O:9:"MagpieRSS":17:{s:6:"parser";i:0;s:12:"current_item";a:0:{}s:5:"items";a:50:{i:0;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:61:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress 2.9’s post image feature";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7113";s:4:"link";s:96:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/16/wordpress-2-9%e2%80%99s-post-image-feature/";s:11:"description";s:885:"<p><a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/11/16/everything-you-need-to-know-about-wordpress-2-9s-post-image-feature">Everything you need to know about WordPress 2.9’s post image feature</a>:  Justin gives everyone an in depth look into the post thumbnail or image thumbnail features built into WordPress 2.9 <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/post_image.PNG" rel="thumbnail"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-7115 alignleft" title="post_image" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/post_image-150x150.PNG" alt="post_image" width="84" height="84" /></a>Jeff already makes liberal use of post images in all his posts. Also included, for the benefit of theme authors, are detailed instructions on how to add post image features to your WordPress theme and create various feature sets around this core concept.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:29:05 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:885:"<p><a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/11/16/everything-you-need-to-know-about-wordpress-2-9s-post-image-feature">Everything you need to know about WordPress 2.9’s post image feature</a>:  Justin gives everyone an in depth look into the post thumbnail or image thumbnail features built into WordPress 2.9 <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/post_image.PNG" rel="thumbnail"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-7115 alignleft" title="post_image" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/post_image-150x150.PNG" alt="post_image" width="84" height="84" /></a>Jeff already makes liberal use of post images in all his posts. Also included, for the benefit of theme authors, are detailed instructions on how to add post image features to your WordPress theme and create various feature sets around this core concept.</p>";}i:1;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:62:"WordPress.tv: This (Past) Week on WordPress.tv: Nov 8—Nov 14";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://blog.wordpress.tv/?p=98";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://blog.wordpress.tv/2009/11/16/this-past-week-on-wordpress-tv-nov-8%e2%80%94nov-14/";s:11:"description";s:3604:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>I&#8217;m a little late to the party this weekend with last week&#8217;s recap, but we have a special request for all you viewers, so let&#8217;s get down to it.</p>
<p>This week we published one WordCamp video and one tutorial—a little light considering recent weeks, but this week also saw a great livestream from <a href="http://phxwordcamp.com/">WordCamp Phoenix</a>. I hope you were able to watch it—there were some great sessions included and we&#8217;re hoping to have them available on WordPress.tv soon.</p>
<p>The WordCamp video from was WordCamp Netherlands: <a href="http://www.successful-blog.com/">Liz Strauss</a>&#8217;s presentation entitled &#8220;<a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/10/31/liz-strauss-identity-netherlands09/">Meeting Your Audience Where They Are</a>.&#8221; If you&#8217;re interested in community-building or in building a personal brand, it&#8217;s definitely worth a look.</p>
<p>On the tutorial side, we published a run-through by <a href="http://idratherbewriting.com/">Tom Johnson</a> on <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/11/12/installing-wordpress-locally-using-wampserver/">running a local copy of WordPress using WampServer</a>. Local copies can have tremendous development potential; if you regularly develop themes or plugins, or just like to tinker with WordPress, local installation can be a great help.</p>
<p><strong>So here&#8217;s the special request:</strong> I&#8217;d like you to take a moment and think up one thing—<em>just one thing</em>—you&#8217;d like to see covered in a video tutorial here at WordPress.tv. It can be anything WordPress-related, but here&#8217;s an exercise to focus your thinking.</p>
<p>Think of questions like: What do I wish someone had told me when I started using WordPress? What kinds of things seem hard at first but really aren&#8217;t once you get down to it? What feature of WordPress do I wish more people knew about and used? What&#8217;s the feature, plugin, or whatever that gives me an awesome productivity boost or makes me a better WordPress user?</p>
<p>Come up with one thing you&#8217;d like to see covered in a future video tutorial, and then <a href="http://wordpress.tv/contact">send us an email using our handy contact form</a>. We&#8217;ll take a look at those suggestions and report on them in a future week&#8217;s recap so you know what your fellow community members are asking for.</p>
<p>Until then, stay tuned for more WordPress.tv!</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptvblog.wordpress.com/98/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptvblog.wordpress.com/98/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptvblog.wordpress.com/98/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptvblog.wordpress.com/98/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptvblog.wordpress.com/98/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptvblog.wordpress.com/98/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptvblog.wordpress.com/98/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptvblog.wordpress.com/98/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptvblog.wordpress.com/98/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptvblog.wordpress.com/98/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.wordpress.tv&blog=5310177&post=98&subd=wptvblog&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:15:19 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:11:"Ryan Markel";}s:7:"summary";s:3604:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>I&#8217;m a little late to the party this weekend with last week&#8217;s recap, but we have a special request for all you viewers, so let&#8217;s get down to it.</p>
<p>This week we published one WordCamp video and one tutorial—a little light considering recent weeks, but this week also saw a great livestream from <a href="http://phxwordcamp.com/">WordCamp Phoenix</a>. I hope you were able to watch it—there were some great sessions included and we&#8217;re hoping to have them available on WordPress.tv soon.</p>
<p>The WordCamp video from was WordCamp Netherlands: <a href="http://www.successful-blog.com/">Liz Strauss</a>&#8217;s presentation entitled &#8220;<a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/10/31/liz-strauss-identity-netherlands09/">Meeting Your Audience Where They Are</a>.&#8221; If you&#8217;re interested in community-building or in building a personal brand, it&#8217;s definitely worth a look.</p>
<p>On the tutorial side, we published a run-through by <a href="http://idratherbewriting.com/">Tom Johnson</a> on <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/11/12/installing-wordpress-locally-using-wampserver/">running a local copy of WordPress using WampServer</a>. Local copies can have tremendous development potential; if you regularly develop themes or plugins, or just like to tinker with WordPress, local installation can be a great help.</p>
<p><strong>So here&#8217;s the special request:</strong> I&#8217;d like you to take a moment and think up one thing—<em>just one thing</em>—you&#8217;d like to see covered in a video tutorial here at WordPress.tv. It can be anything WordPress-related, but here&#8217;s an exercise to focus your thinking.</p>
<p>Think of questions like: What do I wish someone had told me when I started using WordPress? What kinds of things seem hard at first but really aren&#8217;t once you get down to it? What feature of WordPress do I wish more people knew about and used? What&#8217;s the feature, plugin, or whatever that gives me an awesome productivity boost or makes me a better WordPress user?</p>
<p>Come up with one thing you&#8217;d like to see covered in a future video tutorial, and then <a href="http://wordpress.tv/contact">send us an email using our handy contact form</a>. We&#8217;ll take a look at those suggestions and report on them in a future week&#8217;s recap so you know what your fellow community members are asking for.</p>
<p>Until then, stay tuned for more WordPress.tv!</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptvblog.wordpress.com/98/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptvblog.wordpress.com/98/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptvblog.wordpress.com/98/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptvblog.wordpress.com/98/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptvblog.wordpress.com/98/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptvblog.wordpress.com/98/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptvblog.wordpress.com/98/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptvblog.wordpress.com/98/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptvblog.wordpress.com/98/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptvblog.wordpress.com/98/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.wordpress.tv&blog=5310177&post=98&subd=wptvblog&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:2;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:32:"Dougal Campbell: Server Reconfig";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=1865";s:4:"link";s:112:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/11/13/server-reconfig?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss";s:11:"description";s:5791:"<div><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/wplogo-notext-rgb-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" title="WordPress" /></div><p>This blog will be moving to a new server very soon. If all goes well, you shouldn&#8217;t notice a thing. But just in case, I figured I&#8217;d give a warning, so that if you try to visit and you get an error, or the site won&#8217;t come up, you&#8217;ll know to just come back again later instead of thinking that my site was an early victim of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon">2012 apocalypse</a> or something.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m doing more than just moving onto a new server though. I&#8217;m moving to a new hosting provider, and I&#8217;m reconfiguring many aspects of how my services are set up. If you&#8217;re interested in the technical nitty-gritty, read on.</p>
<p><span id="more-1865"></span><br />
Some of you might recall that a little over a year ago, I moved from my original hosting onto Slicehost. I am now moving again, to a service called prgmr.com. I&#8217;ve had no problems with Slicehost, but the pricing for prgmr.com is lower, which made it possible for me to expand from 2 servers to 4 servers for less money.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.slicehost.com/">Slicehost VPS hosting</a> is pretty no-frills. You get a server with an initial OS installed on it, and a web-based management tool with some <acronym title="Domain Name System"><span class="caps">DNS</span></acronym> tools and a Java applet console. With <a href="http://prgmr.com/xen/">prgmr.com</a>, it&#8217;s even more no-frills, because the console isn&#8217;t web-based. It&#8217;s SSH all the way, baby. It&#8217;s not for everybody, but it suits me fine. And even though I have more servers, it reduces my monthly hosting costs by about 40%. That said, I&#8217;m also reducing my virtual <acronym title="Central Processing Unit"><span class="caps">CPU</span></acronym> power and disk space a little bit, and Slicehost has multiple facility locations, which might be factors for someone else shopping for hosting. For me, the ability to afford more servers was pretty high up.</p>
<p>So, that said, let&#8217;s look at what I&#8217;m changing in my setup, and why I felt it was important to move up to 4 servers.</p>
<p>All along, even before Slicehost, I have had trouble dealing with traffic spikes on my web server. I&#8217;ve used <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/">WP Super Cache</a> and <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/">W3 Total Cache</a>. I&#8217;ve used <a href="http://xcache.lighttpd.net/">XCache</a> for <acronym title="Php Hypertext Processor"><span class="caps">PHP</span></acronym> code caching, and for my <a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/08/29/xcache-object-cache-plugin-for-wordpress-25">WordPress object cache</a>. I&#8217;ve configured Apache to set caching headers for static files using <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_expires.html">mod_expires</a> to reduce requests. But I still get load and memory spikes that grind my server into dust. That shouldn&#8217;t happen with only 200 visitors per hour (granted, a page view can generate about 50 HTTP requests). Obviously, I&#8217;ve configured my server poorly.</p>
<p>Like many large <a href="http://php.net/"><acronym title="Php Hypertext Processor"><span class="caps">PHP</span></acronym></a> applications, <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> can be a bit hungry for memory. So when it fights against <a href="http://mysql.com/">MySQL</a> and an in-memory object cache for resources, things can start to get dicey. And of course, I&#8217;ve got a few other things on the server. When I get hit by a traffic spike (popular article, spammer runs, errant search spiders, etc), memory goes away fast. The machine starts to swap, things get slow, load average spikes as processes begin to wait for resources, and it all snowballs. I&#8217;ve got some homemade scripts that keep an eye on things and attempt to restart various services in order to force things back into line, but it&#8217;s a pretty heavy-handed way to deal with the problem.</p>
<p>In my new setup, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing to fix it:</p>
<ul>
<li>I&#8217;ll be running Apache, MySQL, and Memcached all on separate servers, instead of together on one host.</li>
<li>I&#8217;m switching from the Apache pre-forking model to the threaded worker model.</li>
<li>I&#8217;m switching from mod_php to FastCGI (<a href="http://httpd.apache.org/mod_fcgid/">mod_fcgid</a>) and php-cgi.</li>
</ul>
<p>There will probably be other tweaks, as well, but those are the biggies. I&#8217;m expecting this new setup to handle waaaay more requests than the old one. Oh, and I&#8217;m definitely open to any pointers from performance tuning gurus. Please share links and tips!</p>
<p>When the switch-over happens, there might be a period of transition while the <acronym title="Domain Name System"><span class="caps">DNS</span></acronym> changes propagate. I don&#8217;t plan to post again until I&#8217;ve moved this blog fully to the new host. So you&#8217;ll know it&#8217;s happened when a new article appears here.</p>


<p>Related posts:<ol><li><a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/03/13/roadwork-next-15-miles" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Roadwork Next 15 Miles">Roadwork Next 15 Miles</a></li><li><a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/04/22/server-problems" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Server problems">Server problems</a></li><li><a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/04/21/now-on-slicehost" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Now on Slicehost: Me!">Now on Slicehost: Me!</a></li></ol></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:48:13 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Dougal";}s:7:"summary";s:5791:"<div><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/wplogo-notext-rgb-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" title="WordPress" /></div><p>This blog will be moving to a new server very soon. If all goes well, you shouldn&#8217;t notice a thing. But just in case, I figured I&#8217;d give a warning, so that if you try to visit and you get an error, or the site won&#8217;t come up, you&#8217;ll know to just come back again later instead of thinking that my site was an early victim of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon">2012 apocalypse</a> or something.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m doing more than just moving onto a new server though. I&#8217;m moving to a new hosting provider, and I&#8217;m reconfiguring many aspects of how my services are set up. If you&#8217;re interested in the technical nitty-gritty, read on.</p>
<p><span id="more-1865"></span><br />
Some of you might recall that a little over a year ago, I moved from my original hosting onto Slicehost. I am now moving again, to a service called prgmr.com. I&#8217;ve had no problems with Slicehost, but the pricing for prgmr.com is lower, which made it possible for me to expand from 2 servers to 4 servers for less money.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.slicehost.com/">Slicehost VPS hosting</a> is pretty no-frills. You get a server with an initial OS installed on it, and a web-based management tool with some <acronym title="Domain Name System"><span class="caps">DNS</span></acronym> tools and a Java applet console. With <a href="http://prgmr.com/xen/">prgmr.com</a>, it&#8217;s even more no-frills, because the console isn&#8217;t web-based. It&#8217;s SSH all the way, baby. It&#8217;s not for everybody, but it suits me fine. And even though I have more servers, it reduces my monthly hosting costs by about 40%. That said, I&#8217;m also reducing my virtual <acronym title="Central Processing Unit"><span class="caps">CPU</span></acronym> power and disk space a little bit, and Slicehost has multiple facility locations, which might be factors for someone else shopping for hosting. For me, the ability to afford more servers was pretty high up.</p>
<p>So, that said, let&#8217;s look at what I&#8217;m changing in my setup, and why I felt it was important to move up to 4 servers.</p>
<p>All along, even before Slicehost, I have had trouble dealing with traffic spikes on my web server. I&#8217;ve used <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/">WP Super Cache</a> and <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/">W3 Total Cache</a>. I&#8217;ve used <a href="http://xcache.lighttpd.net/">XCache</a> for <acronym title="Php Hypertext Processor"><span class="caps">PHP</span></acronym> code caching, and for my <a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/08/29/xcache-object-cache-plugin-for-wordpress-25">WordPress object cache</a>. I&#8217;ve configured Apache to set caching headers for static files using <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_expires.html">mod_expires</a> to reduce requests. But I still get load and memory spikes that grind my server into dust. That shouldn&#8217;t happen with only 200 visitors per hour (granted, a page view can generate about 50 HTTP requests). Obviously, I&#8217;ve configured my server poorly.</p>
<p>Like many large <a href="http://php.net/"><acronym title="Php Hypertext Processor"><span class="caps">PHP</span></acronym></a> applications, <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> can be a bit hungry for memory. So when it fights against <a href="http://mysql.com/">MySQL</a> and an in-memory object cache for resources, things can start to get dicey. And of course, I&#8217;ve got a few other things on the server. When I get hit by a traffic spike (popular article, spammer runs, errant search spiders, etc), memory goes away fast. The machine starts to swap, things get slow, load average spikes as processes begin to wait for resources, and it all snowballs. I&#8217;ve got some homemade scripts that keep an eye on things and attempt to restart various services in order to force things back into line, but it&#8217;s a pretty heavy-handed way to deal with the problem.</p>
<p>In my new setup, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing to fix it:</p>
<ul>
<li>I&#8217;ll be running Apache, MySQL, and Memcached all on separate servers, instead of together on one host.</li>
<li>I&#8217;m switching from the Apache pre-forking model to the threaded worker model.</li>
<li>I&#8217;m switching from mod_php to FastCGI (<a href="http://httpd.apache.org/mod_fcgid/">mod_fcgid</a>) and php-cgi.</li>
</ul>
<p>There will probably be other tweaks, as well, but those are the biggies. I&#8217;m expecting this new setup to handle waaaay more requests than the old one. Oh, and I&#8217;m definitely open to any pointers from performance tuning gurus. Please share links and tips!</p>
<p>When the switch-over happens, there might be a period of transition while the <acronym title="Domain Name System"><span class="caps">DNS</span></acronym> changes propagate. I don&#8217;t plan to post again until I&#8217;ve moved this blog fully to the new host. So you&#8217;ll know it&#8217;s happened when a new article appears here.</p>


<p>Related posts:<ol><li><a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/03/13/roadwork-next-15-miles" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Roadwork Next 15 Miles">Roadwork Next 15 Miles</a></li><li><a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/04/22/server-problems" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Server problems">Server problems</a></li><li><a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/04/21/now-on-slicehost" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Now on Slicehost: Me!">Now on Slicehost: Me!</a></li></ol></p>";}i:3;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 11/14";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7111";s:4:"link";s:89:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/13/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1114-2/";s:11:"description";s:2042:"<h4><a href="http://human3rror.com/base-portfolio-wordpress-theme-released/">Base</a></h4>
<p><img title="Base" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Base.jpg" alt="Base" width="200" height="121" /></p>
<p>Simple two column theme with shades of blue that you can use to customize your site</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.martialartsdaily.com/wordpress-theme/">Martial Arts Lover</a></h4>
<p><img title="martial" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/martial.png" alt="martial" width="200" height="137" /></p>
<p>A nice, clean, dark and simple wordpress theme with one right sidebar.</p>
<h4><a href="http://webhostinghelpguy.inmotionhosting.com/wordpress/5-girl-inspired-free-wordpress-themes/">5 Girl-Inspired Free WordPress Themes</a></h4>
<p><img title="Doodles" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Doodles.png" alt="Doodles" width="200" height="114" /></p>
<p>Set of five two column, widget ready themes</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.wpcontempo.com/wp-commerce-flex-new-affiliate-shopping-free-wordpress-theme/">WP Commerce Flex</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://demo.wpcontempo.com/?wptheme=wp_commerce_flex"><img title="wp-commerce-flex" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/wpcommerceflex.gif" alt="wp-commerce-flex" width="200" height="134" /></a></p>
<p>It features a variety of options, solid SEO-friendly CSS layout that is easily customizable, and built for seamless integration with <a href="http://www.phpbay.com/affiliates/jrox.php?id=1624">PHPbay</a> and PHPZon.</p>
<h4><a href="http://fyrewurks.com/2009/11/polka-dots-wordpress-theme/">Polka Dots</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://fyrewurks.com/wordpress-theme-demos/?preview_theme=Polka%20Dots"><img title="Polka Dots" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/PolkaDots.jpg" alt="Polka Dots" width="200" height="146" /></a></p>
<p>It’s widget-ready, adsense-ready, and 3-columns.  Colors: brown, white, aqua, green, chartreuse, yellow, orange, red.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:44:40 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:2042:"<h4><a href="http://human3rror.com/base-portfolio-wordpress-theme-released/">Base</a></h4>
<p><img title="Base" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Base.jpg" alt="Base" width="200" height="121" /></p>
<p>Simple two column theme with shades of blue that you can use to customize your site</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.martialartsdaily.com/wordpress-theme/">Martial Arts Lover</a></h4>
<p><img title="martial" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/martial.png" alt="martial" width="200" height="137" /></p>
<p>A nice, clean, dark and simple wordpress theme with one right sidebar.</p>
<h4><a href="http://webhostinghelpguy.inmotionhosting.com/wordpress/5-girl-inspired-free-wordpress-themes/">5 Girl-Inspired Free WordPress Themes</a></h4>
<p><img title="Doodles" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Doodles.png" alt="Doodles" width="200" height="114" /></p>
<p>Set of five two column, widget ready themes</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.wpcontempo.com/wp-commerce-flex-new-affiliate-shopping-free-wordpress-theme/">WP Commerce Flex</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://demo.wpcontempo.com/?wptheme=wp_commerce_flex"><img title="wp-commerce-flex" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/wpcommerceflex.gif" alt="wp-commerce-flex" width="200" height="134" /></a></p>
<p>It features a variety of options, solid SEO-friendly CSS layout that is easily customizable, and built for seamless integration with <a href="http://www.phpbay.com/affiliates/jrox.php?id=1624">PHPbay</a> and PHPZon.</p>
<h4><a href="http://fyrewurks.com/2009/11/polka-dots-wordpress-theme/">Polka Dots</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://fyrewurks.com/wordpress-theme-demos/?preview_theme=Polka%20Dots"><img title="Polka Dots" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/PolkaDots.jpg" alt="Polka Dots" width="200" height="146" /></a></p>
<p>It’s widget-ready, adsense-ready, and 3-columns.  Colors: brown, white, aqua, green, chartreuse, yellow, orange, red.</p>";}i:4;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:45:"Peter Westwood: Beta Testing in your language";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://westi.wordpress.com/?p=126";s:4:"link";s:68:"http://westi.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/beta-testing-in-your-language/";s:11:"description";s:2343:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Thanks to <a href="http://blog.detlog.org/">Naoko McCracken</a> the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/">WordPress Beta Tester</a> plugin is now fully translatable and also has a Japanese translation out of the box.</p>
<div id="attachment_127" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-127" title="WordPress Beta Tester with Japanese translation enabled" src="http://westi.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/wordpress-beta-tester-ja.png?w=700&#038;h=435" alt="WordPress Beta Tester with Japanese translation enabled" width="700" height="435" /><p class="wp-caption-text">WordPress Beta Tester with Japanese translation enabled</p></div>
<p>Hopefully this will make it easy for Japanese WordPress users to get involved in the Beta Testing of WordPress 2.9 in the coming weeks. If you would like to submit a translation for your language then you can download the pot file from the WordPress plugins Subversion repository here: <a href="http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wordpress-beta-tester/trunk/languages/wp-beta-tester.pot">wp-beta-tester.pot</a>. If you send me the po and mo files I will add them to the repository and release an updated version of the plugin.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/westi.wordpress.com/126/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/westi.wordpress.com/126/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/westi.wordpress.com/126/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/westi.wordpress.com/126/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/westi.wordpress.com/126/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/westi.wordpress.com/126/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/westi.wordpress.com/126/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/westi.wordpress.com/126/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/westi.wordpress.com/126/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/westi.wordpress.com/126/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westi.wordpress.com&blog=15396&post=126&subd=westi&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:13:59 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:14:"Peter Westwood";}s:7:"summary";s:2343:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Thanks to <a href="http://blog.detlog.org/">Naoko McCracken</a> the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/">WordPress Beta Tester</a> plugin is now fully translatable and also has a Japanese translation out of the box.</p>
<div id="attachment_127" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-127" title="WordPress Beta Tester with Japanese translation enabled" src="http://westi.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/wordpress-beta-tester-ja.png?w=700&#038;h=435" alt="WordPress Beta Tester with Japanese translation enabled" width="700" height="435" /><p class="wp-caption-text">WordPress Beta Tester with Japanese translation enabled</p></div>
<p>Hopefully this will make it easy for Japanese WordPress users to get involved in the Beta Testing of WordPress 2.9 in the coming weeks. If you would like to submit a translation for your language then you can download the pot file from the WordPress plugins Subversion repository here: <a href="http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wordpress-beta-tester/trunk/languages/wp-beta-tester.pot">wp-beta-tester.pot</a>. If you send me the po and mo files I will add them to the repository and release an updated version of the plugin.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/westi.wordpress.com/126/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/westi.wordpress.com/126/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/westi.wordpress.com/126/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/westi.wordpress.com/126/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/westi.wordpress.com/126/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/westi.wordpress.com/126/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/westi.wordpress.com/126/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/westi.wordpress.com/126/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/westi.wordpress.com/126/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/westi.wordpress.com/126/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westi.wordpress.com&blog=15396&post=126&subd=westi&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:52:"Alex King: Appearing on WordPress Weekly (next week)";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://alexking.org/?p=3766";s:4:"link";s:75:"http://alexking.org/blog/2009/11/12/appearing-on-wordpress-weekly-next-week";s:11:"description";s:1096:"<p>I&#8217;m going to be on the <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/wordpress-weekly" rel="external">WordPress Weekly</a> podcast next Tuesday (dialing in from the Bay Area, hopefully will find a spot for the interview that will work OK). There is a thread at WP Tavern for people to <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/forum/general-wordpress/993-help-me-interview-alex-king.html" rel="external">post questions they&#8217;d like to hear me discuss</a>.</p>
