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<p>Looking for something fun to do during your summer vacation? Why not check out a WordCamp! WordCamps are locally-organized casual conferences of, by, and for WordPress users, developers, and enthusiasts just like you. The focus of a WordCamp is to foster face-to-face connections and collaboration among the local WordPress crowd, but there are usually some out-of-towners there as well. Here are the WordCamps that have been approved so far for the summer:</p>
<p>April 16: <a href="http://wordcampseattle.org/">WordCamp Seattle</a> in Seattle, WA. This weekend! After taking a year off, WordCamp Seattle is back with tracks for bloggers, designers, and developers. This year they&#8217;ll feature a lineup including presentations by both local speakers and visitors like core committer Andrew Nacin, as well as an Ignite session of lightning talks at the end of the day.</p>
<p>May 5: <a href="http://wordcampdevelopers.com/">WordCamp Vancouver (Developer Edition)</a> in Vancouver, BC. This one-day WordCamp is aimed purely at developers working on the WordPress platform, and will not have content aimed at bloggers (as previous Vancouver WordCamps have). I predict we will start seeing more of these types of niche WordCamps moving forward, because they will mean smaller, more intimate events that allow more collaboration (and make it easier to find venues!). Note that we&#8217;re working with the organizers to get the tickets to a more reasonable price, so keep your eyes open this week if you&#8217;ve held off on buying a ticket because of the price tag.</p>
<p>May 7: <a href="http://wordcamp-switzerland.ch/">WordCamp Switzerland</a> in Brugg, Switzerland. This one will cover a wide range of topics, including getting started with WordPress, advanced development topics, BuddyPress, and an inside look at running a WordPress-based business.</p>
<p>May 14: <a href="http://www.ocwordcamp.com/">WordCamp Orange County</a> in Orange, CA. Already sold out! Orange County had their first WordCamp last year, and the organizers have put together another great event this time around.</p>
<p>May 14: <a href="http://paris14mai2011.wordcamp.fr/">WordCamp Paris</a> in Paris, France. One of the last true unconference-style WordCamps, the Paris group will plan their schedule the morning of the event like they do at BarCamps. WordCamp Paris had one of the best WordCamp t-shirts ever a couple of years ago. And it&#8217;s in Paris in the spring.</p>
<p>May 21–22: <a href="http://wordcampraleigh.com/">WordCamp Raleigh</a> in Raleigh, NC. Repeat organizers from the Raleigh WordPress Meetup Group are just starting to select speakers and put together their plans, but if it is anything like last year, the venue will be packed with WordPress professionals (and maybe there will be cookies). I&#8217;ll be attending this one, as will Nacin.</p>
<p>June 4–5: <a href="http://2011.reno.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Reno-Lake Tahoe</a> in Reno, NV. Organized by a WordPress core UI group contributor, WordCamp Reno-Lake Tahoe is taking place in Reno and has a packed schedule full of visiting experts.</p>
<p>June 11–12: <a href="http://www.wckansascity.org/">WordCamp Kansas City</a> in Overland Park, KS. With publisher, designer, and developer tracks, Kansas City&#8217;s WordCamp will have a little something for everyone, presented in large part by local speakers.</p>
<p>June 17–19: <a href="http://wordcampcolumbus.com/">WordCamp Columbus</a> in Columbus, OH. WordCamp Columbus has a new organizer this year and is bringing the focus more firmly onto WordPress (and less on social media). Their 3-day event includes an entire day for newbies, and another for non-profits, a nice addition to the usual blogger/developer tracks.</p>
<p>July 9–10: <a href="http://wcmtl.org/">WordCamp Montreal</a> in Montreal, Quebec. This group consistently puts on a great every year. If you register now, you can still get a $10 discount and get both days for only $30 (with sessions in both English and French to reflect the bilingual nature of the city). Montreal plays host to a number of <a href="http://www.montreal.com/tourism/festivals/index.html">festivals</a> throughout the year, and this weekend is no different, including festivals for the arts, comedy, tango, and even circus arts.</p>
<p>July 16: <a href="http://2011.sandiego.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp San Diego</a> in San Diego, CA. First WordCamp in San Diego! They have talking about this for over a year, and are now starting to really ramp up the planning. They&#8217;re finalizing their venue right now, and I would expect a great roster of speakers.</p>
<p>July 16-17: <a href="http://wiki.wordcampuk.org/Main_Page">WordCamp Portsmouth</a> in Portsmouth, UK. The annual WordCamp UK that moves from city to city each year alights this year in Portsmouth. This one is notable because Mike Little, co-founder of WordPress, is part of the organizing team.</p>
<p>July 23–24: <a href="http://wordcampboston.com/">WordCamp Boston</a> in Boston, MA. Another one just about to lock down some details and get starting with speaker selection, etc. An easy train ride from so many places, and not in the middle of winter this year!</p>
<p><a href="http://2011.chicago.wordcamp.org">WordCamp Chicago</a> has new organizers this year and is looking for a venue before deciding on a date, but hopes to happen this summer (hopefully late July). If you would be interested in donating a venue to this popular event, please <a href="http://2011.chicago.wordcamp.org/">contact them</a>. <a href="http://www.wordcampportland.org/">WordCamp Portland</a> is looking for a venue for September, also.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll hold off on posting fall events until later in the summer since there a lot in the planning stages now. To get the most up-to-date information, visit <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/schedule/">WordCamp Central</a>.</p>
<p>Hope to see you at a WordCamp soon!</p>
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Then we can measure whether it was a good use of time.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17183"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 11:55 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>When they talk about new features for WordPress.com, they pay a lot of attention to stats. They want to understand how new features are being used. &#8220;How often is something clicked?&#8221; &#8220;Once it&#8217;s clicked, will they come back to use it again?&#8221; etc. etc. They want to know the tradeoff between the developers time and the benefit of the feature to users.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17186"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:54 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;If you had a like button now, I know that you wouldn&#8217;t click on it.&#8221;</p><p><em>Self deprecating win.</em></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17185"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:52 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Question is about how Automattic brought in its first VIP clients. Scott recommends asking Matt about it, but it sounds like was personal connections, people Matt knew and reached out to.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17184"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:51 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Will Twitter destory blogging?