![\"aqueous\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/aqueous.jpg\" "\\"aqueous\\"")
Three column, blue and white theme with a fluid later, designed for higher resolutions.
![\"talian-screenshot-banner\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/talianscreenshotbanner.jpg\" "\\"talian-screenshot-banner\\"")
Talian is a 3 colomn premium theme with several new features (Post styling options, mini social bookmakers) and option pages e.g. custom sitemap, custom archives and custom link pages
![\"wpfoto\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/wpfoto.jpg\" "\\"wpfoto\\"")
Wp Foto theme is single layout theme designed for photo blogger. It uses custom fields for displaying thumbnail in home page, archive page, category and tag page.
![\"mediterranean\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/mediterranean.jpg\" "\\"mediterranean\\"")
Mediterranean is a two column, widget ready WordPress theme, with right-hand sidebar, from an original XHTML template by DemusDesign.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:54:44 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1903:\"
Three column, blue and white theme with a fluid later, designed for higher resolutions.
Talian is a 3 colomn premium theme with several new features (Post styling options, mini social bookmakers) and option pages e.g. custom sitemap, custom archives and custom link pages
Wp Foto theme is single layout theme designed for photo blogger. It uses custom fields for displaying thumbnail in home page, archive page, category and tag page.
Mediterranean is a two column, widget ready WordPress theme, with right-hand sidebar, from an original XHTML template by DemusDesign.
\";}i:1;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:22:\"Matt: WordCamp Weekend\";s:4:\"guid\";s:20:\"http://ma.tt/?p=7734\";s:4:\"link\";s:38:\"http://ma.tt/2008/09/wordcamp-weekend/\";s:11:\"description\";s:639:\"There’s not one but three four WordCamps this weekend. I just got back from China, where both the Beijing and Shanghai events were great. (More pictures coming soon.) This Saturday you can check out WordPress events in Portland, Salt Lake City (I’ll be attending this one, they asked me first), Vancouver, and Birmingham.
There’s not one but three four WordCamps this weekend. I just got back from China, where both the Beijing and Shanghai events were great. (More pictures coming soon.) This Saturday you can check out WordPress events in Portland, Salt Lake City (I’ll be attending this one, they asked me first), Vancouver, and Birmingham.
The team and I have been hard at work getting some pretty interesting goodies ready for launch at WordCamp Utah this weekend.
![\"WordCamp](\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3182/2768045330_a1f6ae4503_o.png\")
I’m also giving a presentation on plugin development - so if there is anything you’d like to hear about specifically please let me know and I’ll try to get it in there.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:36:47 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Alex\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1833:\"The team and I have been hard at work getting some pretty interesting goodies ready for launch at WordCamp Utah this weekend.
I’m also giving a presentation on plugin development - so if there is anything you’d like to hear about specifically please let me know and I’ll try to get it in there.
\";}i:3;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:60:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/24\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4225\";s:4:\"link\";s:88:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/24/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0924/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2743:\"PhotoQ is a WordPress plugin that turns your blog into a photoblog. If you have a lot of pictures to post, PhotoQ is your ideal companion. With PhotoQ you can mass upload several photos at the same time thanks to its batch upload functionality.
Admin Drop Down Menus rearranges the existing default Dashboard/Admin menus into javascript driven dropdowns, making navigation around your Wordpress Admin quicker, easier and considerably more efficient.
Just simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box.
Tabbed interfaces are the most common on newspaper type website where they can save a lot of vertical space and make it look less cluttered. This plugin allows you to create them.
Hatena Star is a recommendation service for webpages, popular in Japan.
Blinko Broadcaster for WordPress
The Blinko Broadcaster Plugin gives any WordPress user the opportunity to create their own broadcasting page, by signing up to an evaluation account to Blinko just by filling in an email address, all through a user-friendly interface in the Admin Panel.
WP MarkItUp! is the Wordpress plugin that replaces the old “quicktags” toolbar with MarkItUp!, a jQuery plugin written by Jay Salvat that allows to turn any textarea into an highly customizable markup editor.
Find and replacer is a powerful search plugin for replacing tags and text throughout your blog installation.
The plugin will add a digg button to every post, so your readers could digg the post if they really like it.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:58:24 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2743:\"PhotoQ is a WordPress plugin that turns your blog into a photoblog. If you have a lot of pictures to post, PhotoQ is your ideal companion. With PhotoQ you can mass upload several photos at the same time thanks to its batch upload functionality.
Admin Drop Down Menus rearranges the existing default Dashboard/Admin menus into javascript driven dropdowns, making navigation around your Wordpress Admin quicker, easier and considerably more efficient.
Just simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box.
Tabbed interfaces are the most common on newspaper type website where they can save a lot of vertical space and make it look less cluttered. This plugin allows you to create them.
Hatena Star is a recommendation service for webpages, popular in Japan.
Blinko Broadcaster for WordPress
The Blinko Broadcaster Plugin gives any WordPress user the opportunity to create their own broadcasting page, by signing up to an evaluation account to Blinko just by filling in an email address, all through a user-friendly interface in the Admin Panel.
WP MarkItUp! is the Wordpress plugin that replaces the old “quicktags” toolbar with MarkItUp!, a jQuery plugin written by Jay Salvat that allows to turn any textarea into an highly customizable markup editor.
Find and replacer is a powerful search plugin for replacing tags and text throughout your blog installation.
The plugin will add a digg button to every post, so your readers could digg the post if they really like it.
\";}i:4;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:62:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Automattic Has Acquired IntenseDebate\";s:4:\"guid\";s:91:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/23/automattic-has-acquired-intensedebate/\";s:4:\"link\";s:91:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/23/automattic-has-acquired-intensedebate/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1063:\"Automattic Has Acquired IntenseDebate’s Enhanced Comment System: Automattic has acquired IntenseDebate for an undisclosed amount according to TechCrunch and this post on the IntenseDate blog. They are planning to delve into a closed beta once again while they ramp up their hardware for an onslaught of new users from Automattic. Plans include a tight integeration with WordPress (I am assuming with WordPress.com initially and maybe as a plugin for WordPress.org, thus the need for ramping up resources) but will continue to exist as a separate service and will be available for other platforms beside WordPress. Expect more news on this front very soon. Matt and Toni also talk about the acquisition.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:24:30 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1063:\"Automattic Has Acquired IntenseDebate’s Enhanced Comment System: Automattic has acquired IntenseDebate for an undisclosed amount according to TechCrunch and this post on the IntenseDate blog. They are planning to delve into a closed beta once again while they ramp up their hardware for an onslaught of new users from Automattic. Plans include a tight integeration with WordPress (I am assuming with WordPress.com initially and maybe as a plugin for WordPress.org, thus the need for ramping up resources) but will continue to exist as a separate service and will be available for other platforms beside WordPress. Expect more news on this front very soon. Matt and Toni also talk about the acquisition.
\";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:36:\"Matt: Intense Debate Goes Automattic\";s:4:\"guid\";s:20:\"http://ma.tt/?p=7727\";s:4:\"link\";s:52:\"http://ma.tt/2008/09/intense-debate-goes-automattic/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2410:\"Some cool news today — Automattic is acquiring Intense Debate. You can read more on Jon’s blog on Intense Debate, or on Toni’s blog, or on VC Mike’s blog.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the product, Intense Debate supercharges the comment section of WordPress blogs and other sites with cool features like threading, reply by email, voting, reputation, and global profiles. There are a few companies tackling this space right now, but I was impressed with how much ID (Intense Debate) has been able to do with a small team, and happy to find that their common platform (PHP and MySQL) would make integration a lot easier.
Going forward, the plan is to keep Intense Debate available as a platform-agnostic independent service, much like Akismet. We’ll start to integrate its features into WordPress core, WordPress.com, and Gravatar as appropriate. For example, comment threading is going to be in WordPress 2.7, but reply by email is a lot easier to implement on a hosted service like WordPress.com. We’re also going to be able to lend our expertise in scaling to the ID team to make sure their users enjoy the same hassle-free speed and bulletproof availability as users of other Automattic services.
Long-term, I think that comments are the most crucial interaction point for blogs, and an area that deserves a lot of investment and innovation. Comments really haven’t changed in a decade, and it’s time to spice things up a little.
We were early in the space with investing in Akismet to solve the spam problem, but now I think the real growth opportunities are in the user interaction and social features across comments. There is a huge opportunity to increase the traffic and engagement of blogs significantly. WordPress.com alone already gets about three legitimate comments every second — more than a quarter of a million every day. I’m excited to see what the Intense Debate team can do to make things more interesting.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:24:37 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2410:\"Some cool news today — Automattic is acquiring Intense Debate. You can read more on Jon’s blog on Intense Debate, or on Toni’s blog, or on VC Mike’s blog.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the product, Intense Debate supercharges the comment section of WordPress blogs and other sites with cool features like threading, reply by email, voting, reputation, and global profiles. There are a few companies tackling this space right now, but I was impressed with how much ID (Intense Debate) has been able to do with a small team, and happy to find that their common platform (PHP and MySQL) would make integration a lot easier.
Going forward, the plan is to keep Intense Debate available as a platform-agnostic independent service, much like Akismet. We’ll start to integrate its features into WordPress core, WordPress.com, and Gravatar as appropriate. For example, comment threading is going to be in WordPress 2.7, but reply by email is a lot easier to implement on a hosted service like WordPress.com. We’re also going to be able to lend our expertise in scaling to the ID team to make sure their users enjoy the same hassle-free speed and bulletproof availability as users of other Automattic services.
Long-term, I think that comments are the most crucial interaction point for blogs, and an area that deserves a lot of investment and innovation. Comments really haven’t changed in a decade, and it’s time to spice things up a little.
We were early in the space with investing in Akismet to solve the spam problem, but now I think the real growth opportunities are in the user interaction and social features across comments. There is a huge opportunity to increase the traffic and engagement of blogs significantly. WordPress.com alone already gets about three legitimate comments every second — more than a quarter of a million every day. I’m excited to see what the Intense Debate team can do to make things more interesting.
\";}i:6;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:56:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Comment Spam with more Kung Fu?\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4216\";s:4:\"link\";s:84:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/23/comment-spam-with-more-kung-fu/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3256:\"It is no secret that Weblog Tools Collection is a magnet for comment spam. I am not sure if this is something to brag about but Akismet has caught over 3,588,568 spam comments as of writing this article. We spend a considerable amount of time moderating comments on this blog and lately the time spent has increased many fold. Let me explain.
Since automattic spamming of blogs has mostly been reduced to a trickle due to the likes of Akismet, spammers are now individually targeting blog posts with highly relevant, and in many cases highly convincing comments. I moderated and subsequently spammed a comment today that was over a hundred words long, on the pros and cons of one of the themes on our daily theme posts. I thought the comment was a very well written review of theme until I looked closely. The URI of the poster was a refinancing Made For AdSense page. One click of my itchy index finger and it was gone. Take that sucka!
This sort of relevant comment spam is not new but the time and effort spent on writing them seems to have increased quite a bit, where legit comments are harder to distinguish from spam. They now come with more Kung Fu and we need to spend more time and effort in identifying them. We use a plugin written by Alex King on this blog that can delink the comment authors. However there is lurking danger in just delinking a comment author since if the author was really a spammer, authorizing a comment is akin to authorizing them to post comments on your blog without moderation (they still have to go through Akismet even if the author was previously authorized). So if the comment looks really legit but has a lurking spam link in the URI, and Akismet thinks it is ham then you as the blogger never see it because it never gets put into the moderation queue and the spammer is successful.
In addition to much better comments from spammers, trackback spam have gotten clever as well. Spammy trackbacks from Russian and Chinese sites have increased considerably. They are much harder to identify as spam because of the language barrier and we have resorted to deleting them if they look anywhere close to being suspicious or add nothing to the conversation. We also delete any and all trackbacks from scraper sites. As a matter of fact, we use the blacklist feature to remove them from contention completely but scapers are another story for another day.
So we are spending more time moderating comments and often feel guilty that we might be spamming or deleting legitimate comments from folks whose site/blog look spammy to us (there was a poker blog that looked spammy but was written by a legitimate poker fan). Sadly, one persons’ spam might look to another person like ham and vice versa. It is getting harder to determine the spamminess of a comment because the distinguishing features that separate ham from spam continue to get more and more blurry. Please be (more) careful when approving a comment because you might be letting a spammer in.
“Named must your fear be before banish it you can.”
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:45:26 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3256:\"It is no secret that Weblog Tools Collection is a magnet for comment spam. I am not sure if this is something to brag about but Akismet has caught over 3,588,568 spam comments as of writing this article. We spend a considerable amount of time moderating comments on this blog and lately the time spent has increased many fold. Let me explain.
Since automattic spamming of blogs has mostly been reduced to a trickle due to the likes of Akismet, spammers are now individually targeting blog posts with highly relevant, and in many cases highly convincing comments. I moderated and subsequently spammed a comment today that was over a hundred words long, on the pros and cons of one of the themes on our daily theme posts. I thought the comment was a very well written review of theme until I looked closely. The URI of the poster was a refinancing Made For AdSense page. One click of my itchy index finger and it was gone. Take that sucka!
