first beta of his comprehensive WordPress Security plugin called <a href="http://wpsecurity.net" target="_blank">Maximum Security</a>. During our discussion, it was easy to see that this plugin contains just about everything except the kitchen sink as it relates to security and WordPress. If you don&#8217;t believe me, <a href="http://wpsecurity.net/wordpress-maximum-security-features/" target="_blank">view the long list of features this plugin has</a> with more on the way. We also discussed security through obscurity, basic WordPress security practices and much more. Mark has 15 years of experience in network and system security and within this episode, he gave us about 4 years worth of experience in less than an hour!</p>
<p><strong>Plugin Of The Week:</strong><a href="http://www.fiddyp.co.uk/commentluv-wordpress-plugin/ ">Comment Luv</a> – Comments are a wonderful thing to receive on your blog and while adding the dofollow plugin is one way to reward your commenter&#8217;s, why not place a link to their last post under their comment. With CommentLuv, you can do that automatically! This is an excellent way to promote comments from your readers. The CommentLuv Wordpress Plugin will visit the feed of the comment author and attempt to scrape the last post they made and display it under their comment, this way you can encourage people to join in the discussion of your posts and give something back straight away. WordPress.</p>
<p><strong>Announcements:</strong> <a href="http://www.webmacster87.info/" target="_blank">Douglas Bell</a> will be our special guest on <strong>January 9th</strong>.</a>.  </p>
<h2>WPWeekly Meta:</h2>
<p><strong>Next Episode:</strong> Friday January 9th, 2008</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 23 Minutes</p>
<p><strong>Download The Show:</strong> <a href="http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-34224/TS-176073.mp3" target="_blank">WordPressWeeklyEpisode35.mp3</a></p>
<p><strong>Listen To Episode #35:</strong><br />
</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:11:22 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:2390:"<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/newwwpweeklylogo.png" align="right" /> I flew solo for episode 35 while Keith cranked out some college work. In this episode, I interviewed Mark E. who is just about ready to release the first beta of his comprehensive WordPress Security plugin called <a href="http://wpsecurity.net" target="_blank">Maximum Security</a>. During our discussion, it was easy to see that this plugin contains just about everything except the kitchen sink as it relates to security and WordPress. If you don&#8217;t believe me, <a href="http://wpsecurity.net/wordpress-maximum-security-features/" target="_blank">view the long list of features this plugin has</a> with more on the way. We also discussed security through obscurity, basic WordPress security practices and much more. Mark has 15 years of experience in network and system security and within this episode, he gave us about 4 years worth of experience in less than an hour!</p>
<p><strong>Plugin Of The Week:</strong><a href="http://www.fiddyp.co.uk/commentluv-wordpress-plugin/ ">Comment Luv</a> – Comments are a wonderful thing to receive on your blog and while adding the dofollow plugin is one way to reward your commenter&#8217;s, why not place a link to their last post under their comment. With CommentLuv, you can do that automatically! This is an excellent way to promote comments from your readers. The CommentLuv Wordpress Plugin will visit the feed of the comment author and attempt to scrape the last post they made and display it under their comment, this way you can encourage people to join in the discussion of your posts and give something back straight away. WordPress.</p>
<p><strong>Announcements:</strong> <a href="http://www.webmacster87.info/" target="_blank">Douglas Bell</a> will be our special guest on <strong>January 9th</strong>.</a>.  </p>
<h2>WPWeekly Meta:</h2>
<p><strong>Next Episode:</strong> Friday January 9th, 2008</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 23 Minutes</p>
<p><strong>Download The Show:</strong> <a href="http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-34224/TS-176073.mp3" target="_blank">WordPressWeeklyEpisode35.mp3</a></p>
<p><strong>Listen To Episode #35:</strong><br />
</p>";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 01/02";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4894";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/02/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0102/";s:11:"description";s:3998:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.improvingtheweb.com/wordpress-plugins/improved-plugin-installation/">Improved Plugin Installation</a></p>
<p>Improved Plugin Installation is an improvement to the current wordpress 2.7 plugin installation methods. It allows you to install one or more plugins simply by typing the names of the plugins or the download URLs. This means you can install all your favorite wordpress plugins in one go!</p>
<p><a href="http://w-shadow.com/blog/2008/12/31/aligning-images-in-rss-feeds/">Align RSS Images</a></p>
<p>Makes image alignment work in RSS feeds.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tomsdimension.de/wp-plugins/tiny-contact-form">Tiny Contact Form</a></p>
<p>Little form that allows site visitors to contact you.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tomsdimension.de/wp-plugins/tiny-spoiler">Tiny Spoiler</a></p>
<p>Use [spoiler name="top secret"]shows/hides this text[/spoiler] to create spoiler text</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tomsdimension.de/wp-plugins/readme-parser">Readme Parser</a></p>
<p>Shows any plugin readme.txt file on a page/post.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.anothercoder.com/wordpress/pathless-category-permalinks-plugin">Pathless Category Links</a></p>
<p>A WordPress plugin to remove the base category, e.g. the /category/, folder from your category links. 301 Redirects are added for old links.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/membership-site-memberwing/">Wordpress Membership Site Plugin Memberwing</a></p>
<p>MemberWing is a Wordpress Membership Plugin that allows to convert any self-hosted Wordpress blog into membership site. Free and paid versions available.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.trick77.com/2008/12/29/wordpress-plugin-widget-must-read-posts/">Must Read Posts</a></p>
<p>Retrieves posts (or pages) with a certain custom field (e.g. to permanently show your most recommended posts in a widget) and displays them in a list.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://simplepressforum.com/simplepress-forum-v400-released/">Simple:Press Forum</a></p>
<p>Simple:Press is a feature rich forum plugin for WordPress. It fully integrates into your WP based site utilizing the same user records and database and displaying on a single WP page. It is fully customizable and comes with a number of skins and sets of icons to get your started. Current users have shown it to be fully scalable whether your site membership numbers the tens or the thousands.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dashboardzone.com/">DashboardZone</a></p>
<p>When you start a new website or a blog your immediate goal is to get visitors to your site. Once you establish a good flow of visitors, your immediate next step is to convert your visitors to readers. This plugin will help you and your readers to keep you on track for reaching your targets. You can display your blog goals as Google gauges.</p>
<p><a href="http://blogspam.net/plugins/">Blogspam</a></p>
<p>This plugin will submit each of the comments your blog receives to an external RPC server for testing. If the service decides the comment was spam it will be accepted and dropped into your spam queue.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sattes-faction.de/picasaview">Picasaview</a></p>
<p>With picasaView you can easily view your picasaweb-albums in your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://dannyman.toldme.com/photos-flickr/">Photos Flickr</a></p>
<p>Photos Flickr provides for basic browsing of a Flickr photo stream from within a WordPress blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.svenkubiak.de/wordpress-plugin/">Change Uploaded File Permissions</a></p>
<p>This plugin changes the file permissions of thumbnails, pictures and files after the upload. <em>Page in German</em>.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/auto-blogroll/">Auto BlogRoll</a></p>
<p>Instantly generates a auto blogroll page for Wordpress blogs based on the active theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.phpvrouwen.nl/twitme/">Twitme</a></p>
<p>This plugin allows you to automatically post your new posts on the twitter website.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:30:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:3998:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.improvingtheweb.com/wordpress-plugins/improved-plugin-installation/">Improved Plugin Installation</a></p>
<p>Improved Plugin Installation is an improvement to the current wordpress 2.7 plugin installation methods. It allows you to install one or more plugins simply by typing the names of the plugins or the download URLs. This means you can install all your favorite wordpress plugins in one go!</p>
<p><a href="http://w-shadow.com/blog/2008/12/31/aligning-images-in-rss-feeds/">Align RSS Images</a></p>
<p>Makes image alignment work in RSS feeds.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tomsdimension.de/wp-plugins/tiny-contact-form">Tiny Contact Form</a></p>
<p>Little form that allows site visitors to contact you.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tomsdimension.de/wp-plugins/tiny-spoiler">Tiny Spoiler</a></p>
<p>Use [spoiler name="top secret"]shows/hides this text[/spoiler] to create spoiler text</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tomsdimension.de/wp-plugins/readme-parser">Readme Parser</a></p>
<p>Shows any plugin readme.txt file on a page/post.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.anothercoder.com/wordpress/pathless-category-permalinks-plugin">Pathless Category Links</a></p>
<p>A WordPress plugin to remove the base category, e.g. the /category/, folder from your category links. 301 Redirects are added for old links.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/membership-site-memberwing/">Wordpress Membership Site Plugin Memberwing</a></p>
<p>MemberWing is a Wordpress Membership Plugin that allows to convert any self-hosted Wordpress blog into membership site. Free and paid versions available.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.trick77.com/2008/12/29/wordpress-plugin-widget-must-read-posts/">Must Read Posts</a></p>
<p>Retrieves posts (or pages) with a certain custom field (e.g. to permanently show your most recommended posts in a widget) and displays them in a list.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://simplepressforum.com/simplepress-forum-v400-released/">Simple:Press Forum</a></p>
<p>Simple:Press is a feature rich forum plugin for WordPress. It fully integrates into your WP based site utilizing the same user records and database and displaying on a single WP page. It is fully customizable and comes with a number of skins and sets of icons to get your started. Current users have shown it to be fully scalable whether your site membership numbers the tens or the thousands.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dashboardzone.com/">DashboardZone</a></p>
<p>When you start a new website or a blog your immediate goal is to get visitors to your site. Once you establish a good flow of visitors, your immediate next step is to convert your visitors to readers. This plugin will help you and your readers to keep you on track for reaching your targets. You can display your blog goals as Google gauges.</p>
<p><a href="http://blogspam.net/plugins/">Blogspam</a></p>
<p>This plugin will submit each of the comments your blog receives to an external RPC server for testing. If the service decides the comment was spam it will be accepted and dropped into your spam queue.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sattes-faction.de/picasaview">Picasaview</a></p>
<p>With picasaView you can easily view your picasaweb-albums in your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://dannyman.toldme.com/photos-flickr/">Photos Flickr</a></p>
<p>Photos Flickr provides for basic browsing of a Flickr photo stream from within a WordPress blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.svenkubiak.de/wordpress-plugin/">Change Uploaded File Permissions</a></p>
<p>This plugin changes the file permissions of thumbnails, pictures and files after the upload. <em>Page in German</em>.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/auto-blogroll/">Auto BlogRoll</a></p>
<p>Instantly generates a auto blogroll page for Wordpress blogs based on the active theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.phpvrouwen.nl/twitme/">Twitme</a></p>
<p>This plugin allows you to automatically post your new posts on the twitter website.</p>";}i:11;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:44:"Weblog Tools Collection: Shubho Nobo Borsho!";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4891";s:4:"link";s:72:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/01/shubho-nobo-borsho/";s:11:"description";s:4981:"<p>Well, that is Happy New Year in Bengali. So we wish all our readers a Happy and Prosperous New Year!</p>
<p>Our little blog grew slowly but steadily in the last year and our editors, authors and well wishers have made it possible for us to not only provide you with the most useful and up to date WordPress news, but we have been able to organize and support our Annual <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/">WordPress Plugin Competition</a>, have been able to visit a couple of <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/">WordCamps</a> around the US and have started a couple of <a href="http://weblogtoolsvideos.com">new</a> <a href="http://pressitfor.me">services</a> around WordPress. If you want to know what the team is up to, be sure to check out the <a href="http://midout.com">Weblog Tools Collection Crew LifeStream</a>.</p>
<p>As always, we have been trying to improve our content, add more features and services, be good citizens of the WordPress world, all the while trying to increase our readership and our distribution.</p>
<ul>
<li>We have brought back the <a href="http://es.weblogtoolscollection.com/">Spanish Version of this blog</a>. It was originally started as a small side project along with a German version but we found it difficult to find human translators for them. This new version is translated by a paid translation service called <a href="http://www.icanlocalize.com/blog-translation.html">ICanLocalize</a> and is using their custom designed WordPress plugin which we helped test and implement. I have to say that after having had such a hard time with translators in the past, I was very apprehensive of any such relationship. But Amir Helzer and his team of translators have not only been helpful, but they have shown dedication and care that is rare in this world of online business. The service is completely automatic and both comments and posts are automagically submitted for human translation through the plugin. Though the service is not cheap, it gives our blog a nice edge. So if you would like to read this blog in Spanish, please head over to <a href="http://es.weblogtoolscollection.com/">WeblogToolsCollection Español</a> and subscribe.</li>
<li>We have made some changes to the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/plugins/oiopub-direct/purchase.php?do=banner">advertiser requirements</a> on this blog, much of which drastically reduces our revenue. We now require that all our advertisers who want to promote WordPress plugins and themes, release their themes and plugins under the GPL or a GPL compatible license to be eligible to advertise on Weblog Tools Collection and related properties. Existing ads will be forced to expire and will not be renewed. We will also not link to any work from Premium Theme and Plugin authors that do not release their themes and/or plugins under a GPL or compatible license.</li>
<li>Jeff Chandler has restarted his <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/category/wordpress-weekly/">WordPress Weekly</a> podcast under the auspices of Weblog Tools Collection and judging from the download numbers and the listener particpation numbers, it has been a resounding success. You can <a href="itpc://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss34224.xml">subscribe to WordPress Weekly via iTunes</a>. Jeff has had put together some <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/19/2hr-interview-with-matt-mullenweg/">fantastic</a> <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/20/wordpress-gone-social-buddypress/">shows</a> for us already and we are excited to see what the new year holds in store.</li>
<li>Ajay is re-starting his &#8220;A Plugin A Day&#8221; or <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/category/apad/">APAD WordPress Plugin Reviews</a> which is always a lot of fun and is received well by our readers. We have received hundreds of applications to be considered for APAD and will be starting to publish them very soon.</li>
<li>We will hold another WordPress Plugin Competition this year. But in addition to the Plugin Competition, if advertising picks up, we would also like to start a Weblog Tools Collection College Scholarship to promote WordPress development and help students dip their toe in WordPress. Stay tuned for further details.</li>
</ul>
<p>For all of us here at Weblog Tools Collection, our little endeavor is a painstaking labor of love. We love the attention but also love to receive feedback. To all of you who have sent us your comments and suggestions, we say thank you. We have paid close attention to all the suggestions and have tried to incorporate them into our world as best we can.</p>
<p>We would also like to say thanks to our readers for making us your Number One source for WordPress and blogging news and to the WordPress team for producing this fantastic tool for us to use and enjoy.</p>
<p>We raise our imaginary glasses in a toast to another great year of blogging with WordPress.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:30:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:4981:"<p>Well, that is Happy New Year in Bengali. So we wish all our readers a Happy and Prosperous New Year!</p>
<p>Our little blog grew slowly but steadily in the last year and our editors, authors and well wishers have made it possible for us to not only provide you with the most useful and up to date WordPress news, but we have been able to organize and support our Annual <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/">WordPress Plugin Competition</a>, have been able to visit a couple of <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/">WordCamps</a> around the US and have started a couple of <a href="http://weblogtoolsvideos.com">new</a> <a href="http://pressitfor.me">services</a> around WordPress. If you want to know what the team is up to, be sure to check out the <a href="http://midout.com">Weblog Tools Collection Crew LifeStream</a>.</p>
<p>As always, we have been trying to improve our content, add more features and services, be good citizens of the WordPress world, all the while trying to increase our readership and our distribution.</p>
<ul>
<li>We have brought back the <a href="http://es.weblogtoolscollection.com/">Spanish Version of this blog</a>. It was originally started as a small side project along with a German version but we found it difficult to find human translators for them. This new version is translated by a paid translation service called <a href="http://www.icanlocalize.com/blog-translation.html">ICanLocalize</a> and is using their custom designed WordPress plugin which we helped test and implement. I have to say that after having had such a hard time with translators in the past, I was very apprehensive of any such relationship. But Amir Helzer and his team of translators have not only been helpful, but they have shown dedication and care that is rare in this world of online business. The service is completely automatic and both comments and posts are automagically submitted for human translation through the plugin. Though the service is not cheap, it gives our blog a nice edge. So if you would like to read this blog in Spanish, please head over to <a href="http://es.weblogtoolscollection.com/">WeblogToolsCollection Español</a> and subscribe.</li>
<li>We have made some changes to the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/plugins/oiopub-direct/purchase.php?do=banner">advertiser requirements</a> on this blog, much of which drastically reduces our revenue. We now require that all our advertisers who want to promote WordPress plugins and themes, release their themes and plugins under the GPL or a GPL compatible license to be eligible to advertise on Weblog Tools Collection and related properties. Existing ads will be forced to expire and will not be renewed. We will also not link to any work from Premium Theme and Plugin authors that do not release their themes and/or plugins under a GPL or compatible license.</li>
<li>Jeff Chandler has restarted his <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/category/wordpress-weekly/">WordPress Weekly</a> podcast under the auspices of Weblog Tools Collection and judging from the download numbers and the listener particpation numbers, it has been a resounding success. You can <a href="itpc://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss34224.xml">subscribe to WordPress Weekly via iTunes</a>. Jeff has had put together some <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/19/2hr-interview-with-matt-mullenweg/">fantastic</a> <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/20/wordpress-gone-social-buddypress/">shows</a> for us already and we are excited to see what the new year holds in store.</li>
<li>Ajay is re-starting his &#8220;A Plugin A Day&#8221; or <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/category/apad/">APAD WordPress Plugin Reviews</a> which is always a lot of fun and is received well by our readers. We have received hundreds of applications to be considered for APAD and will be starting to publish them very soon.</li>
<li>We will hold another WordPress Plugin Competition this year. But in addition to the Plugin Competition, if advertising picks up, we would also like to start a Weblog Tools Collection College Scholarship to promote WordPress development and help students dip their toe in WordPress. Stay tuned for further details.</li>
</ul>
<p>For all of us here at Weblog Tools Collection, our little endeavor is a painstaking labor of love. We love the attention but also love to receive feedback. To all of you who have sent us your comments and suggestions, we say thank you. We have paid close attention to all the suggestions and have tried to incorporate them into our world as best we can.</p>
<p>We would also like to say thanks to our readers for making us your Number One source for WordPress and blogging news and to the WordPress team for producing this fantastic tool for us to use and enjoy.</p>
<p>We raise our imaginary glasses in a toast to another great year of blogging with WordPress.</p>";}i:12;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 12/31";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4889";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/31/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1231/";s:11:"description";s:2631:"<p><a href="http://www.hellbiscuit.com/?p=86"><strong>Gumball Special</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://themes.hellbiscuit.com/"><img title="gumball" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/gumball.png" border="0" alt="gumball" width="148" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, gravatar ready, magazine style theme with custom image fields.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dinpattern.com/pages/simply-ornate.php"><strong>Simply Ornate</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="simplyornate" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/simplyornate.jpg" border="0" alt="simplyornate" width="164" height="114" /></p>
<p>Two column, blue and black theme with support for Flickr, tabbed sidebar. The theme displays four posts on the homepage.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wpthemes.org.ua/?p=11"><strong>Christmas Light</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="ChristmasLight" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/christmaslight.png" border="0" alt="ChristmasLight" width="187" height="114" /></p>
<p>Template consists of two columns, fixed width layout, supports widgets, comments, is static in size. In the pattern dominated by red and blue color.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theenglishguy.co.uk/shocking-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Shocking</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="shocking-screenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/shockingscreenshot.png" border="0" alt="shocking-screenshot" width="135" height="114" /></p>
<p>Theme consists of two columns, supports widgets and gravatars, comments, fixed width.</p>
<p><a href="http://paulicio.us/2008/11/05/viewport-a-free-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Viewport</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://labs.paulicio.us/viewport/"><img title="Viewport" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/viewport.png" border="0" alt="Viewport" width="97" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Viewport, a free Wordpress theme created by <a href="http://paulicio.us/">Paul Bennett</a> is focused around a clean and simple, content based layout. The aim is to grab the user’s attention and draw them straight into the content. On the single post page the content is laid out clearly in full, with post controls and a widget-enabled sidebar. The theme also allows the blog owner to change the background image and color, and the image of the ‘Where Next?’ page.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.clearskys.net/themes/redirectr-theme/"><strong>Redirectr</strong></a></p>
<p>redirectr is a WordPress theme with a difference. It produces no output at all. redirectr is designed as a simple method of redirecting the traffic from an existing (old) blog to a new blog or site.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:30:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2631:"<p><a href="http://www.hellbiscuit.com/?p=86"><strong>Gumball Special</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://themes.hellbiscuit.com/"><img title="gumball" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/gumball.png" border="0" alt="gumball" width="148" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, gravatar ready, magazine style theme with custom image fields.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dinpattern.com/pages/simply-ornate.php"><strong>Simply Ornate</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="simplyornate" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/simplyornate.jpg" border="0" alt="simplyornate" width="164" height="114" /></p>
<p>Two column, blue and black theme with support for Flickr, tabbed sidebar. The theme displays four posts on the homepage.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wpthemes.org.ua/?p=11"><strong>Christmas Light</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="ChristmasLight" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/christmaslight.png" border="0" alt="ChristmasLight" width="187" height="114" /></p>
<p>Template consists of two columns, fixed width layout, supports widgets, comments, is static in size. In the pattern dominated by red and blue color.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theenglishguy.co.uk/shocking-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Shocking</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="shocking-screenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/shockingscreenshot.png" border="0" alt="shocking-screenshot" width="135" height="114" /></p>
<p>Theme consists of two columns, supports widgets and gravatars, comments, fixed width.</p>
<p><a href="http://paulicio.us/2008/11/05/viewport-a-free-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Viewport</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://labs.paulicio.us/viewport/"><img title="Viewport" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/viewport.png" border="0" alt="Viewport" width="97" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Viewport, a free Wordpress theme created by <a href="http://paulicio.us/">Paul Bennett</a> is focused around a clean and simple, content based layout. The aim is to grab the user’s attention and draw them straight into the content. On the single post page the content is laid out clearly in full, with post controls and a widget-enabled sidebar. The theme also allows the blog owner to change the background image and color, and the image of the ‘Where Next?’ page.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.clearskys.net/themes/redirectr-theme/"><strong>Redirectr</strong></a></p>
<p>redirectr is a WordPress theme with a difference. It produces no output at all. redirectr is designed as a simple method of redirecting the traffic from an existing (old) blog to a new blog or site.</p>";}i:13;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:49:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress News for 12/31";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4764";s:4:"link";s:77:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/31/wordpress-news-for-1231/";s:11:"description";s:1189:"<p><a href="http://symbianworld.org/1086-wordmobi-wordpress-client-for-s60/">Wordmobi: Wordpress Client for S60</a>.: Wordmobi is a WordPress client for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S60_platform">Symbian S60</a> series of devices. You do need to download and install Python on your device for this client to work.</p>
<p><a href="http://sixrevisions.com/wordpress/30-excellent-wordpress-video-tutorials/">30 Excellent WordPress video Tutorials</a> lists a lot of good videos including videos for administration of WordPress, getting started, theme development and WordPress tools.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.drinkbrainjuice.com/blogo">Blogo</a> is a blog editor for the Mac and <a href="http://mashable.com/2008/12/27/blogo/">Mashable has a nice review</a> for the application. <em>The new release also adds comment moderation for Wordpress 2.7 or higher, improved Safari integration, and offline editing. </em>I personally never got into desktop applications for blogging but I happen to find some sort of creative solace in the WordPress admin interface. <img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:30:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1189:"<p><a href="http://symbianworld.org/1086-wordmobi-wordpress-client-for-s60/">Wordmobi: Wordpress Client for S60</a>.: Wordmobi is a WordPress client for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S60_platform">Symbian S60</a> series of devices. You do need to download and install Python on your device for this client to work.</p>
<p><a href="http://sixrevisions.com/wordpress/30-excellent-wordpress-video-tutorials/">30 Excellent WordPress video Tutorials</a> lists a lot of good videos including videos for administration of WordPress, getting started, theme development and WordPress tools.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.drinkbrainjuice.com/blogo">Blogo</a> is a blog editor for the Mac and <a href="http://mashable.com/2008/12/27/blogo/">Mashable has a nice review</a> for the application. <em>The new release also adds comment moderation for Wordpress 2.7 or higher, improved Safari integration, and offline editing. </em>I personally never got into desktop applications for blogging but I happen to find some sort of creative solace in the WordPress admin interface. <img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /></p>";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 12/30";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4879";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/30/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1230/";s:11:"description";s:2834:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://pluginscatalog.com/plugins/profiler.html">Profiler</a></p>
<p>Profiler is a plugin for generating and displaying profiles for the registered users on a WordPress site. It is intended to be a “set it and forget it” plugin. You do not have to have any programming knowledge to use this plugin.</p>
<p><a href="http://trackthis.yotify.com/">TrackThis</a></p>
<p>A plugin by <a href="http://Yotify.com">Yotify.com</a>, a personal web scouting service enabling users to track anything on the Internet and enlist their friends to help.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dandyid-services/">DandyID</a></p>
<p>DandyID is a free service that enables you to easily connect all of your online identities.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.michael-baker.com/simple_shortcodes.html">Simple Shortcodes</a></p>
<p>Simple Shortcodes provides an easy to use mechanism for creating and using custom shortcodes.</p>
<p><a href="http://adriancallaghan.co.uk/clikstats/">clikStats</a></p>
<p>clikStats is a wordpress plugin that automatically logs the number of clicks within a post.</p>
<p><a href="http://andrewjaswa.com/bird-feeder">Bird Feeder</a></p>
<p>Tweets your about your posts when they are published.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/magpierss-simplified/">MagpieRSS Simplified</a></p>
<p>MagpieRSS is already integrated with WordPress, this plugin will allow you to implement it easily within your theme.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.blogtrafficexchange.com/old-post-promoter/">Old Post Promoter</a></p>
<p>Old Post Promoter random selects an old post for promotion onto the front page and into the RSS feed in either 1st or 2nd position. There are a variety of timing options and a no old post promotion category blacklist.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogtrafficexchange.com/blog-copyright/">Blog Copyright</a></p>
<p>Blog Copyright injects a copyright notice into the footer of your blog. I maintains the original year while adding a range to the current year. There are a variety of other options.</p>
<p><a href="http://wp.gdragon.info/2008/12/30/gd-star-rating-108/">GD Star Rating</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 widgets build in and shortcode support.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.janek-niefeldt.de/blog/mycustomwidget/">My Custom Widgets</a></p>
<p>Plugin to create your own custom widgets</p>
<p><a href="http://www.weinschenker.name/plugin-feed-reading-blogroll/">Feed Reading Blogroll</a></p>
<p>The plugin checks and displays for all your blogroll-bookmarks with a separate saved feed-url, when the most recent update has occurred at the bookmark site.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:30:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2834:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://pluginscatalog.com/plugins/profiler.html">Profiler</a></p>
