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<p><strong>Jeff</strong> &#8211; I read a press release today about the launch of (Name Of Service) and I just wanted to let you know that by using the full term of WordPress in the domain name, you are violating the WordPress trademark. http://wordpressfoundation.org/trademark-policy/ I suggest switching your domain name to WP****** if possible or try obtaining permission to use the trademark in your domain name.</p>
<p><strong>Response</strong> &#8211; Oh damn it, thanks for letting me know! I had no idea. I&#8217;ll see what I can do about changing the name. Kind regards,</p>
<p><strong>Jeff</strong> &#8211; You&#8217;re welcome. Tons of people make the same mistake. Sorry you have to go about changing the domain.</p>
<p><strong>Response</strong> &#8211; I looked into it yesterday and yeah, I really (bad word) up here. I bought the domain wp***** and migrated the whole site there, I&#8217;ll be 301 redirecting the whole site today. I&#8217;m sorry if I caused any bad feelings about my venture, just trying to make a living helping others with the CMS I love. I&#8217;ll be changing my email too in the next couple of days. Thanks for reaching out and letting me know so I could change the domain. I really appreciate it.</p>
<p><strong>Jeff</strong> &#8211; Nope, no bad feelings caused. I usually send out a friendly email to anyone violating the trademark as it&#8217;s best to deal with it early versus having that domain be established. You should be all set to go now. Good luck with your service. Oh, as a sidenote. I would look for any where you wrote Word(lowercase p)ress on the site and change it to WordPress as that&#8217;s the correct way to write it. It&#8217;s one of those weird prickly points the community has.</p>
<p><strong>Response </strong>- Hi, Yeah, I found the discussion on Twitter, it seemed to cause a big stir among some. Saw some guy called me a douche for missing the capital P so I&#8217;ve changed it already. Thanks</p>
<p>A couple of reasons why I published our email exchange. The first is to show that sometimes, people have good intentions but make an honest mistake. They didn&#8217;t know about the domain policy and rushed to change things to make it right. The established people in the WordPress community know about these guidelines and instead of chastising those site owners, we should first reach out to them via email or some other method to at least give them an opportunity to make things right. <a href="https://twitter.com/jeffr0/status/357576328234549250" title="https://twitter.com/jeffr0/status/357576328234549250">I started the Twitter dialogue</a> by mentioning how disappointed I was to see brand new WordPress services launch that violated the WordPress trademark. On Twitter, it&#8217;s too easy to fire off text that would be better off never being published. I&#8217;ve said a few things in the past I regret as have others. Let&#8217;s try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt before performing regretful actions. </p>
<p>If you see anyone violating the WordPress trademark via by domain or other means, please try reaching that person via email or getting in touch with them any way possible to let them know. It could just be an honest mistake.</p>
<p>I almost feel like these two articles need to be appended to every post ever written about WordPress. Give them a read if you haven&#8217;t already. <a href="http://wpdaily.co/attitude-adjustment/" title="http://wpdaily.co/attitude-adjustment/">The WordPress Community Needs an Attitude Adjustment</a> and <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/bad-attitudes-are-not-welcome" title="http://www.wptavern.com/bad-attitudes-are-not-welcome">Bad Attitudes Are Not Welcome</a>. </p>
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<p><a href="http://i1.wp.com/s-plugins.wordpress.org/suggest-review/assets/screenshot-2.png" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignleft" alt="Suggest Review WordPress Plugin" src="http://i1.wp.com/s-plugins.wordpress.org/suggest-review/assets/screenshot-2.png?resize=218%2C24" /></a><a title="Suggest Review WordPress Plugin" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/suggest-review/" target="_blank">Suggest Review</a> encourages users of the site to raise awareness of suspect or inaccurate content that may already be published to the site. It provides the viewer the opportunity to &#8220;flag&#8221; content and write a note to the administrator explaining the nature of their alert. I like the nature of the &#8220;suggestion&#8221; as it is done as a privately submitted form rather than out in public full view. The simple fact that this is a constructive mechanism for content revision, as opposed to the &#8220;comment trolls&#8221; is a welcome relief. There are safeguards in place that can restrict who sees or can submit to the &#8220;suggest review&#8221; button and functions. You can limit it to registered users so that the public or spammers are not pounding the system with false posts.</p>
<p><a title="Microblog Poster WordPress Plugin" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/microblog-poster/" target="_blank">Microblog Poster</a> promises the ability to cross-post your newest content to multiple social sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Plurk, Diigo and Delicious. While I am still testing this on my staging sites, I can report that so far I&#8217;ve run into nothing but success. There are very few plugins out there that integrate with LinkedIn properly. Microblog Poster handled all my posts with relative ease. While I use other plugins to handle my Twitter and Facebook notifications, this one will make a favorable addition to many of the WordPress sites that I frequently update content in. I anticipate that the developer will add more social sites as they become available as well.</p>
<p><a href="http://i0.wp.com/s.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/insert-estimated-reading-time/screenshot-1.png" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignleft" alt="Insert Estimated Reading Time" src="http://i2.wp.com/s.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/insert-estimated-reading-time/screenshot-1.png?resize=119%2C90" /></a><a title="Insert Estimated Reading Time WordPress Plugin" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/insert-estimated-reading-time/" target="_blank">Insert Estimated Reading Time</a> helps to list an approximate reading time to your posts. The time calculation is based on a variable that you enter in the plugin&#8217;s settings screen. You have the option of displaying minutes or minutes/seconds in the display, as well as the template used, i.e. &#8220;This article will around XX minutes to read. Make sure you have a full beer before beginning.&#8221;. Quite a handy gadget to have at the start of your posts, especially if you tend to post a lot of lengthy content.</p>
<p><a title="Comment CaVa WordPress Plugin" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/commentcava/" target="_blank">CommentCaVa</a> sets a virtual timer on your posts before a reader is allowed to make a comment. The concept is unique in that it forces the viewer to actually read the content first before they can comment. I&#8217;m not sure of the anti-spam implications of this plugin, but it may stop the flow on that end as well. It works within the native WordPress commenting system by installing a small JavaScript containing the timer elements. This is a new plugin with a developer that&#8217;s hungry to grow the functionality of the plugin, so please join <a title="Wordpress Profile for WortWart" href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/wortwart/" target="_blank">WortWart</a> in making this plugin something that we can all use to extend on-page time of our readership.</p>
<p>Well another week of The Daily Plugin is in the books. This weekend I&#8217;ll be taking it easy and hitting some outdoor events with my lovely wife. I&#8217;ll be back on Monday with a bit of a surprise for all of you Daily Plugin fans out there that have a commute. You can follow me on Twitter <a title="Marcus Couch on Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/marcuscouch">@marcuscouch</a> or leave your feedback right here on <a title="The Daily Plugin for 7-19-2013" href="http://wptavern.com/the-daily-plugin-for-07-19-2013">WPTavern.com</a>. Until then, keep plugging along! Enjoy your weekend everyone.</p>
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<p><a title="WP Welcome Message" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-welcome-message/" target="_blank">WP Welcome Message</a> displays an intro &#8220;<em>pop-up</em>&#8221; box for new visitors to your site. The content of the pop-up is created using a standard WordPress rich editor, allowing you to add any kind of content, HTML or short codes to your pop-up. The CSS elements conformed to my site with little challenge. This is a simple, easy way to add a brief introduction to yourself, talk about a special event or promotion, or any other need you see fit.</p>
<p><a href="http://i1.wp.com/s-plugins.wordpress.org/automatic-post-date-filler/assets/screenshot-1.png" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignleft" alt="Automatic Post Date Filler WordPress Plugin" src="http://i2.wp.com/s-plugins.wordpress.org/automatic-post-date-filler/assets/screenshot-1.png?resize=184%2C100" /></a><a title="Automatic Post Date Filler" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/automatic-post-date-filler/" target="_blank">Automatic Post Date Filler</a> has a lot of intriguing uses, especially for someone like me who adds scheduled content to over 70 different WordPress installs on a monthly basis. The plugin works by setting a custom date and time for scheduled posts. Sort of like a smart playlist, it uses variables like &#8220;Current Date + X days&#8221; or &#8220;Time from the Furthest Scheduled Post + X Minutes&#8221; to determine how you would like the system to automatically schedule your next post. This is a fantastic &#8220;on deck&#8221; model to handle scheduled posts, making sure that all posts are as evenly spaced out as possible when published. It&#8217;s also great to prevent a mass post dump from happening all at once by automatically applying the scheduling limitation rules. It also provides an alternative button in your post editor, &#8220;Publish Immediately&#8221; which will override the scheduling filters and publish without any time alterations.</p>