This sort of relevant comment spam is not new but the time and effort spent on writing them seems to have increased quite a bit, where legit comments are harder to distinguish from spam. They now come with more Kung Fu and we need to spend more time and effort in identifying them. We use a plugin written by Alex King on this blog that can delink the comment authors. However there is lurking danger in just delinking a comment author since if the author was really a spammer, authorizing a comment is akin to authorizing them to post comments on your blog without moderation (they still have to go through Akismet even if the author was previously authorized). So if the comment looks really legit but has a lurking spam link in the URI, and Akismet thinks it is ham then you as the blogger never see it because it never gets put into the moderation queue and the spammer is successful.
In addition to much better comments from spammers, trackback spam have gotten clever as well. Spammy trackbacks from Russian and Chinese sites have increased considerably. They are much harder to identify as spam because of the language barrier and we have resorted to deleting them if they look anywhere close to being suspicious or add nothing to the conversation. We also delete any and all trackbacks from scraper sites. As a matter of fact, we use the blacklist feature to remove them from contention completely but scapers are another story for another day.
So we are spending more time moderating comments and often feel guilty that we might be spamming or deleting legitimate comments from folks whose site/blog look spammy to us (there was a poker blog that looked spammy but was written by a legitimate poker fan). Sadly, one persons’ spam might look to another person like ham and vice versa. It is getting harder to determine the spamminess of a comment because the distinguishing features that separate ham from spam continue to get more and more blurry. Please be (more) careful when approving a comment because you might be letting a spammer in.
“Named must your fear be before banish it you can.”
\";}i:7;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:27:\"Donncha: WP Super Cache 0.8\";s:4:\"guid\";s:29:\"http://ocaoimh.ie/?p=89494030\";s:4:\"link\";s:47:\"http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/09/23/wp-super-cache-08/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3387:\"WP Super Cache is a page caching plugin for WordPress that will significantly speed up your website.
If you’re not interested in the changes, simply grab the latest version of the plugin and copy the files into your plugin folder. It’ll work, but if you’re upgrading, you should read on.
Major changes in this release:
Edit: 0.8.1 has just been released. This addresses the following:
Related Posts
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:46:50 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:7:\"Donncha\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3387:\"WP Super Cache is a page caching plugin for WordPress that will significantly speed up your website.
If you’re not interested in the changes, simply grab the latest version of the plugin and copy the files into your plugin folder. It’ll work, but if you’re upgrading, you should read on.
Major changes in this release:
Edit: 0.8.1 has just been released. This addresses the following:
Related Posts
\";}i:8;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:23:\"Matt: 18 on 30 Under 30\";s:4:\"guid\";s:20:\"http://ma.tt/?p=7725\";s:4:\"link\";s:39:\"http://ma.tt/2008/09/18-on-30-under-30/\";s:11:\"description\";s:212:\"Inc. just announced their Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 and I came in at #18. Cool! Some really young ones on the list though — I’m getting old.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:43:43 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:212:\"Inc. just announced their Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 and I came in at #18. Cool! Some really young ones on the list though — I’m getting old.
\";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:43:\"Lloyd: Official WordPress Logos and Fan Art\";s:4:\"guid\";s:30:\"http://foolswisdom.com/?p=1577\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://foolswisdom.com/official-wordpress-logos-and-fan-art/\";s:11:\"description\";s:4102:\"I know that Matt Mullenweg and Matt Thomas die a little each time they see WordPress fan art that uses a faux logo. I only notice the chubby W because I’ve been edumacated.
MT (the real) has updated WordPress.org/about/buttons with official WordPress logos in pngs and vector image formats.
![\"WordPress](\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3159/2845483965_9e92fd4305.jpg\" "\\"WordPress")
WordPress Logos and WordPress Buttons
There are also WordPress desktop wall paper in various official colors and sizes. The official WordPress colors are given in a variety of code systems. Pantone 7468 anyone?
Fan Art
The fan art page could use some fresh contributions.
These naturalized WordPress logos would be nice additions:
![\"WordPress](\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3292/2880228178_9943eee2e1_m.jpg\" "\\"WordPress")
WordPress India Independence Logo by Allan Fernandes
One or more of the WordPress Malaysia Independence Logos by Avijit Paul. My favorite are the one’s with the flower for the O:
![\"\"](\"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1231/1254183619_bb57290e17_o.jpg\" "\\"WordPress")
WordPress Malaysia Independence Logos by Avijit Paul
I love the WordCamp Philippines logo:
![\"WordCamp](\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3247/2880228246_acdc907c18_o.jpg\" "\\"WordCamp")
WordCamp Philippines Logo by Andrew Dela Serna
What is your favorite WordPress art?
Lorelle’s category icons are brilliant. For example, she uses this image for WordPress News:
![\"\"](\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/wpnews1.png\")
Anyone know the creator of this popular images?
![\"Halo](\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3247/2879519763_d2190c21b5_m.jpg\")
Same day correction: previously the article suggested the font is Dante, but both Matts have come to my rescue. It used to be the WordPress logo font. When Jason Santa Maria designed the new logo a few years ago, he chose the lovely Mrs. Eaves.
Adam Freetly identified the creator of the “lens flare” logo as being Dan Philibin.
WordPress \"Lens Flare\" Logo by Dan Philibin
I know that Matt Mullenweg and Matt Thomas die a little each time they see WordPress fan art that uses a faux logo. I only notice the chubby W because I’ve been edumacated.
MT (the real) has updated WordPress.org/about/buttons with official WordPress logos in pngs and vector image formats.
WordPress Logos and WordPress Buttons
There are also WordPress desktop wall paper in various official colors and sizes. The official WordPress colors are given in a variety of code systems. Pantone 7468 anyone?
Fan Art
The fan art page could use some fresh contributions.
These naturalized WordPress logos would be nice additions:
WordPress India Independence Logo by Allan Fernandes
One or more of the WordPress Malaysia Independence Logos by Avijit Paul. My favorite are the one’s with the flower for the O:
WordPress Malaysia Independence Logos by Avijit Paul
I love the WordCamp Philippines logo:
WordCamp Philippines Logo by Andrew Dela Serna
What is your favorite WordPress art?
Lorelle’s category icons are brilliant. For example, she uses this image for WordPress News:
Anyone know the creator of this popular images?
Same day correction: previously the article suggested the font is Dante, but both Matts have come to my rescue. It used to be the WordPress logo font. When Jason Santa Maria designed the new logo a few years ago, he chose the lovely Mrs. Eaves.
Adam Freetly identified the creator of the “lens flare” logo as being Dan Philibin.
WordPress \"Lens Flare\" Logo by Dan Philibin
![\"\"](\"http://farm1.static.flickr.com/40/97800018_cc84632d71_m_d.jpg\" "\\"Vulcan\\"")
If you have been thinking about attending WordCamp Birmingham 2008, but haven’t committed yet, now is the time. There are only a couple of hours left to sign up. Registration is only $25, and that includes lunch and a tee shirt — talk about a bargain! Register now!
If you have been thinking about attending WordCamp Birmingham 2008, but haven’t committed yet, now is the time. There are only a couple of hours left to sign up. Registration is only $25, and that includes lunch and a tee shirt — talk about a bargain! Register now!
![\"pro-vehicles-theme\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/provehiclestheme.jpg\" "\\"pro-vehicles-theme\\"")
Simple two column WordPress theme
![\"alpen\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/alpen.jpg\" "\\"alpen\\"")
Three column, gravatar ready theme with two right sidebars
![\"pclean\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/pclean.jpg\" "\\"pclean\\"")
Two Column widget enabled minimalist wordpres theme
![\"clean-news\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/cleannews.jpg\" "\\"clean-news\\"")
Inspired on Wired Magazine look, Clean News is a theme with a large content area, but it also has a wide sidebar that allows to display even a 300px width ad. Home and single sidebars are independent, both widgetized, so you can easily choose what and where to display. A lot of white space to make your content stand out, low weight and no plugins required. It will load in the blink of an eye.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:24:14 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1850:\"
Simple two column WordPress theme
Three column, gravatar ready theme with two right sidebars
Two Column widget enabled minimalist wordpres theme
Inspired on Wired Magazine look, Clean News is a theme with a large content area, but it also has a wide sidebar that allows to display even a 300px width ad. Home and single sidebars are independent, both widgetized, so you can easily choose what and where to display. A lot of white space to make your content stand out, low weight and no plugins required. It will load in the blink of an eye.
\";}i:12;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:49:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Weekly Is Back\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4197\";s:4:\"link\";s:78:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/21/wordpress-weekly-is-back/\";s:11:\"description\";s:10824:\"Many of you may or may not remember a WordPress podcast that was hosted and produced by yours truly called WordPress Weekly. The show made it through 22 episodes. Some of those included staple interviews with Matt Mullenweg, Lorelle Van Fossen, and Alex King. Because I took on more work, it became increasingly difficult to produce the show on a weekly basis for no pay. Don’t get me wrong, I had a blast doing it but I have to pay the bills. Therefor, I opted to concentrate on the work that would pay me versus doing the show for nothing. After I stopped producing the show, comments, emails and feedback through instant messaging started coming in, letting me know how much you enjoyed the show. Many people who had just discovered the show let me know that they were disappointed there would be no more episodes after 22.
I’ve taken all of your feedback to heart and have decided to bring the show back. Mark and I have decided to produce the show for WeblogToolsCollection as part of our content on this blog.
WordPress Weekly was a weekly podcast that discussed what happened within the past week within the world of WordPress. Generally every show was an open round table discussion. I had a number of people who would call in and chime in on stories I discussed during the show. Sometimes, this would be anywhere between 3-7 people on the phone at once, talking over each other but generally, having a good time. This time around, I plan on changing things up a bit. For starters, the show will now have a co-host. If there is anything I’ve learned while doing WordPress Weekly for 22 episodes, it is that having someone to talk to, to bounce stories off of is much better than facing the possibility of talking to myself, or a room of empty people. Two people engaging in a conversation is much better than what I can do single handedly. Also, I don’t have to worry if whether or not people will call in to the show to be part of the round table.
My co host is more than qualified for the job. His name is Keith Murrary and resides in Canada. He has been working with WordPress for a little while now. He is the author of the Admin Links Sidebar Widget plugin. He works as a systems administrator at his place of employment and his role on the podcast will be to discuss the development side of WordPress. I take things from an end users perspective, so we should match up pretty well in discussions.
WordPress Weekly is a weekly oriented podcast that takes place every Friday evening at 8PM EST starting on October 3rd, 2008 on Talkshoe.com. The format of the show will remain close to what it has been in the past. The co-host and I will discuss the WordPress news of the week. This could be plugin updates, releases, themes, version releases, development updates, a tutorial written by someone in the community, could be anything as long as it relates to WordPress. At the end of each show, Keith and I will give out our plugin of the week. This plugin is picked individually by us and is tested prior to the show.
I am aiming for a relaxing atmosphere where WordPress Users can gather around for 1 hour every Friday evening and discuss the latest happenings with everything WordPress. You could almost consider the show a virtual WordCamp.
So how can you be a part of the show? The easiest way is to create an account on Talkshoe.com. Then, download and install their client software (Talkshoe Pro). The Talkshoe software serves as a bridge of communication between the host, and his/her listeners. The software contains a chat room as well as phone number information to call into the show.
However, you do not need to install the software in order to listen to the show live. Friday October 3rd, at 8PM EST, look on the front page of Talkshoe.com or click on the LIVE NOW button and look for the Wordpress Weekly show. Instead of clicking on the JOIN IN button, click underneath where it says LISTEN ONLY. This will tune you into the live stream.
If you want to call in to the show via telephone, Skype, payphone landline, etc, dial 724-444-7444 and follow the audio instructions. *Note* In one of the recent updates to Talkshoe, anonymous calling is now supported. This means you can call in and participate without the need to create a Talkshoe account. However, if you have a Talkshoe account, your registered name will show up within the Talkshoe client letting others know who is speaking. I also want to let you know that Talkshoe has had problems with people calling in anonymously, trying to crash peoples shows or prank call hosts. Having a registered user account will give you a better chance of being on the air. When you dial into the show and you want to speak on the air, press *8 on your dial pad. This is the request to talk feature and will let me know you want to chime in on the discussion.
You can also use SIP clients such as ProjectGizmo or X-Lite. For example, when I use X-Lite to dial in, I type in 123@66.212.134.192 and then follow the audio directions. If you would like to use X-Lite but are unsure in how to configure the software, I highly advise you to check out my in depth tutorial (Installing And Configuring X-Lite)which explains everything you need to know.
Remember this information as it will be required when you want to dial into the show.
Talkcast Name: WordPress Weekly
Talkcast ID: 34224
Phone Number: 724-444-7444
This would also be a good time to remind you that Talkshoe now has a web client that you can access without the need to download or install any software. The web client makes it as easy as pie to participate in the show.
The first is by listening to the live stream. Every Friday at 8PM EST starting on October 3rd, a live stream of the show is enabled, allowing you to listen to the show LIVE as it is being recorded. You can listen to the live stream via the web application which allows you to chat, or you can listen to the stream only. It’s your choice.