<p>Profiler is a plugin for generating and displaying profiles for the registered users on a WordPress site. It is intended to be a “set it and forget it” plugin. You do not have to have any programming knowledge to use this plugin.</p>
<p><a href="http://trackthis.yotify.com/">TrackThis</a></p>
<p>A plugin by <a href="http://Yotify.com">Yotify.com</a>, a personal web scouting service enabling users to track anything on the Internet and enlist their friends to help.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dandyid-services/">DandyID</a></p>
<p>DandyID is a free service that enables you to easily connect all of your online identities.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.michael-baker.com/simple_shortcodes.html">Simple Shortcodes</a></p>
<p>Simple Shortcodes provides an easy to use mechanism for creating and using custom shortcodes.</p>
<p><a href="http://adriancallaghan.co.uk/clikstats/">clikStats</a></p>
<p>clikStats is a wordpress plugin that automatically logs the number of clicks within a post.</p>
<p><a href="http://andrewjaswa.com/bird-feeder">Bird Feeder</a></p>
<p>Tweets your about your posts when they are published.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/magpierss-simplified/">MagpieRSS Simplified</a></p>
<p>MagpieRSS is already integrated with WordPress, this plugin will allow you to implement it easily within your theme.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.blogtrafficexchange.com/old-post-promoter/">Old Post Promoter</a></p>
<p>Old Post Promoter random selects an old post for promotion onto the front page and into the RSS feed in either 1st or 2nd position. There are a variety of timing options and a no old post promotion category blacklist.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogtrafficexchange.com/blog-copyright/">Blog Copyright</a></p>
<p>Blog Copyright injects a copyright notice into the footer of your blog. I maintains the original year while adding a range to the current year. There are a variety of other options.</p>
<p><a href="http://wp.gdragon.info/2008/12/30/gd-star-rating-108/">GD Star Rating</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 widgets build in and shortcode support.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.janek-niefeldt.de/blog/mycustomwidget/">My Custom Widgets</a></p>
<p>Plugin to create your own custom widgets</p>
<p><a href="http://www.weinschenker.name/plugin-feed-reading-blogroll/">Feed Reading Blogroll</a></p>
<p>The plugin checks and displays for all your blogroll-bookmarks with a separate saved feed-url, when the most recent update has occurred at the bookmark site.</p>";}i:15;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: Top 10 WordPress Plugin Developers";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4875";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/28/top-10-wordpress-plugin-developers/";s:11:"description";s:422:"<p><a href="http://w-shadow.com/blog/2008/12/28/top-10-wordpress-plugin-developers/">Top 10 WordPress Plugin Developers</a> takes a look at the top plugin authors ranked by the number of downloads from the WordPress Plugin Repository. Also includes a few other statistics. You can check out the more exhaustive <a href="http://w-shadow.com/files/top-1000-plugin-authors.html">Top 1000 list</a>. What&#8217;s your rank?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:30:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:422:"<p><a href="http://w-shadow.com/blog/2008/12/28/top-10-wordpress-plugin-developers/">Top 10 WordPress Plugin Developers</a> takes a look at the top plugin authors ranked by the number of downloads from the WordPress Plugin Repository. Also includes a few other statistics. You can check out the more exhaustive <a href="http://w-shadow.com/files/top-1000-plugin-authors.html">Top 1000 list</a>. What&#8217;s your rank?</p>";}i:16;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:44:"Weblog Tools Collection: Best Of WLTC Part 2";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4871";s:4:"link";s:73:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/28/best-of-wltc-part-2/";s:11:"description";s:6129:"<p>This is part two in the best of WeblogToolsCollection.com series (<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/27/best-of-wltc-part-1/">view part one here</a>). The following links are posts which were published during 2008. These posts range from special news articles, guides, tutorials, reviews, opinion pieces and more. We look forward to continue bringing you the best WordPress information from across the web and wish you and yours a very safe, happy new year.</p>
<h2>July:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/07/12/how-many-queries-are-too-many/">How many Queries are too many?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/07/14/evolution-of-wordpress-b2cafelog-to-wordpress-10/">Evolution of WordPress: B2/Cafelog to WordPress 1.0</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/07/18/new-wordpress-theme-directory/">NEW WordPress Theme Directory</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/07/22/wordpress-iphone-app-now-available/">WordPress iPhone App Now Available</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/07/22/how-to-get-featured-in-our-daily-releases/">How to get featured in our Daily Releases</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/07/31/features-plannwordpress-27/">Features Planned for WordPress 2.7</a></p>
<h2>August:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/08/wordpress-27-plugin-uninstall-methods/">WordPress 2.7 Plugin Uninstall Methods</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/09/if-then-else/">If, Then, Else</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/15/wp-plugin-where-did-they-go-from-here-updated/">WP Plugin: &#8220;Where did they go from here&#8221; Updated</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/16/what-does-the-blurb-on-top-of-plugins-link-mean/">What Does the Blurb on Top of Plugins Link Mean?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/18/be-kind-educate/">Be Kind, Educate</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/20/safest-way-to-include-plugin-code-in-themes/">Safest Way to Include Plugin Code in Themes</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/24/stop-blaming-the-wordpress-team/">Stop Blaming The WordPress Team</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/27/tackle-plugin-compatibility-issues-while-using-popular-libraries/">Tackle Plugin Compatibility Issues While Using Popular Libraries</a></p>
<h2>September:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/02/first-look-at-wordpress-27/">First Look At WordPress 2.7</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/07/the-road-to-automation/">The Road To Automation</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/21/wordpress-weekly-is-back/">WordPress Weekly Is Back</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/23/comment-spam-with-more-kung-fu/">Comment Spam with more Kung Fu?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/29/wltc-reader-survey-results/">WLTC Reader Survey Results</a></p>
<h2>October:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/01/revolution-theme-going-open-source/">Revolution Theme Going Open Source</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/04/ian-stewart-on-child-themes-part-1/">Ian Stewart On Child Themes - Part 1</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/05/ian-stewart-on-child-themes-part-2/">Ian Stewart On Child Themes - Part 2</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/08/where-is-that-settings-page/">Where Is That Settings Page?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/20/tutorial-creating-custom-write-panels-in-wordpress/">Tutorial: Creating Custom Write Panels in WordPress</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/26/moderate-comments-from-your-desktop/">Moderate Comments From Your Desktop</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/31/scary-wordpress-moments/">Scary WordPress Moments</a></p>
<h2>November:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/04/are-your-theme%e2%80%99s-comments-wordpress-27-compatible/">Are your theme&#8217;s comments WordPress 2.7 compatible?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/05/were-not-done-voting-yet/">We&#8217;re Not Done Voting Yet</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/09/this-time-its-personal/">This time, it&#8217;s personal</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/19/why-27-is-not-30/">Why 2.7 Is Not 3.0</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/27/giving-thanks/">Giving Thanks</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/30/drupal-59-to-wordpress-26/">Drupal 5.9 To WordPress 2.6</a></p>
<h2>December:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/01/another-wordpress-milestone/">Another WordPress Milestone</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/03/enhanced-wordpress-theme-generator/">Enhanced WordPress Theme Generator</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/16/a-long-look-back/">A Long Look Back</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/16/easycomment-firefox-extension/">easyComment Firefox Extension</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/19/mastering-your-wordpress-27-theme-admin-area/">Mastering Your WordPress 2.7 Theme &amp; Admin Area</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/19/2hr-interview-with-matt-mullenweg/">2hr Interview With Matt Mullenweg</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/24/wordpress-forum-user-guide/">WordPress Forum User Guide</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:30:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:6129:"<p>This is part two in the best of WeblogToolsCollection.com series (<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/27/best-of-wltc-part-1/">view part one here</a>). The following links are posts which were published during 2008. These posts range from special news articles, guides, tutorials, reviews, opinion pieces and more. We look forward to continue bringing you the best WordPress information from across the web and wish you and yours a very safe, happy new year.</p>
<h2>July:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/07/12/how-many-queries-are-too-many/">How many Queries are too many?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/07/14/evolution-of-wordpress-b2cafelog-to-wordpress-10/">Evolution of WordPress: B2/Cafelog to WordPress 1.0</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/07/18/new-wordpress-theme-directory/">NEW WordPress Theme Directory</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/07/22/wordpress-iphone-app-now-available/">WordPress iPhone App Now Available</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/07/22/how-to-get-featured-in-our-daily-releases/">How to get featured in our Daily Releases</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/07/31/features-plannwordpress-27/">Features Planned for WordPress 2.7</a></p>
<h2>August:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/08/wordpress-27-plugin-uninstall-methods/">WordPress 2.7 Plugin Uninstall Methods</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/09/if-then-else/">If, Then, Else</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/15/wp-plugin-where-did-they-go-from-here-updated/">WP Plugin: &#8220;Where did they go from here&#8221; Updated</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/16/what-does-the-blurb-on-top-of-plugins-link-mean/">What Does the Blurb on Top of Plugins Link Mean?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/18/be-kind-educate/">Be Kind, Educate</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/20/safest-way-to-include-plugin-code-in-themes/">Safest Way to Include Plugin Code in Themes</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/24/stop-blaming-the-wordpress-team/">Stop Blaming The WordPress Team</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/27/tackle-plugin-compatibility-issues-while-using-popular-libraries/">Tackle Plugin Compatibility Issues While Using Popular Libraries</a></p>
<h2>September:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/02/first-look-at-wordpress-27/">First Look At WordPress 2.7</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/07/the-road-to-automation/">The Road To Automation</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/21/wordpress-weekly-is-back/">WordPress Weekly Is Back</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/23/comment-spam-with-more-kung-fu/">Comment Spam with more Kung Fu?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/29/wltc-reader-survey-results/">WLTC Reader Survey Results</a></p>
<h2>October:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/01/revolution-theme-going-open-source/">Revolution Theme Going Open Source</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/04/ian-stewart-on-child-themes-part-1/">Ian Stewart On Child Themes - Part 1</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/05/ian-stewart-on-child-themes-part-2/">Ian Stewart On Child Themes - Part 2</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/08/where-is-that-settings-page/">Where Is That Settings Page?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/20/tutorial-creating-custom-write-panels-in-wordpress/">Tutorial: Creating Custom Write Panels in WordPress</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/26/moderate-comments-from-your-desktop/">Moderate Comments From Your Desktop</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/31/scary-wordpress-moments/">Scary WordPress Moments</a></p>
<h2>November:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/04/are-your-theme%e2%80%99s-comments-wordpress-27-compatible/">Are your theme&#8217;s comments WordPress 2.7 compatible?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/05/were-not-done-voting-yet/">We&#8217;re Not Done Voting Yet</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/09/this-time-its-personal/">This time, it&#8217;s personal</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/19/why-27-is-not-30/">Why 2.7 Is Not 3.0</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/27/giving-thanks/">Giving Thanks</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/30/drupal-59-to-wordpress-26/">Drupal 5.9 To WordPress 2.6</a></p>
<h2>December:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/01/another-wordpress-milestone/">Another WordPress Milestone</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/03/enhanced-wordpress-theme-generator/">Enhanced WordPress Theme Generator</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/16/a-long-look-back/">A Long Look Back</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/16/easycomment-firefox-extension/">easyComment Firefox Extension</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/19/mastering-your-wordpress-27-theme-admin-area/">Mastering Your WordPress 2.7 Theme &amp; Admin Area</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/19/2hr-interview-with-matt-mullenweg/">2hr Interview With Matt Mullenweg</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/24/wordpress-forum-user-guide/">WordPress Forum User Guide</a></p>";}i:17;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:55:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases 12/28";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4865";s:4:"link";s:83:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/28/wordpress-theme-releases-1228/";s:11:"description";s:2915:"<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/wpthemes/connections-reloaded/"><strong>Connections Reloaded</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://demoblog.ajaydsouza.net/index.php?wptheme=Connections+Reloaded"><img title="connections-reloaded" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/connectionsreloaded.png" border="0" alt="connections-reloaded" width="156" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, fixed width theme derived from the <a href="http://vanillamist.com/blog/?page_id=81">Connections</a> theme by <a href="http://www.patriciamuller.com">Patricia Müller</a>. The theme is gravatar ready, tag ready, widget ready (with custom widgets), with support for custom header images, threaded and paged comments (introduced in WordPress 2.7) and SEO titles. Includes page templates for links, archives, pages with comments.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/24/christmas-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Christmas</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.instantshift.com/wpthemes/"><img title="Christmas" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/christmas.jpg" border="0" alt="Christmas" width="129" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>The theme has a 2-column-based fixed width layout and, is based on Christmas and holidays and has some fresh appealing funky icons. The PSD source file of the logo image has also been included with the package.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.clickfire.com/biruality-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Biruality</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="biruality-wordpress-theme-screenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/birualitywordpressthemescreenshot.png" border="0" alt="biruality-wordpress-theme-screenshot" width="117" height="114" /></p>
<p>Biruality is a simple, 2-column layout with rounded corners. The theme is clean, fast and blue (biru means blue in Indonesian).</p>
<p><a href="http://i-exist.co.cc/theme/"><strong>Pellucid Dashed</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="pellucid" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/pellucid.jpg" border="0" alt="pellucid" width="179" height="114" /></p>
<p>Two column, widget ready theme</p>
<p><a href="http://theblogosaurus.com/?page_id=5"><strong>Blogosaurus</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="blogo_theme" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/blogo-theme.gif" border="0" alt="blogo_theme" width="200" height="93" /></p>
<p>The Blogosaurus is a free three column WordPress theme. It features vibrant colors and a secure content area.</p>
<p><a href="http://publisher-heaven.com/2008/12/05/going-pro-simple-mind-20.html"><strong>Going Pro - Simple Mind</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="Going Pro - Simple Mind" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/goingprosimplemind.jpg" border="0" alt="Going Pro - Simple Mind" width="87" height="114" /></p>
<p>Widget ready, two column theme with support for threaded comments / paginated comments. Available in two colors.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:30:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2915:"<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/wpthemes/connections-reloaded/"><strong>Connections Reloaded</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://demoblog.ajaydsouza.net/index.php?wptheme=Connections+Reloaded"><img title="connections-reloaded" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/connectionsreloaded.png" border="0" alt="connections-reloaded" width="156" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, fixed width theme derived from the <a href="http://vanillamist.com/blog/?page_id=81">Connections</a> theme by <a href="http://www.patriciamuller.com">Patricia Müller</a>. The theme is gravatar ready, tag ready, widget ready (with custom widgets), with support for custom header images, threaded and paged comments (introduced in WordPress 2.7) and SEO titles. Includes page templates for links, archives, pages with comments.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/24/christmas-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Christmas</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.instantshift.com/wpthemes/"><img title="Christmas" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/christmas.jpg" border="0" alt="Christmas" width="129" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>The theme has a 2-column-based fixed width layout and, is based on Christmas and holidays and has some fresh appealing funky icons. The PSD source file of the logo image has also been included with the package.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.clickfire.com/biruality-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Biruality</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="biruality-wordpress-theme-screenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/birualitywordpressthemescreenshot.png" border="0" alt="biruality-wordpress-theme-screenshot" width="117" height="114" /></p>
<p>Biruality is a simple, 2-column layout with rounded corners. The theme is clean, fast and blue (biru means blue in Indonesian).</p>
<p><a href="http://i-exist.co.cc/theme/"><strong>Pellucid Dashed</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="pellucid" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/pellucid.jpg" border="0" alt="pellucid" width="179" height="114" /></p>
<p>Two column, widget ready theme</p>
<p><a href="http://theblogosaurus.com/?page_id=5"><strong>Blogosaurus</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="blogo_theme" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/blogo-theme.gif" border="0" alt="blogo_theme" width="200" height="93" /></p>
<p>The Blogosaurus is a free three column WordPress theme. It features vibrant colors and a secure content area.</p>
<p><a href="http://publisher-heaven.com/2008/12/05/going-pro-simple-mind-20.html"><strong>Going Pro - Simple Mind</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="Going Pro - Simple Mind" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/goingprosimplemind.jpg" border="0" alt="Going Pro - Simple Mind" width="87" height="114" /></p>
<p>Widget ready, two column theme with support for threaded comments / paginated comments. Available in two colors.</p>";}i:18;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:44:"Weblog Tools Collection: Best Of WLTC Part 1";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4856";s:4:"link";s:73:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/27/best-of-wltc-part-1/";s:11:"description";s:11887:"<p>As most of us know, WordPress development happens at a record pace and trying to keep up with everything is a daunting task. However, the team here at WLTC does a great job filtering all of the WordPress related content on the web to bring the best to you. During the course of a year, this content adds up. Some of it being news posts, how-to guides, reviews, breaking news, etc. So, since it&#8217;s near the end of the year, I thought I would take a trip through the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/narchives/">WLTC Archive</a> and revisit come classic posts from 2008.</p>
<p>This series is broken up into two parts. The first part covers the months of <strong>January-June</strong> while part two takes care of <strong>July-December</strong>. When you browse through the links, let us know which one was your favorite or perhaps, which one has been the most helpful to you.</p>
<h2>January:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/12/30/install-wordpress-locally-1-of-2/">Install WordPress Locally 1 Of 2</a> </p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/03/install-wordpress-locally-part-2-of-2/">Install WordPress Locally - Part 2 Of 2</a> </p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/07/uninstall-is-there-such-a-thing/">Uninstall - Is There Such A Thing?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/09/wordpress-plugin-uninstall-tool/">WordPress Plugin Uninstall Tool</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/12/uninstalling-conundrum-part-2/">Uninstalling Conundrum Part 2</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/12/what-makes-a-wordpress-theme-premium/">What Makes a WordPress Theme Premium?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/14/suggestions-for-plugin-standards/">Suggestions For Plugin Standards</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/16/configuring-wp-permalinks/">Configuring WP Permalinks</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/18/plugin-authors-organize-bug-reports-and-feature-requests-using-the-wordpress-plugin-repository/">Plugin Authors: Organize Bug Reports and Feature Requests Using the WordPress Plugin Repository</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/24/mobile-phone-optimized-wordpress/">Mobile Phone optimized WordPress</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/26/wptex-wordpress-to-pdf-ebook-with-latex/">WPTeX: WordPress to pdf ebook with LaTeX</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/29/what-is-wordcamp/">What Is WordCamp?</a></p>
<h2>February:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/02/02/trackbacks-still-useful/">Trackbacks: Still Useful?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/02/06/wordpress-as-a-contact-manager/">WordPress as a Contact Manager</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/02/09/adding-your-plugin-to-wp-extend-plugins-with-a-mac/">Adding Your Plugin to WP Extend Plugins With a Mac</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/02/11/wordpress-lingo/">WordPress Lingo</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/02/12/modsecurity-wordpress-admin-and-method-not-implemented/">ModSecurity, WordPress Admin and &#8220;Method Not Implemented&#8221;</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/02/14/wordpress-25-demo-site/">WordPress 2.5 Demo Site</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/02/14/wp-plugin-embedify/">WP Plugin: Embedify</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/02/23/printer-friendly-codex/">Printer Friendly Codex</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/02/24/new-twist-on-premium-wordpress-themes/">New Twist on Premium WordPress Themes</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/02/25/reformatting-wordpress/">Reformatting WordPress</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/02/29/interview-with-wpthemerkit/">Interview With WPThemerKit</a></p>
<h2>March:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/03/03/gravatars-and-wordpress-25/">Gravatars and WordPress 2.5</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/03/04/add-wp-search-engines-to-ff/">Add WP Search Engines To FF</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/03/05/wordpress-theme-forecast/">WordPress Theme Forecast</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/03/06/who-comments-on-blogs-and-why/">Who Comments on Blogs, and Why?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/03/08/managing-trackbacks-and-pingbacks-in-your-wordpress-theme/">Managing Trackbacks and Pingbacks in Your WordPress Theme</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/03/09/prepare-for-wp-25/">Prepare For WP 2.5</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/03/16/colorful-future-for-wp-25-admin/">Colorful Future For WP 2.5 Admin</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/03/19/where-you-download-a-theme-matters/">Where You Download a Theme Matters</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/03/23/23-to-25-database-changes/">2.3 to 2.5 Database Changes</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/03/26/10-plugins-to-combat-comment-spam/">10 Plugins To Combat Comment Spam</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/03/29/wordpress-25-released/">WordPress 2.5 Released</a></p>
<h2>April:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/01/faq-on-wordpress-25/">FAQ on WordPress 2.5</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/02/wordpress-25-upgrade-guides/">WordPress 2.5 Upgrade Guide(s)</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/04/ultimate-guide-to-the-wordpress-loop/">Ultimate Guide to the WordPress Loop</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/07/in-case-you-missed-it/">In Case You Missed It</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/08/vulnerable-wordpress-blogs-not-being-indexed/">Vulnerable WordPress Blogs Not Being Indexed</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/09/faq-on-wordpress-25-version-2/">FAQ On WordPress 2.5 Version 2</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/10/kubrick-header-generator/">Kubrick Header Generator</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/13/define-your-own-wordpress-loop-using-wp_query/">Define Your Own WordPress Loop Using WP_Query</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/13/how-to-only-retrieve-posts-with-custom-fields/">How to Only Retrieve Posts With Custom Fields</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/14/absolute-comments-plugin-video-review/">Absolute Comments - Plugin Video Review</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/18/yoo-guh-ler-blogging-profiles/">Yoo Guh Ler - Blogging Profiles</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/19/paging-and-custom-wordpress-loops/">Paging and Custom WordPress Loops</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/20/baltic-amber-admin-colour-schemes-for-wordpress-25/">Baltic Amber Admin Themes for WordPress 2.5</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/21/organize-series-plugin-video-review/">Organize Series - Plugin Video Review</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/25/batch-category-editor/">Batch Category Editor</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/27/what-happened-to-podpress/">What Happened To PodPress?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/27/woopra-and-wordpress-unofficial-coolness-guide/">Woopra and WordPress: Unofficial Coolness Guide</a></p>
<h2>May:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/03/create-your-own-admin-color-scheme/">Create Your Own Admin Color Scheme</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/04/error-management-for-wordpress-plugins/">Error Management for WordPress Plugins</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/06/a-unique-monotone/">A Unique Monotone</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/11/theme-designers-and-printcss/">Theme Designers And Print.CSS</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/11/15-websites-andor-services-i%e2%80%99d-actually-pay-for/">15 Websites and,or Services I&#8217;d Actually Pay For</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/12/chronological-order-of-comments-on-a-post/">Chronological Order of Comments on a Post</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/14/automattic-turns-21/">Automattic Turns 21</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/17/how-to-avoid-duplicate-posts/">How To: Avoid Duplicate Posts</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/19/24-ways-to-contribute-to-wordpress/">24 Ways To Contribute To WordPress</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/24/dashboard-widget-manager-video-review/">Dashboard Widget Manager - Video Review</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/29/removing-widthheight-from-the-image-uploader/">Removing Width/Height from the Image Uploader</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/30/ajax-edit-comments-part-deux/">Ajax Edit Comments Part Deux</a></p>
<h2>June:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/04/b10gg3r-ar3-dang3r0u/">b10Gg3r$ aR3 DaNg3r0u$</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/04/30-people-to-follow-on-twitter/">31 People To Follow On Twitter</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/07/plugin-deactivation-issues-solved-with-actions-and-filters/">Plugin Deactivation Issues Solved With Actions and Filters</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/08/comment-remix-video-plugin-review/">Comment Remix - Video Plugin Review</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/11/hiding-advertisements-for-single-posts/">Hiding Advertisements For Single Posts</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/14/the-ownership-of-comments/">The Ownership Of Comments</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/17/all-in-one-seo-lives-on/">All In One SEO Lives On</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/17/what-is-the-simplest-wordpress-blog-youve-seen/">What is the simplest WordPress blog you&#8217;ve seen?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/19/how-to-offsets-and-paging/">How to: Offsets and Paging</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/23/comment-license-made-easy/">Comment License Made Easy</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/25/how-much-would-you-pay/">How Much Would You Pay?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/29/3-under-rated-plugins/">3 Under Rated Plugins</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/30/what-you-need-to-know-about-wordpress-26/">What You Need To Know About WordPress 2.6</a></p>
<p><strong>Part 2 will be published on Sunday, December 28th.</strong></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:30:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:11887:"<p>As most of us know, WordPress development happens at a record pace and trying to keep up with everything is a daunting task. However, the team here at WLTC does a great job filtering all of the WordPress related content on the web to bring the best to you. During the course of a year, this content adds up. Some of it being news posts, how-to guides, reviews, breaking news, etc. So, since it&#8217;s near the end of the year, I thought I would take a trip through the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/narchives/">WLTC Archive</a> and revisit come classic posts from 2008.</p>
<p>This series is broken up into two parts. The first part covers the months of <strong>January-June</strong> while part two takes care of <strong>July-December</strong>. When you browse through the links, let us know which one was your favorite or perhaps, which one has been the most helpful to you.</p>
<h2>January:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/12/30/install-wordpress-locally-1-of-2/">Install WordPress Locally 1 Of 2</a> </p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/03/install-wordpress-locally-part-2-of-2/">Install WordPress Locally - Part 2 Of 2</a> </p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/07/uninstall-is-there-such-a-thing/">Uninstall - Is There Such A Thing?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/09/wordpress-plugin-uninstall-tool/">WordPress Plugin Uninstall Tool</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/12/uninstalling-conundrum-part-2/">Uninstalling Conundrum Part 2</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/12/what-makes-a-wordpress-theme-premium/">What Makes a WordPress Theme Premium?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/14/suggestions-for-plugin-standards/">Suggestions For Plugin Standards</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/16/configuring-wp-permalinks/">Configuring WP Permalinks</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/18/plugin-authors-organize-bug-reports-and-feature-requests-using-the-wordpress-plugin-repository/">Plugin Authors: Organize Bug Reports and Feature Requests Using the WordPress Plugin Repository</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/24/mobile-phone-optimized-wordpress/">Mobile Phone optimized WordPress</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/26/wptex-wordpress-to-pdf-ebook-with-latex/">WPTeX: WordPress to pdf ebook with LaTeX</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/29/what-is-wordcamp/">What Is WordCamp?</a></p>