<p><a title="Better User Profile Fields" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/better-user-profile-fields/" target="_blank">Better User Profile Fields</a> is something that incorporates a multitude of Social networking profiles into the standard WordPress user profile including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Deviant Art and Tumblr. It can also use this data to populate different elements of your theme or content as well, simply by inserting PHP. For example, to add the Twitter profile URL of the user you would use <strong>get_author_meta(&#8216;twitter&#8217;)</strong>. Anyone who is a regular listener to <a title="Wordpress Plugins A-Z Podcast" href="http://wppluginsatoz.com">WordPress Plugins A-Z</a> knows that for years I have been screaming out for better usage of user profiles and the fields that we populate in them. This has all the elements to be a great plugin with a lot of great integration possibilities within themes and widgets. Something that has been lacking in WordPress for quite some time.</p>
<p><a href="http://i0.wp.com/s-plugins.wordpress.org/wp-hashgrid/assets/screenshot-1.png?resize=182%2C106"><img class="alignleft" alt="WP Hashgrid on Default WordPress theme" src="http://i0.wp.com/s-plugins.wordpress.org/wp-hashgrid/assets/screenshot-1.png?resize=182%2C106" /></a><a title="WP Hashgrid" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-hashgrid/" target="_blank">WP Hashgrid</a> is a pure design and developer tool that acts as a grid overlay to your WordPress site. Implementing the hashgrid.js script to overlay a CSS-customizable grid, this plugin helps to keep things centered and in alignment. In the old days I used to print a grid on clear transparency sheets and tape them to the monitor for modifying and finalizing layouts. My, how far we&#8217;ve come! This is a good plugin to do either a full build from the ground up or simply to do an occasional spot check of your designs before launch.</p>
<p>Well that&#8217;s it for today&#8217;s plugins. One more day in the week to go before the weekend! As always you can say hello and follow me on Twitter <a title="Marcus Couch on Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/marcuscouch" target="_blank">@marcuscouch</a> and leave your feedback for these plugins on <a title="The Daily Plugin for 7-18-2013" href="http://wptavern.com/the-daily-plugin-for-07-18-2013">WPTavern.com</a>.</p>
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<p>However, one of the cooler aspects of this website is that Drew is part of the Docs team and by publishing three filters a day, will be using the website to crowd-source the information and example code for each filter with the end goal of placing that information back into the Codex or Code Reference material. By the way, in Drew&#8217;s <a href="http://fotd.werdswords.com/what-is-this/" title="http://fotd.werdswords.com/what-is-this/">introduction post</a>, he listed 1,003 filter hooks. That&#8217;s a lot of filtering! Good luck to Drew and I hope that this little experiment enhances the documentation for these filters for generations of WordPress users to come. </p>
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<blockquote><p>The easiest way to contribute is to have a GitHub account then click index.md, then click edit. This will automatically fork this project to your account so you can make changes, then submit a pull request. There are additional instruction if you want to clone this locally in the readme.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s also worth mentioning that the addition of anything commercial to the site is frowned upon. </p>
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<p>In this report, it was highlighted that a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat group used Dropbox and its file sharing notification feature to email links to targets that contained malicious binaries. This was considered phase 1 of the attack. Phase 2 worked with a WordPress.com hosted blog which acted as the command and control center. Once the malicious binaries were in use, the malware contacted the blog which hosted content that contained the IP address as well as the port number to receive commands from. </p>
<p>Here is a screenshot from the WordPress.com account mentioned in the report. <del datetime="2013-07-18T15:49:25+00:00">The site is still online but I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s actively being used in malware attacks. Clearly, the site has been in violation of the <a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tos/" title="http://en.wordpress.com/tos/">WordPress.com TOS</a> for a long time. Specifically this section &#8211; <em>the Content does not contain or install any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content;</em></del> (It&#8217;s since been suspended)</p>
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<blockquote><p>Once a victim was successfully targeted with the “Yayih” implant, the malware contacted a WordPress blog. It would then read attacker staged content from within the blog posting to obtain a secondary domain, IP address and port number of a second stage C2 host.</p>
<p>In this example at “gressered.wordpress[.]com”, we found multiple blog posts, all of which had likely served as content for specific targeting campaigns.  The same C2 configuration was “hiding in plain sight”. However, it is entirely possible that the attackers could have modified the second stage C2 configuration at any point previously. The earliest post was dated July 31, 2012, suggesting that this specific blog has been in use for nearly a year as a first stage interaction point.</p>
<p>Many of the blog posts that contained the C2 configuration were associated with news articles related to geopolitical events, likely of interest to potential targets.</p></blockquote>
<p>I can&#8217;t emphasize enough that <strong>no vulnerabilities in WordPress</strong> were used to carry out these attacks. This report shows that cloud services such as Dropbox and websites such as WordPress.com which are usually whitelisted are being used as infrastructure to carry out attacks. I encourage you to read the full report as it breaks down the process step by step. </p>
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<h3>What&#8217;s new in 1.8</h3>
<p>BuddyPress 1.8 is a major feature release, containing many bugfixes and dozens of new features. Some of these items are highlighted below, and a full changelog for 1.8 is available <a href="http://codex.buddypress.org/developer/releases/version-1-8/">on the BP Codex</a>.</p>
<p><em>Better theme integration</em></p>
<p>Since BuddyPress 1.7, BP has been compatible with practically every WordPress theme. But traces of the BuddyPress Default theme were still everywhere to be seen, in particular concerning the way that buttons, fonts, and form elements were styled. In BuddyPress 1.8, we&#8217;ve made a thorough review of our stylesheets to make them more minimal &#8211; we call it a &#8220;de-theming&#8221; &#8211; so that BP inherits CSS styling more gracefully from the active WordPress theme. We&#8217;re thrilled with how seamlessly BuddyPress 1.8 integrates with a variety of WordPress themes, and we think you&#8217;ll be thrilled too.</p>
<p><em>Template hierarchy</em></p>
<p>One of the most powerful tools available to WordPress theme developers is <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy">template hierarchy</a>, which defines a set of file naming conventions for context-specific template overrides. BP 1.8 extends this concept to top-level BuddyPress templates &#8211; the templates that are first located when loading a BuddyPress page. Let&#8217;s say, for instance, that you want your Groups directory to have a single-column layout, while the rest of your BuddyPress content has a right-hand sidebar. Simply create a single-column page template in your theme at <code>buddypress/groups/index-directory.php</code>, and BuddyPress will use this file, instead of the fallback <code>page.php</code>, when loading the Groups directory. Documentation of this new feature can be found <a href="http://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/template-hierarchy/">on the Codex</a>.</p>
<p><em>Developer goodies</em></p>
<p>1.8 is loaded with improvements aimed at making it easier and more fun than ever to develop for the BuddyPress platform.</p>
<ul>
<li>The popular <a href="http://codex.buddypress.org/developer/plugin-development/group-extension-api/">Groups Extension API</a> has seen a complete rewrite, fixing long-standing bugs, adding new configuration options, and dramatically streamlining the process of extending <code>BP_Group_Extension</code>.</li>
<li>The <a href="http://codex.buddypress.org/developer/developer-docs/loops-reference/the-activity-stream-loop/">activity</a> and <a href="http://codex.buddypress.org/developer/developer-docs/loops-reference/the-groups-loop/">groups</a> loops now support filtering by <code>'meta_query'</code>, using syntax familiar from <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Custom_Field_Parameters">WP_Query</a>.</li>
<li>Group member directories are powered by the new <code>BP_Group_Member_Query</code>, which extends the flexible tools of <code>BP_User_Query</code> to the Groups component.</li>
<li><a href="http://codex.buddypress.org/developer/automated-testing/">Automated testing</a> is now built into the trunk and stable Subversion versions of BuddyPress, complete with flexible tools for <a href="http://codex.buddypress.org/developer/automated-testing/writing-automated-tests-for-buddypress-dependent-plugins/">testing BP-dependent plugins</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Artisans at work</h3>
<p>In Midwood, Brooklyn, there&#8217;s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DiFara%27s">a pizzeria</a> where every pie is handmade by a single septuagenarian, and diners can wait two hours or more for a pizza of their own. While the BuddyPress team doesn&#8217;t like to make anyone wait (the 1.8 dev cycle has been our shortest ever, with every milestone hit right on schedule), we <em>do</em> like to think that we bring passion and care to BuddyPress that&#8217;s similar to Dom DeMarco&#8217;s single-minded pizza-making. So, we&#8217;re proud to name BuddyPress 1.8 &#8220;Di Fara&#8221; after Dom&#8217;s classic pizza joint.</p>
<h3>Thanks</h3>
<p>As always, the BP core team extends appreciation to the scores of developers, designers, and community volunteers who have spent thousands of hours on this version of BuddyPress. The following individuals contributed patches during the 1.8 release cycle: </p>
