O:9:"magpierss":19:{s:6:"parser";i:0;s:12:"current_item";a:0:{}s:5:"items";a:50:{i:0;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:57:"Weblog Tools Collection: The Best and Worst Times to Post";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3502";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/02/the-best-and-worst-times-to-post/";s:11:"description";s:926:"<p><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/new_study_shows_best_and_worst.php">Want That Post to Go Popular? Here&#8217;s The Best and Worst Times to Post It</a> <em>He determined the best days and times for a blog post to be submitted to those sites if its author wants it to receive the maximum number of votes, comments and inbound links. </em>Interesting data and tabulation of said data to determine what is the best and worst time to publish a post. Data is derived from various information collected through <a href="http://www.aiderss.com/">aideRSS</a>. I will not steal the <a href="http://3.rdrail.net/blog/thurday-at-noon-is-the-best-time-post-and-be-noticed-pst">original authors&#8217; thunder</a> by posting the answer here but I agree with the numbers for blogs which have a primarily US reader base. If your audience is from across the world (as on this blog), this might not be as relevant.<em></em></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 02 May 2008 21:50:19 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:926:"<p><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/new_study_shows_best_and_worst.php">Want That Post to Go Popular? Here&#8217;s The Best and Worst Times to Post It</a> <em>He determined the best days and times for a blog post to be submitted to those sites if its author wants it to receive the maximum number of votes, comments and inbound links. </em>Interesting data and tabulation of said data to determine what is the best and worst time to publish a post. Data is derived from various information collected through <a href="http://www.aiderss.com/">aideRSS</a>. I will not steal the <a href="http://3.rdrail.net/blog/thurday-at-noon-is-the-best-time-post-and-be-noticed-pst">original authors&#8217; thunder</a> by posting the answer here but I agree with the numbers for blogs which have a primarily US reader base. If your audience is from across the world (as on this blog), this might not be as relevant.<em></em></p>";}i:1;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:57:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases For 5/1";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3496";s:4:"link";s:85:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/02/wordpress-theme-releases-for-51/";s:11:"description";s:4043:"<h3>One Column Themes</h3>
<p><strong><a title="http://theojones.net/tj-clean-wordpress-theme/" href="http://theojones.net/tj-clean-wordpress-theme/" target="_blank">TJ-Clean</a></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/05/tjclean.png"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3499" title="tjclean" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/05/tjclean-150x150.png" alt="TJ Clean WP Theme" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>TJ Clean is a simple, clean cut yet feature-full WordPress theme which is great for sites where content is king. Ideal for personal blogs as it includes integration with Flickr (photo sharing), Last.FM (music sharing) and status updates from Facebook/Twitter (and others). This theme is also XHTML Strict 1.0 and Valid CSS 2.1.</p>
<h3>Two Column Themes</h3>
<p><strong><a title="http://www.jauhari.net/themes/30april" href="http://www.jauhari.net/themes/30april" target="_blank">30April</a></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/05/30april.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3497" title="30april" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/05/30april-150x150.jpg" alt="30April WP Theme" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>30April was created by the theme author to celebrate his birthday. This theme contains widget support, is fixed width, contains an extra footer, theme options to make changing and editing the theme easy and built in gravatar support.</p>
<p><strong><a title="http://www.conversasdobruno.webtuga.net/blog/tema-wordpress-milky-conversations-02/" href="http://www.conversasdobruno.webtuga.net/blog/tema-wordpress-milky-conversations-02/" target="_blank">Milky Conversations</a></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/05/milkyconversations.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3500" title="milkyconversations" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/05/milkyconversations-150x150.jpg" alt="Milky Conversations WP Theme" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Milky Conversations is a two column, widget ready theme that is based off of the White As Milk theme, written by Azeem Azeez. The theme has been released under GPL and is fully compliant with the license. As the name implies, this theme is pretty white with black text and a little bit of orange thrown in via the RSS icons.</p>
<h3>Three Column Themes</h3>
<p><strong><a title="http://theme.clarktech.no-ip.com/2008/04/28/new-theme-khaki-traveler/" href="http://theme.clarktech.no-ip.com/2008/04/28/new-theme-khaki-traveler/" target="_blank">Khaki Traveler</a></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/05/khakitraveler.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3498" title="khakitraveler" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/05/khakitraveler-150x150.jpg" alt="Khaki Traveler WP Theme" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Khaki Traveler was developed by Jeremy Clarke. It has a tan color scheme and a travel themed header.  It is also a three column widget ready theme.  It has gravatar support as well as tagging support.  It has a top navigation menu with an easy to access log-in form.</p>
<h3>Hybrid Themes - Themes Where The Number Of Columns Can Be Configured</h3>
<p><strong><a title="http://www.themelab.com/2008/04/29/choice-free-wordpress-theme/" href="http://www.themelab.com/2008/04/29/choice-free-wordpress-theme/" target="_blank">Choice</a></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/05/choice.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3501" title="choice" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/05/choice-150x150.jpg" alt="Choice WP Theme" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Choice is a highly configurable theme that supports either 2 or 3 columns, is widgetized, theme options to control the themes background color, theme text weight, theme heading color, number of sidebars and whether or not your slogan appears. The theme also has native tag support.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 02 May 2008 10:37:55 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:4043:"<h3>One Column Themes</h3>
<p><strong><a title="http://theojones.net/tj-clean-wordpress-theme/" href="http://theojones.net/tj-clean-wordpress-theme/" target="_blank">TJ-Clean</a></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/05/tjclean.png"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3499" title="tjclean" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/05/tjclean-150x150.png" alt="TJ Clean WP Theme" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>TJ Clean is a simple, clean cut yet feature-full WordPress theme which is great for sites where content is king. Ideal for personal blogs as it includes integration with Flickr (photo sharing), Last.FM (music sharing) and status updates from Facebook/Twitter (and others). This theme is also XHTML Strict 1.0 and Valid CSS 2.1.</p>
<h3>Two Column Themes</h3>
<p><strong><a title="http://www.jauhari.net/themes/30april" href="http://www.jauhari.net/themes/30april" target="_blank">30April</a></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/05/30april.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3497" title="30april" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/05/30april-150x150.jpg" alt="30April WP Theme" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>30April was created by the theme author to celebrate his birthday. This theme contains widget support, is fixed width, contains an extra footer, theme options to make changing and editing the theme easy and built in gravatar support.</p>
<p><strong><a title="http://www.conversasdobruno.webtuga.net/blog/tema-wordpress-milky-conversations-02/" href="http://www.conversasdobruno.webtuga.net/blog/tema-wordpress-milky-conversations-02/" target="_blank">Milky Conversations</a></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/05/milkyconversations.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3500" title="milkyconversations" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/05/milkyconversations-150x150.jpg" alt="Milky Conversations WP Theme" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Milky Conversations is a two column, widget ready theme that is based off of the White As Milk theme, written by Azeem Azeez. The theme has been released under GPL and is fully compliant with the license. As the name implies, this theme is pretty white with black text and a little bit of orange thrown in via the RSS icons.</p>
<h3>Three Column Themes</h3>
<p><strong><a title="http://theme.clarktech.no-ip.com/2008/04/28/new-theme-khaki-traveler/" href="http://theme.clarktech.no-ip.com/2008/04/28/new-theme-khaki-traveler/" target="_blank">Khaki Traveler</a></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/05/khakitraveler.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3498" title="khakitraveler" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/05/khakitraveler-150x150.jpg" alt="Khaki Traveler WP Theme" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Khaki Traveler was developed by Jeremy Clarke. It has a tan color scheme and a travel themed header.  It is also a three column widget ready theme.  It has gravatar support as well as tagging support.  It has a top navigation menu with an easy to access log-in form.</p>
<h3>Hybrid Themes - Themes Where The Number Of Columns Can Be Configured</h3>
<p><strong><a title="http://www.themelab.com/2008/04/29/choice-free-wordpress-theme/" href="http://www.themelab.com/2008/04/29/choice-free-wordpress-theme/" target="_blank">Choice</a></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/05/choice.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3501" title="choice" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/05/choice-150x150.jpg" alt="Choice WP Theme" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Choice is a highly configurable theme that supports either 2 or 3 columns, is widgetized, theme options to control the themes background color, theme text weight, theme heading color, number of sidebars and whether or not your slogan appears. The theme also has native tag support.</p>";}i:2;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:34:"Matt: Favorite Posting Bookmarklet";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=5234";s:4:"link";s:50:"http://ma.tt/2008/05/favorite-posting-bookmarklet/";s:11:"description";s:330:"<p>A question for Ma.tt readers: What&#8217;s your favorite posting bookmarklet? We&#8217;re starting to think about ways to make posting to WP from wherever you are on the web easier in 2.6, just curious what you guys enjoy the most and why. <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/05/favorite-posting-bookmarklet/" rel="bookmark">(0)</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 01 May 2008 18:54:23 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:330:"<p>A question for Ma.tt readers: What&#8217;s your favorite posting bookmarklet? We&#8217;re starting to think about ways to make posting to WP from wherever you are on the web easier in 2.6, just curious what you guys enjoy the most and why. <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/05/favorite-posting-bookmarklet/" rel="bookmark">(0)</a></p>";}i:3;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:51:"Weblog Tools Collection: Take Crontrol Of WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3493";s:4:"link";s:80:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/01/take-crontrol-of-wordpress/";s:11:"description";s:1674:"<p>Not too long ago, a new plugin was released called <a title="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-crontrol/#post-2777" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-crontrol/#post-2777" target="_blank">WP-Crontrol</a>. WP-Crontrol allows you to take control over what is happening in the WP-Cron system.</p>
<blockquote><p>WP-Cron is a tangle of black magic that allows a plugin developer or a user to schedule commands to be executed. WP-Crontrol is a plugin that lets a blog owner see through that magic and figure out what’s actually going on</p></blockquote>
<p>If you want a detailed introduction to this plugin as well as an explanation as to how to use this plugin in conjunction with WP Database Backup to create backups when you want them, be sure to check out this article: <a title="Permanent link to Add a new WordPress backup schedule with WP-Crontrol" rel="bookmark" href="http://scompt.com/archives/2008/04/29/add-a-new-wordpress-backup-schedule-with-wp-crontrol">Add a new WordPress backup schedule with WP-Crontrol</a></p>
<p>Also on the radar today is a quick fix for the WordPress 2.5.x image uploader. <a title="http://www.awsom.org/2008/quick-fix-for-image-uploader-issue-in-wordpress-25x/" href="http://www.awsom.org/2008/quick-fix-for-image-uploader-issue-in-wordpress-25x/" target="_blank">Awsom.org</a> is reporting that there is a no-flash plugin that is available which returns the previous image upload function from earlier versions of WordPress. <a title="Permanent Link to Quick Fix for Image Uploader issue in Wordpress 2.5.x" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.awsom.org/2008/quick-fix-for-image-uploader-issue-in-wordpress-25x/"></a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 01 May 2008 07:57:10 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1674:"<p>Not too long ago, a new plugin was released called <a title="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-crontrol/#post-2777" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-crontrol/#post-2777" target="_blank">WP-Crontrol</a>. WP-Crontrol allows you to take control over what is happening in the WP-Cron system.</p>
<blockquote><p>WP-Cron is a tangle of black magic that allows a plugin developer or a user to schedule commands to be executed. WP-Crontrol is a plugin that lets a blog owner see through that magic and figure out what’s actually going on</p></blockquote>
<p>If you want a detailed introduction to this plugin as well as an explanation as to how to use this plugin in conjunction with WP Database Backup to create backups when you want them, be sure to check out this article: <a title="Permanent link to Add a new WordPress backup schedule with WP-Crontrol" rel="bookmark" href="http://scompt.com/archives/2008/04/29/add-a-new-wordpress-backup-schedule-with-wp-crontrol">Add a new WordPress backup schedule with WP-Crontrol</a></p>
<p>Also on the radar today is a quick fix for the WordPress 2.5.x image uploader. <a title="http://www.awsom.org/2008/quick-fix-for-image-uploader-issue-in-wordpress-25x/" href="http://www.awsom.org/2008/quick-fix-for-image-uploader-issue-in-wordpress-25x/" target="_blank">Awsom.org</a> is reporting that there is a no-flash plugin that is available which returns the previous image upload function from earlier versions of WordPress. <a title="Permanent Link to Quick Fix for Image Uploader issue in Wordpress 2.5.x" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.awsom.org/2008/quick-fix-for-image-uploader-issue-in-wordpress-25x/"></a></p>";}i:4;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:68:"Weblog Tools Collection: Announcing WordPress Plugin Competition 2.5";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3492";s:4:"link";s:96:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/30/announcing-wordpress-plugin-competition-25/";s:11:"description";s:3367:"<p>It is time for another WordPress Plugin Competition. <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/26/winners-wordpress-plugin-competition/">Plugin competitions of the past</a> have seen fantastic code, extremely useful and fun plugins and have generated a lot of interest in WordPress and plugin development. Prizes have been very generously donated by readers and well wishers and we already have some donations towards this year&#8217;s competition and are looking for more. The final list of prizes will be determined very soon. <strong>If you would like to sponsor a prize or donate some money to the competition, please <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/contact-me/">contact me</a>.</strong> Lots of eyes see these competitions and your encouragement goes a long way in helping provide incentives. <strong>The plugin competition will begin on the 10th of May and will last till the 10th of July.</strong></p>
<p>There will be prizes for first, second and third places and a consolation prize. The plugins should be officially submitted through email and the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/">Plugin Competition Blog</a> (which will be cleaned for the new competition) should be used as a launching ground for plugin ideas, updates, development news etc. The plugins will be judged by a panel of at least three judges and reader feedback will be an essential part of the judging process. At the end of the contest, we will put up posts for each submission and will open them up to our readers for two weeks. The contest results should be declared by the beginning of August. <strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>All code must be GPL</strong> <strong>(or compatible)</strong> and should be available for download through the Competition Blog and preferably through <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/">WordPress Extend</a>. The plugins can be modified and tweaked till the last day of the competition or until the author sends us an email with the final version of the code. In essence, the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/">Plugin Competition Blog</a> is the preferred vehicle of communication for all contestants.</p>
<p>Some relevant details:</p>
<ul>
<li>Running time for competition = 2 months starting the 10th of May till the 10th of July.</li>
<li>True Wordpress plugins only. No manual modifications can be required of users.</li>
<li>You cannot submit plugins that have been released already. New code only please.</li>
<li>Plugins can only be submitted via email. We will make that email address public later on in the competition.</li>
<li>Plugins cannot have opt-out links back to the authors&#8217; pages (from the main blog pages, admin pages are fine). If you have links or donation forms, please make them opt-in.</li>
<li>All plugins <strong>require documentation</strong> as in the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/faq/">Wordpress Extend pages</a>. Documentation will be one of the judging criteria.</li>
<li>Preliminary support for the plugin has to be provided to the public.</li>
<li>We are looking for innovation, documentation and elegant code.</li>
<li>Any and all prizes/controversies/issues will be judged and decided at our sole discretion.</li>
</ul>
<p>More details to be added with time.</p>
<p>Stay tuned and please help spread the word.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:27:15 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:3367:"<p>It is time for another WordPress Plugin Competition. <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/26/winners-wordpress-plugin-competition/">Plugin competitions of the past</a> have seen fantastic code, extremely useful and fun plugins and have generated a lot of interest in WordPress and plugin development. Prizes have been very generously donated by readers and well wishers and we already have some donations towards this year&#8217;s competition and are looking for more. The final list of prizes will be determined very soon. <strong>If you would like to sponsor a prize or donate some money to the competition, please <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/contact-me/">contact me</a>.</strong> Lots of eyes see these competitions and your encouragement goes a long way in helping provide incentives. <strong>The plugin competition will begin on the 10th of May and will last till the 10th of July.</strong></p>
<p>There will be prizes for first, second and third places and a consolation prize. The plugins should be officially submitted through email and the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/">Plugin Competition Blog</a> (which will be cleaned for the new competition) should be used as a launching ground for plugin ideas, updates, development news etc. The plugins will be judged by a panel of at least three judges and reader feedback will be an essential part of the judging process. At the end of the contest, we will put up posts for each submission and will open them up to our readers for two weeks. The contest results should be declared by the beginning of August. <strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>All code must be GPL</strong> <strong>(or compatible)</strong> and should be available for download through the Competition Blog and preferably through <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/">WordPress Extend</a>. The plugins can be modified and tweaked till the last day of the competition or until the author sends us an email with the final version of the code. In essence, the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/">Plugin Competition Blog</a> is the preferred vehicle of communication for all contestants.</p>
<p>Some relevant details:</p>
<ul>
<li>Running time for competition = 2 months starting the 10th of May till the 10th of July.</li>
<li>True Wordpress plugins only. No manual modifications can be required of users.</li>
<li>You cannot submit plugins that have been released already. New code only please.</li>
<li>Plugins can only be submitted via email. We will make that email address public later on in the competition.</li>
<li>Plugins cannot have opt-out links back to the authors&#8217; pages (from the main blog pages, admin pages are fine). If you have links or donation forms, please make them opt-in.</li>
<li>All plugins <strong>require documentation</strong> as in the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/faq/">Wordpress Extend pages</a>. Documentation will be one of the judging criteria.</li>
<li>Preliminary support for the plugin has to be provided to the public.</li>
<li>We are looking for innovation, documentation and elegant code.</li>
<li>Any and all prizes/controversies/issues will be judged and decided at our sole discretion.</li>
</ul>
<p>More details to be added with time.</p>
<p>Stay tuned and please help spread the word.</p>";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:38:"Lorelle on WP: I Love My WordPress Mug";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=2512";s:4:"link";s:64:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/i-love-my-wordpress-mug/";s:11:"description";s:5050:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/wordpress-mug.jpg?w=300&h=400" alt="WordPress Mug" width="300" height="400" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2513" />Have you seen the <a href="http://shop.wordpress.net/usa/mugs/wordpress-footed-bistro-mug" title="WordPress Mugs for sale">new WordPress mug</a>? </p>
<p>For ages, while the <a href="http://shop.wordpress.net/">WordPress Shop</a> began their offerings of WordPress logo items with <a href="http://shop.wordpress.net/usa/t-shirts" title="T-Shirts">t-Shirts</a> and <a href="http://shop.wordpress.net/usa/hoodies" title="Hoodies">hoodies</a>, I kept telling the powers that be that I wanted a coffee mug. A big mug for my frequent cups of daily tea. A product that is useful and reusable, and it cleans up easily. Something I can display in a workplace environment that says &#8220;I love WordPress.&#8221;</p>
<p>I finally got my request! Now you can <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/20/blog-struggles-its-the-rituals-that-help-us-focus/" title="It’s The Rituals That Help Us Focus">join me for a cup of tea</a>&#8230;or coffee or whatever hydrates you&#8230;and proudly display the love you have for WordPress on your desk or in your home.</p>
<p>The mugs are dark blue with the small WordPress &#8220;W&#8221; circle and are designed for serious drinkers. The mug is great for soups. Even my picky husband loves the large handle and big size. We&#8217;re thinking about replacing all our tea mugs with WordPress mugs. </p>
<p>The WordPress Shop is produced by <a href="http://www.indigoclothing.com/" title="Powered by Indigo Clothing Ltd.">Indigo Clothing Ltd</a>.</p>
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<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/lorelle.wordpress.com/2512/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/lorelle.wordpress.com/2512/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2512/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2512/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2512/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2512/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2512/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2512/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2512/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2512/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2512/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2512/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=2512&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:11:35 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:17:"Lorelle VanFossen";}s:7:"summary";s:5050:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/wordpress-mug.jpg?w=300&h=400" alt="WordPress Mug" width="300" height="400" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2513" />Have you seen the <a href="http://shop.wordpress.net/usa/mugs/wordpress-footed-bistro-mug" title="WordPress Mugs for sale">new WordPress mug</a>? </p>
<p>For ages, while the <a href="http://shop.wordpress.net/">WordPress Shop</a> began their offerings of WordPress logo items with <a href="http://shop.wordpress.net/usa/t-shirts" title="T-Shirts">t-Shirts</a> and <a href="http://shop.wordpress.net/usa/hoodies" title="Hoodies">hoodies</a>, I kept telling the powers that be that I wanted a coffee mug. A big mug for my frequent cups of daily tea. A product that is useful and reusable, and it cleans up easily. Something I can display in a workplace environment that says &#8220;I love WordPress.&#8221;</p>
<p>I finally got my request! Now you can <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/20/blog-struggles-its-the-rituals-that-help-us-focus/" title="It’s The Rituals That Help Us Focus">join me for a cup of tea</a>&#8230;or coffee or whatever hydrates you&#8230;and proudly display the love you have for WordPress on your desk or in your home.</p>
<p>The mugs are dark blue with the small WordPress &#8220;W&#8221; circle and are designed for serious drinkers. The mug is great for soups. Even my picky husband loves the large handle and big size. We&#8217;re thinking about replacing all our tea mugs with WordPress mugs. </p>
<p>The WordPress Shop is produced by <a href="http://www.indigoclothing.com/" title="Powered by Indigo Clothing Ltd.">Indigo Clothing Ltd</a>.</p>
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<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/lorelle.wordpress.com/2512/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/lorelle.wordpress.com/2512/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2512/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2512/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2512/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2512/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2512/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2512/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2512/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2512/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2512/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2512/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=2512&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:6;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:28:"Dev Blog: Upcoming WordCamps";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=240";s:4:"link";s:60:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/upcoming-wordcamps/";s:11:"description";s:1445:"<p>WordCamps are my favorite events to go to because there&#8217;s something about the core WordPress community that attracts smart folks with good philosophies that are fun to hang out with. In this post I&#8217;ve collated the upcoming WordCamps we know about, including the one in San Francisco. Hopefully there will be one nearby so you can meet other WordPressers in your area.</p>
<p><strong>WordCamp San Francisco</strong> will be August 16 at the Mission Bay Conference Center.</p>
<p><a href="http://barcamp.org/WordCampParis">WordCamp Paris will be on May 3rd</a>. <a href="http://wordcamp.fr/">Here&#8217;s their official site</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://iwordpresscamp.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/european-wordcamp-beta/">WordCamp Italy in Milan will be May 10th</a>. (And I believe I&#8217;ll be there.)</p>
<p><a href="http://wiki.wordcampuk.tonyscott.org.uk/Main_Page">WordCamp Birmingham UK</a> will be July 19-20.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordcamptoronto.eventbrite.com/">WordCamp Toronto will be October 4th</a>.</p>
<p>There are people in the planning stages in <a href="http://australia.wordcamp.org/">Australia</a>, Philippines, Beijing, Utah, Hawaii, UK, NYC, and possibly others, so if you live in one of those areas and would like to help set up a WordCamp in your area Google around or connect with bloggers in your area.</p>