<h2>February:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/02/02/trackbacks-still-useful/">Trackbacks: Still Useful?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/02/06/wordpress-as-a-contact-manager/">WordPress as a Contact Manager</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/02/09/adding-your-plugin-to-wp-extend-plugins-with-a-mac/">Adding Your Plugin to WP Extend Plugins With a Mac</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/02/11/wordpress-lingo/">WordPress Lingo</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/02/12/modsecurity-wordpress-admin-and-method-not-implemented/">ModSecurity, WordPress Admin and &#8220;Method Not Implemented&#8221;</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/02/14/wordpress-25-demo-site/">WordPress 2.5 Demo Site</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/02/14/wp-plugin-embedify/">WP Plugin: Embedify</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/02/23/printer-friendly-codex/">Printer Friendly Codex</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/02/24/new-twist-on-premium-wordpress-themes/">New Twist on Premium WordPress Themes</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/02/25/reformatting-wordpress/">Reformatting WordPress</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/02/29/interview-with-wpthemerkit/">Interview With WPThemerKit</a></p>
<h2>March:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/03/03/gravatars-and-wordpress-25/">Gravatars and WordPress 2.5</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/03/04/add-wp-search-engines-to-ff/">Add WP Search Engines To FF</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/03/05/wordpress-theme-forecast/">WordPress Theme Forecast</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/03/06/who-comments-on-blogs-and-why/">Who Comments on Blogs, and Why?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/03/08/managing-trackbacks-and-pingbacks-in-your-wordpress-theme/">Managing Trackbacks and Pingbacks in Your WordPress Theme</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/03/09/prepare-for-wp-25/">Prepare For WP 2.5</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/03/16/colorful-future-for-wp-25-admin/">Colorful Future For WP 2.5 Admin</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/03/19/where-you-download-a-theme-matters/">Where You Download a Theme Matters</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/03/23/23-to-25-database-changes/">2.3 to 2.5 Database Changes</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/03/26/10-plugins-to-combat-comment-spam/">10 Plugins To Combat Comment Spam</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/03/29/wordpress-25-released/">WordPress 2.5 Released</a></p>
<h2>April:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/01/faq-on-wordpress-25/">FAQ on WordPress 2.5</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/02/wordpress-25-upgrade-guides/">WordPress 2.5 Upgrade Guide(s)</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/04/ultimate-guide-to-the-wordpress-loop/">Ultimate Guide to the WordPress Loop</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/07/in-case-you-missed-it/">In Case You Missed It</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/08/vulnerable-wordpress-blogs-not-being-indexed/">Vulnerable WordPress Blogs Not Being Indexed</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/09/faq-on-wordpress-25-version-2/">FAQ On WordPress 2.5 Version 2</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/10/kubrick-header-generator/">Kubrick Header Generator</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/13/define-your-own-wordpress-loop-using-wp_query/">Define Your Own WordPress Loop Using WP_Query</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/13/how-to-only-retrieve-posts-with-custom-fields/">How to Only Retrieve Posts With Custom Fields</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/14/absolute-comments-plugin-video-review/">Absolute Comments - Plugin Video Review</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/18/yoo-guh-ler-blogging-profiles/">Yoo Guh Ler - Blogging Profiles</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/19/paging-and-custom-wordpress-loops/">Paging and Custom WordPress Loops</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/20/baltic-amber-admin-colour-schemes-for-wordpress-25/">Baltic Amber Admin Themes for WordPress 2.5</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/21/organize-series-plugin-video-review/">Organize Series - Plugin Video Review</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/25/batch-category-editor/">Batch Category Editor</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/27/what-happened-to-podpress/">What Happened To PodPress?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/27/woopra-and-wordpress-unofficial-coolness-guide/">Woopra and WordPress: Unofficial Coolness Guide</a></p>
<h2>May:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/03/create-your-own-admin-color-scheme/">Create Your Own Admin Color Scheme</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/04/error-management-for-wordpress-plugins/">Error Management for WordPress Plugins</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/06/a-unique-monotone/">A Unique Monotone</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/11/theme-designers-and-printcss/">Theme Designers And Print.CSS</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/11/15-websites-andor-services-i%e2%80%99d-actually-pay-for/">15 Websites and,or Services I&#8217;d Actually Pay For</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/12/chronological-order-of-comments-on-a-post/">Chronological Order of Comments on a Post</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/14/automattic-turns-21/">Automattic Turns 21</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/17/how-to-avoid-duplicate-posts/">How To: Avoid Duplicate Posts</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/19/24-ways-to-contribute-to-wordpress/">24 Ways To Contribute To WordPress</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/24/dashboard-widget-manager-video-review/">Dashboard Widget Manager - Video Review</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/29/removing-widthheight-from-the-image-uploader/">Removing Width/Height from the Image Uploader</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/30/ajax-edit-comments-part-deux/">Ajax Edit Comments Part Deux</a></p>
<h2>June:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/04/b10gg3r-ar3-dang3r0u/">b10Gg3r$ aR3 DaNg3r0u$</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/04/30-people-to-follow-on-twitter/">31 People To Follow On Twitter</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/07/plugin-deactivation-issues-solved-with-actions-and-filters/">Plugin Deactivation Issues Solved With Actions and Filters</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/08/comment-remix-video-plugin-review/">Comment Remix - Video Plugin Review</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/11/hiding-advertisements-for-single-posts/">Hiding Advertisements For Single Posts</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/14/the-ownership-of-comments/">The Ownership Of Comments</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/17/all-in-one-seo-lives-on/">All In One SEO Lives On</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/17/what-is-the-simplest-wordpress-blog-youve-seen/">What is the simplest WordPress blog you&#8217;ve seen?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/19/how-to-offsets-and-paging/">How to: Offsets and Paging</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/23/comment-license-made-easy/">Comment License Made Easy</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/25/how-much-would-you-pay/">How Much Would You Pay?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/29/3-under-rated-plugins/">3 Under Rated Plugins</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/30/what-you-need-to-know-about-wordpress-26/">What You Need To Know About WordPress 2.6</a></p>
<p><strong>Part 2 will be published on Sunday, December 28th.</strong></p>";}i:19;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 12/27";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4854";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/27/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1227/";s:11:"description";s:4252:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://techcube.net/cubepoints/">CubePoints</a></p>
<p>CubePoints is a point management system designed for Wordpress blogs.</p>
<p><a href="http://nerdlife.net/custom-taxonomies/">Custom Taxonomies</a></p>
<p>Custom Taxonomies provides a full administrative interface for creating and using taxonomies beyond the standard Tags and Categories.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.codepolice.net/2008/12/08/generate-expiring-urls-for-amazon-s3-via-a-wordpress-plugin/">Amazon S3 Expiring URL Generator</a></p>
<p>Generate a Amazon S3 expiring URL based on your key and secret. Prevents hotlinking to your media.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recent-trackbacks-pingbacks-by-entry/">Recent Trackbacks / Pingbacks by Entry Widget</a></p>
<p>Display recent trackbacks and/or pingbacks list simply on sidebar sort by entry.</p>
<p><a href="http://twitturls.com/wordpress/">Top Twitter Links by Twitturls</a></p>
<p>Widget that displays currently popular links from Twitter.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recent-comments-by-entry/">Recent Comments by Entry Widget</a></p>
<p>Display recent comments list simply on sidebar sort by entry.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wp.gdragon.info/2008/12/24/gd-star-rating-107/">GD Star Rating</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 widgets build in and shortcode support.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jaschaephraim.com/wordpress/">Page Management Dropdown</a></p>
<p>Easily list your individual pages in the new 2.7 &#8220;Pages&#8221; menu! Ideal for using WordPress as a CMS, Page Management Dropdown expands the new Pages administration menu by adding a link to edit each of your individual pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://kerrywebster.com/design/branded-admin-for-wordpress-27-released/">Branded Admin</a></p>
<p>Allows you to change the header and footer of the administration area of your WordPress blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://mickdakota.com/wordpress-fortune-plugin">Fortunate</a></p>
<p>This plugin provides fortune cookies (random quotes) on your pages. The fortunes are retrieved via the net and use no local storage. Settings allow the quotes to be displayed in the header, footer, content area or as a widget. Additional options let you configure what types of fortune cookies to use.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pross.org.uk/category/plugins/">Folding Stats Plus</a></p>
<p>This plugin is intended to show the current Folding@Home statistics for a given account. It includes a sidebar widget and an admin dashboard widget.</p>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/open-browser-window-plugin/">Open Browser Window</a></p>
<p>Open Browser Window opens a new browser window with the URL of the page that you specified using JavaScript. Opening a page in a new window using JavaScript is a preferred method over using <code>target="_blank"</code> due to XHTML compliance issues.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mollom/">Mollom</a></p>
<p>A plugin that brings the power of <a href="http://www.mollom.com">Mollom</a> to Wordpress and makes your website spamfree!</p>
<p><a href="http://eric.biven.us/2008/12/03/recently-popular-wordpress-plugin/">Recently Popular</a></p>
<p>Displays the most popular posts based on history from now to X amount of time in the past.</p>
<p><a href="http://piepalace.ca/blog/projects/elsewhere">Elsewhere</a></p>
<p>Show your comments on other blogs.</p>
<p><a href="http://davidebenini.it/wordpress-plugins/plugins-list/">Plugins List</a></p>
<p>This plugins allows you to insert a list of the Wordpress plugins you are using into any post/page.</p>
<p><a href="http://techblissonline.com/platinum-seo-pack/">Platinum SEO Pack</a></p>
<p>Platinum SEO Plugin offers Complete onsite SEO solution for your Wordpress blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://munashiku.slightofmind.net/wordpress-plugins/tango-smileys-extended">Tango Smileys Extended</a></p>
<p>Tango Smileys Extended (TSE) is designed to replace the standard WordPress smileys and extend the number of available smileys from 18 to 202.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:30:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:4252:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://techcube.net/cubepoints/">CubePoints</a></p>
<p>CubePoints is a point management system designed for Wordpress blogs.</p>
<p><a href="http://nerdlife.net/custom-taxonomies/">Custom Taxonomies</a></p>
<p>Custom Taxonomies provides a full administrative interface for creating and using taxonomies beyond the standard Tags and Categories.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.codepolice.net/2008/12/08/generate-expiring-urls-for-amazon-s3-via-a-wordpress-plugin/">Amazon S3 Expiring URL Generator</a></p>
<p>Generate a Amazon S3 expiring URL based on your key and secret. Prevents hotlinking to your media.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recent-trackbacks-pingbacks-by-entry/">Recent Trackbacks / Pingbacks by Entry Widget</a></p>
<p>Display recent trackbacks and/or pingbacks list simply on sidebar sort by entry.</p>
<p><a href="http://twitturls.com/wordpress/">Top Twitter Links by Twitturls</a></p>
<p>Widget that displays currently popular links from Twitter.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recent-comments-by-entry/">Recent Comments by Entry Widget</a></p>
<p>Display recent comments list simply on sidebar sort by entry.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wp.gdragon.info/2008/12/24/gd-star-rating-107/">GD Star Rating</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 widgets build in and shortcode support.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jaschaephraim.com/wordpress/">Page Management Dropdown</a></p>
<p>Easily list your individual pages in the new 2.7 &#8220;Pages&#8221; menu! Ideal for using WordPress as a CMS, Page Management Dropdown expands the new Pages administration menu by adding a link to edit each of your individual pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://kerrywebster.com/design/branded-admin-for-wordpress-27-released/">Branded Admin</a></p>
<p>Allows you to change the header and footer of the administration area of your WordPress blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://mickdakota.com/wordpress-fortune-plugin">Fortunate</a></p>
<p>This plugin provides fortune cookies (random quotes) on your pages. The fortunes are retrieved via the net and use no local storage. Settings allow the quotes to be displayed in the header, footer, content area or as a widget. Additional options let you configure what types of fortune cookies to use.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pross.org.uk/category/plugins/">Folding Stats Plus</a></p>
<p>This plugin is intended to show the current Folding@Home statistics for a given account. It includes a sidebar widget and an admin dashboard widget.</p>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/open-browser-window-plugin/">Open Browser Window</a></p>
<p>Open Browser Window opens a new browser window with the URL of the page that you specified using JavaScript. Opening a page in a new window using JavaScript is a preferred method over using <code>target="_blank"</code> due to XHTML compliance issues.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mollom/">Mollom</a></p>
<p>A plugin that brings the power of <a href="http://www.mollom.com">Mollom</a> to Wordpress and makes your website spamfree!</p>
<p><a href="http://eric.biven.us/2008/12/03/recently-popular-wordpress-plugin/">Recently Popular</a></p>
<p>Displays the most popular posts based on history from now to X amount of time in the past.</p>
<p><a href="http://piepalace.ca/blog/projects/elsewhere">Elsewhere</a></p>
<p>Show your comments on other blogs.</p>
<p><a href="http://davidebenini.it/wordpress-plugins/plugins-list/">Plugins List</a></p>
<p>This plugins allows you to insert a list of the Wordpress plugins you are using into any post/page.</p>
<p><a href="http://techblissonline.com/platinum-seo-pack/">Platinum SEO Pack</a></p>
<p>Platinum SEO Plugin offers Complete onsite SEO solution for your Wordpress blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://munashiku.slightofmind.net/wordpress-plugins/tango-smileys-extended">Tango Smileys Extended</a></p>
<p>Tango Smileys Extended (TSE) is designed to replace the standard WordPress smileys and extend the number of available smileys from 18 to 202.</p>";}i:20;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 12/26";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4852";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/26/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1226/";s:11:"description";s:2013:"<p><a href="http://en.wpthemes.org.ua/?p=1"><strong>Inter Milan</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="InterMilan" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/intermilan.jpg" border="0" alt="InterMilan" width="147" height="114" /></p>
<p>A new free football theme for WordPress. Milan Internatzionale Wordpress Theme. Template consists of three columns, supports widgets, comments. The original design for all Inter fans.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.bytesforall.com/?p=63"><strong>Atahualpa 3</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="atahualpa3screenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/atahualpa3screenshot.png" border="0" alt="atahualpa3screenshot" width="155" height="114" /></p>
<p>Fluid, fixed or hybrid width. 1, 2 or 3 columns. Rotating header images, favicons, jQuery effects and more.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/miscellany"><strong>Miscellany</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://the-cloisters.net/themedemos/?SelectedTheme=Miscellany"><img title="Miscellany" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/miscellany.png" border="0" alt="Miscellany" width="111" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>It&#8217;s a 3 Column, widget-ready fixed width theme featuring an extended footer (non-widgetized), author info page, gravatars and highlighted author comments in the comments section along with Custom Archives, Sitemap and full width No Sidebars page templates. Fully compatible up to Wordpress 2.7.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wpthemes.org.ua/?p=6"><strong>Green Light</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="GreenLight" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/greenlight.png" border="0" alt="GreenLight" width="164" height="114" /></p>
<p>Two column, fixed width, widget ready in the pattern dominated by green. Also check out <a href="http://en.wpthemes.org.ua/?p=9">Blue Sea</a> by the same author.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Are you a theme author? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Read how to submit your theme</a> for our release posts.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:30:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2013:"<p><a href="http://en.wpthemes.org.ua/?p=1"><strong>Inter Milan</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="InterMilan" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/intermilan.jpg" border="0" alt="InterMilan" width="147" height="114" /></p>
<p>A new free football theme for WordPress. Milan Internatzionale Wordpress Theme. Template consists of three columns, supports widgets, comments. The original design for all Inter fans.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.bytesforall.com/?p=63"><strong>Atahualpa 3</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="atahualpa3screenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/atahualpa3screenshot.png" border="0" alt="atahualpa3screenshot" width="155" height="114" /></p>
<p>Fluid, fixed or hybrid width. 1, 2 or 3 columns. Rotating header images, favicons, jQuery effects and more.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/miscellany"><strong>Miscellany</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://the-cloisters.net/themedemos/?SelectedTheme=Miscellany"><img title="Miscellany" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/miscellany.png" border="0" alt="Miscellany" width="111" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>It&#8217;s a 3 Column, widget-ready fixed width theme featuring an extended footer (non-widgetized), author info page, gravatars and highlighted author comments in the comments section along with Custom Archives, Sitemap and full width No Sidebars page templates. Fully compatible up to Wordpress 2.7.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wpthemes.org.ua/?p=6"><strong>Green Light</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="GreenLight" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/greenlight.png" border="0" alt="GreenLight" width="164" height="114" /></p>
<p>Two column, fixed width, widget ready in the pattern dominated by green. Also check out <a href="http://en.wpthemes.org.ua/?p=9">Blue Sea</a> by the same author.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Are you a theme author? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Read how to submit your theme</a> for our release posts.</p>";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:81:"Weblog Tools Collection: Merry Christmas, It’s Plugin Review time again at WLTC";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4844";s:4:"link";s:106:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/25/merry-christmas-its-plugin-review-time-again-at-wltc/";s:11:"description";s:2673:"<p>Let me take this opportunity of wishing all the readers of Weblog Tools Collection a merry merry Christmas and happy holidays!</p>
<p>Our long time readers would remember two months in 2007 when we reviewed <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/category/apad/">one WordPress plugin a day</a>.</p>
<p>The last 18 months has seen a lot of changes in the world of WordPress. We&#8217;ve had several version updates including few really major upgrades since then as well as the introduction of the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/">WordPress Plugin Repository</a>.</p>
<p>With several <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/category/wordpress-plugins/">new plugins being released everyday</a> and several more updated regularly, we&#8217;ve decided it&#8217;s time once again for a plugin review.</p>
<p>However, this time instead of a daily review, we&#8217;ll be focusing on the reviewing a plugin a week. So, every Sunday, from next year, starting 4th of January, we will pick a plugin to feature.</p>
<h4>So, how do we pick?</h4>
<p>Just like we did the last time; through recommendations and requests. Are you a plugin author or user? If so, then write in and tell us.</p>
<p>You can send in an email to <strong>submissions@wltc.net</strong> with the subject line <strong>APAD: <em>Plugin Name</em></strong>.</p>
<h4>What do you need to tell us?</h4>
<p>The following details are mandatory.</p>
<ul>
<li>Plugin Name</li>
<li>URL of the plugin page and location to download the file</li>
<li>URL of the page on <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/">WordPress Plugin Repository</a> if your plugin is available there.</li>
<li>Detailed description of the plugin (this is the most important of the list)</li>
</ul>
<p>You may optionally add the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Detailed feature list</li>
<li>Implementation instructions</li>
<li>Demo of the plugin</li>
<li>Future plans</li>
<li>Any other detail that will assist our review</li>
</ul>
<h4>What do you get in return?</h4>
<p>Your plugin receiving a focused review is a sure shot way to drive tonnes of traffic to your website. It will also improve usage of your plugin.</p>
<p>More importantly, we will be asking our readers to suggest improvements and request features. This will work as a major brain storming session, where you can cater to features as demanded by the users.</p>
<p>We will checkout the various plugins and select one of them for review. Again, there isn’t any hard or fast rule on selecting this and choice will be made more on the basis of how your plugin appeals to us. So, make sure your email is highlights everything you want us to know.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:30:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2673:"<p>Let me take this opportunity of wishing all the readers of Weblog Tools Collection a merry merry Christmas and happy holidays!</p>
<p>Our long time readers would remember two months in 2007 when we reviewed <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/category/apad/">one WordPress plugin a day</a>.</p>
<p>The last 18 months has seen a lot of changes in the world of WordPress. We&#8217;ve had several version updates including few really major upgrades since then as well as the introduction of the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/">WordPress Plugin Repository</a>.</p>
<p>With several <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/category/wordpress-plugins/">new plugins being released everyday</a> and several more updated regularly, we&#8217;ve decided it&#8217;s time once again for a plugin review.</p>
<p>However, this time instead of a daily review, we&#8217;ll be focusing on the reviewing a plugin a week. So, every Sunday, from next year, starting 4th of January, we will pick a plugin to feature.</p>
<h4>So, how do we pick?</h4>
<p>Just like we did the last time; through recommendations and requests. Are you a plugin author or user? If so, then write in and tell us.</p>
<p>You can send in an email to <strong>submissions@wltc.net</strong> with the subject line <strong>APAD: <em>Plugin Name</em></strong>.</p>
<h4>What do you need to tell us?</h4>
<p>The following details are mandatory.</p>
<ul>
<li>Plugin Name</li>
<li>URL of the plugin page and location to download the file</li>
<li>URL of the page on <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/">WordPress Plugin Repository</a> if your plugin is available there.</li>
<li>Detailed description of the plugin (this is the most important of the list)</li>
</ul>
<p>You may optionally add the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Detailed feature list</li>
<li>Implementation instructions</li>
<li>Demo of the plugin</li>
<li>Future plans</li>
<li>Any other detail that will assist our review</li>
</ul>
<h4>What do you get in return?</h4>
<p>Your plugin receiving a focused review is a sure shot way to drive tonnes of traffic to your website. It will also improve usage of your plugin.</p>
<p>More importantly, we will be asking our readers to suggest improvements and request features. This will work as a major brain storming session, where you can cater to features as demanded by the users.</p>
<p>We will checkout the various plugins and select one of them for review. Again, there isn’t any hard or fast rule on selecting this and choice will be made more on the basis of how your plugin appeals to us. So, make sure your email is highlights everything you want us to know.</p>";}i:22;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:49:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordCamp Columbus Is On!";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4842";s:4:"link";s:77:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/25/wordcamp-columbus-is-on/";s:11:"description";s:2458:"<p>Thankfully, WordCamp Columbus is being held in Ohio rather than any of the other states that have a city named Columbus. In all honesty, I didn&#8217;t know this event was going to be in Ohio until I checked out their advertising graphics. If you are going to host a WordCamp event, please be sure to include city and state on the About page so that people know exactly where the event will take place. Or you&#8217;ll end up clueless like me.</p>
<p><center><a href="http://www.wordcampcolumbus.com" title="Meet me @ WordCampColumbus, May 16, 2009"><img src="http://www.wordcampcolumbus.com/badges/wordcamp-468x60.gif" alt="I'll be @WordCampColumbus, May 16, 2009" /></a></center></p>
<p>With that said, I&#8217;m happy to see that a date has been nailed down for WordCamp Columbus, that being <strong>May 16th, 2009</strong>. I hope the event lasts during the entire weekend and not just on a Friday. The event looks to be taking place at <strong>Columbus State Community College</strong>. Unfortunately, due to WordCamp Mid-Atlantic occurring during the same weekend, Matt will only be doing a keynote session at the Mid Atlantic event. However, organizers for WordCamp Columbus are working with <a href="http://www.technosailor.com">Aaron Brazell</a>, one of the people behind WordCamp Mid Atlantic to video stream his session to WordCamp Columbus. </p>
<p>As it stands, their are two employees from Automattic who are tentatively scheduled to appear. <a href="http://jcksn.com/" target="_blank">Noel Jackson</a> who is the author of the Monotone theme will be discussing color manipulation and art direction in themes with PHP. <a href="http://mtdewvirus.com/" target="_blank">Nick Momrik</a> on the other hand will be outlining 10 things you didn&#8217;t know you could do on WordPress.com</p>
<p>Registration for WordCamp Columbus is not yet open but within the next week or so, we could see a registration page open up. The organizers would like for as many people as possible to register early to encourage sponsors to latch onto the event. As the event gets closer, the organizers may implement an entrance fee of <strong>$20.00</strong> which isn&#8217;t bad at all.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m pretty stoked that a WordCamp event is happening in my own backyard. I know I&#8217;ll be attending the event, what about you? Be sure to bookmark the <a href="http://wordcampcolumbus.com/" target="_blank">WordCamp Columbus website</a> for further updates.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:30:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:2458:"<p>Thankfully, WordCamp Columbus is being held in Ohio rather than any of the other states that have a city named Columbus. In all honesty, I didn&#8217;t know this event was going to be in Ohio until I checked out their advertising graphics. If you are going to host a WordCamp event, please be sure to include city and state on the About page so that people know exactly where the event will take place. Or you&#8217;ll end up clueless like me.</p>
<p><center><a href="http://www.wordcampcolumbus.com" title="Meet me @ WordCampColumbus, May 16, 2009"><img src="http://www.wordcampcolumbus.com/badges/wordcamp-468x60.gif" alt="I'll be @WordCampColumbus, May 16, 2009" /></a></center></p>
<p>With that said, I&#8217;m happy to see that a date has been nailed down for WordCamp Columbus, that being <strong>May 16th, 2009</strong>. I hope the event lasts during the entire weekend and not just on a Friday. The event looks to be taking place at <strong>Columbus State Community College</strong>. Unfortunately, due to WordCamp Mid-Atlantic occurring during the same weekend, Matt will only be doing a keynote session at the Mid Atlantic event. However, organizers for WordCamp Columbus are working with <a href="http://www.technosailor.com">Aaron Brazell</a>, one of the people behind WordCamp Mid Atlantic to video stream his session to WordCamp Columbus. </p>
<p>As it stands, their are two employees from Automattic who are tentatively scheduled to appear. <a href="http://jcksn.com/" target="_blank">Noel Jackson</a> who is the author of the Monotone theme will be discussing color manipulation and art direction in themes with PHP. <a href="http://mtdewvirus.com/" target="_blank">Nick Momrik</a> on the other hand will be outlining 10 things you didn&#8217;t know you could do on WordPress.com</p>
<p>Registration for WordCamp Columbus is not yet open but within the next week or so, we could see a registration page open up. The organizers would like for as many people as possible to register early to encourage sponsors to latch onto the event. As the event gets closer, the organizers may implement an entrance fee of <strong>$20.00</strong> which isn&#8217;t bad at all.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m pretty stoked that a WordCamp event is happening in my own backyard. I know I&#8217;ll be attending the event, what about you? Be sure to bookmark the <a href="http://wordcampcolumbus.com/" target="_blank">WordCamp Columbus website</a> for further updates.</p>";}i:23;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 12/24";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4840";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/24/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1224/";s:11:"description";s:3480:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.wpsos.com/wp-plugins/wp-downloads/">WordPress Download Counter</a></p>
<p>A counter that you can add in your sidebar to show off the number of official WordPress downloads</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ixme.net/products/media-library-gallery/">Media Library Gallery</a></p>
<p>Automatically creates a gallery with every images posts have in attachment.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/a-slideshow/">(a) Slideshow</a></p>
<p>This is plugin based on <a href="http://slideshow.hohli.com">(a)Slideshow jQuery Plugin</a></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sapo-open-id/">Sapo OpenID Header</a></p>
<p>This plugins had the needed code to the header of your blog, to detect your OpenID account at <a href="http://openid.sapo.pt">http://openid.sapo.pt</a></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/explore-pages/">Explore pages</a></p>
<p>Explorer-like plugin for walking through the pages</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/kavychker/">Kavychker</a></p>
<p>It&#8217;s normal typography plugin for WordPress</p>
<p><a href="http://www.southplattewebdesign.com/getMyTweets">Get My Tweets</a></p>
<p>Simple plugin to return a user defined number of tweets from Twitter.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://blog.dasinfomedia.com/?p=3">Sliding Posts</a></p>
<p>A plugin for wordpress which shows latest 10 posts with carousel sliding effect which is SEO friendly. User can set the height, width, and the time duration of the slide show. Post will be shown with the link by clicking on it user can view particular post.</p>
<p><a href="http://manga-press.silent-shadow.net/">Manga+Press</a></p>
