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<p>The research in this survey has nothing to do with the core security of WordPress but rather, the plugins available for it. It&#8217;s important to consider this distinction when reviewing the report. An automated static code analysis developed by Checkmarx was used to scan the source code against the most popular plugins. These included the 50 most downloaded plugins as well as the 10 most popular e-commerce plugins. The scans occurred on two separate occasions. The first was during <strong>January 2013</strong> while the second took place in early <strong>June of 2013</strong>.</p>
<p>During the first scan, Checkmarx discovered 18 vulnerabilities and notified the developers of four of the vulnerable plugins, then worked with them to apply fixes. After 6 months, the WordPress plugin repository indicated that all 18 plugins had updated versions. The scan was used on these updated versions to see if the vulnerabilities had been fixed. Their automated tool was set to notify when one of the following vulnerabilities was discovered:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>SQL Injection (SQLi).</strong> Allows the execution of commands on the back-end server, such as the extraction of sensitive information. In a hosted environment, a SQL Injection attack can further be used as a stepping stone for attacks against non-vulnerable sites. The attacker in this environment can manipulate the database shared by both vulnerable and non-vulnerable sites.</li>
<li><strong>Cross Site Scripting (XSS)</strong>. Allows the running of a script on the client in order to bypass access controls. This kind of vulnerability targets all visitors to the site. In a hosted environment, this problem is exacerbated where an attack can also be used to steal the session cookies of the site admin. Effectively, it allows the attacker to imposter the admin.</li>
<li><strong>Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)</strong>. Allows the attacker to perform an application-level transaction on behalf of the victim. In a hosted environment, an attacker can log onto the site on the admin’s behalf and perform nefarious activities such as re-directing users or performing admin transactions.</li>
<li><strong>Remote/ Local File Inclusion (RFI/ LFI)</strong>. Allows the uploading of a potentially malicious file to the server. In a CMS environment this is a particularly critical vulnerability as the point of the CMS is to manage and deliver site-related files.</li>
<li><strong>Path Traversal</strong>. Allows the attacker to crawl the Web pages. In a CMS environment an attacker can exploit this type of vulnerability to access and map all hosted files.</li>
</ul>
<p><em>Checkmarx tested the plugins for Path Traversal vulnerabilities only during the second scan.</em></p>
<ul>
<li>The findings from the second security scan were definitely an eye opener for me.</li>
<li>20% of the 50 most popular plugins contained one or more of the vulnerabilities listed above.</li>
<li>7 out of the top 10 most popular e-commerce plugins were vulnerable to common web attacks</li>
</ul>
<p>There is no correlation between the number of <strong>Lines of Code (LOC)</strong> and the vulnerability level of the plugins. Every line of code has the potential impact of introducing a vulnerability. However, Checkmarx has found that the opposite does not hold true. Meaning, the smaller the codebase does not necessarily mean the safer the code. On the contrary – some plugins that included only a few thousand lines of code contained more types of vulnerabilities than plugins containing tens of thousands lines of code.</p>
<p>Only six plugins out of the 50 scanned in January were completely fixed during the six-month time period between scans. The following screenshot is taken from page 5 of the report that highlights which plugins were fixed. An important note to take away from these 6 plugins is that all of them were notified of their vulnerabilities by Checkmarx. Nowhere in the report is it mentioned that the authors of all the other plugins were afforded the same courtesy.</p>
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<p>The report has sound advice some of which has been preached repeatedly over the years. For <strong>starters</strong>, only download plugins from reputable sources. The most notable is the <a title="http://wordpress.org/plugins/" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/">WordPress plugin repository</a>. By the way, I&#8217;ve noticed more plugin authors hosting their code on <a title="https://github.com/" href="https://github.com/">GitHub</a> only. Take heed plugin authors that if you do this, by default, you&#8217;ve lost a degree or two of trustworthiness because GitHub <strong>is not </strong>the WordPress plugin repository. Instead, I highly recommend having a GitHub version that is kept in-synch with a WordPress plugin repository version. <a title="http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/plugins/publishing-wordpress-plug-ins-with-git/" href="http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/plugins/publishing-wordpress-plug-ins-with-git/">This article on WP Tuts+</a> does a good job explaining how to do that.</p>
<p>Their <strong>second</strong> piece of advice is to verify the security posture of a plugin by scanning it for security issues. I take issue with this piece of advice because it&#8217;s not like we as end users have a scanner in our back pocket. There is one plugin that is maintained by members of the core WordPress development team called <a title="http://wordpress.org/plugins/exploit-scanner/" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/exploit-scanner/">Exploit Scanner</a>. However, this plugin is not meant to be a security scanner for plugins, it&#8217;s more for monitoring suspicious activity on a website.</p>
<p><strong>Three</strong>. Make sure plugins are kept up to date. Thanks to the ease of updating plugins, even in bulk, this is for the most part a painless process.</p>
<p><strong>Fourth.</strong> Remove any unused plugins. If a plugin is no longer necessary, remove it instead of leaving it on the site deactivated. Use the option to delete the plugin along with its files from the WordPress plugin manager.</p>
<p>The report ends with recommendations to plugin developers and the WordPress plugin repository as well as any other application platform provider. Plugin authors are encouraged to integrate security within their development process.</p>
<blockquote><p>The later a vulnerability is discovered, the higher the cost of fixing. But there’s more: a simple fix does not guarantee that the plugin users updated their sites. And until they do, these admins are left with the vulnerable plugins. The solution? Bake security within the plugin development as part of your secure Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process.</p></blockquote>
<p>WordPress is not the only platform that has to deal with third-party issues like plugin security. According to Checkmarx, app marketplaces like the WordPress.org repository should:</p>
<ol>
<li>Enforce a security policy on apps that enter the marketplace. Although the security of a plugin may seem to be the developer’s problem, platform providers are held responsible in the light of users. Make security your competitive edge and build a marketplace where users can feel secure to return to.</li>
<li>Authorize only apps that passed the security bar. Provide certification to those apps that stand up to the security policy.</li>
</ol>
<p>There is more to the report than what I&#8217;ve covered in this post which you can <a title="http://www.checkmarx.com/white_papers/the-security-state-of-wordpress-top-50-plugins/" href="http://www.checkmarx.com/white_papers/the-security-state-of-wordpress-top-50-plugins/">download and read for free</a> via their website. </p>
<h2>Where Does This Report Leave Us?</h2>
<p>WordPress plugin security has always been an issue that occasionally pops to the forefront of people&#8217;s minds. A good example is the <a title="http://blog.sucuri.net/2013/05/w3-total-cache-and-wp-super-cache-vulnerability-being-targeted-in-the-wild.html" href="http://blog.sucuri.net/2013/05/w3-total-cache-and-wp-super-cache-vulnerability-being-targeted-in-the-wild.html">W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache plugin vulnerabilities</a> in May of this year. It&#8217;s also a discussion we&#8217;ve been having for years. In 2009, I asked <a title="http://www.wptavern.com/is-a-plugin-validation-team-a-pipe-dream" href="http://www.wptavern.com/is-a-plugin-validation-team-a-pipe-dream">whether a plugin validation team was a pipe dream</a>. The idea was taken from the phpBB project where the mod database would only allow mods to be hosted if they passed a strict code review process, ensuring the highest quality mods in an official, central location. Unfortunately, this method really hampered the growth of third-party extensions in their mod repository.</p>
<p>Today, there are at least a few members of the plugin review team for WordPress.org. These volunteers act as the front-line for plugins submitted to the plugin repository. (<strong>Thank you by the way for your work</strong>) Check out <a title="http://wordpress.org/plugins/about/guidelines/" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/about/guidelines/">these detailed guidelines</a> on what it takes to be hosted on the repository.</p>
<p>One of the arguments against having a dedicated team reviewing every line of code for submitted plugins is that there are already a large amount of eyeballs looking over code. Since everything is open-source, anyone can review the code. If the results of the report published by Checkmarx is any indication, there are not enough security minded folks dissecting plugins. It&#8217;s even more worrisome when you consider the results were based on the 50 most popular plugins. Those plugins should have had the most scrutiny considering their popularity yet, they contained vulnerabilities.</p>
<h2>A Big Problem With No Easy Answer:</h2>
<p>On the surface, plugin security is a big problem that can not be solved with one action. Instead, it&#8217;s going to take a multi-layered approach. Education is key. The <a title="http://make.wordpress.org/docs/plugin-developer-handbook/" href="http://make.wordpress.org/docs/plugin-developer-handbook/">plugin developer handbook</a> being worked on as part of the handbook series of projects should be the starting point for all WordPress plugin developers. Especially <a title="http://make.wordpress.org/docs/plugin-developer-handbook/plugin-security/" href="http://make.wordpress.org/docs/plugin-developer-handbook/plugin-security/">part three</a> which focuses on plugin security.</p>
<p>If Checkmarx is able to create an automated scanning analysis tool to discover vulnerabilities within the source code of plugins, why hasn&#8217;t the plugin repository come up with something similar that plugin authors could use as a tool or resource? At the very least, create a plugin that has the scanner built-in. Or, use the scanner as part of the process to review plugins and send them back to the author if a vulnerability is discovered.</p>
