Attention Apple-gadget- owning WordPress users! Have you been using the WordPress iOS app for iPhone and iPad? Or maybe you tried it a while back and thought it wasn’t for you? Either way, the new release — v2.6 — will knock your socks off. Why? A bunch of reasons:
There are also numerous bugfixes and performance enhancements in this release,
so if you haven’t been using the app lately, you should consider giving it another try. I’m personally pretty excited to start using the
iPhone version more often now that there are all these fixes and new features. Especially the video upload. You know, for those creative
moments that make life fun.
You can read the full 2.6 release post on the WordPress for iOS blog, and can download v2.6 from iTunes/the app store. Happy mobile blogging!
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Not an iPhone user? We’ve still got your on-the-go back! Check out the WordPress apps for Android, Blackberry, and Nokia (beta). They’re all 100% GPL, of course, and we’re always looking for contributors to the development projects, so check the blogs if you have mobile dev skills and want to get involved.
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There are also numerous bugfixes and performance enhancements in this release,
so if you haven’t been using the app lately, you should consider giving it another try. I’m personally pretty excited to start using the
iPhone version more often now that there are all these fixes and new features. Especially the video upload. You know, for those creative
moments that make life fun.
You can read the full 2.6 release post on the WordPress for iOS blog, and can download v2.6 from iTunes/the app store. Happy mobile blogging!
* * *
Not an iPhone user? We’ve still got your on-the-go back! Check out the WordPress apps for Android, Blackberry, and Nokia (beta). They’re all 100% GPL, of course, and we’re always looking for contributors to the development projects, so check the blogs if you have mobile dev skills and want to get involved.
";}i:1;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:33:"WordPress Trademark Changes Hands";s:4:"link";s:51:"http://wordpress.org/news/2010/09/trademark- to-wpf/";s:8:"comments";s:60:"http://wordpress.org/news/2010/09/trademark-to-wpf/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:14:13 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:8:"category";s:46:"GeneralAutomatticTrademarkWordPress Foundation";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://wordpress.org/news/?p=1488";s:11:"description";s:379:"The WordPress community took a big step forward today when Matt announced that Automattic has donated the WordPress trademark to the non-profit WordPress Foundation. Moving forward, the Foundation will be responsible for safeguarding the trademarked name and logo from misuse toward the end of protecting WordPress and preventing confusion among people trying to figure out [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:502:"The WordPress community took a big step forward today when Matt announced that Automattic has donated the WordPress trademark to the non-profit WordPress Foundation. Moving forward, the Foundation will be responsible for safeguarding the trademarked name and logo from misuse toward the end of protecting WordPress and preventing confusion among people trying to figure out if a resource is “official” or not.
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";}i:2;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:15:"WordPress 3.0.1";s:4:"link";s:50:"http://wordpress.org/news/2010/07/wordpress-3-0-1/";s:8:"comments";s:59:"http://wordpress.org/news/2010/07/wordpress-3-0- 1/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:38:47 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Andrew Nacin";} s:8:"category";s:8:"Releases";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://wordpress.org/news/?p=1475";s:11:"description";s:338:"After nearly 11 million downloads of WordPress 3.0 in just 42 days, we’re releasing WordPress 3.0.1. The requisite haiku: Three dot oh dot one Bug fixes to make you smile Update your WordPress This maintenance release addresses about 50 minor issues. The testing many of you contributed prior to the release of 3.0 helped make [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:951:"After nearly 11 million downloads of WordPress 3.0 in just 42 days, we’re releasing WordPress 3.0.1. The requisite haiku:
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Download 3.0.1 or update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area.
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Download 3.0.1 or update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area.
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";}i:3;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:42:"PHP 4 and MySQL 4 End of Life Announcement";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://wordpress.org/news/2010/07/eol-for-php4-and- mysql4/";s:8:"comments";s:67:"http://wordpress.org/news/2010/07/eol-for-php4-and-mysql4/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:01:46 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Mark Jaquith";} s:8:"category";s:27:"HostingMySQLPHPrequirements";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://wordpress.org/news/?p=1447";s:11:"description";s:348:"Our approach with WordPress has always been to make it run on common server configurations. We want users to have flexibility when choosing a host for their precious content. Because of this strategy, WordPress runs pretty much anywhere. Web hosting platforms, however, change over time, and we occasionally are able to reevaluate some of the [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:3021:"Our approach with WordPress has always been to make it run on common server configurations. We want users to have flexibility when choosing a host for their precious content. Because of this strategy, WordPress runs pretty much anywhere. Web hosting platforms, however, change over time, and we occasionally are able to reevaluate some of the requirements for running WordPress. Now is one of those times. You probably guessed it from the title — we’re finally ready to announce the end of support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4!
First up, the announcement that developers really care about. WordPress 3.1, due in late 2010, will be the last version of WordPress to support PHP 4.
For WordPress 3.2, due in the first half of 2011, we will be raising the minimum required PHP version to 5.2. Why 5.2? Because that’s what the vast majority of WordPress users are using, and it offers substantial improvements over earlier PHP 5 releases. It is also the minimum PHP version that the Drupal and Joomla projects will be supporting in their next versions, both due out this year.
The numbers are now, finally, strongly in favor of this move. Only around 11 percent of WordPress installs are running on a PHP version below 5.2. Many of them are on hosts who support PHP 5.2 — users merely need to change a setting in their hosting control panel to activate it. We believe that percentage will only go down over the rest of the year as hosting providers realize that to support the newest versions of WordPress (or Drupal, or Joomla), they’re going to have to pull the trigger.
In less exciting news, we are also going to be dropping support for MySQL 4 after WordPress 3.1. Fewer than 6 percent of WordPress users are running MySQL 4. The new required MySQL version for WordPress 3.2 will be 5.0.15.
WordPress users will not be able to upgrade to WordPress 3.2 if their hosting environment does not meet these requirements (the built-in updater will prevent it). In order to determine which versions your host provides, we’ve created the Health Check plugin. You can download it manually, or use this handy plugin installation tool I whipped up. Right now, Health Check will only tell you if you’re ready for WordPress 3.2. In a future release it will provide all sorts of useful information about your server and your WordPress install, so hang on to it!
In summary: WordPress 3.1, due in late 2010, will be the last version of WordPress to support PHP 4 and MySQL 4. WordPress 3.2, due in the first half of 2011, will require PHP 5.2 or higher, and MySQL 5.0.15 or higher. Install the Health Check plugin to see if you’re ready!
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First up, the announcement that developers really care about. WordPress 3.1, due in late 2010, will be the last version of WordPress to support PHP 4.
For WordPress 3.2, due in the first half of 2011, we will be raising the minimum required PHP version to 5.2. Why 5.2? Because that’s what the vast majority of WordPress users are using, and it offers substantial improvements over earlier PHP 5 releases. It is also the minimum PHP version that the Drupal and Joomla projects will be supporting in their next versions, both due out this year.
The numbers are now, finally, strongly in favor of this move. Only around 11 percent of WordPress installs are running on a PHP version below 5.2. Many of them are on hosts who support PHP 5.2 — users merely need to change a setting in their hosting control panel to activate it. We believe that percentage will only go down over the rest of the year as hosting providers realize that to support the newest versions of WordPress (or Drupal, or Joomla), they’re going to have to pull the trigger.
In less exciting news, we are also going to be dropping support for MySQL 4 after WordPress 3.1. Fewer than 6 percent of WordPress users are running MySQL 4. The new required MySQL version for WordPress 3.2 will be 5.0.15.
WordPress users will not be able to upgrade to WordPress 3.2 if their hosting environment does not meet these requirements (the built-in updater will prevent it). In order to determine which versions your host provides, we’ve created the Health Check plugin. You can download it manually, or use this handy plugin installation tool I whipped up. Right now, Health Check will only tell you if you’re ready for WordPress 3.2. In a future release it will provide all sorts of useful information about your server and your WordPress install, so hang on to it!
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";}i:4;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:41:"100 Million Plugin Downloads and Counting";s:4:"link";s:46:"http://wordpress.org/news/2010/07/100- million/";s:8:"comments";s:55:"http://wordpress.org/news/2010/07/100-million/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:48:34 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Andrew Nacin";} s:8:"category";s:20:"CommunityDevelopment";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1429";s:11:"description";s:364:"WordPress 3.0 Thelonious passed 3 million downloads yesterday, and today the plugin directory followed suit with a milestone of its own: 100 million downloads. The WordPress community’s growth over the years has been tremendous, and we want to reinvest in it. So we’re taking the next two months to concentrate on improving WordPress.org. A major [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2319:"WordPress 3.0 Thelonious passed 3 million downloads yesterday, and today the plugin directory followed suit with a milestone of its own: 100 million downloads.
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We want to provide developers the tools they need to build the best possible plugins. We’re going to provide better integration with the forums so you can support your users. We’ll make more statistics available to you so you can analyze your user base, and over time we hope to make it easier for you to manage, build, and release localized plugins.
We want to improve how the core software works with your plugin and the plugin directory. We’re going to focus on ensuring seamless upgrades by making the best possible determinations about compatibility, and offer continual improvements to the plugin installer. And we also want to give you a better developer tool set like SVN notifications and improvements to the bug tracker.
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We want to improve how the core software works with your plugin and the plugin directory. We’re going to focus on ensuring seamless upgrades by making the best possible determinations about compatibility, and offer continual improvements to the plugin installer. And we also want to give you a better developer tool set like SVN notifications and improvements to the bug tracker.
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";} i:5;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:18:"Summer of WordCamp";s:4:"link";s:53:"http://wordpress.org/news/2010/06/summer-of- wordcamp/";s:8:"comments";s:62:"http://wordpress.org/news/2010/06/summer-of-wordcamp/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:19:45 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:8:"category";s:17:"CommunityWordCamp";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/? p=1418";s:11:"description";s:355:"It’s been summer for about a week now. Whether you’re on vacation or burning the midnight oil, attending a local/nearby WordCamp is a great way to spend a weekend. Meet other WordPress users, developers, designers & consultants, learn a little something, maybe share a little of your own experience and knowledge, and break bread (or [...]";s:7:"content";a:1: {s:7:"encoded";s:5678:"It’s been summer for about a week now. Whether you’re on vacation or burning the midnight oil, attending a local/nearby WordCamp is a great way to spend a weekend. Meet other WordPress users, developers, designers & consultants, learn a little something, maybe share a little of your own experience and knowledge, and break bread (or raise a toast) with new friends and collaborators. Here are the WordCamps scheduled for this summer, along with what I know about them.
July 3: WordCamp Germany – Berlin, Germany. I love it that they’re using BuddyPress for their event site. They have multiple tracks, and what looks to be a nice variety of sessions. It’s only a few days away, so if you’re thinking of going, get your tickets now!
July 10: WordCamp Boulder – Boulder, Colorado, USA. This was WordCamp Denver last year, but the organizers have decided to mix it up and go back and forth between Denver and Boulder, which also has a thriving tech community. This year the venue is the Boulder Theater (so pretty!), and there will sessions for bloggers and devs alike, plus a Genius Bar to help people get their WordPress sites all fixed up. The speaker lineup looks good, and I hear they’re pumping up the wifi this year. I’ll be there, likely hunched over a notebook with Lisa Sabin-Wilson (author of WordPress for Dummies and BuddyPress for Dummies) to talk about the WordPress User Handbook project, and/or hunched over a sketchbook with Kevin Conboy (designed the new lighter “on” state for admin menus in WordPress 3.0) to work out a new default WordCamp.org theme (using BuddyPress). You can still get tickets!
July 17â18: WordCamp UK- Manchester, England, UK. The roving WordCamp UK will be in Manchester this year, and is probably the closest to BarCamp style of all the WordCamps, using a wiki to plan some speakers/sessions and organizing the rest ad-hoc on the first day of the event. I’ll be attending this one as well, and am looking forward to seeing WordPress lead developer Peter Westwood again. I’m also looking forward to meeting some core contributors for the first time in person, like Simon Wheatley and John O’Nolan. Mike Little, co-founder of WordPress, is on the organizing team of WordCamp UK. Tickets on sale now!
July 24: WordCamp Nigeria – Lagos, Nigeria. Their site seems to have a virus, so no link from here, but if you’re in Nigeria and interested in attending/getting involved, a quick Google search will get you to the organizers.
August 7: WordCamp Houston – Houston, TX, USA. Houston, Texas, birthplace of WordPress! Fittingly, Matt Mullenweg will be there to give the keynote. WordCamp Houston is running three tracks — Business, Blogger and Developer — in recognition of the fact that people who are interested in using WordPress for their business may not actually be bloggers or developers themselves. This used to get labeled as a “CMS” track at previous WordCamps (including NYC 2009), but with WordPress 3.0 supporting CMS functionality out of the box, “Business” is a much more appropriate label. Who wants to bet on if there will be BBQ for lunch?
August 7 : WordCamp Iowa – Des Moines, Iowa, USA. Another placeholder page. Happening, not happening? I’ve emailed the organizer and will update this post once I know more.
August 7â8: WordCamp New Zealand – Auckland, New Zealand. They haven’t announced this year’s speakers or topics, but they’ve been running polls to get community input into the program. Of note: in 2011 WordCamp New Zealand will be shifting seasons and will be in February instead, when the weather is nicer.
August 20â22: WordCamp Savannah – Savannah, Georgia, USA. Disclaimer: I am completely biased about Savannah, since I’m one of the organizers. This will be the first WordCamp in Savannah, and it’s being held at the Savannah College of Art and Design River Club, an awesome venue that used to be a cotton warehouse or something like that. Since Savannah doesn’t really have a cohesive WordPress community yet (though a fair number of people from Savannah attended WordCamp Atlanta earlier this year), this WordCamp is aimed squarely at building a local community. We’ll have a local meet-and-greet, regular sessions with visiting speakers (lots of core contributors coming to this one, plus Matt), and on Sunday it will be combination unconference/genius bar/collaborative workspace. Oh, and a potluck! We’ll also be running a pre-WordCamp workshop for people who have never used WordPress but want to get started, so that they’ll be able to follow the presentations and conversations littered with WordPress-specific vocabulary over the weekend. Ticket sales just opened, so get your tickets now.
For a schedule of all upcoming WordCamps, visit wordcamp.org. The autumn schedule is already packed! If you don’t see WordCamp in your area and are interested in organizing one, get more information and let us know.
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July 3: WordCamp Germany – Berlin, Germany. I love it that they’re using BuddyPress for their event site. They have multiple tracks, and what looks to be a nice variety of sessions. It’s only a few days away, so if you’re thinking of going, get your tickets now!
July 10: WordCamp Boulder – Boulder, Colorado, USA. This was WordCamp Denver last year, but the organizers have decided to mix it up and go back and forth between Denver and Boulder, which also has a thriving tech community. This year the venue is the Boulder Theater (so pretty!), and there will sessions for bloggers and devs alike, plus a Genius Bar to help people get their WordPress sites all fixed up. The speaker lineup looks good, and I hear they’re pumping up the wifi this year. I’ll be there, likely hunched over a notebook with Lisa Sabin-Wilson (author of WordPress for Dummies and BuddyPress for Dummies) to talk about the WordPress User Handbook project, and/or hunched over a sketchbook with Kevin Conboy (designed the new lighter “on” state for admin menus in WordPress 3.0) to work out a new default WordCamp.org theme (using BuddyPress). You can still get tickets!
July 17â18: WordCamp UK- Manchester, England, UK. The roving WordCamp UK will be in Manchester this year, and is probably the closest to BarCamp style of all the WordCamps, using a wiki to plan some speakers/sessions and organizing the rest ad-hoc on the first day of the event. I’ll be attending this one as well, and am looking forward to seeing WordPress lead developer Peter Westwood again. I’m also looking forward to meeting some core contributors for the first time in person, like Simon Wheatley and John O’Nolan. Mike Little, co-founder of WordPress, is on the organizing team of WordCamp UK. Tickets on sale now!
July 24: WordCamp Nigeria – Lagos, Nigeria. Their site seems to have a virus, so no link from here, but if you’re in Nigeria and interested in attending/getting involved, a quick Google search will get you to the organizers.
August 7: WordCamp Houston – Houston, TX, USA. Houston, Texas, birthplace of WordPress! Fittingly, Matt Mullenweg will be there to give the keynote. WordCamp Houston is running three tracks — Business, Blogger and Developer — in recognition of the fact that people who are interested in using WordPress for their business may not actually be bloggers or developers themselves. This used to get labeled as a “CMS” track at previous WordCamps (including NYC 2009), but with WordPress 3.0 supporting CMS functionality out of the box, “Business” is a much more appropriate label. Who wants to bet on if there will be BBQ for lunch?
August 7 : WordCamp Iowa – Des Moines, Iowa, USA. Another placeholder page. Happening, not happening? I’ve emailed the organizer and will update this post once I know more.
August 7â8: WordCamp New Zealand – Auckland, New Zealand. They haven’t announced this year’s speakers or topics, but they’ve been running polls to get community input into the program. Of note: in 2011 WordCamp New Zealand will be shifting seasons and will be in February instead, when the weather is nicer.
