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file allows a new constant called SECRET_KEY
which basically is meant to introduce a little permanent randomness into the cryptographic functions used for cookies in WordPress. You can visit this link we set up to get a unique secret key for your config file. (It’s unique and random on every page load.) Having this line in your config file helps secure your blog.
Many thanks to Steven Murdoch for responsibly reporting the security issue (CVE-2008-1930) and Alex Concha for reporting an XSS issue.
\n";}i:2;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:23:"An Event Apart Discount";s:4:"link";s:65:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/an-event-apart-discount/";s:8:"comments";s:74:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/an-event-apart-discount/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:33:19 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:8:"category";s:36:"Eventsan event aparthappy cogzeldman";s:4:"guid";s:65:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/an-event-apart-discount/";s:11:"description";s:321:"An Event Apart is a web design and development conference which features some of the same fine folks who helped out with WordPress 2.5. (And many others.) I attended the one in Chicago a while back and was engaged the whole day in interesting talks on design, writing copy as interface, advanced CSS, and creativity [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1194:"An Event Apart is a web design and development conference which features some of the same fine folks who helped out with WordPress 2.5. (And many others.) I attended the one in Chicago a while back and was engaged the whole day in interesting talks on design, writing copy as interface, advanced CSS, and creativity — each topic presented by the leading folks in the field.
\nThe conference normally costs just under a thousand dollars to attend, which is well worth it, but because of our association with the folks they’ve set up a discount for WordPress users.
\nIf you enter AEAWP on checkout the price drops to $795, or $200 below the regular registration fee. The coupon is unlimited, and can be used for one ticket or five. They have events coming up in New Orleans, Boston, San Francisco, and Chicago. You can learn more and register on their site at aneventapart.com.
\nWe’ll also have some final dates for WordCamp San Francisco coming up, I’ll be posting those soonish so people can start making vacation and travel plans. (Nothing like a blogging vacation.)
\n";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:70:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/an-event-apart-discount/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:321:"An Event Apart is a web design and development conference which features some of the same fine folks who helped out with WordPress 2.5. (And many others.) I attended the one in Chicago a while back and was engaged the whole day in interesting talks on design, writing copy as interface, advanced CSS, and creativity [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1194:"An Event Apart is a web design and development conference which features some of the same fine folks who helped out with WordPress 2.5. (And many others.) I attended the one in Chicago a while back and was engaged the whole day in interesting talks on design, writing copy as interface, advanced CSS, and creativity — each topic presented by the leading folks in the field.
\nThe conference normally costs just under a thousand dollars to attend, which is well worth it, but because of our association with the folks they’ve set up a discount for WordPress users.
\nIf you enter AEAWP on checkout the price drops to $795, or $200 below the regular registration fee. The coupon is unlimited, and can be used for one ticket or five. They have events coming up in New Orleans, Boston, San Francisco, and Chicago. You can learn more and register on their site at aneventapart.com.
\nWe’ll also have some final dates for WordCamp San Francisco coming up, I’ll be posting those soonish so people can start making vacation and travel plans. (Nothing like a blogging vacation.)
\n";}i:3;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:13:"WordPress 2.5";s:4:"link";s:62:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-brecker/";s:8:"comments";s:71:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-brecker/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:49:45 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:8:"category";s:8:"Releases";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=228";s:11:"description";s:391:"WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:15112:"WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, concurrent post editing protection, full-screen writing, and search that covers posts and pages.
\nFor a short overview of the features with screenshots, it’d be best to visit our sneak peek announcement for RC1. Or check out a 4-minute screencast of the new interface in action. If you just want to jump straight to the good stuff here’s where you can find 2.5 upgrade and download information.
\nIf you want to see everything I would grab a cup of coffee or a mojito, because this post is epic.
\nCleaner, faster, less cluttered dashboard — we’ve worked hard to take your feedback about what’s most important in the dashboard and organize things to allow you to focus on what’s important — your blog — and get out of your way. In collaboration with Happy Cog and the community we’ve taken the first major step forward in the WordPress interface since version 1.5.
\nDashboard Widgets — the dashboard home page is now a series of widgets, including ones to show you fun stats about your posting, latest comments, people linking to you, new and popular plugins, and of course WordPress news. You can customize any of the dashboard widgets to show, for example, news from your local paper instead of WP news. Plugins can also hook in, for example the WordPress.com stats widget adds a handy double-wide stats box.
\n\nMulti-file upload with progress bar — before when you would upload a large file you’d wait forever, never knowing how far along it was. And uploading more than one photo was an exercise in patience, as you could only do one at a time. Now you can select a whole of folder images or music or videos at once and it’ll show you the progress of each upload.
\nBonus: EXIF extraction — if you upload JPEG files with EXIF metadata like camera make and model, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, et al. WordPress will extract all the data into custom fields you can use in your template. If you use the EXIF title fields or similar those will be put into their equivalent fields in WP. Most modern digital cameras generate EXIF data.
\nSearch posts and pages — search used to cover just posts, now it includes pages too, a great boon for those using WordPress as a CMS. New themes can style or sort pages differently in results.
\nTag management — you can now add, rename, delete, and do whatever else you like to tags from inside WordPress, no plugins needed.
\nPassword strength meter — when you change your password on your profile it’ll tell you how strong your password is to help you pick a good one.
\nConcurrent editing protection — for those of you on multi-author blogs, have you ever opened a post while someone was already editing it, and your auto-saves kept overwriting each other, irrecoverably losing hours of work? I bet that added a few words to your vocabulary. Now if you open a post that someone else is editing, WordPress magically locks it and prevents you from saving until the other person is done. You’ll see a message like below.
\n\nFew-click plugin upgrades — if the plugins you use are part of the plugin directory since 2.3 we’ve told you when they have an update available. Now we take that to the next logical step — downloading and installing the upgrade for you. This is dependent a little bit on your host setup, and it may ask you for your FTP password much like OS X or Windows will ask you for a password, but it works well on majority of hosts we were able to test, your mileage may very, plugins in mirror may be larger than they appear.
\nFriendlier visual post editor — I’m not sure how to articulate this improvement except to say “it doesn’t mess with your code anymore.” We’re now using version 3.0 of TinyMCE, which means better compatibility with Safari, and we’ve paid particular attention this release to its integration and interaction with complex HTML. It also now has a “no-distractions” mode which is like Writeroom for your browser.
\nBuilt-in galleries — when you take advantage of multi-file upload to upload a bunch of photos, we have a new shortcode that lets you to easily embed galleries by just putting [ gallery] (without the space) in your post. It’ll display all your thumbnails and captions and each will link each to a page where people can comment on the individual photos. I’ve been using this feature on my blog and have already uploaded over 1,200 pictures into 23 galleries. The shortcode has some hidden options too, check out this documentation.
\nNow for the geeky stuff. While we’re excited about the above features, each one represents a new opportunity or API for other developers to take to another level. (The best of which we’ll someday integrate back into WP.)
\nSalted passwords — we now use the phpass library to stretch and salt all passwords stored in the database, which makes brute-forcing them impractical. If you use something like mod_auth_mysql we’ve created a plugin that will allow you to use legacy MD5 hashing. (The hashing is completely pluggable.) Users will automatically switch to the more secure passwords next time they log in.
\nSecure cookies — cookies are now encrypted based on the protocol described in this PDF paper. which is something like user name|expiration time|HMAC( user name|expiration time, k)
where k = HMAC(user name|expiration time, sk)
and where sk
is a secret key, which you can define in your config.
Easy taxonomy and URL creation — probably best illustrated with an example: I can call register_taxonomy()
with a few arguments to register a “people” taxonomy and whenever I edit an image I’ll see a UI like tags has for identifying the people in a photo, and these will be URL addressable with /person/firstname-lastname/
. All with a single function call.
Inline documentation — the vast majority of the new code going into WordPress include inline documentation that explains the functions and documents their arguments.
\nDatabase optimization — we haven’t changed the table layout in this release, which is one of the reasons so many plugins work fine with 2.5. We have added a few new indicies and made a few default fields more flexible based on some bottlenecks we found on WordPress.com, which now hosts 2.7 million WordPress blogs. It should be invisible to the application, just a bit faster on the database side.
\n$wpdb->prepare() — now almost all of the SQL in WordPress is prepared first, and the same functions are available to your plugins. This should prevent elementary SQL escaping issues.
\nMedia buttons — the add media buttons above the post are both expandable, so you could have an “Add Google Map” button if you like, They can be overridden, so if you think you can do the video or audio tab better than we have you can replace the default.
\nShortcode API — the new gallery functionality is powered by the new shortcode API. Shortcodes are little bracket-delineated strings that can be magically expanded at runtime to something more interesting. They give users a short, easy to type and copy/paste string they can move around their post without worrying about messing up complex HTML or embed codes. The Shortcode API is fully documented.
\nNow you see why 2.5 took a little extra time.
\n2.5 does include security fixes so it is recommended for all users, the 2.3 branch will no longer be updated. The upgrade instructions for this version are pretty much the same as any other version. The most important thing to check is your plugins, so if for example everything works except the new uploader, a legacy plugin might be causing a javascript error on the page and breaking it. If something goes wrong, the safest thing to do is turn your plugins off (we have a button to do them all at once, now) and turn them back on one-by-one, testing the problem along the way. This has solved almost everybody’s problems in testing, and it also lets you know which plugin author to show some love to so they’ll update their plugin, and which plugin authors already have so you can shower them with praises on your blog.
\nOne brief note about some of the new upload and plugin upgrade features, there are some edge-case hosting platforms, like versions of Lighttpd before 1.5 or over-agressive mod_security rules, which can break. If something isn’t working like it was looked in the screenshot, ask your host if there’s something on the server side which may be interfering. Hosts, feel free to join and post to our wp-testers mailing list if you have an environment that requires some extra code to work around. We’d be happy to include it in the next update.
\nQuick tip: in 2.5 you click the name of things to edit them, like your username to edit your profile or the title of a post to edit it.
\nMore than growing, it’s on fire. We always talk about things like downloads, and the 2.3 branch has already had 1.92 million downloads as I write this post, but this time we have some far more interesting information I’d like to share.
\nThere were over 1,200 commits to our repository since 2.3.0 and over 90 people were credited in them. This means in our core code, not plugins, there were at least 90 individual folks that contributed something high-quality enough that it made the cut to be part of the download you guys get today. I had no idea this group of people was so large.
\nOutside of the core commit team, there was particular help from these people, in rough order of number of credits and tickets: mdawaffe (Michael Adams), azaozz (Andrew Ozz), nbachiyski (Nikolay Bachiyski), andy (Andy Skelton), iammattthomas (Matt Thomas), tellyworth (Alex Shiels), josephscott (Joseph Scott), lloydbudd (Lloyd Budd), DD32 (Dion), filosofo (Austin Matzko), hansengel (Hans Engel), pishmishy, ffemtcj, Viper007Bond, ionfish (Benedict Eastaugh), jhodgdon (Jennifer Hodgdon), Otto42, thee17 (Charles E. Free-Melvin), and xknown. Also want to thank MichaelH and Lorelle on the documentation side, and moshu, Kafkaesqui, whooami, MichaelH, Otto42, and jeremyclark13 for helping with support.
\nThe 2.5 branch is nicknamed “Brecker” in honor of Michael Brecker, an exceptionally talented saxophonist who could cross styles effortlessly and never stopped experimenting and pushing himself until he passed away last year.
\nAll of this wasn’t enough, so in our copious spare time we decided to redesign WordPress.org to better match the aesthetics of the new dashboard and also to spruce up a few areas that needed lovin’. Some parts of the site, like the Codex, might show the old style for a day or two. We know, just give us a bit of time. Thanks to Matt Thomas for his epic effort in designing and coding the new site.
\nAs always with WordPress, we don’t claim any of these features to be perfect, or to be better than everyone else in the world, but they are done by and for the people and the one thing we do promise is that with every release we listen and do our best to improve.
\n2.5 is a major milestone for WordPress not because it added dozens of user-requested features, but because it reaffirms that we’re as passionate about blogging as the day we started. Our community is too fierce to rest on its laurels — contrary to what pundits claim, blogging is far from “finished” and every improvement just whets our appetite for more. And more is coming.
\nIt’s a good thing WordPress doesn’t limit the length of posts, because this one would have hit it. If you made it this far, thanks for sharing a bit of your day with us. I sincerely hope this new version of WordPress helps you do what you love to do.
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\nFor a short overview of the features with screenshots, it’d be best to visit our sneak peek announcement for RC1. Or check out a 4-minute screencast of the new interface in action. If you just want to jump straight to the good stuff here’s where you can find 2.5 upgrade and download information.
\nIf you want to see everything I would grab a cup of coffee or a mojito, because this post is epic.
\nCleaner, faster, less cluttered dashboard — we’ve worked hard to take your feedback about what’s most important in the dashboard and organize things to allow you to focus on what’s important — your blog — and get out of your way. In collaboration with Happy Cog and the community we’ve taken the first major step forward in the WordPress interface since version 1.5.
\nDashboard Widgets — the dashboard home page is now a series of widgets, including ones to show you fun stats about your posting, latest comments, people linking to you, new and popular plugins, and of course WordPress news. You can customize any of the dashboard widgets to show, for example, news from your local paper instead of WP news. Plugins can also hook in, for example the WordPress.com stats widget adds a handy double-wide stats box.
\n\nMulti-file upload with progress bar — before when you would upload a large file you’d wait forever, never knowing how far along it was. And uploading more than one photo was an exercise in patience, as you could only do one at a time. Now you can select a whole of folder images or music or videos at once and it’ll show you the progress of each upload.
\nBonus: EXIF extraction — if you upload JPEG files with EXIF metadata like camera make and model, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, et al. WordPress will extract all the data into custom fields you can use in your template. If you use the EXIF title fields or similar those will be put into their equivalent fields in WP. Most modern digital cameras generate EXIF data.
\nSearch posts and pages — search used to cover just posts, now it includes pages too, a great boon for those using WordPress as a CMS. New themes can style or sort pages differently in results.
\nTag management — you can now add, rename, delete, and do whatever else you like to tags from inside WordPress, no plugins needed.
\nPassword strength meter — when you change your password on your profile it’ll tell you how strong your password is to help you pick a good one.
\nConcurrent editing protection — for those of you on multi-author blogs, have you ever opened a post while someone was already editing it, and your auto-saves kept overwriting each other, irrecoverably losing hours of work? I bet that added a few words to your vocabulary. Now if you open a post that someone else is editing, WordPress magically locks it and prevents you from saving until the other person is done. You’ll see a message like below.
\n\nFew-click plugin upgrades — if the plugins you use are part of the plugin directory since 2.3 we’ve told you when they have an update available. Now we take that to the next logical step — downloading and installing the upgrade for you. This is dependent a little bit on your host setup, and it may ask you for your FTP password much like OS X or Windows will ask you for a password, but it works well on majority of hosts we were able to test, your mileage may very, plugins in mirror may be larger than they appear.
\nFriendlier visual post editor — I’m not sure how to articulate this improvement except to say “it doesn’t mess with your code anymore.” We’re now using version 3.0 of TinyMCE, which means better compatibility with Safari, and we’ve paid particular attention this release to its integration and interaction with complex HTML. It also now has a “no-distractions” mode which is like Writeroom for your browser.
\nBuilt-in galleries — when you take advantage of multi-file upload to upload a bunch of photos, we have a new shortcode that lets you to easily embed galleries by just putting [ gallery] (without the space) in your post. It’ll display all your thumbnails and captions and each will link each to a page where people can comment on the individual photos. I’ve been using this feature on my blog and have already uploaded over 1,200 pictures into 23 galleries. The shortcode has some hidden options too, check out this documentation.
\nNow for the geeky stuff. While we’re excited about the above features, each one represents a new opportunity or API for other developers to take to another level. (The best of which we’ll someday integrate back into WP.)
\nSalted passwords — we now use the phpass library to stretch and salt all passwords stored in the database, which makes brute-forcing them impractical. If you use something like mod_auth_mysql we’ve created a plugin that will allow you to use legacy MD5 hashing. (The hashing is completely pluggable.) Users will automatically switch to the more secure passwords next time they log in.
\nSecure cookies — cookies are now encrypted based on the protocol described in this PDF paper. which is something like user name|expiration time|HMAC( user name|expiration time, k)
where k = HMAC(user name|expiration time, sk)
and where sk
is a secret key, which you can define in your config.
Easy taxonomy and URL creation — probably best illustrated with an example: I can call register_taxonomy()
with a few arguments to register a “people” taxonomy and whenever I edit an image I’ll see a UI like tags has for identifying the people in a photo, and these will be URL addressable with /person/firstname-lastname/
. All with a single function call.
Inline documentation — the vast majority of the new code going into WordPress include inline documentation that explains the functions and documents their arguments.
\nDatabase optimization — we haven’t changed the table layout in this release, which is one of the reasons so many plugins work fine with 2.5. We have added a few new indicies and made a few default fields more flexible based on some bottlenecks we found on WordPress.com, which now hosts 2.7 million WordPress blogs. It should be invisible to the application, just a bit faster on the database side.
\n$wpdb->prepare() — now almost all of the SQL in WordPress is prepared first, and the same functions are available to your plugins. This should prevent elementary SQL escaping issues.
\nMedia buttons — the add media buttons above the post are both expandable, so you could have an “Add Google Map” button if you like, They can be overridden, so if you think you can do the video or audio tab better than we have you can replace the default.
