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:49:"Weblog Tools Collection: Best Of WLTC 2009 Part 1";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7450";s:4:"link";s:78:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/30/best-of-wltc-2009-part-1/";s:11:"description";s:14013:"<p>Throughout the course of a year on WeblogToolsCollection.com, there is a ton of information published about WordPress whether it be a link to something cool or a home grown guide covering a specific feature of WordPress. The purpose of this two part series is to look back at the best articles published on the site but it&#8217;s also to reflect on the achievements the software has undergone during 2009. While it&#8217;s good to keep things moving along into the future, it&#8217;s healthy to look at the past every once in awhile to measure progress. </p>
<p>From all of us here at WLTC, we wish you a safe and happy New Year!</p>
<h2>January:</h2>
<p>	<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/04/plugin-review-simplepress-forum/" title="Plugin Review: Simple:Press Forum">Plugin Review: Simple:Press Forum</a><br />
	<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/05/great-explanation-of-community/" title="Great Explanation Of Community">Great Explanation Of Community</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/10/phpbb-and-wordpress/" title="PHPBB And WordPress">PHPBB And WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/11/plugin-review-referrer-detector/" title="Plugin Review: Referrer Detector">Plugin Review: Referrer Detector</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/15/do-you-post-by-email/" title="Do You Post By Email?">Do You Post By Email?</a><br />
	<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/18/plugin-review-wp-greet-box/" title="Plugin Review: WP Greet Box">Plugin Review: WP Greet Box</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/25/plugin-review-wp125/" title="Plugin Review: WP125">Plugin Review: WP125</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/28/michael-pick-of-wordpresstv/" title="Michael Pick Of WordPress.TV">Michael Pick Of WordPress.TV</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/31/et-tu-google-then-fail-net-safety/" title="Et Tu Google? Then Fail, Net Safety">Et Tu Google? Then Fail, Net Safety</a></p>
<h2>February:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/01/plugin-review-autoclose/" title="Plugin Review: Autoclose">Plugin Review: Autoclose</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/04/want-to-buy-sandbox/" title="Want To Buy Sandbox?">Want To Buy Sandbox?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/05/updated-wp-plugin-where-did-they-go-from-here/" title="Updated WP Plugin: Where did they go from here?">Updated WP Plugin: Where did they go from here?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/08/plugin-review-mailpress/" title="Plugin Review: MailPress">Plugin Review: MailPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/11/mastering-wordpress-shortcodes/" title="Mastering WordPress Shortcodes">Mastering WordPress Shortcodes</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/12/feedburner-is-dead-long-live-feedburner/" title="FeedBurner is Dead, Long Live Feedburner">FeedBurner is Dead, Long Live Feedburner</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/15/plugin-review-yawasp/" title="Plugin Review: Yawasp">Plugin Review: Yawasp</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/19/plugin-authors-are-you-making-the-best-of-readmetxt/" title="Plugin Authors, Are you making the best of Readme.txt?">Plugin Authors, Are you making the best of Readme.txt?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/22/plugin-review-post-avatar/" title="Plugin Review: Post Avatar">Plugin Review: Post Avatar</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/24/the-manual-excerpt-in-wordpress-what-why-how-tips-and-plugins/" title="The manual Excerpt in WordPress. What, why, how, tips and plugins">The manual Excerpt in WordPress. What, why, how, tips and plugins</a></p>
<h2>March:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/01/plugin-review-improved-plugin-installation/" title="Plugin Review: Improved Plugin Installation">Plugin Review: Improved Plugin Installation</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/05/wordpress-plugin-development-beginners-guide/" title="WordPress Plugin Development Beginner’s Guide">WordPress Plugin Development Beginner’s Guide</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/07/wplookup-find-functions-and-template-tags-fast/" title="WPLookup – Find Functions and Template Tags Fast">WPLookup – Find Functions and Template Tags Fast</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/15/how-to-track-rss-subscribers-in-a-blog-contest/" title="How to Track RSS Subscribers in a Blog Contest">How to Track RSS Subscribers in a Blog Contest</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/15/plugin-review-wp-mollom/" title="Plugin Review: WP Mollom">Plugin Review: WP Mollom</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/19/ie-8-and-wordpress/" title="IE 8 and WordPress">IE 8 and WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/20/how-to-write-a-good-plugin-review/" title="How to write a good plugin review">How to write a good plugin review</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/20/new-wordpress-plugin-better-search/" title="New WordPress Plugin: Better Search">New WordPress Plugin: Better Search</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/22/plugin-review-wordpress-filter/" title="Plugin Review: WordPress Filter">Plugin Review: WordPress Filter</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/24/microsoft-web-platform-featured-app-wordpress/" title="Microsoft Web Platform Featured App: WordPress">Microsoft Web Platform Featured App: WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/28/top-10-characteristics-of-a-great-wordpress-plugin/" title="Top 10 Characteristics of a Great WordPress Plugin">Top 10 Characteristics of a Great WordPress Plugin</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/29/plugin-review-csprites-for-wordpress/" title="Plugin Review: cSprites for WordPress">Plugin Review: cSprites for WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/30/is-it-time-for-kubrick-to-retire/" title="Is It Time For Kubrick To Retire?">Is It Time For Kubrick To Retire?</a></p>
<h2>April:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/05/plugin-review-post-templates/" title="Plugin Review: Post Templates">Plugin Review: Post Templates</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/07/an-introduction-and-a-plugin-review-admin-links-widget/" title="An Introduction and a Plugin Review: Admin Links Widget">An Introduction and a Plugin Review: Admin Links Widget</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/10/how-to-highlight-search-terms-with-jquery/" title="How to Highlight Search Terms with jQuery">How to Highlight Search Terms with jQuery</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/13/wordpress-download-monitor-review/" title="WordPress Download Monitor Review">WordPress Download Monitor Review</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/15/wordpress-add-twitter-rss-plugin-review/" title="WordPress Add Twitter RSS Plugin Review">WordPress Add Twitter RSS Plugin Review</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/21/automattic-buys-blogs/" title="Automattic buys Blo.gs ">Automattic buys Blo.gs </a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/26/announcing-wordpress-plugin-competition-2009-30/" title="Announcing Wordpress Plugin Competition 2009 (3.0)">Announcing Wordpress Plugin Competition 2009 (3.0)</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/27/the-hiddem-gem-of-wordpress/" title="The Hidden Gem Of WordPress">The Hidden Gem Of WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/29/9-ways-to-make-your-wordpress-blog-smart/" title="9 Ways to Make Your WordPress Blog “Smartâ€">9 Ways to Make Your WordPress Blog “Smartâ€</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/30/buddypress-10-has-arrived/" title="BuddyPress 1.0 Has Arrived!!">BuddyPress 1.0 Has Arrived!!</a></p>
<h2>May:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/01/smarter-theme-development/" title="Smarter Theme Development">Smarter Theme Development</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/06/five-tools-to-increase-the-rss-subscribers-for-your-wordpress-blog/" title="Five Tools to Increase the RSS Subscribers for your WordPress Blog">Five Tools to Increase the RSS Subscribers for your WordPress Blog</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/09/plugins-to-spruce-up-your-wordpress-based-website/" title="Plugins to Spruce Up Your WordPress Based Website">Plugins to Spruce Up Your WordPress Based Website</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/10/i-am-sick-of-splogs-copying-our-content/" title="I am sick of splogs Copying our Content!">I am sick of splogs Copying our Content!</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/11/need-help-with-that/" title="Need Help With That?">Need Help With That?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/12/theme-development-checklist/" title="Theme Development Checklist">Theme Development Checklist</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/14/wp-pluginsused-a-plugin-review/" title="WP PluginsUsed: A Plugin Review">WP PluginsUsed: A Plugin Review</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/18/what-are-your-theme-standards/" title="What Are Your Theme Standards?">What Are Your Theme Standards?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/18/five-comment-related-plugins-for-wordpress/" title="Five Comment Related Plugins for WordPress">Five Comment Related Plugins for WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/23/five-image-related-plugins-for-your-wordpress-site/" title="Five Image Related Plugins for your WordPress Site">Five Image Related Plugins for your WordPress Site</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/27/what-can-wordpress-do-for-you/" title="What can WordPress do for you?">What can WordPress do for you?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/29/five-ad-manager-plugins-for-wordpress/" title="Five Ad Manager Plugins for WordPress">Five Ad Manager Plugins for WordPress</a></p>
<h2>June:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/04/wordpress-plugin-compatibility-checker/" title="WordPress Plugin Compatibility Checker">WordPress Plugin Compatibility Checker</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/05/publish-blog-posts-in-wordpress-from-yahoo-mail/" title="Publish Blog Posts In WordPress From Yahoo Mail">Publish Blog Posts In WordPress From Yahoo Mail</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/06/wordpress-plugin-theme-development-resources/" title="Resources To Get You Kick Started With WordPress Plugin And Theme Development">Resources To Get You Kick Started With WordPress Plugin And Theme Development</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/08/checklist-for-new-wordpress-installation/" title="Checklist For New WordPress Installation">Checklist For New WordPress Installation</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/10/join-wordpress-community-solving-bugs-and-helping-users/" title="Killing The WordPress Bugs and Helping Out With User Problems [WordPress Community]">Killing The WordPress Bugs and Helping Out With User Problems [WordPress Community]</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/12/should-you-use-a-mobile-wordpress-plugin/" title="Should you use a Mobile WordPress Plugin?">Should you use a Mobile WordPress Plugin?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/14/antivirus-plugin-for-wordpress/" title="Antivirus Plugin For WordPress">Antivirus Plugin For WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/15/security-and-anti-spam-plugins-for-wordpress/" title="Security And Anti-spam Plugins For WordPress">Security And Anti-spam Plugins For WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/18/how-has-wordpress-changed-blogging/" title="How Has WordPress Changed Your {Blogging} Life?">How Has WordPress Changed Your {Blogging} Life?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/19/wordpress-plugins-usage-faqs/" title="Does It Matter If I Use 1 Plugin Or 100s Of Them?">Does It Matter If I Use 1 Plugin Or 100s Of Them?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/20/attention-all-plugin-authors/" title="Attention All Plugin Authors">Attention All Plugin Authors</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/21/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-community-interview/" title="Interviews: Matt Mullenweg – WordPress Co-Founder">Interviews: Matt Mullenweg – WordPress Co-Founder</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/29/benchmarking-the-wordpress-admin-panel/" title="Benchmarking the WordPress Admin Panel">Benchmarking the WordPress Admin Panel</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/29/wordpress-configuration-tricks/" title="WordPress Configuration Tricks">WordPress Configuration Tricks	</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:00:37 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:14013:"<p>Throughout the course of a year on WeblogToolsCollection.com, there is a ton of information published about WordPress whether it be a link to something cool or a home grown guide covering a specific feature of WordPress. The purpose of this two part series is to look back at the best articles published on the site but it&#8217;s also to reflect on the achievements the software has undergone during 2009. While it&#8217;s good to keep things moving along into the future, it&#8217;s healthy to look at the past every once in awhile to measure progress. </p>
<p>From all of us here at WLTC, we wish you a safe and happy New Year!</p>
<h2>January:</h2>
<p>	<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/04/plugin-review-simplepress-forum/" title="Plugin Review: Simple:Press Forum">Plugin Review: Simple:Press Forum</a><br />
	<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/05/great-explanation-of-community/" title="Great Explanation Of Community">Great Explanation Of Community</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/10/phpbb-and-wordpress/" title="PHPBB And WordPress">PHPBB And WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/11/plugin-review-referrer-detector/" title="Plugin Review: Referrer Detector">Plugin Review: Referrer Detector</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/15/do-you-post-by-email/" title="Do You Post By Email?">Do You Post By Email?</a><br />
	<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/18/plugin-review-wp-greet-box/" title="Plugin Review: WP Greet Box">Plugin Review: WP Greet Box</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/25/plugin-review-wp125/" title="Plugin Review: WP125">Plugin Review: WP125</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/28/michael-pick-of-wordpresstv/" title="Michael Pick Of WordPress.TV">Michael Pick Of WordPress.TV</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/01/31/et-tu-google-then-fail-net-safety/" title="Et Tu Google? Then Fail, Net Safety">Et Tu Google? Then Fail, Net Safety</a></p>
<h2>February:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/01/plugin-review-autoclose/" title="Plugin Review: Autoclose">Plugin Review: Autoclose</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/04/want-to-buy-sandbox/" title="Want To Buy Sandbox?">Want To Buy Sandbox?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/05/updated-wp-plugin-where-did-they-go-from-here/" title="Updated WP Plugin: Where did they go from here?">Updated WP Plugin: Where did they go from here?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/08/plugin-review-mailpress/" title="Plugin Review: MailPress">Plugin Review: MailPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/11/mastering-wordpress-shortcodes/" title="Mastering WordPress Shortcodes">Mastering WordPress Shortcodes</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/12/feedburner-is-dead-long-live-feedburner/" title="FeedBurner is Dead, Long Live Feedburner">FeedBurner is Dead, Long Live Feedburner</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/15/plugin-review-yawasp/" title="Plugin Review: Yawasp">Plugin Review: Yawasp</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/19/plugin-authors-are-you-making-the-best-of-readmetxt/" title="Plugin Authors, Are you making the best of Readme.txt?">Plugin Authors, Are you making the best of Readme.txt?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/22/plugin-review-post-avatar/" title="Plugin Review: Post Avatar">Plugin Review: Post Avatar</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/02/24/the-manual-excerpt-in-wordpress-what-why-how-tips-and-plugins/" title="The manual Excerpt in WordPress. What, why, how, tips and plugins">The manual Excerpt in WordPress. What, why, how, tips and plugins</a></p>
<h2>March:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/01/plugin-review-improved-plugin-installation/" title="Plugin Review: Improved Plugin Installation">Plugin Review: Improved Plugin Installation</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/05/wordpress-plugin-development-beginners-guide/" title="WordPress Plugin Development Beginner’s Guide">WordPress Plugin Development Beginner’s Guide</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/07/wplookup-find-functions-and-template-tags-fast/" title="WPLookup – Find Functions and Template Tags Fast">WPLookup – Find Functions and Template Tags Fast</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/15/how-to-track-rss-subscribers-in-a-blog-contest/" title="How to Track RSS Subscribers in a Blog Contest">How to Track RSS Subscribers in a Blog Contest</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/15/plugin-review-wp-mollom/" title="Plugin Review: WP Mollom">Plugin Review: WP Mollom</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/19/ie-8-and-wordpress/" title="IE 8 and WordPress">IE 8 and WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/20/how-to-write-a-good-plugin-review/" title="How to write a good plugin review">How to write a good plugin review</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/20/new-wordpress-plugin-better-search/" title="New WordPress Plugin: Better Search">New WordPress Plugin: Better Search</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/22/plugin-review-wordpress-filter/" title="Plugin Review: WordPress Filter">Plugin Review: WordPress Filter</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/24/microsoft-web-platform-featured-app-wordpress/" title="Microsoft Web Platform Featured App: WordPress">Microsoft Web Platform Featured App: WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/28/top-10-characteristics-of-a-great-wordpress-plugin/" title="Top 10 Characteristics of a Great WordPress Plugin">Top 10 Characteristics of a Great WordPress Plugin</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/29/plugin-review-csprites-for-wordpress/" title="Plugin Review: cSprites for WordPress">Plugin Review: cSprites for WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/03/30/is-it-time-for-kubrick-to-retire/" title="Is It Time For Kubrick To Retire?">Is It Time For Kubrick To Retire?</a></p>
<h2>April:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/05/plugin-review-post-templates/" title="Plugin Review: Post Templates">Plugin Review: Post Templates</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/07/an-introduction-and-a-plugin-review-admin-links-widget/" title="An Introduction and a Plugin Review: Admin Links Widget">An Introduction and a Plugin Review: Admin Links Widget</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/10/how-to-highlight-search-terms-with-jquery/" title="How to Highlight Search Terms with jQuery">How to Highlight Search Terms with jQuery</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/13/wordpress-download-monitor-review/" title="WordPress Download Monitor Review">WordPress Download Monitor Review</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/15/wordpress-add-twitter-rss-plugin-review/" title="WordPress Add Twitter RSS Plugin Review">WordPress Add Twitter RSS Plugin Review</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/21/automattic-buys-blogs/" title="Automattic buys Blo.gs ">Automattic buys Blo.gs </a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/26/announcing-wordpress-plugin-competition-2009-30/" title="Announcing Wordpress Plugin Competition 2009 (3.0)">Announcing Wordpress Plugin Competition 2009 (3.0)</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/27/the-hiddem-gem-of-wordpress/" title="The Hidden Gem Of WordPress">The Hidden Gem Of WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/29/9-ways-to-make-your-wordpress-blog-smart/" title="9 Ways to Make Your WordPress Blog “Smartâ€">9 Ways to Make Your WordPress Blog “Smartâ€</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/30/buddypress-10-has-arrived/" title="BuddyPress 1.0 Has Arrived!!">BuddyPress 1.0 Has Arrived!!</a></p>
<h2>May:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/01/smarter-theme-development/" title="Smarter Theme Development">Smarter Theme Development</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/06/five-tools-to-increase-the-rss-subscribers-for-your-wordpress-blog/" title="Five Tools to Increase the RSS Subscribers for your WordPress Blog">Five Tools to Increase the RSS Subscribers for your WordPress Blog</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/09/plugins-to-spruce-up-your-wordpress-based-website/" title="Plugins to Spruce Up Your WordPress Based Website">Plugins to Spruce Up Your WordPress Based Website</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/10/i-am-sick-of-splogs-copying-our-content/" title="I am sick of splogs Copying our Content!">I am sick of splogs Copying our Content!</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/11/need-help-with-that/" title="Need Help With That?">Need Help With That?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/12/theme-development-checklist/" title="Theme Development Checklist">Theme Development Checklist</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/14/wp-pluginsused-a-plugin-review/" title="WP PluginsUsed: A Plugin Review">WP PluginsUsed: A Plugin Review</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/18/what-are-your-theme-standards/" title="What Are Your Theme Standards?">What Are Your Theme Standards?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/18/five-comment-related-plugins-for-wordpress/" title="Five Comment Related Plugins for WordPress">Five Comment Related Plugins for WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/23/five-image-related-plugins-for-your-wordpress-site/" title="Five Image Related Plugins for your WordPress Site">Five Image Related Plugins for your WordPress Site</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/27/what-can-wordpress-do-for-you/" title="What can WordPress do for you?">What can WordPress do for you?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/29/five-ad-manager-plugins-for-wordpress/" title="Five Ad Manager Plugins for WordPress">Five Ad Manager Plugins for WordPress</a></p>
<h2>June:</h2>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/04/wordpress-plugin-compatibility-checker/" title="WordPress Plugin Compatibility Checker">WordPress Plugin Compatibility Checker</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/05/publish-blog-posts-in-wordpress-from-yahoo-mail/" title="Publish Blog Posts In WordPress From Yahoo Mail">Publish Blog Posts In WordPress From Yahoo Mail</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/06/wordpress-plugin-theme-development-resources/" title="Resources To Get You Kick Started With WordPress Plugin And Theme Development">Resources To Get You Kick Started With WordPress Plugin And Theme Development</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/08/checklist-for-new-wordpress-installation/" title="Checklist For New WordPress Installation">Checklist For New WordPress Installation</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/10/join-wordpress-community-solving-bugs-and-helping-users/" title="Killing The WordPress Bugs and Helping Out With User Problems [WordPress Community]">Killing The WordPress Bugs and Helping Out With User Problems [WordPress Community]</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/12/should-you-use-a-mobile-wordpress-plugin/" title="Should you use a Mobile WordPress Plugin?">Should you use a Mobile WordPress Plugin?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/14/antivirus-plugin-for-wordpress/" title="Antivirus Plugin For WordPress">Antivirus Plugin For WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/15/security-and-anti-spam-plugins-for-wordpress/" title="Security And Anti-spam Plugins For WordPress">Security And Anti-spam Plugins For WordPress</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/18/how-has-wordpress-changed-blogging/" title="How Has WordPress Changed Your {Blogging} Life?">How Has WordPress Changed Your {Blogging} Life?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/19/wordpress-plugins-usage-faqs/" title="Does It Matter If I Use 1 Plugin Or 100s Of Them?">Does It Matter If I Use 1 Plugin Or 100s Of Them?</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/20/attention-all-plugin-authors/" title="Attention All Plugin Authors">Attention All Plugin Authors</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/21/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-community-interview/" title="Interviews: Matt Mullenweg – WordPress Co-Founder">Interviews: Matt Mullenweg – WordPress Co-Founder</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/29/benchmarking-the-wordpress-admin-panel/" title="Benchmarking the WordPress Admin Panel">Benchmarking the WordPress Admin Panel</a><br />
<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/06/29/wordpress-configuration-tricks/" title="WordPress Configuration Tricks">WordPress Configuration Tricks	</a></p>";}i:1;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:48:"Peter Westwood: Giving your WordPress a check up";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://westi.wordpress.com/?p=141";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://westi.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/giving-your-wordpress-a-check-up/";s:11:"description";s:4182:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Every now and then someone finds something wrong with a WordPress install which, rather than be caused by a bug in WordPress itself, is caused by a server configuration error, an interaction between WordPress and something else installed on the server or is just a recommend optimisation for better site performance.</p>
<p>Everyone has a different set of pitfalls that they have come across and I would like to collect together all these little things into a comprehensive community developed plugin which can hopefully become one of the first &#8220;<a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/canonical-plugins/">canonical</a>&#8221; plugins that we have talked about.</p>
<p>To that end I have developed a framework for this plugin, in the style of a unit test framework, to make it really easy to write tests and I am hoping that some of you will have ideas for tests and also that you will want to get involved.</p>
<p>For a while I have tagged tickets in the main WordPress trac where there are is possible inspiration for tests &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/healthchecktickets">http://bit.ly/healthchecktickets</a>.</p>
<p>The following is an example of the code required to carry out one of these tests which recommends users of PHP4 upgrade to PHP5.</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">

/**
 * Check that we are running at least PHP 5
 *
 * @todo Provide a link to a codex article
 * @link http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9751
 * @author peterwestwood
 */
class HealthCheck_PHP_Version extends HealthCheckTest {
    function run_test() {
        $this-&amp;gt;assertTrue(&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;version_compare('5.0.0', PHP_VERSION, '&amp;lt;'),
        sprintf( __( 'Your Webserver is currently using PHP version %s, which is no longer receiving security updates and will no longer be supported by WordPress in an future version', 'health-check' ), PHP_VERSION ),
        HEALTH_CHECK_RECOMMENDATION );
    }
}
HealthCheck::register_test('HealthCheck_PHP_Version');
</pre>
<p>If you would like to get involved in the development of the plugin then you can check the source code out from the WordPress plugins subversion repository here: <a href="http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/health-check/branches/alpha/"><code>http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/health-check/branches/alpha/</code></a> and you can follow the development progress using the WordPress plugins trac here: <a href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/health-check/branches/alpha"><code>http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/health-check/branches/alpha</code></a>.</p>
<p>As the plugin is not yet ready for its first release we will be doing the development in this alpha branch and then move to trunk once we make the first release.</p>
<p>I am actively looking for fellow developers for this project as a community team we can make this a success.</p>
<p>So if you would like commit access to write some tests then drop me a note using the <a href="http://westi.wordpress.com/contact/">contact form</a> with a bit about yourself and I will give you access.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/westi.wordpress.com/141/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/westi.wordpress.com/141/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/westi.wordpress.com/141/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/westi.wordpress.com/141/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/westi.wordpress.com/141/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/westi.wordpress.com/141/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/westi.wordpress.com/141/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/westi.wordpress.com/141/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/westi.wordpress.com/141/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/westi.wordpress.com/141/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westi.wordpress.com&blog=15396&post=141&subd=westi&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:45:05 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:14:"Peter Westwood";}s:7:"summary";s:4182:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Every now and then someone finds something wrong with a WordPress install which, rather than be caused by a bug in WordPress itself, is caused by a server configuration error, an interaction between WordPress and something else installed on the server or is just a recommend optimisation for better site performance.</p>
<p>Everyone has a different set of pitfalls that they have come across and I would like to collect together all these little things into a comprehensive community developed plugin which can hopefully become one of the first &#8220;<a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/canonical-plugins/">canonical</a>&#8221; plugins that we have talked about.</p>
<p>To that end I have developed a framework for this plugin, in the style of a unit test framework, to make it really easy to write tests and I am hoping that some of you will have ideas for tests and also that you will want to get involved.</p>
<p>For a while I have tagged tickets in the main WordPress trac where there are is possible inspiration for tests &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/healthchecktickets">http://bit.ly/healthchecktickets</a>.</p>
<p>The following is an example of the code required to carry out one of these tests which recommends users of PHP4 upgrade to PHP5.</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">

/**
 * Check that we are running at least PHP 5
 *
 * @todo Provide a link to a codex article
 * @link http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9751
 * @author peterwestwood
 */
class HealthCheck_PHP_Version extends HealthCheckTest {
    function run_test() {
        $this-&amp;gt;assertTrue(&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;version_compare('5.0.0', PHP_VERSION, '&amp;lt;'),
        sprintf( __( 'Your Webserver is currently using PHP version %s, which is no longer receiving security updates and will no longer be supported by WordPress in an future version', 'health-check' ), PHP_VERSION ),
        HEALTH_CHECK_RECOMMENDATION );
    }
}
HealthCheck::register_test('HealthCheck_PHP_Version');
</pre>
<p>If you would like to get involved in the development of the plugin then you can check the source code out from the WordPress plugins subversion repository here: <a href="http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/health-check/branches/alpha/"><code>http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/health-check/branches/alpha/</code></a> and you can follow the development progress using the WordPress plugins trac here: <a href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/health-check/branches/alpha"><code>http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/health-check/branches/alpha</code></a>.</p>
<p>As the plugin is not yet ready for its first release we will be doing the development in this alpha branch and then move to trunk once we make the first release.</p>
<p>I am actively looking for fellow developers for this project as a community team we can make this a success.</p>
<p>So if you would like commit access to write some tests then drop me a note using the <a href="http://westi.wordpress.com/contact/">contact form</a> with a bit about yourself and I will give you access.</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/westi.wordpress.com/141/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/westi.wordpress.com/141/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/westi.wordpress.com/141/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/westi.wordpress.com/141/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/westi.wordpress.com/141/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/westi.wordpress.com/141/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/westi.wordpress.com/141/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/westi.wordpress.com/141/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/westi.wordpress.com/141/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/westi.wordpress.com/141/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westi.wordpress.com&blog=15396&post=141&subd=westi&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:2;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:44:"Joseph: WordPress Plugin Update: LibXML2 Fix";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://josephscott.org/?p=1665";s:4:"link";s:76:"http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/12/wordpress-plugin-update-libxml2-fix/";s:11:"description";s:1551:"<p>A small update to the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/libxml2-fix/">LibXML2 Fix</a> WordPress plugin is now available, version 0.2.3.</p>
<p>The only change was the addition of 2.6.27 to the list of libxml versions that the plugin looks for.  I&#8217;ve had a few reports that this version also has problems with stripping brackets.</p>
<p>For those that haven&#8217;t been following this problem here&#8217;s the <a href="http://josephscott.org/code/wordpress/plugin-libxml2-fix/">short version of the story</a>.  Some combinations of libxml and PHP don&#8217;t play nice with each other, the result being that brackets get stripped out of XML content.  This is a particular problem for XML-RPC requests in WordPress.  This plugin injects a small hack into the XML-RPC data before it gets processed in an attempt to preserve the brackets.</p>


<p>Related posts:<ol><li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/03/wordpress-libxml2-episode-iv-a-new-plugin/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress &#038; libxml2 Episode IV: A New Plugin">WordPress &#038; libxml2 Episode IV: A New Plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/02/update-on-libxml2-issues/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Update On libxml2 Issues">Update On libxml2 Issues</a></li>
<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/10/rsscloud-wordpress-plugin-update-0-4-1/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: rssCloud WordPress Plugin Update &#8211; 0.4.1">rssCloud WordPress Plugin Update &#8211; 0.4.1</a></li>
</ol></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:20:45 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Joseph Scott";}s:7:"summary";s:1551:"<p>A small update to the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/libxml2-fix/">LibXML2 Fix</a> WordPress plugin is now available, version 0.2.3.</p>
<p>The only change was the addition of 2.6.27 to the list of libxml versions that the plugin looks for.  I&#8217;ve had a few reports that this version also has problems with stripping brackets.</p>
<p>For those that haven&#8217;t been following this problem here&#8217;s the <a href="http://josephscott.org/code/wordpress/plugin-libxml2-fix/">short version of the story</a>.  Some combinations of libxml and PHP don&#8217;t play nice with each other, the result being that brackets get stripped out of XML content.  This is a particular problem for XML-RPC requests in WordPress.  This plugin injects a small hack into the XML-RPC data before it gets processed in an attempt to preserve the brackets.</p>


<p>Related posts:<ol><li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/03/wordpress-libxml2-episode-iv-a-new-plugin/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress &#038; libxml2 Episode IV: A New Plugin">WordPress &#038; libxml2 Episode IV: A New Plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/02/update-on-libxml2-issues/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Update On libxml2 Issues">Update On libxml2 Issues</a></li>
<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/10/rsscloud-wordpress-plugin-update-0-4-1/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: rssCloud WordPress Plugin Update &#8211; 0.4.1">rssCloud WordPress Plugin Update &#8211; 0.4.1</a></li>
</ol></p>";}i:3;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:45:"Dev Blog: WordPress 2.9.1 Release Candidate 1";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1119";s:4:"link";s:77:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9-1-release-candidate-1/";s:11:"description";s:681:"<p>Thanks to everyone who tested <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9-1-beta-1/">2.9.1 Beta 1</a>.  We&#8217;re following that up with Release Candidate 1.  RC1 contains a few more fixes, bringing the number of <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;group=resolution&amp;order=priority&amp;milestone=2.9.1&amp;resolution=fixed">fixed tickets</a> up to 23.  If you are already running Beta 1, visit Tools-&gt;Upgrade in your blog&#8217;s admin to get RC1.  You can also  <a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.9.1-RC1.zip">download the RC1 package</a> and install manually.  If all goes well, 2.9.1 will be here soon.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:27:23 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Ryan Boren";}s:7:"summary";s:681:"<p>Thanks to everyone who tested <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9-1-beta-1/">2.9.1 Beta 1</a>.  We&#8217;re following that up with Release Candidate 1.  RC1 contains a few more fixes, bringing the number of <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;group=resolution&amp;order=priority&amp;milestone=2.9.1&amp;resolution=fixed">fixed tickets</a> up to 23.  If you are already running Beta 1, visit Tools-&gt;Upgrade in your blog&#8217;s admin to get RC1.  You can also  <a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.9.1-RC1.zip">download the RC1 package</a> and install manually.  If all goes well, 2.9.1 will be here soon.</p>";}i:4;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:45:"Weblog Tools Collection: Four Great Questions";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7445";s:4:"link";s:74:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/29/four-great-questions/";s:11:"description";s:1923:"<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/wpshoutlogo.png" rel="thumbnail"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/wpshoutlogo.png" alt="" title="wpshoutlogo" class="alignright size-full wp-image-7446" height="54" width="287" /></a>Alex Denning who is the man behind WPShout.com has published the last of a four-part series which asks notable members within the WordPress community four interesting questions. The questions are as follows.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://wpshout.com/why-wordpress-21-of-the-wordpress-community-answer/">Why WordPress?</a><br />
<a target="_blank" href="http://wpshout.com/you-can-change-anything-in-wordpress-what/">What Would You Change In WordPress?</a><br />
<a target="_blank" href="http://wpshout.com/what-problems-face-the-wordpress-community-it-answers/">What Problems Currently Face The WordPress Community?</a><br />
<a target="_blank" href="http://wpshout.com/the-future-of-wordpress/">What Is The Future Of WordPress?</a></p>
<p>I had the opportunity to participate in this community survey with the question regarding the future of WordPress being my favorite. Here is what I had to say:</p>
<blockquote><p>WordPress will continue to be used as a platform to do things that go far beyond blogging. As these projects end up in the showcase and acquire press, more people will begin to realize that WordPress is an excellent blogging tool but it’s by far the not only thing it is capable of doing. WordPress will continue to evolve as a framework or a platform that will enable these creative uses of the software. Hopefully one day, when Matt is asked what is WordPress capable of doing, his response will be, anything you can imagine.
