O:9:"MagpieRSS":17:{s:6:"parser";i:0;s:12:"current_item";a:0:{}s:5:"items";a:50:{i:0;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:71:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress for BlackBerry Public Beta Available";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6190";s:4:"link";s:100:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/07/wordpress-for-blackberry-public-beta-available/";s:11:"description";s:905:"<p><a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/07/07/wordpress-for-blackberry-beta/">WordPress for BlackBerry Public Beta</a>: Since I am a Berry addict, I cannot wait to get this on my Curve. As Raanan cautions on the Beta post, do not use this on a production blog if you are not prepared to deal with bugs. It is built by the <a href="http://mopress.danais.org/2009/06/01/wordpress-for-blackberry/">MoPress</a> folks and is an Open Source project. Source available at <a href="http://blackberry.svn.wordpress.org/">http://blackberry.svn.wordpress.org/</a> There is a video tour on the linked post for those interested in a quick overview.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/07/wordpress-for-blackberry-public-beta-available/">WordPress for BlackBerry Public Beta Available</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:15:25 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:905:"<p><a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/07/07/wordpress-for-blackberry-beta/">WordPress for BlackBerry Public Beta</a>: Since I am a Berry addict, I cannot wait to get this on my Curve. As Raanan cautions on the Beta post, do not use this on a production blog if you are not prepared to deal with bugs. It is built by the <a href="http://mopress.danais.org/2009/06/01/wordpress-for-blackberry/">MoPress</a> folks and is an Open Source project. Source available at <a href="http://blackberry.svn.wordpress.org/">http://blackberry.svn.wordpress.org/</a> There is a video tour on the linked post for those interested in a quick overview.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/07/wordpress-for-blackberry-public-beta-available/">WordPress for BlackBerry Public Beta Available</a></p>";}i:1;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:45:"Dev Blog: WordPress 2.8.1 Release Candidate 1";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=833";s:4:"link";s:77:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-1-release-candidate-1/";s:11:"description";s:585:"<p>2.8.1 is nigh.  Release Candidate 1 is our last stop before the final release.  Please <a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8.1-RC1.zip">download</a> RC1, review the <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/log/branches/2.8/?action=stop_on_copy&amp;mode=stop_on_copy&amp;rev=&amp;stop_rev=11654&amp;limit=100">changes made since beta 2</a>, and have a look at <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;group=resolution&amp;order=priority&amp;milestone=2.8.1&amp;resolution=fixed">all of the tickets fixed in 2.8.1</a>.  Thanks for testing WordPress.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:04:45 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Ryan Boren";}s:7:"summary";s:585:"<p>2.8.1 is nigh.  Release Candidate 1 is our last stop before the final release.  Please <a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8.1-RC1.zip">download</a> RC1, review the <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/log/branches/2.8/?action=stop_on_copy&amp;mode=stop_on_copy&amp;rev=&amp;stop_rev=11654&amp;limit=100">changes made since beta 2</a>, and have a look at <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;group=resolution&amp;order=priority&amp;milestone=2.8.1&amp;resolution=fixed">all of the tickets fixed in 2.8.1</a>.  Thanks for testing WordPress.</p>";}i:2;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:37:"Dev Blog: Vote for 2.9 Media Features";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=816";s:4:"link";s:69:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/vote-for-2-9-media-features/";s:11:"description";s:4538:"<p>Last Wednesday, the core development team and a number of contributing developers met in the IRC #wordpress-dev channel to talk about which features should be included in version 2.9, which is now entering the development phase. We&#8217;ve been planning to focus on media features in 2.9 for some time, and unsurprisingly, it was media features that dominated the discussion.* A large percentage of the requests we get from users are for more/better media features, so we&#8217;ve decided to focus 2.9 on building an infrastructure for improved media handling that we can continue to build on in versions to come. In that vein, we need your input to determine which features to prioritize and build sooner rather than later.</p>
<p>These are the features that we&#8217;re asking people to vote on (in alphabetical, not prioritized, order):</p>
<p><strong>Additional Media Filters:</strong> In the uploader, you can currently upload an image from your hard drive, link to an image from a URL, or select an image from the Media Library. This proposed feature would add links in the Media Library pane that would allow you to filter images to those that had been used most recently, used most often, and/or marked as a favorite. These filters would be available on the Media Library screen as well.<br />
<strong><br />
Basic Image Editing:</strong> Enable cropping, resizing and 90-degree rotation of uploaded images.<br />
<strong><br />
Better Media Settings: </strong>Enable the creation of more default media settings controlled in the Settings section, and allow settings to be overridden  during the individual media upload process as needed.</p>
<p><strong>Bulk Media Import API: </strong>Develop an API to allow for bulk media importing by plugins or importers.<br />
<strong><br />
Custom Image Sizes:</strong> Instead of hardcoded thumbnail, medium, large, etc. image sizes, custom image sizes would allow you to configure the maximum dimensions for each of the sizes.</p>
<p><strong>Easier Embeds:</strong> Make it easier to embed third-party content such as YouTube videos, etc. Similar to Viper&#8217;s Video Quicktags plugin.</p>
<p><strong>Media Albums: </strong>Ability to create and edit photo albums that can stand alone (as opposed to galleries being tied only to a post), including photostream functionality.<br />
<strong><br />
Media Metadata: </strong>Enable the use of categories and tags on media files.</p>
<p><strong>Photostream:</strong> Create a Flickr-style photostream that simply displays images in a chronological stream (as opposed to grouping in galleries).</p>
<p><strong>Post thumbnails:</strong> Choose an image to appear as a thumbnail with your post/article/excerpt.</p>
<p><strong>Revised Media UI: </strong>Redesign the uploader UI to make uploading and editing media files a simpler, more user-friendly process.</p>
<p>These descriptions are repeated in the beginning of the voting survey, so if you forget what something means you&#8217;ll be able to scroll up to remind yourself. Only the first question (pick your top choice) is mandatory. This survey isn&#8217;t very long. Question two lets you assign a general high/low priority to each of the 11 feature suggestions, while question 3 asks you to rank the 11 features in order of priority from 1-11. A text box or two allow you to make additional suggestions, and that&#8217;s it. The survey is anonymous, and will be open all week, until Friday, July 10, 2009 at 11:59 PM UTC.</p>
<p><br />
<br />
<a href="http://surveys.polldaddy.com/s/2F95783C8744F81A/">Vote now!</a></p>
<p><a href="http://surveys.polldaddy.com/s/2F95783C8744F81A/">No JavaScript? Take the survey here. </a></p>
<p>Results of the survey will be used to help developers decide which features to focus on for version 2.9. The 2.9 anticipated feature list will be posted here later in July, after the priority has been determined. How many contributing developers are available to code various features will play a large part in the decision-making process, so if you&#8217;ve ever thought of contributing code to WordPress development, now&#8217;s a great time to get involved. Developer chats are held each Wednesday in the IRC channel (irc.freenode.com #wordpress-dev) at 9 PM UTC (5pm Eastern, 2pm Pacific).</p>
<p><em>* &#8211; Other non-media features that were discussed either were determined to be better held for a future version for technical reasons, or were so widely desired that they were accepted for the 2.9 roadmap without requiring a vote.</em></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:32:10 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:7:"summary";s:4538:"<p>Last Wednesday, the core development team and a number of contributing developers met in the IRC #wordpress-dev channel to talk about which features should be included in version 2.9, which is now entering the development phase. We&#8217;ve been planning to focus on media features in 2.9 for some time, and unsurprisingly, it was media features that dominated the discussion.* A large percentage of the requests we get from users are for more/better media features, so we&#8217;ve decided to focus 2.9 on building an infrastructure for improved media handling that we can continue to build on in versions to come. In that vein, we need your input to determine which features to prioritize and build sooner rather than later.</p>
<p>These are the features that we&#8217;re asking people to vote on (in alphabetical, not prioritized, order):</p>
<p><strong>Additional Media Filters:</strong> In the uploader, you can currently upload an image from your hard drive, link to an image from a URL, or select an image from the Media Library. This proposed feature would add links in the Media Library pane that would allow you to filter images to those that had been used most recently, used most often, and/or marked as a favorite. These filters would be available on the Media Library screen as well.<br />
<strong><br />
Basic Image Editing:</strong> Enable cropping, resizing and 90-degree rotation of uploaded images.<br />
<strong><br />
Better Media Settings: </strong>Enable the creation of more default media settings controlled in the Settings section, and allow settings to be overridden  during the individual media upload process as needed.</p>
<p><strong>Bulk Media Import API: </strong>Develop an API to allow for bulk media importing by plugins or importers.<br />
<strong><br />
Custom Image Sizes:</strong> Instead of hardcoded thumbnail, medium, large, etc. image sizes, custom image sizes would allow you to configure the maximum dimensions for each of the sizes.</p>
<p><strong>Easier Embeds:</strong> Make it easier to embed third-party content such as YouTube videos, etc. Similar to Viper&#8217;s Video Quicktags plugin.</p>
<p><strong>Media Albums: </strong>Ability to create and edit photo albums that can stand alone (as opposed to galleries being tied only to a post), including photostream functionality.<br />
<strong><br />
Media Metadata: </strong>Enable the use of categories and tags on media files.</p>
<p><strong>Photostream:</strong> Create a Flickr-style photostream that simply displays images in a chronological stream (as opposed to grouping in galleries).</p>
<p><strong>Post thumbnails:</strong> Choose an image to appear as a thumbnail with your post/article/excerpt.</p>
<p><strong>Revised Media UI: </strong>Redesign the uploader UI to make uploading and editing media files a simpler, more user-friendly process.</p>
<p>These descriptions are repeated in the beginning of the voting survey, so if you forget what something means you&#8217;ll be able to scroll up to remind yourself. Only the first question (pick your top choice) is mandatory. This survey isn&#8217;t very long. Question two lets you assign a general high/low priority to each of the 11 feature suggestions, while question 3 asks you to rank the 11 features in order of priority from 1-11. A text box or two allow you to make additional suggestions, and that&#8217;s it. The survey is anonymous, and will be open all week, until Friday, July 10, 2009 at 11:59 PM UTC.</p>
<p><br />
<br />
<a href="http://surveys.polldaddy.com/s/2F95783C8744F81A/">Vote now!</a></p>
<p><a href="http://surveys.polldaddy.com/s/2F95783C8744F81A/">No JavaScript? Take the survey here. </a></p>
<p>Results of the survey will be used to help developers decide which features to focus on for version 2.9. The 2.9 anticipated feature list will be posted here later in July, after the priority has been determined. How many contributing developers are available to code various features will play a large part in the decision-making process, so if you&#8217;ve ever thought of contributing code to WordPress development, now&#8217;s a great time to get involved. Developer chats are held each Wednesday in the IRC channel (irc.freenode.com #wordpress-dev) at 9 PM UTC (5pm Eastern, 2pm Pacific).</p>
<p><em>* &#8211; Other non-media features that were discussed either were determined to be better held for a future version for technical reasons, or were so widely desired that they were accepted for the 2.9 roadmap without requiring a vote.</em></p>";}i:3;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:66:"Weblog Tools Collection: Which Version Of WordPress Are You Using?";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6188";s:4:"link";s:83:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/06/wordpress-versions-usage-poll/";s:11:"description";s:975:"<p>Over the past 6+ years there have been several versions of WordPress released, the latest being WordPress 2.8, many people do upgrade to the latest available version or in many cases start out with the latest version available, however over time not many users upgrade their installations.</p>
<p>It would be interesting to know which versions of WordPress you are using, if you are using a earlier versions, if possible please let us know the reason you are still using it.</p>
<p></p>
<p><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/06/wordpress-versions-usage-poll/">Poll requires JavaScript, please visit the site to vote</a><br />
</p>
<p>Do feel free to share your views about which version you are using.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/06/wordpress-versions-usage-poll/">Which Version Of WordPress Are You Using?</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:40:35 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:975:"<p>Over the past 6+ years there have been several versions of WordPress released, the latest being WordPress 2.8, many people do upgrade to the latest available version or in many cases start out with the latest version available, however over time not many users upgrade their installations.</p>
<p>It would be interesting to know which versions of WordPress you are using, if you are using a earlier versions, if possible please let us know the reason you are still using it.</p>
<p></p>
<p><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/06/wordpress-versions-usage-poll/">Poll requires JavaScript, please visit the site to vote</a><br />
</p>
<p>Do feel free to share your views about which version you are using.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/06/wordpress-versions-usage-poll/">Which Version Of WordPress Are You Using?</a></p>";}i:4;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:51:"Akismet: Remember that web site you made years ago?";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://blog.akismet.com/?p=237";s:4:"link";s:77:"http://blog.akismet.com/2009/07/06/remember-that-web-site-you-made-years-ago/";s:11:"description";s:4792:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Remember way back when you first got interested in web design?  Seems like an eternity ago in web years when I made my first clumsy web sites.  Maybe you got started making home pages for friends or a local club.  Maybe you helped some people get hosting accounts, set up a quick web site with a forum and a blog and a shopping cart.  Ah, those were the days.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s easy to forget that many of those old web sites are still online &#8211; abandoned, un-maintained, and insecure.  Many of them date from the days before web spam was common, so they don&#8217;t include any spam protection.</p>
<p>Spammers know this.  And they love it.  Here&#8217;s why:</p>
<p><img src="http://akismet.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/picture-30.png?w=613" alt="Web forum overrun by spammers" title="Web forum overrun by spammers" width="613" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-239" /></p>
<p>That&#8217;s a real screen capture from a forum that was once a real community &#8211; but has since been forgotten by its unsuspecting owner.</p>
<p>This is an all-too-common occurrence in recent months.  In order to try to avoid being caught, spammers are hosting their advertisements for porn and pills on these old abandoned forums, which typically have an open automated registration system that lets anyone create an account without the owner&#8217;s knowledge or intervention.  Then they send thousands of spam messages in blog comments and emails, with a link to those abandoned forums.</p>
<p>In other words: right now, someone might be sending offensive spam to thousands of blogs <strong>with a link to your web site</strong>.  Like this example, taken from a comment spam (we&#8217;ve censored the real domain name for obvious reasons):</p>
<pre name="code" class="html">

&lt;a href="http://[REDACTED].com/forum/showthread.php?p=200789" rel="nofollow"&gt;Amateur with natural big boob&lt;/a&gt;
-Cori the natural milf shows off her big juicy tits
&lt;a href="http://[REDACTED].com/forum/showthread.php?p=200794" rel="nofollow"&gt;Free big tit blonde movie&lt;/a&gt;
-Samantha babe plays with big boobs and poses in bed
&lt;a href="http://[REDACTED].com/forum/showthread.php?p=200805" rel="nofollow"&gt;Big tit porn star movie&lt;/a&gt;
</pre>
<p>Sadly that&#8217;s some of the <em>less</em> offensive spam &#8211; it took a while to find an example we could safely publish.  Akismet will almost always catch these spams of course, but not everyone uses Akismet.</p>
<p>This technique has been around for a while, but in recent weeks we&#8217;ve seen a massive increase in the sheer number of un-maintained sites exploited in this way.  Forums are the most common victims, but we&#8217;ve also seen forgotten photo galleries, blogs and social apps exploited in the same way.</p>
<p>Left unchecked, the damage to your reputation could be substantial &#8211; not to mention what it could do to your search engine positioning.  So we&#8217;re advising everyone to please check on your old web sites.</p>
<p>If you have ever set up a web site for someone &#8212; or installed a test copy of a forum or web application on your own web site, even one that was never publicly announced &#8212; now would be a great time to check that it hasn&#8217;t been exploited by spammers.  If it&#8217;s still clean but unneeded, consider removing it or disabling the account signup process as a preventative measure.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;d like to keep it online, make sure you install a spam filter like Akismet &#8211; there are Akismet plugins available for <a href="http://akismet.com/development/">vBulletin, phpBB and most other popular web forums</a>.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/akismet.wordpress.com/237/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/akismet.wordpress.com/237/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/akismet.wordpress.com/237/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/akismet.wordpress.com/237/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/akismet.wordpress.com/237/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/akismet.wordpress.com/237/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/akismet.wordpress.com/237/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/akismet.wordpress.com/237/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/akismet.wordpress.com/237/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/akismet.wordpress.com/237/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.akismet.com&blog=116920&post=237&subd=akismet&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:59:50 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:7:"summary";s:4792:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Remember way back when you first got interested in web design?  Seems like an eternity ago in web years when I made my first clumsy web sites.  Maybe you got started making home pages for friends or a local club.  Maybe you helped some people get hosting accounts, set up a quick web site with a forum and a blog and a shopping cart.  Ah, those were the days.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s easy to forget that many of those old web sites are still online &#8211; abandoned, un-maintained, and insecure.  Many of them date from the days before web spam was common, so they don&#8217;t include any spam protection.</p>
<p>Spammers know this.  And they love it.  Here&#8217;s why:</p>
<p><img src="http://akismet.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/picture-30.png?w=613" alt="Web forum overrun by spammers" title="Web forum overrun by spammers" width="613" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-239" /></p>
<p>That&#8217;s a real screen capture from a forum that was once a real community &#8211; but has since been forgotten by its unsuspecting owner.</p>
<p>This is an all-too-common occurrence in recent months.  In order to try to avoid being caught, spammers are hosting their advertisements for porn and pills on these old abandoned forums, which typically have an open automated registration system that lets anyone create an account without the owner&#8217;s knowledge or intervention.  Then they send thousands of spam messages in blog comments and emails, with a link to those abandoned forums.</p>
<p>In other words: right now, someone might be sending offensive spam to thousands of blogs <strong>with a link to your web site</strong>.  Like this example, taken from a comment spam (we&#8217;ve censored the real domain name for obvious reasons):</p>
<pre name="code" class="html">

&lt;a href="http://[REDACTED].com/forum/showthread.php?p=200789" rel="nofollow"&gt;Amateur with natural big boob&lt;/a&gt;
-Cori the natural milf shows off her big juicy tits
&lt;a href="http://[REDACTED].com/forum/showthread.php?p=200794" rel="nofollow"&gt;Free big tit blonde movie&lt;/a&gt;
-Samantha babe plays with big boobs and poses in bed
&lt;a href="http://[REDACTED].com/forum/showthread.php?p=200805" rel="nofollow"&gt;Big tit porn star movie&lt;/a&gt;
</pre>
<p>Sadly that&#8217;s some of the <em>less</em> offensive spam &#8211; it took a while to find an example we could safely publish.  Akismet will almost always catch these spams of course, but not everyone uses Akismet.</p>
<p>This technique has been around for a while, but in recent weeks we&#8217;ve seen a massive increase in the sheer number of un-maintained sites exploited in this way.  Forums are the most common victims, but we&#8217;ve also seen forgotten photo galleries, blogs and social apps exploited in the same way.</p>
<p>Left unchecked, the damage to your reputation could be substantial &#8211; not to mention what it could do to your search engine positioning.  So we&#8217;re advising everyone to please check on your old web sites.</p>
<p>If you have ever set up a web site for someone &#8212; or installed a test copy of a forum or web application on your own web site, even one that was never publicly announced &#8212; now would be a great time to check that it hasn&#8217;t been exploited by spammers.  If it&#8217;s still clean but unneeded, consider removing it or disabling the account signup process as a preventative measure.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;d like to keep it online, make sure you install a spam filter like Akismet &#8211; there are Akismet plugins available for <a href="http://akismet.com/development/">vBulletin, phpBB and most other popular web forums</a>.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/akismet.wordpress.com/237/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/akismet.wordpress.com/237/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/akismet.wordpress.com/237/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/akismet.wordpress.com/237/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/akismet.wordpress.com/237/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/akismet.wordpress.com/237/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/akismet.wordpress.com/237/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/akismet.wordpress.com/237/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/akismet.wordpress.com/237/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/akismet.wordpress.com/237/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.akismet.com&blog=116920&post=237&subd=akismet&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:32:"Donncha: WordPress MU 2.8.1 beta";s:4:"guid";s:29:"http://ocaoimh.ie/?p=89495036";s:4:"link";s:42:"http://ocaoimh.ie/wordpress-mu-2-8-1-beta/";s:11:"description";s:2317:"<p><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvP2F0dGFjaG1lbnRfaWQ9NDE5OQ==" rel=""><img align="right" src="http://inphotos.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Autumn-Trees-150x150.jpg" alt="Autumn Trees" title="Autumn Trees" width="150" height="150" class="size-thumbnail wp-image-4199" /></a> <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL211LndvcmRwcmVzcy5vcmcv">WordPress MU</a> is a multi user or multi blog version of WordPress that can be used to run sites like <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3dvcmRwcmVzcy5vcmcv">WordPress.com</a>.</p>
<p>MU Admins! Please download and test <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL211LndvcmRwcmVzcy5vcmcvd3BtdS0yLjguMS1iZXRhLnppcA==">wpmu-2.8.1-beta.zip</a> on a test server! This is a beta release that is this &lt;&#8212;&gt; close to being final but it needs testing by the community.</p>
