With Release Candidate 1, we think WordPress 2.8 is ready and complete. Download it, test it, and tell us what you think. If you don’t uncover any bad bugs, 2.8 will be released on Wednesday the 10th.
\nIf you’re interested in what has changed since beta 2, consult the changelog.
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\n\";}i:1;a:13:{s:5:\"title\";s:49:\"Summary of #wordpress-dev IRC meetup for 20090603\";s:4:\"link\";s:90:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/06/summary-of-wordpress-dev-irc-meetup-for-20090603/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:99:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/06/summary-of-wordpress-dev-irc-meetup-for-20090603/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:30:51 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Ryan Boren\";}s:8:\"category\";s:11:\"Development\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=778\";s:11:\"description\";s:358:\"\nNext Wednesday, June 10th, is the target date for the release of\nWordPress 2.8. Tickets against the 2.8 milestone that are not\nblockers will be postponed to another release.\nWP 2.9 will require MySQL 4.1.2 or greater. This is raised from the current requirement of 4.0.\nChecks will be added to the automatic upgrader that will prevent upgrading to [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:848:\"Download beta 2. See changes since beta 1.
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\n\";}i:3;a:13:{s:5:\"title\";s:20:\"WordPress 2.8 Beta 1\";s:4:\"link\";s:62:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/05/wordpress-2-8-beta-1/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:71:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/05/wordpress-2-8-beta-1/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 16 May 2009 19:59:48 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Ryan Boren\";}s:8:\"category\";s:8:\"Releases\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=744\";s:11:\"description\";s:95:\"Download it, test it, file bugs.\nWhat’s new? All of this.\nGood hunting, all you testers.\n\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:333:\"Download it, test it, file bugs.
\nWhat’s new? All of this.
\nGood hunting, all you testers.
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\nWhat’s new? All of this.
\nGood hunting, all you testers.
\n\";}i:4;a:13:{s:5:\"title\";s:61:\"Contributing to WordPress, Part IV: Ideas, Opinions, Feedback\";s:4:\"link\";s:47:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/05/ideas/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:56:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/05/ideas/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 09 May 2009 16:20:53 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Jane Wells\";}s:8:\"category\";s:19:\"DevelopmentFeatures\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=731\";s:11:\"description\";s:396:\"“I wish they’d implement feature x.”\n“Why won’t they put feature y into core? It’s rated really high in the Ideas forum!”\n“It doesn’t matter what I think, all the decisions get made by an elite crime-fighting squad funded by an anonymous millionaire. Er, I mean the four core devs.”\nThese sentiments, and others like them, are the [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:7489:\"“I wish they’d implement feature x.”
\n“Why won’t they put feature y into core? It’s rated really high in the Ideas forum!”
\n“It doesn’t matter what I think, all the decisions get made by an elite crime-fighting squad funded by an anonymous millionaire. Er, I mean the four core devs.”
\nThese sentiments, and others like them, are the focus of today’s post. Setting aside the similarities between Ryan, Andrew, Mark and Peter to Charlie’s Angels for a moment, the question of how decisions about features are made needs to be addressed. There are a number of mechanisms in place for communication between the community and the core team, but with so many different channels, it’s hard to keep up with them all and still focus on production. Here’s where we are now…
\n#wordpress-dev IRC channel: The IRC channel used to be more active. These days there’s rarely more than a dozen or two people online at any given time, and hours go by with no activity. When a question pops up, it’s often a tech question from a less experienced developer or site manager looking for help, as opposed to ongoing discussions about the best way to approach core code and features. When core-focused discussions do occur, they tend to fade out as time zone variances cause people to log off before a core dev enters the room.
\nwp-hackers list: The hackers mailing list reaches thousands of contributing developers, plugin developers, and lurking interested parties. Discussions range from how to use hooks to whether or not something in core should be changed to troubleshooting for other list members. Conversations on this list sometimes can get heated and occasionally stray into rudeness, which makes some people hesitate to utilize this communication channel.
\nThis dev blog: This blog is used mostly for “official” announcements, and more recently, for surveys and polls intended to give the core devs an idea of community opinion on things being considered for future versions. Posting is irregular, sometimes with new content every other day, sometimes with nothing for a couple of weeks.
\nwpdevel.wordpress.com: Another blog, also an “official” outlet, in which the core team posts about any big code changes they’re working on. This gives plugin authors and contributing developers a heads-up, and provides a place for community discussion around specific issues like the new widgets API.
\nTrac: The ticket system used for active development has gotten out of control. Hundreds of tickets are already lined up for future versions because they were punted from current releases; many aren’t even relevant anymore. Trac has wound being a place where people report bugs, suggest code changes, request features and debate methodologies; some of these conversations are years old. This broad use of the system makes it harder to power through tickets and get bugs fixed.
\nIdeas forum: The Ideas forum is a place where anyone can suggest a new feature, rate features suggested by others, leave comments, and generally discuss the future of the WordPress application. However, like Trac, some of the items here are years old. Because of the way the rating system works, older items remain at the top of the list. Some threads are simply he said/she said preference arguments, as opposed to contructive discussions about the value of implementing certain features or changes. There’s no direct connection between the Ideas forum and Trac.
\nWordPress is an open source project, successful because of the community that both develops and uses it. At the same time, some people find it difficult to become involved in the project, and are unsure of how to engage with the core team and community at large. The channels listed above can be overwhleming to someone just joining the community, and/or frustrating to longtime community members who feel like they used to have more influence. We need to fix this. The WordPress project needs to be welcoming, easy to navigate as a contributor, and provide useful feedback to help grow the expertise of its community members.
\nI think we should figure this out together. You, members of this community, know how you feel about the communication channels available to you. You probably have ideas about how to make it better. Some of you may even have sketched out digrams of systems that you think would work better. Link Ideas to Trac? Change the Ideas rating algorithm? Close Trac tickets that don’t get resolved within a certain period of time? Just do everything through Trac? What do you think? What would make it easier for you to keep up with development progress and get involved with the varius contribution opportunities? I *know* you have an opinion.
\nOver the next few weeks, we’ll be gathering your input about how we can improve communication and participation, and then we’ll embark on a project to fix/create a system for collecting ideas, opinions and feedback that will allow WordPress to grow as an inclusive community. Here’s the plan: Gather ideas from people via IRC, forums, live chats, surveys, etc. Assemble a small group of interested parties to help figure out possible approaches, put suggested approaches to a community vote. If redesigning something (like the Ideas forum) is deemed necessary, utilize community designers to create layouts. Beta test it to see if it does work as hoped. Launch and make everyone happy with the new, improved communication/ideas/feedback system!
\nUp First
\nUse this forum thread to post your suggestions about this. What do you think needs to be changed or improved? How would you structure it? How do the existing channels fit into your suggestion?
\nOn Tuesday, May 12 at 21:00 UTC (5pm New York time), hop into the #wordpress-dev IRC channel (irc.freenode.com) and talk about your suggestions for how to improve communication. I’ll be there, taking notes and answering questions, and asking follow-up questions when someone pitches a good idea. An hour later, I’ll be joining the WordCast Podcast to talk about this issue. They’re trying to set up a call-in format; if that pans out, we’ll post the call-in info in the dev channel. Otherwise, A call-in number has been set up through TalkShoe.
\n1-724-444-7444
\nMeeting ID: 50127
\nPin (if you don’t have a TalkShoe account): enter 1#
We’ll also read off suggestions being made in the dev channel and discuss them.
\nMore opportunities to weigh in on this issue to come. Also, further investigation into the similarities between the core devs and Charlie’s Angels.
“I wish they’d implement feature x.”
\n“Why won’t they put feature y into core? It’s rated really high in the Ideas forum!”
\n“It doesn’t matter what I think, all the decisions get made by an elite crime-fighting squad funded by an anonymous millionaire. Er, I mean the four core devs.”
\nThese sentiments, and others like them, are the focus of today’s post. Setting aside the similarities between Ryan, Andrew, Mark and Peter to Charlie’s Angels for a moment, the question of how decisions about features are made needs to be addressed. There are a number of mechanisms in place for communication between the community and the core team, but with so many different channels, it’s hard to keep up with them all and still focus on production. Here’s where we are now…
\n#wordpress-dev IRC channel: The IRC channel used to be more active. These days there’s rarely more than a dozen or two people online at any given time, and hours go by with no activity. When a question pops up, it’s often a tech question from a less experienced developer or site manager looking for help, as opposed to ongoing discussions about the best way to approach core code and features. When core-focused discussions do occur, they tend to fade out as time zone variances cause people to log off before a core dev enters the room.
\nwp-hackers list: The hackers mailing list reaches thousands of contributing developers, plugin developers, and lurking interested parties. Discussions range from how to use hooks to whether or not something in core should be changed to troubleshooting for other list members. Conversations on this list sometimes can get heated and occasionally stray into rudeness, which makes some people hesitate to utilize this communication channel.
\nThis dev blog: This blog is used mostly for “official” announcements, and more recently, for surveys and polls intended to give the core devs an idea of community opinion on things being considered for future versions. Posting is irregular, sometimes with new content every other day, sometimes with nothing for a couple of weeks.
\nwpdevel.wordpress.com: Another blog, also an “official” outlet, in which the core team posts about any big code changes they’re working on. This gives plugin authors and contributing developers a heads-up, and provides a place for community discussion around specific issues like the new widgets API.
\nTrac: The ticket system used for active development has gotten out of control. Hundreds of tickets are already lined up for future versions because they were punted from current releases; many aren’t even relevant anymore. Trac has wound being a place where people report bugs, suggest code changes, request features and debate methodologies; some of these conversations are years old. This broad use of the system makes it harder to power through tickets and get bugs fixed.
\nIdeas forum: The Ideas forum is a place where anyone can suggest a new feature, rate features suggested by others, leave comments, and generally discuss the future of the WordPress application. However, like Trac, some of the items here are years old. Because of the way the rating system works, older items remain at the top of the list. Some threads are simply he said/she said preference arguments, as opposed to contructive discussions about the value of implementing certain features or changes. There’s no direct connection between the Ideas forum and Trac.
\nWordPress is an open source project, successful because of the community that both develops and uses it. At the same time, some people find it difficult to become involved in the project, and are unsure of how to engage with the core team and community at large. The channels listed above can be overwhleming to someone just joining the community, and/or frustrating to longtime community members who feel like they used to have more influence. We need to fix this. The WordPress project needs to be welcoming, easy to navigate as a contributor, and provide useful feedback to help grow the expertise of its community members.
\nI think we should figure this out together. You, members of this community, know how you feel about the communication channels available to you. You probably have ideas about how to make it better. Some of you may even have sketched out digrams of systems that you think would work better. Link Ideas to Trac? Change the Ideas rating algorithm? Close Trac tickets that don’t get resolved within a certain period of time? Just do everything through Trac? What do you think? What would make it easier for you to keep up with development progress and get involved with the varius contribution opportunities? I *know* you have an opinion.
\nOver the next few weeks, we’ll be gathering your input about how we can improve communication and participation, and then we’ll embark on a project to fix/create a system for collecting ideas, opinions and feedback that will allow WordPress to grow as an inclusive community. Here’s the plan: Gather ideas from people via IRC, forums, live chats, surveys, etc. Assemble a small group of interested parties to help figure out possible approaches, put suggested approaches to a community vote. If redesigning something (like the Ideas forum) is deemed necessary, utilize community designers to create layouts. Beta test it to see if it does work as hoped. Launch and make everyone happy with the new, improved communication/ideas/feedback system!
\nUp First
\nUse this forum thread to post your suggestions about this. What do you think needs to be changed or improved? How would you structure it? How do the existing channels fit into your suggestion?
\nOn Tuesday, May 12 at 21:00 UTC (5pm New York time), hop into the #wordpress-dev IRC channel (irc.freenode.com) and talk about your suggestions for how to improve communication. I’ll be there, taking notes and answering questions, and asking follow-up questions when someone pitches a good idea. An hour later, I’ll be joining the WordCast Podcast to talk about this issue. They’re trying to set up a call-in format; if that pans out, we’ll post the call-in info in the dev channel. Otherwise, A call-in number has been set up through TalkShoe.
\n1-724-444-7444
\nMeeting ID: 50127
\nPin (if you don’t have a TalkShoe account): enter 1#
We’ll also read off suggestions being made in the dev channel and discuss them.
\nMore opportunities to weigh in on this issue to come. Also, further investigation into the similarities between the core devs and Charlie’s Angels.
One of the reasons WordPress 2.7 was such a success is the amount of usability testing that took place during the development cycle. Starting with testing 2.5 and the Crazyhorse prototype and following with the 2.7 beta, the testing program looked at almost every feature and function in the application. That kind of thing? Takes a lot of time.
For readers who aren’t familiar with the process behind usability testing, here’s an overview. First, determine the scope of your test and create a test protocol/script. Determine the audience segments to be included in the test group(s), and begin recruiting. Recruiting may mean hiring an agency to find participants, but for testing WordPress, it makes more sense to recruit from within this community, so that means making a screening survey, reading all the responses, segmenting the respondents into categories and contacting people until you’ve filled your desired quotas (for whatever segments you’re seeking, such as newbie, experienced user, developer, CMS user, photoblogger, mobile user, etc. ). Then come the test sessions.