</p></blockquote>
<p>You don&#8217;t have to concentrate on answering this question in the comments but, I am interested in what your response to that question would be.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:36:54 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1923:"<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/wpshoutlogo.png" rel="thumbnail"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/wpshoutlogo.png" alt="" title="wpshoutlogo" class="alignright size-full wp-image-7446" height="54" width="287" /></a>Alex Denning who is the man behind WPShout.com has published the last of a four-part series which asks notable members within the WordPress community four interesting questions. The questions are as follows.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://wpshout.com/why-wordpress-21-of-the-wordpress-community-answer/">Why WordPress?</a><br />
<a target="_blank" href="http://wpshout.com/you-can-change-anything-in-wordpress-what/">What Would You Change In WordPress?</a><br />
<a target="_blank" href="http://wpshout.com/what-problems-face-the-wordpress-community-it-answers/">What Problems Currently Face The WordPress Community?</a><br />
<a target="_blank" href="http://wpshout.com/the-future-of-wordpress/">What Is The Future Of WordPress?</a></p>
<p>I had the opportunity to participate in this community survey with the question regarding the future of WordPress being my favorite. Here is what I had to say:</p>
<blockquote><p>WordPress will continue to be used as a platform to do things that go far beyond blogging. As these projects end up in the showcase and acquire press, more people will begin to realize that WordPress is an excellent blogging tool but it’s by far the not only thing it is capable of doing. WordPress will continue to evolve as a framework or a platform that will enable these creative uses of the software. Hopefully one day, when Matt is asked what is WordPress capable of doing, his response will be, anything you can imagine.
</p></blockquote>
<p>You don&#8217;t have to concentrate on answering this question in the comments but, I am interested in what your response to that question would be.</p>";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 12/29";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7443";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/29/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1229/";s:11:"description";s:1586:"<h4><a href="http://slackrthemes.com/2009/free-wordpress-theme-macha/">Macha</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://slackrthemes.com/test/?preview_theme=Macha"><img title="Macha" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Macha.jpg" alt="Macha" width="191" height="142" /></a></p>
<p>It is a single-column theme with bold headers and focuses on easy reading. There are no images used, it is SEO optimized, and is perfect for people that don’t want to get bogged down in all of the technicalities of other themes. There is also a widgetized footer with 3 places to put widgets in to help compensate for a lack of a sidebar.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.diovo.com/links/clear/">Clear</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://clear.kera.la/2009/12/a-wonderful-theme-for-writers/"><img title="Clear" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Clear.png" alt="Clear" width="191" height="143" /></a></p>
<p>It is minimalistic one-column theme with the widgets all arranged at the bottom. Clear was designed to make your content stand out and make everything else get out of the way.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.appchain.com/slidette/">Slidette</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/slidette"><img title="Slidette" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Slidette.jpg" alt="Slidette" width="191" height="141" /></a></p>
<p>It comes in 3 colors (green default, blue and black) , with a slideshow and a featured first page 4 posts from a category, two columns and dynamic widgets for the sidebar on the right and in the footer.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:48:09 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:1586:"<h4><a href="http://slackrthemes.com/2009/free-wordpress-theme-macha/">Macha</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://slackrthemes.com/test/?preview_theme=Macha"><img title="Macha" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Macha.jpg" alt="Macha" width="191" height="142" /></a></p>
<p>It is a single-column theme with bold headers and focuses on easy reading. There are no images used, it is SEO optimized, and is perfect for people that don’t want to get bogged down in all of the technicalities of other themes. There is also a widgetized footer with 3 places to put widgets in to help compensate for a lack of a sidebar.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.diovo.com/links/clear/">Clear</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://clear.kera.la/2009/12/a-wonderful-theme-for-writers/"><img title="Clear" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Clear.png" alt="Clear" width="191" height="143" /></a></p>
<p>It is minimalistic one-column theme with the widgets all arranged at the bottom. Clear was designed to make your content stand out and make everything else get out of the way.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.appchain.com/slidette/">Slidette</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/slidette"><img title="Slidette" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Slidette.jpg" alt="Slidette" width="191" height="141" /></a></p>
<p>It comes in 3 colors (green default, blue and black) , with a slideshow and a featured first page 4 posts from a category, two columns and dynamic widgets for the sidebar on the right and in the footer.</p>";}i:6;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 12/27";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7437";s:4:"link";s:90:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/27/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1227-2/";s:11:"description";s:2061:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://hdlns.com/hdlns_today_plugin.php">HDLNS Today</a></p>
<p>Automatically insert HDLNS headlines as a widget using the post date.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.technozeast.com/strip-ad">Strip Ad</a></p>
<p>Add a Strip Ad above the header to your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://pixopoint.com/code-comments/">Code Comments</a></p>
<p>Automatically Escape HTML Entities of Code Fragments in Comments</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/top-10/">Top 10</a></p>
<p>Count page views on posts and display a list of top posts by page views.</p>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/contextual-related-posts/">Contextual Related Posts</a></p>
<p>Display a list of contextually related posts for the current post. You can select the number of posts to display and if you want to automatically display the related posts in your content / feed.</p>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/where-did-they-go-from-here/">Where did they go from here?</a></p>
<p>This plugin will show “Readers who viewed this page, also viewedâ€ links on your page. This is similar to Amazon’s product pages which state “Readers who have bought this, also boughtâ€</p>
<p><a href="http://tobias.baethge.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-table-reloaded-english/">WP-Table Reloaded</a></p>
<p>This plugin enables you to create and manage tables in the admin-area of WordPress. You can then show them in your posts, on your pages or in text widgets by using a shortcode.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.watchcount.com/ebay-wordpress-plugin.php">WatchCount.com WordPress Plugin (WCCWPPI)</a></p>
<p>The WatchCount.com WordPress Plugin (WCCWPPI) is a free plugin that allows you to display Most Popular eBay items and auctions in real-time, directly on your blog. You can also display eBay items from any particular seller.</p>
<p><a href="http://deuced.net/shout-stream/">Shout Stream</a></p>
<p>Shout Stream plugin aims to be the bridge of your wordpress and your stream (shoutcast or icecast).</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:22:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:2061:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://hdlns.com/hdlns_today_plugin.php">HDLNS Today</a></p>
<p>Automatically insert HDLNS headlines as a widget using the post date.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.technozeast.com/strip-ad">Strip Ad</a></p>
<p>Add a Strip Ad above the header to your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://pixopoint.com/code-comments/">Code Comments</a></p>
<p>Automatically Escape HTML Entities of Code Fragments in Comments</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/top-10/">Top 10</a></p>
<p>Count page views on posts and display a list of top posts by page views.</p>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/contextual-related-posts/">Contextual Related Posts</a></p>
<p>Display a list of contextually related posts for the current post. You can select the number of posts to display and if you want to automatically display the related posts in your content / feed.</p>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/where-did-they-go-from-here/">Where did they go from here?</a></p>
<p>This plugin will show “Readers who viewed this page, also viewedâ€ links on your page. This is similar to Amazon’s product pages which state “Readers who have bought this, also boughtâ€</p>
<p><a href="http://tobias.baethge.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-table-reloaded-english/">WP-Table Reloaded</a></p>
<p>This plugin enables you to create and manage tables in the admin-area of WordPress. You can then show them in your posts, on your pages or in text widgets by using a shortcode.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.watchcount.com/ebay-wordpress-plugin.php">WatchCount.com WordPress Plugin (WCCWPPI)</a></p>
<p>The WatchCount.com WordPress Plugin (WCCWPPI) is a free plugin that allows you to display Most Popular eBay items and auctions in real-time, directly on your blog. You can also display eBay items from any particular seller.</p>
<p><a href="http://deuced.net/shout-stream/">Shout Stream</a></p>
<p>Shout Stream plugin aims to be the bridge of your wordpress and your stream (shoutcast or icecast).</p>";}i:7;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:19:"Matt: Fireside Chat";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=33534";s:4:"link";s:35:"http://ma.tt/2009/12/fireside-chat/";s:11:"description";s:387:"<p>In New York last month <a href="http://interactiondesign.sva.edu/blog/entry/video_matt_mullenweg_fireside_chat/">I did a fireside chat with Liz Danzico at the School of Visual Arts which is now available online</a>. The video features myself, <a href="http://bobulate.com/">Liz Danzico</a>, and the <a href="http://jasonsantamaria.com/">back of Jason Santa Maria&#8217;s head</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:58:36 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:387:"<p>In New York last month <a href="http://interactiondesign.sva.edu/blog/entry/video_matt_mullenweg_fireside_chat/">I did a fireside chat with Liz Danzico at the School of Visual Arts which is now available online</a>. The video features myself, <a href="http://bobulate.com/">Liz Danzico</a>, and the <a href="http://jasonsantamaria.com/">back of Jason Santa Maria&#8217;s head</a>.</p>";}i:8;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:28:"Matt: Veggies are People Too";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=33532";s:4:"link";s:44:"http://ma.tt/2009/12/veggies-are-people-too/";s:11:"description";s:258:"<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/science/22angi.html?_r=1&amp;sudsredirect=true">Another Challenge for Ethical Eating &#8211; Plants Want to Live, Too</a> in NY Times. I eat lots of beef and BBQ because I heard cows have a big carbon impact.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:11:13 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:258:"<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/science/22angi.html?_r=1&amp;sudsredirect=true">Another Challenge for Ethical Eating &#8211; Plants Want to Live, Too</a> in NY Times. I eat lots of beef and BBQ because I heard cows have a big carbon impact.</p>";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:28:"Matt: Christmas Site Updates";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=33530";s:4:"link";s:44:"http://ma.tt/2009/12/christmas-site-updates/";s:11:"description";s:815:"<p>First off, Merry Christmas everybody! I&#8217;ve been doing some tweaking here around ma.tt. The biggest thing you&#8217;ll notice is that I&#8217;ve imported about 12,000 photos from my old Gallery-powered gallery, which was broken since I upgraded to PHP5, into core WordPress, <a href="http://ma.tt/category/imported/">and you can see them under this category</a>. I even managed to bring over people tags and comments from the proprietary system I had written. I feel so much safer now that all this data is in WordPress, I know it&#8217;ll still work in 10 years. I might have to change how &#8220;random&#8221; works, though, to exclude the really old photos, because they can be fairly embarrassing. <img src="http://ma.tt/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:47:29 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:815:"<p>First off, Merry Christmas everybody! I&#8217;ve been doing some tweaking here around ma.tt. The biggest thing you&#8217;ll notice is that I&#8217;ve imported about 12,000 photos from my old Gallery-powered gallery, which was broken since I upgraded to PHP5, into core WordPress, <a href="http://ma.tt/category/imported/">and you can see them under this category</a>. I even managed to bring over people tags and comments from the proprietary system I had written. I feel so much safer now that all this data is in WordPress, I know it&#8217;ll still work in 10 years. I might have to change how &#8220;random&#8221; works, though, to exclude the really old photos, because they can be fairly embarrassing. <img src="http://ma.tt/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:67:"Weblog Tools Collection: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7432";s:4:"link";s:97:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/25/merry-christmas-and-a-happy-new-year-to-all/";s:11:"description";s:683:"<div class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a title="merry christmas by blacklord, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blacklord/2134951313/"><img class=" " title="Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2250/2134951313_7d0f073ac6.jpg" alt="merry christmas" width="300" height="165" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! from Flickr</p></div>
<p>
<h2>We would like to wish all our readers a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the Weblog Tools Collection team and our advertisers.</h2>
<h2>Be safe, have fun and be sure to spread the cheer!</h2>
<p><!-- WSA: rules for context 'post-middle' did not apply --></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:03:40 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:683:"<div class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a title="merry christmas by blacklord, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blacklord/2134951313/"><img class=" " title="Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2250/2134951313_7d0f073ac6.jpg" alt="merry christmas" width="300" height="165" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! from Flickr</p></div>
<p>
<h2>We would like to wish all our readers a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the Weblog Tools Collection team and our advertisers.</h2>
<h2>Be safe, have fun and be sure to spread the cheer!</h2>
<p><!-- WSA: rules for context 'post-middle' did not apply --></p>";}i:11;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:23:"Dev Blog: Setting Scope";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1096";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/setting-scope/";s:11:"description";s:4721:"<p>Merry Christmas! One of the things that was discussed at the core commit team meetup was release scope (and scope creep). Now that 2.9 is out and it&#8217;s time to start thinking about 3.0, we think it would be appropriate to stop and take a breath before diving in, and make a plan in advance. What winds up happening is that during each release cycle a few new features are selected for inclusion, but then right up until feature freeze (and/or beta cycle), people keep adding feature requests, patches for enhancements, and ongoing bug reports. This means each release winds up getting pushed out later than planned, and with so many things going in per release, it becomes harder to catch new bugs.</p>
<p>The as-long-as-we&#8217;re-not-in-freeze-yet model isn&#8217;t working. People wind up waiting months longer for new features they want, like Trash and Image Editing, because we&#8217;re still adding other things and then we need to test them all. If we kept the releases smaller feature-wise, we could push out the new stuff sooner (3 releases per year is the goal) and have more focused beta testing, making the releases themselves better. It&#8217;s hard, because everyone has their pet features and fixes, and if there&#8217;s a patch, why not get it in this release rather than waiting? Sometimes people complain that a patch has been waiting to be committed for weeks or months, but what no one ever seems to bring up is that sometimes patches introduce new bugs, and the more we add at once, the harder it is to keep it all well-tested on various platforms, in different hosting environments, etc. So. What&#8217;s our proposal?</p>
<p>We take a page from the world of project management and we make a project plan <strong>before</strong> we jump into the dev cycle. We let everyone propose features and enhancements, and we choose a limited number to include in 3.0 (in this case we need to be especially stringent, because the merge of WordPress and WordPress MU will automatically mean a lot of work) and set a realistic release date that we stick to. We create a tentative set of features for the next two releases, to be re-evaluated at the beginning of the next cycle, so that people know the community is committed to certain features, as opposed to the vague &#8220;future release&#8221; label we now use for everything not included in the current version. We fix bugs that are reproducible and affect a large number of users before focusing on edge case bugs or bugs that haven&#8217;t been well-described or reproduced. We stop diverting our attention from agreed-upon goals when a &#8220;squeaky wheel&#8221; decides we should all be focused on something else. There are always things that pop up unexpectedly, but we need to do a better job of restraining ourselves when it comes to trying to sneak things into the current release (I include myself in this, of course&#8230;as a UX person I always wish we could do everything all at once!).</p>
<p>As an open source project, we accomplish more when we work together than we do following individual agendas, and we need to keep our project focused on commonly-agreed-upon goals instead of following tangents whenever a community member starts to take us on one, regardless of whether it&#8217;s to follow a cool idea that everyone loves or a suggestion based on a personal agenda, and regardless of whether it&#8217;s a newbie who doesn&#8217;t know any better or a frequent contributor or committer who has a strong opinion and a loud voice (so to speak). The issue here is that it&#8217;s easy to get distracted, so we need to create a structure that will help us keep moving forward instead of getting sidetracked. We need to keep Trac clean for the current dev cycle so that it includes confirmed features and bug reports, and all new feature suggestions go into a different milestone.</p>
<p>We think it&#8217;s at least worth a try. When we re-start the weekly IRC dev chats in 2010, the first meeting will be to talk about the scope of 3.0. When we&#8217;ve got a general agreement about what will be included, we&#8217;ll create the appropriate Trac tickets, and punt tickets for non-3.0 feature requests/enhancements to a future release so we can stay focused. New bug reports will still come in to the current milestone. It&#8217;s going to be hard. There are at least a dozen new features that I feel like we&#8217;ve pushed back multiple times that I&#8217;d like to see in core, but for this experiment, I&#8217;m just going to keep reminding myself, &#8220;You can do that with a plugin!&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/345127">Sound off on the features you would like to see in version 3.0</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:56:38 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:7:"summary";s:4721:"<p>Merry Christmas! One of the things that was discussed at the core commit team meetup was release scope (and scope creep). Now that 2.9 is out and it&#8217;s time to start thinking about 3.0, we think it would be appropriate to stop and take a breath before diving in, and make a plan in advance. What winds up happening is that during each release cycle a few new features are selected for inclusion, but then right up until feature freeze (and/or beta cycle), people keep adding feature requests, patches for enhancements, and ongoing bug reports. This means each release winds up getting pushed out later than planned, and with so many things going in per release, it becomes harder to catch new bugs.</p>
<p>The as-long-as-we&#8217;re-not-in-freeze-yet model isn&#8217;t working. People wind up waiting months longer for new features they want, like Trash and Image Editing, because we&#8217;re still adding other things and then we need to test them all. If we kept the releases smaller feature-wise, we could push out the new stuff sooner (3 releases per year is the goal) and have more focused beta testing, making the releases themselves better. It&#8217;s hard, because everyone has their pet features and fixes, and if there&#8217;s a patch, why not get it in this release rather than waiting? Sometimes people complain that a patch has been waiting to be committed for weeks or months, but what no one ever seems to bring up is that sometimes patches introduce new bugs, and the more we add at once, the harder it is to keep it all well-tested on various platforms, in different hosting environments, etc. So. What&#8217;s our proposal?</p>
<p>We take a page from the world of project management and we make a project plan <strong>before</strong> we jump into the dev cycle. We let everyone propose features and enhancements, and we choose a limited number to include in 3.0 (in this case we need to be especially stringent, because the merge of WordPress and WordPress MU will automatically mean a lot of work) and set a realistic release date that we stick to. We create a tentative set of features for the next two releases, to be re-evaluated at the beginning of the next cycle, so that people know the community is committed to certain features, as opposed to the vague &#8220;future release&#8221; label we now use for everything not included in the current version. We fix bugs that are reproducible and affect a large number of users before focusing on edge case bugs or bugs that haven&#8217;t been well-described or reproduced. We stop diverting our attention from agreed-upon goals when a &#8220;squeaky wheel&#8221; decides we should all be focused on something else. There are always things that pop up unexpectedly, but we need to do a better job of restraining ourselves when it comes to trying to sneak things into the current release (I include myself in this, of course&#8230;as a UX person I always wish we could do everything all at once!).</p>
<p>As an open source project, we accomplish more when we work together than we do following individual agendas, and we need to keep our project focused on commonly-agreed-upon goals instead of following tangents whenever a community member starts to take us on one, regardless of whether it&#8217;s to follow a cool idea that everyone loves or a suggestion based on a personal agenda, and regardless of whether it&#8217;s a newbie who doesn&#8217;t know any better or a frequent contributor or committer who has a strong opinion and a loud voice (so to speak). The issue here is that it&#8217;s easy to get distracted, so we need to create a structure that will help us keep moving forward instead of getting sidetracked. We need to keep Trac clean for the current dev cycle so that it includes confirmed features and bug reports, and all new feature suggestions go into a different milestone.</p>
<p>We think it&#8217;s at least worth a try. When we re-start the weekly IRC dev chats in 2010, the first meeting will be to talk about the scope of 3.0. When we&#8217;ve got a general agreement about what will be included, we&#8217;ll create the appropriate Trac tickets, and punt tickets for non-3.0 feature requests/enhancements to a future release so we can stay focused. New bug reports will still come in to the current milestone. It&#8217;s going to be hard. There are at least a dozen new features that I feel like we&#8217;ve pushed back multiple times that I&#8217;d like to see in core, but for this experiment, I&#8217;m just going to keep reminding myself, &#8220;You can do that with a plugin!&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/345127">Sound off on the features you would like to see in version 3.0</a>.</p>";}i:12;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 12/24";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7430";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/24/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1224/";s:11:"description";s:3075:"<h4><a href="http://dpxmag.com/blutheme-a-free-premium-wordpress-theme.html">blutheme</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://dpxmag.com/blutheme/"><img title="blutheme" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/blutheme.png" alt="blutheme" width="191" height="98" /></a></p>
<p>Feature rich theme with support for thumbnails, feedburner, twitter, widgets and gravatars</p>
<h4><a href="http://trevorfitzgerald.com/crispp-wordpress-theme/">Crispp</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://crispp.dev.trevorfitzgerald.com/"><img title="Crispp" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Crispp.png" alt="Crispp" width="191" height="143" /></a></p>
<p>Crispp is a minimal theme with clean lines that lets visitors focus on your content. A separate administrative section allows you to change the color scheme however you like. The theme is very flexible</p>
<h4><a href="http://slackrthemes.com/2009/free-wordpress-theme-insanitious/">Insanitious</a></h4>
<p><img title="insanitious" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/insanitious.jpg" alt="insanitious" width="191" height="115" /></p>
<p>Fluid width two-column theme with widgetized sidebar, gravatar and comment ready</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.blogging-inside.de/2009/12/dusty-city-theme-fuer-wordpress-drupal-und-joomla/">Dusty City</a></h4>
<p><img title="DustyCity" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/DustyCity.jpg" alt="DustyCity" width="191" height="115" /></p>
<p>Dusty City is a WordPress Theme with 5 Sidebar / Widget positions. One below the navigation, one left and right, one between them, and one at the bottom. If you combine the Theme with the <a href="http://alkivia.org/wordpress/sideposts">Side Posts Plugin</a>, you will have a great flexible Magazine Theme. There is also an Option Page to populate the Footer. <em>Page in German</em></p>
<h4><a href="http://www.blogging-inside.de/2009/12/kostenloses-santa-theme-fuer-wordpress-joomla-und-drupal/">Santa</a></h4>
<p><img title="SantaTheme" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/SantaTheme.jpg" alt="SantaTheme" width="191" height="143" /></p>
<p>SantaTheme is a WordPress Theme for Christmas with one Sidebar, and one Footerbar for Ads or whatever Widget you want to place there. There is also an Option Page to populate the Footer of the Blog.</p>
<h4><a href="http://matthewlyle.com/wordpress-themes/elegant-blog/">Elegant Blog</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://matthewlyle.com/demo/?theme=elegant-blog"><img title="Elegant Blog" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ElegantBlog.jpg" alt="Elegant Blog" width="191" height="176" /></a></p>
<p>Elegant Blog is meant to be a go-to theme for a content driven site, that aims to eliminate the need for some common plugins and be good to go right out of the box. There&#8217;s 7 colour schemes available to choose from and an easy to edit css file to add custom colours. There&#8217;s also built-in support for Twitter, various social bookmarking sites, and Google Analytics.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:20:22 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:3075:"<h4><a href="http://dpxmag.com/blutheme-a-free-premium-wordpress-theme.html">blutheme</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://dpxmag.com/blutheme/"><img title="blutheme" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/blutheme.png" alt="blutheme" width="191" height="98" /></a></p>
<p>Feature rich theme with support for thumbnails, feedburner, twitter, widgets and gravatars</p>
<h4><a href="http://trevorfitzgerald.com/crispp-wordpress-theme/">Crispp</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://crispp.dev.trevorfitzgerald.com/"><img title="Crispp" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Crispp.png" alt="Crispp" width="191" height="143" /></a></p>
<p>Crispp is a minimal theme with clean lines that lets visitors focus on your content. A separate administrative section allows you to change the color scheme however you like. The theme is very flexible</p>
<h4><a href="http://slackrthemes.com/2009/free-wordpress-theme-insanitious/">Insanitious</a></h4>
<p><img title="insanitious" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/insanitious.jpg" alt="insanitious" width="191" height="115" /></p>
<p>Fluid width two-column theme with widgetized sidebar, gravatar and comment ready</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.blogging-inside.de/2009/12/dusty-city-theme-fuer-wordpress-drupal-und-joomla/">Dusty City</a></h4>
<p><img title="DustyCity" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/DustyCity.jpg" alt="DustyCity" width="191" height="115" /></p>
<p>Dusty City is a WordPress Theme with 5 Sidebar / Widget positions. One below the navigation, one left and right, one between them, and one at the bottom. If you combine the Theme with the <a href="http://alkivia.org/wordpress/sideposts">Side Posts Plugin</a>, you will have a great flexible Magazine Theme. There is also an Option Page to populate the Footer. <em>Page in German</em></p>
<h4><a href="http://www.blogging-inside.de/2009/12/kostenloses-santa-theme-fuer-wordpress-joomla-und-drupal/">Santa</a></h4>
<p><img title="SantaTheme" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/SantaTheme.jpg" alt="SantaTheme" width="191" height="143" /></p>
<p>SantaTheme is a WordPress Theme for Christmas with one Sidebar, and one Footerbar for Ads or whatever Widget you want to place there. There is also an Option Page to populate the Footer of the Blog.</p>
<h4><a href="http://matthewlyle.com/wordpress-themes/elegant-blog/">Elegant Blog</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://matthewlyle.com/demo/?theme=elegant-blog"><img title="Elegant Blog" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ElegantBlog.jpg" alt="Elegant Blog" width="191" height="176" /></a></p>
<p>Elegant Blog is meant to be a go-to theme for a content driven site, that aims to eliminate the need for some common plugins and be good to go right out of the box. There&#8217;s 7 colour schemes available to choose from and an easy to edit css file to add custom colours. There&#8217;s also built-in support for Twitter, various social bookmarking sites, and Google Analytics.</p>";}i:13;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:85:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress 2.9.1 Beta 1 Released, Fixes Bugs in WordPress 2.9";s:4:"guid";s:115:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/23/wordpress-2-9-1-beta-1-released-fixes-bugs-in-wordpress-2-9-2/";s:4:"link";s:115:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/23/wordpress-2-9-1-beta-1-released-fixes-bugs-in-wordpress-2-9-2/";s:11:"description";s:1028:"<p>A few days back, Jeff had told you about <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/22/2-9-1-around-the-corner/" target="_blank">WordPress 2.9.1 being around the corner</a>. The WordPress team has worked hard to get it out of the doors and a <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9-1-beta-1/" target="_blank">beta version of WordPress 2.9.1</a> is now available for downloads. It fixes bugs with scheduled posts and pingbacks which some users had been facing, due to a bug in curl.</p>
<p>The new version is not immediately available for downloads through the automatic upgrade, however you can download the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/" target="_blank">WordPress Beta tester plugin</a> and go to Tools-&gt;Upgrade and perform an automatic upgrade.</p>
<p>Please remember that this is not the final WordPress 2.9.1 release, so you might want to wait for another day or two for a stable release, if you are not comfortable using beta versions.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:36:52 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:1028:"<p>A few days back, Jeff had told you about <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/22/2-9-1-around-the-corner/" target="_blank">WordPress 2.9.1 being around the corner</a>. The WordPress team has worked hard to get it out of the doors and a <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9-1-beta-1/" target="_blank">beta version of WordPress 2.9.1</a> is now available for downloads. It fixes bugs with scheduled posts and pingbacks which some users had been facing, due to a bug in curl.</p>
<p>The new version is not immediately available for downloads through the automatic upgrade, however you can download the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/" target="_blank">WordPress Beta tester plugin</a> and go to Tools-&gt;Upgrade and perform an automatic upgrade.</p>
<p>Please remember that this is not the final WordPress 2.9.1 release, so you might want to wait for another day or two for a stable release, if you are not comfortable using beta versions.</p>";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:62:"Weblog Tools Collection: Trend For 2010 – Paying For Plugins";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7416";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/23/trend-for-2010-paying-for-plugins/";s:11:"description";s:3053:"<p>While paying for plugins is nothing new, I&#8217;m predicting that by the end of 2010, there will be a large assortment of plugins for WordPress that will be available for purchase. As we wind down 2009, I&#8217;m already beginning to see the trend in action with at least 3 of my 31 installed plugins switching to a paid model. Each person is doing something a little different but the end result is the same. I have to pay to keep using it.</p>