The second option is to wait until the final show notes are published on WeblogToolsCollection. When the show notes for WordPress Weekly are finalized, I always embed a talkshoe player at the end of the post which allows you to listen to the show on the website.
The third option is to subscribe to the Talkcast RSS feed. Each Talkshoe player that is displayed on the website has a small RSS icon near the top right corner of the player. Clicking this icon will allow you to subscribe to the feed, and will download the latest episodes into your Feed Reader.
The fourth option is to subscribe to the show via Itunes. Talkshoe provides a link you can use to subscribe to a Talkshoe show through Itunes. If you want to subscribe via Itunes or RSS, the best thing to do is to visit THIS PAGE and click on the Itunes button or the RSS button.
The fifth option is to manually browse to the talkcast homepage and manually download each episode as an mp3 file. When you visit the homepage, click on the DOWNLOAD button and that will download the appropriate episode in an mp3 format that has no DRM attached to it.
Last but not least, if you would like to be reminded of the show via email, please create an account on Talkshoe.com and then visit my Talkcast page. After you create an account, you’ll be able to click on the FOLLOW THIS button, which will add your email automatically to the mailing list. Each time I send out a reminder of when the show will air, an email will be sent to the email address you configured when you created your Talkshoe account.
Unlike the other WordPress centric podcasts that are available, this one is not pre recorded and thus, the audio is not studio grade quality. With that said, my audio has always sounded great with my X-Lite/Talkshoe combination. But, I can only control the audio quality for myself and no one else. So while Keith and I may sound great, someone who calls into the show with a crappy cell phone may sound terrible and there will be nothing I can do about it. The show is produced as is. If you partake in the discussions, I prefer that you please refrain from using expletives during the show. I believe points can be made without using these types of words. I’d also like to keep the clean rating for the show on iTunes.
I have a renewed sense as to how I want the show to be from here on out but I am open to ideas and suggestions to improve the show. At this point, I’d like to know from you, what are you looking for out of a WordPress centric podcast? Do you want more interviews rather than commentary on news? Do you want to know about themes and plugins more than anything else? Would you like us to do a roundtable show once a month or more? Would you like us to cover WordPress only or should we sometimes branch out and discuss topics that are related to blogging and not just WordPress?
If you can’t answer those, simply tell me in the comments what your expectations are for an excellent podcast centered on WordPress that you would listen to every week.
Thank you for taking the time to read this mile long manual. Keith and I will see you on Friday, October 3rd at 8PM EST.
By the way, if you would like a sample of WordPress Weekly before our relaunch, listen to some of my past episodes via the Talkshoe player. Pressing the play button will initiate episode 22 where I interviewed Alex King.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:32:23 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:13:\"Jeff Chandler\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:10824:\"Many of you may or may not remember a WordPress podcast that was hosted and produced by yours truly called WordPress Weekly. The show made it through 22 episodes. Some of those included staple interviews with Matt Mullenweg, Lorelle Van Fossen, and Alex King. Because I took on more work, it became increasingly difficult to produce the show on a weekly basis for no pay. Don’t get me wrong, I had a blast doing it but I have to pay the bills. Therefor, I opted to concentrate on the work that would pay me versus doing the show for nothing. After I stopped producing the show, comments, emails and feedback through instant messaging started coming in, letting me know how much you enjoyed the show. Many people who had just discovered the show let me know that they were disappointed there would be no more episodes after 22.
I’ve taken all of your feedback to heart and have decided to bring the show back. Mark and I have decided to produce the show for WeblogToolsCollection as part of our content on this blog.
WordPress Weekly was a weekly podcast that discussed what happened within the past week within the world of WordPress. Generally every show was an open round table discussion. I had a number of people who would call in and chime in on stories I discussed during the show. Sometimes, this would be anywhere between 3-7 people on the phone at once, talking over each other but generally, having a good time. This time around, I plan on changing things up a bit. For starters, the show will now have a co-host. If there is anything I’ve learned while doing WordPress Weekly for 22 episodes, it is that having someone to talk to, to bounce stories off of is much better than facing the possibility of talking to myself, or a room of empty people. Two people engaging in a conversation is much better than what I can do single handedly. Also, I don’t have to worry if whether or not people will call in to the show to be part of the round table.
My co host is more than qualified for the job. His name is Keith Murrary and resides in Canada. He has been working with WordPress for a little while now. He is the author of the Admin Links Sidebar Widget plugin. He works as a systems administrator at his place of employment and his role on the podcast will be to discuss the development side of WordPress. I take things from an end users perspective, so we should match up pretty well in discussions.
WordPress Weekly is a weekly oriented podcast that takes place every Friday evening at 8PM EST starting on October 3rd, 2008 on Talkshoe.com. The format of the show will remain close to what it has been in the past. The co-host and I will discuss the WordPress news of the week. This could be plugin updates, releases, themes, version releases, development updates, a tutorial written by someone in the community, could be anything as long as it relates to WordPress. At the end of each show, Keith and I will give out our plugin of the week. This plugin is picked individually by us and is tested prior to the show.
I am aiming for a relaxing atmosphere where WordPress Users can gather around for 1 hour every Friday evening and discuss the latest happenings with everything WordPress. You could almost consider the show a virtual WordCamp.
So how can you be a part of the show? The easiest way is to create an account on Talkshoe.com. Then, download and install their client software (Talkshoe Pro). The Talkshoe software serves as a bridge of communication between the host, and his/her listeners. The software contains a chat room as well as phone number information to call into the show.
However, you do not need to install the software in order to listen to the show live. Friday October 3rd, at 8PM EST, look on the front page of Talkshoe.com or click on the LIVE NOW button and look for the Wordpress Weekly show. Instead of clicking on the JOIN IN button, click underneath where it says LISTEN ONLY. This will tune you into the live stream.
If you want to call in to the show via telephone, Skype, payphone landline, etc, dial 724-444-7444 and follow the audio instructions. *Note* In one of the recent updates to Talkshoe, anonymous calling is now supported. This means you can call in and participate without the need to create a Talkshoe account. However, if you have a Talkshoe account, your registered name will show up within the Talkshoe client letting others know who is speaking. I also want to let you know that Talkshoe has had problems with people calling in anonymously, trying to crash peoples shows or prank call hosts. Having a registered user account will give you a better chance of being on the air. When you dial into the show and you want to speak on the air, press *8 on your dial pad. This is the request to talk feature and will let me know you want to chime in on the discussion.
You can also use SIP clients such as ProjectGizmo or X-Lite. For example, when I use X-Lite to dial in, I type in 123@66.212.134.192 and then follow the audio directions. If you would like to use X-Lite but are unsure in how to configure the software, I highly advise you to check out my in depth tutorial (Installing And Configuring X-Lite)which explains everything you need to know.
Remember this information as it will be required when you want to dial into the show.
Talkcast Name: WordPress Weekly
Talkcast ID: 34224
Phone Number: 724-444-7444
This would also be a good time to remind you that Talkshoe now has a web client that you can access without the need to download or install any software. The web client makes it as easy as pie to participate in the show.
The first is by listening to the live stream. Every Friday at 8PM EST starting on October 3rd, a live stream of the show is enabled, allowing you to listen to the show LIVE as it is being recorded. You can listen to the live stream via the web application which allows you to chat, or you can listen to the stream only. It’s your choice.
The second option is to wait until the final show notes are published on WeblogToolsCollection. When the show notes for WordPress Weekly are finalized, I always embed a talkshoe player at the end of the post which allows you to listen to the show on the website.
The third option is to subscribe to the Talkcast RSS feed. Each Talkshoe player that is displayed on the website has a small RSS icon near the top right corner of the player. Clicking this icon will allow you to subscribe to the feed, and will download the latest episodes into your Feed Reader.
The fourth option is to subscribe to the show via Itunes. Talkshoe provides a link you can use to subscribe to a Talkshoe show through Itunes. If you want to subscribe via Itunes or RSS, the best thing to do is to visit THIS PAGE and click on the Itunes button or the RSS button.
The fifth option is to manually browse to the talkcast homepage and manually download each episode as an mp3 file. When you visit the homepage, click on the DOWNLOAD button and that will download the appropriate episode in an mp3 format that has no DRM attached to it.
Last but not least, if you would like to be reminded of the show via email, please create an account on Talkshoe.com and then visit my Talkcast page. After you create an account, you’ll be able to click on the FOLLOW THIS button, which will add your email automatically to the mailing list. Each time I send out a reminder of when the show will air, an email will be sent to the email address you configured when you created your Talkshoe account.
Unlike the other WordPress centric podcasts that are available, this one is not pre recorded and thus, the audio is not studio grade quality. With that said, my audio has always sounded great with my X-Lite/Talkshoe combination. But, I can only control the audio quality for myself and no one else. So while Keith and I may sound great, someone who calls into the show with a crappy cell phone may sound terrible and there will be nothing I can do about it. The show is produced as is. If you partake in the discussions, I prefer that you please refrain from using expletives during the show. I believe points can be made without using these types of words. I’d also like to keep the clean rating for the show on iTunes.
I have a renewed sense as to how I want the show to be from here on out but I am open to ideas and suggestions to improve the show. At this point, I’d like to know from you, what are you looking for out of a WordPress centric podcast? Do you want more interviews rather than commentary on news? Do you want to know about themes and plugins more than anything else? Would you like us to do a roundtable show once a month or more? Would you like us to cover WordPress only or should we sometimes branch out and discuss topics that are related to blogging and not just WordPress?
If you can’t answer those, simply tell me in the comments what your expectations are for an excellent podcast centered on WordPress that you would listen to every week.
Thank you for taking the time to read this mile long manual. Keith and I will see you on Friday, October 3rd at 8PM EST.
By the way, if you would like a sample of WordPress Weekly before our relaunch, listen to some of my past episodes via the Talkshoe player. Pressing the play button will initiate episode 22 where I interviewed Alex King.
\";}i:13;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:60:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/21\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4201\";s:4:\"link\";s:88:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/21/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0921/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1747:\"This plugin renders inline sheet music fragments inside posts and comments into images. It supports ABC, GUIDO, Lilypond and Mup music notations
C4F Textarea Toolbar is a plugin for WordPress aimed at providing a simple yet very useful and precise tool to insert emoticons and markup in the comments’ textarea.
BlogWell’s Simple Image Link Widget
Simple Image Link lets you easily add images to your sidebar, be they advertisements, buttons of support or buttons of protest without the need for any HTML.
Generate RSS feeds for category and tag archive pages.
Disable the ability for users to password protect certain posts.
Intranet / Extranet plugin for Wordpress that allows users to specify which users can access specific posts or pages.
MTR Podcast Recorder offers real-time recording that is saved on the same server where WordPress is installed. All recordings will be saved into the MP3 format using LAME encoder.
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C4F Textarea Toolbar is a plugin for WordPress aimed at providing a simple yet very useful and precise tool to insert emoticons and markup in the comments’ textarea.
BlogWell’s Simple Image Link Widget
Simple Image Link lets you easily add images to your sidebar, be they advertisements, buttons of support or buttons of protest without the need for any HTML.
Generate RSS feeds for category and tag archive pages.
Disable the ability for users to password protect certain posts.
Intranet / Extranet plugin for Wordpress that allows users to specify which users can access specific posts or pages.
MTR Podcast Recorder offers real-time recording that is saved on the same server where WordPress is installed. All recordings will be saved into the MP3 format using LAME encoder.
\";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 09/19\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4195\";s:4:\"link\";s:87:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/19/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0919/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2731:\"![\"8some\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/8some.jpg\" "\\"8some\\"")
Two column fixed-width WordPress theme, with lefthand sidebar, enabled for widgets…
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WP Strict is a real Magazine/Blog/Webfolio hybrid with two different page templates, custom fields and four different widgetized areas.
![\"seo-basics\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/seobasics.png\" "\\"seo-basics\\"")
Orange, black, and gray combined to create a clean, great-looking theme. Supports rotating 125×125 sidebar ads, widgets, gravatars, and microformats.
![\"its-a-boy-header-screenshot\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/itsaboyheaderscreenshot.png\" "\\"its-a-boy-header-screenshot\\"")
Two column, fixed width, widget ready green, black and white theme.
![\"redlit\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/redlit.png\" "\\"redlit\\"")
Red Lite is a simple 2 column red and grey WordPress theme.
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Two column, black and grey theme with gravatar functionality with an exteremely small size.
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Two column fixed-width WordPress theme, with lefthand sidebar, enabled for widgets…
WP Strict is a real Magazine/Blog/Webfolio hybrid with two different page templates, custom fields and four different widgetized areas.
Orange, black, and gray combined to create a clean, great-looking theme. Supports rotating 125×125 sidebar ads, widgets, gravatars, and microformats.
Two column, fixed width, widget ready green, black and white theme.
Red Lite is a simple 2 column red and grey WordPress theme.
Two column, black and grey theme with gravatar functionality with an exteremely small size.