<p>I think there are a lot of very interesting things to cover about the new <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2009/10/28/wordpress-helpcenter-affiliate-program">affiliate program from the WordPress HelpCenter</a>, monetization and supporting the WordPress development community. So far it looks like some folks would like to hear about <a href="http://carringtontheme.com">Carrington</a> as well &#8211; I&#8217;ll be happy to try cover that as well.</p>
<p>Feel free to post questions in the comments here if you like and I&#8217;ll pass them along.</p>
<img src="http://alexking.org/wp/?ak_action=api_record_view&id=3766&type=feed" alt="" />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:22:48 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:7:"summary";s:1096:"<p>I&#8217;m going to be on the <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/wordpress-weekly" rel="external">WordPress Weekly</a> podcast next Tuesday (dialing in from the Bay Area, hopefully will find a spot for the interview that will work OK). There is a thread at WP Tavern for people to <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/forum/general-wordpress/993-help-me-interview-alex-king.html" rel="external">post questions they&#8217;d like to hear me discuss</a>.</p>
<p>I think there are a lot of very interesting things to cover about the new <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2009/10/28/wordpress-helpcenter-affiliate-program">affiliate program from the WordPress HelpCenter</a>, monetization and supporting the WordPress development community. So far it looks like some folks would like to hear about <a href="http://carringtontheme.com">Carrington</a> as well &#8211; I&#8217;ll be happy to try cover that as well.</p>
<p>Feel free to post questions in the comments here if you like and I&#8217;ll pass them along.</p>
<img src="http://alexking.org/wp/?ak_action=api_record_view&id=3766&type=feed" alt="" />";}i:6;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:49:"Weblog Tools Collection: I Wish I Was At WordCamp";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7103";s:4:"link";s:78:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/12/i-wish-i-was-at-wordcamp/";s:11:"description";s:1146:"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a cool way to keep tabs on what&#8217;s shaking at WordCamp New York this weekend, check out this site created by <a href="http://twitter.com/dimensionmedia">DimensionMedia</a> called <a href="http://iwishiwasatwordcamp.com/nyc-2009/">IWishIWasAtWordCamp.com</a>. The site contains feeds from a few notable Twitter accounts that will be tweeting during the event as well as the important hashtag Twitter widget which goes above and beyond single accounts. Near the center of the site is a collection of photos published to Flickr but some of the photos are from the wrong WordCamp. This should be fixed by only aggregating photos that are using a unique tag such as the event Twitter hashtag. Near the bottom are even more Twitter accounts. The only bad thing about this page is that asides from the hashtag widget at the top, the rest of the page requires refreshing in order to see new information. Hopefully, Dimension has a decent server to put up with the load but I would have used the cool new Twitter widgets to see updates as they happen. </p>
<p>If you have any feedback, let him know in the comments!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:58:05 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1146:"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a cool way to keep tabs on what&#8217;s shaking at WordCamp New York this weekend, check out this site created by <a href="http://twitter.com/dimensionmedia">DimensionMedia</a> called <a href="http://iwishiwasatwordcamp.com/nyc-2009/">IWishIWasAtWordCamp.com</a>. The site contains feeds from a few notable Twitter accounts that will be tweeting during the event as well as the important hashtag Twitter widget which goes above and beyond single accounts. Near the center of the site is a collection of photos published to Flickr but some of the photos are from the wrong WordCamp. This should be fixed by only aggregating photos that are using a unique tag such as the event Twitter hashtag. Near the bottom are even more Twitter accounts. The only bad thing about this page is that asides from the hashtag widget at the top, the rest of the page requires refreshing in order to see new information. Hopefully, Dimension has a decent server to put up with the load but I would have used the cool new Twitter widgets to see updates as they happen. </p>
<p>If you have any feedback, let him know in the comments!</p>";}i:7;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:42:"Dev Blog: WordPress 2.8.6 Security Release";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=966";s:4:"link";s:74:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/11/wordpress-2-8-6-security-release/";s:11:"description";s:590:"<p>2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges.  If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended.</p>
<p>The first problem is an XSS vulnerability in Press This discovered by Benjamin Flesch.  The second problem, discovered by Dawid Golunski,  is an issue with sanitizing uploaded file names that can be exploited in certain Apache configurations.  Thanks to Benjamin and Dawid for finding and reporting these.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">Get WordPress 2.8.6</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:17:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Ryan Boren";}s:7:"summary";s:590:"<p>2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges.  If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended.</p>
<p>The first problem is an XSS vulnerability in Press This discovered by Benjamin Flesch.  The second problem, discovered by Dawid Golunski,  is an issue with sanitizing uploaded file names that can be exploited in certain Apache configurations.  Thanks to Benjamin and Dawid for finding and reporting these.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">Get WordPress 2.8.6</a>.</p>";}i:8;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"WordPress.tv: Installing WordPress Locally Using WampServer";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=2999";s:4:"link";s:77:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/11/12/installing-wordpress-locally-using-wampserver/";s:11:"description";s:1405:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
<div class="video-player" id="x-video-0">
</div></ins>
<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/11/12/installing-wordpress-locally-using-wampserver/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/ejd3ak8p/installwordpresslocally_html_std.original.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2999/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2999/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2999/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2999/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2999/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2999/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2999/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2999/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2999/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2999/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2999&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:40:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:11:"Ryan Markel";}s:7:"summary";s:1405:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
<div class="video-player" id="x-video-0">
</div></ins>
<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/11/12/installing-wordpress-locally-using-wampserver/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/ejd3ak8p/installwordpresslocally_html_std.original.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2999/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2999/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2999/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2999/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2999/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2999/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2999/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2999/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2999/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2999/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2999&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordCamp Phoenix Live Video Stream";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7097";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/11/wordcamp-phoenix-live-video-stream/";s:11:"description";s:1056:"<p>This weekend will be packed with WordCamp goodness starting with <a href="http://phxwordcamp.com">WordCamp Phoenix</a> on Friday the 13th and <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp New York</a> on Saturday the 14th as well as Sunday the 15th, both of which still have tickets available. However, if you can not make it to WordCamp Phoenix, the great news is that it will be live video streamed in its entirety thanks to their sponsorship with GoDaddy. Simply point your browsers to their <a href="http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/word-camp.aspx">Live Video page</a> and the event will be streamed starting at 9AM Mountain time. Also check out the <a href="http://phxwordcamp.com/schedule/">schedule of events</a> in case you only want to tune in during a certain session.</p>
<p>Because of a lack of WiFi and bandwidth at WordCamp New York, there will be no live audio or video streams. </p>
<p>*<strong>UPDATE</strong>* Just found out that <a href="http://www.wordcampvictoria.ca/">WordCamp Victoria</a> in Canada is also this weekend. </p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:07:34 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1056:"<p>This weekend will be packed with WordCamp goodness starting with <a href="http://phxwordcamp.com">WordCamp Phoenix</a> on Friday the 13th and <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp New York</a> on Saturday the 14th as well as Sunday the 15th, both of which still have tickets available. However, if you can not make it to WordCamp Phoenix, the great news is that it will be live video streamed in its entirety thanks to their sponsorship with GoDaddy. Simply point your browsers to their <a href="http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/word-camp.aspx">Live Video page</a> and the event will be streamed starting at 9AM Mountain time. Also check out the <a href="http://phxwordcamp.com/schedule/">schedule of events</a> in case you only want to tune in during a certain session.</p>
<p>Because of a lack of WiFi and bandwidth at WordCamp New York, there will be no live audio or video streams. </p>
<p>*<strong>UPDATE</strong>* Just found out that <a href="http://www.wordcampvictoria.ca/">WordCamp Victoria</a> in Canada is also this weekend. </p>";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:76:"WP Blackberry: Speed Improvement, UI Enhancements, and Video Library Support";s:4:"guid";s:38:"http://blackberry.wordpress.org/?p=161";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/11/11/beta-0-9-0-169/";s:11:"description";s:6474:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>We are inching ever so close to the 1.0 release, with today&#8217;s beta version 0.9.0.169 update available at <a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/install">http://blackberry.wordpress.org/install</a></p>
<p><strong>Here is what&#8217;s new:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> Based on all the great feedback, we reworked much of the UI layout for the main view, blog view, and media view</li>
<li> Ability to upload videos from your media library</li>
<li> New option to set media file properties (filename, caption, title, and position)</li>
<li> Created a new file browser that resembles the native BlackBerry file browser</li>
<li> Big improvements in the speed at which you can view and manage comments</li>
<li> Lots of optimizations for uploading photos and videos using base64 encoding</li>
<li> Indonesian language support updated thanks to <a href="http://pixert.com/">Kate of Pixel Insert</a></li>
<li> Improved French language support thanks to <a href="http://blog.onbebop.net">Yann Nave of blog.onbebop.net</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Here are a few screenshots of the new beta:<br />

<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/11/11/beta-0-9-0-169/01-mainscreen-full-device-2/" title="01 - MainScreen - Full Device"><img width="87" height="150" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/01-mainscreen-full-device1.png?w=87&#038;h=150" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="01 - MainScreen - Full Device" /></a>
<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/11/11/beta-0-9-0-169/02-mainscreen-full-storm-device-2/" title="02 - MainScreen - Full Storm Device"><img width="92" height="150" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/02-mainscreen-full-storm-device1.png?w=92&#038;h=150" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="02 - MainScreen - Full Storm Device" /></a>
<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/11/11/beta-0-9-0-169/03-mainscreen-lcd-only-2/" title="03 - MainScreen - LCD only"><img width="150" height="112" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/03-mainscreen-lcd-only1.png?w=150&#038;h=112" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="03 - MainScreen - LCD only" /></a>
<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/11/11/beta-0-9-0-169/04-mainscreen-storm-lcd-only-2/" title="04 - MainScreen - Storm LCD only"><img width="112" height="150" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/04-mainscreen-storm-lcd-only1.png?w=112&#038;h=150" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="04 - MainScreen - Storm LCD only" /></a>
<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/11/11/beta-0-9-0-169/05-blog-screen-full-storm-device-2/" title="05 - Blog Screen - Full Storm Device"><img width="92" height="150" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/05-blog-screen-full-storm-device1.png?w=92&#038;h=150" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="05 - Blog Screen - Full Storm Device" /></a>
<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/11/11/beta-0-9-0-169/06-blog-screen-storm-lcd-only-2/" title="06 - Blog Screen - Storm LCD only"><img width="112" height="150" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/06-blog-screen-storm-lcd-only1.png?w=112&#038;h=150" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="06 - Blog Screen - Storm LCD only" /></a>
<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/11/11/beta-0-9-0-169/07-media-screen-full-storm-device-2/" title="07 - Media Screen - Full Storm Device"><img width="92" height="150" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/07-media-screen-full-storm-device1.png?w=92&#038;h=150" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="07 - Media Screen - Full Storm Device" /></a>
<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/11/11/beta-0-9-0-169/08-media-screen-storm-lcd-only-2/" title="08 - Media Screen -  Storm LCD only"><img width="112" height="150" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/08-media-screen-storm-lcd-only1.png?w=112&#038;h=150" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="08 - Media Screen -  Storm LCD only" /></a>
<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/11/11/beta-0-9-0-169/09-media-properties-full-storm-device-2/" title="09- Media Properties - Full Storm Device"><img width="92" height="150" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/09-media-properties-full-storm-device1.png?w=92&#038;h=150" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="09- Media Properties - Full Storm Device" /></a>
<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/11/11/beta-0-9-0-169/10-media-properties-storm-lcd-only-2/" title="10 - Media Properties -  Storm LCD only"><img width="112" height="150" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/10-media-properties-storm-lcd-only1.png?w=112&#038;h=150" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="10 - Media Properties -  Storm LCD only" /></a>
</p>
<p>If you are running one of the latest versions of the app, it should prompt you to upgrade. If not, you can always download the latest version by pointing your mobile browser to: <a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/install">http://blackberry.wordpress.org/install</a></p>
<p>And always, if you have any issues, please post to the forums so we can effectively track and respond to the issue:  <a href="http://blackberry.forums.wordpress.org/">http://blackberry.forums.wordpress.org/ </a></p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/161/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/161/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/161/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/161/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/161/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/161/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/161/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/161/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/161/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/161/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackberry.wordpress.org&blog=8247031&post=161&subd=wpblackberry&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:58:40 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:16:"Raanan Bar-Cohen";}s:7:"summary";s:6474:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>We are inching ever so close to the 1.0 release, with today&#8217;s beta version 0.9.0.169 update available at <a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/install">http://blackberry.wordpress.org/install</a></p>
<p><strong>Here is what&#8217;s new:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> Based on all the great feedback, we reworked much of the UI layout for the main view, blog view, and media view</li>
<li> Ability to upload videos from your media library</li>
<li> New option to set media file properties (filename, caption, title, and position)</li>
<li> Created a new file browser that resembles the native BlackBerry file browser</li>
<li> Big improvements in the speed at which you can view and manage comments</li>
<li> Lots of optimizations for uploading photos and videos using base64 encoding</li>
<li> Indonesian language support updated thanks to <a href="http://pixert.com/">Kate of Pixel Insert</a></li>
<li> Improved French language support thanks to <a href="http://blog.onbebop.net">Yann Nave of blog.onbebop.net</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Here are a few screenshots of the new beta:<br />

<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/11/11/beta-0-9-0-169/01-mainscreen-full-device-2/" title="01 - MainScreen - Full Device"><img width="87" height="150" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/01-mainscreen-full-device1.png?w=87&#038;h=150" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="01 - MainScreen - Full Device" /></a>
<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/11/11/beta-0-9-0-169/02-mainscreen-full-storm-device-2/" title="02 - MainScreen - Full Storm Device"><img width="92" height="150" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/02-mainscreen-full-storm-device1.png?w=92&#038;h=150" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="02 - MainScreen - Full Storm Device" /></a>
<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/11/11/beta-0-9-0-169/03-mainscreen-lcd-only-2/" title="03 - MainScreen - LCD only"><img width="150" height="112" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/03-mainscreen-lcd-only1.png?w=150&#038;h=112" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="03 - MainScreen - LCD only" /></a>
<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/11/11/beta-0-9-0-169/04-mainscreen-storm-lcd-only-2/" title="04 - MainScreen - Storm LCD only"><img width="112" height="150" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/04-mainscreen-storm-lcd-only1.png?w=112&#038;h=150" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="04 - MainScreen - Storm LCD only" /></a>
<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/11/11/beta-0-9-0-169/05-blog-screen-full-storm-device-2/" title="05 - Blog Screen - Full Storm Device"><img width="92" height="150" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/05-blog-screen-full-storm-device1.png?w=92&#038;h=150" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="05 - Blog Screen - Full Storm Device" /></a>
<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/11/11/beta-0-9-0-169/06-blog-screen-storm-lcd-only-2/" title="06 - Blog Screen - Storm LCD only"><img width="112" height="150" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/06-blog-screen-storm-lcd-only1.png?w=112&#038;h=150" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="06 - Blog Screen - Storm LCD only" /></a>
<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/11/11/beta-0-9-0-169/07-media-screen-full-storm-device-2/" title="07 - Media Screen - Full Storm Device"><img width="92" height="150" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/07-media-screen-full-storm-device1.png?w=92&#038;h=150" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="07 - Media Screen - Full Storm Device" /></a>
<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/11/11/beta-0-9-0-169/08-media-screen-storm-lcd-only-2/" title="08 - Media Screen -  Storm LCD only"><img width="112" height="150" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/08-media-screen-storm-lcd-only1.png?w=112&#038;h=150" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="08 - Media Screen -  Storm LCD only" /></a>
<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/11/11/beta-0-9-0-169/09-media-properties-full-storm-device-2/" title="09- Media Properties - Full Storm Device"><img width="92" height="150" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/09-media-properties-full-storm-device1.png?w=92&#038;h=150" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="09- Media Properties - Full Storm Device" /></a>
<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/11/11/beta-0-9-0-169/10-media-properties-storm-lcd-only-2/" title="10 - Media Properties -  Storm LCD only"><img width="112" height="150" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/10-media-properties-storm-lcd-only1.png?w=112&#038;h=150" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="10 - Media Properties -  Storm LCD only" /></a>
</p>
<p>If you are running one of the latest versions of the app, it should prompt you to upgrade. If not, you can always download the latest version by pointing your mobile browser to: <a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/install">http://blackberry.wordpress.org/install</a></p>
<p>And always, if you have any issues, please post to the forums so we can effectively track and respond to the issue:  <a href="http://blackberry.forums.wordpress.org/">http://blackberry.forums.wordpress.org/ </a></p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/161/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/161/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/161/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/161/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/161/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/161/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/161/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/161/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/161/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/161/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackberry.wordpress.org&blog=8247031&post=161&subd=wpblackberry&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:11;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/11";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7095";s:4:"link";s:90:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/11/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1111-3/";s:11:"description";s:3012:"<h4>New Plugins</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.cssjockey.com/wordpress-plugins/custom-coming-soon-pages-wordpress-plugin">Custom Coming Soon Pages</a></p>
<p>Custom Coming Soon Pages WordPress Plugin allows you to display a Customized Coming Soon Page or Under Construction page to normal visitors or regular members of your WordPress based website or Blog – while the Site Administrators see the fully functional website with the applied theme and active plugins as well as a fully functional Dashboard.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/syntaxhighlighter/">SyntaxHighlighter Evolved</a></p>
<p>SyntaxHighlighter Evolved allows you to easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without loosing it’s formatting or making any manual changes.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.anieto2k.com/2009/11/07/wp-answers-crea-una-comunidad-de-preguntas-y-respuestas-con-wordpress/">WP Answers</a></p>
<p>Using a comments vote system you can order the comments by votes getting the focus to the most voted comment by the users. <em>Page in Spanish</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.finethemes.com/ImageMation/">ImageMation</a></p>
<p>ImageMation lets you put a set of sliding images with captions on any of your webpage. Moving images interact with the direction of mouse movement.</p>
<h4>Updated Plugins</h4>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/wp-ajax-edit-comments/">Ajax Edit Comments</a></p>
<p>The most powerful comment editing solution for WordPress. Users can edit their own comments for a limited time, while admins can edit all comments. Check out the video demonstrating the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5-ViKb4hfY&amp;fmt=22">new admin features</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/comment-autogrow">Comment Autogrow</a></p>
<p>A WordPress plugin that makes the comment textarea expand in height automatically</p>
<p><a href="http://digitalcortex.net/plugins/">Subscription Options</a></p>
<p>It adds 4 subscription options for readers with related feed icons for an RSS feed URL; a FeedBurner Email Service URL, a Twitter Stream URL and now, by popular demand, a Facebook Page URL. It&#8217;s totally user-defined, looks cool and it&#8217;s very simple.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogsdna.com/5038/wp-thumbie-wordpress-plugin-from-blogsdna-lab.htm">Wp-Thumbie</a></p>
<p>Wp-thumbie is wordpress plugin to display thumbnail related posts. You can select the number of posts to be display in your content / feed.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/smart-archives-reloaded">Smart Archives Reloaded</a></p>
<p>Gives you an elegant and easy way to present your posts. See a <a href="http://scribu.net/archive">demo</a> on the author&#8217;s site.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wpveda.com/buddypress-kaltura-media-component/">BuddyPress-Kaltura</a></p>
<p>This BuddyPress-Kaltura media component adds features like photos, videos and audio upload to BuddyPress. These features are essential for building a social network around BuddyPress.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:00:33 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:3012:"<h4>New Plugins</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.cssjockey.com/wordpress-plugins/custom-coming-soon-pages-wordpress-plugin">Custom Coming Soon Pages</a></p>
<p>Custom Coming Soon Pages WordPress Plugin allows you to display a Customized Coming Soon Page or Under Construction page to normal visitors or regular members of your WordPress based website or Blog – while the Site Administrators see the fully functional website with the applied theme and active plugins as well as a fully functional Dashboard.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/syntaxhighlighter/">SyntaxHighlighter Evolved</a></p>
<p>SyntaxHighlighter Evolved allows you to easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without loosing it’s formatting or making any manual changes.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.anieto2k.com/2009/11/07/wp-answers-crea-una-comunidad-de-preguntas-y-respuestas-con-wordpress/">WP Answers</a></p>
<p>Using a comments vote system you can order the comments by votes getting the focus to the most voted comment by the users. <em>Page in Spanish</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.finethemes.com/ImageMation/">ImageMation</a></p>
<p>ImageMation lets you put a set of sliding images with captions on any of your webpage. Moving images interact with the direction of mouse movement.</p>
<h4>Updated Plugins</h4>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/wp-ajax-edit-comments/">Ajax Edit Comments</a></p>
<p>The most powerful comment editing solution for WordPress. Users can edit their own comments for a limited time, while admins can edit all comments. Check out the video demonstrating the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5-ViKb4hfY&amp;fmt=22">new admin features</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/comment-autogrow">Comment Autogrow</a></p>
<p>A WordPress plugin that makes the comment textarea expand in height automatically</p>
<p><a href="http://digitalcortex.net/plugins/">Subscription Options</a></p>
<p>It adds 4 subscription options for readers with related feed icons for an RSS feed URL; a FeedBurner Email Service URL, a Twitter Stream URL and now, by popular demand, a Facebook Page URL. It&#8217;s totally user-defined, looks cool and it&#8217;s very simple.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogsdna.com/5038/wp-thumbie-wordpress-plugin-from-blogsdna-lab.htm">Wp-Thumbie</a></p>