\nDepending on what is being tested, these last anywhere from half an hour to an hour and half apiece. Sessions are generally recorded using screen capture and web cam, with a video camera for backup. The moderator(s) generally take notes during sessions and/or (depending on what software is being used for the session capture) set markers in the video to indicate task completion, comments of interest, etc. In some cases, auxiliary test methods such as eye-tracking may be included. When the sessions are complete, the results are analyzed. All the notes and videos are reviewed, patterns are identified, and ultimately a report is written and the feedback informs the next round of revisions.
\nSome people think it shouldn’t take much time to do all this. I’ve lost count of the number of people who cite an old article by Jakob Nielsen that says you don’t need to test with more than 5 users because usability issues become clear right away. While I’ve found that to be generally true, when your user base is as diverse in experience level, usage, platform configuration, language (right to left languages have a pretty different experience) and demography as the WordPress community is, 5 users really isn’t enough to get a clear picture. We try to test with at least a dozen people each round, but then we are limited to a geographic region (test in NY, test in SF, or test wherever we can schedule enough people back to back to make it worthwhile), while WordPress users are located all over the globe.
\nTo address this, we’re introducing a set of new contribution opportunities to expand our usability testing program. As with development and graphic design, we’re going to create an infrastructure to allow community participation in usability testing on a regular basis and in a much broader capacity than existed before, when it was limited to announcements that we needed participants in x city on y date. We’ll be looking for volunteer moderators as well as participants, hopefully from all over the world.
\nModerators. Observational usability testing isn’t rocket science, but neither is it a simple task to reduce bias. Because of this, at first we’ll choose only moderators who have professional experience conducting usability tests. People who conduct testing for design agencies, software companies, usability consulting firms and the like will be our first round draft picks. In the future, when we have a group of regular volunteers and have ironed out any kinks in the process, we’ll ideally match up experienced testers with aspiring ones, using a mentorship model to increase the number of people who can contribute in this fashion.
\nParticipants. If you use WordPress, chances are you could participant in a usability test at some point. In some cases we’re looking for particular behaviors (people who upload large video files, people who blog from their iPhone, people who manage more than 5 blogs, etc.), while other times the behaviors we’re looking for are much more common (do you have widgets in your sidebar, have you changed themes in the last 6 months, is there more than one author on your blog, etc.).
\nSo how will these opportunities come into play, and how will it make WordPress better?
\nWe’ll start with the moderators, and try to get volunteers with a decent geographic spread. Then, we’ll start signing up potential test participants in those areas (though we’ll also allow at-large registrations, since traveling testing will still be happening). We’re working on a registration process for potential participants. You’ll enter your basic info (location, contact info) and answer some questions about your WordPress usage to be entered in the database, and when there’s a testing opportunity coming up that’s appropriate for you, a local moderator will get in touch to see if you’re interested. Further down the road we may experiment with remote testing and other methods, but for now, this approach will broaden the geographic scope of our testing.
\nAll moderators will follow the same test protocols and script, and their results/reports/video will be reviewed and collated, with a composite report (including the protocol/script that was used) published to the community. This will provide designers and developers with broader feedback during the dev cycle, and will allow the wider community to both understand and participate in the testing program.
\nIf you’re interested in being a moderator during this initial phase (meaning you do it professionally), send me an email and introduce yourself. If you’re interested in signing up as a potential test participant, watch this space. We’ll post a link to the registration survey once it’s ready.
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For readers who aren’t familiar with the process behind usability testing, here’s an overview. First, determine the scope of your test and create a test protocol/script. Determine the audience segments to be included in the test group(s), and begin recruiting. Recruiting may mean hiring an agency to find participants, but for testing WordPress, it makes more sense to recruit from within this community, so that means making a screening survey, reading all the responses, segmenting the respondents into categories and contacting people until you’ve filled your desired quotas (for whatever segments you’re seeking, such as newbie, experienced user, developer, CMS user, photoblogger, mobile user, etc. ). Then come the test sessions.
\nDepending on what is being tested, these last anywhere from half an hour to an hour and half apiece. Sessions are generally recorded using screen capture and web cam, with a video camera for backup. The moderator(s) generally take notes during sessions and/or (depending on what software is being used for the session capture) set markers in the video to indicate task completion, comments of interest, etc. In some cases, auxiliary test methods such as eye-tracking may be included. When the sessions are complete, the results are analyzed. All the notes and videos are reviewed, patterns are identified, and ultimately a report is written and the feedback informs the next round of revisions.
\nSome people think it shouldn’t take much time to do all this. I’ve lost count of the number of people who cite an old article by Jakob Nielsen that says you don’t need to test with more than 5 users because usability issues become clear right away. While I’ve found that to be generally true, when your user base is as diverse in experience level, usage, platform configuration, language (right to left languages have a pretty different experience) and demography as the WordPress community is, 5 users really isn’t enough to get a clear picture. We try to test with at least a dozen people each round, but then we are limited to a geographic region (test in NY, test in SF, or test wherever we can schedule enough people back to back to make it worthwhile), while WordPress users are located all over the globe.
\nTo address this, we’re introducing a set of new contribution opportunities to expand our usability testing program. As with development and graphic design, we’re going to create an infrastructure to allow community participation in usability testing on a regular basis and in a much broader capacity than existed before, when it was limited to announcements that we needed participants in x city on y date. We’ll be looking for volunteer moderators as well as participants, hopefully from all over the world.
\nModerators. Observational usability testing isn’t rocket science, but neither is it a simple task to reduce bias. Because of this, at first we’ll choose only moderators who have professional experience conducting usability tests. People who conduct testing for design agencies, software companies, usability consulting firms and the like will be our first round draft picks. In the future, when we have a group of regular volunteers and have ironed out any kinks in the process, we’ll ideally match up experienced testers with aspiring ones, using a mentorship model to increase the number of people who can contribute in this fashion.
\nParticipants. If you use WordPress, chances are you could participant in a usability test at some point. In some cases we’re looking for particular behaviors (people who upload large video files, people who blog from their iPhone, people who manage more than 5 blogs, etc.), while other times the behaviors we’re looking for are much more common (do you have widgets in your sidebar, have you changed themes in the last 6 months, is there more than one author on your blog, etc.).
\nSo how will these opportunities come into play, and how will it make WordPress better?
\nWe’ll start with the moderators, and try to get volunteers with a decent geographic spread. Then, we’ll start signing up potential test participants in those areas (though we’ll also allow at-large registrations, since traveling testing will still be happening). We’re working on a registration process for potential participants. You’ll enter your basic info (location, contact info) and answer some questions about your WordPress usage to be entered in the database, and when there’s a testing opportunity coming up that’s appropriate for you, a local moderator will get in touch to see if you’re interested. Further down the road we may experiment with remote testing and other methods, but for now, this approach will broaden the geographic scope of our testing.
\nAll moderators will follow the same test protocols and script, and their results/reports/video will be reviewed and collated, with a composite report (including the protocol/script that was used) published to the community. This will provide designers and developers with broader feedback during the dev cycle, and will allow the wider community to both understand and participate in the testing program.
\nIf you’re interested in being a moderator during this initial phase (meaning you do it professionally), send me an email and introduce yourself. If you’re interested in signing up as a potential test participant, watch this space. We’ll post a link to the registration survey once it’s ready.
\n\";}i:6;a:13:{s:5:\"title\";s:28:\"Make Friends with BuddyPress\";s:4:\"link\";s:70:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/make-friends-with-buddypress/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:79:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/make-friends-with-buddypress/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:24:44 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:8:\"category\";s:17:\"Cousinsbuddypress\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=719\";s:11:\"description\";s:329:\"What if there was software with the elegance and extensibility of WordPress but all the features you’ve come to expect from social networks like Facebook? Now there is: check out BuddyPress.\nBuddyPress is an official sister project of WordPress. The idea behind it was to see what would happen to the web if it was as [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:2004:\"What if there was software with the elegance and extensibility of WordPress but all the features you’ve come to expect from social networks like Facebook? Now there is: check out BuddyPress.
\nBuddyPress is an official sister project of WordPress. The idea behind it was to see what would happen to the web if it was as easy for anyone to create a social network as it is to create a blog today. There’s been an explosion of social activity on the web, it’s probably the most important trend of the past few years, but there’s been a dearth of Open Source tools that enable the social web.
\nIn WordPress we have a robust and extensible base that can scale to many millions of users, and BuddyPress is essentially a set of plugins on top of WordPress that add private messaging, profiles, friends, groups, activity streams, and everything else you’ve come to expect from your favorite social network, like a Facebook-in-a-box.
\nI don’t think BuddyPress will be something you use instead of your existing social networks, I mean all your friends are already on Myspace, but if you wanted to start something new maybe with more control, friendlier terms of service, or just something customized and tweaked to fit exactly into your existing site, then BuddyPress is a great framework to use. Maybe even someday you’ll be able to connect your BuddyPresses to each other and to the existing monolithic social networks.
\nThis is just a 1.0 release and it’s not for everybody yet, for example it currently requires using MU which is a bit trickier to get set up than regular WordPress, but regardless I’d recommend diving into the community at BuddyPress.org, which is great example of the software in action.
\nHere’s Andy’s official announcement post.
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\nBuddyPress is an official sister project of WordPress. The idea behind it was to see what would happen to the web if it was as easy for anyone to create a social network as it is to create a blog today. There’s been an explosion of social activity on the web, it’s probably the most important trend of the past few years, but there’s been a dearth of Open Source tools that enable the social web.
\nIn WordPress we have a robust and extensible base that can scale to many millions of users, and BuddyPress is essentially a set of plugins on top of WordPress that add private messaging, profiles, friends, groups, activity streams, and everything else you’ve come to expect from your favorite social network, like a Facebook-in-a-box.
\nI don’t think BuddyPress will be something you use instead of your existing social networks, I mean all your friends are already on Myspace, but if you wanted to start something new maybe with more control, friendlier terms of service, or just something customized and tweaked to fit exactly into your existing site, then BuddyPress is a great framework to use. Maybe even someday you’ll be able to connect your BuddyPresses to each other and to the existing monolithic social networks.
\nThis is just a 1.0 release and it’s not for everybody yet, for example it currently requires using MU which is a bit trickier to get set up than regular WordPress, but regardless I’d recommend diving into the community at BuddyPress.org, which is great example of the software in action.
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\nWhat’s more interesting to me is the overall style that seems to be preferred among voters, as Matt’s comp has some stylistic similarities to Dean’s (see image at left). It also would be interesting to know how many of the votes for the current 2.7 interface were based on thinking it looked the best vs. how many were votes against changing the interface at all so soon after the 2.7 redesign. If you want to comment on what you liked best and/or least about any of the designs, this thread is a good place.
\nSo what happens now? However we look at it, the Fluency-style designs clearly have a lot of fans. Then again, so do the designs of Matt Thomas (he’s behind the current style of 2.7, remember, in addition to the comp labeled MT). To give the interface the attention it is due, and to take seriously some of the interface feedback around usability and accessibility, we’re going to leave the looks alone for 2.8. It’s our guess that a revised style will make into 2.9 early in the development cycle to allow us plenty of time for user testing and revision. How close it winds up being to the comps submitted in this design tweaks challenge will depend, but in the meantime:
\nCongratulations, Dean J. Robinson, on winning the vote!
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As several people have rightly pointed out, the Fluency-style designs not only took the top spot, but in combination added up to a higher percentage than any other. We’re not focusing solely on that statistic, though, because had other designers submitted multiple versions, the numbers might have looked different. What was most interesting for me was checking in on the votes over the course of the two days the poll was open. The top three (Fluency-dark, Current 2.7, MT) kept beating each other out for the #1 spot as they cycled back and forth through the top three slots, and had the poll closed on time (left it open a little longer in case anyone translated the time zone incorrectly), the order would have been a bit different.
\nWhat’s more interesting to me is the overall style that seems to be preferred among voters, as Matt’s comp has some stylistic similarities to Dean’s (see image at left). It also would be interesting to know how many of the votes for the current 2.7 interface were based on thinking it looked the best vs. how many were votes against changing the interface at all so soon after the 2.7 redesign. If you want to comment on what you liked best and/or least about any of the designs, this thread is a good place.
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Below are the links to the screenshots that were submitted. Please review each one (I’d open them all in tabs so I could look back and forth while they are all large size, because the voting poll just uses thumbnails), then choose the one you think looks the best/is the most usable.
\nThis poll was supposed to close at 8pm NY time on Tuesday (today), but we’re going to leave it open for an extra day. The voting poll will now be closed at 8pm NY time on Wednesday (that’s 2am Thursday, UTC). If you want to discuss the entries’ pros/cons, this thread would be a good place.
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\nMark: I agree about the header. “This is the menu, this is the content.”
\nAll: Yep.
\nFive minutes later…
\nMark: What do you guys this of this quick mockup I just did, playing with the admin header?
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Jane: I like it that the nav is not under the header. Might need some styling help. I was also thinking maybe the favorites menu should drop down into the white h2 area by screen options/help tabs.
\nRyan: Menu color to the top with blog title pushed over and favorites next to screen options sounds quite nice.
\nJane: I’ll ask Matt Thomas if he could style it [ed. note: Matt Thomas created the visual style for 2.7], and we can see what people think, maybe post on wpdevel for feedback.
\nRyan: If it’s quick, maybe we could even get it into 2.8.
\nMatt T: Here are some comps based on what you told me.
\nJane: Cool, but where are Screen Options and Help tabs?