<p>Manga+Press is a webcomic managment system for Wordpress. Manga+Press uses WordPress&#8217; posts, pages and categories to help you keep track of your comic posts. Manga+Press also includes its own custom template tags to help make creating themes easier.</p>
<p><a href="http://sivel.net/2008/02/shadowbox-js/">Shadowbox JS</a></p>
<p>A JavaScript media viewer similar to Lightbox and Thickbox. Supports all types of media, not just images.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.commentluv.com/download/ajax-commentluv-installation/">CommentLuv</a></p>
<p>Appends a titled link using AJAX to the authors last blog post on their comment giving back some luv to the people that join your discussion.</p>
<p><a href="http://herselfswebtools.com/2008/06/wordpress-security-plugin-block-scrapers-hackers-and-more.html">TTC WordPress Security Tool</a></p>
<p>This plugin blocks scrapers, cross-site scripting attempts, and other ill behaved bots.</p>
<p><a href="http://herselfswebtools.com/2008/06/wordpress-plugin-to-prevent-bot-registrations.html">TTC User Registration Bot Detector</a></p>
<p>This plugin blocks and logs most bot user registrations.</p>
<p><a href="http://pods.uproot.us/">Pods</a></p>
<p>Pods is a CMS (Content Management System) plugin for Wordpress.</p>
<p><a href="http://sgowtham.net/blog/2008/12/06/wordpress-plugin-to-keep-track-of-visitors/">wp-visitors</a></p>
<p>wp-visitors keeps track of information about every visitor (page load).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.martinish.com/blog/2008/12/wp-columnize/">WP Columnize</a></p>
<p>Allows you to easily create multiple columns within your posts in a newspaper/magazine-style layout. It&#8217;s easily controlled by two CSS classes and two custom quicktags which are created automatically upon plugin installation.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:30:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:3480:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.wpsos.com/wp-plugins/wp-downloads/">WordPress Download Counter</a></p>
<p>A counter that you can add in your sidebar to show off the number of official WordPress downloads</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ixme.net/products/media-library-gallery/">Media Library Gallery</a></p>
<p>Automatically creates a gallery with every images posts have in attachment.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/a-slideshow/">(a) Slideshow</a></p>
<p>This is plugin based on <a href="http://slideshow.hohli.com">(a)Slideshow jQuery Plugin</a></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sapo-open-id/">Sapo OpenID Header</a></p>
<p>This plugins had the needed code to the header of your blog, to detect your OpenID account at <a href="http://openid.sapo.pt">http://openid.sapo.pt</a></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/explore-pages/">Explore pages</a></p>
<p>Explorer-like plugin for walking through the pages</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/kavychker/">Kavychker</a></p>
<p>It&#8217;s normal typography plugin for WordPress</p>
<p><a href="http://www.southplattewebdesign.com/getMyTweets">Get My Tweets</a></p>
<p>Simple plugin to return a user defined number of tweets from Twitter.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://blog.dasinfomedia.com/?p=3">Sliding Posts</a></p>
<p>A plugin for wordpress which shows latest 10 posts with carousel sliding effect which is SEO friendly. User can set the height, width, and the time duration of the slide show. Post will be shown with the link by clicking on it user can view particular post.</p>
<p><a href="http://manga-press.silent-shadow.net/">Manga+Press</a></p>
<p>Manga+Press is a webcomic managment system for Wordpress. Manga+Press uses WordPress&#8217; posts, pages and categories to help you keep track of your comic posts. Manga+Press also includes its own custom template tags to help make creating themes easier.</p>
<p><a href="http://sivel.net/2008/02/shadowbox-js/">Shadowbox JS</a></p>
<p>A JavaScript media viewer similar to Lightbox and Thickbox. Supports all types of media, not just images.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.commentluv.com/download/ajax-commentluv-installation/">CommentLuv</a></p>
<p>Appends a titled link using AJAX to the authors last blog post on their comment giving back some luv to the people that join your discussion.</p>
<p><a href="http://herselfswebtools.com/2008/06/wordpress-security-plugin-block-scrapers-hackers-and-more.html">TTC WordPress Security Tool</a></p>
<p>This plugin blocks scrapers, cross-site scripting attempts, and other ill behaved bots.</p>
<p><a href="http://herselfswebtools.com/2008/06/wordpress-plugin-to-prevent-bot-registrations.html">TTC User Registration Bot Detector</a></p>
<p>This plugin blocks and logs most bot user registrations.</p>
<p><a href="http://pods.uproot.us/">Pods</a></p>
<p>Pods is a CMS (Content Management System) plugin for Wordpress.</p>
<p><a href="http://sgowtham.net/blog/2008/12/06/wordpress-plugin-to-keep-track-of-visitors/">wp-visitors</a></p>
<p>wp-visitors keeps track of information about every visitor (page load).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.martinish.com/blog/2008/12/wp-columnize/">WP Columnize</a></p>
<p>Allows you to easily create multiple columns within your posts in a newspaper/magazine-style layout. It&#8217;s easily controlled by two CSS classes and two custom quicktags which are created automatically upon plugin installation.</p>";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:51:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Forum User Guide";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4837";s:4:"link";s:80:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/24/wordpress-forum-user-guide/";s:11:"description";s:5688:"<p>A recent discussion has popped up on the <a href="http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-testers/2008-December/010841.html">WordPress Testers mailing list</a> revolving around using the list as an area to receive support. Over the past few weeks, users have been publishing support questions which in many aspects, would be better served in the WordPress.org support forums. The problem with that is, the testers list is maintained and operated by people who have a knowledgeable background with the WordPress software, there are less users, and receiving answers is typically a speedier process.</p>
<p>With this in mind, I&#8217;ve decided to whip up a guide on how to maximize the use of the WordPress.org forum. It&#8217;s not exactly as cut and dry as you would think. This list of steps was comprised mostly by Michael E. Hancock with additional tips provided by Otto and myself.</p>
<p><strong>1.</strong> A new user may want to read the <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/68664?replies=6" target="_blank">Forum Rules</a></p>
<p><strong>2.</strong> Report inappropriate posts/threads by adding the &#8216;<strong>modlook</strong>&#8216; tag to that thread</p>
<p><strong>3.</strong> Link to Codex article by using the wiki code of two beginning and ending brackets.  [[<strong>Template Hierarchy</strong>]] will create a link to that article in Codex.</p>
<p><strong>4.</strong> Try to place your question in the correct Forum&#8211;if it is related to Plugins use the <strong>Plugins and Hacks Forum</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>5.</strong> If needing to put a large code example in your thread, paste the code in a <a href="http://pastebin.com/" target="_blank">pastebin</a> and put the link to that code in the thread.</p>
<p><strong>6.</strong> Click on <strong>View Your Profile</strong> to see all your threads. Note: Currently the Threads Started feature is broken.</p>
<p><strong>7.</strong> You can initiate a forum topic from a particular plugin at the WordPress Extend Plugins site. At the bottom of each plugin page there is a &#8220;<strong>Write a new topic</strong>&#8221; link that displays a form to enter the topic and automatically creates a tag related to that specific plugin and automatically selects the <strong>Plugins and Hacks</strong> Forum.</p>
<p><strong>8.</strong> A new topic is started by first selecting(entering)the particular Forum (e.g. Installation) and at the bottom of the screen, the New Topic form is displayed.</p>
<p><strong>9.</strong> Use the Version box when starting a new topic.  If the Version isn&#8217;t listed, select <strong>Other</strong> and then type the Version in the box.</p>
<p><strong>10.</strong> A tip from LesBessant - You can hide the tag cloud in Firefox by adding the file usercontent.css to the &#8230;\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxx.default\chrome folder.  Put this in the file:</p>
<p>.frontpageheatmap, #hottags {<br />
 display: none;<br />
 }</p>
<p><strong>11.</strong> Use the <a href="http://wordpress.org/report-bugs/" target="_blank">Report a Site Bug link</a> at the bottom of the screen to report bugs with the forum software.</p>
<p><strong>12.</strong> When creating a new topic, make the topic be descriptive and brief. &#8220;<strong>Help me now</strong>&#8221; is a poor topic.</p>
<p><strong>13.</strong> If asking a question about a plugin or theme provide a link to download the plugin/theme.</p>
<p><strong>14.</strong> Use meaningful tags.  Using the same tags as the topic isn&#8217;t very useful, but using keywords from the topic is good.</p>
<p><strong>15.</strong> Make use of the search before starting a new topic. Also a Google search such as &#8220;<strong>wordpress plugin cforms</strong>&#8221; will return a good list of info about the Cforms plugin.</p>
<p>Here is a tip provided by Otto42 - <strong>DON&#8217;T BUMP</strong>. Bumping makes your threads have a reply, which makes them not show up on the &#8220;<strong>threads without replies</strong>&#8221; list any more. Meaning that bumping actually decreases the chances of you getting any help.</p>
<p>Here is a tip from me to you. If you end up resolving your problem, be sure to edit the post and mark it as resolved. I&#8217;ve forgotten to do this step several times but the good news is, you can always go back to those posts via your user profile and edit them.</p>
<h2>Conclusion:</h2>
<p>As has been discussed on the Testers mailing list, there are many things that can be done to improve the forum experience that are out of the control of end users. For example, an improved search. Based on what I&#8217;ve heard, the search for the Codex as well as the Forum and Plugin Repository has a good shot at being implemented before the release of WordPress 2.8. While on the subject of search, I think it would be nice if the forum search provided a set of Advanced options so that I could search the forum in all threads that have been marked as resolved. </p>
<p>While BBPress is decent forum software (for now as Sam continues to work on version 1.0) I wonder if it&#8217;s the software of choice that meets the needs of the WordPress.org support forum. There is no private messaging, distinct thread/post filtering, etc. Not that every feature found within PHPBB3 or other forum software needs to be integrated into BBPress but I feel there is quite a bit missing at this point to provide a sound experience on the forum.</p>
<p>With that said, I ask you, the community how we and the powers that be can improve the WordPress.org forum. I ask that you do not take this opportunity to vent your frustrations with particular users but instead, provide feedback and ideas on how to improve the system.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:30:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:5688:"<p>A recent discussion has popped up on the <a href="http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-testers/2008-December/010841.html">WordPress Testers mailing list</a> revolving around using the list as an area to receive support. Over the past few weeks, users have been publishing support questions which in many aspects, would be better served in the WordPress.org support forums. The problem with that is, the testers list is maintained and operated by people who have a knowledgeable background with the WordPress software, there are less users, and receiving answers is typically a speedier process.</p>
<p>With this in mind, I&#8217;ve decided to whip up a guide on how to maximize the use of the WordPress.org forum. It&#8217;s not exactly as cut and dry as you would think. This list of steps was comprised mostly by Michael E. Hancock with additional tips provided by Otto and myself.</p>
<p><strong>1.</strong> A new user may want to read the <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/68664?replies=6" target="_blank">Forum Rules</a></p>
<p><strong>2.</strong> Report inappropriate posts/threads by adding the &#8216;<strong>modlook</strong>&#8216; tag to that thread</p>
<p><strong>3.</strong> Link to Codex article by using the wiki code of two beginning and ending brackets.  [[<strong>Template Hierarchy</strong>]] will create a link to that article in Codex.</p>
<p><strong>4.</strong> Try to place your question in the correct Forum&#8211;if it is related to Plugins use the <strong>Plugins and Hacks Forum</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>5.</strong> If needing to put a large code example in your thread, paste the code in a <a href="http://pastebin.com/" target="_blank">pastebin</a> and put the link to that code in the thread.</p>
<p><strong>6.</strong> Click on <strong>View Your Profile</strong> to see all your threads. Note: Currently the Threads Started feature is broken.</p>
<p><strong>7.</strong> You can initiate a forum topic from a particular plugin at the WordPress Extend Plugins site. At the bottom of each plugin page there is a &#8220;<strong>Write a new topic</strong>&#8221; link that displays a form to enter the topic and automatically creates a tag related to that specific plugin and automatically selects the <strong>Plugins and Hacks</strong> Forum.</p>
<p><strong>8.</strong> A new topic is started by first selecting(entering)the particular Forum (e.g. Installation) and at the bottom of the screen, the New Topic form is displayed.</p>
<p><strong>9.</strong> Use the Version box when starting a new topic.  If the Version isn&#8217;t listed, select <strong>Other</strong> and then type the Version in the box.</p>
<p><strong>10.</strong> A tip from LesBessant - You can hide the tag cloud in Firefox by adding the file usercontent.css to the &#8230;\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxx.default\chrome folder.  Put this in the file:</p>
<p>.frontpageheatmap, #hottags {<br />
 display: none;<br />
 }</p>
<p><strong>11.</strong> Use the <a href="http://wordpress.org/report-bugs/" target="_blank">Report a Site Bug link</a> at the bottom of the screen to report bugs with the forum software.</p>
<p><strong>12.</strong> When creating a new topic, make the topic be descriptive and brief. &#8220;<strong>Help me now</strong>&#8221; is a poor topic.</p>
<p><strong>13.</strong> If asking a question about a plugin or theme provide a link to download the plugin/theme.</p>
<p><strong>14.</strong> Use meaningful tags.  Using the same tags as the topic isn&#8217;t very useful, but using keywords from the topic is good.</p>
<p><strong>15.</strong> Make use of the search before starting a new topic. Also a Google search such as &#8220;<strong>wordpress plugin cforms</strong>&#8221; will return a good list of info about the Cforms plugin.</p>
<p>Here is a tip provided by Otto42 - <strong>DON&#8217;T BUMP</strong>. Bumping makes your threads have a reply, which makes them not show up on the &#8220;<strong>threads without replies</strong>&#8221; list any more. Meaning that bumping actually decreases the chances of you getting any help.</p>
<p>Here is a tip from me to you. If you end up resolving your problem, be sure to edit the post and mark it as resolved. I&#8217;ve forgotten to do this step several times but the good news is, you can always go back to those posts via your user profile and edit them.</p>
<h2>Conclusion:</h2>
<p>As has been discussed on the Testers mailing list, there are many things that can be done to improve the forum experience that are out of the control of end users. For example, an improved search. Based on what I&#8217;ve heard, the search for the Codex as well as the Forum and Plugin Repository has a good shot at being implemented before the release of WordPress 2.8. While on the subject of search, I think it would be nice if the forum search provided a set of Advanced options so that I could search the forum in all threads that have been marked as resolved. </p>
<p>While BBPress is decent forum software (for now as Sam continues to work on version 1.0) I wonder if it&#8217;s the software of choice that meets the needs of the WordPress.org support forum. There is no private messaging, distinct thread/post filtering, etc. Not that every feature found within PHPBB3 or other forum software needs to be integrated into BBPress but I feel there is quite a bit missing at this point to provide a sound experience on the forum.</p>
<p>With that said, I ask you, the community how we and the powers that be can improve the WordPress.org forum. I ask that you do not take this opportunity to vent your frustrations with particular users but instead, provide feedback and ideas on how to improve the system.</p>";}i:25;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 12/23";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4835";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/23/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1223/";s:11:"description";s:1639:"<p><a href="http://www.wpcontempo.com/free-wordpress-theme-teel/"><strong>Teel</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://demo.wpcontempo.com/?wptheme=Teel"><img title="teel-screenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/teelscreenshot.jpg" border="0" alt="teel-screenshot" width="165" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Teel theme is a clean, classy web 2.0 style WordPress theme. It features dynamic page navigation and a widgetized sidebar with fancy rollover effects and an overall clean appearance that will work perfect for blogs of all kinds.</p>
<p><a href="http://techysociety.com/download-technology-society-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Technology Society</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="Technology-Society" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/technologysociety.png" border="0" alt="Technology-Society" width="127" height="114" /></p>
<p>Two column, white and blue, tag, gravatar and widget ready theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://whatawookie.com/make-money-online-blue-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Make Money Online Blue</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://demo.whatawookie.com/?preview_theme=Make%20Money%20Online%20Blue"><img title="makemoneyonlineblue" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/makemoneyonlineblue.gif" border="0" alt="makemoneyonlineblue" width="193" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Make Money Online Blue is a Clean and simple aqua blue theme with both the sidebar and footer widgetized.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>And, if you are using the Journalized theme, you can download the <a href="http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2008/12/20/xmas-skin-for-journalized-theme/">X’Mas skin for it</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:30:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1639:"<p><a href="http://www.wpcontempo.com/free-wordpress-theme-teel/"><strong>Teel</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://demo.wpcontempo.com/?wptheme=Teel"><img title="teel-screenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/teelscreenshot.jpg" border="0" alt="teel-screenshot" width="165" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Teel theme is a clean, classy web 2.0 style WordPress theme. It features dynamic page navigation and a widgetized sidebar with fancy rollover effects and an overall clean appearance that will work perfect for blogs of all kinds.</p>
<p><a href="http://techysociety.com/download-technology-society-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Technology Society</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="Technology-Society" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/technologysociety.png" border="0" alt="Technology-Society" width="127" height="114" /></p>
<p>Two column, white and blue, tag, gravatar and widget ready theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://whatawookie.com/make-money-online-blue-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Make Money Online Blue</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://demo.whatawookie.com/?preview_theme=Make%20Money%20Online%20Blue"><img title="makemoneyonlineblue" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/makemoneyonlineblue.gif" border="0" alt="makemoneyonlineblue" width="193" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Make Money Online Blue is a Clean and simple aqua blue theme with both the sidebar and footer widgetized.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>And, if you are using the Journalized theme, you can download the <a href="http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2008/12/20/xmas-skin-for-journalized-theme/">X’Mas skin for it</a>.</p>";}i:26;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 12/22";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4830";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/22/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1222/";s:11:"description";s:3663:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://salamanteri.homelinux.net/wordpress/software/wordpress-plugins/phpinclude/">PHPInclude</a></p>
<p>Allows including any files php can access included and executed if it&#8217;s php. Include tag will be replaced with content or output of php code. Provides security measures to limit which posters have access to functionality. No bugs or flaws found.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.troidus.com/plugins/menu-maker/">Menu Maker</a></p>
<p>The Menu Maker plugin helps in creating a menu for your site. Usually this can be used for creating a navigation menu.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.yakupgovler.com/?p=592">Advanced Blogroll</a></p>
<p>Advanced Blogroll Widget displays your bookmarks as you want. You can customize your blogroll.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy2hide/">Easy2hide</a></p>
<p>Put your words needed to hide , between&#8221;[cookie]&#8221; and &#8220;[/cookie]&#8221; for those who haven&#8217;t reply to any posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://mattwalters.net/projects/wordpress-filter/">WordPress Filter</a></p>
<p>WordPress Filter is a comprehensive post filtering &amp; template system.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.joedolson.com/articles/wp-post-styling/">WP Post Styling</a></p>
<p>Allows you to define custom styles for any specific post or page on your WordPress site.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/list-pages/">List pages</a></p>
<p>Retrieve pages, and children, in a more sophisticated way and add the correct class to the parent li-element even if you&#8217;re visting a child-page.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/12/21/get-the-image-plugin-update-a-better-image-script-for-wordpress">Get the Image</a></p>
<p>The script looks for the custom fields Keys that you define. If that Key has a Value (should be an image URL), the image is displayed with your post. If there is no custom field used, the script looks for the first image attached to your post. If there is one, then it grabs that image and uses it.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.instinct.co.nz/e-commerce">WordPress e-Commerce plugin</a></p>
<p>The WordPress e-Commerce plugin is a state-of-the-art e-Commerce platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards and usability. It is both free and priceless at the same time.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lastpostsimage/">LastPostsImage</a></p>
<p>This WordPress plugin provides a customizable image always showing the last posts of your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wpmarketer.com/download/">WP-Marketer</a></p>
<p>Easy marketer link masking and more. With WP Marketer manage your in text and performance marketing programs without having to use multiple tools</p>
<p><a href="http://www.misternifty.com/easysms/">EasySMS</a></p>
<p>EasySMS provides an easy way for readers to subscribe to SMS updates and for admins to send SMS messages to groups.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.rene-ade.de/inhalte/wordpress-plugin-lastpostsimage.html">SensitiveTagCloud</a></p>
<p>This WordPress plugin provides a tagcloud that shows tags depending of the current context (e.g. Category, Author, Tag, Post) only.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/icanlocalize-comment-translator/">ICanLocalize Comment Translator</a></p>
<p>Manages human translated blogs and allows you to administrate, create contents and moderate comments in your native language.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/micro-anywhere/">Micro Anywhere</a></p>
<p>Micro Anywhere allows for easy insertion of microformatted contact information and event details through the WordPress WYSIWYG editor.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:30:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:3663:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://salamanteri.homelinux.net/wordpress/software/wordpress-plugins/phpinclude/">PHPInclude</a></p>
<p>Allows including any files php can access included and executed if it&#8217;s php. Include tag will be replaced with content or output of php code. Provides security measures to limit which posters have access to functionality. No bugs or flaws found.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.troidus.com/plugins/menu-maker/">Menu Maker</a></p>
<p>The Menu Maker plugin helps in creating a menu for your site. Usually this can be used for creating a navigation menu.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.yakupgovler.com/?p=592">Advanced Blogroll</a></p>
<p>Advanced Blogroll Widget displays your bookmarks as you want. You can customize your blogroll.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy2hide/">Easy2hide</a></p>
<p>Put your words needed to hide , between&#8221;[cookie]&#8221; and &#8220;[/cookie]&#8221; for those who haven&#8217;t reply to any posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://mattwalters.net/projects/wordpress-filter/">WordPress Filter</a></p>
<p>WordPress Filter is a comprehensive post filtering &amp; template system.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.joedolson.com/articles/wp-post-styling/">WP Post Styling</a></p>
<p>Allows you to define custom styles for any specific post or page on your WordPress site.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/list-pages/">List pages</a></p>
<p>Retrieve pages, and children, in a more sophisticated way and add the correct class to the parent li-element even if you&#8217;re visting a child-page.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/12/21/get-the-image-plugin-update-a-better-image-script-for-wordpress">Get the Image</a></p>
<p>The script looks for the custom fields Keys that you define. If that Key has a Value (should be an image URL), the image is displayed with your post. If there is no custom field used, the script looks for the first image attached to your post. If there is one, then it grabs that image and uses it.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.instinct.co.nz/e-commerce">WordPress e-Commerce plugin</a></p>
<p>The WordPress e-Commerce plugin is a state-of-the-art e-Commerce platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards and usability. It is both free and priceless at the same time.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lastpostsimage/">LastPostsImage</a></p>
<p>This WordPress plugin provides a customizable image always showing the last posts of your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wpmarketer.com/download/">WP-Marketer</a></p>
<p>Easy marketer link masking and more. With WP Marketer manage your in text and performance marketing programs without having to use multiple tools</p>
<p><a href="http://www.misternifty.com/easysms/">EasySMS</a></p>
<p>EasySMS provides an easy way for readers to subscribe to SMS updates and for admins to send SMS messages to groups.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.rene-ade.de/inhalte/wordpress-plugin-lastpostsimage.html">SensitiveTagCloud</a></p>
<p>This WordPress plugin provides a tagcloud that shows tags depending of the current context (e.g. Category, Author, Tag, Post) only.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/icanlocalize-comment-translator/">ICanLocalize Comment Translator</a></p>
<p>Manages human translated blogs and allows you to administrate, create contents and moderate comments in your native language.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/micro-anywhere/">Micro Anywhere</a></p>
<p>Micro Anywhere allows for easy insertion of microformatted contact information and event details through the WordPress WYSIWYG editor.</p>";}i:27;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:138:"Lorelle on WP: Blog Herald WordPress News: WordPress Scholarship, 800,000 WordPress 2.7 Downloads, XML-RPC Problem, and Top Plugin Authors";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=3553";s:4:"link";s:158:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2009/01/02/blog-herald-wordpress-news-wordpress-scholarship-800000-wordpress-27-downloads-xml-rpc-problem-and-top-plugin-authors/";s:11:"description";s:15697:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>I just published <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/01/02/wordpress-news-weblog-tools-collection-scholarship-fund-wordpress-at-the-supreme-court-top-plugin-authors-xml-rpc-trouble-and-more/" title="Weblog Tools Collection Scholarship Fund, WordPress at the Supreme Court, Top Plugin Authors, XML-RPC Trouble, and More">WordPress News: Weblog Tools Collection Scholarship Fund, WordPress at the Supreme Court, Top Plugin Authors, XML-RPC Trouble, and More</a>, this week&#8217;s <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/tag/wordpress-news/" title="Articles on WordPress News on the Blog Herald" rel="tag">Blog Herald WordPress News</a> report. </p>
<blockquote><p>WordPress 2.7 downloads now passing 800,000. WordPress goes to the Supreme Court. Weblog Tools Collection announces college scholarship fund for WordPress students. WordPress 2.7 problems with XML-RPC. WordPress.com annual wrap up features dramatic statistics and features. Analysis of top WordPress Plugin authors in the WordPress Plugin Directory - who is on top? Chicago Breast Cancer Marathon call for WordPress men to march. And more WordPress news, security information, Plugins, Themes, and tips.</p></blockquote>
<p>The following is a point summary of the key bits of WordPress news you may find interesting. The news report also includes information and news on various WordPress fan blogs, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, development news, WordPress tips, and more.</p>
<h4>Problems with WordPress 2.7 XML-RPC</h4>
<p>Joseph Scott reports on <a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2008/12/problems-with-libxml2-for-wordpress-xml-rpc-users/" title="Problems With libxml2 For WordPress XML-RPC Users">problems with libxml2 For WordPress XML-RPC users</a> that he&#8217;s been finding on the <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/support" title="WordPress Support Forums" rel="tag">WordPress Support Forums</a> and elsewhere. </p>
<h4>One Million Downloads of WordPress 2.7</h4>
<p>Two weeks ago, there were <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/500000-wordpress-27-downloads/" title="500,000 WordPress 2.7 Downloads">500,000 WordPress 2.7 Downloads</a> and as I write this, there are now over 800,000 downloads, moving fast for 1 million. Bets are on <a href="http://www.twitter.com/lorelleonwp/" title="Twitter Lorelleonwp">Twitter</a> as to when one million downloads will be counted on the <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/counter/" title="WordPress Download Counter">WordPress Download Counter</a>.</p>
<h4>Weblog Tools Collection WordPress College Scholarship</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.weblogtoolscollection.com/" title="Weblog Tools Collection" rel="tag">Weblog Tools Collection</a> has <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/01/shubho-nobo-borsho/" title="Shubho Nobo Borsho!">announced plans for a Weblog Tools Collection College Scholarship</a> to promote &#8220;WordPress development and help students dip their toe in WordPress.&#8221; </p>
<h4>WordPress Theme Intruder Hack Attack</h4>
<p>A <a href="http://sasha-says.com/2008/11/27/alien-file-remvphp/" title="Remv.php">lot</a> of <a href="http://bancodereyna.com/?p=368" title="Lessons learned">people</a> are reporting notifications from their web hosts regarding the <code>remv.php</code> file creating malicious behavior on your WordPress blog. <a href="http://jasoncosper.com/archives/wordpress-remvphp-and-you/" title="WordPress, remv.php and You">Jason Cosper offers a good step-by-step tutorial</a> and <a href="http://ronalddavies.com/warning-how-to-remove-the-remvphp-exploit-hack-from-wordpress" title="WARNING! How to Remove the remv.php Exploit Hack from WordPress">Ronald Davies has a video tutorial</a> on how to remove this malicious file from your WordPress Theme folder. After removal of the file from your server via FTP, update your site immediately to WordPress 2.7. For more information, see these discussions on the WordPress Support Forums: <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224042" title="Blog hacked, host said to upgrade">Blog hacked, host said to upgrade</a> and <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/219439" title="WTF is remv.php in wp-content/themes folder">WTF is remv.php in wp-content/themes folder</a>.</p>
<h4>Weblog Tools Collection Changes Ad Policy to Favor GPL Themes and Plugins</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.weblogtoolscollection.com/" title="Weblog Tools Collection" rel="tag">Weblog Tools Collection</a> announces it will <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/01/shubho-nobo-borsho/" title="Shubho Nobo Borsho!">no longer accept ads from advertisers promoting non-GPL WordPress Themes and Plugins</a>. </p>
<h4>Fake WordPress Malicious Site</h4>
<p>Look out for a fake WordPress site. Wordpresz.org looks like the <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/" title="WordPress" rel="tag">WordPress</a> site but isn&#8217;t. The version of WordPress you download has malicious code in the download that opens a backdoor to your blog. <a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/2008/11/07/there-is-no-such-thing-as-wordpress-264/" title="Fake WordPress Upgrade">If you upgraded WordPress to 2.6.4</a>, you are running a fake version. There is no WordPress 2.6.4. The latest version is WordPress 2.7, and in the 2.6 line, it is 2.6.5, skipping 2.6.4 due to this threat.</p>
<h4>WordPress Events Coming Soon</h4>