<p>The biggest impact and the one that would make all WordPress users safer would be implementing stricter policies with plugins on the repository. Unfortunately, restrictions and policies go against the open-source nature of WordPress. There is a fine line between the amount and difficulty of rules to be hosted on the repository versus going at it alone. I&#8217;d hate to see plugin authors give up hosting on the repository simply because it&#8217;s too difficult because of the policies. Some would even argue that the guidelines currently in place make it too difficult to be hosted on the repository.</p>
<p>By the way, if you think someone would be able to make a buck by reviewing code for themes and plugins, you&#8217;re wrong. Sites such as <a title="http://www.wpcodereview.com/" href="http://www.wpcodereview.com/">WPCodeReview.com</a> and<br />
<a title="http://www.wptavern.com/devpress-plans-to-launch-plugintheme-review-service" href="http://www.wptavern.com/devpress-plans-to-launch-plugintheme-review-service">DevPress Code Review</a> were launched only to disappear. While a good idea that was <a title="http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2010-August/034146.html" href="http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2010-August/034146.html">backed by people</a> on the WordPress Hackers mailing list, reality proved otherwise.</p>
<h2>Throwing My Hands Up In The Air:</h2>
<p>I don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s going to take to solve the problem of plugin security. The more I think about it, the more it seems like it&#8217;s a necessary evil of open-source software. For as long as I&#8217;ve been active in the WordPress community, it&#8217;s been accepted by many that the plugin repository is filled with insecure code. The report by Checkmarx not only verifies that thinking, but shows that the problem could be bigger than anyone thought. One of the most unfortunate things about third-party plugins and themes is that if a site is compromised because of them, WordPress usually ends up taking the blame.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s depressing to think that so many people who love using WordPress are going to end up needing to hire someone to monitor their sites full-time or plunk down cash on something like VaultPress because of the epidemic of plugin vulnerabilities. The ease and joy of using WordPress quickly goes out the window with the introduction of the webmaster security hat. I think it&#8217;s reasonable to believe that the last thought on most WordPress users minds who add functionality to their site through plugins are not wondering if whether or not that plugin contains a security vulnerability. They just want that plugin to work without breaking anything else. To a point, I don&#8217;t think they should have to worry about it. WordPress users are repeatedly told to install/use plugins from a trusted source, the most trusted source being the WordPress plugin repository. <strong>What good is a plugin repository with thousands of plugins if all they end up being are ingredients to a toxic soup of disaster?</strong></p>
<p>As the plugin repository continues to increase in size, so does the epidemic. WordPress community, what is the cure?</p>
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<address>Perhaps unsurprisingly, Hacker News is now up in arms about <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5968237">Firefox 23 removing the &#8220;Disable Javascript&#8221; option</a>. I&#8217;m really glad to see ex-Mozilla guy <a href="http://gkoberger.net/">Gregory Koberger</a> with the top comment there, linking to a fantastic piece called <a href="http://limi.net/checkboxes-that-kill/">Checkboxes that kill your product</a>. &#8220;A little historical baggage can be a dangerous thing when multiplied by a few hundred million individuals,&#8221; wrote Alex Limi, who does product design strategy at Mozilla. (I had a chance to meet Gregory at a conference in 2011 and he&#8217;s a great web dev follow <a href="https://twitter.com/gkoberger">on Twitter</a>.)</address>
<p>In WordPress 3.5, I spearheaded a quiet but major purge of UI options. We removed <strong>ten</strong> of them. And we moved another off its own page, which let us drop down to six settings pages, down from eight in 2010. My napkin math shows we removed <em>15 percent</em> of all settings. That&#8217;s a huge improvement. Some of these were break-your-site options. Others might cause confusion. And we have ongoing efforts to simplify or improve a few other settings as well.</p>
<p>When talking about decisions versus options, I often tell the story of Firefox 4&#8242;s change to tabs on top. I even watched <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmgtW2Iw-kE">a seven-minute YouTube video</a> explaining exactly why this was a better user experience. (And I couldn&#8217;t agree more.) But then, at the end of the video, after all of the convincing arguments, they mention there is an option to put it back. My heart sank. It was a compelling video, but the community forced them to compromise by keeping in core a completely separate workflow, despite making a strong statement that it was <em>clearly inferior</em>. Firefox is highly extensible. An extension could have changed it back. By keeping it in Firefox core, you now have double the user flows to test, your QA testing suffers, users suffer, everything suffers.</p>
<p>Firefox may be the people&#8217;s browser, it may be the one true open browser project, but that doesn&#8217;t mean it is a kitchen sink. I didn&#8217;t actually realize that Firefox still had the Disable JavaScript option. I have been using an extension to toggle JavaScript in Firefox, as sometimes I have to test no-JS situations. The fact that I didn&#8217;t know the option existed, though, is only one indication that this is a problem. This single option enables a user to do so much damage to their web browsing experience that it is absurd for it to exist. This is Limi&#8217;s point.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t quote from the writings of GNOME contributor Havoc Pennington enough. His posts did a lot to inform early development of WordPress, and continue to make an impact today. Here&#8217;s what I shared in 2011:</p>
<blockquote><p>It turns out that preferences have a cost. Of course, some preferences also have important benefits – and can be crucial interface features. But each one has a price, and you have to carefully consider its value. Many users and developers don’t understand this, and end up with a lot of cost and little value for their preferences dollar.</p>
<ul>
<li>Too many preferences means you can’t find any of them.</li>
<li>Preferences really substantively damage QA and testing.</li>
<li>Preferences make integration and good UI difficult.</li>
<li>The point of a good program is to do something specific and do it well.</li>
<li>Preferences keep people from fixing real bugs.</li>
<li>Preferences can confuse many users.</li>
</ul>
<p>I find that if you’re hard-core disciplined about having good defaults that Just Work instead of lazily adding preferences, that naturally leads the overall UI in the right direction. Issues come up via bugzilla or mailing lists or user testing, and you fix them in some way other than adding a preference, and this means you have to think about the right UI and the right way to fix problems. Basically, using preferences as a band-aid is the root of much UI evil.</p></blockquote>
<p>For more written by Pennington, see these essays from <a href="http://ometer.com/free-software-ui.html">2002</a> and <a href="http://ometer.com/features.html">2004</a>.</p>
<p>Perhaps tellingly, I also wrote then &#8220;WordPress is known for its simplicity and usability, but I can still think of a half-dozen options I wouldn’t hesitate to remove under the right circumstances.&#8221; In WordPress 3.5, the circumstances were right. Promise kept!</p>
<p><em>Addendum:</em> In that long Hacker News thread (300 comments and climbing) Gregory also commented:</p>
<blockquote><p>Try an extension? Power users aren&#8217;t the target market for this decision, and that&#8217;s why add-ons exist.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is also a great time to review the sections <a href="http://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/#majority">Designing for the Majority</a> and <a href="http://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/#minority">The Vocal Minority</a> on the WordPress philosophy page.</p>
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<p><strong><a title="Attachment Files Importer" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/attachment-files-importer/" target="_blank">Attachment Files Importer</a></strong> is a new plugin that helps with an age-old problem when dealing with migrating a WordPress site from a staging area to a live domain. often times all of the posts export and import correctly, however the media doesn&#8217;t seem to make its way over to the new site as easily as you would expect. This plug-in helps fill that gap by creating a bridge from your old content to the new content copying over the necessary files and images to your new site. In case of duplicates it does not overwrite any existing files. For any of you web design specialists who use WordPress and frequently migrate over content, this is a plug-in you might want to take a look at.</p>
<p><strong><a title="NT Redirect" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/nt-redirect/" target="_blank">NT Redirect</a></strong> is an easy &#8220;set and forget&#8221; plugin that takes every external link and automatically applies a rel=&#8221;nofollow&#8221; attribute to them.  This is great if you want to control the &#8220;link leakage&#8221; that you just don&#8217;t have time to police yourself all the time. There are often other plugins that pull in affiliate feeds, rss feeds, etc. These plugins are often automated and you do not always have control in how the links come over. This plugin solves that by enforcing an across the site solution of nofollow.</p>
<p><strong><a title="HashBuddy - Hashtags for Buddypress" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/hashbuddy/" target="_blank">HashBuddy</a></strong> allows you the capability to insert #hash tags into BuddyPress similar to the functionality in Twitter and Facebook. This allows your BuddyPress users to filter topics and activities based on topic hashtags. This is a pretty cool way to provide even more functionality with BuddyPress. I run a BP site that could really use this instead of the default search function results.</p>
<p><strong><a title="WP Remember Your Posts" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-remember-your-posts/" target="_blank">WP Remember Your Posts</a></strong> is a bit of a blogging history reminder, personalized just for you. Essentially this plugin will email you to remind you of your posts from one year earlier. Though in some cases with some of my early blogs with infrequent posting activity, I&#8217;m afraid this plugin would run out of things to do rather quickly. However, if you are a frequent poster and have use to reference something that happened &#8220;a year ago on this date&#8221;, then this may be a plugin that will drive your inspiration or at least subtle nostalgia.</p>