\nMatt T: Still working on that.
\nJane: Hm. Wonder if there’s time to open this up to community designers? I know we’re in freeze, and it’s no notice, but you didn’t get any notice either when we dropped this styling request on your lap a few hours ago. That’s the way open software development works: sometimes the best ideas come at the last minute!
\nMatt T: I’m all for letting the community take a stab at it. Especially if they come up with something brilliant to do with the Screen Options and Help tabs.
\nJane: I’ll ask Ryan about release date and see if there’s time. I know they wanted your style recommendations today.
\nRyan: Tuesday is probably doable, no later than that for final delivery of style and any gradient graphics, etc.
\nJane: Awesome! People will hate me for the short notice after the has-patch marathon, but since it’s a small project and over the weekend, and wasn’t even something anyone was planning until a few hours ago, I’m *really hoping* people will take this for what it is, an attempt to give more people input into an upcoming visual change in the interface, even if it’s not a huge one.
\nRyan: Would have the benefit of warning people that header and menu will be changed a bit.
\nJane: And we can have a vote. If I can get all the materials together and post in the morning, that would give 2 days of design time for submissions on Monday, and if we do a day of voting Tuesday, that’s 3 days notice for the vote. I’ll make sure to post to all the lists, etc.
\nRyan: Will we announce with comps from Matt T as examples of what we’re thinking?
\nJane: I’ll write up the UX reasons for considering the change, and Matt T can provide some style guidelines and his original comps so no one will have to waste time mocking up the basic screen layout.
\nRyan: That would help set the scope. We just want tweaks here and there, given the timing.
\nJane: Woot!
\nOn Your Mark, Get Set…
\nOkay, so here’s the deal. Modifying the nav/header to be a little nicer is was a last-minute design idea, and if it can’t be worked out in the time we have left before 2.8 (which is very little), we’ll just wait until 2.9 to work on it. But! If someone comes up with something the community really likes and it doesn’t break any of the design guidelines for the rest of WordPress, we could sneak it in.
UX and design guidelines for this mini-project are posted here (so as not to clog up anyone’s feed reader with big graphics). Read through the UX stuff, check out the comps Matt Thomas mocked up last night (with absolutely no notice, for the record). Use the .psd as your base, and when it’s time to submit your ideas, make a .jpg or .png and post a link to it in the comments on this post. (Note: Only comments containing a link to a design submission using this format will be approved. For general discussion about this design challenge or any of the submissions, please head into the #wordpress-dev IRC channel.)
\nSubmit the link to your comps by 1am Tuesday, April 28 UTC (7pm Monday, April 27, New York time). If you have questions or want early feedback, we’ll be in and out of the #wordpress-dev IRC channel between now and then.
\nOnce we’ve received the submissions, we’ll post a voting survey (much simpler than the icon survey; this one will be more of poll, just choose the one you like best) as soon as possible, and will post the link to it here as soon as it’s online. We’ll only keep voting open for one day because of the 2.8 deadline, so put it on your calendar if you think you’ll forget. Voting will close at 2am Wednesday, April 29 UTC (8pm Tuesday, April 28, New York time). Results will be announced the following day.
\n\n* Chats above are a conglomeration of actual chats.
\nReminder: Only comments containing a link to a design submission will be published here. All other comments will be deleted.
\nIf you want to leave a public comment about this contest, the design, etc., I’ve created a thread in the forums that you can use. Please discuss these things there. If you leave a regular comment here on this blog, no one will be able to reply to you, because only actual links to design submissions will be posted in the comments here.
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\nJane: And we can have a vote. If I can get all the materials together and post in the morning, that would give 2 days of design time for submissions on Monday, and if we do a day of voting Tuesday, that’s 3 days notice for the vote. I’ll make sure to post to all the lists, etc.
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\nRyan: That would help set the scope. We just want tweaks here and there, given the timing.
\nJane: Woot!
\nOn Your Mark, Get Set…
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\nSubmit the link to your comps by 1am Tuesday, April 28 UTC (7pm Monday, April 27, New York time). If you have questions or want early feedback, we’ll be in and out of the #wordpress-dev IRC channel between now and then.
\nOnce we’ve received the submissions, we’ll post a voting survey (much simpler than the icon survey; this one will be more of poll, just choose the one you like best) as soon as possible, and will post the link to it here as soon as it’s online. We’ll only keep voting open for one day because of the 2.8 deadline, so put it on your calendar if you think you’ll forget. Voting will close at 2am Wednesday, April 29 UTC (8pm Tuesday, April 28, New York time). Results will be announced the following day.
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\";}i:1;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:51:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WLTC Reader Survey Results\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4243\";s:4:\"link\";s:80:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/29/wltc-reader-survey-results/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3162:\"We recently ran a reader survey to have you answer some basic questions that we had about Weblog Tools Collection and would like to thank all those who participated in the survey. We were not looking for specific answers but were trying to gauge some sentiments and help shape ourselves to serve you better. We are also looking for a better understanding of where we should spend our resources to provide the most value to our readers. In that spirit, most of the answers were helpful and some of the comments made us look a little closely at the mirror.
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\";}i:2;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:32:\"Matt: Startonomics This Thursday\";s:4:\"guid\";s:48:\"http://ma.tt/2008/09/startonomics-this-thursday/\";s:4:\"link\";s:48:\"http://ma.tt/2008/09/startonomics-this-thursday/\";s:11:\"description\";s:180:\"The Startonomics conference is happening this Thursday in San Francisco and looks pretty interesting, I’m going to try to go by.
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\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:56:13 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"jane\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:787:\"Another round of mini-mockups and multiple choice questions awaits the first 5000 respondents. WordPress 2.7 UI Survey #2 is now available to take your opinions regarding:
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\";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:60:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/28\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4235\";s:4:\"link\";s:88:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/28/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0928/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3095:\"\nG4B Photo Gallery is a free, flexible plugin for WordPress. It provides a simple and effective way to include a complete gallery anywhere on your site, just by typing in a keyword.
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\";}i:6;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:47:\"Matt: Video - How WordPress Has Changed My Life\";s:4:\"guid\";s:61:\"http://ma.tt/2008/09/video-how-wordpress-has-changed-my-life/\";s:4:\"link\";s:61:\"http://ma.tt/2008/09/video-how-wordpress-has-changed-my-life/\";s:11:\"description\";s:103:\"\nHat tip: Nancy Zimmerman.
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\";}i:8;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"Matt: Mark Cuban, Jason Calacanis, Hackaday, and Royal Navy\";s:4:\"guid\";s:20:\"http://ma.tt/?p=7773\";s:4:\"link\";s:36:\"http://ma.tt/2008/09/more-switchers/\";s:11:\"description\";s:389:\"Mark Cuban, Jason Calacanis, Hackaday, and the Royal Navy all now have WordPress-powered blogs. The first three switched from Blogsmith. Hat tip: Automattic Publisher Blog.
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\";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:29:\"Matt: Revisiting Moral Hazard\";s:4:\"guid\";s:45:\"http://ma.tt/2008/09/revisiting-moral-hazard/\";s:4:\"link\";s:45:\"http://ma.tt/2008/09/revisiting-moral-hazard/\";s:11:\"description\";s:205:\"Revisiting Moral Hazard, by Bob McTeer. (Whom I’ve met.)
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\";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:22:\"Matt: WordCamp Weekend\";s:4:\"guid\";s:20:\"http://ma.tt/?p=7734\";s:4:\"link\";s:38:\"http://ma.tt/2008/09/wordcamp-weekend/\";s:11:\"description\";s:639:\"There’s not one but three four WordCamps this weekend. I just got back from China, where both the Beijing and Shanghai events were great. (More pictures coming soon.) This Saturday you can check out WordPress events in Portland, Salt Lake City (I’ll be attending this one, they asked me first), Vancouver, and Birmingham.
There’s not one but three four WordCamps this weekend. I just got back from China, where both the Beijing and Shanghai events were great. (More pictures coming soon.) This Saturday you can check out WordPress events in Portland, Salt Lake City (I’ll be attending this one, they asked me first), Vancouver, and Birmingham.
Some cool news today — Automattic is acquiring Intense Debate. You can read more on Jon’s blog on Intense Debate, or on Toni’s blog, or on VC Mike’s blog.
\nFor those of you who aren’t familiar with the product, Intense Debate supercharges the comment section of WordPress blogs and other sites with cool features like threading, reply by email, voting, reputation, and global profiles. There are a few companies tackling this space right now, but I was impressed with how much ID (Intense Debate) has been able to do with a small team, and happy to find that their common platform (PHP and MySQL) would make integration a lot easier.
\nGoing forward, the plan is to keep Intense Debate available as a platform-agnostic independent service, much like Akismet. We’ll start to integrate its features into WordPress core, WordPress.com, and Gravatar as appropriate. For example, comment threading is going to be in WordPress 2.7, but reply by email is a lot easier to implement on a hosted service like WordPress.com. We’re also going to be able to lend our expertise in scaling to the ID team to make sure their users enjoy the same hassle-free speed and bulletproof availability as users of other Automattic services.
\nLong-term, I think that comments are the most crucial interaction point for blogs, and an area that deserves a lot of investment and innovation. Comments really haven’t changed in a decade, and it’s time to spice things up a little.
\nWe were early in the space with investing in Akismet to solve the spam problem, but now I think the real growth opportunities are in the user interaction and social features across comments. There is a huge opportunity to increase the traffic and engagement of blogs significantly. WordPress.com alone already gets about three legitimate comments every second — more than a quarter of a million every day. I’m excited to see what the Intense Debate team can do to make things more interesting.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:15:56 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2410:\"Some cool news today — Automattic is acquiring Intense Debate. You can read more on Jon’s blog on Intense Debate, or on Toni’s blog, or on VC Mike’s blog.
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\";}i:12;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:23:\"Matt: 18 on 30 Under 30\";s:4:\"guid\";s:20:\"http://ma.tt/?p=7725\";s:4:\"link\";s:39:\"http://ma.tt/2008/09/18-on-30-under-30/\";s:11:\"description\";s:212:\"Inc. just announced their Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 and I came in at #18. Cool! Some really young ones on the list though — I’m getting old.
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\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:15:56 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:145:\"The Social Media Bible Podcast interview.
\";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:60:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/26\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4233\";s:4:\"link\";s:88:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/26/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0926/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2224:\"WordPress Amazon Widget Shortcodes
\nThis plugin is made for you if you use Amazon Affiliate links (aka Amazon Associates, Amazon Partenaires etc.).
\n\ncomment2tweet is a WordPress plugin which will automatically post new comments from a WordPress blog to a twitter account. The comment posted to twitter will be an excerpt 140 characters long, and includes a short url link back to the comment.
\n\nSimple and rapid technique to hide your affiliate links.
\n\nInstead of quickly giving up when a visitor reaches a page that doesn’t exist, make an effort to guess what they were
\nafter in the first place. This plugin will perform a search of your posts, tags and categories, using keywords from the requested
\nURL. If there’s a match, redirect to that page instead of showing the error. If there’s more than one match, the
\n404 template can use some template tags to provide a list of suggestions to the visitor.
Grabs Snooth.com Wine Ratings and adds them to a sidebar on your WordPress Blog using the Widget engine.
\n\nAutomatically displays possibly related posts at the end of each post.
\n\nEasily disables the visual editor globally.
\n\nThis WordPress plugin allows you to use Amazon’s Simple Storage Service to host your media for your WordPress powered blog.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:11:34 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2224:\"WordPress Amazon Widget Shortcodes
\nThis plugin is made for you if you use Amazon Affiliate links (aka Amazon Associates, Amazon Partenaires etc.).
\n\ncomment2tweet is a WordPress plugin which will automatically post new comments from a WordPress blog to a twitter account. The comment posted to twitter will be an excerpt 140 characters long, and includes a short url link back to the comment.
\n\nSimple and rapid technique to hide your affiliate links.
\n\nInstead of quickly giving up when a visitor reaches a page that doesn’t exist, make an effort to guess what they were
\nafter in the first place. This plugin will perform a search of your posts, tags and categories, using keywords from the requested
\nURL. If there’s a match, redirect to that page instead of showing the error. If there’s more than one match, the
\n404 template can use some template tags to provide a list of suggestions to the visitor.
Grabs Snooth.com Wine Ratings and adds them to a sidebar on your WordPress Blog using the Widget engine.
\n\nAutomatically displays possibly related posts at the end of each post.
\n\nEasily disables the visual editor globally.
\n\nThis WordPress plugin allows you to use Amazon’s Simple Storage Service to host your media for your WordPress powered blog.
\";}i:25;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 09/25\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4231\";s:4:\"link\";s:87:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/25/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0925/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1903:\"\n![\"aqueous\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/aqueous.jpg\" "\\"aqueous\\"")
Three column, blue and white theme with a fluid later, designed for higher resolutions.
\n\n![\"talian-screenshot-banner\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/talianscreenshotbanner.jpg\" "\\"talian-screenshot-banner\\"")
Talian is a 3 colomn premium theme with several new features (Post styling options, mini social bookmakers) and option pages e.g. custom sitemap, custom archives and custom link pages
\n\n![\"wpfoto\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/wpfoto.jpg\" "\\"wpfoto\\"")
Wp Foto theme is single layout theme designed for photo blogger. It uses custom fields for displaying thumbnail in home page, archive page, category and tag page.