August 20â22: WordCamp Savannah – Savannah, Georgia, USA. Disclaimer: I am completely biased about Savannah, since I’m one of the organizers. This will be the first WordCamp in Savannah, and it’s being held at the Savannah College of Art and Design River Club, an awesome venue that used to be a cotton warehouse or something like that. Since Savannah doesn’t really have a cohesive WordPress community yet (though a fair number of people from Savannah attended WordCamp Atlanta earlier this year), this WordCamp is aimed squarely at building a local community. We’ll have a local meet-and-greet, regular sessions with visiting speakers (lots of core contributors coming to this one, plus Matt), and on Sunday it will be combination unconference/genius bar/collaborative workspace. Oh, and a potluck! We’ll also be running a pre-WordCamp workshop for people who have never used WordPress but want to get started, so that they’ll be able to follow the presentations and conversations littered with WordPress-specific vocabulary over the weekend. Ticket sales just opened, so get your tickets now.
For a schedule of all upcoming WordCamps, visit wordcamp.org. The autumn schedule is already packed! If you don’t see WordCamp in your area and are interested in organizing one, get more information and let us know.
";}i:6;a:13: {s:5:"title";s:26:"WordPress 3.0 "Thelonious"";s:4:"link";s:45:"http://wordpress.org/news/2010/06/thelonious/";s:8:"comments";s:54:"http://wordpress.org/news/2010/06/thelonious/#com ments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:26:36 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:14:"Matt Mullenweg";} s:8:"category";s:8:"Releases";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1380";s:11:"description";s:341:"Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:38078:"Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and
the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy
new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds,
headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies.
(Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off.) Developers and network admins will appreciate the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress,
creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation. As a user, you will
love the new lighter interface, the contextual help on every screen, the 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements,
bulk updates so you can upgrade 15 plugins at once with a single click, and blah blah blah just watch the video. (In HD, if you can, so you can
catch the Easter eggs.)
If you’d like to embed the WordPress 3.0 video tour in your blog, copy and paste this code for the high quality version:
<embed src="http://v.wordpress.com/wp-content/plugins/video/flvplayer.swf?ver=1.21" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="360" wmode="transparent" seamlesstabbing="true" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" overstretch="true" flashvars="guid=BQtfIEY1&width=640&height=360&locksize=no&dynamicseek=false&qc_publisherId=p-18- mFEk4J448M" title="Introducing WordPress 3.0 "Thelonious""></embed>
For a more comprehensive look at everything that has improved in 3.0 check out 3.0′s Codex page or the long list of issues in Trac. (We’re trying to keep these announcement posts shorter.) Whew! That’s a lot packed into one release. I can’t think of a better way to kick off the 3.X cycle we’ll be in for the next two and a half years.
Normally this is where I’d say we’re about to start work on 3.1, but we’re actually not. We’re going to take a release cycle off to focus on all of the things around WordPress. The growth of the community has been breathtaking, including over 10.3 million downloads of version 2.9, but so much of our effort has been focused on the core software it hasn’t left much time for anything else. Over the next three months we’re going to split into ninja/pirate teams focused on different areas of the around-WordPress experience, including the showcase, Codex, forums, profiles, update and compatibility APIs, theme directory, plugin directory, mailing lists, core plugins, wordcamp.org… the possibilities are endless. The goal of the teams isn’t going to be to make things perfect all at once, just better than they are today. We think this investment of time will give us a much stronger infrastructure to grow WordPress.org for the many tens of millions of users that will join us during the 3.X release cycle.
I’m proud to acknowledge the contributions of the following 218 people to the 3.0 release cycle. These are the folks that make WordPress what it is, whose collaboration and hard work enable us to build something greater than the sum of our parts. In alphabetical order, of course.
Committers: azaozz (Andrew Ozz) (prof), dd32 (Dion Hulse) (prof), donncha (Donncha O Caoimh) (prof), iammattthomas (Matt
Thomas) (prof), josephscott (Joseph Scott) (prof), markjaquith (Mark Jaquith) (prof), matt (Matt Mullenweg) (prof), nacin (Andrew Nacin) (prof), nbachiyski (ĐикОНаК ĐĐ°ŃиКŃки) (prof), ryan (Ryan Boren) (prof), westi (Peter Westwood) (prof), and wpmuguru (Ron Rennick)
(prof). Contributors: aaroncampbell (Aaron Campbell) (prof), akerem (prof), alexkingorg (Alex King) (prof), amattie (prof), ampt (Luke Gallagher) (prof), andrea_r (prof), andreasnrb (Andreas Nurbo) (prof), anilo4ever (Angelo Verona) (prof), apeatling
(Andy Peatling) (prof), apokalyptik (Demitrious Kelly) (prof), arena (AndrĂŠ Renaut) (prof), barry (Barry Abrahamson) (prof), batmoo (Mohammad Jangda) (prof), beaulebens (Beau Lebens) (prof), belg4mit
(prof), bigdawggi
(Matthew G. Richmond) (prof), blepoxp (Glenn Ansley) (prof), brentes (Brent Shepherd) (prof), briancolinger (Brian Colinger) (prof), bumbu (prof), caesarsgrunt (Caesar
Schinas) (prof), camiloclc (prof), CAMWebDesign (prof), carbolineum (prof), caspie (prof), catiakitahara (CĂĄtia Kitahara) (prof), CharlesClarkson (Charles Clarkson) (prof), chdorner (Christof Dorner) (prof), chrisbliss18 (Chris Jean) (prof), chrisscott
(Chris Scott) (prof), cnorris23 (Brandon Allen) (prof), coffee2code (Scott Reilly) (prof), computerwiz908 (prof), cyberhobo (Dylan Kuhn) (prof), dancole (Dan Cole) (prof), Daniel Koskinen , deepak.seth (Deepak Seth), demetris (ÎΡΟΎĎĎÎˇĎ ÎίκΚΜιĎ) (prof), Denis-de-Bernardy
(prof), dimadin (Milan DiniÄ) (prof), dndrnkrd (Dan Drinkard) (prof), docwhat (prof), dougwrites (
href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/dougwrites">prof), dphiffer (Dan Phiffer) (prof), dragoonis (prof), dremeda (Dre Armeda) (prof), dtoj , dougal (Dougal Campbell) (prof), duck_ (Jon Cave) (prof), dxjones (David Jones) (prof), eddieringle (Eddie Ringle)
(prof), edward
mindreantre (Edward Hevlund), eoinomurchu (prof), empireoflight/Ben Dunkle (prof), ericmann (Eric Mann) (prof), etiger13 (Eddie Monge
Jr.) (prof), filosofo
(Austin Matzko) (prof), firebird75 (prof), frankieroberto (Frankie Roberto)
(prof), Frumph
(Philip M. Hofer) (prof), garyc40 (Gary Cao) (prof), gautam2011 (prof), Gary Ross (Gazzer) , GDragoN (Milan Petrovic) (prof), greenshady (Justin
Tadlock) (prof), GIGALinux (Dennis Morhardt) (prof), hakre (prof), husky (prof),
iandstewart (Ian Stewart) (prof), ipstenu (Mika Epstein) (prof), jacobsantos (Jacob Santos) (prof), jamescollins (James
Collins) (prof), jane (Jane Wells) (prof), jbsil (Jesse Silverstein) (prof), jdub (Jeff Waugh) (prof), jeffikus (Jeffrey Pearce) (prof), jeffstieler (Jeff Stieler) (prof), jeremyclarke
(Jeremy Clarke) (prof), jfarthing84 (Jeff Farthing) (prof), Jick (James Dimick) (prof), jmstacey (Jon Stacey) (prof), jobjorn (JobjĂśrn Folkesson) (prof), johanee (Johan Eenfeldt) (prof), johnbillion (John Blackbourn)
(prof), johnjamesjacoby/jjj (John James Jacoby) (prof), johnjosephbachir (John Joseph Bachir) (prof), johnl1479
(John Luetke) (prof), johnonolan (John OâNolan) (prof), JohnPBloch/wmrom (John Bloch) (prof), joostdevalk/yoast (Joost de
Valk) (prof), jorbin
(Aaron Jorbin) (prof), joshtime (prof), jshreve (prof), junsuijin (prof), kallewangstedt (Karl WĂĽngstedt) (prof), keighl (Kyle
Truscott) (prof), kevinB (Kevin
Behrens) (prof), koopersmith (Daryl
Koopersmith) (prof), kpdesign (Kim Parsell)
(prof), ktdreyer (Ken Dreyer) (prof), kurtmckee (Kurt McKee) (prof), laceous (prof), lancewillett (Lance
Willett) (prof), lloydbudd (Lloyd Budd) (prof), lriggle (prof), markauk (prof), markmcwilliams (Mark McWilliams) (prof), markoheijnen
(Marko Heijnen) (prof), markup (Sasha Mukhin) (prof),
mattsains (prof), matveb
(Matias Ventura) (prof), mdawaffe (Michael Adams) (prof) , mentel_br (prof), messenlehner (Brian
Messenlehner) (prof), miau_jp (prof), Michael (Michael Heilemann) (prof), MichaelH (prof), mikeschinkel (Mike Schinkel) (prof), Miloslav BeĹo , minusfive (prof), miqrogroove (Robert Chapin) (prof), misterbisson (Casey Bisson) (prof), mitchoyoshitaka
(mitcho (Michael čłč˛´ Erlewine)) (prof), MMN-o (prof), momo360modena (Amaury Balmer) (prof), morganestes (Morgan Estes) (prof), mrmist
(David McFarlane) (prof), mtdewvirus (Nick Momrik) (prof), nadavvin (prof), Nao (Naoko McCracken) (prof), nathanrice (Nathan Rice) (prof), neoxx (Bernhard Riedl) (prof), niallkennedy (Niall Kennedy)
(prof), ninjaWR
(Ryan Murphy) (prof), noel (NoĂŤl
Jackson) (prof), nomulous (Fletcher
Tomalty) (prof), ocean90 (Dominik Schilling) (prof), Otto42 (Samuel Wood) (prof), pedger (prof), PeteMall (prof), pampfelimetten (prof), pnettle (prof), PotterSys (Juan) (prof), prettyboymp (Michael Pretty) (prof), ptahdunbar (Ptah Dunbar) (prof), ramiy (prof), RanYanivHartstein (Ran Yaniv
Hartstein) (prof), reaperhulk (Paul Kehrer) (prof), reko (prof),
remi (RĂŠmi PrĂŠvost) (prof), rlerdorf (Rasmus Lerdorf) (prof) , rmccue (Ryan McCue) (prof), rooodini (prof), rovo89 (prof), ruslany (
"http://profiles.wordpress.org/ruslany">prof), sc0ttkclark (Scott Kingsley Clark) (prof), scottbasgaard (Scott Basgaard) (prof), ScottMac (prof), scribu (prof), SergeyBiryukov (ĐĄĐľŃгоК ĐиŃŃкОв) (prof), ShaneF (prof), sillybean (Stephanie Leary)
(prof), Simek (Bartosz
Kaszubowski) (prof), simonwheatley (Simon Wheatley) (prof), simosx (ÎŁÎŻÎźÎżĎ ÎξνΚĎÎΝΝΡĎ) (prof), sirzooro (Daniel
FruĹźyĹski) (prof), sivel
(Matt Martz) (prof), skeltoac
(Andy Skelton) (prof), snumb130 (Luke Howell) (prof), solarissmoke (Samir Shah) (prof), sorich87 (prof), ssandison (prof), stencil (prof), stephdau (Stephane Daury) (prof), tai (prof), TECannon (Tracy Cannon) (prof), technosailor (Aaron Brazell) (prof), tenpura (prof), thales.tede , TheDeadMedic (prof), thee17 (Charles E. Frees-Melvin) (prof), thetoine (Antoine Girard) (prof), tinkerpriest (c.bavota) (prof), TobiasBg
(Tobias Bäthge) (prof), tomtomp (prof), tychay (Terry Chay) (prof), typeomedia (prof), uglyrobot (Aaron Edwards) (prof), UnderWordPressure (prof), usermrpapa (prof), Utkarsh (Utkarsh Kukreti) (prof), validben (Benoit Gilloz ) (prof), Viper007Bond (Alex
Mills) (prof), vladimir_kolesnikov (Vladimir Kolesnikov) (prof), willmot (Tom Willmot) (prof), wahgnube (prof), waltervos (Walter Vos) (prof), wds-chris
(Christopher Cochran) (prof), williamsba1 (Brad Williams) (prof), wnorris (Will Norris) (prof), xibe (Xavier Borderie) (prof), yoavf (Yoav Farhi) (prof), zeo (Safirul Alredha) (prof), znarfor (François Hodierne) (prof), and zoranzaric (Zoran Zaric) (prof).
If you’ve made it this far, check out my 2010 State of the Word speech at WordCamp San Francisco, it’s jam-packed with information on the growth of WordPress, 3.0, what we’re planning for the future, and the philosophy of WordPress.
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vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade
within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers
have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies.
(Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off.) Developers and network admins will appreciate the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress,
creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation. As a user, you will
love the new lighter interface, the contextual help on every screen, the 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements,
bulk updates so you can upgrade 15 plugins at once with a single click, and blah blah blah just watch the video. (In HD, if you can, so you can
catch the Easter eggs.)
If you’d like to embed the WordPress 3.0 video tour in your blog, copy and paste this code for the high quality version:
<embed src="http://v.wordpress.com/wp-content/plugins/video/flvplayer.swf?ver=1.21" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="360" wmode="transparent" seamlesstabbing="true" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" overstretch="true" flashvars="guid=BQtfIEY1&width=640&height=360&locksize=no&dynamicseek=false&qc_publisherId=p-18- mFEk4J448M" title="Introducing WordPress 3.0 "Thelonious""></embed>
For a more comprehensive look at everything that has improved in 3.0 check out 3.0′s Codex page or the long list of issues in Trac. (We’re trying to keep these announcement posts shorter.) Whew! That’s a lot packed into one release. I can’t think of a better way to kick off the 3.X cycle we’ll be in for the next two and a half years.
Normally this is where I’d say we’re about to start work on 3.1, but we’re actually not. We’re going to take a release cycle off to focus on all of the things around WordPress. The growth of the community has been breathtaking, including over 10.3 million downloads of version 2.9, but so much of our effort has been focused on the core software it hasn’t left much time for anything else. Over the next three months we’re going to split into ninja/pirate teams focused on different areas of the around-WordPress experience, including the showcase, Codex, forums, profiles, update and compatibility APIs, theme directory, plugin directory, mailing lists, core plugins, wordcamp.org… the possibilities are endless. The goal of the teams isn’t going to be to make things perfect all at once, just better than they are today. We think this investment of time will give us a much stronger infrastructure to grow WordPress.org for the many tens of millions of users that will join us during the 3.X release cycle.
I’m proud to acknowledge the contributions of the following 218 people to the 3.0 release cycle. These are the folks that make WordPress what it is, whose collaboration and hard work enable us to build something greater than the sum of our parts. In alphabetical order, of course.