<p><strong><a title="Reddit Lurker WordPress Plugin" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/reddit-lurker/" target="_blank">Reddit Lurker</a></strong> &#8211; This Reddit plugin allows access to Reddit&#8217;s API in WordPress. Place a shortcode of  in your posts or pages and output Reddit links, votes, usernames and comments from individually designated &#8220;sub-reddits&#8221;. The plugin only works one way, pulling the data from Reddit. It will not go the other way and post any comments or otherwise TO Reddit.</p>
<p><strong><a title="Show Once" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/showonce/" target="_blank">Show Once</a> </strong>has my brain spinning today. It&#8217;s a plugin that as it&#8217;s namesake implies, let&#8217;s you use a shortcode that shows content only once to a visitor. For example it shows one-time messages to users that requires a &#8220;dismiss&#8221; or &#8220;agreed&#8221; button to be hit. It can be used as a new user welcome message for first time site visitors or even as agreements to terms and conditions. You can also incorporate direct post IDs into the shortcode so that pull from your existing post content, such as [ShowOnce post=420] would output post id#420, or [ShowOnce post=33,212,420] would output the contents of posts ids 33, 212 and 420. When you add something like date qualifiers it can display from only certain start points, display until a certain end point, or display between a range of dates. Acknowledgements are assigned as required through the shortcode as well. [ShowOnce post=420 show=dismiss style=2 from=10/11/13 to=12/11/13] Will display contents of ShowOnce custom post id 420 and will not be removed until the user clicks the &#8220;dismiss&#8221; link that uses custom css style id 2 (which you would have to have created yourself) from the date specified forward, with no end date. Wow, this one does a ton. I am still wrapping my head around all the possibilities that this could conjure up, especially when considering you use other posts for the content. This would allow you to use other shortcodes and layouts to populate the item being shown once. Very clever idea and well worth checking out.</p>
<p>Join us again tomorrow as we sift through the Repository in search of plugin nuggets worth bragging about. You can follow me on Twitter <a title="Marcus Couch on Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/marcuscouch" target="_blank">@marcuscouch</a> or leave your feedback here at <a title="The Daily Plugin for 07/01/2013" href="http://wptavern.com/the-daily-plugin-for-7-1-2013">WPTavern</a> regarding your thoughts and comments for these plugins.</p>
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<p><a href="http://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fancy-message-box/screenshot-1.png" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignright" alt="WP Fancy Message Box" src="http://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fancy-message-box/screenshot-1.png?resize=167%2C202" /></a><a title="WP Fancy Message Box" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fancy-message-box/" target="_blank">WP Fancy Message Box</a> enables many different message or error boxes in various styles and colors which you can configure. Implemented via shortcode, such as <strong><em>[wpfmb type='info' theme=1]your message[/wpfmb]</em></strong><em></em>.<em> </em>As you can see, there are many different message box &#8220;themes&#8221; you can use, like success, error, warning, info, or whatever options you would like to customize. It would be great to have complete control over colors, icons used and other CSS options, though it can easily be hacked through to make the design conform to your choosing. <em><br />
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<p><a title="AwesomePress" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/awesomepress/" target="_blank">AwesomePress</a> This offering enables <a title="FontAwesome" href="http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/" target="_blank">Font Awesome</a> Icons for WordPress. For those of you who are not aware of it, FontAwesome is a font specifically designed for Bootstrap that allows you to use a common font to display frequently used web icons. There are over 350 high resolution scalable vector icons in the single font with full CSS control. This results in a WordPress site with clean, defined icons and category headings.</p>
<p><a title="Vimeo Master" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/vimeo-master/" target="_blank">Vimeo Master</a> is a new plugin presenting you the ability to embed any Vimeo video in HTML 5 code format. What impresses me about this plugin is that it contains no Ajax or JavaScript. This allows for fast load time and is completely responsive. Short codes can be used to embed the video anywhere within your WordPress installation. You have full control over size, color, looping and autoplay options are also available. You also have the option to display links to your Vimeo profile.</p>
<p><a title="Thumbnail Upload" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/thumbnail-uploads/" target="_blank">Thumbnail Upload</a> is a plugin that permits you to upload your own thumbnail in relation to a specific post. This overrides any featured image resize options that may be in place which would ordinarily serve up a thumbnail. I enjoy having the creative freedom to choose my own thumbnails for my posts. There are often times in which I want to use an animated gif file to highlight a particular story or featured blog posts. By allowing this option I am now able to provide a much more aesthetic look and feel that conforms to the theme that I am using.</p>
<p><a title="Disable Author Pages" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-author-pages/" target="_blank">Disable Author Pages</a> allows you The opportunity to disable the standard ../author URL designation and instead redirect to a dedicated page. This is something that I&#8217;ve always thought WordPress lacked when it came to providing attribution to the author. This plugin allows for a completely new page to be created that contains an author&#8217;s bio, social networking channels, and even the most recent feed items from a multitude of sources around the Internet. This plugin is a big improvement over the off the rack options provided by your standard WordPress installation.</p>
<p><a href="http://i2.wp.com/s-plugins.wordpress.org/wp-ultimate-recipe/assets/screenshot-1.png" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignright" alt="WP Ultimate Recipe" src="http://i0.wp.com/s-plugins.wordpress.org/wp-ultimate-recipe/assets/screenshot-1.png?resize=311%2C427" /></a><a title="WP Ultimate Recipe" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-ultimate-recipe/" target="_blank">WP Ultimate Recipe</a> helps those who want to create an archival of recipes on their WordPress site. It utilizes short codes or simply by clicking on the &#8220;insert recipe&#8221; button within the editor itself. The features for this plugin are quite robust, tracking ingredients, what type of course the meal is, ethnicity and cuisine type. All of these are tracked as taxonomies which means that you can sort them by any of the fields mentioned. This would result in being able to view all recipes that contain a specific ingredient, or listing all desserts as a type of cuisine selection. Photos can be added to show any stage of the recipe from start to finish. There is also an option to print the recipe with or without images. The plugin is fully responsive on all devices. It is also easily translatable, and I have tested it with Google translate with favorable results. The output looks great and entering recipes into the system is simple to do.</p>
<p>Join us again on Monday for another edition of the Daily Plugin as we unwrap the cellophane on the newest plugins from the WordPress repository. As always you can find me on Twitter <a title="Marcus Couch on Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/marcuscouch" target="_blank">@marcuscouch</a> or leave your feedback right here at WP Tavern. Enjoy the weekend everyone!</p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:50:"WPTavern: Introducing WPSessions By Brian Richards";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"http://www.wptavern.com/?p=7550";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:102:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WordpressTavern/~3/0oqyxy3PdYY/introducing-wpsessions-by-brian-richards";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:8229:"<p><strong>What is WPSessions and what is its goal?</strong></p>
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<p>My main focus with <a title="http://wpsessions.com" href="http://wpsessions.com">WPSessions</a> is to provide high quality content to help train the greater WordPress community. I&#8217;m hoping to accomplish this in two ways: <strong>1)</strong> Pay expert presenters for their time so that I can curate high quality presentations on an on-going basis; <strong>2)</strong> Eventually release the presentations for free on <a title="http://www.wordpress.tv" href="http://www.wordpress.tv">WordPress.tv</a> to expand and improve our collective knowledge base. I&#8217;m also doing this for myself, because I really want to learn from all the presenters I&#8217;ve selected, specifically.</p>
<p><strong>How will WPSessions be different than say, WPClassroom.com?</strong></p>
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<p>The focus of WP sessions is largely based on the idea of an on-demand WordCamp, broadcast directly into your home and available on your own time. It is not intended to be a course-based learning site, or a series of instructional lessons, but a monthly event featuring live presentations and Q&amp;A with lots of different experts. I didn&#8217;t want to build something that competed with the many great resources that already exist in our community (e.g. <a href="http://webdesign.com">http://webdesign.com</a>, <a href="http://wp101.com">http://wp101.com</a>, <a href="http://bobwp.com">http://bobwp.com</a>, etc), rather I wanted to build something that complimented them.</p>
<p><strong>Will any of these sessions find their way onto WordPress.tv?</strong></p>
<p>Yes! All of them, in fact. My primary goal when I set out to launch the site was to build something that could benefit everyone, regardless of how much money they had set aside for their own education. So, because of that, every presentation will make its way to WordPress.tv four months after the session has aired. The time delay, for any curious, is indeed to help sell more tickets and offset the up-front cost of hosting these events.</p>
<p><strong>If people have to pay for a seat to attend a session and these sessions will at some point arrive on WordPress.tv, where is the incentive to pay now instead of wait and watch later?</strong></p>