\nShortcode API — the new gallery functionality is powered by the new shortcode API. Shortcodes are little bracket-delineated strings that can be magically expanded at runtime to something more interesting. They give users a short, easy to type and copy/paste string they can move around their post without worrying about messing up complex HTML or embed codes. The Shortcode API is fully documented.
\nNow you see why 2.5 took a little extra time.
\n2.5 does include security fixes so it is recommended for all users, the 2.3 branch will no longer be updated. The upgrade instructions for this version are pretty much the same as any other version. The most important thing to check is your plugins, so if for example everything works except the new uploader, a legacy plugin might be causing a javascript error on the page and breaking it. If something goes wrong, the safest thing to do is turn your plugins off (we have a button to do them all at once, now) and turn them back on one-by-one, testing the problem along the way. This has solved almost everybody’s problems in testing, and it also lets you know which plugin author to show some love to so they’ll update their plugin, and which plugin authors already have so you can shower them with praises on your blog.
\nOne brief note about some of the new upload and plugin upgrade features, there are some edge-case hosting platforms, like versions of Lighttpd before 1.5 or over-agressive mod_security rules, which can break. If something isn’t working like it was looked in the screenshot, ask your host if there’s something on the server side which may be interfering. Hosts, feel free to join and post to our wp-testers mailing list if you have an environment that requires some extra code to work around. We’d be happy to include it in the next update.
\nQuick tip: in 2.5 you click the name of things to edit them, like your username to edit your profile or the title of a post to edit it.
\nMore than growing, it’s on fire. We always talk about things like downloads, and the 2.3 branch has already had 1.92 million downloads as I write this post, but this time we have some far more interesting information I’d like to share.
\nThere were over 1,200 commits to our repository since 2.3.0 and over 90 people were credited in them. This means in our core code, not plugins, there were at least 90 individual folks that contributed something high-quality enough that it made the cut to be part of the download you guys get today. I had no idea this group of people was so large.
\nOutside of the core commit team, there was particular help from these people, in rough order of number of credits and tickets: mdawaffe (Michael Adams), azaozz (Andrew Ozz), nbachiyski (Nikolay Bachiyski), andy (Andy Skelton), iammattthomas (Matt Thomas), tellyworth (Alex Shiels), josephscott (Joseph Scott), lloydbudd (Lloyd Budd), DD32 (Dion), filosofo (Austin Matzko), hansengel (Hans Engel), pishmishy, ffemtcj, Viper007Bond, ionfish (Benedict Eastaugh), jhodgdon (Jennifer Hodgdon), Otto42, thee17 (Charles E. Free-Melvin), and xknown. Also want to thank MichaelH and Lorelle on the documentation side, and moshu, Kafkaesqui, whooami, MichaelH, Otto42, and jeremyclark13 for helping with support.
\nThe 2.5 branch is nicknamed “Brecker” in honor of Michael Brecker, an exceptionally talented saxophonist who could cross styles effortlessly and never stopped experimenting and pushing himself until he passed away last year.
\nAll of this wasn’t enough, so in our copious spare time we decided to redesign WordPress.org to better match the aesthetics of the new dashboard and also to spruce up a few areas that needed lovin’. Some parts of the site, like the Codex, might show the old style for a day or two. We know, just give us a bit of time. Thanks to Matt Thomas for his epic effort in designing and coding the new site.
\nAs always with WordPress, we don’t claim any of these features to be perfect, or to be better than everyone else in the world, but they are done by and for the people and the one thing we do promise is that with every release we listen and do our best to improve.
\n2.5 is a major milestone for WordPress not because it added dozens of user-requested features, but because it reaffirms that we’re as passionate about blogging as the day we started. Our community is too fierce to rest on its laurels — contrary to what pundits claim, blogging is far from “finished” and every improvement just whets our appetite for more. And more is coming.
\nIt’s a good thing WordPress doesn’t limit the length of posts, because this one would have hit it. If you made it this far, thanks for sharing a bit of your day with us. I sincerely hope this new version of WordPress helps you do what you love to do.
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\n\n
I’ve uploaded more than a thousand photos already into the new gallery system — it works.
\n(This was my first screencast, but I hope we can have more on WordPress.org and our documentation in the future.)
\nIf you make frequent backups and you’re interested in helping us out with development by testing the very latest, download and install Release Candidate 2 of WordPress 2.5, and join our testers mailing list to report any bugs you find in the code.
\nFinally with regards to theme and plugin compatibility, we’ve had no reports of any broken themes in this upgrade, which makes sense because we didn’t really change anything core about themes, just added new optional capabilities like Gravatars. Plugins that work with the admin may require updating to take advantage of the new, cleaner UI in WordPress 2.5.
\nThe community has started to keep a list here of which plugins work great and which don’t. It’s worth looking at, or even better just deactivate your plugins before upgrading for 2.5 and let the built-in updater notify and give you one-click upgrades to plugins you have installed, assuming the developer is cool and has updated their code for 2.5 already.
\n";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:63:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-rc2/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:334:"2.5 is coming along thanks to the fantastic feedback you guys provided on RC1 (over 580 pingbacks and counting), and we’re now ready to show you a bit more of a peek with a short screencast covering the new dashboard and uploader and Release Candidate 2. First here’s the screencast, which is also available embedded [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:2991:"2.5 is coming along thanks to the fantastic feedback you guys provided on RC1 (over 580 pingbacks and counting), and we’re now ready to show you a bit more of a peek with a short screencast covering the new dashboard and uploader and Release Candidate 2. First here’s the screencast, which is also available embedded below, as a Flash movie, or as a 17mb AVI download:
\n\n
I’ve uploaded more than a thousand photos already into the new gallery system — it works.
\n(This was my first screencast, but I hope we can have more on WordPress.org and our documentation in the future.)
\nIf you make frequent backups and you’re interested in helping us out with development by testing the very latest, download and install Release Candidate 2 of WordPress 2.5, and join our testers mailing list to report any bugs you find in the code.
\nFinally with regards to theme and plugin compatibility, we’ve had no reports of any broken themes in this upgrade, which makes sense because we didn’t really change anything core about themes, just added new optional capabilities like Gravatars. Plugins that work with the admin may require updating to take advantage of the new, cleaner UI in WordPress 2.5.
\nThe community has started to keep a list here of which plugins work great and which don’t. It’s worth looking at, or even better just deactivate your plugins before upgrading for 2.5 and let the built-in updater notify and give you one-click upgrades to plugins you have installed, assuming the developer is cool and has updated their code for 2.5 already.
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\nFor the past few months, we’ve been working with our friends at Happy Cog — Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria, and Liz Danzico — to redesign WordPress from the ground-up. The result is a new way of interacting with WordPress that will remain familiar to seasoned users while improving the experience for everyone. This isn’t just a fresh coat of paint — we’ve re-thought the look of WordPress, as well as how it’s organized so that you can forget about the software and focus on your own creative pursuits.
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\nThe Manage screens have been redesigned and unified so that now, managing your pages, posts, media, and comments all use similar, consistent interfaces. We’ve omitted superfluous information and made what’s important faster to find. We believe these changes will make you a faster, more proficient blogger.
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\nIf you make frequent backups and you’re interested in helping us out with development by testing the new code, download and install Release Candidate 1 of WordPress 2.5, and join our testers mailing list to report any bugs you find in the code.
\nWe’re also interested in feedback on the new interface and would love to hear your opinions, thoughts, rants, raves, and anything in between. We created a special email address just for the occasion: 2.5-feedback@wordpress.org.
\nThe software is basically done and stable, and could be released today, but we’d like to incorporate feedback from a wider audience before making it available to the general public. After a few days of your feedback we’ll set a final release date. Personally, I can’t wait.
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\nThe Manage screens have been redesigned and unified so that now, managing your pages, posts, media, and comments all use similar, consistent interfaces. We’ve omitted superfluous information and made what’s important faster to find. We believe these changes will make you a faster, more proficient blogger.
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\nIf you make frequent backups and you’re interested in helping us out with development by testing the new code, download and install Release Candidate 1 of WordPress 2.5, and join our testers mailing list to report any bugs you find in the code.
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\nSince we are talking security, remember to use strong passwords and change them regularly. While you’re updating WP and your plugins, consider refreshing your passwords.
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\nAs a little bonus, 2.3.2 allows you to define a custom DB error page. Place your custom template at wp-content/db-error.php. If WP has a problem connecting to your database, this page will displayed rather than the default error message.
\nFor more detail on what’s new in 2.3.2, view the list of fixed bugs and see the changes between 2.3.1 and 2.3.2.
\nSpecial thanks to Alex Concha for his help on this release.
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\n";}i:8;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:27:"Stay Warm, WordPress Hoodie";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/12/wordpress-hoodie/";s:8:"comments";s:67:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/12/wordpress-hoodie/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:39:05 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:8:"category";s:27:"Storefirefoxschwagwordpress";s:4:"guid";s:58:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/12/wordpress-hoodie/";s:11:"description";s:371:"A least for those of your in the Northern hemisphere, it’s been a little chilly recently. If you’re like me you’re thinking, “WordPress keeps my servers running hot, couldn’t it warm me too?”\nYes, it can.\n\nYou can now buy hip WordPress hoodies in our store so when you’re not blogging you can loiter around the neighborhood [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1059:"A least for those of your in the Northern hemisphere, it’s been a little chilly recently. If you’re like me you’re thinking, “WordPress keeps my servers running hot, couldn’t it warm me too?”
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\n\nYou can now buy hip WordPress hoodies in our store so when you’re not blogging you can loiter around the neighborhood like the people in the picture above. As before, we ship locally and internationally.
\nIf you find you’re still in the Open Source Hoodie mood afterward, you can check out this cool Firefox one from our friends at Mozilla.
\nHint: Buy the hoodie a size larger than you normally would, they run small. They’ll begin processing the orders on January 2nd.
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\nI’ve traveled so many times with things in my suitcase I just don’t think about it anymore, literally over a hundred trips over the last 4-5 years. This has shaken me a lot more than the incident a few weeks ago and I’m probably not going to check any electronics anymore. Jon Udell had something similar happen and found a story about packing a starter pistol to get your baggage treated differently. (Hat tip: Lloyd.)
\nSince relating this story a few other people have told me they’ve had things stolen when leaving Philadelphia specifically, it sounds like there might be a serious problem there, one that warrants investigation. US Airways is just sending me through the “lost luggage” form, so I doubt anything will change or happen. Be extra careful if you travel through there.
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";}i:1;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:56:"Weblog Tools Collection: GaMerZ WordPress Plugins Update";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3549";s:4:"link";s:85:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/15/gamerz-wordpress-plugins-update/";s:11:"description";s:2065:"Lester Chan’s GaMerZ has announced that he has unleashed the first wave of updates for 11 of his WordPress plugins. These include:
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\n*Note* I updated my GaMerZ plugins today on my personal blog through the plugin upgrader in 2.5 and all of them were upgraded successfully.
\nLester has been developing plugins for WordPress for quite some time now. We have praised Lester’s work at various occasions and we use many of his plugins actively on this site (including the post rating system you see below). He is a meticulous coder, provides extensive documentation, download options and demos and even provides his own support forums. Please be patient with his server, it takes a while to load the linked page but the downloads are mirrored, so they should be quick.
\nOn my own blog, I’m using at least seven of his plugins. If you are using one or more of Lester’s plugins, let us know in the comments.
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";}i:3;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases For 5/14";s:4:"guid";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/14/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-514/";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/14/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-514/";s:11:"description";s:2283:"\nFeed Wrangler is a simple plugin that allows one to create custom feeds for their WordPress blog. You can customize the structure of that feed by creating a corresponding file in your blog theme, otherwise the custom feed will default to your RSS2 feed.
\n\nGengo is a full featured plugin that provides multi-language blogging for WordPress. It allows for an unlimited number of translations and summaries for any post and provides template tags to display language information.
\n\nThe Donations Cloud plugin allows visitors to donate and leave a link with a link text. As soon as a donation is done, the blog is notified by PayPal, and the links will automatically appear on the receiver’s website (at a designated position)
\nTwitter Blaster is a plugin that will allow your visitors to post to your Twitter account.
\nThe Branded Admin Plugin plugin allows for the application of custom header and footer graphics to the WordPress Admin Section. It also removes WordPress links to better distinguish the site as a custom work and reinforce the sites branding.
\n\nImmerStat gets rid of the WordPress.com Stats widget from the Dashboard and replaces it with an ever-present .PNG in the top-right corner of the admin screen.
\nWhen you mouseover a commenter’s name you will see a tip appear displaying some information about that given commenter.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 15 May 2008 03:57:32 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:2283:"\nFeed Wrangler is a simple plugin that allows one to create custom feeds for their WordPress blog. You can customize the structure of that feed by creating a corresponding file in your blog theme, otherwise the custom feed will default to your RSS2 feed.
\n\nGengo is a full featured plugin that provides multi-language blogging for WordPress. It allows for an unlimited number of translations and summaries for any post and provides template tags to display language information.
\n\nThe Donations Cloud plugin allows visitors to donate and leave a link with a link text. As soon as a donation is done, the blog is notified by PayPal, and the links will automatically appear on the receiver’s website (at a designated position)
\nTwitter Blaster is a plugin that will allow your visitors to post to your Twitter account.
\nThe Branded Admin Plugin plugin allows for the application of custom header and footer graphics to the WordPress Admin Section. It also removes WordPress links to better distinguish the site as a custom work and reinforce the sites branding.
\n\nImmerStat gets rid of the WordPress.com Stats widget from the Dashboard and replaces it with an ever-present .PNG in the top-right corner of the admin screen.
\nWhen you mouseover a commenter’s name you will see a tip appear displaying some information about that given commenter.
";}i:4;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:23:"Matt: WP-based Bookings";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://ma.tt/2008/05/wp-based-bookings/";s:4:"link";s:39:"http://ma.tt/2008/05/wp-based-bookings/";s:11:"description";s:296:"\n";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 15 May 2008 01:41:57 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"glenda";}s:7:"summary";s:296:"StayPress is a collection of plugins that will turn a standard vanilla installation of WordPress or WordPress MU into a property management and bookings system.
\n";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:75:"Weblog Tools Collection: WP Plugin: Magnify.net Multimedia Search and Embed";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3546";s:4:"link";s:102:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/14/wp-plugin-magnifynet-multimedia-search-and-embed/";s:11:"description";s:1382:"StayPress is a collection of plugins that will turn a standard vanilla installation of WordPress or WordPress MU into a property management and bookings system.
Magnify.net has released a media search and upload tool in the form of a plugin for WordPress (and for Movable Type). The plugin requires WordPress 2.5 or above and the plugin lets the user search and embed video and images from a variety of networks into their posts. The plugin also provides the ability to shoot and publish videoblog posts using a webcam from within the WordPress and Movable Type platform and users can search and embed video from YouTube, AOL, Yahoo, BlipTV, Metacafe, DailyMotion, Clipsyndicate, Google Video, Veoh, Red Lasso, and more.
\nInstall is relatively simple, though it involves more than just uploading one file. The plugin adds a small button to the post page and provides a search and embed interface for the various multimedia elements including a tab for webcam capture and embed. I would imagine a natural extension of this plugin in the form of enabling video comments for blogs like Seesmic and a screencast capture tool would be a very nice addition for the future. Read more reviews and opinions on the new plugin on Techmeme.
\nDisclosure: Weblog Tools Videos is built on the Magnify.net service
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 14 May 2008 21:01:55 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1382:"Magnify.net has released a media search and upload tool in the form of a plugin for WordPress (and for Movable Type). The plugin requires WordPress 2.5 or above and the plugin lets the user search and embed video and images from a variety of networks into their posts. The plugin also provides the ability to shoot and publish videoblog posts using a webcam from within the WordPress and Movable Type platform and users can search and embed video from YouTube, AOL, Yahoo, BlipTV, Metacafe, DailyMotion, Clipsyndicate, Google Video, Veoh, Red Lasso, and more.
\nInstall is relatively simple, though it involves more than just uploading one file. The plugin adds a small button to the post page and provides a search and embed interface for the various multimedia elements including a tab for webcam capture and embed. I would imagine a natural extension of this plugin in the form of enabling video comments for blogs like Seesmic and a screencast capture tool would be a very nice addition for the future. Read more reviews and opinions on the new plugin on Techmeme.
\nDisclosure: Weblog Tools Videos is built on the Magnify.net service
";}i:6;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:44:"Weblog Tools Collection: Automattic Turns 21";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3525";s:4:"link";s:73:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/14/automattic-turns-21/";s:11:"description";s:5061:"Not 21 years old, but that is now the number of people employed by Automattic. As was reported by Ed Sutherland of ProBlogNews.com, Automattic has hired Warwick Poole, former director of systems at Vidavee which was recently acquired by Vignette. According to his job title as “Systemologist” Warwick will be in control of.
\n\nKeeping the barriers to online publishing low, by scaling the infrastructure which runs Wordpress.org, Wordpress.com, Akismet.com and other related projects.
But that wasn’t enough for me. I sent Warwick an email containing a few questions regarding his title, as well as his role within Automattic. Here are his responses.
\nJeff - First off, congratulations on becoming the 21st employee for Automattic.
\nWarwick - Thanks, I am very pleased to be involved with Automattic.
\nJeff - Mind telling us how this all came about?
\nWarwick - I am a longtime WordPress user. So I have known about the company for a while. I found Automattic’s recruitment note hidden in their HTTP headers (an innovation typical of this group) and got in contact. Then I met some of the Automattic team.
\nJeff - What will your primary focus be while employed by Automattic?