<p>It works fine on my test server but I haven&#8217;t been able to test every last thing to death. That&#8217;s where you come in. Download it, install it, login, look around. Notice anything broken? That&#8217;s what <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3RyYWMubXUud29yZHByZXNzLm9yZy8=">Trac</a> is for. Verify you can repeat the problem, open a ticket and describe how the problem can be reproduced. Well done. You&#8217;ve just contributed to a Free Software project. <img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br clear="all" /></p>
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<p>MU Admins! Please download and test <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL211LndvcmRwcmVzcy5vcmcvd3BtdS0yLjguMS1iZXRhLnppcA==">wpmu-2.8.1-beta.zip</a> on a test server! This is a beta release that is this &lt;&#8212;&gt; close to being final but it needs testing by the community.</p>
<p>It works fine on my test server but I haven&#8217;t been able to test every last thing to death. That&#8217;s where you come in. Download it, install it, login, look around. Notice anything broken? That&#8217;s what <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3RyYWMubXUud29yZHByZXNzLm9yZy8=">Trac</a> is for. Verify you can repeat the problem, open a ticket and describe how the problem can be reproduced. Well done. You&#8217;ve just contributed to a Free Software project. <img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br clear="all" /></p>
<p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvd29yZHByZXNzLW11LTI2LWJldGEtMS8=" rel="">WordPress MU 2.6 beta 1</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvd29yZHByZXNzLW11LTI3LWJldGEv" rel="">WordPress MU 2.7 beta</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvd29vLXRoZS1sYXRlc3QtYmV0YS8=" rel="">Woo! The latest beta of Safari &#8230;</a></li></ul></p> <img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?view=1&post_id=89495036" width="1" height="1" />";}i:6;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:42:"Alex King: Breaking News: WordPress is GPL";s:4:"guid";s:32:"http://alexking.org/blog/?p=3435";s:4:"link";s:66:"http://alexking.org/blog/2009/07/06/breaking-news-wordpress-is-gpl";s:11:"description";s:1671:"<p>There has been a lot of discussion about WordPress and the GPL lately. People are discussing/complaining about what you can and can&#8217;t do due to the license. It&#8217;s all a bit baffling to me.</p>
<p>Whether you like the GPL or not, the license is as much a part of WordPress as PHP and MySQL. WordPress is an existing quantity, if you want to build for WordPress (themes, plugins, etc.) you know what you have to work with &#8211; including the license. There are no surprises here.</p>
<p>Just as it makes no sense to complain you can&#8217;t build WordPress plugins in Ruby or Python, it makes no sense to complain about having to license your WordPress plugins/themes under the GPL.</p>
<p>WordPress is GPL. Period. The rules are the rules, if you want to play &#8211; welcome. If not, there are lots of other projects to explore and contribute to.</p>
<p>More recent discussion on this topic:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://ma.tt/2009/07/not-lonely-at-all/" rel="external">Not Lonely at All &#8211; Matt Mullenweg</a></li>
<li><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/05/licensing-is-the-vehicle-our-users-are-the-environment/" rel="external">Licensing is the vehicle, our users are the environment | Weblog Tools Collection</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/" rel="external">WordPress Themes are GPL, too</a></li>
<li><a href="http://foolswisdom.com/commercial-wordpress-themes-gpl2/" rel="external">Commercial WordPress Themes&#8217;s PHP Code is GPL 2 Too &#8211; A Fool&#8217;s Wisdom</a></li>
</ul>
<img src="http://alexking.org/wp/?ak_action=api_record_view&id=3435&type=feed" alt="" />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:30:39 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:7:"summary";s:1671:"<p>There has been a lot of discussion about WordPress and the GPL lately. People are discussing/complaining about what you can and can&#8217;t do due to the license. It&#8217;s all a bit baffling to me.</p>
<p>Whether you like the GPL or not, the license is as much a part of WordPress as PHP and MySQL. WordPress is an existing quantity, if you want to build for WordPress (themes, plugins, etc.) you know what you have to work with &#8211; including the license. There are no surprises here.</p>
<p>Just as it makes no sense to complain you can&#8217;t build WordPress plugins in Ruby or Python, it makes no sense to complain about having to license your WordPress plugins/themes under the GPL.</p>
<p>WordPress is GPL. Period. The rules are the rules, if you want to play &#8211; welcome. If not, there are lots of other projects to explore and contribute to.</p>
<p>More recent discussion on this topic:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://ma.tt/2009/07/not-lonely-at-all/" rel="external">Not Lonely at All &#8211; Matt Mullenweg</a></li>
<li><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/05/licensing-is-the-vehicle-our-users-are-the-environment/" rel="external">Licensing is the vehicle, our users are the environment | Weblog Tools Collection</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/" rel="external">WordPress Themes are GPL, too</a></li>
<li><a href="http://foolswisdom.com/commercial-wordpress-themes-gpl2/" rel="external">Commercial WordPress Themes&#8217;s PHP Code is GPL 2 Too &#8211; A Fool&#8217;s Wisdom</a></li>
</ul>
<img src="http://alexking.org/wp/?ak_action=api_record_view&id=3435&type=feed" alt="" />";}i:7;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:80:"Weblog Tools Collection: Licensing is the vehicle, our users are the environment";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6185";s:4:"link";s:108:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/05/licensing-is-the-vehicle-our-users-are-the-environment/";s:11:"description";s:4911:"<p>I have been following the WordPress Theme GPL discussion very closely for as long as I have been involved with WordPress and I am glad that Matt, with the help of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Law_Center">Software Freedom Law Center</a>, has <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/">cleared the air</a>. There has been a lot of valuable discussion surrounding this blog post and the issue, here is a small list of what I have read.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://foolswisdom.com/commercial-wordpress-themes-gpl2/">Lloyd&#8217;s analysis on GPL and themes</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/825/getting-pretty-lonely">Daniel&#8217;s view from the other side of the fence</a> (be sure to read through the comments, there is a lot of wisdom there)</li>
<li>WPTavern&#8217;s <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/forum/themes-templates/625-themes-inherit-gpl.html">forum post on the blog dev blog post</a> and the <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/forum/themes-templates/446-one-peeved-off-theme-maker.html">forum post(s) leading up to it</a></li>
<li>Brian Gardner <a href="http://www.briangardner.com/blog/wordpress-studiopress-the-gpl-license-lets-move-on.htm">wants the community to move on</a></li>
<li><a href="http://chromebits.net/2009/07/03/implications-of-the-gpl-for-wordpress-themes/">Other</a> <a href="http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/1428/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-themes-are-gpl-too/">miscellaneous</a> <a href="http://www.nathanrice.net/blog/final-word-on-wordpress-themes-and-the-gpl/">posts</a> on the <a href="http://ryanmarkel.com/2009/07/02/the-word-of-the-day-is-derivative/">issue</a></li>
</ul>
<p>I am a huge proponent of the GPL and consider it to be one of the primary pillars of WordPress, both as a piece of software, and as a community. This debate has, from time to time, devolved into whether the GPL is a valuable licensing schema for software such as WordPress. I have seen/read quite persuasive arguments on why a more liberal IP licensing <em>could</em> be beneficial for the community and for the software. But in all of this debate and conjecture, I could not help thinking about how it would affect one group of people. <em><strong>Our users</strong></em>.</p>
<p>I help make &#8220;business happen with software&#8221; at my day job. My team supports a couple of hundred thousand users in helping them perform mundane (to them) tasks. We also try to help our small company cope with the technology needs of a cutting edge industry and compete on that edge with corporations that have IT budgets that parallel our company&#8217;s entire revenue. We are so small and so busy that as long as we are complying with the licensing of a particular piece of software, we are good to roll. We use GPL software, we use proprietary software, we use CC licensed software, we use Apache licensed software and everything in between. The funny thing is that our users could care less what we use, as long as they can do what they want to do without having to call the help desk or spend too much time doing it. That is exactly where WordPress proudly shines like the Sun.</p>
<p>Matt&#8217;s vision for WordPress is to make it invisible, to help its users do what they do best without having a single thought about the tool they are using. To that goal, the GPL has no effect except for circumstantial reasons. The creators would also like the software to be freely available to anyone, for any purpose. The software should be open to modifications and freely distributable at no cost and without permission from the creators. The software should be extensible in so much that the core code does not have to be modified for cursory changes. The GPL as linked with WordPress,  has unequivocally helped WordPress and its community get where it is today. It is not the only thing WordPress has going for it (thankfully), but it certainly is here to stay and has proven itself over and over again for us. It is just a licensing schema that bolsters the core philosophies of the people behind the code and helps them accomplish their goals with the software, get &#8220;business to happen&#8221; so to speak.</p>
<p>In all of our vacillations, are we getting away from our core philosophies? <strong>The freedoms that the GPL and WordPress have offered to the folks who choose to make money from WordPress, are also designed to help another, larger group of people. The people who use the software. </strong></p>
<p>If in our exuberance to make everyone happy, we trip up and let our millions of users down, it would then truly be a catastrophe.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/05/licensing-is-the-vehicle-our-users-are-the-environment/">Licensing is the vehicle, our users are the environment</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:43:36 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:4911:"<p>I have been following the WordPress Theme GPL discussion very closely for as long as I have been involved with WordPress and I am glad that Matt, with the help of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Law_Center">Software Freedom Law Center</a>, has <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/">cleared the air</a>. There has been a lot of valuable discussion surrounding this blog post and the issue, here is a small list of what I have read.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://foolswisdom.com/commercial-wordpress-themes-gpl2/">Lloyd&#8217;s analysis on GPL and themes</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/825/getting-pretty-lonely">Daniel&#8217;s view from the other side of the fence</a> (be sure to read through the comments, there is a lot of wisdom there)</li>
<li>WPTavern&#8217;s <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/forum/themes-templates/625-themes-inherit-gpl.html">forum post on the blog dev blog post</a> and the <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/forum/themes-templates/446-one-peeved-off-theme-maker.html">forum post(s) leading up to it</a></li>
<li>Brian Gardner <a href="http://www.briangardner.com/blog/wordpress-studiopress-the-gpl-license-lets-move-on.htm">wants the community to move on</a></li>
<li><a href="http://chromebits.net/2009/07/03/implications-of-the-gpl-for-wordpress-themes/">Other</a> <a href="http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/1428/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-themes-are-gpl-too/">miscellaneous</a> <a href="http://www.nathanrice.net/blog/final-word-on-wordpress-themes-and-the-gpl/">posts</a> on the <a href="http://ryanmarkel.com/2009/07/02/the-word-of-the-day-is-derivative/">issue</a></li>
</ul>
<p>I am a huge proponent of the GPL and consider it to be one of the primary pillars of WordPress, both as a piece of software, and as a community. This debate has, from time to time, devolved into whether the GPL is a valuable licensing schema for software such as WordPress. I have seen/read quite persuasive arguments on why a more liberal IP licensing <em>could</em> be beneficial for the community and for the software. But in all of this debate and conjecture, I could not help thinking about how it would affect one group of people. <em><strong>Our users</strong></em>.</p>
<p>I help make &#8220;business happen with software&#8221; at my day job. My team supports a couple of hundred thousand users in helping them perform mundane (to them) tasks. We also try to help our small company cope with the technology needs of a cutting edge industry and compete on that edge with corporations that have IT budgets that parallel our company&#8217;s entire revenue. We are so small and so busy that as long as we are complying with the licensing of a particular piece of software, we are good to roll. We use GPL software, we use proprietary software, we use CC licensed software, we use Apache licensed software and everything in between. The funny thing is that our users could care less what we use, as long as they can do what they want to do without having to call the help desk or spend too much time doing it. That is exactly where WordPress proudly shines like the Sun.</p>
<p>Matt&#8217;s vision for WordPress is to make it invisible, to help its users do what they do best without having a single thought about the tool they are using. To that goal, the GPL has no effect except for circumstantial reasons. The creators would also like the software to be freely available to anyone, for any purpose. The software should be open to modifications and freely distributable at no cost and without permission from the creators. The software should be extensible in so much that the core code does not have to be modified for cursory changes. The GPL as linked with WordPress,  has unequivocally helped WordPress and its community get where it is today. It is not the only thing WordPress has going for it (thankfully), but it certainly is here to stay and has proven itself over and over again for us. It is just a licensing schema that bolsters the core philosophies of the people behind the code and helps them accomplish their goals with the software, get &#8220;business to happen&#8221; so to speak.</p>
<p>In all of our vacillations, are we getting away from our core philosophies? <strong>The freedoms that the GPL and WordPress have offered to the folks who choose to make money from WordPress, are also designed to help another, larger group of people. The people who use the software. </strong></p>
<p>If in our exuberance to make everyone happy, we trip up and let our millions of users down, it would then truly be a catastrophe.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/05/licensing-is-the-vehicle-our-users-are-the-environment/">Licensing is the vehicle, our users are the environment</a></p>";}i:8;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 07/05";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6183";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/05/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0705/";s:11:"description";s:1480:"<h4><a href="http://www.allprices.co.uk/beauty">Beauty</a></h4>
<p><img title="Beauty" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/07/beauty.png" alt="Beauty" width="200" height="150" /></p>
<p>Two column, WordPress 2.8 ready theme with an options page and featured posts using SmoothGallery</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.fordreporter.com/wordpress-themes/">Game RV</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://test.wprevolution.com/index.php?wptheme=Game+RV"><img title="GameRV" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/07/gamerv.gif" alt="GameRV" width="200" height="151" /></a></p>
<p>Game RV is a compatible with WordPress 2.8 with gravatars, threated comments, widgets, etc. It has a right single sidebar.</p>
<h4><a href="http://themes.diameter.web.id/facebook-look-2-now-on-release/">Facebook Look 2</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://themes.diameter.web.id/demo/?preview_theme=Facebook+Look"><img title="Facebook Look 2" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/07/facebooklook2.png" alt="Facebook Look 2" width="200" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Three column theme that looks and feels like Facebook</p>
<p>Are you a theme author? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Submit your theme</a> to get listed in these posts.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/05/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0705/">WordPress Theme Releases for 07/05</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:23:32 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:1480:"<h4><a href="http://www.allprices.co.uk/beauty">Beauty</a></h4>
<p><img title="Beauty" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/07/beauty.png" alt="Beauty" width="200" height="150" /></p>
<p>Two column, WordPress 2.8 ready theme with an options page and featured posts using SmoothGallery</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.fordreporter.com/wordpress-themes/">Game RV</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://test.wprevolution.com/index.php?wptheme=Game+RV"><img title="GameRV" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/07/gamerv.gif" alt="GameRV" width="200" height="151" /></a></p>
<p>Game RV is a compatible with WordPress 2.8 with gravatars, threated comments, widgets, etc. It has a right single sidebar.</p>
<h4><a href="http://themes.diameter.web.id/facebook-look-2-now-on-release/">Facebook Look 2</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://themes.diameter.web.id/demo/?preview_theme=Facebook+Look"><img title="Facebook Look 2" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/07/facebooklook2.png" alt="Facebook Look 2" width="200" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Three column theme that looks and feels like Facebook</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/05/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0705/">WordPress Theme Releases for 07/05</a></p>";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:18:"Matt: Acquia Searc";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=14350";s:4:"link";s:34:"http://ma.tt/2009/07/acquia-searc/";s:11:"description";s:167:"<p><a href="http://buytaert.net/acquia-search-benefits-for-site-administrators">Acquia Search looks cool</a>, Automattic should do something similar for WordPress.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:38:36 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:167:"<p><a href="http://buytaert.net/acquia-search-benefits-for-site-administrators">Acquia Search looks cool</a>, Automattic should do something similar for WordPress.</p>";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Lloyd: GPL Isn’t a Good License for Proprietary Software";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://foolswisdom.com/?p=1993";s:4:"link";s:56:"http://foolswisdom.com/gpl-license-proprietary-software/";s:11:"description";s:1262:"<p>Yesterday, I wrote about the clarification regarding <a href="http://foolswisdom.com/commercial-wordpress-themes-gpl2/">WordPress Themes and the GPL</a> (v2). <a href="http://www.red-sweater.com/about/DanielJalkut.html">Daniel Jalkut</a>, who I featured as a <a href="http://foolswisdom.com/daniel-jalkut-wordpress-hero/">personal WordPress Hero</a> earlier this year, wrote one of the most interesting responses to &#8220;<a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/">[WordPress] Themes are GPL, too</a>&#8220;. Written on Thursday and temporarily taken offline by <a href="http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/07/02/jalkut-gpl">the fireball</a>, Daniel&#8217;s &#8220;<a title="Permanent Link: Getting Pretty Lonely" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/825/getting-pretty-lonely">Getting Pretty Lonely</a>&#8221; article laments that WordPress is GPL, and that any open source software that uses a GPL license discourages developer community participation.</p>
<p>At first this article left me very upset, maybe because I found it quite persuasive, but then I reflected that for anyone developing and <strong>selling proprietary software</strong>, Daniel&#8217;s is the only position to believe in and promote.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:27:10 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:5:"Lloyd";}s:7:"summary";s:1262:"<p>Yesterday, I wrote about the clarification regarding <a href="http://foolswisdom.com/commercial-wordpress-themes-gpl2/">WordPress Themes and the GPL</a> (v2). <a href="http://www.red-sweater.com/about/DanielJalkut.html">Daniel Jalkut</a>, who I featured as a <a href="http://foolswisdom.com/daniel-jalkut-wordpress-hero/">personal WordPress Hero</a> earlier this year, wrote one of the most interesting responses to &#8220;<a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/">[WordPress] Themes are GPL, too</a>&#8220;. Written on Thursday and temporarily taken offline by <a href="http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/07/02/jalkut-gpl">the fireball</a>, Daniel&#8217;s &#8220;<a title="Permanent Link: Getting Pretty Lonely" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/825/getting-pretty-lonely">Getting Pretty Lonely</a>&#8221; article laments that WordPress is GPL, and that any open source software that uses a GPL license discourages developer community participation.</p>
<p>At first this article left me very upset, maybe because I found it quite persuasive, but then I reflected that for anyone developing and <strong>selling proprietary software</strong>, Daniel&#8217;s is the only position to believe in and promote.</p>";}i:11;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Lloyd: Commercial WordPress Themes’s PHP Code is GPL 2 Too";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://foolswisdom.com/?p=1983";s:4:"link";s:56:"http://foolswisdom.com/commercial-wordpress-themes-gpl2/";s:11:"description";s:3325:"<p>I&#8217;m hoping that my boss <a href="http://ma.tt/">Matt Mullenweg</a> sharing the legal opinion on &#8220;<a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/">Themes are GPL, too</a>&#8221; will put the issue to rest for the majority of the community (emphasis mime):</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;<strong>PHP in WordPress themes must be GPL, artwork and CSS may be but are not required.</strong><br />
&#8230;<br />
Even though graphics and CSS aren’t <em>required</em> to be GPL legally, the lack thereof is pretty limiting. Can you imagine WordPress without any CSS or JavaScript? So as before, we will only promote and host things on WordPress.org that are 100% GPL <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_compatibility">or compatible</a>. To celebrate a few folks creating 100% GPL themes and providing support and other services around them, <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/commercial/">we have a new page listing GPL commercially supported themes</a>.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The legal opinion was provided by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Law_Center">Software Freedom Law Center</a>. <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/about/team/#vasile">Council</a> <a href="http://hackervisions.org/">James Vasile</a> provided the findings and blogs at <a href="http://hackervisions.org/">hackervisions.org</a> . James also has posted about this on his own blog in the article &#8220;<a title="Permalink to CMS Themes and the GPL" rel="bookmark" href="http://hackervisions.org/?p=419">CMS Themes and the GPL</a>&#8220;. As I commented there, my fear is:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;people read what they want to get out of it, and case law is the only thing that moves them.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The legal finding and unchanged policy  are consistent with the <strong>intentions</strong> of the WordPress developer community and what has been promoted for the four years I&#8217;ve been involved.</p>
<p>Talking about licensing really is <a href="http://foolswisdom.com/licensing-is-the-suck/">the suck</a>. Matt&#8217;s article became necessary lately as some commercial theme developers have been very aggressive to WordPress community members, who have shared theme code as allowed by WordPress&#8217;s viral GPL v2 license.</p>
<p>It frustrates me when I read commercial theme developers complaining about people &#8220;stealing&#8221; their themes after the thousands of hours they have worked. They make no mention of the hundreds of thousands of hours others have worked on <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> (counting on the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/"> GPL protecting their freedoms </a>).</p>