Committers: azaozz (Andrew Ozz) (prof), dd32 (Dion Hulse) (prof), donncha (Donncha O Caoimh) (prof), iammattthomas (Matt
Thomas) (prof), josephscott (Joseph Scott) (prof), markjaquith (Mark Jaquith) (prof), matt (Matt Mullenweg) (prof), nacin (Andrew Nacin) (prof), nbachiyski (ĐикОНаК ĐĐ°ŃиКŃки) (prof), ryan (Ryan Boren) (prof), westi (Peter Westwood) (prof), and wpmuguru (Ron Rennick)
(prof). Contributors: aaroncampbell (Aaron Campbell) (prof), akerem (prof), alexkingorg (Alex King) (prof), amattie (prof), ampt (Luke Gallagher) (prof), andrea_r (prof), andreasnrb (Andreas Nurbo) (prof), anilo4ever (Angelo Verona) (prof), apeatling
(Andy Peatling) (prof), apokalyptik (Demitrious Kelly) (prof), arena (AndrĂŠ Renaut) (prof), barry (Barry Abrahamson) (prof), batmoo (Mohammad Jangda) (prof), beaulebens (Beau Lebens) (prof), belg4mit
(prof), bigdawggi
(Matthew G. Richmond) (prof), blepoxp (Glenn Ansley) (prof), brentes (Brent Shepherd) (prof), briancolinger (Brian Colinger) (prof), bumbu (prof), caesarsgrunt (Caesar
Schinas) (prof), camiloclc (prof), CAMWebDesign (prof), carbolineum (prof), caspie (prof), catiakitahara (CĂĄtia Kitahara) (prof), CharlesClarkson (Charles Clarkson) (prof), chdorner (Christof Dorner) (prof), chrisbliss18 (Chris Jean) (prof), chrisscott
(Chris Scott) (prof), cnorris23 (Brandon Allen) (prof), coffee2code (Scott Reilly) (prof), computerwiz908 (prof), cyberhobo (Dylan Kuhn) (prof), dancole (Dan Cole) (prof), Daniel Koskinen , deepak.seth (Deepak Seth), demetris (ÎΡΟΎĎĎÎˇĎ ÎίκΚΜιĎ) (prof), Denis-de-Bernardy
(prof), dimadin (Milan DiniÄ) (prof), dndrnkrd (Dan Drinkard) (prof), docwhat (prof), dougwrites (
href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/dougwrites">prof), dphiffer (Dan Phiffer) (prof), dragoonis (prof), dremeda (Dre Armeda) (prof), dtoj , dougal (Dougal Campbell) (prof), duck_ (Jon Cave) (prof), dxjones (David Jones) (prof), eddieringle (Eddie Ringle)
(prof), edward
mindreantre (Edward Hevlund), eoinomurchu (prof), empireoflight/Ben Dunkle (prof), ericmann (Eric Mann) (prof), etiger13 (Eddie Monge
Jr.) (prof), filosofo
(Austin Matzko) (prof), firebird75 (prof), frankieroberto (Frankie Roberto)
(prof), Frumph
(Philip M. Hofer) (prof), garyc40 (Gary Cao) (prof), gautam2011 (prof), Gary Ross (Gazzer) , GDragoN (Milan Petrovic) (prof), greenshady (Justin
Tadlock) (prof), GIGALinux (Dennis Morhardt) (prof), hakre (prof), husky (prof),
iandstewart (Ian Stewart) (prof), ipstenu (Mika Epstein) (prof), jacobsantos (Jacob Santos) (prof), jamescollins (James
Collins) (prof), jane (Jane Wells) (prof), jbsil (Jesse Silverstein) (prof), jdub (Jeff Waugh) (prof), jeffikus (Jeffrey Pearce) (prof), jeffstieler (Jeff Stieler) (prof), jeremyclarke
(Jeremy Clarke) (prof), jfarthing84 (Jeff Farthing) (prof), Jick (James Dimick) (prof), jmstacey (Jon Stacey) (prof), jobjorn (JobjĂśrn Folkesson) (prof), johanee (Johan Eenfeldt) (prof), johnbillion (John Blackbourn)
(prof), johnjamesjacoby/jjj (John James Jacoby) (prof), johnjosephbachir (John Joseph Bachir) (prof), johnl1479
(John Luetke) (prof), johnonolan (John OâNolan) (prof), JohnPBloch/wmrom (John Bloch) (prof), joostdevalk/yoast (Joost de
Valk) (prof), jorbin
(Aaron Jorbin) (prof), joshtime (prof), jshreve (prof), junsuijin (prof), kallewangstedt (Karl WĂĽngstedt) (prof), keighl (Kyle
Truscott) (prof), kevinB (Kevin
Behrens) (prof), koopersmith (Daryl
Koopersmith) (prof), kpdesign (Kim Parsell)
(prof), ktdreyer (Ken Dreyer) (prof), kurtmckee (Kurt McKee) (prof), laceous (prof), lancewillett (Lance
Willett) (prof), lloydbudd (Lloyd Budd) (prof), lriggle (prof), markauk (prof), markmcwilliams (Mark McWilliams) (prof), markoheijnen
(Marko Heijnen) (prof), markup (Sasha Mukhin) (prof),
mattsains (prof), matveb
(Matias Ventura) (prof), mdawaffe (Michael Adams) (prof) , mentel_br (prof), messenlehner (Brian
Messenlehner) (prof), miau_jp (prof), Michael (Michael Heilemann) (prof), MichaelH (prof), mikeschinkel (Mike Schinkel) (prof), Miloslav BeĹo , minusfive (prof), miqrogroove (Robert Chapin) (prof), misterbisson (Casey Bisson) (prof), mitchoyoshitaka
(mitcho (Michael čłč˛´ Erlewine)) (prof), MMN-o (prof), momo360modena (Amaury Balmer) (prof), morganestes (Morgan Estes) (prof), mrmist
(David McFarlane) (prof), mtdewvirus (Nick Momrik) (prof), nadavvin (prof), Nao (Naoko McCracken) (prof), nathanrice (Nathan Rice) (prof), neoxx (Bernhard Riedl) (prof), niallkennedy (Niall Kennedy)
(prof), ninjaWR
(Ryan Murphy) (prof), noel (NoĂŤl
Jackson) (prof), nomulous (Fletcher
Tomalty) (prof), ocean90 (Dominik Schilling) (prof), Otto42 (Samuel Wood) (prof), pedger (prof), PeteMall (prof), pampfelimetten (prof), pnettle (prof), PotterSys (Juan) (prof), prettyboymp (Michael Pretty) (prof), ptahdunbar (Ptah Dunbar) (prof), ramiy (prof), RanYanivHartstein (Ran Yaniv
Hartstein) (prof), reaperhulk (Paul Kehrer) (prof), reko (prof),
remi (RĂŠmi PrĂŠvost) (prof), rlerdorf (Rasmus Lerdorf) (prof) , rmccue (Ryan McCue) (prof), rooodini (prof), rovo89 (prof), ruslany (
"http://profiles.wordpress.org/ruslany">prof), sc0ttkclark (Scott Kingsley Clark) (prof), scottbasgaard (Scott Basgaard) (prof), ScottMac (prof), scribu (prof), SergeyBiryukov (ĐĄĐľŃгоК ĐиŃŃкОв) (prof), ShaneF (prof), sillybean (Stephanie Leary)
(prof), Simek (Bartosz
Kaszubowski) (prof), simonwheatley (Simon Wheatley) (prof), simosx (ÎŁÎŻÎźÎżĎ ÎξνΚĎÎΝΝΡĎ) (prof), sirzooro (Daniel
FruĹźyĹski) (prof), sivel
(Matt Martz) (prof), skeltoac
(Andy Skelton) (prof), snumb130 (Luke Howell) (prof), solarissmoke (Samir Shah) (prof), sorich87 (prof), ssandison (prof), stencil (prof), stephdau (Stephane Daury) (prof), tai (prof), TECannon (Tracy Cannon) (prof), technosailor (Aaron Brazell) (prof), tenpura (prof), thales.tede , TheDeadMedic (prof), thee17 (Charles E. Frees-Melvin) (prof), thetoine (Antoine Girard) (prof), tinkerpriest (c.bavota) (prof m(îć1
˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ uŢ
ş ?Ę ), TobiasBg
(Tobias Bäthge) (prof), tomtomp (prof), tychay (Terry Chay) (prof), typeomedia (prof), uglyrobot (Aaron Edwards) (prof), UnderWordPressure (prof), usermrpapa (prof), Utkarsh (Utkarsh Kukreti) (prof), validben (Benoit Gilloz ) (prof), Viper007Bond (Alex
Mills) (prof), vladimir_kolesnikov (Vladimir Kolesnikov) (prof), willmot (Tom Willmot) (prof), wahgnube (prof), waltervos (Walter Vos) (prof), wds-chris
(Christopher Cochran) (prof), williamsba1 (Brad Williams) (prof), wnorris (Will Norris) (prof), xibe (Xavier Borderie) (prof), yoavf (Yoav Farhi) (prof), zeo (Safirul Alredha) (prof), znarfor (François Hodierne) (prof), and zoranzaric (Zoran Zaric) (prof).
If you’ve made it this far, check out my 2010 State of the Word speech at WordCamp San Francisco, it’s jam-packed with information on the growth of WordPress, 3.0, what we’re planning for the future, and the philosophy of WordPress.
";}i:7;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:7:"3.0 RC3";s:4:"link";s:42:"http://wordpress.org/news/2010/06/3-0- rc3/";s:8:"comments";s:51:"http://wordpress.org/news/2010/06/3-0-rc3/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:49:38 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1: {s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:8:"category";s:11:"Development";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/? p=1376";s:11:"description";s:257:"A weekend present, in haiku: Last call; final bugs Itch, scratch, contort; calmly wait For now: RC3 That’s right. What will hopefully be the final release candidate, RC3, is now available for download and testing. Plugin developers: test your plugins!";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:438:"A weekend present, in haiku:
Last call; final bugs
Itch, scratch, contort; calmly wait
For now: RC3
That’s right. What will hopefully be the final release candidate, RC3, is now available for download and testing.
Plugin developers: test your plugins!
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Last call; final bugs
Itch, scratch, contort; calmly wait
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Plugin developers: test your plugins!
";}i:8;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:37:"Expanding the Theme Review Experiment";s:4:"link";s:72:"http://wordpress.org/news/2010/06/expanding-the-theme-review- experiment/";s:8:"comments";s:81:"http://wordpress.org/news/2010/06/expanding-the-theme-review-experiment/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:06:11 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Joseph Scott";} s:8:"category";s:26:"CommunityDevelopmentThemes";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1347";s:11:"description";s:272:"When I was a kid my dad used to practice his typing skills (on a real typewriter no less) with the phrase: Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. For some reason that has stuck with me all these years. Today Iâm going to rephrase and [...]";s:7:"content";a:1: {s:7:"encoded";s:1962:"When I was a kid my dad used to practice his typing skills (on a real typewriter no less) with the phrase:
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
For some reason that has stuck with me all these years. Today Iâm going to rephrase and re-purpose that line:
Now is the time for great theme developers to come to the aid of their community.
The theme directory has been chugging along for more than a year now. During that time weâve tinkered with the review process and some of the management tools, but havenât really opened it up as much as weâd like. It’s time to rip off the band-aid and take some action; to that end, we’re looking for community members to help with the process of reviewing themes for the directory.
Right now this is a bit like a New Yearâs resolution to exercise every day: itâs what we need to do, but weâre still figuring out exactly how it will all work. Thatâs part of the community involvement as well — we expect that those who pitch in will also help shape the process.
Whatâs involved in reviewing themes for the directory? There are some obvious things, such as being familiar with PHP and WordPress theme code (and the theme development checklist), with an eye for security issues. You would also need to have the ability to set up a separate install of the latest version of WordPress for testing theme submissions.
Hopefully a few talented theme developers are reading this right now and saying to themselves, “Iâd love to help! How do I get started?” Just join the new theme reviewers mailing list and we’ll get you up to speed on this new opportunity to come to the aid of your community.
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Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
For some reason that has stuck with me all these years. Today Iâm going to rephrase and re-purpose that line:
Now is the time for great theme developers to come to the aid of their community.
The theme directory has been chugging along for more than a year now. During that time weâve tinkered with the review process and some of the management tools, but havenât really opened it up as much as weâd like. It’s time to rip off the band-aid and take some action; to that end, we’re looking for community members to help with the process of reviewing themes for the directory.
Right now this is a bit like a New Yearâs resolution to exercise every day: itâs what we need to do, but weâre still figuring out exactly how it will all work. Thatâs part of the community involvement as well — we expect that those who pitch in will also help shape the process.
Whatâs involved in reviewing themes for the directory? There are some obvious things, such as being familiar with PHP and WordPress theme code (and the theme development checklist), with an eye for security issues. You would also need to have the ability to set up a separate install of the latest version of WordPress for testing theme submissions.
Hopefully a few talented theme developers are reading this right now and saying to themselves, “Iâd love to help! How do I get started?” Just join the new theme reviewers mailing list and we’ll get you up to speed on this new opportunity to come to the aid of your community.
";}i:9;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:31:"WordPress 3.0 Release Candidate";s:4:"link";s:66:"http://wordpress.org/news/2010/05/wordpress-3-0-release- candidate/";s:8:"comments";s:75:"http://wordpress.org/news/2010/05/wordpress-3-0-release-candidate/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 28 May 2010 02:35:04 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";} s:8:"category";s:11:"Development";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1358";s:11:"description";s:345:"As Matt teased earlier, the first release candidate (RC1) for WordPress 3.0 is now available. What’s an RC? An RC comes after beta and before the final launch. It means we think we’ve got everything done: all features finished, all bugs squashed, and all potential issues addressed. But, then, with over 20 million people using [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1993:"As Matt teased earlier, the first release candidate (RC1) for WordPress 3.0 is now available. What’s an RC? An RC comes after beta and before the final launch. It means we think we’ve got everything done: all features finished, all bugs squashed, and all potential issues addressed. But, then, with over 20 million people using WordPress with a wide variety of configurations and hosting setups, it’s entirely possible that we’ve missed something. So! For the brave of heart, please download the RC and test it out (but not on your live site unless you’re extra adventurous). Some things to know:
If you are testing the RC and come across a bug, you can:
We hope you enjoy playing with the 3.0 RC as much as we’ve enjoyed making it for you. Enjoy!
";}s:3:"wfw";a:1: {s:10:"commentrss";s:71:"http://wordpress.org/news/2010/05/wordpress-3-0-release-candidate/feed/";}s:5:"slash";a:1:{s:8:"comments";s:1:"0";} s:7:"summary";s:345:"As Matt teased earlier, the first release candidate (RC1) for WordPress 3.0 is now available. What’s an RC? An RC comes after beta and before the final launch. It means we think we’ve got everything done: all features finished, all bugs squashed, and all potential issues addressed. But, then, with over 20 million people using [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1993:"As Matt teased earlier, the first release candidate (RC1) for WordPress 3.0 is now available. What’s an RC? An RC comes after beta and before the final launch. It means we think we’ve got everything done: all features finished, all bugs squashed, and all potential issues addressed. But, then, with over 20 million people using WordPress with a wide variety of configurations and hosting setups, it’s entirely possible that we’ve missed something. So! For the brave of heart, please download the RC and test it out (but not on your live site unless you’re extra adventurous). Some things to know:
If you are testing the RC and come across a bug, you can:
We hope you enjoy playing with the 3.0 RC as much as we’ve enjoyed making it for you. Enjoy!
";}}s:7:"channel";a:8:{s:5:"title";s:14:"WordPress News";s:4:"link";s:25:"http://wordpress.org/news";s:11:"description";s:14:"WordPress News";s:13:"lastbuilddate";s:31:"Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:23:31 +0000";s:8:"language";s:2:"en";s:2:"sy";a:2:{s:12:"updateperiod";s:6:"hourly";s:15:"updatefrequency";s:1:"1";} s:9:"generator";s:33:"http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1-alpha";s:7:"tagline";s:14:"WordPress News";}s:9:"textinput";a:0:{}s:5:"image";a:0:{} s:9:"feed_type";s:3:"RSS";s:12:"feed_version";s:3:"2.0";s:5:"stack";a:0:{} s:9:"inchannel";b:0;s:6:"initem";b:0;s:9:"incontent";b:0;s:11:"intextinput";b:0;s:7:"inimage";b:0;s:13:"current_field";s:0:"";s:17:"current_namespac e";b:0;s:19:"_CONTENT_CONSTRUCTS";a:6:{i:0;s:7:"content";i:1;s:7:"summary";i:2;s:4:"info";i:3;s:5:"title";i:4;s:7:"tagline";i:5;s:9:"copyright";} s:13:"last_modified";s:31:"Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:23:31 GMT ";s:4:"etag";s:36:""ad899bf1e50edaa60775593ca5bd6b30" ";} uŢ~v~ ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ ÷Ę ş ?Ę O:9:"magpierss":19:{s:6:"parser";i:0;s:12:"current_item";a:0:{}s:5:"items";a:50:{i:0;a:7: {s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 10/09";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/? p=8789";s:4:"link";s:89:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/10/09/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1009-2/";s:11:"description";s:1513:"
Friendly Fast is both fast loading and optimized for our search engine friend Google.
Parquetry is a simple 2-column right sidebar WordPress template with a woodgrain background and an eye-catching header graphic.
PurpleSatin was designed using stylish purple colors and a slim design.
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Friendly Fast is both fast loading and optimized for our search engine friend Google.
Parquetry is a simple 2-column right sidebar WordPress template with a woodgrain background and an eye-catching header graphic.
PurpleSatin was designed using stylish purple colors and a slim design.
Tweet";}i:1;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:61:"Publisher Blog: MediaPost: âThe winner will be WordPressâ ";s:4:"guid";s:43:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/?p=1063";s:4:"link";s:78:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2010/10/08/mediapost-the- winner-wordpress/";s:11:"description";s:3312:"Interesting post from Philip Leigh of MediaPost this week, titled “The Implications Of Blogging“:
…Similarly, it’s likely that the future of blogging — and the future spread of knowledge — will reflect the characteristics of whatever blog platform achieves dominance. Increasingly it appears that the winner will be WordPress. It first appeared seven years ago as a successor to software typically used for online diaries. Thus, it was originally text-based, but has since evolved to also encompass audio, video, and animation. It has even become a popular platform for entire websites as well as important components of prominent sites such as The New York Times.
(Emphasis mine).
Philip goes on to state:
In short, WordPress is not merely a blogging tool. It’s a platform that can lead to an explosion of new media properties capable of text, video, audio, music, animation, interactivity, online merchandising, podcasting, and even social networking. Successful innovations will rapidly take root and expand while unsuccessful ones will quickly perish or remain marginal.