\nWarwick - For the next few weeks, supporting WordPress.com users and helping bloggers with any support questions they have. All new employees work the support desk for 3 weeks as a way to grok the user experience and to get to know the product(s) well. It’s a great idea. All companies should do this.
\nCheck this: http://automattic.com/about/how-we-work
\nJeff - Your role within the company has been labeled as a Systemologist, just what exactly does that mean?
\nWarwick - It’s a made up title, like some of the other Automattic titles I will be working in the Systems group which looks after the infrastructure powering WordPress.com, WordPress.org and Akismet, and some other projects no doubt.
\nJeff - The job criteria states that the employee will be working on keeping the barriers to publishing low while scaling various projects administered by Automattic. Can you give us a couple of your ideas on how you plan on improving the scalability of these projects?
\nWarwick - Thats not an official Automattic job criteria, I wrote that on my LinkedIn profile. To me, WordPress represents liberty: an instant global publishing system that is accessible to anyone who has the means to be online. The Automattic team is world class and an incredibly talented group of people and their systems are scaling already to impressive levels. This is accomplished with a team so small that it’s hard to fathom. I’ll be working with these guys.
\nJeff - What can the end users of the various projects administered under the Automattic umbrella look forward to with your employment?
\nWarwick - Someone who can speak Afrikaans. But most importantly, a vegetarian amongst the BBQ lovers at Automattic
\nWith the popularity of WordPress.com along with other Automattic projects increasing, Warwick will have plenty of work ahead of him to accomplish. But I think it’s reassuring to see Automattic take a vested interest in trying to make the WordPress software as scalable as possible. Keep in mind that WordPress.com and WordPress.org are live examples of what is capable with WordPress. What is accomplished by those two sites can be equally accomplished by anyone else.
\nCongratulations to Warwick for becoming the next member of the Automattic team.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 14 May 2008 12:14:07 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:5061:"Not 21 years old, but that is now the number of people employed by Automattic. As was reported by Ed Sutherland of ProBlogNews.com, Automattic has hired Warwick Poole, former director of systems at Vidavee which was recently acquired by Vignette. According to his job title as “Systemologist” Warwick will be in control of.
\n\nKeeping the barriers to online publishing low, by scaling the infrastructure which runs Wordpress.org, Wordpress.com, Akismet.com and other related projects.
But that wasn’t enough for me. I sent Warwick an email containing a few questions regarding his title, as well as his role within Automattic. Here are his responses.
\nJeff - First off, congratulations on becoming the 21st employee for Automattic.
\nWarwick - Thanks, I am very pleased to be involved with Automattic.
\nJeff - Mind telling us how this all came about?
\nWarwick - I am a longtime WordPress user. So I have known about the company for a while. I found Automattic’s recruitment note hidden in their HTTP headers (an innovation typical of this group) and got in contact. Then I met some of the Automattic team.
\nJeff - What will your primary focus be while employed by Automattic?
\nWarwick - For the next few weeks, supporting WordPress.com users and helping bloggers with any support questions they have. All new employees work the support desk for 3 weeks as a way to grok the user experience and to get to know the product(s) well. It’s a great idea. All companies should do this.
\nCheck this: http://automattic.com/about/how-we-work
\nJeff - Your role within the company has been labeled as a Systemologist, just what exactly does that mean?
\nWarwick - It’s a made up title, like some of the other Automattic titles I will be working in the Systems group which looks after the infrastructure powering WordPress.com, WordPress.org and Akismet, and some other projects no doubt.
\nJeff - The job criteria states that the employee will be working on keeping the barriers to publishing low while scaling various projects administered by Automattic. Can you give us a couple of your ideas on how you plan on improving the scalability of these projects?
\nWarwick - Thats not an official Automattic job criteria, I wrote that on my LinkedIn profile. To me, WordPress represents liberty: an instant global publishing system that is accessible to anyone who has the means to be online. The Automattic team is world class and an incredibly talented group of people and their systems are scaling already to impressive levels. This is accomplished with a team so small that it’s hard to fathom. I’ll be working with these guys.
\nJeff - What can the end users of the various projects administered under the Automattic umbrella look forward to with your employment?
\nWarwick - Someone who can speak Afrikaans. But most importantly, a vegetarian amongst the BBQ lovers at Automattic
\nWith the popularity of WordPress.com along with other Automattic projects increasing, Warwick will have plenty of work ahead of him to accomplish. But I think it’s reassuring to see Automattic take a vested interest in trying to make the WordPress software as scalable as possible. Keep in mind that WordPress.com and WordPress.org are live examples of what is capable with WordPress. What is accomplished by those two sites can be equally accomplished by anyone else.
\nCongratulations to Warwick for becoming the next member of the Automattic team.
";}i:7;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:74:"Mark Jaquith: Bob Barr enters U.S. presidential race, powered by WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/?p=150";s:4:"link";s:102:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/bob-barr-enters-us-presidential-race-powered-by-wordpress/";s:11:"description";s:1696:"Bob Barr, former Georgia Congressman, has announced a bid for the Libertarian nomination for president. He’s likely to receive it. Mr. Barr’s campaign blog is powered by WordPress. He even has open comments on his blog’s entries!
\nBob Barr, former Georgia Congressman, has announced a bid for the Libertarian nomination for president. He’s likely to receive it. Mr. Barr’s campaign blog is powered by WordPress. He even has open comments on his blog’s entries!
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R3colution Continued is a one column theme. Clicking on the menu image will show you a hidden content area which you can manage using a widget provided in the theme admin section.
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KeeSheep is a two column widget-ready theme which is made up of bright orange colors. The theme makes good use of rounded corners throughout the theme.
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Elegance is a two column widget-ready theme with light colors. It comes with the PSD source files to edit graphics. There’s a cool ajax text loader at the top and other effects.
\n\n\n
True Colours is a two column fixed-width, widget-ready theme which makes use of sea-blue and green colors.
\n\n\n
Corporate is a two column widget ready theme. The theme uses a flash based plugin to rotate header images. The rest of theme is simple and uses basic colors.
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YG Desire is a 2 column widget-ready themes. Theme uses deep background colors but the content area is plain white for maximum readability.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 13 May 2008 03:55:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:2677:"\n
R3colution Continued is a one column theme. Clicking on the menu image will show you a hidden content area which you can manage using a widget provided in the theme admin section.
\n\n
KeeSheep is a two column widget-ready theme which is made up of bright orange colors. The theme makes good use of rounded corners throughout the theme.
\n\n\n
Elegance is a two column widget-ready theme with light colors. It comes with the PSD source files to edit graphics. There’s a cool ajax text loader at the top and other effects.
\n\n\n
True Colours is a two column fixed-width, widget-ready theme which makes use of sea-blue and green colors.
\n\n\n
Corporate is a two column widget ready theme. The theme uses a flash based plugin to rotate header images. The rest of theme is simple and uses basic colors.
\n\n\n
YG Desire is a 2 column widget-ready themes. Theme uses deep background colors but the content area is plain white for maximum readability.
";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:21:"Matt: Milan Day Three";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=5406";s:4:"link";s:37:"http://ma.tt/2008/05/milan-day-three/";s:11:"description";s:22818:"A bit of sightseeing. Milan at sunset.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 12 May 2008 20:46:23 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:22818:"
A bit of sightseeing. Milan at sunset.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:66:"Weblog Tools Collection: Chronological Order of Comments on a Post";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3537";s:4:"link";s:95:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/12/chronological-order-of-comments-on-a-post/";s:11:"description";s:2679:"
I never get this right. There are times when I will be reading a post and it feels as if the chronological order of comments would make better sense. At other times, such as the comments on this post on IP Democracy (which has newest comments on top), seems opposite. I actually found it quite difficult and counter intuitive to read through the comments on that post to follow the story as it unfolded. Scrolling upwards on a post is just plain weird. On more popular posts, readers tend to complain when the list of comments grows beyond a certain number and they loose the forest for the trees. The TechCrunch comment threads are simply useless if you want to follow any part of the discussion and I tend to just read the highlighted ones from Michael or the other authors. On the other hand, comment reply threads are unwieldy, take up too much space and somehow fail to mirror forum discussions. Alternatively, outsourcing comments to a third party is just not an elegant or attractive solution for most people.
\nI feel that commenting systems on blogs need to evolve some more. Some blogs have decided to spin off comments to forums. Others have moved their comments to external services such as Disqus. Yet others like TechCrunch move comments to a linked forum for further discussion after the post has become somewhat stale.
\nWhat do forums have that comment threads on blogs do not? Are paged comments a good idea? Should comments threads be pruned by type? Are you more willing to participate in a forum discussion than post a comment on a blog? If that is the case, how could we enhance commenting on blogs to mimic the reader involvement of forums?
\nI don’t think there is a single right answer. However, I do consider our readers’ comments to be the lifeline of our blogs and shy away from shipping them off elsewhere. That being said, Disqus and Intense Debate have the right idea but the execution takes away from blog ownership. Comment editing and tagging, and comment to post and comment to commenter relationships need a lot more TLC if comments are to become as ubiquitous and as widely used as forum posts. Gravatars go a long way in bringing those relationships closer to a global audience but more needs to be done.
\nI would love to hear your thoughts on the present state of comments in the blogosphere. Did you come across a commenting system that bridges some of these gaps? Was there some feature that stuck with you or made you go Hmmm? What would make commenting less of a hurdle for you?
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 12 May 2008 20:32:17 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:2679:"I never get this right. There are times when I will be reading a post and it feels as if the chronological order of comments would make better sense. At other times, such as the comments on this post on IP Democracy (which has newest comments on top), seems opposite. I actually found it quite difficult and counter intuitive to read through the comments on that post to follow the story as it unfolded. Scrolling upwards on a post is just plain weird. On more popular posts, readers tend to complain when the list of comments grows beyond a certain number and they loose the forest for the trees. The TechCrunch comment threads are simply useless if you want to follow any part of the discussion and I tend to just read the highlighted ones from Michael or the other authors. On the other hand, comment reply threads are unwieldy, take up too much space and somehow fail to mirror forum discussions. Alternatively, outsourcing comments to a third party is just not an elegant or attractive solution for most people.
\nI feel that commenting systems on blogs need to evolve some more. Some blogs have decided to spin off comments to forums. Others have moved their comments to external services such as Disqus. Yet others like TechCrunch move comments to a linked forum for further discussion after the post has become somewhat stale.
\nWhat do forums have that comment threads on blogs do not? Are paged comments a good idea? Should comments threads be pruned by type? Are you more willing to participate in a forum discussion than post a comment on a blog? If that is the case, how could we enhance commenting on blogs to mimic the reader involvement of forums?
\nI don’t think there is a single right answer. However, I do consider our readers’ comments to be the lifeline of our blogs and shy away from shipping them off elsewhere. That being said, Disqus and Intense Debate have the right idea but the execution takes away from blog ownership. Comment editing and tagging, and comment to post and comment to commenter relationships need a lot more TLC if comments are to become as ubiquitous and as widely used as forum posts. Gravatars go a long way in bringing those relationships closer to a global audience but more needs to be done.
\nI would love to hear your thoughts on the present state of comments in the blogosphere. Did you come across a commenting system that bridges some of these gaps? Was there some feature that stuck with you or made you go Hmmm? What would make commenting less of a hurdle for you?
";}i:11;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:75:"Weblog Tools Collection: 15 Websites and,or Services I’d Actually Pay For";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3527";s:4:"link";s:109:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/11/15-websites-andor-services-i%e2%80%99d-actually-pay-for/";s:11:"description";s:4477:"15 Websites / Services I’d Actually Pay For Ryan lists fifteen websites/online services he would be willing to pay for, if they were not free. Worthy of note is the following in the list: Wordpress.org: The benefit of blogging with WP is so significant (SEO, functionality, flexibility) that it’s well worth paying for. I’d probably pay a $200 for an installation… which makes me realize how much I rely on the product.
\nThis is an incredibly interesting line of thought and I am sure a lot of Web 2.0 companies/services would kill to have more user data and input on this. I strongly believe that revenue models and monetization techniques are the stuff that make or break a company in spite of the fantastic idea/concept that it might provide. In that spirit, here is my list of 12 things online (15 things were hard to find quickly) I am willing to pay for.
\nWhat would you be willing to pay for? If famous OSS programs were not OSS, would you pay for them? Does the cost of software make it less or more attractive (not the relative cost, but just the fact that it is not free)? Would you pay for Twitter? How about Flickr or Google Analytics? What if TechCrunch went to a registration model? Would it still be as popular? How much do you spend on personal online services every month today? Are online vendors sharing more of your wallet today than say, two years ago? Do you think this trend will continue to increase?
\nThese are the kinds of things that keep me up at night.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 12 May 2008 00:15:04 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:4477:"15 Websites / Services I’d Actually Pay For Ryan lists fifteen websites/online services he would be willing to pay for, if they were not free. Worthy of note is the following in the list: Wordpress.org: The benefit of blogging with WP is so significant (SEO, functionality, flexibility) that it’s well worth paying for. I’d probably pay a $200 for an installation… which makes me realize how much I rely on the product.
\nThis is an incredibly interesting line of thought and I am sure a lot of Web 2.0 companies/services would kill to have more user data and input on this. I strongly believe that revenue models and monetization techniques are the stuff that make or break a company in spite of the fantastic idea/concept that it might provide. In that spirit, here is my list of 12 things online (15 things were hard to find quickly) I am willing to pay for.
\nWhat would you be willing to pay for? If famous OSS programs were not OSS, would you pay for them? Does the cost of software make it less or more attractive (not the relative cost, but just the fact that it is not free)? Would you pay for Twitter? How about Flickr or Google Analytics? What if TechCrunch went to a registration model? Would it still be as popular? How much do you spend on personal online services every month today? Are online vendors sharing more of your wallet today than say, two years ago? Do you think this trend will continue to increase?
\nThese are the kinds of things that keep me up at night.
";}i:12;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Lorelle on WP: Learning from the Voices of WordCamp Dallas";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=2546";s:4:"link";s:84:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/05/11/learning-from-the-voices-of-wordcamp-dallas/";s:11:"description";s:10584:"Charles Stricklin, the host of WordCamp Dallas 2008 and The WordPress Podcast has released The Voices of WordCamp Dallas, a collection of quick interviews and questions I asked during the event.
\nI was so amazed at how open everyone was, willing to share their thoughts on WordPress, WordCamp, blogging, and the magic of the web today. I talked to bloggers who had been blogging for years and newbies, with only a few weeks under their belts. It was a collection of the whose who and whose upcoming in the blogosphere and thank you to Charles for sharing the magic that his efforts brought together in one place.
\nSome of the interviews are excerpted and I hope to bring them to you in their entirety soon, so stay tuned. In the 30 minute set of The Voices of WordCamp Dallas, you will hear:
\n00.10 Bill Sholar of Webfratelli
\n00.37 Dan Bates
\n00.59 Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today
\n01.45 Ptah Dunbar
\n02.34 Bryan Lee
\n03:14 Cory Miller of iThemes Media
\n03:44 Henry Pugsley
\n04:07 Kerry Webster of WEBsmith internet consultants
\n04:44 Wendi McGowan of Wendistry, LLC and Scott Ellis of vsellis.com
\n05:36 Dave Curlee and Katherine Curlee of RealCookN.tv
\n06:28 DB Ferguson of No Fact Zone
\n07:48 Alexander Frison of Not a Niche
\n09:18 Tony Cecala of Holistic Networker
\n10:04 Mike Borschow of MetroQ.com
\n11:55 Mark Ghosh of Weblog Tools Collection
\n12:30 Dorian Karthauser of DK Enterprises (beginner blogger)
\n17:35 Charlene Mullenweg (sister of Matt Mullenweg)
\n23:15 Jim Halloran of AlcoholismDiseaseFree.com
\n24:13 Ryan Joy and Michelle Greer of Volusion and Michelle’s Blog
\n26:41 Kathleen Ratliff
\n27:14 William Addington of Williamedia
\n28:31 Doug Smith of smithsrus.com and Hide a Pod
\n29:25 Ronald Huereca of Readers Appreciation Project and Weblog Tools Collection
\n30:23 Dimitri (blog not public - biotech)
I look forward to repeating this fascinating dialog in future WordCamps and blogging events I travel to and speak at. It’s a humbling experience as I come to teach and come away learning more than I ever expected. Thank you to all for sharing your thoughts and passions with me!
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Charles Stricklin, the host of WordCamp Dallas 2008 and The WordPress Podcast has released The Voices of WordCamp Dallas, a collection of quick interviews and questions I asked during the event.
\nI was so amazed at how open everyone was, willing to share their thoughts on WordPress, WordCamp, blogging, and the magic of the web today. I talked to bloggers who had been blogging for years and newbies, with only a few weeks under their belts. It was a collection of the whose who and whose upcoming in the blogosphere and thank you to Charles for sharing the magic that his efforts brought together in one place.
