</a></li><li><a href=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/10/31/phil-ringnalda-switches-to-wordpress\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link: Phil Ringnalda switches to WordPress\">Phil Ringnalda switches to WordPress</a></li><li><a href=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/08/05/time-for-redesign\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link: Time for Redesign\">Time for Redesign</a></li></ol></p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:49:30 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:6:\"Dougal\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2839:\"<div><img width=\"150\" height=\"107\" src=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/SimpleBits-WoodPress_1256353021054-150x107.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"SimpleBits\" /></div><p>Dan Cedarholm, web design guru extraordinaire, has <a href=\"http://simplebits.com/notebook/2009/10/22/woodpress/\">switched his SimpleBits blog</a> to WordPress.</p>\n<blockquote><p>Well, after 6+ years on an ancient and highly customized install of Movable Type 3.15, and 4+ years on various homegrown <acronym title=\"Content Management System\"><span class=\"caps\">CMS</span></acronym> solutions, I’ve finally upgraded the guts of this site. I chose WordPress. Sure, there are several other excellent options out there to power the blogs of 2010 and beyond, but the familarity of WP, its plugins, pricetag and other factors all fed into the decision. Plus, I told <a href=\"http://ma.tt/\">Matt</a> in the halls of SWSW in 2003 that I’d try his little weblog project. I’m finally following through on that.</p></blockquote>\n<p>In addition to running the SimpleBits blog and web design company, Dan is the author of <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219203?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=geekramblings-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1430219203\">Web Standards Solutions</a><img src=\"http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=geekramblings-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1430219203\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" />, <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321509021?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=geekramblings-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0321509021\">Bulletproof Web Design</a><img src=\"http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=geekramblings-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0321509021\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" />, and <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321643380?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=geekramblings-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0321643380\">Handcrafted <acronym title=\"Cascading Style Sheets\"><span class=\"caps\">CSS</span></acronym>: More Bulletproof Web Design</a><img src=\"http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=geekramblings-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0321643380\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" />.</p>\n\n\n<p>Related posts:<ol><li><a href=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/09/13/0xdecafbad\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link: Les Orchard switches to WordPress\">Les Orchard switches to WordPress</a></li><li><a href=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/10/31/phil-ringnalda-switches-to-wordpress\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link: Phil Ringnalda switches to WordPress\">Phil Ringnalda switches to WordPress</a></li><li><a href=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/08/05/time-for-redesign\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link: Time for Redesign\">Time for Redesign</a></li></ol></p>\";}i:30;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:66:\"WordPress.tv: Liz Strauss: Context, Campaigns, and the U Community\";s:4:\"guid\";s:27:\"http://wordpress.tv/?p=2925\";s:4:\"link\";s:63:\"http://wordpress.tv/2009/09/26/liz-strauss-community-seattle09/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1377:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><ins>\n<div class=\"video-player\" id=\"x-video-18\">\n </div></ins>\n<br /><a href=\"http://wordpress.tv/2009/09/26/liz-strauss-community-seattle09/\"><img width=\"160\" height=\"120\" src=\"http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/Tj9jOXH9/12-liz01_1mb_std.original.jpg\" /> </a>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2925/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2925/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2925/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2925/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2925/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2925/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2925/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2925/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2925/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2925/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2925&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:45:12 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:11:\"Ryan Markel\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1377:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><ins>\n<div class=\"video-player\" id=\"x-video-18\">\n </div></ins>\n<br /><a href=\"http://wordpress.tv/2009/09/26/liz-strauss-community-seattle09/\"><img width=\"160\" height=\"120\" src=\"http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/Tj9jOXH9/12-liz01_1mb_std.original.jpg\" /> </a>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2925/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2925/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2925/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2925/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2925/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2925/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2925/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2925/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2925/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2925/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2925&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:56:\"WordPress.tv: Mark McLaren: WordPress and the Social Web\";s:4:\"guid\";s:27:\"http://wordpress.tv/?p=2921\";s:4:\"link\";s:71:\"http://wordpress.tv/2009/09/26/mark-mclaren-wordpress-social-seattle09/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1386:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><ins>\n<div class=\"video-player\" id=\"x-video-19\">\n </div></ins>\n<br /><a href=\"http://wordpress.tv/2009/09/26/mark-mclaren-wordpress-social-seattle09/\"><img width=\"160\" height=\"120\" src=\"http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/EqBPf4KL/11-ignite_1mb_std.original.jpg\" /> </a>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2921/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2921/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2921/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2921/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2921/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2921/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2921/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2921/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2921/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2921/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2921&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:30:16 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:11:\"Ryan Markel\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1386:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><ins>\n<div class=\"video-player\" id=\"x-video-19\">\n </div></ins>\n<br /><a href=\"http://wordpress.tv/2009/09/26/mark-mclaren-wordpress-social-seattle09/\"><img width=\"160\" height=\"120\" src=\"http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/EqBPf4KL/11-ignite_1mb_std.original.jpg\" /> </a>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2921/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2921/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2921/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2921/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2921/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2921/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2921/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2921/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2921/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2921/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2921&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";}i:32;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:62:\"Publisher Blog: SEC Launches Investor.gov on WordPress.com VIP\";s:4:\"guid\";s:42:\"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/?p=682\";s:4:\"link\";s:78:\"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2009/10/22/sec-investor-wordpress-com-vip/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2273:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><p>The <a href=\"http://sec.gov\">SEC</a> (Securities and Exchange Commission) announced the launch today of <a href=\"http://investor.gov\">Investor.gov</a> &#8211; a site focused on helping and educating investors:<br />\n<a href=\"http://investor.gov\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-683\" title=\"sec-investor-gov-vip\" src=\"http://wordpresspublishers.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/sec-investor-gov-vip.png?w=640&#038;h=374\" alt=\"sec-investor-gov-vip\" width=\"640\" height=\"374\" /></a></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://investor.gov\">Investor.gov</a> is hosted in the <a href=\"http://wordpress.com/vip\">WordPress.com VIP program</a>, and uses a custom theme based on the <a href=\"http://www.woothemes.com/demo/?t=7\">GPL licensed Vibrant CMS theme</a>.</p>\n<p>Be sure to check out the <a href=\"http://investor.gov/welcome-message-from-chairman-schapiro/\">video welcome message from Chairman Mary Schapiro</a> for more details.