\";}i:15;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:77:\"Weblog Tools Collection: News: WordPress.com Ad-Free and WordPress for iPhone\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4187\";s:4:\"link\";s:104:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/19/news-wordpresscom-ad-free-and-wordpress-for-iphone/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1193:\"For those that are on WordPress.com, Matt and the Automattic team introduced their new Ad-Free version of WordPress.com for a modest fee of 30 credits per year or $0.08 per day. Matt explains the reasoning behind the existence of the ads on WordPress.com and Lorelle writes up us a nice tutorial on how to activate this feature and some information on the ads themselves.
In other cool WordPress news, the WordPress for iPhone app has been downloaded over 100,000 times! Ranaan, who I met for the first time in SF this year and is BBQ averse :), provides a breakdown of the downloads across countries and then runs down a list of new features that are being worked on for version 1.2 including landscape mode, comment moderation and enhanced image options.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:53:43 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1193:\"For those that are on WordPress.com, Matt and the Automattic team introduced their new Ad-Free version of WordPress.com for a modest fee of 30 credits per year or $0.08 per day. Matt explains the reasoning behind the existence of the ads on WordPress.com and Lorelle writes up us a nice tutorial on how to activate this feature and some information on the ads themselves.
In other cool WordPress news, the WordPress for iPhone app has been downloaded over 100,000 times! Ranaan, who I met for the first time in SF this year and is BBQ averse :), provides a breakdown of the downloads across countries and then runs down a list of new features that are being worked on for version 1.2 including landscape mode, comment moderation and enhanced image options.
\";}i:16;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:54:\"Dougal Campbell: Yarrr! It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day!\";s:4:\"guid\";s:33:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=1085\";s:4:\"link\";s:74:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/09/19/yarrr-its-talk-like-a-pirate-day\";s:11:\"description\";s:1032:\"![\"\"](\"http://farm1.static.flickr.com/52/158426810_eac7b405ce_m.jpg\" "\\"Hoist")
Once again, we have arrived on Talk Like a Pirate Day. I had been hoping that I would be able to find time to upgrade my Text Filter Suite plugin for WordPress (which includes my Pirate filter for posts and comments), but I’ve just been too busy. Maybe I can get it re-worked for next year. I already know what I want to do with it: Consolidate all of the filter code, maybe re-do things in an OOP style, add the concept of ‘registering’ a filter with the system, and add a back-end user interface to make it easier to use.
Anyways, enjoy all the piratey goodness today!
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:45:21 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:6:\"Dougal\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1032:\"Once again, we have arrived on Talk Like a Pirate Day. I had been hoping that I would be able to find time to upgrade my Text Filter Suite plugin for WordPress (which includes my Pirate filter for posts and comments), but I’ve just been too busy. Maybe I can get it re-worked for next year. I already know what I want to do with it: Consolidate all of the filter code, maybe re-do things in an OOP style, add the concept of ‘registering’ a filter with the system, and add a back-end user interface to make it easier to use.
Anyways, enjoy all the piratey goodness today!
\";}i:17;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:26:\"Matt: First day in Beijing\";s:4:\"guid\";s:20:\"http://ma.tt/?p=7661\";s:4:\"link\";s:42:\"http://ma.tt/2008/09/first-day-in-beijing/\";s:11:\"description\";s:12849:\"Flying to Beijing, dinner, walking around Tienanmen Square.
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Matt Mullenweg has just announced that you can go “ad-free” on your WordPress.com blog.
While you may have never noticed, those who are not logged into WordPress.com will see ads on blogs across the WordPress.com network. two years ago, WordPress.com started experimenting with Google ads to help support the cost of the experimental and state-of-the-art multiple user free blog service. The intent was not to cover your blogs with ads, like many free blogging services do, but to show an occasional ad discretely within your WordPress Theme.
Since few complained or noticed, the experiment continued, helping to keep WordPress.com free and add a lot of free features that might have been paid upgrades.
These ads were so rare, I never saw them. So I forgot about them. I’ve written a lot about the WordPress.com Terms of Service policy that prohibits adding ads to your WordPress.com blogs, so I was dismayed a few months ago when I got a few emails accusing me of special favors from WordPress.com because I had ads on my blog. They were seeing the WordPress.com experimental ads. Unfortunately, one of the ads was - shall we say - inappropriate, a problem many have with Google’s ad program.
Still, this bothered me. I talked to the WordPress team about this and they agreed that users should have the right to determine whether or not to have WordPress.com ads on their blogs. As Matt explains:
At the same time it’s easy to imagine blogs that would never want ads on them: businesses, startups, non-profits, political activist sites, the list goes on. Google Adsense analyzes the content to show contextually relevant ads, but that might mean a link to a competitor. Because of this we’ve introduced a premium option that gives you control: the No-ads upgrade.
They’ve been working on this new feature for a while, trying to come up with a secure and affordable way for users to continue to support WordPress.com by permitting ads on their blogs, while allowing those with sensitive or special interests to not host ads. They’ve finally done it, and I applaud their foresight and integrity.
Before you start jumping to remove ads from your WordPress.com blog, remember that those ads, most of which you will rarely ever see, help bring in income to keep WordPress.com going. If they don’t bother you or your readers, leave them alone. Why not?
You are using one of the most powerful, state-of-the-art blogging platforms, a service that will survive the Digg-effect and high traffic surges without charging you; a service that keeps bringing you options and features without charge; a service that gives you a platform upon which to express yourself proudly - and is incredibly SEO friendly. Why not help them continue to keep this service free for everyone?
If you do feel a compelling need to remove ads from your WordPress.com blog, go to Upgrades.
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The cost to remove ads from your WordPress.com blog is 30 credits annually (USD $30 if you haven’t earned any credits) which comes to eight cents a day.
Whether you keep or remove ads from your WordPress.com blog, why not take a little time to give back to WordPress.com and other WordPress.com users by browsing the WordPress blog network and get to know your fellow WordPress.com members. You can use the Random Post feature in the gray dashboard bar at the top of your WordPress.com blog when you are logged in, or visit the WordPress.com Blogs of the Day which lists the most popular blogs by language, or the WordPress.com Tags list.
If you are familiar with how WordPress.com works, then why not help out in the WordPress.com forums and get to know the volunteers and staff there as well as your other fellow WordPress.com members. It’s a simple way to say thank you for this powerful free blog service.
A lot of WordPress.com bloggers want to put ads on their blogs to make money for themselves. While some free blog hosts permit that, don’t forget that WordPress.com is also a testing site for many of the latest features of WordPress development.
While the world has to wait for the release of WordPress 2.7, WordPress.com users are already using the new sticky post feature and will soon be playing with other new features as part of the new WordPress Administration interface redesign, a continuation of user interface improvements from the previous version of WordPress - long before anyone else.
This means that WordPress.com has to stay clean of code that will screw up not just one blog but all the blogs on the WordPress.com network powered by WordPressMU. While most ad code is harmless, opening up WordPress.com to Javascript and other code languages opens the door up to malicious code, too. It’s a security risk WordPress.com isn’t willing to take, and I support that policy.
If you want to monetize your blog, get the free version of WordPress and pay for cheap hosting. Some hosts are offering web hosting for under USD $10 a month. With the full version of WordPress, you can not only add ads, but customize the whole look, add all kinds of cool WordPress Plugins, and really tweak your whole site to maximize its revenue potential.
WordPress.com has always been about blogging, about freedom of expression and creativity. It’s not about the code. It’s about the words. WordPress.com is working overtime to make sure we have a place to share our words with others around the world - no holds barred.
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Matt Mullenweg has just announced that you can go “ad-free” on your WordPress.com blog.
While you may have never noticed, those who are not logged into WordPress.com will see ads on blogs across the WordPress.com network. two years ago, WordPress.com started experimenting with Google ads to help support the cost of the experimental and state-of-the-art multiple user free blog service. The intent was not to cover your blogs with ads, like many free blogging services do, but to show an occasional ad discretely within your WordPress Theme.
Since few complained or noticed, the experiment continued, helping to keep WordPress.com free and add a lot of free features that might have been paid upgrades.
These ads were so rare, I never saw them. So I forgot about them. I’ve written a lot about the WordPress.com Terms of Service policy that prohibits adding ads to your WordPress.com blogs, so I was dismayed a few months ago when I got a few emails accusing me of special favors from WordPress.com because I had ads on my blog. They were seeing the WordPress.com experimental ads. Unfortunately, one of the ads was - shall we say - inappropriate, a problem many have with Google’s ad program.
Still, this bothered me. I talked to the WordPress team about this and they agreed that users should have the right to determine whether or not to have WordPress.com ads on their blogs. As Matt explains:
At the same time it’s easy to imagine blogs that would never want ads on them: businesses, startups, non-profits, political activist sites, the list goes on. Google Adsense analyzes the content to show contextually relevant ads, but that might mean a link to a competitor. Because of this we’ve introduced a premium option that gives you control: the No-ads upgrade.
They’ve been working on this new feature for a while, trying to come up with a secure and affordable way for users to continue to support WordPress.com by permitting ads on their blogs, while allowing those with sensitive or special interests to not host ads. They’ve finally done it, and I applaud their foresight and integrity.
Before you start jumping to remove ads from your WordPress.com blog, remember that those ads, most of which you will rarely ever see, help bring in income to keep WordPress.com going. If they don’t bother you or your readers, leave them alone. Why not?
You are using one of the most powerful, state-of-the-art blogging platforms, a service that will survive the Digg-effect and high traffic surges without charging you; a service that keeps bringing you options and features without charge; a service that gives you a platform upon which to express yourself proudly - and is incredibly SEO friendly. Why not help them continue to keep this service free for everyone?
If you do feel a compelling need to remove ads from your WordPress.com blog, go to Upgrades.
Scroll down to No-ads and select the option.
The cost to remove ads from your WordPress.com blog is 30 credits annually (USD $30 if you haven’t earned any credits) which comes to eight cents a day.
Whether you keep or remove ads from your WordPress.com blog, why not take a little time to give back to WordPress.com and other WordPress.com users by browsing the WordPress blog network and get to know your fellow WordPress.com members. You can use the Random Post feature in the gray dashboard bar at the top of your WordPress.com blog when you are logged in, or visit the WordPress.com Blogs of the Day which lists the most popular blogs by language, or the WordPress.com Tags list.
If you are familiar with how WordPress.com works, then why not help out in the WordPress.com forums and get to know the volunteers and staff there as well as your other fellow WordPress.com members. It’s a simple way to say thank you for this powerful free blog service.
A lot of WordPress.com bloggers want to put ads on their blogs to make money for themselves. While some free blog hosts permit that, don’t forget that WordPress.com is also a testing site for many of the latest features of WordPress development.
While the world has to wait for the release of WordPress 2.7, WordPress.com users are already using the new sticky post feature and will soon be playing with other new features as part of the new WordPress Administration interface redesign, a continuation of user interface improvements from the previous version of WordPress - long before anyone else.
This means that WordPress.com has to stay clean of code that will screw up not just one blog but all the blogs on the WordPress.com network powered by WordPressMU. While most ad code is harmless, opening up WordPress.com to Javascript and other code languages opens the door up to malicious code, too. It’s a security risk WordPress.com isn’t willing to take, and I support that policy.
If you want to monetize your blog, get the free version of WordPress and pay for cheap hosting. Some hosts are offering web hosting for under USD $10 a month. With the full version of WordPress, you can not only add ads, but customize the whole look, add all kinds of cool WordPress Plugins, and really tweak your whole site to maximize its revenue potential.
WordPress.com has always been about blogging, about freedom of expression and creativity. It’s not about the code. It’s about the words. WordPress.com is working overtime to make sure we have a place to share our words with others around the world - no holds barred.
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My co-worker Noel Jackson, tired of hearing me whine about the Six Apart TypePad Trap, has created a WordPress importer mashing together the MT formatted export file (missing permalinks) and the broken TypePad AtomPub (missing comments and trackbacks). We are currently testing this on WordPress.com before polishing the code up and sharing it. We are looking for some TypePad customers to help us test it — it’s completely harmless, read-only.
If you are interested, let me know and we can set up a private blog on WordPress.com for you to import into. Bonus is that you will have a backup of your blog ready to go live if anything ever befalls TypePad.
This importer wouldn’t be possible without the heroic effort Ronald Heft Jr put into creating a TypePad AtomPub importer for WordPress — it’s not his fault TypePad still doesn’t have a way to export your full blog.
What’s an AtomPub? While working on this importer Noel contacted TypePad support only to have them tell him they don’t know what AtomPub is, and that they don’t support it.
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Anyway, as I said, if you are a TypePad customer, and want to participate in open source development by testing this exporter, or would just like a backup of your blog ready to launch on WordPress.com, leave a comment or send me an email.
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If you are interested, let me know and we can set up a private blog on WordPress.com for you to import into. Bonus is that you will have a backup of your blog ready to go live if anything ever befalls TypePad.
This importer wouldn’t be possible without the heroic effort Ronald Heft Jr put into creating a TypePad AtomPub importer for WordPress — it’s not his fault TypePad still doesn’t have a way to export your full blog.