\nSome of the interviews are excerpted and I hope to bring them to you in their entirety soon, so stay tuned. In the 30 minute set of The Voices of WordCamp Dallas, you will hear:
\n00.10 Bill Sholar of Webfratelli
\n00.37 Dan Bates
\n00.59 Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today
\n01.45 Ptah Dunbar
\n02.34 Bryan Lee
\n03:14 Cory Miller of iThemes Media
\n03:44 Henry Pugsley
\n04:07 Kerry Webster of WEBsmith internet consultants
\n04:44 Wendi McGowan of Wendistry, LLC and Scott Ellis of vsellis.com
\n05:36 Dave Curlee and Katherine Curlee of RealCookN.tv
\n06:28 DB Ferguson of No Fact Zone
\n07:48 Alexander Frison of Not a Niche
\n09:18 Tony Cecala of Holistic Networker
\n10:04 Mike Borschow of MetroQ.com
\n11:55 Mark Ghosh of Weblog Tools Collection
\n12:30 Dorian Karthauser of DK Enterprises (beginner blogger)
\n17:35 Charlene Mullenweg (sister of Matt Mullenweg)
\n23:15 Jim Halloran of AlcoholismDiseaseFree.com
\n24:13 Ryan Joy and Michelle Greer of Volusion and Michelle’s Blog
\n26:41 Kathleen Ratliff
\n27:14 William Addington of Williamedia
\n28:31 Doug Smith of smithsrus.com and Hide a Pod
\n29:25 Ronald Huereca of Readers Appreciation Project and Weblog Tools Collection
\n30:23 Dimitri (blog not public - biotech)
I look forward to repeating this fascinating dialog in future WordCamps and blogging events I travel to and speak at. It’s a humbling experience as I come to teach and come away learning more than I ever expected. Thank you to all for sharing your thoughts and passions with me!
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I’m testing out a new community tagging feature, you should see a form to add people tags on photo pages now. Try it out, particularly on the Milan/WordCamp galleries - day one and day two. Proposed tags go into a moderation queue, so they’ll show up after they’re approved.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 11 May 2008 13:48:13 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:407:"I’m testing out a new community tagging feature, you should see a form to add people tags on photo pages now. Try it out, particularly on the Milan/WordCamp galleries - day one and day two. Proposed tags go into a moderation queue, so they’ll show up after they’re approved.
";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:54:"Weblog Tools Collection: Theme Designers And Print.CSS";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3494";s:4:"link";s:82:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/11/theme-designers-and-printcss/";s:11:"description";s:3024:"Here at WeblogToolsCollection, we see quite a bit of WordPress theme releases coming through our inbox and I’ve noticed a trend. Hardly any of them include printing support. The question I’d like to have answered is why? Is adding printer support to WordPress themes too hard? Does adding this feature take up time? Or is it that this feature is barely any use to anyone?
\nFor those wanting to add this type of support to your theme, you can install WP-Print. WP-Print picks up where most theme authors have left off by providing printing support in such a way that end users can print either articles or comments, depending on how you have configured the plugin.
\nIn fact, doing a search on the plugin database for the keyword of “print” brought up two pages worth of search results. Another solution for you theme authors out there is called Bunny’s Print CSS. This plugin provides two files, print-css.php which is the plugin file and print.css which is the print stylesheet.
\n\nA link to the print stylesheet will be placed in your theme’s header, providing it uses the
wp_head()
function/hook. An admin panel is added to the Presentations menu and it will allow you to edit the stylesheet if you make print.css writeable. You probably want to edit the stylesheet provided to your liking, though it will hopefully do most of the job if your theme is sandbox-based.
This method takes most of the hard work out of creating a print.css file, even though theme authors would most likely have to modify the stylesheet to make it compatible with their theme.
\nFor those who would like to manually create the style sheet, there is an article on the Codex entitled “Styling For Print” which covers all of the basics necessary to make a pretty, yet functional print stylesheet to include with your theme/themes.
\nI hope that by linking to the Codex article and bringing this issue to light, we will start to see more themes being released with built in printing support. It’s not a deal breaker for me, but I’d rather see themes that support this feature than those that don’t. My personal opinion is that, printing support is a nice finishing touch to round off any theme, and having it built in allows me and a number of other users to stop using another plugin.
\nNow it’s time for you to sound off. Is this a trivial issue, or is there anyone else out there that would like to see this feature in more themes?
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 11 May 2008 12:03:19 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:3024:"Here at WeblogToolsCollection, we see quite a bit of WordPress theme releases coming through our inbox and I’ve noticed a trend. Hardly any of them include printing support. The question I’d like to have answered is why? Is adding printer support to WordPress themes too hard? Does adding this feature take up time? Or is it that this feature is barely any use to anyone?
\nFor those wanting to add this type of support to your theme, you can install WP-Print. WP-Print picks up where most theme authors have left off by providing printing support in such a way that end users can print either articles or comments, depending on how you have configured the plugin.
\nIn fact, doing a search on the plugin database for the keyword of “print” brought up two pages worth of search results. Another solution for you theme authors out there is called Bunny’s Print CSS. This plugin provides two files, print-css.php which is the plugin file and print.css which is the print stylesheet.
\n\nA link to the print stylesheet will be placed in your theme’s header, providing it uses the
wp_head()
function/hook. An admin panel is added to the Presentations menu and it will allow you to edit the stylesheet if you make print.css writeable. You probably want to edit the stylesheet provided to your liking, though it will hopefully do most of the job if your theme is sandbox-based.
This method takes most of the hard work out of creating a print.css file, even though theme authors would most likely have to modify the stylesheet to make it compatible with their theme.
\nFor those who would like to manually create the style sheet, there is an article on the Codex entitled “Styling For Print” which covers all of the basics necessary to make a pretty, yet functional print stylesheet to include with your theme/themes.
\nI hope that by linking to the Codex article and bringing this issue to light, we will start to see more themes being released with built in printing support. It’s not a deal breaker for me, but I’d rather see themes that support this feature than those that don’t. My personal opinion is that, printing support is a nice finishing touch to round off any theme, and having it built in allows me and a number of other users to stop using another plugin.
\nNow it’s time for you to sound off. Is this a trivial issue, or is there anyone else out there that would like to see this feature in more themes?
";}i:15;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:27:"Matt: WordCamp Milan Photos";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=5318";s:4:"link";s:43:"http://ma.tt/2008/05/wordcamp-milan-photos/";s:11:"description";s:17425:"Day two in Milano; WordCamp Italy.
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Day two in Milano; WordCamp Italy.
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Good day. I am Ajay D’Souza. I blog at http://ajaydsouza.com/ and http://techtites.com/. Those of you who have been following this blog for more than a year may remember my daily release posts as well as the A-Plugin-A-Day series. MBA life has kept me busy since then, but that’s another story.
\nAs part of my new assignment out here, I’ll be looking after the Plugin Competition. I’ll be maintaining the WordPress Plugin Competition Blog as well as making weekly posts both here and at the Competition Blog.
\nWith the WordPress Plugin Competition 2.5 beginning today, I thought I’d just write in with a few tips on making your entry.
\nFirstly, read the rules to be followed are listed in the post. Please make sure that your entry does not break any of them.
\nOne of the important rules that we have is that the plugins should be new, i.e. no updates to already existing plugins. One great place to get inspired is WordPress Ideas. WordPress Ideas is a place where the people from the WordPress Community, both users and developers vote for what they would like included in WordPress. Some have been implemented, while some may actually appear in future versions and still others that may not be. So, why not make a plugin to accommodate for the latter two?
\nYou can also hunt for ideas in these posts or this posting in our News Forum.
\nSomething that many authors forget in their zeal to develop a plugin (or a theme) is its documentation.
\nFirstly, make sure your plugin zip file contains a readme.txt. If needed, include a full fledged help section as well. You can also put this on the plugin release page on your site.
\nNext, create a separate page on your blog / site dedicated for the plugin. Posts are a no-no! They get lost in the crowd.
\nMake sure the page has the following:
\nWhen linking to the download file, one method I follow is to link to a file without any version etc. e.g. it reads simply pluginname.zip
. The purpose of this is that I can always update the zip file with the latest version of the plugin without bothering to change the link.
Old versions of the plugin can be archived as pluginname_v1.0.zip, pluginname_v1.1.zip and so on.
\nYou’ll need to send your plugin to us via email. We will reveal the email address that you need to send the plugins to in the second month of the competition.
\nThe competition is on for another two months, which gives you plenty of time to release a feature rich plugin.
\nBefore that, release a well tested version to the public. Fix any bugs that come up, try to provide more features as requested.
\nThe WordPress community is demanding and extremely helpful at guiding you down your path.
\nAll the best for now.
\nI’m sure you’ll love the competition and many of the plugins that stem from it. Authors are always hunting for ideas and who better to tell them than you. Please feel free to post your ideas in the comments section below.
\nOr, you can also post them in any of these two posts or this posting in our News Forum.
\nIf you would like to sponsor a prize or donate some money to the competition, please contact us. Lots of eyes see these competitions and your encouragement goes a long way in helping provide incentives.
\nStay tuned and please help spread the word.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 10 May 2008 04:01:27 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:4927:"Good day. I am Ajay D’Souza. I blog at http://ajaydsouza.com/ and http://techtites.com/. Those of you who have been following this blog for more than a year may remember my daily release posts as well as the A-Plugin-A-Day series. MBA life has kept me busy since then, but that’s another story.
\nAs part of my new assignment out here, I’ll be looking after the Plugin Competition. I’ll be maintaining the WordPress Plugin Competition Blog as well as making weekly posts both here and at the Competition Blog.
\nWith the WordPress Plugin Competition 2.5 beginning today, I thought I’d just write in with a few tips on making your entry.
\nFirstly, read the rules to be followed are listed in the post. Please make sure that your entry does not break any of them.
\nOne of the important rules that we have is that the plugins should be new, i.e. no updates to already existing plugins. One great place to get inspired is WordPress Ideas. WordPress Ideas is a place where the people from the WordPress Community, both users and developers vote for what they would like included in WordPress. Some have been implemented, while some may actually appear in future versions and still others that may not be. So, why not make a plugin to accommodate for the latter two?
\nYou can also hunt for ideas in these posts or this posting in our News Forum.
\nSomething that many authors forget in their zeal to develop a plugin (or a theme) is its documentation.
\nFirstly, make sure your plugin zip file contains a readme.txt. If needed, include a full fledged help section as well. You can also put this on the plugin release page on your site.
\nNext, create a separate page on your blog / site dedicated for the plugin. Posts are a no-no! They get lost in the crowd.
\nMake sure the page has the following:
\nWhen linking to the download file, one method I follow is to link to a file without any version etc. e.g. it reads simply pluginname.zip
. The purpose of this is that I can always update the zip file with the latest version of the plugin without bothering to change the link.
Old versions of the plugin can be archived as pluginname_v1.0.zip, pluginname_v1.1.zip and so on.
\nYou’ll need to send your plugin to us via email. We will reveal the email address that you need to send the plugins to in the second month of the competition.
\nThe competition is on for another two months, which gives you plenty of time to release a feature rich plugin.
\nBefore that, release a well tested version to the public. Fix any bugs that come up, try to provide more features as requested.
\nThe WordPress community is demanding and extremely helpful at guiding you down your path.
\nAll the best for now.
\nI’m sure you’ll love the competition and many of the plugins that stem from it. Authors are always hunting for ideas and who better to tell them than you. Please feel free to post your ideas in the comments section below.
\nOr, you can also post them in any of these two posts or this posting in our News Forum.
\nIf you would like to sponsor a prize or donate some money to the competition, please contact us. Lots of eyes see these competitions and your encouragement goes a long way in helping provide incentives.
\nStay tuned and please help spread the word.
";}i:17;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:57:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 5/9";s:4:"guid";s:85:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/09/wordpress-theme-releases-for-59/";s:4:"link";s:85:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/09/wordpress-theme-releases-for-59/";s:11:"description";s:2536:"\n
K2 is a popular WordPress theme which is not fully compatible with WordPress 2.5. The theme now has options to dynamically reduce the number of columns to fit screen size and also support for Hooks and PHP. The theme also has Avatar support and Image gallery templates for WordPress 2.5 and above.
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Daydreams is a 2 column minimalist theme for WordPress. The theme has not widget support.
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Starscape is a three column widget-ready theme which comes in three different colors, the theme also has a extended sidebar in the footer. You can turn the sidebar on or off from the Admin section.
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Choice is a simple three column theme which has a configuration file in the back-end that gives you a nice selection of options that control color choice, column amount, number of sidebars and more among other things.
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Aqua Marina a three column theme made up of blue colors, the content area is surrounded by two sidebars on either side. The theme also has a area on the top of the page which you can use to display latest posts, recent comments etc.
\n\n";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 10 May 2008 03:58:14 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:2536:"
\n
K2 is a popular WordPress theme which is not fully compatible with WordPress 2.5. The theme now has options to dynamically reduce the number of columns to fit screen size and also support for Hooks and PHP. The theme also has Avatar support and Image gallery templates for WordPress 2.5 and above.
\n\n\n
Daydreams is a 2 column minimalist theme for WordPress. The theme has not widget support.
\n\n
Starscape is a three column widget-ready theme which comes in three different colors, the theme also has a extended sidebar in the footer. You can turn the sidebar on or off from the Admin section.
\n\n\n
Choice is a simple three column theme which has a configuration file in the back-end that gives you a nice selection of options that control color choice, column amount, number of sidebars and more among other things.
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Aqua Marina a three column theme made up of blue colors, the content area is surrounded by two sidebars on either side. The theme also has a area on the top of the page which you can use to display latest posts, recent comments etc.
\n\n";}i:18;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:46:"Weblog Tools Collection: Opt In To Subscribing";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3526";s:4:"link";s:75:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/09/opt-in-to-subscribing/";s:11:"description";s:2139:"
While reading Lorelle’s awesome post over at the blog herald entitled WordPress Wednesday I noticed a blip she mentioned about Mark Jaquith’s Subscribe To Comments plugin. Apparently, Mark has changed the way in which subscriptions are dealt with by default. In earlier versions, Subscribe To Comments would leave the Subscribe Box check marked by default, causing anyone who commented to automatically be subscribed to that blog post. This in turn created an opt-out way of thinking which has been and continues to be a bad practice.
\nMark has changed this around and now leaves the subscribe box blank by default, leaving it up to the end users to decide on whether they would like to subscribe to the post or not. A much needed and welcomed change. Mark even set the plugin up so that even those who want to be subscribed to every post they comment on can do so via cookies:
\nI appear to have misread into Marks’ post as has been pointed out by both Mark and Lloyd Budd in the comments. What really changed with the plugin is the fact that the site admin now no longer has the configurable option of making the plugin opt-in or opt-out by default. According to Mark,
\n\nBefore: option of opt-in or opt-out with default of opt-in for new installs. After: opt-in only, but with per-user checkbox stickiness. And yes, the change is old — I just have been getting a lot of e-mail about it and realized I never explained the change publicly.
I realize the change is old and the post I linked to was written in April, but because of the way I read into the post, I thought this was something that needed to be brought up due to the ethical nature of the changes that were made.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 09 May 2008 16:17:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:2139:"While reading Lorelle’s awesome post over at the blog herald entitled WordPress Wednesday I noticed a blip she mentioned about Mark Jaquith’s Subscribe To Comments plugin. Apparently, Mark has changed the way in which subscriptions are dealt with by default. In earlier versions, Subscribe To Comments would leave the Subscribe Box check marked by default, causing anyone who commented to automatically be subscribed to that blog post. This in turn created an opt-out way of thinking which has been and continues to be a bad practice.
\nMark has changed this around and now leaves the subscribe box blank by default, leaving it up to the end users to decide on whether they would like to subscribe to the post or not. A much needed and welcomed change. Mark even set the plugin up so that even those who want to be subscribed to every post they comment on can do so via cookies:
\nI appear to have misread into Marks’ post as has been pointed out by both Mark and Lloyd Budd in the comments. What really changed with the plugin is the fact that the site admin now no longer has the configurable option of making the plugin opt-in or opt-out by default. According to Mark,
\n\nBefore: option of opt-in or opt-out with default of opt-in for new installs. After: opt-in only, but with per-user checkbox stickiness. And yes, the change is old — I just have been getting a lot of e-mail about it and realized I never explained the change publicly.
I realize the change is old and the post I linked to was written in April, but because of the way I read into the post, I thought this was something that needed to be brought up due to the ethical nature of the changes that were made.
";}i:19;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:19:"Matt: Milan Day One";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=5241";s:4:"link";s:35:"http://ma.tt/2008/05/milan-day-one/";s:11:"description";s:14538:"First day in Milan.
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First day in Milan.
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Top 10 Tools to Get Blogging Done: Just like it sounds, LifeHacker lists the top 10 tools, according to them, to get the job of blogging done. If you have ever been to a WordCamp and heard Lorelle speak, she has some of the best power blogging tips that I have ever come across. JohnP has some pretty effective tips on power blogging as well.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 08 May 2008 21:11:48 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:640:"Top 10 Tools to Get Blogging Done: Just like it sounds, LifeHacker lists the top 10 tools, according to them, to get the job of blogging done. If you have ever been to a WordCamp and heard Lorelle speak, she has some of the best power blogging tips that I have ever come across. JohnP has some pretty effective tips on power blogging as well.
";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:19:"Matt: Foxmarks Beta";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=5240";s:4:"link";s:35:"http://ma.tt/2008/05/foxmarks-beta/";s:11:"description";s:202:"The new Foxmarks beta works with Firefox 3 and seems pretty solid. Check out Foxmark’s WordPess-powered blog.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 08 May 2008 13:32:38 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:202:"The new Foxmarks beta works with Firefox 3 and seems pretty solid. Check out Foxmark’s WordPess-powered blog.
";}i:22;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:23:"Matt: Kyle Skips OpenID";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=5239";s:4:"link";s:39:"http://ma.tt/2008/05/kyle-skips-openid/";s:11:"description";s:152:"5 reasons I won’t be getting on the open id train, by Kyle Neath. Animated comment thread.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 08 May 2008 08:18:49 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:152:"5 reasons I won’t be getting on the open id train, by Kyle Neath. Animated comment thread.