<p>Wp-thumbie is wordpress plugin to display thumbnail related posts. You can select the number of posts to be display in your content / feed.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/smart-archives-reloaded">Smart Archives Reloaded</a></p>
<p>Gives you an elegant and easy way to present your posts. See a <a href="http://scribu.net/archive">demo</a> on the author&#8217;s site.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wpveda.com/buddypress-kaltura-media-component/">BuddyPress-Kaltura</a></p>
<p>This BuddyPress-Kaltura media component adds features like photos, videos and audio upload to BuddyPress. These features are essential for building a social network around BuddyPress.</p>";}i:12;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:22:"Matt: Published on CNN";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=15098";s:4:"link";s:38:"http://ma.tt/2009/11/published-on-cnn/";s:11:"description";s:1856:"<p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/11/wordpress.blog.mullenweg/index.html"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-15099" title="cnn" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/11/cnn.PNG" alt="" width="303" height="311" />Today a short piece &#8220;10 blogs to make you think&#8221; I wrote for CNN.com was published</a>. I&#8217;m pretty excited about this and I also hope it drives a new audience to the blogs I mentioned, though to be fair if you&#8217;re not fascinated by how technology is changing society my picks might not be interesting. It&#8217;s a short piece in a &#8220;top ten&#8221; format, but I put a lot of thought into curating the picks.</p>
<p>I started blogging because I love writing. While the nature of Automattic is such that I&#8217;m writing all day long to communicate with my colleagues but writing for communication is different from the state of mind you&#8217;re in when you sit down to tell a story or change someone&#8217;s perspective. (Though perhaps it shouldn&#8217;t be.)</p>
<p>I started blogging for writing, I kept blogging for comments. It turns out what I love isn&#8217;t the act of writing itself, which has never come easy to me, but the conversation that happens afterward. Collectively in tech we become infatuated with each new medium be it blogs, widgets, social networks, micro-blogs, but in the end it always comes back to people talking to each other and eventually the novelty of the format fades.</p>
<p>As a final note when I write now I go into the WordPress editor because I know the auto-save will make sure my text is always safe, it produces clean and simple HTML, and I lean on <a href="http://afterthedeadline.com/">After the Deadline</a>. (Which now helps you <a href="http://blog.afterthedeadline.com/2009/11/10/accent-your-writing-with-atd/">rock the diaeresis New Yorker-style</a>.)</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:45:31 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:1856:"<p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/11/wordpress.blog.mullenweg/index.html"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-15099" title="cnn" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/11/cnn.PNG" alt="" width="303" height="311" />Today a short piece &#8220;10 blogs to make you think&#8221; I wrote for CNN.com was published</a>. I&#8217;m pretty excited about this and I also hope it drives a new audience to the blogs I mentioned, though to be fair if you&#8217;re not fascinated by how technology is changing society my picks might not be interesting. It&#8217;s a short piece in a &#8220;top ten&#8221; format, but I put a lot of thought into curating the picks.</p>
<p>I started blogging because I love writing. While the nature of Automattic is such that I&#8217;m writing all day long to communicate with my colleagues but writing for communication is different from the state of mind you&#8217;re in when you sit down to tell a story or change someone&#8217;s perspective. (Though perhaps it shouldn&#8217;t be.)</p>
<p>I started blogging for writing, I kept blogging for comments. It turns out what I love isn&#8217;t the act of writing itself, which has never come easy to me, but the conversation that happens afterward. Collectively in tech we become infatuated with each new medium be it blogs, widgets, social networks, micro-blogs, but in the end it always comes back to people talking to each other and eventually the novelty of the format fades.</p>
<p>As a final note when I write now I go into the WordPress editor because I know the auto-save will make sure my text is always safe, it produces clean and simple HTML, and I lean on <a href="http://afterthedeadline.com/">After the Deadline</a>. (Which now helps you <a href="http://blog.afterthedeadline.com/2009/11/10/accent-your-writing-with-atd/">rock the diaeresis New Yorker-style</a>.)</p>";}i:13;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:33:"Matt: First Impressions of Sony X";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=15092";s:4:"link";s:29:"http://ma.tt/2009/11/sony-x1/";s:11:"description";s:3605:"<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-15095" title="173338-sony_vaio_x_original" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/11/173338-sony_vaio_x_original-350x421.jpg" alt="" width="210" height="253" />I&#8217;m a little addicted to gadgets, especially Sony laptops which have served as my primary on-the-go machines for the past few years because of their power and portability. <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/02/sony-announces-vaio-x-ultraportable/">When I first saw the Vaio X</a>, Sony&#8217;s new ultra-thin and ultra-light laptop, I was taken aback. It looked beautiful, but so was <a href="http://gizmodo.com/395419/voodoos-envy-133-is-thinnest-notebook-alive-based-on-intel-metro-concept-laptop">the Envy 133</a> and the Envy was a complete waste of time and money due to a really bad trackpad and performance. Anyway, I&#8217;ve been playing with the X1 for 5-6 hours now, and here are some unordered thoughts:</p>
<ol>
<li>It is the sexiest and most elegant laptop I&#8217;ve held or seen. Feels like it&#8217;s from the future.</li>
<li>It feels almost too light, I actually threw it up and caught it, particularly with the normal-sized battery.</li>
<li>I got the champagne color, which was a good choice.</li>
<li>The ethernet port works in a really interesting way.</li>
<li>Speed of browsing, installing, everything feels pretty good with Windows 7, but it&#8217;s obvious the graphics card is pretty underpowered. The moment you turn transparency on or get a flash video on Blip going it starts to stutter a bit.</li>
<li>That said, I could imagine using this as my primary machine for short and medium trips.</li>
<li>The keyboard takes a bit of getting used to in a way I haven&#8217;t run into before: the space bar is hard to hit. The keyboard is very compressed in vertical space so your thumb falls below where the space bar is, and you have to retrain your hand to be in a different position which isn&#8217;t as comfortable. The shift button can be hard to hit but that&#8217;s much easier to get used to, I&#8217;ve done it on other small keyboards. I&#8217;m not sure why they made it so small, it feels like it could stretch out a bit more.</li>
<li>Other big annoyance is the trackpad &#8212; it&#8217;s really narrow. Windows machines do the trackpad scroll on the right and bottom edges of the pad and I find myself triggering that accidentally because the tracking area is so tiny. Again, lots of apparent space toward the bottom of the laptop just a really narrow tracking area. This is easier to get used to than the keyboard, though, and the trackpad feels nice like most Vaios and unlike the Voodoo Envy.</li>
<li>I love that it has two USB ports, and a regular VGA connector instead of some weird micro-display-port you need a dongle for. (An Apple decision that bugs me almost as much as the recessed headphone connector on the original iPhone.)</li>
<li>Screen is gorgeous, like all recent Vaios.</li>
<li>Did I mention it&#8217;s drop-dead gorgeous? It&#8217;s the first laptop I&#8217;ve had in 5 years that I don&#8217;t want to put stickers on.</li>
<li>Hardware-wise, way better than the Air.</li>
</ol>
<p>So while it won&#8217;t be replacing my Z890 as primary workhorse for now, the X is so light I might take it on my next few trips and use it as a day-top. I&#8217;m especially excited by the prospect of the 14 hour battery life (probably 10 in real life use) giving me freedom from power cords through even a whole day at a WordCamp. We&#8217;ll see in a week or two if I&#8217;m able to comfortably adjust to the too-small keyboard and trackpad.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:16:55 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:3605:"<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-15095" title="173338-sony_vaio_x_original" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/11/173338-sony_vaio_x_original-350x421.jpg" alt="" width="210" height="253" />I&#8217;m a little addicted to gadgets, especially Sony laptops which have served as my primary on-the-go machines for the past few years because of their power and portability. <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/02/sony-announces-vaio-x-ultraportable/">When I first saw the Vaio X</a>, Sony&#8217;s new ultra-thin and ultra-light laptop, I was taken aback. It looked beautiful, but so was <a href="http://gizmodo.com/395419/voodoos-envy-133-is-thinnest-notebook-alive-based-on-intel-metro-concept-laptop">the Envy 133</a> and the Envy was a complete waste of time and money due to a really bad trackpad and performance. Anyway, I&#8217;ve been playing with the X1 for 5-6 hours now, and here are some unordered thoughts:</p>
<ol>
<li>It is the sexiest and most elegant laptop I&#8217;ve held or seen. Feels like it&#8217;s from the future.</li>
<li>It feels almost too light, I actually threw it up and caught it, particularly with the normal-sized battery.</li>
<li>I got the champagne color, which was a good choice.</li>
<li>The ethernet port works in a really interesting way.</li>
<li>Speed of browsing, installing, everything feels pretty good with Windows 7, but it&#8217;s obvious the graphics card is pretty underpowered. The moment you turn transparency on or get a flash video on Blip going it starts to stutter a bit.</li>
<li>That said, I could imagine using this as my primary machine for short and medium trips.</li>
<li>The keyboard takes a bit of getting used to in a way I haven&#8217;t run into before: the space bar is hard to hit. The keyboard is very compressed in vertical space so your thumb falls below where the space bar is, and you have to retrain your hand to be in a different position which isn&#8217;t as comfortable. The shift button can be hard to hit but that&#8217;s much easier to get used to, I&#8217;ve done it on other small keyboards. I&#8217;m not sure why they made it so small, it feels like it could stretch out a bit more.</li>
<li>Other big annoyance is the trackpad &#8212; it&#8217;s really narrow. Windows machines do the trackpad scroll on the right and bottom edges of the pad and I find myself triggering that accidentally because the tracking area is so tiny. Again, lots of apparent space toward the bottom of the laptop just a really narrow tracking area. This is easier to get used to than the keyboard, though, and the trackpad feels nice like most Vaios and unlike the Voodoo Envy.</li>
<li>I love that it has two USB ports, and a regular VGA connector instead of some weird micro-display-port you need a dongle for. (An Apple decision that bugs me almost as much as the recessed headphone connector on the original iPhone.)</li>
<li>Screen is gorgeous, like all recent Vaios.</li>
<li>Did I mention it&#8217;s drop-dead gorgeous? It&#8217;s the first laptop I&#8217;ve had in 5 years that I don&#8217;t want to put stickers on.</li>
<li>Hardware-wise, way better than the Air.</li>
</ol>
<p>So while it won&#8217;t be replacing my Z890 as primary workhorse for now, the X is so light I might take it on my next few trips and use it as a day-top. I&#8217;m especially excited by the prospect of the 14 hour battery life (probably 10 in real life use) giving me freedom from power cords through even a whole day at a WordCamp. We&#8217;ll see in a week or two if I&#8217;m able to comfortably adjust to the too-small keyboard and trackpad.</p>";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:63:"WordPress.tv: Liz Strauss: Meeting Your Audience Where They Are";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=2994";s:4:"link";s:66:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/10/31/liz-strauss-identity-netherlands09/";s:11:"description";s:1379:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
<div class="video-player" id="x-video-4">
</div></ins>
<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/10/31/liz-strauss-identity-netherlands09/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/chAEmmdV/wordcamp-nl-1_std.original.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2994/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2994/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2994/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2994/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2994/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2994/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2994/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2994/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2994/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2994/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2994&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:15:12 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:11:"Ryan Markel";}s:7:"summary";s:1379:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
<div class="video-player" id="x-video-4">
</div></ins>
<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/10/31/liz-strauss-identity-netherlands09/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/chAEmmdV/wordcamp-nl-1_std.original.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2994/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2994/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2994/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2994/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2994/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2994/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2994/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2994/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2994/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2994/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2994&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:15;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:33:"Publisher Blog: WordCamp NYC 2009";s:4:"guid";s:42:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/?p=695";s:4:"link";s:65:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2009/11/09/wordcamp-nyc-2009/";s:11:"description";s:2794:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp NYC</a> will be held this weekend, November 14th and 15th.  It&#8217;s a great get together for the New York, and the extended, community of WordPress-loving bloggers and developers:<br />
<a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/"><img src="http://wordpresspublishers.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/wordcamp-nyc-2009.png?w=640&#038;h=299" alt="wordcamp-nyc-2009" title="wordcamp-nyc-2009" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-698" width="640" height="299" /></a></p>
<p>With an amazing <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/speakers/">lineup of speakers</a>, over <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/attendees/">525 people already registered</a>, and <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/saturday-sessions/">8 session tracks</a> &#8211; there is something for everyone.</p>
<p>Myself and several colleagues from Automattic are flying in for this event, and I&#8217;m personally excited to see the track devoted to CMS use featuring case studies of current publishers.</p>
<p>If you haven&#8217;t <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/tickets/">signed up</a> yet, it&#8217;s $45 for both days, or just $25 for Sunday.  More details available on <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/tickets/">2009.newyork.wordcamp.org</a>.</p>
<p>[ Visit <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/tickets/">WordCamp NYC 2009</a> and <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp.org</a> for other WordCamps happening all over the world ]</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/695/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/695/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/695/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/695/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/695/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/695/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/695/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/695/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/695/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/695/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=publisherblog.automattic.com&blog=1470857&post=695&subd=wordpresspublishers&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:04:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:16:"Raanan Bar-Cohen";}s:7:"summary";s:2794:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp NYC</a> will be held this weekend, November 14th and 15th.  It&#8217;s a great get together for the New York, and the extended, community of WordPress-loving bloggers and developers:<br />
<a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/"><img src="http://wordpresspublishers.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/wordcamp-nyc-2009.png?w=640&#038;h=299" alt="wordcamp-nyc-2009" title="wordcamp-nyc-2009" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-698" width="640" height="299" /></a></p>
<p>With an amazing <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/speakers/">lineup of speakers</a>, over <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/attendees/">525 people already registered</a>, and <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/saturday-sessions/">8 session tracks</a> &#8211; there is something for everyone.</p>
<p>Myself and several colleagues from Automattic are flying in for this event, and I&#8217;m personally excited to see the track devoted to CMS use featuring case studies of current publishers.</p>
<p>If you haven&#8217;t <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/tickets/">signed up</a> yet, it&#8217;s $45 for both days, or just $25 for Sunday.  More details available on <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/tickets/">2009.newyork.wordcamp.org</a>.</p>
<p>[ Visit <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/tickets/">WordCamp NYC 2009</a> and <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp.org</a> for other WordCamps happening all over the world ]</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/695/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/695/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/695/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/695/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/695/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/695/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/695/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/695/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/695/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/695/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=publisherblog.automattic.com&blog=1470857&post=695&subd=wordpresspublishers&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:16;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:49:"Weblog Tools Collection: For Our Canadian Friends";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7091";s:4:"link";s:78:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/09/for-our-canadian-friends/";s:11:"description";s:1015:"<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/mapleleaf.png" alt="mapleleaf" title="mapleleaf" width="116" height="95" class="alignright size-full wp-image-7092" />Just wanted to pass along another WordPress resource site to put in your bookmarks or RSS feed, especially if you&#8217;re Canadian called <a href="http://wpcanada.ca/" target="_blank">WordPress Canada</a>. The site is managed by Len Kutchma, the same person who has been doing a great job providing feedback and even testing some of the themes being submitted to the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/forum/new-wordpress-themes">New Theme release</a> section of the WeblogToolsCollection forums. The site aims to bring you all the goodness happening throughout the world of WordPress albeit with a Canadian twist. If you feel like traveling a bit of Canada through WordPress news, be sure to check out <a href="http://www.planetwp.ca/" target="_blank">Planet WordPress Canada</a> which Len is a member of. </p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:07:43 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1015:"<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/mapleleaf.png" alt="mapleleaf" title="mapleleaf" width="116" height="95" class="alignright size-full wp-image-7092" />Just wanted to pass along another WordPress resource site to put in your bookmarks or RSS feed, especially if you&#8217;re Canadian called <a href="http://wpcanada.ca/" target="_blank">WordPress Canada</a>. The site is managed by Len Kutchma, the same person who has been doing a great job providing feedback and even testing some of the themes being submitted to the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/forum/new-wordpress-themes">New Theme release</a> section of the WeblogToolsCollection forums. The site aims to bring you all the goodness happening throughout the world of WordPress albeit with a Canadian twist. If you feel like traveling a bit of Canada through WordPress news, be sure to check out <a href="http://www.planetwp.ca/" target="_blank">Planet WordPress Canada</a> which Len is a member of. </p>";}i:17;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 11/09";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7089";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/09/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1109/";s:11:"description";s:1802:"<h4><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/11/07/glassical-a-free-wordpress-theme/">Glassical</a></h4>
<p><img title="Glassical" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Glassical.jpg" alt="Glassical" width="200" height="122" /></p>
<p>Two column, fixed width theme with support for the WP Pagenavi plugin. This theme was designed with the main focus being on typography, clean look and simplicity.</p>
<h4><a href="http://premiummod.com/coffee-lite/">Coffee Lite</a></h4>
<p><img title="Coffee Lite" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/CoffeeLite.png" alt="Coffee Lite" width="200" height="167" /></p>
<p>Coffee Lite Theme is a minimalist blogging theme modded from the popular premium theme<a href="http://www.woothemes.com/2009/08/coffee-break/"> Coffee Break</a> from <a href="http://woothemes.com">WooThemes</a>.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.wpskinner.com/2009/11/03/new-york-free-wordpress-theme-release/">New York</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://wpcodex.com/demo/?themedemo=new-york"><img title="New York" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/NewYork.jpg" alt="New York" width="200" height="116" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, fixed width, widget ready theme with inbuilt support for Twitter and 125&#215;125 ads with a theme options page</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.colixiodesign.com/en/2009/greenxi-tema-wordpress-pagina-opzioni-struttura-fluida-a-due-colonne/">Greenxi</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.colixiodesign.com/themes/?preview_theme=Greenxi"><img title="Greenxi" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Greenxi.png" alt="Greenxi" width="200" height="152" /></a></p>
<p>Two columns, flexible width, base colors green and white, custom gravatar, widget ready (sidebar and footer)</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:45:17 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:1802:"<h4><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/11/07/glassical-a-free-wordpress-theme/">Glassical</a></h4>
<p><img title="Glassical" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Glassical.jpg" alt="Glassical" width="200" height="122" /></p>
<p>Two column, fixed width theme with support for the WP Pagenavi plugin. This theme was designed with the main focus being on typography, clean look and simplicity.</p>
<h4><a href="http://premiummod.com/coffee-lite/">Coffee Lite</a></h4>
<p><img title="Coffee Lite" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/CoffeeLite.png" alt="Coffee Lite" width="200" height="167" /></p>
<p>Coffee Lite Theme is a minimalist blogging theme modded from the popular premium theme<a href="http://www.woothemes.com/2009/08/coffee-break/"> Coffee Break</a> from <a href="http://woothemes.com">WooThemes</a>.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.wpskinner.com/2009/11/03/new-york-free-wordpress-theme-release/">New York</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://wpcodex.com/demo/?themedemo=new-york"><img title="New York" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/NewYork.jpg" alt="New York" width="200" height="116" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, fixed width, widget ready theme with inbuilt support for Twitter and 125&#215;125 ads with a theme options page</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.colixiodesign.com/en/2009/greenxi-tema-wordpress-pagina-opzioni-struttura-fluida-a-due-colonne/">Greenxi</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.colixiodesign.com/themes/?preview_theme=Greenxi"><img title="Greenxi" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Greenxi.png" alt="Greenxi" width="200" height="152" /></a></p>
<p>Two columns, flexible width, base colors green and white, custom gravatar, widget ready (sidebar and footer)</p>";}i:18;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:45:"Weblog Tools Collection: Darn You WordPress!!";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7063";s:4:"link";s:72:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/08/darn-you-wordpress/";s:11:"description";s:2151:"<p>WordPress <strong>rocks!</strong> <small>(Most of the time&#8230;)</small>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sometimes though it can make you want to pull your hair out. Today I want to talk about that. Those times when you wish you could take a machete to it. I&#8217;ve had my share of such situations several times in the past.</p>
<p>Now, I don&#8217;t mean plugins, or themes, or anything external like that. I mean the <strong>core</strong> of WordPress itself. Sometimes it seems WordPress just comes up short. It can be anything from a simple little inconvenience to a total show-stopper.</p>
<p>I think hearing peoples gripes about WordPress would be a nice contrast to the almost constant good things you hear about it. It might also help to get more attention on the issues. Don&#8217;t forget that someone may come across this post, read a gripe, and possibly provide a solution. We can all help each other!</p>
<p>So, lets get it started&#8230;</p>
<p>One of the issues I always seem to run into has to do with the way some core functions output their code. A lot of the functions in WordPress provide a method for either outputting the code <em>(echo)</em> or returning it for you to handle and probably eventually echo yourself.</p>
<p>Unfortunately not all functions currently in WordPress are like this. Some only allow for echoing the code. This can be quite the inconvenience for some of us. The only way to usually get around this is to capture the output with a buffering function <strong><em>(ick!)</em></strong> or to copy what the function does into a function of our own to do what we need. However, this is less than ideal. What if the core version of that function changes some time in the future? That leaves us in a situation where we have to also update our version of the function. That&#8217;s not very nice&#8230;</p>
<p>An easy fix? <em>Probably&#8230;</em> Will it be addressed in future versions of WordPress? <em>I hope so!</em> Is it a critical issue? <em>No.</em> But, not all WordPress gripes are. This is just one of those things that has bugged me for some time.</p>
<p>So, how about you? What bugs you about WordPress?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:20:18 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"James Dimick";}s:7:"summary";s:2151:"<p>WordPress <strong>rocks!</strong> <small>(Most of the time&#8230;)</small>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sometimes though it can make you want to pull your hair out. Today I want to talk about that. Those times when you wish you could take a machete to it. I&#8217;ve had my share of such situations several times in the past.</p>
<p>Now, I don&#8217;t mean plugins, or themes, or anything external like that. I mean the <strong>core</strong> of WordPress itself. Sometimes it seems WordPress just comes up short. It can be anything from a simple little inconvenience to a total show-stopper.</p>
<p>I think hearing peoples gripes about WordPress would be a nice contrast to the almost constant good things you hear about it. It might also help to get more attention on the issues. Don&#8217;t forget that someone may come across this post, read a gripe, and possibly provide a solution. We can all help each other!</p>
<p>So, lets get it started&#8230;</p>
<p>One of the issues I always seem to run into has to do with the way some core functions output their code. A lot of the functions in WordPress provide a method for either outputting the code <em>(echo)</em> or returning it for you to handle and probably eventually echo yourself.</p>
<p>Unfortunately not all functions currently in WordPress are like this. Some only allow for echoing the code. This can be quite the inconvenience for some of us. The only way to usually get around this is to capture the output with a buffering function <strong><em>(ick!)</em></strong> or to copy what the function does into a function of our own to do what we need. However, this is less than ideal. What if the core version of that function changes some time in the future? That leaves us in a situation where we have to also update our version of the function. That&#8217;s not very nice&#8230;</p>