<p>Now I don&#8217;t particularly have a problem with plugin authors charging for support or for services around the plugin but I&#8217;m seeing the plugin being bundled as part of the purchase. So in a way, you&#8217;re not only paying for the plugin, you&#8217;re paying for access to support. In most cases, the free plugin becomes dormant and I&#8217;m forced to either stick with what works until a version of WordPress is released which breaks the plugin or I pony up the cash to receive upgrades. Shopp, GravityForms and now Ajax Edit Comments each have their own repository server that enables customers to receive upgrades. This is all part of the deal.</p>
<p>I remember a post a year or so ago asking people what would they pay for that they currently did&#8217;nt have to. WordPress was one of the things people would pay for if it had a price tag. My question is slightly different. What if every plugin you use on your site requires you to pay money before you get access to upgrades, support, etc? Personally, I don&#8217;t mind paying for great work and I can part with my cash for three or five plugins but not for 31. </p>
<p>Not to put down the work of those making a business out of their plugin but something to keep in mind is that as it stands, plugins hosted in the WordPress.org plugin repository contain no price tags. However, some of them do have links, wording, and such to up-sell services or the pro version of the plugin. I don&#8217;t have a problem with that as long as the slimmed down version is not crippled to the point where it doesn&#8217;t make sense to use the lower end version.</p>
<p>If the authors of the plugins I use on my own site all decided to ditch the free version in favor of a paid model in order to help them make a living, that is their decision to make. However, one of the greatest assets of the WordPress plugin world is that there is an abundant amount of choices for most tasks. Some better than others.</p>
<p>My hope is that the WordPress plugin repository will continue to be free of pay-for plugins. This will insure that I will always have a place to browse an assortment of free alternatives. If the plugin repository were to ever allow commercial plugins to be listed alongside free ones, I&#8217;m thinking that the commercial choices would far outweigh the free ones. I really don&#8217;t want to go down the road I traveled with Joomla where anytime I wanted to have cool functionality added to my site, I had to pay for it. </p>
<p>Is this a trend you also see in 2010 or do you see something else? Any thoughts on the matter?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:10:45 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:3053:"<p>While paying for plugins is nothing new, I&#8217;m predicting that by the end of 2010, there will be a large assortment of plugins for WordPress that will be available for purchase. As we wind down 2009, I&#8217;m already beginning to see the trend in action with at least 3 of my 31 installed plugins switching to a paid model. Each person is doing something a little different but the end result is the same. I have to pay to keep using it.</p>
<p>Now I don&#8217;t particularly have a problem with plugin authors charging for support or for services around the plugin but I&#8217;m seeing the plugin being bundled as part of the purchase. So in a way, you&#8217;re not only paying for the plugin, you&#8217;re paying for access to support. In most cases, the free plugin becomes dormant and I&#8217;m forced to either stick with what works until a version of WordPress is released which breaks the plugin or I pony up the cash to receive upgrades. Shopp, GravityForms and now Ajax Edit Comments each have their own repository server that enables customers to receive upgrades. This is all part of the deal.</p>
<p>I remember a post a year or so ago asking people what would they pay for that they currently did&#8217;nt have to. WordPress was one of the things people would pay for if it had a price tag. My question is slightly different. What if every plugin you use on your site requires you to pay money before you get access to upgrades, support, etc? Personally, I don&#8217;t mind paying for great work and I can part with my cash for three or five plugins but not for 31. </p>
<p>Not to put down the work of those making a business out of their plugin but something to keep in mind is that as it stands, plugins hosted in the WordPress.org plugin repository contain no price tags. However, some of them do have links, wording, and such to up-sell services or the pro version of the plugin. I don&#8217;t have a problem with that as long as the slimmed down version is not crippled to the point where it doesn&#8217;t make sense to use the lower end version.</p>
<p>If the authors of the plugins I use on my own site all decided to ditch the free version in favor of a paid model in order to help them make a living, that is their decision to make. However, one of the greatest assets of the WordPress plugin world is that there is an abundant amount of choices for most tasks. Some better than others.</p>
<p>My hope is that the WordPress plugin repository will continue to be free of pay-for plugins. This will insure that I will always have a place to browse an assortment of free alternatives. If the plugin repository were to ever allow commercial plugins to be listed alongside free ones, I&#8217;m thinking that the commercial choices would far outweigh the free ones. I really don&#8217;t want to go down the road I traveled with Joomla where anytime I wanted to have cool functionality added to my site, I had to pay for it. </p>
<p>Is this a trend you also see in 2010 or do you see something else? Any thoughts on the matter?</p>";}i:15;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:29:"Matt: Everything is a Project";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=16182";s:4:"link";s:45:"http://ma.tt/2009/12/everything-is-a-project/";s:11:"description";s:135:"<p><a href="http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2009/everything-is-a-project/">Everything is a project, even this</a>, by Scott Berkun.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:29:10 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:135:"<p><a href="http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2009/everything-is-a-project/">Everything is a project, even this</a>, by Scott Berkun.</p>";}i:16;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:26:"bbPress: 2009-12-23 Meetup";s:4:"guid";s:25:"http://bbpress.org/?p=302";s:4:"link";s:50:"http://bbpress.org/blog/2009/12/2009-12-23-meetup/";s:11:"description";s:14141:"<p>What, just because it&#8217;s two days before Christmas we can&#8217;t rock the bbPress? In summary: anonymous comments from filosofo and email from photomatt (me) on deck, bug fixes to make things sing, PeteMall will be directly committing fixes, and hajii will be bug gardening.</p>
<p>Meetup log after the jump:</p>
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<p>[13:01] &lt;photomatt&gt;  &lt;meetup&gt;<br />
[13:02] &lt;photomatt&gt; merry christmas everyone <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:02] &lt;filosofo&gt; merry Christmas, photomatt <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:02] &lt;photomatt&gt; what is everyone up to these holidays?<br />
[13:03] &lt;hajii&gt; workin <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:03] &lt;filosofo&gt; Visiting the in-laws<br />
[13:03] &lt;filosofo&gt; photomatt, didn&#8217;t you write bbPress over Christmas?  If I&#8217;m remembering correctly.<br />
[13:04] &lt;photomatt&gt; yep, 4 years ago?<br />
[13:04] &lt;photomatt&gt; 5?<br />
[13:04] &lt;photomatt&gt; I was young and foolish<br />
[13:05] &lt;hajii&gt; young-ER<br />
[13:05] &lt;photomatt&gt; ha <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:05] &lt;hajii&gt; anything on the agenda this week?<br />
[13:06] &lt;photomatt&gt; I cut my teeth yesterday, silly fix<br />
[13:06] &lt;photomatt&gt; some error notification stuff with 5.3<br />
[13:07] &lt;photomatt&gt; so now you don&#8217;t see a page of white errors when trying to install<br />
[13:07] &lt;photomatt&gt; but on the bright side I got my bbpress env all up and kicking<br />
[13:08] &lt;filosofo&gt; So what&#8217;s the roadmap for bbPress development?  How can we get things moving?<br />
[13:09] &lt;filosofo&gt; For example, should we start tackling the conversion to wp canonical plugin?<br />
[13:09] &lt;photomatt&gt; my todo for the holiday is 1 thing: email notification<br />
[13:10] &lt;filosofo&gt; There&#8217;s a plugin already for that, right?<br />
[13:10] &lt;filosofo&gt; Can you just roll in the code?<br />
[13:10] &lt;westi|gone&gt; howdy all<br />
[13:11] * westi|gone is now known as westi<br />
[13:11] &lt;filosofo&gt; hello westi <br />
[13:11] &lt;photomatt&gt; filosofo: buddypress has a pretty good integration method already<br />
[13:11] &lt;photomatt&gt; filosofo: do you have a fav plugin for it? could just roll in code<br />
[13:11] &lt;westi&gt; photomatt: did you see my note regarding your first 5.3 related change &#8211; I think you might have broken the PHP4 compat of the code before you had the right error hiding<br />
[13:12] &lt;filosofo&gt; photomatt, I haven&#8217;t used email notification on bbPress, I just know of the plugin[s]&#8216; existence.<br />
[13:13] &lt;hajii&gt; What is 5.3, the PHP Version 5.3 where people where getting warnings?<br />
[13:13] &lt;hajii&gt; -h<br />
[13:13] &lt;westi&gt; hajii: yes PHP 5.3<br />
[13:13] &lt;photomatt&gt; westi: yes, the glotpress and backpress changes?<br />
[13:13] &lt;photomatt&gt; I shall fix those<br />
[13:13] &lt;westi&gt; photomatt: yes those<br />
[13:14] &lt;hajii&gt; Can I propose a plan of attack?<br />
[13:14] &lt;westi&gt; my tentacles don&#8217;t stretch far enough to revert them <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:14] &lt;filosofo&gt; photomatt, what are your thoughts about buddyPress / bbPress integration?  Are you thinking of doing that instead of making bbPress a canonical plugin?<br />
[13:14] &lt;photomatt&gt; they&#8217;re not mutually exclusive<br />
[13:15] &lt;photomatt&gt; have you tried out the buddypress integration? I didn&#8217;t realize it had gotten as good as it has<br />
[13:16] &lt;filosofo&gt; What makes it different from a non-BuddyPress WP/bbPress integration?<br />
[13:16] &lt;photomatt&gt; they basically embed/bundle the whole thing<br />
[13:19] &lt;photomatt&gt; I&#8217;m pretty chill about 1.1 specifically, I think it can be a feature or two, and a cleanup of trac<br />
[13:19] &lt;PeteMall&gt; ok I&#8217;m late<br />
[13:19] &lt;photomatt&gt; I guess I&#8217;m a little scared of the plugin-thing so I&#8217;m procrastinating <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:19] &lt;hajii&gt; I vote no new features, fix what is included first<br />
[13:19] &lt;hajii&gt; maybe it&#8217;s 1.0.4 (or 3 or whatever we&#8217;re at)<br />
[13:20] &lt;hajii&gt; hpguru opened a bunch of trac tickets recently pointing out things that are included that just don&#8217;t work correctly<br />
[13:20] &lt;filosofo&gt; I was thinking bbPress as plugin integration would mean, e.g., using WP custom post types, or the like, instead of bbPress&#8217;s separate table structure.<br />
[13:20] &lt;filosofo&gt; Or maybe like P2<br />
[13:21] &lt;filosofo&gt; bbPress "posts" as WP comments on "forum" WP posts<br />
[13:22] &lt;photomatt&gt; hajii: links? which do you think are the most important?<br />
[13:23] &lt;photomatt&gt; I&#8217;m down with "no new features before bugs" in principle<br />
[13:23] &lt;PeteMall&gt; photomatt: r u the only one committing to trac now?<br />
[13:23] &lt;PeteMall&gt; I&#8217;m gonna work on a few tickets this week<br />
[13:24] &lt;PeteMall&gt; christmas shutdown is good for open source projects<br />
[13:24] &lt;photomatt&gt; yep <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:24] &lt;photomatt&gt; if you&#8217;ve got some stuff you want to knock out I can give you SVN access too<br />
[13:24] &lt;photomatt&gt; it&#8217;s easy peasy right now<br />
[13:24] &lt;PeteMall&gt; that would be nice<br />
[13:25] &lt;filosofo&gt; Regarding bbPress / WP integration, it would be nice to be able to use WP template functions for bbPress.<br />
[13:25] &lt;PeteMall&gt; photomatt: u manage mullenweg.com right?<br />
[13:25] &lt;filosofo&gt; I don&#8217;t think you can do that with the buddyPress stuff, right?<br />
[13:25] * Salt is now known as Salt|afk<br />
[13:25] &lt;photomatt&gt; yep<br />
[13:25] &lt;PeteMall&gt; pm<br />
[13:26] &lt;hajii&gt; for the record, I think the "<br />
[13:26] * Thomas_Clausen (n=Ejer@1010ds1-rdo.0.fullrate.dk) has joined #bbpress<br />
[13:26] &lt;hajii&gt; feature poll" was a bad idea.<br />
[13:26] &lt;hajii&gt; open a can of worms<br />
[13:26] &lt;hajii&gt; bug free == feature<br />
[13:27] &lt;filosofo&gt; hajii, asking for suggestions isn&#8217;t the same as taking them <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:27] &lt;photomatt&gt; exactly<br />
[13:27] &lt;photomatt&gt; and perhaps we&#8217;re religious on a few things, I&#8217;m pretty anti-bbcode, for example<br />
[13:27] &lt;hajii&gt; that&#8217;s true.  But it&#8217;s also demoralizing to some people to give feedback and then never see it go anywhere<br />
[13:27] &lt;PeteMall&gt; lol<br />
[13:27] &lt;hajii&gt; not me, for example<br />
[13:28] &lt;hajii&gt; but, people will EXPECT after submitting their suggestion in a feature poll<br />
[13:28] &lt;PeteMall&gt; so whats the long term plan wrt to close wp integration as filosofo has been talking about<br />
[13:28] &lt;photomatt&gt; hajii: I tried to make it clear it was feedback-oriented, not necessarily a edict<br />
[13:28] &lt;filosofo&gt; hajii, same thing with http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/<br />
[13:28] &lt;photomatt&gt; speaking of that though, I was really surprised by "anonymous posting"<br />
[13:29] &lt;photomatt&gt; what exactly does that mean?<br />
[13:29] &lt;filosofo&gt; you don&#8217;t have to log in, like wp comments<br />
[13:29] &lt;photomatt&gt; I mean I know, but I don&#8217;t understand the why I guess<br />
[13:29] &lt;hajii&gt; some people feel  that asking people to log in is a barrier to participation<br />
[13:29] &lt;filosofo&gt; why do you see it as different from WP comments?<br />
[13:30] &lt;hajii&gt; some people feel facebook connect will also remove a barrier to participation<br />
[13:30] &lt;filosofo&gt; You don&#8217;t require commenters to log into ma.tt to comment, for example<br />
[13:30] &lt;PeteMall&gt; alter egos of forum members<br />
[13:30] &lt;photomatt&gt; interesting &#8212; that wouldn&#8217;t be too hard<br />
[13:30] &lt;photomatt&gt; we&#8217;ll need better anti-spam and moderation though<br />
[13:30] &lt;filosofo&gt; I have a bbPress plugin for "anonymous comments" that&#8217;s 98% done<br />
[13:30] &lt;hajii&gt; that is/was a plugin as well, anonymous posting<br />
[13:31] &lt;photomatt&gt; filosofo: could you put it as a patch on trac?<br />
[13:31] &lt;filosofo&gt; sure<br />
[13:31] &lt;hajii&gt; better moderation (forum specific) is the oldest ticket on trac, I think <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":-D" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:31] &lt;hajii&gt; one of the two oldest anyway<br />
[13:31] &lt;photomatt&gt; hajii: I&#8217;m a big believer in moderation &#8212; it&#8217;s my fav feature in WP<br />
[13:34] &lt;photomatt&gt; did my connection drop?<br />
[13:34] &lt;filosofo&gt; photomatt, for future reference, what&#8217;s the best way to get your attention for a trac ticket?<br />
02[13:34] * tewwy_ (n=tychay@208.80.69.102) Quit<br />
[13:35] &lt;filosofo&gt; since you&#8217;re the committer <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:35] &lt;PeteMall&gt; everyone got quiet =)<br />
[13:35] &lt;photomatt&gt; filosofo: skype, actually<br />
[13:35] &lt;photomatt&gt; saxmatt02 is me on skype<br />
[13:36] &lt;filosofo&gt; So you don&#8217;t mind if I ping you about a patch on skype?<br />
[13:36] &lt;photomatt&gt; for bbpress, not at all<br />
[13:36] &lt;filosofo&gt; ok, cool<br />
[13:38] &lt;PeteMall&gt; anything else on the agenda for today?<br />
[13:38] &lt;photomatt&gt; so it sounds like we have email notif and filosofo&#8217;s anon comments on deck<br />
[13:38] &lt;photomatt&gt; hajii and PeteMall are into bugs, and we&#8217;ll go through trac<br />
[13:39] &lt;hajii&gt; do you want me to do anything specific for those bugs in trac that currently exist?<br />
[13:39] &lt;photomatt&gt; PeteMall has asked for direct SVN access<br />
[13:39] &lt;Thomas_Clausen&gt; @PeteMall I&#8217;ll like to throw something in there!<br />
[13:40] &lt;Thomas_Clausen&gt; Will porting posibilities from other forumsoftware be a concern in future releases of bbPress?<br />
[13:40] &lt;photomatt&gt; PeteMall: the main rule is to put everything possible through trac, post patches there, get feedback and review<br />
[13:40] &lt;PeteMall&gt; yup<br />
[13:41] &lt;photomatt&gt; but in trunk we can be loosey goosey a little bit, the beautiful thing about SVN is it&#8217;s easy to roll back<br />
[13:41] &lt;photomatt&gt; oh! and coding style<br />
[13:41] &lt;photomatt&gt; http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Coding_Standards<br />
[13:41] &lt;PeteMall&gt; I&#8217;ve been meaning to talk about that<br />
[13:42] &lt;PeteMall&gt; stick to the coding standards&#8230; remember &#8211; code is poetry<br />
[13:42] &lt;hajii&gt; Wait, what was the slogan from 2weeks ago?  We suck a little less with each release?<br />
[13:43] &lt;filosofo&gt; Not sucking is the goal of all great poets. <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:43] &lt;photomatt&gt; <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:44] &lt;photomatt&gt; hajii: in trac I&#8217;d say most helpful is verifying bugs<br />
[13:44] &lt;photomatt&gt; testing patches<br />
[13:45] &lt;photomatt&gt; setting priorities and milestones<br />
[13:45] &lt;photomatt&gt; being nice to new people that drop by, helping mentor them through getting a patch or idea in the right place<br />
[13:46] &lt;photomatt&gt; generally what we call bug gardening in WP, though that is a weird term<br />
[13:46] &lt;photomatt&gt; when you think about it<br />
[13:47] &lt;hajii&gt; tending to the bugs, lovingly<br />
[13:47] &lt;PeteMall&gt; yea&#8230; helping them grow. nurturing<br />
[13:47] &lt;photomatt&gt; I like tummelling<br />
[13:47] &lt;photomatt&gt; http://indexmb.com/tummling-have-you-heard-of-it/<br />
[13:47] &lt;hajii&gt; like the dude who raised the moths in  the silence of the lambs, kept them warm, fed them, gave them love<br />
[13:48] &lt;hajii&gt; Death&#8217;s Head Moth<br />
[13:48] &lt;hajii&gt; <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:49] &lt;filosofo&gt; well, on that note&#8230; <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:50] &lt;photomatt&gt; haha yes<br />
[13:50] &lt;hajii&gt; heh<br />
[13:50] &lt;photomatt&gt; that&#8217;s a good ending point, unless someone else has anything they want to raise<br />
[13:50] &lt;hajii&gt; nope, I will focux on bugs<br />
[13:50] &lt;hajii&gt; in trac<br />
[13:50] * Guest3427 is now known as Nightgunner5<br />
[13:51] &lt;photomatt&gt; well thank you everybody<br />
[13:51] &lt;PeteMall&gt; &amp;lt;/meetup<br />
[13:51] &lt;PeteMall&gt; <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:52] &lt;PeteMall&gt; missed the other side<br />
[13:52] &lt;photomatt&gt; man the way mirc stores logs is annoying <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:52] &lt;PeteMall&gt; &amp;lt;&amp;#47meetup&amp;gt;</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:10:35 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:14141:"<p>What, just because it&#8217;s two days before Christmas we can&#8217;t rock the bbPress? In summary: anonymous comments from filosofo and email from photomatt (me) on deck, bug fixes to make things sing, PeteMall will be directly committing fixes, and hajii will be bug gardening.</p>
<p>Meetup log after the jump:</p>
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<p>[13:01] &lt;photomatt&gt;  &lt;meetup&gt;<br />
[13:02] &lt;photomatt&gt; merry christmas everyone <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:02] &lt;filosofo&gt; merry Christmas, photomatt <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:02] &lt;photomatt&gt; what is everyone up to these holidays?<br />
[13:03] &lt;hajii&gt; workin <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:03] &lt;filosofo&gt; Visiting the in-laws<br />
[13:03] &lt;filosofo&gt; photomatt, didn&#8217;t you write bbPress over Christmas?  If I&#8217;m remembering correctly.<br />
[13:04] &lt;photomatt&gt; yep, 4 years ago?<br />
[13:04] &lt;photomatt&gt; 5?<br />
[13:04] &lt;photomatt&gt; I was young and foolish<br />
[13:05] &lt;hajii&gt; young-ER<br />
[13:05] &lt;photomatt&gt; ha <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:05] &lt;hajii&gt; anything on the agenda this week?<br />
[13:06] &lt;photomatt&gt; I cut my teeth yesterday, silly fix<br />
[13:06] &lt;photomatt&gt; some error notification stuff with 5.3<br />
[13:07] &lt;photomatt&gt; so now you don&#8217;t see a page of white errors when trying to install<br />
[13:07] &lt;photomatt&gt; but on the bright side I got my bbpress env all up and kicking<br />
[13:08] &lt;filosofo&gt; So what&#8217;s the roadmap for bbPress development?  How can we get things moving?<br />
[13:09] &lt;filosofo&gt; For example, should we start tackling the conversion to wp canonical plugin?<br />
[13:09] &lt;photomatt&gt; my todo for the holiday is 1 thing: email notification<br />
[13:10] &lt;filosofo&gt; There&#8217;s a plugin already for that, right?<br />
[13:10] &lt;filosofo&gt; Can you just roll in the code?<br />
[13:10] &lt;westi|gone&gt; howdy all<br />
[13:11] * westi|gone is now known as westi<br />
[13:11] &lt;filosofo&gt; hello westi <br />
[13:11] &lt;photomatt&gt; filosofo: buddypress has a pretty good integration method already<br />
[13:11] &lt;photomatt&gt; filosofo: do you have a fav plugin for it? could just roll in code<br />
[13:11] &lt;westi&gt; photomatt: did you see my note regarding your first 5.3 related change &#8211; I think you might have broken the PHP4 compat of the code before you had the right error hiding<br />
[13:12] &lt;filosofo&gt; photomatt, I haven&#8217;t used email notification on bbPress, I just know of the plugin[s]&#8216; existence.<br />
[13:13] &lt;hajii&gt; What is 5.3, the PHP Version 5.3 where people where getting warnings?<br />
[13:13] &lt;hajii&gt; -h<br />
[13:13] &lt;westi&gt; hajii: yes PHP 5.3<br />
[13:13] &lt;photomatt&gt; westi: yes, the glotpress and backpress changes?<br />
[13:13] &lt;photomatt&gt; I shall fix those<br />
[13:13] &lt;westi&gt; photomatt: yes those<br />
[13:14] &lt;hajii&gt; Can I propose a plan of attack?<br />
[13:14] &lt;westi&gt; my tentacles don&#8217;t stretch far enough to revert them <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:14] &lt;filosofo&gt; photomatt, what are your thoughts about buddyPress / bbPress integration?  Are you thinking of doing that instead of making bbPress a canonical plugin?<br />
[13:14] &lt;photomatt&gt; they&#8217;re not mutually exclusive<br />
[13:15] &lt;photomatt&gt; have you tried out the buddypress integration? I didn&#8217;t realize it had gotten as good as it has<br />
[13:16] &lt;filosofo&gt; What makes it different from a non-BuddyPress WP/bbPress integration?<br />
[13:16] &lt;photomatt&gt; they basically embed/bundle the whole thing<br />
[13:19] &lt;photomatt&gt; I&#8217;m pretty chill about 1.1 specifically, I think it can be a feature or two, and a cleanup of trac<br />
[13:19] &lt;PeteMall&gt; ok I&#8217;m late<br />
[13:19] &lt;photomatt&gt; I guess I&#8217;m a little scared of the plugin-thing so I&#8217;m procrastinating <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:19] &lt;hajii&gt; I vote no new features, fix what is included first<br />
[13:19] &lt;hajii&gt; maybe it&#8217;s 1.0.4 (or 3 or whatever we&#8217;re at)<br />
[13:20] &lt;hajii&gt; hpguru opened a bunch of trac tickets recently pointing out things that are included that just don&#8217;t work correctly<br />
[13:20] &lt;filosofo&gt; I was thinking bbPress as plugin integration would mean, e.g., using WP custom post types, or the like, instead of bbPress&#8217;s separate table structure.<br />
[13:20] &lt;filosofo&gt; Or maybe like P2<br />
[13:21] &lt;filosofo&gt; bbPress "posts" as WP comments on "forum" WP posts<br />
[13:22] &lt;photomatt&gt; hajii: links? which do you think are the most important?<br />
[13:23] &lt;photomatt&gt; I&#8217;m down with "no new features before bugs" in principle<br />
[13:23] &lt;PeteMall&gt; photomatt: r u the only one committing to trac now?<br />
[13:23] &lt;PeteMall&gt; I&#8217;m gonna work on a few tickets this week<br />
[13:24] &lt;PeteMall&gt; christmas shutdown is good for open source projects<br />
[13:24] &lt;photomatt&gt; yep <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:24] &lt;photomatt&gt; if you&#8217;ve got some stuff you want to knock out I can give you SVN access too<br />
[13:24] &lt;photomatt&gt; it&#8217;s easy peasy right now<br />
[13:24] &lt;PeteMall&gt; that would be nice<br />
[13:25] &lt;filosofo&gt; Regarding bbPress / WP integration, it would be nice to be able to use WP template functions for bbPress.<br />
[13:25] &lt;PeteMall&gt; photomatt: u manage mullenweg.com right?<br />
[13:25] &lt;filosofo&gt; I don&#8217;t think you can do that with the buddyPress stuff, right?<br />
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[13:25] &lt;photomatt&gt; yep<br />
[13:25] &lt;PeteMall&gt; pm<br />
[13:26] &lt;hajii&gt; for the record, I think the "<br />
[13:26] * Thomas_Clausen (n=Ejer@1010ds1-rdo.0.fullrate.dk) has joined #bbpress<br />
[13:26] &lt;hajii&gt; feature poll" was a bad idea.<br />
[13:26] &lt;hajii&gt; open a can of worms<br />
[13:26] &lt;hajii&gt; bug free == feature<br />
[13:27] &lt;filosofo&gt; hajii, asking for suggestions isn&#8217;t the same as taking them <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:27] &lt;photomatt&gt; exactly<br />
[13:27] &lt;photomatt&gt; and perhaps we&#8217;re religious on a few things, I&#8217;m pretty anti-bbcode, for example<br />
[13:27] &lt;hajii&gt; that&#8217;s true.  But it&#8217;s also demoralizing to some people to give feedback and then never see it go anywhere<br />
[13:27] &lt;PeteMall&gt; lol<br />
[13:27] &lt;hajii&gt; not me, for example<br />
[13:28] &lt;hajii&gt; but, people will EXPECT after submitting their suggestion in a feature poll<br />
[13:28] &lt;PeteMall&gt; so whats the long term plan wrt to close wp integration as filosofo has been talking about<br />
[13:28] &lt;photomatt&gt; hajii: I tried to make it clear it was feedback-oriented, not necessarily a edict<br />
[13:28] &lt;filosofo&gt; hajii, same thing with http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/<br />
[13:28] &lt;photomatt&gt; speaking of that though, I was really surprised by "anonymous posting"<br />
[13:29] &lt;photomatt&gt; what exactly does that mean?<br />
[13:29] &lt;filosofo&gt; you don&#8217;t have to log in, like wp comments<br />
[13:29] &lt;photomatt&gt; I mean I know, but I don&#8217;t understand the why I guess<br />
[13:29] &lt;hajii&gt; some people feel  that asking people to log in is a barrier to participation<br />
[13:29] &lt;filosofo&gt; why do you see it as different from WP comments?<br />
[13:30] &lt;hajii&gt; some people feel facebook connect will also remove a barrier to participation<br />
[13:30] &lt;filosofo&gt; You don&#8217;t require commenters to log into ma.tt to comment, for example<br />
[13:30] &lt;PeteMall&gt; alter egos of forum members<br />
[13:30] &lt;photomatt&gt; interesting &#8212; that wouldn&#8217;t be too hard<br />
[13:30] &lt;photomatt&gt; we&#8217;ll need better anti-spam and moderation though<br />
[13:30] &lt;filosofo&gt; I have a bbPress plugin for "anonymous comments" that&#8217;s 98% done<br />
[13:30] &lt;hajii&gt; that is/was a plugin as well, anonymous posting<br />
[13:31] &lt;photomatt&gt; filosofo: could you put it as a patch on trac?<br />
[13:31] &lt;filosofo&gt; sure<br />
[13:31] &lt;hajii&gt; better moderation (forum specific) is the oldest ticket on trac, I think <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":-D" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:31] &lt;hajii&gt; one of the two oldest anyway<br />
[13:31] &lt;photomatt&gt; hajii: I&#8217;m a big believer in moderation &#8212; it&#8217;s my fav feature in WP<br />
[13:34] &lt;photomatt&gt; did my connection drop?<br />
[13:34] &lt;filosofo&gt; photomatt, for future reference, what&#8217;s the best way to get your attention for a trac ticket?<br />
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[13:35] &lt;filosofo&gt; since you&#8217;re the committer <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:35] &lt;PeteMall&gt; everyone got quiet =)<br />
[13:35] &lt;photomatt&gt; filosofo: skype, actually<br />
[13:35] &lt;photomatt&gt; saxmatt02 is me on skype<br />
[13:36] &lt;filosofo&gt; So you don&#8217;t mind if I ping you about a patch on skype?<br />
[13:36] &lt;photomatt&gt; for bbpress, not at all<br />
[13:36] &lt;filosofo&gt; ok, cool<br />
[13:38] &lt;PeteMall&gt; anything else on the agenda for today?<br />
[13:38] &lt;photomatt&gt; so it sounds like we have email notif and filosofo&#8217;s anon comments on deck<br />
[13:38] &lt;photomatt&gt; hajii and PeteMall are into bugs, and we&#8217;ll go through trac<br />
[13:39] &lt;hajii&gt; do you want me to do anything specific for those bugs in trac that currently exist?<br />
[13:39] &lt;photomatt&gt; PeteMall has asked for direct SVN access<br />
[13:39] &lt;Thomas_Clausen&gt; @PeteMall I&#8217;ll like to throw something in there!<br />
[13:40] &lt;Thomas_Clausen&gt; Will porting posibilities from other forumsoftware be a concern in future releases of bbPress?<br />
[13:40] &lt;photomatt&gt; PeteMall: the main rule is to put everything possible through trac, post patches there, get feedback and review<br />
[13:40] &lt;PeteMall&gt; yup<br />
[13:41] &lt;photomatt&gt; but in trunk we can be loosey goosey a little bit, the beautiful thing about SVN is it&#8217;s easy to roll back<br />
[13:41] &lt;photomatt&gt; oh! and coding style<br />
[13:41] &lt;photomatt&gt; http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Coding_Standards<br />
[13:41] &lt;PeteMall&gt; I&#8217;ve been meaning to talk about that<br />
[13:42] &lt;PeteMall&gt; stick to the coding standards&#8230; remember &#8211; code is poetry<br />
[13:42] &lt;hajii&gt; Wait, what was the slogan from 2weeks ago?  We suck a little less with each release?<br />
[13:43] &lt;filosofo&gt; Not sucking is the goal of all great poets. <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:43] &lt;photomatt&gt; <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:44] &lt;photomatt&gt; hajii: in trac I&#8217;d say most helpful is verifying bugs<br />
[13:44] &lt;photomatt&gt; testing patches<br />
[13:45] &lt;photomatt&gt; setting priorities and milestones<br />
[13:45] &lt;photomatt&gt; being nice to new people that drop by, helping mentor them through getting a patch or idea in the right place<br />
[13:46] &lt;photomatt&gt; generally what we call bug gardening in WP, though that is a weird term<br />
[13:46] &lt;photomatt&gt; when you think about it<br />
[13:47] &lt;hajii&gt; tending to the bugs, lovingly<br />
[13:47] &lt;PeteMall&gt; yea&#8230; helping them grow. nurturing<br />
[13:47] &lt;photomatt&gt; I like tummelling<br />
[13:47] &lt;photomatt&gt; http://indexmb.com/tummling-have-you-heard-of-it/<br />
[13:47] &lt;hajii&gt; like the dude who raised the moths in  the silence of the lambs, kept them warm, fed them, gave them love<br />
[13:48] &lt;hajii&gt; Death&#8217;s Head Moth<br />
[13:48] &lt;hajii&gt; <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:49] &lt;filosofo&gt; well, on that note&#8230; <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:50] &lt;photomatt&gt; haha yes<br />
[13:50] &lt;hajii&gt; heh<br />
[13:50] &lt;photomatt&gt; that&#8217;s a good ending point, unless someone else has anything they want to raise<br />
[13:50] &lt;hajii&gt; nope, I will focux on bugs<br />
[13:50] &lt;hajii&gt; in trac<br />
[13:50] * Guest3427 is now known as Nightgunner5<br />
[13:51] &lt;photomatt&gt; well thank you everybody<br />
[13:51] &lt;PeteMall&gt; &amp;lt;/meetup<br />
[13:51] &lt;PeteMall&gt; <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:52] &lt;PeteMall&gt; missed the other side<br />
[13:52] &lt;photomatt&gt; man the way mirc stores logs is annoying <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> <br />
[13:52] &lt;PeteMall&gt; &amp;lt;&amp;#47meetup&amp;gt;</p>";}i:17;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:32:"Dev Blog: WordPress 2.9.1 Beta 1";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1098";s:4:"link";s:64:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9-1-beta-1/";s:11:"description";s:1161:"<p>Unfortunately, the recent 2.9 release triggered a bug in certain versions of PHP&#8217;s curl extension.  With these versions of curl, scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly.  To fix this problem as well as a handful of other, lesser issues, we are quickly releasing 2.9.1, the first maintenance release of the 2.9 line.  Help us get 2.9.1 ready to go by testing 2.9.1 Beta 1.  The easiest way to test Beta 1 is to install the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/">WordPress Beta Tester</a> plugin, elect to get on the point release development track, and then perform an automatic upgrade via the Tools-&gt;Upgrade menu.  You can also <a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.9.1-beta1.zip">download the Beta 1 package</a> and install manually.  <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;group=resolution&amp;order=priority&amp;milestone=2.9.1&amp;resolution=fixed">Fourteen tickets</a> have been fixed in 2.9.1 Beta 1.  Since the curl problem and a couple of other problems are dependent on specific hosting configurations, any and all testing help is greatly appreciated.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:58:34 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Ryan Boren";}s:7:"summary";s:1161:"<p>Unfortunately, the recent 2.9 release triggered a bug in certain versions of PHP&#8217;s curl extension.  With these versions of curl, scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly.  To fix this problem as well as a handful of other, lesser issues, we are quickly releasing 2.9.1, the first maintenance release of the 2.9 line.  Help us get 2.9.1 ready to go by testing 2.9.1 Beta 1.  The easiest way to test Beta 1 is to install the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/">WordPress Beta Tester</a> plugin, elect to get on the point release development track, and then perform an automatic upgrade via the Tools-&gt;Upgrade menu.  You can also <a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.9.1-beta1.zip">download the Beta 1 package</a> and install manually.  <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;group=resolution&amp;order=priority&amp;milestone=2.9.1&amp;resolution=fixed">Fourteen tickets</a> have been fixed in 2.9.1 Beta 1.  Since the curl problem and a couple of other problems are dependent on specific hosting configurations, any and all testing help is greatly appreciated.</p>";}i:18;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:25:"Matt: Permanently Deleted";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=16180";s:4:"link";s:41:"http://ma.tt/2009/12/permanently-deleted/";s:11:"description";s:420:"<p>&#8220;The WordPress people, as good as they are, don’t seem to ken why this &#8216;convenient&#8217; and possibly life-saving feature creates repercussions and consequences. Like the Senate, it’s all a game to them.&#8221; <a href="http://www.edrants.com/permanently-deleted/">Permanently Deleted : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits</a>. <cite>Hat tip: <a href="http://joeclark.org/">Joe Clark</a></cite>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:02:05 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:420:"<p>&#8220;The WordPress people, as good as they are, don’t seem to ken why this &#8216;convenient&#8217; and possibly life-saving feature creates repercussions and consequences. Like the Senate, it’s all a game to them.&#8221; <a href="http://www.edrants.com/permanently-deleted/">Permanently Deleted : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits</a>. <cite>Hat tip: <a href="http://joeclark.org/">Joe Clark</a></cite>.</p>";}i:19;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:68:"Weblog Tools Collection: WPhone Admin Plugin Looking For Fresh Blood";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7405";s:4:"link";s:97:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/22/wphone-admin-plugin-looking-for-fresh-blood/";s:11:"description";s:2239:"<p>My name is Doug Stewart and I, together with <a href="http://tekartist.org">Stephane Daury</a> and <a href="http://viper007bond.com">Viper007Bond</a>, entered and <a href="http://wphoneplugin.org/2007/11/13/and-the-winner-is/">won</a> the &#8220;mobile admin interface contest&#8221; Matt Mullenweg sponsored on the wp-hackers mailing list back at the end of 2007. Our plugin, <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wphone/">WPhone</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8230;creates an option while logging in to replace the default admin interface with one designed for your phone (see screenshots).</p>