<p>The incentive, I think, is to help fund a new community-focused project and reward those who are willing to teach. Certainly, it grants you earlier access to the content, but it also gives you an opportunity to put some money back in the pockets of each expert who is taking time out of their busy schedule to impart their hard-won knowledge. Paying for the sessions, I think, also helps underscore the value of the knowledge and experience being shared. Sure, you can find much of what these experts have to teach on your own for free, but not all of it, and definitely not in such a conveniently packaged and digestible format (nor do you have such direct access to ask these experts questions).</p>
<p>Additionally, paying for sessions will also help me fund scholarships for people who are looking to bolster their knowledge and skills, but have no money to invest just yet (e.g. students)</p>
<p><strong>You have two sessions to start out. <a title="http://wpsessions.com/sessions/building-a-wordpress-business/" href="http://wpsessions.com/sessions/building-a-wordpress-business/">Building A WordPress Business</a> and <a title="http://wpsessions.com/sessions/building-wordpress-plugins/" href="http://wpsessions.com/sessions/building-wordpress-plugins/">Building WordPress Plugins</a>. Any other sessions planned for later this year you can tell us about?</strong></p>
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I have spoken with 27 different experts from our community so far, and all of them have said yes to presenting. I can only tell you about the next two sessions for certain, though, because I haven&#8217;t planned anything out beyond that. All of this depends on the first two sessions not being a total flop :)</p>
<p>The third session, happening sometime in August, will focus on Performance-driven Development and feature the mighty brains of Daniel Bachhuber, Aaron Jorbin and Zack Tollman. I&#8217;m planning on a double-session for September, a WP Theme Bootcamp so to speak, featuring six different theme experts each talking about a different aspect of the theme building process. From there, I already have enough experts and topics to carry us into February.</p>
<p><strong>The idea of scholarships is intriguing. What kind of scholarships were you thinking of offering at some point?</strong></p>
<p>I&#8217;d like to be able to offer a couple of different scholarship levels: semester (4 months) and year-long. The limit of how many I can give away really depends on how many tickets I can sell, but I&#8217;d love to admit 10 students to each level at each interval. This could also be a good opportunity for responsible sponsors and/or donations, perhaps, we&#8217;ll see how things go.</p>
<p><strong>Can you tell us some of the technology that will help WPSessions tick such as what you&#8217;ll be using for streaming live video and if the site will be utilizing any special plugins?</strong></p>
<p>Sure! At the moment the storefront is powered by WooCommerce. I&#8217;m running Stripe to handle credit card payments, and PayPal to facilitate anyone who can&#8217;t/doesn&#8217;t want to use a credit card. For these first two sessions I&#8217;m using Google Hangout to handle the presentations, but I&#8217;m looking into other options for the long-haul. The session viewing page itself is powered by a custom plugin I wrote just for this purpose. It registers a &#8220;Session&#8221; post type, and then uses custom meta fields for storing relevant information and posts-to-posts for connecting the session to its experts (users) and product. Beyond that, it also has a bit of logic to control who can see the content, and what content to show at what time.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m also running Gravity Forms to power the contact page and follow-up surveys, BackupBuddy to facilitate scheduled site backups, and a couple of other utility plugins I wrote to make WooCommerce more friendly for my purposes. I might also integrate BadgeOS for awarding digital badges for each session attended, which I think might be pretty neat to collect.</p>
<p><strong>Last but not least, anything you&#8217;d like to say to the general WordPress community concerning WPSessions?</strong></p>
<p>What I&#8217;d really like is some critical feedback on the project. I think it&#8217;s a great idea, of course, and I&#8217;m really excited about it, but I&#8217;d love to hear more from a broader scope of people. Are they even interested in this style of live-training? Is there anything I could add or do differently that makes it more attractive? Which time of the week is most convenient for the largest number of people around the world? Do more people want deeper, high-level presentations, or entry-level/introductory presentations? I have lots of guesses, but no firm answers.</p>
<p>At the moment it&#8217;s all just theory and one great experiment. I hope that others are interested and excited, and I hope they vote with their dollars that this idea should exist so I can help it grow :)</p>
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<p><a title="Converter WordPress Plugin" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/converter/" target="_blank"><img class="   alignright" alt="Ingredients Converter plugin" src="http://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/plugins/converter/screenshot-1.png?resize=166%2C182" />Converter</a> is a plugin used for those who want to convert units of measurement for cooking, such as Tsp to Oz, Cups to Gallons, etc. This plug-in gives you the option to include actual food ingredients (such as converting the weight of wheat flour from ounces to tablespoons) The data is derived from two internal CSV files which can be edited to include new food items or ingredients of your choosing.</p>
<p><a title="Simple Business Hours WordPress Plugin" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-business-hours/" target="_blank">Simple Business Hours</a> plugin helps you display a business&#8217; hours of operation as a widget. From an editing perspective this allows you to enter the businesses hours of operation on a daily basis, and even select which days the business is closed. Because this plug-in is widgetized, You can insert different hours of operation for different businesses or locations all within the same WordPress installation. The widget title is completely customizable allowing you to separate and properly identify locations and their respective hours.</p>
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<p>Join us again tomorrow as we slash our way through the Repository jungle together in search of hidden plugin treasures. I&#8217;ll bring the machete just in case. As always you can contact me via Twitter <a title="Marcus Couch on Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/marcuscouch" target="_blank">@marcuscouch</a> or leave your feedback for this post right on <a title="WP Tavern" href="http://wptavern.com">WPTavern</a>.</p>
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<blockquote><p>BlogDroid was an attractive acquisition for Page.ly due to their impressive growth in a short period of time, a more polished brand than most competitors, and the “customer-first” approach made by Karen Jackie, co-founder of BlogDroid. She had the following to say about the acquisition</p></blockquote>
<p>Congrats to both companies and I hope the transition goes over well for all BlogDroid customers. To get a more detailed perspective on how this acquisition came to be, read the <a title="http://www.blogdroid.com/blogdroid-has-been-acquired-by-pagely/" href="http://www.blogdroid.com/blogdroid-has-been-acquired-by-pagely/">announcement post</a> on the official BlogDroid blog. If you&#8217;re a BlogDroid customer, I&#8217;d love to hear about your experience with the service in the comments.</p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:52:"WPTavern: Where Are They Now? – Leland Of ThemeLab";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"http://www.wptavern.com/?p=7473";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:99:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WordpressTavern/~3/vAbBBlK39ZY/where-are-they-now-leland-of-themelab";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:10244:"<p><strong>Tell us who you are and what it is you&#8217;re doing these days.</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://i0.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/themelablogo.png" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3108" alt="themelablogo" src="http://i0.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/themelablogo.png?resize=200%2C102" /></a>My name is Leland Fiegel. Some of you WordPress old timers might know me from my site called <a title="http://www.themelab.com" href="http://www.themelab.com">Theme Lab</a> where I used to release a lot of free WordPress themes, along with tutorials on how to do WordPress and CSS stuff, among other things. Unfortunately do to time constraints while being a full-time college student for the past three years, I didn’t really have time to update it much.</p>
<p>The site still pays for itself (and more) through affiliate and direct ad sales, and still has (surprisingly) pretty steady search engine traffic to a lot of the old tutorials and themes still up on the site. I still get a few thousand daily visitors, and have no plans to take down the site any time soon.</p>
<p>I just graduated college this year (May 2013, which is a little more than a month ago at the time of this posting) and was hired to be a WordPress developer for a local DC company called <a title="http://socialdriver.com/" href="http://socialdriver.com/">Social Driver</a> where I&#8217;m now working full-time as a developer, mostly doing WordPress stuff. The work I’ve done with Theme Lab definitely played a huge role in my ultimate hiring there.</p>
<p>It’s a really laid-back work environment, and I have the opportunity to work on a lot of bigger WordPress projects I probably wouldn’t have had the opportunity to as a lone freelancer. Let’s face it, large organizations would rather pay a premium and hire a proven firm over a one-man shop, which is how I was previously operating. Now I work in a team which features a full-time designer, project manager, and another developer. I’ve only been working there a few weeks, but so far it has been a great experience.</p>
<p><strong>Why did you decide to join the WPTavern forum in 2009?</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://i1.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/LelandJoinsTheTavern.jpg" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-7513" alt="Leland Joins The Tavern" src="http://i2.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/LelandJoinsTheTavern.jpg?resize=224%2C119" /></a>Back in 2009, WPTavern was just the place to be for active WordPress community members. When I say &#8220;<strong>active community members</strong>,&#8221; I mean the people who were on Twitter all day, IRC all day, interacting with each other all day. The people who lived and breathed WordPress, were people seemed to be active members at WPTavern as well.</p>
<p>The only “<strong>competing</strong>” forum at the time was the WordPress.org support forum, which mainly composed of support requests from the millions of WordPress users around the world. There wasn’t so much discussion about business (and other WordPress-related, but non-support stuff) like there was on WPTavern. Basically, it cut out a lot of the noise.</p>