<p>Space if often limited for these WordPress Events, WordCamps, and blog events, so register early. </p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.meetup.com/185/calendar/9294165/" title="Toronto WordPress - WordCamp Toronto January Meetup">Toronto WordPress Meetup - January 3, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.meetup.com/184/calendar/9088229/" title="Installing &amp; Upgrading to 2.7">Atlanta WordPress 2.7 Party - Installing and Upgrading - January 6, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/The-New-Jersey-WordPress-Meetup-Group/calendar/9304141/" title="The New Jersey WordPress January Meetup">The New Jersey WordPress January Meetup - January 7, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lasvegaswordcamp.com/" title="WordCamp Las Vegas 2009">WordCamp Las Vegas 2009 - Las Vegas, Nevada - January 10-11, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/LasVegasWordPress/calendar/9387058/" title="Happy Hour after WordCamp">Happy Hour after WordCamp Las Vegas - January 10, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1438166/" title="Los Angeles WordPress Users Group at Philippe's French Dip">Los Angeles WordPress Users Group - January 11, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/SF-WordPress-Users/calendar/9311336/" title="Search Engine Optimization for WordPress">South Florida WordPress Meetup Group - Pompano Beach - Search Engine Optimization for WordPress - January 15, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.wordcampindonesia.com/" title="WordCamp Indonesia 2009">WordCamp Indonesia 2009 - Jakarta, Indonesia - January 17-18, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/boston-wordpress-meetup/calendar/9401039/" title="Boston WordPress Kick-off">Boston WordPress Meetup - Boston, Massachusetts - January 19, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/wordpressnyc/calendar/9258373/" title="The Strategy of Content Publishing">New York WordPress Meetup Group - WordPress as a CMS: The Strategy of Content Publishing - January 20, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordcampwhistler.com/" title="WordCamp Whistler 2009">WordCamp Whistler 2009 - Whistler, BC, Canada - January 24, 2009</a> (<a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=32574477561" title="WordCamp Whistler">Facebook</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.meetup.com/186/calendar/9394147/" title="Toronto WordPress January Meetup">Toronto WordPress Meetup - January 24, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/mywplife/calendar/9380790/" title="The Chicago WordPress January Meetup">Chicago WordPress January Meetup - January 24, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/dfwwordpress/calendar/9369639/" title="The Dallas/Ft. Worth Area WordPress January Meetup">The Dallas/Ft. Worth Area WordPress January Meetup - Texas - January 24, 2009</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Top 10 WordPress Plugin Authors</h4>
<p>Based upon cumulative downloads, White Shadow offers the <a href="http://w-shadow.com/blog/2008/12/28/top-10-wordpress-plugin-developers/" title="Top 10 WordPress Plugin Developers">Top 10 WordPress Plugin Developers</a> within the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/" title="WordPress Plugins Extends">WordPress Plugin Directory</a>. </p>
<h4>Optimize All Those Scripts in WordPress 2.7 Themes and Plugins</h4>
<p>WordPress 2.7 now features a lot of AJAX and JavaScript. Ozz offers a technical article on the WordPress Development Blog for <a href="http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/optimizing-script-loading/" title="Optimizing script loading">optimizing script loading</a> that is a must-read for all WordPress Plugin and Theme developers.</p>
<h4>Installing WordPressMU EBook</h4>
<p><a href="http://wpmututorials.com" title="Andrea Rennick of wpmu Tutorials">Andrea Rennick of WPMU Tutorials</a> has just published <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WpmuTutorials/~3/ZP8dVo6ppBU/" title="Installing WordPressMu - The E-Book">Installing WordPressMU - The E-Book</a>, a guide to helping you install the popular multi-blog version of WordPress called <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/" title="WordPressMU" rel="tag">WordPressMU</a>. The book is available in PDF form for free download. </p>
<h4>WordPress.com 2009 Year Wrap-Up</h4>
<p>In <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/01/02/2008-year-end-wrap-up/" title="2008 Year-End Wrap-Up">2008 Year-End Wrap-Up</a>, Matt Mullenweg sums up the year listing many of the new features, staff, statistics, and changes in the free blog hosting service of WordPress. </p>
<h4>WordPress News on the Blog Herald</h4>
<p>Each week, I gather up all the WordPress and event information I can find and publish it on the <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/" title="Blog Herald" rel="tag">Blog Herald</a> in the <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/tag/wordpress-news/" title="Articles on WordPress News on the Blog Herald" rel="tag">Blog Herald WordPress News</a> category. Past WordPress News reports include:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/01/02/wordpress-news-weblog-tools-collection-scholarship-fund-wordpress-at-the-supreme-court-top-plugin-authors-xml-rpc-trouble-and-more/" title="Weblog Tools Collection Scholarship Fund, WordPress at the Supreme Court, Top Plugin Authors, XML-RPC Trouble, and More">WordPress News: Weblog Tools Collection Scholarship Fund, WordPress at the Supreme Court, Top Plugin Authors, XML-RPC Trouble, and More</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/12/26/wordpress-news-650000-wp-27-downloads-buddypress-theme-threat-schwag-and-more/" title="650,000 WP 2.7 Downloads, BuddyPress, Theme Threat, Schwag, and More">WordPress News: 650,000 WP 2.7 Downloads, BuddyPress, Theme Threat, Schwag, and More</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/12/18/wordpress-news-wordpress-27-awesome-wordpresscom-5-million-plugins-updated-and-wordcamp-news/" title="WordPress 2.7 Awesome, WordPress.com 5 Million, Plugins Updated, and WordCamp News">WordPress News: WordPress 2.7 Awesome, WordPress.com 5 Million, Plugins Updated, and WordCamp News</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/12/10/wordpress-news-wordpress-27-released/" title="WordPress 2.7 Released">WordPress News: WordPress 2.7 Released</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/12/04/wordpress-news-wordpress-27-out-on-wordpresscom-wordpress-27-news-wordcamps-wordpress-plugins-and-themes-updated/" title="WordPress 2.7 Out on WordPress.com, WordPress 2.7 News, WordCamps, WordPress Plugins and Themes Updated">WordPress News: WordPress 2.7 Out on WordPress.com, WordPress 2.7 News, WordCamps, WordPress Plugins and Themes Updated</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/11/27/wordpress-news-wordpress-27-new-login-wordcamp-australia-wordpress-265-security-update-buddypress-and-more/" title="WordPress 2.7 New Login, WordCamp Australia, WordPress 2.6.5 Security Update, BuddyPress, and More">WordPress News: WordPress 2.7 New Login, WordCamp Australia, WordPress 2.6.5 Security Update, BuddyPress, and More</a></li>
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<blockquote><p>WordPress 2.7 downloads now passing 800,000. WordPress goes to the Supreme Court. Weblog Tools Collection announces college scholarship fund for WordPress students. WordPress 2.7 problems with XML-RPC. WordPress.com annual wrap up features dramatic statistics and features. Analysis of top WordPress Plugin authors in the WordPress Plugin Directory - who is on top? Chicago Breast Cancer Marathon call for WordPress men to march. And more WordPress news, security information, Plugins, Themes, and tips.</p></blockquote>
<p>The following is a point summary of the key bits of WordPress news you may find interesting. The news report also includes information and news on various WordPress fan blogs, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, development news, WordPress tips, and more.</p>
<h4>Problems with WordPress 2.7 XML-RPC</h4>
<p>Joseph Scott reports on <a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2008/12/problems-with-libxml2-for-wordpress-xml-rpc-users/" title="Problems With libxml2 For WordPress XML-RPC Users">problems with libxml2 For WordPress XML-RPC users</a> that he&#8217;s been finding on the <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/support" title="WordPress Support Forums" rel="tag">WordPress Support Forums</a> and elsewhere. </p>
<h4>One Million Downloads of WordPress 2.7</h4>
<p>Two weeks ago, there were <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/500000-wordpress-27-downloads/" title="500,000 WordPress 2.7 Downloads">500,000 WordPress 2.7 Downloads</a> and as I write this, there are now over 800,000 downloads, moving fast for 1 million. Bets are on <a href="http://www.twitter.com/lorelleonwp/" title="Twitter Lorelleonwp">Twitter</a> as to when one million downloads will be counted on the <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/counter/" title="WordPress Download Counter">WordPress Download Counter</a>.</p>
<h4>Weblog Tools Collection WordPress College Scholarship</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.weblogtoolscollection.com/" title="Weblog Tools Collection" rel="tag">Weblog Tools Collection</a> has <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/01/shubho-nobo-borsho/" title="Shubho Nobo Borsho!">announced plans for a Weblog Tools Collection College Scholarship</a> to promote &#8220;WordPress development and help students dip their toe in WordPress.&#8221; </p>
<h4>WordPress Theme Intruder Hack Attack</h4>
<p>A <a href="http://sasha-says.com/2008/11/27/alien-file-remvphp/" title="Remv.php">lot</a> of <a href="http://bancodereyna.com/?p=368" title="Lessons learned">people</a> are reporting notifications from their web hosts regarding the <code>remv.php</code> file creating malicious behavior on your WordPress blog. <a href="http://jasoncosper.com/archives/wordpress-remvphp-and-you/" title="WordPress, remv.php and You">Jason Cosper offers a good step-by-step tutorial</a> and <a href="http://ronalddavies.com/warning-how-to-remove-the-remvphp-exploit-hack-from-wordpress" title="WARNING! How to Remove the remv.php Exploit Hack from WordPress">Ronald Davies has a video tutorial</a> on how to remove this malicious file from your WordPress Theme folder. After removal of the file from your server via FTP, update your site immediately to WordPress 2.7. For more information, see these discussions on the WordPress Support Forums: <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224042" title="Blog hacked, host said to upgrade">Blog hacked, host said to upgrade</a> and <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/219439" title="WTF is remv.php in wp-content/themes folder">WTF is remv.php in wp-content/themes folder</a>.</p>
<h4>Weblog Tools Collection Changes Ad Policy to Favor GPL Themes and Plugins</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.weblogtoolscollection.com/" title="Weblog Tools Collection" rel="tag">Weblog Tools Collection</a> announces it will <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/01/shubho-nobo-borsho/" title="Shubho Nobo Borsho!">no longer accept ads from advertisers promoting non-GPL WordPress Themes and Plugins</a>. </p>
<h4>Fake WordPress Malicious Site</h4>
<p>Look out for a fake WordPress site. Wordpresz.org looks like the <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/" title="WordPress" rel="tag">WordPress</a> site but isn&#8217;t. The version of WordPress you download has malicious code in the download that opens a backdoor to your blog. <a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/2008/11/07/there-is-no-such-thing-as-wordpress-264/" title="Fake WordPress Upgrade">If you upgraded WordPress to 2.6.4</a>, you are running a fake version. There is no WordPress 2.6.4. The latest version is WordPress 2.7, and in the 2.6 line, it is 2.6.5, skipping 2.6.4 due to this threat.</p>
<h4>WordPress Events Coming Soon</h4>
<p>Space if often limited for these WordPress Events, WordCamps, and blog events, so register early. </p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.meetup.com/185/calendar/9294165/" title="Toronto WordPress - WordCamp Toronto January Meetup">Toronto WordPress Meetup - January 3, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.meetup.com/184/calendar/9088229/" title="Installing &amp; Upgrading to 2.7">Atlanta WordPress 2.7 Party - Installing and Upgrading - January 6, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/The-New-Jersey-WordPress-Meetup-Group/calendar/9304141/" title="The New Jersey WordPress January Meetup">The New Jersey WordPress January Meetup - January 7, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lasvegaswordcamp.com/" title="WordCamp Las Vegas 2009">WordCamp Las Vegas 2009 - Las Vegas, Nevada - January 10-11, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/LasVegasWordPress/calendar/9387058/" title="Happy Hour after WordCamp">Happy Hour after WordCamp Las Vegas - January 10, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1438166/" title="Los Angeles WordPress Users Group at Philippe's French Dip">Los Angeles WordPress Users Group - January 11, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/SF-WordPress-Users/calendar/9311336/" title="Search Engine Optimization for WordPress">South Florida WordPress Meetup Group - Pompano Beach - Search Engine Optimization for WordPress - January 15, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.wordcampindonesia.com/" title="WordCamp Indonesia 2009">WordCamp Indonesia 2009 - Jakarta, Indonesia - January 17-18, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/boston-wordpress-meetup/calendar/9401039/" title="Boston WordPress Kick-off">Boston WordPress Meetup - Boston, Massachusetts - January 19, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/wordpressnyc/calendar/9258373/" title="The Strategy of Content Publishing">New York WordPress Meetup Group - WordPress as a CMS: The Strategy of Content Publishing - January 20, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordcampwhistler.com/" title="WordCamp Whistler 2009">WordCamp Whistler 2009 - Whistler, BC, Canada - January 24, 2009</a> (<a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=32574477561" title="WordCamp Whistler">Facebook</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.meetup.com/186/calendar/9394147/" title="Toronto WordPress January Meetup">Toronto WordPress Meetup - January 24, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/mywplife/calendar/9380790/" title="The Chicago WordPress January Meetup">Chicago WordPress January Meetup - January 24, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/dfwwordpress/calendar/9369639/" title="The Dallas/Ft. Worth Area WordPress January Meetup">The Dallas/Ft. Worth Area WordPress January Meetup - Texas - January 24, 2009</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Top 10 WordPress Plugin Authors</h4>
<p>Based upon cumulative downloads, White Shadow offers the <a href="http://w-shadow.com/blog/2008/12/28/top-10-wordpress-plugin-developers/" title="Top 10 WordPress Plugin Developers">Top 10 WordPress Plugin Developers</a> within the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/" title="WordPress Plugins Extends">WordPress Plugin Directory</a>. </p>
<h4>Optimize All Those Scripts in WordPress 2.7 Themes and Plugins</h4>
<p>WordPress 2.7 now features a lot of AJAX and JavaScript. Ozz offers a technical article on the WordPress Development Blog for <a href="http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/optimizing-script-loading/" title="Optimizing script loading">optimizing script loading</a> that is a must-read for all WordPress Plugin and Theme developers.</p>
<h4>Installing WordPressMU EBook</h4>
<p><a href="http://wpmututorials.com" title="Andrea Rennick of wpmu Tutorials">Andrea Rennick of WPMU Tutorials</a> has just published <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WpmuTutorials/~3/ZP8dVo6ppBU/" title="Installing WordPressMu - The E-Book">Installing WordPressMU - The E-Book</a>, a guide to helping you install the popular multi-blog version of WordPress called <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/" title="WordPressMU" rel="tag">WordPressMU</a>. The book is available in PDF form for free download. </p>
<h4>WordPress.com 2009 Year Wrap-Up</h4>
<p>In <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/01/02/2008-year-end-wrap-up/" title="2008 Year-End Wrap-Up">2008 Year-End Wrap-Up</a>, Matt Mullenweg sums up the year listing many of the new features, staff, statistics, and changes in the free blog hosting service of WordPress. </p>
<h4>WordPress News on the Blog Herald</h4>
<p>Each week, I gather up all the WordPress and event information I can find and publish it on the <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/" title="Blog Herald" rel="tag">Blog Herald</a> in the <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/tag/wordpress-news/" title="Articles on WordPress News on the Blog Herald" rel="tag">Blog Herald WordPress News</a> category. Past WordPress News reports include:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/01/02/wordpress-news-weblog-tools-collection-scholarship-fund-wordpress-at-the-supreme-court-top-plugin-authors-xml-rpc-trouble-and-more/" title="Weblog Tools Collection Scholarship Fund, WordPress at the Supreme Court, Top Plugin Authors, XML-RPC Trouble, and More">WordPress News: Weblog Tools Collection Scholarship Fund, WordPress at the Supreme Court, Top Plugin Authors, XML-RPC Trouble, and More</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/12/26/wordpress-news-650000-wp-27-downloads-buddypress-theme-threat-schwag-and-more/" title="650,000 WP 2.7 Downloads, BuddyPress, Theme Threat, Schwag, and More">WordPress News: 650,000 WP 2.7 Downloads, BuddyPress, Theme Threat, Schwag, and More</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/12/18/wordpress-news-wordpress-27-awesome-wordpresscom-5-million-plugins-updated-and-wordcamp-news/" title="WordPress 2.7 Awesome, WordPress.com 5 Million, Plugins Updated, and WordCamp News">WordPress News: WordPress 2.7 Awesome, WordPress.com 5 Million, Plugins Updated, and WordCamp News</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/12/10/wordpress-news-wordpress-27-released/" title="WordPress 2.7 Released">WordPress News: WordPress 2.7 Released</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/12/04/wordpress-news-wordpress-27-out-on-wordpresscom-wordpress-27-news-wordcamps-wordpress-plugins-and-themes-updated/" title="WordPress 2.7 Out on WordPress.com, WordPress 2.7 News, WordCamps, WordPress Plugins and Themes Updated">WordPress News: WordPress 2.7 Out on WordPress.com, WordPress 2.7 News, WordCamps, WordPress Plugins and Themes Updated</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/11/27/wordpress-news-wordpress-27-new-login-wordcamp-australia-wordpress-265-security-update-buddypress-and-more/" title="WordPress 2.7 New Login, WordCamp Australia, WordPress 2.6.5 Security Update, BuddyPress, and More">WordPress News: WordPress 2.7 New Login, WordCamp Australia, WordPress 2.6.5 Security Update, BuddyPress, and More</a></li>
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<p>The 0.9.0.4 stable release includes a security fix to stop a potential XSS attack on login pages with Internet Explorer 6, so it is highly recommended for all users.</p>
<p>Additionally, the 0.9.0.4 release includes a significant MySQL speed-up fix for front pages and forum pages that was <a href="http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/get-latest-topics-performance-problem-and-solution">discussed in the forums</a>. Thanks to <a href="http://anotherdan.com/">anotherdan</a> and <a href="http://bbshowcase.org/">_ck_</a> for their efforts on that one.</p>
<p>The 1.0-alpha-5 release also includes the above fixes as well as an important fix to WordPress integration. Namely, automatic synchronisation of user roles should now work as expected.</p>
<p>You can get them both from the <a href="http://bbpress.org/download/">download page</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:28:07 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Sam Bauers";}s:7:"summary";s:928:"<p>Today we are releasing a new version of both bbPress 0.9 and bbPress 1.0-alpha.</p>
<p>The 0.9.0.4 stable release includes a security fix to stop a potential XSS attack on login pages with Internet Explorer 6, so it is highly recommended for all users.</p>
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<p>The 1.0-alpha-5 release also includes the above fixes as well as an important fix to WordPress integration. Namely, automatic synchronisation of user roles should now work as expected.</p>
<p>You can get them both from the <a href="http://bbpress.org/download/">download page</a>.</p>";}i:29;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:30:"Gravatar: Gravatar with JavaFX";s:4:"guid";s:31:"http://blog.gravatar.com/?p=130";s:4:"link";s:57:"http://blog.gravatar.com/2009/01/02/gravatar-with-javafx/";s:11:"description";s:1513:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://silveiraneto.net">Silveira Neto</a> write in to let us know that he has written an article covering <a href="http://silveiraneto.net/2008/12/21/gravatar-with-javafx/">how to use gravatar with JavaFX</a>.  Thanks for the info, Silveira, I&#8217;m sure many people will find this to be very useful!</p>
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<p></p>
<p>Also a reminder that <a href="http://www.fouad.fm/first-ever-wordpress-meetup-in-duabi/">tomorrow will be the first ever Dubai WordPress meetup</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:17:11 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:645:"<p>I wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a happy, safe, and prosperous new year. 2009 looks like it&#8217;s going to be a heckuva year. <img src="http://ma.tt/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> Here&#8217;s a quick video clip of <a href="http://www.grandmasterflash.com/">Grandmaster Flash</a> from the NYE party last night at <a href="http://www.timeoutdubai.com/bars/reviews/2808-the-apartment-lounge-a-club">The Apartment</a>:</p>
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<p>Also a reminder that <a href="http://www.fouad.fm/first-ever-wordpress-meetup-in-duabi/">tomorrow will be the first ever Dubai WordPress meetup</a>.</p>";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:73:"Mark Jaquith: What would you pay for a book on “Advanced WordPress” ?";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/?p=238";s:4:"link";s:96:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/what-would-you-pay-for-a-book-on-advanced-wordpress/";s:11:"description";s:2409:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>This post is for people who work with WordPress: themers, WordPress coders and consultants, and anyone who wants to do things more advanced than installing plugins with WordPress. If you&#8217;re not in this market, be on your way, this poll doesn&#8217;t apply to you!</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re still here&#8230; I&#8217;ve been considering writing a book on &#8220;Advanced WordPress.&#8221; The market in mind is all of the themers, coders, consultants, and intrepid blog tweakers who may know a bit of PHP (or a lot), and want to go beyond the basics with WordPress. There are a lot of books that cover WordPress basics, but not a lot aimed at more advanced uses of WordPress. A sample of the topics covered would be:</p>
<ul>
<li>Plugins</li>
<li>Hooks</li>
<li>Advanced WordPress administration and automation</li>
<li>Themes</li>
<li>Advanced theme tricks</li>
</ul>
<p>It would be part reference, part walkthrough.</p>
<p>If this book were available, and you are in the market described above, how much (if anything) would you be willing to pay for such a book?</p>
 <a href="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1234366/">View Poll</a>
<p>Thanks for your participation!</p>
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<p>If you&#8217;re still here&#8230; I&#8217;ve been considering writing a book on &#8220;Advanced WordPress.&#8221; The market in mind is all of the themers, coders, consultants, and intrepid blog tweakers who may know a bit of PHP (or a lot), and want to go beyond the basics with WordPress. There are a lot of books that cover WordPress basics, but not a lot aimed at more advanced uses of WordPress. A sample of the topics covered would be:</p>
<ul>
<li>Plugins</li>
<li>Hooks</li>
<li>Advanced WordPress administration and automation</li>
<li>Themes</li>
<li>Advanced theme tricks</li>
</ul>
<p>It would be part reference, part walkthrough.</p>
<p>If this book were available, and you are in the market described above, how much (if anything) would you be willing to pay for such a book?</p>
 <a href="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1234366/">View Poll</a>
<p>Thanks for your participation!</p>
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WordPress 2.7 was released
Microsoft enters the Open Source blogware world with Oxite
New Media Expo merges with Blog World Expo
WordPress Theme Repository purged of hundreds of themes
Six Apart shuts down Pownce
Dates announced for WordCamp San Francisco 2009, WordCamp [...]<p>Published at: <a href="http://wp-community.org">The WordPress Community</a></p>
<p><a href="http://wp-community.org/2008/12/30/episode-49-wordpress-27-released-oxite-blog-world-expo-and-new-media-expo-to-merge-pownce-closes/">Episode 49: WordPress 2.7 released, Oxite, Blog World Expo and New Media Expo to merge, Pownce closes</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:15:40 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:37:"Charles Stricklin and Jonathan Bailey";}s:7:"summary";s:718:"One of our former co-hosts, David Peralty, joins us as a special guest for this episode as we discuss:

WordPress 2.7 was released
Microsoft enters the Open Source blogware world with Oxite
New Media Expo merges with Blog World Expo
WordPress Theme Repository purged of hundreds of themes
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<p><a title="New Resources, Holiday Hours" href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/support-updates-new-resources-holiday-hours/">Heather of the WordPress.com Support Team announced</a> the new WordPress.com support. It features a knowledge-based style with overviews features and tasks.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve covered a lot of tips and techniques for using WordPress.com, and here are some highlights, including a lot of features and things you can do with your WordPress.com blog not included in the new help pages:</p>
<ul>
<li><a title="What Do I Do With My New WordPress.com Blog?" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/29/what-do-i-do-with-my-new-wordpresscom-blog/">What Do I Do With My New WordPress.com Blog?</a></li>
<li><a title="What Can You Do With wordpress.com" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/08/22/what-can-you-do-with-wordpresscom/">What Can You Do With WordPress.com</a></li>
<li><a title="Playing with WordPress.com New Sidebar Widgets" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/10/playing-with-wordpresscom-new-sidebar-widgets/">Playing with WordPress.com New Sidebar Widgets</a></li>
<li><a title="WordPress.com Top Blogs of the Day" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/23/wordpresscom-top-blogs-of-the-day/">WordPress.com Top Blogs of the Day</a></li>
<li><a title="WordPress.com Custom CSS - All The Styles for the Sandbox Theme" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/08/06/wordpresscom-custom-css-all-the-styles-for-the-sandbox-theme/">WordPress.com Custom CSS - All The Styles for the Sandbox Theme</a></li>
<li><a title="WordPress.com Resources for Beginners (and video, too)" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/wordpresscom-resources-for-beginners-and-video-too/">WordPress.com Resources for Beginners (and video, too)</a></li>
<li><a title="WordPress.com, Please Stop Using Snap Preview" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/29/wordpresscom-please-stop-using-snap-preview/">WordPress.com, Please Stop Using Snap Preview</a></li>
<li><a title="WordPress.com Blog Bling" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/28/wordpresscom-blog-bling/">WordPress.com Blog Bling</a></li>
<li><a title="Decorating Your WordPress.com Blog" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/wordpresscom-blog-bling-decorating-your-wordpresscom-blog/">WordPress.com Blog Bling: Decorating Your WordPress.com Blog</a></li>
<li><a title="Lines and Smilies" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/wordpresscom-blog-bling-lines-and-smilies/">WordPress.com Blog Bling: Lines and Smilies</a></li>
<li><a title="Fun Font Bling" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/01/wordpresscom-blog-bling-fun-font-bling/">WordPress.com Blog Bling: Fun Font Bling</a></li>
<li><a title="Blockquotes and Quotes" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/02/wordpresscom-blog-bling-blockquotes-and-quotes/">WordPress.com Blog Bling: Blockquotes and Quotes</a></li>
<li><a title="Blogroll and Sidebar Bling" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/wordpresscom-blog-bling-blogroll-and-sidebar-bling/">WordPress.com Blog Bling: Blogroll and Sidebar Bling</a></li>
<li><a title="Signatures and Writing Code" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/wordpresscom-blog-bling-signatures-and-writing-code/">WordPress.com Blog Bling: Signatures and Writing Code</a></li>
<li><a title="Adding Video and Podcasting Bling to Your WordPress.com Blogs" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/05/adding-video-and-podcasting-bling-to-your-wordpresscom-blogs/">Adding Video and Podcasting Bling to Your WordPress.com Blogs</a></li>
<li><a title="Show Off Your Blog Bling" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/wordpress-blog-bling-show-off-your-blog-bling/">WordPress.com Blog Bling: Show Off Your Blog Bling</a></li>
</ul>
<p>For more WordPress News, see the latest edition of my <a title="Articles on WordPress News on the Blog Herald" rel="tag" href="http://www.blogherald.com/tag/wordpress-news/">Blog Herald WordPress News</a>: <a title="WordPress 2.7 Awesome, WordPress.com 5 Million, Plugins Updated, and WordCamp News" href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/12/18/wordpress-news-wordpress-27-awesome-wordpresscom-5-million-plugins-updated-and-wordcamp-news/">WordPress News: WordPress 2.7 Awesome, WordPress.com 5 Million, Plugins Updated, and WordCamp News</a>.</p>
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<p><a title="New Resources, Holiday Hours" href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/support-updates-new-resources-holiday-hours/">Heather of the WordPress.com Support Team announced</a> the new WordPress.com support. It features a knowledge-based style with overviews features and tasks.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve covered a lot of tips and techniques for using WordPress.com, and here are some highlights, including a lot of features and things you can do with your WordPress.com blog not included in the new help pages:</p>
<ul>
<li><a title="What Do I Do With My New WordPress.com Blog?" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/29/what-do-i-do-with-my-new-wordpresscom-blog/">What Do I Do With My New WordPress.com Blog?</a></li>
<li><a title="What Can You Do With wordpress.com" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/08/22/what-can-you-do-with-wordpresscom/">What Can You Do With WordPress.com</a></li>
<li><a title="Playing with WordPress.com New Sidebar Widgets" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/10/playing-with-wordpresscom-new-sidebar-widgets/">Playing with WordPress.com New Sidebar Widgets</a></li>
<li><a title="WordPress.com Top Blogs of the Day" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/23/wordpresscom-top-blogs-of-the-day/">WordPress.com Top Blogs of the Day</a></li>
<li><a title="WordPress.com Custom CSS - All The Styles for the Sandbox Theme" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/08/06/wordpresscom-custom-css-all-the-styles-for-the-sandbox-theme/">WordPress.com Custom CSS - All The Styles for the Sandbox Theme</a></li>
<li><a title="WordPress.com Resources for Beginners (and video, too)" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/wordpresscom-resources-for-beginners-and-video-too/">WordPress.com Resources for Beginners (and video, too)</a></li>
<li><a title="WordPress.com, Please Stop Using Snap Preview" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/29/wordpresscom-please-stop-using-snap-preview/">WordPress.com, Please Stop Using Snap Preview</a></li>
<li><a title="WordPress.com Blog Bling" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/28/wordpresscom-blog-bling/">WordPress.com Blog Bling</a></li>
<li><a title="Decorating Your WordPress.com Blog" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/wordpresscom-blog-bling-decorating-your-wordpresscom-blog/">WordPress.com Blog Bling: Decorating Your WordPress.com Blog</a></li>
<li><a title="Lines and Smilies" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/wordpresscom-blog-bling-lines-and-smilies/">WordPress.com Blog Bling: Lines and Smilies</a></li>
<li><a title="Fun Font Bling" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/01/wordpresscom-blog-bling-fun-font-bling/">WordPress.com Blog Bling: Fun Font Bling</a></li>
<li><a title="Blockquotes and Quotes" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/02/wordpresscom-blog-bling-blockquotes-and-quotes/">WordPress.com Blog Bling: Blockquotes and Quotes</a></li>
<li><a title="Blogroll and Sidebar Bling" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/wordpresscom-blog-bling-blogroll-and-sidebar-bling/">WordPress.com Blog Bling: Blogroll and Sidebar Bling</a></li>
<li><a title="Signatures and Writing Code" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/wordpresscom-blog-bling-signatures-and-writing-code/">WordPress.com Blog Bling: Signatures and Writing Code</a></li>
<li><a title="Adding Video and Podcasting Bling to Your WordPress.com Blogs" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/05/adding-video-and-podcasting-bling-to-your-wordpresscom-blogs/">Adding Video and Podcasting Bling to Your WordPress.com Blogs</a></li>
<li><a title="Show Off Your Blog Bling" href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/wordpress-blog-bling-show-off-your-blog-bling/">WordPress.com Blog Bling: Show Off Your Blog Bling</a></li>
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<p>For more WordPress News, see the latest edition of my <a title="Articles on WordPress News on the Blog Herald" rel="tag" href="http://www.blogherald.com/tag/wordpress-news/">Blog Herald WordPress News</a>: <a title="WordPress 2.7 Awesome, WordPress.com 5 Million, Plugins Updated, and WordCamp News" href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/12/18/wordpress-news-wordpress-27-awesome-wordpresscom-5-million-plugins-updated-and-wordcamp-news/">WordPress News: WordPress 2.7 Awesome, WordPress.com 5 Million, Plugins Updated, and WordCamp News</a>.</p>