<p>The incredibly exciting news is seeing the various <strong>commercially developed and supported themes</strong> embrace the GPL in the last 9 months. Theme collections like <a href="http://themeshaper.com/">ThemeShaper</a> (Thematic FrameWork), <a href="http://www.studiopress.com/">StudioPress</a> (previously Revolution 2),  and <a href="http://www.woothemes.com/">WooThemes</a> are all 100% GPL &#8212; those are just the ones I&#8217;m familar with, be sure to check out the theme offerings of the other <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/commercial/">commercially supported GPL themes</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:28:16 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:5:"Lloyd";}s:7:"summary";s:3325:"<p>I&#8217;m hoping that my boss <a href="http://ma.tt/">Matt Mullenweg</a> sharing the legal opinion on &#8220;<a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/">Themes are GPL, too</a>&#8221; will put the issue to rest for the majority of the community (emphasis mime):</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;<strong>PHP in WordPress themes must be GPL, artwork and CSS may be but are not required.</strong><br />
&#8230;<br />
Even though graphics and CSS aren’t <em>required</em> to be GPL legally, the lack thereof is pretty limiting. Can you imagine WordPress without any CSS or JavaScript? So as before, we will only promote and host things on WordPress.org that are 100% GPL <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_compatibility">or compatible</a>. To celebrate a few folks creating 100% GPL themes and providing support and other services around them, <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/commercial/">we have a new page listing GPL commercially supported themes</a>.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The legal opinion was provided by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Law_Center">Software Freedom Law Center</a>. <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/about/team/#vasile">Council</a> <a href="http://hackervisions.org/">James Vasile</a> provided the findings and blogs at <a href="http://hackervisions.org/">hackervisions.org</a> . James also has posted about this on his own blog in the article &#8220;<a title="Permalink to CMS Themes and the GPL" rel="bookmark" href="http://hackervisions.org/?p=419">CMS Themes and the GPL</a>&#8220;. As I commented there, my fear is:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;people read what they want to get out of it, and case law is the only thing that moves them.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The legal finding and unchanged policy  are consistent with the <strong>intentions</strong> of the WordPress developer community and what has been promoted for the four years I&#8217;ve been involved.</p>
<p>Talking about licensing really is <a href="http://foolswisdom.com/licensing-is-the-suck/">the suck</a>. Matt&#8217;s article became necessary lately as some commercial theme developers have been very aggressive to WordPress community members, who have shared theme code as allowed by WordPress&#8217;s viral GPL v2 license.</p>
<p>It frustrates me when I read commercial theme developers complaining about people &#8220;stealing&#8221; their themes after the thousands of hours they have worked. They make no mention of the hundreds of thousands of hours others have worked on <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> (counting on the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/"> GPL protecting their freedoms </a>).</p>
<p>The incredibly exciting news is seeing the various <strong>commercially developed and supported themes</strong> embrace the GPL in the last 9 months. Theme collections like <a href="http://themeshaper.com/">ThemeShaper</a> (Thematic FrameWork), <a href="http://www.studiopress.com/">StudioPress</a> (previously Revolution 2),  and <a href="http://www.woothemes.com/">WooThemes</a> are all 100% GPL &#8212; those are just the ones I&#8217;m familar with, be sure to check out the theme offerings of the other <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/commercial/">commercially supported GPL themes</a>.</p>";}i:12;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:65:"Weblog Tools Collection: Best Method To Post Content To WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:94:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/03/best-method-to-post-content-to-wordpress/";s:4:"link";s:94:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/03/best-method-to-post-content-to-wordpress/";s:11:"description";s:1579:"<p>We conducted a small poll recently, where we asked WordPress users the method they use to <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/02/how-do-you-post-content-to-your-blog/">post content to their blogs</a>. The poll is now closed and here are the results of the poll.</p>
<p><img title="posting_method_poll_results" border="0" alt="posting_method_poll_results" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/07/posting-method-poll-results.png" width="476" height="282" /> </p>
<p>And the winner and best way to post content to your blog is the WordPress Dashboard Write Panel, coming in a distant 2nd is desktop applications like Windows Live Writer.</p>
<p>So why do people prefer using the write panel? There could be several reasons for this, the most important one I can think of is that, when writing posts using the write panel users have access to the features plugins provide them with.</p>
<p>Another reason I think is not many users may be aware of the availability of desktop applications for blogging. Also many people may really feel comfortable blogging using the write panel too.</p>
<p>On the other hand desktop applications like WLW do provide users with a familiar interface and the flexibility to blog from their desktops.</p>
<p>What are your views on this poll results? Do let me know.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/03/best-method-to-post-content-to-wordpress/">Best Method To Post Content To WordPress</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:01:50 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:1579:"<p>We conducted a small poll recently, where we asked WordPress users the method they use to <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/02/how-do-you-post-content-to-your-blog/">post content to their blogs</a>. The poll is now closed and here are the results of the poll.</p>
<p><img title="posting_method_poll_results" border="0" alt="posting_method_poll_results" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/07/posting-method-poll-results.png" width="476" height="282" /> </p>
<p>And the winner and best way to post content to your blog is the WordPress Dashboard Write Panel, coming in a distant 2nd is desktop applications like Windows Live Writer.</p>
<p>So why do people prefer using the write panel? There could be several reasons for this, the most important one I can think of is that, when writing posts using the write panel users have access to the features plugins provide them with.</p>
<p>Another reason I think is not many users may be aware of the availability of desktop applications for blogging. Also many people may really feel comfortable blogging using the write panel too.</p>
<p>On the other hand desktop applications like WLW do provide users with a familiar interface and the flexibility to blog from their desktops.</p>
<p>What are your views on this poll results? Do let me know.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/03/best-method-to-post-content-to-wordpress/">Best Method To Post Content To WordPress</a></p>";}i:13;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:52:"Weblog Tools Collection: bbPress 1.0 Bechet Released";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6176";s:4:"link";s:80:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/03/bbpress-10-bechet-released/";s:11:"description";s:811:"<p><a href="http://bbpress.org/blog/2009/07/bbpress-1-0-final-finally-released/">bbPress 1.0 final, finally released</a>: For those of us that are also fans and users of bbPress, bbPress version 1.0 is finally released. Many improvements over the 0.9 versions include cookie integration with WordPress, various fixes, JQuery integration, a complete XML-RPC API, new admin interface, new icons, improved spam management and much more. Backup files and database and disable all plugins prior to upgrade but our test upgrade went amazingly well and everything continued to work post upgrade.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/03/bbpress-10-bechet-released/">bbPress 1.0 Bechet Released</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:07:02 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:811:"<p><a href="http://bbpress.org/blog/2009/07/bbpress-1-0-final-finally-released/">bbPress 1.0 final, finally released</a>: For those of us that are also fans and users of bbPress, bbPress version 1.0 is finally released. Many improvements over the 0.9 versions include cookie integration with WordPress, various fixes, JQuery integration, a complete XML-RPC API, new admin interface, new icons, improved spam management and much more. Backup files and database and disable all plugins prior to upgrade but our test upgrade went amazingly well and everything continued to work post upgrade.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/03/bbpress-10-bechet-released/">bbPress 1.0 Bechet Released</a></p>";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 07/03";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6174";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/03/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0703/";s:11:"description";s:3191:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.adamhopkinson.co.uk/blog/2009/06/24/wordpress-plugin-external-files/">External Files</a></p>
<p>External Files provides a shortcode [external] that wraps around a file path or url. The contents of the file/url are imported and outputted in an xhtml-friendly way. What&#8217;s more, the plugin auto-guesses the syntax of the file (by looking at the extension of the path or the content-type of the url).</p>
<p><a href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/rss-shortcode/">RSS Shortcode</a></p>
<p>Allows you to embed an RSS feed in your blog post by using WordPress shortcodes.</p>
<p><a href="http://code.ourcommoninterest.org/2009/07/02/bpcontents-10-plugin-released-tags-categories-for-bp/">BuddyPress Contents</a></p>
<p>BuddyPress content aggregation and organization.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mariosalexandrou.com/blog/?p=431">Real-Time Find and Replace</a></p>
<p>Set up find and replace rules that are executed AFTER a page is generated by WordPress, but BEFORE it is sent to a user&#8217;s browser.</p>
<p><a href="http://su.pr/developers/Supr:WordPress_Plugin/">Supr by StumbleUpon</a></p>
<p>Su.pr is the only URL shortener that gets you more traffic and save time posting to Twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.samuelaguilera.com/archivo/shorten2ping-notifies-pingfm-bitly.xhtml">Shorten2Ping</a></p>
<p>Sends status updates to Ping.fm or Twitter everytime you publish a post. Using Bit.ly or Tr.im for the permalinks (accounts on these services required). So this way you can send status to many sites at once if you have a Ping.fm account.</p>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/meebo-me-plugin/">Meebo Me</a></p>
<p>meebo me lets you chat with your site visitors using your <a href="http://meebo.com">Meebo</a> account. Visitors on your blog can hit a simple button and chat with you when you are logged into meebo. This is an easy and free way to interact with your visitors.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gdstarrating.com/2009/07/03/gd-star-rating-1-5-0/">GD Star Rating</a></p>
<p>GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating and review plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, multi ratings, templated rendering, has a widgets build in and extensive shortcode support. Plugin can be integrated with comments for making a review website.</p>
<p><a href="http://github.com/sant0sk1/wordpress-console/tree/master">WordPress Console</a></p>
<p>An interactive console for WordPress developers</p>
<p><a href="http://pimlinders.com/wordpress/">Flickr + Highslide</a></p>
<p>This plugin displays flickr photos using highslide.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thulasidas.com/adsense">Easy AdSense</a></p>
<p>Easy AdSense manages all aspects of Google AdSense for your blog: insert ads into posts and sidebar, and add a Google Search box.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/03/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0703/">WordPress Plugin Releases for 07/03</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:06:05 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:3191:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.adamhopkinson.co.uk/blog/2009/06/24/wordpress-plugin-external-files/">External Files</a></p>
<p>External Files provides a shortcode [external] that wraps around a file path or url. The contents of the file/url are imported and outputted in an xhtml-friendly way. What&#8217;s more, the plugin auto-guesses the syntax of the file (by looking at the extension of the path or the content-type of the url).</p>
<p><a href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/rss-shortcode/">RSS Shortcode</a></p>
<p>Allows you to embed an RSS feed in your blog post by using WordPress shortcodes.</p>
<p><a href="http://code.ourcommoninterest.org/2009/07/02/bpcontents-10-plugin-released-tags-categories-for-bp/">BuddyPress Contents</a></p>
<p>BuddyPress content aggregation and organization.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mariosalexandrou.com/blog/?p=431">Real-Time Find and Replace</a></p>
<p>Set up find and replace rules that are executed AFTER a page is generated by WordPress, but BEFORE it is sent to a user&#8217;s browser.</p>
<p><a href="http://su.pr/developers/Supr:WordPress_Plugin/">Supr by StumbleUpon</a></p>
<p>Su.pr is the only URL shortener that gets you more traffic and save time posting to Twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.samuelaguilera.com/archivo/shorten2ping-notifies-pingfm-bitly.xhtml">Shorten2Ping</a></p>
<p>Sends status updates to Ping.fm or Twitter everytime you publish a post. Using Bit.ly or Tr.im for the permalinks (accounts on these services required). So this way you can send status to many sites at once if you have a Ping.fm account.</p>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/meebo-me-plugin/">Meebo Me</a></p>
<p>meebo me lets you chat with your site visitors using your <a href="http://meebo.com">Meebo</a> account. Visitors on your blog can hit a simple button and chat with you when you are logged into meebo. This is an easy and free way to interact with your visitors.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gdstarrating.com/2009/07/03/gd-star-rating-1-5-0/">GD Star Rating</a></p>
<p>GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating and review plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, multi ratings, templated rendering, has a widgets build in and extensive shortcode support. Plugin can be integrated with comments for making a review website.</p>
<p><a href="http://github.com/sant0sk1/wordpress-console/tree/master">WordPress Console</a></p>
<p>An interactive console for WordPress developers</p>
<p><a href="http://pimlinders.com/wordpress/">Flickr + Highslide</a></p>
<p>This plugin displays flickr photos using highslide.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thulasidas.com/adsense">Easy AdSense</a></p>
<p>Easy AdSense manages all aspects of Google AdSense for your blog: insert ads into posts and sidebar, and add a Google Search box.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/03/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0703/">WordPress Plugin Releases for 07/03</a></p>";}i:15;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:44:"bbPress: bbPress 1.0 final, finally released";s:4:"guid";s:25:"http://bbpress.org/?p=243";s:4:"link";s:67:"http://bbpress.org/blog/2009/07/bbpress-1-0-final-finally-released/";s:11:"description";s:2833:"<p><img src="http://bbpress.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/bbpress_icons_32.png" alt="bbPress user interface icons" /></p>
<p>That&#8217;s right, bbPress 1.0 finally hits the tubes!</p>
<p>After many months in alpha, <del>beta</del> and release candidate status, bbPress 1.0 <em>final</em> is <a href="http://bbpress.org/download/">now available for download</a>.</p>
<p>Thanks to the many testers who contributed so much important feedback during the pre-release period, going way back to 1.0 alpha 1.</p>
<p>This release offers many usability improvements, based on making bbPress more approachable for adopters who are accustomed to WordPress. To that end bbPress 1.0 now has a similar administration interface to WordPress and uses similar descriptions and names where appropriate. bbPress also behaves more like WordPress when it comes to things like automatically generating your .htaccess file when setting up permalinks.</p>
<p>Here are a few of the improvements over the 0.9 series:</p>
<ul>
<li>&#8220;Voices&#8221; count on topics reports the number of individuals participating in a conversation</li>
<li>Native support for cookie integration (single sign-on) with Wordpress 2.7 and 2.8</li>
<li>Optional support for memcached object caching</li>
<li>Time-zone and Daylight Savings time support</li>
<li>A complete XML-RPC publishing API</li>
<li>Pingback support &#8211; each topic can receive pingbacks, just like a blog post</li>
<li>All javascript has been moved to jQuery</li>
<li>Optionally allow login via email address as well as username</li>
<li>New meta API allows arbitrary meta data to be stored for posts, topics, forums, options, tags or even meta (that&#8217;s right, meta-meta &#8211; first legitimate use wins a prize)!</li>
<li>Display names used primarily for user identification display, which allows special characters to be used</li>
<li>Themes can now have a &#8220;functions.php&#8221; file, which is automatically loaded</li>
<li>Accessibility improvements on forms and in the default theme, including WAI-ARIA roles</li>
<li>Major overhaul of the admin interface</li>
<li>Optional Akismet statistics page</li>
<li>Cute new icons from <a href="http://bendunkle.com/">Ben Dunkle</a> (pictured above)</li>
<li>Improved use of posts admin to manage spam</li>
<li>Prettier Kakumei (default) theme</li>
<li>Hello Louie! Plugin</li>
</ul>
<p>If you are upgrading from any earlier release to 1.0 then you absolutely should backup all you files and database before doing so. You also may need to make minor adjustments to your templates. Before upgrading, disable all plugins.</p>
<h3>Dedication</h3>
<p>bbPress 1.0 is named &#8220;Bechet&#8221; (pronounced <em>beh-shay</em>) after the pioneering jazz saxophonist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Bechet">Sidney Bechet</a>.</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:40:23 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Sam Bauers";}s:7:"summary";s:2833:"<p><img src="http://bbpress.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/bbpress_icons_32.png" alt="bbPress user interface icons" /></p>
<p>That&#8217;s right, bbPress 1.0 finally hits the tubes!</p>
<p>After many months in alpha, <del>beta</del> and release candidate status, bbPress 1.0 <em>final</em> is <a href="http://bbpress.org/download/">now available for download</a>.</p>
<p>Thanks to the many testers who contributed so much important feedback during the pre-release period, going way back to 1.0 alpha 1.</p>
<p>This release offers many usability improvements, based on making bbPress more approachable for adopters who are accustomed to WordPress. To that end bbPress 1.0 now has a similar administration interface to WordPress and uses similar descriptions and names where appropriate. bbPress also behaves more like WordPress when it comes to things like automatically generating your .htaccess file when setting up permalinks.</p>
<p>Here are a few of the improvements over the 0.9 series:</p>
<ul>
<li>&#8220;Voices&#8221; count on topics reports the number of individuals participating in a conversation</li>
<li>Native support for cookie integration (single sign-on) with Wordpress 2.7 and 2.8</li>
<li>Optional support for memcached object caching</li>
<li>Time-zone and Daylight Savings time support</li>
<li>A complete XML-RPC publishing API</li>
<li>Pingback support &#8211; each topic can receive pingbacks, just like a blog post</li>
<li>All javascript has been moved to jQuery</li>
<li>Optionally allow login via email address as well as username</li>
<li>New meta API allows arbitrary meta data to be stored for posts, topics, forums, options, tags or even meta (that&#8217;s right, meta-meta &#8211; first legitimate use wins a prize)!</li>
<li>Display names used primarily for user identification display, which allows special characters to be used</li>
<li>Themes can now have a &#8220;functions.php&#8221; file, which is automatically loaded</li>
<li>Accessibility improvements on forms and in the default theme, including WAI-ARIA roles</li>
<li>Major overhaul of the admin interface</li>
<li>Optional Akismet statistics page</li>
<li>Cute new icons from <a href="http://bendunkle.com/">Ben Dunkle</a> (pictured above)</li>
<li>Improved use of posts admin to manage spam</li>
<li>Prettier Kakumei (default) theme</li>
<li>Hello Louie! Plugin</li>
</ul>
<p>If you are upgrading from any earlier release to 1.0 then you absolutely should backup all you files and database before doing so. You also may need to make minor adjustments to your templates. Before upgrading, disable all plugins.</p>
<h3>Dedication</h3>
<p>bbPress 1.0 is named &#8220;Bechet&#8221; (pronounced <em>beh-shay</em>) after the pioneering jazz saxophonist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Bechet">Sidney Bechet</a>.</p>
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<p></p>";}i:16;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:51:"Akismet: New Akismet revision available for testing";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://blog.akismet.com/?p=247";s:4:"link";s:78:"http://blog.akismet.com/2009/07/03/new-akismet-revision-available-for-testing/";s:11:"description";s:5238:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Those who like to live on the bleeding edge might like to download and test the latest revision of the Akismet WordPress plugin from Subversion:</p>
<p><a href="http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/akismet/trunk">http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/akismet/trunk</a></p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t know what Subversion is or how to use it, I&#8217;d suggest waiting for the next official Akismet release, which won&#8217;t be far away.</p>
<p>The new revision includes a new diagnostic feature on the Akismet Configuration tab that&#8217;s intended to address a problem with some web hosts.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve known for a while that some web hosts and servers have firewall rules that block outgoing connections &#8212; including connections to the akismet.com API servers, which are necessary for the Akismet plugin to work.  Usually the host administrators will add some firewall rules to permit the Akismet plugin to connect to akismet.com.  But recently we&#8217;ve discovered that some hosts have created <i>incomplete</i> firewall rules, with the result that <i>some Akismet connections succeed, but some fail</i>.  This caused Akismet to seem like it was working, when in fact only some spam was checked, and only some reports ever made it back to Akismet.com.</p>
<p>The problem is caused by the host&#8217;s firewall rules &#8211; it&#8217;s not something that Akismet can fix.  We can detect the problem, however, which is exactly what the new revision does.</p>
<p>The new feature adds a <b>Server Connectivity</b> section to the Akismet Configuration tab.  The new section will check for any problems connecting to any Akismet servers, including the partial firewall problem, and recommend a course of action if there is an issue.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s more code in the new revision than we would typically add in an Akismet update, so testing and feedback are welcome.<br />
<span id="more-247"></span></p>
<p>Some technical details for those who are interested:</p>
<p>Akismet uses round-robin DNS and load balancers to distribute the work of checking comments for spam across multiple servers.  A DNS lookup of rest.akismet.com (the domain used for Akismet API calls) returns not one but several IP addresses, corresponding to the multiple servers.  When your blog uses Akismet to check a comment, it will (more or less) randomly choose an Akismet server IP to use.  Each time it checks a new comment, it might use a different Akismet server IP.</p>
<p>If a web host blocks all connections to all Akismet server IPs, the Akismet plugin can easily detect the problem and report an error.  The plugin has always included a connectivity check as part of its configuration process, that will warn the user if Akismet servers are unreachable.</p>
<p>If a web host allows connections to <i>some</i> Akismet server IPs, but blocks connections to the others, the connectivity check might succeed (if it happens to connect to one of the allowed IPs), while some subsequent connections will fail (when they try to connect to one of the blocked IPs).  Result: the plugin appears to be working fine, but in fact only some API calls are working.  Users often won&#8217;t notice anything wrong, because <i>some</i> spam is caught.</p>
<p>The new revision expands the connectivity check to include all known Akismet servers.  It displays a status message or warning to the user if some servers are unreachable.  It also stores a list of server IPs and their status, with a 24 hour expiry.  That list of IPs is used when checking and reporting spam, to ensure that only servers that are known to be reachable are used.  The list will be refreshed after 24 hours so as to adapt to any changes in availability &#8211; such as when a web host changes their firewall and blocks or unblocks an Akismet server.  (Which is something that a few hosts have been known to do without warning, unfortunately).</p>