";}i:23;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:45:"Matt: Infrastructure as Competitive Advantage";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=5238";s:4:"link";s:61:"http://ma.tt/2008/05/infrastructure-as-competitive-advantage/";s:11:"description";s:5016:"There’s an interesting post at GigaOM: Web 2.0, Please Meet Your Host, the Internet. It’s a good read, though could be shorter, but a few things struck me after reading it. I don’t disagree with him per se, I just think the emphasis is on the wrong thing. (Probably for effect.)
\nInfrastructure can be a competitive advantage today — the speed and reliability of WordPress.com has certainly put us in a favorable light with users, especially large customers — but that’s going to disappear over time. We’re very much at version 0.1 of things like Amazon’s web services and App Engine, but it’s not hard to read the writing on the wall and understand that level of abstraction is going to be the future foundation of web applications. I’m not counting on infrastructure to be a long-term competitive advantage for Automattic.
\nIf you have a few minutes it’s worth reading On Grids, the Ambitions of Amazon and Joyent which has the real definition of a grid and Sunshine, which is worth it for the extended analogies to Greek mythology. (Both end in ads for Joyent.) Also check out Early notes on GoogleApps, Dave Winer groks where this has to go.
\nSecond, Allan describes a case of a DDOS attack hurting a friend’s startup who had very little information about how to stop it:
\n\nUnfortunately, the poor site performance was not missed by the blogosphere. The application has suffered from a stream of bad publicity; it’s also missed a major window of opportunity for user adoption, which has sloped significantly downward since the DDOS attack and shows no sign of recovering.
We can all name startups or sites that aren’t particularly known for their performance, but that flourished in spite of it. Twitter and MySpace comes to mind. If we dug a little deeper we could also find thousands of startups who were prepared for the world to show up to their door, and it never did. Building something people want is much harder than scaling it. (In most cases.) If you solve the what-people-want problem, they’ll use you no matter how bad your interface is, how slow your site is, just give them somewhere worth waiting for. I would suspect the friend here isn’t seeing their usage decline because on their Techcrunch day the site wasn’t responsive, it’s that they’re probably still in the before market fit stage.
\nThird, I am a huge believer in the importance of performance, but most people forget that on the web 80-95% of performance is on the front end not the page generation time. (I realize I’m saying this on a site with a 140kb header graphic. :)) Yahoo has fantastic resources on this. When a website “pops” it probably has very little to do with their underlying server infrastructure and a lot to do with the perceived performance largely driven by how it’s coded at the HTML, CSS, and Javascript level. This, incidentally, is one of the reasons Google Gears is going to change the web as we know it today - LocalServer will obsolete CDNs as we know them. (Look for this in WordPress soonish.)
\nFinally, for the next few years before we have true utility computing, there are some great “hardware as a service” providers like Layered Tech and Server Beach that essentially handle everything from the power to the network to hardware, and let you take over from the operating system up. This is what we use for WordPress.com, Akismet, WordPress.org, and it’s great. It’s allowed us to focus on what matters — our software and service. You still need a pro like Allan describes to handle things at the OS level (most performance problems I see are badly configured servers, not hardware limitations) but leave networking and hardware to people with economies of scale. This comment nails it.
\nUpdate: I’m in a video Rod Boothby did asking What is Cloud Computing, good timing.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 08 May 2008 07:25:35 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:5016:"There’s an interesting post at GigaOM: Web 2.0, Please Meet Your Host, the Internet. It’s a good read, though could be shorter, but a few things struck me after reading it. I don’t disagree with him per se, I just think the emphasis is on the wrong thing. (Probably for effect.)
\nInfrastructure can be a competitive advantage today — the speed and reliability of WordPress.com has certainly put us in a favorable light with users, especially large customers — but that’s going to disappear over time. We’re very much at version 0.1 of things like Amazon’s web services and App Engine, but it’s not hard to read the writing on the wall and understand that level of abstraction is going to be the future foundation of web applications. I’m not counting on infrastructure to be a long-term competitive advantage for Automattic.
\nIf you have a few minutes it’s worth reading On Grids, the Ambitions of Amazon and Joyent which has the real definition of a grid and Sunshine, which is worth it for the extended analogies to Greek mythology. (Both end in ads for Joyent.) Also check out Early notes on GoogleApps, Dave Winer groks where this has to go.
\nSecond, Allan describes a case of a DDOS attack hurting a friend’s startup who had very little information about how to stop it:
\n\nUnfortunately, the poor site performance was not missed by the blogosphere. The application has suffered from a stream of bad publicity; it’s also missed a major window of opportunity for user adoption, which has sloped significantly downward since the DDOS attack and shows no sign of recovering.
We can all name startups or sites that aren’t particularly known for their performance, but that flourished in spite of it. Twitter and MySpace comes to mind. If we dug a little deeper we could also find thousands of startups who were prepared for the world to show up to their door, and it never did. Building something people want is much harder than scaling it. (In most cases.) If you solve the what-people-want problem, they’ll use you no matter how bad your interface is, how slow your site is, just give them somewhere worth waiting for. I would suspect the friend here isn’t seeing their usage decline because on their Techcrunch day the site wasn’t responsive, it’s that they’re probably still in the before market fit stage.
\nThird, I am a huge believer in the importance of performance, but most people forget that on the web 80-95% of performance is on the front end not the page generation time. (I realize I’m saying this on a site with a 140kb header graphic. :)) Yahoo has fantastic resources on this. When a website “pops” it probably has very little to do with their underlying server infrastructure and a lot to do with the perceived performance largely driven by how it’s coded at the HTML, CSS, and Javascript level. This, incidentally, is one of the reasons Google Gears is going to change the web as we know it today - LocalServer will obsolete CDNs as we know them. (Look for this in WordPress soonish.)
\nFinally, for the next few years before we have true utility computing, there are some great “hardware as a service” providers like Layered Tech and Server Beach that essentially handle everything from the power to the network to hardware, and let you take over from the operating system up. This is what we use for WordPress.com, Akismet, WordPress.org, and it’s great. It’s allowed us to focus on what matters — our software and service. You still need a pro like Allan describes to handle things at the OS level (most performance problems I see are badly configured servers, not hardware limitations) but leave networking and hardware to people with economies of scale. This comment nails it.
\nUpdate: I’m in a video Rod Boothby did asking What is Cloud Computing, good timing.
";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:20:"Matt: WordCamp Milan";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=5237";s:4:"link";s:36:"http://ma.tt/2008/05/wordcamp-milan/";s:11:"description";s:158:"I’m leaving tomorrow for Milan where I’ll be attending WordCamp Italy. Hope to see some of you there!
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 08 May 2008 06:02:26 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:158:"I’m leaving tomorrow for Milan where I’ll be attending WordCamp Italy. Hope to see some of you there!
";}i:25;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 5/7";s:4:"guid";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/07/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-57/";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/07/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-57/";s:11:"description";s:2876:"\nThe Google Maps plugin allows you to easily insert Google maps into your blog, making use of the new shortCode system in WordPress 2.5. The maps can be configured to offer directions to or from the location, show or hide the zoom/pan controls, show/hide map type, activate zoom using mouse wheel. This plugin requires a API key from Google Maps.
\n\nTw-asides is an asides widget for WordPress. It lets you publish short posts that appear in your sidebar rather than in the main content column. Asides posts won’t appear in your main content stream, whether it’s on the front page of your blog or when navigating via the next/previous post links.
\n\nWP-Crontrol is a plugin that lets you manage the WP-Cron system and see what’s going on there. This includes adding/editing/deleting cron entries, as well as cron schedules.
\n\nThe Random Featured Post plugin allows you to display a random post from one or more designated categories. The featured post will display the title “Featured Post” which is customizable along with the post’s title and content or an excerpt with link to full post.
\n\nWP-Offload will boost the performance of your blog by seamlessly offloading static content like images, documents and movies. This will greatly reduce bandwidth consumption and the number of HTTP requests issued to your web server. Additional features such as remote image manipulation and thumbnail generation are provided.
\nGoogle XML Sitemaps with Multiple Domains
\nThis plugin is a solution for those running both the Domain Mirror and the Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator plugins together in WordPress. The plugin extends Google (XML) Sitemaps so that it creates one sitemap for each mirror set up in Domain Mirror. Sitemaps are created with the mirror URL prepended to the custom filename.
\n\nThis is a recent comments plugin that displays customizable number of blog posts with recently updated comment. The output is very similar to phpBB’s View Active Topics and vBulletin’s Today’s Posts functions.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 08 May 2008 03:55:10 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:2876:"\nThe Google Maps plugin allows you to easily insert Google maps into your blog, making use of the new shortCode system in WordPress 2.5. The maps can be configured to offer directions to or from the location, show or hide the zoom/pan controls, show/hide map type, activate zoom using mouse wheel. This plugin requires a API key from Google Maps.
\n\nTw-asides is an asides widget for WordPress. It lets you publish short posts that appear in your sidebar rather than in the main content column. Asides posts won’t appear in your main content stream, whether it’s on the front page of your blog or when navigating via the next/previous post links.
\n\nWP-Crontrol is a plugin that lets you manage the WP-Cron system and see what’s going on there. This includes adding/editing/deleting cron entries, as well as cron schedules.
\n\nThe Random Featured Post plugin allows you to display a random post from one or more designated categories. The featured post will display the title “Featured Post” which is customizable along with the post’s title and content or an excerpt with link to full post.
\n\nWP-Offload will boost the performance of your blog by seamlessly offloading static content like images, documents and movies. This will greatly reduce bandwidth consumption and the number of HTTP requests issued to your web server. Additional features such as remote image manipulation and thumbnail generation are provided.
\nGoogle XML Sitemaps with Multiple Domains
\nThis plugin is a solution for those running both the Domain Mirror and the Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator plugins together in WordPress. The plugin extends Google (XML) Sitemaps so that it creates one sitemap for each mirror set up in Domain Mirror. Sitemaps are created with the mirror URL prepended to the custom filename.
\n\nThis is a recent comments plugin that displays customizable number of blog posts with recently updated comment. The output is very similar to phpBB’s View Active Topics and vBulletin’s Today’s Posts functions.
";}i:26;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:54:"Weblog Tools Collection: Farms 100 Big Ones Theme Pack";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3521";s:4:"link";s:83:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/07/farms-100-big-ones-theme-pack/";s:11:"description";s:858:"Farms 100 Big Ones Theme Pack: Download this 100 WordPress themes zip file (17MB) and upload them to your blog to have 100 themes to play around with. Many of these themes are older but they are all widgetized, have a bunch of bug fixes, are internationalized, work on both WordPress and WordPress Mu and they have been time tested on Edublogs. I normally would not suggest that users download themes from sources other than the original theme authors’ site, but this is offered from a trusted source and the convenience of a single zip file added to the additional testing and bug fixing performed by Edublogs, is the icing on the cake.
\n[EDIT] James provided a preview of all 100 themes here.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 07 May 2008 18:01:53 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:858:"Farms 100 Big Ones Theme Pack: Download this 100 WordPress themes zip file (17MB) and upload them to your blog to have 100 themes to play around with. Many of these themes are older but they are all widgetized, have a bunch of bug fixes, are internationalized, work on both WordPress and WordPress Mu and they have been time tested on Edublogs. I normally would not suggest that users download themes from sources other than the original theme authors’ site, but this is offered from a trusted source and the convenience of a single zip file added to the additional testing and bug fixing performed by Edublogs, is the icing on the cake.
\n[EDIT] James provided a preview of all 100 themes here.
";}i:27;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:18:"Matt: Expo Keynote";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=5236";s:4:"link";s:34:"http://ma.tt/2008/05/expo-keynote/";s:11:"description";s:277:"Here’s a video of my “high order bit” keynote talk at Web 2.0 Expo. It’s succinct — 10 minutes — and covers WordPress.com and Automattic growth, the possibly related posts launch, and Monotone.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 06 May 2008 22:29:18 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:277:"Here’s a video of my “high order bit” keynote talk at Web 2.0 Expo. It’s succinct — 10 minutes — and covers WordPress.com and Automattic growth, the possibly related posts launch, and Monotone.
";}i:28;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:42:"Weblog Tools Collection: A Unique Monotone";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3518";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/06/a-unique-monotone/";s:11:"description";s:2691:"While Matt Mullenweg attended the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, he previewed a new theme which looks like might be the perfect WordPress theme for photographers called Monotone. Monotone was developed by Noel Jackson and is a very unique theme in that, the color scheme changes based on the photograph being displayed. Here are two screenshots showcasing the theme in action with two different photographs.
\n\nMonotone takes the first image attached to a post and samples colors from it for use in the surrounding layout. Each post needs to contain one image, and optionally, any text you want. The theme does the rest, pulling colors out of and resizing the images for use in the design. You can use the visual or the HTML editor in wordpress to input your image and supporting text.
One of the only problems I’ve seen with the Monotone theme is that, sometimes the link colors blend in with the background making them difficult to see. Other than that, some of the photos really pop out at you thanks to the surrounding colors.
\nMonotone is generally only available for WordPress.com bloggers because the images must be uploaded to WordPress so they can resize them and extract the colors properly. For more information regarding the Monotone theme, check out the WordPress.com April Wrap Up.
\nAs a side note, if you would like to use this theme on a self hosted WordPress blog, you will need to visit the Automattic SVN and then download and package the following files.
\nAlso, if you happen to be using the Monotone theme on your WordPress.com blog, provide us a link so we can take a look at it!
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 06 May 2008 20:56:49 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:2691:"While Matt Mullenweg attended the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, he previewed a new theme which looks like might be the perfect WordPress theme for photographers called Monotone. Monotone was developed by Noel Jackson and is a very unique theme in that, the color scheme changes based on the photograph being displayed. Here are two screenshots showcasing the theme in action with two different photographs.
\n\nMonotone takes the first image attached to a post and samples colors from it for use in the surrounding layout. Each post needs to contain one image, and optionally, any text you want. The theme does the rest, pulling colors out of and resizing the images for use in the design. You can use the visual or the HTML editor in wordpress to input your image and supporting text.
One of the only problems I’ve seen with the Monotone theme is that, sometimes the link colors blend in with the background making them difficult to see. Other than that, some of the photos really pop out at you thanks to the surrounding colors.
\nMonotone is generally only available for WordPress.com bloggers because the images must be uploaded to WordPress so they can resize them and extract the colors properly. For more information regarding the Monotone theme, check out the WordPress.com April Wrap Up.
\nAs a side note, if you would like to use this theme on a self hosted WordPress blog, you will need to visit the Automattic SVN and then download and package the following files.
\nAlso, if you happen to be using the Monotone theme on your WordPress.com blog, provide us a link so we can take a look at it!
";}i:29;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:17:"Matt: Mark on DRM";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=5235";s:4:"link";s:33:"http://ma.tt/2008/05/mark-on-drm/";s:11:"description";s:111:"";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 06 May 2008 15:57:02 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:111:"";}i:30;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:57:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 5/5";s:4:"guid";s:85:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/05/wordpress-theme-releases-for-55/";s:4:"link";s:85:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/05/wordpress-theme-releases-for-55/";s:11:"description";s:2304:"\n
Simple Gray is a one column theme which features dark tones of gray and mauve. The theme does not have any sidebars but does sport a extended footer.
\n\n
Just Lucid is a simplistic two column theme. The menu for the theme is shown to the left hand side of the page instead of the top. The sidebar and footer area are both widget ready. The theme contains stylesheets for 800px and 1024px width.
\n\n
\n
Written is a 3 column widget-ready theme featuring a personal photo, full-width footer in black, white and blue/green.
\n\n\n
Zoxengen is a 3 column widget-ready theme with theme options. The theme uses a bright color and has a section for feature articles and 6 spots for adding 125*125 banners.
\n\n
LivingOS TAU is a four column widget-ready theme. The posts are displayed in newspaper of magazine style grid format.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 06 May 2008 03:55:58 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:2304:"\n
Simple Gray is a one column theme which features dark tones of gray and mauve. The theme does not have any sidebars but does sport a extended footer.
\n\n
Just Lucid is a simplistic two column theme. The menu for the theme is shown to the left hand side of the page instead of the top. The sidebar and footer area are both widget ready. The theme contains stylesheets for 800px and 1024px width.
\n\n
\n
Written is a 3 column widget-ready theme featuring a personal photo, full-width footer in black, white and blue/green.
\n\n\n
Zoxengen is a 3 column widget-ready theme with theme options. The theme uses a bright color and has a section for feature articles and 6 spots for adding 125*125 banners.
\n\n
LivingOS TAU is a four column widget-ready theme. The posts are displayed in newspaper of magazine style grid format.
";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:27:"Gravatar: Identicons Deploy";s:4:"guid";s:35:"http://gravatar.wordpress.com/?p=52";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://blog.gravatar.com/2008/05/04/identicons-deploy/";s:11:"description";s:1917:"WordPress.com users now have more avatar options, to choose the new defaults we talked about previously.
\nThose options will also be included with WordPress 2.6!
\nAlso — the PNG thing is on our radar. Will have to change some things up to make it work again, but it’s just code.
\nWordPress.com users now have more avatar options, to choose the new defaults we talked about previously.
\nThose options will also be included with WordPress 2.6!
\nAlso — the PNG thing is on our radar. Will have to change some things up to make it work again, but it’s just code.
\nFor the past few weeks I’ve been working on a WordPress plugin. One of my goals was to have fancy and relevant error messages.
\nI contemplated writing my own error manager, and even began a very basic one. I experienced hurdle after hurdle, and finally I thought to myself, “Wouldn’t WordPress have its own error manager also?”