</p>\n<p>[ Visit <a href=\"http://investor.gov\">Investor.gov</a> ]</p>\n  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/682/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/682/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/682/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/682/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/682/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/682/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/682/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/682/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/682/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/682/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=publisherblog.automattic.com&blog=1470857&post=682&subd=wordpresspublishers&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:15:14 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:16:\"Raanan Bar-Cohen\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2273:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><p>The <a href=\"http://sec.gov\">SEC</a> (Securities and Exchange Commission) announced the launch today of <a href=\"http://investor.gov\">Investor.gov</a> &#8211; a site focused on helping and educating investors:<br />\n<a href=\"http://investor.gov\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-683\" title=\"sec-investor-gov-vip\" src=\"http://wordpresspublishers.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/sec-investor-gov-vip.png?w=640&#038;h=374\" alt=\"sec-investor-gov-vip\" width=\"640\" height=\"374\" /></a></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://investor.gov\">Investor.gov</a> is hosted in the <a href=\"http://wordpress.com/vip\">WordPress.com VIP program</a>, and uses a custom theme based on the <a href=\"http://www.woothemes.com/demo/?t=7\">GPL licensed Vibrant CMS theme</a>.</p>\n<p>Be sure to check out the <a href=\"http://investor.gov/welcome-message-from-chairman-schapiro/\">video welcome message from Chairman Mary Schapiro</a> for more details.</p>\n<p>[ Visit <a href=\"http://investor.gov\">Investor.gov</a> ]</p>\n  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/682/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/682/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/682/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/682/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/682/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/682/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/682/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/682/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/682/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/682/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=publisherblog.automattic.com&blog=1470857&post=682&subd=wordpresspublishers&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";}i:33;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:60:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/22\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6928\";s:4:\"link\";s:90:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/10/22/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1022-2/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3398:\"<h3>New Plugins</h3>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.clickonf5.org/instant-weekly-roundup\">Instant Weekly Roundup</a></p>\n<p>Helps you create the weekly or monthly or any span roundups of your blog posts in a few mouse clicks and within some seconds.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.clubwordpress.com/wordpress-custom-menu-plugin/\">WordPress Custom Menu Plugin</a></p>\n<p>Manage navigation menus from the admin panel in WordPress instead of having to code the template each time a menu or a menu item was added, removed or changed.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.zamango.com/zamango-money-extractor-plugin-wp/\">Zamango Money Extractor</a></p>\n<p>Zamango Money Extractor is a WordPress plugin which helps to earn money from affiliate sales of a software content released by many publishers and by using of free services only. Requires an account with <a href=\"http://account.zamango.com/\">Zamango</a>.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://plexav.com/tagspace-plugin-interactive-wordpress\">Tagspace</a></p>\n<p>The Tagspace widget lets visitors browse your blog&#8217;s categories in an dynamic &amp; engaging 3D environment. A single click on any category tag changes the color of the category tag and propels the visitor further into tagspace, revealing additional category tags.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress/wordcamp-nyc-badge\">WordCamp NYC Badge</a></p>\n<p>WordCamp NYC Badge, is a WordPress Plugin which helps you to display the badge for WordCamp NYC in your sidebar.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.cmurrayconsulting.com/software/wordpress-secondary-html-content/\">Secondary HTML Content</a></p>\n<p>Add a second block of HTML content to WordPress pages. A perfect solution for layouts with two distinct content areas or &#8220;blocks&#8221;, such as a sidebar or two column view. When editing a page, a second WordPress WYSIWYG content editor will appear beneath the standard page editing block.</p>\n<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>\n<p><a href=\"http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/wp-ajax-edit-comments/\">Ajax Edit Comments</a></p>\n<p>WP Ajax Edit Comments (for WP 2.5+) allows users and admins to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for a limited time, while admins can edit all comments.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.clickonf5.org/cute-profiles\">Cute Profiles</a></p>\n<p>Brings all your Social Profiles at one location i.e. either left or right side of your blog pages in a well decent floating manner, saving your premium space in sidebar or footer for ads or other important data and widgets.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://ignite.digitalignition.net/articlesexamples/itunes-affiliate-link-plugin/\">iTunes Affiliate Link</a></p>\n<p>The plugin adds an itunes button to the visual editor which when clicked brings forward a dialog containing a search for the iTunes store link maker.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.viadat.com/store-locator\">Store Locator</a></p>\n<p>The Store Locator plugin empowers web developers &amp; web site owners to easily manage and display any set of important stores, products, or other locations on their website in an easily searchable manner. Uses Google Maps.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://ocaoimh.ie/exploit-scanner/\">WordPress Exploit Scanner</a></p>\n<p>This plugin searches the files and database of your website for signs of suspicious activity. It will not stop someone hacking into your site, but it may help you find any uploaded or compromised files left by the hacker.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:59:02 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:7:\"Perurry\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3398:\"<h3>New Plugins</h3>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.clickonf5.org/instant-weekly-roundup\">Instant Weekly Roundup</a></p>\n<p>Helps you create the weekly or monthly or any span roundups of your blog posts in a few mouse clicks and within some seconds.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.clubwordpress.com/wordpress-custom-menu-plugin/\">WordPress Custom Menu Plugin</a></p>\n<p>Manage navigation menus from the admin panel in WordPress instead of having to code the template each time a menu or a menu item was added, removed or changed.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.zamango.com/zamango-money-extractor-plugin-wp/\">Zamango Money Extractor</a></p>\n<p>Zamango Money Extractor is a WordPress plugin which helps to earn money from affiliate sales of a software content released by many publishers and by using of free services only. Requires an account with <a href=\"http://account.zamango.com/\">Zamango</a>.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://plexav.com/tagspace-plugin-interactive-wordpress\">Tagspace</a></p>\n<p>The Tagspace widget lets visitors browse your blog&#8217;s categories in an dynamic &amp; engaging 3D environment. A single click on any category tag changes the color of the category tag and propels the visitor further into tagspace, revealing additional category tags.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress/wordcamp-nyc-badge\">WordCamp NYC Badge</a></p>\n<p>WordCamp NYC Badge, is a WordPress Plugin which helps you to display the badge for WordCamp NYC in your sidebar.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.cmurrayconsulting.com/software/wordpress-secondary-html-content/\">Secondary HTML Content</a></p>\n<p>Add a second block of HTML content to WordPress pages. A perfect solution for layouts with two distinct content areas or &#8220;blocks&#8221;, such as a sidebar or two column view. When editing a page, a second WordPress WYSIWYG content editor will appear beneath the standard page editing block.</p>\n<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>\n<p><a href=\"http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/wp-ajax-edit-comments/\">Ajax Edit Comments</a></p>\n<p>WP Ajax Edit Comments (for WP 2.5+) allows users and admins to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for a limited time, while admins can edit all comments.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.clickonf5.org/cute-profiles\">Cute Profiles</a></p>\n<p>Brings all your Social Profiles at one location i.e. either left or right side of your blog pages in a well decent floating manner, saving your premium space in sidebar or footer for ads or other important data and widgets.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://ignite.digitalignition.net/articlesexamples/itunes-affiliate-link-plugin/\">iTunes Affiliate Link</a></p>\n<p>The plugin adds an itunes button to the visual editor which when clicked brings forward a dialog containing a search for the iTunes store link maker.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.viadat.com/store-locator\">Store Locator</a></p>\n<p>The Store Locator plugin empowers web developers &amp; web site owners to easily manage and display any set of important stores, products, or other locations on their website in an easily searchable manner. Uses Google Maps.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://ocaoimh.ie/exploit-scanner/\">WordPress Exploit Scanner</a></p>\n<p>This plugin searches the files and database of your website for signs of suspicious activity. It will not stop someone hacking into your site, but it may help you find any uploaded or compromised files left by the hacker.