&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;A lot of tweets are links to blog posts.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17182"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:50 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Talking various competitors to WordPress now. There&#8217;s actually a decent discussion over <a title="Is Tumblr the new WordPress? And great discussion on WordPress competitors" href="http://wpcandy.com/thinks/is-tumblr-the-new-wordpress">on this editorial post</a> about the same topic.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17181"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 11:48 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>The next few versions of Jetpack will be all about new features. Scott gave email subscriptions as an example of one feature on the way.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17180"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:47 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;If WordPress didn&#8217;t exist you would all be very sad. Where would you guys be today? You&#8217;d be at BlankCamp.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17179"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:46 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Our systems guy, <a title="Barry of Automattic" href="http://automattic.com/about/">Barry</a>, is amazing. He&#8217;s like&#8230; the future of our species.&#8221;</p><p>New standard for compliments has been set.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17177"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:44 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/drawmark/status/59295378595520512"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17178" title="Mark Kaufman's tweet" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-9.44.16-AM.png" alt="" width="531" height="216" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17176"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:43 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Are you a developer? You&#8217;re a designer? Oh, I don&#8217;t want to talk to you then.&#8221; <em>laughs</em></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17175"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:43 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Question from the crowd: &#8220;You want an intern?&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17173"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:41 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>There are approximately 50 or 60 P2 blogs within Automattic. Not all are very active, some are dormant.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17169"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 11:41 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Be aggressive about trying out plugins, and conservative about what you keep and maintain&#8221; &#8211; Scott on a question asking how many plugins are too many.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17171"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:40 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/trepmal/status/59294748233564161"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17172" title="Kailey's tweet" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-9.39.52-AM.png" alt="" width="469" height="188" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17170"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:37 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Talking downsides of their system now. Seems to be: not everyone works best that way, certain social/emotional cues are hard to catch via text, etc.</p><p>&#8220;We tend to be almost too polite.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17168"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:35 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Recommends <a title="CodePoet.com" href="http://codepoet.com/">CodePoet.com</a> as a place to find reliable WordPress professionals.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17166"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:34 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;We depend a lot on the WordPress community to police itself.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17164"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:32 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/nacin/status/59292603849523200"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17165" title="Andrew Nacin's tweet" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-9.31.21-AM.png" alt="" width="511" height="221" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17162"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:30 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Response to question: WordPress.com Publicize (social feature) can be added to Jetpack, but it isn&#8217;t being done yet. &#8220;Request noted.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17137"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 11:29 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;There should be as little user-interface as possible. Imagine going to the bathroom and turning on the light. Only instead of flipping a switch, you have to go to the fuse box and start flipping switches then mess with the lighting, fading in and out. That would be annoying.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17161"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:29 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>It&#8217;s cool to see Scott in person talking. We&#8217;re always <a title="Scott Berkun on WPCandy" href="http://wpcandy.com/profiles/scott-berkun">mentioning him</a> on the blog.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17159"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:28 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="http://twitpic.com/4lmci5"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17160" title="WordCamp Seattle opening presentation crowd" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/278179277.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="358" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17156"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:26 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17158" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-132/attachment/2011-04-16-09-24-13"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17158" title="Jetpack planning stages" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/2011-04-16-09.24.13-600x450.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></a></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17157" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-132/attachment/img_0534"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17157" title="Planning screens for Jetpack" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0534-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17154"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:24 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-17155" title="WordCamp Seattle 2011 Wi-fi connection" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-9.23.18-AM-300x188.png" alt="" width="300" height="188" /></p><p>Pretty impressive Wi-fi connection here. No complaints.