<p>It contains two versions of the mobile admin interface:</p>
<ul>
<li>Rich: designed for the iPhone / iPod Touch and other phones supporting full Javascript and CSS featuring fancy AJAX and sliding menus</li>
<li>Lite: a lightweight, simple version designed for all other phone types (no Javascript or anything else required)</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>WPhone was readily picked up by the mobile computing WordPressers of the world and saw a great deal of use in its first months.  Then Automattic announced the release of their iPhone/iPod Touch app and we figured that WPhone&#8217;s days were numbered.  However, folks have continued to use it, particularly on Blackberries, Nokia N-series handsets and yes, even Windows Mobile devices.  This is great, with two caveats:</p>
<ol>
<li>WPhone doesn&#8217;t fully work with versions of WordPress newer than 2.5</li>
<li>Stephane, Viper and I no longer have time to bring it up to snuff</li>
</ol>
<p>So, to put it bluntly, we need your help in bringing a compelling mobile admin experience back to <em>all</em> mobile users, be they Droid, Pre, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, or yes, even iPhone users that don&#8217;t want yet another app clogging up their home screens.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re interested, please visit <a href="http://wphoneplugin.org/2009/12/21/to-the-bat-signal/">this post over on the WPhone site</a> for further details or send an email to <a href="mailto:batsignal@wphoneplugin.org">batsignal@wphoneplugin.org</a>.</p>
<p>Many, <em>many</em> thanks in advance and a big thanks goes out to Mark and the rest of the WTC crew for allowing me to post my plea here.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:00:11 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:8:"dstewart";}s:7:"summary";s:2239:"<p>My name is Doug Stewart and I, together with <a href="http://tekartist.org">Stephane Daury</a> and <a href="http://viper007bond.com">Viper007Bond</a>, entered and <a href="http://wphoneplugin.org/2007/11/13/and-the-winner-is/">won</a> the &#8220;mobile admin interface contest&#8221; Matt Mullenweg sponsored on the wp-hackers mailing list back at the end of 2007. Our plugin, <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wphone/">WPhone</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8230;creates an option while logging in to replace the default admin interface with one designed for your phone (see screenshots).</p>
<p>It contains two versions of the mobile admin interface:</p>
<ul>
<li>Rich: designed for the iPhone / iPod Touch and other phones supporting full Javascript and CSS featuring fancy AJAX and sliding menus</li>
<li>Lite: a lightweight, simple version designed for all other phone types (no Javascript or anything else required)</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>WPhone was readily picked up by the mobile computing WordPressers of the world and saw a great deal of use in its first months.  Then Automattic announced the release of their iPhone/iPod Touch app and we figured that WPhone&#8217;s days were numbered.  However, folks have continued to use it, particularly on Blackberries, Nokia N-series handsets and yes, even Windows Mobile devices.  This is great, with two caveats:</p>
<ol>
<li>WPhone doesn&#8217;t fully work with versions of WordPress newer than 2.5</li>
<li>Stephane, Viper and I no longer have time to bring it up to snuff</li>
</ol>
<p>So, to put it bluntly, we need your help in bringing a compelling mobile admin experience back to <em>all</em> mobile users, be they Droid, Pre, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, or yes, even iPhone users that don&#8217;t want yet another app clogging up their home screens.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re interested, please visit <a href="http://wphoneplugin.org/2009/12/21/to-the-bat-signal/">this post over on the WPhone site</a> for further details or send an email to <a href="mailto:batsignal@wphoneplugin.org">batsignal@wphoneplugin.org</a>.</p>
<p>Many, <em>many</em> thanks in advance and a big thanks goes out to Mark and the rest of the WTC crew for allowing me to post my plea here.</p>";}i:20;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:46:"BuddyPress: What’s Coming in BuddyPress 1.2?";s:4:"guid";s:28:"http://buddypress.org/?p=728";s:4:"link";s:63:"http://buddypress.org/blog/news/whats-coming-in-buddypress-1-2/";s:11:"description";s:2977:"<p>Development for version 1.2 of BuddyPress is beginning to wind down and we&#8217;re looking at a feature freeze at the end of this month. I&#8217;d expect the new version to be released some time at the end of January after a period of beta testing. We&#8217;ve got a host of new features to look forward to in this new version and I&#8217;d like to give you a glimpse of a few of them.</p>
<p><img src="http://apeatling.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/screen-shot-2009-12-23-at-10-49-29-am.png?w=200" class="alignleft" />One of the biggest changes is the activity stream. There has been a lot of focus on making the activity stream far more interactive in 1.2, and to do this we have merged together some of the features in previous versions of BuddyPress. Instead of having to post messages on a group or profile wire, or posting a separate status update, you can now post messages directly to the site wide stream, your profile stream, or a group activity stream. This stops fragmentation of the interface and brings content posting into one unified input box.</p>
<p>One of the benefits of this interactive activity stream is that we can now provide the ability for other members to post direct replies to your updates. In 1.2 the activity stream includes the ability for threaded commenting. <img src="http://apeatling.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/screen-shot-2009-12-23-at-10-51-51-am.png?w=275" class="alignright" />This allows for full conversations to take place around activities and makes the activity stream that much more of a two way process.</p>
<p>Another major update in 1.2 is the introduction of a new default theme. We&#8217;ve worked hard to produce a theme that will help both end users and developers. The new theme offers a more usable and unified interface with far more personal customization than the previous default. The theme also greatly simplifies the HTML, CSS and Javascript that powers it, allowing for greater ease of customization. If you&#8217;re fully invested in the previous default, don&#8217;t worry, this theme is not going anywhere and has already been updated to support the new features in 1.2. The new default simply provides a fresh alternative.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re itching to start trying out some of the features in the new version, you can head on over to the <a href="http://testbp.org">BuddyPress Test Drive</a>. The test drive runs the latest development version of BuddyPress and represents the state of the newest version as it currently stands. If you&#8217;d like to start working with the development version you can always check out the latest version from our <a href="http://svn.buddypress.org/trunk">svn code repository</a>. However, remember that until the final version is released code is subject to change.</p>
<p>I hope everyone has a wonderful festive season and an even better new year celebration. 2010 is going to be an exciting year for BuddyPress, I&#8217;m looking forward to sharing it with you.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:09:34 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Andy Peatling";}s:7:"summary";s:2977:"<p>Development for version 1.2 of BuddyPress is beginning to wind down and we&#8217;re looking at a feature freeze at the end of this month. I&#8217;d expect the new version to be released some time at the end of January after a period of beta testing. We&#8217;ve got a host of new features to look forward to in this new version and I&#8217;d like to give you a glimpse of a few of them.</p>
<p><img src="http://apeatling.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/screen-shot-2009-12-23-at-10-49-29-am.png?w=200" class="alignleft" />One of the biggest changes is the activity stream. There has been a lot of focus on making the activity stream far more interactive in 1.2, and to do this we have merged together some of the features in previous versions of BuddyPress. Instead of having to post messages on a group or profile wire, or posting a separate status update, you can now post messages directly to the site wide stream, your profile stream, or a group activity stream. This stops fragmentation of the interface and brings content posting into one unified input box.</p>
<p>One of the benefits of this interactive activity stream is that we can now provide the ability for other members to post direct replies to your updates. In 1.2 the activity stream includes the ability for threaded commenting. <img src="http://apeatling.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/screen-shot-2009-12-23-at-10-51-51-am.png?w=275" class="alignright" />This allows for full conversations to take place around activities and makes the activity stream that much more of a two way process.</p>
<p>Another major update in 1.2 is the introduction of a new default theme. We&#8217;ve worked hard to produce a theme that will help both end users and developers. The new theme offers a more usable and unified interface with far more personal customization than the previous default. The theme also greatly simplifies the HTML, CSS and Javascript that powers it, allowing for greater ease of customization. If you&#8217;re fully invested in the previous default, don&#8217;t worry, this theme is not going anywhere and has already been updated to support the new features in 1.2. The new default simply provides a fresh alternative.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re itching to start trying out some of the features in the new version, you can head on over to the <a href="http://testbp.org">BuddyPress Test Drive</a>. The test drive runs the latest development version of BuddyPress and represents the state of the newest version as it currently stands. If you&#8217;d like to start working with the development version you can always check out the latest version from our <a href="http://svn.buddypress.org/trunk">svn code repository</a>. However, remember that until the final version is released code is subject to change.</p>
<p>I hope everyone has a wonderful festive season and an even better new year celebration. 2010 is going to be an exciting year for BuddyPress, I&#8217;m looking forward to sharing it with you.</p>";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:57:"Mark Jaquith: New in WordPress 2.9: Post Thumbnail Images";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/?p=389";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/";s:11:"description";s:7447:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Many WordPress themes, especially those with &#8220;magazine-like&#8221; layouts, use an image to represent each post. It might just be on the front page. It might be alone, or alongside an excerpt. Until now, there was no standardized way to do this. Many themes would require you to tediously enter a Custom Field with the value being the URL you wanted to use. Often you had to do cropping yourself. With WordPress 2.9, theme authors can easily enable Post Thumbnail selection UI and call those image using simple template tags.</p>
<p><img src="http://markjaquith.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/post-thumbnail.png?w=297&#038;h=138" alt="" title="post-thumbnail" width="297" height="138" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-392" /></p>
<p>First, in the theme&#8217;s <code>functions.php</code>, declare that your theme supports this feature. This will enable the UI in the WP Admin.</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );</pre>
<p>That will enable Post Thumbnail UI for both Post and Page content types. If you&#8217;d only like to add it to one, you can do it like this:</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails', array( 'post' ) ); // Add it for posts
add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails', array( 'page' ) ); // Add it for pages</pre>
<p>Simply remove the one you don&#8217;t want to support.</p>
<p>Next, you should specify the dimensions of your post thumbnails. You have two options here: box-resizing and hard-cropping. Box resizing shrinks an image proportionally (that is, without distorting it), until it fits inside the &#8220;box&#8221; you&#8217;ve specified with your width and height parameters. For example, a 100&#215;50 image in a 50&#215;50 box would be resized to 50&#215;25. The benefit here is that the entire image shows. The downside is that the image produced isn&#8217;t always the same size. Sometimes it will be width-limited, and sometimes it will be height-limited. If you&#8217;d like to limit images to a certain width, but don&#8217;t care how tall they are, you can specify your width and then specify a height of 9999 or something ridiculously large that will never be hit.</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">set_post_thumbnail_size( 50, 50 ); // 50 pixels wide by 50 pixels tall, box resize mode</pre>
<p>Your second option is hard-cropping. In this mode, the image is cropped to match the target aspect ratio, and is then shrunk to fit in the specified dimensions <strong>exactly</strong>. The benefit is that you get what you ask for. If you ask for a 50&#215;50 thumbnail, you get a 50&#215;50 thumbnail. The downside is that your image will be cropped (either from the sides, or from the top and bottom) to fit the target aspect ratio, and that part of the image won&#8217;t show up in the thumbnail.</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">set_post_thumbnail_size( 50, 50, true ); // 50 pixels wide by 50 pixels tall, hard crop mode</pre>
<p>Now, you can make use of the template functions to display these images in the theme. These functions should be used in the loop.</p>
<p><code>has_post_thumbnail()</code> returns true/false and indicates whether the current post has a manually-chosen Post Thumbnail (in the loop):</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">&lt;?php
if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {
	// the current post has a thumbnail
} else {
	// the current post lacks a thumbnail
}
?&gt;</pre>
<p><code>the_post_thumbnail()</code> outputs the Post Thumbnail, if it exists (in the loop):</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">&lt;?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?&gt;</pre>
<p>Those are the basics. How about some advanced stuff?</p>
<p>What if you want to use a small 50&#215;50 hard-cropped image for the home page, but want to use a 400 pixel-wide (unlimited height) image on the post&#8217;s permalink page? You&#8217;re in luck. You can specify additional custom sizes! Here&#8217;s the code:</p>
<p><code>functions.php</code></p>
<pre class="brush: php;">add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
set_post_thumbnail_size( 50, 50, true ); // Normal post thumbnails
add_image_size( 'single-post-thumbnail', 400, 9999 ); // Permalink thumbnail size</pre>
<p><code>home.php</code> or <code>index.php</code>, depending on your theme structure (in the loop):</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">&lt;?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?&gt;</pre>
<p><code>single.php</code> (in the loop):</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">&lt;?php the_post_thumbnail( 'single-post-thumbnail' ); ?&gt;</pre>
<p>That&#8217;s it! <code>set_post_thumbnail_size()</code> just calls <code>add_image_size( 'post-thumbnail' )</code> &#8212; the default Post Thumbnail &#8220;handle.&#8221; But as you can see, you can add additional ones by calling <code>add_image_size( $handle, $width, $height, {$hard_crop_switch} );</code>, and then you use that new size by passing the handle to <code>the_post_thumbnail( $handle );</code></p>
<p>If you want your theme to support earlier versions of WordPress, you&#8217;ll have to use <code>function_exists()</code> to keep from calling these new functions in those versions. I&#8217;ve omitted that code to keep these examples as simple as possible. Here would be the <code>functions.php</code> example with the wrapper code:</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">if ( function_exists( 'add_theme_support' ) ) { // Added in 2.9
	add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
	set_post_thumbnail_size( 50, 50, true ); // Normal post thumbnails
	add_image_size( 'single-post-thumbnail', 400, 9999 ); // Permalink thumbnail size
}</pre>
<p>There is one caveat for this feature in WordPress 2.9 &#8212; it only works <strong>fully</strong> for new image uploads. We can&#8217;t yet resize images on the fly, although I&#8217;m strongly considering it for a future version. If you call the template functions on a post that has a Post Thumbnail that was uploaded prior to your theme having declared the new sizes, you won&#8217;t be able to do hard-cropping, and the box-resize will be done in the browser. As a temporary solution, Viper007Bond has a great plugin that will go back and create missing image sizes for you: <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/">Regenerate Thumbnails</a>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to see what kinds of sites you can build with this feature!</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/389/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/389/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/389/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/389/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/389/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/389/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/389/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/389/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/389/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/389/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=389&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:19:45 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Mark Jaquith";}s:7:"summary";s:7447:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Many WordPress themes, especially those with &#8220;magazine-like&#8221; layouts, use an image to represent each post. It might just be on the front page. It might be alone, or alongside an excerpt. Until now, there was no standardized way to do this. Many themes would require you to tediously enter a Custom Field with the value being the URL you wanted to use. Often you had to do cropping yourself. With WordPress 2.9, theme authors can easily enable Post Thumbnail selection UI and call those image using simple template tags.</p>
<p><img src="http://markjaquith.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/post-thumbnail.png?w=297&#038;h=138" alt="" title="post-thumbnail" width="297" height="138" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-392" /></p>
<p>First, in the theme&#8217;s <code>functions.php</code>, declare that your theme supports this feature. This will enable the UI in the WP Admin.</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );</pre>
<p>That will enable Post Thumbnail UI for both Post and Page content types. If you&#8217;d only like to add it to one, you can do it like this:</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails', array( 'post' ) ); // Add it for posts
add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails', array( 'page' ) ); // Add it for pages</pre>
<p>Simply remove the one you don&#8217;t want to support.</p>
<p>Next, you should specify the dimensions of your post thumbnails. You have two options here: box-resizing and hard-cropping. Box resizing shrinks an image proportionally (that is, without distorting it), until it fits inside the &#8220;box&#8221; you&#8217;ve specified with your width and height parameters. For example, a 100&#215;50 image in a 50&#215;50 box would be resized to 50&#215;25. The benefit here is that the entire image shows. The downside is that the image produced isn&#8217;t always the same size. Sometimes it will be width-limited, and sometimes it will be height-limited. If you&#8217;d like to limit images to a certain width, but don&#8217;t care how tall they are, you can specify your width and then specify a height of 9999 or something ridiculously large that will never be hit.</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">set_post_thumbnail_size( 50, 50 ); // 50 pixels wide by 50 pixels tall, box resize mode</pre>
<p>Your second option is hard-cropping. In this mode, the image is cropped to match the target aspect ratio, and is then shrunk to fit in the specified dimensions <strong>exactly</strong>. The benefit is that you get what you ask for. If you ask for a 50&#215;50 thumbnail, you get a 50&#215;50 thumbnail. The downside is that your image will be cropped (either from the sides, or from the top and bottom) to fit the target aspect ratio, and that part of the image won&#8217;t show up in the thumbnail.</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">set_post_thumbnail_size( 50, 50, true ); // 50 pixels wide by 50 pixels tall, hard crop mode</pre>
<p>Now, you can make use of the template functions to display these images in the theme. These functions should be used in the loop.</p>
<p><code>has_post_thumbnail()</code> returns true/false and indicates whether the current post has a manually-chosen Post Thumbnail (in the loop):</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">&lt;?php
if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {
	// the current post has a thumbnail
} else {
	// the current post lacks a thumbnail
}
?&gt;</pre>
<p><code>the_post_thumbnail()</code> outputs the Post Thumbnail, if it exists (in the loop):</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">&lt;?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?&gt;</pre>
<p>Those are the basics. How about some advanced stuff?</p>
<p>What if you want to use a small 50&#215;50 hard-cropped image for the home page, but want to use a 400 pixel-wide (unlimited height) image on the post&#8217;s permalink page? You&#8217;re in luck. You can specify additional custom sizes! Here&#8217;s the code:</p>
<p><code>functions.php</code></p>
<pre class="brush: php;">add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
set_post_thumbnail_size( 50, 50, true ); // Normal post thumbnails
add_image_size( 'single-post-thumbnail', 400, 9999 ); // Permalink thumbnail size</pre>
<p><code>home.php</code> or <code>index.php</code>, depending on your theme structure (in the loop):</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">&lt;?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?&gt;</pre>
<p><code>single.php</code> (in the loop):</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">&lt;?php the_post_thumbnail( 'single-post-thumbnail' ); ?&gt;</pre>
<p>That&#8217;s it! <code>set_post_thumbnail_size()</code> just calls <code>add_image_size( 'post-thumbnail' )</code> &#8212; the default Post Thumbnail &#8220;handle.&#8221; But as you can see, you can add additional ones by calling <code>add_image_size( $handle, $width, $height, {$hard_crop_switch} );</code>, and then you use that new size by passing the handle to <code>the_post_thumbnail( $handle );</code></p>
<p>If you want your theme to support earlier versions of WordPress, you&#8217;ll have to use <code>function_exists()</code> to keep from calling these new functions in those versions. I&#8217;ve omitted that code to keep these examples as simple as possible. Here would be the <code>functions.php</code> example with the wrapper code:</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">if ( function_exists( 'add_theme_support' ) ) { // Added in 2.9
	add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
	set_post_thumbnail_size( 50, 50, true ); // Normal post thumbnails
	add_image_size( 'single-post-thumbnail', 400, 9999 ); // Permalink thumbnail size
}</pre>
<p>There is one caveat for this feature in WordPress 2.9 &#8212; it only works <strong>fully</strong> for new image uploads. We can&#8217;t yet resize images on the fly, although I&#8217;m strongly considering it for a future version. If you call the template functions on a post that has a Post Thumbnail that was uploaded prior to your theme having declared the new sizes, you won&#8217;t be able to do hard-cropping, and the box-resize will be done in the browser. As a temporary solution, Viper007Bond has a great plugin that will go back and create missing image sizes for you: <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/">Regenerate Thumbnails</a>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to see what kinds of sites you can build with this feature!</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/389/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/389/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/389/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/389/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/389/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/389/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/389/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/389/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/389/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/389/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=389&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:22;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:48:"Weblog Tools Collection: 2.9.1 Around The Corner";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7404";s:4:"link";s:77:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/22/2-9-1-around-the-corner/";s:11:"description";s:3697:"<p>WordPress 2.9 was released last weekend. Yesterday, I was notified that 2.9.1 is most likely around the corner due to <a href="http://www.semiologic.com/2009/12/21/wp-2-9-three-bugs-and-how-to-fix-them/">some issues</a> that arose because of a last-minute addition to the core of WordPress. The issues revolve around scheduled posts not firing because the cron scheduler ends up broken. The patch can be found <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/11505/ticket-11505-full.patch">here</a> which is already a part of 2.9.1.</p>
<p>While <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/343080">reading the support thread</a>, I became concerned with some of the responses that were published. For example, &#8220;<em>How could you release an upgrade that is obviously this problem-filled?</em>&#8221; or &#8220;<em>WordPress should have tested 2.9 before releasing it!</em>&#8220;. I&#8217;m not sure how many times this has to be preached to the choir but each version of WordPress is tested before it&#8217;s release to the public. That is what the Beta releases are for as well as the Release Candidates. WordPress 2.9 went through one release candidate version and two beta releases. In fact, before RC1 hit the public, all of the tickets assigned for that version were closed. Each version was tested by anyone who volunteered. There seems to be this notion that there are thousands of WordPress developers and they should iron out every bug before releasing software to the public. While there are hundreds of WordPress developers submitting patches here and there as well as squashing bugs, not every hosting setup can be tested. This is where the end users come in.</p>
<p>Dion Hulse who has been a long time contributor to the WordPress project illustrates this problem quite well in a blog post entitled <a href="http://dd32.id.au/2009/12/21/a-call-to-arms/">WordPress, A Call To Arms</a>. I think Dion says it best in the first paragraph which illustrates the lack of testing problem quite well.</p>
<blockquote><p>WordPress 2.9 was just released, And several users have run into a bug. Surprising? Not really. There&#8217;s one simple reason for this, While thousands of people Test each and every WordPress release, These users are not <strong>You</strong>.</p></blockquote>
<p>While hundreds or thousands download the betas to perform testing, the real crux of the testing comes when the &#8220;<strong>Stable</strong>&#8221; release is shipped. The stable version is installed by everyone because it&#8217;s considered to be stable only since you now have hundreds of thousands of blogs running the software which translates into more testing environments, you&#8217;re going to run into bugs the testers simply didn&#8217;t find. This gives the perception that the Stable release was not stable at all and therefor, should have never been released. But, if the software were never released, the bug would most likely would not have been found.</p>
<h2>Please Help Out:</h2>
<p>It&#8217;s very easy to setup a test installation of WordPress, especially since the release of Peter Westwoods plugin called <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/">Beta Tester</a>. While testing on a local server is a good idea, most local servers are not setup to mimic the configuration of the public web server. This is why it&#8217;s actually better to test on the same setup as your public facing site than on a local server.</p>
<p>Now, if you happen to come across something you believe to be a bug, please refer to <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Reporting_Bugs">this article</a> in the Codex which contains instructions on how to report it.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:11:09 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:3697:"<p>WordPress 2.9 was released last weekend. Yesterday, I was notified that 2.9.1 is most likely around the corner due to <a href="http://www.semiologic.com/2009/12/21/wp-2-9-three-bugs-and-how-to-fix-them/">some issues</a> that arose because of a last-minute addition to the core of WordPress. The issues revolve around scheduled posts not firing because the cron scheduler ends up broken. The patch can be found <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/11505/ticket-11505-full.patch">here</a> which is already a part of 2.9.1.</p>
<p>While <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/343080">reading the support thread</a>, I became concerned with some of the responses that were published. For example, &#8220;<em>How could you release an upgrade that is obviously this problem-filled?</em>&#8221; or &#8220;<em>WordPress should have tested 2.9 before releasing it!</em>&#8220;. I&#8217;m not sure how many times this has to be preached to the choir but each version of WordPress is tested before it&#8217;s release to the public. That is what the Beta releases are for as well as the Release Candidates. WordPress 2.9 went through one release candidate version and two beta releases. In fact, before RC1 hit the public, all of the tickets assigned for that version were closed. Each version was tested by anyone who volunteered. There seems to be this notion that there are thousands of WordPress developers and they should iron out every bug before releasing software to the public. While there are hundreds of WordPress developers submitting patches here and there as well as squashing bugs, not every hosting setup can be tested. This is where the end users come in.</p>
<p>Dion Hulse who has been a long time contributor to the WordPress project illustrates this problem quite well in a blog post entitled <a href="http://dd32.id.au/2009/12/21/a-call-to-arms/">WordPress, A Call To Arms</a>. I think Dion says it best in the first paragraph which illustrates the lack of testing problem quite well.</p>
<blockquote><p>WordPress 2.9 was just released, And several users have run into a bug. Surprising? Not really. There&#8217;s one simple reason for this, While thousands of people Test each and every WordPress release, These users are not <strong>You</strong>.</p></blockquote>
<p>While hundreds or thousands download the betas to perform testing, the real crux of the testing comes when the &#8220;<strong>Stable</strong>&#8221; release is shipped. The stable version is installed by everyone because it&#8217;s considered to be stable only since you now have hundreds of thousands of blogs running the software which translates into more testing environments, you&#8217;re going to run into bugs the testers simply didn&#8217;t find. This gives the perception that the Stable release was not stable at all and therefor, should have never been released. But, if the software were never released, the bug would most likely would not have been found.</p>
<h2>Please Help Out:</h2>
<p>It&#8217;s very easy to setup a test installation of WordPress, especially since the release of Peter Westwoods plugin called <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/">Beta Tester</a>. While testing on a local server is a good idea, most local servers are not setup to mimic the configuration of the public web server. This is why it&#8217;s actually better to test on the same setup as your public facing site than on a local server.</p>
<p>Now, if you happen to come across something you believe to be a bug, please refer to <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Reporting_Bugs">this article</a> in the Codex which contains instructions on how to report it.</p>";}i:23;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 12/22";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7402";s:4:"link";s:90:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/22/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1222-2/";s:11:"description";s:2893:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://hdlns.com/hdlns_today_plugin.php">HDLNS Today</a></p>
<p>insert one of over 1200 categorized RSS feeds, using the (latest) post date on the page to keep the rss headlined contextually relevant to the blog post</p>
<p><a href="http://www.q2w3.ru/2009/12/06/824/">Q2W3 Inc Manager</a></p>
<p>This plugin was made to easily add html, css, javascript and PHP code to public WordPress pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.q2w3.ru/2009/11/29/748/">Q2W3 Thickbox</a></p>
