O:9:"MagpieRSS":17:{s:6:"parser";i:0;s:12:"current_item";a:0:{}s:5:"items";a:50:{i:0;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:43:"Weblog Tools Collection: Write with a Knife";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6676";s:4:"link";s:72:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/09/03/write-with-a-knife/";s:11:"description";s:1359:"<p><a href="http://www.copyblogger.com/write-with-a-knife/">How to Write with a Knife</a>: I have been a big fan of CopyBlogger for some time and I try to read their articles as often as I can, though not as often as I would like to. The above article, followed by another one in the series called &#8220;<a href="http://www.copyblogger.com/long-or-short-post/">Do Long Blog Posts Scare Away Readers?</a>&#8220;, have some really good advice for bloggers. I have implicitly tried to follow some of them because my past training and weakness for the English language, but having them spelled out succinctly is really helpful (I already caught myself making one of the mistakes mentioned in the article, can you tell which one?).</p>
<p>In addition to the above suggestions, I would like to add a few of my own. Please feel free to add others in the comments.</p>
<ul>
<li>Make your titles short, sweet and eye catching. Long titles lose their punch.</li>
<li>Proof read. As Michelle says so well, write for yourself and then edit for your readers.</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t be afraid to type it out and read it aloud. Sometimes a blank slate can be vanquished with a quick swipe of the brush.</li>
<li>Punctuate and format. Big blocks of text are easy to gloss over and lose interest in.</li>
</ul>
<p>How much time do you spend on average, on writing a post?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:16:48 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1359:"<p><a href="http://www.copyblogger.com/write-with-a-knife/">How to Write with a Knife</a>: I have been a big fan of CopyBlogger for some time and I try to read their articles as often as I can, though not as often as I would like to. The above article, followed by another one in the series called &#8220;<a href="http://www.copyblogger.com/long-or-short-post/">Do Long Blog Posts Scare Away Readers?</a>&#8220;, have some really good advice for bloggers. I have implicitly tried to follow some of them because my past training and weakness for the English language, but having them spelled out succinctly is really helpful (I already caught myself making one of the mistakes mentioned in the article, can you tell which one?).</p>
<p>In addition to the above suggestions, I would like to add a few of my own. Please feel free to add others in the comments.</p>
<ul>
<li>Make your titles short, sweet and eye catching. Long titles lose their punch.</li>
<li>Proof read. As Michelle says so well, write for yourself and then edit for your readers.</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t be afraid to type it out and read it aloud. Sometimes a blank slate can be vanquished with a quick swipe of the brush.</li>
<li>Punctuate and format. Big blocks of text are easy to gloss over and lose interest in.</li>
</ul>
<p>How much time do you spend on average, on writing a post?</p>";}i:1;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:23:"Matt: How Twitter Works";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=14753";s:4:"link";s:39:"http://ma.tt/2009/09/how-twitter-works/";s:11:"description";s:227:"<p><a href="http://epeus.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-twitter-works-in-theory.html">How Twitter works in theory</a>, by Kevin Marks. &#8220;Phatic&#8221; gestures are important to understand if you&#8217;re building on the web.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:03:53 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:227:"<p><a href="http://epeus.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-twitter-works-in-theory.html">How Twitter works in theory</a>, by Kevin Marks. &#8220;Phatic&#8221; gestures are important to understand if you&#8217;re building on the web.</p>";}i:2;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/03";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6674";s:4:"link";s:90:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/09/03/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0903-2/";s:11:"description";s:2472:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.appointy.com/wordpress/">Appointment Scheduler &#8211; Appointy Plugin</a></p>
<p>Appointment Scheduler &#8211; Appointy plugin allows you to accept appointments from your clients 24&#215;7x365 directly on your wordpress powered websites. It has a powerful yet simple Ajax interface which allows one click booking. With just one click your clients can see your availability in the entire month.</p>
<p><a href="http://kiro.twbbs.org/wp/?p=504&amp;page=2">Formatted post</a></p>
<p>This plugin is for the users who need to post with fixed format regularly</p>
<p><a href="http://buynowshop.com/plugins/bns-corner-logo/">BNS Corner Logo</a></p>
<p>Widget to display a logo; or, used as a plugin displays image fixed in one of the four corners.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/delete-duplicate-posts/">Delete Duplicate Posts</a></p>
<p>Easy way to delete duplicate posts on your WordPress blog.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.spotonseoservices.com/embed-youtube-videos-in-wordpress-plugin/">YouTube Video Plugin</a></p>
<p>This WordPress plugin will make it easy to embed a YouTube video in a WordPress post/page or sidebar widget. You can see a demo of the plugin if you look at the YouTube video under the AdWords logo in the right sidebar.</p>
<p><a href="http://thecuriousfrog.com/projects/k2-style-switcher/">K2 Style Switcher</a></p>
<p>This plugin is the K2 equivalent of a theme switcher. It allows your visitors to re-skin your site from a list of K2 styles that you select.</p>
<p><a href="http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/admin-trim-interface">Admin Trim Interface</a></p>
<p>Customize the WordPress admin pages by selectively removing interface elements.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viadat.com/store-locator">Store Locator</a></p>
<p>The Store Locator plugin empowers web developers &amp; web site owners to easily manage and display any set of important stores, products, or other locations on their website in an easily searchable manner. Uses Google Maps.</p>
<p><a href="http://plexav.com/2009/tagspace-3d-menu-wordpress-plugin/">Tagspace</a></p>
<p>The Tagspace widget lets visitors browse your blog’s categories in tagspace, an engaging 3D semantic environment.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/smart-category-ordering/">Smart Category Ordering</a></p>
<p>Allows you to alphabetize categories by post title, by trimming leading text, by post date.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:19:50 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:2472:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.appointy.com/wordpress/">Appointment Scheduler &#8211; Appointy Plugin</a></p>
<p>Appointment Scheduler &#8211; Appointy plugin allows you to accept appointments from your clients 24&#215;7x365 directly on your wordpress powered websites. It has a powerful yet simple Ajax interface which allows one click booking. With just one click your clients can see your availability in the entire month.</p>
<p><a href="http://kiro.twbbs.org/wp/?p=504&amp;page=2">Formatted post</a></p>
<p>This plugin is for the users who need to post with fixed format regularly</p>
<p><a href="http://buynowshop.com/plugins/bns-corner-logo/">BNS Corner Logo</a></p>
<p>Widget to display a logo; or, used as a plugin displays image fixed in one of the four corners.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/delete-duplicate-posts/">Delete Duplicate Posts</a></p>
<p>Easy way to delete duplicate posts on your WordPress blog.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.spotonseoservices.com/embed-youtube-videos-in-wordpress-plugin/">YouTube Video Plugin</a></p>
<p>This WordPress plugin will make it easy to embed a YouTube video in a WordPress post/page or sidebar widget. You can see a demo of the plugin if you look at the YouTube video under the AdWords logo in the right sidebar.</p>
<p><a href="http://thecuriousfrog.com/projects/k2-style-switcher/">K2 Style Switcher</a></p>
<p>This plugin is the K2 equivalent of a theme switcher. It allows your visitors to re-skin your site from a list of K2 styles that you select.</p>
<p><a href="http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/admin-trim-interface">Admin Trim Interface</a></p>
<p>Customize the WordPress admin pages by selectively removing interface elements.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viadat.com/store-locator">Store Locator</a></p>
<p>The Store Locator plugin empowers web developers &amp; web site owners to easily manage and display any set of important stores, products, or other locations on their website in an easily searchable manner. Uses Google Maps.</p>
<p><a href="http://plexav.com/2009/tagspace-3d-menu-wordpress-plugin/">Tagspace</a></p>
<p>The Tagspace widget lets visitors browse your blog’s categories in tagspace, an engaging 3D semantic environment.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/smart-category-ordering/">Smart Category Ordering</a></p>
<p>Allows you to alphabetize categories by post title, by trimming leading text, by post date.</p>";}i:3;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:49:"Publisher Blog: Student Life Selects WordPress MU";s:4:"guid";s:42:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/?p=640";s:4:"link";s:81:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2009/09/03/student-life-selects-wordpress-mu/";s:11:"description";s:2531:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://www.graznar.com/">Sam Guzik</a> over on <a href="http://www.copress.org/2009/09/02/summer-rebuild-the-student-lifes-move-to-wordpress-%C2%B5/">CoPress.org</a> details the successful relaunch of <a href="http://www.studlife.com/">Student Life</a>, the &#8220;independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis&#8221;, on the <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org">WordPress MU</a> platform:<br />
<a href="http://www.studlife.com/"><img src="http://wordpresspublishers.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/studentlife_600.jpg?w=600&#038;h=257" alt="studentlife_600" title="studentlife_600" width="600" height="257" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-641" /></a></p>
<p>In their evaluation of various platform choices they concluded:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Although Drupal is also extremely powerful, we found that WordPress’s interface was better suited to a workflow that would begin to allow non-technical reporters and editors to work within our CMS.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>You can read more details about this project on <a href="http://www.copress.org/2009/09/02/summer-rebuild-the-student-lifes-move-to-wordpress-%C2%B5/">CoPress.org</a>.</p>
<p>[ Visit <a href="http://www.studlife.com/">Student Life</a> ]</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/640/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/640/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/640/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/640/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/640/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/640/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/640/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/640/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/640/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/640/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=publisherblog.automattic.com&blog=1470857&post=640&subd=wordpresspublishers&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:21:22 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:16:"Raanan Bar-Cohen";}s:7:"summary";s:2531:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://www.graznar.com/">Sam Guzik</a> over on <a href="http://www.copress.org/2009/09/02/summer-rebuild-the-student-lifes-move-to-wordpress-%C2%B5/">CoPress.org</a> details the successful relaunch of <a href="http://www.studlife.com/">Student Life</a>, the &#8220;independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis&#8221;, on the <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org">WordPress MU</a> platform:<br />
<a href="http://www.studlife.com/"><img src="http://wordpresspublishers.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/studentlife_600.jpg?w=600&#038;h=257" alt="studentlife_600" title="studentlife_600" width="600" height="257" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-641" /></a></p>
<p>In their evaluation of various platform choices they concluded:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Although Drupal is also extremely powerful, we found that WordPress’s interface was better suited to a workflow that would begin to allow non-technical reporters and editors to work within our CMS.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>You can read more details about this project on <a href="http://www.copress.org/2009/09/02/summer-rebuild-the-student-lifes-move-to-wordpress-%C2%B5/">CoPress.org</a>.</p>
<p>[ Visit <a href="http://www.studlife.com/">Student Life</a> ]</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/640/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/640/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/640/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/640/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/640/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/640/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/640/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/640/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/640/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/640/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=publisherblog.automattic.com&blog=1470857&post=640&subd=wordpresspublishers&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:4;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:50:"BuddyPress: Talking BuddyPress on WordPress Weekly";s:4:"guid";s:28:"http://buddypress.org/?p=581";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://buddypress.org/blog/news/talking-buddypress-on-wordpress-weekly/";s:11:"description";s:933:"<p>Last night on the <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/wordpress-weekly">WordPress Weekly</a> podcast I was fortunate enough to be interviewed by <a href="http://www.wptavern.com">Jeff Chandler</a> and <a href="http://brandingdavid.com/">David Peralty</a> on the topic of <a href="http://buddypress.org/about">BuddyPress</a>. They had a lot of very interesting questions for me to answer, along with a number of others submitted by the community. </p>
<p>Despite getting cut off by Skype right at the start and having to call back in, It turned into a great discussion about the project! I&#8217;ve embedded the player here in this post, but you can also subscribe to WordPress Weekly <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=280014720">via iTunes</a> or <a href="http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=34224&amp;cmd=tc">tune in live</a> at 8pm eastern on Tuesdays.</p>
<div></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:25:29 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Andy Peatling";}s:7:"summary";s:933:"<p>Last night on the <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/wordpress-weekly">WordPress Weekly</a> podcast I was fortunate enough to be interviewed by <a href="http://www.wptavern.com">Jeff Chandler</a> and <a href="http://brandingdavid.com/">David Peralty</a> on the topic of <a href="http://buddypress.org/about">BuddyPress</a>. They had a lot of very interesting questions for me to answer, along with a number of others submitted by the community. </p>
<p>Despite getting cut off by Skype right at the start and having to call back in, It turned into a great discussion about the project! I&#8217;ve embedded the player here in this post, but you can also subscribe to WordPress Weekly <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=280014720">via iTunes</a> or <a href="http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=34224&amp;cmd=tc">tune in live</a> at 8pm eastern on Tuesdays.</p>
<div></div>";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:52:"WP iPhone: WordPress For iPhone App Moving to OS 3.0";s:4:"guid";s:34:"http://iphone.wordpress.org/?p=432";s:4:"link";s:57:"http://iphone.wordpress.org/2009/09/02/iphone-app-os-3-0/";s:11:"description";s:2195:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>We&#8217;ve decided to standardize the WordPress For iPhone application on the new <a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/">OS 3.0</a> going forward.  We&#8217;ve seen a large percentage of users upgrading to 3.0, <a href="http://tapbots.com/blog/news/iphone-os-30-adoption-rate">as have other apps</a>,  and there are new features we want to focus on which are OS 3.0 specific.  Overall, it seems like a good time to make the switch.</p>
<p>For those of you who wish to stay on an earlier version of the OS, be sure to grab a copy of the current version in the app store (1.3) and you&#8217;ll be able to continue using that version on early OS versions for you iPhone or iPod Touch.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll also be posting details about an upcoming beta test of 1.4 this week with the updated UI and a slew of behind the scenes updates that should greatly improve the app in terms of speed and compatibility.</p>
<p>Thanks for all your support and we look forward to bringing you some of those new features soon!  </p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wpiphone.wordpress.com/432/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wpiphone.wordpress.com/432/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wpiphone.wordpress.com/432/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wpiphone.wordpress.com/432/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wpiphone.wordpress.com/432/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wpiphone.wordpress.com/432/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wpiphone.wordpress.com/432/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wpiphone.wordpress.com/432/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wpiphone.wordpress.com/432/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wpiphone.wordpress.com/432/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iphone.wordpress.org&blog=3882653&post=432&subd=wpiphone&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:45:17 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:16:"John Bickerstaff";}s:7:"summary";s:2195:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>We&#8217;ve decided to standardize the WordPress For iPhone application on the new <a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/">OS 3.0</a> going forward.  We&#8217;ve seen a large percentage of users upgrading to 3.0, <a href="http://tapbots.com/blog/news/iphone-os-30-adoption-rate">as have other apps</a>,  and there are new features we want to focus on which are OS 3.0 specific.  Overall, it seems like a good time to make the switch.</p>
<p>For those of you who wish to stay on an earlier version of the OS, be sure to grab a copy of the current version in the app store (1.3) and you&#8217;ll be able to continue using that version on early OS versions for you iPhone or iPod Touch.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll also be posting details about an upcoming beta test of 1.4 this week with the updated UI and a slew of behind the scenes updates that should greatly improve the app in terms of speed and compatibility.</p>
<p>Thanks for all your support and we look forward to bringing you some of those new features soon!  </p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wpiphone.wordpress.com/432/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wpiphone.wordpress.com/432/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wpiphone.wordpress.com/432/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wpiphone.wordpress.com/432/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wpiphone.wordpress.com/432/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wpiphone.wordpress.com/432/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wpiphone.wordpress.com/432/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wpiphone.wordpress.com/432/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wpiphone.wordpress.com/432/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wpiphone.wordpress.com/432/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iphone.wordpress.org&blog=3882653&post=432&subd=wpiphone&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:6;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 09/01";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6670";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/09/01/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0901/";s:11:"description";s:2290:"<h4><a href="http://bizzartic.com/2009/08/28/pure-magazine-wordpress-theme/">Pure Magazine</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://bizzartic.com/bizzthemes/puremagazine/"><img title="Pure Magazine" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/PureMagazine.png" alt="Pure Magazine" width="200" height="156" /></a></p>
<p>Pure Magazine Wordpress theme is, as its name suggests, theme with pure, minimalistic and usable layout, structured to focus readers attention on content and ads, rather than designer graphics. It is built for large news sites that want to highlight important content and retain readers after their first visit.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.jauhari.net/themes/pesta-blogger">Pesta Blogger</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://demo.jauhari.net/index.php?wptheme=Pesta+Blogger"><img title="Pesta Blogger" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/PestaBlogger.png" alt="Pesta Blogger" width="200" height="120" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, widgetized theme with ability to resize images on the fly, designed with the <a href="http://960.gs">960.gs</a> CSS framework.</p>
<h4><a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/simple-magazine-3-columns-wordpress-theme/">Simple Magazine</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/demo/simple-magazine-3-columns-wordpress-theme/"><img title="Simple Magazine" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/SimpleMagazine1.jpg" alt="Simple Magazine" width="200" height="100" /></a></p>
<p>A simple and lightweight magazine styled theme. Supporting two sidebars, widgets and nested comments. There is a <a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/simple-magazine-wordpress-theme/">two column version</a> available as well.</p>
<h4><a href="http://wordpress.ro.im/wpthemes/featuring-1-0-free-wordpress-theme/">Featuring</a></h4>
<p><img title="Featuring" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Featuring.png" alt="Featuring" width="200" height="93" /></p>
<p>Two column theme, with Jquery navigation menu, automatic resize of pictures from index page using TimThumb, wordpress 2.7+ comments compatible, but will also work for older versions.</p>
<p>Are you a theme author? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Submit your theme</a> to get listed in these posts.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:05:14 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:2290:"<h4><a href="http://bizzartic.com/2009/08/28/pure-magazine-wordpress-theme/">Pure Magazine</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://bizzartic.com/bizzthemes/puremagazine/"><img title="Pure Magazine" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/PureMagazine.png" alt="Pure Magazine" width="200" height="156" /></a></p>
<p>Pure Magazine Wordpress theme is, as its name suggests, theme with pure, minimalistic and usable layout, structured to focus readers attention on content and ads, rather than designer graphics. It is built for large news sites that want to highlight important content and retain readers after their first visit.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.jauhari.net/themes/pesta-blogger">Pesta Blogger</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://demo.jauhari.net/index.php?wptheme=Pesta+Blogger"><img title="Pesta Blogger" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/PestaBlogger.png" alt="Pesta Blogger" width="200" height="120" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, widgetized theme with ability to resize images on the fly, designed with the <a href="http://960.gs">960.gs</a> CSS framework.</p>
<h4><a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/simple-magazine-3-columns-wordpress-theme/">Simple Magazine</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/demo/simple-magazine-3-columns-wordpress-theme/"><img title="Simple Magazine" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/SimpleMagazine1.jpg" alt="Simple Magazine" width="200" height="100" /></a></p>
<p>A simple and lightweight magazine styled theme. Supporting two sidebars, widgets and nested comments. There is a <a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/simple-magazine-wordpress-theme/">two column version</a> available as well.</p>
<h4><a href="http://wordpress.ro.im/wpthemes/featuring-1-0-free-wordpress-theme/">Featuring</a></h4>
<p><img title="Featuring" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Featuring.png" alt="Featuring" width="200" height="93" /></p>
<p>Two column theme, with Jquery navigation menu, automatic resize of pictures from index page using TimThumb, wordpress 2.7+ comments compatible, but will also work for older versions.</p>
<p>Are you a theme author? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Submit your theme</a> to get listed in these posts.</p>";}i:7;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:38:"Weblog Tools Collection: ¿Habla HTML?";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6572";s:4:"link";s:64:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/09/01/habla-html/";s:11:"description";s:3065:"<p><strong>DISCLAIMER:</strong> This post is in no way intended to promote HTML over XHTML or vice-versa. This is simply a solution to a problem for those who may find it useful.</p>
<p>Anyone who has used WordPress for any decent length of time probably knows that everything it outputs is in <abbr title="Extensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr> format. For those who prefer this, that&#8217;s just fine. However, for those of us out there that prefer to use <abbr title="Hypertext Markup Language">HTML</abbr> instead, we&#8217;re pretty much out of luck when it comes to WordPress. As it stands now, there is no easy way to make WordPress output in HTML format. But today I hope to help those people with this simple function I found around the web.</p>
<h4>First, the code:</h4>
<pre><code>function HTMLify($buffer) {
    $xhtml = array('/XHTML 1.0 Transitional|XHTML 1.0 Strict|XHTML 1.0 Frameset|XHTML 1.1|XHTML Basic 1.0|XHTML Basic 1.1/', '/xhtml1\/DTD\/xhtml1-transitional.dtd|xhtml1\/DTD\/xhtml1-strict.dtd|xhtml11\/DTD\/xhtml11.dtd|xhtml-basic\/xhtml-basic10.dtd|xhtml-basic\/xhtml-basic11.dtd/', '/\/&gt;/', '/\/\s+&gt;/', '/xmlns="http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml"/', '/\s+xmlns="http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml"/', '/\s+xml:lang="(.*)"\s+lang="(.*)"/', '/\s+&gt;/');
    $html = array('HTML 4.01', 'html4/strict.dtd', '&gt;', '&gt;', '', '', '', '&gt;');
    return(preg_replace($xhtml, $html, $buffer));
}</code></pre>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<ol>
<li>Paste the code above in a file called <code>functions.php</code> inside the theme folder of your currently active theme.</li>
<li>Go into the theme folder of the currently active theme, open the <code>header.php</code> file, and paste this before any other code that outputs to the browser:<br />
<code>&lt;?php ob_start('HTMLify') ?&gt;</code><br />
<small>To use the default WordPress theme as an example, paste this code before the DOCTYPE declaration.</small></li>
<li>Save everything! <strong>That&#8217;s it!</strong> If you now look at the source code for your site you&#8217;ll notice that everything is HTML instead of XHTML.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Explanation</h4>
<p>Basically, what the code does is, it takes the entire output of the page currently being requested and runs it through our function called <code>HTMLify</code>. The function looks for various XHTML-type code and replaces it with HTML-type code. Pretty simple.</p>
<p>The true beauty of it is the function happens after everything is output by WordPress. So, all of WordPress&#8217;s code AND any of your custom code is converted. So you could even continue to code in XHTML but have it output as HTML. Cool huh?</p>