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Posted in WordPress News, Wordpressdotcom&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3494/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3494/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3494/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3494/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3494/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3494/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3494/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3494/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3494/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3494/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=3494&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:34;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:61:"Lorelle on WP: WordPress Themes: Start With a Solid Framework";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=3496";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/12/26/wordpress-themes-start-with-a-solid-framework/";s:11:"description";s:14671:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/tag/wordpress-themes/" title="WordPress Themes"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/wpthemes.gif" alt="WordPress Themes" align="right" /></a><a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/12/24/why-i-created-a-wordpress-theme-framework" title="Why I created a WordPress theme framework">Why I Created a WordPress Theme Framework</a> by Justin Tadlock is a good look at the reasons why WordPress Theme designers and developers should work with a framework when designing a WordPress Theme. A strong Theme framework creates a solid canvas upon which to build your WordPress Themes. </p>
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<li><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Templates" title="WordPress Template files">WordPress Template Files</a></li>
<li><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_Design_and_Layout" title="WordPress Blog Design and Layout">WordPress Blog Design and Layout</a></li>
<li><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags" title="use conditional tags">WordPress Conditional Tags</a></li>
<li><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Designing_Themes_for_Public_Release" title="Designing WordPress Themes for Public Release">Designing WordPress Themes for Public Release</a></li>
<li><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Template_Tags" title="Stepping Into Template Tags">Stepping Into Template Tags</a></li>
<li><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates" title="Stepping Into Templates">Stepping Into Templates</a></li>
<li><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags" title="WordPress Template Tags">WordPress Template Tags</a></li>
<li><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development" title="WordPress Theme Development">WordPress Theme Development</a></li>
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<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of <a href="http://www.weblogtoolscollection.com/" title="Weblog Tools Collection" rel="tag">Weblog Tools Collection</a> and their weekly WordPress Plugins and Themes reports, so I&#8217;m eager for this year of non-stop weekly WordPress Plugins. </p>
<p>For more WordPress News, see the latest edition of my <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/tag/wordpress-news/" title="Articles on WordPress News on the Blog Herald" rel="tag">Blog Herald WordPress News</a>: <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/12/18/wordpress-news-wordpress-27-awesome-wordpresscom-5-million-plugins-updated-and-wordcamp-news/" title="WordPress 2.7 Awesome, WordPress.com 5 Million, Plugins Updated, and WordCamp News">WordPress News: WordPress 2.7 Awesome, WordPress.com 5 Million, Plugins Updated, and WordCamp News</a>. </p>
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<p>I&#8217;d like to take this opportunity to remind WordPress Theme Plugin authors how much I adore their work, and recommend that they do better when it comes to promoting their WordPress Plugins. Two years ago, I spent a <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/a-month-of-wordpress-plugins/" title="A Month of WordPress Plugins">month reviewing and writing about hundreds of WordPress Plugins</a> and wrote a <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/a-love-letter-to-wordpress-plugin-authors/" title="A Love Letter to WordPress Plugin Authors">love letter to WordPress Plugin authors</a> asking them to help us help them by providing more keyword specific introductions and descriptions about their WordPress Plugins. </p>
<p>If you are submitting your Plugin to the Weblog Tools Collection for review, follow their guidelines and <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/a-love-letter-to-wordpress-plugin-authors/" title="A Love Letter to WordPress Plugin Authors">my strong recommendations</a> to make the process painless for everyone, especially the readers and those who want your WordPress Plugin.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of <a href="http://www.weblogtoolscollection.com/" title="Weblog Tools Collection" rel="tag">Weblog Tools Collection</a> and their weekly WordPress Plugins and Themes reports, so I&#8217;m eager for this year of non-stop weekly WordPress Plugins. </p>
<p>For more WordPress News, see the latest edition of my <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/tag/wordpress-news/" title="Articles on WordPress News on the Blog Herald" rel="tag">Blog Herald WordPress News</a>: <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/12/18/wordpress-news-wordpress-27-awesome-wordpresscom-5-million-plugins-updated-and-wordcamp-news/" title="WordPress 2.7 Awesome, WordPress.com 5 Million, Plugins Updated, and WordCamp News">WordPress News: WordPress 2.7 Awesome, WordPress.com 5 Million, Plugins Updated, and WordCamp News</a>. </p>
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<p>Currently, they are focused on WordPress Widget management, automatic Theme updates and installs, and performance improvements. The poll features the most popular features requests from the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas" title="Ideas forum">Ideas forum</a> and more that the WordPress developers want to work on. Vote by noon on December 31 to have your say in what you want to see in WordPress 2.8. </p>
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Posted in WordPress News&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3488/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3488/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3488/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3488/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3488/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3488/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3488/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3488/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3488/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3488/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=3488&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:37;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:49:"Dev Blog: Prioritizing Features for WordPress 2.8";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=491";s:4:"link";s:80:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/12/prioritizing-features-for-wordpress-28/";s:11:"description";s:2976:"<p>Everyone knows by now that WordPress 2.7 is packed with new features. Now that it&#8217;s available (almost <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/counter/">600,000 downloads</a> as I write this!), it&#8217;s time to start working on 2.8. There were dozens of things that got tabled during 2.7 due to time constraints, and there are a lot of high-rated features in the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas">Ideas forum</a>, so there are a lot of potential features under consideration.</p>
<p>Right now, the lead developers are thinking the top priorities for 2.8 will be widget management, theme browser/installer and performance upgrades. The rest of the development time will be taken up with bug tickets and additional features/enhancements from a prioritized list. To that end, we&#8217;ve posted <a href="http://www.polldaddy.com/s/6FC3E15CDE20B5B5/">a new survey</a> for you to help us prioritize features for 2.8. The list pulls from the developers&#8217; &#8220;2.7 leftovers&#8221; list as well as the most popular features from the Ideas forum. Just rank each feature and tell us your top pick (up to three). You also have the option of adding comments or additional suggestions, but this is not mandatory. For your response to count, you must rank all of the features in the list. The survey has only one page.  </p>
<p>Note that media features are not included in this list as we will be posting a separate survey for media-specific features soon. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.polldaddy.com/s/6FC3E15CDE20B5B5/">Cast your votes</a> any time this week, but as always the sooner the better. This survey will close at noon on December 31, 2008 UTC.</p>
<p>In the new year, we will be reviving scheduled IRC developer chats, where the lead developers will discuss the week&#8217;s progress on feature development, providing opportunities for people to ask questions or make suggestions. These will be held early in the day on Wednesdays (U.S. Wednesday), and the specific time will be posted here on the development blog once it&#8217;s been finalized. </p>
<p>As a related aside, we spent a significant amount of time during 2.7 development sifting through Trac tickets that really shouldn&#8217;t have been there. Feature ideas and requests do not belong in Trac, they belong in the Ideas forum. Please reserve Trac for reporting bugs and things that need fixing (typos, code enhancements, etc.). If you are asking for a new UI, a new feature, or a new approach to coding something, that&#8217;s not an enhancement, it&#8217;s a new feature. New features will be entered into Trac by developers once it has been determined that the feature should be included in core. To help speed up development, moving forward we will close Trac tickets that are actually feature requests, with the comment that they should be posted in the Ideas forum instead. Please help the developers maximize their time by following this guideline. </p>
<p>Thanks for your help!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:17:58 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:7:"summary";s:2976:"<p>Everyone knows by now that WordPress 2.7 is packed with new features. Now that it&#8217;s available (almost <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/counter/">600,000 downloads</a> as I write this!), it&#8217;s time to start working on 2.8. There were dozens of things that got tabled during 2.7 due to time constraints, and there are a lot of high-rated features in the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas">Ideas forum</a>, so there are a lot of potential features under consideration.</p>
<p>Right now, the lead developers are thinking the top priorities for 2.8 will be widget management, theme browser/installer and performance upgrades. The rest of the development time will be taken up with bug tickets and additional features/enhancements from a prioritized list. To that end, we&#8217;ve posted <a href="http://www.polldaddy.com/s/6FC3E15CDE20B5B5/">a new survey</a> for you to help us prioritize features for 2.8. The list pulls from the developers&#8217; &#8220;2.7 leftovers&#8221; list as well as the most popular features from the Ideas forum. Just rank each feature and tell us your top pick (up to three). You also have the option of adding comments or additional suggestions, but this is not mandatory. For your response to count, you must rank all of the features in the list. The survey has only one page.  </p>
<p>Note that media features are not included in this list as we will be posting a separate survey for media-specific features soon. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.polldaddy.com/s/6FC3E15CDE20B5B5/">Cast your votes</a> any time this week, but as always the sooner the better. This survey will close at noon on December 31, 2008 UTC.</p>
<p>In the new year, we will be reviving scheduled IRC developer chats, where the lead developers will discuss the week&#8217;s progress on feature development, providing opportunities for people to ask questions or make suggestions. These will be held early in the day on Wednesdays (U.S. Wednesday), and the specific time will be posted here on the development blog once it&#8217;s been finalized. </p>
<p>As a related aside, we spent a significant amount of time during 2.7 development sifting through Trac tickets that really shouldn&#8217;t have been there. Feature ideas and requests do not belong in Trac, they belong in the Ideas forum. Please reserve Trac for reporting bugs and things that need fixing (typos, code enhancements, etc.). If you are asking for a new UI, a new feature, or a new approach to coding something, that&#8217;s not an enhancement, it&#8217;s a new feature. New features will be entered into Trac by developers once it has been determined that the feature should be included in core. To help speed up development, moving forward we will close Trac tickets that are actually feature requests, with the comment that they should be posted in the Ideas forum instead. Please help the developers maximize their time by following this guideline. </p>
<p>Thanks for your help!</p>";}i:38;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:28:"Matt: Killing Silicon Valley";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=9817";s:4:"link";s:44:"http://ma.tt/2008/12/killing-silicon-valley/";s:11:"description";s:669:"<p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122990472028925207.html">Washington Is Killing Silicon Valley</a>, an editorial from the Wall Street Journal. The main thing the article misses is that while the economics of startups are currently distorted doing a startup is still one of the best ways to change the world, for your work to have an impact far beyond the walls of a single company. I&#8217;ve seen some killer startups recently, my only hope is that they have enough runway to make it to the execution of their idea. <a href="http://www.entrepreneurship.gov/">Entrepreneurship.gov says</a> &#8220;Freedom is just another word for entrepreneurship.&#8221;</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:30:57 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:669:"<p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122990472028925207.html">Washington Is Killing Silicon Valley</a>, an editorial from the Wall Street Journal. The main thing the article misses is that while the economics of startups are currently distorted doing a startup is still one of the best ways to change the world, for your work to have an impact far beyond the walls of a single company. I&#8217;ve seen some killer startups recently, my only hope is that they have enough runway to make it to the execution of their idea. <a href="http://www.entrepreneurship.gov/">Entrepreneurship.gov says</a> &#8220;Freedom is just another word for entrepreneurship.&#8221;</p>";}i:39;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 12/21";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4828";s:4:"link";s:90:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/21/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1221-2/";s:11:"description";s:3785:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.blogtrafficexchange.com/blog-copyright/">Blog Copyright</a></p>
<p>Blog Copyright injects a copyright notice into the blog footer.</p>
<p><a href="http://jcksn.com/2008/12/wordpress-art-direction-plugin/">Art Direction Plugin</a></p>
<p>This plugin allows you to have global archive and single page per-post styles.</p>
<p><a href="http://w-shadow.com/blog/2008/12/20/admin-menu-editor-for-wordpress/">Admin Menu Editor</a></p>
<p>Manually edit the Dashboard menu. You can reorder the menus, show/hide specific items, change access rights, and more.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vimeo-quicktags/">Vimeo Quicktags</a></p>
<p>Enable administrator to embed vimeo video into blog. Options available are the same as provided by vimeo.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/picapp/">Picapp</a></p>
<p>The plugin makes it easier to insert free, quality photos into a blog post by integrating all these into your WordPress interface.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/author-avatars/">Author Avatars</a></p>
<p>This plugin provides a widget and a <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Bforchhammer/Author_Avatars_ShortCode_Documentation">shortcode</a> which allow you to show avatars of blog users.</p>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/open-picture-window-plugin/">Open Picture Window</a></p>
<p>Opens a new browser window containing the image specified using JavaScript. You have the option to choose the features as well as choose if you want it to be centered.</p>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/add-to-feed/">Add to Feed</a></p>
<p>A simple feed enhancement plugin that allows you to add custom text or HTML to posts in your WordPress blog feed. You can add text before the content and/or after the content as well as a copyright message. Now, include a link to the current post as well.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.semiologic.com/software/publishing/external-links/">External Links</a></p>
<p>The external links plugin for WordPress lets you process outgoing links differently from internal links.</p>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/autoclose/">Auto-Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks</a></p>
<p>Automatically close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks on your posts. You can choose to keep comments / pingbacks / trackbacks open on certain posts. You can now delete post revisions as well.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.studiograsshopper.ch/wordpress-plugins/serial-posts-plugin/">Serial Posts</a></p>
<p>This plugin allows you to assign a Serial name, using custom fields, to your posts and then automatically displays a list of other posts which have the same Serial name when viewing this post. You can create as many Serials as you need, therefore allowing you to create multiple groupings of posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lucabiagini.com/2008/11/wordpress-plugin-the-excerpt-re-reloaded/">Excerpt Re-reloaded</a></p>
<p>Create an excerpt choosing number of words, link text for the rest of the post, filter for allowed tags with autoclose. It works with WP 2.6+</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogtrafficexchange.com/old-post-promoter/">Old Post Promoter</a></p>
<p>The main feature is the ability to promote an old post to either the 1st or 2nd position.</p>
<p><a href="http://plugins.performancing.com/pmetrics-wordpress-plugin/">pMetrics</a></p>
<p>The pMetrics WordPress Plugin allows you to check blog stats directly from your WordPress Dashboard</p>
<p><a href="http://www.anieto2k.com/2008/12/20/jugando-con-el-api-de-comentarios-de-wordpress-27/">WordPress 2.7 Comments API</a></p>
<p>This isn’t a plugin, but a PHP5 Class for use new WordPress 2.7 Comments API. Page in Spanish.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:21:35 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:3785:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.blogtrafficexchange.com/blog-copyright/">Blog Copyright</a></p>
<p>Blog Copyright injects a copyright notice into the blog footer.</p>
<p><a href="http://jcksn.com/2008/12/wordpress-art-direction-plugin/">Art Direction Plugin</a></p>
<p>This plugin allows you to have global archive and single page per-post styles.</p>
<p><a href="http://w-shadow.com/blog/2008/12/20/admin-menu-editor-for-wordpress/">Admin Menu Editor</a></p>
<p>Manually edit the Dashboard menu. You can reorder the menus, show/hide specific items, change access rights, and more.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vimeo-quicktags/">Vimeo Quicktags</a></p>
<p>Enable administrator to embed vimeo video into blog. Options available are the same as provided by vimeo.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/picapp/">Picapp</a></p>
<p>The plugin makes it easier to insert free, quality photos into a blog post by integrating all these into your WordPress interface.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/author-avatars/">Author Avatars</a></p>
<p>This plugin provides a widget and a <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Bforchhammer/Author_Avatars_ShortCode_Documentation">shortcode</a> which allow you to show avatars of blog users.</p>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/open-picture-window-plugin/">Open Picture Window</a></p>
<p>Opens a new browser window containing the image specified using JavaScript. You have the option to choose the features as well as choose if you want it to be centered.</p>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/add-to-feed/">Add to Feed</a></p>
<p>A simple feed enhancement plugin that allows you to add custom text or HTML to posts in your WordPress blog feed. You can add text before the content and/or after the content as well as a copyright message. Now, include a link to the current post as well.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.semiologic.com/software/publishing/external-links/">External Links</a></p>
<p>The external links plugin for WordPress lets you process outgoing links differently from internal links.</p>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/autoclose/">Auto-Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks</a></p>
<p>Automatically close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks on your posts. You can choose to keep comments / pingbacks / trackbacks open on certain posts. You can now delete post revisions as well.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.studiograsshopper.ch/wordpress-plugins/serial-posts-plugin/">Serial Posts</a></p>
<p>This plugin allows you to assign a Serial name, using custom fields, to your posts and then automatically displays a list of other posts which have the same Serial name when viewing this post. You can create as many Serials as you need, therefore allowing you to create multiple groupings of posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lucabiagini.com/2008/11/wordpress-plugin-the-excerpt-re-reloaded/">Excerpt Re-reloaded</a></p>
<p>Create an excerpt choosing number of words, link text for the rest of the post, filter for allowed tags with autoclose. It works with WP 2.6+</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogtrafficexchange.com/old-post-promoter/">Old Post Promoter</a></p>
<p>The main feature is the ability to promote an old post to either the 1st or 2nd position.</p>
<p><a href="http://plugins.performancing.com/pmetrics-wordpress-plugin/">pMetrics</a></p>
<p>The pMetrics WordPress Plugin allows you to check blog stats directly from your WordPress Dashboard</p>
<p><a href="http://www.anieto2k.com/2008/12/20/jugando-con-el-api-de-comentarios-de-wordpress-27/">WordPress 2.7 Comments API</a></p>
<p>This isn’t a plugin, but a PHP5 Class for use new WordPress 2.7 Comments API. Page in Spanish.</p>";}i:40;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:25:"Matt: Friendster Switches";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=9779";s:4:"link";s:41:"http://ma.tt/2008/12/friendster-switches/";s:11:"description";s:464:"<p><a href="http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2008/12/18/friendster-relaunches-blogs-switches-wordpress-mu/">Friendster Relaunches Blogs, Switches to WordPress MU</a>. Basically Friendster has switched <em>millions</em> of blogs from Typepad to WordPress, presumably at least partly because Six Apart abandoned their Typepad platform for third parties <a href="http://toni.org/2006/10/30/le-monde-moves-to-wordpress/">starting in late 2006 with Le Monde</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:02:11 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:464:"<p><a href="http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2008/12/18/friendster-relaunches-blogs-switches-wordpress-mu/">Friendster Relaunches Blogs, Switches to WordPress MU</a>. Basically Friendster has switched <em>millions</em> of blogs from Typepad to WordPress, presumably at least partly because Six Apart abandoned their Typepad platform for third parties <a href="http://toni.org/2006/10/30/le-monde-moves-to-wordpress/">starting in late 2006 with Le Monde</a>.</p>";}i:41;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:26:"Matt: Art Direction Plugin";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=9776";s:4:"link";s:42:"http://ma.tt/2008/12/art-direction-plugin/";s:11:"description";s:349:"<p><a href="http://jcksn.com/2008/12/wordpress-art-direction-plugin/">WordPress “Art Direction” Plugin</a>, from Automattician Noel Jackson. Basically allows you to do what <a href="http://jasonsantamaria.com/articles/a-new-day/">Jason Santa Maria does for his blog</a> without all the custom code and template hacking, just a simple plugin.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:58:48 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:349:"<p><a href="http://jcksn.com/2008/12/wordpress-art-direction-plugin/">WordPress “Art Direction” Plugin</a>, from Automattician Noel Jackson. Basically allows you to do what <a href="http://jasonsantamaria.com/articles/a-new-day/">Jason Santa Maria does for his blog</a> without all the custom code and template hacking, just a simple plugin.</p>";}i:42;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 12/20";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4821";s:4:"link";s:89:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/20/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1220-2/";s:11:"description";s:2376:"<p><a href="http://themehybrid.com/archives/2008/12/leviathan-wordpress-theme"><strong>Leviathan</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://themehybrid.com/demo/leviathan"><img title="leviathan-theme" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/leviathantheme.png" border="0" alt="leviathan-theme" width="100" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Leviathan is a child theme available under the <a href="http://themehybrid.com/themes/hybrid">Hybrid theme framework</a>. Two column, widget ready, gravatar ready with threaded comments support.</p>
<p><a href="http://webdemar.com/wordpress/wordpress-theme-decoder-09/"><strong>deCoder</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://webdemar.com/demo/?wptheme=deCoder"><img title="wordpress-theme-decoder" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/wordpressthemedecoder.jpg" border="0" alt="wordpress-theme-decoder" width="114" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Fixed width, 2 columns, right sidebar, widget ready with threaded comments and avatars.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.freewordpresstheme.info/2008/12/17/free-wordpress-theme-wp-christmas/"><strong>WP-Christmas</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.freewordpresstheme.info/go/4257demo"><img title="wp-christmas" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/wpchristmas.jpg" border="0" alt="wp-christmas" width="152" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Three columns, Widget ready, Adsense ready, Left and Right Sidebar, Fixed width theme</p>
<p><a href="http://www.freewordpresstheme.info/2008/12/17/free-wordpress-theme-wp-dodson/"><strong>WP-Dodson</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.freewordpresstheme.info/go/4258demo"><img title="wp-dodson" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/wpdodson.jpg" border="0" alt="wp-dodson" width="152" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two columns, Widget ready, Adsense ready, Right Sidebar, Fixed width theme</p>
<p><a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/emplode-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Emplode</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/wp-demo/emplode/"><img title="emplode" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/emplode.jpg" border="0" alt="emplode" width="200" height="100" /></a></p>
<p>A clean and simple two-column, fixed width theme supporting widgets.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Are you a theme author? Read how you can <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">submit your themes to us</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:33:09 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2376:"<p><a href="http://themehybrid.com/archives/2008/12/leviathan-wordpress-theme"><strong>Leviathan</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://themehybrid.com/demo/leviathan"><img title="leviathan-theme" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/leviathantheme.png" border="0" alt="leviathan-theme" width="100" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Leviathan is a child theme available under the <a href="http://themehybrid.com/themes/hybrid">Hybrid theme framework</a>. Two column, widget ready, gravatar ready with threaded comments support.</p>
<p><a href="http://webdemar.com/wordpress/wordpress-theme-decoder-09/"><strong>deCoder</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://webdemar.com/demo/?wptheme=deCoder"><img title="wordpress-theme-decoder" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/wordpressthemedecoder.jpg" border="0" alt="wordpress-theme-decoder" width="114" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Fixed width, 2 columns, right sidebar, widget ready with threaded comments and avatars.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.freewordpresstheme.info/2008/12/17/free-wordpress-theme-wp-christmas/"><strong>WP-Christmas</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.freewordpresstheme.info/go/4257demo"><img title="wp-christmas" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/wpchristmas.jpg" border="0" alt="wp-christmas" width="152" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Three columns, Widget ready, Adsense ready, Left and Right Sidebar, Fixed width theme</p>
<p><a href="http://www.freewordpresstheme.info/2008/12/17/free-wordpress-theme-wp-dodson/"><strong>WP-Dodson</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.freewordpresstheme.info/go/4258demo"><img title="wp-dodson" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/wpdodson.jpg" border="0" alt="wp-dodson" width="152" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two columns, Widget ready, Adsense ready, Right Sidebar, Fixed width theme</p>
<p><a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/emplode-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Emplode</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/wp-demo/emplode/"><img title="emplode" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/emplode.jpg" border="0" alt="emplode" width="200" height="100" /></a></p>
<p>A clean and simple two-column, fixed width theme supporting widgets.</p>
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<p>Are you a theme author? Read how you can <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">submit your themes to us</a>.</p>";}i:43;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Gone Social - BuddyPress";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4809";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/20/wordpress-gone-social-buddypress/";s:11:"description";s:2882:"<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/newwwpweeklylogo.png" align="right" />First off, BuddyPress is looking real good these days. Secondly, I&#8217;d like to thank Andy Peatling, head honcho for the <a href="http://www.buddypress.org" target="_blank">BuddyPress project</a> for stopping by and lending us an hour of his time to explain exactly what BuddyPress is and does. On December 15th, 2008 Andy released the first <a href="http://buddypress.org/blog/2008/12/buddypress-10b1-components/" target="_blank">beta version of the project</a>. So what exactly is BuddyPress?</p>
<blockquote><p>
BuddyPress is essentially a set of WordPress MU specific plugins. Each plugin component adds a distinct feature to BuddyPress and only handles functionality for that specific component (for example, private messaging). BuddyPress also has a core plugin that all other plugins require, it contains shared functions and performs the basic modifications to the WordPress MU interface.
</p></blockquote>
<p>Tune into the show to hear Andy delve into the feature set of the project as well as taking questions from the audience. By the way, if you don&#8217;t have the ability to install WordPress MU and then BuddyPress, you can view and participate in a live demo by registering an account on <a href="http://testbp.org/" target="_blank">http://www.testbp.org</a></p>
<p><center><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/buddypress.png"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/buddypress-300x180.png" alt="" title="BuddyPress Profile Page" width="300" height="180" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4810" /></a></center></p>
<p><strong>Announcements:</strong> This was our last show for 2008. Keith and I look forward to creating more great podcasts in 2009 and we both thank each and everyone of you who continue to support the show. Have a happy holiday and a merry new year.</p>
<p>Mark E. Will Be On The Show For January 2nd To Discuss His Comprehensive Security Plugin</p>
<p><strong>WordPress Weekly Forums:</strong><br />
Please join the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/forum/wordpress-weekly">forum for WordPress Weekly</a> to discuss things you heard on the show, share tips and tricks, give feedback, or to let us know something you think would be great for the audience to know about.</p>
<h2>WPWeekly Meta:</h2>
<p><strong>Next Episode:</strong> Friday January 2nd, 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> 55 Minutes</p>
<p><strong>Download The Show:</strong> <a href="http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-34224/TS-172384.mp3" target="_blank">WordPressWeeklyEpisode34.mp3</a></p>
<p><strong>Listen To Episode #34:</strong><br />
</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:16:11 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:2882:"<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/newwwpweeklylogo.png" align="right" />First off, BuddyPress is looking real good these days. Secondly, I&#8217;d like to thank Andy Peatling, head honcho for the <a href="http://www.buddypress.org" target="_blank">BuddyPress project</a> for stopping by and lending us an hour of his time to explain exactly what BuddyPress is and does. On December 15th, 2008 Andy released the first <a href="http://buddypress.org/blog/2008/12/buddypress-10b1-components/" target="_blank">beta version of the project</a>. So what exactly is BuddyPress?</p>
<blockquote><p>
BuddyPress is essentially a set of WordPress MU specific plugins. Each plugin component adds a distinct feature to BuddyPress and only handles functionality for that specific component (for example, private messaging). BuddyPress also has a core plugin that all other plugins require, it contains shared functions and performs the basic modifications to the WordPress MU interface.