[ Read the full article on MediaPost.com ]
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 08 Oct 2010 23:51:58 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:16:"Raanan Bar-Cohen";}s:7:"summary";s:3312:"Interesting post from Philip Leigh of MediaPost this week, titled “The Implications Of Blogging“:
…Similarly, it’s likely that the future of blogging — and the future spread of knowledge — will reflect the characteristics of whatever blog platform achieves dominance. Increasingly it appears that the winner will be WordPress. It first appeared seven years ago as a successor to software typically used for online diaries. Thus, it was originally text-based, but has since evolved to also encompass audio, video, and animation. It has even become a popular platform for entire websites as well as important components of prominent sites such as The New York Times.
(Emphasis mine).
Philip goes on to state:
In short, WordPress is not merely a blogging tool. It’s a platform that can lead to an explosion of new media properties capable of text, video, audio, music, animation, interactivity, online merchandising, podcasting, and even social networking. Successful innovations will rapidly take root and expand while unsuccessful ones will quickly perish or remain marginal.
[ Read the full article on MediaPost.com ]
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i:2;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:66:"Weblog Tools Collection: 2010 WordPress Honors Seeking Submissions";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?
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submissions/";s:11:"description";s:840:"The 2010 WordPress Honors launched earlier this week and is currently seeking submissions and votes for your favorite WordPress plugins, themes, sites, and personalities.
Final voting will begin once the nominees have been announced in mid November, and the winners will be announced in early January.
What’s your take on award ceremonies like this? Will WPHonors show the best that the WordPress community has to offer, or will this be just another popularity content?
Tweet";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:00:13 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"James Huff";}s:7:"summary";s:840:"The 2010 WordPress Honors launched earlier this week and is currently seeking submissions and votes for your favorite WordPress plugins, themes, sites, and personalities.
Final voting will begin once the nominees have been announced in mid November, and the winners will be announced in early January.
What’s your take on award ceremonies like this? Will WPHonors show the best that the WordPress community has to offer, or will this be just another popularity content?
Tweet";}i:3;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:32:"BuddyPress: Vote for BuddyPress!";s:4:"guid";s:29:"http://buddypress.org/? p=1358";s:4:"link";s:50:"http://buddypress.org/2010/10/vote-for-buddypress/";s:11:"description";s:2206:"The Open Source Awards is an annual online event held by Packt Publishing to distinguish excellence among Open Source projects.
Now in its fifth year, the Award (formerly known as the Open Source Content Management System (CMS) Award) is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward not only CMSes but a wider range of Open Source projects.
This year BuddyPress has the honor of being a finalist in the “Most Promising Open Source Project” category, which is for all Open Source projects that made their debut within the past 2 years. We’re up against some stiff competition with LiveStreet CMS, Pimcore, Tomato CMS, and WolfCMS, so we’re asking for your support!
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want or care about the $2,500 prize for winning our category. Andy would
really like a sweet 3D-TV, and I could use a posh new living room set myself, but we decided donating the proceeds to the WordPress Foundation was probably the best way to use any cash winnings. 
To help make voting worth your while, PacktPub is giving away free Amazon Kindles to random voters and nominees. If showing your BuddyPress pride isn’t enough, do it for the opportunity to score a free Kindle!
So click the banner below and be whisked away to Packt Pubs voting page, where you can
[help Andy enjoy Jurassic Park like it was meant to be enjoyed] [help John take epic naps on a new comfy couch]
help support BuddyPress and maybe win yourself a Kindle!
The Open Source Awards is an annual online event held by Packt Publishing to distinguish excellence among Open Source projects.
Now in its fifth year, the Award (formerly known as the Open Source Content Management System (CMS) Award) is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward not only CMSes but a wider range of Open Source projects.
This year BuddyPress has the honor of being a finalist in the “Most Promising Open Source Project” category, which is for all Open Source projects that made their debut within the past 2 years. We’re up against some stiff competition with LiveStreet CMS, Pimcore, Tomato CMS, and WolfCMS, so we’re asking for your support!
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want or care about the $2,500 prize for winning our category. Andy would
really like a sweet 3D-TV, and I could use a posh new living room set myself, but we decided donating the proceeds to the WordPress Foundation was probably the best way to use any cash winnings.
To help make voting worth your while, PacktPub is giving away free Amazon Kindles to random voters and nominees. If showing your BuddyPress pride isn’t enough, do it for the opportunity to score a free Kindle!
So click the banner below and be whisked away to Packt Pubs voting page, where you can
[help Andy enjoy Jurassic Park like it was meant to be enjoyed] [help John take epic naps on a new comfy couch]
help support BuddyPress and maybe win yourself a Kindle!
EZWebPlayer Video Plugin allows you to post your videos, report on views, track which videos have been posted and where, and has a simple toolbar plugin that allows you to add videos quickly.
Hikari Featured Comments is a simple plugin that adds 3 new custom fields to comments, allowing you to add special properties to each of them.
Post Gallery Widget is a rotating gallery widget using a custom post type for gallery content.
swfObject Reloaded allows easy embedding of swf files and better media management for swf files, allowing swf files to have a height, width, and their own minimum flash version.
Disqus Comment System replaces your WordPress comment system with your comments hosted and powered by Disqus.
eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin.
Membership allows you to transform your WordPress site into a fully functional membership site. (Disclaimer: Incsub is a sponsor of Weblog Tools Collection.)
Register Plus Redux enhances the user registration process with complete customization and additional administration options.
Ultimate Taxonomy Manager is an easy to use taxonomy manager to customize taxonomies and custom fields with a great user interface.
Tweet";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:00:22 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"James Huff";}s:7:"summary";s:2299:"EZWebPlayer Video Plugin allows you to post your videos, report on views, track which videos have been posted and where, and has a simple toolbar plugin that allows you to add videos quickly.
Hikari Featured Comments is a simple plugin that adds 3 new custom fields to comments, allowing you to add special properties to each of them.
Post Gallery Widget is a rotating gallery widget using a custom post type for gallery content.
swfObject Reloaded allows easy embedding of swf files and better media management for swf files, allowing swf files to have a height, width, and their own minimum flash version.
Disqus Comment System replaces your WordPress comment system with your comments hosted and powered by Disqus.
eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin.
Membership allows you to transform your WordPress site into a fully functional membership site. (Disclaimer: Incsub is a sponsor of Weblog Tools Collection.)
Register Plus Redux enhances the user registration process with complete customization and additional administration options.
Ultimate Taxonomy Manager is an easy to use taxonomy manager to customize taxonomies and custom fields with a great user interface.
Tweet";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:46:"Gravatar: Gravatar Hovercards on WordPress.com";s:4:"guid";s:31:"http://blog.gravatar.com/? p=261";s:4:"link";s:73:"http://blog.gravatar.com/2010/10/06/gravatar-hovercards-on-wordpress-com/";s:11:"description";s:3590:"You thought Gravatar Profiles were cool? Wait until you see them on all WordPress.com blogs.
Today we’re upping your Gravatar Profile to a new level of awesomeness with Gravatar Hovercards. It’s now easy to find out about who is behind your favorite comments on WordPress.com simply by moving your mouse over their Gravatar. This new feature is enabled by default across WordPress.com.
Gravatar Hovercards show information about a person: name, bio, pictures, and their contact info at other services they use on the web like Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn.
As a commenter, Hovercards offer a great way to show your Internet presence and help people find your own blog. If you’re a blogger on WordPress.com, you can quickly check out whoâs commenting on your blog, and have an easier time connecting with them.
You can see other people’s Hovercards by moving your mouse over their Gravatar picture in comments on any WordPress.com blog, and after a moment the Hovercard will appear. The information shown is taken directly from the person’s Gravatar profile. The more info in the profile, the more we show in the Hovercard.
If you haven’t set up your Gravatar Profile yet, just log in to Gravatar.com and fill out your details under Edit My Profile. If you don’t have an account yet, you can sign up here.
Check back soon for details on how to add hovercards to your own website, or any site currently using Gravatars.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 06 Oct
2010 22:19:37 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:11:"Beau Lebens";}s:7:"summary";s:3590:"You thought Gravatar Profiles were cool? Wait until you see them on all WordPress.com blogs.
Today we’re upping your Gravatar Profile to a new level of awesomeness with Gravatar Hovercards. It’s now easy to find out about who is behind your favorite comments on WordPress.com simply by moving your mouse over their Gravatar. This new feature is enabled by default across WordPress.com.
Gravatar Hovercards show information about a person: name, bio, pictures, and their contact info at other services they use on the web like Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn.
As a commenter, Hovercards offer a great way to show your Internet presence and help people find your own blog. If you’re a blogger on WordPress.com, you can quickly check out whoâs commenting on your blog, and have an easier time connecting with them.
You can see other people’s Hovercards by moving your mouse over their Gravatar picture in comments on any WordPress.com blog, and after a moment the Hovercard will appear. The information shown is taken directly from the person’s Gravatar profile. The more info in the profile, the more we show in the Hovercard.
If you haven’t set up your Gravatar Profile yet, just log in to Gravatar.com and fill out your details under Edit My Profile. If you don’t have an account yet, you can sign up here.
Check back soon for details on how to add hovercards to your own website, or any site currently using Gravatars.
";}i:6;a:7:
{s:5:"title";s:13:"Matt: Hipmunk";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?
p=35776";s:4:"link";s:29:"http://ma.tt/2010/10/hipmunk/";s:11:"description";s:471:"Hipmunk is a flight search tool with a twist, and even if you don’t travel as much as I do you should give it a try next time you’re taking a trip somewhere. (It’s hard to describe, but easy to use.) As announced elsewhere, I’m happy to be part of a group of people supporting the team as an investor.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:59:56 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:471:"Hipmunk is a flight search tool with a twist, and even if you don’t travel as much as I do you should give it a try next time you’re taking a trip somewhere. (It’s hard to describe, but easy to use.) As announced elsewhere, I’m happy to be part of a group of people supporting the team as an investor.
";}i:7;a:7: {s:5:"title";s:67:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress.com Makes it Easy to say Goodbye";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/? p=8777";s:4:"link";s:96:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/10/06/wordpress-com-makes-it-easy-to-say- goodbye/";s:11:"description";s:1694:"The WordPress.com team has now made it even easier to leave your WordPress.co 7ŕżÝX- ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ wö ş ?Ę m blog for a self-hosted WordPress blog.
The new offsite redirect upgrade allows you to easily redirect your blogname.wordpress.com blog and all of its permalinks to your new domain.
The previous redirection method was a five-step process that had a tendency to cause some confusion during implementation. Now, all you need to do is export your blog, purchase the offsite redirect upgrade for $12/year (the same price as the previous redirection method), and enter your new domain name.
Matt Mullenweg, Automattic’s one and only Chief BBQ Taste Tester, highlighted the importance of the new offsite redirection upgrade, stating “the easier you make it for people to go, the more likely they are to stay.” The psychology certainly makes sense to me. I’d be less tempted to make a panic-influenced exit if I knew it was easy to leave at any time.
Are you more comfortable staying with WordPress.com now that it’s even easier to leave?
Tweet";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:00:52 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"James Huff";} s:7:"summary";s:1694:"The WordPress.com team has now made it even easier to leave your WordPress.com blog for a self-hosted WordPress blog.
The new offsite redirect upgrade allows you to easily redirect your blogname.wordpress.com blog and all of its permalinks to your new domain.
The previous redirection method was a five-step process that had a tendency to cause some confusion during implementation. Now, all you need to do is export your blog, purchase the offsite redirect upgrade for $12/year (the same price as the previous redirection method), and enter your new domain name.
Matt Mullenweg, Automattic’s one and only Chief BBQ Taste Tester, highlighted the importance of the new offsite redirection upgrade, stating “the easier you make it for people to go, the more likely they are to stay.” The psychology certainly makes sense to me. I’d be less tempted to make a panic-influenced exit if I knew it was easy to leave at any time.
Are you more comfortable staying with WordPress.com now that it’s even easier to leave?
Tweet";}i:8;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:62:"WordPress Podcast: Chief Executive Insight with Toni Schneider";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://wp- community.org/?p=773";s:4:"link";s:63:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wordpresspodcast/~3/3qEP3QKFB2U/";s:11:"description";s:2162:"
Toni Schneider
Toni Schneider is the CEO of Automattic, the team behind WordPress.com, Akismet and many other WordPress related projects. Since leaving Switzerland for Silicon Valley, he has been working with and successfully exiting startups. Before leaving Yahoo! to join Automattic, Tony was a WordPress user and part of the community. On today’s show we touch on:
Plugin Picks of the Week:
Toni Schneider
Toni Schneider is the CEO of Automattic, the team behind WordPress.com, Akismet and many other WordPress related projects. Since leaving Switzerland for Silicon Valley, he has been working with and successfully exiting startups. Before leaving Yahoo! to join Automattic, Tony was a WordPress user and part of the community. On today’s show we touch on:
Plugin Picks of the Week:
ClassRoom Blog is a free WordPress theme for Teachers and Educators to use for a class blog.
Speed is a magazine style theme for a BuddyPress community powered site, based on a three column fluid layout enabled with custom fonts with a beautiful jQuery powered full width slider.
Toolbox is an ultra-minimal set of super-clean, HTML5, starter templates for your own WordPress theme development.
zBench is a simple WordPress theme with few images, support for various plugins, custom menus, widgets, and threaded comments.
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ClassRoom Blog is a free WordPress theme for Teachers and Educators to use for a class blog.
Speed is a magazine style theme for a BuddyPress community powered site, based on a three column fluid layout enabled with custom fonts with a beautiful jQuery powered full width slider.
Toolbox is an ultra-minimal set of super-clean, HTML5, starter templates for your own WordPress theme development.
zBench is a simple WordPress theme with few images, support for various plugins, custom menus, widgets, and threaded comments.
Tweet";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:36:"Matt: Adam Savage On Problem Solving";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/? p=35774";s:4:"link";s:52:"http://ma.tt/2010/10/adam-savage-on-problem-solving/";s:11:"description";s:274:"Adam Savage of Mythbusters talks about how he solves problems, with an entertaining Q&A afterward. Hat tip: Paul Kedrosky.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 05 Oct 2010 06:09:41 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:274:"Adam Savage of Mythbusters talks about how he solves problems, with an entertaining Q&A afterward. Hat tip: Paul Kedrosky.
";}i:11;a:7: {s:5:"title";s:25:"Matt: Greatest Golf Photo";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=35770";s:4:"link";s:41:"http://ma.tt/2010/10/greatest-golf- photo/";s:11:"description";s:753:"Saw this on Yahoo: Tiger Woods gives us the greatest golf photo you’ll ever see. Basically he mis-shot (which almost never happens) straight into a camera man who was taking a picture right that instant. Here are larger versions. I love how everyone is looking at the camera, Inception-like, and the guy with the cigar. “For camera buffs, Pain was using a Nikon D3S camera, with a 24-70 mm lens and a shutter speed of 1/1000 of a second.”
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:50:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1: {s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:753:"Saw this on Yahoo: Tiger Woods gives us the greatest golf photo you’ll ever see. Basically he mis-shot (which almost never happens) straight into a camera man who was taking a picture right that instant. Here are larger versions. I love how everyone is looking at the camera, Inception-like, and the guy with the cigar. “For camera buffs, Pain was using a Nikon D3S camera, with a 24-70 mm lens and a shutter speed of 1/1000 of a second.”
";}i:12;a:7: {s:5:"title";s:42:"Alex King: Carrington Business Demo Access";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://alexking.org/? p=4712";s:4:"link";s:67:"http://alexking.org/blog/2010/10/04/carrington-business-demo-access";s:11:"description";s:655:"We’ve updated the Carrington Business theme demo so that you can access the menus and theme settings in the admin interface along with the post and page creation/editing access that was already available. Some folks were requesting to see how the menus were integrated, etc. so we’ve made those items available.
Check out the demo and experiment away. The demo data is reset every hour on the hour.
We’ve updated the Carrington Business theme demo so that you can access the menus and theme settings in the admin interface along with the post and page creation/editing access that was already available. Some folks were requesting to see how the menus were integrated, etc. so we’ve made those items available.
Check out the demo and experiment away. The demo data is reset every hour on the hour.
A new upgrade launched on WordPress.com today, Offsite Redirects. Basically this allows you to retain all of your links, SEO, and visitors when you move from WP.com to self-hosted (or any platform, for that matter). I point it out only because I think it’s central to Automattic’s philosophy, and something I learned from Dave Winer: the easier you make it for people to go, the more likely they are to stay.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 05 Oct 2010 01:54:54 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1: {s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:572:"A new upgrade launched on WordPress.com today, Offsite Redirects. Basically this allows you to retain all of your links, SEO, and visitors when you move from WP.com to self-hosted (or any platform, for that matter). I point it out only because I think it’s central to Automattic’s philosophy, and something I learned from Dave Winer: the easier you make it for people to go, the more likely they are to stay.