<h4>An Alternative</h4>
<p>While looking around the web I also came upon <a href="http://www.kilroyjames.co.uk/2008/07/xhtml-to-html-wordpress-plugin/">this website</a> which has a plugin for WordPress that does the same job. Those of you who prefer to use plugins may be more interested in this approach.</p>
<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s all there is to it. A little bit of code to solve a big problem. Enjoy!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:06:17 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"James Dimick";}s:7:"summary";s:3065:"<p><strong>DISCLAIMER:</strong> This post is in no way intended to promote HTML over XHTML or vice-versa. This is simply a solution to a problem for those who may find it useful.</p>
<p>Anyone who has used WordPress for any decent length of time probably knows that everything it outputs is in <abbr title="Extensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr> format. For those who prefer this, that&#8217;s just fine. However, for those of us out there that prefer to use <abbr title="Hypertext Markup Language">HTML</abbr> instead, we&#8217;re pretty much out of luck when it comes to WordPress. As it stands now, there is no easy way to make WordPress output in HTML format. But today I hope to help those people with this simple function I found around the web.</p>
<h4>First, the code:</h4>
<pre><code>function HTMLify($buffer) {
    $xhtml = array('/XHTML 1.0 Transitional|XHTML 1.0 Strict|XHTML 1.0 Frameset|XHTML 1.1|XHTML Basic 1.0|XHTML Basic 1.1/', '/xhtml1\/DTD\/xhtml1-transitional.dtd|xhtml1\/DTD\/xhtml1-strict.dtd|xhtml11\/DTD\/xhtml11.dtd|xhtml-basic\/xhtml-basic10.dtd|xhtml-basic\/xhtml-basic11.dtd/', '/\/&gt;/', '/\/\s+&gt;/', '/xmlns="http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml"/', '/\s+xmlns="http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml"/', '/\s+xml:lang="(.*)"\s+lang="(.*)"/', '/\s+&gt;/');
    $html = array('HTML 4.01', 'html4/strict.dtd', '&gt;', '&gt;', '', '', '', '&gt;');
    return(preg_replace($xhtml, $html, $buffer));
}</code></pre>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<ol>
<li>Paste the code above in a file called <code>functions.php</code> inside the theme folder of your currently active theme.</li>
<li>Go into the theme folder of the currently active theme, open the <code>header.php</code> file, and paste this before any other code that outputs to the browser:<br />
<code>&lt;?php ob_start('HTMLify') ?&gt;</code><br />
<small>To use the default WordPress theme as an example, paste this code before the DOCTYPE declaration.</small></li>
<li>Save everything! <strong>That&#8217;s it!</strong> If you now look at the source code for your site you&#8217;ll notice that everything is HTML instead of XHTML.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Explanation</h4>
<p>Basically, what the code does is, it takes the entire output of the page currently being requested and runs it through our function called <code>HTMLify</code>. The function looks for various XHTML-type code and replaces it with HTML-type code. Pretty simple.</p>
<p>The true beauty of it is the function happens after everything is output by WordPress. So, all of WordPress&#8217;s code AND any of your custom code is converted. So you could even continue to code in XHTML but have it output as HTML. Cool huh?</p>
<h4>An Alternative</h4>
<p>While looking around the web I also came upon <a href="http://www.kilroyjames.co.uk/2008/07/xhtml-to-html-wordpress-plugin/">this website</a> which has a plugin for WordPress that does the same job. Those of you who prefer to use plugins may be more interested in this approach.</p>
<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s all there is to it. A little bit of code to solve a big problem. Enjoy!</p>";}i:8;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:55:"Weblog Tools Collection: Embedded Video Copyright Laws?";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6664";s:4:"link";s:83:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/31/embedded-video-copyright-laws/";s:11:"description";s:2459:"<p>Long story short, our <a href="http://weblogtoolsvideos.com">Weblog Tools Videos</a> has had some major spam issues recently and we have taken action to try and prevent this deluge of spam. Thanks to <a href="http://ottodestruct.com/blog/">Otto</a> for the heads up on that.</p>
<p>In this mess, we have also had a couple of content generators complain that their videos, hosted on sites such as DailyMotion and YouTube, were used on Weblog Tools Videos without their explicit consent. This got me thinking about the possible ramifications<em> </em>embedding videos on a blog or website. I could not find any permission or license information on the pages where the allegedly infringed videos were hosted and so I assumed that we should remove the videos, which we did.</p>
<ul>
<li>If the video page allows embedding, does that constitute implicit permission to post it elsewhere?</li>
<li>Is there copyright and license information buried within the agreement that users electronically sign on uploading to YouTube? Do the video sites allow distinction between the various types of licensed content?</li>
<li>If the original content provider is retained (such as using an YouTube embed) and a link is provided to the original video, is that enough? How does the regular user know when not to embed without permission? Should a formal request for permission be assumed in every case unless otherwise noted?</li>
</ul>
<p>I have tried to find any references to laws, discussions or law suits that talk about the rights of the content viewer and embedder and the best I can come up with are discussions about previously infringing content which are irrelevant in this discussion. Can anyone shed any light on this?</p>
<p>To take this one step further, if you display embed code on your blog or website (think ShareThis), are you implicitly allowing your content (whatever the embed allows direct publish access to) to be republished elsewhere? If you do not allow sharing of your content without permission, are you just displaying certain types of social media tools that prevent wholesale copying of content? I know I personally never factored this into my thought process. Anyone else run into these issues? I wonder what the traditional media with electronic outlets are doing?</p>
<p>Lots of questions without a lot of good answers. If you have some insights, please leave a comment with relevant links and I will update the post for our readers.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:56:30 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:2459:"<p>Long story short, our <a href="http://weblogtoolsvideos.com">Weblog Tools Videos</a> has had some major spam issues recently and we have taken action to try and prevent this deluge of spam. Thanks to <a href="http://ottodestruct.com/blog/">Otto</a> for the heads up on that.</p>
<p>In this mess, we have also had a couple of content generators complain that their videos, hosted on sites such as DailyMotion and YouTube, were used on Weblog Tools Videos without their explicit consent. This got me thinking about the possible ramifications<em> </em>embedding videos on a blog or website. I could not find any permission or license information on the pages where the allegedly infringed videos were hosted and so I assumed that we should remove the videos, which we did.</p>
<ul>
<li>If the video page allows embedding, does that constitute implicit permission to post it elsewhere?</li>
<li>Is there copyright and license information buried within the agreement that users electronically sign on uploading to YouTube? Do the video sites allow distinction between the various types of licensed content?</li>
<li>If the original content provider is retained (such as using an YouTube embed) and a link is provided to the original video, is that enough? How does the regular user know when not to embed without permission? Should a formal request for permission be assumed in every case unless otherwise noted?</li>
</ul>
<p>I have tried to find any references to laws, discussions or law suits that talk about the rights of the content viewer and embedder and the best I can come up with are discussions about previously infringing content which are irrelevant in this discussion. Can anyone shed any light on this?</p>
<p>To take this one step further, if you display embed code on your blog or website (think ShareThis), are you implicitly allowing your content (whatever the embed allows direct publish access to) to be republished elsewhere? If you do not allow sharing of your content without permission, are you just displaying certain types of social media tools that prevent wholesale copying of content? I know I personally never factored this into my thought process. Anyone else run into these issues? I wonder what the traditional media with electronic outlets are doing?</p>
<p>Lots of questions without a lot of good answers. If you have some insights, please leave a comment with relevant links and I will update the post for our readers.</p>";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:64:"Weblog Tools Collection: Roles And Capabilities In Plain English";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6658";s:4:"link";s:93:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/31/roles-and-capibilities-in-plain-english/";s:11:"description";s:969:"<p>This morning, I read a <a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/08/30/users-roles-and-capabilities-in-wordpress">refreshing post</a> by Justin Tadlock on his personal blog which does a wonderful job explaining the roles and capabilities system in WordPress. See, Justin is working on a fancy new plugin which will make creating new roles and assigning capabilities to those roles easy as 1-2-3. It&#8217;s a good thing to know how a system works before you tinker around with it. While I know there is a <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities">Codex article</a> dedicated to roles and capabilities, the way Justin explained the system illuminated a number of light bulbs in my head. It all makes sense to me now and it doesn&#8217;t seem as overly complex as I originally thought. Please give the article a read for yourself and not only provide Justin with some feedback, but I&#8217;m wondering if his explanation helped anyone else?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:51:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:969:"<p>This morning, I read a <a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/08/30/users-roles-and-capabilities-in-wordpress">refreshing post</a> by Justin Tadlock on his personal blog which does a wonderful job explaining the roles and capabilities system in WordPress. See, Justin is working on a fancy new plugin which will make creating new roles and assigning capabilities to those roles easy as 1-2-3. It&#8217;s a good thing to know how a system works before you tinker around with it. While I know there is a <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities">Codex article</a> dedicated to roles and capabilities, the way Justin explained the system illuminated a number of light bulbs in my head. It all makes sense to me now and it doesn&#8217;t seem as overly complex as I originally thought. Please give the article a read for yourself and not only provide Justin with some feedback, but I&#8217;m wondering if his explanation helped anyone else?</p>";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:47:"Mark Jaquith: TextMate WordPress Widget Snippet";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/?p=336";s:4:"link";s:78:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/textmate-wordpress-widget-snippet/";s:11:"description";s:3623:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>I love WordPress&#8217; sidebar widgets. I also despise coding them.</p>
<p>I love how they let me offload menial management tasks directly to clients, avoiding all the &#8220;Change this word to another word!&#8221; e-mails. But every time I code them, it seems to involve 15 minutes of Googling, copy-pasting from a previous widget, and looking at documentation.</p>
<p>So I created this TextMate &#8220;snippet&#8221; to make it easier:</p>
<pre name="code" class="php">
class ${1:PREFIX_Name}_Widget extends WP_Widget {
	function $1_Widget() {
		\$widget_ops = array( &#039;classname&#039; =&gt; &#039;${2:CSS class name}&#039;, &#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;${3:Description}&#039; );
		\$this-&gt;WP_Widget( &#039;$2&#039;, &#039;${4:Title}&#039;, \$widget_ops );
	}

	function widget( \$args, \$instance ) {
		extract( \$args, EXTR_SKIP );
		echo \$before_widget;
		echo \$before_title;
		echo &#039;$4&#039;; // Can set this with a widget option, or omit altogether
		echo \$after_title;

		//
		// Widget display logic goes here
		//

		echo \$after_widget;
	}

	function update( \$new_instance, \$old_instance ) {
		// update logic goes here
		\$updated_instance = \$new_instance;
		return \$updated_instance;
	}

	function form( \$instance ) {
		\$instance = wp_parse_args( (array) \$instance, array( ${5:array of option_name =&gt; value pairs} ) );

		// display field names here using:
		// \$this-&gt;get_field_id(&#039;option_name&#039;) - the CSS ID
		// \$this-&gt;get_field_name(&#039;option_name&#039;) - the HTML name
		// \$instance[&#039;option_name&#039;] - the option value
	}
}

add_action( &#039;widgets_init&#039;, create_function( &#039;&#039;, "register_widget(&#039;$1_Widget&#039;);" ) );
</pre>
<p>Just create a WordPress TextMate bundle, create a new snippet, paste in that code and give it a trigger like wpwidget. Then just type that trigger, press TAB, and you&#8217;ll be in the first field. Type, hit TAB to go to the next field. Places where you enter the same thing twice are handled&#8212;you only have to enter it once. There are some helpful comments that&#8217;ll guide you through the rest once you&#8217;ve filled out the basics. I find that with this snippet, I can code up a new widget in a couple of minutes, tops. This is definitely going to make it more likely for me to create a widget for a client instead of just cheating and editing their theme by hand myself.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/336/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/336/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/336/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/336/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/336/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/336/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/336/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/336/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/336/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/336/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=336&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:33:26 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Mark Jaquith";}s:7:"summary";s:3623:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>I love WordPress&#8217; sidebar widgets. I also despise coding them.</p>
<p>I love how they let me offload menial management tasks directly to clients, avoiding all the &#8220;Change this word to another word!&#8221; e-mails. But every time I code them, it seems to involve 15 minutes of Googling, copy-pasting from a previous widget, and looking at documentation.</p>
<p>So I created this TextMate &#8220;snippet&#8221; to make it easier:</p>
<pre name="code" class="php">
class ${1:PREFIX_Name}_Widget extends WP_Widget {
	function $1_Widget() {
		\$widget_ops = array( &#039;classname&#039; =&gt; &#039;${2:CSS class name}&#039;, &#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;${3:Description}&#039; );
		\$this-&gt;WP_Widget( &#039;$2&#039;, &#039;${4:Title}&#039;, \$widget_ops );
	}

	function widget( \$args, \$instance ) {
		extract( \$args, EXTR_SKIP );
		echo \$before_widget;
		echo \$before_title;
		echo &#039;$4&#039;; // Can set this with a widget option, or omit altogether
		echo \$after_title;

		//
		// Widget display logic goes here
		//

		echo \$after_widget;
	}

	function update( \$new_instance, \$old_instance ) {
		// update logic goes here
		\$updated_instance = \$new_instance;
		return \$updated_instance;
	}

	function form( \$instance ) {
		\$instance = wp_parse_args( (array) \$instance, array( ${5:array of option_name =&gt; value pairs} ) );

		// display field names here using:
		// \$this-&gt;get_field_id(&#039;option_name&#039;) - the CSS ID
		// \$this-&gt;get_field_name(&#039;option_name&#039;) - the HTML name
		// \$instance[&#039;option_name&#039;] - the option value
	}
}

add_action( &#039;widgets_init&#039;, create_function( &#039;&#039;, "register_widget(&#039;$1_Widget&#039;);" ) );
</pre>
<p>Just create a WordPress TextMate bundle, create a new snippet, paste in that code and give it a trigger like wpwidget. Then just type that trigger, press TAB, and you&#8217;ll be in the first field. Type, hit TAB to go to the next field. Places where you enter the same thing twice are handled&#8212;you only have to enter it once. There are some helpful comments that&#8217;ll guide you through the rest once you&#8217;ve filled out the basics. I find that with this snippet, I can code up a new widget in a couple of minutes, tops. This is definitely going to make it more likely for me to create a widget for a client instead of just cheating and editing their theme by hand myself.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/336/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/336/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/336/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/336/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/336/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/336/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/336/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/336/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/336/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/336/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=336&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:11;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:55:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Stats Plug-in Review";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6638";s:4:"link";s:84:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/30/wordpress-stats-plug-in-review/";s:11:"description";s:8509:"<p>Stats – Stats – Stats.&#160; They can drive everything for your WordPress site.&#160; They can help you understand how visitors move around your site; how they got there in the first place; what are the most popular posts they are visiting; what browser and OS they are using. The list can go on and on.</p>
<p>I have spent a lot of time over the last few months looking for just the right plug-in to track stats on my <a href="http://www.windowsobserver.com/">WindowsObserver.com</a> website and I think I may have hit the mother lode with my most recent discovery.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cystats/">CyStats</a> is written by Michael Weingaertner and has been downloaded from the WordPress.org Extend directory 32,435 times over the 23 months it has been available there. The last update was last October so it would be nice to see an update however, it works just fine with the current release of WordPress (2.8.4).</p>
<p>According to the author’s description CyStats provides:</p>
<ul>
<li>Bounce rate, ignore-by-cookie, ignore-by-ip/post-id/user_agent lists </li>
<li>hits, visits for day/week/month/year &#8211; human or robots </li>
<li>Top referring pages </li>
<li>Most read categories and tags </li>
<li>Most read, most commented posts </li>
<li>Most read feeds, number of feed visits today </li>
<li>Internal/external search words </li>
<li>Operating systems </li>
<li>Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly statistics </li>
<li>404 error requests </li>
<li>Browsers/clients/tools/&#8230;, w/o. version numbers </li>
<li>Template tags for most read posts, user count,&#8230; </li>
<li>Optional IP-anonymizing </li>
<li>Multi language support (currently English, German supported). </li>
<li>Optional tracking of admin area visits </li>
</ul>
<p>Set up and installation is very easy – just install in the normal manner either via FTP upload or update within your WordPress Admin Plug-in area. Once it is installed and activated the first stop should be the Options under<em> Settings&gt;CyStats.</em> Here you can configure various database settings, statistics tracking (disable userlevel tracking, admin page stats or anonymize IP’s) as well as setting filtering cookies to block IP’s, User Agents and ignoring requests by page or post ID. This page also has the Delete All function and it is highlighted in bright red – do not use this unless you want to completely remove all CyStats info from your database.</p>
<p>On the lower left side of your Admin panel you will see a link for CyStats and a click on that will take you to the main menu for CyStats:</p>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="400">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="200"><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsmenulink.png"><img title="cystatsmenulink" border="0" alt="cystatsmenulink" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsmenulink_thumb.png" width="114" height="135" /></a></td>
<td valign="top" width="200"><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsmainmenu.png"><img title="cystatsmainmenu" border="0" alt="cystatsmainmenu" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsmainmenu_thumb.png" width="99" height="137" /></a></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>The Index page is broken down into:</p>
<p>Hits and Visits </p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatshitsandvisits.png"><img title="cystatshitsandvisits" border="0" alt="cystatshitsandvisits" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatshitsandvisits_thumb.png" width="102" height="82" /></a>&#160;&#160; </p>
<p>Pages and Comments </p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatspagesandcomments.png"><img title="cystatspagesandcomments" border="0" alt="cystatspagesandcomments" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatspagesandcomments_thumb.png" width="100" height="74" /></a> </p>
<p>Referrers and Search Words </p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsreferrerandsearchwords.png"><img title="cystatsreferrerandsearchwords" border="0" alt="cystatsreferrerandsearchwords" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsreferrerandsearchwords_thumb.png" width="97" height="68" /></a> </p>
<p>The Blog page shows recently commented posts; most active comment authors, tags and categories as well as some database statistics for your WordPress site.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsblogscreenshot.png"><img title="cystatsblogscreenshot" border="0" alt="cystatsblogscreenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsblogscreenshot_thumb.png" width="97" height="66" /></a> </p>
<p>The Clients page breaks down&#160; as follows:</p>
<p>Browsers; Operating Systems; Browser versions and tools and scripts (including WordPress) </p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsclientsscreenshot.png"><img title="cystatsclientsscreenshot" border="0" alt="cystatsclientsscreenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsclientsscreenshot_thumb.png" width="96" height="68" /></a> </p>
<p>Robots and Tools; Unknown user agents </p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsrobotsandtoolsandunknown.png"><img title="cystatsrobotsandtoolsandunknown" border="0" alt="cystatsrobotsandtoolsandunknown" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsrobotsandtoolsandunknown_thumb.png" width="96" height="52" /></a> </p>
<p>On the Referrer page you will find referrers today, yesterday, external referrers and search engine referrers:</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsreferrerscreenshot.png"><img title="cystatsreferrerscreenshot" border="0" alt="cystatsreferrerscreenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsreferrerscreenshot_thumb.png" width="94" height="62" /></a> </p>
<p>The Robots and Tools page is another summary of visits broken down by search engines; email/feed readers; tools and scripts and the unknown user agents:</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsrobotsandtoolsscreenshot.png"><img title="cystatsrobotsandtoolsscreenshot" border="0" alt="cystatsrobotsandtoolsscreenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsrobotsandtoolsscreenshot_thumb.png" width="90" height="53" /></a> </p>
<p>When you click on the Pages link you will find a summary of your most visited blog pages today; most visited overall; entry pages to your site; 404 error pages and page types (single, archive, feed, 404, home, page, month, category, search, author, day and year):</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatspagesscreenshot.png"><img title="cystatspagesscreenshot" border="0" alt="cystatspagesscreenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatspagesscreenshot_thumb.png" width="86" height="63" /></a> </p>
<p>The last page is the Time page and this gives you a snapshot of your visitors per day; per hour; per weekday; per week; per month and per year. You also get hits per day; per week; per month and per year.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatstimescreenshot.png"><img title="cystatstimescreenshot" border="0" alt="cystatstimescreenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatstimescreenshot_thumb.png" width="87" height="67" /></a> </p>
<p><strong><em>Bottom Line</em></strong></p>
<p>As you can see from the screenshots this is a very thorough tool and really does give you an in-depth snapshot of your sites visitors. That in turn can help you better layout your site, establish a plan to write on popular subjects and focus your efforts on the areas of your WordPress site that really draws those visitors.&#160; I like this plug-in above others that I have used because it breaks things down between non bot and bot visits which gives me a better idea of human eyes on my site as opposed to machines which can be misleading.</p>
<p>I am very interested in hearing what your favorite methods are for tracking visitors on your website.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:00:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:15:"WindowsObserver";}s:7:"summary";s:8509:"<p>Stats – Stats – Stats.&#160; They can drive everything for your WordPress site.&#160; They can help you understand how visitors move around your site; how they got there in the first place; what are the most popular posts they are visiting; what browser and OS they are using. The list can go on and on.</p>
<p>I have spent a lot of time over the last few months looking for just the right plug-in to track stats on my <a href="http://www.windowsobserver.com/">WindowsObserver.com</a> website and I think I may have hit the mother lode with my most recent discovery.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cystats/">CyStats</a> is written by Michael Weingaertner and has been downloaded from the WordPress.org Extend directory 32,435 times over the 23 months it has been available there. The last update was last October so it would be nice to see an update however, it works just fine with the current release of WordPress (2.8.4).</p>
<p>According to the author’s description CyStats provides:</p>
<ul>
<li>Bounce rate, ignore-by-cookie, ignore-by-ip/post-id/user_agent lists </li>
<li>hits, visits for day/week/month/year &#8211; human or robots </li>
<li>Top referring pages </li>
<li>Most read categories and tags </li>
<li>Most read, most commented posts </li>
<li>Most read feeds, number of feed visits today </li>
<li>Internal/external search words </li>
<li>Operating systems </li>
<li>Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly statistics </li>
<li>404 error requests </li>
<li>Browsers/clients/tools/&#8230;, w/o. version numbers </li>
<li>Template tags for most read posts, user count,&#8230; </li>
<li>Optional IP-anonymizing </li>
<li>Multi language support (currently English, German supported). </li>
<li>Optional tracking of admin area visits </li>
</ul>
<p>Set up and installation is very easy – just install in the normal manner either via FTP upload or update within your WordPress Admin Plug-in area. Once it is installed and activated the first stop should be the Options under<em> Settings&gt;CyStats.</em> Here you can configure various database settings, statistics tracking (disable userlevel tracking, admin page stats or anonymize IP’s) as well as setting filtering cookies to block IP’s, User Agents and ignoring requests by page or post ID. This page also has the Delete All function and it is highlighted in bright red – do not use this unless you want to completely remove all CyStats info from your database.</p>