\n\n![\"mediterranean\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/mediterranean.jpg\" "\\"mediterranean\\"")
Mediterranean is a two column, widget ready WordPress theme, with right-hand sidebar, from an original XHTML template by DemusDesign.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:54:44 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1903:\"\n
Three column, blue and white theme with a fluid later, designed for higher resolutions.
\n\n
Talian is a 3 colomn premium theme with several new features (Post styling options, mini social bookmakers) and option pages e.g. custom sitemap, custom archives and custom link pages
\n\n
Wp Foto theme is single layout theme designed for photo blogger. It uses custom fields for displaying thumbnail in home page, archive page, category and tag page.
\n\n
Mediterranean is a two column, widget ready WordPress theme, with right-hand sidebar, from an original XHTML template by DemusDesign.
\";}i:26;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:24:\"Alex King: WordCamp Utah\";s:4:\"guid\";s:49:\"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/09/24/wordcamp-utah\";s:4:\"link\";s:49:\"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/09/24/wordcamp-utah\";s:11:\"description\";s:1833:\"The team and I have been hard at work getting some pretty interesting goodies ready for launch at WordCamp Utah this weekend.
\n![\"WordCamp](\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3182/2768045330_a1f6ae4503_o.png\")
I’m also giving a presentation on plugin development - so if there is anything you’d like to hear about specifically please let me know and I’ll try to get it in there.
\n\n \";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:36:47 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Alex\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1833:\"The team and I have been hard at work getting some pretty interesting goodies ready for launch at WordCamp Utah this weekend.
\n
I’m also giving a presentation on plugin development - so if there is anything you’d like to hear about specifically please let me know and I’ll try to get it in there.
\n\n \";}i:27;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:60:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/24\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4225\";s:4:\"link\";s:88:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/24/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0924/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2743:\"\nPhotoQ is a WordPress plugin that turns your blog into a photoblog. If you have a lot of pictures to post, PhotoQ is your ideal companion. With PhotoQ you can mass upload several photos at the same time thanks to its batch upload functionality.
\n\nAdmin Drop Down Menus rearranges the existing default Dashboard/Admin menus into javascript driven dropdowns, making navigation around your Wordpress Admin quicker, easier and considerably more efficient.
\n\nJust simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box.
\n\nTabbed interfaces are the most common on newspaper type website where they can save a lot of vertical space and make it look less cluttered. This plugin allows you to create them.
\n\nHatena Star is a recommendation service for webpages, popular in Japan.
\nBlinko Broadcaster for WordPress
\nThe Blinko Broadcaster Plugin gives any WordPress user the opportunity to create their own broadcasting page, by signing up to an evaluation account to Blinko just by filling in an email address, all through a user-friendly interface in the Admin Panel.
\n\nWP MarkItUp! is the Wordpress plugin that replaces the old “quicktags” toolbar with MarkItUp!, a jQuery plugin written by Jay Salvat that allows to turn any textarea into an highly customizable markup editor.
\n\nFind and replacer is a powerful search plugin for replacing tags and text throughout your blog installation.
\n\nThe plugin will add a digg button to every post, so your readers could digg the post if they really like it.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:58:24 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2743:\"\nPhotoQ is a WordPress plugin that turns your blog into a photoblog. If you have a lot of pictures to post, PhotoQ is your ideal companion. With PhotoQ you can mass upload several photos at the same time thanks to its batch upload functionality.
\n\nAdmin Drop Down Menus rearranges the existing default Dashboard/Admin menus into javascript driven dropdowns, making navigation around your Wordpress Admin quicker, easier and considerably more efficient.
\n\nJust simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box.
\n\nTabbed interfaces are the most common on newspaper type website where they can save a lot of vertical space and make it look less cluttered. This plugin allows you to create them.
\n\nHatena Star is a recommendation service for webpages, popular in Japan.
\nBlinko Broadcaster for WordPress
\nThe Blinko Broadcaster Plugin gives any WordPress user the opportunity to create their own broadcasting page, by signing up to an evaluation account to Blinko just by filling in an email address, all through a user-friendly interface in the Admin Panel.
\n\nWP MarkItUp! is the Wordpress plugin that replaces the old “quicktags” toolbar with MarkItUp!, a jQuery plugin written by Jay Salvat that allows to turn any textarea into an highly customizable markup editor.
\n\nFind and replacer is a powerful search plugin for replacing tags and text throughout your blog installation.
\n\nThe plugin will add a digg button to every post, so your readers could digg the post if they really like it.
\";}i:28;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:62:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Automattic Has Acquired IntenseDebate\";s:4:\"guid\";s:91:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/23/automattic-has-acquired-intensedebate/\";s:4:\"link\";s:91:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/23/automattic-has-acquired-intensedebate/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1063:\"Automattic Has Acquired IntenseDebate’s Enhanced Comment System: Automattic has acquired IntenseDebate for an undisclosed amount according to TechCrunch and this post on the IntenseDate blog. They are planning to delve into a closed beta once again while they ramp up their hardware for an onslaught of new users from Automattic. Plans include a tight integeration with WordPress (I am assuming with WordPress.com initially and maybe as a plugin for WordPress.org, thus the need for ramping up resources) but will continue to exist as a separate service and will be available for other platforms beside WordPress. Expect more news on this front very soon. Matt and Toni also talk about the acquisition.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:24:30 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1063:\"Automattic Has Acquired IntenseDebate’s Enhanced Comment System: Automattic has acquired IntenseDebate for an undisclosed amount according to TechCrunch and this post on the IntenseDate blog. They are planning to delve into a closed beta once again while they ramp up their hardware for an onslaught of new users from Automattic. Plans include a tight integeration with WordPress (I am assuming with WordPress.com initially and maybe as a plugin for WordPress.org, thus the need for ramping up resources) but will continue to exist as a separate service and will be available for other platforms beside WordPress. Expect more news on this front very soon. Matt and Toni also talk about the acquisition.
\";}i:29;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:56:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Comment Spam with more Kung Fu?\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4216\";s:4:\"link\";s:84:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/23/comment-spam-with-more-kung-fu/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3256:\"It is no secret that Weblog Tools Collection is a magnet for comment spam. I am not sure if this is something to brag about but Akismet has caught over 3,588,568 spam comments as of writing this article. We spend a considerable amount of time moderating comments on this blog and lately the time spent has increased many fold. Let me explain.
\nSince automattic spamming of blogs has mostly been reduced to a trickle due to the likes of Akismet, spammers are now individually targeting blog posts with highly relevant, and in many cases highly convincing comments. I moderated and subsequently spammed a comment today that was over a hundred words long, on the pros and cons of one of the themes on our daily theme posts. I thought the comment was a very well written review of theme until I looked closely. The URI of the poster was a refinancing Made For AdSense page. One click of my itchy index finger and it was gone. Take that sucka!
\nThis sort of relevant comment spam is not new but the time and effort spent on writing them seems to have increased quite a bit, where legit comments are harder to distinguish from spam. They now come with more Kung Fu and we need to spend more time and effort in identifying them. We use a plugin written by Alex King on this blog that can delink the comment authors. However there is lurking danger in just delinking a comment author since if the author was really a spammer, authorizing a comment is akin to authorizing them to post comments on your blog without moderation (they still have to go through Akismet even if the author was previously authorized). So if the comment looks really legit but has a lurking spam link in the URI, and Akismet thinks it is ham then you as the blogger never see it because it never gets put into the moderation queue and the spammer is successful.
\nIn addition to much better comments from spammers, trackback spam have gotten clever as well. Spammy trackbacks from Russian and Chinese sites have increased considerably. They are much harder to identify as spam because of the language barrier and we have resorted to deleting them if they look anywhere close to being suspicious or add nothing to the conversation. We also delete any and all trackbacks from scraper sites. As a matter of fact, we use the blacklist feature to remove them from contention completely but scapers are another story for another day.
\nSo we are spending more time moderating comments and often feel guilty that we might be spamming or deleting legitimate comments from folks whose site/blog look spammy to us (there was a poker blog that looked spammy but was written by a legitimate poker fan). Sadly, one persons’ spam might look to another person like ham and vice versa. It is getting harder to determine the spamminess of a comment because the distinguishing features that separate ham from spam continue to get more and more blurry. Please be (more) careful when approving a comment because you might be letting a spammer in.
\n“Named must your fear be before banish it you can.”
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:45:26 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3256:\"It is no secret that Weblog Tools Collection is a magnet for comment spam. I am not sure if this is something to brag about but Akismet has caught over 3,588,568 spam comments as of writing this article. We spend a considerable amount of time moderating comments on this blog and lately the time spent has increased many fold. Let me explain.
\nSince automattic spamming of blogs has mostly been reduced to a trickle due to the likes of Akismet, spammers are now individually targeting blog posts with highly relevant, and in many cases highly convincing comments. I moderated and subsequently spammed a comment today that was over a hundred words long, on the pros and cons of one of the themes on our daily theme posts. I thought the comment was a very well written review of theme until I looked closely. The URI of the poster was a refinancing Made For AdSense page. One click of my itchy index finger and it was gone. Take that sucka!
\nThis sort of relevant comment spam is not new but the time and effort spent on writing them seems to have increased quite a bit, where legit comments are harder to distinguish from spam. They now come with more Kung Fu and we need to spend more time and effort in identifying them. We use a plugin written by Alex King on this blog that can delink the comment authors. However there is lurking danger in just delinking a comment author since if the author was really a spammer, authorizing a comment is akin to authorizing them to post comments on your blog without moderation (they still have to go through Akismet even if the author was previously authorized). So if the comment looks really legit but has a lurking spam link in the URI, and Akismet thinks it is ham then you as the blogger never see it because it never gets put into the moderation queue and the spammer is successful.
\nIn addition to much better comments from spammers, trackback spam have gotten clever as well. Spammy trackbacks from Russian and Chinese sites have increased considerably. They are much harder to identify as spam because of the language barrier and we have resorted to deleting them if they look anywhere close to being suspicious or add nothing to the conversation. We also delete any and all trackbacks from scraper sites. As a matter of fact, we use the blacklist feature to remove them from contention completely but scapers are another story for another day.
\nSo we are spending more time moderating comments and often feel guilty that we might be spamming or deleting legitimate comments from folks whose site/blog look spammy to us (there was a poker blog that looked spammy but was written by a legitimate poker fan). Sadly, one persons’ spam might look to another person like ham and vice versa. It is getting harder to determine the spamminess of a comment because the distinguishing features that separate ham from spam continue to get more and more blurry. Please be (more) careful when approving a comment because you might be letting a spammer in.
\n“Named must your fear be before banish it you can.”
\";}i:30;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:27:\"Donncha: WP Super Cache 0.8\";s:4:\"guid\";s:29:\"http://ocaoimh.ie/?p=89494030\";s:4:\"link\";s:47:\"http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/09/23/wp-super-cache-08/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3387:\"WP Super Cache is a page caching plugin for WordPress that will significantly speed up your website.
\nIf you’re not interested in the changes, simply grab the latest version of the plugin and copy the files into your plugin folder. It’ll work, but if you’re upgrading, you should read on.
\nMajor changes in this release:\n
Edit: 0.8.1 has just been released. This addresses the following:\n
Related Posts
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:46:50 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:7:\"Donncha\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3387:\"WP Super Cache is a page caching plugin for WordPress that will significantly speed up your website.
\nIf you’re not interested in the changes, simply grab the latest version of the plugin and copy the files into your plugin folder. It’ll work, but if you’re upgrading, you should read on.
\nMajor changes in this release:\n
Edit: 0.8.1 has just been released. This addresses the following:\n
Related Posts
\";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:43:\"Lloyd: Official WordPress Logos and Fan Art\";s:4:\"guid\";s:30:\"http://foolswisdom.com/?p=1577\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://foolswisdom.com/official-wordpress-logos-and-fan-art/\";s:11:\"description\";s:4102:\"I know that Matt Mullenweg and Matt Thomas die a little each time they see WordPress fan art that uses a faux logo. I only notice the chubby W because I’ve been edumacated.
\nMT (the real) has updated WordPress.org/about/buttons with official WordPress logos in pngs and vector image formats.
\n![\"WordPress](\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3159/2845483965_9e92fd4305.jpg\" "\\"WordPress")
WordPress Logos and WordPress Buttons
There are also WordPress desktop wall paper in various official colors and sizes. The official WordPress colors are given in a variety of code systems. Pantone 7468 anyone?
\nFan Art
\nThe fan art page could use some fresh contributions.
\nThese naturalized WordPress logos would be nice additions:
\n![\"WordPress](\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3292/2880228178_9943eee2e1_m.jpg\" "\\"WordPress")
WordPress India Independence Logo by Allan Fernandes
One or more of the WordPress Malaysia Independence Logos by Avijit Paul. My favorite are the one’s with the flower for the O:
\n![\"\"](\"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1231/1254183619_bb57290e17_o.jpg\" "\\"WordPress")
WordPress Malaysia Independence Logos by Avijit Paul
I love the WordCamp Philippines logo:
\n![\"WordCamp](\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3247/2880228246_acdc907c18_o.jpg\" "\\"WordCamp")
WordCamp Philippines Logo by Andrew Dela Serna
What is your favorite WordPress art?
\nLorelle’s category icons are brilliant. For example, she uses this image for WordPress News:
\n![\"\"](\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/wpnews1.png\")
Anyone know the creator of this popular images?