<p>You can always find out more at <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Central</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:54:48 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:1445:"<p>WordCamps are my favorite events to go to because there&#8217;s something about the core WordPress community that attracts smart folks with good philosophies that are fun to hang out with. In this post I&#8217;ve collated the upcoming WordCamps we know about, including the one in San Francisco. Hopefully there will be one nearby so you can meet other WordPressers in your area.</p>
<p><strong>WordCamp San Francisco</strong> will be August 16 at the Mission Bay Conference Center.</p>
<p><a href="http://barcamp.org/WordCampParis">WordCamp Paris will be on May 3rd</a>. <a href="http://wordcamp.fr/">Here&#8217;s their official site</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://iwordpresscamp.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/european-wordcamp-beta/">WordCamp Italy in Milan will be May 10th</a>. (And I believe I&#8217;ll be there.)</p>
<p><a href="http://wiki.wordcampuk.tonyscott.org.uk/Main_Page">WordCamp Birmingham UK</a> will be July 19-20.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordcamptoronto.eventbrite.com/">WordCamp Toronto will be October 4th</a>.</p>
<p>There are people in the planning stages in <a href="http://australia.wordcamp.org/">Australia</a>, Philippines, Beijing, Utah, Hawaii, UK, NYC, and possibly others, so if you live in one of those areas and would like to help set up a WordCamp in your area Google around or connect with bloggers in your area.</p>
<p>You can always find out more at <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Central</a>.</p>";}i:7;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:36:"Alex King: Theme Browser “Fixedâ€";s:4:"guid";s:55:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/04/29/theme-browser-fixed";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/04/29/theme-browser-fixed";s:11:"description";s:1563:"<p>I got a couple of reports that my <a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress/themes">WordPress Theme Browser</a> was not working. I checked it out, and sure enough - not working.</p>
<p>This was a bit of a surprise as that code hadn&#8217;t changed in years. Turns out, it was the browsers that had changed.</p>
<p>I had moved the theme browser from my site (to reduce server load) to my hosting account at Joyent a long time ago, and set it up on the domain managedtasks.com. The frameset page and the top frame were hosted on alexking.org, while the bottom frame - the theme viewer - was on managedtasks.com.</p>
<p>This combination stopped working because the browsers changed their cookie security settings. If you have your cookies set to &#8220;only accept cookies from sites I visit&#8221;, then your browser was rejecting the cookie from managedtasks.com (because the URL in your browser was alexking.org).</p>
<p>If this cookie wasn&#8217;t set, the proper theme was not displayed; hence the theme browser being  <img src="http://alexking.org/images/smilies/ak_scare1.gif" alt=":scare:" class="wp-smiley" /> broken <img src="http://alexking.org/images/smilies/ak_scare2.gif" alt=":/scare:" class="wp-smiley" /> .</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve moved it all onto managedtasks.com now, and everything appears to work again.</p>
<p><a href="http://sharethis.com/item?&wp=2.2.3&amp;publisher=06654962-d77d-102a-861d-00161729a8a2&amp;title=Theme+Browser+%22Fixed%22&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Falexking.org%2Fblog%2F2008%2F04%2F29%2Ftheme-browser-fixed">ShareThis</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:32:01 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:7:"summary";s:1563:"<p>I got a couple of reports that my <a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress/themes">WordPress Theme Browser</a> was not working. I checked it out, and sure enough - not working.</p>
<p>This was a bit of a surprise as that code hadn&#8217;t changed in years. Turns out, it was the browsers that had changed.</p>
<p>I had moved the theme browser from my site (to reduce server load) to my hosting account at Joyent a long time ago, and set it up on the domain managedtasks.com. The frameset page and the top frame were hosted on alexking.org, while the bottom frame - the theme viewer - was on managedtasks.com.</p>
<p>This combination stopped working because the browsers changed their cookie security settings. If you have your cookies set to &#8220;only accept cookies from sites I visit&#8221;, then your browser was rejecting the cookie from managedtasks.com (because the URL in your browser was alexking.org).</p>
<p>If this cookie wasn&#8217;t set, the proper theme was not displayed; hence the theme browser being  <img src="http://alexking.org/images/smilies/ak_scare1.gif" alt=":scare:" class="wp-smiley" /> broken <img src="http://alexking.org/images/smilies/ak_scare2.gif" alt=":/scare:" class="wp-smiley" /> .</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve moved it all onto managedtasks.com now, and everything appears to work again.</p>
<p><a href="http://sharethis.com/item?&wp=2.2.3&amp;publisher=06654962-d77d-102a-861d-00161729a8a2&amp;title=Theme+Browser+%22Fixed%22&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Falexking.org%2Fblog%2F2008%2F04%2F29%2Ftheme-browser-fixed">ShareThis</a></p>";}i:8;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:65:"Weblog Tools Collection: Need something designed? Crowdsource it.";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3490";s:4:"link";s:92:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/29/need-something-designed-crowdsource-it/";s:11:"description";s:1175:"<p><a href="http://99designs.com/">99 designs</a> is an interesting site. It fills a niche that I have carefully treaded in the past and have received negative feedback for (rightfully so). 99 Designs allows you to crowdsource your design needs. If an organization or an individual seeks a new design, they hold a &#8220;contest&#8221; of sorts using the tools built into 99 Designs and offer up some money for their project. Designers are then allowed to post entries for these and the contest holder is allowed to pick and choose the best design(s) and distribute the money based on the winning design. In the past designers have turned up their nose on design contests for a variety of reasons, most of which I agree with. However, the surprising thing about 99 Designs is the popularity of the site and the sheer number of designs that have been submitted for existing contest. Some of the work submitted is top notch. My question for designers is to find out whether competition has become so fierce and economic conditions so strained that contests are now fair game or have the rules changed a little? What do you think of the submitted designs on the linked site?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:07:58 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1175:"<p><a href="http://99designs.com/">99 designs</a> is an interesting site. It fills a niche that I have carefully treaded in the past and have received negative feedback for (rightfully so). 99 Designs allows you to crowdsource your design needs. If an organization or an individual seeks a new design, they hold a &#8220;contest&#8221; of sorts using the tools built into 99 Designs and offer up some money for their project. Designers are then allowed to post entries for these and the contest holder is allowed to pick and choose the best design(s) and distribute the money based on the winning design. In the past designers have turned up their nose on design contests for a variety of reasons, most of which I agree with. However, the surprising thing about 99 Designs is the popularity of the site and the sheer number of designs that have been submitted for existing contest. Some of the work submitted is top notch. My question for designers is to find out whether competition has become so fierce and economic conditions so strained that contests are now fair game or have the rules changed a little? What do you think of the submitted designs on the linked site?</p>";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin releases for 4/28";s:4:"guid";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/28/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-428/";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/28/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-428/";s:11:"description";s:2426:"<p><a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/04/13/cleaner-wordpress-gallery-plugin"><strong>Clean WordPress Gallery Plugin</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin replaces the default gallery feature in WordPress 2.5 with a valid XHTML solution and offers Lightbox, Slimbox, and Thickbox support.</p>
<p><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/04/08/the-best-way-to-test-new-wordpress-themes/"><strong>Theme Tester</strong></a></p>
<p>The Theme Tester plugin allows you to change themes and view the results without the visitors to your blog seeing any changes. The visitors may notice some changes if your current theme uses blog options that a new theme overwrites. </p>
<p><a href="http://smithsrus.com/downloads/wordpress-admin-color-fresh-plus-visited/"><strong>Fresh Plus Visited</strong></a></p>
<p>Fresh Plus Visited is a very simple plugin for WordPress 2.5 that adds a user color scheme to the admin interface.</p>
<p><a href="http://didier.lorphelin.free.fr/blog/index.php/wordpress/lameda/"><strong>Lameda</strong></a></p>
<p>Lameda stands for List Attachment MEtaDAta. The plugin enables you to display any information from your attachments like photos, music files, pdf, etc within your posts or pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-movie2blog/"><strong>Movie2Blog</strong></a></p>
<p>The plugin inserts short movie info in your posts (poster, title, directors, actors, runtime, short review, trailer). Uses Cinema Rx for serving data.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wp-fun.co.uk/fun-with-random-comment-forms/"><strong>Fun with Random Comment Forms</strong></a></p>
<p>The plugin replaces the form field names in the comment form with random names then uses sessions to name them correctly after submission before passing the values back for comment processing.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/easy-admin-color-schemes"><strong>Easy Admin Color Schemes</strong></a></p>
<p>The plugin allows you to manage the color schemes in your WordPress admin area. You can add new colors as well as edit current ones.</p>
<p><a href="http://mou.me.uk/projects/wordpress/plugins/facebook-dashboard-widget/"><strong>Facebook Dashboard Widget</strong></a></p>
<p>Using the dashboard widgets available in WordPress 2.5, this plugin will process your Friends status updates RSS feed and/or your Facebook notifications feed, and add a widget for each to your WordPress admin dashboard.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:55:07 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:2426:"<p><a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/04/13/cleaner-wordpress-gallery-plugin"><strong>Clean WordPress Gallery Plugin</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin replaces the default gallery feature in WordPress 2.5 with a valid XHTML solution and offers Lightbox, Slimbox, and Thickbox support.</p>
<p><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/04/08/the-best-way-to-test-new-wordpress-themes/"><strong>Theme Tester</strong></a></p>
<p>The Theme Tester plugin allows you to change themes and view the results without the visitors to your blog seeing any changes. The visitors may notice some changes if your current theme uses blog options that a new theme overwrites. </p>
<p><a href="http://smithsrus.com/downloads/wordpress-admin-color-fresh-plus-visited/"><strong>Fresh Plus Visited</strong></a></p>
<p>Fresh Plus Visited is a very simple plugin for WordPress 2.5 that adds a user color scheme to the admin interface.</p>
<p><a href="http://didier.lorphelin.free.fr/blog/index.php/wordpress/lameda/"><strong>Lameda</strong></a></p>
<p>Lameda stands for List Attachment MEtaDAta. The plugin enables you to display any information from your attachments like photos, music files, pdf, etc within your posts or pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-movie2blog/"><strong>Movie2Blog</strong></a></p>
<p>The plugin inserts short movie info in your posts (poster, title, directors, actors, runtime, short review, trailer). Uses Cinema Rx for serving data.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wp-fun.co.uk/fun-with-random-comment-forms/"><strong>Fun with Random Comment Forms</strong></a></p>
<p>The plugin replaces the form field names in the comment form with random names then uses sessions to name them correctly after submission before passing the values back for comment processing.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/easy-admin-color-schemes"><strong>Easy Admin Color Schemes</strong></a></p>
<p>The plugin allows you to manage the color schemes in your WordPress admin area. You can add new colors as well as edit current ones.</p>
<p><a href="http://mou.me.uk/projects/wordpress/plugins/facebook-dashboard-widget/"><strong>Facebook Dashboard Widget</strong></a></p>
<p>Using the dashboard widgets available in WordPress 2.5, this plugin will process your Friends status updates RSS feed and/or your Facebook notifications feed, and add a widget for each to your WordPress admin dashboard.</p>";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:27:"Gravatar: The Faces of CPAN";s:4:"guid";s:35:"http://gravatar.wordpress.com/?p=51";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://blog.gravatar.com/2008/04/28/the-faces-of-cpan/";s:11:"description";s:1913:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Michael S.  writes in to share with us two tidbits.  The first is that there is now a <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Gravatar-URL/">Gravatar CPAN module</a> (which is cool enough all on its own!) And that they have a very cool page allowing you to  see  &#8220;<a href="http://hexten.net/cpan-faces/">The Faces of CPAN</a>&#8221; via their gravatars (CPAN has supported <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~mschwern/">gravatars for their authors</a> for a while now).  Both of these are great finds. Awesome code! Awesome Ideas!  Keep up the good work CPAN team!</p>
<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/gravatar.wordpress.com/51/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/gravatar.wordpress.com/51/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/gravatar.wordpress.com/51/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/gravatar.wordpress.com/51/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/51/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/51/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/51/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/51/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/gravatar.wordpress.com/51/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/gravatar.wordpress.com/51/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/51/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/51/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gravatar.com&blog=1886259&post=51&subd=gravatar&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:57:45 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:11:"apokalyptik";}s:7:"summary";s:1913:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Michael S.  writes in to share with us two tidbits.  The first is that there is now a <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Gravatar-URL/">Gravatar CPAN module</a> (which is cool enough all on its own!) And that they have a very cool page allowing you to  see  &#8220;<a href="http://hexten.net/cpan-faces/">The Faces of CPAN</a>&#8221; via their gravatars (CPAN has supported <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~mschwern/">gravatars for their authors</a> for a while now).  Both of these are great finds. Awesome code! Awesome Ideas!  Keep up the good work CPAN team!</p>
<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/gravatar.wordpress.com/51/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/gravatar.wordpress.com/51/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/gravatar.wordpress.com/51/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/gravatar.wordpress.com/51/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/51/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/51/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/51/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/51/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/gravatar.wordpress.com/51/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/gravatar.wordpress.com/51/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/51/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/51/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gravatar.com&blog=1886259&post=51&subd=gravatar&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:11;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:55:"Weblog Tools Collection: Exporting-Importing A Category";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3473";s:4:"link";s:84:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/28/exporting-importing-a-category/";s:11:"description";s:3452:"<p>When it comes to exporting, WordPress already does a wonderful job with it&#8217;s support to export posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags. However, there is a problem. The WordPress exporter lacks granularity. What I mean by this is that, the exporter covers the entire blog instead of being able to select certain categories to export. I&#8217;ve searched the WordPress Plugin database high and low to look for a plugin that would specifically export categories and I could not find one. I did manage to come across two techniques though that get the job done.</p>
<p>There are two ways to export specific categories. The first is to read <a title="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/138812?replies=10#post-632530" href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/138812?replies=10#post-632530" target="_blank">this forum post</a> where HandySolo explains how to use the category RSS feed to export specific categories from a self hosted blog to a WordPress.com blog. The problem with this method is that, none of the meta data attached to the posts are carried over with the posts.</p>
<p>The second method is not pretty but it gets the job done. What I ended up doing was creating a new user account on my blog. I then used the post manager and filtered the posts by the category for which I wanted to export. I went through each individual post and quickly changed the post author from the original account, to the newly created user account. In my case, I had to do this to 25 individual posts. What is annoying about this method is that, when you save a post under a new author name, any blogs or posts that you have linked to within those posts will end up resending PINGs. However, I believe if you turn off this setting under the <strong>SETTINGS-DISCUSSION</strong> link in your administration panel this will prevent that from happening. Just remember to turn that back on after you&#8217;re finished.</p>
<p>After all of the posts within the category have been reassigned to a new author, you are ready to export. In your WordPress administration panel browse to <strong>MANAGE - EXPORT</strong>. Now here is the important step. Underneath where it says <strong>OPTIONS</strong>, you have a drop down box where you can restrict the export to a certain author. <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/exportoptions.png"></a></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3474 aligncenter" title="exportoptions" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/exportoptions.png" alt="WordPress Export Options" width="298" height="160" /></p>
<p>In the drop down box, select the newly created author and click on the <strong>DOWNLOAD EXPORT FILE</strong> and a WordPress WXR file will be downloaded to your desktop. This file will contain all of the posts from the category you wanted to export because the new user you created was assigned to only those posts within that category. This method actually allows you to export specific categories while maintaining the meta data associated with those posts such as comments and tags.</p>
<p>This is probably not the best way to obtain these results but it&#8217;s the only method that I&#8217;ve found that allows me to export specific posts/categories while still having all of the other data attached to those posts. If you have a better solution or know of a plugin that can obtain the same results, I&#8217;d be very interested to know about it.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:07:26 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:3452:"<p>When it comes to exporting, WordPress already does a wonderful job with it&#8217;s support to export posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags. However, there is a problem. The WordPress exporter lacks granularity. What I mean by this is that, the exporter covers the entire blog instead of being able to select certain categories to export. I&#8217;ve searched the WordPress Plugin database high and low to look for a plugin that would specifically export categories and I could not find one. I did manage to come across two techniques though that get the job done.</p>
<p>There are two ways to export specific categories. The first is to read <a title="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/138812?replies=10#post-632530" href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/138812?replies=10#post-632530" target="_blank">this forum post</a> where HandySolo explains how to use the category RSS feed to export specific categories from a self hosted blog to a WordPress.com blog. The problem with this method is that, none of the meta data attached to the posts are carried over with the posts.</p>
<p>The second method is not pretty but it gets the job done. What I ended up doing was creating a new user account on my blog. I then used the post manager and filtered the posts by the category for which I wanted to export. I went through each individual post and quickly changed the post author from the original account, to the newly created user account. In my case, I had to do this to 25 individual posts. What is annoying about this method is that, when you save a post under a new author name, any blogs or posts that you have linked to within those posts will end up resending PINGs. However, I believe if you turn off this setting under the <strong>SETTINGS-DISCUSSION</strong> link in your administration panel this will prevent that from happening. Just remember to turn that back on after you&#8217;re finished.</p>
<p>After all of the posts within the category have been reassigned to a new author, you are ready to export. In your WordPress administration panel browse to <strong>MANAGE - EXPORT</strong>. Now here is the important step. Underneath where it says <strong>OPTIONS</strong>, you have a drop down box where you can restrict the export to a certain author. <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/exportoptions.png"></a></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3474 aligncenter" title="exportoptions" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/exportoptions.png" alt="WordPress Export Options" width="298" height="160" /></p>
<p>In the drop down box, select the newly created author and click on the <strong>DOWNLOAD EXPORT FILE</strong> and a WordPress WXR file will be downloaded to your desktop. This file will contain all of the posts from the category you wanted to export because the new user you created was assigned to only those posts within that category. This method actually allows you to export specific categories while maintaining the meta data associated with those posts such as comments and tags.</p>
<p>This is probably not the best way to obtain these results but it&#8217;s the only method that I&#8217;ve found that allows me to export specific posts/categories while still having all of the other data attached to those posts. If you have a better solution or know of a plugin that can obtain the same results, I&#8217;d be very interested to know about it.</p>";}i:12;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:67:"Lorelle on WP: WordPress Security Prevention, Reactions, and Scares";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=2507";s:4:"link";s:91:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/wordpress-security-prevention-reactions-and-scares/";s:11:"description";s:16865:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/tag/wordpress-tips/" title="WordPress Tips"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/wordpresstips.gif" alt="" align="right" /></a><a href="http://ma.tt/2008/04/securityfocus-sql-injection-bogus/" title="SecurityFocus SQL Injection Bogus">Matt Mullenweg spoke out recently on the recent bogus &#8220;SecurityFocus SQL Injection&#8221; fear</a> spreading across the web. There is a huge perception today that WordPress is a security risk. This is not true. </p>
<p>As Matt discussed, fears of SQL server vulnerabilities and other security issues have gotten out of control, for WordPress as well as other open source and proprietary programs, which he likened to  &#8220;running into a crowded theatre and yell &#8216;fire&#8217; and the less basis there is in fact the more people link to them. It’s not uncommon to see crying-wolf reports like the above several times in a week&#8230;&#8221; </p>
<p><a href="http://blogs.technet.com/security/archive/2008/03/05/sql-server-fact-checking-recent-vulnerability-history.aspx" title="SQL Server - Fact Checking Recent Vulnerability History">Jeff Jones, a software security expert, dug into the history of a recent SQL server</a> issue and reported:</p>
<blockquote><p>Last week a web-based news story comes to my attention which asserted that last year SQL Server had &#8220;&#8230;most vulnerabilities last year of any commercial database&#8230;&#8221; That prompted me to do some fact checking and I thought it worth documenting the real (really good) story of SQL vulnerabilities and what commercial database had the most vulnerabilities last year&#8230;</p>
<p>So. One thing is clear from the rudimentary investigation I&#8217;ve performed here - SQL Server was not even close to having the most vulnerabilities last year of any commercial database.</p>
<p>In fact, though SQL 2000 Server may have had a rough track record up through 2003, the SQL team has certainly turned a corner since then and SQL Server 2005 has had one of the best security track records of any commercial database ever.</p></blockquote>
<p>In a report on his <a href="http://blogs.csoonline.com/blog/jeff_jones" title="Jeff Jones' Security Blog">Security Blog</a>, <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/security/attachment/2594822.ashx" title="Internet Explorer and Firefox Vulnerability Analysis (pdf)">Internet Explorer and Firefox Vulnerability Analysis (pdf)</a>, Jones reported that <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/" title="Firefox Web Browser" rel="tag">FireFox</a> has had more security vulnerabilities than Internet Explorer, even though it is a widely held belief that FireFox is the &#8220;better&#8221; browser. </p>
<p>When a security issue came up with <a href="http://www.wordpress.com/" title="WordPress.com free blogs" rel="tag">WordPress.com</a>, it was fixed within 10 minutes of being reported. Yet, the news spread around for days that WordPress.com was a security risk.</p>
<p>Perception is everything. In another report and analysis, <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/security/archive/2007/10/23/microsoft-security-intelligence-report-1st-half-2007.aspx" title="Microsoft Security Intelligence Report - 1st Half 2007">Jeff Jones reports on the increasing number of disclosures</a> influencing the perception of security issues and vulnerabilities as they catch the public eye.<br />
<span id="more-2507"></span></p>
<blockquote><p>The number of disclosures of new software vulnerabilities across the industry continues<br />
to be in the thousands, with more than 3,400 new vulnerabilities disclosed in 1H07 [first half of 2007]. But this number actually represents a decrease from 2H06, the first period-to-period decline in total vulnerabilities since 2003. </p>
<p>There are a couple of other interesting results that I want to call out that you should examine with more detail in the full report:</p>
<p>  * Social engineering plays a growing role in overall malware attack techniques. This is a key result since even with vulnerability-free software, these techniques could succeed against users of any platform.<br />
  * Windows Defender has proportionally detected 2.8 times less potentially unwanted software on computers running Windows Vista than on computers running Windows XP SP2, based on normalized data. This is a practical measure of benefit that is somewhat more valuable in my opinion than vulnerability comparisons.</p></blockquote>
<p>As Matt said, the more sensational and invalid the security scare, the more likely it is to be spread in this age of social networking where anyone can have their say and link. Even sites with few security problems quickly get a bad reputation. We need to pay attention to the serious threats so these cries of fire do not become cries of wolf. </p>
<h3>How Vulnerable is WordPress?</h3>
<p>So how vulnerable is WordPress compared to other blog and CMS platforms? The <a href="http://nvd.nist.gov/home.cfm" title="US National Institute of Standards and Technology - National Vulnerabilities Database">US National Institute of Standards and Technology - National Vulnerabilities Database</a> tracks reported <a href="http://nvd.nist.gov/statistics.cfm?vendor_command=WordPress" title="WordPress Security Vulnerabilities">WordPress Security Vulnerabilities</a> from the earliest years. Let&#8217;s compare WordPress to Joomla and Drupal:</p>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="40%">