<p><a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/boonebgorges">boonebgorges</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/borkweb">borkweb</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/chouf1">chouf1</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/chriskeeble">chriskeeble</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/chroniko">chroniko</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/czarate">czarate</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/danbp">danbp</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/dcavins">dcavins</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/dcowgill">dcowgill</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/ddean">ddean</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/djpaul">djpaul</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/dontdream">dontdream</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/eggproject">eggproject</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/ericlewis">ericlewis</a>, grahamwashbroo, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/hnla">hnla</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/imath">imath</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/johnjamesjacoby">johnjamesjacoby</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed">karmatosed</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/lenasterg">lenasterg</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/magnus78">magnus78</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/megainfo">megainfo</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/rogercoathup">rogercoathup</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/mercime">mercime</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/merty">merty</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/mjustice">mjustice</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/modemlooper">modemlooper</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/mort3n">mort3n</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/mukkundthanki">mukkundthanki</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/nacin">nacin</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/needle">needle</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/r-a-y">r-a-y</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/saurabhshukla">saurabhshukla</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/sbrajesh">sbrajesh</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/SergeyBiryukov">SergeyBiryukov</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/SGr33n">SGr33n</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/shanebp">shanebp</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/splatte">splatte</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/thebrandonallen">thebrandonallen</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/themightymo">themightymo</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/tivnet">tivnet</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/trishasalas">trishasalas</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/vegasgeek">vegasgeek</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/wpdennis">wpdennis</a></p>
<h3>Buon appetito</h3>
<p>Questions about BuddyPress 1.8? Make the <a href="http://codex.buddypress.org">BuddyPress Codex</a> your first stop. A growing community of volunteers can also be found in our <a href="http://buddypress.org/support">support and discussion forums</a>. If you&#8217;ve found a bug in BuddyPress, or if you want to contribute code to the next release, our development home is <a href="http://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org">buddypress.trac.wordpress.org</a></p>
<p>There&#8217;s always a line at Di Fara (except that one time I went there after a tornado!), but the wait is over for BuddyPress 1.8 &#8220;Di Fara&#8221;. Download it today from the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress">wordpress.org plugin repository</a>, or from your WordPress Dashboard.</p>";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:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 17 Jul 2013 16:45:28 +0000";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:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:12:"Boone Gorges";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:11;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<p><a href="http://i2.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/WPJobsSite.jpg" rel="thumbnail"><img src="http://i1.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/WPJobsSite.jpg?resize=500%2C262" alt="WP Jobs Website" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-7986" /></a></p>
<blockquote><p>The site is intended to be used as the primary location for employers looking for professional WordPress help to post their needs and for WordPress professionals to find, apply for and obtain jobs in WordPress. We have focused on aesthetics, ease of use and consolidation of resources in developing WordPress Jobs. Feeds are available for every job category to make it easy for job seekers to find and apply for the right jobs as quickly as possible.</p></blockquote>
<p>Matt had a hand in getting the site launched in 2007. Coming around full-circle, Matt has the opportunity to once again continue the legacy that is the original Jobs.WordPress.Net website. As <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/meta/2013/07/17/seeking-2-moderators-for-jobs-wordpress-net/" title="http://make.wordpress.org/meta/2013/07/17/seeking-2-moderators-for-jobs-wordpress-net/">announced on the Make.WordPress.org website</a>, there has been a call for volunteer moderators for the website. The jobs board is still a popular destination but the amount of work required for one individual is daunting. The post outlines what is involved with the moderation process and the type of skills necessary to complete the work. It&#8217;s very encouraging to see that a number of people have already stepped up to help moderate this new community resource. </p>
<p>On a WordPress jobs related note, PostStat.us just published their Summer edition of <a href="http://poststat.us/whos-hiring-in-wordpress-summer-edition/" title="http://poststat.us/whos-hiring-in-wordpress-summer-edition/">Who&#8217;s Hiring In WordPress</a>.</p>
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<p><a title="First Google Map" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/first-google-map/" target="_blank">First Google Map</a> employs one of my favorite slogans, &#8220;Keep It Simple&#8221;. Often times when we&#8217;re trying to insert a simple Google map, the plugins or embed code we use is too bloated, doesn&#8217;t display titles correctly or are too difficult to set up ahead of time. In comes &#8220;First Google Map&#8221; that allows you to insert a plain language formatted address to display your Google Map. The shortcode is rather simple and uses common sense taxonomy in its options. For example, if you wanted to show Mr. Mullenweg&#8217;s new rumored Tony Stark style mansion location, simply enter: [googlemap title='Matt's Beachfront Cottage' width=450 height=300 zoom=14]31250 Broad Beach Rd, Malibu, CA[/googlemap] and the map will embed inline in your content area with appropriate overlay title of your choosing. Pretty nice way to insert on the fly. I could not find a direct option to choose the &#8220;satellite&#8221; view option over the standard road-only mode, which was the only real drawback. Other than that, it would be nice to have more control over the size of the address font that overlays the map. Most addresses that I tried were hyphenated by the plugin because the font was too large and it flowed into the next line. Control over these elements would be great, even if just another call-out function from within the shortcode.</p>
<p><a href="http://i2.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Wp-chart-generator.jpg" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7960" alt="Wp-chart-generator sample output" src="http://i0.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Wp-chart-generator.jpg?resize=150%2C150" /></a><a title="WP Chart Generator" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-chart-generator/" target="_blank">WP Chart Generator</a> helps to embed an on-the fly 3D pie chart with multiple options, an automatic key and a nice hover dialogue that highlights each section when the user moves their mouse over the graph. The developer may need assistance converting this to English, as it&#8217;s completely in French. Fortunately, it&#8217;s so easy to use that the language barrier really didn&#8217;t make much difference. The shortcode is pretty easy to create within the plugin options, which allows you to copy the correct shortcode to embed within your posts. In the past I&#8217;ve used Google chart API callouts for embedding simple graphs, but for pie charts, this one takes the cake!</p>
<p><a title="GSpeech" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/gspeech/" target="_blank">GSpeech</a> is a text to speech plugin that uses Google to read selected text aloud. At first I thought it would be just one of those &#8220;Type Something in the box and I&#8217;ll read it&#8221; type of plugins. I was sorely inaccurate. This plugin can incorporate full speech to read when certain scenarios occur, such as hovering over a tab to hear the tab&#8217;s navigation title read out loud. There are also hover-on, hover-off possibilities as well. When a site visitor hovers over the &#8220;about us&#8221; page, perhaps it can just start reading your bio aloud. It&#8217;s an interesting plugin for serving those with eyesight disabilities, but also an ideal educational platform as well. It may be used in combination with a gallery for a &#8220;storybook&#8221; type presentation. Even job training could be utilized using this kind of plugin to read instructions out loud. Great effort from those at <a title="2Glux" href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/2glux/" target="_blank">2Glux</a> who developed this.</p>
<p><a title="I Recommend This" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/i-recommend-this/" target="_blank">I Recommend This</a> scales back our traditional feedback mechanism by removing comments and relying on a simple &#8220;like&#8221; system instead. Included in the plugin is widget functionality that can display the most popular &#8220;liked&#8221; posts. Cookies are also utilized to prevent abuse of users over-liking your posts. You have the option to not show all the ZERO likes that you may have on your post. Once you get a like, it starts displaying on the post. Nice way to hide all the goose eggs (zeroes) that will be blatantly mocking you while you or other users browse through your site. It&#8217;s a good alternative to some of the mainstream Twitter/FB likes or the standard thumbs up / thumbs down ratings plugins that are out there. The developer <a title="Dreams Media" href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/dreamsmedia/" target="_blank">Dreams Media</a> really thought it through with IP logging and Cookie tracking to prevent abuse. Additionally you can remove the IP logging to save system resources. Worth a try if you want to keep a fully enclosed like system to replace comments. Good for business sites that may not want to allow commenting, yet show a favorable presentation that someone out there likes their content. Great recently updated plugin.</p>