\n![\"Halo](\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3247/2879519763_d2190c21b5_m.jpg\")
Same day correction: previously the article suggested the font is Dante, but both Matts have come to my rescue. It used to be the WordPress logo font. When Jason Santa Maria designed the new logo a few years ago, he chose the lovely Mrs. Eaves.
\nAdam Freetly identified the creator of the “lens flare” logo as being Dan Philibin.
\nWordPress \"Lens Flare\" Logo by Dan Philibin
I know that Matt Mullenweg and Matt Thomas die a little each time they see WordPress fan art that uses a faux logo. I only notice the chubby W because I’ve been edumacated.
\nMT (the real) has updated WordPress.org/about/buttons with official WordPress logos in pngs and vector image formats.
\nWordPress Logos and WordPress Buttons
There are also WordPress desktop wall paper in various official colors and sizes. The official WordPress colors are given in a variety of code systems. Pantone 7468 anyone?
\nFan Art
\nThe fan art page could use some fresh contributions.
\nThese naturalized WordPress logos would be nice additions:
\nWordPress India Independence Logo by Allan Fernandes
One or more of the WordPress Malaysia Independence Logos by Avijit Paul. My favorite are the one’s with the flower for the O:
\nWordPress Malaysia Independence Logos by Avijit Paul
I love the WordCamp Philippines logo:
\nWordCamp Philippines Logo by Andrew Dela Serna
What is your favorite WordPress art?
\nLorelle’s category icons are brilliant. For example, she uses this image for WordPress News:
\n
Anyone know the creator of this popular images?
\n
Same day correction: previously the article suggested the font is Dante, but both Matts have come to my rescue. It used to be the WordPress logo font. When Jason Santa Maria designed the new logo a few years ago, he chose the lovely Mrs. Eaves.
\nAdam Freetly identified the creator of the “lens flare” logo as being Dan Philibin.
\nWordPress \"Lens Flare\" Logo by Dan Philibin
![\"\"](\"http://farm1.static.flickr.com/40/97800018_cc84632d71_m_d.jpg\" "\\"Vulcan\\"")
If you have been thinking about attending WordCamp Birmingham 2008, but haven’t committed yet, now is the time. There are only a couple of hours left to sign up. Registration is only $25, and that includes lunch and a tee shirt — talk about a bargain! Register now!
If you have been thinking about attending WordCamp Birmingham 2008, but haven’t committed yet, now is the time. There are only a couple of hours left to sign up. Registration is only $25, and that includes lunch and a tee shirt — talk about a bargain! Register now!
![\"pro-vehicles-theme\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/provehiclestheme.jpg\" "\\"pro-vehicles-theme\\"")
Simple two column WordPress theme
\n\n![\"alpen\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/alpen.jpg\" "\\"alpen\\"")
Three column, gravatar ready theme with two right sidebars
\n\n![\"pclean\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/pclean.jpg\" "\\"pclean\\"")
Two Column widget enabled minimalist wordpres theme
\n\n![\"clean-news\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/cleannews.jpg\" "\\"clean-news\\"")
Inspired on Wired Magazine look, Clean News is a theme with a large content area, but it also has a wide sidebar that allows to display even a 300px width ad. Home and single sidebars are independent, both widgetized, so you can easily choose what and where to display. A lot of white space to make your content stand out, low weight and no plugins required. It will load in the blink of an eye.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:24:14 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1850:\"\n
Simple two column WordPress theme
\n\n
Three column, gravatar ready theme with two right sidebars
\n\n
Two Column widget enabled minimalist wordpres theme
\n\n
Inspired on Wired Magazine look, Clean News is a theme with a large content area, but it also has a wide sidebar that allows to display even a 300px width ad. Home and single sidebars are independent, both widgetized, so you can easily choose what and where to display. A lot of white space to make your content stand out, low weight and no plugins required. It will load in the blink of an eye.
\";}i:34;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:49:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Weekly Is Back\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4197\";s:4:\"link\";s:78:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/21/wordpress-weekly-is-back/\";s:11:\"description\";s:10824:\"Many of you may or may not remember a WordPress podcast that was hosted and produced by yours truly called WordPress Weekly. The show made it through 22 episodes. Some of those included staple interviews with Matt Mullenweg, Lorelle Van Fossen, and Alex King. Because I took on more work, it became increasingly difficult to produce the show on a weekly basis for no pay. Don’t get me wrong, I had a blast doing it but I have to pay the bills. Therefor, I opted to concentrate on the work that would pay me versus doing the show for nothing. After I stopped producing the show, comments, emails and feedback through instant messaging started coming in, letting me know how much you enjoyed the show. Many people who had just discovered the show let me know that they were disappointed there would be no more episodes after 22.
\nI’ve taken all of your feedback to heart and have decided to bring the show back. Mark and I have decided to produce the show for WeblogToolsCollection as part of our content on this blog.
\nWordPress Weekly was a weekly podcast that discussed what happened within the past week within the world of WordPress. Generally every show was an open round table discussion. I had a number of people who would call in and chime in on stories I discussed during the show. Sometimes, this would be anywhere between 3-7 people on the phone at once, talking over each other but generally, having a good time. This time around, I plan on changing things up a bit. For starters, the show will now have a co-host. If there is anything I’ve learned while doing WordPress Weekly for 22 episodes, it is that having someone to talk to, to bounce stories off of is much better than facing the possibility of talking to myself, or a room of empty people. Two people engaging in a conversation is much better than what I can do single handedly. Also, I don’t have to worry if whether or not people will call in to the show to be part of the round table.
\nMy co host is more than qualified for the job. His name is Keith Murrary and resides in Canada. He has been working with WordPress for a little while now. He is the author of the Admin Links Sidebar Widget plugin. He works as a systems administrator at his place of employment and his role on the podcast will be to discuss the development side of WordPress. I take things from an end users perspective, so we should match up pretty well in discussions.
\nWordPress Weekly is a weekly oriented podcast that takes place every Friday evening at 8PM EST starting on October 3rd, 2008 on Talkshoe.com. The format of the show will remain close to what it has been in the past. The co-host and I will discuss the WordPress news of the week. This could be plugin updates, releases, themes, version releases, development updates, a tutorial written by someone in the community, could be anything as long as it relates to WordPress. At the end of each show, Keith and I will give out our plugin of the week. This plugin is picked individually by us and is tested prior to the show.
\nI am aiming for a relaxing atmosphere where WordPress Users can gather around for 1 hour every Friday evening and discuss the latest happenings with everything WordPress. You could almost consider the show a virtual WordCamp.
\nSo how can you be a part of the show? The easiest way is to create an account on Talkshoe.com. Then, download and install their client software (Talkshoe Pro). The Talkshoe software serves as a bridge of communication between the host, and his/her listeners. The software contains a chat room as well as phone number information to call into the show.
\nHowever, you do not need to install the software in order to listen to the show live. Friday October 3rd, at 8PM EST, look on the front page of Talkshoe.com or click on the LIVE NOW button and look for the Wordpress Weekly show. Instead of clicking on the JOIN IN button, click underneath where it says LISTEN ONLY. This will tune you into the live stream.
\nIf you want to call in to the show via telephone, Skype, payphone landline, etc, dial 724-444-7444 and follow the audio instructions. *Note* In one of the recent updates to Talkshoe, anonymous calling is now supported. This means you can call in and participate without the need to create a Talkshoe account. However, if you have a Talkshoe account, your registered name will show up within the Talkshoe client letting others know who is speaking. I also want to let you know that Talkshoe has had problems with people calling in anonymously, trying to crash peoples shows or prank call hosts. Having a registered user account will give you a better chance of being on the air. When you dial into the show and you want to speak on the air, press *8 on your dial pad. This is the request to talk feature and will let me know you want to chime in on the discussion.
\nYou can also use SIP clients such as ProjectGizmo or X-Lite. For example, when I use X-Lite to dial in, I type in 123@66.212.134.192 and then follow the audio directions. If you would like to use X-Lite but are unsure in how to configure the software, I highly advise you to check out my in depth tutorial (Installing And Configuring X-Lite)which explains everything you need to know.
\nRemember this information as it will be required when you want to dial into the show.
\nTalkcast Name: WordPress Weekly
\n\n
Talkcast ID: 34224
\n\n
Phone Number: 724-444-7444
\nThis would also be a good time to remind you that Talkshoe now has a web client that you can access without the need to download or install any software. The web client makes it as easy as pie to participate in the show.
\nThe first is by listening to the live stream. Every Friday at 8PM EST starting on October 3rd, a live stream of the show is enabled, allowing you to listen to the show LIVE as it is being recorded. You can listen to the live stream via the web application which allows you to chat, or you can listen to the stream only. It’s your choice.
\nThe second option is to wait until the final show notes are published on WeblogToolsCollection. When the show notes for WordPress Weekly are finalized, I always embed a talkshoe player at the end of the post which allows you to listen to the show on the website.
\nThe third option is to subscribe to the Talkcast RSS feed. Each Talkshoe player that is displayed on the website has a small RSS icon near the top right corner of the player. Clicking this icon will allow you to subscribe to the feed, and will download the latest episodes into your Feed Reader.
\nThe fourth option is to subscribe to the show via Itunes. Talkshoe provides a link you can use to subscribe to a Talkshoe show through Itunes. If you want to subscribe via Itunes or RSS, the best thing to do is to visit THIS PAGE and click on the Itunes button or the RSS button.
\nThe fifth option is to manually browse to the talkcast homepage and manually download each episode as an mp3 file. When you visit the homepage, click on the DOWNLOAD button and that will download the appropriate episode in an mp3 format that has no DRM attached to it.
\nLast but not least, if you would like to be reminded of the show via email, please create an account on Talkshoe.com and then visit my Talkcast page. After you create an account, you’ll be able to click on the FOLLOW THIS button, which will add your email automatically to the mailing list. Each time I send out a reminder of when the show will air, an email will be sent to the email address you configured when you created your Talkshoe account.
\nUnlike the other WordPress centric podcasts that are available, this one is not pre recorded and thus, the audio is not studio grade quality. With that said, my audio has always sounded great with my X-Lite/Talkshoe combination. But, I can only control the audio quality for myself and no one else. So while Keith and I may sound great, someone who calls into the show with a crappy cell phone may sound terrible and there will be nothing I can do about it. The show is produced as is. If you partake in the discussions, I prefer that you please refrain from using expletives during the show. I believe points can be made without using these types of words. I’d also like to keep the clean rating for the show on iTunes.
\nI have a renewed sense as to how I want the show to be from here on out but I am open to ideas and suggestions to improve the show. At this point, I’d like to know from you, what are you looking for out of a WordPress centric podcast? Do you want more interviews rather than commentary on news? Do you want to know about themes and plugins more than anything else? Would you like us to do a roundtable show once a month or more? Would you like us to cover WordPress only or should we sometimes branch out and discuss topics that are related to blogging and not just WordPress?
\nIf you can’t answer those, simply tell me in the comments what your expectations are for an excellent podcast centered on WordPress that you would listen to every week.
\nThank you for taking the time to read this mile long manual. Keith and I will see you on Friday, October 3rd at 8PM EST.
\nBy the way, if you would like a sample of WordPress Weekly before our relaunch, listen to some of my past episodes via the Talkshoe player. Pressing the play button will initiate episode 22 where I interviewed Alex King.
\n\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:32:23 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:13:\"Jeff Chandler\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:10824:\"Many of you may or may not remember a WordPress podcast that was hosted and produced by yours truly called WordPress Weekly. The show made it through 22 episodes. Some of those included staple interviews with Matt Mullenweg, Lorelle Van Fossen, and Alex King. Because I took on more work, it became increasingly difficult to produce the show on a weekly basis for no pay. Don’t get me wrong, I had a blast doing it but I have to pay the bills. Therefor, I opted to concentrate on the work that would pay me versus doing the show for nothing. After I stopped producing the show, comments, emails and feedback through instant messaging started coming in, letting me know how much you enjoyed the show. Many people who had just discovered the show let me know that they were disappointed there would be no more episodes after 22.
\nI’ve taken all of your feedback to heart and have decided to bring the show back. Mark and I have decided to produce the show for WeblogToolsCollection as part of our content on this blog.
\nWordPress Weekly was a weekly podcast that discussed what happened within the past week within the world of WordPress. Generally every show was an open round table discussion. I had a number of people who would call in and chime in on stories I discussed during the show. Sometimes, this would be anywhere between 3-7 people on the phone at once, talking over each other but generally, having a good time. This time around, I plan on changing things up a bit. For starters, the show will now have a co-host. If there is anything I’ve learned while doing WordPress Weekly for 22 episodes, it is that having someone to talk to, to bounce stories off of is much better than facing the possibility of talking to myself, or a room of empty people. Two people engaging in a conversation is much better than what I can do single handedly. Also, I don’t have to worry if whether or not people will call in to the show to be part of the round table.
\nMy co host is more than qualified for the job. His name is Keith Murrary and resides in Canada. He has been working with WordPress for a little while now. He is the author of the Admin Links Sidebar Widget plugin. He works as a systems administrator at his place of employment and his role on the podcast will be to discuss the development side of WordPress. I take things from an end users perspective, so we should match up pretty well in discussions.