<p>NB: feedback about this new revision is welcome here, but please don&#8217;t post general Akismet support requests in comments.  Post them <a href="http://akismet.com/contact/">here instead</a>.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/akismet.wordpress.com/247/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/akismet.wordpress.com/247/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/akismet.wordpress.com/247/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/akismet.wordpress.com/247/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/akismet.wordpress.com/247/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/akismet.wordpress.com/247/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/akismet.wordpress.com/247/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/akismet.wordpress.com/247/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/akismet.wordpress.com/247/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/akismet.wordpress.com/247/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.akismet.com&blog=116920&post=247&subd=akismet&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:46:18 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:7:"summary";s:5238:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Those who like to live on the bleeding edge might like to download and test the latest revision of the Akismet WordPress plugin from Subversion:</p>
<p><a href="http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/akismet/trunk">http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/akismet/trunk</a></p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t know what Subversion is or how to use it, I&#8217;d suggest waiting for the next official Akismet release, which won&#8217;t be far away.</p>
<p>The new revision includes a new diagnostic feature on the Akismet Configuration tab that&#8217;s intended to address a problem with some web hosts.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve known for a while that some web hosts and servers have firewall rules that block outgoing connections &#8212; including connections to the akismet.com API servers, which are necessary for the Akismet plugin to work.  Usually the host administrators will add some firewall rules to permit the Akismet plugin to connect to akismet.com.  But recently we&#8217;ve discovered that some hosts have created <i>incomplete</i> firewall rules, with the result that <i>some Akismet connections succeed, but some fail</i>.  This caused Akismet to seem like it was working, when in fact only some spam was checked, and only some reports ever made it back to Akismet.com.</p>
<p>The problem is caused by the host&#8217;s firewall rules &#8211; it&#8217;s not something that Akismet can fix.  We can detect the problem, however, which is exactly what the new revision does.</p>
<p>The new feature adds a <b>Server Connectivity</b> section to the Akismet Configuration tab.  The new section will check for any problems connecting to any Akismet servers, including the partial firewall problem, and recommend a course of action if there is an issue.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s more code in the new revision than we would typically add in an Akismet update, so testing and feedback are welcome.<br />
<span id="more-247"></span></p>
<p>Some technical details for those who are interested:</p>
<p>Akismet uses round-robin DNS and load balancers to distribute the work of checking comments for spam across multiple servers.  A DNS lookup of rest.akismet.com (the domain used for Akismet API calls) returns not one but several IP addresses, corresponding to the multiple servers.  When your blog uses Akismet to check a comment, it will (more or less) randomly choose an Akismet server IP to use.  Each time it checks a new comment, it might use a different Akismet server IP.</p>
<p>If a web host blocks all connections to all Akismet server IPs, the Akismet plugin can easily detect the problem and report an error.  The plugin has always included a connectivity check as part of its configuration process, that will warn the user if Akismet servers are unreachable.</p>
<p>If a web host allows connections to <i>some</i> Akismet server IPs, but blocks connections to the others, the connectivity check might succeed (if it happens to connect to one of the allowed IPs), while some subsequent connections will fail (when they try to connect to one of the blocked IPs).  Result: the plugin appears to be working fine, but in fact only some API calls are working.  Users often won&#8217;t notice anything wrong, because <i>some</i> spam is caught.</p>
<p>The new revision expands the connectivity check to include all known Akismet servers.  It displays a status message or warning to the user if some servers are unreachable.  It also stores a list of server IPs and their status, with a 24 hour expiry.  That list of IPs is used when checking and reporting spam, to ensure that only servers that are known to be reachable are used.  The list will be refreshed after 24 hours so as to adapt to any changes in availability &#8211; such as when a web host changes their firewall and blocks or unblocks an Akismet server.  (Which is something that a few hosts have been known to do without warning, unfortunately).</p>
<p>NB: feedback about this new revision is welcome here, but please don&#8217;t post general Akismet support requests in comments.  Post them <a href="http://akismet.com/contact/">here instead</a>.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/akismet.wordpress.com/247/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/akismet.wordpress.com/247/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/akismet.wordpress.com/247/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/akismet.wordpress.com/247/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/akismet.wordpress.com/247/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/akismet.wordpress.com/247/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/akismet.wordpress.com/247/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/akismet.wordpress.com/247/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/akismet.wordpress.com/247/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/akismet.wordpress.com/247/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.akismet.com&blog=116920&post=247&subd=akismet&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:17;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:80:"WordPress.tv: Micah Baldwin: Measuring Online Influence – WordCamp Denver 2009";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=2050";s:4:"link";s:93:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/07/03/micah-baldwin-measuring-online-influence-wordcamp-denver-2009/";s:11:"description";s:1409:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
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<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/07/03/micah-baldwin-measuring-online-influence-wordcamp-denver-2009/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/TouviPM9/micahbaldwin-h-264.thumbnail.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2050/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2050/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2050/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2050/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2050/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2050/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2050/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2050/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2050/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2050/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2050&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:18;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:62:"Weblog Tools Collection: How Do You Post Content To Your Blog?";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6170";s:4:"link";s:90:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/02/how-do-you-post-content-to-your-blog/";s:11:"description";s:998:"<p>WordPress provides users with various ways to post content to their blogs, the best part is that it does not limit users to write their views.</p>
<p>However we all use different methods to post content to our blog and it would be interesting to know which is the most used way to post content to a WordPress blog.</p>
<p>Here is a short poll, please choose the method you use frequently to post content to your blog, you can select more than one options, also don’t forget to tell us why you use a certain method to post content to your blog.</p>
<p align="center"></p>
<p><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/02/how-do-you-pos…t-to-your-blog">This poll requires JavaScript, please visit the website to vote</a><br />
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/02/how-do-you-post-content-to-your-blog/">How Do You Post Content To Your Blog?</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:50:27 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:998:"<p>WordPress provides users with various ways to post content to their blogs, the best part is that it does not limit users to write their views.</p>
<p>However we all use different methods to post content to our blog and it would be interesting to know which is the most used way to post content to a WordPress blog.</p>
<p>Here is a short poll, please choose the method you use frequently to post content to your blog, you can select more than one options, also don’t forget to tell us why you use a certain method to post content to your blog.</p>
<p align="center"></p>
<p><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/02/how-do-you-pos…t-to-your-blog">This poll requires JavaScript, please visit the website to vote</a><br />
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/02/how-do-you-post-content-to-your-blog/">How Do You Post Content To Your Blog?</a></p>";}i:19;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:73:"WordPress.tv: Matt Mullenweg – Improving Performance in Mature Web Apps";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=2045";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/07/03/matt-mullenweg-improving-performance-in-mature-web-apps/";s:11:"description";s:1143:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><span>  </span></p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2045/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2045/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2045/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2045/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2045/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2045/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2045/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2045/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2045/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2045/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2045&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:32:23 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Michael Pick";}s:7:"summary";s:1143:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><span>  </span></p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2045/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2045/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2045/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2045/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2045/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2045/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2045/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2045/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2045/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2045/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2045&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:20;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:50:"BuddyPress: Installing BuddyPress Locally on a Mac";s:4:"guid";s:28:"http://buddypress.org/?p=536";s:4:"link";s:73:"http://buddypress.org/blog/how-to/installing-buddypress-locally-on-a-mac/";s:11:"description";s:1322:"<p>I&#8217;ve recently noticed some posts on the <a href="http://buddypress.org/forums">BuddyPress forums</a> where people are having problems getting WordPress MU and BuddyPress running locally on their machine.</p>
<p>I spent some time today to put together a twenty minute video that will show you how to set up and run <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org">WordPress MU</a> and <a href="http://buddypress.org">BuddyPress</a> locally on a Mac. There is a tool you can use that will make this very easy called <a href="http://mamp.info">MAMP</a>. For those of you running Windows, there is a similar tool called <a href="http://www.wampserver.com/en/">WAMP</a> that will basically do the same thing.</p>
<p>I also make use of <a href="http://macromates.com">Textmate</a> in this screen cast to edit the hosts file, if you don&#8217;t use it you can simply open the Finder, use the &#8220;Go&#8221; menu, and then the &#8220;Go to folder&#8221; option. Enter /etc/ as the folder and then scroll to the &#8220;hosts&#8221; file and use the editor of your choice. If you are familiar with the terminal you can also use your command line editor of choice.</p>
<p>I highly recommend you turn on the HD option for this video and make it full screen, that way you&#8217;ll easily be able to read and follow along.</p>
<div>

</div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:00:49 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Andy Peatling";}s:7:"summary";s:1322:"<p>I&#8217;ve recently noticed some posts on the <a href="http://buddypress.org/forums">BuddyPress forums</a> where people are having problems getting WordPress MU and BuddyPress running locally on their machine.</p>
<p>I spent some time today to put together a twenty minute video that will show you how to set up and run <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org">WordPress MU</a> and <a href="http://buddypress.org">BuddyPress</a> locally on a Mac. There is a tool you can use that will make this very easy called <a href="http://mamp.info">MAMP</a>. For those of you running Windows, there is a similar tool called <a href="http://www.wampserver.com/en/">WAMP</a> that will basically do the same thing.</p>
<p>I also make use of <a href="http://macromates.com">Textmate</a> in this screen cast to edit the hosts file, if you don&#8217;t use it you can simply open the Finder, use the &#8220;Go&#8221; menu, and then the &#8220;Go to folder&#8221; option. Enter /etc/ as the folder and then scroll to the &#8220;hosts&#8221; file and use the editor of your choice. If you are familiar with the terminal you can also use your command line editor of choice.</p>
<p>I highly recommend you turn on the HD option for this video and make it full screen, that way you&#8217;ll easily be able to read and follow along.</p>
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</div>";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"BuddyPress: “Cooking With BuddyPress” Video Presentation";s:4:"guid";s:28:"http://buddypress.org/?p=518";s:4:"link";s:75:"http://buddypress.org/blog/news/cooking-with-buddypress-video-presentation/";s:11:"description";s:482:"<p>This year at WordCamp San Francisco I gave a presentation on BuddyPress entitled &#8220;Cooking WIth BuddyPress&#8221;. The idea was to answer three questions:</p>
<ol>
<li>What is BuddyPress?</li>
<li>Why should I use BuddyPress?</li>
<li>How do I skin and extend BuddyPress?</li>
</ol>
<p>The presentation was aimed at both non-technical and technical people and should provide you with a better understanding of what the project is, and it&#8217;s potential.</p>
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</div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:58:59 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Andy Peatling";}s:7:"summary";s:482:"<p>This year at WordCamp San Francisco I gave a presentation on BuddyPress entitled &#8220;Cooking WIth BuddyPress&#8221;. The idea was to answer three questions:</p>
<ol>
<li>What is BuddyPress?</li>
<li>Why should I use BuddyPress?</li>
<li>How do I skin and extend BuddyPress?</li>
</ol>
<p>The presentation was aimed at both non-technical and technical people and should provide you with a better understanding of what the project is, and it&#8217;s potential.</p>
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</div>";}i:22;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:14:"Matt: Live Web";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=14348";s:4:"link";s:30:"http://ma.tt/2009/07/live-web/";s:11:"description";s:252:"<p><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/30/live-web-real-time-call-it-what-you-will-its-gonna-take-a-while-to-get-it/">Live Web, Real Time . . . Call It What You Will, It’s Gonna Take A While To Get It</a>. Excellent article by Mary Hodder.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:08:04 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:252:"<p><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/30/live-web-real-time-call-it-what-you-will-its-gonna-take-a-while-to-get-it/">Live Web, Real Time . . . Call It What You Will, It’s Gonna Take A While To Get It</a>. Excellent article by Mary Hodder.</p>";}i:23;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:34:"Matt: Velocity and the Bottom Line";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=14346";s:4:"link";s:50:"http://ma.tt/2009/07/velocity-and-the-bottom-line/";s:11:"description";s:381:"<p><a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/07/velocity-making-your-site-fast.html">Velocity and the Bottom Line</a>. How performance touches everything on the web, and includes a quote from me about the importance if of speed to the user experience. <a href="http://blip.tv/file/2293079">You can check out my whole presentation, the Moral Philosophy of Performance, on Blip</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:40:57 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:381:"<p><a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/07/velocity-making-your-site-fast.html">Velocity and the Bottom Line</a>. How performance touches everything on the web, and includes a quote from me about the importance if of speed to the user experience. <a href="http://blip.tv/file/2293079">You can check out my whole presentation, the Moral Philosophy of Performance, on Blip</a>.</p>";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:42:"Dougal Campbell: WordPress theme licensing";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=1581";s:4:"link";s:67:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/07/02/wordpress-theme-licensing";s:11:"description";s:2923:"<p>There is finally <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/">an official answer</a> to the question of whether or not <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> themes must &#8220;inherit&#8221; the <acronym title="Gnu General Public License"><span class="caps">GPL</span></acronym> license that WordPress itself uses. <a title="Matt Mullenweg" href="http://ma.tt/">Matt</a> asked the <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/">Software Freedom Law Center</a> to examine the WordPress source and how themes fit in. The final, official answer to whether themes must be <acronym title="Gnu General Public License"><span class="caps">GPL</span></acronym>? Yes and no. <img src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>As many people have theorized before (myself included), the <acronym title="Php Hypertext Processor"><span class="caps">PHP</span></acronym> files in a theme fall under <acronym title="Gnu General Public License"><span class="caps">GPL</span></acronym> because they are reliant on the main WP codebase in order to function. The <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets"><span class="caps">CSS</span></acronym>, images, and javascript, however, are separate works which can stand on their own in other contexts, and therefore can be licensed however their creator wishes.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/">Theme Repository</a> at WordPress.org will only host themes that are fully compliant with the <acronym title="Gnu General Public License"><span class="caps">GPL</span></acronym>. But they do now now have a directory of other sites which provide &#8220;<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/commercial/">commercially supported <acronym title="Gnu General Public License"><span class="caps">GPL</span></acronym> themes</a>&#8220;. I expect that the combination of the license clarification and the commercial directory listings will stir a lot of new buzz in the WordPress theming communities.</p>
<p>I imagine we&#8217;ll start seeing a lot of &#8220;free, basic&#8221; themes, with &#8220;premium&#8221; child themes that add fancier styling and javascript features [<em>note: no "child theme" page in the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page">Codex</a>? Really?</em>]. Another business model that commercial theme developers might consider trying is the &#8220;hostage-ware&#8221; model. This is where you only release the product after you receive $X in &#8220;donations&#8221; (see <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/">Kickstarter</a> for an example of a service built on this idea, in a meta sort of way). However, I&#8217;m positive that we&#8217;ll also continue to see plenty of wonderful themes which are fully free (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_as_in_beer#beer">in both the &#8220;beer&#8221; and &#8220;speech&#8221; senses</a>).</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:00:27 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Dougal";}s:7:"summary";s:2923:"<p>There is finally <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/">an official answer</a> to the question of whether or not <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> themes must &#8220;inherit&#8221; the <acronym title="Gnu General Public License"><span class="caps">GPL</span></acronym> license that WordPress itself uses. <a title="Matt Mullenweg" href="http://ma.tt/">Matt</a> asked the <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/">Software Freedom Law Center</a> to examine the WordPress source and how themes fit in. The final, official answer to whether themes must be <acronym title="Gnu General Public License"><span class="caps">GPL</span></acronym>? Yes and no. <img src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>As many people have theorized before (myself included), the <acronym title="Php Hypertext Processor"><span class="caps">PHP</span></acronym> files in a theme fall under <acronym title="Gnu General Public License"><span class="caps">GPL</span></acronym> because they are reliant on the main WP codebase in order to function. The <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets"><span class="caps">CSS</span></acronym>, images, and javascript, however, are separate works which can stand on their own in other contexts, and therefore can be licensed however their creator wishes.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/">Theme Repository</a> at WordPress.org will only host themes that are fully compliant with the <acronym title="Gnu General Public License"><span class="caps">GPL</span></acronym>. But they do now now have a directory of other sites which provide &#8220;<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/commercial/">commercially supported <acronym title="Gnu General Public License"><span class="caps">GPL</span></acronym> themes</a>&#8220;. I expect that the combination of the license clarification and the commercial directory listings will stir a lot of new buzz in the WordPress theming communities.</p>
<p>I imagine we&#8217;ll start seeing a lot of &#8220;free, basic&#8221; themes, with &#8220;premium&#8221; child themes that add fancier styling and javascript features [<em>note: no "child theme" page in the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page">Codex</a>? Really?</em>]. Another business model that commercial theme developers might consider trying is the &#8220;hostage-ware&#8221; model. This is where you only release the product after you receive $X in &#8220;donations&#8221; (see <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/">Kickstarter</a> for an example of a service built on this idea, in a meta sort of way). However, I&#8217;m positive that we&#8217;ll also continue to see plenty of wonderful themes which are fully free (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_as_in_beer#beer">in both the &#8220;beer&#8221; and &#8220;speech&#8221; senses</a>).</p>";}i:25;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:72:"WordPress.tv: Jane Wells: Open Source Community – WordCamp Denver 2009";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=2036";s:4:"link";s:85:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/07/02/jane-wells-open-source-community-wordcamp-denver-2009/";s:11:"description";s:1398:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
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<blockquote><p>Matt,</p>
<p>You asked the Software Freedom Law Center to clarify the status of themes as derivative works of WordPress, a content management software package written in PHP and licensed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License.</p>
<p>We examined release candidate 1 of WordPress 2.8, which you provided to us at http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8-RC1.tar.gz.  The &#8220;classic&#8221; and &#8220;default&#8221; themes included in that release candidate comprise various PHP and CSS files along with an optional directory of images.  The PHP files contain a mix of HTML markup and PHP calls to<br />
WordPress functions.  There is some programmatic logic in the PHP code, including loops and conditionals.</p>