<p><a href="http://i0.wp.com/s.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-easy-albums-photos-video-and-music-next-gen/screenshot-4.jpg" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignleft" alt="Easy Albums for BuddyPress" src="http://i1.wp.com/s.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-easy-albums-photos-video-and-music-next-gen/screenshot-4.jpg?resize=180%2C178" /></a><a title="Easy Albums for BuddyPress" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-easy-albums-photos-video-and-music-next-gen/" target="_blank">Easy Albums</a> is a new plugin for BuddyPress that allows the user base to upload their own audio files, playlists, images and videos to be displayed and organized in their own personalized albums. Not only does this allow a lot of media functionality from your user base, but it encourages commenting from other users as well. From an activity stream perspective, each user&#8217;s new media posts are shown within the timeline. While I love the functionality and flexibility that this all provides, the problem with this plugin from my perspective is that is requires a login from a third-party hosting server that the media is uploaded to. It is nearly perfect otherwise. A fully supported WPMU and Buddypress solution for full user media participation. Ideal for social and business applications of BuddyPress alike. If we could tie it to our own hosting or from Amazon or Dropbox without the additional login, I would gladly pay the developer <a title="Itaynoy" href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/itaynoy/" target="_blank">Itaynoy</a> a premium for it.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s all the eggs in the basket for now. Looks like we had a good batch today! We&#8217;ll be up and at &#8216;em bright and early tomorrow in search of the newest and noteworthy plugins from the WordPress Plugin Repository. Keep plugging along out there.. The week is half-way over! We&#8217;ll see you again tomorrow with another installment of The Daily Plugin. Be sure to say hello on Twitter <a title="Marcus Couch on Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/marcuscouch">@marcuscouch</a> or leave your feedback related to these plugins at <a title="The Daily Plugin for 7-17-2013" href="http://wptavern.com/the-daily-plugin-for-07-17-2013">WPTavern</a>.</p>
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<p>We <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/news/2013/07/ramp-1-2-released/">released an update</a> to <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/wordpress/ramp/">RAMP</a> yesterday to address a compatibility issue introduced in WordPress 3.5.2 as well as adding support for the post locking feature that will be arriving in WordPress 3.6 and addressing a few other issues. This is a recommended upgrade for all customers.</p>
<p><a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/news/2013/07/introducing-the-ramp-post-id-meta-translation-plugin/">We also released</a> the <a href="https://github.com/crowdfavorite/wp-ramp-postid-meta-translation">RAMP Post ID Meta Translation plugin (hosted on GitHub)</a> that should make RAMP even more useful for more complex sites. It gives you the ability to designate certain custom fields (by key) to be treated as post IDs and translated as part of the RAMP deploy process.</p>
<p>This means if you have a plugin that is storing a post ID as post meta to indicate a relationship, or perhaps an additional image (attachment) ID as post meta, those can now be properly converted to point to the content deployed to your production site. This was probably the top requested feature for RAMP, so I&#8217;m thrilled to be able to make it available.</p>
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<p>We&#8217;ve been investing quite a bit in our internal tools over the last year or so. It is awesome to be able to spin up a project locally, with good data, in minutes. It&#8217;s even cooler when you can run a simple command to update the staging environment, make updates to the master database or pull down the latest master database.</p>
<p>People frequently ask if <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/wordpress/ramp/">RAMP</a>  can push plugin and theme changes as part of it&#8217;s deployment process. The reason we&#8217;ve focused solely on making RAMP a WordPress content migration tool is because there are already so many good tools for code deployment.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m very pleased we got our wrapper to the point it was ready for public release. Need help with getting a good deployment strategy in place for WordPress? <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/contact/#project">We can help</a>.</p>
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<blockquote><p>I’ve also run the unit tests that apply to the importer plugin; however, the test cases are generally small (indeed, the biggest XML test case is 26 KB, titled small-export.xml) and don’t trigger the kinds of issues that importing dozens or hundreds of posts and attachments—with WXR files of megabytes in size—does.</p>
<p>So, the first task at hand is breaking up the process—which currently executes in one step with little indication of progress—into discrete chunks that can run in separate, stateful (stepwise) requests.</p>
<p>A chat with my mentors has pointed me in the direction of WP_Importer_Cron, which was first developed for other importers that need to make external API calls (e.g. Tumblr Importer) potentially subject to rate constraints. There are some parallels between “external API calls” and “remote attachment fetching”, which is why this can be a suitable approach for fixing the timeout issues that present with the current WordPress importer. After the process is discretized, showing progress (an enhancement long overdue) will be easier.</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m stoked to see Frederick not only concentrating on the functionality of the importer but also paying attention to the visual details such as showing import progress. There are a lot of eyeballs keeping track of this plugin hoping that Frederick&#8217;s work will pay off in an importer that does what it&#8217;s supposed to with minimal problems. I want to remind Frederick that if you need people to beta test your work, especially in the area of large export/imports, just say so. I&#8217;m willing to be a guinea pig and <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/whats-going-on-with-the-wordpress-importer" title="http://www.wptavern.com/whats-going-on-with-the-wordpress-importer">I know a few others are as well</a>. </p>
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<p>I wanted to better expose stuff I&#8217;m doing on GitHub that I may not be actvely blogging about<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/topic/wordpress/feed#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>, so I decided to pull in my GitHub activity feed and show it in the <a href="http://alexking.org/projects">Projects page</a> sidebar.</p>
<p>I created a WordPress plugin for this that includes a shortcode and sidebar widget. I&#8217;ve submitted it to WordPress.org, but now there seems to be some sort of review process before it&#8217;s available there so you can <a href="https://github.com/alexkingorg/wp-github-activity/releases">download it from GitHub now</a>. I&#8217;ll post an update when/if it&#8217;s on WP.org.</p>
<p>UPDATE: You can now <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-github-activity/">grab this from WordPress.org</a>.</p>
<p>There are some screenshot examples in the <a href="https://github.com/alexkingorg/wp-github-activity">main GitHub repo</a>, or (as previously mentioned) you can check it out in the sidebar of my <a href="http://alexking.org/projects">Projects page</a>.</p>
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<blockquote><p>If I have 100 plugins all doing their own thing, and I just combine them all into one file somewhere, then the code remains the same and there’s no advantages in doing so. Having them separate, with their own names, and their own descriptions, provides a way to keep track of things. I use snippets a lot too, but I put each snippet into its own plugin, for simplicity of management.</p>
<p>The number of plugins doesn’t matter, the code is what matters, and where that code lives is unimportant. WordPress itself implements a lot of its own internal functionality in the same way a plugin would do so.</p></blockquote>
<p>His response has been very consistent over the years. In 2011, he pretty much <a href="http://wpcandy.com/thinks/active-plugin-counts-just-dont-matter/#comment-198719" title="http://wpcandy.com/thinks/active-plugin-counts-just-dont-matter/#comment-198719">provided the same answer</a> when Ryan Imel of WPCandy published an article about the same topic. I also chimed in on this topic in 2011 where I discussed <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/plugin-quality-not-plugin-quantity" title="http://www.wptavern.com/plugin-quality-not-plugin-quantity">Plugin Quality, not Plugin Quantity</a>. This is one of those things in the world of WordPress that I&#8217;ve seen change over the past few years. The line of thought used to be that you could only run so many plugins before you ran into problems or, you shouldn&#8217;t run more than a certain amount. I&#8217;m glad to see this urban myth slowly but surely, being put to rest. </p>
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<blockquote><p>Note that this also allows Six Apart at any time in the future to say “As of today, we are no longer releasing a GPL version of Movable Type.” And that would require that someone fork the code in order to proceed with development. WordPress can’t easily do that, as it is not owned by a single legal entity.</p>
<p><a href="http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2007/09/15/what-a-gpld-movable-type-means-for-wordpress/">What a GPL’d Movable Type means for WordPress</a></p></blockquote>
<p>When I wrote that, I honestly didn&#8217;t think it was going to happen. I was just saying that it was an option that was open to them. But here they&#8217;ve gone and done it. What a bizarre saga this has turned out to be. &#8220;Life is funny&#8221;, <a href="https://twitter.com/anildash/status/354800758413205505">remarks Anil Dash</a>, former Six Apart Chief Evangelist.</p>
<p>Will this start a conversation about copyright assignment on open source projects, or is this a non-event? If a project has a strong open source development community, an attempt to close it down should result in a fork of the project. As it happens, Movable Type Open Source was already forked. Several prominent Movable Type people created <a href="http://openmelody.org/">Open Melody</a> back in 2009. Don&#8217;t bother clicking that link. As of this writing the site is non-operational. The Open Melody Twitter account just recorded its first activity in over two years. A retweet of this:</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>On MT6: Wondering if any MT users wish they&#039;d supported @<a href="https://twitter.com/openmelody">openmelody</a> now or if maybe they just don&#039;t care about <a href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23opensource" title="#opensource">#opensource</a> or collaboration&mdash; <br />The Appnel Group (@appnelgroup) <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/appnelgroup/status/356779173508939778">July 15, 2013</a></p></blockquote>