\nWordPress Weekly is a weekly oriented podcast that takes place every Friday evening at 8PM EST starting on October 3rd, 2008 on Talkshoe.com. The format of the show will remain close to what it has been in the past. The co-host and I will discuss the WordPress news of the week. This could be plugin updates, releases, themes, version releases, development updates, a tutorial written by someone in the community, could be anything as long as it relates to WordPress. At the end of each show, Keith and I will give out our plugin of the week. This plugin is picked individually by us and is tested prior to the show.
\nI am aiming for a relaxing atmosphere where WordPress Users can gather around for 1 hour every Friday evening and discuss the latest happenings with everything WordPress. You could almost consider the show a virtual WordCamp.
\nSo how can you be a part of the show? The easiest way is to create an account on Talkshoe.com. Then, download and install their client software (Talkshoe Pro). The Talkshoe software serves as a bridge of communication between the host, and his/her listeners. The software contains a chat room as well as phone number information to call into the show.
\nHowever, you do not need to install the software in order to listen to the show live. Friday October 3rd, at 8PM EST, look on the front page of Talkshoe.com or click on the LIVE NOW button and look for the Wordpress Weekly show. Instead of clicking on the JOIN IN button, click underneath where it says LISTEN ONLY. This will tune you into the live stream.
\nIf you want to call in to the show via telephone, Skype, payphone landline, etc, dial 724-444-7444 and follow the audio instructions. *Note* In one of the recent updates to Talkshoe, anonymous calling is now supported. This means you can call in and participate without the need to create a Talkshoe account. However, if you have a Talkshoe account, your registered name will show up within the Talkshoe client letting others know who is speaking. I also want to let you know that Talkshoe has had problems with people calling in anonymously, trying to crash peoples shows or prank call hosts. Having a registered user account will give you a better chance of being on the air. When you dial into the show and you want to speak on the air, press *8 on your dial pad. This is the request to talk feature and will let me know you want to chime in on the discussion.
\nYou can also use SIP clients such as ProjectGizmo or X-Lite. For example, when I use X-Lite to dial in, I type in 123@66.212.134.192 and then follow the audio directions. If you would like to use X-Lite but are unsure in how to configure the software, I highly advise you to check out my in depth tutorial (Installing And Configuring X-Lite)which explains everything you need to know.
\nRemember this information as it will be required when you want to dial into the show.
\nTalkcast Name: WordPress Weekly
\n\n
Talkcast ID: 34224
\n\n
Phone Number: 724-444-7444
\nThis would also be a good time to remind you that Talkshoe now has a web client that you can access without the need to download or install any software. The web client makes it as easy as pie to participate in the show.
\nThe first is by listening to the live stream. Every Friday at 8PM EST starting on October 3rd, a live stream of the show is enabled, allowing you to listen to the show LIVE as it is being recorded. You can listen to the live stream via the web application which allows you to chat, or you can listen to the stream only. It’s your choice.
\nThe second option is to wait until the final show notes are published on WeblogToolsCollection. When the show notes for WordPress Weekly are finalized, I always embed a talkshoe player at the end of the post which allows you to listen to the show on the website.
\nThe third option is to subscribe to the Talkcast RSS feed. Each Talkshoe player that is displayed on the website has a small RSS icon near the top right corner of the player. Clicking this icon will allow you to subscribe to the feed, and will download the latest episodes into your Feed Reader.
\nThe fourth option is to subscribe to the show via Itunes. Talkshoe provides a link you can use to subscribe to a Talkshoe show through Itunes. If you want to subscribe via Itunes or RSS, the best thing to do is to visit THIS PAGE and click on the Itunes button or the RSS button.
\nThe fifth option is to manually browse to the talkcast homepage and manually download each episode as an mp3 file. When you visit the homepage, click on the DOWNLOAD button and that will download the appropriate episode in an mp3 format that has no DRM attached to it.
\nLast but not least, if you would like to be reminded of the show via email, please create an account on Talkshoe.com and then visit my Talkcast page. After you create an account, you’ll be able to click on the FOLLOW THIS button, which will add your email automatically to the mailing list. Each time I send out a reminder of when the show will air, an email will be sent to the email address you configured when you created your Talkshoe account.
\nUnlike the other WordPress centric podcasts that are available, this one is not pre recorded and thus, the audio is not studio grade quality. With that said, my audio has always sounded great with my X-Lite/Talkshoe combination. But, I can only control the audio quality for myself and no one else. So while Keith and I may sound great, someone who calls into the show with a crappy cell phone may sound terrible and there will be nothing I can do about it. The show is produced as is. If you partake in the discussions, I prefer that you please refrain from using expletives during the show. I believe points can be made without using these types of words. I’d also like to keep the clean rating for the show on iTunes.
\nI have a renewed sense as to how I want the show to be from here on out but I am open to ideas and suggestions to improve the show. At this point, I’d like to know from you, what are you looking for out of a WordPress centric podcast? Do you want more interviews rather than commentary on news? Do you want to know about themes and plugins more than anything else? Would you like us to do a roundtable show once a month or more? Would you like us to cover WordPress only or should we sometimes branch out and discuss topics that are related to blogging and not just WordPress?
\nIf you can’t answer those, simply tell me in the comments what your expectations are for an excellent podcast centered on WordPress that you would listen to every week.
\nThank you for taking the time to read this mile long manual. Keith and I will see you on Friday, October 3rd at 8PM EST.
\nBy the way, if you would like a sample of WordPress Weekly before our relaunch, listen to some of my past episodes via the Talkshoe player. Pressing the play button will initiate episode 22 where I interviewed Alex King.
\n\";}i:35;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:60:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/21\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4201\";s:4:\"link\";s:88:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/21/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0921/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1747:\"\nThis plugin renders inline sheet music fragments inside posts and comments into images. It supports ABC, GUIDO, Lilypond and Mup music notations
\n\nC4F Textarea Toolbar is a plugin for WordPress aimed at providing a simple yet very useful and precise tool to insert emoticons and markup in the comments’ textarea.
\nBlogWell’s Simple Image Link Widget
\nSimple Image Link lets you easily add images to your sidebar, be they advertisements, buttons of support or buttons of protest without the need for any HTML.
\n\nGenerate RSS feeds for category and tag archive pages.
\n\nDisable the ability for users to password protect certain posts.
\n\nIntranet / Extranet plugin for Wordpress that allows users to specify which users can access specific posts or pages.
\n\nMTR Podcast Recorder offers real-time recording that is saved on the same server where WordPress is installed. All recordings will be saved into the MP3 format using LAME encoder.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 21 Sep 2008 07:08:27 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1747:\"\nThis plugin renders inline sheet music fragments inside posts and comments into images. It supports ABC, GUIDO, Lilypond and Mup music notations
\n\nC4F Textarea Toolbar is a plugin for WordPress aimed at providing a simple yet very useful and precise tool to insert emoticons and markup in the comments’ textarea.
\nBlogWell’s Simple Image Link Widget
\nSimple Image Link lets you easily add images to your sidebar, be they advertisements, buttons of support or buttons of protest without the need for any HTML.
\n\nGenerate RSS feeds for category and tag archive pages.
\n\nDisable the ability for users to password protect certain posts.
\n\nIntranet / Extranet plugin for Wordpress that allows users to specify which users can access specific posts or pages.
\n\nMTR Podcast Recorder offers real-time recording that is saved on the same server where WordPress is installed. All recordings will be saved into the MP3 format using LAME encoder.
\";}i:36;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 09/19\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4195\";s:4:\"link\";s:87:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/19/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0919/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2731:\"\n![\"8some\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/8some.jpg\" "\\"8some\\"")
Two column fixed-width WordPress theme, with lefthand sidebar, enabled for widgets…
\n\n![\"WPStrict\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/wpstrict.png\" "\\"WPStrict\\"")
WP Strict is a real Magazine/Blog/Webfolio hybrid with two different page templates, custom fields and four different widgetized areas.
\n\n![\"seo-basics\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/seobasics.png\" "\\"seo-basics\\"")
Orange, black, and gray combined to create a clean, great-looking theme. Supports rotating 125×125 sidebar ads, widgets, gravatars, and microformats.
\n\n![\"its-a-boy-header-screenshot\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/itsaboyheaderscreenshot.png\" "\\"its-a-boy-header-screenshot\\"")
Two column, fixed width, widget ready green, black and white theme.
\n\n![\"redlit\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/redlit.png\" "\\"redlit\\"")
Red Lite is a simple 2 column red and grey WordPress theme.
\n\n![\"portfolio-wordpress-theme-0918\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/09/portfoliowordpresstheme0918.jpg\" "\\"portfolio-wordpress-theme-0918\\"")
Two column, black and grey theme with gravatar functionality with an exteremely small size.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:47:40 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2731:\"\n
Two column fixed-width WordPress theme, with lefthand sidebar, enabled for widgets…
\n\n
WP Strict is a real Magazine/Blog/Webfolio hybrid with two different page templates, custom fields and four different widgetized areas.
\n\n
Orange, black, and gray combined to create a clean, great-looking theme. Supports rotating 125×125 sidebar ads, widgets, gravatars, and microformats.
\n\n
Two column, fixed width, widget ready green, black and white theme.
\n\n
Red Lite is a simple 2 column red and grey WordPress theme.
\n\n
Two column, black and grey theme with gravatar functionality with an exteremely small size.
\";}i:37;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:77:\"Weblog Tools Collection: News: WordPress.com Ad-Free and WordPress for iPhone\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4187\";s:4:\"link\";s:104:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/19/news-wordpresscom-ad-free-and-wordpress-for-iphone/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1193:\"For those that are on WordPress.com, Matt and the Automattic team introduced their new Ad-Free version of WordPress.com for a modest fee of 30 credits per year or $0.08 per day. Matt explains the reasoning behind the existence of the ads on WordPress.com and Lorelle writes up us a nice tutorial on how to activate this feature and some information on the ads themselves.
\nIn other cool WordPress news, the WordPress for iPhone app has been downloaded over 100,000 times! Ranaan, who I met for the first time in SF this year and is BBQ averse :), provides a breakdown of the downloads across countries and then runs down a list of new features that are being worked on for version 1.2 including landscape mode, comment moderation and enhanced image options.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:53:43 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1193:\"For those that are on WordPress.com, Matt and the Automattic team introduced their new Ad-Free version of WordPress.com for a modest fee of 30 credits per year or $0.08 per day. Matt explains the reasoning behind the existence of the ads on WordPress.com and Lorelle writes up us a nice tutorial on how to activate this feature and some information on the ads themselves.
\nIn other cool WordPress news, the WordPress for iPhone app has been downloaded over 100,000 times! Ranaan, who I met for the first time in SF this year and is BBQ averse :), provides a breakdown of the downloads across countries and then runs down a list of new features that are being worked on for version 1.2 including landscape mode, comment moderation and enhanced image options.
\";}i:38;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:54:\"Dougal Campbell: Yarrr! It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day!\";s:4:\"guid\";s:33:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=1085\";s:4:\"link\";s:74:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/09/19/yarrr-its-talk-like-a-pirate-day\";s:11:\"description\";s:1032:\"![\"\"](\"http://farm1.static.flickr.com/52/158426810_eac7b405ce_m.jpg\" "\\"Hoist")
Once again, we have arrived on Talk Like a Pirate Day. I had been hoping that I would be able to find time to upgrade my Text Filter Suite plugin for WordPress (which includes my Pirate filter for posts and comments), but I’ve just been too busy. Maybe I can get it re-worked for next year. I already know what I want to do with it: Consolidate all of the filter code, maybe re-do things in an OOP style, add the concept of ‘registering’ a filter with the system, and add a back-end user interface to make it easier to use.
Anyways, enjoy all the piratey goodness today!
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:30:03 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:6:\"Dougal\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1032:\"Once again, we have arrived on Talk Like a Pirate Day. I had been hoping that I would be able to find time to upgrade my Text Filter Suite plugin for WordPress (which includes my Pirate filter for posts and comments), but I’ve just been too busy. Maybe I can get it re-worked for next year. I already know what I want to do with it: Consolidate all of the filter code, maybe re-do things in an OOP style, add the concept of ‘registering’ a filter with the system, and add a back-end user interface to make it easier to use.
Anyways, enjoy all the piratey goodness today!
\";}i:39;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:75:\"Lorelle on WP: How to Remove WordPress.com Ads From Your WordPress.com Blog\";s:4:\"guid\";s:36:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=3030\";s:4:\"link\";s:99:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/how-to-remove-wordpresscom-ads-from-your-wordpresscom-blog/\";s:11:\"description\";s:11983:\"![\"WordPress.com](\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/wordpressdotcomnews.gif\")
Matt Mullenweg has just announced that you can go “ad-free” on your WordPress.com blog.
While you may have never noticed, those who are not logged into WordPress.com will see ads on blogs across the WordPress.com network. two years ago, WordPress.com started experimenting with Google ads to help support the cost of the experimental and state-of-the-art multiple user free blog service. The intent was not to cover your blogs with ads, like many free blogging services do, but to show an occasional ad discretely within your WordPress Theme.
\nSince few complained or noticed, the experiment continued, helping to keep WordPress.com free and add a lot of free features that might have been paid upgrades.
\nThese ads were so rare, I never saw them. So I forgot about them. I’ve written a lot about the WordPress.com Terms of Service policy that prohibits adding ads to your WordPress.com blogs, so I was dismayed a few months ago when I got a few emails accusing me of special favors from WordPress.com because I had ads on my blog. They were seeing the WordPress.com experimental ads. Unfortunately, one of the ads was - shall we say - inappropriate, a problem many have with Google’s ad program.