<p>This plugin enables thickbox pop-up window on thumbnail images. As soon as plugin is installed, all your thumbnail images will be opened in popup window.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/scb-framework">scbFramework</a></p>
<p>A set of useful classes for WordPress plugin developers.</p>
<p> <a href="http://blog.avirtualhome.com/wordpress-plugins/avh-amazon/">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.</p>
<p><a href="http://tobias.baethge.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-table-reloaded-english/">WP-Table Reloaded</a></p>
<p>WP-Table Reloaded enables you to create and manage tables in your WP’s admin area. No HTML knowledge is needed. A comfortable backend allows to easily edit table data.</p>
<p><a href="http://selfexile.com/twitter-fans-widget-wordpress-plugin/">Twitter Fans</a></p>
<p>Twitter Fans plugin will add a widget in WordPress that you can drag and drop into your sidebar and set your username to get it work. No password required.</p>
<p><a href="http://arpitshah.com/plugins/all-in-one-webmaster/">All in One Webmaster</a></p>
<p>This plugin allows you to easily integrate Google Webmaster Tool, Yahoo SiteExplorer and Bing Webmaster Central</p>
<p><a href="http://arpitshah.com/plugins/wp-archive-sitemap-generator/">WP Archive-Sitemap Generator</a></p>
<p>WP Archive-Sitemap Generator plugin generates simple Archives/Sitemap based on your blogs posts and pages. This is not another XML sitemap plugin, but rather a nice post sitemap or page sitemap generator. Now user can show total comments count after posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://arpitshah.com/plugins/twitter-goodies/">Twitter Goodies</a></p>
<p>This plugin shows your twitter profile/search tweets under Sidebar Area (Widget), Post and/or Pages. Tweets will REFRESH AUTOMATICALLY. Also it has reply option inside widget on mouse over action. Admin panel option available under Settings -&gt; Twitter Goodies to set different color combination and twitter widget options.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/merge-tags">Merge Tags</a></p>
<p>Adds the ability to combine two or more tags (or categories) into one.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:43:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:2893:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://hdlns.com/hdlns_today_plugin.php">HDLNS Today</a></p>
<p>insert one of over 1200 categorized RSS feeds, using the (latest) post date on the page to keep the rss headlined contextually relevant to the blog post</p>
<p><a href="http://www.q2w3.ru/2009/12/06/824/">Q2W3 Inc Manager</a></p>
<p>This plugin was made to easily add html, css, javascript and PHP code to public WordPress pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.q2w3.ru/2009/11/29/748/">Q2W3 Thickbox</a></p>
<p>This plugin enables thickbox pop-up window on thumbnail images. As soon as plugin is installed, all your thumbnail images will be opened in popup window.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/scb-framework">scbFramework</a></p>
<p>A set of useful classes for WordPress plugin developers.</p>
<p> <a href="http://blog.avirtualhome.com/wordpress-plugins/avh-amazon/">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.</p>
<p><a href="http://tobias.baethge.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-table-reloaded-english/">WP-Table Reloaded</a></p>
<p>WP-Table Reloaded enables you to create and manage tables in your WP’s admin area. No HTML knowledge is needed. A comfortable backend allows to easily edit table data.</p>
<p><a href="http://selfexile.com/twitter-fans-widget-wordpress-plugin/">Twitter Fans</a></p>
<p>Twitter Fans plugin will add a widget in WordPress that you can drag and drop into your sidebar and set your username to get it work. No password required.</p>
<p><a href="http://arpitshah.com/plugins/all-in-one-webmaster/">All in One Webmaster</a></p>
<p>This plugin allows you to easily integrate Google Webmaster Tool, Yahoo SiteExplorer and Bing Webmaster Central</p>
<p><a href="http://arpitshah.com/plugins/wp-archive-sitemap-generator/">WP Archive-Sitemap Generator</a></p>
<p>WP Archive-Sitemap Generator plugin generates simple Archives/Sitemap based on your blogs posts and pages. This is not another XML sitemap plugin, but rather a nice post sitemap or page sitemap generator. Now user can show total comments count after posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://arpitshah.com/plugins/twitter-goodies/">Twitter Goodies</a></p>
<p>This plugin shows your twitter profile/search tweets under Sidebar Area (Widget), Post and/or Pages. Tweets will REFRESH AUTOMATICALLY. Also it has reply option inside widget on mouse over action. Admin panel option available under Settings -&gt; Twitter Goodies to set different color combination and twitter widget options.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/merge-tags">Merge Tags</a></p>
<p>Adds the ability to combine two or more tags (or categories) into one.</p>";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:51:"Publisher Blog: UPS Joins WordPress.com VIP Hosting";s:4:"guid";s:42:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/?p=730";s:4:"link";s:77:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2009/12/22/ups-wordpress-com-vip-hosting/";s:11:"description";s:2260:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>UPS has <a href="http://www.pressroom.ups.com/">announced the launch</a> of their new blog, <a href="http://blog.ups.com/">Upside</a>, which is running on <a href="http://vip.wordpress.com">WordPress.com VIP Hosting</a>:<br />
<a href="http://blog.ups.com"><img src="http://wordpresspublishers.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/ups-blog.png?w=640&#038;h=418" alt="" title="UPS-blog" width="640" height="418" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-731" /></a></p>
<p>The Upside blog, designed and built by <a href="http://www.t-3.com/">T3</a> is a &#8220;blog created by UPS to share personal insights and perspective about the largest transportation company in the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>Some really interesting content posted so far including a video of how <a href="http://blog.ups.com/2009/12/21/one-shoe-in-front-of-the-other-zappos-ups-keep-the-holidays-moving/">UPS and Zappos</a> are working together.</p>
<p>[ Visit <a href="http://blog.ups.com/">blog.ups.com</a> ]</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/730/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/730/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/730/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/730/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/730/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/730/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/730/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/730/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/730/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/730/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=publisherblog.automattic.com&blog=1470857&post=730&subd=wordpresspublishers&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:52:52 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:16:"Raanan Bar-Cohen";}s:7:"summary";s:2260:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>UPS has <a href="http://www.pressroom.ups.com/">announced the launch</a> of their new blog, <a href="http://blog.ups.com/">Upside</a>, which is running on <a href="http://vip.wordpress.com">WordPress.com VIP Hosting</a>:<br />
<a href="http://blog.ups.com"><img src="http://wordpresspublishers.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/ups-blog.png?w=640&#038;h=418" alt="" title="UPS-blog" width="640" height="418" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-731" /></a></p>
<p>The Upside blog, designed and built by <a href="http://www.t-3.com/">T3</a> is a &#8220;blog created by UPS to share personal insights and perspective about the largest transportation company in the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>Some really interesting content posted so far including a video of how <a href="http://blog.ups.com/2009/12/21/one-shoe-in-front-of-the-other-zappos-ups-keep-the-holidays-moving/">UPS and Zappos</a> are working together.</p>
<p>[ Visit <a href="http://blog.ups.com/">blog.ups.com</a> ]</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/730/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/730/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/730/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/730/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/730/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/730/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/730/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/730/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/730/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/730/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=publisherblog.automattic.com&blog=1470857&post=730&subd=wordpresspublishers&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:25;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:22:"Matt: Stealth Startups";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=16178";s:4:"link";s:38:"http://ma.tt/2009/12/stealth-startups/";s:11:"description";s:212:"<p><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/19/stealth-startupsget-over-yourselves-nobody-cares-about-your-secrets/">Stealth Startups, Get Over Yourselves: Nobody Cares About Your Secrets</a> on TechCrunch.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:54:15 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:212:"<p><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/19/stealth-startupsget-over-yourselves-nobody-cares-about-your-secrets/">Stealth Startups, Get Over Yourselves: Nobody Cares About Your Secrets</a> on TechCrunch.</p>";}i:26;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:32:"Alex King: WordPress 2.9 Upgrade";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://alexking.org/?p=3889";s:4:"link";s:57:"http://alexking.org/blog/2009/12/21/wordpress-2-9-upgrade";s:11:"description";s:828:"<p>WordPress 2.9 has been released &#8211; time to upgrade! There are some pretty <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9/" rel="external">nice new features</a> in this release. I&#8217;m glad to be able to retire a few plugins now that the post thumbnail feature is built in and we&#8217;re going to wear out the comment meta feature in our custom implementations.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve got a lot of sites to upgrade &#8211; I&#8217;ll have a little more on the process I use for this in a follow-up post.</p>
<p>If you need help with your upgrade, our team at <a href="http://wphelpcenter.com">WordPress HelpCenter</a> is available and happy to help. Give us a call: (303) 395-1346 or email help@wphelpcenter.com.</p>
<img src="http://alexking.org/wp/?ak_action=api_record_view&id=3889&type=feed" alt="" />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:04:04 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:7:"summary";s:828:"<p>WordPress 2.9 has been released &#8211; time to upgrade! There are some pretty <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9/" rel="external">nice new features</a> in this release. I&#8217;m glad to be able to retire a few plugins now that the post thumbnail feature is built in and we&#8217;re going to wear out the comment meta feature in our custom implementations.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve got a lot of sites to upgrade &#8211; I&#8217;ll have a little more on the process I use for this in a follow-up post.</p>
<p>If you need help with your upgrade, our team at <a href="http://wphelpcenter.com">WordPress HelpCenter</a> is available and happy to help. Give us a call: (303) 395-1346 or email help@wphelpcenter.com.</p>
<img src="http://alexking.org/wp/?ak_action=api_record_view&id=3889&type=feed" alt="" />";}i:27;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:53:"Joseph: WordPress 2.9 – XML-RPC and AtomPub Changes";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://josephscott.org/?p=1637";s:4:"link";s:82:"http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/12/wordpress-2-9-xml-rpc-and-atompub-changes/";s:11:"description";s:2395:"<p>Just in time for Christmas <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9/">WordPress 2.9 is out</a>.  Here&#8217;s what has changed in the XML-RPC and AtomPub APIs since 2.8.6:</p>
<h3>XML-RPC</h3>
<ul>
<li>Expose user registration option via wp.getOptions/wp.setOptions ( ticket <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10454">#10454</a> )</li>
<li>Fix bug in wp.getComment that reported spam comments with a status of hold ( ticket <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10510">#10510</a> )</li>
<li>Adjust how the XML-RPC server is activated so that the functions can be reused in other areas ( ticket <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10513">#10513</a> )</li>
<li>Fix bug in setting optional number of pages arguments for wp.getPages ( ticket <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10659">#10659</a> )</li>
<li>Reduced memory usage when processing requests ( ticket <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10698">#10698</a> )</li>
</ul>
<h3>AtomPub</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fix a conflict with plugins that redefine wp_set_current_user() ( ticket <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10938">#10938</a> )</li>
</ul>
<p>If you are using the WordPress XML-RPC/AtomPub APIs in your software or service, or are just interested in this part of WordPress, please join the <a href="http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-xmlrpc">WordPress XML-RPC email list</a>.  Code changes and patches can be submitted via tickets at <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/">http://core.trac.wordpress.org/</a>.</p>


<p>Related posts:<ol><li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/06/wordpress-2-8-xml-rpc-and-atompub-changes/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress 2.8 &#8211; XML-RPC and AtomPub Changes">WordPress 2.8 &#8211; XML-RPC and AtomPub Changes</a></li>
<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/02/wordpress-271-released-xml-rpc-and-atompub-changes/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress 2.7.1 Released &#8211; XML-RPC and AtomPub Changes">WordPress 2.7.1 Released &#8211; XML-RPC and AtomPub Changes</a></li>
<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2008/12/wordpress-27-released-xml-rpc-and-atompub-changes/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress 2.7 Released &#8211; XML-RPC and AtomPub Changes">WordPress 2.7 Released &#8211; XML-RPC and AtomPub Changes</a></li>
</ol></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:24:19 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Joseph Scott";}s:7:"summary";s:2395:"<p>Just in time for Christmas <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9/">WordPress 2.9 is out</a>.  Here&#8217;s what has changed in the XML-RPC and AtomPub APIs since 2.8.6:</p>
<h3>XML-RPC</h3>
<ul>
<li>Expose user registration option via wp.getOptions/wp.setOptions ( ticket <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10454">#10454</a> )</li>
<li>Fix bug in wp.getComment that reported spam comments with a status of hold ( ticket <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10510">#10510</a> )</li>
<li>Adjust how the XML-RPC server is activated so that the functions can be reused in other areas ( ticket <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10513">#10513</a> )</li>
<li>Fix bug in setting optional number of pages arguments for wp.getPages ( ticket <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10659">#10659</a> )</li>
<li>Reduced memory usage when processing requests ( ticket <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10698">#10698</a> )</li>
</ul>
<h3>AtomPub</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fix a conflict with plugins that redefine wp_set_current_user() ( ticket <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10938">#10938</a> )</li>
</ul>
<p>If you are using the WordPress XML-RPC/AtomPub APIs in your software or service, or are just interested in this part of WordPress, please join the <a href="http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-xmlrpc">WordPress XML-RPC email list</a>.  Code changes and patches can be submitted via tickets at <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/">http://core.trac.wordpress.org/</a>.</p>


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<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/02/wordpress-271-released-xml-rpc-and-atompub-changes/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress 2.7.1 Released &#8211; XML-RPC and AtomPub Changes">WordPress 2.7.1 Released &#8211; XML-RPC and AtomPub Changes</a></li>
<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2008/12/wordpress-27-released-xml-rpc-and-atompub-changes/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress 2.7 Released &#8211; XML-RPC and AtomPub Changes">WordPress 2.7 Released &#8211; XML-RPC and AtomPub Changes</a></li>
</ol></p>";}i:28;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:91:"WordPress.tv: Weekly Recap: Inspirageek’s Interview with Matt Mullenweg and WordPress 2.9";s:4:"guid";s:31:"http://blog.wordpress.tv/?p=131";s:4:"link";s:110:"http://blog.wordpress.tv/2009/12/21/weekly-recap-inspirageeks-interview-with-matt-mullenweg-and-wordpress-2-9/";s:11:"description";s:2843:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>A happy holidays to you from WordPress.tv!</p>
<p>We published two videos for you this week—one an interview with <a href="http://ma.tt">Matt Mullenweg</a> of <a href="http://automattic.com">Automattic</a>, and the other a video introduction to the neat stuff included in the latest release of WordPress.</p>
<p>Josh Grenon of Inspirageek <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/12/18/inspirageek-interview-with-matt-mullenweg/">interviews Matt Mullenweg</a> in our first video published this week. They discuss some general tips for entrepreneurs, the development process for (the now released) WordPress 2.9, some basics behind <a href="http://videopress.com">VideoPress</a> and why it&#8217;s great, and a few other odds and ends.</p>
<p>This weekend also saw the release of WordPress 2.9, the latest and greatest edition of our favorite software. To herald this event, our very own Michael Pick has composed <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/12/21/introducing-wordpress-2-9-–-carmen/">an introductory video to WordPress 2.9</a>, hitting the major updates and changes you&#8217;ll be playing with in the weeks to come. It&#8217;s a quick watch—check it out and feel free to embed when you talk about WordPress 2.9 on your own blog.</p>
<p>With the Christmas and New Year&#8217;s holidays coming up in the next two weeks, I expect new videos here on WordPress.tv will be few and far between, but we&#8217;ll still be here to check out and publish videos you direct us to using our <a href="http://wordpress.tv/contact/">handy contact form</a>.</p>
<p>All of us here at WordPress.tv wish you a very happy holiday season and look forward to more great WordPress videos in 2010!</p>
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<p>We published two videos for you this week—one an interview with <a href="http://ma.tt">Matt Mullenweg</a> of <a href="http://automattic.com">Automattic</a>, and the other a video introduction to the neat stuff included in the latest release of WordPress.</p>
<p>Josh Grenon of Inspirageek <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/12/18/inspirageek-interview-with-matt-mullenweg/">interviews Matt Mullenweg</a> in our first video published this week. They discuss some general tips for entrepreneurs, the development process for (the now released) WordPress 2.9, some basics behind <a href="http://videopress.com">VideoPress</a> and why it&#8217;s great, and a few other odds and ends.</p>
<p>This weekend also saw the release of WordPress 2.9, the latest and greatest edition of our favorite software. To herald this event, our very own Michael Pick has composed <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/12/21/introducing-wordpress-2-9-–-carmen/">an introductory video to WordPress 2.9</a>, hitting the major updates and changes you&#8217;ll be playing with in the weeks to come. It&#8217;s a quick watch—check it out and feel free to embed when you talk about WordPress 2.9 on your own blog.</p>
<p>With the Christmas and New Year&#8217;s holidays coming up in the next two weeks, I expect new videos here on WordPress.tv will be few and far between, but we&#8217;ll still be here to check out and publish videos you direct us to using our <a href="http://wordpress.tv/contact/">handy contact form</a>.</p>
<p>All of us here at WordPress.tv wish you a very happy holiday season and look forward to more great WordPress videos in 2010!</p>
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<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/12/21/introducing-wordpress-2-9-%e2%80%93-carmen/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/NBZ853Xn/carmen-web_std.original.jpg" alt="Introducing WordPress 2.9 Carmen" /></a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/3178/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/3178/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/3178/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/3178/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/3178/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/3178/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/3178/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/3178/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/3178/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/3178/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=3178&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:39:25 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:11:"Ryan Markel";}s:7:"summary";s:1422:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
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<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/12/21/introducing-wordpress-2-9-%e2%80%93-carmen/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/NBZ853Xn/carmen-web_std.original.jpg" alt="Introducing WordPress 2.9 Carmen" /></a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/3178/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/3178/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/3178/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/3178/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/3178/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/3178/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/3178/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/3178/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/3178/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/3178/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=3178&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:30;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 20/12";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7380";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/20/wordpress-theme-releases-for-2012/";s:11:"description";s:2421:"<h4><a href="http://empirethemes.com/mons-montis/">Mons Montis</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://empirethemes.com/preview/mons-montis/"><img title="Mon Montis" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/MonMontis.jpg" alt="Mon Montis" width="200" height="110" /></a></p>
<p>Three column theme perfect for churches and other non-profits.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.amberpanther.com/news/you-roar-we-listen-cleanroar-gets-packed-with-even-more-features/">CleanRoar</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://cove.amberpanther.com/cleanroar/?skin=xmas"><img title="cleanRoar" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/cleanRoar.png" alt="cleanRoar" width="200" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Keeping up with the seasons, cleanRoar takes a facelift and puts on the Christmas skin. It features a functional back-end packed with options. The skins can be swapped between the Legacy cleanRoar skin and the all new Christmas skin.</p>
<h4><a href="http://empirethemes.com/technology/">Technology</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://empirethemes.com/preview/technology/"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Technology_Theme.gif" alt="Technology_Theme" width="191" height="135" /></a></p>
<p>The Technology WordPress theme is a three column theme. Supports banner ads and the WP-PageNavi plugin.</p>
<h4><a href="http://webhostinghelpguy.inmotionhosting.com/wordpress/navy-spiral-wordpress-theme/">Navy Spiral</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://webhostinghelpguy.inmotionhosting.com/demos/?wptheme=Navy%20Spiral"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/NavySpiral.jpg" alt="NavySpiral" width="191" height="109" /></a></p>
<p>Navy Spiral is a notebook-inspired theme with cool blues and grays, clean lines, and subtle design cues to let your writing pop! No matter where writing inspiration takes you, you&#8217;re online notebook will always be there to share your thoughts and stories. Widget-ready, gravatar-enabled, and set to download.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.blogging-inside.de/2009/12/kostenlose-racing-red-01-theme-fuer-wordpress/">Racing Red 01</a></h4>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Racing-Red.png" alt="Racing Red" width="191" height="106" /></p>
<p>Racing Red 01 is a simple WordPress Theme with one Sidebar and Widget Support. There is an Option Page to populate the Footer. <em>Page in German</em></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:28:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:2421:"<h4><a href="http://empirethemes.com/mons-montis/">Mons Montis</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://empirethemes.com/preview/mons-montis/"><img title="Mon Montis" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/MonMontis.jpg" alt="Mon Montis" width="200" height="110" /></a></p>
<p>Three column theme perfect for churches and other non-profits.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.amberpanther.com/news/you-roar-we-listen-cleanroar-gets-packed-with-even-more-features/">CleanRoar</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://cove.amberpanther.com/cleanroar/?skin=xmas"><img title="cleanRoar" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/cleanRoar.png" alt="cleanRoar" width="200" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Keeping up with the seasons, cleanRoar takes a facelift and puts on the Christmas skin. It features a functional back-end packed with options. The skins can be swapped between the Legacy cleanRoar skin and the all new Christmas skin.</p>
<h4><a href="http://empirethemes.com/technology/">Technology</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://empirethemes.com/preview/technology/"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Technology_Theme.gif" alt="Technology_Theme" width="191" height="135" /></a></p>
<p>The Technology WordPress theme is a three column theme. Supports banner ads and the WP-PageNavi plugin.</p>
<h4><a href="http://webhostinghelpguy.inmotionhosting.com/wordpress/navy-spiral-wordpress-theme/">Navy Spiral</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://webhostinghelpguy.inmotionhosting.com/demos/?wptheme=Navy%20Spiral"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/NavySpiral.jpg" alt="NavySpiral" width="191" height="109" /></a></p>
<p>Navy Spiral is a notebook-inspired theme with cool blues and grays, clean lines, and subtle design cues to let your writing pop! No matter where writing inspiration takes you, you&#8217;re online notebook will always be there to share your thoughts and stories. Widget-ready, gravatar-enabled, and set to download.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.blogging-inside.de/2009/12/kostenlose-racing-red-01-theme-fuer-wordpress/">Racing Red 01</a></h4>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Racing-Red.png" alt="Racing Red" width="191" height="106" /></p>
<p>Racing Red 01 is a simple WordPress Theme with one Sidebar and Widget Support. There is an Option Page to populate the Footer. <em>Page in German</em></p>";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:74:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress 2.9 Feature Focus Batch Plug-in Updates";s:4:"guid";s:103:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/20/wordpress-2-9-feature-focus-batch-plug-in-updates/";s:4:"link";s:103:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/20/wordpress-2-9-feature-focus-batch-plug-in-updates/";s:11:"description";s:2582:"<p>WordPress 2.9 (Carmen) has been officially released and has quite a few new features.&#160; Some are visible and right on the page while many others are under the hood.&#160; </p>
<p>One of the features that I really like is the ability to bulk update my plug-ins.&#160; In previous versions of WordPress you had to update each plug-in individually by clicking on the automatic upgrade link in the WordPress plug-in, entering your FTP credentials and then waiting for the update to happen. If you had a lot of plug-ins this process could take a while to do.</p>
<p>To utilize the new bulk update process go to the Tools&gt;Upgrade menu in the admin panel:&#160; </p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/wordpress29toolsupgrademenuitem.png" rel="thumbnail"><img title="wordpress29toolsupgrademenuitem" border="0" alt="wordpress29toolsupgrademenuitem" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/wordpress29toolsupgrademenuitem_thumb.png" width="151" height="244" /></a>&#160;</p>
<p>There you will find a screen that looks something like this":</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/wordpress29bulkupgradeplugins.png" rel="thumbnail"><img title="wordpress29bulkupgradeplugins" border="0" alt="wordpress29bulkupgradeplugins" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/wordpress29bulkupgradeplugins_thumb.png" width="280" height="145" /></a> </p>
<p>Select the check boxes for all the plug-ins you want to update and then press the Upgrade Plug-in button at the bottom and you will then be taken to a dialog box your familiar with to provide your FTP credentials. Once you have plugged those in the upgrade process will happen and once it is done you will be presented with this results page:</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/wordpress29bulkupgradepluginsresults.png" rel="thumbnail"><img title="wordpress29bulkupgradepluginsresults" border="0" alt="wordpress29bulkupgradepluginsresults" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/wordpress29bulkupgradepluginsresults_thumb.png" width="244" height="163" /></a> </p>
<p>That is it for the process.&#160; The only change I would recommend in a future update to WordPress is to place a link for this functionality on the actual plug-in admin page – maybe in the bulk action drop down menu.&#160; From what I could see this bulk update option is only available on the main upgrade page.</p>
<p>So what is your favorite new feature of WordPress 2.9?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:24:01 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:15:"WindowsObserver";}s:7:"summary";s:2582:"<p>WordPress 2.9 (Carmen) has been officially released and has quite a few new features.&#160; Some are visible and right on the page while many others are under the hood.&#160; </p>
<p>One of the features that I really like is the ability to bulk update my plug-ins.&#160; In previous versions of WordPress you had to update each plug-in individually by clicking on the automatic upgrade link in the WordPress plug-in, entering your FTP credentials and then waiting for the update to happen. If you had a lot of plug-ins this process could take a while to do.</p>
<p>To utilize the new bulk update process go to the Tools&gt;Upgrade menu in the admin panel:&#160; </p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/wordpress29toolsupgrademenuitem.png" rel="thumbnail"><img title="wordpress29toolsupgrademenuitem" border="0" alt="wordpress29toolsupgrademenuitem" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/wordpress29toolsupgrademenuitem_thumb.png" width="151" height="244" /></a>&#160;</p>
<p>There you will find a screen that looks something like this":</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/wordpress29bulkupgradeplugins.png" rel="thumbnail"><img title="wordpress29bulkupgradeplugins" border="0" alt="wordpress29bulkupgradeplugins" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/wordpress29bulkupgradeplugins_thumb.png" width="280" height="145" /></a> </p>
<p>Select the check boxes for all the plug-ins you want to update and then press the Upgrade Plug-in button at the bottom and you will then be taken to a dialog box your familiar with to provide your FTP credentials. Once you have plugged those in the upgrade process will happen and once it is done you will be presented with this results page:</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/wordpress29bulkupgradepluginsresults.png" rel="thumbnail"><img title="wordpress29bulkupgradepluginsresults" border="0" alt="wordpress29bulkupgradepluginsresults" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/wordpress29bulkupgradepluginsresults_thumb.png" width="244" height="163" /></a> </p>
<p>That is it for the process.&#160; The only change I would recommend in a future update to WordPress is to place a link for this functionality on the actual plug-in admin page – maybe in the bulk action drop down menu.&#160; From what I could see this bulk update option is only available on the main upgrade page.</p>
<p>So what is your favorite new feature of WordPress 2.9?</p>";}i:32;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:68:"Peter Westwood: What should go into a WordPress maintenance release?";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://westi.wordpress.com/?p=134";s:4:"link";s:90:"http://westi.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/what-should-go-into-a-wordpress-maintenance-release/";s:11:"description";s:4439:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Now that WordPress 2.9 has hit the streets there are inevitably going to be a number of bugs which slipped through testing which people will identify and we need a good process for deciding which of these bugs should be included in an upcoming 2.9.1 release and which of them can wait until 3.0 to be fixed.</p>
<p>In the past I think we have included to many changes into the maintenance releases.  This has partly been due to the lack of end-user testing which has taken place during the beta phase and partly based on a drive to fix bugs sooner rather than later.  This has had the unfortunate downside of diverting the time of the core contributors, that they could have been spending on working on features for the next major release, and has meant that the release cycle has been extended to longer than we would have liked.  This means that you don&#8217;t get the cool new features like Trash as soon as you would have done.</p>
<p>This post is an effort to summarise my thoughts on this subject and I would welcome discussion in the comments below &#8211; hopefully we can come up with a succinct set of criteria which will may it clear to everyone what the community thinks should be included in a maintenance release and what should not.</p>