<p>On the lower left side of your Admin panel you will see a link for CyStats and a click on that will take you to the main menu for CyStats:</p>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="400">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="200"><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsmenulink.png"><img title="cystatsmenulink" border="0" alt="cystatsmenulink" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsmenulink_thumb.png" width="114" height="135" /></a></td>
<td valign="top" width="200"><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsmainmenu.png"><img title="cystatsmainmenu" border="0" alt="cystatsmainmenu" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsmainmenu_thumb.png" width="99" height="137" /></a></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>The Index page is broken down into:</p>
<p>Hits and Visits </p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatshitsandvisits.png"><img title="cystatshitsandvisits" border="0" alt="cystatshitsandvisits" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatshitsandvisits_thumb.png" width="102" height="82" /></a>&#160;&#160; </p>
<p>Pages and Comments </p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatspagesandcomments.png"><img title="cystatspagesandcomments" border="0" alt="cystatspagesandcomments" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatspagesandcomments_thumb.png" width="100" height="74" /></a> </p>
<p>Referrers and Search Words </p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsreferrerandsearchwords.png"><img title="cystatsreferrerandsearchwords" border="0" alt="cystatsreferrerandsearchwords" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsreferrerandsearchwords_thumb.png" width="97" height="68" /></a> </p>
<p>The Blog page shows recently commented posts; most active comment authors, tags and categories as well as some database statistics for your WordPress site.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsblogscreenshot.png"><img title="cystatsblogscreenshot" border="0" alt="cystatsblogscreenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsblogscreenshot_thumb.png" width="97" height="66" /></a> </p>
<p>The Clients page breaks down&#160; as follows:</p>
<p>Browsers; Operating Systems; Browser versions and tools and scripts (including WordPress) </p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsclientsscreenshot.png"><img title="cystatsclientsscreenshot" border="0" alt="cystatsclientsscreenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsclientsscreenshot_thumb.png" width="96" height="68" /></a> </p>
<p>Robots and Tools; Unknown user agents </p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsrobotsandtoolsandunknown.png"><img title="cystatsrobotsandtoolsandunknown" border="0" alt="cystatsrobotsandtoolsandunknown" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsrobotsandtoolsandunknown_thumb.png" width="96" height="52" /></a> </p>
<p>On the Referrer page you will find referrers today, yesterday, external referrers and search engine referrers:</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsreferrerscreenshot.png"><img title="cystatsreferrerscreenshot" border="0" alt="cystatsreferrerscreenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsreferrerscreenshot_thumb.png" width="94" height="62" /></a> </p>
<p>The Robots and Tools page is another summary of visits broken down by search engines; email/feed readers; tools and scripts and the unknown user agents:</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsrobotsandtoolsscreenshot.png"><img title="cystatsrobotsandtoolsscreenshot" border="0" alt="cystatsrobotsandtoolsscreenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatsrobotsandtoolsscreenshot_thumb.png" width="90" height="53" /></a> </p>
<p>When you click on the Pages link you will find a summary of your most visited blog pages today; most visited overall; entry pages to your site; 404 error pages and page types (single, archive, feed, 404, home, page, month, category, search, author, day and year):</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatspagesscreenshot.png"><img title="cystatspagesscreenshot" border="0" alt="cystatspagesscreenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatspagesscreenshot_thumb.png" width="86" height="63" /></a> </p>
<p>The last page is the Time page and this gives you a snapshot of your visitors per day; per hour; per weekday; per week; per month and per year. You also get hits per day; per week; per month and per year.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatstimescreenshot.png"><img title="cystatstimescreenshot" border="0" alt="cystatstimescreenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cystatstimescreenshot_thumb.png" width="87" height="67" /></a> </p>
<p><strong><em>Bottom Line</em></strong></p>
<p>As you can see from the screenshots this is a very thorough tool and really does give you an in-depth snapshot of your sites visitors. That in turn can help you better layout your site, establish a plan to write on popular subjects and focus your efforts on the areas of your WordPress site that really draws those visitors.&#160; I like this plug-in above others that I have used because it breaks things down between non bot and bot visits which gives me a better idea of human eyes on my site as opposed to machines which can be misleading.</p>
<p>I am very interested in hearing what your favorite methods are for tracking visitors on your website.</p>";}i:12;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 08/30";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6607";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/30/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0830/";s:11:"description";s:2690:"<h4><a href="http://www.dkszone.net/2009/08/eximius-free-3-column-wordpress-theme.html">Eximius</a></h4>
<p><img title="Eximius" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Eximius.png" alt="Eximius" width="200" height="123" /></p>
<p>Eximius is a three column WordPress theme with left and right Sidebars. This free theme is widget-ready and SEO optimized. With simple yet elegant looks, Eximius is a very lightweight theme and loads quite fast in any browser. The two Sidebars can accommodate Wide Skyscraper Ads (160&#215;600). Eximius has a textured navigation menu bar with integrated search box.</p>
<h4><a href="http://themocracy.com/2009/08/persephone-free-wordpress-theme/">Persephone</a></h4>
<p><img title="Persephone" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Persephone.jpg" alt="Persephone" width="200" height="151" /></p>
<p>Persephone is a WordPress theme, two-column, dark background, with a right sidebar, compatible with WordPress version 2.7 upwards, and all ready for paged and threaded comments. 3 styles to choose from &#8211; good old blue, red, green&#8230;</p>
<h4><a href="http://srinig.com/wordpress/themes/f2/">F2</a></h4>
<p><img title="F2" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/F2.png" alt="F2" width="200" height="151" /></p>
<p>F2 is a fast loading fluid width theme for WordPress. Customizable header, any of the two sidebars can be optionally turned off, and much more options in the settings page. Compatible with WordPress 2.8 and above.</p>
<h4><a href="http://premiumthemes.net/news/quick-mini-site-for-non-bloggers-using-visiting-card-free-premium-wordpress-theme.html">Visiting Card</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://premiumthemes.net/demo/visitingcard/"><img title="VisitingCard" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/VisitingCard.png" alt="VisitingCard" width="200" height="176" /></a></p>
<p>A quick mini site with links to social networking sites. The theme comes with Theme Control Panel from where you could set all the aspects of the theme. If you don’t need some of them to show, simply leave them blank and they won’t appear.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.flisterz.com/2009/08/22/feusional-wordpress-theme-free-download/">Feusional</a></h4>
<p><img title="Feusional" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Feusional.gif" alt="Feusional" width="200" height="117" /></p>
<p>A simple 3-column, fixed-width WordPress theme, with theme option from dashboard and Twitter integration.</p>
<p>Are you a theme author, <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">submit your theme</a> to get listed in these posts.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:38:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:2690:"<h4><a href="http://www.dkszone.net/2009/08/eximius-free-3-column-wordpress-theme.html">Eximius</a></h4>
<p><img title="Eximius" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Eximius.png" alt="Eximius" width="200" height="123" /></p>
<p>Eximius is a three column WordPress theme with left and right Sidebars. This free theme is widget-ready and SEO optimized. With simple yet elegant looks, Eximius is a very lightweight theme and loads quite fast in any browser. The two Sidebars can accommodate Wide Skyscraper Ads (160&#215;600). Eximius has a textured navigation menu bar with integrated search box.</p>
<h4><a href="http://themocracy.com/2009/08/persephone-free-wordpress-theme/">Persephone</a></h4>
<p><img title="Persephone" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Persephone.jpg" alt="Persephone" width="200" height="151" /></p>
<p>Persephone is a WordPress theme, two-column, dark background, with a right sidebar, compatible with WordPress version 2.7 upwards, and all ready for paged and threaded comments. 3 styles to choose from &#8211; good old blue, red, green&#8230;</p>
<h4><a href="http://srinig.com/wordpress/themes/f2/">F2</a></h4>
<p><img title="F2" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/F2.png" alt="F2" width="200" height="151" /></p>
<p>F2 is a fast loading fluid width theme for WordPress. Customizable header, any of the two sidebars can be optionally turned off, and much more options in the settings page. Compatible with WordPress 2.8 and above.</p>
<h4><a href="http://premiumthemes.net/news/quick-mini-site-for-non-bloggers-using-visiting-card-free-premium-wordpress-theme.html">Visiting Card</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://premiumthemes.net/demo/visitingcard/"><img title="VisitingCard" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/VisitingCard.png" alt="VisitingCard" width="200" height="176" /></a></p>
<p>A quick mini site with links to social networking sites. The theme comes with Theme Control Panel from where you could set all the aspects of the theme. If you don’t need some of them to show, simply leave them blank and they won’t appear.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.flisterz.com/2009/08/22/feusional-wordpress-theme-free-download/">Feusional</a></h4>
<p><img title="Feusional" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Feusional.gif" alt="Feusional" width="200" height="117" /></p>
<p>A simple 3-column, fixed-width WordPress theme, with theme option from dashboard and Twitter integration.</p>
<p>Are you a theme author, <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">submit your theme</a> to get listed in these posts.</p>";}i:13;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:63:"Weblog Tools Collection: What Is Your WordPress Rockstar Power?";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6610";s:4:"link";s:91:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/29/what-is-your-wordpress-rockstar-power/";s:11:"description";s:1137:"<p>WordPress in itself gives you enough to make the community bigger and bigger, but then we all contribute to it bit by bit.</p>
<p>Here is a short poll, tell us whether you are a Rockstar user who uses WordPress  for blogging or whether you are a serious Rockstar WordPress user who develops plugins or themes that help other users.</p>
<p>And yes please leave your comments saying why you have the WordPress power, why it makes you a Rockstar, it would really be great to listen and learn from you.</p>
<p></p>
<p>&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&#8221;http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1932746/&#8221; mce_href=&#8221;http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1932746/&#8221;&gt;Are you a WordPress Rockstar?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;font-size:9px;&#8221; mce_style=&#8221;font-size:9px;&#8221;&gt;(&lt;a href=&#8221;http://www.polldaddy.com&#8221; mce_href=&#8221;http://www.polldaddy.com&#8221;&gt;polls&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; </p>
<p><em>P.S: I used the word Rockstar, because WordPress releases are named after musicians, and I love both music and being a Rock lover, I enjoy both my music and helping the community.</em></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:11:22 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:1137:"<p>WordPress in itself gives you enough to make the community bigger and bigger, but then we all contribute to it bit by bit.</p>
<p>Here is a short poll, tell us whether you are a Rockstar user who uses WordPress  for blogging or whether you are a serious Rockstar WordPress user who develops plugins or themes that help other users.</p>
<p>And yes please leave your comments saying why you have the WordPress power, why it makes you a Rockstar, it would really be great to listen and learn from you.</p>
<p></p>
<p>&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&#8221;http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1932746/&#8221; mce_href=&#8221;http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1932746/&#8221;&gt;Are you a WordPress Rockstar?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;font-size:9px;&#8221; mce_style=&#8221;font-size:9px;&#8221;&gt;(&lt;a href=&#8221;http://www.polldaddy.com&#8221; mce_href=&#8221;http://www.polldaddy.com&#8221;&gt;polls&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; </p>
<p><em>P.S: I used the word Rockstar, because WordPress releases are named after musicians, and I love both music and being a Rock lover, I enjoy both my music and helping the community.</em></p>";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:46:"WordPress.tv: An Introduction to Custom Fields";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=2466";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/29/custom-fields-introduction/";s:11:"description";s:1392:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
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<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/29/custom-fields-introduction/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/ajcQXaJ3/custom-fields-introductory-lesson_std.original.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2466/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2466/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2466/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2466/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2466/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2466/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2466/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2466/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2466/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2466/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2466&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:15;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:68:"Weblog Tools Collection: Free Weblog Tools Collection Laptop Sticker";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6568";s:4:"link";s:97:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/28/free-weblog-tools-collection-laptop-sticker/";s:11:"description";s:1415:"<p>So I was decking out my laptop with stickers the other day and realized that I really miss having a Weblog Tools Collection laptop sticker.</p>
<div id="attachment_6569" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughinglizard/3865460634/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-6569" title="DSC_3040" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/3865460634_5f79d50a25_b-300x199.jpg" alt="Weblog Tools Collection Laptop Sticker" width="300" height="199" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Weblog Tools Collection Laptop Sticker</p></div>
<p>So I got in touch with a few vendors and come upon Sticker Giant who were great to work with. Now that I have a sticker for my own laptop, I have many others left on the roll and I am itching to give them away. So if you want a Weblog Tools Collection laptop sticker for free, please fill out the form (closed, reached max. number) and we will send a few out for you ASAP.</p>
<p>Since postage is kind of expensive, if you missed this round and would still like one, we will have more of these sticker giveaways in the future and if I play my cards right, I might even have a way for people to order them online for very little money. Stay tuned for that.</p>
<p>If you are a tech company or blog and have stickers of your own that you would like distributed along with these, please contact me using the form in the menu above.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:57:44 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1415:"<p>So I was decking out my laptop with stickers the other day and realized that I really miss having a Weblog Tools Collection laptop sticker.</p>
<div id="attachment_6569" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughinglizard/3865460634/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-6569" title="DSC_3040" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/3865460634_5f79d50a25_b-300x199.jpg" alt="Weblog Tools Collection Laptop Sticker" width="300" height="199" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Weblog Tools Collection Laptop Sticker</p></div>
<p>So I got in touch with a few vendors and come upon Sticker Giant who were great to work with. Now that I have a sticker for my own laptop, I have many others left on the roll and I am itching to give them away. So if you want a Weblog Tools Collection laptop sticker for free, please fill out the form (closed, reached max. number) and we will send a few out for you ASAP.</p>
<p>Since postage is kind of expensive, if you missed this round and would still like one, we will have more of these sticker giveaways in the future and if I play my cards right, I might even have a way for people to order them online for very little money. Stay tuned for that.</p>
<p>If you are a tech company or blog and have stickers of your own that you would like distributed along with these, please contact me using the form in the menu above.</p>";}i:16;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/28";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6563";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/28/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0828/";s:11:"description";s:3427:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.devdevote.com/wordpress/plugins/wp-paging/">WP Paging</a></p>
<p>Unlike many other page navigation plugins, this one is based on a core page number function called paginate_links. Wordpress use this function for the page numbers in wp-admin. If it’s good enough to use in Wordpress core, it’s good enough right?</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravatar-box/">Gravatar Box</a></p>
<p>Gravatars are great. But many people don&#8217;t have them. Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if, when a user was filling in the comments form, the page could automatically detect and show a users gravatar, if they have one? Or even better, show a sign up link if they don&#8217;t have one?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.642weather.com/weather/scripts-wordpress-si-contact.php">Fast and Secure Contact Form</a></p>
<p>Fast and Secure Contact Form for WordPress. The contact form lets your visitors send you a quick email message. Blocks all common spammer tactics. Spam is no longer a problem. Includes a CAPTCHA. Does not require JavaScript. Easy and Quick 3 step install.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/xml-and-csv-import-in-article-content/">Import CSV</a></p>
<p>Import CSV or XML content directly from an url or by paste the content. Auto detect url and email adress to make a link on it.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webdev3000.com/software-shop-wp-plugin-released">Software Shop</a></p>
<p>Add self-maintaining software shop to your WP powered site and monetize your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mobile-device-detect/">Mobile Device Detect</a></p>
<p>This WordPress plugin integrates the mobile device detect function from detectmobilebrowsers.mobi to wordpress. It allows to redirect mobile visitors to a custom target URL.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/smart-archives-reloaded">Smart Archives Reloaded</a></p>
<p>Gives you an elegant and easy way to present your posts on a single page.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/front-end-editor">Front-end Editor</a></p>
<p>Enables “edit in place” functionality on your site: from post content to text widgets.</p>
<p><a href="http://epicalex.com/gravajax-registration/">Gravajax Registration</a></p>
<p>Since the introduction of a 404 by Gravatar, I have updated the plugin to return a message to get a gravatar only if the user&#8217;s own is not returned.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.intensedebate.com/2009/08/26/wordpress-plugin-2-4-2/">Intense Debate</a></p>
<p>IntenseDebate Comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog or website. Custom integration with your WordPress admin panel makes moderation a piece of cake. Comment threading, reply-by-email, user accounts and reputations, comment voting, along with Twitter and friendfeed integrations enrich your readers&#8217; experience and make more of the internet aware of your blog and comments which drives traffic to you!</p>
<p><a href="http://mobilewebjunkie.com/wordpress-mobile-plugin-install-guide-and-faq/">Wapple Architect Mobile</a></p>
<p>Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for Wordpress is a plugin that allows you to mobilize your blog in minutes.</p>
<p><a href="http://sumolari.com/?p=1759">WP Carousel</a></p>
<p>WP Carousel is a plugin that allows you to add a carousel with a category&#8217;s posts. Is easy to install and use. Page not in English</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:19:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:3427:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.devdevote.com/wordpress/plugins/wp-paging/">WP Paging</a></p>
<p>Unlike many other page navigation plugins, this one is based on a core page number function called paginate_links. Wordpress use this function for the page numbers in wp-admin. If it’s good enough to use in Wordpress core, it’s good enough right?</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravatar-box/">Gravatar Box</a></p>
<p>Gravatars are great. But many people don&#8217;t have them. Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if, when a user was filling in the comments form, the page could automatically detect and show a users gravatar, if they have one? Or even better, show a sign up link if they don&#8217;t have one?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.642weather.com/weather/scripts-wordpress-si-contact.php">Fast and Secure Contact Form</a></p>
<p>Fast and Secure Contact Form for WordPress. The contact form lets your visitors send you a quick email message. Blocks all common spammer tactics. Spam is no longer a problem. Includes a CAPTCHA. Does not require JavaScript. Easy and Quick 3 step install.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/xml-and-csv-import-in-article-content/">Import CSV</a></p>
<p>Import CSV or XML content directly from an url or by paste the content. Auto detect url and email adress to make a link on it.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webdev3000.com/software-shop-wp-plugin-released">Software Shop</a></p>
<p>Add self-maintaining software shop to your WP powered site and monetize your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mobile-device-detect/">Mobile Device Detect</a></p>
<p>This WordPress plugin integrates the mobile device detect function from detectmobilebrowsers.mobi to wordpress. It allows to redirect mobile visitors to a custom target URL.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/smart-archives-reloaded">Smart Archives Reloaded</a></p>
<p>Gives you an elegant and easy way to present your posts on a single page.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/front-end-editor">Front-end Editor</a></p>
<p>Enables “edit in place” functionality on your site: from post content to text widgets.</p>
<p><a href="http://epicalex.com/gravajax-registration/">Gravajax Registration</a></p>
<p>Since the introduction of a 404 by Gravatar, I have updated the plugin to return a message to get a gravatar only if the user&#8217;s own is not returned.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.intensedebate.com/2009/08/26/wordpress-plugin-2-4-2/">Intense Debate</a></p>
<p>IntenseDebate Comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog or website. Custom integration with your WordPress admin panel makes moderation a piece of cake. Comment threading, reply-by-email, user accounts and reputations, comment voting, along with Twitter and friendfeed integrations enrich your readers&#8217; experience and make more of the internet aware of your blog and comments which drives traffic to you!</p>
<p><a href="http://mobilewebjunkie.com/wordpress-mobile-plugin-install-guide-and-faq/">Wapple Architect Mobile</a></p>
<p>Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for Wordpress is a plugin that allows you to mobilize your blog in minutes.</p>
<p><a href="http://sumolari.com/?p=1759">WP Carousel</a></p>
<p>WP Carousel is a plugin that allows you to add a carousel with a category&#8217;s posts. Is easy to install and use. Page not in English</p>";}i:17;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:74:"Weblog Tools Collection: Display Thumbnails For Related Posts in Wordpress";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6560";s:4:"link";s:103:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/27/display-thumbnails-for-related-posts-in-wordpress/";s:11:"description";s:1624:"<p><a href="http://buildinternet.com/2009/07/display-thumbnails-for-related-posts-in-wordpress/">Display Thumbnails For Related Posts in Wordpress</a>: I have been a huge fan of related posts in blogs for some time. They really help your readers by drawing them into the conversation and increase stickiness of your blog. WordPress.com has a similar feature with related posts from various other blog on the network. Variations of the related posts plugins include our very own &#8220;<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/05/updated-wp-plugin-where-did-they-go-from-here/">Where did they go from here?</a>&#8221; plugin and more centralized version such as the Waypath service.</p>
<p>The tutorial linked above explains one way to add thumbnails to your related post links in order to draw your readers attention to the links. The method is not as automated as I would like it to be and does require a few bits of code that is provided but I believe it can really help keep readers on your blog longer. I remember when small pictures were added next to AdSense ads and it raised clickthroughs to such an extent that Google had to re-examine their policy and ended up making them illegal. My suggestion is to keep the thumbnail small and relevant. Automated generation of thumbnails would be much more preferred. As part of the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog">Weblog Tools Collection Plugin Competition 2009</a>, George Spyros has also released his <a href="http://www.splicelicio.us/rich-related-posts-wordpress-plugin">Rich Related Posts plugin</a> that might be of interest.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:47:55 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1624:"<p><a href="http://buildinternet.com/2009/07/display-thumbnails-for-related-posts-in-wordpress/">Display Thumbnails For Related Posts in Wordpress</a>: I have been a huge fan of related posts in blogs for some time. They really help your readers by drawing them into the conversation and increase stickiness of your blog. WordPress.com has a similar feature with related posts from various other blog on the network. Variations of the related posts plugins include our very own &#8220;<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/05/updated-wp-plugin-where-did-they-go-from-here/">Where did they go from here?</a>&#8221; plugin and more centralized version such as the Waypath service.</p>