<p>When WordPress is started, it executes various routines that prepare information for use by themes.  In normal use, control is then transferred via PHP&#8217;s include() function to HTML and PHP templates found in theme package files.  The PHP code in those template files relies on the earlier-prepared information to fill the templates for serving to the client.</p>
<p>On the basis of that version of WordPress, and considering those themes as if they had been added to WordPress by a third party, it is our opinion that the themes presented, and any that are substantially similar, contain elements that are derivative works of the WordPress software as well as elements that are potentially separate works. Specifically, the CSS files and material contained in the images directory of the &#8220;default&#8221; theme are works separate from the WordPress code.  On the other hand, the PHP and HTML code that is intermingled with and operated on by PHP the code derives from the WordPress code.</p>
<p>In the WordPress themes, CSS files and images exist purely as data to be served by a web server.  WordPress itself ignores these files[1]. The CSS and image files are simply read by the server as data and delivered verbatim to the user, avoiding the WordPress instance altogether.  The CSS and images could easily be used with a range of HTML documents and read and displayed by a variety of software having no relation to WordPress.  As such, these files are separate works from the WordPress code itself.</p>
<p>The PHP elements, taken together, are clearly derivative of WordPress code.  The template is loaded via the include() function.  Its contents are combined with the WordPress code in memory to be processed by PHP along with (and completely indistinguishable from) the rest of WordPress.  The PHP code consists largely of calls to WordPress functions and sparse, minimal logic to control which WordPress functions are accessed and how many times they will be called.  They are derivative of WordPress because every part of them is determined by the content of the WordPress functions they call.  As works of authorship, they are designed only to be combined with WordPress into a larger work.</p>
<p>HTML elements are intermingled with PHP in the two themes presented. These snippets of HTML interspersed with PHP throughout the theme PHP files together form a work whose form is highly dependent on the PHP and thus derivative of it.</p>
<p>In conclusion, the WordPress themes supplied contain elements that are derivative of WordPress&#8217;s copyrighted code.  These themes, being collections of distinct works (images, CSS files, PHP files), need not be GPL-licensed as a whole.  Rather, the PHP files are subject to the requirements of the GPL while the images and CSS are not.  Third-party developers of such themes may apply restrictive copyrights to these elements if they wish.</p>
<p>Finally, we note that it might be possible to design a valid WordPress theme that avoids the factors that subject it to WordPress&#8217;s copyright, but such a theme would have to forgo almost all the WordPress functionality that makes the software useful.</p>
<p>Sincerely,<br />
James Vasile<br />
Software Freedom Law Center</p>
<p>[1] There is one exception.  WordPress does reads CSS and image files to create previews of templates for the template selection portion of the administrative interface.  Even in that case, though, nothing in those files calls any WordPress functions, is treated as a command by PHP, or alters any other WordPress data structure.  These files are read as data and used to create an image and display a miniaturized version of a webpage to the user.</p></blockquote>
<p>Even though graphics and CSS aren&#8217;t <em>required</em> to be GPL legally, the lack thereof is pretty limiting. Can you imagine WordPress without any CSS or javascript? So as before, we will only promote and host things on WordPress.org that are 100% GPL <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_compatibility">or compatible</a>. To celebrate a few folks creating 100% GPL themes and providing support and other services around them, <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/commercial/">we have a new page listing GPL commercially supported themes</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:50:35 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:5924:"<p>If WordPress were a country, our Bill of Rights would be <a href="http://wordpress.org/about/gpl/">the GPL</a> because it <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">protects our core freedoms</a>. We&#8217;ve always done our best to keep WordPress.org clean and only promote things that are completely compatible and legal with WordPress&#8217;s license. There have been some questions in the community about whether the GPL applies to themes like we&#8217;ve always assumed. To help clarify this point, I reached out to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Law_Center">Software Freedom Law Center</a>, the world&#8217;s preeminent experts on the GPL, which spent time with WordPress&#8217;s code, community, and provided us with an official legal opinion. One sentence summary: PHP in WordPress themes must be GPL, artwork and CSS may be but are not required.</p>
<blockquote><p>Matt,</p>
<p>You asked the Software Freedom Law Center to clarify the status of themes as derivative works of WordPress, a content management software package written in PHP and licensed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License.</p>
<p>We examined release candidate 1 of WordPress 2.8, which you provided to us at http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8-RC1.tar.gz.  The &#8220;classic&#8221; and &#8220;default&#8221; themes included in that release candidate comprise various PHP and CSS files along with an optional directory of images.  The PHP files contain a mix of HTML markup and PHP calls to<br />
WordPress functions.  There is some programmatic logic in the PHP code, including loops and conditionals.</p>
<p>When WordPress is started, it executes various routines that prepare information for use by themes.  In normal use, control is then transferred via PHP&#8217;s include() function to HTML and PHP templates found in theme package files.  The PHP code in those template files relies on the earlier-prepared information to fill the templates for serving to the client.</p>
<p>On the basis of that version of WordPress, and considering those themes as if they had been added to WordPress by a third party, it is our opinion that the themes presented, and any that are substantially similar, contain elements that are derivative works of the WordPress software as well as elements that are potentially separate works. Specifically, the CSS files and material contained in the images directory of the &#8220;default&#8221; theme are works separate from the WordPress code.  On the other hand, the PHP and HTML code that is intermingled with and operated on by PHP the code derives from the WordPress code.</p>
<p>In the WordPress themes, CSS files and images exist purely as data to be served by a web server.  WordPress itself ignores these files[1]. The CSS and image files are simply read by the server as data and delivered verbatim to the user, avoiding the WordPress instance altogether.  The CSS and images could easily be used with a range of HTML documents and read and displayed by a variety of software having no relation to WordPress.  As such, these files are separate works from the WordPress code itself.</p>
<p>The PHP elements, taken together, are clearly derivative of WordPress code.  The template is loaded via the include() function.  Its contents are combined with the WordPress code in memory to be processed by PHP along with (and completely indistinguishable from) the rest of WordPress.  The PHP code consists largely of calls to WordPress functions and sparse, minimal logic to control which WordPress functions are accessed and how many times they will be called.  They are derivative of WordPress because every part of them is determined by the content of the WordPress functions they call.  As works of authorship, they are designed only to be combined with WordPress into a larger work.</p>
<p>HTML elements are intermingled with PHP in the two themes presented. These snippets of HTML interspersed with PHP throughout the theme PHP files together form a work whose form is highly dependent on the PHP and thus derivative of it.</p>
<p>In conclusion, the WordPress themes supplied contain elements that are derivative of WordPress&#8217;s copyrighted code.  These themes, being collections of distinct works (images, CSS files, PHP files), need not be GPL-licensed as a whole.  Rather, the PHP files are subject to the requirements of the GPL while the images and CSS are not.  Third-party developers of such themes may apply restrictive copyrights to these elements if they wish.</p>
<p>Finally, we note that it might be possible to design a valid WordPress theme that avoids the factors that subject it to WordPress&#8217;s copyright, but such a theme would have to forgo almost all the WordPress functionality that makes the software useful.</p>
<p>Sincerely,<br />
James Vasile<br />
Software Freedom Law Center</p>
<p>[1] There is one exception.  WordPress does reads CSS and image files to create previews of templates for the template selection portion of the administrative interface.  Even in that case, though, nothing in those files calls any WordPress functions, is treated as a command by PHP, or alters any other WordPress data structure.  These files are read as data and used to create an image and display a miniaturized version of a webpage to the user.</p></blockquote>
<p>Even though graphics and CSS aren&#8217;t <em>required</em> to be GPL legally, the lack thereof is pretty limiting. Can you imagine WordPress without any CSS or javascript? So as before, we will only promote and host things on WordPress.org that are 100% GPL <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_compatibility">or compatible</a>. To celebrate a few folks creating 100% GPL themes and providing support and other services around them, <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/commercial/">we have a new page listing GPL commercially supported themes</a>.</p>";}i:29;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:78:"Weblog Tools Collection: Official WordPress Commercial Theme Directory is live";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6168";s:4:"link";s:107:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/01/official-wordpress-commercial-theme-directory-is-live/";s:11:"description";s:1618:"<p>The <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/commercial/">Official WordPress Commercial Theme Directory</a> is now open. It is linked off the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend">WordPress Extend</a> and is part of the parent theme directory set of links. It is not as much a directory as it is a listing of sites that offer commercial GPL themes. It lists the philosophies, a few words about the business models and the need for the encouragement, a list of screenshots and links to the various theme sites and then a list of criterion for inclusion into this site.</p>
<p>I like the succinct explanation of the purpose and the listing criterion seem simple and straightforward to follow. Send your information to themes at wordpress dot org to get included in the list. From the site, if you want to be included:</p>
<ul>
<li>Distribute 100% GPL themes, including artwork and CSS.</li>
<li>Have professional support options, and optionally customization.</li>
<li>Your site should be complete, well-designed, up to date, and professional looking.</li>
<li>Include a haiku about yourself to be included.</li>
</ul>
<p>I am not sure how long this list is going to get, but I am curious to see how this page evolves. I am also glad to see a larger number of GPL based Premium theme vendors on there than I was initially surmising. Cool!</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/01/official-wordpress-commercial-theme-directory-is-live/">Official WordPress Commercial Theme Directory is live</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:03:42 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1618:"<p>The <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/commercial/">Official WordPress Commercial Theme Directory</a> is now open. It is linked off the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend">WordPress Extend</a> and is part of the parent theme directory set of links. It is not as much a directory as it is a listing of sites that offer commercial GPL themes. It lists the philosophies, a few words about the business models and the need for the encouragement, a list of screenshots and links to the various theme sites and then a list of criterion for inclusion into this site.</p>
<p>I like the succinct explanation of the purpose and the listing criterion seem simple and straightforward to follow. Send your information to themes at wordpress dot org to get included in the list. From the site, if you want to be included:</p>
<ul>
<li>Distribute 100% GPL themes, including artwork and CSS.</li>
<li>Have professional support options, and optionally customization.</li>
<li>Your site should be complete, well-designed, up to date, and professional looking.</li>
<li>Include a haiku about yourself to be included.</li>
</ul>
<p>I am not sure how long this list is going to get, but I am curious to see how this page evolves. I am also glad to see a larger number of GPL based Premium theme vendors on there than I was initially surmising. Cool!</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/01/official-wordpress-commercial-theme-directory-is-live/">Official WordPress Commercial Theme Directory is live</a></p>";}i:30;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:42:"Dougal Campbell: WordPress Themes Tutorial";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=1574";s:4:"link";s:67:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/07/01/wordpress-themes-tutorial";s:11:"description";s:2646:"<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1150" title="WordPress Wednesday" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/wordpress-wednesday.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" />If you aren&#8217;t already following along, I highly recommend checking out the <a href="http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-themes-templates-tutorial/">How To Create A WordPress Theme</a> tutorial series by <a href="http://themeshaper.com/">Ian Stewart (ThemeShaper.com)</a>. This 12-part series (8 complete at the time of this writing) aims to take you from nothing to a fully functional, semantically rich, flexible <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> theme in digestible chunks. Along the way, Ian describes the changes being made, and why you are making them. In this way, you can gain a basic understanding of the roles of the various theme template files, and the code contained within them.</p>
<p>The lesson is broken down thusly:</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-themes-templates-tutorial/">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-theme-development-tools-tutorial/">Theme Development Tools</a></li>
<li><a href="http://themeshaper.com/creating-wordpress-theme-html-structure-tutorial/">Creating a Theme <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language"><span class="caps">HTML</span></acronym> Structure</a></li>
<li><a href="http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-theme-template-directory-structure-tutorial/">Template and Directory Structure</a></li>
<li><a href="http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-theme-header-template-tutorial/">The Header Template</a></li>
<li><a href="http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-theme-index-template-tutorial/">The Index Template</a></li>
<li><a href="http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-theme-single-post-post-attachment-404-templates-tutorial/">The Single Post, Post Attachment, &amp; 404 Templates</a></li>
<li><a href="http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-theme-comments-template-tutorial/">The Comments Template</a></li>
<li>The Search Template &amp; The Page Template</li>
<li>The Archive, Author, Category &amp; Tags Template</li>
<li>The Sidebar Template</li>
<li>Reset-Rebuild Theme <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets"><span class="caps">CSS</span></acronym> &amp; Define Your Layouts</li>
</ol>
<p>If you&#8217;ve ever thought about creating your own theme, but felt like the task was too big to tackle, this series of articles is for you. It&#8217;s a great bit of instruction that will introduce you to the core pieces of WordPress theming without overwhelming you or trying to cram too much into a single article.</p>
<p>Props, Ian!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:30:50 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Dougal";}s:7:"summary";s:2646:"<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1150" title="WordPress Wednesday" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/wordpress-wednesday.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" />If you aren&#8217;t already following along, I highly recommend checking out the <a href="http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-themes-templates-tutorial/">How To Create A WordPress Theme</a> tutorial series by <a href="http://themeshaper.com/">Ian Stewart (ThemeShaper.com)</a>. This 12-part series (8 complete at the time of this writing) aims to take you from nothing to a fully functional, semantically rich, flexible <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> theme in digestible chunks. Along the way, Ian describes the changes being made, and why you are making them. In this way, you can gain a basic understanding of the roles of the various theme template files, and the code contained within them.</p>
<p>The lesson is broken down thusly:</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-themes-templates-tutorial/">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-theme-development-tools-tutorial/">Theme Development Tools</a></li>
<li><a href="http://themeshaper.com/creating-wordpress-theme-html-structure-tutorial/">Creating a Theme <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language"><span class="caps">HTML</span></acronym> Structure</a></li>
<li><a href="http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-theme-template-directory-structure-tutorial/">Template and Directory Structure</a></li>
<li><a href="http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-theme-header-template-tutorial/">The Header Template</a></li>
<li><a href="http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-theme-index-template-tutorial/">The Index Template</a></li>
<li><a href="http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-theme-single-post-post-attachment-404-templates-tutorial/">The Single Post, Post Attachment, &amp; 404 Templates</a></li>
<li><a href="http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-theme-comments-template-tutorial/">The Comments Template</a></li>
<li>The Search Template &amp; The Page Template</li>
<li>The Archive, Author, Category &amp; Tags Template</li>
<li>The Sidebar Template</li>
<li>Reset-Rebuild Theme <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets"><span class="caps">CSS</span></acronym> &amp; Define Your Layouts</li>
</ol>
<p>If you&#8217;ve ever thought about creating your own theme, but felt like the task was too big to tackle, this series of articles is for you. It&#8217;s a great bit of instruction that will introduce you to the core pieces of WordPress theming without overwhelming you or trying to cram too much into a single article.</p>
<p>Props, Ian!</p>";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:46:"Alex King: Open Source Contract Considerations";s:4:"guid";s:32:"http://alexking.org/blog/?p=3389";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://alexking.org/blog/2009/07/01/open-source-contract-considerations";s:11:"description";s:6941:"<p class="info">BIG FAT DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV. I have, however, been working in the Open Source consulting and development space for a number of years and think this is an important issue for all Open Source consultants to consider. Please consult your own lawyer, don&#8217;t blame me, etc.</p>
<p>At <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com">Crowd Favorite</a> we work primarily with <a href="http://wordpress.org/" rel="external">WordPress</a>, but also with many other Open Source projects. We are often working with larger companies that have standard Master Services Agreements (MSAs) or Professional Services Agreements (PSAs). These agreement templates are designed so that these companies have a known legal foundation to work from, and include a variety of requirements and terms that apply to the consultants working for them and governing the Deliverables created by those consultants. These agreements often have standard language in them that have some interesting side-effects when you are working with Open Source.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s common for services agreements to have these components:</p>
<ol>
<li>Deliverable</li>
<li>Warranty</li>
<li>Indemnification</li>
</ol>
<p>with a set of terms around each. The standard terms in these agreements likely contain language that may be somewhat problematic when applied to projects built on Open Source.</p>
<h3>Deliverable</h3>
<p>Let&#8217;s look at the Deliverable first. In a standard web site build the deliverable might be loosely defined in this manner:</p>
<blockquote><p>A custom web site powered by WordPress, using existing and custom created plugins and themes to achieve custom functionality. Consultant will deliver the entire package along with documentation and installation instructions, and will assist with the initial installation and configuration of the site.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Deliverable described above has five potential parts: WordPress, existing plugin(s), custom plugin(s), existing theme(s), custom theme(s). The Deliverable is generally what the Warranty and Indemnification clause are tied to, so the way it&#8217;s defined is important.</p>
<p>Of these five parts, you will probably only have created the custom plugins and custom themes from scratch. The others will be created and licensed by other companies and/or individuals. You do <em>not</em> want to take on full responsibility for these parts of the deliverable in the Warranty and Indemnification clauses.</p>
<h3>Warranty</h3>
<p>The Warranty part of the contract generally has two parts: terms that cover how bugs will be fixed and for how long; and terms that declare that all of the intellectual property (IP) in the Deliverable is free and clear of infringement.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m assuming that you don&#8217;t want to be on the hook for every bug that might exist in WordPress (or whatever other Open Source package you are working with), so you need to make sure you get the language here adjusted so that it reflects this. You&#8217;ll probably end up in some middle ground on this, as your client will just want the solution you&#8217;re building for them to work, but you need to limit what you are willing to take on.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the second part of the Warranty that is particularly dangerous. While you may take on some responsibility for fixing bugs in the overall deliverable, you definitely don&#8217;t want to take on responsibility for all of the IP in any Open Source project. If you do this, and it turns out someone in another country committed code that wasn&#8217;t legal for them to commit, you&#8217;ve just taken on responsibility for that.</p>
<p>We typically resolve this with a &#8220;to our knowledge&#8221; clause, which covers the client for code we create, but absolves us of responsibility from other Open Source code (assuming we are using code that was properly licensed, etc.). It also covers us in the event we are asked to build something that infringes on an existing patent.</p>
<p>If you breach one or more of the Warranties, then the Indemnification clause comes into play.</p>
<h3>Indemnification</h3>
<p>Indemnification ties in with the same issues discussed in the Warranty section. In this clause, there is typically language that makes you (the consultant) responsible for any legal issues with the Deliverable (instead of the client, who is using the Deliverable). Like the Warranty clause, the Indemnification clause is a fair and reasonable thing to have in a contract. We just need to tweak it a little so that it makes sense in the Open Source world.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s very reasonable to take on this responsibility in regards to any part of the deliverable you build, subcontract out, or are somehow responsible for. However, like with the Warranty clause, you don&#8217;t want to take on responsibility for every piece of IP that has made it into the Open Source project you are using.</p>
<p>We typically resolve this by adding either a &#8220;to our knowledge&#8221; clause or explicitly excluding parts of the deliverable in this area.</p>
<p>In addition, you may want to include something in the Indemnification clause to cover features that are requested by your client, but might infringe on a patent or similar concerns. Typically, the Indemnification clause does make you responsible in these cases and most consultants I know don&#8217;t have the resources to do patent searches on every feature that is requested by their clients. If you write code that contains infringing IP and your client is sued, you would be on the hook to pay for any and all or your client&#8217;s damages, including legal fees. The knowledge qualifier we use handles this situation as well, and you can also handle it with a specific carve-out if needed.</p>