<p><strong>How did the WPTavern community help you progress with WordPress in the past 4 years?</strong></p>
<p>The amazing thing about the WPTavern community, as well as the greater WordPress community as a whole, is its diversity. It’s an international phenomenon (just take a look at some of the WordCamp locations around the world) comprising of many different people with many different skillsets. There are the developers, the designers, the writers, the marketers, the social media “gurus“ (as much as I hate that word, some people know what they‘re doing), and the entrepreneurs. WordPress brings all that together.</p>
<p>The WPTavern community, as well as the greater WordPress community as a whole, has helped myself progress with not just WordPress, but development techniques, content writing, entrepreneurship, social media strategy, and the list goes on. It&#8217;s a truly awesome community with a lot of passion, and I’m glad to be a part of it.</p>
<p><strong>What was the idea and motivation behind the Theme Lab website?</strong></p>
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<p>First of all, I just wanted to point out that it’s been <strong>6 years</strong> since I started Theme Lab. It’s been a while. Before that, I was really into buying and selling domain names along with basic web development. It was from there that I discovered WordPress, and it all progressed from there.</p>
<p>When developing my domain names, I tried out countless CMS&#8217;s (for those familiar with Fantastico, I tried pretty much everything in there) like Mambo (which was later forked into Joomla), Xoops, PHPNuke, just to name a few. Nothing quite stuck like WordPress did.</p>
<p>On top of its ease of use, what really hooked me in was the (previously described) community surrounding it. Pretty much any problem I had, I could find a solution with a simple Google search. It could’ve been a tutorial, WordPress.org support forum thread, or just a plugin with the functionality I was looking for. I could do pretty much anything I wanted to with it by just hacking up my theme.</p>
<p>Through this continuous theme hacking, I started to get pretty good at actually developing themes. I realized you could turn pretty much any type of template into a WordPress theme by just plugging in WordPress template tags in certain places, along with basic understanding of theming concepts (like the Loop, widgetization, etc.).</p>
<p>So I decided to start a WordPress theme site with the idea of releasing WordPress themes to the public. I did an available domain search for “theme” keywords, and found that themelab.com had recently dropped. I liked the sound of it, so I went with it.</p>
<p>This was a time when the theme industry was in its relative infancy. Just to put it in perspective, this was when the RevolutionTheme was one of the few commercial themes available, and the vast majority of themes were free.</p>
<p>Keep in mind I was a high school student at the time, and didn&#8217;t really have any idea of the massive potential of the theme industry at the time. I know it&#8217;s hard to imagine now, but I doubt many other people did at the time either. Within the next couple years it just exploded. People really liked free WordPress themes.</p>
<p><strong>What was it like to attend your first WordCamp?</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://i1.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/WPDCMeetup.jpg" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-7515" alt="WordPress DC Meetup" src="http://i0.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/WPDCMeetup.jpg?resize=192%2C253" /></a>Well to answer that question, I’d like to direct readers to a <a title="http://www.wptavern.com/leland-tells-us-whats-cooking-in-the-themelab" href="http://www.wptavern.com/leland-tells-us-whats-cooking-in-the-themelab">previous WPTavern post published in May of 2010</a> when you video interviewed me at WordCamp Raleigh.</p>
<p>“Nervous but excited” pretty much sums it up. To be able to meet in person some of the people I interacted with on Twitter was great.</p>
<p>Since then I attended the following year’s WordCamp Raleigh, and have since been on a WordCamp drought. Hopefully I’ll have an opportunity to attend some nearby WordCamps in the future.</p>
<p>Although not technically a WordCamp, I do enjoy the monthly <a title="http://www.meetup.com/wordpressdc/" href="http://www.meetup.com/wordpressdc/">WordPress DC meetups</a> to network with some of the local members of the WordPress community.</p>
<p><strong>Any pet peeves you still have regarding WordPress Themes?</strong></p>
<p>Let’s see, where do I begin…</p>
<p>Chill on the theme options. And stop making the UI’s clash so much. Use theme options only when you absolutely need them, and if you do, make them blend in. I think Devin Price’s <a title="http://wordpress.org/plugins/options-framework/" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/options-framework/">Options Framework</a> does a good job of this.</p>
<p>Chill with the “SEO,” and stop replicating every single option that free plugins (like Yoast’s WordPress SEO) already do. Data like that should be stored in a plugin anyway.</p>
<p>Speaking of data that should be stored in plugins:<em> chill with the shortcodes, chill with the custom post types, and chill with the custom taxonomies built directly into the theme’s functions.php file</em>. It makes it a huge pain when the user wants to switch themes. Contrary to popular belief, users may not want to use the same theme forever.</p>
<p>Finally, the biggest pet peeve of all is that all my previously mentioned pet peeves are perpetuated by demand in the commercial WordPress theme market. Just take a look at the top sellers of any of the popular theme marketplaces. Their themes almost always include &#8220;features&#8221; such as SEO optimization, tons of shortcodes, etc. But those themes have sold thousands of times over. Clearly, it&#8217;s what the people want. Can&#8217;t really blame those theme authors too much for supplying the demand.&#8221;</p>
<p>Also, sliders suck.</p>
<p><strong>Is there anything you’d like to say to the general WordPress Community?</strong></p>
<p>Hopefully people don’t get the wrong idea from my theme rant. Being a theme developer myself, I’m a little biased, and I hate to see bad development practices perpetuated.</p>
<p>I love the WordPress community as a whole. I don’t think anyone could’ve imagined 10 years ago how much the community has grown today. I’m just looking forward to see what happens in the next 10.</p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:41:"WPTavern: The Daily Plugin for 06-25-2013";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"http://www.wptavern.com/?p=7476";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:93:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WordpressTavern/~3/v-Mc5fDf1PQ/the-daily-plugin-for-06-25-2013";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:8755:"<p>Once again we scoop our hands into the repository in hopes of pulling out a few pearls. Today we have some very interesting new plugins that are worth checking out. As always, install these on a test site first before going live. These do not represent endorsements or ratings, but are just a sampling of new plugins as they are released. Disclaimer out-of-the-way.. Let&#8217;s get plugged in!</p>
<p><a title="WP Testimonials Manager" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-testimonials-manager/" target="_blank">Testimonials Manager</a> is a newly released plugin from <a title="Dinesh Karki WordPress Profile" href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/dnesscarkey/" target="_blank">Dinesh Karki</a> and Gobala Krishnan that provides an easy way to add testimonials to your WordPress site. While most of the similar testimonial plugins out there have some of the same functionality, this particular plugin is nice because it allows you the option to use Gravatar images, custom uploaded images or simply no image of the person listed next to the testimonial. <a title="WP Testimonials Manager" href="http://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/plugins/wp-testimonials-manager/screenshot-2.jpg" rel="thumbnail"><img class="   alignright" title="Testimonials Manager" alt="Adding new testimonials is easy with simple form fields combined with a full featured editor." src="http://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/plugins/wp-testimonials-manager/screenshot-2.jpg?resize=309%2C240" /></a>It provides additional space for name, web site and a full editor to create the testimonial chock full of other short codes. Custom CSS is allowed as well, which a lot of the other Testimonial plugins lack. The testimonials display in both the content area and as a sidebar widget, so the versatility is nice to have. Because there is a full featured editor, I tried it with inserting a YouTube video inside the testimonial block. It worked great when within the traditional content area, but not advised as a video testimonial widget unless you plan to display your video as a lightbox overlay that plays full size similar to what image galleries do. (See <a title="Thickbox Content" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/thickbox-content/" target="_blank">Thickbox Content</a>) Obviously there are plenty of other in-post or widget based methods of creating testimonials through custom post types, but this plugin provides a great solution for those who don&#8217;t want to touch a speck of code and still have a good-looking site result.</p>
<p><a title="Bitcoin Payments WordPress Plugin" href="http://i0.wp.com/s-plugins.wordpress.org/bitcoin-payments/assets/screenshot-4.png" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignright" alt="Bitcoin Payments Example Demo" src="http://i2.wp.com/s-plugins.wordpress.org/bitcoin-payments/assets/screenshot-4.png?resize=248%2C144" /></a><a title="Bitcoin Payments WordPress Plugin" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/bitcoin-payments/" target="_blank">BitCoin Payments</a> from <a title="Wordpress Profile - Jandal" href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/jandal/" target="_blank">Jandal</a> allows you to accept donations via <a title="BitCoin" href="http://bitcoin.org" target="_blank">BitCoin</a>. This is not to be considered an e-commerce or shopping cart system as that functionality has not yet been implemented. Your Bitcoin address is displayed on your site via text or QR code. You can even set up multiple Bitcoin addresses in order to track which content or landing page brings the highest donation conversion rates. Display options include widget and shortcode applications.</p>