</p>\";}i:34;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:66:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Using Conditional Statements In WordPress\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6923\";s:4:\"link\";s:95:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/10/22/using-conditional-statements-in-wordpress/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1233:\"<p><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/addicottweblogo.png\" alt=\"addicottweblogo\" title=\"addicottweblogo\" width=\"66\" height=\"52\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6924\" />Addicott Web has a <a href=\"http://www.addicottweb.com/2009/10/how-to-use-wordpress-conditional-statements/\" target=\"_blank\">great little article</a> online that goes in depth on the uses of WordPress conditional statements. The Conditional Tags can be used in your Template files to change what content is displayed and how that content is displayed on a particular page depending on what conditions that page matches. These statements enable a wide range of flexibility when it comes to when and where to display content. In fact, I use <a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags\" target=\"_blank\">conditional tags</a> all the time with my use of the <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/\" target=\"_blank\">Widget Logic</a> plugin. I tell the widget which page I want it to be displayed on with a conditional statement and it only shows up on that page.</p>\n<p>I love these things. Let me know in the comments what you&#8217;ve been able to achieve using them in your own theme or widgets. </p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:47:15 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:13:\"Jeff Chandler\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1233:\"<p><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/addicottweblogo.png\" alt=\"addicottweblogo\" title=\"addicottweblogo\" width=\"66\" height=\"52\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6924\" />Addicott Web has a <a href=\"http://www.addicottweb.com/2009/10/how-to-use-wordpress-conditional-statements/\" target=\"_blank\">great little article</a> online that goes in depth on the uses of WordPress conditional statements. The Conditional Tags can be used in your Template files to change what content is displayed and how that content is displayed on a particular page depending on what conditions that page matches. These statements enable a wide range of flexibility when it comes to when and where to display content. In fact, I use <a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags\" target=\"_blank\">conditional tags</a> all the time with my use of the <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/\" target=\"_blank\">Widget Logic</a> plugin. I tell the widget which page I want it to be displayed on with a conditional statement and it only shows up on that page.</p>\n<p>I love these things. Let me know in the comments what you&#8217;ve been able to achieve using them in your own theme or widgets. </p>\";}i:35;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:69:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress 2.9 Features Video (in Portuguese)\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6919\";s:4:\"link\";s:96:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/10/22/wordpress-2-9-features-video-in-portuguese/\";s:11:\"description\";s:754:\"<p><a href=\"http://inexoravel.org/arquivos/2009/10/wordpress-2-9-video-sobre-novas-funcionalidades/\">WordPress 2.9 New Features</a>: Barbara Vaz has put together a seven minute video on the new Trash feature and the new image and media manipulation features in WordPress 2.9 but the video is in Portuguese. Since I don&#8217;t understand the language, even a muted look through the video was interesting.</p>\n<p>Also of interest is a series of posts by <a href=\"http://www.iamronen.com/2009/10/introduction-to-getting-started-with-wordpress/\">Ronen Hirsch about getting started with WordPress</a>. Topics are as simple as straightforward as what one can do with WordPress, where to get and use WordPress and some of the simpler features of WordPress.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:23:18 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:754:\"<p><a href=\"http://inexoravel.org/arquivos/2009/10/wordpress-2-9-video-sobre-novas-funcionalidades/\">WordPress 2.9 New Features</a>: Barbara Vaz has put together a seven minute video on the new Trash feature and the new image and media manipulation features in WordPress 2.9 but the video is in Portuguese. Since I don&#8217;t understand the language, even a muted look through the video was interesting.</p>\n<p>Also of interest is a series of posts by <a href=\"http://www.iamronen.com/2009/10/introduction-to-getting-started-with-wordpress/\">Ronen Hirsch about getting started with WordPress</a>. Topics are as simple as straightforward as what one can do with WordPress, where to get and use WordPress and some of the simpler features of WordPress.</p>\";}i:36;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:62:\"WordPress.tv: Donald DeSantis: Create Your Own WordPress Theme\";s:4:\"guid\";s:27:\"http://wordpress.tv/?p=2916\";s:4:\"link\";s:73:\"http://wordpress.tv/2009/09/26/donald-desantis-creating-themes-seattle09/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1388:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><ins>\n<div class=\"video-player\" id=\"x-video-20\">\n </div></ins>\n<br /><a href=\"http://wordpress.tv/2009/09/26/donald-desantis-creating-themes-seattle09/\"><img width=\"160\" height=\"120\" src=\"http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/Rn7viCLV/10-ignite_1mb_std.original.jpg\" /> </a>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2916/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2916/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2916/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2916/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2916/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2916/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2916/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2916/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2916/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2916/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2916&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:45:07 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:11:\"Ryan Markel\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1388:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><ins>\n<div class=\"video-player\" id=\"x-video-20\">\n </div></ins>\n<br /><a href=\"http://wordpress.tv/2009/09/26/donald-desantis-creating-themes-seattle09/\"><img width=\"160\" height=\"120\" src=\"http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/Rn7viCLV/10-ignite_1mb_std.original.jpg\" /> </a>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2916/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2916/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2916/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2916/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2916/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2916/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2916/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2916/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2916/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2916/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2916&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";}i:37;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:79:\"WordPress.tv: Chris Molitor: Finding the Perfect Theme for You or Your Business\";s:4:\"guid\";s:27:\"http://wordpress.tv/?p=2910\";s:4:\"link\";s:70:\"http://wordpress.tv/2009/09/26/chris-molitor-finding-themes-seattle09/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1385:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><ins>\n<div class=\"video-player\" id=\"x-video-21\">\n </div></ins>\n<br /><a href=\"http://wordpress.tv/2009/09/26/chris-molitor-finding-themes-seattle09/\"><img width=\"160\" height=\"120\" src=\"http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/9hiB9sPj/09-ignite_1mb_std.original.jpg\" /> </a>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2910/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2910/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2910/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2910/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2910/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2910/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2910/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2910/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2910/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2910/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2910&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:15:08 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:11:\"Ryan Markel\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1385:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><ins>\n<div class=\"video-player\" id=\"x-video-21\">\n </div></ins>\n<br /><a href=\"http://wordpress.tv/2009/09/26/chris-molitor-finding-themes-seattle09/\"><img width=\"160\" height=\"120\" src=\"http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/9hiB9sPj/09-ignite_1mb_std.original.jpg\" /> </a>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/2910/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/2910/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2910/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/2910/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2910/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/2910/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/2910/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/2910/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2910/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/2910/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=2910&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";}i:38;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:30:\"Ryan: 2.8 Plugin Compatibility\";s:4:\"guid\";s:23:\"http://boren.nu/?p=1704\";s:4:\"link\";s:57:\"http://ryan.boren.me/2009/06/23/2-8-plugin-compatibility/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1895:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><p>Some plugins are causing grief for those upgrading to 2.8.