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17153"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:22 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;You can see in this picture, that because we&#8217;re used to working distributed, so when we&#8217;re together it&#8217;s pretty awkward. We stare off into space, we don&#8217;t talk&#8230;&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17152"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:21 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Scott&#8217;s talking about <a title="Jetpack" href="http://jetpack.me/">Jetpack</a>, <a title="Jetpack discussed on WPCandy" href="http://wpcandy.com/?s=jetpack">heard of it</a>?</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17151"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:19 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Apparently I&#8217;m not supposed to worship the sun yet.&#8221;</p><p>I&#8217;ll just let you refer to the recordings to make sense of that one.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17150"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:17 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Good analogies:</p><ul><li><span>IRC is like the hallway. There&#8217;s always a group of people in chat rooms.</span></li><li><span>Skype is for small team meetings.</span></li><li><span>P2 is a combination of status updates from Twitter with the retention ability of blogs. (Not really an analogy I guess.)</span></li></ul><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17149"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:16 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Automattic communicates entirely via IRC, Skype, and <a title="P2 WordPress theme" href="http://p2theme.com/">P2</a>. Talking about how Automattic doesn&#8217;t use email to communicate like most do.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17148"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:14 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;We recently released the 25,000th version of WordPress.com&#8230; We believe the only way we learn is deploying.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17146"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:13 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17147" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-128/attachment/img_0533"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17147" title="List of Automattic principles" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0533-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17145"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:11 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t believe job titles are very important. We don&#8217;t believe where you work is important. We don&#8217;t even believe how long you work. We think it&#8217;s important what you get done.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17144"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:10 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a title="Automattic map of employees" href="http://automattic.com/map/">Automattic map of 70 or so odd employees</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17143"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:10 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Regarding the distribution of Automattic employees: &#8220;We are everywhere. Like ninjas. We&#8217;re places you don&#8217;t expect us to be.&#8221;</p><p>Sounds like a threat, no?</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17142"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:09 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Scott&#8217;s background is as a writer, back before he moved to WordPress. He&#8217;s talking about how writing is important to the world, important to keep sacred.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17140"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:08 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/certifiedkory/status/59286007492771840"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17141" title="Kory McDow's tweet" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-9.07.53-AM.png" alt="" width="533" height="182" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17139"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:07 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Happiness Engineering team is what Automattic/WordPress.com calls their support team. And every employee who is hired has to spend three weeks in support first, before doing anything else. Clever idea.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17138"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:06 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Turns out not a lot of folks here get many comments/day. New project: WPCandy will comment on all blogs. <em>Everywhere</em>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17135"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:05 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17136" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-121/attachment/img_0532"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17136" title="WordPress.com stats slide" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0532-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>Nearly 20,000,000 blogs on WordPress.com. Referencing <a title="WordPress.com Stats" href="http://en.wordpress.com/stats">this page</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17117"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 11:05 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Currently there are almost twenty million blogs across WordPress.com&#8221;- Scott Berkun</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17134"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:04 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>I&#8217;m just kidding.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17133"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:03 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Scott Berkun just started breakdancing up there. Really odd.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17132"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:02 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>WordPress.com makes money three primary ways:</p><ol><li><span>Ads</span></li><li><span>Upgrades</span></li><li><span>VIP</span></li></ol><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17131"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:01 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>If you&#8217;re watching from home, remember the hashtag to follow is <a title="WordCamp Seattle hashtag" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wcsea">#wcsea</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17130"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:59 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Explaining the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. I&#8217;m glad, because I&#8217;ve been wondering about that one <em>for a while</em>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17129"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:58 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Scott&#8217;s getting going now. Going to be some time for FAQ at the end. Any questions you would like asked? Leave them in the comments or hit us up <a title="WPCandy on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/wpcandy">on Twitter</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17128"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:56 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Talking about the <a title="Seattle WordPress Meetup" href="http://www.meetup.com/SeattleWordPressMeetup/">Seattle WordPress Meetup</a>. It&#8217;s held at TechStars, if you&#8217;re local to Seattle. <em>Or</em>, if you love traveling hundreds of miles for local events.