<p>I guess we&#8217;ll find out!</p>
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<p>LeanDomainSearch specializes in quick and easy domain searches. I took it for a test spin to see what other domains I could buy with the word <strong>Tavern</strong> in them. Turns out, quite a few. </p>
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<p>The search results are lightning fast and the color coded legend makes it easy to see which domains are available to be registered. Among the domain registration options are GoDaddy, NameCheap, and WordPress.com. The domain search also checks to see if that name is available on Twitter. When you click on the WordPress.com option, the domain field will automatically be filled in with that domain name. </p>
<p><a href="http://i2.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/SuperTavern.jpg" rel="thumbnail"><img src="http://i2.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/SuperTavern.jpg?resize=407%2C278" alt="Super Tavern" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7931" /></a></p>
<p>Thanks to the acquisition, the <a href="http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/register-domain/" title="http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/register-domain/">following WordPress.com support page</a> will need to be updated to explain how to use the newly acquired services to search for available names. </p>
<p>Congratulations to Matt Mazur on being acqui-hired and becoming yet another Matt that is employed by Automattic. Can never have enough Matt&#8217;s working for Automattic. </p>
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<p>This multiple author section of WordPress is a whole new world for me and one I&#8217;m interested in learning about. Based on the post from WPKube, I plan on trying out the following plugins: <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/better-author-bio/" title="http://wordpress.org/plugins/better-author-bio/">Better Author Bio</a>, <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-status-notifier/" title="http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-status-notifier/">WP Status Notifier</a>, and possibly <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/edit-flow/" title="http://wordpress.org/plugins/edit-flow/">Edit Flow</a> although at this stage, Edit Flow seems to be too much of what I don&#8217;t need with just one other contributor to the site. There is one other plugin I may experiment with called <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/co-authors-plus/" title="http://wordpress.org/plugins/co-authors-plus/">Co-Authors Plus</a>. It allows me to assign an author to a post without having to create an additional user account. </p>
<p><strong>What plugins do you use to make working with multiple authors easier?</strong></p>
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<p>As <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2013/07/07/reorganizing">alluded to earlier</a>, I&#8217;ve cleaned up my <a href="http://alexking.org/projects">projects page</a> which is now powered by a new taxonomy, custom post type and the content I&#8217;ve generated here over the last decade plus. Turns out, I&#8217;ve generated quite a few projects. <img src="http://alexking.org/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p><img src="http://alexking.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/projects-page-crop-510x382.png" alt="projects-page-crop" width="480" height="359" class="aligncenter size-medium-img wp-image-17781" /></p>
<p>I&#8217;m not completely done creating and managing the content, but I&#8217;m pretty happy with the improvement. I&#8217;ve tried to group them in ways that are useful &#8211; especially calling out projects that are no longer active<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/topic/wordpress/feed#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>.</p>
<p>You can see a comparison of the old and new pages in <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkingorg/sets/72157634631433509/">this Flickr set</a>.</p>
<p>So what did I do and how did I do it?</p>
<p><span id="more-17747"></span></p>
<p><em>Note: This was written against a pre-release version of WordPress 3.6</em></p>
<h3>1. Create a Projects Taxonomy (and Post Type)</h3>
<p>I created two new taxonomies to power the Projects page.</p>
<ol>
<li>Projects: the names of my various projects.</li>
<li>Project Groups: to group my projects into buckets.</li>
</ol>
<p><p>View the code on <a href="https://gist.github.com/5991273">Gist</a>.</p></p>
<p>I then used the <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com">Crowd Favorite</a> <a href="https://github.com/crowdfavorite/wp-tax-post-binding">taxonomy-to-post binding plugin</a> plugin to create a Project post type that is effectively a child of the Projects taxonomy. This way I will be able to add content, terms, featured images, etc. to my projects (in a very forward compatible way).</p>
<p><p>View the code on <a href="https://gist.github.com/5991284">Gist</a>.</p></p>
<h3>2. Convert existing Categories and Threads to Projects</h3>
<p>In my existing content structures I had both categories and <a href="http://alexking.org/project/threads">threads</a> that were dedicated to specific projects. I needed to convert those relationships to the new projects taxonomy I&#8217;d created.</p>
<p>Changing the categories was straightforward, but there was a little more work for the threads because I needed to convert the related post types as well. I did separate SQL queries to get the various category and thread ids I needed to convert.</p>
<p><p>View the code on <a href="https://gist.github.com/5991297">Gist</a>.</p></p>
<p>Once everything was converted, I then ran a little code to save each term via the WordPress API so that the associated project post types content would be created (via the tax-post-binding library).</p>
<p><p>View the code on <a href="https://gist.github.com/5991324">Gist</a>.</p></p>
<p>The existing terms are now fully converted to projects.</p>
<h3>3. Create New Projects (with meta data)</h3>
<p>Now that I had converted the existing categories and threads to projects, it was time to create the rest of the projects. I ended up creating a big array with lots of meta data so that I could run and test this locally, then replay it all on my live site.</p>
<p>This code creates the new project groups taxonomy terms, the new project terms, and adds meta data to the associated project post types.</p>
<p><p>View the code on <a href="https://gist.github.com/5991315">Gist</a>.</p></p>
<p>I truncated that quite a bit as I inserted a <em>lot</em> of projects.</p>
<h3>4. Assign Existing Posts to Projects</h3>
<p>At this point we have all of our project terms and post types created, it&#8217;s time to use them.</p>
<p>Finding the posts I wanted to put into each project wasn&#8217;t an exact science. I basically created a projects list, then did searches on my site to find the posts relevant to that project. Then I manually selected the post IDs for those posts, and put them into a big array.</p>
<p><p>View the code on <a href="https://gist.github.com/5991399">Gist</a>.</p></p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t select the posts programatically because there&#8217;s a bit more nuance to choosing what is and isn&#8217;t applicable to a project than just a keyword search.</p>
<p>As part of that process, I also added a &#8220;Projects&#8221; category to all of these posts. I use this to show links to the latest posts across all projects on the new page. I needed to add this category to all of the converted categories and threads too.<sup id="fnref:2"><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/topic/wordpress/feed#fn:2" rel="footnote">2</a></sup></p>
<p><p>View the code on <a href="https://gist.github.com/5991415">Gist</a>.</p></p>
<h3>5. Expose the New Data to Create the Projects Page</h3>
<p>With all of my data set up, the last step was to expose it to power the projects page. I decided to do this by creating a shortcode that would output the projects by group.</p>
<p><p>View the code on <a href="https://gist.github.com/5991434">Gist</a>.</p></p>
<p>This has a bit too much of a mix of template and presentation for my liking, but it works and refactoring it is pretty low on my list at this point. Next time I mess with that code, I&#8217;ll probably clean it up a bit.</p>
<h3>6. Project Page</h3>
<p>The final step in the process was to customize the output of the individual project page. I am outputting the description, related links and featured image from the bound post type, and I converted some of my Threads plugin code to show a timeline of posts in &#8220;newest first&#8221; order. I also added a &#8220;this post is part of a project&#8221; banner to the individual posts, again borrowing the code from the Threads plugin.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s <a href="http://alexking.org/project/social">an example</a>.</p>
<h3>Conclusion</h3>
<p>I feel like the new <a href="http://alexking.org/projects">projects page</a> is a better representation of my projects, and will be more meaningful and maintainable in the future than the old static page was. It will also reward me for blogging more frequently by being more up to date as a result.</p>
<p>All good things.</p>
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More on this in a future post.&#160;<a href="http://alexking.org/blog/topic/wordpress/feed#fnref:1" rev="footnote">&#8617;</a>
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I probably could have done this earlier in the process, but didn&#8217;t think of the feature I wanted it for until later.&#160;<a href="http://alexking.org/blog/topic/wordpress/feed#fnref:2" rev="footnote">&#8617;</a>
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<blockquote><p>We hope to ship WordPress 3.6 in a couple weeks. But to do that, we really need your help! If you haven’t tested 3.6 yet, there’s no time like the present. (But please: not on a live production site, unless you’re feeling especially adventurous.)</p>
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<p>Just a little more testing and polishing until we can grab 3.6. Once it&#8217;s released, many of us will be waiting to <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/05/29/post-formats-ui-is-exiting-core-will-live-as-a-plugin/#comment-8863" title="http://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/05/29/post-formats-ui-is-exiting-core-will-live-as-a-plugin/#comment-8863">read the postmortem</a> by Mark Jaquith which will detail the reasons behind why the Post Formats UI had to be removed and the side effects it caused. </p>
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<p><em>Delayed, but still loved</em><br />