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>HyperDB needs to be updated to the latest version, otherwise tags won&#8217;t save.</li>\n<li>DB Cache also prevents tags from being saved. I haven&#8217;t seen an update for it yet.</li>\n<li>Plugins that load old versions of jQuery for all admin pages will break all kinds of stuff.  Plugins should use the version of jQuery that ships with WP.  If a plugin must use a particular version of jQuery, that version should be queued only for the plugin&#8217;s own pages.</li>\n<li>Themes that call get_categories() from functions.php before the init action fires will fail.  2.8.1 will workaround this, but ideally these themes should update so that they can handle custom taxonomies properly.</li>\n</ul>\n  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryan.wordpress.com/1704/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryan.wordpress.com/1704/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1704/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1704/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1704/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1704/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryan.wordpress.com/1704/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryan.wordpress.com/1704/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1704/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1704/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryan.boren.me&blog=78&post=1704&subd=ryan&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:30:18 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ryan\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1895:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><p>Some plugins are causing grief for those upgrading to 2.8.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>HyperDB needs to be updated to the latest version, otherwise tags won&#8217;t save.</li>\n<li>DB Cache also prevents tags from being saved. I haven&#8217;t seen an update for it yet.</li>\n<li>Plugins that load old versions of jQuery for all admin pages will break all kinds of stuff.  Plugins should use the version of jQuery that ships with WP.  If a plugin must use a particular version of jQuery, that version should be queued only for the plugin&#8217;s own pages.</li>\n<li>Themes that call get_categories() from functions.php before the init action fires will fail.  2.8.1 will workaround this, but ideally these themes should update so that they can handle custom taxonomies properly.</li>\n</ul>\n  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryan.wordpress.com/1704/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryan.wordpress.com/1704/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1704/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1704/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1704/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1704/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryan.wordpress.com/1704/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryan.wordpress.com/1704/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1704/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1704/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryan.boren.me&blog=78&post=1704&subd=ryan&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";}i:39;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:38:\"Ryan: Auto Upgrading to Nightly Builds\";s:4:\"guid\";s:23:\"http://boren.nu/?p=1701\";s:4:\"link\";s:65:\"http://ryan.boren.me/2009/06/19/auto-upgrading-to-nightly-builds/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2756:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><p>WP&#8217;s automatic upgrade can be used to automatically upgrade to betas and nightly builds for the development branch or the latest stable branch.  To get onto a development upgrade path you must first make a small change to wp-includes/version.php.</p>\n<p>The current release of WP is 2.8.  If you peek in the version.php file, you will see this:</p>\n<p><code>$wp_version = \'2.8\';</code></p>\n<p>If you would like to try out the latest development builds for the upcoming 2.8.1 release, change that line to this:</p>\n<p><code>$wp_version = \'2.8.1-dev\';</code></p>\n<p>&#8220;dev&#8221; can be any string.  The presence of a suffix on the version tells the automatic upgrade to put you on the upgrade path for 2.8.1 development releases.  You will be able to automatically upgrade to each nightly, beta, and RC build for 2.8.1.  Once the final 2.8.1 release comes out, automatic upgrade will upgrade you to that official release and put you back on the stable release path.  To get back on the 2.8 development branch upgrade path after the release of 2.8.1, you would have to change your version to &#8220;2.8.2-dev&#8221;.</p>\n<p>If you are feeling really experimental, you can get on the 2.9 development path by setting the version to &#8220;2.9-dev&#8221;.  Unlike the 2.8 development path which contains only fixes to high-impact bugs, the 2.9 path is where new feature development is happening. You probably want the 2.9 path only if you are a developer.</p>\n<p><strong>Update:</strong> Peter wrote a <a href=\"http://westi.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/making-it-easy-to-be-a-wordpress-tester/\">plugin</a> that makes this easier.</p>\n  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryan.wordpress.com/1701/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryan.wordpress.com/1701/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1701/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1701/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1701/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1701/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryan.wordpress.com/1701/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryan.wordpress.com/1701/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1701/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1701/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryan.boren.me&blog=78&post=1701&subd=ryan&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:30:18 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ryan\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2756:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><p>WP&#8217;s automatic upgrade can be used to automatically upgrade to betas and nightly builds for the development branch or the latest stable branch.  To get onto a development upgrade path you must first make a small change to wp-includes/version.php.</p>\n<p>The current release of WP is 2.8.  If you peek in the version.php file, you will see this:</p>\n<p><code>$wp_version = \'2.8\';</code></p>\n<p>If you would like to try out the latest development builds for the upcoming 2.8.1 release, change that line to this:</p>\n<p><code>$wp_version = \'2.8.1-dev\';</code></p>\n<p>&#8220;dev&#8221; can be any string.  The presence of a suffix on the version tells the automatic upgrade to put you on the upgrade path for 2.8.1 development releases.  You will be able to automatically upgrade to each nightly, beta, and RC build for 2.8.1.  Once the final 2.8.1 release comes out, automatic upgrade will upgrade you to that official release and put you back on the stable release path.  To get back on the 2.8 development branch upgrade path after the release of 2.8.1, you would have to change your version to &#8220;2.8.2-dev&#8221;.</p>\n<p>If you are feeling really experimental, you can get on the 2.9 development path by setting the version to &#8220;2.9-dev&#8221;.  Unlike the 2.8 development path which contains only fixes to high-impact bugs, the 2.9 path is where new feature development is happening. You probably want the 2.9 path only if you are a developer.</p>\n<p><strong>Update:</strong> Peter wrote a <a href=\"http://westi.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/making-it-easy-to-be-a-wordpress-tester/\">plugin</a> that makes this easier.</p>\n  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryan.wordpress.com/1701/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryan.wordpress.com/1701/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1701/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1701/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1701/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1701/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryan.wordpress.com/1701/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryan.wordpress.com/1701/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1701/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1701/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryan.boren.me&blog=78&post=1701&subd=ryan&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";}i:40;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:20:\"Ryan: WordPress Bits\";s:4:\"guid\";s:23:\"http://boren.nu/?p=1668\";s:4:\"link\";s:47:\"http://ryan.boren.me/2009/02/17/wordpress-bits/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1848:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><p><a href=\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/02/wordpress-271/\">2.7.1</a> is out, improving upon a solid 2.7 release.</p>\n<p>The next version of the iPhone app is <a href=\"http://iphone.wordpress.org/2009/02/17/looking-for-a-few-good-hardware-testers/\">almost out</a> and features comment moderation.</p>\n<p>2.8 is well underway.  So far there have been lots of <a href=\"http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/script-loader-updates/\">script loading</a> and DB performance improvements.  The first cut of the theme installer is in, and the redesign of the Widgets admin UI is beginning.  Custom tag taxonomies now have some built-in admin UI,  and proper timezone and DST support is available if you are running PHP 5.</p>\n  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryan.wordpress.com/1668/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryan.wordpress.com/1668/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1668/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1668/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1668/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1668/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryan.wordpress.com/1668/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryan.wordpress.com/1668/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1668/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1668/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryan.boren.me&blog=78&post=1668&subd=ryan&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:30:18 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ryan\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1848:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><p><a href=\"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/02/wordpress-271/\">2.7.1</a> is out, improving upon a solid 2.7 release.