<p>The tutorial linked above explains one way to add thumbnails to your related post links in order to draw your readers attention to the links. The method is not as automated as I would like it to be and does require a few bits of code that is provided but I believe it can really help keep readers on your blog longer. I remember when small pictures were added next to AdSense ads and it raised clickthroughs to such an extent that Google had to re-examine their policy and ended up making them illegal. My suggestion is to keep the thumbnail small and relevant. Automated generation of thumbnails would be much more preferred. As part of the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog">Weblog Tools Collection Plugin Competition 2009</a>, George Spyros has also released his <a href="http://www.splicelicio.us/rich-related-posts-wordpress-plugin">Rich Related Posts plugin</a> that might be of interest.</p>";}i:18;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:64:"Weblog Tools Collection: Actions and Filters and Classes, Oh My!";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6550";s:4:"link";s:91:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/26/actions-and-filters-and-classes-oh-my/";s:11:"description";s:2639:"<p>Ever wondered how you can manipulate WordPress filters and actions that are defined inside a PHP class?</p>
<p>I did! I was working on a project recently that needed a plugin. The only problem was that the plugin was inserting some unnecessary cruft into the header of my theme. So, I figured I&#8217;d just use the <code><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_filter">remove_filter</a></code> function WordPress provides&#8230; right?</p>
<p>Hold on a second! It&#8217;s not working!? But I put in the function name just how the codex explains it:</p>
<p><code>remove_filter('wp_head', 'the_crufty_function');</code></p>
<p>Why would it not work? Time to do some troubleshooting&#8230; So, I opened up the main plugin PHP file in my code editor and began to look around. What&#8217;s this? It&#8217;s a class! Hmm&#8230; But why should that make a difference?</p>
<p>It seems that WordPress requires a special reference to the function if it is defined inside a class. If you, the reader, are at all familiar with PHP classes then you probably know that you can usually access a class&#8217;s functions like this:</p>
<p><code>$the_class_initiator_variable-&gt;some_function();</code></p>
<p>So, lets give that a try:</p>
<p><code>remove_filter('wp_head', $the_crufty_class-&gt;the_crufty_function);</code></p>
<p>Still nothing&#8230; Oh boy&#8230; What do I do now? I guess we&#8217;ll try some Googling&#8230;</p>
<p><em>&#8230;Hmm&#8230;</em></p>
<p><em>&#8230;Not finding much&#8230;</em></p>
<p>Well&#8230; after much searching and trying different things I finally came upon this:</p>
<p><code>remove_filter('wp_head', array(&amp;$the_crufty_class, 'the_crufty_function'));</code></p>
<p>It works! <strong>Wonderful!</strong></p>
<p>You take the class initiator variable and the name of the function and put it in an array. Simple as that!</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> No, that ampersand is not a typo! It sets up a reference to the original variable instead of copying it’s value. You&#8217;d be surprised how many people don&#8217;t know what the ampersand does in PHP. I didn&#8217;t know for the longest time.</p>
<p>Also, because the <code>remove_filter</code> and <code>remove_action</code> functions are so similar this method applies to both.</p>
<p>There you have it! Just a quick little tip regarding an issue that doesn&#8217;t seem to be very well documented. I&#8217;m sure some of the experts out there already know of this but, I didn&#8217;t. I&#8217;m willing to assume there are some people out there like me who are racking their brains over this very issue.</p>
<p>Hope it helps!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:37:22 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"James Dimick";}s:7:"summary";s:2639:"<p>Ever wondered how you can manipulate WordPress filters and actions that are defined inside a PHP class?</p>
<p>I did! I was working on a project recently that needed a plugin. The only problem was that the plugin was inserting some unnecessary cruft into the header of my theme. So, I figured I&#8217;d just use the <code><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_filter">remove_filter</a></code> function WordPress provides&#8230; right?</p>
<p>Hold on a second! It&#8217;s not working!? But I put in the function name just how the codex explains it:</p>
<p><code>remove_filter('wp_head', 'the_crufty_function');</code></p>
<p>Why would it not work? Time to do some troubleshooting&#8230; So, I opened up the main plugin PHP file in my code editor and began to look around. What&#8217;s this? It&#8217;s a class! Hmm&#8230; But why should that make a difference?</p>
<p>It seems that WordPress requires a special reference to the function if it is defined inside a class. If you, the reader, are at all familiar with PHP classes then you probably know that you can usually access a class&#8217;s functions like this:</p>
<p><code>$the_class_initiator_variable-&gt;some_function();</code></p>
<p>So, lets give that a try:</p>
<p><code>remove_filter('wp_head', $the_crufty_class-&gt;the_crufty_function);</code></p>
<p>Still nothing&#8230; Oh boy&#8230; What do I do now? I guess we&#8217;ll try some Googling&#8230;</p>
<p><em>&#8230;Hmm&#8230;</em></p>
<p><em>&#8230;Not finding much&#8230;</em></p>
<p>Well&#8230; after much searching and trying different things I finally came upon this:</p>
<p><code>remove_filter('wp_head', array(&amp;$the_crufty_class, 'the_crufty_function'));</code></p>
<p>It works! <strong>Wonderful!</strong></p>
<p>You take the class initiator variable and the name of the function and put it in an array. Simple as that!</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> No, that ampersand is not a typo! It sets up a reference to the original variable instead of copying it’s value. You&#8217;d be surprised how many people don&#8217;t know what the ampersand does in PHP. I didn&#8217;t know for the longest time.</p>
<p>Also, because the <code>remove_filter</code> and <code>remove_action</code> functions are so similar this method applies to both.</p>
<p>There you have it! Just a quick little tip regarding an issue that doesn&#8217;t seem to be very well documented. I&#8217;m sure some of the experts out there already know of this but, I didn&#8217;t. I&#8217;m willing to assume there are some people out there like me who are racking their brains over this very issue.</p>
<p>Hope it helps!</p>";}i:19;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 08/26";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6548";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/26/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0826/";s:11:"description";s:1860:"<p><a href="http://www.izandi.net/wordpress-theme-hot-news-today/">Hot News Today</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.izandi.net/preview/Hot_News_Today/"><img title="Hot News Today" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/HotNewsToday.jpg" alt="Hot News Today" width="200" height="77" /></a></p>
<p>Three columns, widget ready theme ready for WordPress 2.8. Also check out <a href="http://www.izandi.net/ads-minded-wordpress-theme/">Ads Minded</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://the-cloisters.net/wordpress-themes/khaki-theme/">Khaki</a></p>
<p><img title="Khaki" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Khaki.jpg" alt="Khaki" width="200" height="98" /></p>
<p>It&#8217;s a 3 Column Split, widget-ready theme in dark-hues of green and khaki. Fixed width featuring Custom Archives, Sitemap and Full-Width No Sidebars page templates. There is an options page for setting the text in the Info Text Box.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/shine">Shine</a></p>
<p><img title="Shine" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Shine.png" alt="Shine" width="200" height="150" /></p>
<p>A clean dark three column theme, built with customization in mind. SEO friendly and semantically built using the Carrington Framework.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tomslatin.com/downloads/wordpress-themes/">Broken Heart Crane</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.tomslatin.com/?theme=Broken_Heart_Crane"><img title="Broken Heart Crane" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/BrokenHeartCrane.png" alt="Broken Heart Crane" width="200" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Two columns, fluid width, widget ready theme with nested comments</p>
<p>Are you a WordPress theme author? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Submit your theme</a> to get listed in these release posts.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:52:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:1860:"<p><a href="http://www.izandi.net/wordpress-theme-hot-news-today/">Hot News Today</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.izandi.net/preview/Hot_News_Today/"><img title="Hot News Today" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/HotNewsToday.jpg" alt="Hot News Today" width="200" height="77" /></a></p>
<p>Three columns, widget ready theme ready for WordPress 2.8. Also check out <a href="http://www.izandi.net/ads-minded-wordpress-theme/">Ads Minded</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://the-cloisters.net/wordpress-themes/khaki-theme/">Khaki</a></p>
<p><img title="Khaki" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Khaki.jpg" alt="Khaki" width="200" height="98" /></p>
<p>It&#8217;s a 3 Column Split, widget-ready theme in dark-hues of green and khaki. Fixed width featuring Custom Archives, Sitemap and Full-Width No Sidebars page templates. There is an options page for setting the text in the Info Text Box.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/shine">Shine</a></p>
<p><img title="Shine" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Shine.png" alt="Shine" width="200" height="150" /></p>
<p>A clean dark three column theme, built with customization in mind. SEO friendly and semantically built using the Carrington Framework.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tomslatin.com/downloads/wordpress-themes/">Broken Heart Crane</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.tomslatin.com/?theme=Broken_Heart_Crane"><img title="Broken Heart Crane" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/BrokenHeartCrane.png" alt="Broken Heart Crane" width="200" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Two columns, fluid width, widget ready theme with nested comments</p>
<p>Are you a WordPress theme author? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Submit your theme</a> to get listed in these release posts.</p>";}i:20;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:38:"Dougal Campbell: W3 Total Cache Plugin";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=1696";s:4:"link";s:118:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/08/26/w3-total-cache-plugin?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss";s:11:"description";s:8352:"<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1150" title="WordPress Wednesday" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/wordpress-wednesday.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></p><p>There&#8217;s a new WordPress cache plugin in town, and it&#8217;s called <a title="W3 Total Cache plugin for WordPress" href="http://www.w3-edge.com/wordpress-plugins/w3-total-cache/">W3 Total Cache</a>. This plugin is one of the contestants in the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/">2009 Weblog Tools Collection Plugin Competition</a>.</p><p>The W3 Total Cache plugin (W3TC for short) is an advanced cache plugin, and you can only have one of those on your site at once. So if you&#8217;re currently using <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/">WP Super Cache</a>, you&#8217;ll have to disable that first before enabling W3TC. [side note: I tried to find a good link for information about the advanced-cache functionality, but I came up empty. we need a <a title="WordPress Documentation Codex" href="http://codex.wordpress.org/">Codex</a> page for that]</p><p>If you&#8217;ve used WP Super Cache before, you&#8217;re probably wondering what&#8217;s different about W3 Total Cache? Everything. WP Super Cache is a static disk cache. It creates files  on disk with a certain lifespan, and gets the web server to use those instead of firing off <acronym title="Php Hypertext Processor"><span class="caps">PHP</span></acronym> to generate pages on-the-fly, thus saving <acronym title="Central Processing Unit"><span class="caps">CPU</span></acronym> and time. So, on the bright side, it saves your server a lot of work. On the down side, you lose some of the dynamic nature of your site. The entire page will remain cached as-is until the cached version expires, or until it is forced to regenerate (because you update the page, a comment is added, etc).</p><p>W3 Total Cache works differently. It utilizes multiple techniques to improve performance, including: object and query caching; page caching; <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language"><span class="caps">HTML</span></acronym>, <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets"><span class="caps">CSS</span></acronym>, and javascript minification; gzip compression; CDN (Content Distribution Network) support; and browser caching via ETags. Currently, the caching is based on <a title="Alternative PHP Cache" href="http://www.php.net/apc">APC</a> and/or <a title="memcached high-performance memory cache" href="http://www.danga.com/memcached/">memcache</a>. I&#8217;ve suggested that they add <a title="XCache PHP opcode cache" href="http://xcache.lighttpd.net/">XCache</a>, as well. <ins datetime="2009-08-26T14:04:55+00:00">The closest other plugin is probably <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/batcache/">Batcache</a>, which also uses a memcached backend for caching.</ins></p><p><span id="more-1696"></span></p><p>Page caching is what WP Super Cache does. Except that W3TC uses your in-memory cache (APC or memcache). Memory being faster than disk, you&#8217;ll typically see an improvement when serving pages cached in this way. This does mean, however, that you want to have a decent amount of memory reserved for your cache. The W3TC docs suggest dedicating at least 128M with APC. If your server is strapped for RAM, or you can&#8217;t set up a dedicated memcache server, this plugin might not be for you.</p><p>Object and query caching means that the results of MySQL database queries are saved in the memory cache for later use. For example, when someone views your page normally, WordPress (or any other dynamic web application) will fetch things like your category list, your blogroll, and other information from the database, build the <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language"><span class="caps">HTML</span></acronym> page for the browser, and then promptly discard all of the database results when it finishes. The next time someone views the page, it runs all those same database queries again, even if nothing has changed, wasting <acronym title="Central Processing Unit"><span class="caps">CPU</span></acronym> cycles and time. W3 Total Cache will save the results of these queries and other objects that WordPress builds in the memory cache for re-use.</p><p>Minification is the technique of stripping out unneeded information from your <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language"><span class="caps">HTML</span></acronym>, <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets"><span class="caps">CSS</span></acronym>, and javascript. This can include extra whitespace and comments. Depending on how your original files are formatted, this can result in fairly significant savings (probably 10-20% in many cases). The smaller the files, the faster they can be delivered to the browser. This technique also includes combining multiple <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets"><span class="caps">CSS</span></acronym> or javascript files into a single request. Normally, each <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets"><span class="caps">CSS</span></acronym> and javascript file linked to from your theme requires your browser to make a separate network connection to fetch it (a relatively slow operation). By combining these, the plugin reduces the number of network connections needed.</p><p>Gzip compression is a binary compression like you see with ZIP files. This is a more advanced method of converting a large file into a smaller one. Again, meaning you can serve it up to the browser faster. Delivering content to the browser as fast as possible is important, because the browser speed perception of the user can often determine whether or not they stick around to read that content.</p><p>Support for CDNs (Content Distribution Networks) means that you can host static files like images, <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets"><span class="caps">CSS</span></acronym>, and javascript on a seperate server. Typically, CDNs are optimized for static content. Some CDNs are also geographically distributed, and automatically route the requests to the nearest/fastest location. Even if you don&#8217;t use an external CDN (like Akamai, Amazon S3, or Voxel), you can set up your own server optimized for static content, and use that.</p><p><a title="HTTP ETag" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag">ETag</a> support is currently supported in WordPress for feeds (I added that to the core myself, way-back-when). This is a feature of the HTTP specs designed to let servers and browsers coordinate caching. Basically, the first time a browser requests a page from a server, the server will generate an &#8216;ETag&#8217; header with a unique identifier based on the last time the page was modified. The browser can save a local copy of the page in its cache, along with the ETag. The next time the browser requests the same page, it can send the ETag back to the server. If the ETag on the server-side hasn&#8217;t changed (the page hasn&#8217;t been modified), then the server returns a &#8220;304 Not Modified&#8221; response, which tells the browser to just display its cached copy of the page. W3 Total Cache extends this support to other WordPress-generated pages, not just feeds.</p><p>I&#8217;ve got the plugin running on this server currently. The only problem I&#8217;ve run into was that with the <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language"><span class="caps">HTML</span></acronym> minification &#8220;line break removal&#8221; option turned on, it caused my <a title="Reinvigorate - web site statistics" href="http://reinvigorate.net/">reinvigorate.net</a> analytics script to fail for some reason. I haven&#8217;t fully explored all the options yet, and I don&#8217;t have as much memory allocated to memcached as I&#8217;d like, but it seems to be working pretty well so far. I should be able to judge more after it&#8217;s been running for a few days.</p><p>You can enable various optimizations independently of each other, so there is a lot of flexibility for utilizing various caching techniques while still allowing some things to remain dynamic. I&#8217;m curious to hear from others who try this plugin out, and see what they think about the balance between performance improvements and dynamic elements.</p> <a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/08/26/w3-total-cache-plugin" class="retweet vert">W3 Total Cache Plugin</a>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:10:37 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Dougal";}s:7:"summary";s:8352:"<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1150" title="WordPress Wednesday" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/wordpress-wednesday.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></p><p>There&#8217;s a new WordPress cache plugin in town, and it&#8217;s called <a title="W3 Total Cache plugin for WordPress" href="http://www.w3-edge.com/wordpress-plugins/w3-total-cache/">W3 Total Cache</a>. This plugin is one of the contestants in the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/">2009 Weblog Tools Collection Plugin Competition</a>.</p><p>The W3 Total Cache plugin (W3TC for short) is an advanced cache plugin, and you can only have one of those on your site at once. So if you&#8217;re currently using <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/">WP Super Cache</a>, you&#8217;ll have to disable that first before enabling W3TC. [side note: I tried to find a good link for information about the advanced-cache functionality, but I came up empty. we need a <a title="WordPress Documentation Codex" href="http://codex.wordpress.org/">Codex</a> page for that]</p><p>If you&#8217;ve used WP Super Cache before, you&#8217;re probably wondering what&#8217;s different about W3 Total Cache? Everything. WP Super Cache is a static disk cache. It creates files  on disk with a certain lifespan, and gets the web server to use those instead of firing off <acronym title="Php Hypertext Processor"><span class="caps">PHP</span></acronym> to generate pages on-the-fly, thus saving <acronym title="Central Processing Unit"><span class="caps">CPU</span></acronym> and time. So, on the bright side, it saves your server a lot of work. On the down side, you lose some of the dynamic nature of your site. The entire page will remain cached as-is until the cached version expires, or until it is forced to regenerate (because you update the page, a comment is added, etc).</p><p>W3 Total Cache works differently. It utilizes multiple techniques to improve performance, including: object and query caching; page caching; <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language"><span class="caps">HTML</span></acronym>, <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets"><span class="caps">CSS</span></acronym>, and javascript minification; gzip compression; CDN (Content Distribution Network) support; and browser caching via ETags. Currently, the caching is based on <a title="Alternative PHP Cache" href="http://www.php.net/apc">APC</a> and/or <a title="memcached high-performance memory cache" href="http://www.danga.com/memcached/">memcache</a>. I&#8217;ve suggested that they add <a title="XCache PHP opcode cache" href="http://xcache.lighttpd.net/">XCache</a>, as well. <ins datetime="2009-08-26T14:04:55+00:00">The closest other plugin is probably <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/batcache/">Batcache</a>, which also uses a memcached backend for caching.</ins></p><p><span id="more-1696"></span></p><p>Page caching is what WP Super Cache does. Except that W3TC uses your in-memory cache (APC or memcache). Memory being faster than disk, you&#8217;ll typically see an improvement when serving pages cached in this way. This does mean, however, that you want to have a decent amount of memory reserved for your cache. The W3TC docs suggest dedicating at least 128M with APC. If your server is strapped for RAM, or you can&#8217;t set up a dedicated memcache server, this plugin might not be for you.</p><p>Object and query caching means that the results of MySQL database queries are saved in the memory cache for later use. For example, when someone views your page normally, WordPress (or any other dynamic web application) will fetch things like your category list, your blogroll, and other information from the database, build the <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language"><span class="caps">HTML</span></acronym> page for the browser, and then promptly discard all of the database results when it finishes. The next time someone views the page, it runs all those same database queries again, even if nothing has changed, wasting <acronym title="Central Processing Unit"><span class="caps">CPU</span></acronym> cycles and time. W3 Total Cache will save the results of these queries and other objects that WordPress builds in the memory cache for re-use.</p><p>Minification is the technique of stripping out unneeded information from your <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language"><span class="caps">HTML</span></acronym>, <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets"><span class="caps">CSS</span></acronym>, and javascript. This can include extra whitespace and comments. Depending on how your original files are formatted, this can result in fairly significant savings (probably 10-20% in many cases). The smaller the files, the faster they can be delivered to the browser. This technique also includes combining multiple <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets"><span class="caps">CSS</span></acronym> or javascript files into a single request. Normally, each <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets"><span class="caps">CSS</span></acronym> and javascript file linked to from your theme requires your browser to make a separate network connection to fetch it (a relatively slow operation). By combining these, the plugin reduces the number of network connections needed.</p><p>Gzip compression is a binary compression like you see with ZIP files. This is a more advanced method of converting a large file into a smaller one. Again, meaning you can serve it up to the browser faster. Delivering content to the browser as fast as possible is important, because the browser speed perception of the user can often determine whether or not they stick around to read that content.</p><p>Support for CDNs (Content Distribution Networks) means that you can host static files like images, <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets"><span class="caps">CSS</span></acronym>, and javascript on a seperate server. Typically, CDNs are optimized for static content. Some CDNs are also geographically distributed, and automatically route the requests to the nearest/fastest location. Even if you don&#8217;t use an external CDN (like Akamai, Amazon S3, or Voxel), you can set up your own server optimized for static content, and use that.</p><p><a title="HTTP ETag" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag">ETag</a> support is currently supported in WordPress for feeds (I added that to the core myself, way-back-when). This is a feature of the HTTP specs designed to let servers and browsers coordinate caching. Basically, the first time a browser requests a page from a server, the server will generate an &#8216;ETag&#8217; header with a unique identifier based on the last time the page was modified. The browser can save a local copy of the page in its cache, along with the ETag. The next time the browser requests the same page, it can send the ETag back to the server. If the ETag on the server-side hasn&#8217;t changed (the page hasn&#8217;t been modified), then the server returns a &#8220;304 Not Modified&#8221; response, which tells the browser to just display its cached copy of the page. W3 Total Cache extends this support to other WordPress-generated pages, not just feeds.</p><p>I&#8217;ve got the plugin running on this server currently. The only problem I&#8217;ve run into was that with the <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language"><span class="caps">HTML</span></acronym> minification &#8220;line break removal&#8221; option turned on, it caused my <a title="Reinvigorate - web site statistics" href="http://reinvigorate.net/">reinvigorate.net</a> analytics script to fail for some reason. I haven&#8217;t fully explored all the options yet, and I don&#8217;t have as much memory allocated to memcached as I&#8217;d like, but it seems to be working pretty well so far. I should be able to judge more after it&#8217;s been running for a few days.</p><p>You can enable various optimizations independently of each other, so there is a lot of flexibility for utilizing various caching techniques while still allowing some things to remain dynamic. I&#8217;m curious to hear from others who try this plugin out, and see what they think about the balance between performance improvements and dynamic elements.</p> <a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/08/26/w3-total-cache-plugin" class="retweet vert">W3 Total Cache Plugin</a>";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:62:"Publisher Blog: Brazil’s Culture Ministry Selects BuddyPress";s:4:"guid";s:42:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/?p=634";s:4:"link";s:82:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2009/08/25/brazil-culture-ministry-buddypress/";s:11:"description";s:2584:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Thanks <a href="http://www.catiakitahara.com.br/">Cátia Kitahara</a> for lettings us know about a new <a href="http://buddypress.org">BuddyPress</a> site which is being used to enable and foster debate about various aspects of today&#8217;s digital life in Brazil.  Built by the Brazilian Culture Ministry, the beta site is now live at <a href="http://www.culturadigital.br">culturadigital.br</a>:<br />
<a href="http://www.culturadigital.br/"><img src="http://wordpresspublishers.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/brazil-culture-ministry-buddypress.png?w=640&#038;h=407" alt="Brazil-Culture-Ministry-BuddyPress" title="Brazil-Culture-Ministry-BuddyPress" width="640" height="407" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-635" /></a></p>