<p>Hopefully this information will be useful to some of you the next time you&#8217;re reviewing a contract for a project. If all of this is new to you and you work in this space &#8211; I highly recommend talking with a lawyer who has experience with Open Source.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re in the Denver area, I highly recommend working with <a href="http://rubiconlaw.com/" rel="external">Ryan Howell at Rubicon Law Group</a>. We met in 2007 at the first <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2007/07/07/startup-weekend-status-report">StartupWeekend in Boulder</a> and he&#8217;s been working with me and Crowd Favorite ever since.</p>
<hr />
<p>Some contracts also expressly forbid the use of Open Source software and/or software licensed under a specific license as part of their standard terms. Getting this fixed is generally not a problem since you and the client should be in agreement that you are planning to use Open Source tools in the project. I&#8217;m assuming we&#8217;re all used to dealing with this one already, but wanted to call it out as well.</p>
<img src="http://alexking.org/wp/?ak_action=api_record_view&id=3389&type=feed" alt="" />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:30:41 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:7:"summary";s:6941:"<p class="info">BIG FAT DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV. I have, however, been working in the Open Source consulting and development space for a number of years and think this is an important issue for all Open Source consultants to consider. Please consult your own lawyer, don&#8217;t blame me, etc.</p>
<p>At <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com">Crowd Favorite</a> we work primarily with <a href="http://wordpress.org/" rel="external">WordPress</a>, but also with many other Open Source projects. We are often working with larger companies that have standard Master Services Agreements (MSAs) or Professional Services Agreements (PSAs). These agreement templates are designed so that these companies have a known legal foundation to work from, and include a variety of requirements and terms that apply to the consultants working for them and governing the Deliverables created by those consultants. These agreements often have standard language in them that have some interesting side-effects when you are working with Open Source.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s common for services agreements to have these components:</p>
<ol>
<li>Deliverable</li>
<li>Warranty</li>
<li>Indemnification</li>
</ol>
<p>with a set of terms around each. The standard terms in these agreements likely contain language that may be somewhat problematic when applied to projects built on Open Source.</p>
<h3>Deliverable</h3>
<p>Let&#8217;s look at the Deliverable first. In a standard web site build the deliverable might be loosely defined in this manner:</p>
<blockquote><p>A custom web site powered by WordPress, using existing and custom created plugins and themes to achieve custom functionality. Consultant will deliver the entire package along with documentation and installation instructions, and will assist with the initial installation and configuration of the site.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Deliverable described above has five potential parts: WordPress, existing plugin(s), custom plugin(s), existing theme(s), custom theme(s). The Deliverable is generally what the Warranty and Indemnification clause are tied to, so the way it&#8217;s defined is important.</p>
<p>Of these five parts, you will probably only have created the custom plugins and custom themes from scratch. The others will be created and licensed by other companies and/or individuals. You do <em>not</em> want to take on full responsibility for these parts of the deliverable in the Warranty and Indemnification clauses.</p>
<h3>Warranty</h3>
<p>The Warranty part of the contract generally has two parts: terms that cover how bugs will be fixed and for how long; and terms that declare that all of the intellectual property (IP) in the Deliverable is free and clear of infringement.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m assuming that you don&#8217;t want to be on the hook for every bug that might exist in WordPress (or whatever other Open Source package you are working with), so you need to make sure you get the language here adjusted so that it reflects this. You&#8217;ll probably end up in some middle ground on this, as your client will just want the solution you&#8217;re building for them to work, but you need to limit what you are willing to take on.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the second part of the Warranty that is particularly dangerous. While you may take on some responsibility for fixing bugs in the overall deliverable, you definitely don&#8217;t want to take on responsibility for all of the IP in any Open Source project. If you do this, and it turns out someone in another country committed code that wasn&#8217;t legal for them to commit, you&#8217;ve just taken on responsibility for that.</p>
<p>We typically resolve this with a &#8220;to our knowledge&#8221; clause, which covers the client for code we create, but absolves us of responsibility from other Open Source code (assuming we are using code that was properly licensed, etc.). It also covers us in the event we are asked to build something that infringes on an existing patent.</p>
<p>If you breach one or more of the Warranties, then the Indemnification clause comes into play.</p>
<h3>Indemnification</h3>
<p>Indemnification ties in with the same issues discussed in the Warranty section. In this clause, there is typically language that makes you (the consultant) responsible for any legal issues with the Deliverable (instead of the client, who is using the Deliverable). Like the Warranty clause, the Indemnification clause is a fair and reasonable thing to have in a contract. We just need to tweak it a little so that it makes sense in the Open Source world.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s very reasonable to take on this responsibility in regards to any part of the deliverable you build, subcontract out, or are somehow responsible for. However, like with the Warranty clause, you don&#8217;t want to take on responsibility for every piece of IP that has made it into the Open Source project you are using.</p>
<p>We typically resolve this by adding either a &#8220;to our knowledge&#8221; clause or explicitly excluding parts of the deliverable in this area.</p>
<p>In addition, you may want to include something in the Indemnification clause to cover features that are requested by your client, but might infringe on a patent or similar concerns. Typically, the Indemnification clause does make you responsible in these cases and most consultants I know don&#8217;t have the resources to do patent searches on every feature that is requested by their clients. If you write code that contains infringing IP and your client is sued, you would be on the hook to pay for any and all or your client&#8217;s damages, including legal fees. The knowledge qualifier we use handles this situation as well, and you can also handle it with a specific carve-out if needed.</p>
<p>Hopefully this information will be useful to some of you the next time you&#8217;re reviewing a contract for a project. If all of this is new to you and you work in this space &#8211; I highly recommend talking with a lawyer who has experience with Open Source.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re in the Denver area, I highly recommend working with <a href="http://rubiconlaw.com/" rel="external">Ryan Howell at Rubicon Law Group</a>. We met in 2007 at the first <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2007/07/07/startup-weekend-status-report">StartupWeekend in Boulder</a> and he&#8217;s been working with me and Crowd Favorite ever since.</p>
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<p>Some contracts also expressly forbid the use of Open Source software and/or software licensed under a specific license as part of their standard terms. Getting this fixed is generally not a problem since you and the client should be in agreement that you are planning to use Open Source tools in the project. I&#8217;m assuming we&#8217;re all used to dealing with this one already, but wanted to call it out as well.</p>
<img src="http://alexking.org/wp/?ak_action=api_record_view&id=3389&type=feed" alt="" />";}i:32;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 07/01";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6166";s:4:"link";s:89:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/01/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0701-2/";s:11:"description";s:2396:"<h4><a href="http://www.magpress.com/wordpress-themes/magloss.html">Magloss</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://demo.magpress.com/index.php?wptheme=Magloss"><img title="magloss" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/07/magloss.png" alt="magloss" width="200" height="106" /></a></p>
<p>Magloss is a magazine style WordPress theme packed with fully customized features. This 3 columns WordPress theme has integrated JonDesign&#8217;s SmoothGallery 2.0 for the rotating featured content. This theme also comes with an automatic thumbnail cropping feature for your front page posts. Besides the rotating featured content, this theme also enables you to use the category block feature to display recent posts for each category chosen. All these features are controllable inside the admin panel (Magloss Theme Option). Magloss is also comes ready with Twitter, Feedburner, 125&#215;125 advertisement banners, adsense and featured videos. All you have to do is insert the appropriate html code within the theme option.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.customblogdesigner.com/greentweet-wordpress-theme/">GreenTweet</a></h4>
<p><img title="GreenTweet" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/07/greentweet.gif" alt="GreenTweet" width="200" height="119" /></p>
<p>Three column, widget ready theme with a big twitter icon, 125&#215;125 ad support and page management for links in the top navigation.</p>
<h4><a href="http://wpgpl.com/themes/vina/">Vina</a></h4>
<p><img title="Vina" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/07/vina.jpg" alt="Vina" width="200" height="161" /></p>
<p>Two column layout, widget ready, with features to auto-grab and resize images on the fly and compatible with WordPress 2.8</p>
<h4><a href="http://ndrey.com/omicron-wordpress-theme/">Omicron</a></h4>
<p><img title="Omnicron" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/07/omnicron.gif" alt="Omnicron" width="200" height="117" /></p>
<p>Three column, gravatar ready, SEO friendly theme with custom 404 template. (page not in English)</p>
<p>Are you a theme author? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Submit your theme</a> to get listed here</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/01/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0701-2/">WordPress Theme Releases for 07/01</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:29:25 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:2396:"<h4><a href="http://www.magpress.com/wordpress-themes/magloss.html">Magloss</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://demo.magpress.com/index.php?wptheme=Magloss"><img title="magloss" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/07/magloss.png" alt="magloss" width="200" height="106" /></a></p>
<p>Magloss is a magazine style WordPress theme packed with fully customized features. This 3 columns WordPress theme has integrated JonDesign&#8217;s SmoothGallery 2.0 for the rotating featured content. This theme also comes with an automatic thumbnail cropping feature for your front page posts. Besides the rotating featured content, this theme also enables you to use the category block feature to display recent posts for each category chosen. All these features are controllable inside the admin panel (Magloss Theme Option). Magloss is also comes ready with Twitter, Feedburner, 125&#215;125 advertisement banners, adsense and featured videos. All you have to do is insert the appropriate html code within the theme option.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.customblogdesigner.com/greentweet-wordpress-theme/">GreenTweet</a></h4>
<p><img title="GreenTweet" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/07/greentweet.gif" alt="GreenTweet" width="200" height="119" /></p>
<p>Three column, widget ready theme with a big twitter icon, 125&#215;125 ad support and page management for links in the top navigation.</p>
<h4><a href="http://wpgpl.com/themes/vina/">Vina</a></h4>
<p><img title="Vina" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/07/vina.jpg" alt="Vina" width="200" height="161" /></p>
<p>Two column layout, widget ready, with features to auto-grab and resize images on the fly and compatible with WordPress 2.8</p>
<h4><a href="http://ndrey.com/omicron-wordpress-theme/">Omicron</a></h4>
<p><img title="Omnicron" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/07/omnicron.gif" alt="Omnicron" width="200" height="117" /></p>
<p>Three column, gravatar ready, SEO friendly theme with custom 404 template. (page not in English)</p>
<p>Are you a theme author? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Submit your theme</a> to get listed here</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/01/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0701-2/">WordPress Theme Releases for 07/01</a></p>";}i:33;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:30:"WP iPhone: Version 1.3 is Live";s:4:"guid";s:34:"http://iphone.wordpress.org/?p=397";s:4:"link";s:59:"http://iphone.wordpress.org/2009/07/01/version-1-3-is-live/";s:11:"description";s:1800:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Version 1.3 is now live.  This version addresses a few OS 3.0 compatibility issues that popped up.   You can <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=285073074&amp;mt=8">grab it now from the iTunes store</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Please note:</strong>  Due to a strange glitch when submitting the app, the About page of the &#8220;1.3&#8243; version will say version &#8220;1.21.1&#8243;.  If you see that, you are running the correct version.  We are working with Apple to understand why it would not accept &#8220;1.3&#8243; as a valid version, yet displays that version in the iTunes store just fine.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wpiphone.wordpress.com/397/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wpiphone.wordpress.com/397/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wpiphone.wordpress.com/397/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wpiphone.wordpress.com/397/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wpiphone.wordpress.com/397/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wpiphone.wordpress.com/397/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wpiphone.wordpress.com/397/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wpiphone.wordpress.com/397/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wpiphone.wordpress.com/397/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wpiphone.wordpress.com/397/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iphone.wordpress.org&blog=3882653&post=397&subd=wpiphone&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:27:19 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:16:"Raanan Bar-Cohen";}s:7:"summary";s:1800:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Version 1.3 is now live.  This version addresses a few OS 3.0 compatibility issues that popped up.   You can <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=285073074&amp;mt=8">grab it now from the iTunes store</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Please note:</strong>  Due to a strange glitch when submitting the app, the About page of the &#8220;1.3&#8243; version will say version &#8220;1.21.1&#8243;.  If you see that, you are running the correct version.  We are working with Apple to understand why it would not accept &#8220;1.3&#8243; as a valid version, yet displays that version in the iTunes store just fine.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wpiphone.wordpress.com/397/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wpiphone.wordpress.com/397/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wpiphone.wordpress.com/397/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wpiphone.wordpress.com/397/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wpiphone.wordpress.com/397/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wpiphone.wordpress.com/397/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wpiphone.wordpress.com/397/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wpiphone.wordpress.com/397/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wpiphone.wordpress.com/397/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wpiphone.wordpress.com/397/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iphone.wordpress.org&blog=3882653&post=397&subd=wpiphone&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:34;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 06/30";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6160";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/30/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0630/";s:11:"description";s:3978:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://blog.avirtualhome.com/wordpress-plugins/avh-themed-by-browser/">AVH Themed By Browser</a></p>
<p>The AVH Themed By Browser plugin gives you the ability to set a correlation between browser and theme. The theme of your blog can change dynamically based on the browser the visitor is using.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.everfluxx.com/follow-my-links/">Follow My Links</a></p>
<p>Follow My Links is a very simple plugin that prevents WordPress from automaticaly adding a &#8220;rel=nofollow&#8221; attribute to links in the post authors URL and comments.</p>
<p><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/yourls-wordpress-to-twitter-a-short-url-plugin/">YOURLS: WordPress to Twitter</a></p>
<p>This plugin is the bridge between <a href="http://yourls.org/">YOURLS</a>, Twitter and your blog: when you publish a post or a page, it will use your own YOURLS install, either hosted on the same webserver, or another server, to create a short URL for your post and send it to your Twitter account.</p>
<p><a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/06/25/sliding-panel-wordpress-plugin">Sliding Panel</a></p>
<p>It is a panel that can be opened and closed with a click of a mouse that will allow you to house additional content on your site without it getting in the way.</p>
<p><a href="http://brut.bukve.net/?p=1209">Injection attack protector</a></p>
<p>Protects a list of web pages and files that are likely to be targeted by injection attack by restoring files from local backup whenever they are modified.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nathanrice.net/plugins/single-post-template-plugin/">Single Post Template</a></p>
<p>Single Post Template gives you the ability to create and use &#8220;Post Templates&#8221; in much the same way you create and use &#8220;Page Templates&#8221; in WordPress.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.samuelfolkes.com/projects/geosmart/">GeoSmart</a></p>
<p>GeoSmart is a plugin for WordPress which allows you to determine where in the world the people who comment on your posts are located based on their IP addresses.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/wordpress-seo/">SEO Ultimate</a></p>
<p>This SEO plugin can rewrite title tags, noindex archives, edit meta data, and insert &#8220;link rel canonical&#8221; tags. Version 0.4 adds a 404 logger.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/06/24/gd-press-tools-1-4-0/">GD Press Tools</a></p>
<p>GD Press Tools is a collection of various administration, seo, maintenance and security related tools. This tools can be integrated into the various WordPress admin panels, can perform maintenance operations, change some aspects of WordPress, see detailed server settings and information.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogtrafficexchange.com/related-websites/">Related Websites</a></p>
<p>Related Websites is a cloud based traffic exchange. Readers interested in additional reading are presented related posts from other blogs. Your posts are presented on other blogs when related. Balancing the exchange is traffic based.</p>
<p><a href="http://sivel.net/wordpress/twitter-hash-tag-widget/">Twitter Hash Tag Widget</a></p>
<p>A widget for displaying the most recent twitter status updates for a particular hash tag.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/transpose-email-plugin/">Transpose Email</a></p>
<p>Transpose Email plugin allows you to use JavaScript to create an encoded link. Clicking that link will trigger the user’s email client to open and create an email.</p>
<p><a href="http://sivel.net/wordpress/shadowbox-js/">Shadowbox JS</a></p>
<p>Shadowbox is an online media viewing application that supports all of the web&#8217;s most popular media publishing formats.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/30/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0630/">WordPress Plugin Releases for 06/30</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:02:58 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:3978:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://blog.avirtualhome.com/wordpress-plugins/avh-themed-by-browser/">AVH Themed By Browser</a></p>
<p>The AVH Themed By Browser plugin gives you the ability to set a correlation between browser and theme. The theme of your blog can change dynamically based on the browser the visitor is using.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.everfluxx.com/follow-my-links/">Follow My Links</a></p>
<p>Follow My Links is a very simple plugin that prevents WordPress from automaticaly adding a &#8220;rel=nofollow&#8221; attribute to links in the post authors URL and comments.</p>
<p><a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/yourls-wordpress-to-twitter-a-short-url-plugin/">YOURLS: WordPress to Twitter</a></p>
<p>This plugin is the bridge between <a href="http://yourls.org/">YOURLS</a>, Twitter and your blog: when you publish a post or a page, it will use your own YOURLS install, either hosted on the same webserver, or another server, to create a short URL for your post and send it to your Twitter account.</p>
<p><a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/06/25/sliding-panel-wordpress-plugin">Sliding Panel</a></p>
<p>It is a panel that can be opened and closed with a click of a mouse that will allow you to house additional content on your site without it getting in the way.</p>
<p><a href="http://brut.bukve.net/?p=1209">Injection attack protector</a></p>
<p>Protects a list of web pages and files that are likely to be targeted by injection attack by restoring files from local backup whenever they are modified.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nathanrice.net/plugins/single-post-template-plugin/">Single Post Template</a></p>
<p>Single Post Template gives you the ability to create and use &#8220;Post Templates&#8221; in much the same way you create and use &#8220;Page Templates&#8221; in WordPress.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.samuelfolkes.com/projects/geosmart/">GeoSmart</a></p>
<p>GeoSmart is a plugin for WordPress which allows you to determine where in the world the people who comment on your posts are located based on their IP addresses.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/wordpress-seo/">SEO Ultimate</a></p>
<p>This SEO plugin can rewrite title tags, noindex archives, edit meta data, and insert &#8220;link rel canonical&#8221; tags. Version 0.4 adds a 404 logger.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/06/24/gd-press-tools-1-4-0/">GD Press Tools</a></p>
<p>GD Press Tools is a collection of various administration, seo, maintenance and security related tools. This tools can be integrated into the various WordPress admin panels, can perform maintenance operations, change some aspects of WordPress, see detailed server settings and information.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogtrafficexchange.com/related-websites/">Related Websites</a></p>
<p>Related Websites is a cloud based traffic exchange. Readers interested in additional reading are presented related posts from other blogs. Your posts are presented on other blogs when related. Balancing the exchange is traffic based.</p>
<p><a href="http://sivel.net/wordpress/twitter-hash-tag-widget/">Twitter Hash Tag Widget</a></p>
<p>A widget for displaying the most recent twitter status updates for a particular hash tag.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/transpose-email-plugin/">Transpose Email</a></p>
<p>Transpose Email plugin allows you to use JavaScript to create an encoded link. Clicking that link will trigger the user’s email client to open and create an email.</p>
<p><a href="http://sivel.net/wordpress/shadowbox-js/">Shadowbox JS</a></p>
<p>Shadowbox is an online media viewing application that supports all of the web&#8217;s most popular media publishing formats.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/30/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0630/">WordPress Plugin Releases for 06/30</a></p>";}i:35;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:55:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Configuration Tricks";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6156";s:4:"link";s:84:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/29/wordpress-configuration-tricks/";s:11:"description";s:1225:"<p><a href="http://diggingintowordpress.com/2009/06/wordpress-configuration-tricks/"> WordPress Configuration Tricks </a>: If you have ever installed WordPress and wanted to know what else you could do with your wp-config.php file, this is the blog post to read. As Ozh points out in the comments, a couple of tricks were left out but nothing that could not be remedied with a simple Google search (e.g. <a href="http://phpdoc.wordpress.org/trunk/WordPress/HTTP/WP_Http.html">WP_HTTP</a>) as long as you know what you are looking for.</p>