</p>\n<p>The next version of the iPhone app is <a href=\"http://iphone.wordpress.org/2009/02/17/looking-for-a-few-good-hardware-testers/\">almost out</a> and features comment moderation.</p>\n<p>2.8 is well underway.  So far there have been lots of <a href=\"http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/script-loader-updates/\">script loading</a> and DB performance improvements.  The first cut of the theme installer is in, and the redesign of the Widgets admin UI is beginning.  Custom tag taxonomies now have some built-in admin UI,  and proper timezone and DST support is available if you are running PHP 5.</p>\n  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryan.wordpress.com/1668/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryan.wordpress.com/1668/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1668/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1668/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1668/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1668/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryan.wordpress.com/1668/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryan.wordpress.com/1668/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1668/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1668/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryan.boren.me&blog=78&post=1668&subd=ryan&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";}i:41;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:28:\"Ryan: WordPress 2.7.1 Beta 1\";s:4:\"guid\";s:23:\"http://boren.nu/?p=1658\";s:4:\"link\";s:53:\"http://ryan.boren.me/2009/02/03/wordpress-271-beta-1/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1964:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><p>2.7.1, the first 2.7 maintenance release, is almost ready.  So far, <a href=\"http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;milestone=2.7.1&amp;resolution=fixed&amp;order=priority\">66 tickets</a> are fixed in 2.7.1.  There are another <a href=\"http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=new&amp;status=assigned&amp;status=reopened&amp;milestone=2.7.1\">50 tickets</a> open against the 2.7.1 milestone, but most of those will be moved to 2.7.2 or 2.8.  If there are tickets in that list you would really like to see fixed in 2.7.1, drop a comment.</p>\n<p>To automatically upgrade from 2.7 to 2.7.1 Beta 1, change the version in your wp-includes/version.php file from 2.7 to 2.7.1-beta and then visit Tools-&gt;Upgrade.  Otherwise, <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.7.1-beta1.zip\">download the beta package</a> and install manually.</p>\n  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryan.wordpress.com/1658/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryan.wordpress.com/1658/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1658/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1658/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1658/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1658/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryan.wordpress.com/1658/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryan.wordpress.com/1658/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1658/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1658/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryan.boren.me&blog=78&post=1658&subd=ryan&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:30:18 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ryan\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1964:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><p>2.7.1, the first 2.7 maintenance release, is almost ready.  So far, <a href=\"http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;milestone=2.7.1&amp;resolution=fixed&amp;order=priority\">66 tickets</a> are fixed in 2.7.1.  There are another <a href=\"http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=new&amp;status=assigned&amp;status=reopened&amp;milestone=2.7.1\">50 tickets</a> open against the 2.7.1 milestone, but most of those will be moved to 2.7.2 or 2.8.  If there are tickets in that list you would really like to see fixed in 2.7.1, drop a comment.</p>\n<p>To automatically upgrade from 2.7 to 2.7.1 Beta 1, change the version in your wp-includes/version.php file from 2.7 to 2.7.1-beta and then visit Tools-&gt;Upgrade.  Otherwise, <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.7.1-beta1.zip\">download the beta package</a> and install manually.</p>\n  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryan.wordpress.com/1658/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryan.wordpress.com/1658/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1658/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1658/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1658/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1658/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryan.wordpress.com/1658/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryan.wordpress.com/1658/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1658/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1658/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryan.boren.me&blog=78&post=1658&subd=ryan&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";}i:42;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:21:\"Ryan: Following 2.7.1\";s:4:\"guid\";s:23:\"http://boren.nu/?p=1643\";s:4:\"link\";s:46:\"http://ryan.boren.me/2008/12/12/following-271/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1413:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><p>A major release segues right into bug fixing for the first maintenance release.  You can follow what is being fixed for 2.7.1 <a href=\"http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;milestone=2.7.1&amp;resolution=fixed&amp;order=priority\">here</a>.  So far there are five small fixes.</p>\n  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryan.wordpress.com/1643/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryan.wordpress.com/1643/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1643/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1643/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1643/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1643/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryan.wordpress.com/1643/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryan.wordpress.com/1643/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1643/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1643/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryan.boren.me&blog=78&post=1643&subd=ryan&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:30:18 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ryan\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1413:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><p>A major release segues right into bug fixing for the first maintenance release.  You can follow what is being fixed for 2.7.1 <a href=\"http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;milestone=2.7.1&amp;resolution=fixed&amp;order=priority\">here</a>.  So far there are five small fixes.</p>\n  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryan.wordpress.com/1643/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryan.wordpress.com/1643/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1643/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1643/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1643/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1643/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryan.wordpress.com/1643/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryan.wordpress.com/1643/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1643/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1643/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryan.boren.me&blog=78&post=1643&subd=ryan&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";}i:43;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:19:\"Ryan: 100,000 in 20\";s:4:\"guid\";s:23:\"http://boren.nu/?p=1641\";s:4:\"link\";s:45:\"http://ryan.boren.me/2008/12/11/100000-in-20/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1547:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><p><a href=\"http://wordpress.org/download/counter/\">100,000 downloads</a> of <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/12/coltrane/\">WordPress 2.7</a> in 20 hours, and the pace is picking up.</p>\n<p><a title=\"2.7 100K by ryancboren, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanboren/3101470362/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3034/3101470362_566b58d146.jpg\" alt=\"2.7 100K\" width=\"500\" height=\"389\" /></a></p>\n  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryan.wordpress.com/1641/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryan.wordpress.com/1641/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1641/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1641/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1641/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1641/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryan.wordpress.com/1641/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryan.wordpress.com/1641/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1641/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1641/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryan.boren.me&blog=78&post=1641&subd=ryan&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:30:18 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ryan\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1547:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><p><a href=\"http://wordpress.org/download/counter/\">100,000 downloads</a> of <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/12/coltrane/\">WordPress 2.7</a> in 20 hours, and the pace is picking up.