\nSo I did a quick source-code search and came across the WP_Error class.
\nOne of the hurdles I ran into in creating my own error manager was error localization. The WP_Error class makes localizing error messages extremely simple.
\nTo add an error message, the first thing you’ll want to do is instantiate your own instance of WP_Error.
\n\n
\n
\n$myErrors = new WP_Error();\n\n
The next step is to add in your error messages.
\n\n
\n
\n$myErrors->add(''access_denied'', __(''You do not have permission to do that.'',$myLocalizationName));\n\n
There are a few things to notice here. There is something called an error code, which you will use to look up the full error message. You also have the full error message, which uses the __ function for localization.
\nAfter you have added in your error messages, you’ll want to retrieve them at some point.
\nRetrieving an error message is as simple as calling the get_error_message method and passing it your error code.
\n\n
\n
\n$errorMessage = $myErrors->get_error_message($code);\n\n
From there you can echo out your message in whatever manner suits you.
\nUsing the WP_Error class is ideal for those with themes and plugins.
\nFor plugins, it’s best to have your errors as a member of a class. Using the class approach assures that you can access the errors throughout your methods, and also avoid naming conflicts.
\nFor themes, you can also create your own class, or have a prefixed variable so you don’t have possible conflicts with other variables.
\nHere is some downloadable code with an example of how the class might be used in a theme. As stated earlier, plugin authors may want to use a class for this.
\nThe code is assumed to be placed in a theme’s “functions.php” file.
\n\n
\n
\nclass my_class {\n function my_class() {\n $this->localizionName = '''';\n $this->errors = new WP_Error();\n $this->initialize_errors();\n }\n /* get_error - Returns an error message based on the passed code\n Parameters - $code (the error code as a string)\n Returns an error message */\n function get_error($code = '''') {\n $errorMessage = $this->errors->get_error_message($code);\n if ($errorMessage == null) {\n return __("Unknown error.", $this->localizionName);\n }\n return $errorMessage;\n }\n /* Initializes all the error messages */\n function initialize_errors() {\n $this->errors->add(''my_weird_error'', __(''Some weird error has occurred'', $myLocalizationName));\n $this->errors->add(''access_denied'', __(''You do not have permission to do that.'',$myLocalizationName));\n } //end function initialize_errors\n}\n$myErrors = new my_class();\necho $myErrors->get_error(''my_weird_error'');\n\n
The above code has two helper methods, one which retrieves the errors, and one which initializes the errors. The example is very basic, but should give you a good idea on how to use the WP_Error class.
\nThere are many features of the WP_Error class not mentioned here, but you can dissect the code yourself if you like. The class is found in the wp-includes folder under classes.php.
\nThe WP_Error class is a simple and powerful way to store errors, and output them rather easily. And the best thing, the messages can be localized.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 04 May 2008 21:04:01 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:14:"Ronald Huereca";}s:7:"summary";s:4780:"For the past few weeks I’ve been working on a WordPress plugin. One of my goals was to have fancy and relevant error messages.
\nI contemplated writing my own error manager, and even began a very basic one. I experienced hurdle after hurdle, and finally I thought to myself, “Wouldn’t WordPress have its own error manager also?”
\nSo I did a quick source-code search and came across the WP_Error class.
\nOne of the hurdles I ran into in creating my own error manager was error localization. The WP_Error class makes localizing error messages extremely simple.
\nTo add an error message, the first thing you’ll want to do is instantiate your own instance of WP_Error.
\n\n
\n
\n$myErrors = new WP_Error();\n\n
The next step is to add in your error messages.
\n\n
\n
\n$myErrors->add(''access_denied'', __(''You do not have permission to do that.'',$myLocalizationName));\n\n
There are a few things to notice here. There is something called an error code, which you will use to look up the full error message. You also have the full error message, which uses the __ function for localization.
\nAfter you have added in your error messages, you’ll want to retrieve them at some point.
\nRetrieving an error message is as simple as calling the get_error_message method and passing it your error code.
\n\n
\n
\n$errorMessage = $myErrors->get_error_message($code);\n\n
From there you can echo out your message in whatever manner suits you.
\nUsing the WP_Error class is ideal for those with themes and plugins.
\nFor plugins, it’s best to have your errors as a member of a class. Using the class approach assures that you can access the errors throughout your methods, and also avoid naming conflicts.
\nFor themes, you can also create your own class, or have a prefixed variable so you don’t have possible conflicts with other variables.
\nHere is some downloadable code with an example of how the class might be used in a theme. As stated earlier, plugin authors may want to use a class for this.
\nThe code is assumed to be placed in a theme’s “functions.php” file.
\n\n
\n
\nclass my_class {\n function my_class() {\n $this->localizionName = '''';\n $this->errors = new WP_Error();\n $this->initialize_errors();\n }\n /* get_error - Returns an error message based on the passed code\n Parameters - $code (the error code as a string)\n Returns an error message */\n function get_error($code = '''') {\n $errorMessage = $this->errors->get_error_message($code);\n if ($errorMessage == null) {\n return __("Unknown error.", $this->localizionName);\n }\n return $errorMessage;\n }\n /* Initializes all the error messages */\n function initialize_errors() {\n $this->errors->add(''my_weird_error'', __(''Some weird error has occurred'', $myLocalizationName));\n $this->errors->add(''access_denied'', __(''You do not have permission to do that.'',$myLocalizationName));\n } //end function initialize_errors\n}\n$myErrors = new my_class();\necho $myErrors->get_error(''my_weird_error'');\n\n
The above code has two helper methods, one which retrieves the errors, and one which initializes the errors. The example is very basic, but should give you a good idea on how to use the WP_Error class.
\nThere are many features of the WP_Error class not mentioned here, but you can dissect the code yourself if you like. The class is found in the wp-includes folder under classes.php.
\nThe WP_Error class is a simple and powerful way to store errors, and output them rather easily. And the best thing, the messages can be localized.
";}i:33;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:57:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 5/3";s:4:"guid";s:85:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/03/wordpress-theme-releases-for-53/";s:4:"link";s:85:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/03/wordpress-theme-releases-for-53/";s:11:"description";s:2511:"\n
Statement is a clean and professional looking WordPress theme meant for intellectual blogs like education, science, culture, books etc. The theme is WordPress 2.5 ready with gallery functions enabled.
\n\n\n
GreyBox is a two column widget ready theme with space for advertising 125×125 banners right at the top of the page. The theme is simple and has a thick black border surrounding the main content.
\n\n
Revolution Blog is a 3-column Widget-ready theme created with clean and elegant look. The theme is largely made up of blue colors and has 2 sidebars to the right of the content.
\n\n\n
Peacemaker is a three column, widget-ready WordPress theme. The theme sports a header from B-36 Peacemaker which was a strategic bomber. The theme makes use of sober colors which includes gray and white.
\n\n\n
WhiteDust is a fluid three column outfit, plain white background with a splash. The frontpage shows the latest post in full followed by titles of the latest eight aligned on the frontpage, while the sidebars are enabled with recent comments, flickr feed, enabled with flickr support, pagenavi support, related posts and recent comments.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 04 May 2008 03:55:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:2511:"\n
Statement is a clean and professional looking WordPress theme meant for intellectual blogs like education, science, culture, books etc. The theme is WordPress 2.5 ready with gallery functions enabled.
\n\n\n
GreyBox is a two column widget ready theme with space for advertising 125×125 banners right at the top of the page. The theme is simple and has a thick black border surrounding the main content.
\n\n
Revolution Blog is a 3-column Widget-ready theme created with clean and elegant look. The theme is largely made up of blue colors and has 2 sidebars to the right of the content.
\n\n\n
Peacemaker is a three column, widget-ready WordPress theme. The theme sports a header from B-36 Peacemaker which was a strategic bomber. The theme makes use of sober colors which includes gray and white.
\n\n\n
WhiteDust is a fluid three column outfit, plain white background with a splash. The frontpage shows the latest post in full followed by titles of the latest eight aligned on the frontpage, while the sidebars are enabled with recent comments, flickr feed, enabled with flickr support, pagenavi support, related posts and recent comments.
";}i:34;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: Create Your Own Admin Color Scheme";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3487";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/03/create-your-own-admin-color-scheme/";s:11:"description";s:4326:"Here at WeblogToolsCollection.com, we have already discussed how you can change the color scheme in the WordPress 2.5 administration panel from Classic to Fresh. We have also highlighted an awesome plugin that was written by Kaspars which gives users up to 8 different color schemes to choose from. However, what if you want to create your own color scheme? Thanks to a plugin written by James Dimick called Easy Admin Color Schemes, users can now create their own flavor of the WordPress 2.5 back end.
\n\nAfter downloading and installing the plugin, you can access it by browsing to SETTINGS-COLOR SCHEMES. There are three color schemes to start you off, Classic, Fresh and Washedout. The plugin does not allow you to delete nor edit the Classic and Fresh color schemes. This makes sense as you wouldn’t want to screw up a default skin only to have to reinstall WordPress to fix the issue. However, you can edit the Washedout color scheme which introduces you to the plugins functionality.
\nThe plugin starts off by giving you the chance to name your color scheme. Next, give your color scheme four primary colors. If you don’t know of a six digit color code, there is a small arrow to the right of the text field that will open up a color picker. Opening the color picker and then selecting a color will automatically place the corresponding color code into the text field.
\n\nOnce you have your four primary colors in order, the next step which is the longest of them all is to go through all of the CSS specific code and change the color code values to something else you prefer. There at least 10 different CSS files which make up the styling of the administration panel. There are more if you want to include support for RIGHT TO LEFT text. This plugin takes all of those CSS files and puts them in one place for you to edit, which makes things so much easier. Also, for those who have javascript enabled in their browser, you can view a live preview of what the changes will look like on an active WordPress administration page. Very handy as it cuts down on the browser refreshes.
\nOne thing that I think this plugin is missing is an easy way for users to share their creations. If a download or save link could be added to the color schemes which would automatically package the necessary files together which could then be saved to my desktop for distribution, this would make the plugin a home run.
\nIf you are looking at adding some spice to your WordPress back end, give this plugin a try. I don’t think it could be any easier than this plugin. The only problem with creating a color scheme is figuring out where each CSS class or DIV is defined. That’s where FireBug comes in.
\nGood luck and if you happen to create a color scheme using this plugin, be sure to say so in the comments.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 May 2008 19:31:42 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:4326:"Here at WeblogToolsCollection.com, we have already discussed how you can change the color scheme in the WordPress 2.5 administration panel from Classic to Fresh. We have also highlighted an awesome plugin that was written by Kaspars which gives users up to 8 different color schemes to choose from. However, what if you want to create your own color scheme? Thanks to a plugin written by James Dimick called Easy Admin Color Schemes, users can now create their own flavor of the WordPress 2.5 back end.
\n\nAfter downloading and installing the plugin, you can access it by browsing to SETTINGS-COLOR SCHEMES. There are three color schemes to start you off, Classic, Fresh and Washedout. The plugin does not allow you to delete nor edit the Classic and Fresh color schemes. This makes sense as you wouldn’t want to screw up a default skin only to have to reinstall WordPress to fix the issue. However, you can edit the Washedout color scheme which introduces you to the plugins functionality.
\nThe plugin starts off by giving you the chance to name your color scheme. Next, give your color scheme four primary colors. If you don’t know of a six digit color code, there is a small arrow to the right of the text field that will open up a color picker. Opening the color picker and then selecting a color will automatically place the corresponding color code into the text field.
\n\nOnce you have your four primary colors in order, the next step which is the longest of them all is to go through all of the CSS specific code and change the color code values to something else you prefer. There at least 10 different CSS files which make up the styling of the administration panel. There are more if you want to include support for RIGHT TO LEFT text. This plugin takes all of those CSS files and puts them in one place for you to edit, which makes things so much easier. Also, for those who have javascript enabled in their browser, you can view a live preview of what the changes will look like on an active WordPress administration page. Very handy as it cuts down on the browser refreshes.
\nOne thing that I think this plugin is missing is an easy way for users to share their creations. If a download or save link could be added to the color schemes which would automatically package the necessary files together which could then be saved to my desktop for distribution, this would make the plugin a home run.
\nIf you are looking at adding some spice to your WordPress back end, give this plugin a try. I don’t think it could be any easier than this plugin. The only problem with creating a color scheme is figuring out where each CSS class or DIV is defined. That’s where FireBug comes in.
\nGood luck and if you happen to create a color scheme using this plugin, be sure to say so in the comments.
";}i:35;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:57:"Weblog Tools Collection: The Best and Worst Times to Post";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3502";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/02/the-best-and-worst-times-to-post/";s:11:"description";s:926:"Want That Post to Go Popular? Here’s The Best and Worst Times to Post It He determined the best days and times for a blog post to be submitted to those sites if its author wants it to receive the maximum number of votes, comments and inbound links. Interesting data and tabulation of said data to determine what is the best and worst time to publish a post. Data is derived from various information collected through aideRSS. I will not steal the original authors’ thunder by posting the answer here but I agree with the numbers for blogs which have a primarily US reader base. If your audience is from across the world (as on this blog), this might not be as relevant.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 02 May 2008 21:50:19 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:926:"Want That Post to Go Popular? Here’s The Best and Worst Times to Post It He determined the best days and times for a blog post to be submitted to those sites if its author wants it to receive the maximum number of votes, comments and inbound links. Interesting data and tabulation of said data to determine what is the best and worst time to publish a post. Data is derived from various information collected through aideRSS. I will not steal the original authors’ thunder by posting the answer here but I agree with the numbers for blogs which have a primarily US reader base. If your audience is from across the world (as on this blog), this might not be as relevant.
";}i:36;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:57:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases For 5/1";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3496";s:4:"link";s:85:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/02/wordpress-theme-releases-for-51/";s:11:"description";s:4043:"TJ Clean is a simple, clean cut yet feature-full WordPress theme which is great for sites where content is king. Ideal for personal blogs as it includes integration with Flickr (photo sharing), Last.FM (music sharing) and status updates from Facebook/Twitter (and others). This theme is also XHTML Strict 1.0 and Valid CSS 2.1.
\n30April was created by the theme author to celebrate his birthday. This theme contains widget support, is fixed width, contains an extra footer, theme options to make changing and editing the theme easy and built in gravatar support.
\n\n\nMilky Conversations is a two column, widget ready theme that is based off of the White As Milk theme, written by Azeem Azeez. The theme has been released under GPL and is fully compliant with the license. As the name implies, this theme is pretty white with black text and a little bit of orange thrown in via the RSS icons.
\nKhaki Traveler was developed by Jeremy Clarke. It has a tan color scheme and a travel themed header. It is also a three column widget ready theme. It has gravatar support as well as tagging support. It has a top navigation menu with an easy to access log-in form.
\nChoice is a highly configurable theme that supports either 2 or 3 columns, is widgetized, theme options to control the themes background color, theme text weight, theme heading color, number of sidebars and whether or not your slogan appears. The theme also has native tag support.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 02 May 2008 10:37:55 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:4043:"TJ Clean is a simple, clean cut yet feature-full WordPress theme which is great for sites where content is king. Ideal for personal blogs as it includes integration with Flickr (photo sharing), Last.FM (music sharing) and status updates from Facebook/Twitter (and others). This theme is also XHTML Strict 1.0 and Valid CSS 2.1.
\n30April was created by the theme author to celebrate his birthday. This theme contains widget support, is fixed width, contains an extra footer, theme options to make changing and editing the theme easy and built in gravatar support.
\n\n\nMilky Conversations is a two column, widget ready theme that is based off of the White As Milk theme, written by Azeem Azeez. The theme has been released under GPL and is fully compliant with the license. As the name implies, this theme is pretty white with black text and a little bit of orange thrown in via the RSS icons.
\nKhaki Traveler was developed by Jeremy Clarke. It has a tan color scheme and a travel themed header. It is also a three column widget ready theme. It has gravatar support as well as tagging support. It has a top navigation menu with an easy to access log-in form.
\nChoice is a highly configurable theme that supports either 2 or 3 columns, is widgetized, theme options to control the themes background color, theme text weight, theme heading color, number of sidebars and whether or not your slogan appears. The theme also has native tag support.
";}i:37;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:34:"Matt: Favorite Posting Bookmarklet";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=5234";s:4:"link";s:50:"http://ma.tt/2008/05/favorite-posting-bookmarklet/";s:11:"description";s:246:"A question for Ma.tt readers: What’s your favorite posting bookmarklet? We’re starting to think about ways to make posting to WP from wherever you are on the web easier in 2.6, just curious what you guys enjoy the most and why.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 01 May 2008 18:54:23 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:246:"A question for Ma.tt readers: What’s your favorite posting bookmarklet? We’re starting to think about ways to make posting to WP from wherever you are on the web easier in 2.6, just curious what you guys enjoy the most and why.
";}i:38;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:51:"Weblog Tools Collection: Take Crontrol Of WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3493";s:4:"link";s:80:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/01/take-crontrol-of-wordpress/";s:11:"description";s:1674:"Not too long ago, a new plugin was released called WP-Crontrol. WP-Crontrol allows you to take control over what is happening in the WP-Cron system.
\n\nWP-Cron is a tangle of black magic that allows a plugin developer or a user to schedule commands to be executed. WP-Crontrol is a plugin that lets a blog owner see through that magic and figure out what’s actually going on
If you want a detailed introduction to this plugin as well as an explanation as to how to use this plugin in conjunction with WP Database Backup to create backups when you want them, be sure to check out this article: Add a new WordPress backup schedule with WP-Crontrol
\nAlso on the radar today is a quick fix for the WordPress 2.5.x image uploader. Awsom.org is reporting that there is a no-flash plugin that is available which returns the previous image upload function from earlier versions of WordPress.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 01 May 2008 07:57:10 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1674:"Not too long ago, a new plugin was released called WP-Crontrol. WP-Crontrol allows you to take control over what is happening in the WP-Cron system.