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<blockquote><p>We were sick and tired of our debt hindering us from being able to follow our passion of slow travel with our family as digital tentmakers. Our one goal became cleaning up our financial mess and removing that hurdle. So when we received the offer to sell we asked “Does this get us to our goal?” and the answer was “Yes.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Congratulations Daniel on beheading the monster that is debt. I hope your story serves as inspiration for many others to accomplish the same feat. </p>
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<p><a title="Similar Sites Menu" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/similar-sites-menu/" target="_blank">Similar Sites Menu</a> is an external sites &#8220;link menu&#8221; that acts as a secondary native menu in your top navigation bar. If you happen to run a sub domain or have sister sites this could be a really good option in which you can promote everything on the top-level. The theme that I tested this on did not play nice with the plugin when it came to CSS styling and matching the overall look and feel of my WordPress installation. However when I tested it on a secondary staging site they work great without any complications. I was able to edit the color scheme to match the site perfectly in just under three minutes. Any theme with a secondary menu could accomplish this task as well, but it&#8217;s nice to have another option when you need it.</p>
<p><a title="Random Images" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/random-images/" target="_blank">Random Images</a> shows off the featured images within posts in a nice layout with uniformly sized thumbnails. When a thumbnail is clicked the plugin calls up a lightbox version of the enlarged image is shown with a link to the content item on top of the image. While I found that the functionality and overall design of this plugin was very appealing, the lightbox itself was not the result I was expecting. For the purposes of my own sites and content that resides within them, I would rather see this plugin serve the capacity in showing full post content rather than just images. I&#8217;m sure that this could be accomplished with just a bit of code revision, in addition to options of sharing the posts via social networking platforms such as Twitter and Facebook.</p>
<p><a title="TSP Featured Posts" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/tsp-featured-posts/" target="_blank">TSP Featured Posts</a> from The Software People gives you the opportunity to show off your posts in a simple Layout that can be easily managed and manipulated through shortcodes. After installing the plugin you make a determination as to your default thumbnail size and the length of the excerpt of the post that you&#8217;d like to display. Once all of those vital statistics have been entered into the system, you simply choose the category you&#8217;d like to display, how many posts you like, and the plugin does all the rest. This is a pretty good plugin for people who would like to tweak the themes without having to go through major code overhaul. There are certainly a number of themes that have this functionality built within the framework, but not all of them. I found this to be an excellent first entry from this particular developer and will be highlighting a few more plugins that they have released this week in the days that follow.</p>
<p><a href="http://i2.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/CSV-Test.png" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7870" alt="CSV-Test" src="http://i2.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/CSV-Test.png?resize=150%2C150" /></a><a title="CSV to Sort Table" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/csv-to-sorttable/" target="_blank">CSV to SortTable</a> has been recently updated, and it&#8217;s turning into the kind of plugin that may have more usage than the developer even intended. The plugin functions by calling an external CSV file from a URL of your choosing and transforms it into a sortable HTML table. It&#8217;s simple to do on a per post basis in the form of an easy shortcode, such as <strong>[csv src=http://example.com/myfile.csv], </strong>showing the direct path to the file. There are other shortcode options as well, like hiding/showing the top or bottom rows, etc. I tested this on a few different CSV files with great success. The tables all looked great right out of the gate with little modification. So how does this plugin work and what can be expanded from it? Well I tried a few scenarios. The first thing that I did was try to make changes to an already uploaded CSV file to see if it would update on the fly. It did. So we know that it updates the file in real-time. This can be good and bad. Good because it always has the newest data. Bad because it&#8217;s always trying to download and convert that file on the fly. The load time wasn&#8217;t worth abandoning the plugin over, so I tried a few more &#8220;hacks&#8221; to see if I could expand the range even further. I took the same CSV file and saved it to a local dropbox folder. Then I went to the Dropbox site to get a private link to the csv file. This worked! I imported straight from Dropbox. The one issue I had is that I then went back and made a few changes to the file and re-saved in Dropbox. Even after editing and re-synching the folder, the new revisions did not &#8220;take&#8221; with the plugin. It could be a cache issue or something on the end of Dropbox, but it&#8217;s a good idea for the developer to think about using services like Google Drive and Dropbox to feed the CSV source path. I would love the ability to edit files on the fly and have them self-update into pricing or product tables in near real-time. It&#8217;s almost perfect and certainly works well as intended. It would be nice to connect a few more pipes to it though.</p>
<p><a title="Buddypress XProfile Custom Fields Type" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/" target="_blank">Buddypress Xprofile Custom Fields Type</a> helps to add more user functionality and community within your BuddyPress installation. It allows several custom fields to be used in reference to your users, such as the user&#8217;s birthday, email address, custom post type selector results, image fields, check box acceptances (for terms of service or rules acknowledgement) and other custom fields of your choosing. It also provides the user with the option to hide or show selected information on their user profile. All the fields work within the BP Profile Search plugin, so the information becomes completely searchable. I&#8217;m relatively new to BuddyPress, having created only a few small-scale private member sites. Any help that can come in the form of easy to configure fields and user options is always a welcome relief. If you are in the same boat that I am regarding editing and managing BuddyPress, you&#8217;ll appreciate the flexibility that this plugin provides.</p>
<p>Thank you once again for joining me in another edition of The Daily Plugin. As always you can follow me on twitter <a title="Marcus Couch on Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/marcuscouch">@marcuscouch</a> or simply leave your feedback here at <a title="The Daily Plugin for 7-11-2013" href="http://www.wptavern.com/the-daily-plugin-for-07-11-2013">WPTavern</a>.</p>
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<p>It was less than a week later I got an email from a friend who was helping organize a hush-hush event where Jay-Z would sing his song Picasso Baby over and over 6 hours while interacting with various artists and an audience as a performance piece, and there might even be an opportunity to be one of the people he interacted with. My jaw dropped.</p>
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<p>The entire experience was fairly surreal, <a href="http://www.vulture.com/2013/07/jerry-saltz-face-to-face-with-jay-z.html">this article by Jerry Saltz captured it well</a>, and in the end I did get to &#8220;perform&#8221; (in a very loose performance art sense) directly with Jay (we&#8217;re on a first syllable basis now), <a href="https://twitter.com/joshm/status/355090504586776576">which was even caught in a photo</a>. An hour into the event I couldn&#8217;t find any trace of it on Twitter or blogs. I brought my Nikon D3S to the event and snapped a few photos, some of which of his performance with Marina Abramovic turned out really well. If I could do it again the only thing I&#8217;d do differently is try and get portraits of more of the amazing artists who were there, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andres_Serrano">Andres Serrano</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Peyton">Elizabeth Peyton</a>. Also huge thanks and kudos to <a href="https://twitter.com/YvonneForce">Yvonne Force Villerael</a> and <a href="http://www.salon94.com/">Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn</a> for putting together such an unique happening.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a video Shannon Lanier took when we went up together:</p>
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<p><strong>What is WP Remote and why did you decide to start the service?</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://i1.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/WPRemote1.jpg" rel="thumbnail"><img src="http://i0.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/WPRemote1.jpg?resize=500%2C106" alt="Track All Your Sites" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-7706" /></a></p>
<p>WP Remote is a service for monitoring and updating all of your WordPress sites. Human Made built the initial version a few years back out of necessity — a way of streamlining the repetitive tasks associated with managing our many client sites. We received positive feedback on WP Remote from those we showed it to, and decided to invest a bit of time releasing a public version.</p>
<p><strong>What’s all included in the free account?</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://i2.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/WPRemote2.jpg" rel="thumbnail"><img src="http://i0.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/WPRemote2.jpg?resize=500%2C122" alt="Daily Automatic Backups" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-7707" /></a></p>
<p>WP Remote will monitor your WordPress sites for updates to plugins, theme, and WordPress core. If it finds any out of date software, you can update individually or all at once. WP Remote also lets you perform an on-demand backup of an entire site. Signing up is easy, so go ahead and give it a try.</p>
<p><strong>Why did you decide to offer a free account?</strong></p>
<p>Much of the community is built on sharing what you know and have. We thought making WP Remote publicly available was an appropriate way for us to contribute back.</p>
<p><strong>How does this service differ from VaultPress or some of the other security monitoring services?</strong></p>
<p>WP Remote doesn’t do any security monitoring at this time. We’re focusing on the best functionality for managing your WordPress sites.</p>