</p></blockquote>
<p>Tune into the show to hear Andy delve into the feature set of the project as well as taking questions from the audience. By the way, if you don&#8217;t have the ability to install WordPress MU and then BuddyPress, you can view and participate in a live demo by registering an account on <a href="http://testbp.org/" target="_blank">http://www.testbp.org</a></p>
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<p><strong>Announcements:</strong> This was our last show for 2008. Keith and I look forward to creating more great podcasts in 2009 and we both thank each and everyone of you who continue to support the show. Have a happy holiday and a merry new year.</p>
<p>Mark E. Will Be On The Show For January 2nd To Discuss His Comprehensive Security Plugin</p>
<p><strong>WordPress Weekly Forums:</strong><br />
Please join the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/forum/wordpress-weekly">forum for WordPress Weekly</a> to discuss things you heard on the show, share tips and tricks, give feedback, or to let us know something you think would be great for the audience to know about.</p>
<h2>WPWeekly Meta:</h2>
<p><strong>Next Episode:</strong> Friday January 2nd, 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> 55 Minutes</p>
<p><strong>Download The Show:</strong> <a href="http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-34224/TS-172384.mp3" target="_blank">WordPressWeeklyEpisode34.mp3</a></p>
<p><strong>Listen To Episode #34:</strong><br />
</p>";}i:44;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:46:"Lorelle on WP: 500,000 WordPress 2.7 Downloads";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=3463";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/500000-wordpress-27-downloads/";s:11:"description";s:7782:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/tag/wordpress-news/" title="WordPress News"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/wpnews1.png" alt="WordPress News" align="right" /></a>December 11, 2008, <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/12/coltrane/" title="WordPress 2.7 Coltrane">WordPress 2.7 was announced and released</a> to the public, one of the hottest versions of WordPress ever.</p>
<p>Just 20 hours later, <a href="http://boren.nu/archives/2008/12/11/100000-in-20/" title="100,000 in 20">Ryan Boren announced that there have been 100,000 downloads</a> in those first few hours, spinning the <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/counter/" title="100,000 downloads">WordPress Counter</a>. </p>
<p><del datetime="00">In the next few moments or so</del>, The <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/counter/" title="100,000 downloads">WordPress Counter</a> rolled over 500,000 downloads of the new WordPress 2.7.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/download/counter/" title="100,000 downloads"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/wp27500final.png" alt="WordPress 2.7 passing 500,000 downloads" title="WordPress 2.7 passing 500,000 downloads" width="410" height="295" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3470" /></a></p>
<p>The WordPress Counter is restarted with every version release. </p>
<p>So let&#8217;s do a little math, with a reminder that I&#8217;m not good at math. </p>
<p>Using the handy date calculation tool from <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/" title="timeanddate.com">Timeanddate.com</a>, from and including Thursday, December 11, 2008, to and including Friday, December 19, 2008, nine days have passed. The tool told me this equals:</p>
<ul>
<li>777,600 seconds (0.643 downloads a second)</li>
<li>12,960 minutes (38.58 downloads per minute)</li>
<li>216 hours (2,314.81 downloads per hour)</li>
</ul>
<p>That&#8217;s some serious bandwidth action. Go <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/" title="Download WordPress 2.7">download WordPress 2.7</a> now and let&#8217;s see how fast we can reach one million. By Monday? Wednesday? Anyone taking bets? <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>If it takes 0.64 seconds per download, how long before the WordPress 2.7 download counter will read one billion? Want to guess? Place more bets? </p>
<p>I announced this on <a href="http://www.twitter.com/lorelleonwp/" title="Lorelle on WordPress Twitter">my Twitter</a> and <a href="http://www.webmaster-source.com/" title="Webmaster Source">Matt Harzewski (redwall_hp)</a> admitted that while he had upgraded many WordPress blogs to 2.7 since its release, he had only downloaded one copy. </p>
<p>Have you been recycling your WordPress downloads? <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<h4>Related Articles</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/12/10/wordpress-news-wordpress-27-released/" title="WordPress 2.7 Released">WordPress News: WordPress 2.7 Released</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/wordpress-news-on-the-blog-herald/" title="WordPress News on the Blog Herald">WordPress News on the Blog Herald</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/wordpress-27-upgrade-tips/" title="WordPress 2.7 Upgrade Tips">WordPress 2.7 Upgrade Tips</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/wordpress-27-available-now/" title="WordPress 2.7 Available Now">WordPress 2.7 Available Now</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/countdown-to-wordpress-27/" title="Countdown to WordPress 2.7">Countdown to WordPress 2.7</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/wordpress-27-hits-wordpresscom-thursday-december-4-2008/" title="WordPress 2.7 Hits WordPress.com Thursday, Decembe 4, 2008">WordPress 2.7 Hits WordPress.com Thursday, December 4, 2008</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/wordpress-27-release-news-and-links/" title="WordPress 2.7 Release News and Links">WordPress 2.7 Release News and Links</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/wordpress-27-news/" title="WordPress 2.7 News">WordPress 2.7 News</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/warning-fake-wordpress-malicious-site/" title="Fake WordPress Malicious Site">Warning: Fake WordPress Malicious Site</a></li>
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Posted in WordPress News&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3463/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3463/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3463/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3463/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3463/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3463/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3463/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3463/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3463/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3463/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=3463&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:57:11 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:17:"Lorelle VanFossen";}s:7:"summary";s:7782:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/tag/wordpress-news/" title="WordPress News"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/wpnews1.png" alt="WordPress News" align="right" /></a>December 11, 2008, <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/12/coltrane/" title="WordPress 2.7 Coltrane">WordPress 2.7 was announced and released</a> to the public, one of the hottest versions of WordPress ever.</p>
<p>Just 20 hours later, <a href="http://boren.nu/archives/2008/12/11/100000-in-20/" title="100,000 in 20">Ryan Boren announced that there have been 100,000 downloads</a> in those first few hours, spinning the <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/counter/" title="100,000 downloads">WordPress Counter</a>. </p>
<p><del datetime="00">In the next few moments or so</del>, The <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/counter/" title="100,000 downloads">WordPress Counter</a> rolled over 500,000 downloads of the new WordPress 2.7.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/download/counter/" title="100,000 downloads"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/wp27500final.png" alt="WordPress 2.7 passing 500,000 downloads" title="WordPress 2.7 passing 500,000 downloads" width="410" height="295" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3470" /></a></p>
<p>The WordPress Counter is restarted with every version release. </p>
<p>So let&#8217;s do a little math, with a reminder that I&#8217;m not good at math. </p>
<p>Using the handy date calculation tool from <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/" title="timeanddate.com">Timeanddate.com</a>, from and including Thursday, December 11, 2008, to and including Friday, December 19, 2008, nine days have passed. The tool told me this equals:</p>
<ul>
<li>777,600 seconds (0.643 downloads a second)</li>
<li>12,960 minutes (38.58 downloads per minute)</li>
<li>216 hours (2,314.81 downloads per hour)</li>
</ul>
<p>That&#8217;s some serious bandwidth action. Go <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/" title="Download WordPress 2.7">download WordPress 2.7</a> now and let&#8217;s see how fast we can reach one million. By Monday? Wednesday? Anyone taking bets? <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>If it takes 0.64 seconds per download, how long before the WordPress 2.7 download counter will read one billion? Want to guess? Place more bets? </p>
<p>I announced this on <a href="http://www.twitter.com/lorelleonwp/" title="Lorelle on WordPress Twitter">my Twitter</a> and <a href="http://www.webmaster-source.com/" title="Webmaster Source">Matt Harzewski (redwall_hp)</a> admitted that while he had upgraded many WordPress blogs to 2.7 since its release, he had only downloaded one copy. </p>
<p>Have you been recycling your WordPress downloads? <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<h4>Related Articles</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/12/10/wordpress-news-wordpress-27-released/" title="WordPress 2.7 Released">WordPress News: WordPress 2.7 Released</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/wordpress-news-on-the-blog-herald/" title="WordPress News on the Blog Herald">WordPress News on the Blog Herald</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/wordpress-27-upgrade-tips/" title="WordPress 2.7 Upgrade Tips">WordPress 2.7 Upgrade Tips</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/wordpress-27-available-now/" title="WordPress 2.7 Available Now">WordPress 2.7 Available Now</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/countdown-to-wordpress-27/" title="Countdown to WordPress 2.7">Countdown to WordPress 2.7</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/wordpress-27-hits-wordpresscom-thursday-december-4-2008/" title="WordPress 2.7 Hits WordPress.com Thursday, Decembe 4, 2008">WordPress 2.7 Hits WordPress.com Thursday, December 4, 2008</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/wordpress-27-release-news-and-links/" title="WordPress 2.7 Release News and Links">WordPress 2.7 Release News and Links</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/wordpress-27-news/" title="WordPress 2.7 News">WordPress 2.7 News</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/warning-fake-wordpress-malicious-site/" title="Fake WordPress Malicious Site">Warning: Fake WordPress Malicious Site</a></li>
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Posted in WordPress News&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3463/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3463/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3463/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3463/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3463/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3463/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3463/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3463/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3463/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3463/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=3463&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:45;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Weblog Tools Collection: 2hr Interview With Matt Mullenweg";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4800";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/19/2hr-interview-with-matt-mullenweg/";s:11:"description";s:7115:"<p>On <strong>Thursday, December 18th</strong>, I had the honor of having a fireside chat so to speak with Matt Mullenweg. The chat lasted a little over two hours and then, Matt stayed around after the show for an additional two hours to field questions from anybody that asked them. There are a number of things that I have taken away with this chat with Matt and I&#8217;ll be listing those in an article in the following days but without a shadow of a doubt, Matt is a stand up guy. He answered all of my questions, even the tough ones which were submitted by the community. While there is room left to debate the GPL and what is or isn&#8217;t compliant, Matt answered the GPL questions to the best of his ability and in most cases, his answers are nothing more than his personal opinion since certain aspects of the GPL would be much clearer if there was a court case to stand by.</p>
<p>I really feel as though this two hour recording is the most important recording I&#8217;ve made yet and is the biggest contribution I have made so far, back to the community. If there was one podcast that you should listen to as it relates to WordPress, the GPL, Matt&#8217;s involvement with Automattic and the Project, this would be it. Special thanks to Matt Mullenweg for agreeing to come on the show to address all of the issues that were presented to him by me.</p>
<p>To get a sample of the information discussed in this episode, here are the list of questions that I asked Matt. After this list, he took questions from anyone that asked them either by those who called in or sent them in the chat.</p>
<p>Why were those themes removed from the repository and if you look back at the situation now, do you think you made a mistake by not making a public post about the removals?</p>
<p>Can you explain why the new guideline was added to the theme repository?</p>
<p>Why is it that so many people within the inner circle of the WordPress community believe you and Automattic don&#8217;t want anyone else profiting through or around WordPress?</p>
<p>In your opinion, do you think that premium themes have actually benefited the community by way of furthering the overall development of WordPress themes?</p>
<p>In a recent conversation, I saw you describe premium themes as propietary and how you felt that was a better word than premium. Why is that?</p>
<p>How many of these debates and the way things are done are a result of their not being a court case to go by?</p>
<p>Does it bother you at all to see countless debates on various WordPress theme author sites about the GPL and what is and not compliant with it?</p>
<p>Drupal and Joomla have decided the commercial stuff is okay but why not WordPress?</p>
<p>In November of 2007 hot off the heels of WordCamp Argentina, news came out about a possible theme marketplace where people sold themes through the marketplace and the theme author as well as Automattic each recieved a cut of the profits. Was that your way of trying to help premium theme authors and has their been any progress on the idea?</p>
<p>The Drupal community has debated this GPL/Premium/Theme issue for a while. And a solid understanding has come from it:</p>
<p>A theme is made up of several files - template files (ending in .php), CSS, images and JavaScript. The template files are considered a part of Drupal, which is licensed under the GPL, which means they are not restricted in their redistribution. You are free to share the .php files so others can benefit from them. However, the rest of the theme - images, CSS and JavaScript - is independent from Drupal and owned by us and licensed by you for one website per purchase. You may not publish or share these parts of the themes with anyone else. Please review our EULA for full details. (Taken from a Drupal Theme Developers page)</p>
<p>When the notion of making money by selling themes pops up at WordCamps, you are quick to explain the WordPress.com business model of selling services and building support/value around the prodcut but this model will not work for everyone. What is a premium theme author to do?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve spoken to a few premium theme authors and they tell me that because of the GPL, nothing stops someone from picking up Brian Gardners themes, changing the footer link and then undercutting his business by selling support at a cheaper price. Is that a valid argument?</p>
<p>Redistributing paid themes for free, which is ok under the GPL thus, rendering the business model of selling themes useless, as I understand it. Yet, that hasn&#8217;t happened and I wonder if that is because most end users are not aware of the GPL, all they see is the single-use multi-use licenses attached to themes</p>
<p>Is there a way where premium theme companies such as iThemes and you or Automattic can come to a compromise?</p>
<p>Lets say I have a template generator that outputs GPL themes, but has premium features. It could be used to create freebie themes which would be eligible to be in the repository, but since the generator outputs themes with a link back to my site which promotes the premium services, which in turn may be used for creating themes suitable for the repository, but again those themes have a link back to my site.</p>
<p>Is it true that the notion of Child themes which appears to be gaining momentum can be viewed as a loophole as far as the GPL is concerned considering these are themes which are purele CSS and Image based?</p>
<p>At what point do you stop accepting good themes that comply with the GPL because of a connection an author has with commercial themes. How far does it go.</p>
<p>If WP.org is about the community, why are decisions made unilaterally, rather than by the community?</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, do you get annoyed sometimes by people blaming or mentioning Automattic for the decisions or things that take place for WordPress.org? I mean, Automattic and the WordPress project are two separate things.</p>
<p>What is your role with automattic and what is your role with the wordpress.org project and is their ever a conflict of interest between the two?</p>
<p>In your opinion, how far does the GPL go? CSS, images, phpfiles,</p>
<p>Why have you not used the WordPress development blog to bring forth the issues of GPL and various other aspects of the project?</p>
<p>This whole show has pretty much been dedicated to themes but how does all of this effect plugins, the plugin repository and such?</ul>
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<p><strong>Length Of Episode:</strong> 2 Hours 11 Minutes</p>
<p><strong>Download The Show:</strong> <a href="http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-34224/TS-173505.mp3" target="_blank">InterviewWithMatt.mp3</a></p>
<p><strong>Listen To The Special Interview With Matt Mullenweg:</strong><br />
</p>
<p>Chat log from those who participated in the chatroom: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/specialinterviewchatlog.txt">Special Interview Chat Log</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:52:49 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:7115:"<p>On <strong>Thursday, December 18th</strong>, I had the honor of having a fireside chat so to speak with Matt Mullenweg. The chat lasted a little over two hours and then, Matt stayed around after the show for an additional two hours to field questions from anybody that asked them. There are a number of things that I have taken away with this chat with Matt and I&#8217;ll be listing those in an article in the following days but without a shadow of a doubt, Matt is a stand up guy. He answered all of my questions, even the tough ones which were submitted by the community. While there is room left to debate the GPL and what is or isn&#8217;t compliant, Matt answered the GPL questions to the best of his ability and in most cases, his answers are nothing more than his personal opinion since certain aspects of the GPL would be much clearer if there was a court case to stand by.</p>
<p>I really feel as though this two hour recording is the most important recording I&#8217;ve made yet and is the biggest contribution I have made so far, back to the community. If there was one podcast that you should listen to as it relates to WordPress, the GPL, Matt&#8217;s involvement with Automattic and the Project, this would be it. Special thanks to Matt Mullenweg for agreeing to come on the show to address all of the issues that were presented to him by me.</p>
<p>To get a sample of the information discussed in this episode, here are the list of questions that I asked Matt. After this list, he took questions from anyone that asked them either by those who called in or sent them in the chat.</p>
<p>Why were those themes removed from the repository and if you look back at the situation now, do you think you made a mistake by not making a public post about the removals?</p>
<p>Can you explain why the new guideline was added to the theme repository?</p>
<p>Why is it that so many people within the inner circle of the WordPress community believe you and Automattic don&#8217;t want anyone else profiting through or around WordPress?</p>
<p>In your opinion, do you think that premium themes have actually benefited the community by way of furthering the overall development of WordPress themes?</p>
<p>In a recent conversation, I saw you describe premium themes as propietary and how you felt that was a better word than premium. Why is that?</p>
<p>How many of these debates and the way things are done are a result of their not being a court case to go by?</p>
<p>Does it bother you at all to see countless debates on various WordPress theme author sites about the GPL and what is and not compliant with it?</p>
<p>Drupal and Joomla have decided the commercial stuff is okay but why not WordPress?</p>
<p>In November of 2007 hot off the heels of WordCamp Argentina, news came out about a possible theme marketplace where people sold themes through the marketplace and the theme author as well as Automattic each recieved a cut of the profits. Was that your way of trying to help premium theme authors and has their been any progress on the idea?</p>
<p>The Drupal community has debated this GPL/Premium/Theme issue for a while. And a solid understanding has come from it:</p>
<p>A theme is made up of several files - template files (ending in .php), CSS, images and JavaScript. The template files are considered a part of Drupal, which is licensed under the GPL, which means they are not restricted in their redistribution. You are free to share the .php files so others can benefit from them. However, the rest of the theme - images, CSS and JavaScript - is independent from Drupal and owned by us and licensed by you for one website per purchase. You may not publish or share these parts of the themes with anyone else. Please review our EULA for full details. (Taken from a Drupal Theme Developers page)</p>
<p>When the notion of making money by selling themes pops up at WordCamps, you are quick to explain the WordPress.com business model of selling services and building support/value around the prodcut but this model will not work for everyone. What is a premium theme author to do?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve spoken to a few premium theme authors and they tell me that because of the GPL, nothing stops someone from picking up Brian Gardners themes, changing the footer link and then undercutting his business by selling support at a cheaper price. Is that a valid argument?</p>
<p>Redistributing paid themes for free, which is ok under the GPL thus, rendering the business model of selling themes useless, as I understand it. Yet, that hasn&#8217;t happened and I wonder if that is because most end users are not aware of the GPL, all they see is the single-use multi-use licenses attached to themes</p>
<p>Is there a way where premium theme companies such as iThemes and you or Automattic can come to a compromise?</p>
<p>Lets say I have a template generator that outputs GPL themes, but has premium features. It could be used to create freebie themes which would be eligible to be in the repository, but since the generator outputs themes with a link back to my site which promotes the premium services, which in turn may be used for creating themes suitable for the repository, but again those themes have a link back to my site.</p>
<p>Is it true that the notion of Child themes which appears to be gaining momentum can be viewed as a loophole as far as the GPL is concerned considering these are themes which are purele CSS and Image based?</p>
<p>At what point do you stop accepting good themes that comply with the GPL because of a connection an author has with commercial themes. How far does it go.</p>
<p>If WP.org is about the community, why are decisions made unilaterally, rather than by the community?</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, do you get annoyed sometimes by people blaming or mentioning Automattic for the decisions or things that take place for WordPress.org? I mean, Automattic and the WordPress project are two separate things.</p>
<p>What is your role with automattic and what is your role with the wordpress.org project and is their ever a conflict of interest between the two?</p>
<p>In your opinion, how far does the GPL go? CSS, images, phpfiles,</p>
<p>Why have you not used the WordPress development blog to bring forth the issues of GPL and various other aspects of the project?</p>
<p>This whole show has pretty much been dedicated to themes but how does all of this effect plugins, the plugin repository and such?</ul>
<h2>WPWeekly Meta:</h2>
<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> 2 Hours 11 Minutes</p>
<p><strong>Download The Show:</strong> <a href="http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-34224/TS-173505.mp3" target="_blank">InterviewWithMatt.mp3</a></p>
<p><strong>Listen To The Special Interview With Matt Mullenweg:</strong><br />
</p>
<p>Chat log from those who participated in the chatroom: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/12/specialinterviewchatlog.txt">Special Interview Chat Log</a></p>";}i:46;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:72:"Weblog Tools Collection: Mastering Your WordPress 2.7 Theme & Admin Area";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4777";s:4:"link";s:98:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/19/mastering-your-wordpress-27-theme-admin-area/";s:11:"description";s:1177:"<p><a href="http://www.noupe.com/wordpress/mastering-your-wordpress-27-theme-admin-area-tips-and-tricks.html">Mastering Your WordPress 2.7 Theme &amp; Admin Area: Tips and Tricks</a>.: Noupe has a nice writeup on mastering WordPress 2.7 Admin and understanding how to use the new features of WordPress 2.7 in your theme. These include</p>
<ul>
<li>1.1. Enhancing Comment Display - Threading, Paging, etc.</li>
<li>1.2. Make this post sticky</li>
<li>1.3. Post Classes</li>
<li>1.4. wp page menu</li>
<li>1.5. Logout Link</li>
<li>2.1. Keyboard Shortcuts for browsing and moderating comments</li>
<li>2.2. Reply to and Edit comments from Admin Area</li>
<li>2.3. Edit comments from Admin Area</li>
<li>2.4. Allow plugin installations via web interface from Admin Area</li>
<li>2.5. Admin’s new Navigation Menu</li>
<li>2.6. Interesting Dashboard Modules: QuickPress &amp; Recent Drafts</li>
<li>2.7. Quick Edit Option in Admin area</li>
<li>2.8. Auto Close Comments And Trackbacks</li>
<li>2.9. Bulk Edit Posts</li>
</ul>
<p>I wish there were anchors or separate pages to link directly to each piece, but alas they are all lumped together. This is a nice read nonetheless.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:12:57 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1177:"<p><a href="http://www.noupe.com/wordpress/mastering-your-wordpress-27-theme-admin-area-tips-and-tricks.html">Mastering Your WordPress 2.7 Theme &amp; Admin Area: Tips and Tricks</a>.: Noupe has a nice writeup on mastering WordPress 2.7 Admin and understanding how to use the new features of WordPress 2.7 in your theme. These include</p>
<ul>
<li>1.1. Enhancing Comment Display - Threading, Paging, etc.</li>
<li>1.2. Make this post sticky</li>
<li>1.3. Post Classes</li>
<li>1.4. wp page menu</li>
<li>1.5. Logout Link</li>
<li>2.1. Keyboard Shortcuts for browsing and moderating comments</li>
<li>2.2. Reply to and Edit comments from Admin Area</li>
<li>2.3. Edit comments from Admin Area</li>
<li>2.4. Allow plugin installations via web interface from Admin Area</li>
<li>2.5. Admin’s new Navigation Menu</li>
<li>2.6. Interesting Dashboard Modules: QuickPress &amp; Recent Drafts</li>
<li>2.7. Quick Edit Option in Admin area</li>
<li>2.8. Auto Close Comments And Trackbacks</li>
<li>2.9. Bulk Edit Posts</li>
</ul>
<p>I wish there were anchors or separate pages to link directly to each piece, but alas they are all lumped together. This is a nice read nonetheless.</p>";}i:47;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:48:"Lorelle on WP: WordPress News on the Blog Herald";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=3450";s:4:"link";s:74:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/wordpress-news-on-the-blog-herald/";s:11:"description";s:27262:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/tag/wordpress-news/" title="WordPress News"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/wpnews1.png" alt="WordPress News" align="right" /></a>The past few weeks of the <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/tag/wordpress-news/" title="Articles on WordPress News on the Blog Herald" rel="tag">Blog Herald&#8217;s WordPress News</a> reports that I do have been huge. Each one now takes many hours to produce, rounding up all the news from WordPress developers, Plugin and Theme developers, <a href="http://www.wordpress.com/" title="WordPress.com free blogs" rel="tag">WordPress.com</a>, WordPress fan podcasts and blogs, and the WordPress Community.</p>
<p>WordPress 2.7 is the biggest WordPress version ever, and <a href="http://boren.nu/archives/2008/12/11/100000-in-20/" title="100,000 in 20">Ryan Boren announced that there have been</a> <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/counter/" title="100,000 downloads">100,000 downloads</a> in the first 20 hours of release, with the WordPress counter reporting 469,208 a little over a week since the version was released. With those numbers, you can tell that there has been a lot to report on for WordPress recently. </p>
<p>To honor the end of 2008 and all the great WordPress news over the past year, and to celebrate another year of bringing you the WordPress news on the <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/" title="Blog Herald" rel="tag">Blog Herald</a> every week, here is a listing of this year&#8217;s WordPress News Wednesday Reports:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/12/18/wordpress-news-wordpress-27-awesome-wordpresscom-5-million-plugins-updated-and-wordcamp-news/" title="WordPress 2.7 Awesome, WordPress.com 5 Million, Plugins Updated, and WordCamp News">WordPress News: WordPress 2.7 Awesome, WordPress.com 5 Million, Plugins Updated, and WordCamp News</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/12/10/wordpress-news-wordpress-27-released/" title="WordPress 2.7 Released">WordPress News: WordPress 2.7 Released</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/12/04/wordpress-news-wordpress-27-out-on-wordpresscom-wordpress-27-news-wordcamps-wordpress-plugins-and-themes-updated/" title="WordPress 2.7 Out on WordPress.com, WordPress 2.7 News, WordCamps, WordPress Plugins and Themes Updated">WordPress News: WordPress 2.7 Out on WordPress.com, WordPress 2.7 News, WordCamps, WordPress Plugins and Themes Updated</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/11/27/wordpress-news-wordpress-27-new-login-wordcamp-australia-wordpress-265-security-update-buddypress-and-more/" title="WordPress 2.7 New Login, WordCamp Australia, WordPress 2.6.5 Security Update, BuddyPress, and More">WordPress News: WordPress 2.7 New Login, WordCamp Australia, WordPress 2.6.5 Security Update, BuddyPress, and More</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/11/21/wordpress-wednesday-news/" title="Beta 3 Released, WordCamp Australia, No WordPress 2.6.4, and More">Beta 3 Released, WordCamp Australia, No WordPress 2.6.4, and More</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/11/14/wordpress-wednesday-news-27-delayed-sneak-peak-video-help-wordpress-iphone-wordcamps/" title="2.7 Delayed, Sneak Peak Video, Help WordPress iPhone, WordCamps">2.7 Delayed, Sneak Peak Video, Help WordPress iPhone, WordCamps</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/11/06/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-27-beta-2-danger-wordpress-faker-and-more-wordcamps/" title="WordPress 2.7 Beta 2, Danger WordPress Faker, and More WordCamps">WordPress 2.7 Beta 2, Danger WordPress Faker, and More WordCamps</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/10/29/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-27-soon-security-upgrade-podcamp-wordcamp-hawaii-polldaddy-and-more/" title="WordPress 2.7 Soon, Security Upgrade, PodCamp-WordCamp Hawaii, PollDaddy, and More">WordPress 2.7 Soon, Security Upgrade, PodCamp-WordCamp Hawaii, PollDaddy, and More</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/10/15/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-27-freeze-wordpress-themes-news-wordcamp-bangkok/" title="WordPress 2.7 Freeze, WordPress Themes News, WordCamp Bangkok">WordPress 2.7 Freeze, WordPress Themes News, WordCamp Bangkok</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/10/09/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordcamp-news-wordpress-27-lester-chan-plugins-famous-super-cache-updated/" title="WordCamp News, WordPress 2.7, Lester Chan Plugins Famous, Super Cache Updated">WordCamp News, WordPress 2.7, Lester Chan Plugins Famous, Super Cache Updated</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/09/17/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-27-final-features-wtc-plugin-contest-winners-wordcamps-surveys-and-more/" title="WordPress 2.7 Final Features, WTC Plugin Contest Winners, WordCamps, Surveys, and More">WordPress 2.7 Final Features, WTC Plugin Contest Winners, WordCamps, Surveys, and More</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/09/11/wordpress-wednesday-news-4-wordcamps-wordpress-262-bad-themes-count-twitterers-threaded-comments-and-sticky-posts/" title="4 WordCamps, WordPress 2.6.2, Bad Themes, Count Twitterers, Threaded Comments, and Sticky Posts">4 WordCamps, WordPress 2.6.2, Bad Themes, Count Twitterers, Threaded Comments, and Sticky Posts</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/09/05/wordpress-wednesday-news-world-wordcamps-wordpress-27-dangers-martha-stewart-wordpressmu-updated/" title="World WordCamps, WordPress 2.7 Dangers, Martha Stewart, WordPressMU Updated">World WordCamps, WordPress 2.7 Dangers, Martha Stewart, WordPressMU Updated</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/08/27/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordcamp-south-africa-world-of-wordcamps-blaming-wordpress-and-crazyhorse-gallops/" title="WordCamp South Africa, World of WordCamps, Blaming WordPress, and Crazyhorse Gallops">WordCamp South Africa, World of WordCamps, Blaming WordPress, and Crazyhorse Gallops</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/08/21/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordcamp-2008-copy-and-paste-in-wordpress-iphone-count-your-comments-wordcamp-south-africa/" title="WordCamp 2008, Copy and Paste in WordPress iPhone, Count Your Comments, WordCamp South Africa">WordCamp 2008, Copy and Paste in WordPress iPhone, Count Your Comments, WordCamp South Africa</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/08/13/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordcamp-2008-wordpress-rules-the-uk-and-wordpress-plugin-news/" title="WordCamp 2008, WordPress Rules the UK, and WordPress Plugin News">WordCamp 2008, WordPress Rules the UK, and WordPress Plugin News</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/08/06/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-27-wordcamp-news-261-beta-released/" title="WordPress 2.7, WordCamp News, 2.6.1 Beta Released">WordPress 2.7, WordCamp News, 2.6.1 Beta Released</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/30/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-iphone-upgraded-wordcamp-san-francisco-registration-simon-dickson-rocked-the-uk-wordpress-theme-directory-and-201000-blogs-using-wordpress-26/" title="WordPress iPhone Upgraded, WordCamp San Francisco Registration, Simon Dickson Rocked the UK, WordPress Theme Directory, and 201,000 Blogs Using WordPress 2.6">WordPress iPhone Upgraded, WordCamp San Francisco Registration, Simon Dickson Rocked the UK, WordPress Theme Directory, and 201,000 Blogs Using WordPress 2.6</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/23/wordpress-wednesday-news-iphone-10-downing-street-wordcamp-uk-wordpress-26-rocks-wordpress-international-and-wordpress-themes-directory/" title="iPhone, 10 Downing Street, WordCamp UK, WordPress 2.6 Rocks, WordPress International, and WordPress Themes Directory">iPhone, 10 Downing Street, WordCamp UK, WordPress 2.6 Rocks, WordPress International, and WordPress Themes Directory</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/17/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordcamps-in-africa-and-china-wordpress-26-wordpress-plugin-contest-ready-for-votes-wordcamp-uk-and-more-wordpress-news/" title="WordCamps in Africa and China, WordPress 2.6, WordPress Plugin Contest Ready for Votes, WordCamp UK, and More WordPress News">WordCamps in Africa and China, WordPress 2.6, WordPress Plugin Contest Ready for Votes, WordCamp UK, and More WordPress News</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/04/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordcamps-in-australia-and-hawaii-security-check-plugin-google-gears-lots-of-plugin-news-and-tips-wordpress-26-news-and-if-not-wordpress-what/" title="WordCamps in Australia and Hawaii, Security Check Plugin, Google Gears, Lots of Plugin News and Tips, WordPress 2.6 News, and If Not WordPress, What?">WordCamps in Australia and Hawaii, Security Check Plugin, Google Gears, Lots of Plugin News and Tips, WordPress 2.6 News, and If Not WordPress, What?