<tr>
<td width="30%"><strong>Platform</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>2005</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>2006</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>2007</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>2008</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>WordPress</strong></td>
<td align="center">11</td>
<td align="center">18</td>
<td align="center">49</td>
<td align="center">34</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Joomla</strong></td>
<td align="center">4</td>
<td align="center">28</td>
<td align="center">31</td>
<td align="center">12</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Drupal</strong></td>
<td align="center">6</td>
<td align="center">17</td>
<td align="center">16</td>
<td align="center">8</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/wordpress-security-chart-2008.png" alt="" width="400" height="236" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2509" /></p>
<p>Is the recent high numbers due to increased usage and popularity of WordPress?  Is it because it is becoming a target of those who want to find ways of breaking WordPress? Is it because there is a dedicated WordPress Community to uncover and report such issues? Is it because there are so many who care that WordPress remains safe and secure?</p>
<p>With more and more people using WordPress, more and more hackers are digging into the core to find ways of breaking WordPress. Luckily, there are enough &#8220;white hat heroes&#8221; that report the vulnerabilities they find rather than exploiting them, helping the <a href="http://www.automattic.com/" title="Automattic - Parent company of WordPress and Akismet" rel="tag">Automattic</a> team improve WordPress constantly.</p>
<h3>Is My WordPress Blog Safe?</h3>
<p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/wp-security.png" alt="WordPress Security graphic represenation" width="158" height="189" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2508" /><a href="http://ma.tt/2008/04/securityfocus-sql-injection-bogus/" title="SecurityFocus SQL Injection Bogus">Matt also also offered some sensible tips</a> and information for those worried about the &#8220;increasing security threats&#8221; to WordPress. His recommendations: <em>Update WordPress. Use common sense. Use <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2007/05/08/protect-your-blog-with-a-solid-password/" title="Protect Your Blog With a Solid Password">strong passwords</a>. Be aware.</em></p>
<p>Always keep a backup copy of the latest version of WordPress, your WordPress Theme, a <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/20/backing-up-wordpress/" title="Backing Up WordPress">full backup of your WordPress database</a>, WordPress Plugins, and copies of all the images and files on your host server. If something does happen, you may need these backups to <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup" title="Restoring Your Database From Backup">restore your blog</a>.</p>
<p>To keep your WordPress blog safe:</p>
<ol>
<li>Update WordPress.</li>
<li>Update your WordPress Theme.</li>
<li>Update WordPress Plugins.</li>
<li>Monitor WordPress news sources for alerts about security vulnerabilities and upgrades, such as <a href="http://wwww.blogherald.com/tag/wordpress" title="Articles on WordPress Wednesday">WordPress Wednesday news on the Blog Herald</a>, <a rel="tag" title="WordPress Planet" href="http://planet.wordpress.org/">WordPress Planet</a> (official WordPress aggregator), the <a rel="tag" title="WordPress Development Blog" href="http://wordpress.org/development/">WordPress Development Blog</a>, and <a rel="tag" title="Weblog Tools Collection" href="http://www.weblogtoolscollection.com/">Weblog Tools Collection</a>.</li>
</ol>
<p>To check your blog now for unwanted links and hacking attempts:</p>
<ul>
<li>Install and run the <a href="http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/tools/wp-scanner/" title="WP Scanner Info">WP Scanner WordPress Plugin</a> from Blog Security.</li>
<li>In FireFox, go to <strong>Tools &gt; Page Info &gt; Links</strong> (not available in FireFox 3 Beta) and check each link to ensure you put it there and it goes to sources you trust. Manually view the page source code of your blog (<strong>View &gt; Page Source</strong>) and check to ensure each link is trustworthy. Is each link a link you want on your blog?</li>
<li>Examine your WordPress Theme template files, especially the <code>header.php</code> and <code>footer.php</code> for unwanted content and links. If you didn&#8217;t put it there, who did? Do you want it there?</li>
<li>Check random posts on your blog for unwanted content and links. Edit these through the Administration Panels to remove the unwanted content from the database.</li>
<li>Search your template files, stylesheets, and <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/13/phpmyadmin-wordpress-plugin-database-access-from-administration-panels/" title="Database Access from Administration Panels">database</a> for <code>display:none</code> and/or <code>height:0</code> as these are common styles used to hide unwanted content and links. Remove them from the posts or files accordingly. I recommend <a href="http://www.silpstream.com/blog/wp-phpmyadmin/" title="Silpstream’s WP-phpMyAdmin WordPress Plugin">Silpstream’s WP-phpMyAdmin WordPress Plugin</a> for searching the database directly from your WordPress blog.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you are not using the latest version of WordPress, your blog may be at risk. Currently, WordPress 1x is no longer supported. The WordPress 2.0x branch has been upgraded to <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2007/04/wordpress-213-and-2010/" title="WordPress 2.1.3 is out">2.1.3 and 2.0.11</a>. See the <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/" title="Release Archive">WordPress Release Archive</a> for past versions of WordPress.</p>
<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BlogSecurity/~3/269933839/" title="New Release">Blog Security recently updated</a> its popular <a href="http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/wordpress-security-whitepaper/" title="WordPress Whitepaper">WordPress Whitepaper</a> which reports on security issues and problems with WordPress. It includes tips and step-by-step procedures to improve the security of your WordPress blog, beyond the scope of this article. Also, consider using the <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BlogSecurity/~3/188603031/" title="WPIDS - WordPress Intruder Detection System">WPIDS - WordPress Intruder Detection System Plugin</a> to help you monitor your blog for intruders and attacks.</p>
<h4>Related Articles on WordPress Security</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/04/09/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-25-security-issues-plugins-updated-wordpress-vs-wordpressmu-and-more/" title="WordPress 2.5, Security Issues, Plugins Updated, WordPress vs WordPressMU, and More">WordPress 2.5, Security Issues, Plugins Updated, WordPress vs WordPressMU</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/make-sure-your-wordpress-is-not-hacked/" title="Make Sure Your WordPress is Not Hacked">Daily Blog Tips - Make Sure Your WordPress is Not Hacked</a></li>
<li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HolyShmoly/~3/259733785/" title="There’s never been a better time to upgrade WordPress">Donncha - There’s Never Been A Better Time To Upgrade WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BlogSecurity/~3/253542937/" title="Interview with Hacker S@BUN">Blog Security - Interview of a WordPress Hacker</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.noupe.com/how-tos/wordpress-security-tips-and-hacks.html" title="WordPress Security Tips and Hacks">Noupe - WordPress Security Tips and Hacks</a></li>
</ul>
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<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/lorelle.wordpress.com/2507/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/lorelle.wordpress.com/2507/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2507/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2507/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2507/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2507/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2507/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2507/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2507/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2507/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2507/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2507/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=2507&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:15:13 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:17:"Lorelle VanFossen";}s:7:"summary";s:16865:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/tag/wordpress-tips/" title="WordPress Tips"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/wordpresstips.gif" alt="" align="right" /></a><a href="http://ma.tt/2008/04/securityfocus-sql-injection-bogus/" title="SecurityFocus SQL Injection Bogus">Matt Mullenweg spoke out recently on the recent bogus &#8220;SecurityFocus SQL Injection&#8221; fear</a> spreading across the web. There is a huge perception today that WordPress is a security risk. This is not true. </p>
<p>As Matt discussed, fears of SQL server vulnerabilities and other security issues have gotten out of control, for WordPress as well as other open source and proprietary programs, which he likened to  &#8220;running into a crowded theatre and yell &#8216;fire&#8217; and the less basis there is in fact the more people link to them. It’s not uncommon to see crying-wolf reports like the above several times in a week&#8230;&#8221; </p>
<p><a href="http://blogs.technet.com/security/archive/2008/03/05/sql-server-fact-checking-recent-vulnerability-history.aspx" title="SQL Server - Fact Checking Recent Vulnerability History">Jeff Jones, a software security expert, dug into the history of a recent SQL server</a> issue and reported:</p>
<blockquote><p>Last week a web-based news story comes to my attention which asserted that last year SQL Server had &#8220;&#8230;most vulnerabilities last year of any commercial database&#8230;&#8221; That prompted me to do some fact checking and I thought it worth documenting the real (really good) story of SQL vulnerabilities and what commercial database had the most vulnerabilities last year&#8230;</p>
<p>So. One thing is clear from the rudimentary investigation I&#8217;ve performed here - SQL Server was not even close to having the most vulnerabilities last year of any commercial database.</p>
<p>In fact, though SQL 2000 Server may have had a rough track record up through 2003, the SQL team has certainly turned a corner since then and SQL Server 2005 has had one of the best security track records of any commercial database ever.</p></blockquote>
<p>In a report on his <a href="http://blogs.csoonline.com/blog/jeff_jones" title="Jeff Jones' Security Blog">Security Blog</a>, <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/security/attachment/2594822.ashx" title="Internet Explorer and Firefox Vulnerability Analysis (pdf)">Internet Explorer and Firefox Vulnerability Analysis (pdf)</a>, Jones reported that <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/" title="Firefox Web Browser" rel="tag">FireFox</a> has had more security vulnerabilities than Internet Explorer, even though it is a widely held belief that FireFox is the &#8220;better&#8221; browser. </p>
<p>When a security issue came up with <a href="http://www.wordpress.com/" title="WordPress.com free blogs" rel="tag">WordPress.com</a>, it was fixed within 10 minutes of being reported. Yet, the news spread around for days that WordPress.com was a security risk.</p>
<p>Perception is everything. In another report and analysis, <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/security/archive/2007/10/23/microsoft-security-intelligence-report-1st-half-2007.aspx" title="Microsoft Security Intelligence Report - 1st Half 2007">Jeff Jones reports on the increasing number of disclosures</a> influencing the perception of security issues and vulnerabilities as they catch the public eye.<br />
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<blockquote><p>The number of disclosures of new software vulnerabilities across the industry continues<br />
to be in the thousands, with more than 3,400 new vulnerabilities disclosed in 1H07 [first half of 2007]. But this number actually represents a decrease from 2H06, the first period-to-period decline in total vulnerabilities since 2003. </p>
<p>There are a couple of other interesting results that I want to call out that you should examine with more detail in the full report:</p>
<p>  * Social engineering plays a growing role in overall malware attack techniques. This is a key result since even with vulnerability-free software, these techniques could succeed against users of any platform.<br />
  * Windows Defender has proportionally detected 2.8 times less potentially unwanted software on computers running Windows Vista than on computers running Windows XP SP2, based on normalized data. This is a practical measure of benefit that is somewhat more valuable in my opinion than vulnerability comparisons.</p></blockquote>
<p>As Matt said, the more sensational and invalid the security scare, the more likely it is to be spread in this age of social networking where anyone can have their say and link. Even sites with few security problems quickly get a bad reputation. We need to pay attention to the serious threats so these cries of fire do not become cries of wolf. </p>
<h3>How Vulnerable is WordPress?</h3>
<p>So how vulnerable is WordPress compared to other blog and CMS platforms? The <a href="http://nvd.nist.gov/home.cfm" title="US National Institute of Standards and Technology - National Vulnerabilities Database">US National Institute of Standards and Technology - National Vulnerabilities Database</a> tracks reported <a href="http://nvd.nist.gov/statistics.cfm?vendor_command=WordPress" title="WordPress Security Vulnerabilities">WordPress Security Vulnerabilities</a> from the earliest years. Let&#8217;s compare WordPress to Joomla and Drupal:</p>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="40%">
<tr>
<td width="30%"><strong>Platform</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>2005</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>2006</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>2007</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>2008</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>WordPress</strong></td>
<td align="center">11</td>
<td align="center">18</td>
<td align="center">49</td>
<td align="center">34</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Joomla</strong></td>
<td align="center">4</td>
<td align="center">28</td>
<td align="center">31</td>
<td align="center">12</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Drupal</strong></td>
<td align="center">6</td>
<td align="center">17</td>
<td align="center">16</td>
<td align="center">8</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/wordpress-security-chart-2008.png" alt="" width="400" height="236" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2509" /></p>
<p>Is the recent high numbers due to increased usage and popularity of WordPress?  Is it because it is becoming a target of those who want to find ways of breaking WordPress? Is it because there is a dedicated WordPress Community to uncover and report such issues? Is it because there are so many who care that WordPress remains safe and secure?</p>
<p>With more and more people using WordPress, more and more hackers are digging into the core to find ways of breaking WordPress. Luckily, there are enough &#8220;white hat heroes&#8221; that report the vulnerabilities they find rather than exploiting them, helping the <a href="http://www.automattic.com/" title="Automattic - Parent company of WordPress and Akismet" rel="tag">Automattic</a> team improve WordPress constantly.</p>
<h3>Is My WordPress Blog Safe?</h3>
<p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/wp-security.png" alt="WordPress Security graphic represenation" width="158" height="189" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2508" /><a href="http://ma.tt/2008/04/securityfocus-sql-injection-bogus/" title="SecurityFocus SQL Injection Bogus">Matt also also offered some sensible tips</a> and information for those worried about the &#8220;increasing security threats&#8221; to WordPress. His recommendations: <em>Update WordPress. Use common sense. Use <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2007/05/08/protect-your-blog-with-a-solid-password/" title="Protect Your Blog With a Solid Password">strong passwords</a>. Be aware.</em></p>
<p>Always keep a backup copy of the latest version of WordPress, your WordPress Theme, a <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/20/backing-up-wordpress/" title="Backing Up WordPress">full backup of your WordPress database</a>, WordPress Plugins, and copies of all the images and files on your host server. If something does happen, you may need these backups to <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup" title="Restoring Your Database From Backup">restore your blog</a>.</p>
<p>To keep your WordPress blog safe:</p>
<ol>
<li>Update WordPress.</li>
<li>Update your WordPress Theme.</li>
<li>Update WordPress Plugins.</li>
<li>Monitor WordPress news sources for alerts about security vulnerabilities and upgrades, such as <a href="http://wwww.blogherald.com/tag/wordpress" title="Articles on WordPress Wednesday">WordPress Wednesday news on the Blog Herald</a>, <a rel="tag" title="WordPress Planet" href="http://planet.wordpress.org/">WordPress Planet</a> (official WordPress aggregator), the <a rel="tag" title="WordPress Development Blog" href="http://wordpress.org/development/">WordPress Development Blog</a>, and <a rel="tag" title="Weblog Tools Collection" href="http://www.weblogtoolscollection.com/">Weblog Tools Collection</a>.</li>
</ol>
<p>To check your blog now for unwanted links and hacking attempts:</p>
<ul>
<li>Install and run the <a href="http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/tools/wp-scanner/" title="WP Scanner Info">WP Scanner WordPress Plugin</a> from Blog Security.</li>
<li>In FireFox, go to <strong>Tools &gt; Page Info &gt; Links</strong> (not available in FireFox 3 Beta) and check each link to ensure you put it there and it goes to sources you trust. Manually view the page source code of your blog (<strong>View &gt; Page Source</strong>) and check to ensure each link is trustworthy. Is each link a link you want on your blog?</li>
<li>Examine your WordPress Theme template files, especially the <code>header.php</code> and <code>footer.php</code> for unwanted content and links. If you didn&#8217;t put it there, who did? Do you want it there?</li>
<li>Check random posts on your blog for unwanted content and links. Edit these through the Administration Panels to remove the unwanted content from the database.</li>
<li>Search your template files, stylesheets, and <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/13/phpmyadmin-wordpress-plugin-database-access-from-administration-panels/" title="Database Access from Administration Panels">database</a> for <code>display:none</code> and/or <code>height:0</code> as these are common styles used to hide unwanted content and links. Remove them from the posts or files accordingly. I recommend <a href="http://www.silpstream.com/blog/wp-phpmyadmin/" title="Silpstream’s WP-phpMyAdmin WordPress Plugin">Silpstream’s WP-phpMyAdmin WordPress Plugin</a> for searching the database directly from your WordPress blog.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you are not using the latest version of WordPress, your blog may be at risk. Currently, WordPress 1x is no longer supported. The WordPress 2.0x branch has been upgraded to <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2007/04/wordpress-213-and-2010/" title="WordPress 2.1.3 is out">2.1.3 and 2.0.11</a>. See the <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/" title="Release Archive">WordPress Release Archive</a> for past versions of WordPress.</p>
<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BlogSecurity/~3/269933839/" title="New Release">Blog Security recently updated</a> its popular <a href="http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/wordpress-security-whitepaper/" title="WordPress Whitepaper">WordPress Whitepaper</a> which reports on security issues and problems with WordPress. It includes tips and step-by-step procedures to improve the security of your WordPress blog, beyond the scope of this article. Also, consider using the <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BlogSecurity/~3/188603031/" title="WPIDS - WordPress Intruder Detection System">WPIDS - WordPress Intruder Detection System Plugin</a> to help you monitor your blog for intruders and attacks.</p>
<h4>Related Articles on WordPress Security</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2008/04/09/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-25-security-issues-plugins-updated-wordpress-vs-wordpressmu-and-more/" title="WordPress 2.5, Security Issues, Plugins Updated, WordPress vs WordPressMU, and More">WordPress 2.5, Security Issues, Plugins Updated, WordPress vs WordPressMU</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/make-sure-your-wordpress-is-not-hacked/" title="Make Sure Your WordPress is Not Hacked">Daily Blog Tips - Make Sure Your WordPress is Not Hacked</a></li>
<li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HolyShmoly/~3/259733785/" title="There’s never been a better time to upgrade WordPress">Donncha - There’s Never Been A Better Time To Upgrade WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BlogSecurity/~3/253542937/" title="Interview with Hacker S@BUN">Blog Security - Interview of a WordPress Hacker</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.noupe.com/how-tos/wordpress-security-tips-and-hacks.html" title="WordPress Security Tips and Hacks">Noupe - WordPress Security Tips and Hacks</a></li>
</ul>
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<p>All of that being said, with my previous knowledge of Woopra and its capabilities, I was <em>literally floored</em> this afternoon by a flood of new &#8220;stuff&#8221; that I had either completely missed or capabilities that were added in this new release. So if you are a Woopra user (or if you are not, just sign up), pull up a chair, grab a cup of your favorite beverage and read on. This is pretty cool.</p>
<p><em>All of the following assumes that you have an active Woopra account, are using WordPress, have the WordPress plugin installed and have the Woopra application (1.1.1.0) installed on your machine.</em></p>
<ul>
<li>With Woopra, and the <a href="http://www.woopra.com/installation-guide/">Woopra WordPress Plugin</a>, you can monitor all your registered users and all your commenters. This sounds obvious/relatively mundane until you install the plugin on your WordPress blog and create an event notification on the application. Follow the bouncing ball.
<ul>
<li>Open up your Woorpa application, click on the manage tab on the left and then click on Create a new Event Notification.</li>
<li>Then type in &#8220;Known Visitors&#8221; into the label box, click Next.</li>
<li>On the next window, click and activate the checkbox next to &#8220;Visitor is tagged or is a member&#8221; and click next until you come to the &#8220;Edit Notification&#8217;s look and feel&#8221; screen.</li>
<li>Here click on the &#8220;Notification&#8217;s Icon&#8221; dropdown to click on &#8220;visitor&#8217;s Avatar&#8221; and then paste the following in the &#8220;Custom notification message&#8221; box: Visitor %NAME% is viewing %PAGETITLE% Then click on Apply Notification button</li>
</ul>
<p>Now you will receive a notification on your desktop whenever a registered user or a user who has left a comment, visits your blog. This gets even cooler when you notice their <a href="http://en.gravatar.com/">gravatar</a> shows up on the notification and you are now able to track these known visitors are they traverse through your blog. You can even choose to initiate a web chat with these visitors through the Woopra application. The chat shows up on their browser. This is cool and scary at the same time.</li>
<li>Another cool new tool I discovered today was the little map of the world on the top left corner of the &#8220;live&#8221; tab. Now I had noticed the map there but had not looked into it much. Look for a small arrow on the top right corner of that map. Once you click on that arrow, the map opens up to a full screen view and now you are able to use your mouses&#8217; scroll wheel to zoom in on any part of the map and use your cursor to identify users. I could spend hours doing this on a busy day.</li>
<li>I had noticed the small column of labels at the top right hand corner of the Woopra desktop application but had not paid much attention to it. The lowest item on that list is called &#8220;live&#8221; and once clicked it shows the number of  users on your blog on a moving bar graph, much like whos.amung.us</li>
<li>The analytics tab has a bunch of hidden gems. Some newer features were also added to the items on this tab. Click on the Analytics tab on the Woopra application and look for the following:
<ul>
<li>The &#8220;referrers&#8221; tab now has a few new subtabs. They include regular stats stuff like webpages, domains and search engines. But now this tab also include Feed Readers, Emails, Social Bookmarks, Social Networks, Media, News and Communities. Each one of these intrigued me and the I was taken aback by the breakdowns of referrals from various applications. The Email tab gave me the most food for thought. If your blog has email readers or you publish regular newletters via email, this tab could help you identify reader populations from various email services. Clicking on the graph part of the display brings up a historical view.</li>
<li>The &#8220;pages&#8221; tab breaks up visitors by subdirectories. With WordPress&#8217; permalinks, you can now determine how hard your yearly archives are working for you. Apparently, over a thousand people looked at my archives from 2003 this week. As your data grows, this tab could contain breakdowns by tag, by author and any other permalink features that you have enabled through your blog. I wonder why our WordPress tag is so popular?</li>
<li>The last tab to point out is &#8220;systems&#8221;. Now this data can be mundane and almost all stats programs offer some sort of systems breakdown. Woopra adds to this functionality by letting you find permutations of systems options. This blog receives more Chinese speaking, Internet Explorer 6 users on Windows XP than any other language. I will be using that information to my advantage, I am sure you can find your particular niche to help or enhance.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Woopra is a great tool. It is even better with these little tidbits. There are literally thousands of different ways to enhance your stats and understand your reader population better. I have just outlined a few that I had completely missed till today.</p>
<p>Have you found any cool new tricks for Woopra that you would like to share?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:31:27 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:6526:"<p><a href="http://www.woopra.com/">Woopra</a> was opened up to the world at the <a href="http://dallas.wordcamp.org/">Dallas WordCamp</a> where I met <a href="http://onemansblog.com/">John</a> for the first time. His talk was not on Woopra but he introduced it to the event in <a href="http://weblogtoolsvideos.com/item/D5HY9BGWNS7G1VCK">a very short, three minute spiel</a>. Since then Woopra has generated a <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/whooping-woopra-blog-statistics-program/">tremendous</a> <a href="http://www.woopra.com/blog/">amount</a> of <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/30/stats-junkies-get-another-fix-woopra/">buzz</a> in blogging circles. In short, Woopra is a stats tool for websites that lives as an application on your desktop (among other places) and can provide live webstats on your visitors. I like it since it is fast and since the developers gave me an opportunity to look at the insides early on, I have developed quite a fondness for it. They are in growth mode and with the <a href="http://www.woopra.com/blog/2008/04/26/woopra-beta-1110-released/">recent upgrade to their desktop client</a>, they can support more locations and are in the process of approving a <a href="http://www.woopra.com/blog/2008/04/27/mass-approvals-well-under-way/">large number of new users for their service</a>.</p>
<p>All of that being said, with my previous knowledge of Woopra and its capabilities, I was <em>literally floored</em> this afternoon by a flood of new &#8220;stuff&#8221; that I had either completely missed or capabilities that were added in this new release. So if you are a Woopra user (or if you are not, just sign up), pull up a chair, grab a cup of your favorite beverage and read on. This is pretty cool.</p>
<p><em>All of the following assumes that you have an active Woopra account, are using WordPress, have the WordPress plugin installed and have the Woopra application (1.1.1.0) installed on your machine.</em></p>
<ul>
<li>With Woopra, and the <a href="http://www.woopra.com/installation-guide/">Woopra WordPress Plugin</a>, you can monitor all your registered users and all your commenters. This sounds obvious/relatively mundane until you install the plugin on your WordPress blog and create an event notification on the application. Follow the bouncing ball.