<p>First of all I think it is important to understand the purpose of a maintenance or point release.  To me these releases are about fixing critical bugs which affect a large percentage of end-users and disrupt their ability to use the software. They need to have a small number of changes so as to make them easy to test, lightweight to develop and to reduce the impact on the next major release. This also means that they will be easy to upgrade too and are less likely to break plugins / themes in the process so making the upgrade to them even easier and more worry free.</p>
<p>If we let the content of these release grow too large then we will never have the time to work on the new features for the next major release which will then mean that release takes longer to arrive and may end up with less features.  We also need to remember that every change has the risk of introducing a new bug and this is another reason we should limit the number of changes in a maintenance release.</p>
<p>Now we need to identify what sort of bugs fit into the category of critical bugs.  The most obvious and easiest to identify are the security bugs &#8211; fixes for these need to be available as soon as possible. Once we get beyond security bugs it can get more difficult to quantify the affect of the issue and therefore how soon a fix needs to be in the hands of the users.</p>
<p>The following list of criteria are my <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man_proposal">straw man proposal</a> on this subject:</p>
<ul>
<li>The issue is easily reproducible and testable.</li>
<li>The issue is severe &#8211; e.g. it makes a whole feature unusable and therefore the fix cannot wait for the next major release.</li>
<li>The issue is a regression from a previous major release &#8211; for example if an unintentional/incompatible change to an API or UI was made.</li>
<li>The issue is not just that warnings or notices appear when WP_DEBUG is enabled the area of code in question must also fail to work correctly.</li>
</ul>
<p>What do you think?</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/westi.wordpress.com/134/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/westi.wordpress.com/134/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/westi.wordpress.com/134/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/westi.wordpress.com/134/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/westi.wordpress.com/134/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/westi.wordpress.com/134/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/westi.wordpress.com/134/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/westi.wordpress.com/134/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/westi.wordpress.com/134/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/westi.wordpress.com/134/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westi.wordpress.com&blog=15396&post=134&subd=westi&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:56:01 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:14:"Peter Westwood";}s:7:"summary";s:4439:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Now that WordPress 2.9 has hit the streets there are inevitably going to be a number of bugs which slipped through testing which people will identify and we need a good process for deciding which of these bugs should be included in an upcoming 2.9.1 release and which of them can wait until 3.0 to be fixed.</p>
<p>In the past I think we have included to many changes into the maintenance releases.  This has partly been due to the lack of end-user testing which has taken place during the beta phase and partly based on a drive to fix bugs sooner rather than later.  This has had the unfortunate downside of diverting the time of the core contributors, that they could have been spending on working on features for the next major release, and has meant that the release cycle has been extended to longer than we would have liked.  This means that you don&#8217;t get the cool new features like Trash as soon as you would have done.</p>
<p>This post is an effort to summarise my thoughts on this subject and I would welcome discussion in the comments below &#8211; hopefully we can come up with a succinct set of criteria which will may it clear to everyone what the community thinks should be included in a maintenance release and what should not.</p>
<p>First of all I think it is important to understand the purpose of a maintenance or point release.  To me these releases are about fixing critical bugs which affect a large percentage of end-users and disrupt their ability to use the software. They need to have a small number of changes so as to make them easy to test, lightweight to develop and to reduce the impact on the next major release. This also means that they will be easy to upgrade too and are less likely to break plugins / themes in the process so making the upgrade to them even easier and more worry free.</p>
<p>If we let the content of these release grow too large then we will never have the time to work on the new features for the next major release which will then mean that release takes longer to arrive and may end up with less features.  We also need to remember that every change has the risk of introducing a new bug and this is another reason we should limit the number of changes in a maintenance release.</p>
<p>Now we need to identify what sort of bugs fit into the category of critical bugs.  The most obvious and easiest to identify are the security bugs &#8211; fixes for these need to be available as soon as possible. Once we get beyond security bugs it can get more difficult to quantify the affect of the issue and therefore how soon a fix needs to be in the hands of the users.</p>
<p>The following list of criteria are my <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man_proposal">straw man proposal</a> on this subject:</p>
<ul>
<li>The issue is easily reproducible and testable.</li>
<li>The issue is severe &#8211; e.g. it makes a whole feature unusable and therefore the fix cannot wait for the next major release.</li>
<li>The issue is a regression from a previous major release &#8211; for example if an unintentional/incompatible change to an API or UI was made.</li>
<li>The issue is not just that warnings or notices appear when WP_DEBUG is enabled the area of code in question must also fail to work correctly.</li>
</ul>
<p>What do you think?</p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/westi.wordpress.com/134/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/westi.wordpress.com/134/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/westi.wordpress.com/134/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/westi.wordpress.com/134/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/westi.wordpress.com/134/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/westi.wordpress.com/134/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/westi.wordpress.com/134/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/westi.wordpress.com/134/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/westi.wordpress.com/134/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/westi.wordpress.com/134/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westi.wordpress.com&blog=15396&post=134&subd=westi&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:33;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: Download WordPress 2.9 “Carmenâ€";s:4:"guid";s:83:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/18/download-wordpress-2-9-carmen/";s:4:"link";s:83:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/18/download-wordpress-2-9-carmen/";s:11:"description";s:707:"<p>Surprise, WordPress 2.9 “Carmenâ€ is out and available for downloads, you can either download it from <a href="http://wordpress.org/" target="_blank">here</a> or use the inbuilt updater to upgrade to WP 2.9.</p>
<p>More info available at the <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9/" target="_blank">WordPress blog</a>. In case you want to know about the new features, check out my earlier <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/03/wordpress-2-9-packs-in-loads-of-features-hands-on-review/" target="_blank">review of new features in WordPress 2.9</a> or visit the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.9" target="_blank">WP Codex for WP 2.9</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:31:02 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Keith Dsouza";}s:7:"summary";s:707:"<p>Surprise, WordPress 2.9 “Carmenâ€ is out and available for downloads, you can either download it from <a href="http://wordpress.org/" target="_blank">here</a> or use the inbuilt updater to upgrade to WP 2.9.</p>
<p>More info available at the <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9/" target="_blank">WordPress blog</a>. In case you want to know about the new features, check out my earlier <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/03/wordpress-2-9-packs-in-loads-of-features-hands-on-review/" target="_blank">review of new features in WordPress 2.9</a> or visit the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.9" target="_blank">WP Codex for WP 2.9</a>.</p>";}i:34;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:35:"Dev Blog: WordPress 2.9, oh so fine";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1075";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9/";s:11:"description";s:13804:"<p>I want to make you mine, all the time&#8230; oh wait. Hello. I&#8217;m here on behalf of the entire WordPress development team and community to announce the immediate availability of <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">WordPress version 2.9 &#8220;Carmen&#8221;</a> named in honor of magical jazz vocalist <a href="http://www.carmenmcrae.com/">Carmen McRae</a> (whom we&#8217;ve <a href="http://www.last.fm/tag/wordpress-release-jazz">added to our Last.fm WP release station</a>). You can upgrade easily from your Dashboard by going to <strong>Tools</strong> &gt; <strong>Upgrade</strong>, or you can <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">download from WordPress.org</a>. And of course, it wouldn&#8217;t be a major release without a short video summarizing some of the cool things about the new version:<br />
</p>
<p>The coolest new stuff from a user point of view is:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Global undo/&#8221;trash&#8221; feature</strong>, which means that if you accidentally delete a post or comment you can bring it back from the grave (i.e., the Trash). This also eliminates those annoying &#8220;are you sure&#8221; messages we used to have on every delete.</li>
<li><strong>Built-in image editor</strong> allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images to show them who&#8217;s boss. This is the first wave of our many planned media-handling improvements.</li>
<li><strong>Batch plugin update and compatibility checking,</strong> which means you can update 10 plugins at once, versus having to do multiple clicks for each one, and we&#8217;re using the new compatibility data from the plugins directory to give you a better idea of whether your plugins are compatible with new releases of WordPress. This should take the fear and hassle out of upgrading.</li>
<li><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds"><strong>Easier video embeds</strong></a> that allow you to just paste a URL on its own line and have it magically turn it into the proper embed code, with Oembed support for YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv (and more in the next release).</li>
</ol>
<p>2.9 provides the smoothest ride yet because of a number of improvements under the hood and more subtle improvements you&#8217;ll begin to appreciate once you&#8217;ve been around the block a few times. Here&#8217;s just a sampling:</p>
<ul>
<li>We now have <code>rel=canonical</code> support for better SEO.</li>
<li>There is automatic database optimization support, which you can enable in your <code>wp-config.php</code> file by adding <code>define('WP_ALLOW_REPAIR', true);</code>.</li>
<li>Themes can register &#8220;post thumbnails&#8221; which allow them to attach an image to the post, especially useful for magazine-style themes.</li>
<li>A new <code>commentmeta</code> table that allows arbitrary key/value pairs to be attached to comments, just like posts, so you can now expand greatly what you can do in the comment framework.</li>
<li>Custom post types have been upgraded with better API support so you can juggle more types than just post, page, and attachment. (More of this planned for 3.0.)</li>
<li>You can set custom theme directories, so a plugin can register a theme to be bundled with it or you can have multiple shared theme directories on your server.</li>
<li>We&#8217;ve upgraded TinyMCE WYSIWYG editing and Simplepie.</li>
<li>Sidebars can now have descriptions so it&#8217;s more obvious what and where they do what they do.</li>
<li>Specify category templates not just by ID, like before, but by slug, which will make it easier for theme developers to do custom things with categories &#8212; like post types!</li>
<li>Registration and profiles are now extensible to allow you to collect things more easily, like a user&#8217;s Twitter account or any other fields you can imagine.</li>
<li>The XML-RPC API has been extended to allow changing the user registration option. We fixed some Atom API attachment issues.</li>
<li>Create custom galleries with the new include and exclude attributes that allow you to pull attachments from any post, not just the current one.</li>
<li>When you&#8217;re editing files in the theme and plugin editors it remembers your location and takes you back to that line after you save. (Thank goodness!!!)</li>
<li>The Press This bookmarklet has been improved and is faster than ever; give it a try for on-the-fly blogging from wherever you are on the internet.</li>
<li>Custom taxonomies are now included in the WXR export file and imported correctly.</li>
<li>Better hooks and filters for excerpts, smilies, HTTP requests, user profiles, author links, taxonomies, SSL support, tag clouds, query_posts and WP_Query</li>
</ul>
<p>All of this and more is reflected in the <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;milestone=2.9">over 500 tickets, bugs, and enhancements that WP developers in this release cycle</a>.</p>
<p>This release included code from over 140 contributors, here&#8217;s everyone we were able to identify: <a href="http://xavisys.com/">aaroncampbell (Aaron Campbell)</a>, <a href="http://sixohthree.com/">abackstrom (Adam Backstrom)</a>, <a href="http://www.aldenta.com/">aldenta (John Ford)</a>, <a href="http://alexking.org/">alexkingorg (Alex King)</a>, [amilanov], <a href="http://antony.lesuisse.org/">antonylesuisse (Antony Lesuisse)</a>, <a href="http://apeatling.wordpress.com/">apeatling (Andy Peatling)</a>, <a href="http://blog.apokalyptik.com/">apokalyptik (Demitrious Kelly)</a>, <a href="http://www.mailpress.org/">arena (André Renaut)</a>, <a href="http://digitalize.ca/">batmoo (Mohammad Jangda)</a>, <a href="http://bendunkle.com/">Ben Dunkle</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/benbe1987">BenBE1987</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://blog.bf-itservice.de/">Benjamin Flesch</a>, <a href="http://www.happyhumans.com/">bookchiq (Sarah Lewis)</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/brianwhite">brianwhite</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/c0nstruct">c0nstruct</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://www.caesarsgrunt.com/">caesarsgrunt (Caesar Schinas)</a>, <a href="http://kniffenwebdesign.com/">CalebKniffen (Caleb Kniffen)</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/chrisbliss18">chrisbliss18</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/chrisscott">chrisscott (Chris Scott)</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/christoph179">christoph179</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://coffee2code.com/">coffee2code (Scott Reilly)</a>, [cross country flight], <a href="http://www.curioso.org/">Curioso</a>, <a href="http://dave.pageportfolio.co.uk/">davecpage (Dave Page)</a>, <a href="http://dan-cole.com/">dcole07 (Dan Cole)</a>, <a href="http://dd32.id.au/">dd32 (Dion Hulse)</a>, <a href="http://op111.net/">demetris (ΔημήτÏης Κίκιζας)</a>, <a href="http://www.semiologic.com/">Denis-de-Bernardy</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/dj-wp">dj-wp</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/dwright">dwright</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://eddieringle.com/">eddieringle (Eddie Ringle)</a>, <a href="http://www.homelandstupidity.us/">error (Michael Hampton)</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/ewestp">ewestp</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/fabifott">fabifott</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://www.ilfilosofo.com/">filosofo (Austin Matzko)</a>, <a href="http://justintadlock.com/">greenshady (Justin Tadlock)</a>, <a href="http://gsnedders.com/">gsnedders/link92 (Geoffrey Sneddon)</a>, <a href="http://hailin.wordpress.com/">hailin (Hailin Wu)</a>, <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Hakre">hakre</a>, <!--CODEX.wp.org--> <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/hanilovesme">hanilovesme</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://ondskap.net/wp/">Harald Nesland</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/harrym">harrym</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://holizz.com/">holizz (Tom Adams)</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/ikonst">ikonst</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://jacobsantos.com/">jacobsantos (Jacob Santos)</a>, <a href="http://jane.wordpress.com/">janeforshort (Jane Wells)</a>, <a href="http://om4.com.au/">jamescollins (James Collins)</a>, <a href="http://bethesignal.org/">jdub (Jeff Waugh)</a>, <a href="http://www.modulaweb.fr/">jeff_ (Jean-François “Jeffâ€ VIAL)</a>, <a href="http://simianuprising.com/">jeremyclarke (Jeremy Clarke)</a>, <a href="http://jeremy.visser.name/">JeremyVisser (Jeremy Visser)</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/jikamens">jikamens</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/jmulley">jmulley</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/joern_w">Joern_W</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://devel.kostdoktorn.se/">johanee (Johan Eenfeldt)</a>, <a href="http://lud.icro.us/">johnbillion (John Blackbourn)</a>, <a href="http://johnjamesjacoby.com/">johnjamesjacoby (John James Jacoby)</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/johnjosephbachir">johnjosephbachir (John Joseph Bachir)</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/jonathanrogers">JonathanRogers</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://yoast.com/">joostdevalk (Joost de Valk)</a>, <a href="http://rooibo.wordpress.com/">Jose Carlos Norte</a>, <a href="http://josephscott.org/">josephscott (Joseph Scott)</a>, <a href="http://tyco.ws/">junsuijin</a>, <a href="http://agapetry.net/">kevinB (Kevin Behrens)</a>, <a href="http://kometbomb.net/">kometbomb</a>, <a href="http://www.yuriko.net/">lilyfan (IKEDA Yuriko)</a>, [lostinlafayette], <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/madhyde">madhyde</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://subscribe2.wordpress.com/">MattyRob</a>, <a href="http://blogwaffe.com/">mdawaffe (Michael Adams)</a>, <a href="http://www.mittineague.com/">Mittineague</a>, <a href="http://blogyul.miqrogroove.com/">miqrogroove</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/morfiusx">morfiusx</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://www.misthaven.org.uk/blog/">mrmist (David McFarlane)</a>, <a href="http://nickmomrik.com/">mtdewvirus (Nick Momrik)</a>, <a href="http://urzenia.net/">mysz</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/nacin">nacin (Andrew Nacin)</a>, <a href="http://thebookofjoe.com/">nanochrome</a>, <a href="http://blog.detlog.org/">nao (Naoko  McCracken)</a>, <a href="http://www.nathanrice.net/">nathanrice (Nathan Rice)</a>, <a href="http://nikolay.bg/">nbachiyski (Ðиколай БачийÑки)</a>, <a href="http://www.niallkennedy.com/">niallkennedy (Niall Kennedy)</a>, <a href="http://nickohrn.com/">nickohrn (Nick Ohrn)</a>, <a href="http://www.rpmurphy.com/">ninjaWR (Ryan Murphy)</a>, <a href="http://noel.io/">noel (Noël Jackson)</a>, <a href="http://ottodestruct.com/">Otto42 (Samuel Wood)</a>, <a href="https://redmine.kirdev.sch.bme.hu/">pairg</a>, <a href="https://peaceable-whale.pip.verisignlabs.com/">peaceablewhale (Franklin Tse)</a>, <a href="http://cnpstudio.com/">prettyboymp (Michael Pretty)</a>, <a href="http://www.prodevstudio.net">ProDevStudio</a>, <a href="http://www.bdihot.co.il/">ramiy</a>, <a href="http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/">redsweater (Daniel Jalkut)</a>, <a href="http://ruslany.net/">ruslany</a>, <a href="http://unlettered.org/">sambauers (Sam Bauers)</a>, <a href="http://scribu.net/">scribu</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/sewar">Sewar</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/simek">Simek</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/">simonwheatley (Simon Wheatley)</a>, <a href="http://www.poradnik-webmastera.com/">sirzooro (Daniel Frużyński)</a>, <a href="http://sivel.net/">sivel (Matt Martz)</a>, <a href="http://skeltoac.com/">skeltoac (Andy Skelton)</a>, <a href="http://smallvoid.com/about/">snakefoot</a>, <a href="http://stephanreiter.info/">stephanreiter (Stephan Reiter)</a>, <a href="http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/">strider72 (Stephen Rider)</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/taco1991">taco1991</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://ideasilo.wordpress.com/">takayukister (Takayuki Miyoshi)</a>, <a href="http://tellyworth.wordpress.com/">tellyworth</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/tenpura">tenpura</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/usermrpapa">usermrpapa</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/utkarsh">utkarsh</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/">Viper007Bond</a>, <a href="http://blog.sjinks.org.ua/">vladimir_kolesnikov (Vladimir Kolesnikov)</a>, <a href="http://voxpelli.se/">VoxPelli (Pelle Wessman)</a>, [voyou1], <a href="http://emphaticallystatic.org/">wahgnube</a>, <a href="http://www.waltervos.com/">waltervos</a>, <a href="http://weston.ruter.net/">westonruter (Weston Ruter)</a>, <a href="http://willnorris.com/">wnorris (Will Norris)</a>, <a href="http://xentek.net/">xenlab (Eric Marden)</a>, <a href="http://blog.yoavfarhi.com/">yoavf (Yoav Farhi)</a>. Wowza!</p>
<p>2.9 has been an exciting development cycle, and I must say it has whetted our appetite for 3.0, which is coming next (probably this spring) and will include at the very least the merge of MU with the WordPress core, and a new default theme. We can&#8217;t wait to start working on it. But first, some Carmen McRae tunes and a beer. Join us! <img src="http://wordpress.org/development/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>(<em>After</em> you upgrade, of course!)</p>
<p>I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:46:11 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:13804:"<p>I want to make you mine, all the time&#8230; oh wait. Hello. I&#8217;m here on behalf of the entire WordPress development team and community to announce the immediate availability of <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">WordPress version 2.9 &#8220;Carmen&#8221;</a> named in honor of magical jazz vocalist <a href="http://www.carmenmcrae.com/">Carmen McRae</a> (whom we&#8217;ve <a href="http://www.last.fm/tag/wordpress-release-jazz">added to our Last.fm WP release station</a>). You can upgrade easily from your Dashboard by going to <strong>Tools</strong> &gt; <strong>Upgrade</strong>, or you can <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">download from WordPress.org</a>. And of course, it wouldn&#8217;t be a major release without a short video summarizing some of the cool things about the new version:<br />
</p>
<p>The coolest new stuff from a user point of view is:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Global undo/&#8221;trash&#8221; feature</strong>, which means that if you accidentally delete a post or comment you can bring it back from the grave (i.e., the Trash). This also eliminates those annoying &#8220;are you sure&#8221; messages we used to have on every delete.</li>
<li><strong>Built-in image editor</strong> allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images to show them who&#8217;s boss. This is the first wave of our many planned media-handling improvements.</li>
<li><strong>Batch plugin update and compatibility checking,</strong> which means you can update 10 plugins at once, versus having to do multiple clicks for each one, and we&#8217;re using the new compatibility data from the plugins directory to give you a better idea of whether your plugins are compatible with new releases of WordPress. This should take the fear and hassle out of upgrading.</li>
<li><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds"><strong>Easier video embeds</strong></a> that allow you to just paste a URL on its own line and have it magically turn it into the proper embed code, with Oembed support for YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv (and more in the next release).</li>
</ol>
<p>2.9 provides the smoothest ride yet because of a number of improvements under the hood and more subtle improvements you&#8217;ll begin to appreciate once you&#8217;ve been around the block a few times. Here&#8217;s just a sampling:</p>
<ul>
<li>We now have <code>rel=canonical</code> support for better SEO.</li>
<li>There is automatic database optimization support, which you can enable in your <code>wp-config.php</code> file by adding <code>define('WP_ALLOW_REPAIR', true);</code>.</li>
<li>Themes can register &#8220;post thumbnails&#8221; which allow them to attach an image to the post, especially useful for magazine-style themes.</li>
<li>A new <code>commentmeta</code> table that allows arbitrary key/value pairs to be attached to comments, just like posts, so you can now expand greatly what you can do in the comment framework.</li>
<li>Custom post types have been upgraded with better API support so you can juggle more types than just post, page, and attachment. (More of this planned for 3.0.)</li>
<li>You can set custom theme directories, so a plugin can register a theme to be bundled with it or you can have multiple shared theme directories on your server.</li>
<li>We&#8217;ve upgraded TinyMCE WYSIWYG editing and Simplepie.</li>
<li>Sidebars can now have descriptions so it&#8217;s more obvious what and where they do what they do.</li>
<li>Specify category templates not just by ID, like before, but by slug, which will make it easier for theme developers to do custom things with categories &#8212; like post types!</li>
<li>Registration and profiles are now extensible to allow you to collect things more easily, like a user&#8217;s Twitter account or any other fields you can imagine.</li>
<li>The XML-RPC API has been extended to allow changing the user registration option. We fixed some Atom API attachment issues.</li>
<li>Create custom galleries with the new include and exclude attributes that allow you to pull attachments from any post, not just the current one.</li>
<li>When you&#8217;re editing files in the theme and plugin editors it remembers your location and takes you back to that line after you save. (Thank goodness!!!)</li>
<li>The Press This bookmarklet has been improved and is faster than ever; give it a try for on-the-fly blogging from wherever you are on the internet.</li>
<li>Custom taxonomies are now included in the WXR export file and imported correctly.</li>
<li>Better hooks and filters for excerpts, smilies, HTTP requests, user profiles, author links, taxonomies, SSL support, tag clouds, query_posts and WP_Query</li>
</ul>
<p>All of this and more is reflected in the <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;milestone=2.9">over 500 tickets, bugs, and enhancements that WP developers in this release cycle</a>.</p>
<p>This release included code from over 140 contributors, here&#8217;s everyone we were able to identify: <a href="http://xavisys.com/">aaroncampbell (Aaron Campbell)</a>, <a href="http://sixohthree.com/">abackstrom (Adam Backstrom)</a>, <a href="http://www.aldenta.com/">aldenta (John Ford)</a>, <a href="http://alexking.org/">alexkingorg (Alex King)</a>, [amilanov], <a href="http://antony.lesuisse.org/">antonylesuisse (Antony Lesuisse)</a>, <a href="http://apeatling.wordpress.com/">apeatling (Andy Peatling)</a>, <a href="http://blog.apokalyptik.com/">apokalyptik (Demitrious Kelly)</a>, <a href="http://www.mailpress.org/">arena (André Renaut)</a>, <a href="http://digitalize.ca/">batmoo (Mohammad Jangda)</a>, <a href="http://bendunkle.com/">Ben Dunkle</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/benbe1987">BenBE1987</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://blog.bf-itservice.de/">Benjamin Flesch</a>, <a href="http://www.happyhumans.com/">bookchiq (Sarah Lewis)</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/brianwhite">brianwhite</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/c0nstruct">c0nstruct</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://www.caesarsgrunt.com/">caesarsgrunt (Caesar Schinas)</a>, <a href="http://kniffenwebdesign.com/">CalebKniffen (Caleb Kniffen)</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/chrisbliss18">chrisbliss18</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/chrisscott">chrisscott (Chris Scott)</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/christoph179">christoph179</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://coffee2code.com/">coffee2code (Scott Reilly)</a>, [cross country flight], <a href="http://www.curioso.org/">Curioso</a>, <a href="http://dave.pageportfolio.co.uk/">davecpage (Dave Page)</a>, <a href="http://dan-cole.com/">dcole07 (Dan Cole)</a>, <a href="http://dd32.id.au/">dd32 (Dion Hulse)</a>, <a href="http://op111.net/">demetris (ΔημήτÏης Κίκιζας)</a>, <a href="http://www.semiologic.com/">Denis-de-Bernardy</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/dj-wp">dj-wp</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/dwright">dwright</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://eddieringle.com/">eddieringle (Eddie Ringle)</a>, <a href="http://www.homelandstupidity.us/">error (Michael Hampton)</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/ewestp">ewestp</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/fabifott">fabifott</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://www.ilfilosofo.com/">filosofo (Austin Matzko)</a>, <a href="http://justintadlock.com/">greenshady (Justin Tadlock)</a>, <a href="http://gsnedders.com/">gsnedders/link92 (Geoffrey Sneddon)</a>, <a href="http://hailin.wordpress.com/">hailin (Hailin Wu)</a>, <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Hakre">hakre</a>, <!--CODEX.wp.org--> <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/hanilovesme">hanilovesme</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://ondskap.net/wp/">Harald Nesland</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/harrym">harrym</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://holizz.com/">holizz (Tom Adams)</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/ikonst">ikonst</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://jacobsantos.com/">jacobsantos (Jacob Santos)</a>, <a href="http://jane.wordpress.com/">janeforshort (Jane Wells)</a>, <a href="http://om4.com.au/">jamescollins (James Collins)</a>, <a href="http://bethesignal.org/">jdub (Jeff Waugh)</a>, <a href="http://www.modulaweb.fr/">jeff_ (Jean-François “Jeffâ€ VIAL)</a>, <a href="http://simianuprising.com/">jeremyclarke (Jeremy Clarke)</a>, <a href="http://jeremy.visser.name/">JeremyVisser (Jeremy Visser)</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/jikamens">jikamens</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/jmulley">jmulley</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/joern_w">Joern_W</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://devel.kostdoktorn.se/">johanee (Johan Eenfeldt)</a>, <a href="http://lud.icro.us/">johnbillion (John Blackbourn)</a>, <a href="http://johnjamesjacoby.com/">johnjamesjacoby (John James Jacoby)</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/johnjosephbachir">johnjosephbachir (John Joseph Bachir)</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/jonathanrogers">JonathanRogers</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://yoast.com/">joostdevalk (Joost de Valk)</a>, <a href="http://rooibo.wordpress.com/">Jose Carlos Norte</a>, <a href="http://josephscott.org/">josephscott (Joseph Scott)</a>, <a href="http://tyco.ws/">junsuijin</a>, <a href="http://agapetry.net/">kevinB (Kevin Behrens)</a>, <a href="http://kometbomb.net/">kometbomb</a>, <a href="http://www.yuriko.net/">lilyfan (IKEDA Yuriko)</a>, [lostinlafayette], <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/madhyde">madhyde</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://subscribe2.wordpress.com/">MattyRob</a>, <a href="http://blogwaffe.com/">mdawaffe (Michael Adams)</a>, <a href="http://www.mittineague.com/">Mittineague</a>, <a href="http://blogyul.miqrogroove.com/">miqrogroove</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/morfiusx">morfiusx</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://www.misthaven.org.uk/blog/">mrmist (David McFarlane)</a>, <a href="http://nickmomrik.com/">mtdewvirus (Nick Momrik)</a>, <a href="http://urzenia.net/">mysz</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/nacin">nacin (Andrew Nacin)</a>, <a href="http://thebookofjoe.com/">nanochrome</a>, <a href="http://blog.detlog.org/">nao (Naoko  McCracken)</a>, <a href="http://www.nathanrice.net/">nathanrice (Nathan Rice)</a>, <a href="http://nikolay.bg/">nbachiyski (Ðиколай БачийÑки)</a>, <a href="http://www.niallkennedy.com/">niallkennedy (Niall Kennedy)</a>, <a href="http://nickohrn.com/">nickohrn (Nick Ohrn)</a>, <a href="http://www.rpmurphy.com/">ninjaWR (Ryan Murphy)</a>, <a href="http://noel.io/">noel (Noël Jackson)</a>, <a href="http://ottodestruct.com/">Otto42 (Samuel Wood)</a>, <a href="https://redmine.kirdev.sch.bme.hu/">pairg</a>, <a href="https://peaceable-whale.pip.verisignlabs.com/">peaceablewhale (Franklin Tse)</a>, <a href="http://cnpstudio.com/">prettyboymp (Michael Pretty)</a>, <a href="http://www.prodevstudio.net">ProDevStudio</a>, <a href="http://www.bdihot.co.il/">ramiy</a>, <a href="http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/">redsweater (Daniel Jalkut)</a>, <a href="http://ruslany.net/">ruslany</a>, <a href="http://unlettered.org/">sambauers (Sam Bauers)</a>, <a href="http://scribu.net/">scribu</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/sewar">Sewar</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/simek">Simek</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/">simonwheatley (Simon Wheatley)</a>, <a href="http://www.poradnik-webmastera.com/">sirzooro (Daniel Frużyński)</a>, <a href="http://sivel.net/">sivel (Matt Martz)</a>, <a href="http://skeltoac.com/">skeltoac (Andy Skelton)</a>, <a href="http://smallvoid.com/about/">snakefoot</a>, <a href="http://stephanreiter.info/">stephanreiter (Stephan Reiter)</a>, <a href="http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/">strider72 (Stephen Rider)</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/taco1991">taco1991</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://ideasilo.wordpress.com/">takayukister (Takayuki Miyoshi)</a>, <a href="http://tellyworth.wordpress.com/">tellyworth</a>, <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/tenpura">tenpura</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/usermrpapa">usermrpapa</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/utkarsh">utkarsh</a>, <!--PROFILES.wp.org--> <a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/">Viper007Bond</a>, <a href="http://blog.sjinks.org.ua/">vladimir_kolesnikov (Vladimir Kolesnikov)</a>, <a href="http://voxpelli.se/">VoxPelli (Pelle Wessman)</a>, [voyou1], <a href="http://emphaticallystatic.org/">wahgnube</a>, <a href="http://www.waltervos.com/">waltervos</a>, <a href="http://weston.ruter.net/">westonruter (Weston Ruter)</a>, <a href="http://willnorris.com/">wnorris (Will Norris)</a>, <a href="http://xentek.net/">xenlab (Eric Marden)</a>, <a href="http://blog.yoavfarhi.com/">yoavf (Yoav Farhi)</a>. Wowza!</p>