<p>An easy fix? <em>Probably&#8230;</em> Will it be addressed in future versions of WordPress? <em>I hope so!</em> Is it a critical issue? <em>No.</em> But, not all WordPress gripes are. This is just one of those things that has bugged me for some time.</p>
<p>So, how about you? What bugs you about WordPress?</p>";}i:19;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:54:"WordPress.tv: This Week on WordPress.tv: Nov 1—Nov 7";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://blog.wordpress.tv/?p=95";s:4:"link";s:82:"http://blog.wordpress.tv/2009/11/08/this-week-on-wordpress-tv-nov-1%e2%80%94nov-7/";s:11:"description";s:3049:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>This week was a light one compared to the last four, with a break in the stream of WordCamp videos. We&#8217;re eagerly awaiting the arrival of a fresh batch of WordCamp video, with more sessions from the great speakers lined up for WordCamps both from the last few weeks and also from the next couple of weeks in November.</p>
<p>There were a handful of videos published this week:</p>
<p>We <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/11/07/wordpress-for-iphone-2-0/">announced the arrival of the new WordPress for iPhone 2.0</a> with a brief overview of its features and quick introduction, and published <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/11/04/the-astickypostorderer-plugin-overview/">a great plugin tutorial from Adam W. Warner</a> on the AStickyPostOrderER plugin.</p>
<p>We also received and published yet another fantastic French-language tutorial from WordPress Channel: <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/11/03/effectuer-une-mise-a-jour-de-wordpress/">Effectuer une mise à jour de WordPress</a>.</p>
<p>Next week will see the first videos from WordCamp Netherlands, and we hope to get you back up to a daily dose of WordPress video starting on Monday.</p>
<p>Off-weeks don&#8217;t have to be light like this! We&#8217;re always looking for new videos from the community—this is <em>your</em> resource. A great example is Adam&#8217;s plugin tutorial from this week. Is there a plugin that you absolutely can&#8217;t live without? One that you think more people should be using? <a href="http://blog.wordpress.tv/2009/01/29/screencasting-resources-part-one/">Check out this list of screencasting resources</a> and put together a quick tutorial. It&#8217;s really quite easy to get the hang of it.</p>
<p>Then <a href="http://wordpress.tv/contact">drop us a line here at WordPress.tv</a> and let us know about your great tutorial!</p>
<p>Have a great weekend, and we&#8217;ll see you on Monday.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptvblog.wordpress.com/95/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptvblog.wordpress.com/95/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptvblog.wordpress.com/95/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptvblog.wordpress.com/95/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptvblog.wordpress.com/95/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptvblog.wordpress.com/95/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptvblog.wordpress.com/95/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptvblog.wordpress.com/95/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptvblog.wordpress.com/95/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptvblog.wordpress.com/95/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.wordpress.tv&blog=5310177&post=95&subd=wptvblog&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:45:38 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:11:"Ryan Markel";}s:7:"summary";s:3049:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>This week was a light one compared to the last four, with a break in the stream of WordCamp videos. We&#8217;re eagerly awaiting the arrival of a fresh batch of WordCamp video, with more sessions from the great speakers lined up for WordCamps both from the last few weeks and also from the next couple of weeks in November.</p>
<p>There were a handful of videos published this week:</p>
<p>We <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/11/07/wordpress-for-iphone-2-0/">announced the arrival of the new WordPress for iPhone 2.0</a> with a brief overview of its features and quick introduction, and published <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/11/04/the-astickypostorderer-plugin-overview/">a great plugin tutorial from Adam W. Warner</a> on the AStickyPostOrderER plugin.</p>
<p>We also received and published yet another fantastic French-language tutorial from WordPress Channel: <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/11/03/effectuer-une-mise-a-jour-de-wordpress/">Effectuer une mise à jour de WordPress</a>.</p>
<p>Next week will see the first videos from WordCamp Netherlands, and we hope to get you back up to a daily dose of WordPress video starting on Monday.</p>
<p>Off-weeks don&#8217;t have to be light like this! We&#8217;re always looking for new videos from the community—this is <em>your</em> resource. A great example is Adam&#8217;s plugin tutorial from this week. Is there a plugin that you absolutely can&#8217;t live without? One that you think more people should be using? <a href="http://blog.wordpress.tv/2009/01/29/screencasting-resources-part-one/">Check out this list of screencasting resources</a> and put together a quick tutorial. It&#8217;s really quite easy to get the hang of it.</p>
<p>Then <a href="http://wordpress.tv/contact">drop us a line here at WordPress.tv</a> and let us know about your great tutorial!</p>
<p>Have a great weekend, and we&#8217;ll see you on Monday.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptvblog.wordpress.com/95/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptvblog.wordpress.com/95/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptvblog.wordpress.com/95/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptvblog.wordpress.com/95/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptvblog.wordpress.com/95/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptvblog.wordpress.com/95/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptvblog.wordpress.com/95/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptvblog.wordpress.com/95/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptvblog.wordpress.com/95/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptvblog.wordpress.com/95/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.wordpress.tv&blog=5310177&post=95&subd=wptvblog&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:20;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/07";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7059";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/07/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1107/";s:11:"description";s:3524:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ecwid-shopping-cart/">Ecwid Shopping Cart</a></p>
<p>Ecwid is free full-fledged shopping cart that can be easily add to any blog. It offers the performance and flexibility you need, with none of the hassles you don&#8217;t.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.coma.sg/odds-and-ends/let-it-snow/">Let it Snow</a></p>
<p>Display falling snow on your blog</p>
<p><a href="http://www.checkfront.com/extend/wordpress">Checkfront Booking</a></p>
<p>A plugin that connects your Wordpress blog to the Checkfront™ Booking platform.</p>
<p><a href="http://netweblogic.com/wordpress/twitter-goodies-widgets/">Twitter Goodies Widgets</a></p>
<p>Uses the twitter goodies widgets API to create offical twitter widgets (profiles, lists, faves and search) straight from your control panel.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-ttfgen/">WP-TTFGen</a></p>
<p>TTFGen allows you to embed fonts on your website by generating static images from your own CSS parameters. TTFGen is 100% cross browser compatible.</p>
<p><a href="http://andreapernici.com/wordpress/google-news-sitemap/">Google-News-Sitemap</a></p>
<p>Automatically generate sitemap for inclusion in Google News. <em>Page not in English</em></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-ordering/">Post Ordering</a></p>
<p>With this plugin you can sort and order posts under a category manually.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://xentek.net/code/wordpress/plugins/wp-orphanage/">WP-Orphanage</a></p>
<p>Users who have not been assigned any <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities">Roles or Capabilities</a> are called “orphans”. When using the <a href="http://xentek.net/articles/528/implementing-the-wordpress-shared-users-table-trick/">shared users table trick</a> to link up multiple WordPress installations, users who register on one of your blogs, are not given any privileges on the other blogs in the network. WP-Orphanage is a plugin that automatically adopts your orphan users by promoting them to the Role of your choosing.</p>
<p><a href="http://thecuriousfrog.com/projects/k2-style-switcher/">K2 Style Switcher</a></p>
<p>This plugin includes a style picker widget that allows site visitors to choose the K2 style that is applied during their visit. The list of available styles, type of widget and default style and footer can all be customised. The plugin also allows for certain base styles to be applied in all cases, these save the administrator copying the same CSS snippets into each selectable K2 style.</p>
<p><a href="http://redlettersstudio.com/wordpress-custom-admin-branding/">Custom Admin Branding</a></p>
<p>The Custom Admin Branding Plugin allows you to brand and customize the WordPress administration area for clients or for personal use. You can display custom images and styles for the login screen, admin header and footer.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/comment-autogrow">Comment Autogrow</a></p>
<p>A small plugin that makes the comment textarea expand in height automatically. Version 1.1 fixes problems with IE.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/front-end-editor">Front-end Editor</a></p>
<p>Enables “edit in place” functionality on your site. Edit posts, text widgets etc. without going to the admin area.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-transliteration/">Google Transliteration</a></p>
<p>A plug-in that implements Google Transliteration API for wordpress.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:30:48 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:3524:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ecwid-shopping-cart/">Ecwid Shopping Cart</a></p>
<p>Ecwid is free full-fledged shopping cart that can be easily add to any blog. It offers the performance and flexibility you need, with none of the hassles you don&#8217;t.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.coma.sg/odds-and-ends/let-it-snow/">Let it Snow</a></p>
<p>Display falling snow on your blog</p>
<p><a href="http://www.checkfront.com/extend/wordpress">Checkfront Booking</a></p>
<p>A plugin that connects your Wordpress blog to the Checkfront™ Booking platform.</p>
<p><a href="http://netweblogic.com/wordpress/twitter-goodies-widgets/">Twitter Goodies Widgets</a></p>
<p>Uses the twitter goodies widgets API to create offical twitter widgets (profiles, lists, faves and search) straight from your control panel.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-ttfgen/">WP-TTFGen</a></p>
<p>TTFGen allows you to embed fonts on your website by generating static images from your own CSS parameters. TTFGen is 100% cross browser compatible.</p>
<p><a href="http://andreapernici.com/wordpress/google-news-sitemap/">Google-News-Sitemap</a></p>
<p>Automatically generate sitemap for inclusion in Google News. <em>Page not in English</em></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-ordering/">Post Ordering</a></p>
<p>With this plugin you can sort and order posts under a category manually.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://xentek.net/code/wordpress/plugins/wp-orphanage/">WP-Orphanage</a></p>
<p>Users who have not been assigned any <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities">Roles or Capabilities</a> are called “orphans”. When using the <a href="http://xentek.net/articles/528/implementing-the-wordpress-shared-users-table-trick/">shared users table trick</a> to link up multiple WordPress installations, users who register on one of your blogs, are not given any privileges on the other blogs in the network. WP-Orphanage is a plugin that automatically adopts your orphan users by promoting them to the Role of your choosing.</p>
<p><a href="http://thecuriousfrog.com/projects/k2-style-switcher/">K2 Style Switcher</a></p>
<p>This plugin includes a style picker widget that allows site visitors to choose the K2 style that is applied during their visit. The list of available styles, type of widget and default style and footer can all be customised. The plugin also allows for certain base styles to be applied in all cases, these save the administrator copying the same CSS snippets into each selectable K2 style.</p>
<p><a href="http://redlettersstudio.com/wordpress-custom-admin-branding/">Custom Admin Branding</a></p>
<p>The Custom Admin Branding Plugin allows you to brand and customize the WordPress administration area for clients or for personal use. You can display custom images and styles for the login screen, admin header and footer.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/comment-autogrow">Comment Autogrow</a></p>
<p>A small plugin that makes the comment textarea expand in height automatically. Version 1.1 fixes problems with IE.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/front-end-editor">Front-end Editor</a></p>
<p>Enables “edit in place” functionality on your site. Edit posts, text widgets etc. without going to the admin area.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-transliteration/">Google Transliteration</a></p>
<p>A plug-in that implements Google Transliteration API for wordpress.</p>";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:38:"WordPress.tv: WordPress for iPhone 2.0";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=2986";s:4:"link";s:56:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/11/07/wordpress-for-iphone-2-0/";s:11:"description";s:1373:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
<div class="video-player" id="x-video-1">
</div></ins>
<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/11/07/wordpress-for-iphone-2-0/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/Bh7FJ4Qg/iphone2web2_scruberthumbnail_0.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2986/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2986/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2986/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2986/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2986/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2986/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2986/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2986/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2986/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2986/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2986&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:03:36 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:11:"Ryan Markel";}s:7:"summary";s:1373:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
<div class="video-player" id="x-video-1">
</div></ins>
<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/11/07/wordpress-for-iphone-2-0/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/Bh7FJ4Qg/iphone2web2_scruberthumbnail_0.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2986/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2986/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2986/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2986/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2986/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2986/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2986/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2986/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2986/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2986/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2986&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:22;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:31:"Dev Blog: Bug Hunt in Progress!";s:4:"guid";s:62:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/11/bug-hunt-in-progress/";s:4:"link";s:62:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/11/bug-hunt-in-progress/";s:11:"description";s:354:"<p>Just in case anyone forgot, the first of the <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/10/upcoming-bug-hunts/">November bug hunts</a> for version 2.9 is now in progress, and will last another day. If you&#8217;ve got a dev environment set up, please consider pitching in to run some tests and help get us closer to the 2.9 milestone release. </p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:50:39 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:7:"summary";s:354:"<p>Just in case anyone forgot, the first of the <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/10/upcoming-bug-hunts/">November bug hunts</a> for version 2.9 is now in progress, and will last another day. If you&#8217;ve got a dev environment set up, please consider pitching in to run some tests and help get us closer to the 2.9 milestone release. </p>";}i:23;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:57:"Weblog Tools Collection: Watch Out For The Gumblar Botnet";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7054";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/06/watch-out-for-the-gumblar-botnet/";s:11:"description";s:1978:"<p>According to the blog Unmask Parasites, there is a <a href="http://blog.unmaskparasites.com/2009/11/04/gumblar-breaks-wordpress-blogs-and-other-complex-php-sites/">new version of the Gumblar botnet</a> making the rounds on PHP based websites. Back in May of this year, this malicious botnet was responsible for infecting a large number of websites in a short period of time. This time around however, the Gumblar botnet has buggy code which is leading to a number of infected WordPress sites breaking.</p>
<blockquote><p>WordPress is a complex web application that comprises more than 200 .php files. When you open any page, WordPress loads index.php which, in turn, loads many other .php files using the require() function. WordPress admin interface also relies on multiple .php files. In all cases, WordPress loads wp-config.php file which contains database credentials and other important information required for normal operation.</p>
<p>So what happens if both index.php and wp-config.php are infected with the gumblar backdoor scripts? Since Gumblar injects identical backdoor scripts into files on the same site, they’ll have declarations of identically named functions, which PHP doesn’t allow. Hence the “cannot redeclare zsmh() …” error.</p></blockquote>
<p>One thing not mentioned in the Unmasked Parasites post is information regarding which specific versions of WordPress are at risk or are safe to use. I&#8217;ve left a comment on the blog post to try and get an answer but until then, Denis Sinegubko provides <a href="http://blog.unmaskparasites.com/2009/10/23/revenge-of-gumblar-zombies/">detection and removal instructions</a> while also suggesting the use of the <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/exploit-scanner/">WordPress Exploit Scanner</a> which scans for WordPress files for signs of suspicious activity. </p>
<p>Based on the reports of infection, this does not appear to be a WordPress centric issue pointing to a problem with the software. </p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:18:01 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1978:"<p>According to the blog Unmask Parasites, there is a <a href="http://blog.unmaskparasites.com/2009/11/04/gumblar-breaks-wordpress-blogs-and-other-complex-php-sites/">new version of the Gumblar botnet</a> making the rounds on PHP based websites. Back in May of this year, this malicious botnet was responsible for infecting a large number of websites in a short period of time. This time around however, the Gumblar botnet has buggy code which is leading to a number of infected WordPress sites breaking.</p>
<blockquote><p>WordPress is a complex web application that comprises more than 200 .php files. When you open any page, WordPress loads index.php which, in turn, loads many other .php files using the require() function. WordPress admin interface also relies on multiple .php files. In all cases, WordPress loads wp-config.php file which contains database credentials and other important information required for normal operation.</p>
<p>So what happens if both index.php and wp-config.php are infected with the gumblar backdoor scripts? Since Gumblar injects identical backdoor scripts into files on the same site, they’ll have declarations of identically named functions, which PHP doesn’t allow. Hence the “cannot redeclare zsmh() …” error.</p></blockquote>
<p>One thing not mentioned in the Unmasked Parasites post is information regarding which specific versions of WordPress are at risk or are safe to use. I&#8217;ve left a comment on the blog post to try and get an answer but until then, Denis Sinegubko provides <a href="http://blog.unmaskparasites.com/2009/10/23/revenge-of-gumblar-zombies/">detection and removal instructions</a> while also suggesting the use of the <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/exploit-scanner/">WordPress Exploit Scanner</a> which scans for WordPress files for signs of suspicious activity. </p>
<p>Based on the reports of infection, this does not appear to be a WordPress centric issue pointing to a problem with the software. </p>";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:53:"WP iPhone: 20,000 downloads of WordPress for iPhone 2";s:4:"guid";s:34:"http://iphone.wordpress.org/?p=506";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://iphone.wordpress.org/2009/11/06/20000-downloads/";s:11:"description";s:5597:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>It&#8217;s been just over a week since WordPress for iPhone 2 was released on the App Store. In that time, you&#8217;ve downloaded the app onto over 20,000 iPhones and iPods. We&#8217;re really pleased to see how many people are interested in the app, especially those who are able to use it for the first time with version 2.0. To mark the occasion, we wanted to show you our new video introduction for the app, take the time to share some data with you, and answer a few questions we&#8217;ve been seeing.</p>
<ins>
<div class="video-player" id="x-video-0">
</div></ins>
<p>We&#8217;re also keeping track of downloads by country and by iPhone OS version. This helps us identify the languages to focus on once we begin translating the app, and helps us plan for which new OS features we can count on our users having available.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-540" title="charts" src="http://wpiphone.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/charts1.png?w=571&#038;h=485" alt="charts" width="571" height="485" /></p>
<p>As happy as we are with the reception for 2.0, we continue working hard to make it even better. We&#8217;ve identified a few recurring questions that we&#8217;d like to answer for everyone.</p>
<p><strong>Q. Why is this a new app? I don&#8217;t want to re-enter my blog settings.</strong><br />
A. Previous versions of WordPress for iPhone were uploaded to the App Store by a contracted developer. To make it easier for us to test new features, fix bugs, and update the app more often, that task will now be handled by those of us developing the app at Automattic. Apple’s only method for changing the “ownership” of an app in the store is to release a completely new version, as we&#8217;ve done here. It&#8217;s a bit painful, we know, but we should be set now for all future releases.</p>
<p><strong>Q. Why did you remove landscape mode?<br />
</strong>A. It&#8217;s still there. Bring up the on-screen keyboard to start editing a post, then rotate the device. Apple doesn&#8217;t support landscape mode in some areas, particularly the photo picker and the date selection wheel. Having landscape mode turned on for every section was causing bugs that were impossible to fix (while still using Apple&#8217;s standard user interface elements).  So we&#8217;ve removed it from the areas of the app where it didn&#8217;t work well, and kept it in the writing interface, where it&#8217;s really useful.</p>
<p><strong>Q. I can&#8217;t log in!<br />
</strong>A. Ok, not quite a question, but we&#8217;ve seen this one a few times on iTunes. However, we haven&#8217;t yet had a report of this in the <a href="http://iphone.forums.wordpress.org">forums</a>, the only place we&#8217;re able to provide hands-on assistance with the app. If you&#8217;re sure that you&#8217;re entering your URL, username, and password correctly and are still unable to connect, please let us know in the forums. (A quick hint for connection issues: Make sure you&#8217;re using the latest version of WordPress, 2.8.5, and try temporarily disabling any plugins you have installed). We&#8217;ve done lots of work in version 2.0 to eliminate connection problems for the vast majority of blog setups. We&#8217;d like to make it work for everyone, but can only help when you work with us to troubleshoot the problem you&#8217;re having.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve already begun working on issues identified since the release of 2.0, and are looking forward to being able to provide more timely updates for you going forward. You can track the progress of the project&#8217;s development in <a href="http://iphone.trac.wordpress.org">Trac</a>.</p>
<p>Once again, if you need help using the app or would just like to offer a suggestion, please visit the <a href="http://iphone.forums.wordpress.org">WordPress for iPhone forums</a>. You can stay up to date with our progress by visiting our development blog, <em><a href="http://iphonedev.wordpress.org">Making WordPress for iPhone</a></em>. And of course, if you&#8217;re thrilled with the app, we&#8217;d love for you to review it on the <a href="http://itunes.com/app/wordpress2">App Store</a>. <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<br /><a href="http://iphone.wordpress.org/2009/11/06/20000-downloads/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/G78ldCQw/freakish_std.original.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wpiphone.wordpress.com/506/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wpiphone.wordpress.com/506/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wpiphone.wordpress.com/506/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wpiphone.wordpress.com/506/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wpiphone.wordpress.com/506/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wpiphone.wordpress.com/506/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wpiphone.wordpress.com/506/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wpiphone.wordpress.com/506/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wpiphone.wordpress.com/506/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wpiphone.wordpress.com/506/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iphone.wordpress.org&blog=3882653&post=506&subd=wpiphone&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:00:13 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:2:"MT";}s:7:"summary";s:5597:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>It&#8217;s been just over a week since WordPress for iPhone 2 was released on the App Store. In that time, you&#8217;ve downloaded the app onto over 20,000 iPhones and iPods. We&#8217;re really pleased to see how many people are interested in the app, especially those who are able to use it for the first time with version 2.0. To mark the occasion, we wanted to show you our new video introduction for the app, take the time to share some data with you, and answer a few questions we&#8217;ve been seeing.</p>
<ins>
<div class="video-player" id="x-video-0">
</div></ins>
<p>We&#8217;re also keeping track of downloads by country and by iPhone OS version. This helps us identify the languages to focus on once we begin translating the app, and helps us plan for which new OS features we can count on our users having available.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-540" title="charts" src="http://wpiphone.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/charts1.png?w=571&#038;h=485" alt="charts" width="571" height="485" /></p>
<p>As happy as we are with the reception for 2.0, we continue working hard to make it even better. We&#8217;ve identified a few recurring questions that we&#8217;d like to answer for everyone.</p>
<p><strong>Q. Why is this a new app? I don&#8217;t want to re-enter my blog settings.</strong><br />
A. Previous versions of WordPress for iPhone were uploaded to the App Store by a contracted developer. To make it easier for us to test new features, fix bugs, and update the app more often, that task will now be handled by those of us developing the app at Automattic. Apple’s only method for changing the “ownership” of an app in the store is to release a completely new version, as we&#8217;ve done here. It&#8217;s a bit painful, we know, but we should be set now for all future releases.</p>
<p><strong>Q. Why did you remove landscape mode?<br />
</strong>A. It&#8217;s still there. Bring up the on-screen keyboard to start editing a post, then rotate the device. Apple doesn&#8217;t support landscape mode in some areas, particularly the photo picker and the date selection wheel. Having landscape mode turned on for every section was causing bugs that were impossible to fix (while still using Apple&#8217;s standard user interface elements).  So we&#8217;ve removed it from the areas of the app where it didn&#8217;t work well, and kept it in the writing interface, where it&#8217;s really useful.</p>
<p><strong>Q. I can&#8217;t log in!<br />
</strong>A. Ok, not quite a question, but we&#8217;ve seen this one a few times on iTunes. However, we haven&#8217;t yet had a report of this in the <a href="http://iphone.forums.wordpress.org">forums</a>, the only place we&#8217;re able to provide hands-on assistance with the app. If you&#8217;re sure that you&#8217;re entering your URL, username, and password correctly and are still unable to connect, please let us know in the forums. (A quick hint for connection issues: Make sure you&#8217;re using the latest version of WordPress, 2.8.5, and try temporarily disabling any plugins you have installed). We&#8217;ve done lots of work in version 2.0 to eliminate connection problems for the vast majority of blog setups. We&#8217;d like to make it work for everyone, but can only help when you work with us to troubleshoot the problem you&#8217;re having.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve already begun working on issues identified since the release of 2.0, and are looking forward to being able to provide more timely updates for you going forward. You can track the progress of the project&#8217;s development in <a href="http://iphone.trac.wordpress.org">Trac</a>.</p>