";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:44:"Lloyd: WordPress does one thing very wellâ Ś";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://foolswisdom.com/?p=2769";s:4:"link";s:45:"http://foolswisdom.com/wordpress-awesome- cms/";s:11:"description";s:1760:"…allow everyone to easily publish on the Web!
And to make that happen, WordPress must be an easy to develop and design web publishing environment.
Stop! This is comparing apples and oranges. [WordPress] is a honed, refined blogging product that does one thing very well, whereas Drupal is a flexible, extensible CMS plus a huge set of tools for building websites, web applications, and integrating with other tools.
By “jam – Senior Wr….”, “The time is right for Drupal products“
It’s frustrating that competitors are still trying to pigeon-hole WordPress. The satisfying irony is that I expect WordPress’s use for non-blog sites is growing faster than the competitors.
Sure, we have biases. We are biases towards familiarity, usability, and not stressing people — letting people be awesome!
A leading example of what you can do with WordPress 3.0 CMS features is what CBS, with the help of VOCE Communications, have already created for nearing 200 CBS Radio and CBS Local properties. Sites like:
There are countless other examples, but a few have been cataloged at wordpress.org/showcase/tag/cms/
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:38:29 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:5:"Lloyd";}s:7:"summary";s:1760:"…allow everyone to easily publish on the Web!
And to make that happen, WordPress must be an easy to develop and design web publishing environment.
Stop! This is comparing apples and oranges. [WordPress] is a honed, refined blogging product that does one thing very well, whereas Drupal is a flexible, extensible CMS plus a huge set of tools for building websites, web applications, and integrating with other tools.
By “jam – Senior Wr….”, “The time is right for Drupal products“
It’s frustrating that competitors are still trying to pigeon-hole WordPress. The satisfying irony is that I expect WordPress’s use for non-blog sites is growing faster than the competitors.
Sure, we have biases. We are biases towards familiarity, usability, and not stressing people — letting people be awesome!
A leading example of what you can do with WordPress 3.0 CMS features is what CBS, with the help of VOCE Communications, have already created for nearing 200 CBS Radio and CBS Local properties. Sites like:
There are countless other examples, but a few have been cataloged at wordpress.org/showcase/tag/cms/
";}i:15;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:57:"Weblog Tools Collection: The Top 10 of Your Top 5 Plugins";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/? p=8766";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/10/04/the-top-10-of-your-top-5-plugins/";s:11:"description";s:6142:"A few days ago, Mark asked to hear about your “top 5 plugins that you WordPress geniuses use in every one of your WordPress installs.” With almost fifty responses, it’s great to see that so many people consider the same or similar plugins as their top five. Without further delay, here are the top ten of your top five plugins.
I’m sure that most of you weren’t surprised by your top ten, but I bet that some of you were, and at least a few of you discovered a great plugin that you may be installing today. If you find yourself relying regularly on a free plugin, find the developer’s donation page and at least buy them a drink.
I’ll have to join with the popular vote here and say that Akismet is definitely my favorite plugin. You have no idea how much of a comment spam nightmare this blog would be without Akismet.
What’s your favorite plugin, and why can’t your blog live without it?
Tweet";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:00:35 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"James Huff";}s:7:"summary";s:6142:"A few days ago, Mark asked to hear about your “top 5 plugins that you WordPress geniuses use in every one of your WordPress installs.” With almost fifty responses, it’s great to see that so many people consider the same or similar plugins as their top five. Without further delay, here are the top ten of your top five plugins.
I’m sure that most of you weren’t surprised by your top ten, but I bet that some of you were, and at least a few of you discovered a great plugin that you may be installing today. If you find yourself relying regularly on a free plugin, find the developer’s donation page and at least buy them a drink.
I’ll have to join with the popular vote here and say that Akismet is definitely my favorite plugin. You have no idea how much of a comment spam nightmare this blog would be without Akismet.
What’s your favorite plugin, and why can’t your blog live without it?
Tweet";}i:16;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/03";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/? p=8764";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/10/03/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1003/";s:11:"description";s:2578:"Admin Menu Tree Page View allows you to get a tree view of all your pages directly in the admin menu.
Blue Screen of the Dead is a replacement for your WordPress 404 error page.
Facebook Members is a WordPress social plugin that enables Facebook page owners to attract and gain Likes from their own website.
Ultimate Taxonomy Manager is an easy to use taxonomy manager to customize taxonomies and custom fields with a great user interface.
WP Pic Tagger allows you to tag people and objects in your images by selecting a region of the image and adding names, URLs and descriptions.
AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button helps people share, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg, Delicious, and well over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites.
Facebook Like for Tags allows you to connect with your audience for ongoing updates and sharing based on user interest.
Simple Twitter Connect is a series of plugins that let you add any sort of Twitter functionality you like to a WordPress blog.
VideoPress allows you to add VideoPress videos stored on WordPress.com to your self-hosted WordPress.org site through the use of simple shortcodes.
WP-Stats-Dashboard allows you to display your blog’s stats graph plus your blog traffic, social engagement and social influence directly in your dashboard.
Tweet";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 03 Oct 2010 13:00:31 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"James Huff";}s:7:"summary";s:2578:"Admin Menu Tree Page View allows you to get a tree view of all your pages directly in the admin menu.
Blue Screen of the Dead is a replacement for your WordPress 404 error page.
Facebook Members is a WordPress social plugin that enables Facebook page owners to attract and gain Likes from their own website.
Ultimate Taxonomy Manager is an easy to use taxonomy manager to customize taxonomies and custom fields with a great user interface.
WP Pic Tagger allows you to tag people and objects in your images by selecting a region of the image and adding names, URLs and descriptions.
AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button helps people share, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg, Delicious, and well over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites.
Facebook Like for Tags allows you to connect with your audience for ongoing updates and sharing based on user interest.
Simple Twitter Connect is a series of plugins that let you add any sort of Twitter functionality you like to a WordPress blog.
VideoPress allows you to add VideoPress videos stored on WordPress.com to your self-hosted WordPress.org site through the use of simple shortcodes.
WP-Stats-Dashboard allows you to display your blog’s stats graph plus your blog traffic, social engagement and social influence directly in your dashboard.
Tweet";}i:17;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Weblog Tools Collection: Blog Action Day 2010 Topic: Water";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=8762";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/10/02/blog- action-day-2010-topic-water/";s:11:"description";s:952:"Voting has concluded for this year’s Blog Action Day topic, and the winner is water!
Register your blog now and join the thousands (if not millions) of bloggers worldwide who will be posting about the world’s water problems on October 15th. If you need some inspiration for your post, the Blog Action Day crew has provided a few suggestions.
Last year, over 31,000 posts were published across the globe on the topic of climate change. Will you be participating in this year’s Blog Action Day?
Tweet";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 02 Oct 2010 13:00:32 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"James Huff";}s:7:"summary";s:952:"Voting has concluded for this year’s Blog Action Day topic, and the winner is water!
Register your blog now and join the thousands (if not millions) of bloggers worldwide who will be posting about the world’s water problems on October 15th. If you need some inspiration for your post, the Blog Action Day crew has provided a few suggestions.
Last year, over 31,000 posts were published across the globe on the topic of climate change. Will you be participating in this year’s Blog Action Day?
Tweet";}i:18;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:29:"WP iPhone: Version 2.6 Issues";s:4:"guid";s:31:"http://ios.wordpress.org/? p=817";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://ios.wordpress.org/2010/10/02/version-2-6-issues/";s:11:"description";s:3781:"Version 2.6 was an ambitious update from the start. We wanted to resolve several outstanding issues and add features that you’ve been requesting for quite some time. From WordPress 3.0 Network compatibility to better handling of local drafts, there were several fixes and improvements we wanted to include in the 2.6 update. We also wanted to add video, make it easier to add blogs and sites, and improve the core structure and stability of the app.
From what we’re hearing, we managed to accomplish some of those items. Many of you have been ecstatic about the way you can now quickly add multiple sites and blogs, and everyone seems thrilled about the new autosave feature. We’ve received many reports of improved speed and ease of use, so we’re happy to hear that many of you are happy with the update.
However, since WordPress is such an amazing and extensive platform, we weren’t able to fix everything, and in some cases we created new bugs that made things worse. We’re not perfect, and while we did test this new version heavily, it obviously needed further testing, especially for self-hosted sites.
Right now there are five major issues that users have reported:
Rest assured we are working to quickly resolve these items and get a new version back to you in the App Store as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience, and we apologize for the inconvenience that this update has caused for some of you. We will let you know as soon as the new version is ready.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 02 Oct
2010 10:56:42 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Chris Boyd";}s:7:"summary";s:3781:"Version 2.6 was an ambitious update from the start. We wanted to resolve several outstanding issues and add features that you’ve been requesting for quite some time. From WordPress 3.0 Network compatibility to better handling of local drafts, there were several fixes and improvements we wanted to include in the 2.6 update. We also wanted to add video, make it easier to add blogs and sites, and improve the core structure and stability of the app.
From what we’re hearing, we managed to accomplish some of those items. Many of you have been ecstatic about the way you can now quickly add multiple sites and blogs, and everyone seems thrilled about the new autosave feature. We’ve received many reports of improved speed and ease of use, so we’re happy to hear that many of you are happy with the update.
However, since WordPress is such an amazing and extensive platform, we weren’t able to fix everything, and in some cases we created new bugs that made things worse. We’re not perfect, and while we did test ř#ń*UO ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ 89 ş ?Ę this new version heavily, it obviously needed further testing, especially for self-hosted sites.
Right now there are five major issues that users have reported:
Rest assured we are working to quickly resolve these items and get a new version back to you in the App Store as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience, and we apologize for the inconvenience that this update has caused for some of you. We will let you know as soon as the new version is ready.
";}i:19;a:7:
{s:5:"title";s:85:"Publisher Blog: Cheezburger Network Open Sources Their WordPress Administration
Panel";s:4:"guid";s:43:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/?p=1039";s:4:"link";s:79:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2010/10/01/cheezcap-
custom-wp-admin-panels/";s:11:"description";s:3564:"WordPress.com VIP Cheezburger Network, where you get your daily LOLz from one of their 50 popular sites like I Can Haz Cheezburger? and FAIL Blog, have shared the code of their WordPress theme administration panels.
Called CheezCap, it’s a simple library for easily creating custom admin panels.
Cheezburger Network uses a single shared theme across all their sites. In order to avoid having to create conditionals and other per-blog modifications in their theme, they developed CheezCap. Any of the administrators can update the options controlling the layout, design, colors, etc, without having to dig into the theme code.
When asked what motivates his engineering team to participate in the WordPress community, CTO Scott Porad replied:
I can say without hesitation that WordPress has had a hand in the success of Cheezburger. So, to the extent that we can help other people be successful with WordPress, we’re on board!
What I meant to say is… All aboard the WordPress Express! Choo Choo!
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 02 Oct 2010 00:23:38 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Alex M.";}s:7:"summary";s:3564:"WordPress.com VIP Cheezburger Network, where you get your daily LOLz from one of their 50 popular sites like I Can Haz Cheezburger? and FAIL Blog, have shared the code of their WordPress theme administration panels.
Called CheezCap, it’s a simple library for easily creating custom admin panels.
Cheezburger Network uses a single shared theme across all their sites. In order to avoid having to create conditionals and other per-blog modifications in their theme, they developed CheezCap. Any of the administrators can update the options controlling the layout, design, colors, etc, without having to dig into the theme code.
When asked what motivates his engineering team to participate in the WordPress community, CTO Scott Porad replied:
I can say without hesitation that WordPress has had a hand in the success of Cheezburger. So, to the extent that we can help other people be successful with WordPress, we’re on board!
What I meant to say is… All aboard the WordPress Express! Choo Choo!
";}
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p=8755";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/10/01/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1001/";s:11:"description";s:1754:"
BreakingNewz is a powerful news/magazine style WordPress theme.
Locket is a simple 2- column WordPress template with a paper-like background
Portfolium is a clean and flexible WordPress grid-based portfolio theme designed in a modern and minimalist style.
Purple Shadow is a clean, light, and mostly white WordPress theme.
Tweet";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:00:05 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"James Huff";}s:7:"summary";s:1754:"
BreakingNewz is a powerful news/magazine style WordPress theme.
Locket is a simple 2-column WordPress template with a paper-like background
Portfolium is a clean and flexible WordPress grid-based portfolio theme designed in a modern and minimalist style.
Purple Shadow is a clean, light, and mostly white WordPress theme.
Tweet";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:16:"Matt: Email Load";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=35765";s:4:"link";s:32:"http://ma.tt/2010/09/email-load/";s:11:"description";s:245:"I added a new feature to the contact page that shows you how high (or low) my email queues are, which update once a minute. If the levels are lower, it probably means I’ll get back to your sooner.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 01 Oct 2010 07:21:21 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1: {s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:245:"I added a new feature to the contact page that shows you how high (or low) my email queues are, which update once a minute. If the levels are lower, it probably means I’ll get back to your sooner.
";}i:22;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:52:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress.com Stats Updated";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/? p=8751";s:4:"link";s:81:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/09/30/wordpress-com-stats-updated/";s:11:"description";s:1451:"If you’re a WordPress.com user, you may have noticed that your stats received a significant facelift today. The Flash-powered line chart has been replaced by an interactive Javascript-powered bar chart and the module layout is now fully customizable.
The new design was a team effort, though some credit should definitely go to Nick Momrik for handling the new chart and a good majority of the extra work, Joen Asmussen for the overall design, and Matt Thomas for keeping everyone on track.
Currently, the new stats interface is only for WordPress.com users, but the WordPress.com Stats Plugin for self-installed WordPress blogs will be updated once they have all the kinks worked out.
Unfortunately, my WordPress.com blog is private, so I really don’t have enough stats to truly test the new interface. What do you think of the new WordPress.com Stats interface?
Tweet";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:18:26 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"James Huff";}s:7:"summary";s:1451:"If you’re a WordPress.com user, you may have noticed that your stats received a significant facelift today. The Flash-powered line chart has been replaced by an interactive Javascript-powered bar chart and the module layout is now fully customizable.
The new design was a team effort, though some credit should definitely go to Nick Momrik for handling the new chart and a good majority of the extra work, Joen Asmussen for the overall design, and Matt Thomas for keeping everyone on track.
Currently, the new stats interface is only for WordPress.com users, but the WordPress.com Stats Plugin for self-installed WordPress blogs will be updated once they have all the kinks worked out.
Unfortunately, my WordPress.com blog is private, so I really don’t have enough stats to truly test the new interface. What do you think of the new WordPress.com Stats interface?
Tweet";}i:23;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:61:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress for iOS Mobile App Updated";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/? p=8747";s:4:"link";s:90:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/09/30/wordpress-for-ios-mobile-app-updated/";s:11:"description";s:1941:"The WordPress for iOS mobile app has received a significant update with a slew of bug fixes and the following new features:
This release would not have been possible without your feedback and beta testing skills, so keep doing whatever you can to make each release better than the last!
Despite all the bug fixes, I had to re-enter the password for every blog that I manage with the app. It was a minor inconvenience, but it still beats using the admin panel in Mobile Safari.
Do you use the WordPress for iOS mobile app? What do you think of the new features?
Tweet";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:00:02 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"James Huff";}s:7:"summary";s:1941:"The WordPress for iOS mobile app has received a significant update with a slew of bug fixes and the following new features:
This release would not have been possible without your feedback and beta testing skills, so keep doing whatever you can to make each release better than the last!
Despite all the bug fixes, I had to re-enter the password for every blog that I manage with the app. It was a minor inconvenience, but it still beats using the admin panel in Mobile Safari.
Do you use the WordPress for iOS mobile app? What do you think of the new features?
Tweet";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:49:"Dev Blog: WordPress for iPhone/iPad v2.6 Released";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://wordpress.org/news/?p=1497";s:4:"link";s:43:"http://wordpress.org/news/2010/09/ios-v2- 6/";s:11:"description";s:2291:"Attention Apple-gadget-owning WordPress users! Have you been using the WordPress iOS app for iPhone and iPad? Or maybe you tried it a while back and thought it wasn’t for you? Either way, the new release — v2.6 — will knock your socks off. Why? A bunch of reasons:
There are also numerous bugfixes
and performance enhancements in this release, so if you haven’t been using the app lately, you should consider giving it another try.
I’m personally pretty excited to start using the iPhone version more often now that there are all these fixes and new features. Especially the
video upload. You know, for those creative moments that make life fun. 
You can read the full 2.6 release post on the WordPress for iOS blog, and can download v2.6 from iTunes/the app store. Happy mobile blogging!
* * *
Not an iPhone user? We’ve still got your on-the-go back! Check out the WordPress apps for Android, Blackberry, and Nokia (beta). They’re all 100% GPL, of course, and we’re always looking for contributors to the development projects, so check the blogs if you have mobile dev skills and want to get involved.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:23:31 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:7:"summary";s:2291:"Attention Apple-gadget-owning WordPress users! Have you been using the WordPress iOS app for iPhone and iPad? Or maybe you tried it a while back and thought it wasn’t for you? Either way, the new release — v2.6 — will knock your socks off. Why? A bunch of reasons:
There are also numerous bugfixes and performance enhancements in this release, so if you haven’t been using the app lately, you should
consider giving it another try. I’m personally pretty excited to start using the iPhone version more often now that there are all these fixes
and new features. Especially the video upload. You know, for those creative moments that make life fun.