<p><a title="Nonprofit Board Management WordPress Plugin" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/nonprofit-board-management/" target="_blank">Nonprofit Board Management</a> helps you to keep track of board members and meetings for nonprofit organizations or similar groups. Developed by <a title="WiredImpact WordPress Profile" href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/wiredimpact/" target="_blank">WiredImpact</a>, this tool allows you to transform your WordPress installation into a complete collaboration system for board-related activities. From committees and sub-committees to board member profiles and event invitations, this system is designed to manage your teams, volunteers and staff with email collaboration. The core plugin is free and functions with everything mentioned, but there are also two paid add-ons that allow for Attendance Tracking ($11) and Automatic Event Reminders and Email RSVP ($17). All in all, this packs a pretty powerful punch and is ideal for any WordPress designers out there who have clients that could benefit from such functionality and ease of use.</p>
<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a video demonstration on how Nonprofit Board Management  is set up:<br />
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<p><a title="WP Social Networks Widget" href="http://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/plugins/wp-social-networks-widget/screenshot-3.png" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignright" alt="WP Social Networks Plugin Example Rendered Sidebar" src="http://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/plugins/wp-social-networks-widget/screenshot-3.png?resize=130%2C204" /></a><a title="WP Social Networks Widget" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-social-networks-widget/screenshot-3.png" target="_blank">WP Social Networks Widget</a> is similar to other plugins out there that will display icons to your social networking homes like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. However this plugin is a bit different in how it displays the social icons themselves. Bypassing the traditional method of using bitmap image logos or favicons of each service, this plugin uses an internal customized font representation of each logo. This not only allows for a much higher Retina-friendly resolution, but also allows you to adjust the CSS colors of the logo font to match the color scheme of your web site perfectly. Display options include both horizontal and vertical, with or without labels next to the icons. As much as I&#8217;ve struggled to edit social logos to match a web site in the past, this particular plugin incarnation opens up some design possibilities that previously required some serious CSS and Photoshop manipulation to achieve a consistent look and feel of the design elements.</p>
<p><a title="JSJ Gallery Slideshow Plugin Screenshot Example" href="http://i1.wp.com/s-plugins.wordpress.org/jsj-gallery-slideshow/assets/screenshot-1.png" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignright" alt="JSJ Gallery Slideshow" src="http://i2.wp.com/s-plugins.wordpress.org/jsj-gallery-slideshow/assets/screenshot-1.png?resize=214%2C192" /></a><a title="JSJ Gallery Slideshow Plugin" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/jsj-gallery-slideshow/" target="_blank">JSJ Gallery Slideshow</a> by <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/jorgesilva-1/">Jorge Silva-Jetter</a> provides an alternative to the core image gallery functions of WordPress. JSJ substitutes the off-the-rack gallery with a jQuery gallery that&#8217;s feature packed with transitions and fades. Full timing options can be adjusted to allow for either smooth or fast transition between images. The best part of the plugin is that it&#8217;s retro-active with your current galleries. If you already have existing WordPress galleries in your site, this will transform them to the new style without having to change a single line of code. I like this plugin for those instances where a highly animated presentation is required in a site design. It isn&#8217;t hard to implement and the results look quite appealing. Worth investigating further if you want a dynamic way to spice up your existing site galleries with a more dramatic flair.</p>
<h2>The Wrap Up:</h2>
<p>If you happen to be a WordPress designer for a socially active non-profit that accepts BitCoin donations and wants a fancy gallery on their site, you just hit the WordPress lottery in one post my friend. But for the rest of us the search will continue tomorrow as we scour the <a title="Wordpress Plugin Repository" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/" target="_blank">WordPress Plugin Repository</a> for the perfect plugin of the moment. Feel free to say hello on Twitter <a title="Marcus Couch on Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/marcuscouch" target="_blank">@marcuscouch.</a> Also be sure to subscribe to <a title="Wordpress Plugins A-Z Podcast" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wordpress-plug-ins-from-a-to-z/id417310569" target="_blank">WordPress Plugins A-Z</a>, the weekly podcast that I&#8217;ve co-hosted with John Overall for nearly two years. If you enjoy my feedback here, you&#8217;ll probably benefit in hearing us talk about plugins every week via audio as well. Hasta Mañana!</p>
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<p>Last Friday, I took some time out my day to watch <a title="http://toni.org/" href="http://toni.org/">Toni Schneider</a>, CEO Of <a title="http://automattic.com/" href="http://automattic.com/">Automattic</a> give a presentation on working as a distributed company. His talk was part of a series called <a title="http://www.creativelive.com/courses/secrets-silicon-valley" href="http://www.creativelive.com/courses/secrets-silicon-valley">Secrets Of Silicon Valley</a> presented by <a title="http://www.creativelive.com/" href="http://www.creativelive.com/">CreativeLive</a>. Unfortunately, I can&#8217;t embed Toni&#8217;s presentation because it&#8217;s now part of the $199 package to buy the entire video series. However, while watching his presentation, I wrote down a bunch of notes. </p>
<p>Keep in mind that the main topic of the presentation was operating a company that had a 100% distributed workforce. The benefits, downfalls and whether this would be a good fit for other companies. If you have any questions regarding these notes, post them in the comments. I&#8217;ll try and get Toni Schneider to answer them.</p>
<h2>General Overview Of Automattic:</h2>
<p>Lots of Automattic employees within 7-9 months tell Toni that they can&#8217;t imagine going back to a regular job.</p>
<p>Automattic has been 100% distributed since day 1.</p>
<p>180 people, 28 countries, 138 cities make up the Automattic workforce.</p>
<p>Interesting point about people working from home. The assumption is that people would goof off. But Toni mentions how they have the opposite problem of people working too much.</p>
<p>Being distributed saves some money, but not a ton. Thanks to traveling expenses, etc.</p>
<p>Being distributed gives you a global pool of people to tap into. Less of a chance of running into scarcity of qualified workers.</p>
<p>Flexibility is one of the best reasons to have a distributed work force. Working when you want, how you want, makes work fun.</p>
<p>Not having a central office where everyone works in cuts down on office drama. Lack of office politics.</p>
<p>Distributed workforce helps flatten the company hierarchy.</p>
<h2>Hiring:</h2>
<p>Be exceptionally clear with people on what it means to be a remote worker. Being in a distributed environment. Explaining the company culture.</p>
<p>The more public information the company puts out there on what it means to work for the company, expectations, what it&#8217;s like and knowing what the core mission is, helps pre-select employees or allows themselves to be pre-selected.</p>
<p>Thanks to the <a title="http://ma.tt/2011/09/automattic-creed/" href="http://ma.tt/2011/09/automattic-creed/">Automattic creed</a>, it&#8217;s helped be upfront with expectations of what people will be doing as being part of the company. The creed acts as a formal commitment towards the company culture.</p>
<p>Main mode of communication is text between Skype and P2 blogs.</p>
<p>Employees are usually hired on a contractual basis to build something which gives both parties a period of time to understand whether it really would be a good fit for the worker and the company.</p>
<p>Automattic has an open vacation/holiday policy. When operating under a global umbrella, having a no vacation policy gets around expectations and the fact that holidays are different around the world. It also shows that the company trusts the employees to get their work done.</p>
<h2>How To Break In A New Employee:</h2>
<p>Usually the first few days of the job are weird. It&#8217;s multiplied when you have a computer job at work but then have a computer job at home.</p>
<p>Automattic developed a 3 week support rotation to help ease in employees to get accustomed to working remotely. This support rotation helps new employees to meet established employees immediately, also gets them familiar with the communication methods. It also provides the opportunity to see what their customers are dealing with, to see what their problems are that they&#8217;ll be helping to solve.</p>
<p>In general, people come out loving their three-week support rotation.</p>
<p>Intro videos and giving new employees mentors.</p>
<p>Providing a field guide which acts as an employee hand book. Doesn&#8217;t have to be 100% serious such as a section devoted to company trivia.</p>
<p>General rule of thumb at the beginning. If you&#8217;re going to email someone and it&#8217;s not private or personal, post it to the team blog. This helps keep everything in the open, aids in transparency, and people across the team can be on the same page.</p>
<p>Internally, P2 will be called O2 and they are working on a new version. Not sure what the new public version will be called.</p>
<p>Modes of communication<br />
Email -&gt; <strong>P2</strong><br />
Hallway -&gt;<strong> IRC</strong><br />
Meetings -&gt;<strong> Google Hangouts</strong><br />
One on one -&gt; <strong>Skype.</strong></p>
<h2>People Organization:</h2>
<p>Automattic as a company is formed into teams made up of 6-8 people. When more people join the team, it&#8217;s split up. Good example is cell division.</p>
<p>Teams are designed to be self-sufficient where they can build something and launch it without the need for approval from the top.</p>
<p>Takes 30 seconds to launch code to production servers.</p>
<p>Each team has one lead which helps keep everyone in synch. The team concept is fluid where the team lead as well as team members change based on assignments and interests.</p>
<p>This helps give a co-working environment so it doesn&#8217;t feel like you&#8217;re at home, by yourself, you&#8217;re working with others.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s important to have employees feel connected. Each one knowing what&#8217;s going on across other teams and company wide.</p>
<p>Very little in the way of middle management. This helps move things quickly and puts the emphasis on individuals contributions.</p>
<p>Managers primary role is to remove friction for team members to help get their job/project done.</p>
<p>MySQL was a company that Automattic modeled themselves after early on in terms of working remotely.</p>
<p>Toni believes a big part of the reason why a distributed model has worked so well for Automattic is because they started that way and have gone out of the way to remain 100% distributed but he also noted, that companies that started out distributed have failed as have companies that have a partial distributed workforce.</p>