<p><strong>Can you provide some of the technical details involved with the backups such as where they are stored and what makes them secure?</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://i1.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/WPRemote3.jpg" rel="thumbnail"><img src="http://i2.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/WPRemote3.jpg?resize=421%2C133" alt="Serious About Security" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7708" /></a></p>
<p>On your web host, the backup file is first generated with our open source HM Backup library. Our on-demand backup feature then streams the backup file from your web host to your computer. On the other hand, our premium Automatic Backups feature stores your backup file in an encrypted Amazon S3 bucket that we manage, making it very easy for users who are looking for a hands off approach.</p>
<p><strong>How are you able to offer such a service at such an affordable price?</strong></p>
<p>It’s been a labor of love so far. We’d like to invest much more time into improving WP Remote though. To help us justify this investment, we plan to introduce additional features worth paying for (a cost that you can also pass on to your clients).</p>
<p><strong>Are there plans in the future to add the ability to be able to automatically restore a site from a backup?</strong></p>
<p>No set plans, but restoring a site from backup (or cloning an existing site) is a feature we’d love as well. We do have a handy guide for people who want to restore their site from a backup. We’re always looking for people to check out WP Remote and send us feedback.</p>
<p><strong>What’s been the most common feedback you’ve received from your customers?</strong></p>
<p>Funny you ask! We ran a survey just last week — one common request is for an email notification when you have a plugin or theme to update. We think this would be neat, and it would be even cooler to have WP Remote automatically upgrade plugins and themes it knew were safe to upgrade.</p>
<p><strong>What is the long term goal of WP Remote?</strong></p>
<p>To build a smart, intuitive application to manage our WordPress sites so we don’t have to. In doing so, we hope others grow to love WP Remote as much as we do. We are also working to expose an external API for WP Remote so developers can better integrate their own tools with us. We are pretty excited about the potential.</p>
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<blockquote><p>A CDN is a content delivery network that stores copies of your images and site files in locations all around the world. This allows them to be downloaded to your visitor’s computer faster, speeding up the overall load time of your page.</p></blockquote>
<p>At $9 dollars per month, it&#8217;s a cheap way to speed up a website but it&#8217;s not cheaper than free. <a title="http://jetpack.me/support/photon/" href="http://jetpack.me/support/photon/">Photon</a>, which is one of the services built into the Jetpack plugin provides CDN capabilities. When enabled, images will be served dynamically from the servers that power the WordPress.com cloud. However, Photon does have its limitations. For example:</p>
<ul>
<li>Photon filters content but doesn’t change the info in the database.</li>
<li>Photon currently only acts on images in posts and featured images (post thumbnails).</li>
<li>Photon will apply to old posts and new ones alike and can be turned on or off easily.</li>
<li>No cache invalidations – currently the images are cached “forever”. If you want to “refresh” an image you will need to change the name of the image.&nbsp;Adding random query arguments, commonly known as cachebusters, will not work.</li>
<li>We only fetch, resize, and serve&nbsp;<strong>gif, png, and jpg</strong>&nbsp;images from servers that listen on&nbsp;<strong>port 80</strong>. This is about 99.99% of the web servers in the world.</li>
<li>We will not “upscale” an image in most circumstances.&nbsp;If your original image is 1000px wide and you ask for us to make it 5000px, we will serve you the original 1000px image.&nbsp;Upscaled images are usually of poor quality and we want to avoid that.</li>
<li>If your server takes longer than 10 seconds to upload the image to Photon, the upload will time out and your image will appear to be broken. Try to upload a differently-named image with a smaller file size if this happens.</li>
<li>Animated gifs will probably break if resized or transformed via Photon.</li>
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<p>On paper, using any type of CDN is supposed to be beneficial to both the site and its visitors. However, until we see some comparison benchmarks preferably from a third-party comparing speeds and services like PressCDN with Photon, we&#8217;ll never know.</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:"BuddyPress: BuddyPress 1.8 – Release Candidate 1";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://buddypress.org/?p=167934";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:65:"http://buddypress.org/2013/07/buddypress-1-8-release-candidate-1/";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:1025:"<p>BuddyPress 1.8 is so close you can smell it! (Incidentally, it smells kinda like pizza.) The first release candidate (RC1) for BP 1.8 is now available. </p>
<p>&#8220;Release candidate&#8221; means we think everything&#8217;s in place for the final 1.8 release, but want to give developers and users one last chance to kick the tires. Not sure what to test? We&#8217;re working on formal release notes, but in the meantime visit <code>/wp-admin/index.php?page=bp-about</code> of your RC1 test installation for a summary of the major changes in 1.8.</p>
<p>RC1 also means a strict string freeze. If you maintain any BuddyPress localizations, now is the time to complete any necessary translations against trunk.</p>
<p>Get BP 1.8-RC1 via SVN, or <a href="http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/buddypress.1.8-RC1.zip">as a zip</a>. If you find issues or have questions, head for <a href="http://buddypress.org/support">our support forums</a> or <a href="http://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org">our development tracker</a>.</p>";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:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Thu, 11 Jul 2013 17:33:29 +0000";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:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:12:"Boone Gorges";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:40;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";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:40:"WPTavern: Post Status Version 2 Launches";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=7847";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:92:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WordpressTavern/~3/c8UI9KSN-LU/post-status-version-2-launches";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:1939:"<p>Staying up late finally paid off as I became one of the first to see a preview of the new <a href="http://poststat.us/" title="http://poststat.us/">PostStat.us</a> redesign. In the <a href="http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=ff3456b27ebe0be0155087894&id=8b92d9db31&e=08849ad4bd" title="http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=ff3456b27ebe0be0155087894&id=8b92d9db31&e=08849ad4bd">latest edition</a> of the Post Status newsletter, founder Brian Krogsgard outlined the various changes that the redesign encompassed. Since long form content has generated some of the most interest and engagement on the site, the redesign features a left-handed column devoted exclusively to the long form content while the right-hand sidebar will contain the typical links that visitors are accustomed to. This enables the long form content to stick around longer without being buried by the different content types. </p>
<p><a href="http://i0.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/RedesignPreview.png" rel="thumbnail"><img src="http://i2.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/RedesignPreview.png?resize=500%2C345" alt="Post Status Redesign Preview" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-7848" /></a></p>
<p>Another large piece of the revamped site gives us a glimpse as to one of the ways Brian is looking to monetize the site. With the redesign, he has entered an exclusive 3-month partnership with <a href="http://thethemefoundry.com/wordpress/" title="http://thethemefoundry.com/wordpress/">The Theme Foundry</a>. The ad is non-obtrusive, and blends into the site rather well. </p>
<p>Overall, the design is crisp, clean, and easy on the eyes. Brian did a nice job. His new approach reminds me <a href="http://daringfireball.net/" title="http://daringfireball.net/">DaringFireball</a> but with a crowdsourced aspect added on. </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:65:"WPTavern: Dradcast Episode 18 Featuring Syed Balkhi Of WPBeginner";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=7841";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:117:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WordpressTavern/~3/MMapgZH6yHg/dradcast-episode-18-featuring-syed-balkhi-of-wpbeginner";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:844:"<p>Episode 18 of the <a href="http://dradcast.com/" title="http://dradcast.com/">Dradcast podcast</a> featured the one and only Syed Balkhi of WPbeginner.com. It was a great show filled with excellent content including Syed&#8217;s recent giveaway aimed at helping to <a href="http://fundraise.pencilsofpromise.org/fundraise?fcid=249743" title="http://fundraise.pencilsofpromise.org/fundraise?fcid=249743">build a school</a>. However, given that WPDaily has disappeared, I think the meat of the show starts at the 19 minute mark where the panel talks about the shutting down of WPDaily. Be warned, the following video has occasional strong language. </p>
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<p>Overall, another great episode by the Dradcast team. </p>
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<p><a title="Featured Image from Google Images" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image-from-google-images/" target="_blank">Featured Image from Google Images</a> has some pretty intriguing elements to it. Rather than having you upload a featured image into the media gallery, you instead can simply search based on keyword and find results in the Google images pool. With just a few clicks you can add that image straight into your blog without having to download it and upload it ahead of time. While I think this is a pretty fantastic way to add images, I do worry about copyright infringement and the implications that it might bring about. Using Google images is often a shortcut that we&#8217;re all guilty of. We need to also remember that there are photographers behind those images that should also be compensated for their creativity and hard work. If you&#8217;re going to use a plugin like this I would encourage you to stick with what is generally accepted as public domain or Creative Commons licensed material. Otherwise you run the risk of getting into trouble (or getting your client in trouble) because someone down the line forgot to purchase a license agreement for the images used. I&#8217;ve seen it happen several times, so if you are going to use this add-on, make sure to use common sense in doing so. Here&#8217;s a video that summarizes the functionality and setup of this plugin.</p>