</p>\n<p><a title=\"2.7 100K by ryancboren, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanboren/3101470362/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3034/3101470362_566b58d146.jpg\" alt=\"2.7 100K\" width=\"500\" height=\"389\" /></a></p>\n  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryan.wordpress.com/1641/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryan.wordpress.com/1641/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1641/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1641/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1641/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1641/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryan.wordpress.com/1641/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryan.wordpress.com/1641/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1641/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1641/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryan.boren.me&blog=78&post=1641&subd=ryan&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";}i:44;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:19:\"Ryan: WordPress 2.7\";s:4:\"guid\";s:23:\"http://boren.nu/?p=1638\";s:4:\"link\";s:45:\"http://ryan.boren.me/2008/12/11/wordpress-27/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2951:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><p>Finally, at last, <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/12/coltrane/\">it&#8217;s here</a>.  And now, on to 2.8.  There were several areas that we didn&#8217;t have time to re-design for 2.7.  2.8 will focus on making the media and widgets UI as good as the rest of WP.  There will be a few new features as well.  Theme browsing and one-click theme install is a likely one.  After a short rest to recover from 2.7, we&#8217;ll start brainstorming new features and put the results on the<a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.8\"> 2.8 codex page</a>.</p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll likely do the usual .1 release in a month to address any bugs that slipped through the 2.7 beta testing cycle.</p>\n<p>A lot of people contributed to 2.7, but I&#8217;d like to give a few thank yous in particular.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://iammattthomas.com/\"> </a><a href=\"http://jane.wordpress.com/\">Jane</a> for the UX, the wire frames, and for all of the help with managing this release.  <a href=\"http://iammattthomas.com/\">Matt</a> for the great visual design.  <a href=\"http://dd32.id.au/\">DD32</a> for the upgrade and install work, file system abstraction, and all of the bug fixing.  <a href=\"http://www.santosj.name/\">Jacob</a> for the HTTP API and all of that phpdoc.  <a href=\"http://www.aaronharp.com/\">Aaron</a> for quick edit. <a href=\"http://www.ilfilosofo.com/\">Austin</a> for the many bug fixes and for getting the flash uploader working with Flash 10. <a href=\"http://blogwaffe.com/\">Mike</a> for the dashboard. <a href=\"http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/\">Peter</a>, <a href=\"http://markjaquith.com/\">Mark</a>, and <a href=\"http://azaozz.wordpress.com/\">Andrew</a> for being kick ass lead devs who put in a lot of thought, love,  and hours.  And <a href=\"http://ma.tt/\">Matt</a> for bringing all of these great people together.</p>\n  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryan.wordpress.com/1638/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryan.wordpress.com/1638/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1638/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1638/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1638/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1638/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryan.wordpress.com/1638/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryan.wordpress.com/1638/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1638/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1638/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryan.boren.me&blog=78&post=1638&subd=ryan&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:30:18 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ryan\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2951:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><p>Finally, at last, <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/12/coltrane/\">it&#8217;s here</a>.  And now, on to 2.8.  There were several areas that we didn&#8217;t have time to re-design for 2.7.  2.8 will focus on making the media and widgets UI as good as the rest of WP.  There will be a few new features as well.  Theme browsing and one-click theme install is a likely one.  After a short rest to recover from 2.7, we&#8217;ll start brainstorming new features and put the results on the<a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.8\"> 2.8 codex page</a>.</p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll likely do the usual .1 release in a month to address any bugs that slipped through the 2.7 beta testing cycle.</p>\n<p>A lot of people contributed to 2.7, but I&#8217;d like to give a few thank yous in particular.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://iammattthomas.com/\"> </a><a href=\"http://jane.wordpress.com/\">Jane</a> for the UX, the wire frames, and for all of the help with managing this release.  <a href=\"http://iammattthomas.com/\">Matt</a> for the great visual design.  <a href=\"http://dd32.id.au/\">DD32</a> for the upgrade and install work, file system abstraction, and all of the bug fixing.  <a href=\"http://www.santosj.name/\">Jacob</a> for the HTTP API and all of that phpdoc.  <a href=\"http://www.aaronharp.com/\">Aaron</a> for quick edit. <a href=\"http://www.ilfilosofo.com/\">Austin</a> for the many bug fixes and for getting the flash uploader working with Flash 10. <a href=\"http://blogwaffe.com/\">Mike</a> for the dashboard. <a href=\"http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/\">Peter</a>, <a href=\"http://markjaquith.com/\">Mark</a>, and <a href=\"http://azaozz.wordpress.com/\">Andrew</a> for being kick ass lead devs who put in a lot of thought, love,  and hours.  And <a href=\"http://ma.tt/\">Matt</a> for bringing all of these great people together.</p>\n  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryan.wordpress.com/1638/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryan.wordpress.com/1638/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1638/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1638/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1638/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1638/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryan.wordpress.com/1638/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryan.wordpress.com/1638/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1638/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1638/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryan.boren.me&blog=78&post=1638&subd=ryan&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";}i:45;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:28:\"Ryan: Hear that 2.7 a Comin\'\";s:4:\"guid\";s:23:\"http://boren.nu/?p=1635\";s:4:\"link\";s:53:\"http://ryan.boren.me/2008/12/03/hear-that-27-a-comin/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1815:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><p>As announced on the wordpress.com blog, 2.7 is coming to wordpress.com tomorrow.  Actually, 2.7 has been running on wordpress.com for awhile, just not the exciting new admin UI.  Here&#8217;s a peek at what the admin will look like on wordpress.com.</p>\n<p><a title=\"WordPress.com 2.7 Preview by ryancboren, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanboren/3080433013/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3212/3080433013_2059b812ee.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress.com 2.7 Preview\" width=\"500\" height=\"322\" /></a></p>\n<p>The final release of 2.7 won&#8217;t be here until next week.  There is still a lot of coordination and management type stuff to do before we&#8217;re ready to release.</p>\n  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryan.wordpress.com/1635/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryan.wordpress.com/1635/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1635/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1635/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1635/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1635/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryan.wordpress.com/1635/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryan.wordpress.com/1635/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1635/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1635/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryan.boren.me&blog=78&post=1635&subd=ryan&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:30:18 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ryan\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1815:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><p>As announced on the wordpress.com blog, 2.7 is coming to wordpress.com tomorrow.  Actually, 2.7 has been running on wordpress.com for awhile, just not the exciting new admin UI.  Here&#8217;s a peek at what the admin will look like on wordpress.com.</p>\n<p><a title=\"WordPress.com 2.7 Preview by ryancboren, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanboren/3080433013/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3212/3080433013_2059b812ee.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress.com 2.7 Preview\" width=\"500\" height=\"322\" /></a></p>\n<p>The final release of 2.7 won&#8217;t be here until next week.  There is still a lot of coordination and management type stuff to do before we&#8217;re ready to release.</p>\n  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryan.wordpress.com/1635/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryan.wordpress.com/1635/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1635/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1635/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1635/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1635/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryan.wordpress.com/1635/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryan.wordpress.com/1635/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1635/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1635/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryan.boren.me&blog=78&post=1635&subd=ryan&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";}i:46;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:16:\"Ryan: 2.7 Beta 1\";s:4:\"guid\";s:23:\"http://boren.nu/?p=1629\";s:4:\"link\";s:42:\"http://ryan.boren.me/2008/11/01/27-beta-1/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1788:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><p>We&#8217;ve been working our asses off and <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-27-beta-1/\">finally have a beta to share</a>.  