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17127"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:54 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;The bathrooms are kind of&#8230; meager offerings.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17125"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:53 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/arianna/status/59280357140344832"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17126" title="Arianna O'Dell's tweet" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-8.52.27-AM.png" alt="" width="529" height="180" /></a></p><p>Aw, sad day.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17124"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:51 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re using these cameras to record and live stream. So, please try not to stand in front of them.&#8221;</p><p>Thanking sponsors now. Microsoft up first.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17122"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:51 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17123" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-112/attachment/img_0530"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17123" title="How is WordPress.com made?" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0530-e1302969059163-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17116"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:48 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Opening remarks happening now.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17222"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:41 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Justin is describing their pricing structure as a way to figure out the market and what is out there.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17115"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:41 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>First up today is an all-track presentation by <a title="Scott Berkun's profile on WordCamp Seattle blog" href="http://wordcampseattle.org/speaker/scott-berkun/">Scott Berkun</a>, Team Social lead at WordPress.com for Automattic. The presentation title is, appropriately, &#8220;How is WordPress.com Made?&#8221; Still a few minutes before things really get going here.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17219"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:39 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>What is your percentage of overseas interest?</p><p>&#8220;About 1/3 so far.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17220"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:39 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Test</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17113"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:37 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17114" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17113/attachment/img_0529"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17114" title="View from our table at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0529-e1302968069839-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>Our view from our table. Place is filling up! I guess that&#8217;s what <a title="WordCamp Seattle 2011 sells out" href="http://wpcandy.com/reports/350-attendees-at-wordcamp-seattle-2011">350 attendees</a> will do, eh?</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17213"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:36 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Aren&#8217;t you looking in the rear view mirror with this?</p><p>&#8220;Well, yes. But we believe WordPress is a better platform for it.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17216"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:34 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17217" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-159/attachment/2011-04-16-10-31-07"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17217" title="Justin Sainton presenting at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/2011-04-16-10.31.07-600x450.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17215"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:32 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Will&#8217;s now showing of his method for simplifying Ajax handlers. Refer to his slides for his class.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17111"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:32 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17112" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17111/attachment/img_0527"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17112" title="WPCandy shirts at the front table at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0527-e1302967911857-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>Arrived and set up space for handing out WPCandy shirts at the front registration tables. Be sure to pick one up!</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17214"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:31 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>We&#8217;ll likely have the blogging track covered here as well by the next hour. Rest of the team is running a quick errand.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17212"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:30 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>When Justin Vela talks about Justin Sainton in the other room, I like to pretend he&#8217;s speaking in the third person, like royalty.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17208"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:29 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Go to groupdealsplugin.com to check out what Justin is working on.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17109"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:29 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/toddflorence/status/59273996188913664"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17110" title="Todd Florence's tweet" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-8.27.48-AM.png" alt="" width="540" height="264" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17211"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:26 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Not to go too inside baseball, but live blogging sessions with lots of code examples (which is a good thing) is tough. Great presentation, hard to quantify it here.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17209"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:24 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17210" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17209/attachment/img_0537"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17210" title="Audience in the dev track room for Will Anderson's talk" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0537-e1302974638280-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>The current audience in the development track room.