You can read the full 2.6 release post on the WordPress for iOS blog, and can download v2.6 from iTunes/the app store. Happy mobile blogging!
* * *
Not an iPhone user? We’ve still got your on-the-go back! Check out the WordPress apps for Android, Blackberry, and Nokia (beta). They’re all 100% GPL, of course, and we’re always looking for contributors to the development projects, so check the blogs if you have mobile dev skills and want to get involved.
";}i:25;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:33:"Matt: Seattle, Grist, Philippines";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=35758";s:4:"link";s:47:"http://ma.tt/2010/09/seattle-grist- philippines/";s:11:"description";s:1245:"
After a lovely weekend in New York I headed straight to Seattle, but not because of the Microsoft
announcement like many people thought, but to attend a meeting for Grist, an environmental non-profit (with a
sense of humor) whose board of directors I just joined. In addition to being a great organization to
be involved with that has funny but important
coverage, I hope to learn a lot more about the non-profit world and apply it to the WordPress
Foundation. Tonight I leave for the Philippines where I’ll attend and speak at a WordCamp in Manila. I’m looking forward to the end
of the year when things slow down.
After a lovely weekend in New York I headed straight to Seattle, but not because of the Microsoft
announcement like many people thought, but to attend a meeting for Grist, an environmental non-profit (with a
sense of humor) whose board of directors I just joined. In addition to being a great organization to
be involved with that has funny but important
coverage, I hope to learn a lot more about the non-profit world and apply it to the WordPress
Foundation. Tonight I leave for the Philippines where I’ll attend and speak at a WordCamp in Manila. I’m looking forward to the end
of the year when things slow down.
The transients feature of WordPress is a very useful tool for local data cache when pulling from a remote data source (web service/API).
A typical workflow goes something like this:
That’s the basics and will work well most of the time. However there are a few considerations to keep in mind when using transients to store this data.
To account for the situations where a transient has expired and you can’t reach your remote data source, you will want to store the latest copy of your remote data in a more permanent location (probably as an option or post meta, depending on the nature of the data). With this copy of the data still available, you can insulate yourself fr xO"ňĄm ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ ¸f ş ?Ę om situations where your remote data source is unavailable.
Here is a better workflow that does error handling in a graceful and localized way:
You may want to implement some throttling as well (re-check every minute rather than every request), if so – you can use a transient to easily implement the throttle duration.
Hopefully this is useful to other WordPress devs out there. Other (better?) suggestions on how to handle this? Share them in the comments.
The transients feature of WordPress is a very useful tool for local data cache when pulling from a remote data source (web service/API).
A typical workflow goes something like this:
That’s the basics and will work well most of the time. However there are a few considerations to keep in mind when using transients to store this data.
To account for the situations where a transient has expired and you can’t reach your remote data source, you will want to store the latest copy of your remote data in a more permanent location (probably as an option or post meta, depending on the nature of the data). With this copy of the data still available, you can insulate yourself from situations where your remote data source is unavailable.
Here is a better workflow that does error handling in a graceful and localized way:
You may want to implement some throttling as well (re-check every minute rather than every request), if so – you can use a transient to easily implement the throttle duration.
Hopefully this is useful to other WordPress devs out there. Other (better?) suggestions on how to handle this? Share them in the comments.
Better Delete Revision allows you to remove old post revisions and related meta content and optimize the database.
GTS Translation provides high quality human translation of your blog content using community translation (crowdsourcing).
IE9 Pinned Site adds support for Internet Explorer 9′s pinned site features to your WordPress blog.
AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button helps people share, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg, Delicious, and well over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites.
All in One Webmaster has options to add Google, Bing, Alexa, Blog Catalog, Yahooâs Webmaster and Analytics code (meta tags).
FourSquare Integration allows you to display your last checkins as a list or on Google Map on pages and posts.
Simple Twitter Connect is a series of plugins that lets you add any sort of Twitter functionality you like to a WordPress blog.
YOURLS: WordPress To Twitter allows you to use YOURLS (a free GPL URL shortener service) or another public service (tinyURL…) to create short URLs of your posts and tweet them.
Tweet";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:00:43 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"James Huff";}s:7:"summary";s:2269:"Better Delete Revision allows you to remove old post revisions and related meta content and optimize the database.
GTS Translation provides high quality human translation of your blog content using community translation (crowdsourcing).
IE9 Pinned Site adds support for Internet Explorer 9′s pinned site features to your WordPress blog.
AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button helps people share, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg, Delicious, and well over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites.
All in One Webmaster has options to add Google, Bing, Alexa, Blog Catalog, Yahooâs Webmaster and Analytics code (meta tags).
FourSquare Integration allows you to display your last checkins as a list or on Google Map on pages and posts.
Simple Twitter Connect is a series of plugins that lets you add any sort of Twitter functionality you like to a WordPress blog.
YOURLS: WordPress To Twitter allows you to use YOURLS (a free GPL URL shortener service) or another public service (tinyURL…) to create short URLs of your posts and tweet them.
Tweet";}i:28;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:61:"WordPress Podcast: The Genesis of Microsoft and WordPress.com";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://wp-community.org/? p=753";s:4:"link";s:63:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wordpresspodcast/~3/FIb8BOw2F08/";s:11:"description";s:3771:"At the very beginning of this episode there’s a short interview with Toni Schneider, the CEO of Automattic, and Dharmesh Mehta, Director of Product Management, Windows Live. Only an hour before we recorded this interview they were on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt to announce that all the Microsoft Live / MSN Spaces users would be moved over to WordPress.com.
Toni Schneider (Automattic) and Dharmesh Mehta (Microsoft)
We talked about what this meant for future work between Microsoft and Automattic / WordPress, and whether any of this would impact WordPress.org users.
Brian Gardner - StudioPress
This interview is followed by another (much longer) interview with Brian Gardner and Nathan Rice of StudioPress and Genesis. In this interview we discuss how Genesis came to be over the last year, what it’s benefits are over a normal theme and what the process of going from a set of themes to a framework was like.
We discussed the SEO settings of Genesis, which has some of the more advanced SEO settings ever seen in themes, but also whether these kinds of settings should be in themes at all. I referenced a recent post of mine and we talked about a plugin Nathan developed, the SEO Data Transporter that allows you to transport your SEO meta data from a plugin to a theme, or from one theme to another etc.
Nathan Rice - StudioPress
Another interesting point was the discussion of how to set up a community around a theme framework like this, and Brian showed us, for instance, dev.studiopress.com. We also talked about the Genesis Simple Sidebars plugin, a very cool way of allowing people to change sidebars for posts.
Then there were two plugin picks:
It’s really an information packed show, so go ahead and listen right now!
PS sorry for my sore voice and coughing, I’ve got a quite heavy cold pestering me.
At the very beginning of this episode there’s a short interview with Toni Schneider, the CEO of Automattic, and Dharmesh Mehta, Director of Product Management, Windows Live. Only an hour before we recorded this interview they were on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt to announce that all the Microsoft Live / MSN Spaces users would be moved over to WordPress.com.
Toni Schneider (Automattic) and Dharmesh Mehta (Microsoft)
We talked about what this meant for future work between Microsoft and Automattic / WordPress, and whether any of this would impact WordPress.org users.
Brian Gardner - StudioPress
This interview is followed by another (much longer) interview with Brian Gardner and Nathan Rice of StudioPress and Genesis. In this interview we discuss how Genesis came to be over the last year, what it’s benefits are over a normal theme and what the process of going from a set of themes to a framework was like.
We discussed the SEO settings of Genesis, which has some of the more advanced SEO settings ever seen in themes, but also whether these kinds of settings should be in themes at all. I referenced a recent post of mine and we talked about a plugin Nathan developed, the SEO Data Transporter that allows you to transport your SEO meta data from a plugin to a theme, or from one theme to another etc.
Nathan Rice - StudioPress
Another interesting point was the discussion of how to set up a community around a theme framework like this, and Brian showed us, for instance, dev.studiopress.com. We also talked about the Genesis Simple Sidebars plugin, a very cool way of allowing people to change sidebars for posts.
Then there were two plugin picks:
It’s really an information ¸f2Ťźń ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ ř| ş ?Ę packed show, so go ahead and listen right now!
PS sorry for my sore voice and coughing, I’ve got a quite heavy cold pestering me.
We’re very happy to announce that the latest version of WordPress for iOS, Version 2.6, is now live in the App Store. Go get it while you read the rest of this post!
Video
Since the introduction of video in the iPhone 3GS, we’ve received requests for the ability to record video within the app and then upload it directly to a blog. With the introduction of the iPhone 4 these requests become even more frequent. With 2.6 you can now record, upload, attach, and play videos within the app. When paired with a VideoPress upgrade, this feature becomes an even more powerful way to publish videos from your iOS device to the web.
Local Drafts
We’ve also heard and share your frustration regarding losing posts saved as Local Drafts. Nothing’s worse than working on a great post only to have it disappear. That’s why we took all of August to completely rewrite the areas of the app that handle Local Draft posts and pages. We’re now using Apple’s lovely Core Data technology to save posts locally before they’re published or saved online.
While that change alone will bring a new level of stability and reliability to the way Local Drafts are treated, we took it a step further and added some triple checking to determine if a post has truly been published and can safely be removed from your Local Drafts library. Once you publish a Local Draft, we do an additional call to verify that the ID we got back from the server during a publish actually exists as a post or page we can retrieve. Only after we’ve verified that your new post does indeed exist on the server do we go ahead and delete the old Local Draft. All of this happens in the background, within a second or two. We think that’s pretty nifty!
Autosaves
One of the nicest things about editing a post with WordPress is the autosave draft feature. If something happens and you need to revert to an older version of a post, you can just select a previous version and restore it without issue. We’ve implemented a similar feature in 2.6. When Autosave is enabled, while you’re working with a post, a small grey WordPress logo will appear in the bottom right-hand corner to let you know that autosaves exist for that post. Click the logo, and you’ll flip over to a screen that will allow you to restore the post from one of those autosaves.
Setup Process
Another area of the app that we felt needed some attention was the Add Blog/Site Setup process. Previously it felt too clunky, slow, and non-intuitive. So we’ve completely rewritten this area as well, allowing WordPress.com users a quick way to add their blogs, and giving WordPress.org users a faster, more streamlined experience when adding their sites.
Media Library
What would a new video feature be without a new Media Library to go along with it? We’ve taken the old Photos tab and turned it into a new Media Library more along the lines of what you’re used to with WordPress. We’re now giving you additional information about media items such as dimensions and file size, as well as the ability to insert media items into a post above or below your content. Look for even more expansion in this area in coming releases.
Bugfixes and Enhancements
All of you have been incredibly patient as we took our time to make sure this release resolved many long-standing issues, both large and small. While new features and functionality are nice, if an app isn’t stable enough to use, all of those features are worthless. Keeping this in mind, for the past three months we’ve been fixing bugs here and there each day as we continued to work on new features. We think 2.6 includes enough bugfixes and performance enhancements that they deserve to be listed as a separate item. If you’d like to learn more about the bugs we’ve fixed or just keep up with our progress as we move along with each version, you can check out the Trac Timeline.
Also, one more note about bugfixes. While this release took a very long time to get from our hands to yours, we don’t anticipate the same amount of time for future releases. So from now on expect to see major releases more often, each followed by one or two small bugfix releases soon after. (We’ll be submitting 2.6.1 shortly.)
Beta Team
We’ve also got to give a shout out to our Beta Team. One of the most challenging things about iOS development is that the release process tends to be a little slow, so getting patches and fixes out quickly can sometimes be a challenge. Not to mention that, as developers, we’re sometimes blind to the idea that we could ever make a mistake while coding. So working with our testers on the Beta Team has been incredibly helpful in making this app much more stable, reliable, and enjoyable. With their help, we’re able to catch and fix bugs before they get into the final release. Kudos to all of you.
You
As always, your feedback and input is much appreciated, and is absolutely crucial in helping us make the app and your user experience better. You can reach us on Twitter at @WordPressiOS or on the WordPress for iOS Forums. And if you find a new bug (no way!) please don’t hesitate to submit a new ticket in Trac.
If you find that this version is an improvement over previous versions, we’d appreciate if you noted that in an App Store review. More than any other metric, App Store reviews help to let us and our users know where the app stands in terms of quality, and what areas we need to focus on in the future.
Cheers!
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 29 Sep
2010 00:00:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Chris Boyd";}s:7:"summary";s:7750:"We’re very happy to announce that the latest version of WordPress for iOS, Version 2.6, is now live in the App Store. Go get it while you read the rest of this post!
Video
Since the introduction of video in the iPhone 3GS, we’ve received requests for the ability to record video within the app and then upload it directly to a blog. With the introduction of the iPhone 4 these requests become even more frequent. With 2.6 you can now record, upload, attach, and play videos within the app. When paired with a VideoPress upgrade, this feature becomes an even more powerful way to publish videos from your iOS device to the web.
Local Drafts
We’ve also heard and share your frustration regarding losing posts saved as Local Drafts. Nothing’s worse than working on a great post only to have it disappear. That’s why we took all of August to completely rewrite the areas of the app that handle Local Draft posts and pages. We’re now using Apple’s lovely Core Data technology to save posts locally before they’re published or saved online.
While that change alone will bring a new level of stability and reliability to the way Local Drafts are treated, we took it a step further and added some triple checking to determine if a post has truly been published and can safely be removed from your Local Drafts library. Once you publish a Local Draft, we do an additional call to verify that the ID we got back from the server during a publish actually exists as a post or page we can retrieve. Only after we’ve verified that your new post does indeed exist on the server do we go ahead and delete the old Local Draft. All of this happens in the background, within a second or two. We think that’s pretty nifty!
Autosaves
One of the nicest things about editing a post with WordPress is the autosave draft feature. If something happens and you need to revert to an older version of a post, you can just select a previous version and restore it without issue. We’ve implemented a similar feature in 2.6. When Autosave is enabled, while you’re working with a post, a small grey WordPress logo will appear in the bottom right-hand corner to let you know that autosaves exist for that post. Click the logo, and you’ll flip over to a screen that will allow you to restore the post from one of those autosaves.
Setup Process
Another area of the app that we felt needed some attention was the Add Blog/Site Setup process. Previously it felt too clunky, slow, and non-intuitive. So we’ve completely rewritten this area as well, allowing WordPress.com users a quick way to add their blogs, and giving WordPress.org users a faster, more streamlined experience when adding their sites.
Media Library
What would a new video feature be without a new Media Library to go along with it? We’ve taken the old Photos tab and turned it into a new Media Library more along the lines of what you’re used to with WordPress. We’re now giving you additional information about media items such as dimensions and file size, as well as the ability to insert media items into a post above or below your content. Look for even more expansion in this area in coming releases.
Bugfixes and Enhancements
All of you have been incredibly patient as we took our time to make sure this release resolved many long-standing issues, both large and small. While new features and functionality are nice, if an app isn’t stable enough to use, all of those features are worthless. Keeping this in mind, for the past three months we’ve been fixing bugs here and there each day as we continued to work on new features. We think 2.6 includes enough bugfixes and performance enhancements that they deserve to be listed as a separate item. If you’d like to learn more about the bugs we’ve fixed or just keep up with our progress as we move along with each version, you can check out the Trac Timeline.
Also, one more note about bugfixes. While this release took a very long time to get from our hands to yours, we don’t anticipate the same amount of time for future releases. So from now on expect to see major releases more often, each followed by one or two small bugfix releases soon after. (We’ll be submitting 2.6.1 shortly.)
Beta Team
We’ve also got to give a shout out to our Beta Team. One of the most challenging things about iOS development is that the release process tends to be a little slow, so getting patches and fixes out quickly can sometimes be a challenge. Not to mention that, as developers, we’re sometimes blind to the idea that we could ever make a mistake while coding. So working with our testers on the Beta Team has been incredibly helpful in making this app much more stable, reliable, and enjoyable. With their help, we’re able to catch and fix bugs before they get into the final release. Kudos to all of you.
You
As always, your feedback and input is much appreciated, and is absolutely crucial in helping us make the app and your user experience better. You can reach us on Twitter at @WordPressiOS or on the WordPress for iOS Forums. And if you find a new bug (no way!) please don’t hesitate to submit a new ticket in Trac.
If you find that this version is an improvement over previous versions, we’d appreciate if you noted that in an App Store review. More than any other metric, App Store reviews help to let us and our users know where the app stands in terms of quality, and what areas we need to focus on in the future.
Cheers!