<ul>
<li>Open up your Woorpa application, click on the manage tab on the left and then click on Create a new Event Notification.</li>
<li>Then type in &#8220;Known Visitors&#8221; into the label box, click Next.</li>
<li>On the next window, click and activate the checkbox next to &#8220;Visitor is tagged or is a member&#8221; and click next until you come to the &#8220;Edit Notification&#8217;s look and feel&#8221; screen.</li>
<li>Here click on the &#8220;Notification&#8217;s Icon&#8221; dropdown to click on &#8220;visitor&#8217;s Avatar&#8221; and then paste the following in the &#8220;Custom notification message&#8221; box: Visitor %NAME% is viewing %PAGETITLE% Then click on Apply Notification button</li>
</ul>
<p>Now you will receive a notification on your desktop whenever a registered user or a user who has left a comment, visits your blog. This gets even cooler when you notice their <a href="http://en.gravatar.com/">gravatar</a> shows up on the notification and you are now able to track these known visitors are they traverse through your blog. You can even choose to initiate a web chat with these visitors through the Woopra application. The chat shows up on their browser. This is cool and scary at the same time.</li>
<li>Another cool new tool I discovered today was the little map of the world on the top left corner of the &#8220;live&#8221; tab. Now I had noticed the map there but had not looked into it much. Look for a small arrow on the top right corner of that map. Once you click on that arrow, the map opens up to a full screen view and now you are able to use your mouses&#8217; scroll wheel to zoom in on any part of the map and use your cursor to identify users. I could spend hours doing this on a busy day.</li>
<li>I had noticed the small column of labels at the top right hand corner of the Woopra desktop application but had not paid much attention to it. The lowest item on that list is called &#8220;live&#8221; and once clicked it shows the number of  users on your blog on a moving bar graph, much like whos.amung.us</li>
<li>The analytics tab has a bunch of hidden gems. Some newer features were also added to the items on this tab. Click on the Analytics tab on the Woopra application and look for the following:
<ul>
<li>The &#8220;referrers&#8221; tab now has a few new subtabs. They include regular stats stuff like webpages, domains and search engines. But now this tab also include Feed Readers, Emails, Social Bookmarks, Social Networks, Media, News and Communities. Each one of these intrigued me and the I was taken aback by the breakdowns of referrals from various applications. The Email tab gave me the most food for thought. If your blog has email readers or you publish regular newletters via email, this tab could help you identify reader populations from various email services. Clicking on the graph part of the display brings up a historical view.</li>
<li>The &#8220;pages&#8221; tab breaks up visitors by subdirectories. With WordPress&#8217; permalinks, you can now determine how hard your yearly archives are working for you. Apparently, over a thousand people looked at my archives from 2003 this week. As your data grows, this tab could contain breakdowns by tag, by author and any other permalink features that you have enabled through your blog. I wonder why our WordPress tag is so popular?</li>
<li>The last tab to point out is &#8220;systems&#8221;. Now this data can be mundane and almost all stats programs offer some sort of systems breakdown. Woopra adds to this functionality by letting you find permutations of systems options. This blog receives more Chinese speaking, Internet Explorer 6 users on Windows XP than any other language. I will be using that information to my advantage, I am sure you can find your particular niche to help or enhance.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Woopra is a great tool. It is even better with these little tidbits. There are literally thousands of different ways to enhance your stats and understand your reader population better. I have just outlined a few that I had completely missed till today.</p>
<p>Have you found any cool new tricks for Woopra that you would like to share?</p>";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:51:"Weblog Tools Collection: What Happened To PodPress?";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3484";s:4:"link";s:79:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/27/what-happened-to-podpress/";s:11:"description";s:1506:"<p>For those of you who have recently browsed to <a title="http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/" href="http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/" target="_blank">the website</a> that the popular <a title="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/#post-566" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/#post-566" target="_blank">PodPress plugin</a> calls home, you&#8217;ll notice that the site is gone and has been replaced by a parked GoDaddy domain page. This GoDaddy parked page has already sent many people into a frenzy. As I&#8217;ve monitored my Twitter stream, many folks were already started to think that PodPress may have up and folded for greener pastures. There have also been a <a title="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/172035?replies=5" href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/172035?replies=5" target="_blank">forum post or two</a> discussing the possible demise of the PodPress project.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve recently got in contact with the author of PodPress and I have excellent news. The GoDaddy page is the result of a domain registration snafu. The site should be back online either as you read this, or within the next few hours.</p>
<p>While talking with Mightyseek, I learned that the new version of PodPress is almost ready for release. The next version of PodPress promises to be more customizable as in the way it looks on your blog. Mightyseek has also informed me that he plans on creating PodPress ports for Joomla and Drupal which should quickly follow the release.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:28:25 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1506:"<p>For those of you who have recently browsed to <a title="http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/" href="http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/" target="_blank">the website</a> that the popular <a title="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/#post-566" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/#post-566" target="_blank">PodPress plugin</a> calls home, you&#8217;ll notice that the site is gone and has been replaced by a parked GoDaddy domain page. This GoDaddy parked page has already sent many people into a frenzy. As I&#8217;ve monitored my Twitter stream, many folks were already started to think that PodPress may have up and folded for greener pastures. There have also been a <a title="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/172035?replies=5" href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/172035?replies=5" target="_blank">forum post or two</a> discussing the possible demise of the PodPress project.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve recently got in contact with the author of PodPress and I have excellent news. The GoDaddy page is the result of a domain registration snafu. The site should be back online either as you read this, or within the next few hours.</p>
<p>While talking with Mightyseek, I learned that the new version of PodPress is almost ready for release. The next version of PodPress promises to be more customizable as in the way it looks on your blog. Mightyseek has also informed me that he plans on creating PodPress ports for Joomla and Drupal which should quickly follow the release.</p>";}i:15;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases For 4/26";s:4:"guid";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/26/wordpress-theme-releases-for-426/";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/26/wordpress-theme-releases-for-426/";s:11:"description";s:2740:"<h3>One Column Themes</h3>
<p><a href="http://will.ph/projects/integrati/"><strong>Integrati</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="137" alt="integrati-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/integrati-thumbnail.png" width="165" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Integrati is a single-column theme with the sidebar below the post. This theme has a built-in recent comments and previous posts section in the sidebar.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wp-fun.co.uk/fun-with-minimalism/"><strong>Fun with Minimalism</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="137" alt="fun-with-minimalism-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/fun-with-minimalism-thumbnail.png" width="183" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Fun with Minimalism is a one column theme without widget support . The theme provides an admin screen to make choices over the default colours, the colours used for each category, or post in that category, the feed link and the position of the feed icon.</p>
<p><a href="http://bob.my/wordpress-theme-simple/"><strong>Simple</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="137" alt="simple-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/simple-thumbnail.png" width="169" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Simple is a really simple theme with one column and good use of colors and fonts. The theme loads fast and has a tabbed footer at the bottom of the page.</p>
<h3>Two Column Themes</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/passionduo-wordpress-theme-released/"><strong>PassionDuo</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="119" alt="passion-duo-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/passion-duo-thumbnail.png" width="200" border="0" /> </p>
<p>PassionDuo is a clean theme, with rounded corners and 2 columns. It is advertising ready and it comes in 3 different color versions: red, blue and green.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.themelab.com/2008/04/16/nature-blog-free-wordpress-theme-49/"><strong>Nature Blog</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="122" alt="nature-blog-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/nature-blog-thumbnail.png" width="200" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Nature Blog is a two column theme with a widget ready sidebar and footer. The theme has space for 121&#215;121 or similar sized square ads and comes built in with a styled calendar for use with widgets.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wpthemedesigner.com/2008/04/16/mag-on-wood/"><strong>Mag on Wood</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="95" alt="mag-on-wood-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/mag-on-wood-thumbnail.png" width="200" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Mag on Wood is a magazine style widget ready two column theme. The themes background is based on wood. There is ample space for advertising in the theme.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:55:07 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:2740:"<h3>One Column Themes</h3>
<p><a href="http://will.ph/projects/integrati/"><strong>Integrati</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="137" alt="integrati-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/integrati-thumbnail.png" width="165" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Integrati is a single-column theme with the sidebar below the post. This theme has a built-in recent comments and previous posts section in the sidebar.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wp-fun.co.uk/fun-with-minimalism/"><strong>Fun with Minimalism</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="137" alt="fun-with-minimalism-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/fun-with-minimalism-thumbnail.png" width="183" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Fun with Minimalism is a one column theme without widget support . The theme provides an admin screen to make choices over the default colours, the colours used for each category, or post in that category, the feed link and the position of the feed icon.</p>
<p><a href="http://bob.my/wordpress-theme-simple/"><strong>Simple</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="137" alt="simple-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/simple-thumbnail.png" width="169" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Simple is a really simple theme with one column and good use of colors and fonts. The theme loads fast and has a tabbed footer at the bottom of the page.</p>
<h3>Two Column Themes</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/passionduo-wordpress-theme-released/"><strong>PassionDuo</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="119" alt="passion-duo-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/passion-duo-thumbnail.png" width="200" border="0" /> </p>
<p>PassionDuo is a clean theme, with rounded corners and 2 columns. It is advertising ready and it comes in 3 different color versions: red, blue and green.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.themelab.com/2008/04/16/nature-blog-free-wordpress-theme-49/"><strong>Nature Blog</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="122" alt="nature-blog-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/nature-blog-thumbnail.png" width="200" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Nature Blog is a two column theme with a widget ready sidebar and footer. The theme has space for 121&#215;121 or similar sized square ads and comes built in with a styled calendar for use with widgets.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wpthemedesigner.com/2008/04/16/mag-on-wood/"><strong>Mag on Wood</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="95" alt="mag-on-wood-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/mag-on-wood-thumbnail.png" width="200" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Mag on Wood is a magazine style widget ready two column theme. The themes background is based on wood. There is ample space for advertising in the theme.</p>";}i:16;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:75:"Lorelle on WP: Alert: Possibly Related Posts Feature on WordPress.com Blogs";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=2510";s:4:"link";s:99:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/alert-possibly-related-posts-feature-on-wordpresscom-blogs/";s:11:"description";s:10139:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/tag/wordpressdotcom/" title="WordPressdotcom news and tips"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/wordpressdotcomnews.gif" alt="WordPress.com News" align="right" /></a><a href="http://www.wordpress.com/" title="WordPress.com free blogs" rel="tag">WordPress.com</a> has activated a feature without warning that has many up in arms of protest, making it one of the least welcoming additions to WordPress.com. </p>
<p>Since the beginning of WordPress.com, one of the most requested features has been the ability to showcase related posts <em>from our own blogs</em>. WordPress.com has activated this ability, but the <em>links link to WordPress.com blogs</em>, not our own.</p>
<p>This is bad for many reasons, which I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve already thought of. No control. Implied recommendation or endorsement. Inappropriate links. And a lot of confusion for our readers who believe we choose these links or that they will lead to links on our blog related to what we blog about. I&#8217;m sure I missed some other bad reasons for not liking this new feature.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s important that we link to other bloggers, especially others within the WordPress.com community to support and encourage them. It&#8217;s wrong to do so without some control.</p>
<p>You can read the announcement, <a href="http://wordpress.com/blog/2008/04/25/possibly-an-announcement/" title="Possibly Related Posts">Possibly Related Posts</a>, on the WordPress.com blog.</p>
<p><em>My apologies to those who have been led astray by these links in my own blog posts. Thank you to everyone who brought this to my attention, worried something was wrong. I even had a couple people warn me that my blog had been hacked as the links were definitely inappropriate. Thank you for worrying and watching out for me and my blog.</em></p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> According to <a href="http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=27295&amp;replies=4#post-195995" title="59 pm">a comment Matt Mullenweg made on a forum post</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>In the next few days we&#8217;ll have an update that allows you to block specific blogs from showing up, and eventually that setting will also apply to the tag surfer, blog surfer, and top blogs so when you block a blog you should never see it again.</p></blockquote>
<p>With 3 million blogs - albeit less than a million active - I don&#8217;t have enough life to block all the blogs that show up as &#8220;possibles&#8221; in every list on every blog post. I cannot imagine the implementation of such a process. I&#8217;d rather choose who I link to than have to exclude them. </p>
<p>Among the links on my blog posts here that I tested before turning off the feature, the average was 2 in seven links per post having a vague relationship to my content. The majority of the links went to non-English blogs, blogs no longer updated (since 2006 in several cases), and totally unrelated content, such as an article about a WordPress Plugin for creating, among other things, related posts, linking to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/21/AR2008032102981.html?nav=rss_health" title="A Third of Patients On Transplant List Are Not Eligible">A Third of Patients On Transplant List Are Not Eligible</a> from the Washington Post. I just learned that the Washington Post has blogs on WordPress.com, but what transplants have to do with WordPress&#8230;well, it&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s guess. Either way, 28 percent average &#8220;success&#8221; rate isn&#8217;t good enough for me. Nor is adding to my workload.</p>
<h4>To Turn Off Related Posts on WordPress.com</h4>
<p>To turn off the new related post feature on WordPress.com blogs:</p>
<ol>
<li>Go to the <strong>Administration Panels &gt; Design &gt; Extras</strong>.</li>
<li>Check <strong>Hide Related Links</strong>.</li>
<li>Click <strong>Update</strong>.</li>
</ol>
<p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/possiblyrelated-hideposts.png" alt="Possibly Related Blog Posts feature on WordPress.com" width="400" height="172" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2511" /></p>
<h4>Have Your Say on the New Possibly Related Posts Feature</h4>
<p>If you are not a fan of the implementation of this related posts feature, let your voice be heard. Many are reporting links to inappropriate blogs and content, and some worry about where these links are sending their readers. </p>
<p>You can comment on the following <a href="http://wordpress.com/forums/" title="WordPress.com Forums">WordPress.com Forums</a> discussions:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=27298" title="I DON'T WANT POSSIBLY RELATED LINKS ON MY POSTS">I DON&#8217;T WANT POSSIBLY RELATED LINKS ON MY POSTS</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=27332" title="OMG! Not MORE WP Changes!">OMG! Not MORE WP Changes!</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=27329" title="Possibly related Posts">Possibly related Posts</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=27295" title="Possibly Related Posts and trolls/attacks">Possibly Related Posts and trolls/attacks</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=27306" title="link that is not mine is on my post! not visible in editor">link that is not mine is on my post! not visible in editor</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=27256">&#8220;Possibly Related Posts&#8221; Suddenly Showing up for One Post Only w/NSFW Content</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Create Your Own Related Posts Feature on WordPress.com Blogs</h4>
<p>I share how I manually create my related posts at the bottom of my blog posts in <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/22/which-wordpress-plugins-does-lorelle-on-wordpress-use/" title="Which WordPress Plugins Does Lorelle on WordPress Use?">Which WordPress Plugins Does Lorelle on WordPress Use?</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/04/10/adding-a-signature-to-personalize-your-blog-post/" title="Adding a Signature To Personalize Your Blog Post">Adding a Signature To Personalize Your Blog Post</a>, and <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/wordpresscom-blog-bling-signatures-and-writing-code/" title="Signatures and Writing Code">WordPress.com Blog Bling: Signatures and Writing Code</a>.</p>
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<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/lorelle.wordpress.com/2510/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/lorelle.wordpress.com/2510/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2510/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2510/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2510/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2510/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2510/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2510/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2510/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2510/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2510/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2510/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=2510&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:04:49 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:17:"Lorelle VanFossen";}s:7:"summary";s:10139:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/tag/wordpressdotcom/" title="WordPressdotcom news and tips"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/wordpressdotcomnews.gif" alt="WordPress.com News" align="right" /></a><a href="http://www.wordpress.com/" title="WordPress.com free blogs" rel="tag">WordPress.com</a> has activated a feature without warning that has many up in arms of protest, making it one of the least welcoming additions to WordPress.com. </p>
<p>Since the beginning of WordPress.com, one of the most requested features has been the ability to showcase related posts <em>from our own blogs</em>. WordPress.com has activated this ability, but the <em>links link to WordPress.com blogs</em>, not our own.</p>
<p>This is bad for many reasons, which I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve already thought of. No control. Implied recommendation or endorsement. Inappropriate links. And a lot of confusion for our readers who believe we choose these links or that they will lead to links on our blog related to what we blog about. I&#8217;m sure I missed some other bad reasons for not liking this new feature.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s important that we link to other bloggers, especially others within the WordPress.com community to support and encourage them. It&#8217;s wrong to do so without some control.</p>
<p>You can read the announcement, <a href="http://wordpress.com/blog/2008/04/25/possibly-an-announcement/" title="Possibly Related Posts">Possibly Related Posts</a>, on the WordPress.com blog.</p>
<p><em>My apologies to those who have been led astray by these links in my own blog posts. Thank you to everyone who brought this to my attention, worried something was wrong. I even had a couple people warn me that my blog had been hacked as the links were definitely inappropriate. Thank you for worrying and watching out for me and my blog.</em></p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> According to <a href="http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=27295&amp;replies=4#post-195995" title="59 pm">a comment Matt Mullenweg made on a forum post</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>In the next few days we&#8217;ll have an update that allows you to block specific blogs from showing up, and eventually that setting will also apply to the tag surfer, blog surfer, and top blogs so when you block a blog you should never see it again.</p></blockquote>
<p>With 3 million blogs - albeit less than a million active - I don&#8217;t have enough life to block all the blogs that show up as &#8220;possibles&#8221; in every list on every blog post. I cannot imagine the implementation of such a process. I&#8217;d rather choose who I link to than have to exclude them. </p>
<p>Among the links on my blog posts here that I tested before turning off the feature, the average was 2 in seven links per post having a vague relationship to my content. The majority of the links went to non-English blogs, blogs no longer updated (since 2006 in several cases), and totally unrelated content, such as an article about a WordPress Plugin for creating, among other things, related posts, linking to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/21/AR2008032102981.html?nav=rss_health" title="A Third of Patients On Transplant List Are Not Eligible">A Third of Patients On Transplant List Are Not Eligible</a> from the Washington Post. I just learned that the Washington Post has blogs on WordPress.com, but what transplants have to do with WordPress&#8230;well, it&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s guess. Either way, 28 percent average &#8220;success&#8221; rate isn&#8217;t good enough for me. Nor is adding to my workload.</p>
<h4>To Turn Off Related Posts on WordPress.com</h4>
<p>To turn off the new related post feature on WordPress.com blogs:</p>
<ol>
<li>Go to the <strong>Administration Panels &gt; Design &gt; Extras</strong>.</li>
<li>Check <strong>Hide Related Links</strong>.</li>
<li>Click <strong>Update</strong>.</li>
</ol>
<p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/possiblyrelated-hideposts.png" alt="Possibly Related Blog Posts feature on WordPress.com" width="400" height="172" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2511" /></p>
<h4>Have Your Say on the New Possibly Related Posts Feature</h4>
<p>If you are not a fan of the implementation of this related posts feature, let your voice be heard. Many are reporting links to inappropriate blogs and content, and some worry about where these links are sending their readers. </p>
<p>You can comment on the following <a href="http://wordpress.com/forums/" title="WordPress.com Forums">WordPress.com Forums</a> discussions:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=27298" title="I DON'T WANT POSSIBLY RELATED LINKS ON MY POSTS">I DON&#8217;T WANT POSSIBLY RELATED LINKS ON MY POSTS</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=27332" title="OMG! Not MORE WP Changes!">OMG! Not MORE WP Changes!</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=27329" title="Possibly related Posts">Possibly related Posts</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=27295" title="Possibly Related Posts and trolls/attacks">Possibly Related Posts and trolls/attacks</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=27306" title="link that is not mine is on my post! not visible in editor">link that is not mine is on my post! not visible in editor</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=27256">&#8220;Possibly Related Posts&#8221; Suddenly Showing up for One Post Only w/NSFW Content</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Create Your Own Related Posts Feature on WordPress.com Blogs</h4>
<p>I share how I manually create my related posts at the bottom of my blog posts in <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/22/which-wordpress-plugins-does-lorelle-on-wordpress-use/" title="Which WordPress Plugins Does Lorelle on WordPress Use?">Which WordPress Plugins Does Lorelle on WordPress Use?</a>, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/04/10/adding-a-signature-to-personalize-your-blog-post/" title="Adding a Signature To Personalize Your Blog Post">Adding a Signature To Personalize Your Blog Post</a>, and <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/wordpresscom-blog-bling-signatures-and-writing-code/" title="Signatures and Writing Code">WordPress.com Blog Bling: Signatures and Writing Code</a>.</p>
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<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/lorelle.wordpress.com/2510/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/lorelle.wordpress.com/2510/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2510/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/2510/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2510/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/2510/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2510/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/2510/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2510/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/2510/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2510/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/2510/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=2510&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:17;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:51:"Weblog Tools Collection: Reset WP Password Manually";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3475";s:4:"link";s:80:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/26/reset-wp-password-manually/";s:11:"description";s:1295:"<p>Although there were over 80 security/bug fixes in WordPress 2.5.1, there was one thing that crept up immediately following the release. According to numerous reports by individuals and a <a title="http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6842" href="http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6842" target="_blank">ticket filed in the WordPress Trac</a> when a user resets their password, the password reset link received in the email does not work. The error message that is received looks like this &#8220;<strong>Sorry, that key does not appear to be valid.</strong>&#8221;</p>
<p>This bug has already been fixed and will be included in WordPress 2.5.2. However, if you are having issues with the reset link right now, you can read this post by Ryan McCue on how to <a title="http://cubegames.net/blog/2008/04/26/reset-wp-password-via-phpmyadmin/" href="http://cubegames.net/blog/2008/04/26/reset-wp-password-via-phpmyadmin/" target="_blank">Reset your WP Password Manually</a> through phpMyAdmin.</p>
<p><strong>[EDIT] Ryan has included the files which contain the patch that you can <a title="http://cubegames.net/blog/2008/04/27/reset-password-bug-patch-and-fixed-files/" href="http://cubegames.net/blog/2008/04/27/reset-password-bug-patch-and-fixed-files/" target="_blank">download here</a></strong></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:20:46 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1295:"<p>Although there were over 80 security/bug fixes in WordPress 2.5.1, there was one thing that crept up immediately following the release. According to numerous reports by individuals and a <a title="http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6842" href="http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6842" target="_blank">ticket filed in the WordPress Trac</a> when a user resets their password, the password reset link received in the email does not work. The error message that is received looks like this &#8220;<strong>Sorry, that key does not appear to be valid.</strong>&#8221;</p>