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17206"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:22 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>His slides include code examples, showing how to load up Javascript on only certain pages, or admin, or custom post type, etc.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17200"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:21 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Custom post types are the coolest thing since&#8230;&#8230; well I guess pages.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17188"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 10:21 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Good advice from Will: &#8220;You don&#8217;t have to run a custom script on every page.&#8221; You can pull it in where needed to save load times.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17204"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:20 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17205" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17204/attachment/img_0536"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17205" title="Will Anderson at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0536-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>Talking <code>wp_enqueue_script()</code>, and generally how to start using Ajax in WordPress.</p><p>Did I mention I like that I was able to stay in the same place? Yup, no need to move yet.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17203"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:16 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Recommends using &#8220;jQuery&#8221; instead of the dollar symbol, for compatibility&#8217;s sake.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17202"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:14 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Quick overview of what Ajax is. He&#8217;ll be using jQuery for examples.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17201"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:13 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Will Anderson getting rolling, talking Ajax and WordPress.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17199"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:13 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>I&#8217;m in the development track, Justin will be in the theme track. Plus, Krogsgard is at it from home. Liveblog to the max. And I&#8217;m uncool again.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17198"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:13 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Sainton not Satin!</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17195"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:12 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17196" title="View from the theme track" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/2011-04-16-10.05.10-600x450.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></p><p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17197" title="View from the theme track" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/2011-04-16-10.05.56-600x450.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></p><p>I&#8217;ll be in the theme track right now. My current view.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17121"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:11 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Things are getting started in the Theming Track.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17194"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:07 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Apparently I&#8217;m really good with time.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17107"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 9:41 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a title="WPCandy thanks The Theme Foundry" href="http://wpcandy.com/thanks/the-theme-foundry">Big thanks to The Theme Foundry</a> for <a title="You can power WPCandy too" href="http://wpcandy.com/is/powered">powering WPCandy</a> to attend WordCamp Seattle this weekend. We literally wouldn&#8217;t be here without them, so check them out and thank them!</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17105"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 9:39 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>If you&#8217;re watching the events today from home, don&#8217;t miss out on the <a title="WordCamp Seattle 2011 live streams" href="http://wpcandy.com/reports/wordcamp-seattle-2011-will-be-live-streamed-today-starting-9am">live streams that the WordCamp Seattle folks are offering up</a>. Just be sure to keep our liveblog up in another tab!</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17192"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 9:01 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Changed timezone of the blog. Always forget stuff like that.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17096"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 8:57 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17097" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17096/attachment/img_0018"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17097" title="New mobile office, in Seattle Washington" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0018-e1302961887148-600x800.jpg" alt="" width="360" height="480" /></a></p><p>I&#8217;d like to think I&#8217;ve upgraded a bit since the <a href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblogged/wordcamp-phoenix-2011#liveblog-entry-13645">last time I shared my mobile office</a>. Hopefully it makes my blogging/developing that much better. Because that&#8217;s how it works.</p><p><em>Right?</em></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17095"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 8:46 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Up and at &#8216;em. Will be leaving for WordCamp in an hour or so, after which the real liveblogging will get going. T minus 2 hours.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17089"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 6:30 pm -- Friday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17090" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17089/attachment/p4cbq"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17090" title="WordCamp Seattle 2011 venue ready" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/p4cbq-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>Sounds like the volunteers and organizers of WordCamp Seattle have wrangled everything together and finished prepping the venue. (<a title="WordCamp Seattle tweet" href="https://twitter.com/wordcampseattle/status/59034918667288577">via</a>)</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17087"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 6:19 pm -- Friday</strong></p><p>I&#8217;ve been asked to mention WP101&#8242;s deal for WordCamp attendees. If you&#8217;re interested in WordPress support videos, and/or getting a good deal, <a title="WP101 for WordCamp attendees" href="http://www.wp101.com/wordcamp">check them out</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17077"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 5:46 pm -- Friday</strong></p><p><strong>Story time. </strong></p><p>The WPCandy crew missed their flight last night by a couple of minutes. So instead we spent the night in Indianapolis, grabbing a flight this morning to Milwaukee, where we have spent the better part of the day on a long layover waiting for our flight to Seattle.