<p>Tips from that page that got me thinking (things that make you go hmmmmm?) include moving your wp-content directory, increasing your memory limit, changing the autosave interval, turning on debugging and finally the ability to specify a log file for errors. All of this through the wondrous wp-config.php file. The list is quite exhaustive.</p>
<p>While you are there, make sure you subscribe to the blog. Chris and Jeff are putting out some good stuff!</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/29/wordpress-configuration-tricks/">WordPress Configuration Tricks</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:13:25 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1225:"<p><a href="http://diggingintowordpress.com/2009/06/wordpress-configuration-tricks/"> WordPress Configuration Tricks </a>: If you have ever installed WordPress and wanted to know what else you could do with your wp-config.php file, this is the blog post to read. As Ozh points out in the comments, a couple of tricks were left out but nothing that could not be remedied with a simple Google search (e.g. <a href="http://phpdoc.wordpress.org/trunk/WordPress/HTTP/WP_Http.html">WP_HTTP</a>) as long as you know what you are looking for.</p>
<p>Tips from that page that got me thinking (things that make you go hmmmmm?) include moving your wp-content directory, increasing your memory limit, changing the autosave interval, turning on debugging and finally the ability to specify a log file for errors. All of this through the wondrous wp-config.php file. The list is quite exhaustive.</p>
<p>While you are there, make sure you subscribe to the blog. Chris and Jeff are putting out some good stuff!</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/29/wordpress-configuration-tricks/">WordPress Configuration Tricks</a></p>";}i:36;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:63:"Weblog Tools Collection: Benchmarking the WordPress Admin Panel";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6152";s:4:"link";s:92:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/29/benchmarking-the-wordpress-admin-panel/";s:11:"description";s:1927:"<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/benchmark_admin_load.png"><img class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6153" title="Benchmark WordPress Admin Load" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/benchmark_admin_load-250x127.png" alt="Benchmark WordPress Admin Load" width="250" height="127" /></a>Dev4Press has done some interesting work on <a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/06/29/benchmarking-wordpress/">benchmarking various aspects of WordPress</a> and then testing out some popular questions on page loads etc. The methodologies are well documented and the <a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/06/26/wp-benchmark-setup/">benchmarking setup is standardized</a>. They are testing three version of WordPress including 2.6.5, 2.7.1 and 2.8 (I wish they would have waited for 2.8.1 to be released). <a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/06/29/wp-benchmark-administration/">This first set of tests were performed on the WordPress admin interface</a> and other benchmarks will follow. While the quantities are not as important, I think the trends are interesting. Though not independently confirmed, the growing girth of the admin interface is obvious. In contrast, my test WordPress 2.8.1 blog has shown marked improvements in load times and memory usage as compared to WordPress 2.8. It will be interesting to see how the load and memory usage trends of the WordPress admin interface change with future versions as the WordPress team turns their attention towards optimizing the admin panel under the hood. (as Matt has said in many of his State of the Word addresses) via <a href="http://twitter.com/weblogtooltips">@weblogtooltips</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/29/benchmarking-the-wordpress-admin-panel/">Benchmarking the WordPress Admin Panel</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:48:27 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1927:"<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/benchmark_admin_load.png"><img class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6153" title="Benchmark WordPress Admin Load" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/benchmark_admin_load-250x127.png" alt="Benchmark WordPress Admin Load" width="250" height="127" /></a>Dev4Press has done some interesting work on <a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/06/29/benchmarking-wordpress/">benchmarking various aspects of WordPress</a> and then testing out some popular questions on page loads etc. The methodologies are well documented and the <a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/06/26/wp-benchmark-setup/">benchmarking setup is standardized</a>. They are testing three version of WordPress including 2.6.5, 2.7.1 and 2.8 (I wish they would have waited for 2.8.1 to be released). <a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/06/29/wp-benchmark-administration/">This first set of tests were performed on the WordPress admin interface</a> and other benchmarks will follow. While the quantities are not as important, I think the trends are interesting. Though not independently confirmed, the growing girth of the admin interface is obvious. In contrast, my test WordPress 2.8.1 blog has shown marked improvements in load times and memory usage as compared to WordPress 2.8. It will be interesting to see how the load and memory usage trends of the WordPress admin interface change with future versions as the WordPress team turns their attention towards optimizing the admin panel under the hood. (as Matt has said in many of his State of the Word addresses) via <a href="http://twitter.com/weblogtooltips">@weblogtooltips</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/29/benchmarking-the-wordpress-admin-panel/">Benchmarking the WordPress Admin Panel</a></p>";}i:37;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:33:"Matt: Real-time Systems Knowledge";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=14341";s:4:"link";s:49:"http://ma.tt/2009/06/real-time-systems-knowledge/";s:11:"description";s:155:"<p>Scoble: <a href="http://scobleizer.com/2009/06/28/real-time-systems-hurting-long-term-knowledge/">Real-time systems hurting long-term knowledge?</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:24:11 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:155:"<p>Scoble: <a href="http://scobleizer.com/2009/06/28/real-time-systems-hurting-long-term-knowledge/">Real-time systems hurting long-term knowledge?</a></p>";}i:38;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:52:"WordPress.tv: Upgrade WordPress 2.7 to 2.8 in CPanel";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=2005";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/06/29/upgrade-wordpress-2-7-to-2-8-in-cpanel/";s:11:"description";s:1389:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
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<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/06/29/upgrade-wordpress-2-7-to-2-8-in-cpanel/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/JTOmP7jG/wordpress-2-8-upgrade.thumbnail.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2005/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2005&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:39;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 06/28";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6144";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/28/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0628/";s:11:"description";s:1797:"<h4><a href="http://www.webdesignlessons.com/hanging-wp-theme/">Hanging</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.webdesignlessons.com/demo/index.php?wptheme=Hanging"><img title="Hanging" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/hanging1.gif" alt="Hanging" width="200" height="129" /></a></p>
<p>In Greens and Browns this theme has a healthy balance of color with the main content area a very clear two column layout with a light background.</p>
<h4><a href="http://wpgpl.com/themes/vina/">Vina</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://demo.wpgpl.com/?wptheme=Vina"><img title="Vina" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/vina.jpg" alt="Vina" width="200" height="118" /></a></p>
<p>Vina is unique layout and auto grabbed image, multi widget, threaded comment and many more</p>
<h4><a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/freshmade-software-wordpress-theme/">Freshmade Software</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/demo/freshmade-software-wordpress-theme/"><img title="Freshmade Software" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/freshmadesoftware.jpg" alt="Freshmade Software" width="200" height="100" /></a></p>
<p>A software company styled theme in light colors of white, orange and brown. Supporting widgets and nested comments.</p>
<h4><a href="http://softwarelogia.com/2009/06/23/mi-primer-theme-de-wordpress-fancypress/">FancyPress</a></h4>
<p><img title="FancyPress" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/fancypress.png" alt="FancyPress" width="200" height="132" /></p>
<p>2 columns, fixed width, widget ready theme</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/28/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0628/">WordPress Theme Releases for 06/28</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:28:53 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:1797:"<h4><a href="http://www.webdesignlessons.com/hanging-wp-theme/">Hanging</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.webdesignlessons.com/demo/index.php?wptheme=Hanging"><img title="Hanging" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/hanging1.gif" alt="Hanging" width="200" height="129" /></a></p>
<p>In Greens and Browns this theme has a healthy balance of color with the main content area a very clear two column layout with a light background.</p>
<h4><a href="http://wpgpl.com/themes/vina/">Vina</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://demo.wpgpl.com/?wptheme=Vina"><img title="Vina" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/vina.jpg" alt="Vina" width="200" height="118" /></a></p>
<p>Vina is unique layout and auto grabbed image, multi widget, threaded comment and many more</p>
<h4><a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/freshmade-software-wordpress-theme/">Freshmade Software</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/demo/freshmade-software-wordpress-theme/"><img title="Freshmade Software" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/freshmadesoftware.jpg" alt="Freshmade Software" width="200" height="100" /></a></p>
<p>A software company styled theme in light colors of white, orange and brown. Supporting widgets and nested comments.</p>
<h4><a href="http://softwarelogia.com/2009/06/23/mi-primer-theme-de-wordpress-fancypress/">FancyPress</a></h4>
<p><img title="FancyPress" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/fancypress.png" alt="FancyPress" width="200" height="132" /></p>
<p>2 columns, fixed width, widget ready theme</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/28/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0628/">WordPress Theme Releases for 06/28</a></p>";}i:40;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:66:"Weblog Tools Collection: Live Stream and Chat from WordCamp Dallas";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6134";s:4:"link";s:95:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/27/live-stream-and-chat-from-wordcamp-dallas/";s:11:"description";s:636:"<p>Live Streaming video from WordCamp Dallas thanks to <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cali-live">Cali Lewis</a> of <a href="http://www.geekbrief.tv/">GeekBrief.tv</a>. Thanks to <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/live-stream-of-wordcamp-dallas">WPTavern</a> for the link.</p>
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<p>I was at WordCamp Dallas last year but could not make it to this one. I am jealous!</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/27/live-stream-and-chat-from-wordcamp-dallas/">Live Stream and Chat from WordCamp Dallas</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:28:34 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:636:"<p>Live Streaming video from WordCamp Dallas thanks to <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cali-live">Cali Lewis</a> of <a href="http://www.geekbrief.tv/">GeekBrief.tv</a>. Thanks to <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/live-stream-of-wordcamp-dallas">WPTavern</a> for the link.</p>
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<p>I was at WordCamp Dallas last year but could not make it to this one. I am jealous!</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/27/live-stream-and-chat-from-wordcamp-dallas/">Live Stream and Chat from WordCamp Dallas</a></p>";}i:41;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:96:"WordPress.tv: Timothy Ferriss: Blogging Without Killing Yourself – WordCamp San Francisco 2009";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=1992";s:4:"link";s:105:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/06/26/tim-ferriss-blogging-without-killing-yourself-wordcamp-san-francisco-2009/";s:11:"description";s:1418:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
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<p>Our outstanding is that Apple is fairly backed up with the avalanche of updates and hopefully will be caught up soon. </p>
<p>In the meantime you may want to fire-up your iPhone simulator and check out some of the new UI treatments that are showing up in <a href="http://iphone.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk">SVN trunk</a> which will be part of the next release.</p>
<p>As always, we&#8217;ll post here as soon as it&#8217;s live.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iphone.wordpress.org&blog=3882653&post=395&subd=wpiphone&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:14 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:16:"Raanan Bar-Cohen";}s:7:"summary";s:1934:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>From the &#8220;no news&#8221; category of news, we have no update unfortunately since last week when the <a href="http://iphone.wordpress.org/2009/06/17/os-3-0-compatible-version-uploaded/">new OS 3.0 compatible version was uploaded</a>.  It&#8217;s currently listed as &#8220;In Review&#8221; on the iTunes Connect screen.</p>
<p>Our outstanding is that Apple is fairly backed up with the avalanche of updates and hopefully will be caught up soon. </p>
<p>In the meantime you may want to fire-up your iPhone simulator and check out some of the new UI treatments that are showing up in <a href="http://iphone.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk">SVN trunk</a> which will be part of the next release.</p>
<p>As always, we&#8217;ll post here as soon as it&#8217;s live.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wpiphone.wordpress.com/395/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iphone.wordpress.org&blog=3882653&post=395&subd=wpiphone&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:43;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:32:"Dev Blog: WordPress 2.8.1 Beta 2";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=801";s:4:"link";s:64:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/06/wordpress-2-8-1-beta-2/";s:11:"description";s:1209:"<p>2.8.1 Beta 2 is ready for testing.  <a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8.1-beta2.zip">Download it</a>, check out the <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/log/branches/2.8/?action=stop_on_copy&amp;mode=stop_on_copy&amp;rev=11654&amp;stop_rev=11622&amp;limit=100">changes since beta 1</a>, and review <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;group=resolution&amp;order=priority&amp;milestone=2.8.1&amp;resolution=fixed">all tickets fixed in 2.8.1</a>.  We especially suggest, recommend, and beg that plugin developers test their plugins against beta 2 and let us know of any issues.  Notable fixes in beta 2:</p>
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<li>Translation of role names fixed</li>
<li>wp_page_menu() defaults to sorting by the user specified menu order rather than the page title</li>
<li>Upload error messages are now correctly reported</li>
<li>Autosave error experienced by some IE users is fixed</li>
<li>Styling glitch in the plugin editor fixed</li>
<li>SSH2 filesystem requirements updated</li>
<li>Switched back to curl as the default transport</li>
<li>Updated the translation library to avoid a problem with mbstring.func_overload</li>
</ul>
<p>Thanks again for testing WordPress.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:06:31 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Ryan Boren";}s:7:"summary";s:1209:"<p>2.8.1 Beta 2 is ready for testing.  <a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8.1-beta2.zip">Download it</a>, check out the <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/log/branches/2.8/?action=stop_on_copy&amp;mode=stop_on_copy&amp;rev=11654&amp;stop_rev=11622&amp;limit=100">changes since beta 1</a>, and review <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;group=resolution&amp;order=priority&amp;milestone=2.8.1&amp;resolution=fixed">all tickets fixed in 2.8.1</a>.  We especially suggest, recommend, and beg that plugin developers test their plugins against beta 2 and let us know of any issues.  Notable fixes in beta 2:</p>
<ul>
<li>Translation of role names fixed</li>
<li>wp_page_menu() defaults to sorting by the user specified menu order rather than the page title</li>
<li>Upload error messages are now correctly reported</li>
<li>Autosave error experienced by some IE users is fixed</li>
<li>Styling glitch in the plugin editor fixed</li>
<li>SSH2 filesystem requirements updated</li>
<li>Switched back to curl as the default transport</li>
<li>Updated the translation library to avoid a problem with mbstring.func_overload</li>
</ul>
<p>Thanks again for testing WordPress.</p>";}i:44;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:39:"Lloyd: A 20-minute Snooze in the Office";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://foolswisdom.com/?p=1954";s:4:"link";s:32:"http://foolswisdom.com/photonap/";s:11:"description";s:1360:"<div class="wp-caption alignnone"><img title="Taking a Matt Nap" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3353/3661842860_8df9b15680.jpg" alt="Taking a Matt Nap" width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Taking a Matt Nap</p></div>
<p>In &#8220;<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/06/the-way-i-work-annotated/">The Way I Work, annotated</a>&#8221; my boss Matt Mullenweg shares additional insights and linkifies his Inc. Magazine’s &#8220;<a href="http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090601/the-way-i-work-matt-mullenweg.html">The Way I Work</a>” column (July issue). Both versions are excellent reads, but the post at ma.tt benefits from Matt answering a lot of additional questions in the comments.</p>
<p>Here is an excerpt from the article that inspired me to share this photo (<strong>emphasis</strong> mine):</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I do my best work mid-morning and super late at night, from one to five in the morning. Some people don’t need sleep, but I actually need a ton. I just sleep all the time, catching naps in the afternoon or <strong>a 20-minute snooze in the office</strong>. Our business is 24 hours — folks in Australia start their day around 4 PM my time and our guys and girls in Europe get going around midnight. Sometimes I’ll go out at night, come home from the bar at 2 or 3 AM, and then go back to work.&#8221;</p></blockquote>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:28:04 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:5:"Lloyd";}s:7:"summary";s:1360:"<div class="wp-caption alignnone"><img title="Taking a Matt Nap" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3353/3661842860_8df9b15680.jpg" alt="Taking a Matt Nap" width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Taking a Matt Nap</p></div>
<p>In &#8220;<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/06/the-way-i-work-annotated/">The Way I Work, annotated</a>&#8221; my boss Matt Mullenweg shares additional insights and linkifies his Inc. Magazine’s &#8220;<a href="http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090601/the-way-i-work-matt-mullenweg.html">The Way I Work</a>” column (July issue). Both versions are excellent reads, but the post at ma.tt benefits from Matt answering a lot of additional questions in the comments.</p>
<p>Here is an excerpt from the article that inspired me to share this photo (<strong>emphasis</strong> mine):</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I do my best work mid-morning and super late at night, from one to five in the morning. Some people don’t need sleep, but I actually need a ton. I just sleep all the time, catching naps in the afternoon or <strong>a 20-minute snooze in the office</strong>. Our business is 24 hours — folks in Australia start their day around 4 PM my time and our guys and girls in Europe get going around midnight. Sometimes I’ll go out at night, come home from the bar at 2 or 3 AM, and then go back to work.&#8221;</p></blockquote>";}i:45;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:28:"BuddyPress: BuddyPress 1.0.2";s:4:"guid";s:28:"http://buddypress.org/?p=487";s:4:"link";s:47:"http://buddypress.org/blog/news/buddypress-102/";s:11:"description";s:1251:"<p><a href="http://buddypress.org/download">BuddyPress 1.0.2</a> is out now. </p>
<p>As with previous upgrades, the best way to get the latest is through the plugin browser in your WordPress installation (de-activate BuddyPress before auto-upgrading).</p>
<p>If you are using a language file with your installation you will need to re-download this after your upgrade. From version 1.1 onwards, we&#8217;ll bundle as many language files as possible to make the upgrade process smoother for non-english installations.</p>
<p>If you would like to upgrade manually you can <a href="http://buddypress.org/download">download the latest</a> then simply overwrite your existing plugin files (and themes if you are using the defaults). Please make sure you backup everything first.</p>
<p>This is <strong>not</strong> a critical upgrade, so it is not essential that you install this update. It does however fix a number of bugs that will improve your BuddyPress experience. For a full list of fixes, please see the updated <a href="http://buddypress.org/about/release-history">release history</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> Please make sure you de-activate any 3rd party BuddyPress plugins before deactivating BuddyPress and running the auto-update.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:13:12 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Andy Peatling";}s:7:"summary";s:1251:"<p><a href="http://buddypress.org/download">BuddyPress 1.0.2</a> is out now. </p>
<p>As with previous upgrades, the best way to get the latest is through the plugin browser in your WordPress installation (de-activate BuddyPress before auto-upgrading).</p>
<p>If you are using a language file with your installation you will need to re-download this after your upgrade. From version 1.1 onwards, we&#8217;ll bundle as many language files as possible to make the upgrade process smoother for non-english installations.</p>
<p>If you would like to upgrade manually you can <a href="http://buddypress.org/download">download the latest</a> then simply overwrite your existing plugin files (and themes if you are using the defaults). Please make sure you backup everything first.</p>
<p>This is <strong>not</strong> a critical upgrade, so it is not essential that you install this update. It does however fix a number of bugs that will improve your BuddyPress experience. For a full list of fixes, please see the updated <a href="http://buddypress.org/about/release-history">release history</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> Please make sure you de-activate any 3rd party BuddyPress plugins before deactivating BuddyPress and running the auto-update.</p>";}i:46;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases on 06/24";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6132";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/24/wordpress-plugin-releases-on-0624/";s:11:"description";s:4600:"<h3>News Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-files/">External Files</a></p>
<p>External Files provides a shortcode [external] that wraps around a file path or url. The contents of the file/url are imported and outputted in an xhtml-friendly way. What&#8217;s more, the plugin auto-guesses the syntax of the file (by looking at the extension of the path or the content-type of the url).</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/06/introducing-the-wordpress-console/">WordPress Console</a></p>
<p>It provides an in-browser interactive console for the WordPress environment.</p>
<p><a href="http://labs.wordtracker.com/seo-blogger/">SEO Blogger</a></p>
<p>Whether you blog about business, politics or the hot topic of the moment, SEO Blogger allows you to find the most sought-after keywords for your subject without ever leaving your blog editing screen.</p>
<p><a href="http://exclusivewordpress.com/searchterms-tagging-2-plugin/">SearchTerms Tagging 2</a></p>
<p>The function of this plugin is to displays some of the last unique keywords (default is 30, adjustable from plugin admin page) that visitors used to find the blog post from search engine. Each keyword will be changed into a link to that page. The goal is to get more traffic to the blog post by adding related search terms below the blog post.</p>