<p>This bug has already been fixed and will be included in WordPress 2.5.2. However, if you are having issues with the reset link right now, you can read this post by Ryan McCue on how to <a title="http://cubegames.net/blog/2008/04/26/reset-wp-password-via-phpmyadmin/" href="http://cubegames.net/blog/2008/04/26/reset-wp-password-via-phpmyadmin/" target="_blank">Reset your WP Password Manually</a> through phpMyAdmin.</p>
<p><strong>[EDIT] Ryan has included the files which contain the patch that you can <a title="http://cubegames.net/blog/2008/04/27/reset-password-bug-patch-and-fixed-files/" href="http://cubegames.net/blog/2008/04/27/reset-password-bug-patch-and-fixed-files/" target="_blank">download here</a></strong></p>";}i:18;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:32:"Matt: Web 2.0 Expo Announcements";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=5233";s:4:"link";s:47:"http://ma.tt/2008/04/web-20-expo-announcements/";s:11:"description";s:976:"<p>The two things I announced at Web 2.0 Expo this morning (I don&#8217;t want to tell you how early I got up) were <a href="http://wordpress.com/blog/2008/04/25/possibly-an-announcement/">Possibly Related Posts</a> and the <a href="http://monotonedemo.wordpress.com/">Monotone theme</a>. The latter should be available early next week. A few people covered the talk, including <a href="http://www.webguild.org/2008/04/wordpress-matt-mullenweg.php">WebGuild</a>, <a href="http://thenextweb.org/2008/04/25/mullenweg-announces-possibly-related-items-funtion/">NextWeb</a>, <a href="http://mashable.com/2008/04/25/live-blog-matt-mullenweg-makes-an-announcement-at-web-20-expo/">Mashable</a>, and <a href="http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9928900-2.html">WebWare</a>. <strong>Update:</strong> <a href="http://www.techfever.net/?p=1858&amp;language=en">Here are some pictures from the talk</a>. <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/04/web-20-expo-announcements/" rel="bookmark">(21)</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:28:56 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:976:"<p>The two things I announced at Web 2.0 Expo this morning (I don&#8217;t want to tell you how early I got up) were <a href="http://wordpress.com/blog/2008/04/25/possibly-an-announcement/">Possibly Related Posts</a> and the <a href="http://monotonedemo.wordpress.com/">Monotone theme</a>. The latter should be available early next week. A few people covered the talk, including <a href="http://www.webguild.org/2008/04/wordpress-matt-mullenweg.php">WebGuild</a>, <a href="http://thenextweb.org/2008/04/25/mullenweg-announces-possibly-related-items-funtion/">NextWeb</a>, <a href="http://mashable.com/2008/04/25/live-blog-matt-mullenweg-makes-an-announcement-at-web-20-expo/">Mashable</a>, and <a href="http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9928900-2.html">WebWare</a>. <strong>Update:</strong> <a href="http://www.techfever.net/?p=1858&amp;language=en">Here are some pictures from the talk</a>. <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/04/web-20-expo-announcements/" rel="bookmark">(21)</a></p>";}i:19;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:20:"Matt: Kara Interview";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=5230";s:4:"link";s:36:"http://ma.tt/2008/04/kara-interview/";s:11:"description";s:392:"<p>I had the pleasure of chatting with Kara Swisher for a bit earlier in the week over oysters and cobb salad. <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080425/wordpress-matt-mullenweg-speaks/">Kara has posted a summary of our chat and a 5-minute video interview with different types of questions than I normally get</a>. <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/04/kara-interview/" rel="bookmark">(11)</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:33:03 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:392:"<p>I had the pleasure of chatting with Kara Swisher for a bit earlier in the week over oysters and cobb salad. <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080425/wordpress-matt-mullenweg-speaks/">Kara has posted a summary of our chat and a 5-minute video interview with different types of questions than I normally get</a>. <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/04/kara-interview/" rel="bookmark">(11)</a></p>";}i:20;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:34:"Gravatar: Disqus supports Gravatar";s:4:"guid";s:35:"http://gravatar.wordpress.com/?p=50";s:4:"link";s:61:"http://blog.gravatar.com/2008/04/25/disqus-supports-gravatar/";s:11:"description";s:1475:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>The Disqus commenting system <a href="http://blog.disqus.net/2008/04/25/added-gravatar-support/">now has Gravatar support</a>!</p>
<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/gravatar.wordpress.com/50/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/gravatar.wordpress.com/50/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/gravatar.wordpress.com/50/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/gravatar.wordpress.com/50/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/50/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/50/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/50/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/50/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/gravatar.wordpress.com/50/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/gravatar.wordpress.com/50/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/50/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/50/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gravatar.com&blog=1886259&post=50&subd=gravatar&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:24:45 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Toni";}s:7:"summary";s:1475:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>The Disqus commenting system <a href="http://blog.disqus.net/2008/04/25/added-gravatar-support/">now has Gravatar support</a>!</p>
<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/gravatar.wordpress.com/50/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/gravatar.wordpress.com/50/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/gravatar.wordpress.com/50/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/gravatar.wordpress.com/50/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/50/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/50/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/50/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/50/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/gravatar.wordpress.com/50/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/gravatar.wordpress.com/50/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/50/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/50/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gravatar.com&blog=1886259&post=50&subd=gravatar&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:49:"Mark Jaquith: WordPress 2.5.1: Shortcodes updates";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/?p=149";s:4:"link";s:77:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/wordpress-251-shortcodes-updates/";s:11:"description";s:2857:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251/">WordPress 2.5.1 is out</a>, with a ton of little bug fixes and one important security fix.  <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">Go upgrade</a> your 2.5 blogs now.</p>
<p>One area that has changed is shortcodes, those little square bracket shortcuts like <code>[gal<span>lery</span>]</code>.  In WP 2.5, those were processed <em>before</em> paragraphs were auto-created and quotes were curled.  This lead to funky (and invalid) XHTML formatting for block-level shortcodes like the <code>[gal<span>lery</span>]</code> one.  In 2.5.1, shortcodes are parsed &#8220;at 11&#8243; &#8212; that is, after paragraphs are wrapped and quotes are curled.  Additionally, a shortcode with a buffer line between surrounding content will not be paragraph wrapped.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<p><code>[gal<span>lery</span>]</code></p>
<p>That shortcode&#8217;s output would be untouched by WordPress &#8212; whatever the shortcode outputs is going to the browser.  Note that if you&#8217;re a plugin developer and you want the output of your shortcode to be p-wrapped or have its quotes curled, you&#8217;ll have to call those functions yourself.  At some point in the future we may add more options for shortcode calling, but for now, you&#8217;re on your own for formatting.</p>
<p>Be sure to check out the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API">excellent documentation</a> for this feature!</p>
<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/markjaquith.wordpress.com/149/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/markjaquith.wordpress.com/149/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/149/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/149/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/149/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/149/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/149/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/149/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/149/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/149/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/149/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/149/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=149&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:53:43 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Mark Jaquith";}s:7:"summary";s:2857:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251/">WordPress 2.5.1 is out</a>, with a ton of little bug fixes and one important security fix.  <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">Go upgrade</a> your 2.5 blogs now.</p>
<p>One area that has changed is shortcodes, those little square bracket shortcuts like <code>[gal<span>lery</span>]</code>.  In WP 2.5, those were processed <em>before</em> paragraphs were auto-created and quotes were curled.  This lead to funky (and invalid) XHTML formatting for block-level shortcodes like the <code>[gal<span>lery</span>]</code> one.  In 2.5.1, shortcodes are parsed &#8220;at 11&#8243; &#8212; that is, after paragraphs are wrapped and quotes are curled.  Additionally, a shortcode with a buffer line between surrounding content will not be paragraph wrapped.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<p><code>[gal<span>lery</span>]</code></p>
<p>That shortcode&#8217;s output would be untouched by WordPress &#8212; whatever the shortcode outputs is going to the browser.  Note that if you&#8217;re a plugin developer and you want the output of your shortcode to be p-wrapped or have its quotes curled, you&#8217;ll have to call those functions yourself.  At some point in the future we may add more options for shortcode calling, but for now, you&#8217;re on your own for formatting.</p>
<p>Be sure to check out the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API">excellent documentation</a> for this feature!</p>
<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/markjaquith.wordpress.com/149/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/markjaquith.wordpress.com/149/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/149/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/149/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/149/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/149/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/149/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/149/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/149/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/149/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/149/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/149/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=149&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:22;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:25:"Dev Blog: WordPress 2.5.1";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=231";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251/";s:11:"description";s:2250:"<p>Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if your blog has open registration. The vulnerability is not public but it will be shortly.</p>
<p>In addition to the security fix, 2.5.1 contains many bug fixes.  If you are interested only in the security fixes, you can download these corrected copies of <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.1/wp-includes/pluggable.php?format=raw">wp-includes/pluggable.php</a>, <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.1/wp-admin/includes/media.php?format=raw">wp-admin/includes/media.php</a>, and <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.1/wp-admin/media.php?format=raw">wp-admin/media.php</a>.  Replace your existing copies of these files with these new copies.</p>
<p>If you download the entire 2.5.1 release, you will be getting <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;milestone=2.5.1&amp;resolution=fixed&amp;order=priority">over 70 other fixes</a>.  2.5.1 focuses on fixing the most annoying bugs and improving performance.  Here are some highlights:</p>
<ul>
<li>Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.</li>
<li>Better performance for those who have many categories</li>
<li>Media Uploader fixes</li>
<li>An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7</li>
<li>Widget Administration fixes</li>
<li>Various usability improvements</li>
<li>Layout fixes for IE</li>
</ul>
<h3>Secret lives of blogs</h3>
<p>Since 2.5 your <code>wp-config.php</code> file allows a new constant called <code>SECRET_KEY</code> which basically is meant to introduce a little permanent randomness into the cryptographic functions used for cookies in WordPress. You can <a href="http://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.0/">visit this link we set up to get a unique secret key</a> for your config file. (It&#8217;s unique and random on every page load.) Having this line in your config file helps secure your blog.</p>
<p>Many thanks to <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/">Steven Murdoch</a> for responsibly reporting the security issue (CVE-2008-1930) and Alex Concha for reporting an XSS issue.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:54:19 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ryan";}s:7:"summary";s:2250:"<p>Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if your blog has open registration. The vulnerability is not public but it will be shortly.</p>
<p>In addition to the security fix, 2.5.1 contains many bug fixes.  If you are interested only in the security fixes, you can download these corrected copies of <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.1/wp-includes/pluggable.php?format=raw">wp-includes/pluggable.php</a>, <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.1/wp-admin/includes/media.php?format=raw">wp-admin/includes/media.php</a>, and <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.1/wp-admin/media.php?format=raw">wp-admin/media.php</a>.  Replace your existing copies of these files with these new copies.</p>
<p>If you download the entire 2.5.1 release, you will be getting <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;milestone=2.5.1&amp;resolution=fixed&amp;order=priority">over 70 other fixes</a>.  2.5.1 focuses on fixing the most annoying bugs and improving performance.  Here are some highlights:</p>
<ul>
<li>Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.</li>
<li>Better performance for those who have many categories</li>
<li>Media Uploader fixes</li>
<li>An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7</li>
<li>Widget Administration fixes</li>
<li>Various usability improvements</li>
<li>Layout fixes for IE</li>
</ul>
<h3>Secret lives of blogs</h3>
<p>Since 2.5 your <code>wp-config.php</code> file allows a new constant called <code>SECRET_KEY</code> which basically is meant to introduce a little permanent randomness into the cryptographic functions used for cookies in WordPress. You can <a href="http://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.0/">visit this link we set up to get a unique secret key</a> for your config file. (It&#8217;s unique and random on every page load.) Having this line in your config file helps secure your blog.</p>
<p>Many thanks to <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/">Steven Murdoch</a> for responsibly reporting the security issue (CVE-2008-1930) and Alex Concha for reporting an XSS issue.</p>";}i:23;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:42:"bbPress: Security Release: bbPress 0.9.0.2";s:4:"guid";s:24:"http://bbpress.org/?p=82";s:4:"link";s:62:"http://bbpress.org/blog/2008/04/security-release-bbpress-0902/";s:11:"description";s:957:"<p>bbPress 0.9.0.2 is available for <a href="http://bbpress.org/download/">immediate download</a>.  This release includes some small <a href="http://trac.bbpress.org/log/branches/0.9?action=stop_on_copy&#038;rev=1492&#038;stop_rev=1405&#038;mode=stop_on_copy">changes</a> and fixes a few <a href="http://trac.bbpress.org/query?status=closed&#038;milestone=0.9.0.2">bugs</a>, but is first and foremost a security release.  The vulnerability is not yet publicly known, but will be soon.</p>
<p>Many thanks go out to Steven J. Murdoch for identifying the issue (CVE-2008-1930) and working with us and <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> to resolve it.</p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: Those of you with integrated WordPress/bbPress installs should upgrade WordPress first and then will probably have to update the &#8220;WordPress database secret&#8221; setting in your Settings -> WordPress Integration: Cookies admin panel after upgrading bbPress.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:54:18 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:8:"mdawaffe";}s:7:"summary";s:957:"<p>bbPress 0.9.0.2 is available for <a href="http://bbpress.org/download/">immediate download</a>.  This release includes some small <a href="http://trac.bbpress.org/log/branches/0.9?action=stop_on_copy&#038;rev=1492&#038;stop_rev=1405&#038;mode=stop_on_copy">changes</a> and fixes a few <a href="http://trac.bbpress.org/query?status=closed&#038;milestone=0.9.0.2">bugs</a>, but is first and foremost a security release.  The vulnerability is not yet publicly known, but will be soon.</p>
<p>Many thanks go out to Steven J. Murdoch for identifying the issue (CVE-2008-1930) and working with us and <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> to resolve it.</p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: Those of you with integrated WordPress/bbPress installs should upgrade WordPress first and then will probably have to update the &#8220;WordPress database secret&#8221; setting in your Settings -> WordPress Integration: Cookies admin panel after upgrading bbPress.</p>";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:46:"Weblog Tools Collection: Batch Category Editor";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3469";s:4:"link";s:75:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/25/batch-category-editor/";s:11:"description";s:1899:"<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/batchcategories.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3470" title="batchcategories" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/batchcategories.png" alt="Batch Category Plugin Logo" width="278" height="125" /></a></p>
<p>Just the other day, I ran into a problem. I deleted a number of categories on my blog and since WordPress does not give you the option of reassigning the posts within those categories to another category, all of those posts were reassigned to Uncategorized. The answer to this problem? <a title="http://robm.me.uk/projects/plugins/wordpress/batch-categories" href="http://robm.me.uk/projects/plugins/wordpress/batch-categories" target="_blank">Batch Categories</a>.</p>
<p>Batch Categories is a WordPress plugin written by Rob Miller that adds some powerful functionality into the default WordPress category editor. With Batch Categories, you can reassign a number of posts to a category, remove a number of posts from a category, edit the tagging structure, and so much more. Batch Categories also includes a number of enhanced post filters to make finding those posts much easier. This is what the plugin back end looks like.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/batch-categories.png"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3471" title="batch-categories" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/batch-categories-150x150.png" alt="This is what Batch Categories Looks Like" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>There are two different versions of this plugin. One for WordPress 2.3.3 and one for WordPress 2.5. This is the type of functionality that really makes managing a number of posts easier and I thank Rob for creating this plugin as it solved my issue and I&#8217;m sure it will be of use to many of you. No more editing one post at a time!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:45:57 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1899:"<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/batchcategories.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3470" title="batchcategories" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/batchcategories.png" alt="Batch Category Plugin Logo" width="278" height="125" /></a></p>
<p>Just the other day, I ran into a problem. I deleted a number of categories on my blog and since WordPress does not give you the option of reassigning the posts within those categories to another category, all of those posts were reassigned to Uncategorized. The answer to this problem? <a title="http://robm.me.uk/projects/plugins/wordpress/batch-categories" href="http://robm.me.uk/projects/plugins/wordpress/batch-categories" target="_blank">Batch Categories</a>.</p>
<p>Batch Categories is a WordPress plugin written by Rob Miller that adds some powerful functionality into the default WordPress category editor. With Batch Categories, you can reassign a number of posts to a category, remove a number of posts from a category, edit the tagging structure, and so much more. Batch Categories also includes a number of enhanced post filters to make finding those posts much easier. This is what the plugin back end looks like.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/batch-categories.png"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3471" title="batch-categories" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/batch-categories-150x150.png" alt="This is what Batch Categories Looks Like" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>There are two different versions of this plugin. One for WordPress 2.3.3 and one for WordPress 2.5. This is the type of functionality that really makes managing a number of posts easier and I thank Rob for creating this plugin as it solved my issue and I&#8217;m sure it will be of use to many of you. No more editing one post at a time!</p>";}i:25;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress on every Google Search?";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3472";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/24/wordpress-on-every-google-search/";s:11:"description";s:1227:"<p>I had this interesting thought which I am sure can be easily defeated but definitely points towards the success of WordPress.</p>
<p>I was searching the web for something inconspicuous as the &#8220;<a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=iwrap&amp;btnG=Google+Search">iWrap</a>&#8221; and I came upon some interesting results. While browsing the results and then switching back to the search results page, I realized that the first page had at least three results that were either related to WordPress or were on a WordPress blog. I repeated the search for completely inane search terms and had at least one result show up on every search I performed from a blog that used WordPress as the blogging tool. I have had this happen in the past with various other queries but had not quite put two and two together. So my hypothesis is that<em> a WordPress blog or a link that is somehow related to WordPress, shows up on the first page of results on every search performed on Google.</em></p>
<p>Do you have a search term or phrase that proves otherwise?</p>
<p>[EDIT] Since there seems to be some that do not, conversely, what percentage of search results do you think has WordPress in the first page of results?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:35:40 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1227:"<p>I had this interesting thought which I am sure can be easily defeated but definitely points towards the success of WordPress.</p>
<p>I was searching the web for something inconspicuous as the &#8220;<a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=iwrap&amp;btnG=Google+Search">iWrap</a>&#8221; and I came upon some interesting results. While browsing the results and then switching back to the search results page, I realized that the first page had at least three results that were either related to WordPress or were on a WordPress blog. I repeated the search for completely inane search terms and had at least one result show up on every search I performed from a blog that used WordPress as the blogging tool. I have had this happen in the past with various other queries but had not quite put two and two together. So my hypothesis is that<em> a WordPress blog or a link that is somehow related to WordPress, shows up on the first page of results on every search performed on Google.</em></p>
<p>Do you have a search term or phrase that proves otherwise?</p>
<p>[EDIT] Since there seems to be some that do not, conversely, what percentage of search results do you think has WordPress in the first page of results?</p>";}i:26;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:95:"Mark Jaquith: Why Subscribe to Comments doesn’t let you check the subscription box by default";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/?p=148";s:4:"link";s:123:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/why-subscribe-to-comments-doesnt-let-you-check-the-subscription-box-by-default/";s:11:"description";s:2803:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>At one time, my <a href="http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/">Subscribe to Comments</a> plugin would allow you to have the subscription checkbox checked by default.  This is no longer the case.  I get a lot of e-mail asking about this change, so I&#8217;d like to explain it.</p>
<p>In short, having the box checked by default was causing people to subscribe unwittingly, as it was an opt-out thing.  I was getting a lot of flak about this, because a lot of sites had enabled this option without thinking about the ramifications (even I had it enabled for a while!).  Opt-out is a bad way to operate, and it doesn&#8217;t provide a good user experience.  A lot of users see it as being sneaky.  Obviously if you want to edit the plugin to re-enable this option, I can&#8217;t stop you &#8212; but I no longer wanted to be encouraging use of this option.</p>
<p>&#8220;But what if you have a user who <em>wants</em> to subscribe to every post?&#8221; you ask. Well, here&#8217;s how it works now.  If you subscribe to an entry&#8217;s comments, you&#8217;ll get a cookie that remembers that you subscribed.  And when you visit other posts, the checkbox will be checked by default (for you only).  So you only have to opt-in once.  Naturally if you then leave a comment with the box unchecked, your personal default will revert to unchecked.  I think this is a much better solution.</p>
<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/markjaquith.wordpress.com/148/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/markjaquith.wordpress.com/148/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/148/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/148/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/148/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/148/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/148/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/148/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/148/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/148/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/148/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/148/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=148&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:10:35 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Mark Jaquith";}s:7:"summary";s:2803:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>At one time, my <a href="http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/">Subscribe to Comments</a> plugin would allow you to have the subscription checkbox checked by default.  This is no longer the case.  I get a lot of e-mail asking about this change, so I&#8217;d like to explain it.</p>
<p>In short, having the box checked by default was causing people to subscribe unwittingly, as it was an opt-out thing.  I was getting a lot of flak about this, because a lot of sites had enabled this option without thinking about the ramifications (even I had it enabled for a while!).  Opt-out is a bad way to operate, and it doesn&#8217;t provide a good user experience.  A lot of users see it as being sneaky.  Obviously if you want to edit the plugin to re-enable this option, I can&#8217;t stop you &#8212; but I no longer wanted to be encouraging use of this option.</p>
<p>&#8220;But what if you have a user who <em>wants</em> to subscribe to every post?&#8221; you ask. Well, here&#8217;s how it works now.  If you subscribe to an entry&#8217;s comments, you&#8217;ll get a cookie that remembers that you subscribed.  And when you visit other posts, the checkbox will be checked by default (for you only).  So you only have to opt-in once.  Naturally if you then leave a comment with the box unchecked, your personal default will revert to unchecked.  I think this is a much better solution.</p>
<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/markjaquith.wordpress.com/148/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/markjaquith.wordpress.com/148/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/148/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/148/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/148/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/148/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/148/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/148/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/148/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/148/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/148/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/148/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=148&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:27;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:44:"Ryan Boren: Cookie Security in WordPress 2.5";s:4:"guid";s:23:"http://boren.nu/?p=1546";s:4:"link";s:68:"http://boren.nu/archives/2008/04/24/cookie-security-in-wordpress-25/";s:11:"description";s:2999:"<p>To make cookies secure against attacks where someone has managed to get into your database through an SQL injection exploit or other means, WordPress 2.5 introduced a user-definable constant called SECRET_KEY.  If you look at the sample wp-config.php shipped with 2.5, you&#8217;ll see these lines.</p>
<blockquote><p>// Change SECRET_KEY to a unique phrase.  You won&#8217;t have to remember it later,<br />
// so make it long and complicated.  You can visit https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm<br />
// to get a phrase generated for you, or just make something up.<br />
define(&#8217;SECRET_KEY&#8217;, &#8216;put your unique phrase here&#8217;); // Change this to a unique phrase</p></blockquote>