What’s an AtomPub? While working on this importer Noel contacted TypePad support only to have them tell him they don’t know what AtomPub is, and that they don’t support it.
Anyway, as I said, if you are a TypePad customer, and want to participate in open source development by testing this exporter, or would just like a backup of your blog ready to launch on WordPress.com, leave a comment or send me an email.
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Automatically close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks on your blog. This helps reduce the amount of spam aimed at old posts. Now you can keep comments / pingbacks / trackbacks on certain posts open.
The web host Servage allows it’s users through a link to their website/coupon code to refer it’s users to their services.
This plugin allows you to notify your readers on their Instant Messaging (AIM, MSN, GTalk, ICQ…), Email or SMS when you publish new posts! It also adds a widget to your blog to allow your users to choose on which channel they want to be notified!
This plugin allows you to manage WordPress users via Google Apps accounts. The Authentication use Google Apps Gmail.
The world clock widget is a javascript clock. It can be easily set to display date and time of different timezone.
Adds a little javascript and css to the header, and then a “Send to Facebook” link at the bottom of the blog post.
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Automatically close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks on your blog. This helps reduce the amount of spam aimed at old posts. Now you can keep comments / pingbacks / trackbacks on certain posts open.
The web host Servage allows it’s users through a link to their website/coupon code to refer it’s users to their services.
This plugin allows you to notify your readers on their Instant Messaging (AIM, MSN, GTalk, ICQ…), Email or SMS when you publish new posts! It also adds a widget to your blog to allow your users to choose on which channel they want to be notified!
This plugin allows you to manage WordPress users via Google Apps accounts. The Authentication use Google Apps Gmail.
The world clock widget is a javascript clock. It can be easily set to display date and time of different timezone.
Adds a little javascript and css to the header, and then a “Send to Facebook” link at the bottom of the blog post.
Alter the output of the wp_list_pages() function’s HTML. Add in your own classes, insert text into link title, add additional tags surrounding title. Parents and Children are set seperately for greater flexibility.
Obfuscates your email. You need to enter the shortcode in your post.
\";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:73:\"Lorelle on WP: WordPress News and Announcements on WordPress 2.7 and More\";s:4:\"guid\";s:36:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=3027\";s:4:\"link\";s:98:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/wordpress-news-and-announcements-on-wordpress-27-and-more/\";s:11:\"description\";s:14295:\"I’ve just released the latest Blog Herald WordPress Wednesday News on WordPress Wednesday News: WordPress 2.7 Final Features, WTC Plugin Contest Winners, WordCamps, Surveys, and More, and there are some WordPress news tidbits I’d like to call your attention to.
Ryan Boren has announced the final WordPress 2.7 features to prepare us all for the upcoming release.
They include the new “crazyhorse” WordPress Administration Panels interface, a new Write Post Panel that allows dragging and dropping of meta boxes so you can rearrange your writing surface, the ability to hide columns on the content index pages, inline editing of posts and Pages on the new content index pages, comments XMLRPC API, sticky posts, automatic WordPress Plugin installation and integrated Plugin browser, HTTPOnly auth cookies, and much more.
After all the kvetching I’ve done about the Comments Panel in the WordPress Administration Panels (okay, I’m not the only one), they have finally overhauled it and have added the ability to automatically upgrade WordPress and the total revamping of the Comments Panel to include replying to comments, keyboard shortcuts (hot keys) for managing comments, and threaded comments to help you keep track of the conversation.
I’m waiting to try it out as it may soon be added to WordPress.com as part of the testing. I do hope it will be as user-friendly as WordPress Comment Ninja Greasemonkey Script by Engtech of Internet Duct Tape. I’ll hate to part with my favorite non-WordPress Plugin toy.
In announcements on the WordPress Development Blog and on WordPress.com, WordPress users are invited to participate in a survey to have your say on how the navigation options on the WordPress 2.7 Administration Panels interface (UI) should look and work.
At WordCamp 2008, Liz Danzico and Jane Wells presented Riding The Crazyhorse: Future Generation WordPress, an inside look at how the new interface was developed and the amazing technology they use to test the results and make improvements.
If you want your say in how it looks, you better speak up and take the survey.
While WordPress 2.7 is rewiring the whole Comments Panel, it is telling that the grand prize winner of the Weblog Tools Collection WordPress Plugin Competition was WP Comment Remix WordPress Plugin by Pressography. It will be interesting how this incredible WordPress Plugin survives the next release of WordPress. I’m sure the creative Plugin author will come up with something even more interesting.
Second prize went to the author of the Manageable WordPress Plugin, followed by third prize, WP Easy Uploader. Consolation prize goes to Prelovac for his amazing work on WordPress Plugins recently.
All the Plugins in the contest are amazing. Check them out and see how creative the WordPress Community continues to be.
Smashing Magazine published the WordPress Developers’ Toolbox, a huge collection of tips, tricks, resources, WordPress Themes, WordPress Theme design help, documentation, and tutorials for WordPress users. It’s overwhelming but there is a ton of great information in there.
Please make sure that the article you are reading covers the version of WordPress you are using as some of the information is version-specific.
I continue to report on the many WordCamps and WordPress Meetups that are popping up everywhere. If you want your event covered, make sure to email me so I can cover it on the Blog Herald WordPress Wednesday News and The WordCamp Report.
In case you didn’t hear, The WordCamp Report is looking for volunteers to live blog or report on WordCamp and WordPress events around the world. The site is covering WordCamp news, events, and WordPress events, and includes tips for those who want to bring a WordCamp to their area.
If you have been a part of a WordCamp event and would like to submit an article on your experience and lessons learned, just let me know.
I also covered a lot of other WordPress news including these recent announcements on WordPress.com:
SSL Now Available for WordPress.com Bloggers: WordPress.com announced the ability for their bloggers to protect blogs with SSL. If you are blogging on a public access point, “blogjackers” can prey on security vulnerabilities and possibly collect sensitive information. By adding SSL protection, you will automatically be logged onto your blog with an HTTPS connection (secure). You’ve always had the option, but few WordPress.com bloggers understood how it worked.
To activate this new feature, go to My Account > Edit Profile in the WordPress Administration Panels and check of “Always use HTTPS when visiting Administration pages” under Browser Connection.
WordPress.com FAQ Gets Screencasts: The WordPress.com FAQ now has screencasts on their guide posts helping WordPress.com users learn more about how to use specific WordPress.com features.
WordPress.com August 2008 Stats: The August Wrap-Up for statistics on WordPress.com included 286,860 blogs created, 298,655 new users, 3,442,638 file uploads, 439 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters, 6,750,960 comments, and 1,196,661 active blogs and 14,056,683 active posts. WordPress.com also crossed four million blogs this past week.
New Themes for WordPress.com Members: WordPress.com announced two new WordPress Themes recently. The Albeo Theme for WordPress.com bloggers is designed by Elena at Design Disease. The DePo Masthead WordPress Theme by Derek Powazek features a minimalist magazine design with dynamic features such as header font size changes depending upon the length of the blog title, column heights for front page articles will always be equal, interesting navigation options, and hidden, unfolding comments.
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I’ve just released the latest Blog Herald WordPress Wednesday News on WordPress Wednesday News: WordPress 2.7 Final Features, WTC Plugin Contest Winners, WordCamps, Surveys, and More, and there are some WordPress news tidbits I’d like to call your attention to.
Ryan Boren has announced the final WordPress 2.7 features to prepare us all for the upcoming release.
They include the new “crazyhorse” WordPress Administration Panels interface, a new Write Post Panel that allows dragging and dropping of meta boxes so you can rearrange your writing surface, the ability to hide columns on the content index pages, inline editing of posts and Pages on the new content index pages, comments XMLRPC API, sticky posts, automatic WordPress Plugin installation and integrated Plugin browser, HTTPOnly auth cookies, and much more.
After all the kvetching I’ve done about the Comments Panel in the WordPress Administration Panels (okay, I’m not the only one), they have finally overhauled it and have added the ability to automatically upgrade WordPress and the total revamping of the Comments Panel to include replying to comments, keyboard shortcuts (hot keys) for managing comments, and threaded comments to help you keep track of the conversation.
I’m waiting to try it out as it may soon be added to WordPress.com as part of the testing. I do hope it will be as user-friendly as WordPress Comment Ninja Greasemonkey Script by Engtech of Internet Duct Tape. I’ll hate to part with my favorite non-WordPress Plugin toy.
In announcements on the WordPress Development Blog and on WordPress.com, WordPress users are invited to participate in a survey to have your say on how the navigation options on the WordPress 2.7 Administration Panels interface (UI) should look and work.
At WordCamp 2008, Liz Danzico and Jane Wells presented Riding The Crazyhorse: Future Generation WordPress, an inside look at how the new interface was developed and the amazing technology they use to test the results and make improvements.
If you want your say in how it looks, you better speak up and take the survey.
While WordPress 2.7 is rewiring the whole Comments Panel, it is telling that the grand prize winner of the Weblog Tools Collection WordPress Plugin Competition was WP Comment Remix WordPress Plugin by Pressography. It will be interesting how this incredible WordPress Plugin survives the next release of WordPress. I’m sure the creative Plugin author will come up with something even more interesting.
Second prize went to the author of the Manageable WordPress Plugin, followed by third prize, WP Easy Uploader. Consolation prize goes to Prelovac for his amazing work on WordPress Plugins recently.
All the Plugins in the contest are amazing. Check them out and see how creative the WordPress Community continues to be.
Smashing Magazine published the WordPress Developers’ Toolbox, a huge collection of tips, tricks, resources, WordPress Themes, WordPress Theme design help, documentation, and tutorials for WordPress users. It’s overwhelming but there is a ton of great information in there.
Please make sure that the article you are reading covers the version of WordPress you are using as some of the information is version-specific.
I continue to report on the many WordCamps and WordPress Meetups that are popping up everywhere. If you want your event covered, make sure to email me so I can cover it on the Blog Herald WordPress Wednesday News and The WordCamp Report.
In case you didn’t hear, The WordCamp Report is looking for volunteers to live blog or report on WordCamp and WordPress events around the world. The site is covering WordCamp news, events, and WordPress events, and includes tips for those who want to bring a WordCamp to their area.
If you have been a part of a WordCamp event and would like to submit an article on your experience and lessons learned, just let me know.
I also covered a lot of other WordPress news including these recent announcements on WordPress.com:
SSL Now Available for WordPress.com Bloggers: WordPress.com announced the ability for their bloggers to protect blogs with SSL. If you are blogging on a public access point, “blogjackers” can prey on security vulnerabilities and possibly collect sensitive information. By adding SSL protection, you will automatically be logged onto your blog with an HTTPS connection (secure). You’ve always had the option, but few WordPress.com bloggers understood how it worked.
To activate this new feature, go to My Account > Edit Profile in the WordPress Administration Panels and check of “Always use HTTPS when visiting Administration pages” under Browser Connection.
WordPress.com FAQ Gets Screencasts: The WordPress.com FAQ now has screencasts on their guide posts helping WordPress.com users learn more about how to use specific WordPress.com features.
WordPress.com August 2008 Stats: The August Wrap-Up for statistics on WordPress.com included 286,860 blogs created, 298,655 new users, 3,442,638 file uploads, 439 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters, 6,750,960 comments, and 1,196,661 active blogs and 14,056,683 active posts. WordPress.com also crossed four million blogs this past week.
New Themes for WordPress.com Members: WordPress.com announced two new WordPress Themes recently. The Albeo Theme for WordPress.com bloggers is designed by Elena at Design Disease. The DePo Masthead WordPress Theme by Derek Powazek features a minimalist magazine design with dynamic features such as header font size changes depending upon the length of the blog title, column heights for front page articles will always be equal, interesting navigation options, and hidden, unfolding comments.
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I’m going to be joining everyone in the blogosphere at Blog World Expo in Las Vegas this weekend, September 20-21, 2008. Not going to be there? You are missing out on what could be a record breaking event.
I will be there with Woopra, Layered Tech, and WordPress.
I’ve peeked at the Conference Schedule and there is so much going on, I don’t even know where to begin.
In addition to the Blog World Expo Exhibitors in the Exhibition Hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the incredible collection of speakers and workshops, and the crème de la crème of the blogosphers attending, there are also events within the main event, including:
These specialty meetings and workshops cover niche areas and specific issues that confront bloggers within those specific areas. So much of it crosses borders, though, I’m having a tough time deciding which to attend.
I do know where I will be Sunday, September 21, from 3:00PM - 4:00PM. I will be on a panel with my buddies, John Pozadzides and Liz Strauss, covering The Stats of High Performance Content and Marketing.
I will also be occasionally found in the Exhibition Hall in booth 220 with Layered Tech, Woopra, and WordPress. If you want to talk about servers, web hosting, and the grid, I’ll let you talk to the other guys there, but if you want to talk WordPress or Woopra, I’m ready!
I hope to see you there!
NEXT: Next weekend, September 27, 2008, is WordCamp Portland, Oregon - September 27, 2008, where I will also be making noise. The event is sold out and there is a waiting list. It’s going to be great!