<p><a href="http://clickcha.com/">Clickcha</a></p>
<p>Clickcha is a unique CAPTCHA system that more secure than traditional text based CAPTCHAs yet easier to use. Clickcha will replace the Wordpress post comment button with an image based CAPTCHA that requires a single click to solve and post the comment.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.blogos.dk/showcaseext/">WP Theme Showcase</a></p>
<p>WP Theme Showcase ext and i18n (Showcase ext for short) displays uploaded themes with information extracted from the style.css of each theme as well as links to readme files. Showcase ext supports internationalization, CSS-styling, and is highly configurable with user-defined screenshots etc.</p>
<p><a href="http://geeklad.com/build-your-own-amazon-niche-store">Amazon Niche Store</a></p>
<p>Allows you to automatically display Amazon products on your blog. You just add a simple tag to a post or page, along with your Amazon Tracking ID, and the relevant keywords for the products to be displayed.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wp-simpleviewer.fuggi82.de/">WP-Simpleviewer</a></p>
<p>WP-Simpleviewer enables you to easily add SimpleViewer Flash galleries to your posts and pages. The admin interface helps you to create the thumbs for a new gallery and change its settings, it is now compatible with WP 2.8.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gdstarrating.com/2009/06/18/gd-star-rating-1-4-5/">GD Star Rating</a></p>
<p>GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating and review plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, multi ratings, templated rendering, has a widgets build in and extensive shortcode support.</p>
<p><a href="http://tinsology.net/plugins/wp-simplemail/">WP SimpleMail</a></p>
<p>WP SimpleMail allows you to access your email directly from wordpress.</p>
<p><a href="http://sivel.net/wordpress/possibly-related-recent-posts/">Possibly Related Recent Posts</a></p>
<p>Automatically displays possibly related posts at the end of each post using a filter on the_content. List generated on the fly by recency and the categories the current post is in. Does NOT use tags.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/imageshack-offloader">ImageShack Offloader</a></p>
<p>Saves you bandwidth by offloading your images to <a href="http://imageshack.us">ImageShack</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viadat.com/store-locator/">Store Locator</a></p>
<p>Store locator plugin for WordPress web developers &amp; web site owners who need to show any set of important locations on a website. Locations are easily searchable. Uses Google Maps.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/06/22/gd-simple-widgets-1-2-0/">GD Simple Widgets</a></p>
<p>This plugin contains several widgets with simple functionality. Some of them are based on standard WordPress widgets but with extended options and rendering. You can also disable default WordPress widgets if you choose to use Simple Widgets versions.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/24/wordpress-plugin-releases-on-0624/">WordPress Plugin Releases on 06/24</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:47:40 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:4600:"<h3>News Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-files/">External Files</a></p>
<p>External Files provides a shortcode [external] that wraps around a file path or url. The contents of the file/url are imported and outputted in an xhtml-friendly way. What&#8217;s more, the plugin auto-guesses the syntax of the file (by looking at the extension of the path or the content-type of the url).</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/06/introducing-the-wordpress-console/">WordPress Console</a></p>
<p>It provides an in-browser interactive console for the WordPress environment.</p>
<p><a href="http://labs.wordtracker.com/seo-blogger/">SEO Blogger</a></p>
<p>Whether you blog about business, politics or the hot topic of the moment, SEO Blogger allows you to find the most sought-after keywords for your subject without ever leaving your blog editing screen.</p>
<p><a href="http://exclusivewordpress.com/searchterms-tagging-2-plugin/">SearchTerms Tagging 2</a></p>
<p>The function of this plugin is to displays some of the last unique keywords (default is 30, adjustable from plugin admin page) that visitors used to find the blog post from search engine. Each keyword will be changed into a link to that page. The goal is to get more traffic to the blog post by adding related search terms below the blog post.</p>
<p><a href="http://clickcha.com/">Clickcha</a></p>
<p>Clickcha is a unique CAPTCHA system that more secure than traditional text based CAPTCHAs yet easier to use. Clickcha will replace the Wordpress post comment button with an image based CAPTCHA that requires a single click to solve and post the comment.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.blogos.dk/showcaseext/">WP Theme Showcase</a></p>
<p>WP Theme Showcase ext and i18n (Showcase ext for short) displays uploaded themes with information extracted from the style.css of each theme as well as links to readme files. Showcase ext supports internationalization, CSS-styling, and is highly configurable with user-defined screenshots etc.</p>
<p><a href="http://geeklad.com/build-your-own-amazon-niche-store">Amazon Niche Store</a></p>
<p>Allows you to automatically display Amazon products on your blog. You just add a simple tag to a post or page, along with your Amazon Tracking ID, and the relevant keywords for the products to be displayed.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wp-simpleviewer.fuggi82.de/">WP-Simpleviewer</a></p>
<p>WP-Simpleviewer enables you to easily add SimpleViewer Flash galleries to your posts and pages. The admin interface helps you to create the thumbs for a new gallery and change its settings, it is now compatible with WP 2.8.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gdstarrating.com/2009/06/18/gd-star-rating-1-4-5/">GD Star Rating</a></p>
<p>GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating and review plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, multi ratings, templated rendering, has a widgets build in and extensive shortcode support.</p>
<p><a href="http://tinsology.net/plugins/wp-simplemail/">WP SimpleMail</a></p>
<p>WP SimpleMail allows you to access your email directly from wordpress.</p>
<p><a href="http://sivel.net/wordpress/possibly-related-recent-posts/">Possibly Related Recent Posts</a></p>
<p>Automatically displays possibly related posts at the end of each post using a filter on the_content. List generated on the fly by recency and the categories the current post is in. Does NOT use tags.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/imageshack-offloader">ImageShack Offloader</a></p>
<p>Saves you bandwidth by offloading your images to <a href="http://imageshack.us">ImageShack</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viadat.com/store-locator/">Store Locator</a></p>
<p>Store locator plugin for WordPress web developers &amp; web site owners who need to show any set of important locations on a website. Locations are easily searchable. Uses Google Maps.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/06/22/gd-simple-widgets-1-2-0/">GD Simple Widgets</a></p>
<p>This plugin contains several widgets with simple functionality. Some of them are based on standard WordPress widgets but with extended options and rendering. You can also disable default WordPress widgets if you choose to use Simple Widgets versions.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/24/wordpress-plugin-releases-on-0624/">WordPress Plugin Releases on 06/24</a></p>";}i:47;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:66:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress 2.8 Crosses 1 Million Downloads";s:4:"guid";s:94:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/23/wordpress-28-crosses-1-million-downloads/";s:4:"link";s:94:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/23/wordpress-28-crosses-1-million-downloads/";s:11:"description";s:1172:"<p>WordPress 2.8 just crossed the 1 million download mark today, you can see the live counter for WordPress downloads on the download <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/counter/" target="_blank">counter page</a>.</p>
<p>This is definitely great news since this milestone was reached in 12 days, have you upgraded to WordPress 2.8 yet?</p>
<p>Here is a screenshot when WordPress 2.8 hit the 1 million download mark, thanks to <a href="http://twitter.com/scoutdude/status/2304069238" target="_blank">@scoutdude</a>.</p>
<p><img title="wordpress28_million_downloads" border="0" alt="wordpress28_million_downloads" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/wordpress28-million-downloads.png" width="363" height="227" /> </p>
<p>Thanks <a href="http://twitter.com/photomatt/status/2303970872" target="_blank">@photomatt</a> via twitter. Follow us <a href="http://twitter.com/weblogtooltips">@weblogtooltips</a>.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/23/wordpress-28-crosses-1-million-downloads/">WordPress 2.8 Crosses 1 Million Downloads</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:03:17 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:1172:"<p>WordPress 2.8 just crossed the 1 million download mark today, you can see the live counter for WordPress downloads on the download <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/counter/" target="_blank">counter page</a>.</p>
<p>This is definitely great news since this milestone was reached in 12 days, have you upgraded to WordPress 2.8 yet?</p>
<p>Here is a screenshot when WordPress 2.8 hit the 1 million download mark, thanks to <a href="http://twitter.com/scoutdude/status/2304069238" target="_blank">@scoutdude</a>.</p>
<p><img title="wordpress28_million_downloads" border="0" alt="wordpress28_million_downloads" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/06/wordpress28-million-downloads.png" width="363" height="227" /> </p>
<p>Thanks <a href="http://twitter.com/photomatt/status/2303970872" target="_blank">@photomatt</a> via twitter. Follow us <a href="http://twitter.com/weblogtooltips">@weblogtooltips</a>.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/23/wordpress-28-crosses-1-million-downloads/">WordPress 2.8 Crosses 1 Million Downloads</a></p>";}i:48;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:79:"Lloyd: WordPress.com’s Job System – Cron for PHP in Distributed Environment";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://foolswisdom.com/?p=1948";s:4:"link";s:63:"http://foolswisdom.com/cron-for-php-in-distributed-environment/";s:11:"description";s:1449:"<p><a href="http://automattic.com/">Colleague</a> <a href="http://blog.apokalyptik.com/">Demitrious Kelly</a> (meech, Apokalyptik) earlier this month open sourced the (Unix process) jobs system he (primarily) has been developing for WordPress.com. Not that I really understand it, but &#8220;<a href="http://code.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jobs">jobs</a>&#8221; is described as</p>
<blockquote><p>A fast, distributed, horizontally scalable system built upon linux, php5.2, and mysql 5.1 wherein work can be stored in a database, and processed outside the flow of script execution. Examples of common things that are part of script execution but not necessary to the rendering of the response to the user might be spam scanning, statistical analysis, email notification sending, processing input data, etc. Also included is an equally distributed cron mechanism to remove single servers as a point of failure for scheduled jobs.</p></blockquote>
<p>There are a lot of terms I like in there like fast, distributed, horizontally scalable, scheduled. It could probably benefit from robust and fault tolerant. Any others?</p>
<p>Anyway, this crontab-like system for PHP scripts is an essential part of our WordPress.com infrastructure, and I&#8217;m really excited to see it open sourced!</p>
<p>Check out <a href="http://code.trac.wordpress.org/">code.trac.wordpress.org </a>for other pieces of our puzzle that don&#8217;t have pretty project pages.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:21:23 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:5:"Lloyd";}s:7:"summary";s:1449:"<p><a href="http://automattic.com/">Colleague</a> <a href="http://blog.apokalyptik.com/">Demitrious Kelly</a> (meech, Apokalyptik) earlier this month open sourced the (Unix process) jobs system he (primarily) has been developing for WordPress.com. Not that I really understand it, but &#8220;<a href="http://code.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jobs">jobs</a>&#8221; is described as</p>
<blockquote><p>A fast, distributed, horizontally scalable system built upon linux, php5.2, and mysql 5.1 wherein work can be stored in a database, and processed outside the flow of script execution. Examples of common things that are part of script execution but not necessary to the rendering of the response to the user might be spam scanning, statistical analysis, email notification sending, processing input data, etc. Also included is an equally distributed cron mechanism to remove single servers as a point of failure for scheduled jobs.</p></blockquote>
<p>There are a lot of terms I like in there like fast, distributed, horizontally scalable, scheduled. It could probably benefit from robust and fault tolerant. Any others?</p>
<p>Anyway, this crontab-like system for PHP scripts is an essential part of our WordPress.com infrastructure, and I&#8217;m really excited to see it open sourced!</p>
<p>Check out <a href="http://code.trac.wordpress.org/">code.trac.wordpress.org </a>for other pieces of our puzzle that don&#8217;t have pretty project pages.</p>";}i:49;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Lloyd: New Project to Find Movable Type Community’s Melody";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://foolswisdom.com/?p=1923";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://foolswisdom.com/movable-type-communitys-melody/";s:11:"description";s:5807:"<p>Interesting development today in the blog publishing space with the announcement of <a href="http://openmelody.org/">Melody</a> and the Open Melody Software Group.</p>
<p>Melody is a new <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> competitor &#8212; bring it! <img src="http://foolswisdom.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/face-wink.png" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>Based on Movable Type Open Source (MTOS), <a href="http://www.majordojo.com/">Byrne Reese</a> writes &#8220;<a href="http://openmelody.org/blog/2009/06/introducing-melody">[the project's] focus initially</a> is consciously not about <em>features</em>, but rather upon laying the groundwork through a well-documented set of processes by which future features and contributions can be made.&#8221; to live up to it&#8217;s tag line &#8220;Community Powered Publishing&#8221;.</p>
<p>The tag line seems to directly take aim at Movable Type for not being community powered, though <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10270621-2.html">in interview</a> Byrne suggests that may be part of the overhead of Movable Type being an enterprise product.</p>
<p>From my position looking over the fence, I&#8217;m sympathetic to how the Movable Type community has suffered since &#8220;<a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/movable-type-mtos-forks-hello-open-melody-004890.php">in 2008</a> [when] the hyper dedicated Movable Type product manager, Byrne Reese, was laid off from Six Apart&#8221;. Sure, the MT community isn&#8217;t just that one person, but he sure was a catalyst and one of the only open channels to the inners of Six Apart. Since then there doesn&#8217;t seem to have been anyone there for the developer community, or for me, as a member of another project, to collaborate with. Even Byrne&#8217;s own recent email to the  MTOS-dev list <a href="http://www.sixapart.com/pipermail/mtos-dev/2009-June/002969.html">asking</a> &#8220;Who is the lead engineer of MTOS?&#8221; went unanswered. Here is that email:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I hate to ask such a seemingly odd question, but I have recently had questions I wanted to address to the lead engineer of MTOS &#8212; offlist, but am honestly not sure who that might be right now. Who is the best person to address questions about governance and process to? Is there one?&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Mark Carey <a href="http://mt-hacks.com/20090623-open-melody-movable-type-forked.html">writes today on mt-hacks.com</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong> </strong>&#8220;Over two years ago, Six Apart, the creator of Movable Type open sourced the code for the core Movable Type application. While its was an exciting and bold move, the announcement and product naming choices were confusing to many &#8212; the differences between Movable Type Open Source and the Movable Type Commercial product and closed source add-ons sold by Six Apart weren&#8217;t easy to grasp, and some even disputed the newly open source nature of core application.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Although Six Apart promised that they would  continue &#8220;fighting for openness&#8221; when they announced &#8220;<a href="http://www.movabletype.org/2007/12/movable_type_open_source.html">Open Source Movable Type </a>&#8221; at the end of 2007, Melody is now the hope for a Movable Type-based openly developed product. The <a href="http://openmelody.org/faq">Open Melody FAQ</a>s includes:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The community created Melody out a shared passion for Movable Type and a shared desire to see it flourish as a platform. We felt that the best and quickest way to achieve that goal was to create a product in which the community was inherently entrusted with a greater degree of control over its direction, communication channels and roadmap, and rewarded with more transparency and a greater sense of belonging.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/06/melody_movable.html">Serdar Yegulalp writes</a> &#8220;To see a new way for the same framework to be improved, and to allow for feedback and suggestions that stem from my own use, is deeply heartening&#8221;</p>
<p>I&#8217;m very interested to see how the source code flows. The greatest gift of open source isn’t the right to fork, but the ability to merge.</p>
<p>Wih founding members and leadership including<span id="articleBody"> the likes of Byrne, </span><a href="http://appnel.com/">Tim Appnel</a><span id="articleBody">, <a href="http://jayallen.org/">Jay Allen</a> , and </span><a href="http://plasticmind.com/">Jesse Gardner</a>,<span id="articleBody"> Open Melody is off to an incredible start. </span><span id="articleBody">((By <a href="http://openmelody.org/about/omsg">incorporating as a </a></span><a href="http://openmelody.org/about/omsg">US non-profit</a> there commitment is beyond doubt &#8212; if only in surviving the painful process that the WordPress Foundation has recently come out the other end of.))<span id="articleBody"> <a href="http://openmelody.org/">The web site</a> looks great, and they&#8217;ve chosen open and friendly development tools.</span></p>
<p>What is good for blogging and open source is good for WordPress, and Melody seems very good for both:</p>
<ul>
<li>I&#8217;m eager to put my frustrations trying to collaborate with the often opaque Six Apart behind me, and collaborate through the Open Melody conduit.</li>
<li>I can&#8217;t wait to see a leaner, more modular open source MT based product emerges that is also more feature rich &#8212; further confirmation of WordPress&#8217;s own approaches, and more good open source products are great for open source.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you love blogging or open source, then Melody needs our love, <a href="http://openmelody.org/join">participate</a>! (hence this post)</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:56:57 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:5:"Lloyd";}s:7:"summary";s:5807:"<p>Interesting development today in the blog publishing space with the announcement of <a href="http://openmelody.org/">Melody</a> and the Open Melody Software Group.</p>
<p>Melody is a new <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> competitor &#8212; bring it! <img src="http://foolswisdom.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/face-wink.png" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>Based on Movable Type Open Source (MTOS), <a href="http://www.majordojo.com/">Byrne Reese</a> writes &#8220;<a href="http://openmelody.org/blog/2009/06/introducing-melody">[the project's] focus initially</a> is consciously not about <em>features</em>, but rather upon laying the groundwork through a well-documented set of processes by which future features and contributions can be made.&#8221; to live up to it&#8217;s tag line &#8220;Community Powered Publishing&#8221;.</p>
<p>The tag line seems to directly take aim at Movable Type for not being community powered, though <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10270621-2.html">in interview</a> Byrne suggests that may be part of the overhead of Movable Type being an enterprise product.</p>
<p>From my position looking over the fence, I&#8217;m sympathetic to how the Movable Type community has suffered since &#8220;<a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/movable-type-mtos-forks-hello-open-melody-004890.php">in 2008</a> [when] the hyper dedicated Movable Type product manager, Byrne Reese, was laid off from Six Apart&#8221;. Sure, the MT community isn&#8217;t just that one person, but he sure was a catalyst and one of the only open channels to the inners of Six Apart. Since then there doesn&#8217;t seem to have been anyone there for the developer community, or for me, as a member of another project, to collaborate with. Even Byrne&#8217;s own recent email to the  MTOS-dev list <a href="http://www.sixapart.com/pipermail/mtos-dev/2009-June/002969.html">asking</a> &#8220;Who is the lead engineer of MTOS?&#8221; went unanswered. Here is that email:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I hate to ask such a seemingly odd question, but I have recently had questions I wanted to address to the lead engineer of MTOS &#8212; offlist, but am honestly not sure who that might be right now. Who is the best person to address questions about governance and process to? Is there one?&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Mark Carey <a href="http://mt-hacks.com/20090623-open-melody-movable-type-forked.html">writes today on mt-hacks.com</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong> </strong>&#8220;Over two years ago, Six Apart, the creator of Movable Type open sourced the code for the core Movable Type application. While its was an exciting and bold move, the announcement and product naming choices were confusing to many &#8212; the differences between Movable Type Open Source and the Movable Type Commercial product and closed source add-ons sold by Six Apart weren&#8217;t easy to grasp, and some even disputed the newly open source nature of core application.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Although Six Apart promised that they would  continue &#8220;fighting for openness&#8221; when they announced &#8220;<a href="http://www.movabletype.org/2007/12/movable_type_open_source.html">Open Source Movable Type </a>&#8221; at the end of 2007, Melody is now the hope for a Movable Type-based openly developed product. The <a href="http://openmelody.org/faq">Open Melody FAQ</a>s includes:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The community created Melody out a shared passion for Movable Type and a shared desire to see it flourish as a platform. We felt that the best and quickest way to achieve that goal was to create a product in which the community was inherently entrusted with a greater degree of control over its direction, communication channels and roadmap, and rewarded with more transparency and a greater sense of belonging.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/06/melody_movable.html">Serdar Yegulalp writes</a> &#8220;To see a new way for the same framework to be improved, and to allow for feedback and suggestions that stem from my own use, is deeply heartening&#8221;</p>
<p>I&#8217;m very interested to see how the source code flows. The greatest gift of open source isn’t the right to fork, but the ability to merge.</p>
<p>Wih founding members and leadership including<span id="articleBody"> the likes of Byrne, </span><a href="http://appnel.com/">Tim Appnel</a><span id="articleBody">, <a href="http://jayallen.org/">Jay Allen</a> , and </span><a href="http://plasticmind.com/">Jesse Gardner</a>,<span id="articleBody"> Open Melody is off to an incredible start. </span><span id="articleBody">((By <a href="http://openmelody.org/about/omsg">incorporating as a </a></span><a href="http://openmelody.org/about/omsg">US non-profit</a> there commitment is beyond doubt &#8212; if only in surviving the painful process that the WordPress Foundation has recently come out the other end of.))<span id="articleBody"> <a href="http://openmelody.org/">The web site</a> looks great, and they&#8217;ve chosen open and friendly development tools.</span></p>
<p>What is good for blogging and open source is good for WordPress, and Melody seems very good for both:</p>
<ul>
<li>I&#8217;m eager to put my frustrations trying to collaborate with the often opaque Six Apart behind me, and collaborate through the Open Melody conduit.</li>
<li>I can&#8217;t wait to see a leaner, more modular open source MT based product emerges that is also more feature rich &#8212; further confirmation of WordPress&#8217;s own approaches, and more good open source products are great for open source.</li>
</ul>
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