<p>If you upgraded from a previous version of WordPress you probably won&#8217;t have these lines in your wp-config.php.  Regardless, defining SECRET_KEY and giving it a unique phrase will give your cookies some added security.  To make adding a secret key easier, we&#8217;ve created a web page that will create the full statement needed to define SECRET_KEY complete with a strong, randomly-generated phrase.  Go to <a href="http://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.0/">api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.0/</a> for a line you can cut-and-paste into your wp-config.php file.  Here&#8217;s some sample output:</p>
<blockquote>
<pre>define('SECRET_KEY', 'C~1Vr5|!meuT$j`Y.:i&amp;*Cd=O^N0XWD_HzHruzl-?R%LPzlzQ( q^KSW[dmcK;vw');</pre>
</blockquote>
<p>Cut-and-paste that entire line into your wp-config.php.  You can put it after the define statements for the database settings. If you already have SECRET_KEY defined in your wp-config.php, delete the existing line and add the new line.  After you add your SECRET_KEY, all users on your blog that are logged in will be logged out.  They&#8217;ll have to log back in to get a new cookie.  If you ever need to force all users to log out, changing SECRET_KEY is an easy way to do so.  Don&#8217;t worry that changing SECRET_KEY will affect passwords; it affects only login cookies.  And don&#8217;t worry about having to remember that long random phrase.  WordPress will never ask you to input that phrase. It&#8217;s just there to act a piece of randomness, frozen in time, for use in creating more secure login cookies for your blog.</p>
<p>Update: As mentioned in the comments, don&#8217;t directly copy the example I have above.  Visit <a href="http://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.0/">api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.0/</a> to get your own secret key.  Get a different secret for each of your blogs.</p>
<p>When you add the SECRET_KEY line, add it after the &#8216;&lt;?php&#8217; tag on the first line.  It has to be between the first line and the last line of wp-config.php, in between the &#8216;&lt;?php&#8217; and &#8216;?&gt;&#8217; tags.  In a future version of WP, we&#8217;ll try to do this for you automatically if your server config allows WP to write to your wp-config.php file.  That way you won&#8217;t have to edit any PHP files.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:00:05 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ryan";}s:7:"summary";s:2999:"<p>To make cookies secure against attacks where someone has managed to get into your database through an SQL injection exploit or other means, WordPress 2.5 introduced a user-definable constant called SECRET_KEY.  If you look at the sample wp-config.php shipped with 2.5, you&#8217;ll see these lines.</p>
<blockquote><p>// Change SECRET_KEY to a unique phrase.  You won&#8217;t have to remember it later,<br />
// so make it long and complicated.  You can visit https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm<br />
// to get a phrase generated for you, or just make something up.<br />
define(&#8217;SECRET_KEY&#8217;, &#8216;put your unique phrase here&#8217;); // Change this to a unique phrase</p></blockquote>
<p>If you upgraded from a previous version of WordPress you probably won&#8217;t have these lines in your wp-config.php.  Regardless, defining SECRET_KEY and giving it a unique phrase will give your cookies some added security.  To make adding a secret key easier, we&#8217;ve created a web page that will create the full statement needed to define SECRET_KEY complete with a strong, randomly-generated phrase.  Go to <a href="http://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.0/">api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.0/</a> for a line you can cut-and-paste into your wp-config.php file.  Here&#8217;s some sample output:</p>
<blockquote>
<pre>define('SECRET_KEY', 'C~1Vr5|!meuT$j`Y.:i&amp;*Cd=O^N0XWD_HzHruzl-?R%LPzlzQ( q^KSW[dmcK;vw');</pre>
</blockquote>
<p>Cut-and-paste that entire line into your wp-config.php.  You can put it after the define statements for the database settings. If you already have SECRET_KEY defined in your wp-config.php, delete the existing line and add the new line.  After you add your SECRET_KEY, all users on your blog that are logged in will be logged out.  They&#8217;ll have to log back in to get a new cookie.  If you ever need to force all users to log out, changing SECRET_KEY is an easy way to do so.  Don&#8217;t worry that changing SECRET_KEY will affect passwords; it affects only login cookies.  And don&#8217;t worry about having to remember that long random phrase.  WordPress will never ask you to input that phrase. It&#8217;s just there to act a piece of randomness, frozen in time, for use in creating more secure login cookies for your blog.</p>
<p>Update: As mentioned in the comments, don&#8217;t directly copy the example I have above.  Visit <a href="http://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.0/">api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.0/</a> to get your own secret key.  Get a different secret for each of your blogs.</p>
<p>When you add the SECRET_KEY line, add it after the &#8216;&lt;?php&#8217; tag on the first line.  It has to be between the first line and the last line of wp-config.php, in between the &#8216;&lt;?php&#8217; and &#8216;?&gt;&#8217; tags.  In a future version of WP, we&#8217;ll try to do this for you automatically if your server config allows WP to write to your wp-config.php file.  That way you won&#8217;t have to edit any PHP files.</p>";}i:28;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:27:"Matt: WordCamp in Vancouver";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=5228";s:4:"link";s:43:"http://ma.tt/2008/04/wordcamp-in-vancouver/";s:11:"description";s:231:"<p><a href="http://blog.tazzu.com/2008/04/10/tazzu-wordpress-camp-in-vancouver/">There&#8217;s going to be a WordCamp in Vancouver on April 30th</a>. <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/04/wordcamp-in-vancouver/" rel="bookmark">(13)</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:19:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:231:"<p><a href="http://blog.tazzu.com/2008/04/10/tazzu-wordpress-camp-in-vancouver/">There&#8217;s going to be a WordCamp in Vancouver on April 30th</a>. <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/04/wordcamp-in-vancouver/" rel="bookmark">(13)</a></p>";}i:29;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:21:"Matt: At Web 2.0 Expo";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=5226";s:4:"link";s:36:"http://ma.tt/2008/04/at-web-20-expo/";s:11:"description";s:571:"<p>For those of you in San Francisco for the <a href="http://en.oreilly.com/webexsf2008/public/content/home">Web 2.0 Expo</a>, I&#8217;m going to be <a href="http://en.oreilly.com/webexsf2008/public/schedule/grid?date=2008-04-25">speaking Friday in the main ballroom</a> at 10:15 AM. Earlier that morning are Jonathan Schwartz, Dan Lyons, and Matt Cutts, all tough acts to follow. I&#8217;ll be doing a &#8220;High Order Bit&#8221; which means &#8220;short&#8221; and will be launching something. <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/04/at-web-20-expo/" rel="bookmark">(13)</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:52:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:571:"<p>For those of you in San Francisco for the <a href="http://en.oreilly.com/webexsf2008/public/content/home">Web 2.0 Expo</a>, I&#8217;m going to be <a href="http://en.oreilly.com/webexsf2008/public/schedule/grid?date=2008-04-25">speaking Friday in the main ballroom</a> at 10:15 AM. Earlier that morning are Jonathan Schwartz, Dan Lyons, and Matt Cutts, all tough acts to follow. I&#8217;ll be doing a &#8220;High Order Bit&#8221; which means &#8220;short&#8221; and will be launching something. <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/04/at-web-20-expo/" rel="bookmark">(13)</a></p>";}i:30;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:63:"Weblog Tools Collection: New AB Meta Markup Tools for WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3459";s:4:"link";s:92:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/24/new-ab-meta-markup-tools-for-wordpress/";s:11:"description";s:834:"<p><a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/04/new-ab-meta-mar.html">New &#8216;AB Meta&#8217; Markup Tools Could Create a Smarter Web</a>: Wired has an interesting article on a new set of tools from <a href="http://adaptiveblue.com">Adaptive Blue</a> called <a href="http://blog.adaptiveblue.com/?p=975">AB Meta</a> which could be used to easily add metadata to your blog pages that can in turn, be used by search engines to correctly categorize and annotate content. Dougal&#8217;s <a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2004/06/17/my-first-wordpress-plugin-headmeta">HeadMeta WordPress plugin</a> can be used to insert AB Meta into your posts. The Wired article and the Adaptive Blue blog post have some examples on how this works and what should be done.</p>
<p>Disclosure: Adaptive Blue is an advertiser on this blog.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:28:10 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:834:"<p><a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/04/new-ab-meta-mar.html">New &#8216;AB Meta&#8217; Markup Tools Could Create a Smarter Web</a>: Wired has an interesting article on a new set of tools from <a href="http://adaptiveblue.com">Adaptive Blue</a> called <a href="http://blog.adaptiveblue.com/?p=975">AB Meta</a> which could be used to easily add metadata to your blog pages that can in turn, be used by search engines to correctly categorize and annotate content. Dougal&#8217;s <a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2004/06/17/my-first-wordpress-plugin-headmeta">HeadMeta WordPress plugin</a> can be used to insert AB Meta into your posts. The Wired article and the Adaptive Blue blog post have some examples on how this works and what should be done.</p>
<p>Disclosure: Adaptive Blue is an advertiser on this blog.</p>";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:102:"WordPress Podcast: Episode 40: Technorati and older versions of WordPress, Woopra, Weblog Tools Videos";s:4:"guid";s:29:"http://wp-community.org/?p=75";s:4:"link";s:46:"http://wp-community.org/2008/04/24/episode-40/";s:11:"description";s:1851:"<p>In this episode of The WordPress Podcast:</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/" title="Plagiarism Today" target="_blank" class="extlink">Jonathan</a> and I briefly discuss our experiences at <a href="http://dallas.wordcamp.org/" title="WordCamp Dallas" target="_blank" class="extlink">WordCamp Dallas</a></li>
<li><a href="http://technorati.com/weblog/2008/04/424.html" title="Technorati" target="_blank" class="extlink">Technorati</a> has decided to <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/08/vulnerable-wordpress-blogs-not-being-indexed/" title="Weblog Tools Collection" target="_blank" class="extlink">not index vulnerable and exploited WordPress versions</a></li>
<li>Will <a href="http://www.apple.com/" title="Apple, Inc." target="_blank" class="extlink">Apple</a> bundle <a href="http://wordpress.jdwebdev.com/blog/news/wordpress-iphone/" title="WordPress Expert" target="_blank" class="extlink">WordPress into the iPhone</a>?</li>
<li>I interview <a href="http://onemansblog.com/" title="One Man's Blog" target="_blank" class="extlink">John Podzazides</a> about <a href="http://www.woopra.com/" title="Woopra" target="_blank" class="extlink">Woopra</a></li>
<li>I interview Mark Ghosh about <a href="http://www.weblogtoolsvideos.com/" title="Weblog Tools Videos" target="_blank" class="extlink">Weblog Tools Videos</a></li>
<li>WordPress Dev Donncha O Caoimh&#8217;s <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/theme-tester/" title="Theme Tester" target="_blank" class="extlink">Theme Tester plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://anthologyoi.com/awp" title="AJAXed WordPress" target="_blank" class="extlink">AJAXed WordPress plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ma.tt/" title="Matt Mullenweg" target="_blank" class="extlink">Matt Mullenweg</a> agrees to a &#8220;Ask Matt&#8221; Q&amp;A segment in future episodes</li>
</ol>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:55:31 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:17:"Charles Stricklin";}s:7:"summary";s:1851:"<p>In this episode of The WordPress Podcast:</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/" title="Plagiarism Today" target="_blank" class="extlink">Jonathan</a> and I briefly discuss our experiences at <a href="http://dallas.wordcamp.org/" title="WordCamp Dallas" target="_blank" class="extlink">WordCamp Dallas</a></li>
<li><a href="http://technorati.com/weblog/2008/04/424.html" title="Technorati" target="_blank" class="extlink">Technorati</a> has decided to <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/08/vulnerable-wordpress-blogs-not-being-indexed/" title="Weblog Tools Collection" target="_blank" class="extlink">not index vulnerable and exploited WordPress versions</a></li>
<li>Will <a href="http://www.apple.com/" title="Apple, Inc." target="_blank" class="extlink">Apple</a> bundle <a href="http://wordpress.jdwebdev.com/blog/news/wordpress-iphone/" title="WordPress Expert" target="_blank" class="extlink">WordPress into the iPhone</a>?</li>
<li>I interview <a href="http://onemansblog.com/" title="One Man's Blog" target="_blank" class="extlink">John Podzazides</a> about <a href="http://www.woopra.com/" title="Woopra" target="_blank" class="extlink">Woopra</a></li>
<li>I interview Mark Ghosh about <a href="http://www.weblogtoolsvideos.com/" title="Weblog Tools Videos" target="_blank" class="extlink">Weblog Tools Videos</a></li>
<li>WordPress Dev Donncha O Caoimh&#8217;s <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/theme-tester/" title="Theme Tester" target="_blank" class="extlink">Theme Tester plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://anthologyoi.com/awp" title="AJAXed WordPress" target="_blank" class="extlink">AJAXed WordPress plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ma.tt/" title="Matt Mullenweg" target="_blank" class="extlink">Matt Mullenweg</a> agrees to a &#8220;Ask Matt&#8221; Q&amp;A segment in future episodes</li>
</ol>";}i:32;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:29:"Alex King: Tag Uncomplete 1.0";s:4:"guid";s:53:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/04/23/tag-uncomplete-10";s:4:"link";s:53:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/04/23/tag-uncomplete-10";s:11:"description";s:1279:"<p>This is a <em>really</em> simple <a href="http://wordpress.org/" rel="external">WordPress</a> plugin that only does one thing: disable the tag auto-complete feature in WordPress 2.5.</p>
<p>The tag auto-complete feature is very nice, and I personally like it quite a bit. However, some of <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com">our</a> clients have thousands of tags and were experiencing unacceptable slowdowns with this feature enabled. If you are experiencing problems like this, Tag Uncomplete may help.</p>
<p>The download and more information are available on my <a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress">WordPress Plugins page</a>.</p>
<p>If you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/" rel="external">WP Support Forums</a> and send me the link.</p>
<p><strong>We&#8217;re hiring!</strong> Want to build WordPress plugins, create WordPress powered web sites and build fun web based products and services? <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/jobs/">Join the team at Crowd Favorite</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://sharethis.com/item?&wp=2.2.3&amp;publisher=06654962-d77d-102a-861d-00161729a8a2&amp;title=Tag+Uncomplete+1.0&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Falexking.org%2Fblog%2F2008%2F04%2F23%2Ftag-uncomplete-10">ShareThis</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:21:43 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:7:"summary";s:1279:"<p>This is a <em>really</em> simple <a href="http://wordpress.org/" rel="external">WordPress</a> plugin that only does one thing: disable the tag auto-complete feature in WordPress 2.5.</p>
<p>The tag auto-complete feature is very nice, and I personally like it quite a bit. However, some of <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com">our</a> clients have thousands of tags and were experiencing unacceptable slowdowns with this feature enabled. If you are experiencing problems like this, Tag Uncomplete may help.</p>
<p>The download and more information are available on my <a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress">WordPress Plugins page</a>.</p>
<p>If you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/" rel="external">WP Support Forums</a> and send me the link.</p>
<p><strong>We&#8217;re hiring!</strong> Want to build WordPress plugins, create WordPress powered web sites and build fun web based products and services? <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/jobs/">Join the team at Crowd Favorite</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://sharethis.com/item?&wp=2.2.3&amp;publisher=06654962-d77d-102a-861d-00161729a8a2&amp;title=Tag+Uncomplete+1.0&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Falexking.org%2Fblog%2F2008%2F04%2F23%2Ftag-uncomplete-10">ShareThis</a></p>";}i:33;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:51:"Mark Jaquith: WordPress Tip: Reorder your Title Tag";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/?p=147";s:4:"link";s:81:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/wordpress-tip-reorder-your-title-tag/";s:11:"description";s:3041:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>WordPress, by default, creates &lt;title&gt; tags that look like this: &lt;title&gt;Yoursite &raquo; Your Post Title&lt;/title&gt;.  Many people want to use &lt;title&gt;Your Post Title &raquo; Yoursite&lt;/title&gt; instead, to give more importance to the mutable part of the &lt;title&gt;.  There are plugins to do this, but I&#8217;d like to show you how a simple change in your theme can accomplish this task.  <ins>Caveat: this only works in WordPress 2.5 and above.</ins></p>
<ol>
<li>Open your <code>header.php</code> theme file (if you don&#8217;t have one, open <code>index.php</code> or whatever one has your &lt;title&gt; tag)</li>
<li>Look for:<br />
<code>&lt;title&gt;&lt;?php bloginfo('name'); ?&gt; &lt;?php if ( is_single() ) { ?&gt; &amp;raquo; Blog Archive &lt;?php } ?&gt; &lt;?php wp_title(); ?&gt;&lt;/title&gt;</code><br />
(or something similar) </li>
<li>Replace it with:<br />
<code>&lt;title&gt;&lt;?php wp_title('&amp;raquo;', true, 'right'); ?&gt; &lt;?php bloginfo('name'); ?&gt;&lt;/title&gt;</code></li>
</ol>
<p>The first <code>wp_title()</code> argument is the separator character.  I like <code>&amp;raquo;</code> (which looks like: &raquo;).  The second argument is whether to echo (print to the browser) the title, or to return it.  We want to print it, so we put <code>true</code>.  The final argument is where the separator should go&#8230; on the left or on the right. We want right, so we put <code>"right"</code>.  Simple enough!</p>
<p><ins><strong>Update</strong>: I got confirmation from <a href="http://mattcutts.com/blog/">Matt Cutts</a> at Google that this is better for SEO.</ins></p>
<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/markjaquith.wordpress.com/147/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/markjaquith.wordpress.com/147/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/147/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/147/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/147/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/147/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/147/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/147/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/147/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/147/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/147/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/147/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=147&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:26:50 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Mark Jaquith";}s:7:"summary";s:3041:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>WordPress, by default, creates &lt;title&gt; tags that look like this: &lt;title&gt;Yoursite &raquo; Your Post Title&lt;/title&gt;.  Many people want to use &lt;title&gt;Your Post Title &raquo; Yoursite&lt;/title&gt; instead, to give more importance to the mutable part of the &lt;title&gt;.  There are plugins to do this, but I&#8217;d like to show you how a simple change in your theme can accomplish this task.  <ins>Caveat: this only works in WordPress 2.5 and above.</ins></p>
<ol>
<li>Open your <code>header.php</code> theme file (if you don&#8217;t have one, open <code>index.php</code> or whatever one has your &lt;title&gt; tag)</li>
<li>Look for:<br />
<code>&lt;title&gt;&lt;?php bloginfo('name'); ?&gt; &lt;?php if ( is_single() ) { ?&gt; &amp;raquo; Blog Archive &lt;?php } ?&gt; &lt;?php wp_title(); ?&gt;&lt;/title&gt;</code><br />
(or something similar) </li>
<li>Replace it with:<br />
<code>&lt;title&gt;&lt;?php wp_title('&amp;raquo;', true, 'right'); ?&gt; &lt;?php bloginfo('name'); ?&gt;&lt;/title&gt;</code></li>
</ol>
<p>The first <code>wp_title()</code> argument is the separator character.  I like <code>&amp;raquo;</code> (which looks like: &raquo;).  The second argument is whether to echo (print to the browser) the title, or to return it.  We want to print it, so we put <code>true</code>.  The final argument is where the separator should go&#8230; on the left or on the right. We want right, so we put <code>"right"</code>.  Simple enough!</p>
<p><ins><strong>Update</strong>: I got confirmation from <a href="http://mattcutts.com/blog/">Matt Cutts</a> at Google that this is better for SEO.</ins></p>
<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/markjaquith.wordpress.com/147/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/markjaquith.wordpress.com/147/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/147/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/147/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/147/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/147/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/147/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/147/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/147/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/147/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/147/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/147/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=147&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:34;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:30:"Matt: Identicons from Gravatar";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=5224";s:4:"link";s:46:"http://ma.tt/2008/04/identicons-from-gravatar/";s:11:"description";s:847:"<p>You may notice in my comments now for people who don&#8217;t have an existing <a href="http://en.gravatar.com/">Gravatar</a> I show cool geometric patterns. These are called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identicon">Identicons</a> and they were originally <a href="http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark/tags/identicon">conceived by Don Park</a>. With a single parameter, you can have the <a href="http://blog.gravatar.com/2008/04/22/identicons-monsterids-and-wavatars-oh-my/">Gravatar API fall back to an identicon or even force it to return one</a>. This works in any size Gravatar supports, <a href="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/04d24379cd970b7670ee66fa203d646f?s=512&amp;r=any&amp;default=identicon&amp;forcedefault=1">up to 512 pixels</a>. Sweet! <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/04/identicons-from-gravatar/" rel="bookmark">(46)</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:34:04 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:847:"<p>You may notice in my comments now for people who don&#8217;t have an existing <a href="http://en.gravatar.com/">Gravatar</a> I show cool geometric patterns. These are called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identicon">Identicons</a> and they were originally <a href="http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark/tags/identicon">conceived by Don Park</a>. With a single parameter, you can have the <a href="http://blog.gravatar.com/2008/04/22/identicons-monsterids-and-wavatars-oh-my/">Gravatar API fall back to an identicon or even force it to return one</a>. This works in any size Gravatar supports, <a href="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/04d24379cd970b7670ee66fa203d646f?s=512&amp;r=any&amp;default=identicon&amp;forcedefault=1">up to 512 pixels</a>. Sweet! <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/04/identicons-from-gravatar/" rel="bookmark">(46)</a></p>";}i:35;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:31:"Matt: Thomson Reuters WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=5222";s:4:"link";s:47:"http://ma.tt/2008/04/thomson-reuters-wordpress/";s:11:"description";s:408:"<p>After its <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/business/media/16thomson.html">17 billion dollar acquisition of Reuters</a>, Thomson <a href="http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2008/04/21/welcome-to-thomson-reuters-hosted-on-wordpresscom-vip/">decided to put their day 1 announcement site on WordPress.com VIP</a>. <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/04/thomson-reuters-wordpress/" rel="bookmark">(8)</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:26:14 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:408:"<p>After its <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/business/media/16thomson.html">17 billion dollar acquisition of Reuters</a>, Thomson <a href="http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2008/04/21/welcome-to-thomson-reuters-hosted-on-wordpresscom-vip/">decided to put their day 1 announcement site on WordPress.com VIP</a>. <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/04/thomson-reuters-wordpress/" rel="bookmark">(8)</a></p>";}i:36;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases For 4/22";s:4:"guid";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/22/wordpress-theme-releases-for-422/";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/22/wordpress-theme-releases-for-422/";s:11:"description";s:2629:"<h3>One Column Themes</h3>
<p><a href="http://cranky.nu/templates/"><strong>Cranky Hemingway</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="137" alt="cranky-hemingway" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/cranky-hemingway.png" width="122" border="0" /> </p>
<p>A one column theme based on the Hemingway theme. This theme also sports a extended sidebar in the footer area to display additional content.</p>
<h3>Two Column Themes</h3>
<p><a href="http://stas.nerd.ro/index.php/libertine/"><strong>Libertine</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="115" alt="libertine-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/libertine-thumbnail.png" width="200" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Libertine is a minimalistic theme specifically made for WordPress 2.5. It contains support for Gravtar, new image classes and more.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.myokyawhtun.com/2008/04/14/wp-bats-theme.html/"><strong>WP Bats</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="137" alt="wp-bats-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/wp-bats-thumbnail.png" width="200" border="0" /> </p>
<p>WP Bats is a two column, fixed-width, widget ready theme. The theme comes build in with page links navigation.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.supersatellite.com/projects/grayplicity/"><strong>Grayplicity</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="136" alt="grayplicity-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/grayplicity-thumbnail.png" width="200" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Grayplicity is a two column widget ready theme. The theme comes with a CSS file that is compressed and used by the site so if you try editing the style.css and nothing changes please make changes in the header to use style.css.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.codescheme.net/2008/04/11/wordpress-free-theme-codescheme-blue/"><strong>Codescheme Blue</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="126" alt="codescheme-blue-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/codescheme-blue-thumbnail.png" width="200" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Codescheme Blue is a fixed-width, 2 column widget ready theme. The pages have a horizontal tab menu, using the CSS &#8217;sliding-doors&#8217; method and are generated automatically.</p>
<h3>Three Column Themes</h3>
<p><a href="http://scribblescratch.com/2008/04/13/wp-theme-thoughtlog/"><strong>Thoughtlog</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="117" alt="thoughtlog-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/thoughtlog-thumbnail.png" width="200" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Thoughtlog is a 3 column theme that features a Springtime header. The theme is widget ready and contains two headers one with text and one without it.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:55:58 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:2629:"<h3>One Column Themes</h3>
<p><a href="http://cranky.nu/templates/"><strong>Cranky Hemingway</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="137" alt="cranky-hemingway" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/cranky-hemingway.png" width="122" border="0" /> </p>
<p>A one column theme based on the Hemingway theme. This theme also sports a extended sidebar in the footer area to display additional content.</p>
<h3>Two Column Themes</h3>
<p><a href="http://stas.nerd.ro/index.php/libertine/"><strong>Libertine</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="115" alt="libertine-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/libertine-thumbnail.png" width="200" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Libertine is a minimalistic theme specifically made for WordPress 2.5. It contains support for Gravtar, new image classes and more.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.myokyawhtun.com/2008/04/14/wp-bats-theme.html/"><strong>WP Bats</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="137" alt="wp-bats-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/wp-bats-thumbnail.png" width="200" border="0" /> </p>
<p>WP Bats is a two column, fixed-width, widget ready theme. The theme comes build in with page links navigation.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.supersatellite.com/projects/grayplicity/"><strong>Grayplicity</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="136" alt="grayplicity-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/grayplicity-thumbnail.png" width="200" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Grayplicity is a two column widget ready theme. The theme comes with a CSS file that is compressed and used by the site so if you try editing the style.css and nothing changes please make changes in the header to use style.css.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.codescheme.net/2008/04/11/wordpress-free-theme-codescheme-blue/"><strong>Codescheme Blue</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="126" alt="codescheme-blue-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/codescheme-blue-thumbnail.png" width="200" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Codescheme Blue is a fixed-width, 2 column widget ready theme. The pages have a horizontal tab menu, using the CSS &#8217;sliding-doors&#8217; method and are generated automatically.</p>