<p>Once again, if you need help using the app or would just like to offer a suggestion, please visit the <a href="http://iphone.forums.wordpress.org">WordPress for iPhone forums</a>. You can stay up to date with our progress by visiting our development blog, <em><a href="http://iphonedev.wordpress.org">Making WordPress for iPhone</a></em>. And of course, if you&#8217;re thrilled with the app, we&#8217;d love for you to review it on the <a href="http://itunes.com/app/wordpress2">App Store</a>. <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<br /><a href="http://iphone.wordpress.org/2009/11/06/20000-downloads/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/G78ldCQw/freakish_std.original.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wpiphone.wordpress.com/506/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wpiphone.wordpress.com/506/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wpiphone.wordpress.com/506/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wpiphone.wordpress.com/506/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wpiphone.wordpress.com/506/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wpiphone.wordpress.com/506/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wpiphone.wordpress.com/506/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wpiphone.wordpress.com/506/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wpiphone.wordpress.com/506/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wpiphone.wordpress.com/506/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iphone.wordpress.org&blog=3882653&post=506&subd=wpiphone&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:25;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:62:"Weblog Tools Collection: The Best-Of Series: Download Managers";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7031";s:4:"link";s:90:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/06/the-best-of-series-download-managers/";s:11:"description";s:3487:"<p>We continue our Best-Of Series today with download managers. Or, plugins for WordPress that will allow you to provide various files to your website visitors for download. Over the years I&#8217;ve gone through many. Everyone will have a different preference but, here is a list of my top plugins for managing downloads with WordPress&#8230;</p>
<ol>
<li><strong><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/drain-hole/">Drain Hole</a></strong><br />
I&#8217;ve been using Drain Hole on <a href="http://www.jamesdimick.com/">my personal site</a> to serve up my files for a couple years now. So far it is the best download manager plugin I&#8217;ve been able to find. It does everything it advertises and does it well. I&#8217;ve not yet had any issues with this plugin. I highly recommend it!</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-downloadmanager/">WP-DownloadManager</a></strong><br />
Before I found Drain Hole I used WP-DownloadManager exclusively. It did what I wanted and didn&#8217;t seem to have many problems. It has the features most would expect in such a plugin. It also has some you might not. Such things as custom templates, categories, RSS feeds, and more.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-filebase/">WP-Filebase</a></strong><br />
I actually just recently learned of WP-Filebase. I can&#8217;t speak from personal experience but from the research I&#8217;ve done on it I think it would be one of the best options. It has the obvious features you expect from a download manager. Some of the highlights are quick tags, top downloads widget, extensive file details, and even download pausing.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/download-monitor/">Wordpress Download Monitor</a></strong><br />
I really like the interface of Wordpress Download Monitor. It&#8217;s simple yet complete. It does its job as a download manager and keeps it simple at the same time. Some of the attraction points of this plugin are: simple custom download URLs, custom error pages, download mirrors, and even custom fields for all files.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-download-monitor/">Simple Download Monitor</a></strong><br />
What&#8217;s great about Simple Download Monitor is right in its name. It&#8217;s simple! To quote the author of the plugin &#8220;<em>&#8230;I wanted to monitor the number of downloads of my files without having to maintain any kind of database or making any special download links. I just wanted to upload a file to a designated directory using FTP, provide a direct link to it and once in a while check the number of downloads</em>&#8220;. This plugin also allows advanced logging.</li>
</ol>
<p>What I think is especially nice is that all these plugins seem to be compatible with the upcoming WordPress 2.9. That means that they are future-proof for at least the foreseeable future. I took time to test each one of these plugins during the writing of this post. But, feel free to let me know if you have experienced anything to the contrary with any of them.</p>
<p>Well, that&#8217;s all for now. I hope you enjoyed the post and I hope you might be able to get something useful out of this list.</p>
<p>Do you have a good idea for the next article in the Best-Of series? Drop a comment here or <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/02/06/contact-me/">contact us</a> and your idea just might be next in the series!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:38:58 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"James Dimick";}s:7:"summary";s:3487:"<p>We continue our Best-Of Series today with download managers. Or, plugins for WordPress that will allow you to provide various files to your website visitors for download. Over the years I&#8217;ve gone through many. Everyone will have a different preference but, here is a list of my top plugins for managing downloads with WordPress&#8230;</p>
<ol>
<li><strong><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/drain-hole/">Drain Hole</a></strong><br />
I&#8217;ve been using Drain Hole on <a href="http://www.jamesdimick.com/">my personal site</a> to serve up my files for a couple years now. So far it is the best download manager plugin I&#8217;ve been able to find. It does everything it advertises and does it well. I&#8217;ve not yet had any issues with this plugin. I highly recommend it!</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-downloadmanager/">WP-DownloadManager</a></strong><br />
Before I found Drain Hole I used WP-DownloadManager exclusively. It did what I wanted and didn&#8217;t seem to have many problems. It has the features most would expect in such a plugin. It also has some you might not. Such things as custom templates, categories, RSS feeds, and more.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-filebase/">WP-Filebase</a></strong><br />
I actually just recently learned of WP-Filebase. I can&#8217;t speak from personal experience but from the research I&#8217;ve done on it I think it would be one of the best options. It has the obvious features you expect from a download manager. Some of the highlights are quick tags, top downloads widget, extensive file details, and even download pausing.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/download-monitor/">Wordpress Download Monitor</a></strong><br />
I really like the interface of Wordpress Download Monitor. It&#8217;s simple yet complete. It does its job as a download manager and keeps it simple at the same time. Some of the attraction points of this plugin are: simple custom download URLs, custom error pages, download mirrors, and even custom fields for all files.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-download-monitor/">Simple Download Monitor</a></strong><br />
What&#8217;s great about Simple Download Monitor is right in its name. It&#8217;s simple! To quote the author of the plugin &#8220;<em>&#8230;I wanted to monitor the number of downloads of my files without having to maintain any kind of database or making any special download links. I just wanted to upload a file to a designated directory using FTP, provide a direct link to it and once in a while check the number of downloads</em>&#8220;. This plugin also allows advanced logging.</li>
</ol>
<p>What I think is especially nice is that all these plugins seem to be compatible with the upcoming WordPress 2.9. That means that they are future-proof for at least the foreseeable future. I took time to test each one of these plugins during the writing of this post. But, feel free to let me know if you have experienced anything to the contrary with any of them.</p>
<p>Well, that&#8217;s all for now. I hope you enjoyed the post and I hope you might be able to get something useful out of this list.</p>
<p>Do you have a good idea for the next article in the Best-Of series? Drop a comment here or <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/02/06/contact-me/">contact us</a> and your idea just might be next in the series!</p>";}i:26;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:28:"Dev Blog: Upcoming WordCamps";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=960";s:4:"link";s:62:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/11/upcoming-wordcamps-3/";s:11:"description";s:5768:"<p>There are six WordCamps coming up before the end of the year, and since I like to make sure people know about it when there&#8217;s a <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp</a> near them, here&#8217;s the list, with some personal commentary thrown in. If you just want the list without my asides, check out the full schedule at <a href="http://wordcamp.org">WordCamp.org</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://phxwordcamp.com/">WordCamp Phoenix</a> is first up, on November 13. I&#8217;d planned on attending this one myself before they changed the date (it was originally scheduled for the 7th), but will sadly have to miss it as it conflicts with WordCamp NYC. If you, like me, can&#8217;t make it to Phoenix, be sure to check their web site for information on the <a href="http://phxwordcamp.com/live-video-stream/">live stream</a> they&#8217;re planning to provide. If it&#8217;s anywhere near the quality of the stream from Portland or Seattle earlier this fall, it&#8217;ll be just like being there, but without a t-shirt to show for it (and theirs has stripes, so if you&#8217;re local, you should go!). My only consolation in missing this WordCamp is that I&#8217;ve seen about half of the <a href="http://phxwordcamp.com/speakers/">speakers</a> before. If you&#8217;re going, don&#8217;t miss the session by <a href="http://johnhawkinsunrated.com">John Hawkins</a> on <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/09/20/john-hawkins-plugin-building-portland09/"><em>Building a WordPress Plugin</em></a>; it got me to write my first plugin in Portland! <a href="http://ma.tt">Matt</a>&#8216;ll be there, will you?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wordcampvictoria.ca/agenda/">WordCamp Victoria</a> is next, on November 14. This is another one I&#8217;d love to go to, but can&#8217;t because it&#8217;s at the same time as New York&#8217;s. I would especially have liked to go because it looks like the <a href="http://www.wordcampvictoria.ca/speaker-biographies/">speakers</a> are all local, and I haven&#8217;t seen any of them speak before. Occasionally WordCamps lose a little of the local feeling by focusing on visiting speakers, so it&#8217;s nice to see so many Vancouverites on the list. They&#8217;ll have a Blogger track and a Technical track running concurrently, so there should a little something for everyone. No word on a live stream, but hopefully they&#8217;ll be able to catch some of the presentations on video and post them to <a href="http://WordPress.tv">WordPress.tv</a> after the event.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordcamp.kapook.com/en/">WordCamp Bangkok</a> is scheduled for November 15. I have to admit that the first thing that catches my eye on their agenda is &#8220;WordPress Band.&#8221; I&#8217;ve known WordCamps to have <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2008/10/31/wordcamp-sf-2008-andy-skelton-deserve/">people</a> <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2008/10/31/wordcamp-sf-2008-chuck-lewis-the-seo-rapper/">performing</a> <a href="http://vimeo.com/5354329">songs</a> before, but a whole band? Might be a first. I hope they&#8217;ll post the video to WordPress.tv, too.</p>
<p><a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp New York City</a> is the same weekend as the previous three, on November 14-15. In the interest of full disclosure, I need to tell you that I&#8217;m one of the organizers of WordCamp NYC, so my informative comment about it here may be a little biased. <img src="http://wordpress.org/development/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" />  That said, we have over <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/speakers/">50 confirmed speakers</a> (both local and visiting), and <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/program/">2 full days of content</a> in 8 &#8212; count &#8216;em, 8 &#8212; tracks. Newbies get a free year of hosting and walked through setting up a WordPress blog in workshop format, while the other tracks have specialized content for Bloggers, CMS Users, Beginning Developers, Advanced Developers, Academic Users, people interested in MU/BuddyPress, and the Open Source Community. Did I mention the <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/plugintheme-competition/">theme and plugin contest</a>? Or the <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/2009/10/28/my-favorite-conference-shirt/">awesome shirts</a>? How about the Genius Bar, or the Hacker Room? The additional Unconference sessions? If you&#8217;re anywhere near NYC that weekend (and with the Acela, that&#8217;s anywhere from Boston to D.C.), you should definitely come. I&#8217;ll be there, Matt&#8217;ll be there, lead developer Mark Jaquith will be there, lead developer of BuddyPress Andy Peatling will be there, and too many other WordPress luminaries and locals to mention. If we hit 800 registrations by November 12, I&#8217;m baking cookies for everyone.</p>
<p><a href="http://peru.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Peru</a> will be on November 28 in Lima. I was checking out their topics list, and it looks like they&#8217;re planning to cover all the usual topics around blog administration, security, increasing traffic, and integration with social media sites. No speaker list yet, but if you&#8217;re in Peru, it looks like this will be a nice gathering of WordPress users, and they&#8217;re hoping to have around 100 people attend.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordcamporlando.org/">WordCamp Orlando</a> is the last of the year, on December 5. They haven&#8217;t published a speaker list or schedule yet, but I know Matt will be there, Mark Jaquith will be there, and I will be there. I know some other awesome core contributors are planning to come, but I don&#8217;t want to jinx anything, so if you&#8217;re curious, come see for yourself. Plus, Florida in December!</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:42:53 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:7:"summary";s:5768:"<p>There are six WordCamps coming up before the end of the year, and since I like to make sure people know about it when there&#8217;s a <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp</a> near them, here&#8217;s the list, with some personal commentary thrown in. If you just want the list without my asides, check out the full schedule at <a href="http://wordcamp.org">WordCamp.org</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://phxwordcamp.com/">WordCamp Phoenix</a> is first up, on November 13. I&#8217;d planned on attending this one myself before they changed the date (it was originally scheduled for the 7th), but will sadly have to miss it as it conflicts with WordCamp NYC. If you, like me, can&#8217;t make it to Phoenix, be sure to check their web site for information on the <a href="http://phxwordcamp.com/live-video-stream/">live stream</a> they&#8217;re planning to provide. If it&#8217;s anywhere near the quality of the stream from Portland or Seattle earlier this fall, it&#8217;ll be just like being there, but without a t-shirt to show for it (and theirs has stripes, so if you&#8217;re local, you should go!). My only consolation in missing this WordCamp is that I&#8217;ve seen about half of the <a href="http://phxwordcamp.com/speakers/">speakers</a> before. If you&#8217;re going, don&#8217;t miss the session by <a href="http://johnhawkinsunrated.com">John Hawkins</a> on <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/09/20/john-hawkins-plugin-building-portland09/"><em>Building a WordPress Plugin</em></a>; it got me to write my first plugin in Portland! <a href="http://ma.tt">Matt</a>&#8216;ll be there, will you?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wordcampvictoria.ca/agenda/">WordCamp Victoria</a> is next, on November 14. This is another one I&#8217;d love to go to, but can&#8217;t because it&#8217;s at the same time as New York&#8217;s. I would especially have liked to go because it looks like the <a href="http://www.wordcampvictoria.ca/speaker-biographies/">speakers</a> are all local, and I haven&#8217;t seen any of them speak before. Occasionally WordCamps lose a little of the local feeling by focusing on visiting speakers, so it&#8217;s nice to see so many Vancouverites on the list. They&#8217;ll have a Blogger track and a Technical track running concurrently, so there should a little something for everyone. No word on a live stream, but hopefully they&#8217;ll be able to catch some of the presentations on video and post them to <a href="http://WordPress.tv">WordPress.tv</a> after the event.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordcamp.kapook.com/en/">WordCamp Bangkok</a> is scheduled for November 15. I have to admit that the first thing that catches my eye on their agenda is &#8220;WordPress Band.&#8221; I&#8217;ve known WordCamps to have <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2008/10/31/wordcamp-sf-2008-andy-skelton-deserve/">people</a> <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2008/10/31/wordcamp-sf-2008-chuck-lewis-the-seo-rapper/">performing</a> <a href="http://vimeo.com/5354329">songs</a> before, but a whole band? Might be a first. I hope they&#8217;ll post the video to WordPress.tv, too.</p>
<p><a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp New York City</a> is the same weekend as the previous three, on November 14-15. In the interest of full disclosure, I need to tell you that I&#8217;m one of the organizers of WordCamp NYC, so my informative comment about it here may be a little biased. <img src="http://wordpress.org/development/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" />  That said, we have over <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/speakers/">50 confirmed speakers</a> (both local and visiting), and <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/program/">2 full days of content</a> in 8 &#8212; count &#8216;em, 8 &#8212; tracks. Newbies get a free year of hosting and walked through setting up a WordPress blog in workshop format, while the other tracks have specialized content for Bloggers, CMS Users, Beginning Developers, Advanced Developers, Academic Users, people interested in MU/BuddyPress, and the Open Source Community. Did I mention the <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/plugintheme-competition/">theme and plugin contest</a>? Or the <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/2009/10/28/my-favorite-conference-shirt/">awesome shirts</a>? How about the Genius Bar, or the Hacker Room? The additional Unconference sessions? If you&#8217;re anywhere near NYC that weekend (and with the Acela, that&#8217;s anywhere from Boston to D.C.), you should definitely come. I&#8217;ll be there, Matt&#8217;ll be there, lead developer Mark Jaquith will be there, lead developer of BuddyPress Andy Peatling will be there, and too many other WordPress luminaries and locals to mention. If we hit 800 registrations by November 12, I&#8217;m baking cookies for everyone.</p>
<p><a href="http://peru.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Peru</a> will be on November 28 in Lima. I was checking out their topics list, and it looks like they&#8217;re planning to cover all the usual topics around blog administration, security, increasing traffic, and integration with social media sites. No speaker list yet, but if you&#8217;re in Peru, it looks like this will be a nice gathering of WordPress users, and they&#8217;re hoping to have around 100 people attend.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordcamporlando.org/">WordCamp Orlando</a> is the last of the year, on December 5. They haven&#8217;t published a speaker list or schedule yet, but I know Matt will be there, Mark Jaquith will be there, and I will be there. I know some other awesome core contributors are planning to come, but I don&#8217;t want to jinx anything, so if you&#8217;re curious, come see for yourself. Plus, Florida in December!</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>";}i:27;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress 2.9 Revamps Hello World";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7046";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/05/wordpress-2-9-revamps-hello-world/";s:11:"description";s:2968:"<p>During the WordPress development chat today, one of the topics of discussion centered around the suggestion of changing the Hello World post that is seen with every new install of WordPress to something that contained useful WordPress specific information such as links to the release mailing list, the codex and other helpful material. I&#8217;d like to break down how this change came about to show how easy it is to contribute to the WordPress project without writing a line of code.</p>
<p>It first started out as a discussion on the WordPress Hackers mailing list concerning the addition of email notifications to the core of WordPress to keep administrators abreast of new versions of WordPress as they were released. The discussion became long winded but <a href="http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2009-October/028015.html" target="_blank">a response</a> by Lynne Pope provided one of those <i>why didn&#8217;t I think of that</i> moments. </p>
<blockquote><p>Change the sample data &#8211; instead of, &#8220;this is a post&#8221;, provide some meaningful information. With a link to subscribe to WP-Announce. Make an entry announcing that WP-Announce is being used, so this will show in the dashboard feeds. Bloggers will quickly pick up on this and news of it will spread.</p></blockquote>
<p>Needless to say, her idea sparked a series of kudos with other suggestions for what to include in the sample data. Then, in a WordPress development chat regarding the topic that was discussed on the hackers mailing list, it was agreed that the best course of action would be to not only revive the WP-Announcements mailing list, but to also change the Hello World! post in WordPress to something more useful. A fellow by the name of <a href="http://op111.net/" target="_blank">Demetris</a> took it upon himself to create a draft of what the sample data should be. The discussion surrounding the change including links to see drafts and revisions were included in <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11008" target="_blank">ticket number 11008</a>. The ticket has been open for two weeks and in <a href="https://irclogs.wordpress.org/chanlog.php?channel=wordpress-dev&#038;day=2009-11-05&#038;sort=desc#m35813" target="_blank">today&#8217;s developer chat</a>, Demetris published a link to his draft which you can <a href="http://op111.etherpad.com/3" target="_blank">view here</a>. There was a unanimous decision to include the sample post data into the core of WordPress starting with version 2.9. If the sample data needs editing, it will be done throughout the beta process before the stable release. </p>
<p>There you have it. A time line of events that happened in quick succession which provided a small change with huge benefits without having one line of code written. Let me know your thoughts in the comments with regards to the new sample data that will be provided in any new installation of WordPress starting with 2.9. </p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:47:02 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:2968:"<p>During the WordPress development chat today, one of the topics of discussion centered around the suggestion of changing the Hello World post that is seen with every new install of WordPress to something that contained useful WordPress specific information such as links to the release mailing list, the codex and other helpful material. I&#8217;d like to break down how this change came about to show how easy it is to contribute to the WordPress project without writing a line of code.</p>
<p>It first started out as a discussion on the WordPress Hackers mailing list concerning the addition of email notifications to the core of WordPress to keep administrators abreast of new versions of WordPress as they were released. The discussion became long winded but <a href="http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2009-October/028015.html" target="_blank">a response</a> by Lynne Pope provided one of those <i>why didn&#8217;t I think of that</i> moments. </p>
<blockquote><p>Change the sample data &#8211; instead of, &#8220;this is a post&#8221;, provide some meaningful information. With a link to subscribe to WP-Announce. Make an entry announcing that WP-Announce is being used, so this will show in the dashboard feeds. Bloggers will quickly pick up on this and news of it will spread.</p></blockquote>
<p>Needless to say, her idea sparked a series of kudos with other suggestions for what to include in the sample data. Then, in a WordPress development chat regarding the topic that was discussed on the hackers mailing list, it was agreed that the best course of action would be to not only revive the WP-Announcements mailing list, but to also change the Hello World! post in WordPress to something more useful. A fellow by the name of <a href="http://op111.net/" target="_blank">Demetris</a> took it upon himself to create a draft of what the sample data should be. The discussion surrounding the change including links to see drafts and revisions were included in <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11008" target="_blank">ticket number 11008</a>. The ticket has been open for two weeks and in <a href="https://irclogs.wordpress.org/chanlog.php?channel=wordpress-dev&#038;day=2009-11-05&#038;sort=desc#m35813" target="_blank">today&#8217;s developer chat</a>, Demetris published a link to his draft which you can <a href="http://op111.etherpad.com/3" target="_blank">view here</a>. There was a unanimous decision to include the sample post data into the core of WordPress starting with version 2.9. If the sample data needs editing, it will be done throughout the beta process before the stable release. </p>
<p>There you have it. A time line of events that happened in quick succession which provided a small change with huge benefits without having one line of code written. Let me know your thoughts in the comments with regards to the new sample data that will be provided in any new installation of WordPress starting with 2.9. </p>";}i:28;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/05";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7024";s:4:"link";s:90:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/05/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1105-2/";s:11:"description";s:4513:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/localtime/">Local Time</a></p>
<p>Using JavaScript, Local Time automatically transforms all dates and times on your blog into the visitor’s timezone.</p>
<p><a href="http://fytch.com/tools/wordpress">Fytch Comments</a></p>
<p>Fytch is a fully featured plugin that provides comment publishing to <a href="http://fytch.com">http://fytch.com</a> It allows to assign a Fytch topic to each post so that wordpress comments are co-published under the appropriate topic on <a href="http://fytch.com.">http://fytch.com.</a> It not only allows to publish comments to <a href="http://fytch.com">http://fytch.com</a> but to Twitter and FriendFeed as well.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vlam-a-post/">vlam-a-post</a></p>
<p>vlam-a-post automatically creates a vl.am URL for every post you publish and keeps track of the number of clicks the vl.am URL received. After publishing your post you can easily post your vl.am URL to twitter.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.clubwordpress.com/amazon-affiliate-linker-plugin/">Amazon Affiliate Linker</a></p>
<p>The Amazon Affiliate Linker Plugin allows easy linking to Amazon.com products by only using the ASIN (Amazon Standard Identification Number). It also allows you to embed your Amazon Associate link so that you can pick up affiliate commissions on your links.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.appointy.com/web/facebookshare">Facebook Share New</a></p>
<p>The Facebook Share (new) button easily allows your blog to be shared. The button also provides a current count of how many times your story has been shared throughout Facebook.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.devilslab.com/wp-thumblated-related-post">Thumblated Related Post</a></p>
<p>This plugin shows thumblated related posts. It allows you to design your own layout using simple and easy interface.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/random-post-link">Random Post Link</a></p>
<p>Generates a link to random post, but never the same as before.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gweather/">Gweather</a></p>
<p>With the gweather plugin you can display and embed Google Weather Feeds in your WordPress posts and pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://ottodestruct.com/blog/wordpress-plugins/simple-facebook-connect/">Simple Facebook Connect</a></p>
<p>Makes it easy to add Facebook Connect functionality to any WordPress site. Modular: activate only the pieces you need.</p>
<p><a href="http://fusedthought.com/downloads/url-shortener-wordpress-plugin/">URL Shortener</a></p>
<p>Allows you to create your own short url using the WordPress Post ID and also integrates multiple URL Shortening service with your WordPress.org installation bringing a similar functionality to that of WordPress.com&#8217;s WP.me shortlinks feature but using 3rd party URL Shorteners.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.page.ly/reseller-plugin/">Page.ly Reseller Management</a></p>