<p>The site describes itself as &#8220;an open public space destined to democratically create and build a public policy of digital culture, integrating citizens, government institutions, state companies, civil society and the market.&#8221;  Making use of all the &#8220;Facebook-in-a-box&#8221; features of BuddyPress, this site is off to a great start and could be a model for other organizations and companies looking to build this kind of community engagement and interaction.</p>
<p>[Visit <a href="http://www.culturadigital.br/">culturadigital.br</a> ]</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/634/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/634/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/634/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/634/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/634/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/634/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/634/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/634/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/634/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/634/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=publisherblog.automattic.com&blog=1470857&post=634&subd=wordpresspublishers&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:39:29 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:16:"Raanan Bar-Cohen";}s:7:"summary";s:2584:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Thanks <a href="http://www.catiakitahara.com.br/">Cátia Kitahara</a> for lettings us know about a new <a href="http://buddypress.org">BuddyPress</a> site which is being used to enable and foster debate about various aspects of today&#8217;s digital life in Brazil.  Built by the Brazilian Culture Ministry, the beta site is now live at <a href="http://www.culturadigital.br">culturadigital.br</a>:<br />
<a href="http://www.culturadigital.br/"><img src="http://wordpresspublishers.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/brazil-culture-ministry-buddypress.png?w=640&#038;h=407" alt="Brazil-Culture-Ministry-BuddyPress" title="Brazil-Culture-Ministry-BuddyPress" width="640" height="407" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-635" /></a></p>
<p>The site describes itself as &#8220;an open public space destined to democratically create and build a public policy of digital culture, integrating citizens, government institutions, state companies, civil society and the market.&#8221;  Making use of all the &#8220;Facebook-in-a-box&#8221; features of BuddyPress, this site is off to a great start and could be a model for other organizations and companies looking to build this kind of community engagement and interaction.</p>
<p>[Visit <a href="http://www.culturadigital.br/">culturadigital.br</a> ]</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/634/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/634/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/634/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/634/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/634/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/634/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/634/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/634/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/634/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/634/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=publisherblog.automattic.com&blog=1470857&post=634&subd=wordpresspublishers&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:22;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:21:"Matt: Blog Mothership";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=14751";s:4:"link";s:37:"http://ma.tt/2009/08/blog-mothership/";s:11:"description";s:117:"<p><a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/2009/08/22/your-blog-is-your-mothership/">Your Blog is Your Mothership</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:14:40 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:117:"<p><a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/2009/08/22/your-blog-is-your-mothership/">Your Blog is Your Mothership</a>.</p>";}i:23;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:71:"Weblog Tools Collection: 21 Great Plugins for Manage Multi-Author Blogs";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6540";s:4:"link";s:100:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/24/21-great-plugins-for-manage-multi-author-blogs/";s:11:"description";s:1800:"<p><a href="http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/21-great-plugins-to-manage-multi-author-blogs-efficiently-and-successfully/">21 Great Plugins to Manage Multi-Author Blogs Efficiently</a>: This is an interesting collection of plugins to manage multi-author blogs and add extra visibility to your co-authors. Weblog Tools Collection is a multi-author blog that is put together by highly dedicated and talented authors in various parts of the planet. We collect and put together news, information and articles throughout a 24 hour period and are probably watching over the blog and the comments in one way or another. We rarely ever meet face to face and tend to communicate via IM, email and a very rare phone call from time to time.</p>
<p>Some of the plugins mentioned in this list are popular such as Role Manager, which is very useful in and of itself. However, there are others that sparked immediate interest in my. The ability to add co-authors to a post would be quite cool, as would the ability to add quick information about the particular author to the various posts. Many of the larger multi-author blogs such as Mashable and TechCrunch already do this (I am not sure how, but I assume there are some custom plugins involved) and now you can do the same.</p>
<p>Speaking of multiple authors, are you a passionate plugin picker and a theme tamer? If you are not afraid to speak to thousands of people in an instant, have confidence in your writing abilities and are interested in breaking into the blogging world with aplomb, we would like to hear from you. Tell us what you will do to make this blog better using the Contact form above.</p>
<p>Thanks <a href="http://twitter.com/THRIVEcreativeg">Thrive Creative Group</a> via <a href="http://twitter.com/weblogtooltips">WeblogToolTips</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:37:19 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1800:"<p><a href="http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/21-great-plugins-to-manage-multi-author-blogs-efficiently-and-successfully/">21 Great Plugins to Manage Multi-Author Blogs Efficiently</a>: This is an interesting collection of plugins to manage multi-author blogs and add extra visibility to your co-authors. Weblog Tools Collection is a multi-author blog that is put together by highly dedicated and talented authors in various parts of the planet. We collect and put together news, information and articles throughout a 24 hour period and are probably watching over the blog and the comments in one way or another. We rarely ever meet face to face and tend to communicate via IM, email and a very rare phone call from time to time.</p>
<p>Some of the plugins mentioned in this list are popular such as Role Manager, which is very useful in and of itself. However, there are others that sparked immediate interest in my. The ability to add co-authors to a post would be quite cool, as would the ability to add quick information about the particular author to the various posts. Many of the larger multi-author blogs such as Mashable and TechCrunch already do this (I am not sure how, but I assume there are some custom plugins involved) and now you can do the same.</p>
<p>Speaking of multiple authors, are you a passionate plugin picker and a theme tamer? If you are not afraid to speak to thousands of people in an instant, have confidence in your writing abilities and are interested in breaking into the blogging world with aplomb, we would like to hear from you. Tell us what you will do to make this blog better using the Contact form above.</p>
<p>Thanks <a href="http://twitter.com/THRIVEcreativeg">Thrive Creative Group</a> via <a href="http://twitter.com/weblogtooltips">WeblogToolTips</a></p>";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:49:"BuddyPress: The New BuddyPress Theme Architecture";s:4:"guid";s:28:"http://buddypress.org/?p=570";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://buddypress.org/blog/news/the-new-buddypress-theme-architecture/";s:11:"description";s:3107:"<p>For the next version of BuddyPress there has been a fair amount of re-factoring work done. We&#8217;ve listened to your feedback from version 1.0 and made a number of internal changes that are going to make your lives as plugin developers and theme designers easier.</p>
<p>One of the biggest changes in BuddyPress 1.1 will be the way themes are built.</p>
<p>In version 1.0 BuddyPress required two themes to function. The first theme was a &#8220;WordPress home&#8221; theme that handled the blog and front page of your site. It was essentially a standard WordPress theme. The second was a &#8220;BuddyPress member&#8221; theme that would handle the display of pages generated by BuddyPress. There were many reasons for handling themes this way, but as time passed it was evident theming in this fashion was hurting the majority to help the minority.</p>
<p>In BuddyPress 1.1 there will be one single theme to handle everything. BuddyPress will ship with a social network framework theme that acts as a parent theme. The default theme will be a child theme based on this framework and contains only images and css. Building a new BuddyPress theme will be as simple as creating a child theme based on this framework. If you&#8217;re not familiar with child themes a <a href="http://www.google.com/search?rls=en-us&amp;q=wordpress+child+themes&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8">quick google search</a> will bring up lots of useful information.</p>
<p>This approach brings big benefits. When building a new theme you don&#8217;t need to re-create every template file. You can override specific template files where needed. Most importantly though, your theme will update automatically with the latest functionality when the framework theme is updated.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve already created a BuddyPress theme using the old system don&#8217;t worry, these themes will continue to work for at least the next couple of versions. You should find it fairly simple to convert your themes to the new system. The old default themes only took a few hours to convert over.</p>
<p>Using the framework theme is of course, just an option. You can still go ahead and create your own frameworks or mashups with a completely unique style or structure. As with WordPress themes, the possibilities are infinite.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;d like to get started with the new framework, I&#8217;d recommend running the trunk version of BuddyPress. The best way is to fetch this <a href="http://svn.buddypress.org/trunk/">via Subversion</a>, or you can download a zip of the current snapshot using the link at the bottom of <a href="http://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk">this Trac browser page</a>.</p>
<p>BuddyPress 1.1 is on track for a September release.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong>: There seems to be confusion about using existing WordPress themes. You can still use any existing WordPress theme and copy over the extra templates from the framework theme. This will allow you to continue to use your current theme and also keep the same look and feel for BuddyPress features. You may need to make some some CSS adjustments.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:07:26 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Andy Peatling";}s:7:"summary";s:3107:"<p>For the next version of BuddyPress there has been a fair amount of re-factoring work done. We&#8217;ve listened to your feedback from version 1.0 and made a number of internal changes that are going to make your lives as plugin developers and theme designers easier.</p>
<p>One of the biggest changes in BuddyPress 1.1 will be the way themes are built.</p>
<p>In version 1.0 BuddyPress required two themes to function. The first theme was a &#8220;WordPress home&#8221; theme that handled the blog and front page of your site. It was essentially a standard WordPress theme. The second was a &#8220;BuddyPress member&#8221; theme that would handle the display of pages generated by BuddyPress. There were many reasons for handling themes this way, but as time passed it was evident theming in this fashion was hurting the majority to help the minority.</p>
<p>In BuddyPress 1.1 there will be one single theme to handle everything. BuddyPress will ship with a social network framework theme that acts as a parent theme. The default theme will be a child theme based on this framework and contains only images and css. Building a new BuddyPress theme will be as simple as creating a child theme based on this framework. If you&#8217;re not familiar with child themes a <a href="http://www.google.com/search?rls=en-us&amp;q=wordpress+child+themes&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8">quick google search</a> will bring up lots of useful information.</p>
<p>This approach brings big benefits. When building a new theme you don&#8217;t need to re-create every template file. You can override specific template files where needed. Most importantly though, your theme will update automatically with the latest functionality when the framework theme is updated.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve already created a BuddyPress theme using the old system don&#8217;t worry, these themes will continue to work for at least the next couple of versions. You should find it fairly simple to convert your themes to the new system. The old default themes only took a few hours to convert over.</p>
<p>Using the framework theme is of course, just an option. You can still go ahead and create your own frameworks or mashups with a completely unique style or structure. As with WordPress themes, the possibilities are infinite.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;d like to get started with the new framework, I&#8217;d recommend running the trunk version of BuddyPress. The best way is to fetch this <a href="http://svn.buddypress.org/trunk/">via Subversion</a>, or you can download a zip of the current snapshot using the link at the bottom of <a href="http://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk">this Trac browser page</a>.</p>
<p>BuddyPress 1.1 is on track for a September release.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong>: There seems to be confusion about using existing WordPress themes. You can still use any existing WordPress theme and copy over the extra templates from the framework theme. This will allow you to continue to use your current theme and also keep the same look and feel for BuddyPress features. You may need to make some some CSS adjustments.</p>";}i:25;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:47:"Alex King: The Carrington Framework Q&A Part II";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://alexking.org/?p=3576";s:4:"link";s:66:"http://alexking.org/blog/2009/08/24/carrington-framework-qa-part-2";s:11:"description";s:817:"<p>I&#8217;ve published <a href="http://carringtontheme.com/2009/08/carrington-framework-qa-part-2/">another Q&amp;A on the Carrington Framework</a> on the <a href="http://carringtontheme.com/">Carrington web site</a>. This one covers some additional questions I saw popping up in the forums and comments.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s great to see folks being able to get into Carrington a little more of late, I guess the <a href="http://carringtontheme.com/developers/">additional documentation</a> has been helpful.</p>
<p>Also, remember to submit your Carrington powered sites to the <a href="http://carringtontheme.com/category/showcase/">Showcase</a> once they go live, I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing what people have built.</p>
<img src="http://alexking.org/wp/?ak_action=api_record_view&id=3576&type=feed" alt="" />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:10:09 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:7:"summary";s:817:"<p>I&#8217;ve published <a href="http://carringtontheme.com/2009/08/carrington-framework-qa-part-2/">another Q&amp;A on the Carrington Framework</a> on the <a href="http://carringtontheme.com/">Carrington web site</a>. This one covers some additional questions I saw popping up in the forums and comments.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s great to see folks being able to get into Carrington a little more of late, I guess the <a href="http://carringtontheme.com/developers/">additional documentation</a> has been helpful.</p>
<p>Also, remember to submit your Carrington powered sites to the <a href="http://carringtontheme.com/category/showcase/">Showcase</a> once they go live, I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing what people have built.</p>
<img src="http://alexking.org/wp/?ak_action=api_record_view&id=3576&type=feed" alt="" />";}i:26;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/24";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6533";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/24/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0824/";s:11:"description";s:3004:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://ecosystemi.com/super-cat-lister/">Super Cat Lister</a></p>
<p>SuperCatLister greatly extends the abilities of Wordpress as a content management system. It does this by giving site designers the ability to insert links or content from posts in specified categories into other posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.profitplugs.com/testimonials-manager-wordpress/">Testimonials Manager</a></p>
<p>Testimonials Manager is a WordPress plugin that allows you to manage and display testimonials for your blog, product or service. It can be used to build your portfolio or to encourage readers to subscribe / buy your products.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search/">Search API</a></p>
<p>This plugin creates a basis for a new search engine to replace the simple input box search currently employed. The plugin creates an API to support advanced search capabilities such as boolean search, multiple content searches (posts, tags, pages, authors and any available metadata) and flags (finding posts with A string in category C) through additional plugins.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.techtipsmaster.com/wp-preventcopyblogs.html">WP-PreventCopyBlogs</a></p>
<p>Track visitors who try to copy your content</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://thecuriousfrog.com/projects/last-modified-footer/">Last Modified Footer</a></p>
<p>The Last Modified Footer plugin generates a message stating the date / time the content being viewed was last modified. This information can be placed in the site footer, or elsewhere on the page.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.whoismanu.com/photoq-wordpress-photoblog-plugin/">PhotoQ</a></p>
<p>PhotoQ is a plugin for photo enthusiasts or anyone who has a lot of pictures to post. It turns your WordPress blog into a full featured photoblog and starting with this newest version supports virtually any theme there is. The plugin is aimed at automating publishing of photos as much as possible.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jenruno.com/SpamTask/">SpamTask</a></p>
<p>SpamTask is a spam protection plugin for WordPress, created to prevent comment spam in the most efficient way. The blog spam filter is known to catch all spam robots.</p>
<p><a href="http://sww.co.nz/wordpress-plugins/ezy-nav-menu/">Ezy Nav Menu</a></p>
<p>Makes use of WP&#8217;s built in &#8216;Edit Links&#8217; to create and manage a website navigation menu that can be displayed using a custom template tag.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viadat.com/store-locator">Store Locator</a></p>
<p>The Store Locator plugin empowers web developers &amp; web site owners to easily manage and display any set of important stores, products, or other locations on their website in an easily searchable manner. Uses Google Maps.</p>
<p><a href="http://thecuriousfrog.com/projects/k2-style-switcher/">K2 Style Switcher</a></p>
<p>This plugin is the K2 equivalent of a theme switcher. It allows your visitors to re-skin your site from a list of K2 styles that you select.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:09:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:3004:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://ecosystemi.com/super-cat-lister/">Super Cat Lister</a></p>
<p>SuperCatLister greatly extends the abilities of Wordpress as a content management system. It does this by giving site designers the ability to insert links or content from posts in specified categories into other posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.profitplugs.com/testimonials-manager-wordpress/">Testimonials Manager</a></p>
<p>Testimonials Manager is a WordPress plugin that allows you to manage and display testimonials for your blog, product or service. It can be used to build your portfolio or to encourage readers to subscribe / buy your products.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search/">Search API</a></p>
<p>This plugin creates a basis for a new search engine to replace the simple input box search currently employed. The plugin creates an API to support advanced search capabilities such as boolean search, multiple content searches (posts, tags, pages, authors and any available metadata) and flags (finding posts with A string in category C) through additional plugins.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.techtipsmaster.com/wp-preventcopyblogs.html">WP-PreventCopyBlogs</a></p>
<p>Track visitors who try to copy your content</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://thecuriousfrog.com/projects/last-modified-footer/">Last Modified Footer</a></p>
<p>The Last Modified Footer plugin generates a message stating the date / time the content being viewed was last modified. This information can be placed in the site footer, or elsewhere on the page.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.whoismanu.com/photoq-wordpress-photoblog-plugin/">PhotoQ</a></p>
<p>PhotoQ is a plugin for photo enthusiasts or anyone who has a lot of pictures to post. It turns your WordPress blog into a full featured photoblog and starting with this newest version supports virtually any theme there is. The plugin is aimed at automating publishing of photos as much as possible.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jenruno.com/SpamTask/">SpamTask</a></p>
<p>SpamTask is a spam protection plugin for WordPress, created to prevent comment spam in the most efficient way. The blog spam filter is known to catch all spam robots.</p>
<p><a href="http://sww.co.nz/wordpress-plugins/ezy-nav-menu/">Ezy Nav Menu</a></p>
<p>Makes use of WP&#8217;s built in &#8216;Edit Links&#8217; to create and manage a website navigation menu that can be displayed using a custom template tag.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viadat.com/store-locator">Store Locator</a></p>
<p>The Store Locator plugin empowers web developers &amp; web site owners to easily manage and display any set of important stores, products, or other locations on their website in an easily searchable manner. Uses Google Maps.</p>
<p><a href="http://thecuriousfrog.com/projects/k2-style-switcher/">K2 Style Switcher</a></p>
<p>This plugin is the K2 equivalent of a theme switcher. It allows your visitors to re-skin your site from a list of K2 styles that you select.</p>";}i:27;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:65:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Threaded Comments the Easy Way";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6535";s:4:"link";s:94:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/23/wordpress-threaded-comments-the-easy-way/";s:11:"description";s:2974:"<p>Comments are the incentives you get for writing a post and if you write good ones you are bound to get 100s and 1000s of comments on your posts.</p>
<p>But wait not every comment on your blog is directly related to the post itself, there are times when commentators respond to other commentators, in short we call that a discussion.</p>
<p>Flashback to WordPress 2.7, there was a new introduction in the form of threaded comments, this was done so that people on your blog can comment and respond to each other and communicate and discuss.</p>
<p>Coming back to future, it has been so long and many users still do not have threaded comments on their blogs.</p>
<p><strong>Reason 1:</strong> Most of the WordPress users are not programmers and use themes created by others, so unless they use a theme that has support for threaded comments they don’t make use of that feature.</p>
<p><strong>Reason 2:</strong> Many users have knowledge to program and edit but are just plain lazy (example me) and do not update their themes to add threaded comments support.</p>
<p>Now how does one implement threaded comments in WordPress when we fall into the above two categories? Pretty simple, by using the power that WordPress itself provides users with, in the form of extensibility, in short with a WordPress plugin.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-thread-comment/" target="_blank">WordPress Thread Comment</a> is a excellent choice for adding threaded comments to your blog without having to have any coding skills, once you install the plugin it does everything for you, you do not even have to edit your themes to add threaded comment support on your blog.</p>
<p>Another option is to use <a href="http://meidell.dk/archives/2004/09/04/nested-comments/" target="_blank">Brian’s Threaded Comments</a> which was actually the first one to add threaded comments to WordPress blog, however it still requires users to do a bit of theme changes.</p>
<p>Of course there are other options available in the form of third party services, like, take for instance Automattic’s own <a href="http://www.intensedebate.com/" target="_blank">Intense Debate</a> and <a href="http://www.disqus.com/" target="_blank">Disqus</a>, these services make commenting and discussion more easier.</p>
<p>Now do you have an excuse for not having threaded comments on your blog? BTW do you use threaded comments? If not why, if yes how? Don&#8217;t stop short of just reading this we have threaded comments enabled so discuss as much you wish <img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /> .</p>
<p>I would be thankful if you take part in this small poll with regards to threaded comments.</p>
<p> 
<p></p>
<p>You can find more options for threaded comments by visiting <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=threaded+comments" target="_blank">this search</a> on WordPress extend.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:25:15 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:2974:"<p>Comments are the incentives you get for writing a post and if you write good ones you are bound to get 100s and 1000s of comments on your posts.</p>
<p>But wait not every comment on your blog is directly related to the post itself, there are times when commentators respond to other commentators, in short we call that a discussion.</p>
<p>Flashback to WordPress 2.7, there was a new introduction in the form of threaded comments, this was done so that people on your blog can comment and respond to each other and communicate and discuss.</p>
<p>Coming back to future, it has been so long and many users still do not have threaded comments on their blogs.</p>
<p><strong>Reason 1:</strong> Most of the WordPress users are not programmers and use themes created by others, so unless they use a theme that has support for threaded comments they don’t make use of that feature.</p>
<p><strong>Reason 2:</strong> Many users have knowledge to program and edit but are just plain lazy (example me) and do not update their themes to add threaded comments support.</p>
<p>Now how does one implement threaded comments in WordPress when we fall into the above two categories? Pretty simple, by using the power that WordPress itself provides users with, in the form of extensibility, in short with a WordPress plugin.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-thread-comment/" target="_blank">WordPress Thread Comment</a> is a excellent choice for adding threaded comments to your blog without having to have any coding skills, once you install the plugin it does everything for you, you do not even have to edit your themes to add threaded comment support on your blog.</p>
<p>Another option is to use <a href="http://meidell.dk/archives/2004/09/04/nested-comments/" target="_blank">Brian’s Threaded Comments</a> which was actually the first one to add threaded comments to WordPress blog, however it still requires users to do a bit of theme changes.</p>