</p><p>We missed out on a day hanging out in Seattle, but at least we won&#8217;t miss the main event.</p><p>Did we mention we&#8217;ll need a drink or two tonight in Seattle? Yeah, that&#8217;s going to happen.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. 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We’re into our last day of Round 1 voting, with just a few hours left . But today we’re talking about Day 2 and Day 3 winners.</p><p>We have the results of <em>sixteen</em> games, <em>sixteen</em> winners, and a couple of <em>very</em> close calls. We’ll dig in just after the jump.</p><h3>How we scored the games</h3><p>Just to recap, each game was run on three fronts. First, we counted up the polls for each game. Secondly, we counted up votes on Twitter. Finally, we counted up comments generated (if they were) on the competitor’s blogs. Top score won.</p><p><span id="more-17005"></span></p><h3>Results of Graph Paper Press vs. Panda Themes</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>5. Graph Paper Press: 93</span></li><li><span>12. Panda Themes: 42</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Graph Paper Press, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 19</a>.</p><h3>Results of Solostream vs. ThemeShift</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>5. Solostream: 26</span></li><li><span>12. ThemeShift: 91</span></li></ul><p>Winner: ThemeShift, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 19</a>.</p><h3>Results of Theme Hybrid vs. Xtreme Theme</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>5. Theme Hybrid: 76</span></li><li><span>12. Xtreme Theme: 44</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Theme Hybrid, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 19</a>.</p><h3>Results of ThemeJam vs. Startbox</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>5. ThemeJam: 50</span></li><li><span>12. Startbox: 52</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Startbox, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 19</a>.</p><h3>Results of Organic Themes vs. Storefront Themes</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>4. Organic Themes: 79</span></li><li><span>13. Storefront Themes: 22</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Organic Themes, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 19</a>.</p><h3>Results of Theme Garden vs. BlogOhBlog</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>4. Theme Garden: 71</span></li><li><span>13. BlogOhBlog: 29</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Theme Garden, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 19</a>.</p><h3>Results of Crowd Favorite vs. Working Wireframes</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>4. Crowd Favorite: 77</span></li><li><span>13. Working Wireframes: 24</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Crowd Favorite, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 19</a>.</p><h3>Results of Pro Theme Design vs. Themes Kingdom</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>4. Pro Theme Design: 60</span></li><li><span>13. Themes Kingdom: 42</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Pro Theme Design, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 19</a>.</p><h3>Results of Press75 vs. Themes by Bavotasan</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>3. Press75: 90</span></li><li><span>14. Themes by Bavotasan: 28</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Press75, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 20</a>.</p><h3>Results of Headway Themes vs. Aloha Themes</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>3. Headway Themes: 103</span></li><li><span>14. Aloha Themes: 31</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Headway Themes, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 20</a>.</p><h3>Results of Templatic vs. ChimeraThemes</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>3. Templatic: 76</span></li><li><span>14. ChimeraThemes: 21</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Templatic, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 20</a>.</p><h3>Results of Elegant Themes vs. Theme Trust</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>3. Elegant Themes: 227</span></li><li><span>14. Theme Trust: 16</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Elegant Themes, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 20</a>.</p><h3>Results of KreativeThemes vs. Dessign</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>6. KreativeThemes: 82</span></li><li><span>11. Dessign: 30</span></li></ul><p>Winner: KreativeThemes, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 20</a>.</p><h3>Results of WPBundle vs. Catalyst Theme</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>6. WPBundle: 91</span></li><li><span>11. Catalyst Theme: 263</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Catalayst Theme, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 20</a>.</p><h3>Results of Mojo Themes vs. Theme Junkie</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>6. Mojo Themes: 112</span></li><li><span>11. Theme Junkie: 25</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Mojo Themes, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 20</a>.</p><h3>Results of Themify vs. Bizz Themes</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>6. Themify: 114</span></li><li><span>11. Bizz Themes: 25</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Themify, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 20</a>.</p><h3>What do you think of the results so far?</h3><p>We’re beginning to see results show up on the big <a title="Theme Madness 2011 Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">Theme Madness Bracket</a>. How do you think the results are shaking out? Are you surprised by any of the results so far? How are your own personal brackets going?</p><p>Remember, we still have a few hours left to vote for the <a title="Theme Madness Round 1 voting, day 4" href="http://wpcandy.com/announces/theme-madness-2011-round-1-day-4-voting">last few games of Round 1</a>.