<h3>Three Column Themes</h3>
<p><a href="http://scribblescratch.com/2008/04/13/wp-theme-thoughtlog/"><strong>Thoughtlog</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="117" alt="thoughtlog-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/thoughtlog-thumbnail.png" width="200" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Thoughtlog is a 3 column theme that features a Springtime header. The theme is widget ready and contains two headers one with text and one without it.</p>";}i:37;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:48:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Does It Again";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3460";s:4:"link";s:77:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/22/wordpress-does-it-again/";s:11:"description";s:922:"<p>The results for the <a title="http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9921741-2.html" href="http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9921741-2.html" target="_blank">Webware 100</a> have been released. WordPress.org along with WordPress.com have taken home the award for <a title="http://www.webware.com/8301-13546_109-9913313-29.html" href="http://www.webware.com/8301-13546_109-9913313-29.html" target="_blank">best publisher.</a> Congratulations to the team at Automattic, the core developers of WordPress.org and last but not least, thanks to all of you who voted and continue to use and support WordPress on a daily basis.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/2008winner.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3461" title="2008winner" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/2008winner.png" alt="WordPress.org and.com win the webware 2008 award" width="203" height="233" /></a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:34:26 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:922:"<p>The results for the <a title="http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9921741-2.html" href="http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9921741-2.html" target="_blank">Webware 100</a> have been released. WordPress.org along with WordPress.com have taken home the award for <a title="http://www.webware.com/8301-13546_109-9913313-29.html" href="http://www.webware.com/8301-13546_109-9913313-29.html" target="_blank">best publisher.</a> Congratulations to the team at Automattic, the core developers of WordPress.org and last but not least, thanks to all of you who voted and continue to use and support WordPress on a daily basis.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/2008winner.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3461" title="2008winner" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/2008winner.png" alt="WordPress.org and.com win the webware 2008 award" width="203" height="233" /></a></p>";}i:38;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:33:"Dev Blog: An Event Apart Discount";s:4:"guid";s:65:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/an-event-apart-discount/";s:4:"link";s:65:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/an-event-apart-discount/";s:11:"description";s:1193:"<p><a href="http://aneventapart.com/">An Event Apart</a> is a web design and development conference which features some of the same fine folks who helped out with WordPress 2.5. (And many others.) I attended the one in Chicago a while back and was engaged the whole day in interesting talks on design, writing copy as interface, advanced CSS, and creativity &#8212; each topic presented by the leading folks in the field.</p>
<p>The conference normally costs just under a thousand dollars to attend, which is well worth it, but because of our association with the folks they&#8217;ve set up a discount for WordPress users.</p>
<p>If you enter AEAWP on checkout the price drops to $795, or $200 below the regular registration fee. The coupon is unlimited, and can be used for one ticket or five. They have events coming up in New Orleans, Boston, San Francisco, and Chicago. <a href="http://aneventapart.com/">You can learn more and register on their site at aneventapart.com</a>.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll also have some final dates for WordCamp San Francisco coming up, I&#8217;ll be posting those soonish so people can start making vacation and travel plans. (Nothing like a blogging vacation.)</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:33:19 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:1193:"<p><a href="http://aneventapart.com/">An Event Apart</a> is a web design and development conference which features some of the same fine folks who helped out with WordPress 2.5. (And many others.) I attended the one in Chicago a while back and was engaged the whole day in interesting talks on design, writing copy as interface, advanced CSS, and creativity &#8212; each topic presented by the leading folks in the field.</p>
<p>The conference normally costs just under a thousand dollars to attend, which is well worth it, but because of our association with the folks they&#8217;ve set up a discount for WordPress users.</p>
<p>If you enter AEAWP on checkout the price drops to $795, or $200 below the regular registration fee. The coupon is unlimited, and can be used for one ticket or five. They have events coming up in New Orleans, Boston, San Francisco, and Chicago. <a href="http://aneventapart.com/">You can learn more and register on their site at aneventapart.com</a>.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll also have some final dates for WordCamp San Francisco coming up, I&#8217;ll be posting those soonish so people can start making vacation and travel plans. (Nothing like a blogging vacation.)</p>";}i:39;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:18:"Matt: Optimism Tax";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=5219";s:4:"link";s:34:"http://ma.tt/2008/04/optimism-tax/";s:11:"description";s:767:"<blockquote><p>Around 1:00 am on Halloween, I hailed a cab with a friend. &#8220;Drive around to the front of this building. Can ya leave the meter running while I go inside to tell our friends that we&#8217;ve left? Thanks, man&#8230; I appreciate it.&#8221;</p>
<p>A few minutes later, the cabbie told my friend to run inside and get me because he was in a hurry and had someone waiting.</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8212; <a href="http://www.cockybastard.com/wrds/99/1031.htm">John &#8220;Halcyon&#8221; Styn beginning a story on the Optimism Tax</a>, which I paid today in the form of a GPS, some sunglasses, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_1000">an original PalmPilot</a>. &#8220;[A] small price to pay to be able to continue trusting people.&#8221;</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:47:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:767:"<blockquote><p>Around 1:00 am on Halloween, I hailed a cab with a friend. &#8220;Drive around to the front of this building. Can ya leave the meter running while I go inside to tell our friends that we&#8217;ve left? Thanks, man&#8230; I appreciate it.&#8221;</p>
<p>A few minutes later, the cabbie told my friend to run inside and get me because he was in a hurry and had someone waiting.</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8212; <a href="http://www.cockybastard.com/wrds/99/1031.htm">John &#8220;Halcyon&#8221; Styn beginning a story on the Optimism Tax</a>, which I paid today in the form of a GPS, some sunglasses, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_1000">an original PalmPilot</a>. &#8220;[A] small price to pay to be able to continue trusting people.&#8221;</p>";}i:40;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:44:"Weblog Tools Collection: South By Deep South";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3449";s:4:"link";s:73:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/22/south-by-deep-south/";s:11:"description";s:1824:"<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/sxds.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3450" title="South By Deep South Logo" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/sxds-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Those of you who have been wanting a Technology conference to visit the South Eastern United States are now in luck. The event is called <a title="http://southbydeepsouth.com" href="http://southbydeepsouth.com" target="_blank">South By Deep South</a> and is a take on the familiar South by South West conference. The event will be held in <strong>Birmingham, Alabama on September 26th-28th</strong>. The final details of the event are still being worked out but Ike Pigott has already let us know some of what we can expect from this event:</p>
<ul>
<li>Social Media/PR/Marketing</li>
<li>Web development</li>
<li>A full-blown WordCamp</li>
</ul>
<p>In case you missed it, that last one says <a title="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/29/what-is-wordcamp/" href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/29/what-is-wordcamp/" target="_blank">WordCamp</a>. Personally, I thought Atlanta, Georgia would of been the first city in the South Eastern United States to get a WordCamp event, but it looks like I was wrong. Ike also notes that there will be a <a title="http://www.sidewalkfest.com/" href="http://www.sidewalkfest.com/" target="_blank">SideWalk Festival</a> that will be taking place during the same weekend.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really glad to see these WordCamp events making there way east rather than being confined to silicon valley. As a matter of fact, WordCamps are starting to crop up everywhere, and that is a good thing!</p>
<p>So, who is looking forward to this event and will you be lucky enough to attend?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:53:44 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1824:"<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/sxds.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3450" title="South By Deep South Logo" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/sxds-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Those of you who have been wanting a Technology conference to visit the South Eastern United States are now in luck. The event is called <a title="http://southbydeepsouth.com" href="http://southbydeepsouth.com" target="_blank">South By Deep South</a> and is a take on the familiar South by South West conference. The event will be held in <strong>Birmingham, Alabama on September 26th-28th</strong>. The final details of the event are still being worked out but Ike Pigott has already let us know some of what we can expect from this event:</p>
<ul>
<li>Social Media/PR/Marketing</li>
<li>Web development</li>
<li>A full-blown WordCamp</li>
</ul>
<p>In case you missed it, that last one says <a title="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/29/what-is-wordcamp/" href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/01/29/what-is-wordcamp/" target="_blank">WordCamp</a>. Personally, I thought Atlanta, Georgia would of been the first city in the South Eastern United States to get a WordCamp event, but it looks like I was wrong. Ike also notes that there will be a <a title="http://www.sidewalkfest.com/" href="http://www.sidewalkfest.com/" target="_blank">SideWalk Festival</a> that will be taking place during the same weekend.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really glad to see these WordCamp events making there way east rather than being confined to silicon valley. As a matter of fact, WordCamps are starting to crop up everywhere, and that is a good thing!</p>
<p>So, who is looking forward to this event and will you be lucky enough to attend?</p>";}i:41;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:57:"Gravatar: Identicons, MonsterID’s, and Wavatars! Oh my!";s:4:"guid";s:35:"http://gravatar.wordpress.com/?p=49";s:4:"link";s:77:"http://blog.gravatar.com/2008/04/22/identicons-monsterids-and-wavatars-oh-my/";s:11:"description";s:3463:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>We know that some sites don&#8217;t always appreciate the big blue G being all over their comments sections.  Many sites use the default option to give their non-gravatar-able comments a feeling of continuity with their site design, but we&#8217;ve heard you calling out for more.  It&#8217;s not ideal that anyone who isn&#8217;t &#8220;in&#8221; doesnt get to be unique.</p>
<p>For the community member Gravatar should be able to give you an implicit identity, letting you customize it explicitly from there.  For the site owner Gravatar should give your site a feeling of community, helping to solidify your hard work by giving your members a face, some semblance of permanence.</p>
<p>Looking around at the existing wordpress plugins for inspiration we found these three exceptional projects: <a href="http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/blogger/wp_identicon/">WP_Identicon</a>, <a href="http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/blogger/wp_monsterid/">WP-MonsterID</a>, and the <a href="http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1462">Wavatars plugin</a>.  We decided to take the truly inspiring work that these projects have done, and internalized those ideas into gravatar.  Now you will be able to specify a &amp;default= value of wavatar, monsterid, or identicon to produce results like these:</p>
<p>identicon <img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/04d24379cd970b7670ee66fa203d646f?s=80&amp;r=any&amp;default=identicon&amp;forcedefault=1" alt="" width="80" height="80" /></p>
<p><img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ee4d1b570eff6ce63c7d97043980a98c?default=wavatar&amp;forcedefault=1" alt="" width="80" height="80" /> wavatar</p>
<p>monsterid <img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ee4d1b570eff6ce63c7d97043980a98c?default=monsterid&amp;forcedefault=1" alt="" width="80" height="80" /></p>
<p><img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ee4d1b570eff6ce63c7d97043980a98c?forcedefault=1" alt="" width="80" height="80" /> default</p>
<p>Please let us know if there are others that you think would be worth supporting.  And again: Kudos to the authors of these plugins for their hard work and brilliant ideas!</p>
<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/gravatar.wordpress.com/49/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/gravatar.wordpress.com/49/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/gravatar.wordpress.com/49/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/gravatar.wordpress.com/49/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/49/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/49/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/49/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/49/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/gravatar.wordpress.com/49/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/gravatar.wordpress.com/49/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/49/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/49/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gravatar.com&blog=1886259&post=49&subd=gravatar&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:45:46 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:11:"apokalyptik";}s:7:"summary";s:3463:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>We know that some sites don&#8217;t always appreciate the big blue G being all over their comments sections.  Many sites use the default option to give their non-gravatar-able comments a feeling of continuity with their site design, but we&#8217;ve heard you calling out for more.  It&#8217;s not ideal that anyone who isn&#8217;t &#8220;in&#8221; doesnt get to be unique.</p>
<p>For the community member Gravatar should be able to give you an implicit identity, letting you customize it explicitly from there.  For the site owner Gravatar should give your site a feeling of community, helping to solidify your hard work by giving your members a face, some semblance of permanence.</p>
<p>Looking around at the existing wordpress plugins for inspiration we found these three exceptional projects: <a href="http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/blogger/wp_identicon/">WP_Identicon</a>, <a href="http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/blogger/wp_monsterid/">WP-MonsterID</a>, and the <a href="http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1462">Wavatars plugin</a>.  We decided to take the truly inspiring work that these projects have done, and internalized those ideas into gravatar.  Now you will be able to specify a &amp;default= value of wavatar, monsterid, or identicon to produce results like these:</p>
<p>identicon <img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/04d24379cd970b7670ee66fa203d646f?s=80&amp;r=any&amp;default=identicon&amp;forcedefault=1" alt="" width="80" height="80" /></p>
<p><img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ee4d1b570eff6ce63c7d97043980a98c?default=wavatar&amp;forcedefault=1" alt="" width="80" height="80" /> wavatar</p>
<p>monsterid <img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ee4d1b570eff6ce63c7d97043980a98c?default=monsterid&amp;forcedefault=1" alt="" width="80" height="80" /></p>
<p><img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ee4d1b570eff6ce63c7d97043980a98c?forcedefault=1" alt="" width="80" height="80" /> default</p>
<p>Please let us know if there are others that you think would be worth supporting.  And again: Kudos to the authors of these plugins for their hard work and brilliant ideas!</p>
<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/gravatar.wordpress.com/49/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/gravatar.wordpress.com/49/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/gravatar.wordpress.com/49/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/gravatar.wordpress.com/49/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/49/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/49/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/49/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/49/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/gravatar.wordpress.com/49/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/gravatar.wordpress.com/49/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/49/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/49/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gravatar.com&blog=1886259&post=49&subd=gravatar&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:42;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:50:"Peter Westwood: WordCamp UK 2008, and other things";s:4:"guid";s:32:"http://westi.wordpress.com/?p=48";s:4:"link";s:72:"http://westi.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/wordcamp-uk-2008-and-other-things/";s:11:"description";s:2023:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Firstly, apologies for the delays in getting out the first few WordPress 2.6 digest posts. They are coming real soon, once I get the time to write up all the good work that has been going on.</p>
<p>Secondly, <a href="http://tonyscott.org.uk/2008/03/19/wordcamp-uk-proposal/">some good folks</a> are in the process of organising the first WordCamp in the UK.  So far it looks like it is going to be on the <a href="http://tonyscott.org.uk/2008/04/14/wordcamp-uk-show-of-hands/">weekend of the 19th-20th of July</a> and they are looking for a <a href="http://wiki.wordcampuk.tonyscott.org.uk/Attendees">show of hands</a> so they can work out what size venue to organise.</p>
<p>I hope to be able to see you there!</p>
<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/westi.wordpress.com/48/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/westi.wordpress.com/48/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/westi.wordpress.com/48/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/westi.wordpress.com/48/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/westi.wordpress.com/48/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/westi.wordpress.com/48/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/westi.wordpress.com/48/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/westi.wordpress.com/48/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/westi.wordpress.com/48/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/westi.wordpress.com/48/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/westi.wordpress.com/48/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/westi.wordpress.com/48/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westi.wordpress.com&blog=15396&post=48&subd=westi&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:37:22 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:14:"Peter Westwood";}s:7:"summary";s:2023:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Firstly, apologies for the delays in getting out the first few WordPress 2.6 digest posts. They are coming real soon, once I get the time to write up all the good work that has been going on.</p>
<p>Secondly, <a href="http://tonyscott.org.uk/2008/03/19/wordcamp-uk-proposal/">some good folks</a> are in the process of organising the first WordCamp in the UK.  So far it looks like it is going to be on the <a href="http://tonyscott.org.uk/2008/04/14/wordcamp-uk-show-of-hands/">weekend of the 19th-20th of July</a> and they are looking for a <a href="http://wiki.wordcampuk.tonyscott.org.uk/Attendees">show of hands</a> so they can work out what size venue to organise.</p>
<p>I hope to be able to see you there!</p>
<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/westi.wordpress.com/48/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/westi.wordpress.com/48/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/westi.wordpress.com/48/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/westi.wordpress.com/48/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/westi.wordpress.com/48/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/westi.wordpress.com/48/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/westi.wordpress.com/48/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/westi.wordpress.com/48/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/westi.wordpress.com/48/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/westi.wordpress.com/48/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/westi.wordpress.com/48/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/westi.wordpress.com/48/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westi.wordpress.com&blog=15396&post=48&subd=westi&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:43;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:35:"Gravatar: SezWho supports Gravatars";s:4:"guid";s:35:"http://gravatar.wordpress.com/?p=48";s:4:"link";s:62:"http://blog.gravatar.com/2008/04/21/sezwho-supports-gravatars/";s:11:"description";s:1516:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>The <a href="http://www.sezwho.com/blog/2008/04/17/sezwho-20/">latest version</a> of the SezWho comment rating and reputation system now has built-in Gravatar support.</p>
<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/gravatar.wordpress.com/48/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/gravatar.wordpress.com/48/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/gravatar.wordpress.com/48/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/gravatar.wordpress.com/48/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/48/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/48/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/48/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/48/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/gravatar.wordpress.com/48/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/gravatar.wordpress.com/48/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/48/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/48/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gravatar.com&blog=1886259&post=48&subd=gravatar&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:28:04 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Toni";}s:7:"summary";s:1516:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>The <a href="http://www.sezwho.com/blog/2008/04/17/sezwho-20/">latest version</a> of the SezWho comment rating and reputation system now has built-in Gravatar support.</p>
<img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/gravatar.wordpress.com/48/" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/gravatar.wordpress.com/48/" /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/gravatar.wordpress.com/48/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/gravatar.wordpress.com/48/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/48/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/48/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/48/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/48/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/gravatar.wordpress.com/48/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/gravatar.wordpress.com/48/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/48/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/48/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gravatar.com&blog=1886259&post=48&subd=gravatar&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:44;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:23:"Matt: New Spring Design";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=5203";s:4:"link";s:39:"http://ma.tt/2008/04/new-spring-design/";s:11:"description";s:3609:"<p>Time to come out of your RSS readers and visit the site. In celebration of Spring, Summer, the new domain, and WordPress 2.5 I&#8217;m launching a new version of Photo Matt / Ma.tt. Here&#8217;s a before and after picture:</p>
<p><a href="http://s.ma.tt/dropbox/2008/04/photomatt-v3-vs-v4.jpg"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://s.ma.tt/dropbox/2008/04/photomatt-v3-vs-v4-small.jpg" alt="Old and new ma.tt" /></a></p>
<p>A couple of functionality changes you&#8217;ll notice:</p>
<ul>
<li>Thumbnails and photos are now much larger. (Especially photos, now 840px wide.) Imagine it like going HD, you&#8217;ll definitely enjoy it more on broadband.</li>
<li>I&#8217;ve brought back the photo tech details like aperture and focal length.</li>
<li>In addition to posts and asides, I&#8217;m now doing new post types: galleries, quotes, videos, and highlight photos.</li>
<li>You can now click on a photo to go to the next one, making  browsing galleries easier.</li>
<li>The header is a lot shorter, so you get to the content faster. You can&#8217;t say I have a big head anymore. <img src="http://ma.tt/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </li>
<li>I&#8217;m starting to use the new taxonomy bits in 2.5 to tag people, places (geotagging), things, and concepts in the various photos. (More on this later, still a bit broken.)</li>
<li>This is the first iteration of this site that is powered entirely by WordPress. (I know, 5 years late. The cobbler&#8217;s children go shoeless!) Before it was a cobbled together set of PHP includes and software like <a href="http://gallery.menalto.com/">Gallery</a>. Now 100% WP.</li>
<li><a href="http://gravatar.com/">Gravatars</a> are much more prominent. I wonder if there&#8217;s a way to only allow comments from people with Gravatars? It looks so much better.</li>
<li>Name has changed from Photo Matt to Ma.tt, tagline is the same.</li>
</ul>
<p>The fine design was executed by <a href="http://www.gnvpartners.com/web/">Nicolò Volpato</a>, the same talented fellow who did the last design. My concept was to evoke Spanish talavera, inspired by my trips to Spain and Argentina and pottery at my parents&#8217; house like <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/03/16-gallery/mat_2714/">this</a>, <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/03/16-gallery/mat_2715/">this</a>, and <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/03/16-gallery/mat_2716/">this</a>. It was a lot of fun to work with Nicolò on and I already have a few ideas for Fall. <img src="http://ma.tt/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been noodling on the implementation for months now. Last night I had just arrived from New York and it turned out the Jay-Z/Mary J Blige concert in Oakland got postponed so I found myself with a bit of time on my hands and decided to tie up all the loose ends. There are still a ton of things broken like the photo border on portrait images, I still have 15k old photos to import, and you may see the old design on some older pages, but I wanted to get it out there. There are also some weird things, like Firefox seems to back the background image blurry while it&#8217;s razor-sharp in IE and Safari. I feel like I&#8217;ve seen that somewhere before.</p>
<p>Finally I&#8217;m hoping to release a lot of the work I did here, including a version of the old theme, the plugin + script I&#8217;m using to resize all my old images on the fly, the taxonomy stuff, and some core improvements to WP to make some of the things I&#8217;m doing here easier. (I got lazy and did some direct SQL queries, etc.)</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:56:22 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:3609:"<p>Time to come out of your RSS readers and visit the site. In celebration of Spring, Summer, the new domain, and WordPress 2.5 I&#8217;m launching a new version of Photo Matt / Ma.tt. Here&#8217;s a before and after picture:</p>
<p><a href="http://s.ma.tt/dropbox/2008/04/photomatt-v3-vs-v4.jpg"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://s.ma.tt/dropbox/2008/04/photomatt-v3-vs-v4-small.jpg" alt="Old and new ma.tt" /></a></p>
<p>A couple of functionality changes you&#8217;ll notice:</p>
<ul>
<li>Thumbnails and photos are now much larger. (Especially photos, now 840px wide.) Imagine it like going HD, you&#8217;ll definitely enjoy it more on broadband.</li>
<li>I&#8217;ve brought back the photo tech details like aperture and focal length.</li>
<li>In addition to posts and asides, I&#8217;m now doing new post types: galleries, quotes, videos, and highlight photos.</li>
<li>You can now click on a photo to go to the next one, making  browsing galleries easier.</li>
<li>The header is a lot shorter, so you get to the content faster. You can&#8217;t say I have a big head anymore. <img src="http://ma.tt/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </li>
<li>I&#8217;m starting to use the new taxonomy bits in 2.5 to tag people, places (geotagging), things, and concepts in the various photos. (More on this later, still a bit broken.)</li>
<li>This is the first iteration of this site that is powered entirely by WordPress. (I know, 5 years late. The cobbler&#8217;s children go shoeless!) Before it was a cobbled together set of PHP includes and software like <a href="http://gallery.menalto.com/">Gallery</a>. Now 100% WP.</li>
<li><a href="http://gravatar.com/">Gravatars</a> are much more prominent. I wonder if there&#8217;s a way to only allow comments from people with Gravatars? It looks so much better.</li>
<li>Name has changed from Photo Matt to Ma.tt, tagline is the same.</li>
</ul>