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/25/wordpress-wednesday-news-your-own-song-in-the-plugin-competition-wordpress-26-beta-and-first-looks-wordcamp-uk-new-location-batcache-naked-themes-and-more/" title="Your Own Song in the Plugin Competition, WordPress 2.6 Beta and First Looks, WordCamp UK New Location, Batcache, Naked Themes, and More">Your Own Song in the Plugin Competition, WordPress 2.6 Beta and First Looks, WordCamp UK New Location, Batcache, Naked Themes, and More</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/19/wordpress-wednesday-new-planet-wordpress-canada-wordpress-plugins-contest-crazyhorse-buddypress-default-theme-blog-hacked-sitemaps-and-more/" title="Planet WordPress Canada, WordPress Plugins Contest, Crazyhorse, BuddyPress Default Theme, Blog Hacked, Sitemaps, and More">WordPress Wednesday New: Planet WordPress Canada, WordPress Plugins Contest, Crazyhorse, BuddyPress Default Theme, Blog Hacked, Sitemaps, and More</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/11/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-blogs-hacked-plugin-competition-is-hot-buddypress-wordpress-sayings-and-lots-of-wordpress-plugin-news/" title="WordPress Blogs Hacked, Plugin Competition is Hot, BuddyPress, WordPress Sayings, and Lots of WordPress Plugin News">WordPress Blogs Hacked, Plugin Competition is Hot, BuddyPress, WordPress Sayings, and Lots of WordPress Plugin News</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/05/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-at-50-wordpress-tweeters-tracking-wordpress-26-wordpresscom-stats-and-hot-wordpress-plugins/" title="WordPress at 50, WordPress Tweeters, Tracking WordPress 2.6, WordPress.com Stats, and Hot WordPress Plugins">WordPress at 50, WordPress Tweeters, Tracking WordPress 2.6, WordPress.com Stats, and Hot WordPress Plugins</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/05/28/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-5-years-old-wordcamps-international-wordpress-26-on-track-plugin-competition-is-hot-genko-updated/" title="WordPress 5 Years Old, WordCamps International, WordPress 2.6 On Track, Plugin Competition is Hot, Genko Updated">WordPress 5 Years Old, WordCamps International, WordPress 2.6 On Track, Plugin Competition is Hot, Genko Updated</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/05/21/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordcamps-everywhere-apache-patch-for-securer-passwords-wordpress-plugin-contest-and-more-wordpress-news/" title="WordCamps Everywhere, Apache Patch for Securer Passwords, WordPress Plugin Contest, and More WordPress News">WordCamps Everywhere, Apache Patch for Securer Passwords, WordPress Plugin Contest, and More WordPress News</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/05/14/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpressmu-updated-press-it-coming-back-wordcamp-milan-wordpress-keys-and-plugin-contest-news/" title="WordPressMU Updated, Press-It Coming Back, WordCamp Milan, WordPress Keys, and Plugin Contest News">WordPressMU Updated, Press-It Coming Back, WordCamp Milan, WordPress Keys, and Plugin Contest News</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/05/07/wordpress-wednesday-news-which-bookmarklet-wordpress-251-mandatory-upgrade-wordpress-plugin-contest-wordcamp-2008-in-san-francisco-and-wordpress-mugs/" title="Which Bookmarklet, WordPress 2.5.1 Mandatory Upgrade, WordPress Plugin Contest, WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco, and WordPress Mugs">Which Bookmarklet, WordPress 2.5.1 Mandatory Upgrade, WordPress Plugin Contest, WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco, and WordPress Mugs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/04/30/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-251-released-wordpress-2008-in-august-plugins-contest-3-million-wordpresscom-responds-to-brail-court-ban-and-more/" title="WordPress 2.5.1 Released, WordPress 2008 in August, Plugins Contest, 3 Million, WordPress.com Responds to Brazil Court Ban, and More">WordPress 2.5.1 Released, WordPress 2008 in August, Plugins Contest, 3 Million, WordPress.com Responds to Brazil Court Ban, and More</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/04/23/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordcamps-everywhere-webware-100-again-plugins-to-fix-wordpress-25-change-admin-colors-and-more/" title="WordCamps Everywhere, Webware 100 Again, Plugins to Fix WordPress 2.5, Change Admin Colors, and More">WordCamps Everywhere, Webware 100 Again, Plugins to Fix WordPress 2.5, Change Admin Colors, and More</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/04/17/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-25-issues-wordcamps-everywhere-mullenweg-addresses-security-fears-coffee2code-finishes-14-days-of-plugins-and-more/" title="WordPress 2.5 Issues, WordCamps Everywhere, Mullenweg Addresses Security Fears, Coffee2Code Finishes 14 Days of Plugins, and More">WordPress 2.5 Issues, WordCamps Everywhere, Mullenweg Addresses Security Fears, Coffee2Code Finishes 14 Days of Plugins, and More</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/04/09/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-25-security-issues-plugins-updated-wordpress-vs-wordpressmu-and-more/" title="WordPress 2.5, Security Issues, Plugins Updated, WordPress vs WordPressMU, and More">WordPress 2.5, Security Issues, Plugins Updated, WordPress vs WordPressMU, and More</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/04/03/wordpress-wednesday-special-edition-wordpress-25/" title="WordPress 2.5">WordPress Wednesday Special Edition: WordPress 2.5</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/03/26/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-25-due-any-day-beta-2-released-many-plugins-updated-wordcamp-dallas-this-weekend-wordcamp-uk-suggested-and-more/" title="WordPress 2.5 Due Any Day, Beta 2 Released, Many Plugins Updated, WordCamp Dallas This Weekend, WordCamp UK Suggested, and More">WordPress 2.5 Due Any Day, Beta 2 Released, Many Plugins Updated, WordCamp Dallas This Weekend, WordCamp UK Suggested, and More</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/03/19/wordpress-wednesday-news-sneak-peeks-of-wordpress-25-beta-released-wordcamp-dallas-next-week-and-more-wordpress-news/" title="Sneak Peeks of WordPress 2.5, Beta Released, WordCamp Dallas Next Week, and More WordPress News">Sneak Peeks of WordPress 2.5, Beta Released, WordCamp Dallas Next Week, and More WordPress News</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/03/12/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-25-due-march-17-administration-plugins-may-break-tons-of-plugins-updated-add-buttons-to-toolbar-wordpress-dallas-and-now-milan/" title="WordPress 2.5 Due March 17, Administration Plugins May Break, Tons of Plugins Updated, Add Buttons to Toolbar, WordPress Dallas and Now Milan!">WordPress 2.5 Due March 17, Administration Plugins May Break, Tons of Plugins Updated, Add Buttons to Toolbar, WordPress Dallas and Now Milan!</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/03/05/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-25-next-week-wordpress-goes-social-cleaning-out-splogs-and-more-wordpress-news/" title="WordPress 2.5 Next Week, WordPress Goes Social, Cleaning Out Splogs, and More WordPress News">WordPress 2.5 Next Week, WordPress Goes Social, Cleaning Out Splogs, and More WordPress News</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/02/27/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-25-in-two-weeks-new-hot-media-library-instant-upgrades-theme-designers-lack-inspiration-more-plugin-vulnerabilities-found/" title="WordPress 2.5 in Two Weeks, New Hot Media Library, Instant Upgrades, Theme Designers Lack Inspiration, More Plugin Vulnerabilities Found">WordPress 2.5 in Two Weeks, New Hot Media Library, Instant Upgrades, Theme Designers Lack Inspiration, More Plugin Vulnerabilities Found</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/02/20/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-25-news-colleges-and-schools-love-wordpressmu-viddler-meets-wordpress-theme-buyers-beware-columns-in-blog-posts-feeds-without-plugins/" title="WordPress 2.5 News, Colleges and Schools Love WordPressMU, Viddler Meets WordPress, Theme Buyers Beware, Columns in Blog Posts, Feeds Without Plugins">WordPress 2.5 News, Colleges and Schools Love WordPressMU, Viddler Meets WordPress, Theme Buyers Beware, Columns in Blog Posts, Feeds Without Plugins</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/02/14/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-25-live-reports-www-or-not-to-www-16000-post-migration-mt-does-wp-wp-does-kazakhstan-and-gets-mugged/" title="WordPress 2.5 Live Reports, WWW or Not to WWW, 16,000 Post Migration, MT Does WP, WP Does Kazakhstan, and Gets Mugged">WordPress 2.5 Live Reports, WWW or Not to WWW, 16,000 Post Migration, MT Does WP, WP Does Kazakhstan, and Gets Mugged</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/02/06/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-233-security-must-upgrade-plugins-vulnerable-automatic-upgrades-and-more/" title="WordPress 2.3.3 Security Must Upgrade, Plugins Vulnerable, Automatic Upgrades, and More">WordPress 2.3.3 Security Must Upgrade, Plugins Vulnerable, Automatic Upgrades, and More</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/30/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordcamp-hamburg-success-automatic-upgrades-coming-5000-bounty-prologue-theme-and-wordpress-wins-again/" title="WordCamp Hamburg Success, Automatic Upgrades Coming, $5,000 Bounty, Prologue Theme, and WordPress Wins Again">WordCamp Hamburg Success, Automatic Upgrades Coming, $5,000 Bounty, Prologue Theme, and WordPress Wins Again</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/24/wordpress-wednesday-news-happy-birthday-wordpress-automattic-wins-and-gets-lots-of-money-security-concerns-over-plugins-and-core-wordcamp-hambug-and-hating-the-name-wordpresscom/" title="Happy Birthday WordPress, Automattic Wins and Gets Lots of Money, Security Concerns Over Plugins and Core, WordCamp Hamburg and Hating the Name WordPress.com">Happy Birthday WordPress, Automattic Wins and Gets Lots of Money, Security Concerns Over Plugins and Core, WordCamp Hamburg and Hating the Name WordPress.com</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/17/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-25-on-track-uninstalling-wordpress-plugins-premium-wordpress-themes-debated-permalinks-and-more-wordpress-news/" title="WordPress 2.5 On Track, Uninstalling WordPress Plugins, Premium WordPress Themes Debated, Permalinks, and More WordPress News">WordPress 2.5 On Track, Uninstalling WordPress Plugins, Premium WordPress Themes Debated, Permalinks, and More WordPress News</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/09/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-24-is-25-release-delayed-security-release-issued-wordpress-groups-group-talking-to-plugin-authors-and-more/" title="WordPress 2.4 is 2.5, Release Delayed, Security Release Issued, WordPress Groups Group, Talking to Plugin Authors, and More">WordPress 2.4 is 2.5, Release Delayed, Security Release Issued, WordPress Groups Group, Talking to Plugin Authors, and More</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/03/wordpress-wednesday-news-mandatory-wordpress-security-release-sneak-previews-of-wordpress-24-hoodies-vote-for-wordpress-moving-to-wordpress-custom-fields-and-more/" title="Mandatory WordPress Security Release, Sneak Previews of WordPress 2.4, Hoodies, Vote for WordPress, Moving to WordPress, Custom Fields, and More">Mandatory WordPress Security Release, Sneak Previews of WordPress 2.4, Hoodies, Vote for WordPress, Moving to WordPress, Custom Fields, and More</a></li>
</ul>
<p>I&#8217;m not alone reporting on WordPress news and developments. The core sources and resources I depend upon that help me serve the WordPress Community are:</p>
<ul>
<li><a rel="tag" title="WordPress Planet" href="http://planet.wordpress.org/">WordPress Planet</a></li>
<li><a rel="tag" title="WordPress Development Blog" href="http://wordpress.org/development/">WordPress Development Blog</a></li>
<li><a rel="tag" title="WordPress.com Blog" href="http://wordpress.com/blog/">WordPress.com Blog</a></li>
<li><a rel="tag" title="Weblog Tools Collection" href="http://www.weblogtoolscollection.com/">Weblog Tools Collection</a></li>
<li><a title="The WordPress Podcast" rel="tag" href="http://wp-community.org/">The WordPress Podcast</a></li>
<li><a href="http://planetwordpress.planetozh.com/" title="Planet WordPress">Planet WordPress from Planet Ozh</a></li>
<li><a href="http://publisherblog.automattic.com/" title="WordPress Publisher Blog">WordPress Publisher Blog</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.planetwp.ca/" title="Planet WordPress Canada">Planet WordPress Canada</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordcamp.info/" title="The WordCamp Report">The WordCamp Report</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordcastpodcast.com/" title="WordCast">WordCast</a></li>
</ul>
<p>While it is tradition to thank all the &#8220;little people&#8221; who helped me get where I am today, I honestly owe it all to the entire WordPress Community.</p>
<p>I want to thank again the tons of people around the web whose blog content fills my feed reader every week with WordPress news, tips, guides, help, and general information. I read through hundreds of feeds and more hundreds of blog posts every week, learning what others are saying about WordPress and their WordPress blogging experience. Their perspective on WordPress, from every angle and opinion, helps me better understand how it works, and how I can better serve WordPress fans. </p>
<p>You are my heroes and heroines that make my life much easier. You are appreciated more than you could ever know. I&#8217;ve reserved a virtual hug for every one of you until we can meet in person. For those I&#8217;ve already met, you know that hug well. <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<h3>WordPress Tips on Twitter</h3>
<p>A few months ago, I started sharing all the articles and news information I&#8217;ve collected over the years or writing about and reporting on WordPress with my followers on Twitter. Each day I publish a random WordPress tip covering various versions, techniques, Theme design and development, Plugin writing and tips, and a variety of cool stuff about using WordPress.</p>
<p>What to join the fun, follow <a href="http://www.twitter.com/lorelleonwp" title="Follow Lorelleonwp on Twitter">lorelleonwp</a> on Twitter for your daily dose of WordPress.</p>
<p>To celebrate the end of a very successful year, I will be releasing ten WordPress tips on December 25 and January 1 throughout each of those days. </p>
<p>Thanks again to all and to all, hope your 2008 was as good or better than mine (not possible <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" class="wp-smiley" /> ), and that 2009 will be even more exciting with plenty of WordPress news, events, meetups, WordCamps, and in person hugs.</p>
<p>See you soon at a WordCamp Event!</p>
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Posted in WordPress News&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3450/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3450/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3450/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3450/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3450/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3450/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3450/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3450/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3450/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3450/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=3450&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:49:46 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:17:"Lorelle VanFossen";}s:7:"summary";s:27262:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/tag/wordpress-news/" title="WordPress News"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/wpnews1.png" alt="WordPress News" align="right" /></a>The past few weeks of the <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/tag/wordpress-news/" title="Articles on WordPress News on the Blog Herald" rel="tag">Blog Herald&#8217;s WordPress News</a> reports that I do have been huge. Each one now takes many hours to produce, rounding up all the news from WordPress developers, Plugin and Theme developers, <a href="http://www.wordpress.com/" title="WordPress.com free blogs" rel="tag">WordPress.com</a>, WordPress fan podcasts and blogs, and the WordPress Community.</p>
<p>WordPress 2.7 is the biggest WordPress version ever, and <a href="http://boren.nu/archives/2008/12/11/100000-in-20/" title="100,000 in 20">Ryan Boren announced that there have been</a> <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/counter/" title="100,000 downloads">100,000 downloads</a> in the first 20 hours of release, with the WordPress counter reporting 469,208 a little over a week since the version was released. With those numbers, you can tell that there has been a lot to report on for WordPress recently. </p>
<p>To honor the end of 2008 and all the great WordPress news over the past year, and to celebrate another year of bringing you the WordPress news on the <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/" title="Blog Herald" rel="tag">Blog Herald</a> every week, here is a listing of this year&#8217;s WordPress News Wednesday Reports:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/12/18/wordpress-news-wordpress-27-awesome-wordpresscom-5-million-plugins-updated-and-wordcamp-news/" title="WordPress 2.7 Awesome, WordPress.com 5 Million, Plugins Updated, and WordCamp News">WordPress News: WordPress 2.7 Awesome, WordPress.com 5 Million, Plugins Updated, and WordCamp News</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/12/10/wordpress-news-wordpress-27-released/" title="WordPress 2.7 Released">WordPress News: WordPress 2.7 Released</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/12/04/wordpress-news-wordpress-27-out-on-wordpresscom-wordpress-27-news-wordcamps-wordpress-plugins-and-themes-updated/" title="WordPress 2.7 Out on WordPress.com, WordPress 2.7 News, WordCamps, WordPress Plugins and Themes Updated">WordPress News: WordPress 2.7 Out on WordPress.com, WordPress 2.7 News, WordCamps, WordPress Plugins and Themes Updated</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/11/27/wordpress-news-wordpress-27-new-login-wordcamp-australia-wordpress-265-security-update-buddypress-and-more/" title="WordPress 2.7 New Login, WordCamp Australia, WordPress 2.6.5 Security Update, BuddyPress, and More">WordPress News: WordPress 2.7 New Login, WordCamp Australia, WordPress 2.6.5 Security Update, BuddyPress, and More</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/11/21/wordpress-wednesday-news/" title="Beta 3 Released, WordCamp Australia, No WordPress 2.6.4, and More">Beta 3 Released, WordCamp Australia, No WordPress 2.6.4, and More</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/11/14/wordpress-wednesday-news-27-delayed-sneak-peak-video-help-wordpress-iphone-wordcamps/" title="2.7 Delayed, Sneak Peak Video, Help WordPress iPhone, WordCamps">2.7 Delayed, Sneak Peak Video, Help WordPress iPhone, WordCamps</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/11/06/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-27-beta-2-danger-wordpress-faker-and-more-wordcamps/" title="WordPress 2.7 Beta 2, Danger WordPress Faker, and More WordCamps">WordPress 2.7 Beta 2, Danger WordPress Faker, and More WordCamps</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/10/29/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-27-soon-security-upgrade-podcamp-wordcamp-hawaii-polldaddy-and-more/" title="WordPress 2.7 Soon, Security Upgrade, PodCamp-WordCamp Hawaii, PollDaddy, and More">WordPress 2.7 Soon, Security Upgrade, PodCamp-WordCamp Hawaii, PollDaddy, and More</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/10/15/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-27-freeze-wordpress-themes-news-wordcamp-bangkok/" title="WordPress 2.7 Freeze, WordPress Themes News, WordCamp Bangkok">WordPress 2.7 Freeze, WordPress Themes News, WordCamp Bangkok</a></li>
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</ul>
<p>I&#8217;m not alone reporting on WordPress news and developments. The core sources and resources I depend upon that help me serve the WordPress Community are:</p>
<ul>
<li><a rel="tag" title="WordPress Planet" href="http://planet.wordpress.org/">WordPress Planet</a></li>
<li><a rel="tag" title="WordPress Development Blog" href="http://wordpress.org/development/">WordPress Development Blog</a></li>
<li><a rel="tag" title="WordPress.com Blog" href="http://wordpress.com/blog/">WordPress.com Blog</a></li>
<li><a rel="tag" title="Weblog Tools Collection" href="http://www.weblogtoolscollection.com/">Weblog Tools Collection</a></li>
<li><a title="The WordPress Podcast" rel="tag" href="http://wp-community.org/">The WordPress Podcast</a></li>
<li><a href="http://planetwordpress.planetozh.com/" title="Planet WordPress">Planet WordPress from Planet Ozh</a></li>
<li><a href="http://publisherblog.automattic.com/" title="WordPress Publisher Blog">WordPress Publisher Blog</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.planetwp.ca/" title="Planet WordPress Canada">Planet WordPress Canada</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordcamp.info/" title="The WordCamp Report">The WordCamp Report</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordcastpodcast.com/" title="WordCast">WordCast</a></li>
</ul>
<p>While it is tradition to thank all the &#8220;little people&#8221; who helped me get where I am today, I honestly owe it all to the entire WordPress Community.</p>
<p>I want to thank again the tons of people around the web whose blog content fills my feed reader every week with WordPress news, tips, guides, help, and general information. I read through hundreds of feeds and more hundreds of blog posts every week, learning what others are saying about WordPress and their WordPress blogging experience. Their perspective on WordPress, from every angle and opinion, helps me better understand how it works, and how I can better serve WordPress fans. </p>
<p>You are my heroes and heroines that make my life much easier. You are appreciated more than you could ever know. I&#8217;ve reserved a virtual hug for every one of you until we can meet in person. For those I&#8217;ve already met, you know that hug well. <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<h3>WordPress Tips on Twitter</h3>
<p>A few months ago, I started sharing all the articles and news information I&#8217;ve collected over the years or writing about and reporting on WordPress with my followers on Twitter. Each day I publish a random WordPress tip covering various versions, techniques, Theme design and development, Plugin writing and tips, and a variety of cool stuff about using WordPress.</p>
<p>What to join the fun, follow <a href="http://www.twitter.com/lorelleonwp" title="Follow Lorelleonwp on Twitter">lorelleonwp</a> on Twitter for your daily dose of WordPress.</p>
<p>To celebrate the end of a very successful year, I will be releasing ten WordPress tips on December 25 and January 1 throughout each of those days. </p>
<p>Thanks again to all and to all, hope your 2008 was as good or better than mine (not possible <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" class="wp-smiley" /> ), and that 2009 will be even more exciting with plenty of WordPress news, events, meetups, WordCamps, and in person hugs.</p>
<p>See you soon at a WordCamp Event!</p>
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Posted in WordPress News&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3450/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3450/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3450/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3450/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3450/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3450/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3450/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3450/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3450/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3450/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=3450&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:48;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:29:"Gravatar: TinyPic & Gravatars";s:4:"guid";s:31:"http://blog.gravatar.com/?p=120";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://blog.gravatar.com/2008/12/18/tinypic-gravatars/";s:11:"description";s:2182:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Michael C. writes in to let us know that TinyPic users now get their <a href="http://tinypic.com/mike">Gravatar for their profile image</a>.  Thanks TinyPic, we think <a href="http://blog.tinypic.com/2008/12/17/gravatars-are-grrrrreat/">you&#8217;re pretty grrrrreat yourselves</a>!</p>
<p>As a side note I think it&#8217;s really telling that a service which hosts images and videos for people to easily link to decided to use Gravatar for their profiles.  TinyPic has the infrastructure in place to do this.  They already have uploading, caching servers, and a CDN figured out.  They might even have croppers and image effects floating around.  But 2 things are important here.  The first is that profile images still aren&#8217;t the at core of what they want to provide to people.  Second, and more importantly, is that enabling Gravatar support is good for their users &#8212; It&#8217;s easy, its simple, and it gives them value far beyond that individual profile page.</p>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/gravatar.wordpress.com/120/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/gravatar.wordpress.com/120/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/120/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/120/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/120/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/120/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/gravatar.wordpress.com/120/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/gravatar.wordpress.com/120/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/120/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/120/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gravatar.com&blog=1886259&post=120&subd=gravatar&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:30:03 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:11:"apokalyptik";}s:7:"summary";s:2182:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Michael C. writes in to let us know that TinyPic users now get their <a href="http://tinypic.com/mike">Gravatar for their profile image</a>.  Thanks TinyPic, we think <a href="http://blog.tinypic.com/2008/12/17/gravatars-are-grrrrreat/">you&#8217;re pretty grrrrreat yourselves</a>!</p>
<p>As a side note I think it&#8217;s really telling that a service which hosts images and videos for people to easily link to decided to use Gravatar for their profiles.  TinyPic has the infrastructure in place to do this.  They already have uploading, caching servers, and a CDN figured out.  They might even have croppers and image effects floating around.  But 2 things are important here.  The first is that profile images still aren&#8217;t the at core of what they want to provide to people.  Second, and more importantly, is that enabling Gravatar support is good for their users &#8212; It&#8217;s easy, its simple, and it gives them value far beyond that individual profile page.</p>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/gravatar.wordpress.com/120/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/gravatar.wordpress.com/120/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/120/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/120/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/120/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/120/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/gravatar.wordpress.com/120/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/gravatar.wordpress.com/120/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/120/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/120/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gravatar.com&blog=1886259&post=120&subd=gravatar&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:49;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 12/18";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4794";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/18/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1218/";s:11:"description";s:5100:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.ekhoury.com/2008/12/14/autosuggest-searches-for-wordpress-released/">WP AutoSuggest</a></p>
<p>Search on my blog by typing in a keyword rather than waiting for the results page to load.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.postrank.com/publishers/wordpress">PostRank</a></p>
<p>This plugin adds the PostRank Top Posts Widget &amp; Analytics to your blog. PostRank measures the engagement with each story by analyzing the types and frequency of social media interactions. The more interesting or relevant the story is, the more active your readers will be in sharing it.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ibegin.com/labs/wp-lifestream/">WP Lifestream</a></p>
<p>Lifestream displays your social feeds and photos much like you would see it on many of the social networking sites.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpresscom-video-server/">WordPress Video Solution Framework</a></p>
<p>Video solutions framework, including player, transcoder and administration interface utilities as wpmu plugin. It powers wordpress.com video solution.</p>
<p><a href="http://fliptoad.wordpress.com/projects/wp2blosxom/">wp2blosxom</a></p>
<p>Exports all your posts to a zip file containing a <a href="http://blosxom.ookee.com/blog/">blosxom</a> style directory hierarchy of posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sliding-latest-post/">Sliding Post - Slides latest posts with Carousel effect</a></p>
<p>A plugin for WordPress which shows latest 10 posts with carousel sliding effect which is SEO friendly. User can set the height, width, and the time duration of the slide show.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/paginator/">Paginator</a></p>
<p>Adds the &#8220;paginator3000&#8243; paging navigation to your WordPress blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mailfrom/">wp-mailfrom</a></p>
<p>Allows you to configure the default email address and name used on email sent by WordPress.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.4-14.org.uk/wordpress-plugins/quick-admin-links">Quick Admin Links</a></p>
<p>Widget to add useful admin links on every page, allowing you to add new posts/pages, edit existing posts/pages, go to the admin, or log out.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.stuffbysarah.net/wordpress-plugins/remove-update-reminder/">Hide Update Reminder</a></p>
<p>Hides the Update Reminder in the Admin for all non Admin users.</p>
<p><a href="http://aleembawany.com/projects/wordpress/google-custom-search-plugin/">Google Custom Search Plugin</a></p>
<p>Google Custom Search plugin for WordPress replaces the default search engine with Google&#8217;s Custom Search for websites.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://kimili.com/journal/kimili-flash-embed-20-preview-the-wordpress-edition">Kimili Flash Embed</a></p>
<p>The Kimili Flash Embed is a plugin for popular open source blogging systems that allows you to easily place Flash movies on your site.</p>
<p><a href="http://thedeadone.net/download/tdo-mini-forms-wordpress-plugin/">TDO Mini Forms</a></p>
<p>This plugin allows you to add highly customizable forms to your website that allows non-registered users and/or subscribers (or any flavor between) to submit posts. The posts can be kept in &#8220;draft&#8221; until an admin can publish them (also configurable). It can optionally use Akismet to check if submissions are spam.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/headmeta/">HeadMeta</a></p>
<p>HeadMeta is a simple plugin to help with SEO and other purposes that require customized &#8216;meta&#8217; and &#8216;link&#8217; tags in the header of your theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-category-excluder/">Advanced Category Excluder</a></p>
<p>ACE can override your search results, your RSS feed listing, your category listing, your recent post, and recent post widgets and also your entry page, or even hide whole categories of posts from web crawlers if you want to.</p>
<p><a href="http://ehogan.itis5am.com:8080/blibahblubah/">Blibahblubah</a></p>
<p>This plugin allows the blog owner to customize the tag cloud so that any reader mousing over the tag cloud will see the words in the tag cloud flicker with a customizable effect. This is just a fancy bell and whistle to add to your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.fepe55.com.ar/blog/facebook-posted-items/">Facebook Posted Items</a></p>
<p>This plugin fetches posted items from Facebook and displays them in an unordered list with proper links and comments.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-tags/">Simple Tags</a></p>
<p>This is the perfect tool to manage perfectly your WP 2.3, 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 tags.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.matrixagents.org/statpress-reloaded/">StatPress Reloaded</a></p>
<p>This plugin shows you real time statistics about your blog. It collects information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers, OS etc.</p>
<p><a href="http://ehogan.itis5am.com:8080/popupper">Popupper</a></p>
<p>Popupper is a plugin that enables a blogger to add popups of images and text into their posts.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:01:04 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:5100:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.ekhoury.com/2008/12/14/autosuggest-searches-for-wordpress-released/">WP AutoSuggest</a></p>
<p>Search on my blog by typing in a keyword rather than waiting for the results page to load.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.postrank.com/publishers/wordpress">PostRank</a></p>
<p>This plugin adds the PostRank Top Posts Widget &amp; Analytics to your blog. PostRank measures the engagement with each story by analyzing the types and frequency of social media interactions. The more interesting or relevant the story is, the more active your readers will be in sharing it.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ibegin.com/labs/wp-lifestream/">WP Lifestream</a></p>
<p>Lifestream displays your social feeds and photos much like you would see it on many of the social networking sites.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpresscom-video-server/">WordPress Video Solution Framework</a></p>
<p>Video solutions framework, including player, transcoder and administration interface utilities as wpmu plugin. It powers wordpress.com video solution.</p>
<p><a href="http://fliptoad.wordpress.com/projects/wp2blosxom/">wp2blosxom</a></p>
<p>Exports all your posts to a zip file containing a <a href="http://blosxom.ookee.com/blog/">blosxom</a> style directory hierarchy of posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sliding-latest-post/">Sliding Post - Slides latest posts with Carousel effect</a></p>
<p>A plugin for WordPress which shows latest 10 posts with carousel sliding effect which is SEO friendly. User can set the height, width, and the time duration of the slide show.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/paginator/">Paginator</a></p>
<p>Adds the &#8220;paginator3000&#8243; paging navigation to your WordPress blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mailfrom/">wp-mailfrom</a></p>
<p>Allows you to configure the default email address and name used on email sent by WordPress.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.4-14.org.uk/wordpress-plugins/quick-admin-links">Quick Admin Links</a></p>
<p>Widget to add useful admin links on every page, allowing you to add new posts/pages, edit existing posts/pages, go to the admin, or log out.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.stuffbysarah.net/wordpress-plugins/remove-update-reminder/">Hide Update Reminder</a></p>
<p>Hides the Update Reminder in the Admin for all non Admin users.</p>
<p><a href="http://aleembawany.com/projects/wordpress/google-custom-search-plugin/">Google Custom Search Plugin</a></p>
<p>Google Custom Search plugin for WordPress replaces the default search engine with Google&#8217;s Custom Search for websites.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://kimili.com/journal/kimili-flash-embed-20-preview-the-wordpress-edition">Kimili Flash Embed</a></p>
<p>The Kimili Flash Embed is a plugin for popular open source blogging systems that allows you to easily place Flash movies on your site.</p>
<p><a href="http://thedeadone.net/download/tdo-mini-forms-wordpress-plugin/">TDO Mini Forms</a></p>
<p>This plugin allows you to add highly customizable forms to your website that allows non-registered users and/or subscribers (or any flavor between) to submit posts. The posts can be kept in &#8220;draft&#8221; until an admin can publish them (also configurable). It can optionally use Akismet to check if submissions are spam.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/headmeta/">HeadMeta</a></p>
<p>HeadMeta is a simple plugin to help with SEO and other purposes that require customized &#8216;meta&#8217; and &#8216;link&#8217; tags in the header of your theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-category-excluder/">Advanced Category Excluder</a></p>
<p>ACE can override your search results, your RSS feed listing, your category listing, your recent post, and recent post widgets and also your entry page, or even hide whole categories of posts from web crawlers if you want to.</p>
<p><a href="http://ehogan.itis5am.com:8080/blibahblubah/">Blibahblubah</a></p>
<p>This plugin allows the blog owner to customize the tag cloud so that any reader mousing over the tag cloud will see the words in the tag cloud flicker with a customizable effect. This is just a fancy bell and whistle to add to your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.fepe55.com.ar/blog/facebook-posted-items/">Facebook Posted Items</a></p>
<p>This plugin fetches posted items from Facebook and displays them in an unordered list with proper links and comments.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-tags/">Simple Tags</a></p>
<p>This is the perfect tool to manage perfectly your WP 2.3, 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 tags.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.matrixagents.org/statpress-reloaded/">StatPress Reloaded</a></p>
<p>This plugin shows you real time statistics about your blog. It collects information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers, OS etc.</p>
<p><a href="http://ehogan.itis5am.com:8080/popupper">Popupper</a></p>
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