</p><h3>Updated Theme Madness Schedule</h3><table id="wp-table-reloaded-id-14-no-1" class="wp-table-reloaded wp-table-reloaded-id-14"><thead><tr class="row-1 odd"><th class="column-1"></th><th class="column-2">Bracket A</th><th class="column-3">Bracket B</th><th class="column-4">Bracket C</th><th class="column-5">Bracket D</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr class="row-2 even"><td class="column-1"><a href="http://wpcandy.com/announces/theme-madness-2011-round-1-day-1-voting">April 11</a></td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://www.woothemes.com/">WooThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://themeopoly.com/">Themeopoly</a></p><p><a href="http://gothemeteam.com/">Theme Team</a> vs. <a href="http://www.appthemes.com/">AppThemes</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://themeforest.net/">ThemeForest</a> vs. <a href="http://biothemes.com/">BioThemes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.gabfire.com/">Gabfire Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://richwp.com/">RichWP</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://www.studiopress.com/">StudioPress</a> vs. <a href="http://www.themebaker.com/">Themebaker</a></p><p><a href="http://flexithemes.com/">FlexiThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://premiumpress.com/">PremiumPress</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://oboxthemes.com/">Obox Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://signaturetheme.com/">Signature Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://www.bandthemer.com/">BandThemer</a> vs. <a href="http://upthemes.com/">UpThemes</a></td></tr><tr class="row-3 odd"><td class="column-1">April 12</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://graphpaperpress.com/">Graph Paper Press</a> vs. <a href="http://pandathemes.com/">Panda Themes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.organicthemes.com/">Organic Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://storefrontthemes.com/">Storefront Themes</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://www.solostream.com/">Solostream</a> vs. <a href="http://themeshift.com/">ThemeShift</a></p><p><a href="http://themegarden.com/">ThemeGarden</a> vs. <a href="http://www.blogohblog.com/">BlogOhBlog</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://themehybrid.com/">ThemeHybrid</a> vs. <a href="http://xtreme-theme.com/">Xtreme Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/">Crowd Favorite</a> vs. <a href="http://workingwireframes.com/">Working Wireframes</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://themejam.com/">ThemeJam</a> vs. <a href="http://wpstartbox.com/">Startbox</a></p><p><a href="http://prothemedesign.com/">Pro Theme Design</a> vs. <a href="http://themeskingdom.com/">Themes Kingdom</a></td></tr><tr class="row-4 even"><td class="column-1">April 13</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://themify.me/">Themify</a> vs. <a href="http://bizzthemes.com/">Bizz Themes</a></p><p><a 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<p>This is unfortunately another one of those common annoyances related to your hosting provider&#8217;s server configuration that can take you off guard and lead to plenty of confusion. Fortunately, it&#8217;s easy to fix (or work around).</p>
<p>Try <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions">changing the permissions</a> of the theme files that you want to edit to 666. If that doesn&#8217;t work, just use an <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients">FTP or SFTP client</a> and a <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Text_editor">plain text editor</a> to edit them remotely.</p>
<p>Of course, if neither of those methods are working out for you, please stop by the <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/">WordPress Support Forums</a> for further assistance.</p>
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In fact, today is the last day of Round 1 voting. Today’s games will be:</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.dev4press.com/">Dev4Press</a> vs. <a href="http://www.indonez.com/">Indonez</a></li><li><a href="http://tokokoo.com/">Tokokoo</a> vs. <a href="http://standardtheme.com/">Standard Theme</a></li><li><a href="http://www.pagelines.com/">Pagelines</a> vs. <a href="http://wonderthemes.com/">Wonder Themes</a></li><li><a href="http://ithemes.com/">iThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://themewarrior.com/">ThemeWarrior</a></li><li><a href="http://gorillathemes.com/">Gorilla Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://wpshower.com/">WPShower</a></li><li><a href="http://thethemefoundry.com/">The Theme Foundry</a> vs. <a href="http://themefuse.com/">ThemeFuse</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wpzoom.com/">WPZoom</a> vs. <a href="http://www.vivathemes.com/">Viva Themes</a></li><li><a href="http://diythemes.com/">DIYThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.theme-force.com/">ThemeForce</a></li></ul><p>All of the polls and instructions can be found just after the jump, so be sure to click through to have your voice heard. Voting will take place for the next 48 hours, and close at midnight on the 15th (Eastern Standard Time).</p><p>If you need a reminder, the rules can be found <a title="How to win your Theme Madness 2011 Trophy" href="http://wpcandy.com/announces/theme-madness-2011-rules">here</a>. Good luck to everyone playing!</p><p><span id="more-16999"></span></p><h3>Dev4Press vs. Indonez</h3><p><a name="pd_a_4915034"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4915034"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4915034/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">Market Research</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="Dev4Press on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/milangd">@MilanGD</a> or <a title="Indonez on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/indoneztheme">@IndonezTheme</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either Dev4Press or Indonez start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>Tokokoo vs. 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/><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">survey software</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="Gorilla Themes on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/gorillathemes">@GorillaThemes</a> or <a title="WPShower on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/wpshower">@WPShower</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either Gorilla Themes or WPShower start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>The Theme Foundry vs. ThemeFuse</h3><p><a name="pd_a_4915052"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4915052"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4915052/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">customer surveys</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="The Theme Foundry on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/thethemefoundry">@TheThemeFoundry</a> or <a title="ThemeFuse on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/themefuse">@ThemeFuse</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either The Theme Foundry or ThemeFuse start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>WPZoom vs. Viva Themes</h3><p><a name="pd_a_4915040"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4915040"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4915040/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">online survey</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="WPZoom on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/wpzoom">@WPZoom</a> or <a title="Viva Themes on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/vivathemes">@VivaThemes</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either WPZoom or Viva Themes start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>DIYThemes vs. ThemeForce</h3><p><a name="pd_a_4915050"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4915050"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4915050/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">online survey</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="DIYThemes