\n\nWP-Cron is a tangle of black magic that allows a plugin developer or a user to schedule commands to be executed. WP-Crontrol is a plugin that lets a blog owner see through that magic and figure out what’s actually going on
If you want a detailed introduction to this plugin as well as an explanation as to how to use this plugin in conjunction with WP Database Backup to create backups when you want them, be sure to check out this article: Add a new WordPress backup schedule with WP-Crontrol
\nAlso on the radar today is a quick fix for the WordPress 2.5.x image uploader. Awsom.org is reporting that there is a no-flash plugin that is available which returns the previous image upload function from earlier versions of WordPress.
";}i:39;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:68:"Weblog Tools Collection: Announcing WordPress Plugin Competition 2.5";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3492";s:4:"link";s:96:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/30/announcing-wordpress-plugin-competition-25/";s:11:"description";s:3367:"It is time for another WordPress Plugin Competition. Plugin competitions of the past have seen fantastic code, extremely useful and fun plugins and have generated a lot of interest in WordPress and plugin development. Prizes have been very generously donated by readers and well wishers and we already have some donations towards this year’s competition and are looking for more. The final list of prizes will be determined very soon. If you would like to sponsor a prize or donate some money to the competition, please contact me. Lots of eyes see these competitions and your encouragement goes a long way in helping provide incentives. The plugin competition will begin on the 10th of May and will last till the 10th of July.
\nThere will be prizes for first, second and third places and a consolation prize. The plugins should be officially submitted through email and the Plugin Competition Blog (which will be cleaned for the new competition) should be used as a launching ground for plugin ideas, updates, development news etc. The plugins will be judged by a panel of at least three judges and reader feedback will be an essential part of the judging process. At the end of the contest, we will put up posts for each submission and will open them up to our readers for two weeks. The contest results should be declared by the beginning of August.
\nAll code must be GPL (or compatible) and should be available for download through the Competition Blog and preferably through WordPress Extend. The plugins can be modified and tweaked till the last day of the competition or until the author sends us an email with the final version of the code. In essence, the Plugin Competition Blog is the preferred vehicle of communication for all contestants.
\nSome relevant details:
\nMore details to be added with time.
\nStay tuned and please help spread the word.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:27:15 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:3367:"It is time for another WordPress Plugin Competition. Plugin competitions of the past have seen fantastic code, extremely useful and fun plugins and have generated a lot of interest in WordPress and plugin development. Prizes have been very generously donated by readers and well wishers and we already have some donations towards this year’s competition and are looking for more. The final list of prizes will be determined very soon. If you would like to sponsor a prize or donate some money to the competition, please contact me. Lots of eyes see these competitions and your encouragement goes a long way in helping provide incentives. The plugin competition will begin on the 10th of May and will last till the 10th of July.
\nThere will be prizes for first, second and third places and a consolation prize. The plugins should be officially submitted through email and the Plugin Competition Blog (which will be cleaned for the new competition) should be used as a launching ground for plugin ideas, updates, development news etc. The plugins will be judged by a panel of at least three judges and reader feedback will be an essential part of the judging process. At the end of the contest, we will put up posts for each submission and will open them up to our readers for two weeks. The contest results should be declared by the beginning of August.
\nAll code must be GPL (or compatible) and should be available for download through the Competition Blog and preferably through WordPress Extend. The plugins can be modified and tweaked till the last day of the competition or until the author sends us an email with the final version of the code. In essence, the Plugin Competition Blog is the preferred vehicle of communication for all contestants.
\nSome relevant details:
\nMore details to be added with time.
\nStay tuned and please help spread the word.
";}i:40;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:38:"Lorelle on WP: I Love My WordPress Mug";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=2512";s:4:"link";s:64:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/i-love-my-wordpress-mug/";s:11:"description";s:6312:"Have you seen the new WordPress mug?
\nFor ages, while the WordPress Shop began their offerings of WordPress logo items with t-Shirts and hoodies, I kept telling the powers that be that I wanted a coffee mug. A big mug for my frequent cups of daily tea. A product that is useful and reusable, and it cleans up easily. Something I can display in a workplace environment that says “I love WordPress.”
\nI finally got my request! Now you can join me for a cup of tea…or coffee or whatever hydrates you…and proudly display the love you have for WordPress on your desk or in your home.
\nThe mugs are dark blue with the small WordPress “W” circle and are designed for serious drinkers. The mug is great for soups. Even my picky husband loves the large handle and big size. We’re thinking about replacing all our tea mugs with WordPress mugs.
\nThe WordPress Shop is produced by Indigo Clothing Ltd.
\nTo buy the WordPress Mug, order it from the WordPress Shop online from the WordPress mug order page.
\nTo order anything from the WordPress Shop, go to the WordPress Shop to order online.
\nWordPress products and schwag will probably NOT be available at a store near you unless Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress, succeeds in his dream of world domination…with WordPress, of course.
\nOrder Problems: If you are having problems with the order of anything from the WordPress Shop, contact the WordPress Shop. Do not leave a comment here. They won’t see it and no action will be taken.
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Have you seen the new WordPress mug?
\nFor ages, while the WordPress Shop began their offerings of WordPress logo items with t-Shirts and hoodies, I kept telling the powers that be that I wanted a coffee mug. A big mug for my frequent cups of daily tea. A product that is useful and reusable, and it cleans up easily. Something I can display in a workplace environment that says “I love WordPress.”
\nI finally got my request! Now you can join me for a cup of tea…or coffee or whatever hydrates you…and proudly display the love you have for WordPress on your desk or in your home.
\nThe mugs are dark blue with the small WordPress “W” circle and are designed for serious drinkers. The mug is great for soups. Even my picky husband loves the large handle and big size. We’re thinking about replacing all our tea mugs with WordPress mugs.
\nThe WordPress Shop is produced by Indigo Clothing Ltd.
\nTo buy the WordPress Mug, order it from the WordPress Shop online from the WordPress mug order page.
\nTo order anything from the WordPress Shop, go to the WordPress Shop to order online.
\nWordPress products and schwag will probably NOT be available at a store near you unless Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress, succeeds in his dream of world domination…with WordPress, of course.
\nOrder Problems: If you are having problems with the order of anything from the WordPress Shop, contact the WordPress Shop. Do not leave a comment here. They won’t see it and no action will be taken.
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WordCamps are my favorite events to go to because there’s something about the core WordPress community that attracts smart folks with good philosophies that are fun to hang out with. In this post I’ve collated the upcoming WordCamps we know about, including the one in San Francisco. Hopefully there will be one nearby so you can meet other WordPressers in your area.
\nWordCamp San Francisco will be August 16 at the Mission Bay Conference Center.
\nWordCamp Paris will be on May 3rd. Here’s their official site.
\nWordCamp Italy in Milan will be May 10th. (And I believe I’ll be there.)
\nWordCamp Birmingham UK will be July 19-20.
\nWordCamp Toronto will be October 4th.
\nThere are people in the planning stages in Australia, Philippines, Beijing, Utah, Hawaii, UK, NYC, and possibly others, so if you live in one of those areas and would like to help set up a WordCamp in your area Google around or connect with bloggers in your area.
\nYou can always find out more at WordCamp Central.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:54:48 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:1445:"WordCamps are my favorite events to go to because there’s something about the core WordPress community that attracts smart folks with good philosophies that are fun to hang out with. In this post I’ve collated the upcoming WordCamps we know about, including the one in San Francisco. Hopefully there will be one nearby so you can meet other WordPressers in your area.
\nWordCamp San Francisco will be August 16 at the Mission Bay Conference Center.
\nWordCamp Paris will be on May 3rd. Here’s their official site.
\nWordCamp Italy in Milan will be May 10th. (And I believe I’ll be there.)
\nWordCamp Birmingham UK will be July 19-20.
\nWordCamp Toronto will be October 4th.
\nThere are people in the planning stages in Australia, Philippines, Beijing, Utah, Hawaii, UK, NYC, and possibly others, so if you live in one of those areas and would like to help set up a WordCamp in your area Google around or connect with bloggers in your area.
\nYou can always find out more at WordCamp Central.
";}i:42;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:36:"Alex King: Theme Browser “Fixedâ€";s:4:"guid";s:55:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/04/29/theme-browser-fixed";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/04/29/theme-browser-fixed";s:11:"description";s:1563:"I got a couple of reports that my WordPress Theme Browser was not working. I checked it out, and sure enough - not working.
\nThis was a bit of a surprise as that code hadn’t changed in years. Turns out, it was the browsers that had changed.
\nI had moved the theme browser from my site (to reduce server load) to my hosting account at Joyent a long time ago, and set it up on the domain managedtasks.com. The frameset page and the top frame were hosted on alexking.org, while the bottom frame - the theme viewer - was on managedtasks.com.
\nThis combination stopped working because the browsers changed their cookie security settings. If you have your cookies set to “only accept cookies from sites I visit”, then your browser was rejecting the cookie from managedtasks.com (because the URL in your browser was alexking.org).
\nIf this cookie wasn’t set, the proper theme was not displayed; hence the theme browser being broken .
\nI’ve moved it all onto managedtasks.com now, and everything appears to work again.
\n";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:32:01 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:7:"summary";s:1563:"I got a couple of reports that my WordPress Theme Browser was not working. I checked it out, and sure enough - not working.
\nThis was a bit of a surprise as that code hadn’t changed in years. Turns out, it was the browsers that had changed.
\nI had moved the theme browser from my site (to reduce server load) to my hosting account at Joyent a long time ago, and set it up on the domain managedtasks.com. The frameset page and the top frame were hosted on alexking.org, while the bottom frame - the theme viewer - was on managedtasks.com.
\nThis combination stopped working because the browsers changed their cookie security settings. If you have your cookies set to “only accept cookies from sites I visit”, then your browser was rejecting the cookie from managedtasks.com (because the URL in your browser was alexking.org).
\nIf this cookie wasn’t set, the proper theme was not displayed; hence the theme browser being broken .
\nI’ve moved it all onto managedtasks.com now, and everything appears to work again.
\n";}i:43;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:65:"Weblog Tools Collection: Need something designed? Crowdsource it.";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3490";s:4:"link";s:92:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/29/need-something-designed-crowdsource-it/";s:11:"description";s:1175:"99 designs is an interesting site. It fills a niche that I have carefully treaded in the past and have received negative feedback for (rightfully so). 99 Designs allows you to crowdsource your design needs. If an organization or an individual seeks a new design, they hold a “contest” of sorts using the tools built into 99 Designs and offer up some money for their project. Designers are then allowed to post entries for these and the contest holder is allowed to pick and choose the best design(s) and distribute the money based on the winning design. In the past designers have turned up their nose on design contests for a variety of reasons, most of which I agree with. However, the surprising thing about 99 Designs is the popularity of the site and the sheer number of designs that have been submitted for existing contest. Some of the work submitted is top notch. My question for designers is to find out whether competition has become so fierce and economic conditions so strained that contests are now fair game or have the rules changed a little? What do you think of the submitted designs on the linked site?
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:07:58 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1175:"99 designs is an interesting site. It fills a niche that I have carefully treaded in the past and have received negative feedback for (rightfully so). 99 Designs allows you to crowdsource your design needs. If an organization or an individual seeks a new design, they hold a “contest” of sorts using the tools built into 99 Designs and offer up some money for their project. Designers are then allowed to post entries for these and the contest holder is allowed to pick and choose the best design(s) and distribute the money based on the winning design. In the past designers have turned up their nose on design contests for a variety of reasons, most of which I agree with. However, the surprising thing about 99 Designs is the popularity of the site and the sheer number of designs that have been submitted for existing contest. Some of the work submitted is top notch. My question for designers is to find out whether competition has become so fierce and economic conditions so strained that contests are now fair game or have the rules changed a little? What do you think of the submitted designs on the linked site?
";}i:44;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin releases for 4/28";s:4:"guid";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/28/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-428/";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/28/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-428/";s:11:"description";s:2426:"Clean WordPress Gallery Plugin
\nThis plugin replaces the default gallery feature in WordPress 2.5 with a valid XHTML solution and offers Lightbox, Slimbox, and Thickbox support.
\n\nThe Theme Tester plugin allows you to change themes and view the results without the visitors to your blog seeing any changes. The visitors may notice some changes if your current theme uses blog options that a new theme overwrites.
\n\nFresh Plus Visited is a very simple plugin for WordPress 2.5 that adds a user color scheme to the admin interface.
\n\nLameda stands for List Attachment MEtaDAta. The plugin enables you to display any information from your attachments like photos, music files, pdf, etc within your posts or pages.
\n\nThe plugin inserts short movie info in your posts (poster, title, directors, actors, runtime, short review, trailer). Uses Cinema Rx for serving data.
\n\nThe plugin replaces the form field names in the comment form with random names then uses sessions to name them correctly after submission before passing the values back for comment processing.
\n\nThe plugin allows you to manage the color schemes in your WordPress admin area. You can add new colors as well as edit current ones.
\n\nUsing the dashboard widgets available in WordPress 2.5, this plugin will process your Friends status updates RSS feed and/or your Facebook notifications feed, and add a widget for each to your WordPress admin dashboard.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:55:07 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:2426:"Clean WordPress Gallery Plugin
\nThis plugin replaces the default gallery feature in WordPress 2.5 with a valid XHTML solution and offers Lightbox, Slimbox, and Thickbox support.
\n\nThe Theme Tester plugin allows you to change themes and view the results without the visitors to your blog seeing any changes. The visitors may notice some changes if your current theme uses blog options that a new theme overwrites.
\n\nFresh Plus Visited is a very simple plugin for WordPress 2.5 that adds a user color scheme to the admin interface.
\n\nLameda stands for List Attachment MEtaDAta. The plugin enables you to display any information from your attachments like photos, music files, pdf, etc within your posts or pages.
\n\nThe plugin inserts short movie info in your posts (poster, title, directors, actors, runtime, short review, trailer). Uses Cinema Rx for serving data.
\n\nThe plugin replaces the form field names in the comment form with random names then uses sessions to name them correctly after submission before passing the values back for comment processing.
\n\nThe plugin allows you to manage the color schemes in your WordPress admin area. You can add new colors as well as edit current ones.
\n\nUsing the dashboard widgets available in WordPress 2.5, this plugin will process your Friends status updates RSS feed and/or your Facebook notifications feed, and add a widget for each to your WordPress admin dashboard.
";}i:45;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:27:"Gravatar: The Faces of CPAN";s:4:"guid";s:35:"http://gravatar.wordpress.com/?p=51";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://blog.gravatar.com/2008/04/28/the-faces-of-cpan/";s:11:"description";s:1913:"Michael S. writes in to share with us two tidbits. The first is that there is now a Gravatar CPAN module (which is cool enough all on its own!) And that they have a very cool page allowing you to see “The Faces of CPAN” via their gravatars (CPAN has supported gravatars for their authors for a while now). Both of these are great finds. Awesome code! Awesome Ideas! Keep up the good work CPAN team!
\nMichael S. writes in to share with us two tidbits. The first is that there is now a Gravatar CPAN module (which is cool enough all on its own!) And that they have a very cool page allowing you to see “The Faces of CPAN” via their gravatars (CPAN has supported gravatars for their authors for a while now). Both of these are great finds. Awesome code! Awesome Ideas! Keep up the good work CPAN team!
\nWhen it comes to exporting, WordPress already does a wonderful job with it’s support to export posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags. However, there is a problem. The WordPress exporter lacks granularity. What I mean by this is that, the exporter covers the entire blog instead of being able to select certain categories to export. I’ve searched the WordPress Plugin database high and low to look for a plugin that would specifically export categories and I could not find one. I did manage to come across two techniques though that get the job done.
\nThere are two ways to export specific categories. The first is to read this forum post where HandySolo explains how to use the category RSS feed to export specific categories from a self hosted blog to a WordPress.com blog. The problem with this method is that, none of the meta data attached to the posts are carried over with the posts.
\nThe second method is not pretty but it gets the job done. What I ended up doing was creating a new user account on my blog. I then used the post manager and filtered the posts by the category for which I wanted to export. I went through each individual post and quickly changed the post author from the original account, to the newly created user account. In my case, I had to do this to 25 individual posts. What is annoying about this method is that, when you save a post under a new author name, any blogs or posts that you have linked to within those posts will end up resending PINGs. However, I believe if you turn off this setting under the SETTINGS-DISCUSSION link in your administration panel this will prevent that from happening. Just remember to turn that back on after you’re finished.
\nAfter all of the posts within the category have been reassigned to a new author, you are ready to export. In your WordPress administration panel browse to MANAGE - EXPORT. Now here is the important step. Underneath where it says OPTIONS, you have a drop down box where you can restrict the export to a certain author.
\n\nIn the drop down box, select the newly created author and click on the DOWNLOAD EXPORT FILE and a WordPress WXR file will be downloaded to your desktop. This file will contain all of the posts from the category you wanted to export because the new user you created was assigned to only those posts within that category. This method actually allows you to export specific categories while maintaining the meta data associated with those posts such as comments and tags.