<p>2.9 has been an exciting development cycle, and I must say it has whetted our appetite for 3.0, which is coming next (probably this spring) and will include at the very least the merge of MU with the WordPress core, and a new default theme. We can&#8217;t wait to start working on it. But first, some Carmen McRae tunes and a beer. Join us! <img src="http://wordpress.org/development/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>(<em>After</em> you upgrade, of course!)</p>
<p>I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season.</p>";}i:35;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:31:"Dev Blog: 2010: A Theme Odyssey";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1065";s:4:"link";s:62:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/2010-a-theme-odyssey/";s:11:"description";s:2818:"<p>After the <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/core-team-meetup-results/">video from the core team meetup</a> was posted, the topic that seemed to get the most attention on Twitter and various community sites was Matt&#8217;s announcement that there would be a new default theme in 2010, so I thought I&#8217;d start with that as the first of the meetup summaries.</p>
<p>When Kubrick was bundled with core back in 2005, it was a cutting edge theme. Custom header, rounded corners, clean design&#8230; if you were using WordPress back then, let&#8217;s face it, you were impressed. Time moves on, though, fashions change, new styles become old standards, and what was once cutting edge suddenly seems old-fashioned and out of date.</p>
<p>So, a new bundled theme in 2010? We think it&#8217;s a good idea. Something nice and light that can serve as a good example theme, include newer theme-based features, and look nice (and current) on a public site. We&#8217;d like to introduce a new default theme with version 3.0, which is anticipated to come out in mid-2010 (hence the name), and think it would be good for it to blend well aesthetically with WordPress itself.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d been advocating moving toward <a href="http://elastictheme.org/">Elastic</a>, the theme framework/WYSIWYG theme editor that was one of our Google Summer of Code student projects, but after some discussion I agreed with the guys that while Elastic is awesome and should be promoted as a community development project, it&#8217;s heavier than a default theme needs to be. The default theme doesn&#8217;t need to be a full-featured framework, it just needs to work well, look awesome, have good code and be a good starting point for beginning themers. We were thinking of a fairly minimalist design that would make it easy to customize.</p>
<p>As for the code, there&#8217;s a question of if it will really be a new theme, or if it will be a re-styled and updated version of Kubrick.  We don&#8217;t know the final answer to that yet, because the ultimate decision will be made with the community&#8217;s input, but we believe all new markup is the way to go. What do you think? Without venturing into theme framework territory, are there features you think a new default theme should have? Some people have been <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9015">talking about it on Trac</a> over the past year, if you wonder what&#8217;s been tossed around so far. I thought about posting a poll here (you know how I love posting polls to gauge opinion), but in this case I think a discussion thread might be better, so that each vote can explain the reason behind it. So, have an opinion on what a new default theme should include? <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/342819">Weigh in at the forums</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:36:43 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:7:"summary";s:2818:"<p>After the <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/core-team-meetup-results/">video from the core team meetup</a> was posted, the topic that seemed to get the most attention on Twitter and various community sites was Matt&#8217;s announcement that there would be a new default theme in 2010, so I thought I&#8217;d start with that as the first of the meetup summaries.</p>
<p>When Kubrick was bundled with core back in 2005, it was a cutting edge theme. Custom header, rounded corners, clean design&#8230; if you were using WordPress back then, let&#8217;s face it, you were impressed. Time moves on, though, fashions change, new styles become old standards, and what was once cutting edge suddenly seems old-fashioned and out of date.</p>
<p>So, a new bundled theme in 2010? We think it&#8217;s a good idea. Something nice and light that can serve as a good example theme, include newer theme-based features, and look nice (and current) on a public site. We&#8217;d like to introduce a new default theme with version 3.0, which is anticipated to come out in mid-2010 (hence the name), and think it would be good for it to blend well aesthetically with WordPress itself.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d been advocating moving toward <a href="http://elastictheme.org/">Elastic</a>, the theme framework/WYSIWYG theme editor that was one of our Google Summer of Code student projects, but after some discussion I agreed with the guys that while Elastic is awesome and should be promoted as a community development project, it&#8217;s heavier than a default theme needs to be. The default theme doesn&#8217;t need to be a full-featured framework, it just needs to work well, look awesome, have good code and be a good starting point for beginning themers. We were thinking of a fairly minimalist design that would make it easy to customize.</p>
<p>As for the code, there&#8217;s a question of if it will really be a new theme, or if it will be a re-styled and updated version of Kubrick.  We don&#8217;t know the final answer to that yet, because the ultimate decision will be made with the community&#8217;s input, but we believe all new markup is the way to go. What do you think? Without venturing into theme framework territory, are there features you think a new default theme should have? Some people have been <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9015">talking about it on Trac</a> over the past year, if you wonder what&#8217;s been tossed around so far. I thought about posting a poll here (you know how I love posting polls to gauge opinion), but in this case I think a discussion thread might be better, so that each vote can explain the reason behind it. So, have an opinion on what a new default theme should include? <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/342819">Weigh in at the forums</a>.</p>";}i:36;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:41:"Weblog Tools Collection: The GTD P2 Theme";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7384";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/18/the-gtd-p2-theme/";s:11:"description";s:653:"<p>Templatic.com has released a new theme based on P2 called <a href="http://templatic.com/freethemes/gtd-%E2%80%93-private-blog-theme-for-teams-to-collaborate">GTD</a>. GTD is meant for private use for collaborative teams of people. Asides from the default functionality supplied by P2, GTD has added file attachment and user notification functions. </p>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/gtd.png" alt="gtd" title="gtd" width="584" height="264" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7385" /></p>
<p>For many, the attachment addition to P2 makes this an incredibly simple tool to collaborate on projects with. </p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:15:07 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:653:"<p>Templatic.com has released a new theme based on P2 called <a href="http://templatic.com/freethemes/gtd-%E2%80%93-private-blog-theme-for-teams-to-collaborate">GTD</a>. GTD is meant for private use for collaborative teams of people. Asides from the default functionality supplied by P2, GTD has added file attachment and user notification functions. </p>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/gtd.png" alt="gtd" title="gtd" width="584" height="264" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7385" /></p>
<p>For many, the attachment addition to P2 makes this an incredibly simple tool to collaborate on projects with. </p>";}i:37;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 12/18";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7371";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/18/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1218/";s:11:"description";s:2510:"<h4><a href="http://www.fluffypress.com/wordpress/death-note-theme/">Death Note</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://demo.fluffypress.com/"><img title="Death Note" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/DeathNote.jpg" alt="Death Note" width="200" height="125" /></a></p>
<p>Two column theme for fans of Japanese animation</p>
<h4><a href="http://slackrthemes.com/2009/free-wordpress-theme-lumiere/">Lumiere</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://slackrthemes.com/test/?preview_theme=Lumiere"><img title="Lumiere" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Lumiere.png" alt="Lumiere" width="200" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Lumiere is the first theme released by the newly created SlackrThemes. It has a bright color scheme with a clean and easy-to-read layout that&#8217;s optimized for SEO, has paginated posts and comments, widgetized sidebars, and all of the amenities that you would expect from a theme.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.jauhari.net/free-wordpress-theme-shofi.jsp">Shofi</a></h4>
<p><img title="Shofi" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Shofi.jpg" alt="Shofi" width="200" height="148" /></p>
<p>Shofi Theme is grid based <a href="http://www.jauhari.net/category/wordpress-theme">wordpress theme</a>, powered by <a href="http://960.gs">960.gs</a> framework 24 columns with features including Autograbbed Image and resize on the fly, Extra Ordinary Recent Post and Recent Comment, Widgets, Magazine style</p>
<h4><a href="http://ready2launch.jedenbod.cz/">Ready2Launch</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://demo.jedenbod.cz/"><img title="Ready2Launch" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Ready2Launch.png" alt="Ready2Launch" width="200" height="149" /></a></p>
<p>A WordPress theme, with admin options page for customization, or as simple HTML/CSS page (No PHP/MySQL needed). Includes 6 themes and notes on customization.</p>
<h4><a href="http://slackrthemes.com/2009/free-wordpress-theme-techrey/">Techrey</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://slackrthemes.com/test/?preview_theme=Techrey"><img title="Techrey" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Techrey.png" alt="Techrey" width="200" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Three column theme with a widgetized left sidebar and a widgetized footer that you can customize to your hearts content. With gravatars on the front page, and all of the features you love. It&#8217;s very minimal too, everything is packed into a small little package for you to enjoy.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:56:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:2510:"<h4><a href="http://www.fluffypress.com/wordpress/death-note-theme/">Death Note</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://demo.fluffypress.com/"><img title="Death Note" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/DeathNote.jpg" alt="Death Note" width="200" height="125" /></a></p>
<p>Two column theme for fans of Japanese animation</p>
<h4><a href="http://slackrthemes.com/2009/free-wordpress-theme-lumiere/">Lumiere</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://slackrthemes.com/test/?preview_theme=Lumiere"><img title="Lumiere" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Lumiere.png" alt="Lumiere" width="200" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Lumiere is the first theme released by the newly created SlackrThemes. It has a bright color scheme with a clean and easy-to-read layout that&#8217;s optimized for SEO, has paginated posts and comments, widgetized sidebars, and all of the amenities that you would expect from a theme.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.jauhari.net/free-wordpress-theme-shofi.jsp">Shofi</a></h4>
<p><img title="Shofi" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Shofi.jpg" alt="Shofi" width="200" height="148" /></p>
<p>Shofi Theme is grid based <a href="http://www.jauhari.net/category/wordpress-theme">wordpress theme</a>, powered by <a href="http://960.gs">960.gs</a> framework 24 columns with features including Autograbbed Image and resize on the fly, Extra Ordinary Recent Post and Recent Comment, Widgets, Magazine style</p>
<h4><a href="http://ready2launch.jedenbod.cz/">Ready2Launch</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://demo.jedenbod.cz/"><img title="Ready2Launch" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Ready2Launch.png" alt="Ready2Launch" width="200" height="149" /></a></p>
<p>A WordPress theme, with admin options page for customization, or as simple HTML/CSS page (No PHP/MySQL needed). Includes 6 themes and notes on customization.</p>
<h4><a href="http://slackrthemes.com/2009/free-wordpress-theme-techrey/">Techrey</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://slackrthemes.com/test/?preview_theme=Techrey"><img title="Techrey" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Techrey.png" alt="Techrey" width="200" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Three column theme with a widgetized left sidebar and a widgetized footer that you can customize to your hearts content. With gravatars on the front page, and all of the features you love. It&#8217;s very minimal too, everything is packed into a small little package for you to enjoy.</p>";}i:38;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:55:"WordPress.tv: Inspirageek Interview with Matt Mullenweg";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=3168";s:4:"link";s:73:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/12/18/inspirageek-interview-with-matt-mullenweg/";s:11:"description";s:1401:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
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<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/12/18/inspirageek-interview-with-matt-mullenweg/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/B7ZekI0T/mattmullenweginterview_std.original.jpg" alt="" /></a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/3168/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/3168/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/3168/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/3168/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/3168/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/3168/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/3168/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/3168/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/3168/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/3168/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=3168&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:32:09 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:11:"Ryan Markel";}s:7:"summary";s:1401:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
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<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/12/18/inspirageek-interview-with-matt-mullenweg/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/B7ZekI0T/mattmullenweginterview_std.original.jpg" alt="" /></a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/3168/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/3168/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/3168/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/3168/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/3168/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/3168/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/3168/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/3168/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/3168/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/3168/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=3168&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:39;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: Assortment Of Tips For Consultants";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7381";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/17/assortment-of-tips-for-consultants/";s:11:"description";s:1639:"<p>There is no shortage of WordPress consultants to choose from when it comes time to pay for custom development work. If you are aiming towards becoming a WordPress consultant, I encourage you to check out these <a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/12/14/advanced-power-tips-for-wordpress-template-developers-reloaded/">advanced power tips</a> for template developers written by Jacob Goldman on SmashingMagazine.com Jacob does a nice job explaining all sorts of ways consultants can make tailored versions of WordPress. Everything from branding the back-end to modifying the contextual <strong>HELP</strong> drop-down menu so that it contains information specific to that theme. One of my favorite tips presented in the list is the first one, <strong>Customizing the Dashboard Widgets</strong>. This enables developers to add a dashboard widget that can contain support, contact and other information. If a custom solution were developed for me, a dashboard widget like this is what I would consider to be a nice touch.</p>
<p>Also on the topic of WordPress and consultants, I had the chance to <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/wpweekly-episode-81-%e2%80%93-interview-with-jacob-goldman">interview Jacob Goldman in episode 81 of WordPress Weekly</a>. We talked about what it&#8217;s like to do consultancy work around WordPress, some of the new features in WordPress 2.9, and his role in WordCamp Boston slated for January 23rd. </p>
<p>If you are a consultant, I&#8217;m interested in reading any tips you may have in addition to the ones listed in the article I linked to in order to go above and beyond for your clients. </p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:08:16 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1639:"<p>There is no shortage of WordPress consultants to choose from when it comes time to pay for custom development work. If you are aiming towards becoming a WordPress consultant, I encourage you to check out these <a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/12/14/advanced-power-tips-for-wordpress-template-developers-reloaded/">advanced power tips</a> for template developers written by Jacob Goldman on SmashingMagazine.com Jacob does a nice job explaining all sorts of ways consultants can make tailored versions of WordPress. Everything from branding the back-end to modifying the contextual <strong>HELP</strong> drop-down menu so that it contains information specific to that theme. One of my favorite tips presented in the list is the first one, <strong>Customizing the Dashboard Widgets</strong>. This enables developers to add a dashboard widget that can contain support, contact and other information. If a custom solution were developed for me, a dashboard widget like this is what I would consider to be a nice touch.</p>
<p>Also on the topic of WordPress and consultants, I had the chance to <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/wpweekly-episode-81-%e2%80%93-interview-with-jacob-goldman">interview Jacob Goldman in episode 81 of WordPress Weekly</a>. We talked about what it&#8217;s like to do consultancy work around WordPress, some of the new features in WordPress 2.9, and his role in WordCamp Boston slated for January 23rd. </p>
<p>If you are a consultant, I&#8217;m interested in reading any tips you may have in addition to the ones listed in the article I linked to in order to go above and beyond for your clients. </p>";}i:40;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:15:"bbPress: My Bad";s:4:"guid";s:25:"http://bbpress.org/?p=300";s:4:"link";s:39:"http://bbpress.org/blog/2009/12/my-bad/";s:11:"description";s:921:"<p>I missed the IRC meetup. <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif" alt=":(" class="wp-smiley" />  Very sorry about this &#8212; I didn&#8217;t set an alarm and the time just breezed by.</p>
<p>I set an alarm! Will see everyone next Wednesday.</p>
<p>In other news, the poll results are starting to firm up. Winners? Integration with WordPress far and away, followed by anonymous posting, WYSIWYG, and email notifications. We&#8217;re not going to follow these exactly, but it definitely gives us an idea of what people are most interested in and now we have to look behind the answers at what people mean when they say they want something. For example maybe rather than WYSIWYG we could bring over Oembed support from WordPress? I usually think of WYSIWYG more as a layout thing but a lot of people see it as the only way to include rich media. I&#8217;ll dig more into these.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:11:49 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:921:"<p>I missed the IRC meetup. <img src="http://bbpress.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif" alt=":(" class="wp-smiley" />  Very sorry about this &#8212; I didn&#8217;t set an alarm and the time just breezed by.</p>
<p>I set an alarm! Will see everyone next Wednesday.</p>
<p>In other news, the poll results are starting to firm up. Winners? Integration with WordPress far and away, followed by anonymous posting, WYSIWYG, and email notifications. We&#8217;re not going to follow these exactly, but it definitely gives us an idea of what people are most interested in and now we have to look behind the answers at what people mean when they say they want something. For example maybe rather than WYSIWYG we could bring over Oembed support from WordPress? I usually think of WYSIWYG more as a layout thing but a lot of people see it as the only way to include rich media. I&#8217;ll dig more into these.</p>";}i:41;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 12/17";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7376";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/17/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1217/";s:11:"description";s:3994:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.technozeast.com/thesis-style-box">Thesis Style Box</a></p>
<p>Make Styled Note box, Alert box, Help box, Tip Box, Important Box in your posts using classes for Thesis Users.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.technozeast.com/style-commentluv">Style CommentLuv</a></p>
<p>Style commentators last blog post as displayed by the CommentLuv plugin. This plugin is also compatible with Thesis.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.alistercameron.com/2009/12/13/wordpress-plugin-add-categories-menu/">Add Categories to Menu</a></p>
<p>If you’re using WordPress as a CMS, you may have <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page">set up static pages</a> for both a front page (e.g. “Homeâ€) and a page to list your latest blog posts (e.g. “Blogâ€). The plugin allows you to add categories as links in a submenu.</p>
<p><a href="http://mfields.org/wordpress/plugins/taxonomy-list-shortcode/">Taxonomy List Shortcode</a></p>
<p>The Taxonomy List Shortcode plugin adds a shortcode to your WordPress installation which enables you to display multiple unordered lists containing every term of a given taxonomy. The list can be displayed in one to 5 columns &#8211; custom styles are provided.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/revisionary/">Revisionary</a></p>
<p>With Revisionary in place, the meaning of the &#8220;edit_others&#8221; capability shifts to grant revision submission rights if the owner lacks the corresponding &#8220;edit_published&#8221; / &#8220;edit_private&#8221; capability.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webworth.info/wp-plugin/">Web Worth Blog Value Calculator</a></p>
<p>Web Worth Blog Value Calculator is a plug-in that gives you a nice tidy widget to display your blog&#8217;s current estimated value in dollars. This information is displayed to you and your visitors to demonstrate just how much hard work you have put into your blog</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/other-plugins/enable-oembed-discovery/">Enable oEmbed Discovery</a></p>
<p>Website owners can add a bit of HTML to their head that says where their oEmbed provider is located. This allows consumers such as WordPress to embed things from their website without WordPress specifically knowing about their website before hand.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/scb-framework">scbFramework</a></p>
<p>This is a plugin toolkit that helps developers write plugins faster. It consists of several classes which handle common tasks:</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tabbed-widgets/">Tabbed Widgets</a></p>
<p>Tabbed interfaces are the most common on newspaper type website where they can save a lot of vertical space and make it look less cluttered.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/online-leaf/">Online Leaf</a></p>
<p>Provides an interface with <a href="http://www.onlineleaf.com/">Online Leaf</a>, which helps to reduce the amount of energy required to browse the internet, by making websites greener.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wpgeo.com/">WP Geo</a></p>
<p>Add geocoding and Google maps to your WordPress blog</p>
<p><a href="http://arpitshah.com/plugins/all-in-one-webmaster/">All in One Webmaster</a></p>
<p>The plugin has option to add Google, Bing, Yahoo&#8217;s Webmaster and Analytics code. Single click sitemap submission to Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viadat.com/store-locator">Store Locator</a></p>
<p>The Google Maps Store Locator Plugin for WordPress 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://arpitshah.com/plugins/twitter-goodies/">Twitter Goodies</a></p>
<p>Twitter style Twitter Goodies Profile Widget + Twitter Goodies Search Widget + Twitter Integration (wp to twitter) plugin. All in One plugin for Twitter Goodies.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:55:53 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:3994:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.technozeast.com/thesis-style-box">Thesis Style Box</a></p>
<p>Make Styled Note box, Alert box, Help box, Tip Box, Important Box in your posts using classes for Thesis Users.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.technozeast.com/style-commentluv">Style CommentLuv</a></p>
<p>Style commentators last blog post as displayed by the CommentLuv plugin. This plugin is also compatible with Thesis.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.alistercameron.com/2009/12/13/wordpress-plugin-add-categories-menu/">Add Categories to Menu</a></p>
<p>If you’re using WordPress as a CMS, you may have <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page">set up static pages</a> for both a front page (e.g. “Homeâ€) and a page to list your latest blog posts (e.g. “Blogâ€). The plugin allows you to add categories as links in a submenu.</p>
<p><a href="http://mfields.org/wordpress/plugins/taxonomy-list-shortcode/">Taxonomy List Shortcode</a></p>
<p>The Taxonomy List Shortcode plugin adds a shortcode to your WordPress installation which enables you to display multiple unordered lists containing every term of a given taxonomy. The list can be displayed in one to 5 columns &#8211; custom styles are provided.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/revisionary/">Revisionary</a></p>
<p>With Revisionary in place, the meaning of the &#8220;edit_others&#8221; capability shifts to grant revision submission rights if the owner lacks the corresponding &#8220;edit_published&#8221; / &#8220;edit_private&#8221; capability.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webworth.info/wp-plugin/">Web Worth Blog Value Calculator</a></p>
<p>Web Worth Blog Value Calculator is a plug-in that gives you a nice tidy widget to display your blog&#8217;s current estimated value in dollars. This information is displayed to you and your visitors to demonstrate just how much hard work you have put into your blog</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/other-plugins/enable-oembed-discovery/">Enable oEmbed Discovery</a></p>
<p>Website owners can add a bit of HTML to their head that says where their oEmbed provider is located. This allows consumers such as WordPress to embed things from their website without WordPress specifically knowing about their website before hand.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/scb-framework">scbFramework</a></p>
<p>This is a plugin toolkit that helps developers write plugins faster. It consists of several classes which handle common tasks:</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tabbed-widgets/">Tabbed Widgets</a></p>
<p>Tabbed interfaces are the most common on newspaper type website where they can save a lot of vertical space and make it look less cluttered.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/online-leaf/">Online Leaf</a></p>
<p>Provides an interface with <a href="http://www.onlineleaf.com/">Online Leaf</a>, which helps to reduce the amount of energy required to browse the internet, by making websites greener.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wpgeo.com/">WP Geo</a></p>
<p>Add geocoding and Google maps to your WordPress blog</p>
<p><a href="http://arpitshah.com/plugins/all-in-one-webmaster/">All in One Webmaster</a></p>
<p>The plugin has option to add Google, Bing, Yahoo&#8217;s Webmaster and Analytics code. Single click sitemap submission to Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viadat.com/store-locator">Store Locator</a></p>
<p>The Google Maps Store Locator Plugin for WordPress 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://arpitshah.com/plugins/twitter-goodies/">Twitter Goodies</a></p>
<p>Twitter style Twitter Goodies Profile Widget + Twitter Goodies Search Widget + Twitter Integration (wp to twitter) plugin. All in One plugin for Twitter Goodies.</p>";}i:42;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:51:"Dougal Campbell: I’m speaking at WordCamp Atlanta";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=1907";s:4:"link";s:128:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/12/16/im-speaking-at-wordcamp-atlanta?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss";s:11:"description";s:976:"<div><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/wplogo-notext-rgb.png" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" title="WordPress" /></div><p>I&#8217;m pleased to announce that I will be speaking at <a href="http://atlantawordcamp.com/">WordCamp Atlanta</a> next month. I will be presenting an updated version of the <a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/09/26/wordpress-plugin-development-presentation">Jumping Into WordPress Plugin Programming</a> talk that I gave at WordCamp Birmingham in September. I think I can squeeze some more details in, and hopefully give some more detailed examples.</p>
<p>If you saw the original presentation (or just the slideshow), and you think there&#8217;s something else I need to cover, please feel free to let me know. I already plan to give more in-depth code examples and show the standard plugin header data, among other things.</p>


<p>No related posts.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:43:44 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Dougal";}s:7:"summary";s:976:"<div><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/wplogo-notext-rgb.png" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" title="WordPress" /></div><p>I&#8217;m pleased to announce that I will be speaking at <a href="http://atlantawordcamp.com/">WordCamp Atlanta</a> next month. I will be presenting an updated version of the <a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/09/26/wordpress-plugin-development-presentation">Jumping Into WordPress Plugin Programming</a> talk that I gave at WordCamp Birmingham in September. I think I can squeeze some more details in, and hopefully give some more detailed examples.</p>
<p>If you saw the original presentation (or just the slideshow), and you think there&#8217;s something else I need to cover, please feel free to let me know. I already plan to give more in-depth code examples and show the standard plugin header data, among other things.</p>


<p>No related posts.</p>";}i:43;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:22:"Matt: WordCamp Orlando";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=16099";s:4:"link";s:38:"http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/";s:11:"description";s:16796:"<p>Snaps from WordCamp Orlando.</p>