";}i:30;a:7:
{s:5:"title";s:55:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Admin Themes Drought";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?
p=8741";s:4:"link";s:84:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/09/28/wordpress-admin-themes-drought/";s:11:"description";s:2410:"The most requested search item on this blog is “WordPress admin themes”. With variations of the various search terms, I would guess that we receive many hundreds of hits a day on just this blog from WordPress enthusiasts looking for themes to adorn their admin panel with. A simple search on Google reveals an old post from this blog listing 9 admin themes (I don’t link to it because most of the themes listed are dead or deprecated). Here is a list of nice admin themes that I can find, which are still being produced and regularly updated.
Wait for it ….. thats it!! (that I could find, please let us know if you know of others that are of high quality and updated regularly) There are various useful and popular tools to control and modify your admin interface such as Ozh’s Admin Drop Down Menu or the Adminimize Plugin, however no admin theme market has developed. The initial momentum seems to have fizzled out. We feature hundreds of themes for your WordPress blog every month. I barely ever see one for the admin side.
It really sucks to know that there is such a demand for these, but no supply whatsoever. To encourage talented developers and feed this need in the WordPress community, I would like to offer up our services for what they are worth. If you create, build and support a high quality admin theme (we decide what is high quality) for WordPress and release it under the GPL as appropriate, we will let you feature your admin theme and your design services on this blog for our readers. Think of it as free advertising in exchange for some service to the community. (Please leave a comment or use the contact form linked above if you need clarification or have questions.)
Are you interested?
Tweet";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 28 Sep 2010 23:20:26 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:2410:"The most requested search item on this blog is “WordPress admin themes”. With variations of the various search terms, I would guess that we receive many hundreds of hits a day on just this blog from WordPress enthusiasts looking for themes to adorn their admin panel with. A simple search on Google reveals an old post from this blog listing 9 admin themes (I don’t link to it because most of the themes listed are dead or deprecated). Here is a list of nice admin themes that I can find, which are still being produced and regularly updated.
Wait for it ….. thats it!! (that I could find, please let us know if you know of others that are of high quality and updated regularly) There are various useful and popular tools to control and modify your admin interface such as Ozh’s Admin Drop Down Menu or the Adminimize Plugin, however no admin theme market has developed. The initial momentum seems to have fizzled out. We feature hundreds of themes for your WordPress blog every month. I barely ever see one for the admin side.
It really sucks to know that there is such a demand for these, but no supply whatsoever. To encourage talented developers and feed this need in the WordPress community, I would like to offer up our services for what they are worth. If you create, build and support a high quality admin theme (we decide what is high quality) for WordPress and release it under the GPL as appropriate, we will let you feature your admin theme and your design services on this blog for our readers. Think of it as free advertising in exchange for some service to the community. (Please leave a comment or use the contact form linked above if you need clarification or have questions.)
Are you interested?
Tweet";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:53:"Weblog Tools Collection: Deleting WordPress Revisions";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/? p=8734";s:4:"link";s:82:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/09/28/deleting-wordpress-revisions/";s:11:"description";s:3059:"WordPress 2.6 introduced a post revisions feature, which automatically saves a draft as you begin to write a post or page and saves a revision for each change made afterwards. That’s right, every time you make even the slightest alteration to a post or page, a new revision is saved. Now don’t get me wrong, this is an incredibly useful feature, especially if you accidentally cut half of your post during a late night edit or lose power while composing your latest masterpiece, but these revisions can slowly build up in your database.
If it’s been a few days since you’ve last edited your blog, chances are that you don’t need to keep any revisions around, and they’re probably just siting in your database taking up space and growing cobwebs. To remove all of your revisions safely without harming your published posts and pages, backup your database, then use either Delete-Revision or Better Delete Revision. If you’re handy with SQL queries, use either phpMyAdmin or the MySQL command line to run the following query (change the table prefix as necessary):
DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE
post_type = "revision"
Update: Thanks to Ozh for pointing out that the above query “just deletes post marked as revisions. If for some reason you associated a revision with a tag or a category that was then removed when the final post was published, you will have extra entries in other tables such as terms.” The proper query to safely remove all of your revisions is as follows (change the table prefix as necessary):
DELETE a,b,c
FROM wp_posts a
LEFT JOIN
wp_term_relationships b ON (a.ID = b.object_id)
LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta c ON (a.ID = c.post_id)
WHERE a.post_type =
'revision'
If you want to disable the revision system, add the following line to your wp-config.php file:
define
('WP_POST_REVISIONS', false );
If you want to specify the number of revisions that WordPress can save, add the following line to your wp-config.php file (change the number to your desired maximum revision count):
define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', 3);
As the revision system is a form of backup, I recommend periodically deleting revisions as opposed to disabling or limiting it.
I ran the above query on my blog for the first time last night and reduced the database size by almost half! How much did you save?
Tweet";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:00:50 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"James Huff";}s:7:"summary";s:3059:"WordPress 2.6 introduced a post revisions feature, which automatically saves a draft as you begin to write a post or page and saves a revision for each change made afterwards. That’s right, every time you make even the slightest alteration to a post or page, a new revision is saved. Now don’t get me wrong, this is an incredibly useful feature, especially if you accidentally cut half of your post during a late night edit or lose power while composing your latest masterpiece, but these revisions can slowly build up in your database.
If it’s been a few days since you’ve last edited your blog, chances are that you don’t need to keep any revisions around, and they’re probably just siting in your database taking up space and growing cobwebs. To remove all of your revisions safely without harming your published posts and pages, backup your database, then use either Delete-Revision or Better Delete Revision. If you’re handy with SQL queries, use either phpMyAdmin or the MySQL command line to run the following query (change the table prefix as necessary):
DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = "revision"
Update: Thanks to Ozh for pointing out that the above query “just deletes post marked as revisions. If for some reason you associated a revision with a tag or a category that was then removed when the final post was published, you will have extra entries in other tables such as terms.” The proper query to safely remove all of your revisions is as follows (change the table prefix as necessary):
DELETE a,b,c
FROM wp_posts a
LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships b ON (a.ID = b.object_id)
LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta c ON (a.ID = c.post_id)
WHERE a.post_type = 'revision'
If you want to disable the revision system, add the following line to your wp-config.php file:
define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', false );
If you want to specify the number of revisions that WordPress can save, add the following line to your wp-config.php file (change the number to your desired maximum revision count):
define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', 3);
As the revision system is a form of backup, I recommend periodically deleting revisions as opposed to disabling or limiting it.
I ran the above query on my blog for the first time last night and reduced the database size by almost half! How much did you save?
Tweet";} i:32;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:68:"Lorelle on WP: Welcome Windows Live Spaces Bloggers to WordPress.com";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/? p=4551";s:4:"link";s:94:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/welcome-windows-live-spaces-bloggers-to-wordpress-com/";s:11:"description";s:561:"I just posted news on WordCast about the WordPress.com and Microsoft Windows Live Spaces migration which brings Windows Live Spaces bloggers to WordPress.com. See Updated News Below I’m thrilled about this huge endeavor, and offer up my blog tips to Windows Live Spaces bloggers. I’m also excited about what this means for the WordPress Community. The number tossed [...]
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 28 Sep 2010 01:38:59 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:17:"Lorelle VanFossen";}s:7:"summary";s:561:"I
just posted news on WordCast about the WordPress.com and Microsoft Windows Live Spaces migration which brings Windows Live Spaces bloggers to
WordPress.com. See Updated News Below I’m thrilled about this huge endeavor, and offer up my blog tips to Windows Live Spaces bloggers.
I’m also excited about what this means for the WordPress Community. The number tossed [...]";}i:33;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:75:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress.com and Windows Live partnering
together";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?
p=8732";s:4:"link";s:104:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/09/27/wordpress-com-and-windows-live-partnering-
together/";s:11:"description";s:1006:"WordPress.com and Windows Live are partnering together and providing an upgrade for 30 million Windows Live Spaces customers. This partnership was announced at TechCrunch Disrupt. You can read more about the partnership, the Windows Live Spaces importer for WordPress.com, the added ability to Publicize on Messenger on the WordPress.com blog. Via: Windows Team Blog.
Tweet";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:24:15 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1: {s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1006:"WordPress.com and Windows Live are partnering together and providing an upgrade for 30 million Windows Live Spaces customers. This partnership was announced at TechCrunch Disrupt. You can read more about the partnership, the Windows Live Spaces importer for WordPress.com, the added ability to Publicize on Messenger on the WordPress.com blog. Via: Windows Team Blog.
Tweet";}i:34;a:7: {s:5:"title";s:40:"Matt: MSN Spaces Closing, becomes WP.com";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=35754";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://ma.tt/2010/09/msn- spaces-closing-becomes-wp-com/";s:11:"description";s:1365:"As just announced on
stage at TechCrunch Disrupt, Windows Live (formerly MSN) Spaces is shutting down and migrating their 30m+ users to WordPress.com. Four years ago
I was fairly worried as every internet giant (Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Google) had a hosted blogging service. Now only Blogger remains, and is firmly
in our sights. I’ve been impressed with Microsoft’s regard for their users in providing a solid upgrade and migration path with a really
smooth experience, which I think is in strong contrast to Yahoo’s 360 or AOL’s Journals. Given that this effectively doubles
WordPress’s user base, there is a lot of work to be done still, but I’m excited by the challenge. 
See also: official Windows Live post, official WP.com post, and 30+ other articles covering this on Techmeme.
As just announced on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt, Windows Live (formerly MSN) Spaces is shutting down and migrating their 30m+ users to
WordPress.com. Four years ago I was fairly worried as every internet giant (Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Google) had a hosted blogging service. Now only
Blogger remains, and is firmly in our sights. I’ve been impressed with Microsoft’s regard for their users in providing a solid upgrade
and migration path with a really smooth experience, which I think is in strong contrast to Yahoo’s 360 or AOL’s Journals. Given that
this effectively doubles WordPress’s user base, there is a lot of work to be done still, but I’m excited by the challenge. 
See also: official Windows Live post, official WP.com post, and 30+ other articles covering this on Techmeme.
Art Simple Black is a black simple widget ready WordPress theme with two columns, fixed-width, valid XHTML and a right sidebar.
BirdSITE is a simple photo blogging theme for WordPress.
Langit Biru is a smooth blue 3 column fixed css layout theme.
Ultra is a black simple widget ready WordPress theme with two columns, fixed-width, valid XHTML and a right sidebar.
Tweet";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:00:39 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"James Huff";}s:7:"summary";s:1777:"
Art Simple Black is a black simple widget ready WordPress theme with two columns, fixed-width, valid XHTML and a right sidebar.
BirdSITE is a simple photo blogging theme for WordPress.
Langit Biru is a smooth blue 3 column fixed css layout theme.
Ultra is a black simple widget ready WordPress theme with two columns, fixed-width, valid XHTML and a right sidebar.
Tweet";}i:36;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:51:"Mark Jaquith: WordPress Q & A: Week of September 27";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/?p=539";s:4:"link";s:77:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/wordpress-questions- september-27/";s:11:"description";s:3266:"Ricky asks:
Thanks for your time. I’m working on a site where I’d like members to be able to submit posts, but I’d like to be able to moderate them first before they go live.
Kinda similar to what WP can do for comments, I’d like to do for posts. Is that possible?
Certainly! What you want is to open up registration and make the default role for new users “Contributor” instead of “Subscriber.” Contributors can submit posts for review, but not publish them. They’ll show up as “pending review” in the backend, and will require an Editor or Administrator to publish them. There are even plugins available to facilitate posting from the front end, such as Gravity Forms ($39 and up, GPL).
Allan asks:
I have hit an incredibly frustrating hitch with WP, and that is getting a text file with the content of my posts. I need a single file I can load into page layout software. I know about Blog Booker and Blurb but would like more layout control than those services offer.
If you need this for a bunch of posts on an ongoing basis, I’d create a custom page template and just have it do query_posts
('posts_per_page=9999'); (or however many posts you want), and then do a basic loop. Look at a simple theme for inspiration on the template tags… it all depends on how you need it formatted.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon,
27 Sep 2010 12:05:39 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Mark Jaquith";}s:7:"summary";s:3266:"Ricky asks:
Thanks for your time. I’m working on a site where I’d like members to be able to submit posts, but I’d like to be able to moderate them first before they go live.
Kinda similar to what WP can do for comments, I’d like to do for posts. Is that possible?
Certainly! What you want is to open up registration and make the default role for new users “Contributor” instead of “Subscriber.” Contributors can submit posts for review, but not publish them. They’ll show up as “pending review” in the backend, and will require an Editor or Administrator to publish them. There are even plugins available to facilitate posting from the front end, such as Gravity Forms ($39 and up, GPL).
Allan asks:
I have hit an incredibly frustrating hitch with WP, and that is getting a text file with the content of my posts. I need a single file I can load into page layout software. I know about Blog Booker and Blurb but would like more layout control than those services offer.
If you need this for a bunch
of posts on an ongoing basis, I’d create a custom page
template and just have it do query_posts('posts_per_page=9999'); (or however many posts you want), and then do a basic loop. Look
at a simple theme for inspiration on the template tags… it all depends on how you need
it formatted.
";}i:37;a:7:
{s:5:"title";s:47:"Weblog Tools Collection: IE9 Pinned Site Plugin";s:4:"guid";s:76:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/09/26/ie9-
pinned-site-plugin/";s:4:"link";s:76:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/09/26/ie9-pinned-site-plugin/";s:11:"description";s:5558:"
Microsoft recently released a public beta of their
newest web browser, IE9, that has quickly become very popular. In its first 48 hours of availability it was downloaded 2 million times.
You know what that means â more users are visiting your WordPress site using IE9 everyday.
So why not take advantage of a feature that combines new capabilities in IE9 and the Windows 7 Taskbar to ask visitors to place a permanent link to your site on their Windows 7 Taskbar?
Some real quick background. On the Windows 7 Taskbar any icon that is placed there can be programmed by the softwareâs author to have interactive menu items on what is called a Jumplist. This Jumplist typically contains shortcuts to program features and commands to provide quick access to them.
Well with the introduction of IE9 webpages can have code added to them that will allow a visitor to drag the favicon to their taskbar and that code then adds an interactive Jumplist to the favicon as it sits on the users Windows 7 Taskbar to create those interactive features.
Well for those of us who use WordPress as x¨ÔěÓ ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ ¸ż ş ?Ę our publishing platform we know that the easiest way to add features and functionality to our websites is through the use of plugins and the breadth of developers that are out there making them.
Well you know it was only a matter of time before the plugins started to be built to take advantage of these new features in IE9 and Windows 7.
Let me introduce you to the IE9 Pinned Site plugin by fatihboy. This plugin is very fresh as it was published just yesterday for its initial release and it is his first WordPress plugin.
So installation is straight forward like most plugins â just download it from the WordPress.org Plugin site and then activate it on your site.
You will find the simple one page settings page for this plugin under the Settings > IE9 Pinned Site menu item.
Here you just select whether to feature your posts, categories or tags on the Jumplist for your website and how many entries you want of each. Using those settings above this is what the Jumplist looks like for my site WindowsObserver.com:
As you can see my most recent 5 posts are at the top followed by the Tasks header which provides links to 5 of my website pages.
An additional feature of Jumplists in Windows 7 on the taskbar is the ability to pin things to them.Â
This is the same Jumplist except I have pinned one post which you see under the Pinned header. Just click the pin icon while hovering over a Jumplist entry to pin that item to the Jumplist on your system. The ability to pin a site on the Jumplist is in Windows 7 and its new Taskbar not in the plugin itself.
I see a lot of potential for this plugin for customization of the Jumplist such as the name of each header area, picking what entries you want on it as far as posts, tags and categories are concerned instead of just by a numerical number and allowing you to place something from each group on the Jumplist (i.e. categories, tags and posts all being represented instead of just one).
Donât get me wrong this is a great initial implementation of this capability and I am pleased once again that the strong community of developers has answered the need for this so quickly after the new features are available in a new browser.
What do you think? Any suggestions for the author of the plugin for future updates? Looking forward to hearing from you in the comments.
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newest web browser, IE9, that has quickly become very popular. In its first 48 hours of availability it was downloaded 2 million times.
You know what that means â more users are visiting your WordPress site using IE9 everyday.
So why not take advantage of a feature that combines new capabilities in IE9 and the Windows 7 Taskbar to ask visitors to place a permanent link to your site on their Windows 7 Taskbar?
Some real quick background. On the Windows 7 Taskbar any icon that is placed there can be programmed by the softwareâs author to have interactive menu items on what is called a Jumplist. This Jumplist typically contains shortcuts to program features and commands to provide quick access to them.
Well with the introduction of IE9 webpages can have code added to them that will allow a visitor to drag the favicon to their taskbar and that code then adds an interactive Jumplist to the favicon as it sits on the users Windows 7 Taskbar to create those interactive features.
Well for those of us who use WordPress as our publishing platform we know that the easiest way to add features and functionality to our websites is through the use of plugins and the breadth of developers that are out there making them.
Well you know it was only a matter of time before the plugins started to be built to take advantage of these new features in IE9 and Windows 7.