<p>Of course there are other options available in the form of third party services, like, take for instance Automattic’s own <a href="http://www.intensedebate.com/" target="_blank">Intense Debate</a> and <a href="http://www.disqus.com/" target="_blank">Disqus</a>, these services make commenting and discussion more easier.</p>
<p>Now do you have an excuse for not having threaded comments on your blog? BTW do you use threaded comments? If not why, if yes how? Don&#8217;t stop short of just reading this we have threaded comments enabled so discuss as much you wish <img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /> .</p>
<p>I would be thankful if you take part in this small poll with regards to threaded comments.</p>
<p> 
<p></p>
<p>You can find more options for threaded comments by visiting <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=threaded+comments" target="_blank">this search</a> on WordPress extend.</p>";}i:28;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 08/22";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6530";s:4:"link";s:89:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/22/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0822-2/";s:11:"description";s:2278:"<h4><a href="http://rubiqube.com/free-wordpress-theme-empty-canvas/">Empty Canvas</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://rubiqube.com/testzone/wordpress/?preview_theme=EmptyCanvas"><img title="Empty-Canvas" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/EmptyCanvas.jpg" alt="Empty-Canvas" width="200" height="108" /></a></p>
<p>Empty Canvas is a two column, minimalist widget ready theme</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.xhtml.am/blog/2009/08/red-xhtml-free-wordpress-theme/">Red XHTML</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.xhtml.am/demo/index.php?wptheme=RedXHTML"><img title="Red XHTML" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/RedXHTML.png" alt="Red XHTML" width="200" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, widget ready, red, white and grey theme</p>
<h4><a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/simple-magazine-wordpress-theme/">Simple Magazine</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/demo/simple-magazine-wordpress-theme/"><img title="Simple-Magazine" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/SimpleMagazine.jpg" alt="Simple-Magazine" width="200" height="100" /></a></p>
<p>A simple and lightweight magazine styled theme. Two column, fixed width with support for widgets and nested comments.</p>
<h4><a href="http://scuola-mondo.net/seo-wordpress-theme/">Scuola Mondo’s SEO Wordpress Theme</a></h4>
<p><img title="scuolamondo_1_1" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/scuolamondo_1_1.gif" border="0" alt="scuolamondo_1_1" width="200" height="128" /></p>
<p>A minimalist, one-column, fluent and widgetized SEO Wordpress theme with sidebar at the bottom of the page. The colours can be modified and an Avatar functionality is already built-in template.</p>
<h4><a href="http://swiftthemes.com/2009/08/wordpress-themes/swift-the-fastest-loading-wordpress-theme/">Swift</a></h4>
<p><img title="swift" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/swift.png" alt="swift" width="200" height="139" /></p>
<p>Two column WordPress theme designed for high speed loading with four widgetized sections available in eight color schemes.</p>
<p>Are you a theme author? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Submit your theme</a> to us to get it listed in these posts.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:35:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:2278:"<h4><a href="http://rubiqube.com/free-wordpress-theme-empty-canvas/">Empty Canvas</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://rubiqube.com/testzone/wordpress/?preview_theme=EmptyCanvas"><img title="Empty-Canvas" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/EmptyCanvas.jpg" alt="Empty-Canvas" width="200" height="108" /></a></p>
<p>Empty Canvas is a two column, minimalist widget ready theme</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.xhtml.am/blog/2009/08/red-xhtml-free-wordpress-theme/">Red XHTML</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.xhtml.am/demo/index.php?wptheme=RedXHTML"><img title="Red XHTML" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/RedXHTML.png" alt="Red XHTML" width="200" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, widget ready, red, white and grey theme</p>
<h4><a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/simple-magazine-wordpress-theme/">Simple Magazine</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/demo/simple-magazine-wordpress-theme/"><img title="Simple-Magazine" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/SimpleMagazine.jpg" alt="Simple-Magazine" width="200" height="100" /></a></p>
<p>A simple and lightweight magazine styled theme. Two column, fixed width with support for widgets and nested comments.</p>
<h4><a href="http://scuola-mondo.net/seo-wordpress-theme/">Scuola Mondo’s SEO Wordpress Theme</a></h4>
<p><img title="scuolamondo_1_1" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/scuolamondo_1_1.gif" border="0" alt="scuolamondo_1_1" width="200" height="128" /></p>
<p>A minimalist, one-column, fluent and widgetized SEO Wordpress theme with sidebar at the bottom of the page. The colours can be modified and an Avatar functionality is already built-in template.</p>
<h4><a href="http://swiftthemes.com/2009/08/wordpress-themes/swift-the-fastest-loading-wordpress-theme/">Swift</a></h4>
<p><img title="swift" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/swift.png" alt="swift" width="200" height="139" /></p>
<p>Two column WordPress theme designed for high speed loading with four widgetized sections available in eight color schemes.</p>
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<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/07/africa-ulusaba/mcm_3021/" title="MCM_3021"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/07/MCM_3021-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_3021" /></a>";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:37:"Andy Skelton: WordPress Search plugin";s:4:"guid";s:32:"http://andy.wordpress.com/?p=282";s:4:"link";s:61:"http://andy.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/wordpress-search-plugin/";s:11:"description";s:3171:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>My Google Summer of Code 2009 student, <a href="http://justinshreve.com/">Justin Shreve</a>, has done an excellent job creating a new search <abbr title="Application Programming Interface">API</abbr> for WordPress. We hope this API will be integrated into the WordPress core because it would simplify replacing the core search functionality and encourage developers to create many more options for searching blogs.</p>
<p>Justin&#8217;s <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search/">Search</a> plugin is actually a package of three plugins. The first plugin installs the API that lets other plugins do the searching. The other two plugins use the API to provide search systems that we think will please most users who are dissatisfied with the built-in WordPress search results: MySQL Fulltext and <a href="http://www.google.com/coop/cse/">Google Custom Search</a>. (The Google plugin  requires a Google account.) For the search-savvy, Justin also wrote a <a href="http://sphinxsearch.com/">Sphinx</a>-based plugin, <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sphinx-search/">Sphinx Search</a>. This last one involves installing additional software on the server.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m running the Fulltext plugin on <a href="http://skeltoac.com/">my personal blog</a> so you can try it. Enter a search in the sidebar. On the search results page you can refine your search by specifying whether to search posts, pages, and comments. You can also sort the results by relevance, date, or alphabet. The Advanced Search link leads to a form where you can specify author, categories, tags, and date range.</p>
<p>Self-hosted WordPress users can install <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search/">Search</a>. (It is not available for WordPress.com&#8230; yet.) After activating the main Search plugin you must also activate one of the other plugins: MySQL Fulltext, Google Custom Search, or Sphinx Search. We are anxious to know what you think of it. Justin plans to continue to improve the search system so he will need lots of user feedback.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/andy.wordpress.com/282/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/andy.wordpress.com/282/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/andy.wordpress.com/282/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/andy.wordpress.com/282/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/andy.wordpress.com/282/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/andy.wordpress.com/282/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/andy.wordpress.com/282/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/andy.wordpress.com/282/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/andy.wordpress.com/282/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/andy.wordpress.com/282/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andy.wordpress.com&blog=155&post=282&subd=andy&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:00:16 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Andy";}s:7:"summary";s:3171:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>My Google Summer of Code 2009 student, <a href="http://justinshreve.com/">Justin Shreve</a>, has done an excellent job creating a new search <abbr title="Application Programming Interface">API</abbr> for WordPress. We hope this API will be integrated into the WordPress core because it would simplify replacing the core search functionality and encourage developers to create many more options for searching blogs.</p>
<p>Justin&#8217;s <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search/">Search</a> plugin is actually a package of three plugins. The first plugin installs the API that lets other plugins do the searching. The other two plugins use the API to provide search systems that we think will please most users who are dissatisfied with the built-in WordPress search results: MySQL Fulltext and <a href="http://www.google.com/coop/cse/">Google Custom Search</a>. (The Google plugin  requires a Google account.) For the search-savvy, Justin also wrote a <a href="http://sphinxsearch.com/">Sphinx</a>-based plugin, <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sphinx-search/">Sphinx Search</a>. This last one involves installing additional software on the server.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m running the Fulltext plugin on <a href="http://skeltoac.com/">my personal blog</a> so you can try it. Enter a search in the sidebar. On the search results page you can refine your search by specifying whether to search posts, pages, and comments. You can also sort the results by relevance, date, or alphabet. The Advanced Search link leads to a form where you can specify author, categories, tags, and date range.</p>
<p>Self-hosted WordPress users can install <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search/">Search</a>. (It is not available for WordPress.com&#8230; yet.) After activating the main Search plugin you must also activate one of the other plugins: MySQL Fulltext, Google Custom Search, or Sphinx Search. We are anxious to know what you think of it. Justin plans to continue to improve the search system so he will need lots of user feedback.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/andy.wordpress.com/282/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/andy.wordpress.com/282/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/andy.wordpress.com/282/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/andy.wordpress.com/282/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/andy.wordpress.com/282/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/andy.wordpress.com/282/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/andy.wordpress.com/282/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/andy.wordpress.com/282/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/andy.wordpress.com/282/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/andy.wordpress.com/282/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andy.wordpress.com&blog=155&post=282&subd=andy&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:32;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:20:"Matt: Open City Data";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=14578";s:4:"link";s:36:"http://ma.tt/2009/08/open-city-data/";s:11:"description";s:715:"<p>Yesterday I was part of a press conference by <a href="http://www.gavinnewsom.com/">Mayor Gavin Newsom</a> promoting <a href="http://datasf.org/">DataSF.org</a>, which is one of San Francisco&#8217;s first steps at opening up. <a href="http://tim.oreilly.com/">Tim O&#8217;Reilly</a> also spoke and made the point to me afterward that as he dives deep into every part of the intersection of technology and government he&#8217;s most excited about the prospect for change at the city level. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/9511330@N08/sets/72157621963154249/">Here are some pictures from the event</a>. I think we&#8217;ll see more along these lines, and more WordPress, for San Francisco in the future.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:35:50 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:715:"<p>Yesterday I was part of a press conference by <a href="http://www.gavinnewsom.com/">Mayor Gavin Newsom</a> promoting <a href="http://datasf.org/">DataSF.org</a>, which is one of San Francisco&#8217;s first steps at opening up. <a href="http://tim.oreilly.com/">Tim O&#8217;Reilly</a> also spoke and made the point to me afterward that as he dives deep into every part of the intersection of technology and government he&#8217;s most excited about the prospect for change at the city level. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/9511330@N08/sets/72157621963154249/">Here are some pictures from the event</a>. I think we&#8217;ll see more along these lines, and more WordPress, for San Francisco in the future.</p>";}i:33;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:21:"Matt: Starting a Bank";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=14560";s:4:"link";s:37:"http://ma.tt/2009/08/starting-a-bank/";s:11:"description";s:7956:"<p>I often get asked something along the line of, &#8220;If you weren&#8217;t leading Automattic, what would you work on?&#8221; There&#8217;s not a single answer to this question; the answer changes day to day. But I think if you asked me today, I&#8217;d say I would like to start a bank.</p>
<p>There are very few people who <em>really </em>love their bank. We&#8217;ve all dealt with overage fees that stack up, brain-dead fine print, and a general malaise. There&#8217;s also a unique opportunity in that mainstream contempt for financial institutions has never been higher, while at the same time there is an incredible amount of government backing that essentially makes it a no-risk environment. People are hungry just for anything different, something contrarian. A David to the Goliath banking industry.</p>
<p>The name of my bank would be something supremely boring, like SafeBank. The idea behind it is that bad behaviour in the banking world has been largely inevitable because their compensation structures incented people to do overly risky things. SafeBank would maintain a reserve level 2-3x higher than Fed requirements and any other bank. SafeBank would have no bonuses. Critics would say this would make it impossible to attract top-shelf talent. Every time the bank gets attacked we&#8217;d turn it into an advertising opportunity to emphasize why we&#8217;re different. &#8220;We can&#8217;t attract top-shelf talent? We take your money and put it in a vault. We don&#8217;t need the million-dollar bonus geniuses on Wall Street to do that. SafeBank. Bank, safe.&#8221;</p>
<p>In fact, the first few years of SafeBank would be largely focused on acquisition through every trick in the book. At the very beginning pull a Gmail/WordPress.com and make it invite-only, which will create a buzz and also allow you to give amazing white-glove service to the initial customers, who will in turn tell their friends and make a ton more buzz. (You can also target certain profitable segments and ultra-safe depositors at first, like Gmail users in San Francisco (using Firefox with an ad-blocker) who make six figures a year.) There would be only one style of checks and debit cards and they&#8217;d need a distinctive design so if you saw one you&#8217;d say, &#8220;What&#8217;s that?&#8221; which would then start the whole conversation again about how SafeBank is different.</p>
<p>For the first two years you could also do things like not allow accounts larger than the FDIC-insured limit. No one has ever heard of a bank turning away money! But you&#8217;d say that although everything SafeBank does is risk-free, it&#8217;s still a startup and if people have more than the insured limit (250k for single, 500k for couples) in an account, they should put the extra somewhere else. Again, this will impact a very low percentage of customers, but everyone will think it&#8217;s remarkable. This can be phased out after a few years; in fact, it would be a PR opportunity. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been in business now long enough that we feel comfortable with larger accounts.&#8221; Boom, free coverage.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m a tech guy so of course a lot of focus would be on the website. Imagine an old-time vintage design aesthetic combined with a Google-like simplicity and attention to speed. All logins would be two-factor, with the default being it&#8217;d SMS you a one-time code to log in when you gave your email address. A big part of the website would be the blog, of course. It would have a strong Ben Franklin-like common sense voice, and in addition to giving a few cool saving or home tips each week, it would cover at least one financial industry story a day.</p>
<ul>
<li>&#8220;Bank of America spent $40,000,000 dollars on airplanes last year. We spent $40,000 to develop an iPhone application so you can check your balance from anywhere.&#8221;  (Hmm, the iPhone app should cost like $2.99.)</li>
<li>&#8220;Here&#8217;s how to block advertising when you browse the web with Firefox; it makes the web faster and less annoying.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Goldman Sachs just paid out 16 billion dollars in bonuses to their employees. If we had an extra 16 billion dollars lying around, we&#8217;d put it in the bank for a rainy day. (If Goldman had never paid out bonuses they never would have needed government intervention.)&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;So-and-so Bank&#8217;s website requires you to use Internet Explorer. We beg that you don&#8217;t, because there are way cooler and faster browsers. Here are 3 open source browsers you can switch to today.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;68 Million Reasons Your Bank Sucks. That&#8217;s the amount BoA collected last quarter in needless ATM fees.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
<p>(That&#8217;s all made up.) The headlines would almost write themselves, and every time a financial institution is in the news it&#8217;d be an opportunity to contrast why SafeBank is different and what the underlying philosophy is behind why it&#8217;s different.</p>
<p>All of the marketing would be on the web and viral, because it&#8217;d be an online-only bank like ING Direct. No storefronts where people have to wait in line or risk a bad interaction with a teller, or that get robbed and need insurance; basically a lot of the historical risk of running a bank could be eliminated. When you sign up it would have a &#8220;tell your friends about SafeBank&#8221; address book feature that would connect you to them if they signed up for an account, give you both money (Bank of America has something like this), and also make it easy to send them money, PayPal-style, if they have an account.</p>
<p>How would the bank make money? I think it wouldn&#8217;t touch anything risky on the financial side &#8212; it would be a data company. The first 3 years the focus would be entirely on customer acquisition, marketing, PR, and building a world-class tech team building a rock solid infrastructure. SafeBank would make way, way less money than banks currently do, but it would be more than enough to build an amazing product in a sustainable way, like Craigslist did with newspaper classifieds. After a certain milestone, say 100 billion in deposits, I would buy or clone <a href="http://mint.com/">Mint</a>. SafeBank would have more (and more accurate) data about its customers than almost any other company in the world other than credit card companies, so the online interface would have Mint-like lead generation offers based on that information. For example, you spend $140 a month on electricity, but if you switch to this new solar provider you&#8217;d save $200 a year. Think of it like Gmail contextual advertising but based on where you spend your money rather than the words in an email. There also might be aggregate data opportunities for economic research or targeting, but I&#8217;m not sure if I like the privacy implications there.</p>
<p>SafeBank couldn&#8217;t raise VC or anything like that because having any sort of exit expectations would completely kill the safety story, but I think it could be bootstrapped and after a few years would be hugely profitable. Its existence would also put huge pressure on existing banks because depositors would be leaving in droves, putting pressure on their reserve requirements. Existing banks couldn&#8217;t compete in a traditional way because they have such a sordid history of customer apathy and bad PR. SafeBank wouldn&#8217;t be trying to capture their profits, it would largely be destroying them and making much smaller amounts of money in non-traditional bank ways. It would be somewhat like a credit union, but for the masses.</p>
<p>Anyway, this is just how my mind wandered this morning while brushing my teeth. Tomorrow I&#8217;ll think the last industry I&#8217;d every want to be in is banking. <img src="http://ma.tt/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>Would you trust your money to SafeBank?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:25:49 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:7956:"<p>I often get asked something along the line of, &#8220;If you weren&#8217;t leading Automattic, what would you work on?&#8221; There&#8217;s not a single answer to this question; the answer changes day to day. But I think if you asked me today, I&#8217;d say I would like to start a bank.</p>
<p>There are very few people who <em>really </em>love their bank. We&#8217;ve all dealt with overage fees that stack up, brain-dead fine print, and a general malaise. There&#8217;s also a unique opportunity in that mainstream contempt for financial institutions has never been higher, while at the same time there is an incredible amount of government backing that essentially makes it a no-risk environment. People are hungry just for anything different, something contrarian. A David to the Goliath banking industry.</p>
<p>The name of my bank would be something supremely boring, like SafeBank. The idea behind it is that bad behaviour in the banking world has been largely inevitable because their compensation structures incented people to do overly risky things. SafeBank would maintain a reserve level 2-3x higher than Fed requirements and any other bank. SafeBank would have no bonuses. Critics would say this would make it impossible to attract top-shelf talent. Every time the bank gets attacked we&#8217;d turn it into an advertising opportunity to emphasize why we&#8217;re different. &#8220;We can&#8217;t attract top-shelf talent? We take your money and put it in a vault. We don&#8217;t need the million-dollar bonus geniuses on Wall Street to do that. SafeBank. Bank, safe.&#8221;</p>
<p>In fact, the first few years of SafeBank would be largely focused on acquisition through every trick in the book. At the very beginning pull a Gmail/WordPress.com and make it invite-only, which will create a buzz and also allow you to give amazing white-glove service to the initial customers, who will in turn tell their friends and make a ton more buzz. (You can also target certain profitable segments and ultra-safe depositors at first, like Gmail users in San Francisco (using Firefox with an ad-blocker) who make six figures a year.) There would be only one style of checks and debit cards and they&#8217;d need a distinctive design so if you saw one you&#8217;d say, &#8220;What&#8217;s that?&#8221; which would then start the whole conversation again about how SafeBank is different.</p>
<p>For the first two years you could also do things like not allow accounts larger than the FDIC-insured limit. No one has ever heard of a bank turning away money! But you&#8217;d say that although everything SafeBank does is risk-free, it&#8217;s still a startup and if people have more than the insured limit (250k for single, 500k for couples) in an account, they should put the extra somewhere else. Again, this will impact a very low percentage of customers, but everyone will think it&#8217;s remarkable. This can be phased out after a few years; in fact, it would be a PR opportunity. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been in business now long enough that we feel comfortable with larger accounts.&#8221; Boom, free coverage.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m a tech guy so of course a lot of focus would be on the website. Imagine an old-time vintage design aesthetic combined with a Google-like simplicity and attention to speed. All logins would be two-factor, with the default being it&#8217;d SMS you a one-time code to log in when you gave your email address. A big part of the website would be the blog, of course. It would have a strong Ben Franklin-like common sense voice, and in addition to giving a few cool saving or home tips each week, it would cover at least one financial industry story a day.</p>
<ul>
<li>&#8220;Bank of America spent $40,000,000 dollars on airplanes last year. We spent $40,000 to develop an iPhone application so you can check your balance from anywhere.&#8221;  (Hmm, the iPhone app should cost like $2.99.)</li>
<li>&#8220;Here&#8217;s how to block advertising when you browse the web with Firefox; it makes the web faster and less annoying.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Goldman Sachs just paid out 16 billion dollars in bonuses to their employees. If we had an extra 16 billion dollars lying around, we&#8217;d put it in the bank for a rainy day. (If Goldman had never paid out bonuses they never would have needed government intervention.)&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;So-and-so Bank&#8217;s website requires you to use Internet Explorer. We beg that you don&#8217;t, because there are way cooler and faster browsers. Here are 3 open source browsers you can switch to today.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;68 Million Reasons Your Bank Sucks. That&#8217;s the amount BoA collected last quarter in needless ATM fees.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
<p>(That&#8217;s all made up.) The headlines would almost write themselves, and every time a financial institution is in the news it&#8217;d be an opportunity to contrast why SafeBank is different and what the underlying philosophy is behind why it&#8217;s different.</p>
<p>All of the marketing would be on the web and viral, because it&#8217;d be an online-only bank like ING Direct. No storefronts where people have to wait in line or risk a bad interaction with a teller, or that get robbed and need insurance; basically a lot of the historical risk of running a bank could be eliminated. When you sign up it would have a &#8220;tell your friends about SafeBank&#8221; address book feature that would connect you to them if they signed up for an account, give you both money (Bank of America has something like this), and also make it easy to send them money, PayPal-style, if they have an account.</p>
<p>How would the bank make money? I think it wouldn&#8217;t touch anything risky on the financial side &#8212; it would be a data company. The first 3 years the focus would be entirely on customer acquisition, marketing, PR, and building a world-class tech team building a rock solid infrastructure. SafeBank would make way, way less money than banks currently do, but it would be more than enough to build an amazing product in a sustainable way, like Craigslist did with newspaper classifieds. After a certain milestone, say 100 billion in deposits, I would buy or clone <a href="http://mint.com/">Mint</a>. SafeBank would have more (and more accurate) data about its customers than almost any other company in the world other than credit card companies, so the online interface would have Mint-like lead generation offers based on that information. For example, you spend $140 a month on electricity, but if you switch to this new solar provider you&#8217;d save $200 a year. Think of it like Gmail contextual advertising but based on where you spend your money rather than the words in an email. There also might be aggregate data opportunities for economic research or targeting, but I&#8217;m not sure if I like the privacy implications there.</p>