<p>This plugin is a Reseller dashboard to manage client accounts on the page.ly WordPress hosting system.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.gdstarrating.com/2009/11/02/gd-star-rating-1-7-4/">GD Star Rating</a></p>
<p>GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating and review plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, multi ratings, templated rendering, has a widgets build in and extensive shortcode support. Plugin can be integrated with comments for making a review website.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.makers-online.co.uk/projects/visitor_blogroll">Visitor Blogroll</a></p>
<p>The visitor blogroll is a Wordpress Plugin/Widget which allows visitors to your blog to leave an RSS feed of their blog which is then displayed on your visitor blogroll.</p>
<p><a href="http://valadilene.org/wordbb">WordBB</a></p>
<p>WordBB is an integration between the blogging platform <a href="http://wordpress.org">WordPress</a> and the bulletin board system <a href="http://www.mybboard.net">MyBB</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://netweblogic.com/wordpress/digg-this-button/">Digg This Button</a></p>
<p>Adds the smarter digg button. Extended options like topics, prefilled descriptions, shortcodes etc. allow full control of your digg icons.</p>
<p><a href="http://website-in-a-weekend.net/hrecipe/">hRecipe</a></p>
<p>This is a plugin to allow the easy entry of microformat content for recipes (i.e. the hRecipe microformat) in WordPress pages and posts.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:54:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:4513:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/localtime/">Local Time</a></p>
<p>Using JavaScript, Local Time automatically transforms all dates and times on your blog into the visitor’s timezone.</p>
<p><a href="http://fytch.com/tools/wordpress">Fytch Comments</a></p>
<p>Fytch is a fully featured plugin that provides comment publishing to <a href="http://fytch.com">http://fytch.com</a> It allows to assign a Fytch topic to each post so that wordpress comments are co-published under the appropriate topic on <a href="http://fytch.com.">http://fytch.com.</a> It not only allows to publish comments to <a href="http://fytch.com">http://fytch.com</a> but to Twitter and FriendFeed as well.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vlam-a-post/">vlam-a-post</a></p>
<p>vlam-a-post automatically creates a vl.am URL for every post you publish and keeps track of the number of clicks the vl.am URL received. After publishing your post you can easily post your vl.am URL to twitter.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.clubwordpress.com/amazon-affiliate-linker-plugin/">Amazon Affiliate Linker</a></p>
<p>The Amazon Affiliate Linker Plugin allows easy linking to Amazon.com products by only using the ASIN (Amazon Standard Identification Number). It also allows you to embed your Amazon Associate link so that you can pick up affiliate commissions on your links.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.appointy.com/web/facebookshare">Facebook Share New</a></p>
<p>The Facebook Share (new) button easily allows your blog to be shared. The button also provides a current count of how many times your story has been shared throughout Facebook.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.devilslab.com/wp-thumblated-related-post">Thumblated Related Post</a></p>
<p>This plugin shows thumblated related posts. It allows you to design your own layout using simple and easy interface.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/random-post-link">Random Post Link</a></p>
<p>Generates a link to random post, but never the same as before.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gweather/">Gweather</a></p>
<p>With the gweather plugin you can display and embed Google Weather Feeds in your WordPress posts and pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://ottodestruct.com/blog/wordpress-plugins/simple-facebook-connect/">Simple Facebook Connect</a></p>
<p>Makes it easy to add Facebook Connect functionality to any WordPress site. Modular: activate only the pieces you need.</p>
<p><a href="http://fusedthought.com/downloads/url-shortener-wordpress-plugin/">URL Shortener</a></p>
<p>Allows you to create your own short url using the WordPress Post ID and also integrates multiple URL Shortening service with your WordPress.org installation bringing a similar functionality to that of WordPress.com&#8217;s WP.me shortlinks feature but using 3rd party URL Shorteners.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.page.ly/reseller-plugin/">Page.ly Reseller Management</a></p>
<p>This plugin is a Reseller dashboard to manage client accounts on the page.ly WordPress hosting system.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.gdstarrating.com/2009/11/02/gd-star-rating-1-7-4/">GD Star Rating</a></p>
<p>GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating and review plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, multi ratings, templated rendering, has a widgets build in and extensive shortcode support. Plugin can be integrated with comments for making a review website.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.makers-online.co.uk/projects/visitor_blogroll">Visitor Blogroll</a></p>
<p>The visitor blogroll is a Wordpress Plugin/Widget which allows visitors to your blog to leave an RSS feed of their blog which is then displayed on your visitor blogroll.</p>
<p><a href="http://valadilene.org/wordbb">WordBB</a></p>
<p>WordBB is an integration between the blogging platform <a href="http://wordpress.org">WordPress</a> and the bulletin board system <a href="http://www.mybboard.net">MyBB</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://netweblogic.com/wordpress/digg-this-button/">Digg This Button</a></p>
<p>Adds the smarter digg button. Extended options like topics, prefilled descriptions, shortcodes etc. allow full control of your digg icons.</p>
<p><a href="http://website-in-a-weekend.net/hrecipe/">hRecipe</a></p>
<p>This is a plugin to allow the easy entry of microformat content for recipes (i.e. the hRecipe microformat) in WordPress pages and posts.</p>";}i:29;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:57:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress 2.8 Visual Cheat Sheet";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7026";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/04/wordpress-2-8-visual-cheat-sheet/";s:11:"description";s:742:"<p>Antonio Lupetti of Woorkup.com has <a href="http://woorkup.com/2009/11/01/wordpress-visual-cheat-sheet/" target="_blank">created and released</a> an awesome visual cheat sheet for WordPress 2.8. The cheat sheet contains a practical reference guide to 2.8 with references to WP Template Tags as well as sample code. Definitely worthy of being added to your resources bin.</p>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/visualguide.png" alt="visualguide" title="visualguide" width="366" height="314" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7027" /></p>
<p>Check out the <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/21982552/WordPress-2-8-Visual-Cheat-Sheet" target="_blank">live demo</a> before you download the guide. </p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:26:47 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:742:"<p>Antonio Lupetti of Woorkup.com has <a href="http://woorkup.com/2009/11/01/wordpress-visual-cheat-sheet/" target="_blank">created and released</a> an awesome visual cheat sheet for WordPress 2.8. The cheat sheet contains a practical reference guide to 2.8 with references to WP Template Tags as well as sample code. Definitely worthy of being added to your resources bin.</p>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/visualguide.png" alt="visualguide" title="visualguide" width="366" height="314" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7027" /></p>
<p>Check out the <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/21982552/WordPress-2-8-Visual-Cheat-Sheet" target="_blank">live demo</a> before you download the guide. </p>";}i:30;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:13:"Matt: CoPress";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=15089";s:4:"link";s:29:"http://ma.tt/2009/11/copress/";s:11:"description";s:141:"<p><a href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&amp;aid=172676">CoPress Pushes Innovation, Shows Value of Open-Source Platforms</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:35:23 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:141:"<p><a href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&amp;aid=172676">CoPress Pushes Innovation, Shows Value of Open-Source Platforms</a>.</p>";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:71:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress for the Desktop… Would You Use It?";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6975";s:4:"link";s:96:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/04/wordpress-for-the-desktop-would-you-use-it/";s:11:"description";s:736:"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick one: If you had access to a desktop application that could connect to your WordPress site and allow you to manage it, like the web-based control panel currently allows, would you use it?</p>
<p></p>
<p><a href="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/2200387/">Would You Use a WordPress Desktop Application?</a><span>(<a href="http://answers.polldaddy.com">answers</a>)</span></p>
<p>If you choose &#8220;depends&#8221;, let me know why in the comments. Also, feel free to put in your opinions no matter what you choose. What would such an application need to be able to do? Everything the web-based app can do? Just a subset of the features? What do you think?</p>
<p>I&#8217;d love to hear your thoughts on this!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:02:44 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"James Dimick";}s:7:"summary";s:736:"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick one: If you had access to a desktop application that could connect to your WordPress site and allow you to manage it, like the web-based control panel currently allows, would you use it?</p>
<p></p>
<p><a href="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/2200387/">Would You Use a WordPress Desktop Application?</a><span>(<a href="http://answers.polldaddy.com">answers</a>)</span></p>
<p>If you choose &#8220;depends&#8221;, let me know why in the comments. Also, feel free to put in your opinions no matter what you choose. What would such an application need to be able to do? Everything the web-based app can do? Just a subset of the features? What do you think?</p>
<p>I&#8217;d love to hear your thoughts on this!</p>";}i:32;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:53:"WordPress.tv: The AStickyPostOrderER Plugin: Overview";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=2957";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/11/04/the-astickypostorderer-plugin-overview/";s:11:"description";s:1394:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
<div class="video-player" id="x-video-2">
</div></ins>
<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/11/04/the-astickypostorderer-plugin-overview/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/YpH7tn20/astickypostordererplugin_std.original.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2957/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2957/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2957/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2957/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2957/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2957/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2957/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2957/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2957/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2957/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2957&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:45:51 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:11:"Ryan Markel";}s:7:"summary";s:1394:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
<div class="video-player" id="x-video-2">
</div></ins>
<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/11/04/the-astickypostorderer-plugin-overview/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/YpH7tn20/astickypostordererplugin_std.original.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2957/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2957/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2957/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2957/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2957/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2957/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2957/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2957/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2957/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2957/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2957&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:33;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 11/03";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7016";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/03/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1103/";s:11:"description";s:1290:"<h4><a href="http://extjswordpress.net/">ExtizeMe</a></h4>
<p><img title="ExtJS" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/ExtJS.gif" alt="ExtJS" width="200" height="137" /></p>
<p>A WordPress theme written mostly in JavaScript. Layout, behavior and look&amp;feel are made with <a href="http://extjs.com">Ext Js Library</a></p>
<h4><a href="http://www.thrillingheroics.com/2009/10/steal-my-blog-design-announcing-the-free-thrillingtheme-for-wordpress.html">ThrillingTheme</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.thrillingheroics.com/theme"><img title="Thrilling Theme" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/ThrillingTheme.jpg" alt="Thrilling Theme" width="200" height="132" /></a></p>
<p>Two column theme with three widget ready areas and available in three color schemes.</p>
<h4><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/color3">Color3</a></h4>
<p><img title="Color3" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Color3.png" alt="Color3" width="200" height="164" /></p>
<p>Colorful clean and stylish theme with two columns, right sidebar dropdown menu and widget-ready.</p>
<p>Are you a theme author? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Submit your theme</a> to get these listed in our release posts.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:10:23 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:1290:"<h4><a href="http://extjswordpress.net/">ExtizeMe</a></h4>
<p><img title="ExtJS" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/ExtJS.gif" alt="ExtJS" width="200" height="137" /></p>
<p>A WordPress theme written mostly in JavaScript. Layout, behavior and look&amp;feel are made with <a href="http://extjs.com">Ext Js Library</a></p>
<h4><a href="http://www.thrillingheroics.com/2009/10/steal-my-blog-design-announcing-the-free-thrillingtheme-for-wordpress.html">ThrillingTheme</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.thrillingheroics.com/theme"><img title="Thrilling Theme" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/ThrillingTheme.jpg" alt="Thrilling Theme" width="200" height="132" /></a></p>
<p>Two column theme with three widget ready areas and available in three color schemes.</p>
<h4><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/color3">Color3</a></h4>
<p><img title="Color3" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Color3.png" alt="Color3" width="200" height="164" /></p>
<p>Colorful clean and stylish theme with two columns, right sidebar dropdown menu and widget-ready.</p>
<p>Are you a theme author? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Submit your theme</a> to get these listed in our release posts.</p>";}i:34;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:65:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Warriors From Across The World";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7019";s:4:"link";s:94:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/03/wordpress-warriors-from-across-the-world/";s:11:"description";s:1229:"<p>How cool would it be to take a look at a Google map to see if there are any WordPress fans near your location? Thanks to a new site called <a href="http://wpworldmap.net/">WPWorldmap.net</a>, now you can. The site is made up of a Google map with a draggable window that contains the options to sign up or to apply filters such as fans, core developers, users/bloggers, etc. The other neat thing about this site is that it shows upcoming WordCamp events across the world. Signing up was a breeze and if you use Twitter, you can use your account to sign up while also following anyone who has registered to the site already. </p>
<div id="attachment_7020" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/wpworldview.png" alt="I&#039;m that guy in Northern Ohio" title="wpworldview" width="278" height="124" class="size-full wp-image-7020" /><p class="wp-caption-text">I'm that guy in Northern Ohio</p></div>
<p>Of course, WPWorldMap is only as helpful as the amount of people who decide to signup and appropriately apply their approximate location so if interested, sign up and leave your mark. You might be surprised by the number of WordPress fans in your neighborhood!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:45:33 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1229:"<p>How cool would it be to take a look at a Google map to see if there are any WordPress fans near your location? Thanks to a new site called <a href="http://wpworldmap.net/">WPWorldmap.net</a>, now you can. The site is made up of a Google map with a draggable window that contains the options to sign up or to apply filters such as fans, core developers, users/bloggers, etc. The other neat thing about this site is that it shows upcoming WordCamp events across the world. Signing up was a breeze and if you use Twitter, you can use your account to sign up while also following anyone who has registered to the site already. </p>
<div id="attachment_7020" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/wpworldview.png" alt="I&#039;m that guy in Northern Ohio" title="wpworldview" width="278" height="124" class="size-full wp-image-7020" /><p class="wp-caption-text">I'm that guy in Northern Ohio</p></div>
<p>Of course, WPWorldMap is only as helpful as the amount of people who decide to signup and appropriately apply their approximate location so if interested, sign up and leave your mark. You might be surprised by the number of WordPress fans in your neighborhood!</p>";}i:35;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:47:"Donncha: WP Super Cache Developer Documentation";s:4:"guid";s:29:"http://ocaoimh.ie/?p=89495422";s:4:"link";s:57:"http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache-developer-documentation/";s:11:"description";s:1631:"<p>I&#8217;ve finally found the time to write up some <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvd3Atc3VwZXItY2FjaGUtZGV2ZWxvcGVycy8=">documentation for developers</a> who want to work with WP Super Cache.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a work in progress but should help other plugin developers who want to interact with the cache. </p>
<p>Suggestions and comments welcome.</p>
<p>PS. If you&#8217;re in Cork on November 14th, head along to <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5iYXJjYW1wY29yay5jb20v">BarCamp Cork III</a>. I&#8217;ll be giving a talk, &#8220;How WP Super Cache Works&#8221;. It&#8217;ll be less technical than this but I&#8217;ll answer questions too. Check out the <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5iYXJjYW1wY29yay5jb20vc2Vzc2lvbnN0YWxrcy8=">other sessions</a> too.</p>
<p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvd3Atc3VwZXItY2FjaGUtMDg0LXRoZS1nYXJiYWdlLWNvbGxlY3Rvci8=" rel="">WP Super Cache 0.8.4, the garbage collector</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvd3Atc3VwZXItY2FjaGUtMDg3Lw==" rel="">WP Super Cache 0.8.7</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvd3Atc3VwZXItY2FjaGUtMC05LTUv" rel="">WP Super Cache 0.9.5</a></li></ul></p> <img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?view=1&post_id=89495422" width="1" height="1" />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:32:28 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Donncha";}s:7:"summary";s:1631:"<p>I&#8217;ve finally found the time to write up some <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvd3Atc3VwZXItY2FjaGUtZGV2ZWxvcGVycy8=">documentation for developers</a> who want to work with WP Super Cache.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a work in progress but should help other plugin developers who want to interact with the cache. </p>
<p>Suggestions and comments welcome.</p>
<p>PS. If you&#8217;re in Cork on November 14th, head along to <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5iYXJjYW1wY29yay5jb20v">BarCamp Cork III</a>. I&#8217;ll be giving a talk, &#8220;How WP Super Cache Works&#8221;. It&#8217;ll be less technical than this but I&#8217;ll answer questions too. Check out the <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5iYXJjYW1wY29yay5jb20vc2Vzc2lvbnN0YWxrcy8=">other sessions</a> too.</p>
<p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvd3Atc3VwZXItY2FjaGUtMDg0LXRoZS1nYXJiYWdlLWNvbGxlY3Rvci8=" rel="">WP Super Cache 0.8.4, the garbage collector</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvd3Atc3VwZXItY2FjaGUtMDg3Lw==" rel="">WP Super Cache 0.8.7</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvd3Atc3VwZXItY2FjaGUtMC05LTUv" rel="">WP Super Cache 0.9.5</a></li></ul></p> <img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?view=1&post_id=89495422" width="1" height="1" />";}i:36;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:53:"WordPress.tv: Effectuer une mise à jour de WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=2954";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/11/03/effectuer-une-mise-a-jour-de-wordpress/";s:11:"description";s:1392:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
<div class="video-player" id="x-video-3">
</div></ins>
<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/11/03/effectuer-une-mise-a-jour-de-wordpress/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/UOTzQuTu/wordpress-mise-a-jour2_std.original.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2954/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2954/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2954/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2954/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2954/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2954/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2954/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2954/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2954/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2954/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2954&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:15:02 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:11:"Ryan Markel";}s:7:"summary";s:1392:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
<div class="video-player" id="x-video-3">
</div></ins>
<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/11/03/effectuer-une-mise-a-jour-de-wordpress/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/UOTzQuTu/wordpress-mise-a-jour2_std.original.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2954/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2954/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2954/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2954/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2954/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2954/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2954/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2954/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2954/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2954/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2954&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:37;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/01";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6972";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/11/01/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1101/";s:11:"description";s:3669:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.fortunekookie.com/">Fortune Kookie</a></p>
<p>This WordPress plugin adds a sidebar widget to display a random fortune cookie fortune. The database hosted on FortuneKookie.com has over 1500 unique fortunes and each fortune includes the front message, the back word(s), and the lucky numbers.</p>
<p><a href="http://phiredesign.net/blog/wordpress-plugin-custom-login-page-2-0/">Custom Login Page</a></p>
<p>Wordpress Custom Login Page allows you to customize your login page beyond any plugin previously available. Your background image, logo image, and form div background are all customizable.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/category-checklist-tree">Category Checklist Tree</a></p>
<p>Prevents checked categories from going to the top of the checklist on the post editing screen.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.iwebix.de/wordpress-content-slideshow-plugin/">WP Content Slideshow</a></p>
<p>WP Content Slideshow is the perfect Slideshow for Wordpress. It displays up to 5 Posts with Tile, Description and Image for every Post.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jakeruston.co.uk/2009/10/wordpress-plugin-jr-quotes/">JR_Quotes</a></p>
<p>This plugin allows you to display geek quotes, pop quotes, general quotes, religious quotes and sci-fi quotes, all with a simple widget.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/">Regenerate Thumbnails</a></p>
<p>Regenerate Thumbnails allows you to regenerate the thumbnails for all of your image attachments. This is very handy if you’ve changed any of your thumbnail dimensions (via Settings -&gt; Media) after previously uploading images.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rsscloud/">RSS Cloud</a></p>
<p>Adds <a href="http://rsscloud.org/">RSSCloud</a> capabilities to your RSS feed.</p>
<p><a href="http://epicalex.com/new-user-email-set-up/">New User Email Set up</a></p>
<p>The function of the plugin is to provide a basic interface so that admins can define a custom email that is sent to users when they first register. Subject, Text Body, From Address, Admin Subject and Admin Text Body can all be defined, to allow for a more personalised feel to your blog, that doesn’t have such a generic ‘welcome’ email.</p>
<p><a href="http://yoast.com/clicky-tracking-wordpress/">Clicky Tracking</a></p>
<p>Helps you integrate <a href="http://getclicky.com/145844">Clicky</a> in your website. Clicky Web Analytics helps you monitor, analyze, and react to your blog or web site&#8217;s traffic in real time.</p>
<p><a href="http://sivel.net/wordpress/shadowbox-js/">Shadowbox JS</a></p>
<p>Shadowbox is an online media viewing application that supports all of the web&#8217;s most popular media publishing formats. Shadowbox is written entirely in JavaScript and CSS and is highly customizable. Using Shadowbox, website authors can display a wide assortment of media in all major browsers without navigating users away from the linking page.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viadat.com/store-locator">Store Locator</a></p>
<p>The Store Locator plugin empowers web developers &amp; web site owners to easily manage and display any set of important stores, products, or other locations on their website in an easily searchable manner. Uses Google Maps.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/jquery-lightbox-for-native-galleries/">jQuery Lightbox for Native Galleries</a></p>
<p>jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries makes the native WordPress galleries use a lightbox script called <a href="http://colorpowered.com/colorbox/">ColorBox</a> to display the fullsize images.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:30:28 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:3669:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.fortunekookie.com/">Fortune Kookie</a></p>
<p>This WordPress plugin adds a sidebar widget to display a random fortune cookie fortune. The database hosted on FortuneKookie.com has over 1500 unique fortunes and each fortune includes the front message, the back word(s), and the lucky numbers.</p>
<p><a href="http://phiredesign.net/blog/wordpress-plugin-custom-login-page-2-0/">Custom Login Page</a></p>
<p>Wordpress Custom Login Page allows you to customize your login page beyond any plugin previously available. Your background image, logo image, and form div background are all customizable.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/category-checklist-tree">Category Checklist Tree</a></p>
<p>Prevents checked categories from going to the top of the checklist on the post editing screen.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.iwebix.de/wordpress-content-slideshow-plugin/">WP Content Slideshow</a></p>
<p>WP Content Slideshow is the perfect Slideshow for Wordpress. It displays up to 5 Posts with Tile, Description and Image for every Post.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jakeruston.co.uk/2009/10/wordpress-plugin-jr-quotes/">JR_Quotes</a></p>
<p>This plugin allows you to display geek quotes, pop quotes, general quotes, religious quotes and sci-fi quotes, all with a simple widget.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/">Regenerate Thumbnails</a></p>
<p>Regenerate Thumbnails allows you to regenerate the thumbnails for all of your image attachments. This is very handy if you’ve changed any of your thumbnail dimensions (via Settings -&gt; Media) after previously uploading images.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rsscloud/">RSS Cloud</a></p>
<p>Adds <a href="http://rsscloud.org/">RSSCloud</a> capabilities to your RSS feed.</p>
<p><a href="http://epicalex.com/new-user-email-set-up/">New User Email Set up</a></p>
<p>The function of the plugin is to provide a basic interface so that admins can define a custom email that is sent to users when they first register. Subject, Text Body, From Address, Admin Subject and Admin Text Body can all be defined, to allow for a more personalised feel to your blog, that doesn’t have such a generic ‘welcome’ email.</p>
<p><a href="http://yoast.com/clicky-tracking-wordpress/">Clicky Tracking</a></p>