Other upcoming events where I will be speaking and attending include:
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I’m going to be joining everyone in the blogosphere at Blog World Expo in Las Vegas this weekend, September 20-21, 2008. Not going to be there? You are missing out on what could be a record breaking event.
I will be there with Woopra, Layered Tech, and WordPress.
I’ve peeked at the Conference Schedule and there is so much going on, I don’t even know where to begin.
In addition to the Blog World Expo Exhibitors in the Exhibition Hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the incredible collection of speakers and workshops, and the crème de la crème of the blogosphers attending, there are also events within the main event, including:
These specialty meetings and workshops cover niche areas and specific issues that confront bloggers within those specific areas. So much of it crosses borders, though, I’m having a tough time deciding which to attend.
I do know where I will be Sunday, September 21, from 3:00PM - 4:00PM. I will be on a panel with my buddies, John Pozadzides and Liz Strauss, covering The Stats of High Performance Content and Marketing.
I will also be occasionally found in the Exhibition Hall in booth 220 with Layered Tech, Woopra, and WordPress. If you want to talk about servers, web hosting, and the grid, I’ll let you talk to the other guys there, but if you want to talk WordPress or Woopra, I’m ready!
I hope to see you there!
NEXT: Next weekend, September 27, 2008, is WordCamp Portland, Oregon - September 27, 2008, where I will also be making noise. The event is sold out and there is a waiting list. It’s going to be great!
Other upcoming events where I will be speaking and attending include:
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Otomot Garaj Theme is a simple video theme. You can watch own videos in your website.
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It’s a 3 column, fixed width, widget ready theme.
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Simple, three column, white, widget and gravatar ready theme
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Widget ready, 2 columns, fixed width, clean theme with right sidebar.
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Otomot Garaj Theme is a simple video theme. You can watch own videos in your website.
It’s a 3 column, fixed width, widget ready theme.
Simple, three column, white, widget and gravatar ready theme
Widget ready, 2 columns, fixed width, clean theme with right sidebar.
\";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:56:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Developers’ Toolbox\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4171\";s:4:\"link\";s:82:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/17/wordpress-developers-toolbox/\";s:11:\"description\";s:652:\"WordPress Developers’ Toolbox: Smashing Magazine has put together a quite large list of various tips, tricks, tutorials, documentation, resources, themes, design help and everything else in between for WordPress. As a matter of fact, I am surprised that it was not released as an “eBook”. I do wish that the data was organized better, with better linking within the article, better headings, smaller and fewer pictures and a better way to navigate. But the collection is quite large and there is lots of information there to browse through.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:53:31 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:652:\"WordPress Developers’ Toolbox: Smashing Magazine has put together a quite large list of various tips, tricks, tutorials, documentation, resources, themes, design help and everything else in between for WordPress. As a matter of fact, I am surprised that it was not released as an “eBook”. I do wish that the data was organized better, with better linking within the article, better headings, smaller and fewer pictures and a better way to navigate. But the collection is quite large and there is lots of information there to browse through.
\";}i:25;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:60:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/16\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4173\";s:4:\"link\";s:88:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/16/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0916/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1335:\"The wpSEO plugin helps you optimize your blog for SEO purposes by eliminating issues with duplicate content and specifying meta tags and page titles for the different pages of your blog. Page in German
WineX is a lightweight script that will import the listing contents of your CellarTracker wine cellar into your WordPress website.
Calendar is an events calendar for WordPress that allows you to publish a monthly breakdown of your appointments and important dates for your blog readers to view.
Filter Email Notifications is a simple plugin that stops WordPress from sending email notifications for comments that have been manually approved.
This plugin is built to manage the excellent flShow Photo Carousel within the comfort of the WordPress dashboard
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:54:20 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1335:\"The wpSEO plugin helps you optimize your blog for SEO purposes by eliminating issues with duplicate content and specifying meta tags and page titles for the different pages of your blog. Page in German
WineX is a lightweight script that will import the listing contents of your CellarTracker wine cellar into your WordPress website.
Calendar is an events calendar for WordPress that allows you to publish a monthly breakdown of your appointments and important dates for your blog readers to view.
Filter Email Notifications is a simple plugin that stops WordPress from sending email notifications for comments that have been manually approved.
This plugin is built to manage the excellent flShow Photo Carousel within the comfort of the WordPress dashboard
\";}i:26;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:40:\"bbPress: bbPress 1.0 alpha series update\";s:4:\"guid\";s:24:\"http://bbpress.org/?p=97\";s:4:\"link\";s:63:\"http://bbpress.org/blog/2008/09/bbpress-10-alpha-series-update/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1889:\"It’s about time everyone was let in on the progress we have made towards version 1.0 of bbPress.
I expect the next alpha release to be made sometime in the next two weeks. This release will include our first implementation of Pingbacks both to and from your bbPress installation. The first draft implementation of this is now in trunk.
Also to be included in the next release is an implementation of the pseudo cron feature from WordPress. This will allow plugin developers to schedule jobs in the future or on a regular basis. It is 100% compatible with the WordPress implementation, so the existing documentation is all you need to get started with using it.
To enable cron I’ve included the very new WP_Http class in BackPress. This new class is a robust HTTP fetcher which is meant to replace the Snoopy class in WordPress. This will allow all sorts of RESTFUL services to be utilised within bbPress plugins, like fetching data from other pages, embedding search APIs and even pulling data from WordPress via RSS or XML-RPC.
On the drawing board is the beginnings of an XML-RPC publishing interface. This will make it easier to use bbPress as a data store for more exotic clients like custom flash applications and XML-RPC desktop clients. It also opens the door to creating an iPhone app for bbPress much like the existing WordPress iPhone app.
An alpha version of bbPress’ new export/import format and tools has also landed in trunk thanks to our Google Summer of Code student Dan Larkin. You can read a little more about that at the BBXF website.
There will also be several fixes for bugs found by our courageous alpha testers.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:56:26 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Sam Bauers\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1889:\"It’s about time everyone was let in on the progress we have made towards version 1.0 of bbPress.
I expect the next alpha release to be made sometime in the next two weeks. This release will include our first implementation of Pingbacks both to and from your bbPress installation. The first draft implementation of this is now in trunk.
Also to be included in the next release is an implementation of the pseudo cron feature from WordPress. This will allow plugin developers to schedule jobs in the future or on a regular basis. It is 100% compatible with the WordPress implementation, so the existing documentation is all you need to get started with using it.
To enable cron I’ve included the very new WP_Http class in BackPress. This new class is a robust HTTP fetcher which is meant to replace the Snoopy class in WordPress. This will allow all sorts of RESTFUL services to be utilised within bbPress plugins, like fetching data from other pages, embedding search APIs and even pulling data from WordPress via RSS or XML-RPC.
On the drawing board is the beginnings of an XML-RPC publishing interface. This will make it easier to use bbPress as a data store for more exotic clients like custom flash applications and XML-RPC desktop clients. It also opens the door to creating an iPhone app for bbPress much like the existing WordPress iPhone app.
An alpha version of bbPress’ new export/import format and tools has also landed in trunk thanks to our Google Summer of Code student Dan Larkin. You can read a little more about that at the BBXF website.
There will also be several fixes for bugs found by our courageous alpha testers.
\";}i:27;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:64:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress 2.7 Navigation Options Survey\";s:4:\"guid\";s:92:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/15/wordpress-27-navigation-options-survey/\";s:4:\"link\";s:92:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/15/wordpress-27-navigation-options-survey/\";s:11:\"description\";s:413:\"WordPress 2.7 Navigation Options Survey: As design decisions are being made for the new WordPress 2.7 admin interface, the WordPress team would like your input in deciding how the navigation options should be grouped and labeled. Please take the survey.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:15:11 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:413:\"WordPress 2.7 Navigation Options Survey: As design decisions are being made for the new WordPress 2.7 admin interface, the WordPress team would like your input in deciding how the navigation options should be grouped and labeled. Please take the survey.
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Aydin Mirzaee, an undergraduate student at McGill University, has whipped up some handy code to incorporate Akismet with Django’s new comments framework. Python geeks, enjoy
You know that “Turbo” button in the upper-right corner of WordPress 2.6 (and WordPress.com)? That button uses Google Gears to store static WordPress admin files locally, speeding up your WordPress admin experience. Until now, Gears was only available to people running Firefox or Internet Explorer. As of today, people using Safari on OS X can also play. I just activated it for this blog, and it worked without a hitch!
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You know that “Turbo” button in the upper-right corner of WordPress 2.6 (and WordPress.com)? That button uses Google Gears to store static WordPress admin files locally, speeding up your WordPress admin experience. Until now, Gears was only available to people running Firefox or Internet Explorer. As of today, people using Safari on OS X can also play. I just activated it for this blog, and it worked without a hitch!
I’m going to be in China later this week for WordCamp Shanghai and Beijing. Really looking forward to meeting all the WordPress users there.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:42:51 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:194:\"I’m going to be in China later this week for WordCamp Shanghai and Beijing. Really looking forward to meeting all the WordPress users there.
\";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:49:\"Dev Blog: WordPress 2.7 Navigation Options Survey\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=317\";s:4:\"link\";s:80:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/09/wordpress-27-navigation-options-survey/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1173:\"Note: Survey is closed as of 9/18/08. Thanks for the feedback!
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WordPress 2.7 is currently in development and as some people already know, it features a revised layout with a left-hand navigation column that was designed in response to user feedback regarding the use of screen real estate. Because the navigation came straight from the Crazyhorse prototype that was developed quickly for usability testing, it is still a work in progress.
Navigation sections and labels are being decided now, and as usual there are lots of good ideas floating around. As part of the mission to increase user involvement in design decisions, we’ve created a survey intended to give WordPress users the ability to play a part in deciding how the navigation options should be grouped and labeled. If you use WordPress and want to add your opinion, take the survey.
WordPress 2.7 Navigation Options Survey
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:53:00 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"jane\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1173:\"Note: Survey is closed as of 9/18/08. Thanks for the feedback!
WordPress 2.7 is currently in development and as some people already know, it features a revised layout with a left-hand navigation column that was designed in response to user feedback regarding the use of screen real estate. Because the navigation came straight from the Crazyhorse prototype that was developed quickly for usability testing, it is still a work in progress.
Navigation sections and labels are being decided now, and as usual there are lots of good ideas floating around. As part of the mission to increase user involvement in design decisions, we’ve created a survey intended to give WordPress users the ability to play a part in deciding how the navigation options should be grouped and labeled. If you use WordPress and want to add your opinion, take the survey.
WordPress 2.7 Navigation Options Survey
\";}i:32;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 09/15\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4165\";s:4:\"link\";s:87:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/15/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0915/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2679:\"![\"Vigilance\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/vigilance.gif\")
Two column theme optimized for for SEO with a flexible top banner image, with options for Google Analytics integration.
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Two column, widget-ready, gravatar-ready and SEO-friendly themes
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A fixed-width 2-column, free WordPress theme, with a right hand-sidebar, enabled for widgets and gravatars
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Midnight-Blue-Plus is a dark blue, right sidebar, widget ready theme designed for WordPress.
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Two column theme with flower bordered big header
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Brown, grey and green, three column theme
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Two column theme optimized for for SEO with a flexible top banner image, with options for Google Analytics integration.
Two column, widget-ready, gravatar-ready and SEO-friendly themes
A fixed-width 2-column, free WordPress theme, with a right hand-sidebar, enabled for widgets and gravatars
Midnight-Blue-Plus is a dark blue, right sidebar, widget ready theme designed for WordPress.
Two column theme with flower bordered big header
Brown, grey and green, three column theme
\";}i:33;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:66:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Competition 2.5 Winners!\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4144\";s:4:\"link\";s:93:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/13/wordpress-plugin-competition-25-winners/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2427:\"Thank you for your patience. The judges have been corralled for their results, the results have been tallied, public votes have been added in and tallied and we are finally ready to announce the winners of the WordPress Plugin Competition 2.5
May we have a drum roll please?
Thank you prizes:
$250 prize from WPMU
Thank you for your patience. The judges have been corralled for their results, the results have been tallied, public votes have been added in and tallied and we are finally ready to announce the winners of the WordPress Plugin Competition 2.5
May we have a drum roll please?
Thank you prizes:
$250 prize from WPMU
My wife Sarah and I were in Wal-Mart last night, when we saw someone walking around with a shirt that said “Girl’s go’in wild.” We had a good chuckle over the atrocious and arbitrary punctuation. Then I thought “hey, this might make for a good blog.”
4 hours later, Wordsplosion was online. It’s pretty amazing that you can go from idea to execution in a matter of hours using WordPress. Wordsplosion showcases “the best of the worst of the wide world of words.” It contains (and will continue to contain) all manner of grammatical errors, punctuation gaffes, misspellings, horrible typography, etc. It’s LOL cats for smart people.
I used the amazing Journalist theme as a base. Go check it out!
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My wife Sarah and I were in Wal-Mart last night, when we saw someone walking around with a shirt that said “Girl’s go’in wild.” We had a good chuckle over the atrocious and arbitrary punctuation. Then I thought “hey, this might make for a good blog.”