Let me introduce you to the IE9 Pinned Site plugin by fatihboy. This plugin is very fresh as it was published just yesterday for its initial release and it is his first WordPress plugin.
So installation is straight forward like most plugins â just download it from the WordPress.org Plugin site and then activate it on your site.
You will find the simple one page settings page for this plugin under the Settings > IE9 Pinned Site menu item.
Here you just select whether to feature your posts, categories or tags on the Jumplist for your website and how many entries you want of each. Using those settings above this is what the Jumplist looks like for my site WindowsObserver.com:
As you can see my most recent 5 posts are at the top followed by the Tasks header which provides links to 5 of my website pages.
An additional feature of Jumplists in Windows 7 on the taskbar is the ability to pin things to them.Â
This is the same Jumplist except I have pinned one post which you see under the Pinned header. Just click the pin icon while hovering over a Jumplist entry to pin that item to the Jumplist on your system. The ability to pin a site on the Jumplist is in Windows 7 and its new Taskbar not in the plugin itself.
I see a lot of potential for this plugin for customization of the Jumplist such as the name of each header area, picking what entries you want on it as far as posts, tags and categories are concerned instead of just by a numerical number and allowing you to place something from each group on the Jumplist (i.e. categories, tags and posts all being represented instead of just one).
Donât get me wrong this is a great initial implementation of this capability and I am pleased once again that the strong community of developers has answered the need for this so quickly after the new features are available in a new browser.
What do you think? Any suggestions for the author of the plugin for future updates? Looking forward to hearing from you in the comments.
Tweet";} i:38;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:52:"Weblog Tools Collection: Code Snippets for WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/? p=8707";s:4:"link";s:81:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/09/26/code-snippets-for-wordpress/";s:11:"description";s:1160:"If you’re writing or editing your new WordPress plugin or theme, and you’re in need of a handy repository of cool and popular code snippets, WordPress Snippets is the place for you!
Let’s pretend that you needed a way to identify logged in users. Â You could hunt through the Codex for this function, or go to WordPress Snippets and quickly find this straight forward snippet.
The incredibly simple WordPress Snippets is currently packed with forty-six useful code snippets, it appears to be growing steadily, and feedback and suggests are welcome.
Tweet";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:00:48 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"James Huff";}s:7:"summary";s:1160:"If you’re writing or editing your new WordPress plugin or theme, and you’re in need of a handy repository of cool and popular code snippets, WordPress Snippets is the place for you!
Let’s pretend that you needed a way to identify logged in users. Â You could hunt through the Codex for this function, or go to WordPress Snippets and quickly find this straight forward snippet.
The incredibly simple WordPress Snippets is currently packed with forty-six useful code snippets, it appears to be growing steadily, and feedback and suggests are welcome.
Tweet";}i:39;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/25";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=8705";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/09/25/wordpress- plugin-releases-for-0925/";s:11:"description";s:2230:"Bungie.net Tools is a series of shortcodes for adding information from Bungie.net to WordPress sites.
Haiku is an exceptionally simple HTML5-based audio player that inserts a text link to control playback.
ImageMagick Engine improves the quality of re-sized images by replacing standard GD library with ImageMagick.
Ozh’ Tweet Archiver allows you to import and archive your tweets and convert #hashtags into post tags.
Simple URLs is a complete URL management system that allows you create, manage, and track outbound links from your site.
DukaPress allows you to easily set up a fully featured online shop which can be used to sell digital or physical goods to customers all over the world.
Facebook Like for Tags allows you to connect with your audience for ongoing updates and sharing based on user interest.
Google Scribe allows you to enable Google Scribe on the WordPress comment input box.
OSM displays maps in your WordPress blog using the OpenLayers technology.
WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress.
Tweet";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:00:14 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"James Huff";}s:7:"summary";s:2230:"Bungie.net Tools is a series of shortcodes for adding information from Bungie.net to WordPress sites.
Haiku is an exceptionally simple HTML5-based audio player that inserts a text link to control playback.
ImageMagick Engine improves the quality of re-sized images by replacing standard GD library with ImageMagick.
Ozh’ Tweet Archiver allows you to import and archive your tweets and convert #hashtags into post tags.
Simple URLs is a complete URL management system that allows you create, manage, and track outbound links from your site.
DukaPress allows you to easily set up a fully featured online shop which can be used to sell digital or physical goods to customers all over the world.
Facebook Like for Tags allows you to connect with your audience for ongoing updates and sharing based on user interest.
Google Scribe allows you to enable Google Scribe on the WordPress comment input box.
OSM displays maps in your WordPress blog using the OpenLayers technology.
WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress.
Tweet";}i:40;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:42:"Publisher Blog: NOAA Mission Log on WP.com";s:4:"guid";s:43:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/? p=1033";s:4:"link";s:78:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2010/09/24/noaa-mission-log-wordpress-com/";s:11:"description";s:3009:"The National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is now blogging on WordPress.com, with their new site missionlog.noaa.gov:
The goal of the site, as articulated in their first post is to provide:
… regular updates to give you an inside look at our vessels and their crews, describe the work on board and the observations being made by the scientific personnel. Beginning today the NOAA Ship Pisces, operated by the NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations will report from the Gulf of Mexico. Stay tuned!
Recently they’ve been posting updates from the scientists at sea in the Gulf of Mexico. Those scientist are performing subsurface monitoring as part of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response.
[ Visit missionlog.noaa.gov ]
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:55:21 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:16:"Raanan Bar-Cohen";}s:7:"summary";s:3009:"The National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is now blogging on WordPress.com, with their new site missionlog.noaa.gov:
The goal of the site, as articulated in their first post is to provide:
… regular updates to give you an inside look at our vessels and their crews, describe the work on board and the observations being made by the scientific personnel. Beginning today the NOAA Ship Pisces, operated by the NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations will report from the Gulf of Mexico. Stay tuned!
Recently they’ve been posting updates from the scientists at sea in the Gulf of Mexico. Those scientist are performing subsurface monitoring as part of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response.
[ Visit missionlog.noaa.gov ]
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i:41;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:57:"Weblog Tools Collection: Using a Native WordPress Gallery";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?
p=8693";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/09/24/using-a-native-wordpress-gallery/";s:11:"description";s:2368:"There are many gallery plugins out there for WordPress, but did you know that WordPress has had its own gallery system since the release of version 2.5 over two years ago?
To get started with a native WordPress gallery, you’ll need to create or edit the post or page that you want the gallery to appear in and then click the “Add an Image” button.
You can use this to upload all of your images at full size and WordPress will automatically generate the various sizes (including thumbnails) for you. Now, it’s important to note that once you add an image via this method while writing or editing a post or page, it will be assigned to that specific post or page, which is how WordPress keeps track of the gallery’s content. Once you have uploaded all the desired images, click the “Add an Image” button again, select the “Gallery” tab, choose your desired settings, and click the “Insert Gallery” button at the bottom to add the gallery to your post or page.
If you like getting your hands dirty, there are few more settings that you can tweak by altering the gallery shortcode in the HTML editor tab.
Once you have your gallery setup, there are plenty of good plugins to further enhance it, like jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries.
What do you use to manage galleries on your blog? Â If you use native WordPress galleries, what do you do to enhance them beyond their basic implementation?
Tweet";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:00:43 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"James Huff";}s:7:"summary";s:2368:"There are many gallery plugins out there for WordPress, but did you know that WordPress has had its own gallery system since the release of version 2.5 over two years ago?
To get started with a native WordPress gallery, you’ll need to create or edit the post or page that you want the gallery to appear in and then click the “Add an Image” button.
You can use this to upload all of your images at full size and WordPress will automatically generate the various sizes (including thumbnails) for you. Now, it’s important to note that once you add an image via this method while writing or editing a post or page, it will be assigned to that specific post or page, which is how WordPress keeps track of the gallery’s content. Once you have uploaded all the desired images, click the “Add an Image” button again, select the “Gallery” tab, choose your desired settings, and click the “Insert Gallery” button at the bottom to add the gallery to your post or page.
If you like getting your hands dirty, there are few more settings that you can tweak by altering the gallery shortcode in the HTML editor tab.
Once you have your gallery setup, there are plenty of good plugins to further enhance it, like jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries.
What do you use to manage galleries on your blog? Â If you use native WordPress galleries, what do you do to enhance them beyond their basic implementation?
Tweet";}i:42;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:90:"Weblog Tools Collection: What plugins do you find yourself using on every site you design?";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=8690";s:4:"link";s:115:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/09/23/what- plugins-you-find-yourself-using-on-every-site-you-design/";s:11:"description";s:722:"I saw a similar post on the LinkedIn WordPress Group posted by Mary Ann and I was intrigued.
So without further ado, I would love to read about and be linked to The Top 5 Plugins that you WordPress Genuises use in every one of your WordPress installs and why are they so important to you?
Tweet";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 23 Sep 2010 23:21:12 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:722:"I saw a similar post on the LinkedIn WordPress Group posted by Mary Ann and I was intrigued.
So without further ado, I would love to read about and be linked to The Top 5 Plugins that you WordPress Genuises use in every one of your WordPress installs and why are they so important to you?
Tweet";}i:43;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:26:"Matt: Zuckerberg on Social";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=35752";s:4:"link";s:42:"http://ma.tt/2010/09/zuckerberg-on-social/";s:11:"description";s:1160:"One thing that I think is really important â that I think is context for this, is that I generally think that most other companies now are undervaluing how important social integration is. So even the companies that are starting to come around to thinking, âoh maybe we should do some social stuffâ, I still think a lot of them are only thinking about it on a surface layer, where itâs like âOK, I have my product, maybe Iâll add two or three social features and weâll check that boxâ. Thatâs not what social is.
Social â you have to design it in from the ground up. These experiences, like what Zynga is doing or what a company like Quora is doing, I think that they have řŐ Ýü˙ ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ ş ?Ę just a really good social integration. Theyâve designed their whole product around the idea that your friends will be here with you. Everyone has a real identity for themselves. And those are fundamental building blocks.
From TechCrunch’s Interview With Mark Zuckerberg On The âFacebook Phoneâ .
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:47:14 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:1160:"One thing that I think is really important â that I think is context for this, is that I generally think that most other companies now are undervaluing how important social integration is. So even the companies that are starting to come around to thinking, âoh maybe we should do some social stuffâ, I still think a lot of them are only thinking about it on a surface layer, where itâs like âOK, I have my product, maybe Iâll add two or three social features and weâll check that boxâ. Thatâs not what social is.
Social â you have to design it in from the ground up. These experiences, like what Zynga is doing or what a company like Quora is doing, I think that they have just a really good social integration. Theyâve designed their whole product around the idea that your friends will be here with you. Everyone has a real identity for themselves. And those are fundamental building blocks.
From TechCrunch’s Interview With Mark Zuckerberg On The âFacebook Phoneâ.
";} i:44;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:15:"Matt: Chartbeat";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/? p=35748";s:4:"link";s:31:"http://ma.tt/2010/09/chartbeat/";s:11:"description";s:449:"Chartbeat is a cool real-time analytics service I’ve been enjoying using for a while, especially from the iPhone app. As just announced yesterday on AllThingsD, I’ve joined their latest round of funding and I’m looking forward to see what they do next.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:50:13 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:449:"Chartbeat is a cool real-time analytics service I’ve been enjoying using for a while, especially from the iPhone app. As just announced yesterday on AllThingsD, I’ve joined their latest round of funding and I’m looking forward to see what they do next.
";}i:45;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 09/23";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=8685";s:4:"link";s:89:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/09/23/wordpress- theme-releases-for-0923-2/";s:11:"description";s:1340:"
Deep Blue is an amazing blue style theme for WordPress with a theme options interface.
Gamelan is a unique style with a custom image header, custom background, and more.
News is an advanced news theme created to highlight articles, videos, slideshows, and other media.
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Deep Blue is an amazing blue style theme for WordPress with a theme options interface.
Gamelan is a unique style with a custom image header, custom background, and more.
News is an advanced news theme created to highlight articles, videos, slideshows, and other media.
Tweet";}i:46;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:55:"Weblog Tools Collection: Six Apart Acquired by VideoEgg";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=8679";s:4:"link";s:84:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/09/22/six- apart-acquired-by-videoegg/";s:11:"description";s:2050:"Six Apart has been acquired by advertising network VideoEgg and merged into the company’s rebrand as SAY Media.
Six Apart is perhaps best known for their self-hosted blogging platform Movable Type and their hosted blogging service TypePad. Though SAY Media will not discontinue these products, it remains to be seen how the advertising network will influence their future.
A former power- house in the blogging industry, Movable Type’s popularity began to falter when Six Apart released version 3 in 2004 with more restrictive licensing. In fact, the Google Trends graphs for Movable Type and WordPress are almost inverse of each other, showing a steady decrease in Movable Type popularity and a steady increase in WordPress popularity beginning at roughly the same time as Movable Type 3′s release.
If you’re unsure about the future of your Movable Type or TypePad blog, now is as good a time as any to move to WordPress as your new self-hosted blogging platform or WordPress.com as your new hosted blogging service. After either installing WordPress or signing up with WordPress.com, go to Tools/Import in your admin panel and select “Movable Type and TypePad.”
What’s your take on this acquisition? Is Six Apart’s legacy safe in the hands of SAY Media (formerly VideoEgg)?
Tweet";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:00:30 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"James Huff";} s:7:"summary";s:2050:"Six Apart has been acquired by advertising network VideoEgg and merged into the company’s rebrand as SAY Media.
Six Apart is perhaps best known for their self-hosted blogging platform Movable Type and their hosted blogging service TypePad. Though SAY Media will not discontinue these products, it remains to be seen how the advertising network will influence their future.
A former power-house in the blogging industry, Movable Type’s popularity began to falter when Six Apart released version 3 in 2004 with more restrictive licensing. In fact, the Google Trends graphs for Movable Type and WordPress are almost inverse of each other, showing a steady decrease in Movable Type popularity and a steady increase in WordPress popularity beginning at roughly the same time as Movable Type 3′s release.
If you’re unsure about the future of your Movable Type or TypePad blog, now is as good a time as any to move to WordPress as your new self-hosted blogging platform or WordPress.com as your new hosted blogging service. After either installing WordPress or signing up with WordPress.com, go to Tools/Import in your admin panel and select “Movable Type and TypePad.”
What’s your take on this acquisition? Is Six Apart’s legacy safe in the hands of SAY Media (formerly VideoEgg)?
Tweet";}i:47;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:20:"Matt: iPad vs Kindle";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=35743";s:4:"link";s:36:"http://ma.tt/2010/09/ipad-vs-kindle/";s:11:"description";s:155:"iPad vs Kindle by Mark Jaquith. I endorse this blog post. It matches my experience exactly.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:47:11 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:155:"iPad vs Kindle by Mark Jaquith. I endorse this blog post. It matches my experience exactly.
";}i:48;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:30:"Matt: Social Network Detective";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/? p=35741";s:4:"link";s:46:"http://ma.tt/2010/09/social-network-detective/";s:11:"description";s:294:"My relentless pursuit of the guy who robbed me. “A thief broke into my car. I used Craigslist, a dating site, MySpace and a fast food joint to track him down.”
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:19:03 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:294:"My relentless pursuit of the guy who robbed me. “A thief broke into my car. I used Craigslist, a dating site, MySpace and a fast food joint to track him down.”
";} i:49;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=8673";s:4:"link";s:90:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/09/21/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0921-2/";s:11:"description";s:2337:"One Sport Event allows you to easily get event listings for sporting events and athletic or multisport type races from your local region onto your own website.
Simple WordPress Backup allows you to backup your WordPress database with just one click.
WordPress Login Redirect redirects subscriber level users back to the homepage after they’ve logged in.
WP Evernote Site Memory fully integrates Evernote’s Site Memory feature into your WordPress blog.
WP Google Scribe provides autocomplete suggestions as you type.
All in One Webmaster has options to add Google, Bing, Alexa, Blog Catalog, Yahooâs Webmaster and Analytics code (meta tags).
eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed with various features.
Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections and keep track of 404 errors without requiring knowledge of Apache .htaccess files.
Twitter Goodies will show your twitter tweets under the sidebar area (widget) and posts and/or pages.
WP Social Blogroll adds a cool new blogroll that is able to display the freshness, author name and the latest post-title of your bookmarks.
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Simple WordPress Backup allows you to backup your WordPress database with just one click.
WordPress Login Redirect redirects subscriber level users back to the homepage after they’ve logged in.
WP Evernote Site Memory fully integrates Evernote’s Site Memory feature into your WordPress blog.
WP Google Scribe provides autocomplete suggestions as you type.
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Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections and keep track of 404 errors without requiring knowledge of Apache .htaccess files.
Twitter Goodies will show your twitter tweets under the sidebar area (widget) and posts and/or pages.
WP Social Blogroll adds a cool new blogroll that is able to display the freshness, author name and the latest post-title of your bookmarks.
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