<p>SafeBank couldn&#8217;t raise VC or anything like that because having any sort of exit expectations would completely kill the safety story, but I think it could be bootstrapped and after a few years would be hugely profitable. Its existence would also put huge pressure on existing banks because depositors would be leaving in droves, putting pressure on their reserve requirements. Existing banks couldn&#8217;t compete in a traditional way because they have such a sordid history of customer apathy and bad PR. SafeBank wouldn&#8217;t be trying to capture their profits, it would largely be destroying them and making much smaller amounts of money in non-traditional bank ways. It would be somewhat like a credit union, but for the masses.</p>
<p>Anyway, this is just how my mind wandered this morning while brushing my teeth. Tomorrow I&#8217;ll think the last industry I&#8217;d every want to be in is banking. <img src="http://ma.tt/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>Would you trust your money to SafeBank?</p>";}i:34;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:14:"Matt: Gravatar";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=14558";s:4:"link";s:30:"http://ma.tt/2009/08/gravatar/";s:11:"description";s:109:"<p><a href="http://en.gravatar.com/">Gravatar gets a light visual refresh</a>, portent of things to come.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:36:07 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:109:"<p><a href="http://en.gravatar.com/">Gravatar gets a light visual refresh</a>, portent of things to come.</p>";}i:35;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/20";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6521";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/20/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0820/";s:11:"description";s:3127:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://case.oncle-tom.net/code/wordpress/wp-less/">WP Less</a></p>
<p>LESS adds variables, mixins, inheritance and a lot of usefull functions to speed up, organize and improve CSS productivity. It detects all LESS stylesheets and compile them on the fly, considering cache and last modified time of the *.less files.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.endlich-wochenen.de/?p=343">PictoBrowser</a></p>
<p>It can show Picasa and Flickr galleries with the help of <a href="http://www.db798.com/pictobrowser/">PictoBrowser</a> in WordPress.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/merge-tags">Merge Tags</a></p>
<p>A simple plugin that lets you combine tags (and other post terms).</p>
<p><a href="http://unasked.com/webmasters/wp-plugin">UnAsked</a></p>
<p>The plugin allows your users to ask / answer questions on your site.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/08/16/gd-press-tools-1-7-0/">GD Press Tools</a></p>
<p>GD Press Tools is a collection of various administration, seo, maintenance and security related tools. This tools can be integrated into the various WordPress admin panels, can perform maintenance operations, change some aspects of WordPress, see detailed server settings and information</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2009/08/14/updated-wordpress-plugin-avh-amazon-3-1/">AVH Amazon</a></p>
<p>The AVH Amazon plugin gives you the ability to add multiple widgets which will display one or more random item(s) from your Amazon wishlist, baby registry and/or wedding registry. It also has the ability to show an item with its link, in posts and pages by use of shortcode. In the plugin reference is made to Wishlist only but you can use your Baby Registry ID or Wedding Registry ID as well.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog/avirtualhome.com/wordpress-plugins/avh-first-defense-against-spam/">AVH First Defense Against Spam</a></p>
<p>The AVH First Defense Against Spam plugin gives you the ability to block spammers before any content is served. Spammers are identified by checking if the visitors IP exists in a database served by stopforumspam.com, the Project Honey Pot or a local blacklist.</p>
<p><a href="http://denzeldesigns.com/wordpress-plugins/video-sidebar-widgets/">Video Sidebar Widget</a></p>
<p>A Video Widget written in latest Widgets API. It enables the user to embed FlashVideo from various video sharing networks into the widgetised sidebar of a WordPress powered blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress/geo-mark">Geo Mark</a></p>
<p>Geo Mark is a WordPress Plugin which will automatically locate Geo information in your WordPress posts using Yahoo Placemaker and YQL API’s which can be exposed through template functions or as Geo RSS. v0.5 removed hard coded Plugin path and fixed a couple of bugs.</p>
<p><a href="http://thecuriousfrog.com/projects/last-modified-footer/">Last Modified Footer</a></p>
<p>The Last Modified Footer plugin generates a message stating the date / time the content being viewed was last modified. This information can be placed in the site footer, or elsewhere on the page.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:45:48 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:3127:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://case.oncle-tom.net/code/wordpress/wp-less/">WP Less</a></p>
<p>LESS adds variables, mixins, inheritance and a lot of usefull functions to speed up, organize and improve CSS productivity. It detects all LESS stylesheets and compile them on the fly, considering cache and last modified time of the *.less files.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.endlich-wochenen.de/?p=343">PictoBrowser</a></p>
<p>It can show Picasa and Flickr galleries with the help of <a href="http://www.db798.com/pictobrowser/">PictoBrowser</a> in WordPress.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/merge-tags">Merge Tags</a></p>
<p>A simple plugin that lets you combine tags (and other post terms).</p>
<p><a href="http://unasked.com/webmasters/wp-plugin">UnAsked</a></p>
<p>The plugin allows your users to ask / answer questions on your site.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/08/16/gd-press-tools-1-7-0/">GD Press Tools</a></p>
<p>GD Press Tools is a collection of various administration, seo, maintenance and security related tools. This tools can be integrated into the various WordPress admin panels, can perform maintenance operations, change some aspects of WordPress, see detailed server settings and information</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2009/08/14/updated-wordpress-plugin-avh-amazon-3-1/">AVH Amazon</a></p>
<p>The AVH Amazon plugin gives you the ability to add multiple widgets which will display one or more random item(s) from your Amazon wishlist, baby registry and/or wedding registry. It also has the ability to show an item with its link, in posts and pages by use of shortcode. In the plugin reference is made to Wishlist only but you can use your Baby Registry ID or Wedding Registry ID as well.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog/avirtualhome.com/wordpress-plugins/avh-first-defense-against-spam/">AVH First Defense Against Spam</a></p>
<p>The AVH First Defense Against Spam plugin gives you the ability to block spammers before any content is served. Spammers are identified by checking if the visitors IP exists in a database served by stopforumspam.com, the Project Honey Pot or a local blacklist.</p>
<p><a href="http://denzeldesigns.com/wordpress-plugins/video-sidebar-widgets/">Video Sidebar Widget</a></p>
<p>A Video Widget written in latest Widgets API. It enables the user to embed FlashVideo from various video sharing networks into the widgetised sidebar of a WordPress powered blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress/geo-mark">Geo Mark</a></p>
<p>Geo Mark is a WordPress Plugin which will automatically locate Geo information in your WordPress posts using Yahoo Placemaker and YQL API’s which can be exposed through template functions or as Geo RSS. v0.5 removed hard coded Plugin path and fixed a couple of bugs.</p>
<p><a href="http://thecuriousfrog.com/projects/last-modified-footer/">Last Modified Footer</a></p>
<p>The Last Modified Footer plugin generates a message stating the date / time the content being viewed was last modified. This information can be placed in the site footer, or elsewhere on the page.</p>";}i:36;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Publisher Blog: WordCamp SF: Google & What You Need to Know";s:4:"guid";s:42:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/?p=579";s:4:"link";s:68:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2009/08/20/matt-cuts-google-seo/";s:11:"description";s:2167:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>For publishers looking at the search traffic benefits of WordPress, Matt Cutts from the Web Spam team at Google, offers his take:</p>
<blockquote><p>WordPress takes care of 80-90% of (the mechanics of) Search Engine Optimization (SEO)</p></blockquote>
<p>Below is a great video of Matt speaking at <a href="http://2009.sf.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp SF 2009</a> about how Google search works and what publishers should be doing to ensure proper indexing:</p>
<ins>
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<p>[ Slides from Matt's presentation available on <a href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-for-bloggers/">mattcutts.com</a> ]</p>
<br /><a href="http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2009/08/20/matt-cuts-google-seo/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/lAZUouJF/matt-cutts-straight-from-google-wcsf09_std.original.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/579/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/579/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/579/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/579/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/579/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/579/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/579/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/579/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/579/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/579/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=publisherblog.automattic.com&blog=1470857&post=579&subd=wordpresspublishers&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:02:30 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:16:"Raanan Bar-Cohen";}s:7:"summary";s:2167:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>For publishers looking at the search traffic benefits of WordPress, Matt Cutts from the Web Spam team at Google, offers his take:</p>
<blockquote><p>WordPress takes care of 80-90% of (the mechanics of) Search Engine Optimization (SEO)</p></blockquote>
<p>Below is a great video of Matt speaking at <a href="http://2009.sf.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp SF 2009</a> about how Google search works and what publishers should be doing to ensure proper indexing:</p>
<ins>
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<p>[ Slides from Matt's presentation available on <a href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-for-bloggers/">mattcutts.com</a> ]</p>
<br /><a href="http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2009/08/20/matt-cuts-google-seo/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/lAZUouJF/matt-cutts-straight-from-google-wcsf09_std.original.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/579/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/579/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/579/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/579/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/579/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/579/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/579/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/579/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/579/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/579/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=publisherblog.automattic.com&blog=1470857&post=579&subd=wordpresspublishers&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:37;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:72:"WordPress.tv: Matt Cutts: Straight from Google – What You Need to Know";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=2458";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/05/30/matt-cutts-google-sf09/";s:11:"description";s:1394:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
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<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/05/30/matt-cutts-google-sf09/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/lAZUouJF/matt-cutts-straight-from-google-wcsf09_std.original.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2458/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2458/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2458/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2458/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2458/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2458/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2458/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2458/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2458/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2458/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2458&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:45:10 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:11:"Ryan Markel";}s:7:"summary";s:1394:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
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<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/05/30/matt-cutts-google-sf09/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/lAZUouJF/matt-cutts-straight-from-google-wcsf09_std.original.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2458/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2458/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2458/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2458/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2458/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2458/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2458/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2458/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2458/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2458/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2458&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:38;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:55:"Weblog Tools Collection: 10 Useful WordPress Hook Hacks";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6518";s:4:"link";s:84:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/18/10-useful-wordpress-hook-hacks/";s:11:"description";s:1602:"<p>If you are a WordPress developer or designer or have been messing around in the world of WordPress for any period of time, you have by no doubt heard of WordPress hooks. Hooks are a set of custom written functions that can be added to existing functions in the WordPress core to increase, improve or remove functionality. WordPress plugins make extensive use of hooks to latch onto various portions of the WordPress themes or to the admin interface in order to provide the additional functionality or to perform certain actions in certain parts of the code. If you are looking to understand hooks, learn about all the action and filter hooks and all the deprecated hooks, find the latest changes and understand how hooks can be used in customizing WordPress, I suggest you look at Adam&#8217;s <a href="http://adambrown.info/p/wp_hooks">WordPress hooks database</a>.</p>
<p>Smashing Magazine has listed <a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/18/10-useful-wordpress-hook-hacks/">10 Useful WordPress Hook Hacks</a> in which they do some useful things by using the hook functionality. Many of these are already being performed by various plugins and by itself serves no new purpose. However, as a learning tool or as a catalyst for plugin authors to try new things, this list can be very useful. For example, the &#8220;Get entire post or page in a PHP variable&#8221; is similar to the technique used by <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=matt+asides&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=&amp;aqi=">Matt&#8217;s asides</a> and later replicated in various Asides plugins written for WordPress.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:50:55 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1602:"<p>If you are a WordPress developer or designer or have been messing around in the world of WordPress for any period of time, you have by no doubt heard of WordPress hooks. Hooks are a set of custom written functions that can be added to existing functions in the WordPress core to increase, improve or remove functionality. WordPress plugins make extensive use of hooks to latch onto various portions of the WordPress themes or to the admin interface in order to provide the additional functionality or to perform certain actions in certain parts of the code. If you are looking to understand hooks, learn about all the action and filter hooks and all the deprecated hooks, find the latest changes and understand how hooks can be used in customizing WordPress, I suggest you look at Adam&#8217;s <a href="http://adambrown.info/p/wp_hooks">WordPress hooks database</a>.</p>
<p>Smashing Magazine has listed <a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/18/10-useful-wordpress-hook-hacks/">10 Useful WordPress Hook Hacks</a> in which they do some useful things by using the hook functionality. Many of these are already being performed by various plugins and by itself serves no new purpose. However, as a learning tool or as a catalyst for plugin authors to try new things, this list can be very useful. For example, the &#8220;Get entire post or page in a PHP variable&#8221; is similar to the technique used by <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=matt+asides&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=&amp;aqi=">Matt&#8217;s asides</a> and later replicated in various Asides plugins written for WordPress.</p>";}i:39;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:62:"WP Blackberry: BIS Support in New Beta 0.9.0.149 Available Now";s:4:"guid";s:38:"http://blackberry.wordpress.org/?p=147";s:4:"link";s:64:"http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/08/18/bis-support-beta-149/";s:11:"description";s:2538:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Thanks to all your feedback, we have a new beta <a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/install">available for download</a> today.</p>
<p>The most requested feature <a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/07/28/beta-140-available-now/">that we&#8217;ve been working on</a>, is support for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_Internet_Service">BIS</a> via the BIS-B connection layer.  We&#8217;d love feedback in the <a href="http://blackberry.forums.wordpress.org/">forums </a> on how BIS is working for people on various devices and with different providers.</p>
<p>In addition to BIS support, the new beta includes the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Added support for the <a href="http://blackberry.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63">&#8220;more&#8221; tag</a> in both pages and posts</li>
<li>Tweaks to the UI based on user feedback</li>
<li>Most error messages are now localized</li>
<li>App now work even when the device memory is set to &#8220;encryption mode on&#8221;</li>
</ul>
<p>Looking forward to <a href="http://blackberry.forums.wordpress.org/">all of your feedback</a>.</p>
<p>And a special thanks to Schalk Neethling of <a href="http://opensourcereleasefeed.com/2009/08/wordpress-admin-on-the-blackberry-yes-its-true/">OpenSource Release Feed</a> for his contributions and recent help on this app.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/147/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/147/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/147/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/147/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/147/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/147/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/147/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/147/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/147/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/147/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackberry.wordpress.org&blog=8247031&post=147&subd=wpblackberry&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:51:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:16:"Raanan Bar-Cohen";}s:7:"summary";s:2538:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Thanks to all your feedback, we have a new beta <a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/install">available for download</a> today.</p>
<p>The most requested feature <a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/07/28/beta-140-available-now/">that we&#8217;ve been working on</a>, is support for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_Internet_Service">BIS</a> via the BIS-B connection layer.  We&#8217;d love feedback in the <a href="http://blackberry.forums.wordpress.org/">forums </a> on how BIS is working for people on various devices and with different providers.</p>
<p>In addition to BIS support, the new beta includes the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Added support for the <a href="http://blackberry.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63">&#8220;more&#8221; tag</a> in both pages and posts</li>
<li>Tweaks to the UI based on user feedback</li>
<li>Most error messages are now localized</li>
<li>App now work even when the device memory is set to &#8220;encryption mode on&#8221;</li>
</ul>
<p>Looking forward to <a href="http://blackberry.forums.wordpress.org/">all of your feedback</a>.</p>
<p>And a special thanks to Schalk Neethling of <a href="http://opensourcereleasefeed.com/2009/08/wordpress-admin-on-the-blackberry-yes-its-true/">OpenSource Release Feed</a> for his contributions and recent help on this app.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/147/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/147/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/147/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/147/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/147/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/147/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/147/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/147/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/147/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/147/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackberry.wordpress.org&blog=8247031&post=147&subd=wpblackberry&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:40;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 08/18";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6516";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/18/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0816/";s:11:"description";s:1724:"<h4><a href="http://www.shoutpedia.com/outdated-themes/">Outdated</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.shoutpedia.com/demo/"><img title="Outdated" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Outdated.gif" alt="Outdated" width="200" height="113" /></a></p>
<p>Two column fixed width WordPress theme with some admin options at the back end.</p>
<h4><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/so-fresh">So Fresh</a></h4>
<p><img title="So Fresh" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/SoFresh.png" alt="So Fresh" width="200" height="141" /></p>
<p>A right sidebar theme that is nice and clean with emphasis on stunning typography.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.dkszone.net/2009/08/jade-free-3-column-wordpress-theme-from.html">Jade</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://jade.dkszone.0fees.net/"><img title="Jade" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Jade.png" alt="Jade" width="200" height="111" /></a></p>
<p>JADE is a 3 column dark WordPress theme with left and right sidebars. This SEO optimized theme has been designed to accommodate a Wide Skyscraper (160&#215;600) in the left sidebar and two 125&#215;125 Ad Units in the right sidebar.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.xhtml.am/blog/2009/08/old-memories-free-wordpress-theme/">Old Memories</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.xhtml.am/demo/index.php?wptheme=OldMemories"><img title="Old Memories" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/OldMemories.png" alt="Old Memories" width="200" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Two column white and grey, widget ready theme.</p>
<p>Are you a theme author? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Submit your theme</a> to get listed out here.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:09:27 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:1724:"<h4><a href="http://www.shoutpedia.com/outdated-themes/">Outdated</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.shoutpedia.com/demo/"><img title="Outdated" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Outdated.gif" alt="Outdated" width="200" height="113" /></a></p>
<p>Two column fixed width WordPress theme with some admin options at the back end.</p>
<h4><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/so-fresh">So Fresh</a></h4>
<p><img title="So Fresh" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/SoFresh.png" alt="So Fresh" width="200" height="141" /></p>
<p>A right sidebar theme that is nice and clean with emphasis on stunning typography.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.dkszone.net/2009/08/jade-free-3-column-wordpress-theme-from.html">Jade</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://jade.dkszone.0fees.net/"><img title="Jade" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Jade.png" alt="Jade" width="200" height="111" /></a></p>
<p>JADE is a 3 column dark WordPress theme with left and right sidebars. This SEO optimized theme has been designed to accommodate a Wide Skyscraper (160&#215;600) in the left sidebar and two 125&#215;125 Ad Units in the right sidebar.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.xhtml.am/blog/2009/08/old-memories-free-wordpress-theme/">Old Memories</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.xhtml.am/demo/index.php?wptheme=OldMemories"><img title="Old Memories" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/OldMemories.png" alt="Old Memories" width="200" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Two column white and grey, widget ready theme.</p>
<p>Are you a theme author? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Submit your theme</a> to get listed out here.</p>";}i:41;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:12:"Matt: TEDMED";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=14555";s:4:"link";s:28:"http://ma.tt/2009/08/tedmed/";s:11:"description";s:388:"<p><a href="http://www.tedmed.com/">I&#8217;m going to be attending TEDMED this year</a>. I think we&#8217;re at a crucial juncture for health, where in my lifetime we&#8217;ll look back at our treatments today with the same wonder as we have when contemplating medicine before the understanding of germs. I have a feeling TEDMED will be the best spot to get a glimpse of this future.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:14:29 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:388:"<p><a href="http://www.tedmed.com/">I&#8217;m going to be attending TEDMED this year</a>. I think we&#8217;re at a crucial juncture for health, where in my lifetime we&#8217;ll look back at our treatments today with the same wonder as we have when contemplating medicine before the understanding of germs. I have a feeling TEDMED will be the best spot to get a glimpse of this future.</p>";}i:42;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:56:"Weblog Tools Collection: Tips To Protect WordPress Admin";s:4:"guid";s:85:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/17/tips-to-protect-wordpress-admin/";s:4:"link";s:85:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/17/tips-to-protect-wordpress-admin/";s:11:"description";s:811:"<p>WordPress is pretty secure and they release updates periodically to fix loopholes, to stay safe you should always make sure to upgrade to the latest version of the software whenever they are available.</p>