<p>The fine design was executed by <a href="http://www.gnvpartners.com/web/">Nicolò Volpato</a>, the same talented fellow who did the last design. My concept was to evoke Spanish talavera, inspired by my trips to Spain and Argentina and pottery at my parents&#8217; house like <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/03/16-gallery/mat_2714/">this</a>, <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/03/16-gallery/mat_2715/">this</a>, and <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/03/16-gallery/mat_2716/">this</a>. It was a lot of fun to work with Nicolò on and I already have a few ideas for Fall. <img src="http://ma.tt/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been noodling on the implementation for months now. Last night I had just arrived from New York and it turned out the Jay-Z/Mary J Blige concert in Oakland got postponed so I found myself with a bit of time on my hands and decided to tie up all the loose ends. There are still a ton of things broken like the photo border on portrait images, I still have 15k old photos to import, and you may see the old design on some older pages, but I wanted to get it out there. There are also some weird things, like Firefox seems to back the background image blurry while it&#8217;s razor-sharp in IE and Safari. I feel like I&#8217;ve seen that somewhere before.</p>
<p>Finally I&#8217;m hoping to release a lot of the work I did here, including a version of the old theme, the plugin + script I&#8217;m using to resize all my old images on the fly, the taxonomy stuff, and some core improvements to WP to make some of the things I&#8217;m doing here easier. (I got lazy and did some direct SQL queries, etc.)</p>";}i:45;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:62:"Weblog Tools Collection: Organize Series - Plugin Video Review";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3452";s:4:"link";s:89:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/21/organize-series-plugin-video-review/";s:11:"description";s:1466:"<p></p>
<p><em>If you cannot see the video, please visit this link:  <a href="http://weblogtoolsvideos.com/item/KFQFCLB6LWCCXQBH">Organize Series - Video Plugin Review</a></em></p>
<p>Today&#8217;s WordPress Plugin video review is of <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/organize-series/">Organize Series</a> by <a href="http://unfoldingneurons.com/">Unfolding Neurons</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Video Summary:</strong> <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/organize-series/">Organize Series</a> is an extremely powerful plugin that makes organizing series rather simple.  There are many options to customize the look.  The show clincher for me is the ability to have series archives.  I highly recommend this plugin for people who do post series.</p>
<p><strong>Pros:</strong> It&#8217;s easy to add series and to organize them.  Many options to customize the look and feel.  The series permalinks are a nice feature.</p>
<p><strong>Cons:</strong> Perhaps too many options, but power-users will love them.  I only tested this plugin on 2.5, so I&#8217;m not sure how well this plugin fares on other versions.</p>
<p>If you think your WordPress plugin will merit itself to a video review, please get in contact with me via e-mail (ronalfy+wltc @ gmail dot com).  Please keep in mind I will not review premium plugins.</p>
<p>For more videos, please check out our brand new video website at <a href="http://weblogtoolsvideos.com/">Weblog Tools Videos</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:00:40 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:14:"Ronald Huereca";}s:7:"summary";s:1466:"<p></p>
<p><em>If you cannot see the video, please visit this link:  <a href="http://weblogtoolsvideos.com/item/KFQFCLB6LWCCXQBH">Organize Series - Video Plugin Review</a></em></p>
<p>Today&#8217;s WordPress Plugin video review is of <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/organize-series/">Organize Series</a> by <a href="http://unfoldingneurons.com/">Unfolding Neurons</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Video Summary:</strong> <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/organize-series/">Organize Series</a> is an extremely powerful plugin that makes organizing series rather simple.  There are many options to customize the look.  The show clincher for me is the ability to have series archives.  I highly recommend this plugin for people who do post series.</p>
<p><strong>Pros:</strong> It&#8217;s easy to add series and to organize them.  Many options to customize the look and feel.  The series permalinks are a nice feature.</p>
<p><strong>Cons:</strong> Perhaps too many options, but power-users will love them.  I only tested this plugin on 2.5, so I&#8217;m not sure how well this plugin fares on other versions.</p>
<p>If you think your WordPress plugin will merit itself to a video review, please get in contact with me via e-mail (ronalfy+wltc @ gmail dot com).  Please keep in mind I will not review premium plugins.</p>
<p>For more videos, please check out our brand new video website at <a href="http://weblogtoolsvideos.com/">Weblog Tools Videos</a>.</p>";}i:46;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 4/20";s:4:"guid";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/20/wordpress-theme-releases-for-420/";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/20/wordpress-theme-releases-for-420/";s:11:"description";s:2133:"<h3>Two Column Themes</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.themelab.com/2008/04/06/elegant-orange-free-wordpress-theme-42/"><strong>Elegant Orange</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="137" alt="elegant-orange-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/elegant-orange-thumbnail.png" width="183" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Elegant Orange is a very simple WordPress theme with a nice elegant style. The sidebar is widget-ready.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.themelab.com/2008/04/07/rainbow-free-wordpress-theme-43/"><strong>Rainbow</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="130" alt="rainbow-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/rainbow-thumbnail.png" width="199" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Rainbow a clean, light-colored template with a rainbow strip at the top. There is a area in the header to add a note or announcement for your readers. The theme is widget ready.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.codescheme.net/2008/04/09/wordpress-free-theme-fedburned/"><strong>FedBurned</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="137" alt="fedburned-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/fedburned-thumbnail.png" width="181" border="0" /> </p>
<p>FedBurned is a fixed-width, widget ready 2 column with right sidebar theme. The theme resembles designs from Feedburner.</p>
<p><a href="http://protocol7.net/themes/professor/"><strong>Professor</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="137" alt="professor-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/professor-thumbnail.png" width="196" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Professor is a theme which seeks to put text and images first and foremost, and create a pleasurable reading experience. It also has a option to show a feature post on the top of the home page.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.samirkamble.com/under-water-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Underwater</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="120" alt="underwater-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/underwater-thumbnail.png" width="200" border="0" /> </p>
<p>A unique theme where the readers experience content as if they are reading it under water. The theme has a dolphin image in the header.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:55:37 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:2133:"<h3>Two Column Themes</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.themelab.com/2008/04/06/elegant-orange-free-wordpress-theme-42/"><strong>Elegant Orange</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="137" alt="elegant-orange-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/elegant-orange-thumbnail.png" width="183" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Elegant Orange is a very simple WordPress theme with a nice elegant style. The sidebar is widget-ready.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.themelab.com/2008/04/07/rainbow-free-wordpress-theme-43/"><strong>Rainbow</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="130" alt="rainbow-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/rainbow-thumbnail.png" width="199" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Rainbow a clean, light-colored template with a rainbow strip at the top. There is a area in the header to add a note or announcement for your readers. The theme is widget ready.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.codescheme.net/2008/04/09/wordpress-free-theme-fedburned/"><strong>FedBurned</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="137" alt="fedburned-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/fedburned-thumbnail.png" width="181" border="0" /> </p>
<p>FedBurned is a fixed-width, widget ready 2 column with right sidebar theme. The theme resembles designs from Feedburner.</p>
<p><a href="http://protocol7.net/themes/professor/"><strong>Professor</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="137" alt="professor-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/professor-thumbnail.png" width="196" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Professor is a theme which seeks to put text and images first and foremost, and create a pleasurable reading experience. It also has a option to show a feature post on the top of the home page.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.samirkamble.com/under-water-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Underwater</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="120" alt="underwater-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/underwater-thumbnail.png" width="200" border="0" /> </p>
<p>A unique theme where the readers experience content as if they are reading it under water. The theme has a dolphin image in the header.</p>";}i:47;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:68:"Weblog Tools Collection: Baltic Amber Admin Themes for WordPress 2.5";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3451";s:4:"link";s:104:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/20/baltic-amber-admin-colour-schemes-for-wordpress-25/";s:11:"description";s:1973:"<p>Kaspars from <a href="http://konstruktors.com/blog/">Konstruktors</a> has released a WordPress 2.5 plugin called <a href="http://konstruktors.com/blog/wordpress/227-baltic-amber-colour-schemes-for-your-wordpress-25-administration-dashboard-panel/">Baltic Amber Themes</a> that allows you to change your default <del datetime="2008-04-21T00:18:03+00:00">colour scheme</del>admin theme.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Update:</strong>  This plugin does modify your admin layout as well as your color schemes, so please keep this in mind if trying the plugin out.  Kaspars has mentioned that there is now an option to disable the layout changes.</p></blockquote>
<p>What&#8217;s even cooler about this plugin is that the plugin provides a nice refresh to the Write Panel and several areas of the overall administration panel. </p>
<p>After activating the plugin, you can change the default <del datetime="2008-04-21T00:18:03+00:00">colour scheme</del>theme by viewing your profile options.  From there, you have an option of 8 colour schemes, or an option for a custom or random colour. </p>
<p>This is a rather welcome addition to the WordPress 2.5 admin area.</p>
<p class="screenshot"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/baltic-amber-colour-schemes.jpg" alt="baltic-amber-colour-schemes.jpg" width="378" height="370" /><br />Baltic Amber Themes</p>
<p class="screenshot">
<img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/baltic-amber-write-panel.jpg" alt="Baltic Amber Write Panel" width="450" height="407" /><br />Baltic Amber Write Panel</p>
<p class="screenshot"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/baltic-amber-colour-settings.jpg" alt="Baltic Amber Settings" width="450" height="306" /><br />Baltic Amber Settings</p>
<p>Download your own copy of <a href="http://konstruktors.com/blog/wordpress/227-baltic-amber-colour-schemes-for-your-wordpress-25-administration-dashboard-panel/">Baltic Amber Admin Themes</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:04:35 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:14:"Ronald Huereca";}s:7:"summary";s:1973:"<p>Kaspars from <a href="http://konstruktors.com/blog/">Konstruktors</a> has released a WordPress 2.5 plugin called <a href="http://konstruktors.com/blog/wordpress/227-baltic-amber-colour-schemes-for-your-wordpress-25-administration-dashboard-panel/">Baltic Amber Themes</a> that allows you to change your default <del datetime="2008-04-21T00:18:03+00:00">colour scheme</del>admin theme.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Update:</strong>  This plugin does modify your admin layout as well as your color schemes, so please keep this in mind if trying the plugin out.  Kaspars has mentioned that there is now an option to disable the layout changes.</p></blockquote>
<p>What&#8217;s even cooler about this plugin is that the plugin provides a nice refresh to the Write Panel and several areas of the overall administration panel. </p>
<p>After activating the plugin, you can change the default <del datetime="2008-04-21T00:18:03+00:00">colour scheme</del>theme by viewing your profile options.  From there, you have an option of 8 colour schemes, or an option for a custom or random colour. </p>
<p>This is a rather welcome addition to the WordPress 2.5 admin area.</p>
<p class="screenshot"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/baltic-amber-colour-schemes.jpg" alt="baltic-amber-colour-schemes.jpg" width="378" height="370" /><br />Baltic Amber Themes</p>
<p class="screenshot">
<img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/baltic-amber-write-panel.jpg" alt="Baltic Amber Write Panel" width="450" height="407" /><br />Baltic Amber Write Panel</p>
<p class="screenshot"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/baltic-amber-colour-settings.jpg" alt="Baltic Amber Settings" width="450" height="306" /><br />Baltic Amber Settings</p>
<p>Download your own copy of <a href="http://konstruktors.com/blog/wordpress/227-baltic-amber-colour-schemes-for-your-wordpress-25-administration-dashboard-panel/">Baltic Amber Admin Themes</a>.</p>";}i:48;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Weblog Tools Collection: Paging and Custom WordPress Loops";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=3445";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/19/paging-and-custom-wordpress-loops/";s:11:"description";s:5674:"<p>Last week I published two articles using custom loops.  The first was about <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/13/define-your-own-wordpress-loop-using-wp_query/">how to create a custom loop</a>.  The second was <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/13/how-to-only-retrieve-posts-with-custom-fields/">how to retrieve posts based on custom fields</a>.  In both articles, several readers commented that they would like to see paging and have it explained.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d like to thank Aaron Harun from <a href="http://anthologyoi.com/">Anthology of Ideas</a> for supplying the code used in this post.</p>
<h3>Paging, and why it doesn&#8217;t work with WP_Query</h3>
<p>The paging magic happens in a file called &#8216;<strong>link-template.php</strong>&#8216; in the &#8216;<strong>wp-includes</strong>&#8216; folder.</p>
<p>Most themes have basic paging built in, with the help of two functions: <strong>next_posts_link</strong> and <strong>previous_posts_link</strong>.</p>
<p>These functions, as well as several others, make use of a global variable called <strong>$wp_query</strong>.  This variable is actually an instance of the <strong>WP_Query</strong> object.  However, when we create our own instantiation of <strong>WP_Query</strong>, we don&#8217;t have this global variable <strong>$wp_query</strong>, which is why paging will not work.</p>
<h3>How to make paging work with a custom loop</h3>
<p>As Aaron mentioned, the paging functions rely on a global variable called <strong>$wp_query</strong>.  The &#8220;fix&#8221; is to trick WordPress into using the global <strong>$wp_query</strong> variable when using our own custom loops.</p>
<p>In the example below, I&#8217;ll show how to display the last five recent articles with our own custom loop with paging intact. </p>
<blockquote><p><code>
<pre>
&lt;h3&gt;Recent Articles&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;?php
$temp = $wp_query;
$wp_query= null;
$wp_query = new WP_Query();
$wp_query-&gt;query('showposts=5'.'&amp;paged='.$paged);
?&gt;
</pre>
<p></code></p></blockquote>
<p>The first thing the code does (shown above) is create a temporary variable to hold a reference to global variable <strong>$wp_query</strong>.  The <strong>wp_query</strong> variable is set to null, and we instantiate a new <strong>WP_Query</strong> object.</p>
<p>Notice in the query above that we have these parameters: </p>
<blockquote><p><code>
<pre>
$wp_query-&gt;query('showposts=5'.'&amp;paged='.$paged);
</pre>
<p></code></p></blockquote>
<p>The paged portion of the query is critical in order to have paging.</p>
<p>From there, we can now do our own query and begin our custom loop.</p>
<blockquote><p><code>
<pre>
&lt;?php while ($wp_query-&gt;have_posts()) : $wp_query-&gt;the_post(); ?&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="&lt;?php the_permalink() ?&gt;" rel="bookmark"&gt;&lt;?php the_title(); ?&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;?php endwhile; ?&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
</pre>
<p></code></p></blockquote>
<p>Notice in the above code that the loop is initiated using the <strong>$wp_query</strong> variable.  Since we are using <strong>$wp_query</strong>, paging should work.</p>
<p>Now it&#8217;s time to create our navigation links for paging:</p>
<blockquote><p><code>
<pre>
&lt;div class="navigation"&gt;
  &lt;div class="alignleft"&gt;&lt;?php previous_posts_link('&amp;laquo; Previous') ?&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;div class="alignright"&gt;&lt;?php next_posts_link('More &amp;raquo;') ?&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
</pre>
<p></code></p></blockquote>
<p>And finally, we assign the variable <strong>$wp_query</strong> back its original value using the <strong>$temp</strong> variable we set earlier.</p>
<blockquote><p><code>
<pre>
&lt;?php $wp_query = null; $wp_query = $temp;?&gt;
</pre>
<p></code></p></blockquote>
<h3>The Full Code</h3>
<blockquote><p><code>
<pre>
&lt;h3&gt;Recent Articles&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;?php
$temp = $wp_query;
$wp_query= null;
$wp_query = new WP_Query();
$wp_query-&gt;query('showposts=5'.'&amp;paged='.$paged);
?&gt;
&lt;?php while ($wp_query-&gt;have_posts()) : $wp_query-&gt;the_post(); ?&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="&lt;?php the_permalink() ?&gt;" rel="bookmark"&gt;&lt;?php the_title(); ?&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;?php endwhile; ?&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;div class="navigation"&gt;
  &lt;div class="alignleft"&gt;&lt;?php previous_posts_link('&amp;laquo; Previous') ?&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;div class="alignright"&gt;&lt;?php next_posts_link('More &amp;raquo;') ?&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;?php $wp_query = null; $wp_query = $temp;?&gt;
</pre>
<p></code></p></blockquote>
<h3>Additional Applications</h3>
<p>The above technique can allow paging for custom loops.  All you have to do to modify this is to use your own query parameters, and change the code within the custom loop.</p>
<p class="screenshot"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/recent-articles-screenshot.jpeg" alt="recent-articles-screenshot.jpeg" width="294" height="276" /><br />Recent Articles Example</p>
<p><em>The above example is live at <a href="http://www.raproject.com/">raproject.com</a> under <strong>Recent Articles</strong>.</em></p>
<h3>Conclusion</h3>
<p>Paging is a powerful WordPress feature, and fortunately you can use it when defining your own custom loops.  </p>
<p>The example I demonstrated was rather generic, but hopefully you&#8217;ll be able to apply it to your own custom loops where paging is necessary.</p>
<p>Please feel free to share your own examples or problem code in the comments.  If you use code, please use something like <a href="http://pastebin.com/">pastebin</a> since some code isn&#8217;t allowed in the comment section.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:46:36 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:14:"Ronald Huereca";}s:7:"summary";s:5674:"<p>Last week I published two articles using custom loops.  The first was about <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/13/define-your-own-wordpress-loop-using-wp_query/">how to create a custom loop</a>.  The second was <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/13/how-to-only-retrieve-posts-with-custom-fields/">how to retrieve posts based on custom fields</a>.  In both articles, several readers commented that they would like to see paging and have it explained.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d like to thank Aaron Harun from <a href="http://anthologyoi.com/">Anthology of Ideas</a> for supplying the code used in this post.</p>
<h3>Paging, and why it doesn&#8217;t work with WP_Query</h3>
<p>The paging magic happens in a file called &#8216;<strong>link-template.php</strong>&#8216; in the &#8216;<strong>wp-includes</strong>&#8216; folder.</p>
<p>Most themes have basic paging built in, with the help of two functions: <strong>next_posts_link</strong> and <strong>previous_posts_link</strong>.</p>
<p>These functions, as well as several others, make use of a global variable called <strong>$wp_query</strong>.  This variable is actually an instance of the <strong>WP_Query</strong> object.  However, when we create our own instantiation of <strong>WP_Query</strong>, we don&#8217;t have this global variable <strong>$wp_query</strong>, which is why paging will not work.</p>
<h3>How to make paging work with a custom loop</h3>
<p>As Aaron mentioned, the paging functions rely on a global variable called <strong>$wp_query</strong>.  The &#8220;fix&#8221; is to trick WordPress into using the global <strong>$wp_query</strong> variable when using our own custom loops.</p>
<p>In the example below, I&#8217;ll show how to display the last five recent articles with our own custom loop with paging intact. </p>
<blockquote><p><code>
<pre>
&lt;h3&gt;Recent Articles&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;?php
$temp = $wp_query;
$wp_query= null;
$wp_query = new WP_Query();
$wp_query-&gt;query('showposts=5'.'&amp;paged='.$paged);
?&gt;
</pre>
<p></code></p></blockquote>
<p>The first thing the code does (shown above) is create a temporary variable to hold a reference to global variable <strong>$wp_query</strong>.  The <strong>wp_query</strong> variable is set to null, and we instantiate a new <strong>WP_Query</strong> object.</p>
<p>Notice in the query above that we have these parameters: </p>
<blockquote><p><code>
<pre>
$wp_query-&gt;query('showposts=5'.'&amp;paged='.$paged);
</pre>
<p></code></p></blockquote>
<p>The paged portion of the query is critical in order to have paging.</p>
<p>From there, we can now do our own query and begin our custom loop.</p>
<blockquote><p><code>
<pre>
&lt;?php while ($wp_query-&gt;have_posts()) : $wp_query-&gt;the_post(); ?&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="&lt;?php the_permalink() ?&gt;" rel="bookmark"&gt;&lt;?php the_title(); ?&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;?php endwhile; ?&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
</pre>
<p></code></p></blockquote>
<p>Notice in the above code that the loop is initiated using the <strong>$wp_query</strong> variable.  Since we are using <strong>$wp_query</strong>, paging should work.</p>
<p>Now it&#8217;s time to create our navigation links for paging:</p>
<blockquote><p><code>
<pre>
&lt;div class="navigation"&gt;
  &lt;div class="alignleft"&gt;&lt;?php previous_posts_link('&amp;laquo; Previous') ?&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;div class="alignright"&gt;&lt;?php next_posts_link('More &amp;raquo;') ?&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
</pre>
<p></code></p></blockquote>
<p>And finally, we assign the variable <strong>$wp_query</strong> back its original value using the <strong>$temp</strong> variable we set earlier.</p>
<blockquote><p><code>
<pre>
&lt;?php $wp_query = null; $wp_query = $temp;?&gt;
</pre>
<p></code></p></blockquote>
<h3>The Full Code</h3>
<blockquote><p><code>
<pre>
&lt;h3&gt;Recent Articles&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;?php
$temp = $wp_query;
$wp_query= null;
$wp_query = new WP_Query();
$wp_query-&gt;query('showposts=5'.'&amp;paged='.$paged);
?&gt;
&lt;?php while ($wp_query-&gt;have_posts()) : $wp_query-&gt;the_post(); ?&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="&lt;?php the_permalink() ?&gt;" rel="bookmark"&gt;&lt;?php the_title(); ?&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;?php endwhile; ?&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;div class="navigation"&gt;
  &lt;div class="alignleft"&gt;&lt;?php previous_posts_link('&amp;laquo; Previous') ?&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;div class="alignright"&gt;&lt;?php next_posts_link('More &amp;raquo;') ?&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;?php $wp_query = null; $wp_query = $temp;?&gt;
</pre>
<p></code></p></blockquote>
<h3>Additional Applications</h3>
<p>The above technique can allow paging for custom loops.  All you have to do to modify this is to use your own query parameters, and change the code within the custom loop.</p>
<p class="screenshot"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/recent-articles-screenshot.jpeg" alt="recent-articles-screenshot.jpeg" width="294" height="276" /><br />Recent Articles Example</p>
<p><em>The above example is live at <a href="http://www.raproject.com/">raproject.com</a> under <strong>Recent Articles</strong>.</em></p>
<h3>Conclusion</h3>
<p>Paging is a powerful WordPress feature, and fortunately you can use it when defining your own custom loops.  </p>
<p>The example I demonstrated was rather generic, but hopefully you&#8217;ll be able to apply it to your own custom loops where paging is necessary.</p>
<p>Please feel free to share your own examples or problem code in the comments.  If you use code, please use something like <a href="http://pastebin.com/">pastebin</a> since some code isn&#8217;t allowed in the comment section.</p>";}i:49;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 4/18";s:4:"guid";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/18/wordpress-theme-releases-for-418/";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/18/wordpress-theme-releases-for-418/";s:11:"description";s:2364:"<h3>Two Column Themes</h3>
<p><a href="http://wpmania.com/20080406/31/blog-it-750-theme-released/"><strong>Blog It 750</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="137" alt="blog-it-750-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/blog-it-750-thumbnail.png" width="140" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Blog It 750 is a minimalistic two column theme with a sidebar big enough to hold two 125 x 125 banner ads. The theme is available in white and blue, black and blue, &amp; black and red colors.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.randomprocess.ca/2008/04/06/wordpress-theme-rc2-v10/"><strong>RC2</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="130" alt="rc2-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/rc2-thumbnail.png" width="200" border="0" /> </p>
<p>RC2 is a lightweight 2 column theme with a top bar. The theme is simplistic and is widget ready. The theme loads quite fast since it uses minimal images both in the background as well as the page.</p>
<p><a href="http://alphablogdesigns.com/2008/04/16/excel-free-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Excel</strong></a><strong> </strong></p>
<p><img height="121" alt="excel-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/excel-thumbnail.png" width="200" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Excel is a two column theme which sticks to a strict horizontal grid. The theme has rotating header images, post ad integration, author comment styling and built in separated comments and trackbacks.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.codescheme.net/2008/04/06/free-wordpress-theme-art-deco-louise-brooks/"><strong>LouisBrooks</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="137" alt="louisbrooks-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/louisbrooks-thumbnail.png" width="181" border="0" /> </p>
<p>LouiseBrooks is a fixed-width, 2 column with right sidebar theme, with a little Deco styling. The theme is widget enabled and compatible with WordPress 2 and above.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.realfreewebsites.com/articles/free-wordpress-template-simple-power/"><strong>Simple Power</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="137" alt="simple-power-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/simple-power-thumbnail.png" width="181" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Simple Power is a two column theme with a dark background and header. The content section is consists of a single sidebar to the right side. The theme is widget ready.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:55:55 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:2364:"<h3>Two Column Themes</h3>
<p><a href="http://wpmania.com/20080406/31/blog-it-750-theme-released/"><strong>Blog It 750</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="137" alt="blog-it-750-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/blog-it-750-thumbnail.png" width="140" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Blog It 750 is a minimalistic two column theme with a sidebar big enough to hold two 125 x 125 banner ads. The theme is available in white and blue, black and blue, &amp; black and red colors.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.randomprocess.ca/2008/04/06/wordpress-theme-rc2-v10/"><strong>RC2</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="130" alt="rc2-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/rc2-thumbnail.png" width="200" border="0" /> </p>
<p>RC2 is a lightweight 2 column theme with a top bar. The theme is simplistic and is widget ready. The theme loads quite fast since it uses minimal images both in the background as well as the page.</p>
<p><a href="http://alphablogdesigns.com/2008/04/16/excel-free-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Excel</strong></a><strong> </strong></p>
<p><img height="121" alt="excel-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/excel-thumbnail.png" width="200" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Excel is a two column theme which sticks to a strict horizontal grid. The theme has rotating header images, post ad integration, author comment styling and built in separated comments and trackbacks.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.codescheme.net/2008/04/06/free-wordpress-theme-art-deco-louise-brooks/"><strong>LouisBrooks</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="137" alt="louisbrooks-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/louisbrooks-thumbnail.png" width="181" border="0" /> </p>
<p>LouiseBrooks is a fixed-width, 2 column with right sidebar theme, with a little Deco styling. The theme is widget enabled and compatible with WordPress 2 and above.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.realfreewebsites.com/articles/free-wordpress-template-simple-power/"><strong>Simple Power</strong></a></p>
<p><img height="137" alt="simple-power-thumbnail" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/04/simple-power-thumbnail.png" width="181" border="0" /> </p>
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