\nThis is probably not the best way to obtain these results but it’s the only method that I’ve found that allows me to export specific posts/categories while still having all of the other data attached to those posts. If you have a better solution or know of a plugin that can obtain the same results, I’d be very interested to know about it.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:07:26 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:3452:"When it comes to exporting, WordPress already does a wonderful job with it’s support to export posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags. However, there is a problem. The WordPress exporter lacks granularity. What I mean by this is that, the exporter covers the entire blog instead of being able to select certain categories to export. I’ve searched the WordPress Plugin database high and low to look for a plugin that would specifically export categories and I could not find one. I did manage to come across two techniques though that get the job done.
\nThere are two ways to export specific categories. The first is to read this forum post where HandySolo explains how to use the category RSS feed to export specific categories from a self hosted blog to a WordPress.com blog. The problem with this method is that, none of the meta data attached to the posts are carried over with the posts.
\nThe second method is not pretty but it gets the job done. What I ended up doing was creating a new user account on my blog. I then used the post manager and filtered the posts by the category for which I wanted to export. I went through each individual post and quickly changed the post author from the original account, to the newly created user account. In my case, I had to do this to 25 individual posts. What is annoying about this method is that, when you save a post under a new author name, any blogs or posts that you have linked to within those posts will end up resending PINGs. However, I believe if you turn off this setting under the SETTINGS-DISCUSSION link in your administration panel this will prevent that from happening. Just remember to turn that back on after you’re finished.
\nAfter all of the posts within the category have been reassigned to a new author, you are ready to export. In your WordPress administration panel browse to MANAGE - EXPORT. Now here is the important step. Underneath where it says OPTIONS, you have a drop down box where you can restrict the export to a certain author.
\n\nIn the drop down box, select the newly created author and click on the DOWNLOAD EXPORT FILE and a WordPress WXR file will be downloaded to your desktop. This file will contain all of the posts from the category you wanted to export because the new user you created was assigned to only those posts within that category. This method actually allows you to export specific categories while maintaining the meta data associated with those posts such as comments and tags.
\nThis is probably not the best way to obtain these results but it’s the only method that I’ve found that allows me to export specific posts/categories while still having all of the other data attached to those posts. If you have a better solution or know of a plugin that can obtain the same results, I’d be very interested to know about it.
";}i:47;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:67:"Lorelle on WP: WordPress Security Prevention, Reactions, and Scares";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=2507";s:4:"link";s:91:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/wordpress-security-prevention-reactions-and-scares/";s:11:"description";s:16865:"Matt Mullenweg spoke out recently on the recent bogus “SecurityFocus SQL Injection” fear spreading across the web. There is a huge perception today that WordPress is a security risk. This is not true.
\nAs Matt discussed, fears of SQL server vulnerabilities and other security issues have gotten out of control, for WordPress as well as other open source and proprietary programs, which he likened to “running into a crowded theatre and yell ‘fire’ and the less basis there is in fact the more people link to them. It’s not uncommon to see crying-wolf reports like the above several times in a week…”
\nJeff Jones, a software security expert, dug into the history of a recent SQL server issue and reported:
\n\nLast week a web-based news story comes to my attention which asserted that last year SQL Server had “…most vulnerabilities last year of any commercial database…” That prompted me to do some fact checking and I thought it worth documenting the real (really good) story of SQL vulnerabilities and what commercial database had the most vulnerabilities last year…
\nSo. One thing is clear from the rudimentary investigation I’ve performed here - SQL Server was not even close to having the most vulnerabilities last year of any commercial database.
\nIn fact, though SQL 2000 Server may have had a rough track record up through 2003, the SQL team has certainly turned a corner since then and SQL Server 2005 has had one of the best security track records of any commercial database ever.
In a report on his Security Blog, Internet Explorer and Firefox Vulnerability Analysis (pdf), Jones reported that FireFox has had more security vulnerabilities than Internet Explorer, even though it is a widely held belief that FireFox is the “better” browser.
\nWhen a security issue came up with WordPress.com, it was fixed within 10 minutes of being reported. Yet, the news spread around for days that WordPress.com was a security risk.
\nPerception is everything. In another report and analysis, Jeff Jones reports on the increasing number of disclosures influencing the perception of security issues and vulnerabilities as they catch the public eye.
\n
\nThe number of disclosures of new software vulnerabilities across the industry continues
\n
\nto be in the thousands, with more than 3,400 new vulnerabilities disclosed in 1H07 [first half of 2007]. But this number actually represents a decrease from 2H06, the first period-to-period decline in total vulnerabilities since 2003.There are a couple of other interesting results that I want to call out that you should examine with more detail in the full report:
\n* Social engineering plays a growing role in overall malware attack techniques. This is a key result since even with vulnerability-free software, these techniques could succeed against users of any platform.
\n * Windows Defender has proportionally detected 2.8 times less potentially unwanted software on computers running Windows Vista than on computers running Windows XP SP2, based on normalized data. This is a practical measure of benefit that is somewhat more valuable in my opinion than vulnerability comparisons.
As Matt said, the more sensational and invalid the security scare, the more likely it is to be spread in this age of social networking where anyone can have their say and link. Even sites with few security problems quickly get a bad reputation. We need to pay attention to the serious threats so these cries of fire do not become cries of wolf.
\nSo how vulnerable is WordPress compared to other blog and CMS platforms? The US National Institute of Standards and Technology - National Vulnerabilities Database tracks reported WordPress Security Vulnerabilities from the earliest years. Let’s compare WordPress to Joomla and Drupal:
\nPlatform | \n2005 | \n2006 | \n2007 | \n2008 | \n
WordPress | \n11 | \n18 | \n49 | \n34 | \n
Joomla | \n4 | \n28 | \n31 | \n12 | \n
Drupal | \n6 | \n17 | \n16 | \n8 | \n
Is the recent high numbers due to increased usage and popularity of WordPress? Is it because it is becoming a target of those who want to find ways of breaking WordPress? Is it because there is a dedicated WordPress Community to uncover and report such issues? Is it because there are so many who care that WordPress remains safe and secure?
\nWith more and more people using WordPress, more and more hackers are digging into the core to find ways of breaking WordPress. Luckily, there are enough “white hat heroes” that report the vulnerabilities they find rather than exploiting them, helping the Automattic team improve WordPress constantly.
\nMatt also also offered some sensible tips and information for those worried about the “increasing security threats” to WordPress. His recommendations: Update WordPress. Use common sense. Use strong passwords. Be aware.
\nAlways keep a backup copy of the latest version of WordPress, your WordPress Theme, a full backup of your WordPress database, WordPress Plugins, and copies of all the images and files on your host server. If something does happen, you may need these backups to restore your blog.
\nTo keep your WordPress blog safe:
\nTo check your blog now for unwanted links and hacking attempts:
\nheader.php
and footer.php
for unwanted content and links. If you didn’t put it there, who did? Do you want it there?display:none
and/or height:0
as these are common styles used to hide unwanted content and links. Remove them from the posts or files accordingly. I recommend Silpstream’s WP-phpMyAdmin WordPress Plugin for searching the database directly from your WordPress blog.If you are not using the latest version of WordPress, your blog may be at risk. Currently, WordPress 1x is no longer supported. The WordPress 2.0x branch has been upgraded to 2.1.3 and 2.0.11. See the WordPress Release Archive for past versions of WordPress.
\nBlog Security recently updated its popular WordPress Whitepaper which reports on security issues and problems with WordPress. It includes tips and step-by-step procedures to improve the security of your WordPress blog, beyond the scope of this article. Also, consider using the WPIDS - WordPress Intruder Detection System Plugin to help you monitor your blog for intruders and attacks.
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Matt Mullenweg spoke out recently on the recent bogus “SecurityFocus SQL Injection” fear spreading across the web. There is a huge perception today that WordPress is a security risk. This is not true.
\nAs Matt discussed, fears of SQL server vulnerabilities and other security issues have gotten out of control, for WordPress as well as other open source and proprietary programs, which he likened to “running into a crowded theatre and yell ‘fire’ and the less basis there is in fact the more people link to them. It’s not uncommon to see crying-wolf reports like the above several times in a week…”
\nJeff Jones, a software security expert, dug into the history of a recent SQL server issue and reported:
\n\nLast week a web-based news story comes to my attention which asserted that last year SQL Server had “…most vulnerabilities last year of any commercial database…” That prompted me to do some fact checking and I thought it worth documenting the real (really good) story of SQL vulnerabilities and what commercial database had the most vulnerabilities last year…
\nSo. One thing is clear from the rudimentary investigation I’ve performed here - SQL Server was not even close to having the most vulnerabilities last year of any commercial database.
\nIn fact, though SQL 2000 Server may have had a rough track record up through 2003, the SQL team has certainly turned a corner since then and SQL Server 2005 has had one of the best security track records of any commercial database ever.
In a report on his Security Blog, Internet Explorer and Firefox Vulnerability Analysis (pdf), Jones reported that FireFox has had more security vulnerabilities than Internet Explorer, even though it is a widely held belief that FireFox is the “better” browser.
\nWhen a security issue came up with WordPress.com, it was fixed within 10 minutes of being reported. Yet, the news spread around for days that WordPress.com was a security risk.
\nPerception is everything. In another report and analysis, Jeff Jones reports on the increasing number of disclosures influencing the perception of security issues and vulnerabilities as they catch the public eye.
\n
\nThe number of disclosures of new software vulnerabilities across the industry continues
\n
\nto be in the thousands, with more than 3,400 new vulnerabilities disclosed in 1H07 [first half of 2007]. But this number actually represents a decrease from 2H06, the first period-to-period decline in total vulnerabilities since 2003.There are a couple of other interesting results that I want to call out that you should examine with more detail in the full report:
\n* Social engineering plays a growing role in overall malware attack techniques. This is a key result since even with vulnerability-free software, these techniques could succeed against users of any platform.
\n * Windows Defender has proportionally detected 2.8 times less potentially unwanted software on computers running Windows Vista than on computers running Windows XP SP2, based on normalized data. This is a practical measure of benefit that is somewhat more valuable in my opinion than vulnerability comparisons.
As Matt said, the more sensational and invalid the security scare, the more likely it is to be spread in this age of social networking where anyone can have their say and link. Even sites with few security problems quickly get a bad reputation. We need to pay attention to the serious threats so these cries of fire do not become cries of wolf.
\nSo how vulnerable is WordPress compared to other blog and CMS platforms? The US National Institute of Standards and Technology - National Vulnerabilities Database tracks reported WordPress Security Vulnerabilities from the earliest years. Let’s compare WordPress to Joomla and Drupal:
\nPlatform | \n2005 | \n2006 | \n2007 | \n2008 | \n
WordPress | \n11 | \n18 | \n49 | \n34 | \n
Joomla | \n4 | \n28 | \n31 | \n12 | \n
Drupal | \n6 | \n17 | \n16 | \n8 | \n
Is the recent high numbers due to increased usage and popularity of WordPress? Is it because it is becoming a target of those who want to find ways of breaking WordPress? Is it because there is a dedicated WordPress Community to uncover and report such issues? Is it because there are so many who care that WordPress remains safe and secure?
\nWith more and more people using WordPress, more and more hackers are digging into the core to find ways of breaking WordPress. Luckily, there are enough “white hat heroes” that report the vulnerabilities they find rather than exploiting them, helping the Automattic team improve WordPress constantly.
\nMatt also also offered some sensible tips and information for those worried about the “increasing security threats” to WordPress. His recommendations: Update WordPress. Use common sense. Use strong passwords. Be aware.
\nAlways keep a backup copy of the latest version of WordPress, your WordPress Theme, a full backup of your WordPress database, WordPress Plugins, and copies of all the images and files on your host server. If something does happen, you may need these backups to restore your blog.
\nTo keep your WordPress blog safe:
\nTo check your blog now for unwanted links and hacking attempts:
\nheader.php
and footer.php
for unwanted content and links. If you didn’t put it there, who did? Do you want it there?display:none
and/or height:0
as these are common styles used to hide unwanted content and links. Remove them from the posts or files accordingly. I recommend Silpstream’s WP-phpMyAdmin WordPress Plugin for searching the database directly from your WordPress blog.If you are not using the latest version of WordPress, your blog may be at risk. Currently, WordPress 1x is no longer supported. The WordPress 2.0x branch has been upgraded to 2.1.3 and 2.0.11. See the WordPress Release Archive for past versions of WordPress.
\nBlog Security recently updated its popular WordPress Whitepaper which reports on security issues and problems with WordPress. It includes tips and step-by-step procedures to improve the security of your WordPress blog, beyond the scope of this article. Also, consider using the WPIDS - WordPress Intruder Detection System Plugin to help you monitor your blog for intruders and attacks.
\n
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Woopra was opened up to the world at the Dallas WordCamp where I met John for the first time. His talk was not on Woopra but he introduced it to the event in a very short, three minute spiel. Since then Woopra has generated a tremendous amount of buzz in blogging circles. In short, Woopra is a stats tool for websites that lives as an application on your desktop (among other places) and can provide live webstats on your visitors. I like it since it is fast and since the developers gave me an opportunity to look at the insides early on, I have developed quite a fondness for it. They are in growth mode and with the recent upgrade to their desktop client, they can support more locations and are in the process of approving a large number of new users for their service.
\nAll of that being said, with my previous knowledge of Woopra and its capabilities, I was literally floored this afternoon by a flood of new “stuff” that I had either completely missed or capabilities that were added in this new release. So if you are a Woopra user (or if you are not, just sign up), pull up a chair, grab a cup of your favorite beverage and read on. This is pretty cool.
\nAll of the following assumes that you have an active Woopra account, are using WordPress, have the WordPress plugin installed and have the Woopra application (1.1.1.0) installed on your machine.
\nNow you will receive a notification on your desktop whenever a registered user or a user who has left a comment, visits your blog. This gets even cooler when you notice their gravatar shows up on the notification and you are now able to track these known visitors are they traverse through your blog. You can even choose to initiate a web chat with these visitors through the Woopra application. The chat shows up on their browser. This is cool and scary at the same time.
Woopra is a great tool. It is even better with these little tidbits. There are literally thousands of different ways to enhance your stats and understand your reader population better. I have just outlined a few that I had completely missed till today.
\nHave you found any cool new tricks for Woopra that you would like to share?
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:31:27 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:6526:"Woopra was opened up to the world at the Dallas WordCamp where I met John for the first time. His talk was not on Woopra but he introduced it to the event in a very short, three minute spiel. Since then Woopra has generated a tremendous amount of buzz in blogging circles. In short, Woopra is a stats tool for websites that lives as an application on your desktop (among other places) and can provide live webstats on your visitors. I like it since it is fast and since the developers gave me an opportunity to look at the insides early on, I have developed quite a fondness for it. They are in growth mode and with the recent upgrade to their desktop client, they can support more locations and are in the process of approving a large number of new users for their service.
\nAll of that being said, with my previous knowledge of Woopra and its capabilities, I was literally floored this afternoon by a flood of new “stuff” that I had either completely missed or capabilities that were added in this new release. So if you are a Woopra user (or if you are not, just sign up), pull up a chair, grab a cup of your favorite beverage and read on. This is pretty cool.
\nAll of the following assumes that you have an active Woopra account, are using WordPress, have the WordPress plugin installed and have the Woopra application (1.1.1.0) installed on your machine.
\nNow you will receive a notification on your desktop whenever a registered user or a user who has left a comment, visits your blog. This gets even cooler when you notice their gravatar shows up on the notification and you are now able to track these known visitors are they traverse through your blog. You can even choose to initiate a web chat with these visitors through the Woopra application. The chat shows up on their browser. This is cool and scary at the same time.
Woopra is a great tool. It is even better with these little tidbits. There are literally thousands of different ways to enhance your stats and understand your reader population better. I have just outlined a few that I had completely missed till today.
\nHave you found any cool new tricks for Woopra that you would like to share?
";}i:49;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:51:"Weblog Tools Collection: What Happened To PodPress?";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3484";s:4:"link";s:79:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/27/what-happened-to-podpress/";s:11:"description";s:1506:"For those of you who have recently browsed to the website that the popular PodPress plugin calls home, you’ll notice that the site is gone and has been replaced by a parked GoDaddy domain page. This GoDaddy parked page has already sent many people into a frenzy. As I’ve monitored my Twitter stream, many folks were already started to think that PodPress may have up and folded for greener pastures. There have also been a forum post or two discussing the possible demise of the PodPress project.
\nI’ve recently got in contact with the author of PodPress and I have excellent news. The GoDaddy page is the result of a domain registration snafu. The site should be back online either as you read this, or within the next few hours.
\nWhile talking with Mightyseek, I learned that the new version of PodPress is almost ready for release. The next version of PodPress promises to be more customizable as in the way it looks on your blog. Mightyseek has also informed me that he plans on creating PodPress ports for Joomla and Drupal which should quickly follow the release.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:28:25 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1506:"For those of you who have recently browsed to the website that the popular PodPress plugin calls home, you’ll notice that the site is gone and has been replaced by a parked GoDaddy domain page. This GoDaddy parked page has already sent many people into a frenzy. As I’ve monitored my Twitter stream, many folks were already started to think that PodPress may have up and folded for greener pastures. There have also been a forum post or two discussing the possible demise of the PodPress project.
\nI’ve recently got in contact with the author of PodPress and I have excellent news. The GoDaddy page is the result of a domain registration snafu. The site should be back online either as you read this, or within the next few hours.
\nWhile talking with Mightyseek, I learned that the new version of PodPress is almost ready for release. The next version of PodPress promises to be more customizable as in the way it looks on your blog. Mightyseek has also informed me that he plans on creating PodPress ports for Joomla and Drupal which should quickly follow the release.
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