Download, test, and enjoy the pretty visuals.  The word most people use when first seeing it is &#8220;sexy&#8221;.   This is a great design, and I&#8217;m very pleased with how it has turned out.  When the visuals are complete and the new icons are in, 2.7 will be a very good looking release.</p>\n<p>Try this exercise.  Load up the Write Post page in 2.6 and in 2.7.   Compare the location of the title field between the two.  Notice the vertical distance.  That&#8217;s one of my favorite 2.7 features.</p>\n  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryan.wordpress.com/1629/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryan.wordpress.com/1629/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1629/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1629/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1629/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1629/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryan.wordpress.com/1629/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryan.wordpress.com/1629/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1629/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1629/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryan.boren.me&blog=78&post=1629&subd=ryan&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:30:18 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ryan\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1788:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><p>We&#8217;ve been working our asses off and <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-27-beta-1/\">finally have a beta to share</a>.  Download, test, and enjoy the pretty visuals.  The word most people use when first seeing it is &#8220;sexy&#8221;.   This is a great design, and I&#8217;m very pleased with how it has turned out.  When the visuals are complete and the new icons are in, 2.7 will be a very good looking release.</p>\n<p>Try this exercise.  Load up the Write Post page in 2.6 and in 2.7.   Compare the location of the title field between the two.  Notice the vertical distance.  That&#8217;s one of my favorite 2.7 features.</p>\n  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryan.wordpress.com/1629/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryan.wordpress.com/1629/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1629/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1629/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1629/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1629/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryan.wordpress.com/1629/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryan.wordpress.com/1629/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1629/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1629/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryan.boren.me&blog=78&post=1629&subd=ryan&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";}i:47;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:38:\"Ryan: WordPress 2.7 UI Configurability\";s:4:\"guid\";s:23:\"http://boren.nu/?p=1622\";s:4:\"link\";s:64:\"http://ryan.boren.me/2008/10/31/wordpress-27-ui-configurability/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1858:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><p>Implementation of the new visual design of WordPress 2.7 is almost done.  One of our primary objectives with the new design is to offer interface flexibility and customization.  You can drag-and-drop and show or hide many UI elements.  Here&#8217;s the Write Post page stripped down the way I like it.  Title, Content, Categories, and Publish.  That&#8217;s all I use and now that&#8217;s all I have to see.  Even the navigation is tucked away on the left so I can concentrate on writing.</p>\n<p><a title=\"My Write Post by ryancboren, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanboren/2990547560/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3034/2990547560_76e92e9b8a.jpg\" alt=\"My Write Post\" width=\"500\" height=\"343\" /></a></p>\n  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryan.wordpress.com/1622/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryan.wordpress.com/1622/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1622/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1622/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1622/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1622/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryan.wordpress.com/1622/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryan.wordpress.com/1622/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1622/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1622/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryan.boren.me&blog=78&post=1622&subd=ryan&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:30:18 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ryan\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1858:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><br /><p>Implementation of the new visual design of WordPress 2.7 is almost done.  One of our primary objectives with the new design is to offer interface flexibility and customization.  You can drag-and-drop and show or hide many UI elements.  Here&#8217;s the Write Post page stripped down the way I like it.  Title, Content, Categories, and Publish.  That&#8217;s all I use and now that&#8217;s all I have to see.  Even the navigation is tucked away on the left so I can concentrate on writing.</p>\n<p><a title=\"My Write Post by ryancboren, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanboren/2990547560/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3034/2990547560_76e92e9b8a.jpg\" alt=\"My Write Post\" width=\"500\" height=\"343\" /></a></p>\n  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ryan.wordpress.com/1622/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ryan.wordpress.com/1622/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1622/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/ryan.wordpress.com/1622/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1622/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/ryan.wordpress.com/1622/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/ryan.wordpress.com/1622/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/ryan.wordpress.com/1622/\" /></a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1622/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/ryan.wordpress.com/1622/\" /></a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryan.boren.me&blog=78&post=1622&subd=ryan&ref=&feed=1\" /></div>\";}i:48;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:74:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Which OpenSource CMS Has The Best Brand Strength?\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=6915\";s:4:\"link\";s:102:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/10/21/which-opensource-cms-has-the-best-brand-strength/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1639:\"<p><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/opensourcecms2009.png\" alt=\"opensourcecms2009\" title=\"opensourcecms2009\" width=\"113\" height=\"94\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6916\" />CMSWire in partnership with Water And Stone has released their <a href=\"http://www.cmswire.com/downloads/cms-market-share/\">2009 Open Source CMS Market Share report</a>. The report is free if you care to dive in and look at look at the results which were comprised of over 1,000 respondents. I don&#8217;t think anyone will be surprised to know that the top three systems represented in the survey are Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress. However, unlike last year, all three switched top metrics with Joomla taking the popularity prize. However, WordPress dominated the brand strength category. According to CMSWire, they think that having two projects with the same name contributed a large part to the branding strength of WordPress. WordPress.com the free hosting service enables users to get their feet wet encouraging them later on to take the plunge to self install WordPress. To veterans in the WordPress community, this branding is a nightmare but it&#8217;s obviously had a positive effect in terms of mind share. </p>\n<p>I encourage you to take a look through the report to find more detailed information on some of the different metrics that the big three swapped around. It&#8217;s good to know though that WordPress is still at the top of it&#8217;s game with Joomla and Drupal each holding their ground. It&#8217;s a win-win for end users and consumers alike as we have three top tier platforms to choose from. </p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:20:01 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:13:\"Jeff Chandler\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1639:\"<p><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/opensourcecms2009.png\" alt=\"opensourcecms2009\" title=\"opensourcecms2009\" width=\"113\" height=\"94\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6916\" />CMSWire in partnership with Water And Stone has released their <a href=\"http://www.cmswire.com/downloads/cms-market-share/\">2009 Open Source CMS Market Share report</a>. The report is free if you care to dive in and look at look at the results which were comprised of over 1,000 respondents. I don&#8217;t think anyone will be surprised to know that the top three systems represented in the survey are Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress. However, unlike last year, all three switched top metrics with Joomla taking the popularity prize. However, WordPress dominated the brand strength category. According to CMSWire, they think that having two projects with the same name contributed a large part to the branding strength of WordPress. WordPress.com the free hosting service enables users to get their feet wet encouraging them later on to take the plunge to self install WordPress. To veterans in the WordPress community, this branding is a nightmare but it&#8217;s obviously had a positive effect in terms of mind share. </p>\n<p>I encourage you to take a look through the report to find more detailed information on some of the different metrics that the big three swapped around. It&#8217;s good to know though that WordPress is still at the top of it&#8217;s game with Joomla and Drupal each holding their ground. 