<h2>Biggest Downside Of This Model &#8211; Loneliness:</h2>
<p>Working remotely gets lonely.</p>
<p>Automattic recommends that teams get together a few times a year, to provide social time.</p>
<p>Automattic has at least 1 company meet up a year which brings everyone together.</p>
<p>These yearly meet ups include assigning a small team a small project where at the end of the week, the project goes live.</p>
<p>Flash talks. Everyone in the company has to get up and talk for about 4-5 minutes about whatever it is they want.</p>
<p>The company meet up feels more like a family reunion versus a casual meet up.</p>
<p>Automattic encourages employees to go to conferences/WordCamps together as teams either to present a talk or to hang out and talk to people.</p>
<h2>Work Styles:</h2>
<p>Automattic loves to support their employees by supporting their work styles whether it&#8217;s a home office, a co-working space, a lounge or events.</p>
<p>The lounge offers Automattic an opportunity to provide a place to work, hold as many meet ups/meetings as possible and shows certain people that they have an office.</p>
<p>The number one thing employees say they love most about working for Automattic is the flexibility.</p>
<h2>Books About Working Remotely:</h2>
<p><a title="http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Without-Pants-WordPress-com/dp/1118660633/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372109530&sr=8-1&keywords=the+year+without+pants" href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Without-Pants-WordPress-com/dp/1118660633/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372109530&sr=8-1&keywords=the+year+without+pants">The year without pants</a><br />
<a title="http://www.amazon.com/Remote-Office-Required-Jason-Fried/dp/0804137501/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372109619&sr=8-1&keywords=Remote+book" href="http://www.amazon.com/Remote-Office-Required-Jason-Fried/dp/0804137501/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372109619&sr=8-1&keywords=Remote+book">Remote</a><br />
<a title="http://www.amazon.com/Work-Shift-Create-Better-ebook/dp/B0097X0F4W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372109664&sr=8-1&keywords=WorkShift" href="http://www.amazon.com/Work-Shift-Create-Better-ebook/dp/B0097X0F4W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372109664&sr=8-1&keywords=WorkShift">WorkShift</a><br />
<a title="http://www.amazon.com/The-Future-Work-Organization-Management/dp/1591391253/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1372109717&sr=8-3&keywords=New+Business+Order" href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Future-Work-Organization-Management/dp/1591391253/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1372109717&sr=8-3&keywords=New+Business+Order">New Business Order</a></p>
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<p><strong><a title="Wordpress Plugin - Inline Preview" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/inline-preview/" target="_blank">Inline Preview</a></strong> is an intriguing plugin developed by <a title="Christopher Finke - WordPress Profile" href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/cfinke/" target="_blank">Christopher Finke</a> that places a preview window next to the editor rather than opening a new tab to view your post. I really like this feature a lot. It also features an &#8220;auto-update&#8221; cycle in which you can continually see a nearly real-time preview of your work as you create it. I see plugins like this continuing to enhance the writing experience of the WordPress editor. It really helps to keep the writing flow going without the distraction of losing post preview tabs among the 20 or so you probably have open at the time.</p>
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<p><strong><a title="Featured Image Via URL" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image-via-url/" target="_blank">Featured Image via URL</a></strong> takes the normal hassle of uploading and selecting a Featured Image and allows you to instead insert the URL of an image to be used as the Featured Image. The image will be grabbed and saved into the Media Library with all supported sizes included. If the featured image is already in the Media Library, the plugin retains the old image and does not import from the URL.</p>
<p><strong><a title="Easy Author Image" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-author-image/" target="_blank">Easy Author Image</a></strong> allows you to upload an author image in your User Profile, which is a good alternative to Gravatar. There are occasions in which I run project sites and would rather use a logo or alternative picture to my Gravatar default image. This plugin just might provide the options that would provide such functionality.</p>
<p><strong><a title="Ping List Pro" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/ping-list-pro/" target="_blank">Ping List Pro</a></strong> provides an alternative to the standard pingomatic ping set. Ping List Pro updates the ping list automatically an a daily basis.</p>
<p><strong><a title="WP Awesome FAQ - Screenshot of User Output" href="http://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/plugins/wp-awesome-faq/screenshot-2.png" target="_blank" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignright" alt="WP Awesome FAQ Screenshot - Sample Output" src="http://i0.wp.com/wordpress.org/plugins/wp-awesome-faq/screenshot-2.png?resize=163%2C144" /></a><a title="WP Awesome FAQ" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-awesome-faq/" target="_blank">WP Awesome FAQ</a></strong> is a simple integrated FAQ system that presents an accordion style questions and answers dropdown for each question as it is clicked. This plugin is JQuery UI based. To insert into your page or post, simply insert the <strong>[faq]</strong> shortcode and the plugin will insert all the questions and answers that you have set up on the back end.</p>
<p><strong><a title="Plenty of Perishable Passwords for Protected Posts" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/p5/" target="_blank">p5 : Plenty of Perishable Passwords for Protected Posts</a></strong> lets the author assign multiple disposable passwords for an individual post, page or custom post type. Passwords can also have the option of an expiration. This is something that I will personally test out with some project sites where I would like to show off landing pages or specialized design templates within a content area of my main site. It could also be used for limited time offers that expire with the page content including a video and lead capture form. No matter what your usage or application would be, this seems like an interesting plugin to try if you need multiple people to view a private password protected content item.</p>
<h2>Conclusion:</h2>
<p>Join us again tomorrow as we dig into the freshest plugins from the <a title="http://wordpress.org/plugins/" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/">WordPress Plugin Repository</a>. Please feel free to provide your feedback on the plugins listed here. Feel free to say hello on Twitter <a title="Marcus Couch on Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/marcuscouch" target="_blank">@marcuscouch</a> and let me know what kind of plugin you are on the lookout for. If I find it throughout my daily plugin adventures, I&#8217;ll let you know! I&#8217;ll also be featuring several in-depth plugin reviews every week in addition to the daily plugin updates. Glad to be serving you here at the Tavern!</p>
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<p>Also of note is that the WordPress team has decided to <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/06/21/secure-swfupload/" title="http://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/06/21/secure-swfupload/">fork the SWFUpload project</a> so that they could maintain it with security fixes. The Make.WordPress.core post strongly emphasizes that developers do not use SWFUpload but if you must, to <a href="http://github.com/wordpress/secure-swfupload" title="http://github.com/wordpress/secure-swfupload">use their fork</a>. It&#8217;s interesting that WordPress does not use this specific library but it continues to be shipped with WordPress because of plugins not being updated to use <a href="http://plupload.com/" title="http://plupload.com/">Plupload</a>. </p>
<p>Last but not least, some information geared towards everyone.</p>
<blockquote><p>We do not condone the use of abandonware. We only wish to make the web a better place by ensuring that developers have access to a secure version of SWFUpload, when the only alternative may be to use insecure code.</p>
<p><strong>If you think you have found a vulnerability in this fork of SWFUpload, we appreciate your help in disclosing it to us responsibly.</strong> Please email reports of security vulnerabilities to swfupload-security AT wordpress.org. These reports will be reviewed by the WordPress security team and by security researchers contributing to this project, including Neal and Szymon.</p></blockquote>
<p>If you&#8217;re testing WordPress, WordPress 3.6 Beta 4 includes all of the fixes in 3.5.2. </p>
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<p>The security fixes included:</p>
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<li>Blocking server-side request forgery attacks, which could potentially enable an attacker to gain access to a site.</li>
<li>Disallow contributors from improperly publishing posts, reported by <a href="http://kovshenin.com/">Konstantin Kovshenin</a>, or reassigning the post&#8217;s authorship, reported by <a href="http://www.sharefaith.com/">Luke Bryan</a>.</li>
<li>An update to the SWFUpload external library to fix cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. Reported by <a href="http://ma.la">mala</a> and <a href="http://mars.iti.pk.edu.pl/~grucha/">Szymon Gruszecki</a>. (Developers: More on SWFUpload <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/06/21/secure-swfupload/">here</a>.)</li>
<li>Prevention of a denial of service attack, affecting sites using password-protected posts.</li>
<li>An update to an external TinyMCE library to fix a cross-site scripting vulnerability. Reported by <a href="http://twitter.com/rinakikun">Wan Ikram</a>.</li>
<li>Multiple fixes for cross-site scripting. Reported by <a href="http://webapplicationsecurity.altervista.org/">Andrea Santese</a> and Rodrigo.</li>
<li>Avoid disclosing a full file path when a upload fails. Reported by <a href="http://hauntit.blogspot.de/">Jakub Galczyk</a>.</li>