<p>Helps you integrate <a href="http://getclicky.com/145844">Clicky</a> in your website. Clicky Web Analytics helps you monitor, analyze, and react to your blog or web site&#8217;s traffic in real time.</p>
<p><a href="http://sivel.net/wordpress/shadowbox-js/">Shadowbox JS</a></p>
<p>Shadowbox is an online media viewing application that supports all of the web&#8217;s most popular media publishing formats. Shadowbox is written entirely in JavaScript and CSS and is highly customizable. Using Shadowbox, website authors can display a wide assortment of media in all major browsers without navigating users away from the linking page.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viadat.com/store-locator">Store Locator</a></p>
<p>The Store Locator plugin empowers web developers &amp; web site owners to easily manage and display any set of important stores, products, or other locations on their website in an easily searchable manner. Uses Google Maps.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/jquery-lightbox-for-native-galleries/">jQuery Lightbox for Native Galleries</a></p>
<p>jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries makes the native WordPress galleries use a lightbox script called <a href="http://colorpowered.com/colorbox/">ColorBox</a> to display the fullsize images.</p>";}i:38;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:56:"WordPress.tv: This Week on WordPress.tv: Oct 25—Oct 31";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://blog.wordpress.tv/?p=92";s:4:"link";s:84:"http://blog.wordpress.tv/2009/11/01/this-week-on-wordpress-tv-oct-25%e2%80%94oct-31/";s:11:"description";s:3436:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Happy Halloween!</p>
<p>This week, we took a little break from WordCamp videos to post a couple of tutorials, a couple of interviews, and one introduction to a different way of using WordPress.</p>
<p>We published one tutorial on a newer feature of WordPress.com: <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/10/28/the-image-widget-for-wordpress-com/">the Image Widget</a>. If you&#8217;re a self-hosted WordPress user and like the widget in the video, there&#8217;s a great suggestion in the comments for a plugin you can use.</p>
<p>Matt Gibbs sent us a great overview of the <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/10/30/pods-cms-basics/">basic functionality of the Pods CMS plugin</a>. You&#8217;ll need some basic PHP knowledge, but if you&#8217;re interested in some of the different ways people are using WordPress, it&#8217;s definitely worth a look.</p>
<p>We also made available two French language tutorials:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/10/27/concevoir-un-theme-en-parallele-avec-theme-test-drive/">Concevoir un thème en parallèle avec Theme Test Drive</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/10/30/supprimer-le-compte-administrateur-de-wordpress/">Supprimer le compte Administrateur de WordPress</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Lastly, we posted more in the series of interviews with Matt Mullenweg, one with <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/10/29/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-now/">his thoughts on the current state of the WordPress platform</a>, and another regarding <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/10/27/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-open-source/">the role and importance of open source to WordPress</a>.</p>
<p>This week, there&#8217;s been some great discussion after the event on some of the video from WordCamp Seattle. <a href="http://wordpress.tv/event/wordcamp-seattle/">Check the list of sessions here</a>, and if you see something that interests you, join the conversation!</p>
<p>Next week, we have even more from the WordPress community, and we&#8217;re looking forward to more WordCamp sessions from around the world. If you have a tutorial or other WordPress-related video you&#8217;d like to share with the community, <a href="http://wordpress.tv/contact">please send us a note</a> and we&#8217;ll be happy to check it out.</p>
<p>More video to come on Monday!</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptvblog.wordpress.com/92/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptvblog.wordpress.com/92/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptvblog.wordpress.com/92/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptvblog.wordpress.com/92/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptvblog.wordpress.com/92/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptvblog.wordpress.com/92/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptvblog.wordpress.com/92/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptvblog.wordpress.com/92/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptvblog.wordpress.com/92/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptvblog.wordpress.com/92/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.wordpress.tv&blog=5310177&post=92&subd=wptvblog&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:34:53 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:11:"Ryan Markel";}s:7:"summary";s:3436:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Happy Halloween!</p>
<p>This week, we took a little break from WordCamp videos to post a couple of tutorials, a couple of interviews, and one introduction to a different way of using WordPress.</p>
<p>We published one tutorial on a newer feature of WordPress.com: <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/10/28/the-image-widget-for-wordpress-com/">the Image Widget</a>. If you&#8217;re a self-hosted WordPress user and like the widget in the video, there&#8217;s a great suggestion in the comments for a plugin you can use.</p>
<p>Matt Gibbs sent us a great overview of the <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/10/30/pods-cms-basics/">basic functionality of the Pods CMS plugin</a>. You&#8217;ll need some basic PHP knowledge, but if you&#8217;re interested in some of the different ways people are using WordPress, it&#8217;s definitely worth a look.</p>
<p>We also made available two French language tutorials:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/10/27/concevoir-un-theme-en-parallele-avec-theme-test-drive/">Concevoir un thème en parallèle avec Theme Test Drive</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/10/30/supprimer-le-compte-administrateur-de-wordpress/">Supprimer le compte Administrateur de WordPress</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Lastly, we posted more in the series of interviews with Matt Mullenweg, one with <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/10/29/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-now/">his thoughts on the current state of the WordPress platform</a>, and another regarding <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/10/27/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-open-source/">the role and importance of open source to WordPress</a>.</p>
<p>This week, there&#8217;s been some great discussion after the event on some of the video from WordCamp Seattle. <a href="http://wordpress.tv/event/wordcamp-seattle/">Check the list of sessions here</a>, and if you see something that interests you, join the conversation!</p>
<p>Next week, we have even more from the WordPress community, and we&#8217;re looking forward to more WordCamp sessions from around the world. If you have a tutorial or other WordPress-related video you&#8217;d like to share with the community, <a href="http://wordpress.tv/contact">please send us a note</a> and we&#8217;ll be happy to check it out.</p>
<p>More video to come on Monday!</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptvblog.wordpress.com/92/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptvblog.wordpress.com/92/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptvblog.wordpress.com/92/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptvblog.wordpress.com/92/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptvblog.wordpress.com/92/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptvblog.wordpress.com/92/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptvblog.wordpress.com/92/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptvblog.wordpress.com/92/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptvblog.wordpress.com/92/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptvblog.wordpress.com/92/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.wordpress.tv&blog=5310177&post=92&subd=wptvblog&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:39;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:29:"Dev Blog: Upcoming Bug Hunts!";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=953";s:4:"link";s:60:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/10/upcoming-bug-hunts/";s:11:"description";s:3636:"<p>As we near completion of the 2.9 milestone, it&#8217;s that time of dev cycle again, when we ask all you community developers who&#8217;ve been putting off contributing to core to dust off your dev environments and help us get closer to being release-ready. How? Bug hunts! Yes, that time-honored tradition (in the time of WordPress, anyway) of everyone pitching in to test patches and report the results, working on solutions to major bugs, and helping to clear out Trac has come around again, and we&#8217;re scheduling not one, but two bug hunts over the next couple of weeks to ensure that everyone has enough time to prepare and <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/">participate</a>.</p>
<p><strong>#1</strong> &#8211; The first bug hunt of 2.9 will be Thursday through Saturday, November 5-7, 2009. This should give people a few days to plan for it, upgrade their dev environments if they haven&#8217;t been following trunk, and figure out how to allot their time. We&#8217;re stretching over both weekdays and weekend to try and accommodate everyone&#8217;s schedule.</p>
<p><strong>#2 </strong>- The second bug hunt will be a week later, Saturday through Monday, November 14-16, 2009. This should make it possible for anyone who needs more than a week to set some time aside to participate. This bug hunt will coincide with <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp NYC</a>, where a special Hacker Room will be set aside for people to go and work on 2.9 bug tickets alongside regular core contributors including Mark Jaquith and Matt Martz (sivel from IRC).</p>
<h4>The Goals</h4>
<p><strong>Test, test, test existing patches!</strong> You can see all tickets with patches that need testing by checking <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/report/13">this report</a>. When you&#8217;ve tested a patch, report your results in the ticket comments, so core committers can see how the patch is faring.</p>
<p><strong>Fix known bugs! </strong>You can see the bugs that need patches by checking <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/report/16">this report</a>. Look for the ones that seem that they&#8217;ll affect the most people or have the biggest impact by being fixed. Edge case bugs should be lower priority.</p>
<p><strong>Report new bugs! </strong>As you&#8217;re testing out the development version, if you come across a bug, <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/search">search trac</a> to see if someone has reported it yet. If so, add a comment with your experience to the ticket so we&#8217;ll know it&#8217;s affecting more than one person. If no ticket exists yet, <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/newticket">create one</a>.</p>
<p>Core committers will be around (in the #wordpress-dev channel at irc.freenode.com) both weekends to review patches that have been thoroughly tested, answer questions as needed, and give feedback on patches that need more work before being commit-worthy.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve never participated in a WordPress bug hunt before, but you&#8217;d like to get involved, we&#8217;d love to have you join us! To prepare, you&#8217;ll want to <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=setting+up+a+wordpress+test+environment&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a">set up a test environment</a>, start using the current development version/maybe install the <a href="http://westi.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/making-it-easy-to-be-a-wordpress-tester/">beta testing plugin</a>, join us in the #wordpress-dev IRC channel, and read up on <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Automated_Testing">automated testing</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:28:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:7:"summary";s:3636:"<p>As we near completion of the 2.9 milestone, it&#8217;s that time of dev cycle again, when we ask all you community developers who&#8217;ve been putting off contributing to core to dust off your dev environments and help us get closer to being release-ready. How? Bug hunts! Yes, that time-honored tradition (in the time of WordPress, anyway) of everyone pitching in to test patches and report the results, working on solutions to major bugs, and helping to clear out Trac has come around again, and we&#8217;re scheduling not one, but two bug hunts over the next couple of weeks to ensure that everyone has enough time to prepare and <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/">participate</a>.</p>
<p><strong>#1</strong> &#8211; The first bug hunt of 2.9 will be Thursday through Saturday, November 5-7, 2009. This should give people a few days to plan for it, upgrade their dev environments if they haven&#8217;t been following trunk, and figure out how to allot their time. We&#8217;re stretching over both weekdays and weekend to try and accommodate everyone&#8217;s schedule.</p>
<p><strong>#2 </strong>- The second bug hunt will be a week later, Saturday through Monday, November 14-16, 2009. This should make it possible for anyone who needs more than a week to set some time aside to participate. This bug hunt will coincide with <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp NYC</a>, where a special Hacker Room will be set aside for people to go and work on 2.9 bug tickets alongside regular core contributors including Mark Jaquith and Matt Martz (sivel from IRC).</p>
<h4>The Goals</h4>
<p><strong>Test, test, test existing patches!</strong> You can see all tickets with patches that need testing by checking <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/report/13">this report</a>. When you&#8217;ve tested a patch, report your results in the ticket comments, so core committers can see how the patch is faring.</p>
<p><strong>Fix known bugs! </strong>You can see the bugs that need patches by checking <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/report/16">this report</a>. Look for the ones that seem that they&#8217;ll affect the most people or have the biggest impact by being fixed. Edge case bugs should be lower priority.</p>
<p><strong>Report new bugs! </strong>As you&#8217;re testing out the development version, if you come across a bug, <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/search">search trac</a> to see if someone has reported it yet. If so, add a comment with your experience to the ticket so we&#8217;ll know it&#8217;s affecting more than one person. If no ticket exists yet, <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/newticket">create one</a>.</p>
<p>Core committers will be around (in the #wordpress-dev channel at irc.freenode.com) both weekends to review patches that have been thoroughly tested, answer questions as needed, and give feedback on patches that need more work before being commit-worthy.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve never participated in a WordPress bug hunt before, but you&#8217;d like to get involved, we&#8217;d love to have you join us! To prepare, you&#8217;ll want to <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=setting+up+a+wordpress+test+environment&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a">set up a test environment</a>, start using the current development version/maybe install the <a href="http://westi.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/making-it-easy-to-be-a-wordpress-tester/">beta testing plugin</a>, join us in the #wordpress-dev IRC channel, and read up on <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Automated_Testing">automated testing</a>.</p>";}i:40;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:29:"Donncha: WordPress MU 2.8.5.1";s:4:"guid";s:29:"http://ocaoimh.ie/?p=89495414";s:4:"link";s:36:"http://ocaoimh.ie/wordpress-mu-2851/";s:11:"description";s:2503:"<p><strong>Update!</strong> WordPress MU 2.8.5.2 has <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3RyYWMubXUud29yZHByZXNzLm9yZy90aWNrZXQvMTE0Mg==">a tiny fix</a> for a post publish bug. You can download it from the usual place.</p>
<p>WordPress MU 2.8.5.1 has just been released and may be <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL211LndvcmRwcmVzcy5vcmcvZG93bmxvYWQv">downloaded</a> immediately.</p>
<p>This is a security and bugfix release and a recommended upgrade for every WordPress MU site. What happened to 2.8.5? I had it tagged and ready for release when Luke <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3R3aXR0ZXIuY29tL3RodW5kZXJsb3VuZ2Uvc3RhdHVzZXMvNTMwMDM3NzU1Nw==">reported</a> a little problem. It wasn&#8217;t possible to edit blogs! It was an easy bug <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3RyYWMubXUud29yZHByZXNzLm9yZy9jaGFuZ2VzZXQvMTk4NQ==">to fix</a> but code had been tagged and zip/tarball archives created so I had to create new ones. Thanks <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3RodW5kZXJsb3VuZ2UuY29tLw==">Luke</a>! Saved the day. <img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>Thanks to everyone else who contributed and helped in any way during the making of this release. Your help is invaluable.</p>
<p>This release also fixes a problem with slashes in blog and site options. You&#8217;ll be prompted to run the site upgrader. Please run it on all your blogs. For a more comprehensive look at what has changed recently, take a look at the <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3RyYWMubXUud29yZHByZXNzLm9yZy90aW1lbGluZQ==">Trac Timeline</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvd29yZHByZXNzLW11LTI3Lw==" rel="">WordPress MU 2.7</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvd29yZHByZXNzLW11LTI2MS8=" rel="">WordPress MU 2.6.1</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvd29yZHByZXNzLW11LTItOC0xLw==" rel="">WordPress MU 2.8.1</a></li></ul></p> <img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?view=1&post_id=89495414" width="1" height="1" />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:58:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Donncha";}s:7:"summary";s:2503:"<p><strong>Update!</strong> WordPress MU 2.8.5.2 has <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3RyYWMubXUud29yZHByZXNzLm9yZy90aWNrZXQvMTE0Mg==">a tiny fix</a> for a post publish bug. You can download it from the usual place.</p>
<p>WordPress MU 2.8.5.1 has just been released and may be <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL211LndvcmRwcmVzcy5vcmcvZG93bmxvYWQv">downloaded</a> immediately.</p>
<p>This is a security and bugfix release and a recommended upgrade for every WordPress MU site. What happened to 2.8.5? I had it tagged and ready for release when Luke <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3R3aXR0ZXIuY29tL3RodW5kZXJsb3VuZ2Uvc3RhdHVzZXMvNTMwMDM3NzU1Nw==">reported</a> a little problem. It wasn&#8217;t possible to edit blogs! It was an easy bug <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3RyYWMubXUud29yZHByZXNzLm9yZy9jaGFuZ2VzZXQvMTk4NQ==">to fix</a> but code had been tagged and zip/tarball archives created so I had to create new ones. Thanks <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3RodW5kZXJsb3VuZ2UuY29tLw==">Luke</a>! Saved the day. <img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>Thanks to everyone else who contributed and helped in any way during the making of this release. Your help is invaluable.</p>
<p>This release also fixes a problem with slashes in blog and site options. You&#8217;ll be prompted to run the site upgrader. Please run it on all your blogs. For a more comprehensive look at what has changed recently, take a look at the <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3RyYWMubXUud29yZHByZXNzLm9yZy90aW1lbGluZQ==">Trac Timeline</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvd29yZHByZXNzLW11LTI3Lw==" rel="">WordPress MU 2.7</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvd29yZHByZXNzLW11LTI2MS8=" rel="">WordPress MU 2.6.1</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvd29yZHByZXNzLW11LTItOC0xLw==" rel="">WordPress MU 2.8.1</a></li></ul></p> <img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?view=1&post_id=89495414" width="1" height="1" />";}i:41;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:72:"Weblog Tools Collection: How Would You Leverage The WordPress Community?";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6968";s:4:"link";s:100:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/10/30/how-would-you-leverage-the-wordpress-community/";s:11:"description";s:4154:"<p>One of the most difficult tasks I see for the WordPress project in the next 1-2 years is creating a place to harness the power of the WordPress community into a central location. In my opinion, the WordPress community is like peanut butter, spread across the web really thin. You have to be subscribed to a bunch of different blogs throughout the community in order to get a grasp as to what is happening with the WordPress project. Other than enthusiast sites, you have to know which mailing lists to subscribe to, the developments prologue site, attend the developer chats, and occasionally read a WordPress centric blog post or two from one of the core developers in order to figure out what is going on. I don&#8217;t like this situation. Instead, I would love to see a community portal developed on the WordPress.org site that contains the tools necessary to create a collaboration hub.</p>
<p>I hesitate to mention another project on a WordPress focused site but I believe there are lessons that can be learned from how Joomla has handled this situation. Joomla has a site called <a href="http://community.joomla.org/">http://community.joomla.org/</a>. The front page of this site acts as a portal to vital aspects of the project including team member blogs, events, featured articles, translations, etc. It&#8217;s as if everything I would need to know or have quick access to is right on the front page housed within this portal.</p>
<p>On the WordPress side of things, you have to dive into the documentation to find the Codex article that discusses WordPress in your language. The site contains one blog, the development blog for announcements specifically dealing with the software. It&#8217;s not like the good old days when multiple posts per month covering all aspects of the project would be published here. Now you&#8217;re lucky to see two posts or more a month on it. Each WordPress team member has their own blog, most with a WordPress category that is tied into a separate entity called the WordPress Planet that is accessed in the dashboard called Other WordPress News. Not only are the team members added to this site, but so are a number of other projects/sites that are not strictly WordPress related. I realize the team members are busy and some of them contribute to the WordPress project not employed by Automattic but I would like to see more posts published by them focused on the WordPress project. For example, I attend some of the developer chats and I see requests for unit tests or explanations as to how tickets in Trac should be treated yet I don&#8217;t see consistent information published to the public explaining this. Sure, the end user facing crowd has no interest in this, but there are a ton of plugin and theme authors as well as enthusiasts who would be. To be frank, I think that if it were not for websites such as Weblogtoolscollection.com and a host of other WordPress centric community sites, a majority of us would have no clue as to the progress of WordPress except for when a release was imminent. </p>
<p>I would love to see is a complete redesign of WordPress.org which served as a portal. A portal that could be visited daily to see posts from team members regarding the project, latest posts in the WordPress forum, upcoming WordCamps, a featured WordPress.TV Video, links to some of the most important pages in the Codex, the 3 or 5 newest themes and plugins added to the repository, etc. This post may be premature though as the best thing that could happen to the site is the redesign, plus the ability to use BuddyPress as a means of creating the collaboration hub of it all. I know the BuddyPress situation is currently being worked on and may end up being a reality some day on WordPress.org but for everything else, there is certainly room for improvement across the board.</p>
<h2>What Say you?</h2>
<p>First off, what do you think of the current way WordPress.org the project along with the website is laid out? If you had the opportunity, how would you completely restructure the website and team members to turn the site into a collaboration/information hub all about WordPress?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:18:37 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:4154:"<p>One of the most difficult tasks I see for the WordPress project in the next 1-2 years is creating a place to harness the power of the WordPress community into a central location. In my opinion, the WordPress community is like peanut butter, spread across the web really thin. You have to be subscribed to a bunch of different blogs throughout the community in order to get a grasp as to what is happening with the WordPress project. Other than enthusiast sites, you have to know which mailing lists to subscribe to, the developments prologue site, attend the developer chats, and occasionally read a WordPress centric blog post or two from one of the core developers in order to figure out what is going on. I don&#8217;t like this situation. Instead, I would love to see a community portal developed on the WordPress.org site that contains the tools necessary to create a collaboration hub.</p>
<p>I hesitate to mention another project on a WordPress focused site but I believe there are lessons that can be learned from how Joomla has handled this situation. Joomla has a site called <a href="http://community.joomla.org/">http://community.joomla.org/</a>. The front page of this site acts as a portal to vital aspects of the project including team member blogs, events, featured articles, translations, etc. It&#8217;s as if everything I would need to know or have quick access to is right on the front page housed within this portal.</p>
<p>On the WordPress side of things, you have to dive into the documentation to find the Codex article that discusses WordPress in your language. The site contains one blog, the development blog for announcements specifically dealing with the software. It&#8217;s not like the good old days when multiple posts per month covering all aspects of the project would be published here. Now you&#8217;re lucky to see two posts or more a month on it. Each WordPress team member has their own blog, most with a WordPress category that is tied into a separate entity called the WordPress Planet that is accessed in the dashboard called Other WordPress News. Not only are the team members added to this site, but so are a number of other projects/sites that are not strictly WordPress related. I realize the team members are busy and some of them contribute to the WordPress project not employed by Automattic but I would like to see more posts published by them focused on the WordPress project. For example, I attend some of the developer chats and I see requests for unit tests or explanations as to how tickets in Trac should be treated yet I don&#8217;t see consistent information published to the public explaining this. Sure, the end user facing crowd has no interest in this, but there are a ton of plugin and theme authors as well as enthusiasts who would be. To be frank, I think that if it were not for websites such as Weblogtoolscollection.com and a host of other WordPress centric community sites, a majority of us would have no clue as to the progress of WordPress except for when a release was imminent. </p>
<p>I would love to see is a complete redesign of WordPress.org which served as a portal. A portal that could be visited daily to see posts from team members regarding the project, latest posts in the WordPress forum, upcoming WordCamps, a featured WordPress.TV Video, links to some of the most important pages in the Codex, the 3 or 5 newest themes and plugins added to the repository, etc. This post may be premature though as the best thing that could happen to the site is the redesign, plus the ability to use BuddyPress as a means of creating the collaboration hub of it all. I know the BuddyPress situation is currently being worked on and may end up being a reality some day on WordPress.org but for everything else, there is certainly room for improvement across the board.</p>
<h2>What Say you?</h2>
<p>First off, what do you think of the current way WordPress.org the project along with the website is laid out? If you had the opportunity, how would you completely restructure the website and team members to turn the site into a collaboration/information hub all about WordPress?</p>";}i:42;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 10/30";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6966";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/10/30/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1030/";s:11:"description";s:2297:"<h4><a href="http://3oneseven.com/02/ines/">Ines BuddyPress</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://wp2.3oneseven.com/index.php?wptheme=Ines"><img title="ines BuddyPress" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/inesBuddyPress.png" alt="ines BuddyPress" width="200" height="179" /></a></p>
<p>The Ines BuddyPress WP theme, edgy styles for a BuddyPress powered site with the brandnew Ines BuddyPress Theme, featuring a three column fluid layout, enabled with options panel, widgetized sidebars and footers, flickr support, pagenavi support, frontpage slider, orelated posts and recent comments are built into the theme.</p>
<h4><a href="http://dpxmag.com/cleanpress-a-free-premium-wordpress-theme.html">cleanPRESS</a></h4>
<p><img title="cleanpress" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/cleanpress.png" alt="cleanpress" width="200" height="102" /></p>