\n
\nStill, this bothered me. I talked to the WordPress team about this and they agreed that users should have the right to determine whether or not to have WordPress.com ads on their blogs. As Matt explains:
\nAt the same time it’s easy to imagine blogs that would never want ads on them: businesses, startups, non-profits, political activist sites, the list goes on. Google Adsense analyzes the content to show contextually relevant ads, but that might mean a link to a competitor. Because of this we’ve introduced a premium option that gives you control: the No-ads upgrade.
They’ve been working on this new feature for a while, trying to come up with a secure and affordable way for users to continue to support WordPress.com by permitting ads on their blogs, while allowing those with sensitive or special interests to not host ads. They’ve finally done it, and I applaud their foresight and integrity.
\nBefore you start jumping to remove ads from your WordPress.com blog, remember that those ads, most of which you will rarely ever see, help bring in income to keep WordPress.com going. If they don’t bother you or your readers, leave them alone. Why not?
\nYou are using one of the most powerful, state-of-the-art blogging platforms, a service that will survive the Digg-effect and high traffic surges without charging you; a service that keeps bringing you options and features without charge; a service that gives you a platform upon which to express yourself proudly - and is incredibly SEO friendly. Why not help them continue to keep this service free for everyone?
\nIf you do feel a compelling need to remove ads from your WordPress.com blog, go to Upgrades.
\n![\"WordPress.com](\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/wordpresscom-upgrades.png\" "\\"WordPress.com")
Scroll down to No-ads and select the option.
\n![\"Select](\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/wordpresscom-noads.png\" "\\"WordPress.com")
The cost to remove ads from your WordPress.com blog is 30 credits annually (USD $30 if you haven’t earned any credits) which comes to eight cents a day.
\nWhether you keep or remove ads from your WordPress.com blog, why not take a little time to give back to WordPress.com and other WordPress.com users by browsing the WordPress blog network and get to know your fellow WordPress.com members. You can use the Random Post feature in the gray dashboard bar at the top of your WordPress.com blog when you are logged in, or visit the WordPress.com Blogs of the Day which lists the most popular blogs by language, or the WordPress.com Tags list.
\nIf you are familiar with how WordPress.com works, then why not help out in the WordPress.com forums and get to know the volunteers and staff there as well as your other fellow WordPress.com members. It’s a simple way to say thank you for this powerful free blog service.
\nA lot of WordPress.com bloggers want to put ads on their blogs to make money for themselves. While some free blog hosts permit that, don’t forget that WordPress.com is also a testing site for many of the latest features of WordPress development.
\nWhile the world has to wait for the release of WordPress 2.7, WordPress.com users are already using the new sticky post feature and will soon be playing with other new features as part of the new WordPress Administration interface redesign, a continuation of user interface improvements from the previous version of WordPress - long before anyone else.
\nThis means that WordPress.com has to stay clean of code that will screw up not just one blog but all the blogs on the WordPress.com network powered by WordPressMU. While most ad code is harmless, opening up WordPress.com to Javascript and other code languages opens the door up to malicious code, too. It’s a security risk WordPress.com isn’t willing to take, and I support that policy.
\nIf you want to monetize your blog, get the free version of WordPress and pay for cheap hosting. Some hosts are offering web hosting for under USD $10 a month. With the full version of WordPress, you can not only add ads, but customize the whole look, add all kinds of cool WordPress Plugins, and really tweak your whole site to maximize its revenue potential.
\nWordPress.com has always been about blogging, about freedom of expression and creativity. It’s not about the code. It’s about the words. WordPress.com is working overtime to make sure we have a place to share our words with others around the world - no holds barred.
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Matt Mullenweg has just announced that you can go “ad-free” on your WordPress.com blog.
While you may have never noticed, those who are not logged into WordPress.com will see ads on blogs across the WordPress.com network. two years ago, WordPress.com started experimenting with Google ads to help support the cost of the experimental and state-of-the-art multiple user free blog service. The intent was not to cover your blogs with ads, like many free blogging services do, but to show an occasional ad discretely within your WordPress Theme.
\nSince few complained or noticed, the experiment continued, helping to keep WordPress.com free and add a lot of free features that might have been paid upgrades.
\nThese ads were so rare, I never saw them. So I forgot about them. I’ve written a lot about the WordPress.com Terms of Service policy that prohibits adding ads to your WordPress.com blogs, so I was dismayed a few months ago when I got a few emails accusing me of special favors from WordPress.com because I had ads on my blog. They were seeing the WordPress.com experimental ads. Unfortunately, one of the ads was - shall we say - inappropriate, a problem many have with Google’s ad program.
\n
\nStill, this bothered me. I talked to the WordPress team about this and they agreed that users should have the right to determine whether or not to have WordPress.com ads on their blogs. As Matt explains:
\nAt the same time it’s easy to imagine blogs that would never want ads on them: businesses, startups, non-profits, political activist sites, the list goes on. Google Adsense analyzes the content to show contextually relevant ads, but that might mean a link to a competitor. Because of this we’ve introduced a premium option that gives you control: the No-ads upgrade.
They’ve been working on this new feature for a while, trying to come up with a secure and affordable way for users to continue to support WordPress.com by permitting ads on their blogs, while allowing those with sensitive or special interests to not host ads. They’ve finally done it, and I applaud their foresight and integrity.
\nBefore you start jumping to remove ads from your WordPress.com blog, remember that those ads, most of which you will rarely ever see, help bring in income to keep WordPress.com going. If they don’t bother you or your readers, leave them alone. Why not?
\nYou are using one of the most powerful, state-of-the-art blogging platforms, a service that will survive the Digg-effect and high traffic surges without charging you; a service that keeps bringing you options and features without charge; a service that gives you a platform upon which to express yourself proudly - and is incredibly SEO friendly. Why not help them continue to keep this service free for everyone?
\nIf you do feel a compelling need to remove ads from your WordPress.com blog, go to Upgrades.
\n
Scroll down to No-ads and select the option.
\n
The cost to remove ads from your WordPress.com blog is 30 credits annually (USD $30 if you haven’t earned any credits) which comes to eight cents a day.
\nWhether you keep or remove ads from your WordPress.com blog, why not take a little time to give back to WordPress.com and other WordPress.com users by browsing the WordPress blog network and get to know your fellow WordPress.com members. You can use the Random Post feature in the gray dashboard bar at the top of your WordPress.com blog when you are logged in, or visit the WordPress.com Blogs of the Day which lists the most popular blogs by language, or the WordPress.com Tags list.
\nIf you are familiar with how WordPress.com works, then why not help out in the WordPress.com forums and get to know the volunteers and staff there as well as your other fellow WordPress.com members. It’s a simple way to say thank you for this powerful free blog service.
\nA lot of WordPress.com bloggers want to put ads on their blogs to make money for themselves. While some free blog hosts permit that, don’t forget that WordPress.com is also a testing site for many of the latest features of WordPress development.
\nWhile the world has to wait for the release of WordPress 2.7, WordPress.com users are already using the new sticky post feature and will soon be playing with other new features as part of the new WordPress Administration interface redesign, a continuation of user interface improvements from the previous version of WordPress - long before anyone else.
\nThis means that WordPress.com has to stay clean of code that will screw up not just one blog but all the blogs on the WordPress.com network powered by WordPressMU. While most ad code is harmless, opening up WordPress.com to Javascript and other code languages opens the door up to malicious code, too. It’s a security risk WordPress.com isn’t willing to take, and I support that policy.
\nIf you want to monetize your blog, get the free version of WordPress and pay for cheap hosting. Some hosts are offering web hosting for under USD $10 a month. With the full version of WordPress, you can not only add ads, but customize the whole look, add all kinds of cool WordPress Plugins, and really tweak your whole site to maximize its revenue potential.
\nWordPress.com has always been about blogging, about freedom of expression and creativity. It’s not about the code. It’s about the words. WordPress.com is working overtime to make sure we have a place to share our words with others around the world - no holds barred.
\n
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My co-worker Noel Jackson, tired of hearing me whine about the Six Apart TypePad Trap, has created a WordPress importer mashing together the MT formatted export file (missing permalinks) and the broken TypePad AtomPub (missing comments and trackbacks). We are currently testing this on WordPress.com before polishing the code up and sharing it. We are looking for some TypePad customers to help us test it — it’s completely harmless, read-only.
\nIf you are interested, let me know and we can set up a private blog on WordPress.com for you to import into. Bonus is that you will have a backup of your blog ready to go live if anything ever befalls TypePad.
\nThis importer wouldn’t be possible without the heroic effort Ronald Heft Jr put into creating a TypePad AtomPub importer for WordPress — it’s not his fault TypePad still doesn’t have a way to export your full blog.
\nWhat’s an AtomPub? While working on this importer Noel contacted TypePad support only to have them tell him they don’t know what AtomPub is, and that they don’t support it.
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Anyway, as I said, if you are a TypePad customer, and want to participate in open source development by testing this exporter, or would just like a backup of your blog ready to launch on WordPress.com, leave a comment or send me an email.
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\nIf you are interested, let me know and we can set up a private blog on WordPress.com for you to import into. Bonus is that you will have a backup of your blog ready to go live if anything ever befalls TypePad.
\nThis importer wouldn’t be possible without the heroic effort Ronald Heft Jr put into creating a TypePad AtomPub importer for WordPress — it’s not his fault TypePad still doesn’t have a way to export your full blog.
\nWhat’s an AtomPub? While working on this importer Noel contacted TypePad support only to have them tell him they don’t know what AtomPub is, and that they don’t support it.
\n
Anyway, as I said, if you are a TypePad customer, and want to participate in open source development by testing this exporter, or would just like a backup of your blog ready to launch on WordPress.com, leave a comment or send me an email.
\";}i:41;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:60:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/18\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4185\";s:4:\"link\";s:88:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/18/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0918/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2542:\"\nFeed Pauser is a plugin I wrote to address a issue I have been facing for a long time, the option to delay publishing a post to a feed. Feed pauser, pauses a post from being made available through RSS.
\nAuto-Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks
\nAutomatically close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks on your blog. This helps reduce the amount of spam aimed at old posts. Now you can keep comments / pingbacks / trackbacks on certain posts open.
\n\nThe web host Servage allows it’s users through a link to their website/coupon code to refer it’s users to their services.
\n\nThis plugin allows you to notify your readers on their Instant Messaging (AIM, MSN, GTalk, ICQ…), Email or SMS when you publish new posts! It also adds a widget to your blog to allow your users to choose on which channel they want to be notified!
\n\nThis plugin allows you to manage WordPress users via Google Apps accounts. The Authentication use Google Apps Gmail.
\n\nThe world clock widget is a javascript clock. It can be easily set to display date and time of different timezone.
\n\nAdds a little javascript and css to the header, and then a “Send to Facebook” link at the bottom of the blog post.
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\nAutomatically close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks on your blog. This helps reduce the amount of spam aimed at old posts. Now you can keep comments / pingbacks / trackbacks on certain posts open.
\n\nThe web host Servage allows it’s users through a link to their website/coupon code to refer it’s users to their services.
\n\nThis plugin allows you to notify your readers on their Instant Messaging (AIM, MSN, GTalk, ICQ…), Email or SMS when you publish new posts! It also adds a widget to your blog to allow your users to choose on which channel they want to be notified!
\n\nThis plugin allows you to manage WordPress users via Google Apps accounts. The Authentication use Google Apps Gmail.
\n\nThe world clock widget is a javascript clock. It can be easily set to display date and time of different timezone.
\n\nAdds a little javascript and css to the header, and then a “Send to Facebook” link at the bottom of the blog post.
\n\nAlter the output of the wp_list_pages() function’s HTML. Add in your own classes, insert text into link title, add additional tags surrounding title. Parents and Children are set seperately for greater flexibility.
\n\nObfuscates your email. You need to enter the shortcode in your post.
\";}i:42;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:73:\"Lorelle on WP: WordPress News and Announcements on WordPress 2.7 and More\";s:4:\"guid\";s:36:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=3027\";s:4:\"link\";s:98:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/wordpress-news-and-announcements-on-wordpress-27-and-more/\";s:11:\"description\";s:14295:\"I’ve just released the latest Blog Herald WordPress Wednesday News on WordPress Wednesday News: WordPress 2.7 Final Features, WTC Plugin Contest Winners, WordCamps, Surveys, and More, and there are some WordPress news tidbits I’d like to call your attention to.
Ryan Boren has announced the final WordPress 2.7 features to prepare us all for the upcoming release.
\nThey include the new “crazyhorse” WordPress Administration Panels interface, a new Write Post Panel that allows dragging and dropping of meta boxes so you can rearrange your writing surface, the ability to hide columns on the content index pages, inline editing of posts and Pages on the new content index pages, comments XMLRPC API, sticky posts, automatic WordPress Plugin installation and integrated Plugin browser, HTTPOnly auth cookies, and much more.
\nAfter all the kvetching I’ve done about the Comments Panel in the WordPress Administration Panels (okay, I’m not the only one), they have finally overhauled it and have added the ability to automatically upgrade WordPress and the total revamping of the Comments Panel to include replying to comments, keyboard shortcuts (hot keys) for managing comments, and threaded comments to help you keep track of the conversation.