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Edit the file `/etc/varnish/default.vcl and put the following in (delete everything else):</p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\">\nbackend default {\n  .host = \"127.0.0.1\";\n  .port = \"8080\";\n}\n\nacl purge {\n  \"127.0.0.1\";\n  \"localhost\";\n}\n\nsub vcl_recv {\n    if (req.request == \"PURGE\") {\n      if (!client.ip ~ purge) {\n        error 405 \"Not allowed.\";\n      }\n      ban(\"req.url ~ \"+req.url+\" &amp;&amp; req.http.host == \"+req.http.host);\n      error 200 \"OK\";\n    }\n\n    # only using one backend\n    set req.backend = default;\n\n    # set standard proxied ip header for getting original remote address\n    set req.http.X-Forwarded-For = client.ip;\n\n    # logged in users must always pass\n    if( req.url ~ \"^/wp-(login|admin)\" || req.http.Cookie ~ \"wordpress_logged_in_\" ){\n        return (pass);\n    }\n\n    # don&#039;t cache search results\n    if( req.url ~ \"\\?s=\" ){\n        return (pass);\n    }\n\n    # always pass through posted requests and those with basic auth\n    if ( req.request == \"POST\" || req.http.Authorization ) {\n         return (pass);\n    }\n\n    # else ok to fetch a cached page\n    unset req.http.Cookie;\n    return (lookup);\n}\n\n\n\nsub vcl_fetch {\n\n    # remove some headers we never want to see\n    unset beresp.http.Server;\n    unset beresp.http.X-Powered-By;\n\n    # only allow cookies to be set if we&#039;re in admin area - i.e. commenters stay logged out\n    if( beresp.http.Set-Cookie &amp;&amp; req.url !~ \"^/wp-(login|admin)\" ){\n        unset beresp.http.Set-Cookie;\n    }\n\n    # don&#039;t cache response to posted requests or those with basic auth\n    if ( req.request == \"POST\" || req.http.Authorization ) {\n         return (hit_for_pass);\n    }\n\n    # only cache status ok\n    if ( beresp.status != 200 ) {\n        return (hit_for_pass);\n    }\n\n    # don&#039;t cache search results\n    if( req.url ~ \"\\?s=\" ){\n        return (hit_for_pass);\n    }\n\n    # else ok to cache the response\n    set beresp.ttl = 24h;\n    return (deliver);\n}\n\n\n\nsub vcl_deliver {\n    if (obj.hits &gt; 0) {\n        set resp.http.X-Cache = \"HIT\";\n    }\n    else {\n        set resp.http.X-Cache = \"MISS\";\n    }\n    unset resp.http.Via;\n    unset resp.http.X-Varnish;\n}\n\nsub vcl_hit {\n  if (req.request == \"PURGE\") {\n    purge;\n    error 200 \"OK\";\n  }\n}\n\nsub vcl_miss {\n  if (req.request == \"PURGE\") {\n    purge;\n    error 404 \"Not cached\";\n  }\n}\n\n\nsub vcl_hash {\n    hash_data( req.url );\n    if ( req.http.host ) {\n        hash_data( regsub( req.http.host, \"^([^\\.]+\\.)+([a-z]+)$\", \"\\1\\2\" ) );\n    } else {\n        hash_data( server.ip );\n    }\n    # ensure separate cache for mobile clients (WPTouch workaround)\n    if( req.http.User-Agent ~ \"(iPod|iPhone|incognito|webmate|dream|CUPCAKE|WebOS|blackberry9\\d\\d\\d)\" ){\n        hash_data(\"touch\");\n    }\n    return (hash);\n}\n</pre>\n<p>I won&#8217;t go into much details here, because <a href=\"https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/4.0/\">official Varnish documentation</a> does a much better job at that. Three things worth mentioning here are the lines that PURGE the cache (delete it), which comes in handy to have within WordPress so that updated parts automatically initiate cache removal. There are several plugins for that, we use <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-varnish/\">Better WP Varnish</a>, but any will do.</p>\n<p>The second thing to mention is cookie handling. This configuration prevents logged in users to see cached versions of WordPress for easier debugging and previewing.</p>\n<p>Last, we also use a custom header (X-Cache), which equals to either HIT or MISS so you can easily debug and see whether Varnish fetched a cached version (HIT) or not.</p>\n<p>As with Pound, it&#8217;s now time to restart Varnish to load the new configuration: <code>$ service varnish restart</code>.</p>\n<h2>Nginx and mod_pagespeed</h2>\n<p>Almost there! The final piece of the puzzle is Nginx. 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After turning it on, we need to properly map URLs so that mod_pagespeed will know when to trigger its magic. After that, we enable/disable various <a href=\"https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/filters\">filters</a> and it&#8217;s up to you to which level you want mod_pagespeed to modify/optimize your HTML so go ahead and play with them. My favorites are ones that automatically combine CSS and Javascript files, optimize images and rename them according to their <em>last-modified</em> time, so we can have a far-future expiration date.</p>\n<p>There&#8217;s only one <strong>caveat</strong>: Make sure to disable <em>convert_jpeg_to_webp</em> filter. The name of the filter is pretty descriptive but can pose a problem because of Varnish. If the very first visitor of your website uses Chrome, Varnish will pass the request on to Nginx and it will detect that and serve images in WEBP format, filling the cache with them. 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The only way to prevent this from occurring is more humans as there are several times more plugin committs than there are plugin reviews.</p>\n<p>In an interview published on the Tavern <a title=\"http://wptavern.com/behind-the-scenes-in-the-wordpress-plugin-directory-with-mika-epstein\" href=\"http://wptavern.com/behind-the-scenes-in-the-wordpress-plugin-directory-with-mika-epstein\">earlier this year</a>, Mika Epstein, who is a member of the plugin validation team, described how they try to combat the issue.</p>\n<blockquote><p>Someone submits plugin A, we approve it, but they upload plugin B to the repository. That’s something a lot of spammers like to do. Sometimes people upload the wrong version of the code by accident, other times they intentionally go back and add in code we told them to remove. 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The round was led by <a href=\"http://linseedcapital.com\">Linseed Capital</a>, with participation from the <a href=\"http://nebraskaangels.org\">Nebraska Angels</a>, <a href=\"http://ludlowventures.com\">Ludlow Ventures</a> out of Detroit, <a href=\"http://lightbank.com\">Lightbank</a> and <a href=\"http://hydeparkvp.com\">Hyde Park Venture Partners</a> out of Chicago, and <a href=\"http://rosepaul.com/\">Rose Paul Ventures</a> out of NYC.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/FlywheelLogoOrange.png\" rel=\"prettyphoto[29960]\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29976\" src=\"http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/FlywheelLogoOrange.png?resize=492%2C160\" alt=\"Flywheel Logo Orange\" /></a></p>\n<p>Flywheel will use the funding to expand their team and infrastructure. Also as part of the announcement, Flywheel now offers bulk pricing plans. Bulk pricing starts with 10 sites with 150,000 visits for $100 a month and 25 sites with 500,000 visits for $250 a month. Flywheel hosting plans for small sites begin at $15 a month for sites with 5,000 visits. Since the customer base is mainly website designers and agencies, these new plans make sense, especially for managing all of their client sites in one location.</p>\n<h2>Managing A Growth Phase</h2>\n<p><a title=\"http://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/reviews/webhost-trusted-wp-engine-hijacked-business-avoid-them/\" href=\"http://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/reviews/webhost-trusted-wp-engine-hijacked-business-avoid-them/\">Some customers</a> of WPEngine have suggested that the company&#8217;s rapid growth resulted in lackluster support and reliable service during the height of its popularity. Earlier this year, an article on the WPEngine blog entitled <a title=\"http://wpengine.com/2014/05/21/growth-hard/\" href=\"http://wpengine.com/2014/05/21/growth-hard/\">Growth Is Hard,</a> explained the growing pains the company experienced.</p>\n<p>I asked the co-founder and CEO of Flywheel, Dusty Davidson, how he plans to manage the next phase of Flywheel.</p>\n<blockquote><p>We&#8217;re very aware of how hard it is to scale a support organization. We&#8217;re investing heavily in great people, great automation, tools, and other things to do our absolute best to provide the level of support that our customers have come to expect. It&#8217;s core to our mission to provide service at that level, even at scale and we&#8217;ll do what it takes to accomplish that.</p></blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s rare to see so many people compliment a webhosting provider but that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve witnessed over the past year. Through Twitter, WordCamps, and other venues, <a title=\"https://imajworks.com/2013/11/14/five-reasons-love-flywheel/\" href=\"https://imajworks.com/2013/11/14/five-reasons-love-flywheel/\">customers appear</a> to be unanimously happy with Flywheel. It will be interesting to see if the company can scale at a fast rate while maintaining their signature level of quality service and support.</p>\n<h2>Tell Us About Your Experience With FlyWheel</h2>\n<p>With so many companies in the managed WordPress hosting market, it&#8217;s encouraging to see a startup proving to be a hit amongst its customers. Instead of going after everyone, FlyWheel has carved out a niche within the market and is doing well. 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Justin Tadlock offers some insight on this practice, following his <a href=\"http://justintadlock.com/archives/2013/09/11/the-themeforest-experiment-one-year-later\" target=\"_blank\">Themeforest experiment</a>:</p>\n<blockquote><p>Based on what I’ve seen in the forums, many authors are just looking for ways to do what they’ve already been doing but just putting it in a plugin packaged with their theme. Basically, they don’t want anyone to “steal their codeâ€ nor do they want to truly make a wonderful user experience, one in which users will keep coming back long after they’ve switched to a new theme. If you package your plugin functionality into a plugin that’s only ever going to be useful with your theme, then you’re _doing_it_wrong(). That’s what I envision, but I hope that’s the sort of thing Envato will take a stand against. 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