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<p><a href="http://i2.wp.com/s-plugins.wordpress.org/meetup-winner/assets/screenshot-1.jpg" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignleft" alt="Meetup Winner! WordPress Plugin" src="http://i1.wp.com/s-plugins.wordpress.org/meetup-winner/assets/screenshot-1.jpg?resize=207%2C159" /></a><a title="Meetup Winner" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/meetup-winner/" target="_blank">Meetup Winner!</a> is a plugin that taps into the Meetup.com API. I&#8217;ve not run across anything that has Meetup API functionality in the past, so I decided to check this one out. The basis of this plugin is basically one that allows you to reward those who RSVP to one of your meetups. How it works is that you set up an event ID shortcode corresponding to your individual event. Once at the event, you can call up the page where the shortcut resides and the plugin will randomly pick from those who have RSVP to the meeting. It will display the person&#8217;s name and the picture associated with them at meetup.com. I find this quite encouraging that different plugins are being developed around meetup.com. <strong>Regarding Meetup.com:</strong> Though there are some questionable groups that can be found on the site, I have found invaluable resources and relationships garnered at my local Southern California WordPress meet up group, which happens to be the <a title="OC WordPress Group on Meetup.com" href="http://www.meetup.com/OC-Wordpress-Group/" target="_blank">OC WordPress meetup</a> headed by <a title="Steve Zehngut on Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/Zengy" target="_blank">Steve Zehngut</a>. With other power WP users like Jason Tucker and Suzette Franck, co-hosts on the weekly <a title="Wordpress Water Cooler" href="http://www.wpwatercooler.com/">WP WaterCooler</a> Hangout. It&#8217;s one of the more active among WP Meetups. I applaud the concept and integration of this plugin and look forward to even more Meetup.com WordPress integration in the future. Hopefully this also means I might win something at a future meetup!</p>
<p><a href="http://i0.wp.com/s-plugins.wordpress.org/lateralpress/assets/screenshot-1.jpg" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignleft" alt="LateralPress" src="http://i2.wp.com/s-plugins.wordpress.org/lateralpress/assets/screenshot-1.jpg?resize=151%2C137" /></a><a title="LateralPress WordPress Plugin" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/lateralpress/" target="_blank">LateralPress</a> is an interesting java based design plugin that allows you to display an animated scrolling timeline of content relative to the post date and a custom post type modifier. I found this plugin to be quite visually appealing. However the JavaScript time did take a while to load in the test application that I tried on a staging site. While posts set up for previous posts to be included in this plugin&#8217;s display is a tedious process, the results are rather difficult to compete with when it comes to final output. I think this would be an excellent plugin for people who would like to tell a story with their content over an evolutionary period of time. It adds a lot of visual appeal to what would otherwise be a boring about us or bio page on your WordPress installation.</p>
<p>Thank you for joining me in another installation of the Daily Plugin. Remember that you can follow me on Twitter <a title="Marcus Couch on Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/marcuscouch">@marcuscouch</a> or simply leave your feedback right here on WPTavern. Join us again tomorrow as we dive headfirst into the WordPress plugin repository in search of the best and brightest new plugins as they are released.</p>
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<blockquote><p>We achieved every single goal and metric that we had set out to accomplish (and then some) in this glorious experiment and so we consider it a “success.” But, it did not achieve the much larger global goals and strategy of our organization at this present time.</p></blockquote>
<p>One thing I can confirm is that criticism and negative reactions to some of their published content was definitely not a reason for the shutdown. I give John a lot of credit for everything he did with WPDaily. The man was a publishing machine and if you blinked, you missed a ton of content. I occasionally joked that John published so much content that he was the reason infinite scroll was invented. Everywhere I looked, I saw John Saddington with the first comment on posts. This just shows how much he was on the ball with information. I know from experience that the only way John could accomplish what he did with WPDaily involved ridiculously long hours, lots of typing, living within the inbox, and juggling his time with reviewing products and just being in touch with people. For anyone that thinks running a community news type website is easy, you&#8217;re wrong. It&#8217;s very difficult. It requires lots of time reading, communicating, piecing together stories, managing the conversations that take place and a host of other responsibilities. This is why I continue to think that if you don&#8217;t have a primary source of funding, that creating a site like WPDaily or WPTavern just isn&#8217;t worth it in the long run.</p>
<p>However, the shutdown of WPDaily stirred up the conversation again around WordPress news sites and how they can be sustainable. According to one individual, the curation of WordPress content can not be achieved by 1 person or 10 but rather, <a title="https://twitter.com/wptavern/status/355084349428871169" href="https://twitter.com/wptavern/status/355084349428871169">should be an automated process</a>. Then, you could charge access to the site as it would do all of the filtering for you. Hard to say if that idea would take off but the site I have in mind that could potentially make this work is <a title="http://poststat.us/" href="http://poststat.us/">PostStat.us</a>. Brian Krogsgard has <a title="https://twitter.com/Krogsgard/status/355088909039968256" href="https://twitter.com/Krogsgard/status/355088909039968256">stated on Twitter</a> that he has a few tricks up his sleeve to monetize the site but we will have to wait until they are implemented to find out what they are.</p>
<p>I want to personally say to John Saddington that I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors and especially with PressGram. At the same time however, I make a formal request that you highly consider leaving the content archived somewhere for reference material or you either sell, or provide the archive to someone who is more concerned with the historical significance of the content than any other agenda.</p>
<p>Last but not least, I want to thank the individuals who suggested to others that they can use WPTavern to get their fix for WordPress information. However, WPTavern can not and will not be a direct replacement for WPDaily. Both sites contain their own unique flavors, takes on various topics that come up in the community.</p>
<p>*<strong>Update</strong>*<br />
As of July 11th 2013, the site has been turned back on and is in Archive mode. </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:28:"BuddyPress: BuddyPress 1.7.3";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://buddypress.org/?p=167873";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:47:"http://buddypress.org/2013/07/buddypress-1-7-3/";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:1197:"<p>BuddyPress 1.7.3 is now available. This is a security and maintenance release, and we urge all installations running BP 1.5 or later to upgrade immediately.</p>
<p>Version 1.7.3 includes fixes for the following:</p>
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<p>Complete details can be found in the <a href="http://codex.buddypress.org/developer/releases/version-1-7-3/">1.7.3 release notes</a>.</p>
<p>Many thanks to <a href="http://nacin.com">Andrew Nacin</a> for his responsible disclosure of the XSS issue to the BuddyPress team. As a reminder to the community: if you think you&#8217;ve found a security issue in BuddyPress, please practice <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Security">proper disclosure procedure</a>, and report issues directly to the BP development team (or to security [at] wordpress.org).</p>
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<p>It only takes a few minutes to <a href="http://wp-survey.polldaddy.com/s/wp-2013">fill out the survey</a>, which will provide an overview of how people use WordPress.</p>
<p>If you missed past State of the Word keynotes, be sure to check out them out for survey results from <a href="http://wordpress.org/news/2011/08/state-of-the-word/">2011</a> and <a href="http://ma.tt/2012/08/state-of-the-word-2012/">2012</a>.</p>
<p>Speaking of WCSF, if you didn&#8217;t get a ticket or are too far away to attend, you can still <a href="http://2013.sf.wordcamp.org/tickets/">get a ticket for the live stream</a>! Watch the live video stream from the comfort of your home on July 26 and 27; WCSF t-shirt, or any shirt, optional.</p>
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<p>You can enable/disable specific functionality so that your site only loads what is enabled. One of the other creative aspects behind Exchange is the ability to use it to invoice clients. For example, you can create an invoice which will be a product page, hide that product page from the store, send the client a link to that product page and once they pay, they get a link to a downloadable file which is a PDF with PAID stamped onto the invoice. The platform has over 300 different functions and will sport a hefty theme API. </p>
<p>Marcus Couch will be taking an in-depth look at Exchange and he&#8217;ll give you his thoughts within the next week or two. Until then, <a href="http://ithemes.com/exchange-download.php" title="http://ithemes.com/exchange-download.php">download Exchange</a> as it&#8217;s free and give it a test run. Report back with your thoughts and opinions. </p>
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<blockquote><p>There are currently more than 61 million children without access to education, and together we can do something about it. Education is a cause that&#8217;s truly important to me, so I&#8217;m excited to join the Pencils of Promise movement that empowers lives around the world by building schools for children in need.</p></blockquote>
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