<p>However there are several more ways in which you can protect your WordPress admin from getting misused or hacked.</p>
<p>The folks at WP Beginners have come up with a list of 11 vital tips to better protect your WordPress admin area, the tips include using a plugin to create stealth login URLs, limiting login attempts to a certain limit so that you don’t get hit with a brute force attack among other things.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/11-vital-tips-and-hacks-to-protect-your-wordpress-admin-area/">11 Vital Tips and Hacks to Protect Your WordPress Admin Area</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:15:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:811:"<p>WordPress is pretty secure and they release updates periodically to fix loopholes, to stay safe you should always make sure to upgrade to the latest version of the software whenever they are available.</p>
<p>However there are several more ways in which you can protect your WordPress admin from getting misused or hacked.</p>
<p>The folks at WP Beginners have come up with a list of 11 vital tips to better protect your WordPress admin area, the tips include using a plugin to create stealth login URLs, limiting login attempts to a certain limit so that you don’t get hit with a brute force attack among other things.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/11-vital-tips-and-hacks-to-protect-your-wordpress-admin-area/">11 Vital Tips and Hacks to Protect Your WordPress Admin Area</a></p>";}i:43;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:33:"Dougal Campbell: Retheme: Stage 1";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=1687";s:4:"link";s:112:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/08/17/retheme-stage-1?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss";s:11:"description";s:742:"<p>I&#8217;ve pulled the trigger on the first stage of <a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/08/05/time-for-redesign">my site re-theme</a>.</p><p>Right now, it&#8217;s still a pretty clean slate. I&#8217;ve switched over to the Thematic theme (actually a child theme using Thematic as its template), and done just a few quick stylesheet fixes and personal plugin tweaks. Currently, there are still a few warts which I need to iron out (some sidebar styles on sub-pages that need fixing, and such).</p><p>More major style/branding changes will come later, but this &#8220;tabula rasa&#8221; state of things will help motivate me to continue making changes.</p><p>If you spot any obvious glitches, please feel free to point them out.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:00:03 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Dougal";}s:7:"summary";s:742:"<p>I&#8217;ve pulled the trigger on the first stage of <a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/08/05/time-for-redesign">my site re-theme</a>.</p><p>Right now, it&#8217;s still a pretty clean slate. I&#8217;ve switched over to the Thematic theme (actually a child theme using Thematic as its template), and done just a few quick stylesheet fixes and personal plugin tweaks. Currently, there are still a few warts which I need to iron out (some sidebar styles on sub-pages that need fixing, and such).</p><p>More major style/branding changes will come later, but this &#8220;tabula rasa&#8221; state of things will help motivate me to continue making changes.</p><p>If you spot any obvious glitches, please feel free to point them out.</p>";}i:44;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:62:"Weblog Tools Collection: Why Is Gravatar Still Not Mainstream?";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6505";s:4:"link";s:90:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/17/why-is-gravatar-still-not-mainstream/";s:11:"description";s:3150:"<p>Remember <a href="http://en.gravatar.com/">Gravatar</a>? That service Automattic acquired <a href="http://blog.gravatar.com/2007/10/18/automattic-gravatar/" target="_blank">back on October 18th</a>, 2007. It&#8217;s nearing two years since the acquisition and I don&#8217;t know about you but, I don&#8217;t feel as though Gravatar has gone mainstream. Just as a refresher course, the idea behind Gravatar is to host a globally-recognized avatar that is tied to an email address. This means that using your Gravatar is as simple as using the same email address to sign up to supported services/software that you used on Gravatar.com.</p>
<div id="attachment_6506" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/earlydays.png" alt="Same Idea Exists Today From 2004" title="earlydays" width="464" height="170" class="size-full wp-image-6506" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Same Idea Exists Today From 2004</p></div>
<p>Doing a bit of history, Gravatar has been around since <strong>at least 2004</strong>. At least that is as far back as the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://gravatar.com" target="_blank">Web Archive</a> has records of it which makes it all the more surprising that more services and software do not support it out of the box. For example, Twitter, Facebook, phpBB, all have their own way of handling avatars. No support what so ever for the Gravatar service, even though there are numerous examples of <a href="http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement" target="_blank">how to implement it</a>.</p>
<p>Could it be that we are really better off with each system managing avatars in their own way? Or is it the fact that most end users of various software and or services have not spoken loudly enough to have Gravatar support built in? My request is for software developers not to ditch their own avatar management solution, but to build Gravatar support in addition to. At least in this fashion, you could gauge how popular the use of Gravatar is to manage avatars on your software/service compared to your home grown solution opting to use one, the other, or both.</p>
<p>Gravatar is now hosted under the guide of Automattic, a company that has proven with WordPress.com that they know what they&#8217;re doing when it comes to scalability and server infrastructure. Users of bbPress, WordPress.com, and the self installed version of WordPress are spoiled to have Gravatar support built right into the software. To this day, I don&#8217;t think the Gravatar idea has come to fruition which is why I&#8217;m asking you to contact the developers of your favorite software or services which has its own version of avatar management and let them know you want Gravatar support to be built in. At the very least, a mod or plugin to add the functionality to the software should suffice. </p>
<p>If you participate in this event, be sure to let me know the response you receive in the comments below. Also feel free to link to plugins or mods that add Gravatar support to their respective pieces of software as it would be nice to have all of that information in one place.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:52:36 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:3150:"<p>Remember <a href="http://en.gravatar.com/">Gravatar</a>? That service Automattic acquired <a href="http://blog.gravatar.com/2007/10/18/automattic-gravatar/" target="_blank">back on October 18th</a>, 2007. It&#8217;s nearing two years since the acquisition and I don&#8217;t know about you but, I don&#8217;t feel as though Gravatar has gone mainstream. Just as a refresher course, the idea behind Gravatar is to host a globally-recognized avatar that is tied to an email address. This means that using your Gravatar is as simple as using the same email address to sign up to supported services/software that you used on Gravatar.com.</p>
<div id="attachment_6506" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/earlydays.png" alt="Same Idea Exists Today From 2004" title="earlydays" width="464" height="170" class="size-full wp-image-6506" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Same Idea Exists Today From 2004</p></div>
<p>Doing a bit of history, Gravatar has been around since <strong>at least 2004</strong>. At least that is as far back as the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://gravatar.com" target="_blank">Web Archive</a> has records of it which makes it all the more surprising that more services and software do not support it out of the box. For example, Twitter, Facebook, phpBB, all have their own way of handling avatars. No support what so ever for the Gravatar service, even though there are numerous examples of <a href="http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement" target="_blank">how to implement it</a>.</p>
<p>Could it be that we are really better off with each system managing avatars in their own way? Or is it the fact that most end users of various software and or services have not spoken loudly enough to have Gravatar support built in? My request is for software developers not to ditch their own avatar management solution, but to build Gravatar support in addition to. At least in this fashion, you could gauge how popular the use of Gravatar is to manage avatars on your software/service compared to your home grown solution opting to use one, the other, or both.</p>
<p>Gravatar is now hosted under the guide of Automattic, a company that has proven with WordPress.com that they know what they&#8217;re doing when it comes to scalability and server infrastructure. Users of bbPress, WordPress.com, and the self installed version of WordPress are spoiled to have Gravatar support built right into the software. To this day, I don&#8217;t think the Gravatar idea has come to fruition which is why I&#8217;m asking you to contact the developers of your favorite software or services which has its own version of avatar management and let them know you want Gravatar support to be built in. At the very least, a mod or plugin to add the functionality to the software should suffice. </p>
<p>If you participate in this event, be sure to let me know the response you receive in the comments below. Also feel free to link to plugins or mods that add Gravatar support to their respective pieces of software as it would be nice to have all of that information in one place.</p>";}i:45;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:45:"Alex King: Updated Carrington Core and Themes";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://alexking.org/?p=3566";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://alexking.org/blog/2009/08/16/updated-carrington-core-and-themes";s:11:"description";s:1138:"<p>The <a href="http://carringtontheme.com">Carrington CMS theme framework for WordPress</a> has been updated to <a href="http://carringtontheme.com/2009/08/carrington-core-2-5/">version 2.5</a>. I&#8217;ve also released updated versions of all of our Carrington themes with the latest core, new documentation, and other misc. enhancements and bug fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://carringtontheme.com/2009/08/carrington-blog-2-2/">Carrington Blog 2.2</a></li>
<li><a href="http://carringtontheme.com/2009/08/carrington-text-1-3/">Carrington Text 1.3</a></li>
<li><a href="http://carringtontheme.com/2009/08/carrington-mobile-1-1/">Carrington Mobile 1.1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://carringtontheme.com/2009/08/carrington-jam-1-3/">Carrington JAM 1.3</a></li>
</ul>
<p>WordPress developers, be sure to check out the <a href="http://carringtontheme.com/developers/">documentation</a> we&#8217;ve added about the Carrington framework. I&#8217;m also gathering questions for a follow-up Q&amp;A to be posted this week &#8211; send in your topics.</p>
<img src="http://alexking.org/wp/?ak_action=api_record_view&id=3566&type=feed" alt="" />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:31:07 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:7:"summary";s:1138:"<p>The <a href="http://carringtontheme.com">Carrington CMS theme framework for WordPress</a> has been updated to <a href="http://carringtontheme.com/2009/08/carrington-core-2-5/">version 2.5</a>. I&#8217;ve also released updated versions of all of our Carrington themes with the latest core, new documentation, and other misc. enhancements and bug fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://carringtontheme.com/2009/08/carrington-blog-2-2/">Carrington Blog 2.2</a></li>
<li><a href="http://carringtontheme.com/2009/08/carrington-text-1-3/">Carrington Text 1.3</a></li>
<li><a href="http://carringtontheme.com/2009/08/carrington-mobile-1-1/">Carrington Mobile 1.1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://carringtontheme.com/2009/08/carrington-jam-1-3/">Carrington JAM 1.3</a></li>
</ul>
<p>WordPress developers, be sure to check out the <a href="http://carringtontheme.com/developers/">documentation</a> we&#8217;ve added about the Carrington framework. I&#8217;m also gathering questions for a follow-up Q&amp;A to be posted this week &#8211; send in your topics.</p>
<img src="http://alexking.org/wp/?ak_action=api_record_view&id=3566&type=feed" alt="" />";}i:46;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:24:"Matt: OS X Optimizations";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=14553";s:4:"link";s:40:"http://ma.tt/2009/08/os-x-optimizations/";s:11:"description";s:368:"<p><a href="http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/">Monolingual</a> is a Open Source utility for Mac OS X that removes all the not-needed languages from your computer, freeing up hundreds of megabytes. My Mac mini is going &#8220;laggy&#8221; with the mouse jumping around instead of being smooth when I move the cursor around &#8212; any more tips for optimizations?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:50:41 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:368:"<p><a href="http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/">Monolingual</a> is a Open Source utility for Mac OS X that removes all the not-needed languages from your computer, freeing up hundreds of megabytes. My Mac mini is going &#8220;laggy&#8221; with the mouse jumping around instead of being smooth when I move the cursor around &#8212; any more tips for optimizations?</p>";}i:47;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/16";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6501";s:4:"link";s:90:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/16/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0816-2/";s:11:"description";s:3132:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-event/">Post Event</a></p>
<p>You often ask how could you create event using wordpress, organize jobs meeting, party or holidays with your friends and contact them easily ? Then &#8220;Post Event&#8221; is THE events plugin for wordpress you are looking for!</p>
<p><a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress/wp-irc">WP-IRC Plugin</a></p>
<p>WP-IRC Plugin can fetch the number of users online in any IRC channel and can be scheduled to auto refresh it every x.minutes. The count thus fetched can be displayed in the sidebar of your blog using a sidebar widget provided by the Plugin.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thulasidas.com/ezTrans">Easy Translator</a></p>
<p>Easy Translator is a plugin to translate other plugins.Plugin authors who want to clean up their internationalization will appreciate Easy Translator because it does a fuzzy string matching to highlight possible repetitions and conflicts among key strings. Note that Easy Translator is not a blog page translator for a blogger.</p>
<p><a href="http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/text-hover/">Text Hover</a></p>
<p>Add hover text to regular text in posts. Handy for providing explanations of names, terms, phrases, and acronyms mentioned in your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://calendarscripts.info/weight-loss-calculator-wp.html">Weight Loss Calculator</a></p>
<p>Display fully functional weight loss planning calculator in any post or a page. Use a simple tag to include the calculator in any place. The calculator helps readers to plan their diet and warns them if they set unhealthy weight loss goal.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.killabot.net/">Killabot APx</a></p>
<p>The Killabot APx System has been designed to detect certain characteristics common amongst anonymizing proxies. Their signatures are sometimes hard to detect but there is an algoritm that can return results with a very high degree of accuracy.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/08/11/gd-press-tools-1-6-0/">GD Press Tools</a></p>
<p>GD Press Tools is a collection of various administration, seo, maintenance and security related tools. This tools can be integrated into the various WordPress admin panels, can perform maintenance operations, change some aspects of WordPress, see detailed server settings and information. Plugin can also track posts and pages views for various popularity lists.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogtrafficexchange.com/old-post-promoter/">Old Post Promoter</a></p>
<p>The primary function of the plugin is its capability to promote older blog posts by reviving them and returning them to the front page and sending them back in to the RSS feed.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/to-do-list/">To-Do List Plugin</a></p>
<p>Users can now use the TinyMCE editor included with WordPress to format their To-Do List! There is an option to use the plain and simple editor from the previous version.</p>
<p>So are you a plugin author? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Submit your plugin</a> to us to get featured in these releases.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:58:58 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:3132:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-event/">Post Event</a></p>
<p>You often ask how could you create event using wordpress, organize jobs meeting, party or holidays with your friends and contact them easily ? Then &#8220;Post Event&#8221; is THE events plugin for wordpress you are looking for!</p>
<p><a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress/wp-irc">WP-IRC Plugin</a></p>
<p>WP-IRC Plugin can fetch the number of users online in any IRC channel and can be scheduled to auto refresh it every x.minutes. The count thus fetched can be displayed in the sidebar of your blog using a sidebar widget provided by the Plugin.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thulasidas.com/ezTrans">Easy Translator</a></p>
<p>Easy Translator is a plugin to translate other plugins.Plugin authors who want to clean up their internationalization will appreciate Easy Translator because it does a fuzzy string matching to highlight possible repetitions and conflicts among key strings. Note that Easy Translator is not a blog page translator for a blogger.</p>
<p><a href="http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/text-hover/">Text Hover</a></p>
<p>Add hover text to regular text in posts. Handy for providing explanations of names, terms, phrases, and acronyms mentioned in your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://calendarscripts.info/weight-loss-calculator-wp.html">Weight Loss Calculator</a></p>
<p>Display fully functional weight loss planning calculator in any post or a page. Use a simple tag to include the calculator in any place. The calculator helps readers to plan their diet and warns them if they set unhealthy weight loss goal.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.killabot.net/">Killabot APx</a></p>
<p>The Killabot APx System has been designed to detect certain characteristics common amongst anonymizing proxies. Their signatures are sometimes hard to detect but there is an algoritm that can return results with a very high degree of accuracy.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.dev4press.com/2009/08/11/gd-press-tools-1-6-0/">GD Press Tools</a></p>
<p>GD Press Tools is a collection of various administration, seo, maintenance and security related tools. This tools can be integrated into the various WordPress admin panels, can perform maintenance operations, change some aspects of WordPress, see detailed server settings and information. Plugin can also track posts and pages views for various popularity lists.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogtrafficexchange.com/old-post-promoter/">Old Post Promoter</a></p>
<p>The primary function of the plugin is its capability to promote older blog posts by reviving them and returning them to the front page and sending them back in to the RSS feed.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/to-do-list/">To-Do List Plugin</a></p>
<p>Users can now use the TinyMCE editor included with WordPress to format their To-Do List! There is an option to use the plain and simple editor from the previous version.</p>
<p>So are you a plugin author? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Submit your plugin</a> to us to get featured in these releases.</p>";}i:48;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Development Tools";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6499";s:4:"link";s:92:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/08/16/wordpress-theme-development%c2%a0tools/";s:11:"description";s:663:"<p><a href="http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-theme-development-tools-tutorial/">WordPress Theme Development Tools</a>.: ThemeShaper puts together a list of many of the ingredients required to develop your own WordPress themes including the test content that helps to test the demo the functionality of WordPress themes and tutorials to help beginners get started. The inclusion of useful development tools such as Firefox extensions and even links to free text editors are appreciated. The one inclusion that I would have expected from the blog of a theme framework developer would have been a list of theme frameworks that a beginner could get started with.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:27:38 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:663:"<p><a href="http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-theme-development-tools-tutorial/">WordPress Theme Development Tools</a>.: ThemeShaper puts together a list of many of the ingredients required to develop your own WordPress themes including the test content that helps to test the demo the functionality of WordPress themes and tutorials to help beginners get started. The inclusion of useful development tools such as Firefox extensions and even links to free text editors are appreciated. The one inclusion that I would have expected from the blog of a theme framework developer would have been a list of theme frameworks that a beginner could get started with.</p>";}i:49;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Dougal Campbell: Jumping Into WordPress Plugin Programming";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=1677";s:4:"link";s:138:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/08/16/jumping-into-wordpress-plugin-programming?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss";s:11:"description";s:3320:"<p><a href="http://wordcampbirmingham.org/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1682" title="WordCamp Birmingham 2009" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/wcbhm09.jpg" alt="WordCamp Birmingham 2009" width="356" height="141" /></a>In a few weeks, I will be a presenter at <a title="Alabama, not England" href="http://wordcampbirmingham.org/">WordCamp Birmingham 2009</a> (that&#8217;s Birmingham, Alabama, not England, by the way). Last year, I did a presentation on &#8220;<a title="Future of WordPress slideshow on SlideShare" href="http://www.slideshare.net/DougalCampbell/the-future-of-wordpress-presentation-presentation?type=powerpoint">The Future of WordPress</a>&#8220;, shortly before the release of version 2.7. I briefly considered doing the same thing this year, updated with speculation about the upcoming versions 2.9 and 3.0, but that seemed like a cop-out. I wanted to do something a little deeper.</p><p>One of the things that always frustrates me about starting to work with a new programming language, or with a new framework for a language I already know, is the initial learning curve. Everybody wants to start out with the ubiquitous &#8220;Hello, World&#8221; example, which is great for a quick syntax example, but is pretty useless for practical purposes. I always want a good primer which doesn&#8217;t assume I&#8217;m a complete beginner, and dives right into useful examples. I want to know how to find the existing pieces of the system that are going to make my life easier. So I thought others might appreciate something like that for <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> plugin programming.</p><p>So that&#8217;s going to be my presentation topic this year. I&#8217;m going to try to create an introduction to creating plugins for WordPress. While there are bits of the process that can be complex, the real meat of the <acronym title="Application Interface"><span class="caps">API</span></acronym> hooks (filters and actions) are really pretty simple. And I think that with a good overview, those who aren&#8217;t already familiar with programming for WordPress can get up-to-speed more quickly than if they had to discover everything by searching the web and using trial-and-error. While I will try to keep things as simple as possible, I&#8217;m going to assume that my target audience will at least have a basic knowledge of programming concepts to include what functions and arrays are. You won&#8217;t have to be a <a href="http://php.net/"><acronym title="Php Hypertext Processor"><span class="caps">PHP</span></acronym></a> expert, or even be able to sit down and write a program from scratch without a reference book handy.</p><p>I will, of course, make the presentation available online when the WordCamp arrives. And since I&#8217;ll be limited by time in my presentation, I&#8217;d like to publish an expanded version here later as a series of articles where I can go into more depth.</p><p>I&#8217;ve already started a rough outline of what I want to cover. But I&#8217;d welcome any ideas or questions on this topic. If you are already familiar with programming, but you&#8217;re new to programming in the WordPress framework, what questions have you had? What concepts confuse you? What areas would you like to see covered?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 16 Aug 2009 05:15:16 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Dougal";}s:7:"summary";s:3320:"<p><a href="http://wordcampbirmingham.org/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1682" title="WordCamp Birmingham 2009" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/wcbhm09.jpg" alt="WordCamp Birmingham 2009" width="356" height="141" /></a>In a few weeks, I will be a presenter at <a title="Alabama, not England" href="http://wordcampbirmingham.org/">WordCamp Birmingham 2009</a> (that&#8217;s Birmingham, Alabama, not England, by the way). Last year, I did a presentation on &#8220;<a title="Future of WordPress slideshow on SlideShare" href="http://www.slideshare.net/DougalCampbell/the-future-of-wordpress-presentation-presentation?type=powerpoint">The Future of WordPress</a>&#8220;, shortly before the release of version 2.7. I briefly considered doing the same thing this year, updated with speculation about the upcoming versions 2.9 and 3.0, but that seemed like a cop-out. I wanted to do something a little deeper.</p><p>One of the things that always frustrates me about starting to work with a new programming language, or with a new framework for a language I already know, is the initial learning curve. Everybody wants to start out with the ubiquitous &#8220;Hello, World&#8221; example, which is great for a quick syntax example, but is pretty useless for practical purposes. I always want a good primer which doesn&#8217;t assume I&#8217;m a complete beginner, and dives right into useful examples. I want to know how to find the existing pieces of the system that are going to make my life easier. So I thought others might appreciate something like that for <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> plugin programming.</p><p>So that&#8217;s going to be my presentation topic this year. I&#8217;m going to try to create an introduction to creating plugins for WordPress. While there are bits of the process that can be complex, the real meat of the <acronym title="Application Interface"><span class="caps">API</span></acronym> hooks (filters and actions) are really pretty simple. And I think that with a good overview, those who aren&#8217;t already familiar with programming for WordPress can get up-to-speed more quickly than if they had to discover everything by searching the web and using trial-and-error. While I will try to keep things as simple as possible, I&#8217;m going to assume that my target audience will at least have a basic knowledge of programming concepts to include what functions and arrays are. 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