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<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0043/" title="MCM_0043"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0043-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="A balanced breakfast" title="MCM_0043" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0049/" title="MCM_0049"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0049-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0049" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0056/" title="MCM_0056"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0056-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0056" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0057-2/" title="MCM_0057"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0057-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0057" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0061-2/" title="MCM_0061"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0061-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0061" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0064/" title="MCM_0064"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0064-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0064" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0067-2/" title="MCM_0067"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0067-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0067" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0069-2/" title="MCM_0069"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0069-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0069" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0072-3/" title="MCM_0072"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0072-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0072" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0076-2/" title="MCM_0076"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0076-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0076" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0084-3/" title="MCM_0084"><img width="195" height="118" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0084-195x118.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0084" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0087-2/" title="MCM_0087"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0087-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0087" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0088-2/" title="MCM_0088"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0088-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0088" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0089-3/" title="MCM_0089"><img width="139" height="210" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0089-139x210.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0089" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0092-3/" title="MCM_0092"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0092-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0092" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0101-4/" title="MCM_0101"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0101-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0101" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0103-2/" title="MCM_0103"><img width="139" height="210" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0103-139x210.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0103" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0110-4/" title="MCM_0110"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0110-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0110" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0113/" title="MCM_0113"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0113-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0113" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0118-2/" title="MCM_0118"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0118-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0118" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0119-3/" title="MCM_0119"><img width="139" height="210" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0119-139x210.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0119" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0123-3/" title="MCM_0123"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0123-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0123" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0127-3/" title="MCM_0127"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0127-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0127" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0131-3/" title="MCM_0131"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0131-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0131" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0134-3/" title="MCM_0134"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0134-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0134" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0136/" title="MCM_0136"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0136-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0136" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0139/" title="MCM_0139"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0139-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0139" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0142-2/" title="MCM_0142"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0142-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0142" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0147-2/" title="MCM_0147"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0147-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0147" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0148-4/" title="MCM_0148"><img width="139" height="210" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0148-139x210.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0148" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0153-3/" title="MCM_0153"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0153-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0153" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0154-3/" title="MCM_0154"><img width="139" height="210" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0154-139x210.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0154" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0161-3/" title="MCM_0161"><img width="139" height="210" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0161-139x210.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0161" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0164-5/" title="MCM_0164"><img width="139" height="210" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0164-139x210.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0164" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0166-3/" title="MCM_0166"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0166-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0166" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0168-4/" title="MCM_0168"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0168-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0168" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0179-3/" title="MCM_0179"><img width="139" height="210" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0179-139x210.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0179" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0183-2/" title="MCM_0183"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0183-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0183" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0187-3/" title="MCM_0187"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0187-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0187" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0188-3/" title="MCM_0188"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0188-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0188" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0190-2/" title="MCM_0190"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0190-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0190" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0191-2/" title="MCM_0191"><img width="139" height="210" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0191-139x210.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0191" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0193-2/" title="MCM_0193"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0193-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0193" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0195-4/" title="MCM_0195"><img width="139" height="210" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0195-139x210.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0195" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0197-2/" title="MCM_0197"><img width="139" height="210" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0197-139x210.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0197" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0199-2/" title="MCM_0199"><img width="139" height="210" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0199-139x210.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0199" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0205-3/" title="MCM_0205"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0205-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0205" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0207-2/" title="MCM_0207"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0207-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0207" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0208-2/" title="MCM_0208"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0208-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0208" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0209-3/" title="MCM_0209"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0209-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0209" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0211/" title="MCM_0211"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0211-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0211" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0213-2/" title="MCM_0213"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0213-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0213" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0216-4/" title="MCM_0216"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0216-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0216" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0221-2/" title="MCM_0221"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0221-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0221" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0227-2/" title="MCM_0227"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0227-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0227" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0230-2/" title="MCM_0230"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0230-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0230" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0231-3/" title="MCM_0231"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0231-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0231" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0239-2/" title="MCM_0239"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0239-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0239" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0240/" title="MCM_0240"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0240-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0240" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0241-2/" title="MCM_0241"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0241-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0241" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0243-3/" title="MCM_0243"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0243-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0243" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0246-2/" title="MCM_0246"><img width="139" height="210" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0246-139x210.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0246" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0249-3/" title="MCM_0249"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0249-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0249" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0250/" title="MCM_0250"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0250-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0250" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0251-3/" title="MCM_0251"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0251-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0251" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0253-3/" title="MCM_0253"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0253-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0253" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0257-3/" title="MCM_0257"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0257-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0257" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0261-3/" title="MCM_0261"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0261-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0261" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0263-3/" title="MCM_0263"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0263-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0263" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0264-4/" title="MCM_0264"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0264-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0264" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0268-3/" title="MCM_0268"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0268-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0268" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0271-2/" title="MCM_0271"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0271-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0271" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0272-2/" title="MCM_0272"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0272-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0272" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0277-2/" title="MCM_0277"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0277-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0277" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0280/" title="MCM_0280"><img width="139" height="210" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0280-139x210.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0280" /></a>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:00:24 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:16796:"<p>Snaps from WordCamp Orlando.</p>
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<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0043/" title="MCM_0043"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0043-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="A balanced breakfast" title="MCM_0043" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0049/" title="MCM_0049"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0049-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0049" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0056/" title="MCM_0056"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0056-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0056" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0057-2/" title="MCM_0057"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0057-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0057" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0061-2/" title="MCM_0061"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0061-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0061" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0064/" title="MCM_0064"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0064-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0064" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0067-2/" title="MCM_0067"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0067-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0067" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0069-2/" title="MCM_0069"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0069-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0069" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0072-3/" title="MCM_0072"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0072-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0072" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0076-2/" title="MCM_0076"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0076-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0076" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0084-3/" title="MCM_0084"><img width="195" height="118" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0084-195x118.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0084" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0087-2/" title="MCM_0087"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0087-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0087" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0088-2/" title="MCM_0088"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0088-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0088" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0089-3/" title="MCM_0089"><img width="139" height="210" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0089-139x210.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0089" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0092-3/" title="MCM_0092"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0092-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0092" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0101-4/" title="MCM_0101"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0101-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0101" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0103-2/" title="MCM_0103"><img width="139" height="210" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0103-139x210.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0103" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0110-4/" title="MCM_0110"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0110-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0110" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0113/" title="MCM_0113"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0113-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0113" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0118-2/" title="MCM_0118"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0118-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0118" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0119-3/" title="MCM_0119"><img width="139" height="210" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0119-139x210.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0119" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0123-3/" title="MCM_0123"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0123-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0123" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0127-3/" title="MCM_0127"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0127-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0127" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0131-3/" title="MCM_0131"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0131-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0131" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0134-3/" title="MCM_0134"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0134-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0134" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0136/" title="MCM_0136"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0136-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0136" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0139/" title="MCM_0139"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0139-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0139" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0142-2/" title="MCM_0142"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0142-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0142" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0147-2/" title="MCM_0147"><img width="195" height="129" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0147-195x129.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0147" /></a>
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<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/12/wordcamp-orlando/mcm_0280/" title="MCM_0280"><img width="139" height="210" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/12/MCM_0280-139x210.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="MCM_0280" /></a>";}i:44;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:45:"Weblog Tools Collection: New Developer Portal";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7373";s:4:"link";s:74:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/16/new-developer-portal/";s:11:"description";s:770:"<p>A few days ago, Matt Mullenweg <a href="http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2009-December/029264.html">posed a question</a> on the WordPress Hackers Mailing list regarding a new developer portal.</p>
<blockquote><p>If there were to be a developer portal for WordPress, someplace where if you&#8217;re first getting started with hacking on WP, building plugins, creating themes, you could go and it&#8217;d have all the best resources in one place, what resources do you think would be important to have there?</p></blockquote>
<p>I encourage you to read the thread through the mailing list archive and voice your thoughts, ideas or suggestions. Alternatively, you can leave a comment on this post since I know Matt routinely checks out the feedback. </p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:15:43 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:770:"<p>A few days ago, Matt Mullenweg <a href="http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2009-December/029264.html">posed a question</a> on the WordPress Hackers Mailing list regarding a new developer portal.</p>
<blockquote><p>If there were to be a developer portal for WordPress, someplace where if you&#8217;re first getting started with hacking on WP, building plugins, creating themes, you could go and it&#8217;d have all the best resources in one place, what resources do you think would be important to have there?</p></blockquote>
<p>I encourage you to read the thread through the mailing list archive and voice your thoughts, ideas or suggestions. Alternatively, you can leave a comment on this post since I know Matt routinely checks out the feedback. </p>";}i:45;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:33:"Dev Blog: 2.9 Release Candidate 1";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1057";s:4:"link";s:49:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/2-9-rc1/";s:11:"description";s:1701:"<p>We&#8217;re at that exciting point in WordPress development where the dev team feels like version 2.9 is complete and ready for the world.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve been waiting for your moment to pitch in, it&#8217;s now. First we need tech savvy testers to upgrade their blogs and kick the tires, make sure everything is rolling like you expect it to. <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.9">Here&#8217;s a list of all the fun and geeky new stuff in 2.9 to try out</a>. Second, and more importantly, we need everyone to test out their plugin compatibility.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re a user of plugins, there&#8217;s a groovy new compatibility feature on the plugin directory where you can vote on whether a plugin is compatible with a version or not and it&#8217;ll get registered in the new plugin compatibility checker. This is as a replacement to the old wiki-based lists we&#8217;d do before. To see it in action <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/">check out this Akismet plugin page</a>, as you can see 14 people have already registered that it&#8217;s compatible with 2.9.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re a plugin author, of course you should update your &#8220;Tested up to:&#8221; in the <code>readme.txt</code> for your plugin.</p>
<p>If all goes according to plan, WordPress 2.9 will be out before the end of the week. <a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.9-RC1.zip">You can download the release candidate here</a>.</p>
<p>For more details on the changes since Beta please review the <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/log/?action=stop_on_copy&amp;mode=stop_on_copy&amp;rev=12416&amp;stop_rev=12315&amp;limit=150">revision log on Trac</a>, and happy testing!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:33:39 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:1701:"<p>We&#8217;re at that exciting point in WordPress development where the dev team feels like version 2.9 is complete and ready for the world.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve been waiting for your moment to pitch in, it&#8217;s now. First we need tech savvy testers to upgrade their blogs and kick the tires, make sure everything is rolling like you expect it to. <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.9">Here&#8217;s a list of all the fun and geeky new stuff in 2.9 to try out</a>. Second, and more importantly, we need everyone to test out their plugin compatibility.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re a user of plugins, there&#8217;s a groovy new compatibility feature on the plugin directory where you can vote on whether a plugin is compatible with a version or not and it&#8217;ll get registered in the new plugin compatibility checker. This is as a replacement to the old wiki-based lists we&#8217;d do before. To see it in action <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/">check out this Akismet plugin page</a>, as you can see 14 people have already registered that it&#8217;s compatible with 2.9.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re a plugin author, of course you should update your &#8220;Tested up to:&#8221; in the <code>readme.txt</code> for your plugin.</p>
<p>If all goes according to plan, WordPress 2.9 will be out before the end of the week. <a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.9-RC1.zip">You can download the release candidate here</a>.</p>
<p>For more details on the changes since Beta please review the <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/log/?action=stop_on_copy&amp;mode=stop_on_copy&amp;rev=12416&amp;stop_rev=12315&amp;limit=150">revision log on Trac</a>, and happy testing!</p>";}i:46;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:33:"Matt: Ask Matt: Essential Gadgets";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=14765";s:4:"link";s:38:"http://ma.tt/2009/12/ask-matt-gadgets/";s:11:"description";s:328:"<p>Essential gadgets for life on the road:</p>
<p></p>
<p>Since recording this I&#8217;ve switched to the D3S, which is just like the D3 <a href="http://matt.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/nikon-d3s-test-video/">but with video</a>. Everything else is the same! Video here done <a href="http://videopress.com/">with VideoPress</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:31:55 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:328:"<p>Essential gadgets for life on the road:</p>
<p></p>
<p>Since recording this I&#8217;ve switched to the D3S, which is just like the D3 <a href="http://matt.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/nikon-d3s-test-video/">but with video</a>. Everything else is the same! Video here done <a href="http://videopress.com/">with VideoPress</a>.</p>";}i:47;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:66:"Mark Jaquith: How should “Post updated. View Postâ€ links open?";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/?p=384";s:4:"link";s:101:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/how-should-your-post-has-been-saved-view-post-links-open/";s:11:"description";s:2835:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>We&#8217;ve gone back and forth on this. How should the &#8220;View Post&#8221; link that shows up next to the &#8220;Post updated&#8221; (or similar) text work? Should it open in the same window/tab, or should it open in a new window/tab?</p>
<p><img src="http://markjaquith.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/post-updated.png?w=634&#038;h=94" alt="" title="post-updated" width="634" height="94" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-387" /></p>
<p>The problem with this question is that the people who have really strong opinions in favor of opening the tab in the same window are all power users. They&#8217;re people like me. I don&#8217;t think I can give an objective answer on this, because manually opening a window in a new tab is a skill that I don&#8217;t even think about, I use it so much. I realize that&#8217;s probably not the case for many WordPress users.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re going to use the honor system on this, so be honest:</p>
<p><strong>Do not vote in this poll if your mouse has more features than two buttons and a scroll wheel, and you know how to use them. Do not vote in this poll if you know what &#8220;middle-clicking&#8221; is.</strong></p>
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<p>I&#8217;m abstaining from voting, as my mouse has 7 buttons, one 4-way scroll wheel, and another two-way thumb wheel. <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/384/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/384/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/384/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/384/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/384/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/384/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/384/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/384/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/384/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/384/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=384&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:16:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Mark Jaquith";}s:7:"summary";s:2835:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>We&#8217;ve gone back and forth on this. How should the &#8220;View Post&#8221; link that shows up next to the &#8220;Post updated&#8221; (or similar) text work? Should it open in the same window/tab, or should it open in a new window/tab?</p>
<p><img src="http://markjaquith.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/post-updated.png?w=634&#038;h=94" alt="" title="post-updated" width="634" height="94" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-387" /></p>
<p>The problem with this question is that the people who have really strong opinions in favor of opening the tab in the same window are all power users. They&#8217;re people like me. I don&#8217;t think I can give an objective answer on this, because manually opening a window in a new tab is a skill that I don&#8217;t even think about, I use it so much. I realize that&#8217;s probably not the case for many WordPress users.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re going to use the honor system on this, so be honest:</p>
<p><strong>Do not vote in this poll if your mouse has more features than two buttons and a scroll wheel, and you know how to use them. Do not vote in this poll if you know what &#8220;middle-clicking&#8221; is.</strong></p>
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</p>";}i:49;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:63:"Mark Jaquith: Excluding your plugin or theme from update checks";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/?p=377";s:4:"link";s:94:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/excluding-your-plugin-or-theme-from-update-checks/";s:11:"description";s:3966:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>There has been a vigorous discussion going on regarding what data WordPress installs send to WordPress.org when doing update checks. Because WordPress (the software) doesn&#8217;t know whether a theme or plugin is listed in the WordPress.org repositories, it has to check them all, and let the repository sort it out. Some have expressed concern that private plugins developed for a single client could contain sensitive information in their headers, like contact information for the developer, etc.</p>
<p>If you, as a plugin or theme developer, would like to exclude one of your plugins or themes from the update array, the following code will do the trick.</p>
<p>For plugins:</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">function cws_hidden_plugin_12345( $r, $url ) {
	if ( 0 !== strpos( $url, 'http://api.wordpress.org/plugins/update-check' ) )
		return $r; // Not a plugin update request. Bail immediately.
	$plugins = unserialize( $r['body']['plugins'] );
	unset( $plugins-&gt;plugins[ plugin_basename( __FILE__ ) ] );
	unset( $plugins-&gt;active[ array_search( plugin_basename( __FILE__ ), $plugins-&gt;active ) ] );
	$r['body']['plugins'] = serialize( $plugins );
	return $r;
}

add_filter( 'http_request_args', 'cws_hidden_plugin_12345', 5, 2 );</pre>
<p>Just change the <code>cws_hidden_plugin_12345</code> string (two instances) to a namespaced function name for your plugin, and you&#8217;re good to go.</p>
<p>For themes:</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">function cws_hidden_theme_12345( $r, $url ) {
	if ( 0 !== strpos( $url, 'http://api.wordpress.org/themes/update-check' ) )
		return $r; // Not a theme update request. Bail immediately.
	$themes = unserialize( $r['body']['themes'] );
	unset( $themes[ get_option( 'template' ) ] );
	unset( $themes[ get_option( 'stylesheet' ) ] );
	$r['body']['themes'] = serialize( $themes );
	return $r;
}

add_filter( 'http_request_args', 'cws_hidden_theme_12345', 5, 2 );</pre>
<p>Put this in your theme&#8217;s functions.php Again, just change the <code>cws_hidden_theme_12345</code> string (two instances) to a namespaced function name for your theme. Do not that this will only hide the ACTIVE theme. This code doesn&#8217;t get run if the theme isn&#8217;t active. If you want to hide non-active themes, you&#8217;ll have to put this code in  a plugin and instead of using <code>get_option( 'template' )</code> or <code>get_option( 'stylesheet' )</code> you&#8217;d hardcode the values for the inactive theme you want to hide.</p>
<p>Just a note: I don&#8217;t want the comments to turn into another battlefield for the update check debate. I&#8217;m putting my code where my mouth is and showing you how you can keep private plugins/themes from contacting WordPress.org if you so wish. Comments about this code are welcomed!</p>
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<p>If you, as a plugin or theme developer, would like to exclude one of your plugins or themes from the update array, the following code will do the trick.</p>
<p>For plugins:</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">function cws_hidden_plugin_12345( $r, $url ) {
	if ( 0 !== strpos( $url, 'http://api.wordpress.org/plugins/update-check' ) )
		return $r; // Not a plugin update request. Bail immediately.
	$plugins = unserialize( $r['body']['plugins'] );
	unset( $plugins-&gt;plugins[ plugin_basename( __FILE__ ) ] );
	unset( $plugins-&gt;active[ array_search( plugin_basename( __FILE__ ), $plugins-&gt;active ) ] );
	$r['body']['plugins'] = serialize( $plugins );
	return $r;
}

add_filter( 'http_request_args', 'cws_hidden_plugin_12345', 5, 2 );</pre>
<p>Just change the <code>cws_hidden_plugin_12345</code> string (two instances) to a namespaced function name for your plugin, and you&#8217;re good to go.</p>
<p>For themes:</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">function cws_hidden_theme_12345( $r, $url ) {
	if ( 0 !== strpos( $url, 'http://api.wordpress.org/themes/update-check' ) )
		return $r; // Not a theme update request. Bail immediately.
	$themes = unserialize( $r['body']['themes'] );
	unset( $themes[ get_option( 'template' ) ] );
	unset( $themes[ get_option( 'stylesheet' ) ] );
	$r['body']['themes'] = serialize( $themes );
	return $r;
}

add_filter( 'http_request_args', 'cws_hidden_theme_12345', 5, 2 );</pre>
<p>Put this in your theme&#8217;s functions.php Again, just change the <code>cws_hidden_theme_12345</code> string (two instances) to a namespaced function name for your theme. Do not that this will only hide the ACTIVE theme. This code doesn&#8217;t get run if the theme isn&#8217;t active. If you want to hide non-active themes, you&#8217;ll have to put this code in  a plugin and instead of using <code>get_option( 'template' )</code> or <code>get_option( 'stylesheet' )</code> you&#8217;d hardcode the values for the inactive theme you want to hide.</p>
<p>Just a note: I don&#8217;t want the comments to turn into another battlefield for the update check debate. I&#8217;m putting my code where my mouth is and showing you how you can keep private plugins/themes from contacting WordPress.org if you so wish. Comments about this code are welcomed!</p>
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