<p>Two column, feature rich theme with support for featured articles, post options and twitter options</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.clubwordpress.com/bare-minimum-wordpress-theme/">Bare Minimum</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.demo.clubwordpress.com/index.php?wptheme=Bare+Minimum"><img title="Bare Minimum" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/BareMinimum.png" alt="Bare Minimum" width="200" height="134" /></a></p>
<p>This theme uses the bare minimum files that are needed for a WordPress theme – The theme uses no CSS and contains everything needed to run the theme in index.php.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.wpskinner.com/2009/10/26/moi-magazine-free-wordpress-theme-release/">Moi Magazine</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://wpcodex.com/demo/?themedemo=moi-magazine"><img title="Moi Magazine" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/MoiMagazine.jpg" alt="Moi Magazine" width="174" height="200" /></a></p>
<p>Moi Magazine is a free 2 column magazine style WordPress Theme. It looks very modern and elegant from the front end and offering vast Admin options at the back end. With wide variety of tune able Theme options in the admin menu you don’t need to edit .php files manually to do basic theme adjustments.</p>
<p>Are you a theme author? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Submit your theme</a> to get it listed in these posts.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:44:36 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:2297:"<h4><a href="http://3oneseven.com/02/ines/">Ines BuddyPress</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://wp2.3oneseven.com/index.php?wptheme=Ines"><img title="ines BuddyPress" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/inesBuddyPress.png" alt="ines BuddyPress" width="200" height="179" /></a></p>
<p>The Ines BuddyPress WP theme, edgy styles for a BuddyPress powered site with the brandnew Ines BuddyPress Theme, featuring a three column fluid layout, enabled with options panel, widgetized sidebars and footers, flickr support, pagenavi support, frontpage slider, orelated posts and recent comments are built into the theme.</p>
<h4><a href="http://dpxmag.com/cleanpress-a-free-premium-wordpress-theme.html">cleanPRESS</a></h4>
<p><img title="cleanpress" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/cleanpress.png" alt="cleanpress" width="200" height="102" /></p>
<p>Two column, feature rich theme with support for featured articles, post options and twitter options</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.clubwordpress.com/bare-minimum-wordpress-theme/">Bare Minimum</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.demo.clubwordpress.com/index.php?wptheme=Bare+Minimum"><img title="Bare Minimum" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/BareMinimum.png" alt="Bare Minimum" width="200" height="134" /></a></p>
<p>This theme uses the bare minimum files that are needed for a WordPress theme – The theme uses no CSS and contains everything needed to run the theme in index.php.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.wpskinner.com/2009/10/26/moi-magazine-free-wordpress-theme-release/">Moi Magazine</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://wpcodex.com/demo/?themedemo=moi-magazine"><img title="Moi Magazine" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/MoiMagazine.jpg" alt="Moi Magazine" width="174" height="200" /></a></p>
<p>Moi Magazine is a free 2 column magazine style WordPress Theme. It looks very modern and elegant from the front end and offering vast Admin options at the back end. With wide variety of tune able Theme options in the admin menu you don’t need to edit .php files manually to do basic theme adjustments.</p>
<p>Are you a theme author? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Submit your theme</a> to get it listed in these posts.</p>";}i:43;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:23:"BuddyPress: Doubling Up";s:4:"guid";s:28:"http://buddypress.org/?p=688";s:4:"link";s:44:"http://buddypress.org/blog/news/doubling-up/";s:11:"description";s:1036:"<p>I&#8217;d like to congratulate <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/johnjamesjacoby">John James Jacoby (aka jjj)</a> for doubling the size of the core development team and gaining commit access to the project!</p>
<p>BuddyPress is growing, and at a pace that just one core developer cannot possibly keep up with. I&#8217;ve been looking to expand the size of the core development team for a while now and I&#8217;m excited to be able to announce the first stop along that road.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re a regular in the <a href="http://buddypress.org/forums">forums</a> or <a href="http://trac.buddypress.org">trac</a> you&#8217;ll already know who John is. He has been an unrelenting force for some time with quick responses to questions and quality core patches.</p>
<p>John will be helping with bug fixing to begin with, then looking to take on some of the new features listed on the <a href="http://buddypress.org/about/roadmap">roadmap</a>. Congratulations again John, I&#8217;m very excited to have you on the core team.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:03:47 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Andy Peatling";}s:7:"summary";s:1036:"<p>I&#8217;d like to congratulate <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/johnjamesjacoby">John James Jacoby (aka jjj)</a> for doubling the size of the core development team and gaining commit access to the project!</p>
<p>BuddyPress is growing, and at a pace that just one core developer cannot possibly keep up with. I&#8217;ve been looking to expand the size of the core development team for a while now and I&#8217;m excited to be able to announce the first stop along that road.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re a regular in the <a href="http://buddypress.org/forums">forums</a> or <a href="http://trac.buddypress.org">trac</a> you&#8217;ll already know who John is. He has been an unrelenting force for some time with quick responses to questions and quality core patches.</p>
<p>John will be helping with bug fixing to begin with, then looking to take on some of the new features listed on the <a href="http://buddypress.org/about/roadmap">roadmap</a>. Congratulations again John, I&#8217;m very excited to have you on the core team.</p>";}i:44;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:61:"WordPress.tv: Supprimer le compte Administrateur de WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=2951";s:4:"link";s:79:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/10/30/supprimer-le-compte-administrateur-de-wordpress/";s:11:"description";s:1413:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
<div class="video-player" id="x-video-5">
</div></ins>
<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/10/30/supprimer-le-compte-administrateur-de-wordpress/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/cTR0oJhI/wordpress-suppression-compte-admin_std.original.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2951/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2951/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2951/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2951/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2951/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2951/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2951/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2951/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2951/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2951/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2951&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:18:14 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:11:"Ryan Markel";}s:7:"summary";s:1413:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
<div class="video-player" id="x-video-5">
</div></ins>
<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/10/30/supprimer-le-compte-administrateur-de-wordpress/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/cTR0oJhI/wordpress-suppression-compte-admin_std.original.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2951/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2951/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2951/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2951/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2951/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2951/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2951/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2951/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2951/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2951/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2951&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:45;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:30:"WordPress.tv: Pods CMS: Basics";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=2948";s:4:"link";s:47:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/10/30/pods-cms-basics/";s:11:"description";s:1358:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
<div class="video-player" id="x-video-6">
</div></ins>
<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/10/30/pods-cms-basics/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/liNjW68D/pods-basics_std.original.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2948/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2948/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2948/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2948/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2948/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2948/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2948/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2948/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2948/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2948/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2948&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:10:25 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:11:"Ryan Markel";}s:7:"summary";s:1358:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
<div class="video-player" id="x-video-6">
</div></ins>
<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/10/30/pods-cms-basics/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/liNjW68D/pods-basics_std.original.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2948/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2948/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2948/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2948/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2948/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2948/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2948/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2948/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2948/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2948/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2948&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:46;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:52:"Weblog Tools Collection: Bulk Plugin Upgrades In 2.9";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6959";s:4:"link";s:81:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/10/29/bulk-plugin-upgrades-in-2-9/";s:11:"description";s:1086:"<p>As <a href="http://wpengineer.com/batch-plugin-update-in-wordpress-2-9/" target="_blank">mentioned by WP Engineer</a>, WordPress 2.9 recently had a new feature added to it called bulk plugin upgrades. The interesting thing about this feature is back on September 11th, Matt <a href="http://twitter.com/photomatt/status/3922695818" target="_blank">published this</a> through his Twitter feed:</p>
<blockquote><p>Just upgraded three plugins in about 30 seconds using one-click upgrade &#8212; wish you could do them all at once though.</p></blockquote>
<p>Well, now you can. I attended the WordPress developers chat today and according to the devs, the bulk upgrader works, all it needs now is to be tied into the API along with some cosmetics. I&#8217;m sure there are plenty of you, including myself that is pleased to see this addition to WordPress. However, I wonder what happens if during a bulk upgrade, one of the plugins fails. Does the upgrader skip the plugin and move on to the next one or does it ruin the entire upgrade? Looking forward to the answer in the comments. </p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:49:40 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1086:"<p>As <a href="http://wpengineer.com/batch-plugin-update-in-wordpress-2-9/" target="_blank">mentioned by WP Engineer</a>, WordPress 2.9 recently had a new feature added to it called bulk plugin upgrades. The interesting thing about this feature is back on September 11th, Matt <a href="http://twitter.com/photomatt/status/3922695818" target="_blank">published this</a> through his Twitter feed:</p>
<blockquote><p>Just upgraded three plugins in about 30 seconds using one-click upgrade &#8212; wish you could do them all at once though.</p></blockquote>
<p>Well, now you can. I attended the WordPress developers chat today and according to the devs, the bulk upgrader works, all it needs now is to be tied into the API along with some cosmetics. I&#8217;m sure there are plenty of you, including myself that is pleased to see this addition to WordPress. However, I wonder what happens if during a bulk upgrade, one of the plugins fails. Does the upgrader skip the plugin and move on to the next one or does it ruin the entire upgrade? Looking forward to the answer in the comments. </p>";}i:47;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:74:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress for iPhone 2 Now Available in App Store";s:4:"guid";s:103:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/10/29/wordpress-for-iphone-2-now-available-in-app-store/";s:4:"link";s:103:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/10/29/wordpress-for-iphone-2-now-available-in-app-store/";s:11:"description";s:1749:"<p>WordPress 2 for iPhone is now <a href="http://iphone.wordpress.org/2009/10/28/wordpress-2-available/" target="_blank">available for downloads</a> in the App Store. The new app is packed with lots of features which include:</p>
<ul>
<li>A new, more efficient user interface that makes it faster to switch between comments, posts, and pages. </li>
<li>Various user interface refinements and bug fixes </li>
<li>New Comments interface, with Gravatars and the author URL shown in the comment list </li>
<li>Passwords are now stored in the keychain </li>
<li>Posts are now automatically saved and restored if network connection is lost during publishing </li>
<li>Added persistence, so the app re-opens in the blog you last used </li>
<li>Added an interface for manually entering the XMLRPC endpoint for non-standard setups </li>
<li>Fixed rotation-related visual glitches </li>
<li>Fixed errors where malformed XML prevented access to XMLRPC endpoint </li>
<li>Fixed edge case where local drafts were sometimes not saved </li>
<li>Fixed the order of photos so that they’re displayed in the order they’re uploaded/ </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Please note:</strong> The WordPress for iPhone 2 is a completely new application. If you are using a older version of WordPress app for iPhone, you will not be able to upgrade it, you will have to download the new application instead. You can safely remove the older version of the app, once you have installed version 2.0.</p>
<p><a href="http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&amp;site=wpiphone.wordpress.com&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2FWebObjects%2FMZStore.woa%2Fwa%2FviewSoftware%3Fid%3D335703880%26mt%3D8" target="_blank"><strong>Download WordPress for iPhone 2 from App Store</strong></a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:57:18 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:1749:"<p>WordPress 2 for iPhone is now <a href="http://iphone.wordpress.org/2009/10/28/wordpress-2-available/" target="_blank">available for downloads</a> in the App Store. The new app is packed with lots of features which include:</p>
<ul>
<li>A new, more efficient user interface that makes it faster to switch between comments, posts, and pages. </li>
<li>Various user interface refinements and bug fixes </li>
<li>New Comments interface, with Gravatars and the author URL shown in the comment list </li>
<li>Passwords are now stored in the keychain </li>
<li>Posts are now automatically saved and restored if network connection is lost during publishing </li>
<li>Added persistence, so the app re-opens in the blog you last used </li>
<li>Added an interface for manually entering the XMLRPC endpoint for non-standard setups </li>
<li>Fixed rotation-related visual glitches </li>
<li>Fixed errors where malformed XML prevented access to XMLRPC endpoint </li>
<li>Fixed edge case where local drafts were sometimes not saved </li>
<li>Fixed the order of photos so that they’re displayed in the order they’re uploaded/ </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Please note:</strong> The WordPress for iPhone 2 is a completely new application. If you are using a older version of WordPress app for iPhone, you will not be able to upgrade it, you will have to download the new application instead. You can safely remove the older version of the app, once you have installed version 2.0.</p>
<p><a href="http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&amp;site=wpiphone.wordpress.com&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2FWebObjects%2FMZStore.woa%2Fwa%2FviewSoftware%3Fid%3D335703880%26mt%3D8" target="_blank"><strong>Download WordPress for iPhone 2 from App Store</strong></a></p>";}i:48;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:50:"Joseph: rssCloud WordPress Plugin Update – 0.4.1";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://josephscott.org/?p=1554";s:4:"link";s:79:"http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/10/rsscloud-wordpress-plugin-update-0-4-1/";s:11:"description";s:2701:"<div class="post-update">
<b>Update &#8211; 5 Nov 2009:</b><br />
These features are now available on WordPress.com as well &#8211; <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/rsscloud-update/">http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/rsscloud-update/</a>
</div>
<p>Version 0.4.1 of the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rsscloud/">rssCloud WordPress plugin</a> is now available.  The biggest change  is adding support for the <a href="http://rsscloud.org/walkthrough/openDiscussion.html">domain parameter</a> in notification requests.  This means that rssCloud updates processed by the plugin are no longer limited to being sent to the IP address that the request came from.  Support for the domain parameter is live on <a href="http://wordpress.com/">WordPress.com</a> as well.</p>
<p>When a domain parameter is included with a notification request the verification process does the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Sends an HTTP GET request to the {domain}:{port}{path} URL</li>
<li>That HTTP GET includes to pieces of data: url and challenge.  The url field contains the URL of the feed that we&#8217;ll been sending pings about.  The challenge field contains a random string of characters</li>
<li>The response back must have a status code of 2xx and the body must contain EXACTLY the contents of the challenge field.  If both of those conditions are not met then the verification process will consider this a failure</li>
</ul>
<p>For notification requests that have no domain parameter the verification process is unchanged from before.</p>
<p>Another item that some may find helpful is a new constant &#8211; RSSCLOUD_FEED_URL &#8211; if that is defined they it will be used as the feed URL of the blog instead of determining it via <code>get_bloginfo( 'rss2_url' );</code>.  For plugin authors that provide options for an alternative feed URL note that can override the default in WordPress via the <code><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference#Link_Filters">feed_link</a></code> filter.  That filter can be used instead of the RSSCLOUD_FEED_URL constant and will bubble up through the <code>get_bloginfo( 'rss2_url' );</code> call.</p>


<br />
<h3>Related Posts</h3>
<ol>
		<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/09/rsscloud-for-wordpress/" rel="bookmark">RSSCloud For WordPress</a><!-- (25.2639)--></li>
		<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/03/wordpress-libxml2-episode-iv-a-new-plugin/" rel="bookmark">WordPress &#038; libxml2 Episode IV: A New Plugin</a><!-- (13.7032)--></li>
		<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/02/update-on-libxml2-issues/" rel="bookmark">Update On libxml2 Issues</a><!-- (10.5493)--></li>
	</ol>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:31:12 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Joseph Scott";}s:7:"summary";s:2701:"<div class="post-update">
<b>Update &#8211; 5 Nov 2009:</b><br />
These features are now available on WordPress.com as well &#8211; <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/rsscloud-update/">http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/rsscloud-update/</a>
</div>
<p>Version 0.4.1 of the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rsscloud/">rssCloud WordPress plugin</a> is now available.  The biggest change  is adding support for the <a href="http://rsscloud.org/walkthrough/openDiscussion.html">domain parameter</a> in notification requests.  This means that rssCloud updates processed by the plugin are no longer limited to being sent to the IP address that the request came from.  Support for the domain parameter is live on <a href="http://wordpress.com/">WordPress.com</a> as well.</p>
<p>When a domain parameter is included with a notification request the verification process does the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Sends an HTTP GET request to the {domain}:{port}{path} URL</li>
<li>That HTTP GET includes to pieces of data: url and challenge.  The url field contains the URL of the feed that we&#8217;ll been sending pings about.  The challenge field contains a random string of characters</li>
<li>The response back must have a status code of 2xx and the body must contain EXACTLY the contents of the challenge field.  If both of those conditions are not met then the verification process will consider this a failure</li>
</ul>
<p>For notification requests that have no domain parameter the verification process is unchanged from before.</p>
<p>Another item that some may find helpful is a new constant &#8211; RSSCLOUD_FEED_URL &#8211; if that is defined they it will be used as the feed URL of the blog instead of determining it via <code>get_bloginfo( 'rss2_url' );</code>.  For plugin authors that provide options for an alternative feed URL note that can override the default in WordPress via the <code><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference#Link_Filters">feed_link</a></code> filter.  That filter can be used instead of the RSSCLOUD_FEED_URL constant and will bubble up through the <code>get_bloginfo( 'rss2_url' );</code> call.</p>


<br />
<h3>Related Posts</h3>
<ol>
		<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/09/rsscloud-for-wordpress/" rel="bookmark">RSSCloud For WordPress</a><!-- (25.2639)--></li>
		<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/03/wordpress-libxml2-episode-iv-a-new-plugin/" rel="bookmark">WordPress &#038; libxml2 Episode IV: A New Plugin</a><!-- (13.7032)--></li>
		<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/02/update-on-libxml2-issues/" rel="bookmark">Update On libxml2 Issues</a><!-- (10.5493)--></li>
	</ol>";}i:49;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:43:"BuddyPress: BuddyPress at WordCamp New York";s:4:"guid";s:28:"http://buddypress.org/?p=677";s:4:"link";s:64:"http://buddypress.org/blog/news/buddypress-at-wordcamp-new-york/";s:11:"description";s:3124:"<p><a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org" title="WordCampNYC – Nov 14-15"><img alt="WordCampNYC – Nov 14-15" src="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/files/2009/10/wcnyc-wish-125.jpg" /></a>This year at <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp New York</a> there will be a whole track dedicated to WordPress MU and BuddyPress. Some of the topics being presented are:</p>
<p><strong>Getting off the Farm:</strong><br />WPMU Beyond Blog Hosting. We all know that WPMU can be used to host multiple blogs for public or internal signups. But what else can you do? How far can you stretch it? I’ll be showcasing a number of sites that use WPMU in interesting ways. Speaker: Andrea Rennick.</p>
<p><strong>Writing Plugins for WordPress/MU:</strong><br />This session will be directed toward plugin developers. We will discuss platform differences &#038; guidelines to keep in mind when writing a plugin for both WordPress &#038; WordPress MU. Speaker: Ron Rennick.</p>
<p><strong>User Authentication with MU in Existing Ecosystems.</strong><br />Speaker: Casey Bisson.</p>
<p><strong>How-to with MU: Using Multiple Domains, and Building a Member Directory.</strong><br />A two-part session where we will dig in to two different concepts. First up, we’ll cover how to domain map member blogs, and the difference between multiple sites and multiple domains. The second half will cover how we built a business/member directory and what plugins we used to accomplish this so you can build one too. Speaker: Andrea Rennick.</p>
<p><strong>Growing Community with BuddyPress:</strong><br />Speaker: Lisa Sabin-Wilson.</p>
<p><strong>Creating Killer Group Extensions in BuddyPress:</strong><br />In this session learn how to build highly custom feature extensions to BuddyPress groups. Andy will be talking through how you can use the new group extension API to build Twitter stream integration right into your groups. Speaker: Andy Peatling.</p>
<p><strong>Developing BuddyPress as a Collaboration Hub:</strong><br />In this presentation, I’ll discuss some of the BuddyPress development I’ve done to bridge the WordPress/bbPress/MediaWiki platforms, taking BP beyond its roots as a social networking platform and turning it into a collaboration hub: a space where users can find, friend, and team up with each other (the social networking part BP that does well), work together to produce content (that’s the “collaboration” part), and feed the content back into BP (that’s the “hub” part). Speaker: Boone Gorges.</p>
<p>Other soon-to-be confirmed sessions: Setting up BuddyPress (workshop); BuddyPress theme framework.</p>
<p>For a full list of sessions please see the <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/program">program page</a>.</p>
<p>It should be a fantastic event with space for up to 1000 people. Tickets are selling out fast so if you&#8217;re thinking of attending, now is the time to hop in and <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/tickets/">buy a ticket</a>. It looks like this is going to be <strong>the</strong> east coast WordCamp to attend. I&#8217;ll see you all there!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:45:17 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Andy Peatling";}s:7:"summary";s:3124:"<p><a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org" title="WordCampNYC – Nov 14-15"><img alt="WordCampNYC – Nov 14-15" src="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/files/2009/10/wcnyc-wish-125.jpg" /></a>This year at <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp New York</a> there will be a whole track dedicated to WordPress MU and BuddyPress. Some of the topics being presented are:</p>
<p><strong>Getting off the Farm:</strong><br />WPMU Beyond Blog Hosting. We all know that WPMU can be used to host multiple blogs for public or internal signups. But what else can you do? How far can you stretch it? I’ll be showcasing a number of sites that use WPMU in interesting ways. Speaker: Andrea Rennick.</p>
<p><strong>Writing Plugins for WordPress/MU:</strong><br />This session will be directed toward plugin developers. We will discuss platform differences &#038; guidelines to keep in mind when writing a plugin for both WordPress &#038; WordPress MU. Speaker: Ron Rennick.</p>
<p><strong>User Authentication with MU in Existing Ecosystems.</strong><br />Speaker: Casey Bisson.</p>
<p><strong>How-to with MU: Using Multiple Domains, and Building a Member Directory.</strong><br />A two-part session where we will dig in to two different concepts. First up, we’ll cover how to domain map member blogs, and the difference between multiple sites and multiple domains. The second half will cover how we built a business/member directory and what plugins we used to accomplish this so you can build one too. Speaker: Andrea Rennick.</p>
<p><strong>Growing Community with BuddyPress:</strong><br />Speaker: Lisa Sabin-Wilson.</p>
<p><strong>Creating Killer Group Extensions in BuddyPress:</strong><br />In this session learn how to build highly custom feature extensions to BuddyPress groups. Andy will be talking through how you can use the new group extension API to build Twitter stream integration right into your groups. Speaker: Andy Peatling.</p>
<p><strong>Developing BuddyPress as a Collaboration Hub:</strong><br />In this presentation, I’ll discuss some of the BuddyPress development I’ve done to bridge the WordPress/bbPress/MediaWiki platforms, taking BP beyond its roots as a social networking platform and turning it into a collaboration hub: a space where users can find, friend, and team up with each other (the social networking part BP that does well), work together to produce content (that’s the “collaboration” part), and feed the content back into BP (that’s the “hub” part). Speaker: Boone Gorges.</p>
<p>Other soon-to-be confirmed sessions: Setting up BuddyPress (workshop); BuddyPress theme framework.</p>
<p>For a full list of sessions please see the <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/program">program page</a>.</p>
<p>It should be a fantastic event with space for up to 1000 people. Tickets are selling out fast so if you&#8217;re thinking of attending, now is the time to hop in and <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/tickets/">buy a ticket</a>. It looks like this is going to be <strong>the</strong> east coast WordCamp to attend. I&#8217;ll see you all there!</p>";}}s:7:"channel";a:5:{s:5:"title";s:16:"WordPress Planet";s:4:"link";s:28:"http://planet.wordpress.org/";s:8:"language";s:2:"en";s:11:"description";s:47:"WordPress Planet - http://planet.wordpress.org/";s:7:"tagline";s:47:"WordPress Planet - http://planet.wordpress.org/";}s:9:"textinput";a:0:{}s:5:"image";a:0:{}s:9:"feed_type";s:3:"RSS";s:12:"feed_version";s:3:"2.0";s:5:"stack";a:0:{}s:9:"inchannel";b:0;s:6:"initem";b:0;s:9:"incontent";b:0;s:11:"intextinput";b:0;s:7:"inimage";b:0;s:13:"current_field";s:0:"";s:17:"current_namespace";b:0;s:19:"_CONTENT_CONSTRUCTS";a:6:{i:0;s:7:"content";i:1;s:7:"summary";i:2;s:4:"info";i:3;s:5:"title";i:4;s:7:"tagline";i:5;s:9:"copyright";}}