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<p>We appreciated <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Security">responsible disclosure</a> of these issues directly to our security team. For more information on the changes, see the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.2">release notes</a> or consult <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/log/branches/3.5?rev=24498&stop_rev=23347">the list of changes</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.5.2.zip">Download WordPress 3.5.2</a> or update now from the Dashboard → Updates menu in your site’s admin area.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">With fewer barriers to expressing themselves and being heard, Automatticians don’t have to wait for formal meetings or write out memos. “Recently there was a very long internal thread about finding great female job candidates and what we can do as a company to encourage this, or if it’s even a problem,” Rosso recounts. Rather than having a limp exchange about women in tech within the HR department, the question turned into a real dialogue throughout the company.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Although not written by a female, I&#8217;m looking forward to reading a new book by Scott Berkun titled <a title="http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Without-Pants-WordPress-com/dp/1118660633" href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Without-Pants-WordPress-com/dp/1118660633">The Year Without Pants</a> slated for release on September 10th, 2013 which chronicles how Automattic works as a company from an insider&#8217;s view and what lessons other companies can learn from them.</p>
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<p>If we rewind the clocks back to July of 2010, a portion of the WordPress community was in the midst of <a href="http://themesforge.com/theme-news/thesis-gets-hacked-and-the-coming-thesis-vs-automattic-battle/" title="http://themesforge.com/theme-news/thesis-gets-hacked-and-the-coming-thesis-vs-automattic-battle/">one of the largest GPL debates</a> in the history of WordPress between Matt Mullenweg and Chris Pearson. On July 20th, 2010 Matt Cutts <a href="http://wp-community.org/2010/07/20/google-matt-cutts-wordpress/" title="http://wp-community.org/2010/07/20/google-matt-cutts-wordpress/">appeared on the WordPress Podcast</a> where he first mentioned the possibility of switching from Thesis to the default theme in WordPress but the switch was more a case of WordPress improving to the point of not needing Thesis versus whether it was violating the GPL or not. </p>
<p>For those that don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s news to see people like Matt Cutts switch to a different theme, consider the following text which shows up time and time again when searching Google for Thesis:</p>
<blockquote><p>Thesis is such a popular theme that even Matt Cutts from Google uses it. You couldn&#8217;t ask for a better endorsement!</p></blockquote>
<p>Well, that endorsement is now gone. Considering Matt was going to switch themes in 2010 because of the increase in features in WordPress and not because it had anything to do with the GPL leads me to believe that this most recent move didn&#8217;t have much to do with the license either. In fact, all of the SEO work that&#8217;s gone into the Genesis Theme Framework recently has probably perked Matt&#8217;s interest. This is speculative of course. </p>
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<p>If posts are the life blood of a successful blog, then comments are probably the heart as they encourage the author and provide a discussion mechanism around a story*. The problem is that blogs can be seen as an island in the ocean surrounded by social media continents such as Google Plus and Facebook. The islands may not get much attention. </p>
<p>That&#8217;s where the plugin <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/gplus-comments/">Google+ Comments for WordPress</a> comes in. It&#8217;s simple to install and adds a tabbed comment interface at the end of each post where visitors can comment using their identities on their favourite social media site. </p>
<p>I left a Google Plus comment on a previous post and allowed it to be shared on Google Plus. I got a few replies on that post which also appeared on my blogh. I wouldn&#8217;t go sharing every comment you make from your blog. Spamming is spamming, whatever way you do it.</p>
<p>* On Youtube of course it&#8217;s usually the reverse. Never read the comments on a popular Youtube video. It&#8217;ll hurt your brain.</p>
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<p>On the one hand, I read Tom&#8217;s post and come away thinking that everyone should just shut up and stare at the sign that says <strong>Patches Welcome</strong> which at times, appears to be the answer to any form of criticism or discussion about WordPress. On the other, I see the point of being more civil towards one another when disagreements or engagement occurs. This thing we call the WordPress community does an excellent job of policing itself but a quick Google search shows that at times, we certainly eat our own for lunch. I can see how this public display of back and forth fighting could turn off a lot of people from contributing to WordPress much less be a part of that circle.</p>
<p>In Tom&#8217;s article, Jake Goldman of WordPress consulting firm <a href="http://10up.com/" title="http://10up.com/">10up</a> left this great comment:</p>
<blockquote><p>Any large, enthusiastic community is going to have louder, more opinionated voices, and softer “never offend” voices. And even those of us that generally strive to be loud only when the subject seems in need of broader discussion, sometimes err in how we communicate (I know I regret the way I framed a point about business and WordCamps that was, ironically, sensationalized here).</p>
<p>Follow any large audience – Android fans, UX groups, Joomla communities – and you’ll find the same characteristics. It’s a sign that we’re passionate, diverse, and engaging. And human!</p>
<p>No one would argue that calmer, more professional dialog is a bad thing. IMHO, lets just remember its not uniquely endemic to WordPress, and try to embrace, not shun, the more opinionated among us.</p></blockquote>
<p>WPTavern has played host to several important discussions surrounding WordPress over the years and I can&#8217;t count the number of times I saw core WordPress developers shrug people and their concerns off as &#8216;<em>big deal</em>&#8216;. It&#8217;s infuriating to be passionate about WordPress, raise a valid concern and instead of those close to the heart of WordPress taking an active stance and being part of the conversation, they insist on shrugging people and the conversation off. I would like to formally recognize Mark Jaquith as <strong>NOT</strong> being one of those people. Mark has often  participated in these discussions offering rational, level-headed approaches to our discussions and sometimes, validating our concerns while providing us direction on how to solve them. As far as I&#8217;m concerned, he&#8217;s a role model for those at the top on how to deal with issues that are raised by members of the community.</p>
<p>Ultimately, the WordPress eco-system is better off by eliminating unnecessary insults, threats, public displays of bashing, and being the crudest of human beings. There&#8217;s no room in the community for that crap. It doesn&#8217;t mean that we&#8217;re forced to sit around a campfire and be happy WordPress hippies signing kumbaya. It just means we can have meaningful dialogue among each other to generate forward progress without having to take part in all the above. </p>
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<p>With the impending shutdown of Google Reader on July 1st, I&#8217;ve been looking for Feedreader alternatives. I happened to stumble across a recently developed plugin called <a title="https://github.com/PressForward/pressforward" href="https://github.com/PressForward/pressforward">PressForward</a>. Developed for the <a href="http://chnm.gmu.edu" target="_blank">Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media</a> at <a href="http://gmu.edu" target="_blank">George Mason University</a> by <a href="http://aramzs.me" target="_blank">Aram Zucker-Scharff</a>, <a href="http://boone.gorg.es/" target="_blank">Boone B. Gorges</a>, and <a href="http://clioweb.org" target="_blank">Jeremy Boggs</a>, PressForward provides not only a set of curation tools for authors, but a simple feedreader as well. The plugin is in beta form and it&#8217;s obvious once you start using it but here is my experience with it thus far.</p>
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<p>My main interest was determining whether PressForward could work as my primary feedreader with the added benefit of being within the back-end of WordPress. After experimenting with it for the better part of the day, I&#8217;ve determined that it&#8217;s not something that fulfills my needs. For starters, there is no way to browse feeds by folder/site, it&#8217;s all or nothing. Adding feeds is another matter. It&#8217;s not as simple as clicking an RSS feed button and adding the site to the back-end of WordPress. Instead, you&#8217;ll need to link to a OPML file or provide the URL of a single feed. In the future, it would be beneficial to have the ability to upload an OPML file instead.</p>
<h2>What And Who This Plugin Is Really Meant For:</h2>
<p>The ideas behind this plugin start to shine when you consider its feature set mixed with a multi-author website. Say we have a website with 7 authors dedicated to all things WordPress. All 7 authors can use the feedreader in PressForward to curate content from those feeds and then nominate their content to be published to the front page. When a piece of content is nominated, it goes under review and from here, authors can automatically create a draft post from the nominated content.</p>
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<p>It&#8217;s not just the administrators that can curate content. PressForward has drop-down menus that control the permission levels for specific sections of the plugin. I could see this becoming handy for someone that wanted to create a crowd-sourcing site dedicated to a specific topic.</p>
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<p>One of the other neat aspects is the built-in commenting system. Each article can be commented on which aids in collaborating on the story. Those comments are not accessible to the public.</p>
<h2>Conclusion:</h2>
<p>PressForward is not a good recommendation for single site authors looking to replace their desktop or service based feedreaders with something that exists within WordPress. However, this is definitely a plugin to keep your eyes on if you&#8217;re the owner of a multi-authored website that covers specific topics and would like an easier way to collaborate with others on different stories.</p>
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<p>The last thing I want to do is be a hindrance on the core developers of WordPress and ask a silly question like, &#8220;<em>When will so and so be released</em>&#8221; especially if the answer to that question is already answered on the <a title="http://make.wordpress.org/core/" href="http://make.wordpress.org/core/">make.core.wordpress</a> site but in this instance, it wasn&#8217;t and it&#8217;s been two weeks since the public has had any news on what is going on. At the same time, I&#8217;ve been reminded that if there are no updates on the Make.Core.WordPress site it&#8217;s because the developers are knee deep in code trying to get things fixed.</p>
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