4 hours later, Wordsplosion was online. It’s pretty amazing that you can go from idea to execution in a matter of hours using WordPress. Wordsplosion showcases “the best of the worst of the wide world of words.” It contains (and will continue to contain) all manner of grammatical errors, punctuation gaffes, misspellings, horrible typography, etc. It’s LOL cats for smart people.
I used the amazing Journalist theme as a base. Go check it out!
Gives you the ability to add multiple widgets which will display one or more random item(s) from your Amazon wishlist, baby registry and/or wedding registry.
The WP125 plugin can help you manage your ads more efficiently, leaving you with more time to write new posts.
This little plugin will output a bookmarks.html file with your entire WordPress Dashboard in folders, just as they appear on your panel.
This plugin allows the user to embed Google Document/Spreadsheet content in posts and pages using shortcode.
This plugin creates a dynamic gallery of images for latest and/or featured posts. Using JonDesign’s excellent SmoothGallery script, this plugin makes the gallery truly dynamic so that it automatically creates the gallery from your latest and/or featured posts.
WP-Universe creates a blog universe based on categories of a WordPress blog.
With this plugin you can choose a smiley pack from the settings / options in admin or simply choose your own smiley pack directory.
Always deliver the latest version of your CSS stylesheet to browsers. All caching problems solved.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:40:17 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2057:\"Gives you the ability to add multiple widgets which will display one or more random item(s) from your Amazon wishlist, baby registry and/or wedding registry.
The WP125 plugin can help you manage your ads more efficiently, leaving you with more time to write new posts.
This little plugin will output a bookmarks.html file with your entire WordPress Dashboard in folders, just as they appear on your panel.
This plugin allows the user to embed Google Document/Spreadsheet content in posts and pages using shortcode.
This plugin creates a dynamic gallery of images for latest and/or featured posts. Using JonDesign’s excellent SmoothGallery script, this plugin makes the gallery truly dynamic so that it automatically creates the gallery from your latest and/or featured posts.
WP-Universe creates a blog universe based on categories of a WordPress blog.
With this plugin you can choose a smiley pack from the settings / options in admin or simply choose your own smiley pack directory.
Always deliver the latest version of your CSS stylesheet to browsers. All caching problems solved.
\";}i:36;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:13:\"Matt: Dropbox\";s:4:\"guid\";s:29:\"http://ma.tt/2008/09/dropbox/\";s:4:\"link\";s:29:\"http://ma.tt/2008/09/dropbox/\";s:11:\"description\";s:160:\"Dropbox is open to the public now. I’d love something like this I could use with my own Subversion server.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:44:29 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:160:\"Dropbox is open to the public now. I’d love something like this I could use with my own Subversion server.
\";}i:37;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 09/12\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4140\";s:4:\"link\";s:87:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/12/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0912/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3628:\"![\"jalan-lurus\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/jalan-lurus.jpg\")
Jalan Lurus is my first single columns and black edition. You will found a lot of usable area on this themes, such as top commenters, latest comments, tag cloud, caption image, popularity post, nicely random post, nice looking archives page and 404 error page and many more.
This themes also support widget, custom image header and Flickr RSS.
![\"Aeros\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/aeros.png\")
2 columns, light, blue, green, transparent, rounded borders, valid xhtml, widgets
![\"EliteBlack\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/eliteblack.png\")
A simple dark black and blue WordPress theme.
![\"btextendedse4\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/btextendedse4.png\")
BT Ex consists of a fluid five (!) column outfit with a js clock/calendar built in: widgetized sidebar and footer columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled. Flickr is enabled in the themes options panel. The frontpage shows the eleven latest posts, followed by footer action.
![\"fleuruf6\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/fleuruf6.png\")
Fleur de lys consists of a fluid three column outfit with a header rotator built in: widgetized sidebars and footer columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled. Flickr is enabled in the themes options panel. The frontpage shows the latest posts followed by footer action.
![\"greyville\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/greyville.png\")
Clean and simple three column theme with a boxed CSS layout and an AJAX sidebar.
![\"crybook\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/crybook.gif\")
CryBook is a 3 Column simple theme base with the popular Facebook. It contain 2 widget-ready sidebar, live theme swistcher and custom admin panel. It’s compatible with up to WordPress 2.6.2 and has been tested with in Firefox3, Internet Explorer 6 & 7, Opera, and Safari. This is a very simple theme, you may notice that it is only a few files included. The key is, it is not only tabless but also imageless! There is no a single image used in layout!
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:24:15 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3628:\"
Jalan Lurus is my first single columns and black edition. You will found a lot of usable area on this themes, such as top commenters, latest comments, tag cloud, caption image, popularity post, nicely random post, nice looking archives page and 404 error page and many more.
This themes also support widget, custom image header and Flickr RSS.
2 columns, light, blue, green, transparent, rounded borders, valid xhtml, widgets
A simple dark black and blue WordPress theme.
BT Ex consists of a fluid five (!) column outfit with a js clock/calendar built in: widgetized sidebar and footer columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled. Flickr is enabled in the themes options panel. The frontpage shows the eleven latest posts, followed by footer action.
Fleur de lys consists of a fluid three column outfit with a header rotator built in: widgetized sidebars and footer columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled. Flickr is enabled in the themes options panel. The frontpage shows the latest posts followed by footer action.
Clean and simple three column theme with a boxed CSS layout and an AJAX sidebar.
CryBook is a 3 Column simple theme base with the popular Facebook. It contain 2 widget-ready sidebar, live theme swistcher and custom admin panel. It’s compatible with up to WordPress 2.6.2 and has been tested with in Firefox3, Internet Explorer 6 & 7, Opera, and Safari. This is a very simple theme, you may notice that it is only a few files included. The key is, it is not only tabless but also imageless! There is no a single image used in layout!
\";}i:38;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:74:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Smart cache-busting for your Wordpress stylesheet\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4130\";s:4:\"link\";s:103:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/12/smart-cache-busting-for-your-wordpress-stylesheet/\";s:11:\"description\";s:744:\"Smart cache-busting for your Wordpress stylesheet.: If you frequently change your WordPress stylesheet or are working on it and would like your readers to pull the new stylesheet every time instead of using a cached version (which might display a borked page), this tutorial and the subsequent plugin might be for you. Alister explains the issue in detail, provides a tutorial on how to acheive the results and then with some prodding from Matt, comes up with a plugin the get the same result which does not require any modification of code.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:52:09 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:744:\"Smart cache-busting for your Wordpress stylesheet.: If you frequently change your WordPress stylesheet or are working on it and would like your readers to pull the new stylesheet every time instead of using a cached version (which might display a borked page), this tutorial and the subsequent plugin might be for you. Alister explains the issue in detail, provides a tutorial on how to acheive the results and then with some prodding from Matt, comes up with a plugin the get the same result which does not require any modification of code.
\";}i:39;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:33:\"Ryan Boren: Stalking the Wild 2.7\";s:4:\"guid\";s:23:\"http://boren.nu/?p=1613\";s:4:\"link\";s:57:\"http://boren.nu/archives/2008/09/04/stalking-the-wild-27/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1456:\"To track the day-to-day happenings of WordPress 2.7 development, head over to the Development Updates blog. We’ll be discussing the ongoing admin UI changes and the new features slated for 2.7. Add your comments and join in.
Here’s a quick rundown of some of the features that have already gone into 2.7.
Not all of those features are complete yet, but they are getting close. We’re hoping to get a few more features like Theme update, install, and browsing done in time for 2.7.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:00:21 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ryan\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1456:\"To track the day-to-day happenings of WordPress 2.7 development, head over to the Development Updates blog. We’ll be discussing the ongoing admin UI changes and the new features slated for 2.7. Add your comments and join in.
Here’s a quick rundown of some of the features that have already gone into 2.7.
Not all of those features are complete yet, but they are getting close. We’re hoping to get a few more features like Theme update, install, and browsing done in time for 2.7.
\";}i:40;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:60:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/11\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4128\";s:4:\"link\";s:88:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/11/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0911/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2286:\"Thumbnail For Excerpts search the post for the first image. If exists, than it will search for the thumbnail created by default by WordPress for the image, if it was uploaded from WP administration area.
Enhance your blog with both basic and advanced video capabilities. Upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix video content, enable video responses, manage and track your video content and much more…
Progressive license is a plugin that gives authors an opportunity to put Creative Commons or Custom Licenses on their content.
TxtVox connects mobile subscribers with blogs, newsletters, podcasts and other information sources through an innovative combination of advertising-supported text messaging and personalized mobile pages.
Embed 3D Flick Photo Galleries in the WordPress sidebar. Enjoy the same 3D immersive FotoViewr experience in your WordPress blog.
Integrate TwitterCounter.com badges on your blog to display the number of followers you have on Twitter
Add a “Digg This” button to your post.
Redirect WordPress users to different locations after they log in.
Plugin authors might like to take a look at Hit a Moving Target in your WordPress Plugin
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:32:32 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2286:\"Thumbnail For Excerpts search the post for the first image. If exists, than it will search for the thumbnail created by default by WordPress for the image, if it was uploaded from WP administration area.
Enhance your blog with both basic and advanced video capabilities. Upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix video content, enable video responses, manage and track your video content and much more…
Progressive license is a plugin that gives authors an opportunity to put Creative Commons or Custom Licenses on their content.
TxtVox connects mobile subscribers with blogs, newsletters, podcasts and other information sources through an innovative combination of advertising-supported text messaging and personalized mobile pages.
Embed 3D Flick Photo Galleries in the WordPress sidebar. Enjoy the same 3D immersive FotoViewr experience in your WordPress blog.
Integrate TwitterCounter.com badges on your blog to display the number of followers you have on Twitter
Add a “Digg This” button to your post.
Redirect WordPress users to different locations after they log in.
Plugin authors might like to take a look at Hit a Moving Target in your WordPress Plugin
\";}i:41;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:34:\"Alex King: Progressive License 1.0\";s:4:\"guid\";s:58:\"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/09/10/progressive-license-10\";s:4:\"link\";s:58:\"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/09/10/progressive-license-10\";s:11:\"description\";s:3812:\"Steve O’Grady of RedMonk announced the Progressive License WordPress plugin at WordCamp San Francisco.
Progressive License is similar to other plugins that allow you to easily put a license on your content, but it brings a little twist: the ability to change the license applied to the content as the content ages.
Steve explains:
In my case, as an example, it applies a Creative Commons noncommercial license for the first 60 days - this one - and then retires the noncommercial provision after that time period, applying this license on everything older than 60 days.
This is the sort of thing that would have been really simple to build as a one-off custom plugin, but RedMonk instead chose to have my company, Crowd Favorite, build a solution that could be distributed back to the community.
This was an interesting user interaction challenge. We did our best to make this definition of the license time windows as user friendly as possible.
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You can see we created a JavaScript based configuration page that does some date calculation to show when licenses would be applied to a post published today. Hopefully this does a good job communicating how the various licenses will be applied.
Progressive License ships with seven Creative Commons licenses included out of the box, but also gives you an interface to add additional licenses you would like to use.
![\"Custom](\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3040/2847794856_6fdc21aa52_m.jpg\")
Many thanks to RedMonk for bringing us in to build this plugin, and kudos to them for choosing to sponsor the creation of a robust solution for the rest of the WordPress community.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:46:44 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Alex\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3812:\"Steve O’Grady of RedMonk announced the Progressive License WordPress plugin at WordCamp San Francisco.
Progressive License is similar to other plugins that allow you to easily put a license on your content, but it brings a little twist: the ability to change the license applied to the content as the content ages.
Steve explains:
In my case, as an example, it applies a Creative Commons noncommercial license for the first 60 days - this one - and then retires the noncommercial provision after that time period, applying this license on everything older than 60 days.
This is the sort of thing that would have been really simple to build as a one-off custom plugin, but RedMonk instead chose to have my company, Crowd Favorite, build a solution that could be distributed back to the community.
This was an interesting user interaction challenge. We did our best to make this definition of the license time windows as user friendly as possible.
You can see we created a JavaScript based configuration page that does some date calculation to show when licenses would be applied to a post published today. Hopefully this does a good job communicating how the various licenses will be applied.
Progressive License ships with seven Creative Commons licenses included out of the box, but also gives you an interface to add additional licenses you would like to use.
Many thanks to RedMonk for bringing us in to build this plugin, and kudos to them for choosing to sponsor the creation of a robust solution for the rest of the WordPress community.
\";}i:42;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:26:\"Matt: CMS Critic Interview\";s:4:\"guid\";s:42:\"http://ma.tt/2008/09/cms-critic-interview/\";s:4:\"link\";s:42:\"http://ma.tt/2008/09/cms-critic-interview/\";s:11:\"description\";s:133:\"There’s a new interview up at CMS Critic.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:51:16 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:133:\"There’s a new interview up at CMS Critic.