\nI’m waiting to try it out as it may soon be added to WordPress.com as part of the testing. I do hope it will be as user-friendly as WordPress Comment Ninja Greasemonkey Script by Engtech of Internet Duct Tape. I’ll hate to part with my favorite non-WordPress Plugin toy.
\nIn announcements on the WordPress Development Blog and on WordPress.com, WordPress users are invited to participate in a survey to have your say on how the navigation options on the WordPress 2.7 Administration Panels interface (UI) should look and work.
\nAt WordCamp 2008, Liz Danzico and Jane Wells presented Riding The Crazyhorse: Future Generation WordPress, an inside look at how the new interface was developed and the amazing technology they use to test the results and make improvements.
\nIf you want your say in how it looks, you better speak up and take the survey.
\nWhile WordPress 2.7 is rewiring the whole Comments Panel, it is telling that the grand prize winner of the Weblog Tools Collection WordPress Plugin Competition was WP Comment Remix WordPress Plugin by Pressography. It will be interesting how this incredible WordPress Plugin survives the next release of WordPress. I’m sure the creative Plugin author will come up with something even more interesting.
\nSecond prize went to the author of the Manageable WordPress Plugin, followed by third prize, WP Easy Uploader. Consolation prize goes to Prelovac for his amazing work on WordPress Plugins recently.
\nAll the Plugins in the contest are amazing. Check them out and see how creative the WordPress Community continues to be.
\nSmashing Magazine published the WordPress Developers’ Toolbox, a huge collection of tips, tricks, resources, WordPress Themes, WordPress Theme design help, documentation, and tutorials for WordPress users. It’s overwhelming but there is a ton of great information in there.
\nPlease make sure that the article you are reading covers the version of WordPress you are using as some of the information is version-specific.
\nI continue to report on the many WordCamps and WordPress Meetups that are popping up everywhere. If you want your event covered, make sure to email me so I can cover it on the Blog Herald WordPress Wednesday News and The WordCamp Report.
\nIn case you didn’t hear, The WordCamp Report is looking for volunteers to live blog or report on WordCamp and WordPress events around the world. The site is covering WordCamp news, events, and WordPress events, and includes tips for those who want to bring a WordCamp to their area.
\nIf you have been a part of a WordCamp event and would like to submit an article on your experience and lessons learned, just let me know.
\nI also covered a lot of other WordPress news including these recent announcements on WordPress.com:
\nSSL Now Available for WordPress.com Bloggers: WordPress.com announced the ability for their bloggers to protect blogs with SSL. If you are blogging on a public access point, “blogjackers” can prey on security vulnerabilities and possibly collect sensitive information. By adding SSL protection, you will automatically be logged onto your blog with an HTTPS connection (secure). You’ve always had the option, but few WordPress.com bloggers understood how it worked.
\nTo activate this new feature, go to My Account > Edit Profile in the WordPress Administration Panels and check of “Always use HTTPS when visiting Administration pages” under Browser Connection.
\nWordPress.com FAQ Gets Screencasts: The WordPress.com FAQ now has screencasts on their guide posts helping WordPress.com users learn more about how to use specific WordPress.com features.
\nWordPress.com August 2008 Stats: The August Wrap-Up for statistics on WordPress.com included 286,860 blogs created, 298,655 new users, 3,442,638 file uploads, 439 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters, 6,750,960 comments, and 1,196,661 active blogs and 14,056,683 active posts. WordPress.com also crossed four million blogs this past week.
\nNew Themes for WordPress.com Members: WordPress.com announced two new WordPress Themes recently. The Albeo Theme for WordPress.com bloggers is designed by Elena at Design Disease. The DePo Masthead WordPress Theme by Derek Powazek features a minimalist magazine design with dynamic features such as header font size changes depending upon the length of the blog title, column heights for front page articles will always be equal, interesting navigation options, and hidden, unfolding comments.
\n
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I’ve just released the latest Blog Herald WordPress Wednesday News on WordPress Wednesday News: WordPress 2.7 Final Features, WTC Plugin Contest Winners, WordCamps, Surveys, and More, and there are some WordPress news tidbits I’d like to call your attention to.
Ryan Boren has announced the final WordPress 2.7 features to prepare us all for the upcoming release.
\nThey include the new “crazyhorse” WordPress Administration Panels interface, a new Write Post Panel that allows dragging and dropping of meta boxes so you can rearrange your writing surface, the ability to hide columns on the content index pages, inline editing of posts and Pages on the new content index pages, comments XMLRPC API, sticky posts, automatic WordPress Plugin installation and integrated Plugin browser, HTTPOnly auth cookies, and much more.
\nAfter all the kvetching I’ve done about the Comments Panel in the WordPress Administration Panels (okay, I’m not the only one), they have finally overhauled it and have added the ability to automatically upgrade WordPress and the total revamping of the Comments Panel to include replying to comments, keyboard shortcuts (hot keys) for managing comments, and threaded comments to help you keep track of the conversation.
\nI’m waiting to try it out as it may soon be added to WordPress.com as part of the testing. I do hope it will be as user-friendly as WordPress Comment Ninja Greasemonkey Script by Engtech of Internet Duct Tape. I’ll hate to part with my favorite non-WordPress Plugin toy.
\nIn announcements on the WordPress Development Blog and on WordPress.com, WordPress users are invited to participate in a survey to have your say on how the navigation options on the WordPress 2.7 Administration Panels interface (UI) should look and work.
\nAt WordCamp 2008, Liz Danzico and Jane Wells presented Riding The Crazyhorse: Future Generation WordPress, an inside look at how the new interface was developed and the amazing technology they use to test the results and make improvements.
\nIf you want your say in how it looks, you better speak up and take the survey.
\nWhile WordPress 2.7 is rewiring the whole Comments Panel, it is telling that the grand prize winner of the Weblog Tools Collection WordPress Plugin Competition was WP Comment Remix WordPress Plugin by Pressography. It will be interesting how this incredible WordPress Plugin survives the next release of WordPress. I’m sure the creative Plugin author will come up with something even more interesting.
\nSecond prize went to the author of the Manageable WordPress Plugin, followed by third prize, WP Easy Uploader. Consolation prize goes to Prelovac for his amazing work on WordPress Plugins recently.
\nAll the Plugins in the contest are amazing. Check them out and see how creative the WordPress Community continues to be.
\nSmashing Magazine published the WordPress Developers’ Toolbox, a huge collection of tips, tricks, resources, WordPress Themes, WordPress Theme design help, documentation, and tutorials for WordPress users. It’s overwhelming but there is a ton of great information in there.
\nPlease make sure that the article you are reading covers the version of WordPress you are using as some of the information is version-specific.
\nI continue to report on the many WordCamps and WordPress Meetups that are popping up everywhere. If you want your event covered, make sure to email me so I can cover it on the Blog Herald WordPress Wednesday News and The WordCamp Report.
\nIn case you didn’t hear, The WordCamp Report is looking for volunteers to live blog or report on WordCamp and WordPress events around the world. The site is covering WordCamp news, events, and WordPress events, and includes tips for those who want to bring a WordCamp to their area.
\nIf you have been a part of a WordCamp event and would like to submit an article on your experience and lessons learned, just let me know.
\nI also covered a lot of other WordPress news including these recent announcements on WordPress.com:
\nSSL Now Available for WordPress.com Bloggers: WordPress.com announced the ability for their bloggers to protect blogs with SSL. If you are blogging on a public access point, “blogjackers” can prey on security vulnerabilities and possibly collect sensitive information. By adding SSL protection, you will automatically be logged onto your blog with an HTTPS connection (secure). You’ve always had the option, but few WordPress.com bloggers understood how it worked.
\nTo activate this new feature, go to My Account > Edit Profile in the WordPress Administration Panels and check of “Always use HTTPS when visiting Administration pages” under Browser Connection.
\nWordPress.com FAQ Gets Screencasts: The WordPress.com FAQ now has screencasts on their guide posts helping WordPress.com users learn more about how to use specific WordPress.com features.
\nWordPress.com August 2008 Stats: The August Wrap-Up for statistics on WordPress.com included 286,860 blogs created, 298,655 new users, 3,442,638 file uploads, 439 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters, 6,750,960 comments, and 1,196,661 active blogs and 14,056,683 active posts. WordPress.com also crossed four million blogs this past week.
\nNew Themes for WordPress.com Members: WordPress.com announced two new WordPress Themes recently. The Albeo Theme for WordPress.com bloggers is designed by Elena at Design Disease. The DePo Masthead WordPress Theme by Derek Powazek features a minimalist magazine design with dynamic features such as header font size changes depending upon the length of the blog title, column heights for front page articles will always be equal, interesting navigation options, and hidden, unfolding comments.
\n
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I’m going to be joining everyone in the blogosphere at Blog World Expo in Las Vegas this weekend, September 20-21, 2008. Not going to be there? You are missing out on what could be a record breaking event.
I will be there with Woopra, Layered Tech, and WordPress.
\nI’ve peeked at the Conference Schedule and there is so much going on, I don’t even know where to begin.
\nIn addition to the Blog World Expo Exhibitors in the Exhibition Hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the incredible collection of speakers and workshops, and the crème de la crème of the blogosphers attending, there are also events within the main event, including:
\nThese specialty meetings and workshops cover niche areas and specific issues that confront bloggers within those specific areas. So much of it crosses borders, though, I’m having a tough time deciding which to attend.
\nI do know where I will be Sunday, September 21, from 3:00PM - 4:00PM. I will be on a panel with my buddies, John Pozadzides and Liz Strauss, covering The Stats of High Performance Content and Marketing.
\nI will also be occasionally found in the Exhibition Hall in booth 220 with Layered Tech, Woopra, and WordPress. If you want to talk about servers, web hosting, and the grid, I’ll let you talk to the other guys there, but if you want to talk WordPress or Woopra, I’m ready!
\nI hope to see you there!
\nNEXT: Next weekend, September 27, 2008, is WordCamp Portland, Oregon - September 27, 2008, where I will also be making noise. The event is sold out and there is a waiting list. It’s going to be great!
\nOther upcoming events where I will be speaking and attending include:
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I’m going to be joining everyone in the blogosphere at Blog World Expo in Las Vegas this weekend, September 20-21, 2008. Not going to be there? You are missing out on what could be a record breaking event.
I will be there with Woopra, Layered Tech, and WordPress.
\nI’ve peeked at the Conference Schedule and there is so much going on, I don’t even know where to begin.
\nIn addition to the Blog World Expo Exhibitors in the Exhibition Hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the incredible collection of speakers and workshops, and the crème de la crème of the blogosphers attending, there are also events within the main event, including:
\nThese specialty meetings and workshops cover niche areas and specific issues that confront bloggers within those specific areas. So much of it crosses borders, though, I’m having a tough time deciding which to attend.
\nI do know where I will be Sunday, September 21, from 3:00PM - 4:00PM. I will be on a panel with my buddies, John Pozadzides and Liz Strauss, covering The Stats of High Performance Content and Marketing.
\nI will also be occasionally found in the Exhibition Hall in booth 220 with Layered Tech, Woopra, and WordPress. If you want to talk about servers, web hosting, and the grid, I’ll let you talk to the other guys there, but if you want to talk WordPress or Woopra, I’m ready!
\nI hope to see you there!
\nNEXT: Next weekend, September 27, 2008, is WordCamp Portland, Oregon - September 27, 2008, where I will also be making noise. The event is sold out and there is a waiting list. It’s going to be great!
\nOther upcoming events where I will be speaking and attending include:
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Otomot Garaj Theme is a simple video theme. You can watch own videos in your website.
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\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:53:31 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:652:\"WordPress Developers’ Toolbox: Smashing Magazine has put together a quite large list of various tips, tricks, tutorials, documentation, resources, themes, design help and everything else in between for WordPress. As a matter of fact, I am surprised that it was not released as an “eBook”. I do wish that the data was organized better, with better linking within the article, better headings, smaller and fewer pictures and a better way to navigate. But the collection is quite large and there is lots of information there to browse through.
\";}i:46;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:60:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/16\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4173\";s:4:\"link\";s:88:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/16/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0916/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1335:\"\nThe wpSEO plugin helps you optimize your blog for SEO purposes by eliminating issues with duplicate content and specifying meta tags and page titles for the different pages of your blog. Page in German
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\";}i:47;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:40:\"bbPress: bbPress 1.0 alpha series update\";s:4:\"guid\";s:24:\"http://bbpress.org/?p=97\";s:4:\"link\";s:63:\"http://bbpress.org/blog/2008/09/bbpress-10-alpha-series-update/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1889:\"It’s about time everyone was let in on the progress we have made towards version 1.0 of bbPress.
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\nAlso to be included in the next release is an implementation of the pseudo cron feature from WordPress. This will allow plugin developers to schedule jobs in the future or on a regular basis. It is 100% compatible with the WordPress implementation, so the existing documentation is all you need to get started with using it.
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\";}i:48;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:64:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress 2.7 Navigation Options Survey\";s:4:\"guid\";s:92:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/15/wordpress-27-navigation-options-survey/\";s:4:\"link\";s:92:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/15/wordpress-27-navigation-options-survey/\";s:11:\"description\";s:413:\"WordPress 2.7 Navigation Options Survey: As design decisions are being made for the new WordPress 2.7 admin interface, the WordPress team would like your input in deciding how the navigation options should be grouped and labeled. Please take the survey.
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