\";}i:43;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 09/10\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4126\";s:4:\"link\";s:87:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/10/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0910/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1959:\"![\"agregado\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/agregado.jpg\")
Two column theme with custom archives page, animated JavaScript dropdown menu, widgetized sidebar and bottom bar and several other features
![\"goingpro\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/goingpro.png\")
Converts WordPress into a photo gallery
![\"googlechrome\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/googlechrome.png\")
A light weight two column, fixed width, widget and gravatar ready theme
Business Class and Beautiful Blue
![\"beautiful-blue\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/beautiful-blue.jpg\")
![\"business\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/business.jpg\")
Two column, widget ready themes
On the topic of themes, take a look at The Normal Person’s Guide to WordPress Themes
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:04:14 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1959:\"
Two column theme with custom archives page, animated JavaScript dropdown menu, widgetized sidebar and bottom bar and several other features
Converts WordPress into a photo gallery
A light weight two column, fixed width, widget and gravatar ready theme
Business Class and Beautiful Blue
Two column, widget ready themes
On the topic of themes, take a look at The Normal Person’s Guide to WordPress Themes
\";}i:44;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:63:\"Lorelle on WP: Attend a WordCamp and Meet Your WordPress Family\";s:4:\"guid\";s:36:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=2969\";s:4:\"link\";s:89:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/attend-a-wordcamp-and-meet-your-wordpress-family/\";s:11:\"description\";s:23491:\"Last year at WordCamp 2007 in San Francisco, I got a chance to meet up with my long time online buddy and WordPress guru, Andy Skelton. Living on the road myself, I was thrilled when Andy announced he was riding his motorcycle to WordCamp - but not from Texas to San Francisco. He road from Texas to the East Coast of the United States and then across it to San Francisco then back to Texas.
I traced much of his travels in the WordPress Wednesday news reports on the Blog Herald as he made his way through all kinds of terrain and weather that very hot summer.
I drove from Oregon to San Francisco in my father’s old Class C motor home to get to WordCamp 2007. So both of us crossed a few miles to get to our first in-person meeting, sleeping when and wherever we could along the way.
When he arrived in San Francisco, we had a joyous meeting and he even escorted me back to where I was staying in San Francisco. Donncha O’Caoimh caught the momentous occasion on Andy’s new bright red Gold Wing motorcycle and uploaded the image to flickr - and I couldn’t find it. Andy finally found it for me and here it is.
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Just as Andy and I traveled across the country, one of us the long way, it’s your turn. I challenge you all to attend a WordCamp event and meet an old, or new, friend.
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I bring it to your attention because I want to share with you the special magic that is a WordCamp adventure. I will be speaking and attending some WordCamps over the next few months, including WordCamp Portland, Oregon, on September 27, 2008, Podcamp and WordCamp Hawaii on Oct 24, 2008, WordCamp Israel (hopefully), and WordCamp Las Vegas 2009, in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 10-11, 2009.
I urge you all to be a part of a WordCamp experience. It doesn’t matter if you just attend or you are part of the team that brings a WordCamp to your area.
WordCamp is a chance to meet other WordPress and blog enthusiasts, but also a chance to learn more about WordPress and how others are using WordPress for their blogs and CMS sites. It’s a chance to meet WordPress developers, experts, and Plugin and Theme authors. It’s a chance to learn how to push WordPress to the limit and find out what’s hot on the WordPress horizon.
Most importantly, it is great fun. It’s a chance to leave the virtual world behind and get real, honest hugs and face-to-face meetings with creative and innovative folks who understand the power behind a blog is not just WordPress but the blogger and their hard work.
I’ve been to many WordCamps over the past year and a half. I attend and speak at a lot of conferences on blogging, social media, web technology, and education every year, and I look forward most to WordCamp events. No one is selling me anything, there is no pressure, no force, no stress. It’s like a reunion without the old politics and back biting history. It’s relaxing, education, but most of all friendly. The WordPress Community is the best.
I’ve started contributing to the The WordCamp Report on WordCamp news and events, and we’re looking for WordCamp attendees to live blog or report on the WordCamp events they are attending. If you are interested, email me or use the WordCamp Report Contact Page.
You can learn more about WordCamps near you at WordCamp Central, The WordCamp Report, and my weekly WordPress Wednesday News on the Blog Herald.
Here are a listing of upcoming WordCamps and blog events:
Upcoming WordCamps not scheduled or confirmed:
Attend, volunteer, sponsor, speak, or allow someone to sleep over who is attending - be a part of a WordCamp near you or fly to one anywhere in the world. You will be welcome. As a WordPress fan, you are part of something bigger than WordPress. You are part of the WordPress Community family.
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Last year at WordCamp 2007 in San Francisco, I got a chance to meet up with my long time online buddy and WordPress guru, Andy Skelton. Living on the road myself, I was thrilled when Andy announced he was riding his motorcycle to WordCamp - but not from Texas to San Francisco. He road from Texas to the East Coast of the United States and then across it to San Francisco then back to Texas.
I traced much of his travels in the WordPress Wednesday news reports on the Blog Herald as he made his way through all kinds of terrain and weather that very hot summer.
I drove from Oregon to San Francisco in my father’s old Class C motor home to get to WordCamp 2007. So both of us crossed a few miles to get to our first in-person meeting, sleeping when and wherever we could along the way.
When he arrived in San Francisco, we had a joyous meeting and he even escorted me back to where I was staying in San Francisco. Donncha O’Caoimh caught the momentous occasion on Andy’s new bright red Gold Wing motorcycle and uploaded the image to flickr - and I couldn’t find it. Andy finally found it for me and here it is.
Just as Andy and I traveled across the country, one of us the long way, it’s your turn. I challenge you all to attend a WordCamp event and meet an old, or new, friend.
I bring it to your attention because I want to share with you the special magic that is a WordCamp adventure. I will be speaking and attending some WordCamps over the next few months, including WordCamp Portland, Oregon, on September 27, 2008, Podcamp and WordCamp Hawaii on Oct 24, 2008, WordCamp Israel (hopefully), and WordCamp Las Vegas 2009, in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 10-11, 2009.
I urge you all to be a part of a WordCamp experience. It doesn’t matter if you just attend or you are part of the team that brings a WordCamp to your area.
WordCamp is a chance to meet other WordPress and blog enthusiasts, but also a chance to learn more about WordPress and how others are using WordPress for their blogs and CMS sites. It’s a chance to meet WordPress developers, experts, and Plugin and Theme authors. It’s a chance to learn how to push WordPress to the limit and find out what’s hot on the WordPress horizon.
Most importantly, it is great fun. It’s a chance to leave the virtual world behind and get real, honest hugs and face-to-face meetings with creative and innovative folks who understand the power behind a blog is not just WordPress but the blogger and their hard work.
I’ve been to many WordCamps over the past year and a half. I attend and speak at a lot of conferences on blogging, social media, web technology, and education every year, and I look forward most to WordCamp events. No one is selling me anything, there is no pressure, no force, no stress. It’s like a reunion without the old politics and back biting history. It’s relaxing, education, but most of all friendly. The WordPress Community is the best.
I’ve started contributing to the The WordCamp Report on WordCamp news and events, and we’re looking for WordCamp attendees to live blog or report on the WordCamp events they are attending. If you are interested, email me or use the WordCamp Report Contact Page.
You can learn more about WordCamps near you at WordCamp Central, The WordCamp Report, and my weekly WordPress Wednesday News on the Blog Herald.
Here are a listing of upcoming WordCamps and blog events:
Upcoming WordCamps not scheduled or confirmed:
Attend, volunteer, sponsor, speak, or allow someone to sleep over who is attending - be a part of a WordCamp near you or fly to one anywhere in the world. You will be welcome. As a WordPress fan, you are part of something bigger than WordPress. You are part of the WordPress Community family.
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Yahoo’s Hack Day is coming up this Friday and Saturday. I’m going to be a judge at the event. The other judges are David Filo, Ash Patel, Cheryl Ainoa, Jeff Clavier, Rashmi Sinha, and Om Malik. Fun group!
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:05:18 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:257:\"Yahoo’s Hack Day is coming up this Friday and Saturday. I’m going to be a judge at the event. The other judges are David Filo, Ash Patel, Cheryl Ainoa, Jeff Clavier, Rashmi Sinha, and Om Malik. Fun group!
\";}i:46;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:40:\"Dougal Campbell: WordPress 2.6.2 Release\";s:4:\"guid\";s:33:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=1079\";s:4:\"link\";s:63:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/09/09/wordpress-262-release\";s:11:\"description\";s:2331:\"As most of you have probably already seen in your Dashboard, yesterday afternoon saw the official WordPress 2.6.2 Release. And as mentioned in the comments on my intitial news break on the 2.6.2 Beta, the focus is on two security patches to cover weaknesses in PHP’s random number generation (which affects password encryption strength), and in MySQL’s field length checking. These weren’t (technically) security bugs in WordPress, per se, but in the underlying PHP/MySQL stack. Fortunately, we’re able to route around them. This is mainly a problem if your site allows users to register for a user login, however, I would still recommend this upgrade for all users, just to be on the safe side.
For those of you who are PHP/MySQL developers yourselves, I highly recommend reading Stefan Esser’s explanation of the PHP mt_srand() bug and the MySQL SQL Column Truncation issue. He provides some really good detail of the problems. Stefan is also the developer of the PHP Suhosin module, which provides extra security-related features and protections to PHP.
It’s also important to note that these problems don’t just affect WordPress — many other PHP/MySQL applications could be vulnerable to future problems if they don’t examine and patch their code.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:35:50 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:6:\"Dougal\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2331:\"As most of you have probably already seen in your Dashboard, yesterday afternoon saw the official WordPress 2.6.2 Release. And as mentioned in the comments on my intitial news break on the 2.6.2 Beta, the focus is on two security patches to cover weaknesses in PHP’s random number generation (which affects password encryption strength), and in MySQL’s field length checking. These weren’t (technically) security bugs in WordPress, per se, but in the underlying PHP/MySQL stack. Fortunately, we’re able to route around them. This is mainly a problem if your site allows users to register for a user login, however, I would still recommend this upgrade for all users, just to be on the safe side.
For those of you who are PHP/MySQL developers yourselves, I highly recommend reading Stefan Esser’s explanation of the PHP mt_srand() bug and the MySQL SQL Column Truncation issue. He provides some really good detail of the problems. Stefan is also the developer of the PHP Suhosin module, which provides extra security-related features and protections to PHP.
It’s also important to note that these problems don’t just affect WordPress — many other PHP/MySQL applications could be vulnerable to future problems if they don’t examine and patch their code.
\";}i:47;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:24:\"Matt: SEO Book Interview\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://ma.tt/2008/09/seo-book-interview/\";s:4:\"link\";s:40:\"http://ma.tt/2008/09/seo-book-interview/\";s:11:\"description\";s:261:\"A new interview with Aaron Wall of SEO Book up. Also did a short one with Blueverse.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:15:49 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:261:\"A new interview with Aaron Wall of SEO Book up. Also did a short one with Blueverse.
\";}i:48;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:23:\"Matt: 10 PHP Principles\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://ma.tt/2008/09/10-php-principles/\";s:4:\"link\";s:39:\"http://ma.tt/2008/09/10-php-principles/\";s:11:\"description\";s:116:\"10 Principles of the PHP Masters.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:14:24 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:116:\"10 Principles of the PHP Masters.
\";}i:49;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:48:\"Lorelle on WP: WordPress 2.6.2 Mandatory Upgrade\";s:4:\"guid\";s:36:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=3005\";s:4:\"link\";s:72:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/wordpress-262-mandatory-upgrade/\";s:11:\"description\";s:6656:\"Ryan Boren has announced the mandatory WordPress 2.6.2 upgrade has been released and WordPress users are required to download WordPress 2.6.2 and upgrade immediately.
This mandatory security upgrade adds protection for a SQL Column Truncation and other security and bug fixes. There is a full changeset and list of changed files to help you find the differences, and a specific changeset for downloading will be available soon.
The vulnerability impacts all PHP applications, not just WordPress, specifically open registration on WordPress blogs. Boren says the attack is difficult to accomplish, but WordPress would rather be safer than sorrier if this is manipulated in the future. If you allow open registration on your WordPress blog, upgrade immediately and follow the instructions in the announcement.
WordPress 2.7 is due later this fall. If you are interested in following the development of WordPress and WordPress related applications, here is a list:
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Ryan Boren has announced the mandatory WordPress 2.6.2 upgrade has been released and WordPress users are required to download WordPress 2.6.2 and upgrade immediately.
This mandatory security upgrade adds protection for a SQL Column Truncation and other security and bug fixes. There is a full changeset and list of changed files to help you find the differences, and a specific changeset for downloading will be available soon.
The vulnerability impacts all PHP applications, not just WordPress, specifically open registration on WordPress blogs. Boren says the attack is difficult to accomplish, but WordPress would rather be safer than sorrier if this is manipulated in the future. If you allow open registration on your WordPress blog, upgrade immediately and follow the instructions in the announcement.
WordPress 2.7 is due later this fall. If you are interested in following the development of WordPress and WordPress related applications, here is a list:
Site Search Tags: wordpress, wordpress news, wordpress versions, wordpress upgrade, wordpress update, wordpress 2.6, wordpress 2.6.2, security, security update, mandatory update, upgrade, download, download wordpress
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