on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/diythemes">@DIYThemes</a> or <a title="Noel Tock on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/noeltock">@NoelTock</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either DIYThemes or ThemeForce start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>Theme Madness 2011 Game Schedule</h3><table id="wp-table-reloaded-id-14-no-1" class="wp-table-reloaded wp-table-reloaded-id-14"><thead><tr class="row-1 odd"><th class="column-1"></th><th class="column-2">Bracket A</th><th class="column-3">Bracket B</th><th class="column-4">Bracket C</th><th class="column-5">Bracket D</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr class="row-2 even"><td class="column-1"><a href="http://wpcandy.com/announces/theme-madness-2011-round-1-day-1-voting">April 11</a></td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://www.woothemes.com/">WooThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://themeopoly.com/">Themeopoly</a></p><p><a href="http://gothemeteam.com/">Theme Team</a> vs. <a href="http://www.appthemes.com/">AppThemes</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://themeforest.net/">ThemeForest</a> vs. <a href="http://biothemes.com/">BioThemes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.gabfire.com/">Gabfire Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://richwp.com/">RichWP</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://www.studiopress.com/">StudioPress</a> vs. <a href="http://www.themebaker.com/">Themebaker</a></p><p><a href="http://flexithemes.com/">FlexiThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://premiumpress.com/">PremiumPress</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://oboxthemes.com/">Obox Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://signaturetheme.com/">Signature Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://www.bandthemer.com/">BandThemer</a> vs. <a href="http://upthemes.com/">UpThemes</a></td></tr><tr class="row-3 odd"><td class="column-1">April 12</td><td 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Kingdom</a></td></tr><tr class="row-4 even"><td class="column-1">April 13</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://themify.me/">Themify</a> vs. <a href="http://bizzthemes.com/">Bizz Themes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.elegantthemes.com/">Elegant Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://themetrust.com/">Theme Trust</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://www.mojo-themes.com/">Mojo Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.theme-junkie.com/">Theme Junkie</a></p><p><a href="http://templatic.com/">Templatic</a> vs. <a href="http://www.chimerathemes.com/">ChimeraThemes</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://www.wpbundle.com/">WPBundle</a> vs. <a href="http://catalysttheme.com/">Catalyst Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://headwaythemes.com/">Headway Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://alohathemes.com/">Aloha Themes</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://www.kreativethemes.com/">KreativeThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.dessign.net/">Dessign</a></p><p><a href="http://press75.com/">Press75</a> vs. 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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:64:"WPCandy: WPCandy will be attending WordCamp Seattle this weekend";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=16980";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:101:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/5JddyBHRqY4/wpcandy-will-be-attending-wordcamp-seattle-2011";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:1896:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16980"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15873" title="WordCamp Seattle 2011 logo (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/03/wordcampseattle-teaser.png" alt="" width="600" height="181" /></a></p><p>I&#8217;m happy to say that WPCandy will be attending <a href="http://wordcampseattle.org/" title="WordCamp Seattle">WordCamp Seattle</a> this coming weekend. The big event is Saturday, and we&#8217;ll be there the whole time handing out WPCandy shirts, liveblogging, and hopefully absorbing some of the excess intelligence in the room.</p><p>Will you be attending this weekend? If so, be sure to let us know so we can say hi and get you a shirt (at least until we run out!). And hey, if you won&#8217;t be there this weekend, head after the jump and let us know what you&#8217;re most interested in seeing from us during the event. We have some ideas, but then again you folks always have great thoughts too!</p><p>Big <a href="http://wpcandy.com/thanks/the-theme-foundry" title="WPCandy thanks The Theme Foundry!">thanks to The Theme Foundry</a> for powering WPCandy to attend WordCamp Seattle this year. And if you haven&#8217;t considered it before, remember that you too can <a href="http://wpcandy.com/is/powered" title="WPCandy is powered by the community">power WPCandy</a>.</p><p><span id="more-16980"></span></p><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4912071/">What do you want to see WPCandy doing at WordCamp Seattle this weekend?</a><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">customer surveys</a></span><br /> </p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16980">WPCandy will be attending WordCamp Seattle this weekend</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:25:34 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:9:"Ryan Imel";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:14;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:62:"WPCandy: Winners: First group of Round 1 Theme Madness winners";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=16942";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:97:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/2AUZ5ENt81U/winners-first-group-of-round-1-game-winners";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:11820:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16942"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16943" title="Theme Madness Round 1 Day 1 Winners" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/thememadnessround1day1winners-teaser.png" alt="" width="600" height="240" /></a></p><p>The <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness" href="http://wpcandy.com/series-on/theme-madness-2011">Theme Madness</a> tournament has been roaring along really well so far. 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BioThemes: 48</span></li></ul><p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16953" title="ThemeForest is the winner" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/winner-themeforest.png" alt="" width="600" height="90" /></p><p>ThemeForest now moves on to Round 2, where they will be in another match next week on April 18.</p><h3>Results of Gabfire Themes vs. RichWP</h3><p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16954" title="Gabfire Theme vs RichWP" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/gabfirevsrichwp.png" alt="" width="600" height="90" /></p><ul><li><span>8. Gabfire Themes: 82</span></li><li><span>9. RichWP: 79</span></li></ul><p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16955" title="The Winner is Gabfire Themes" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/winner-gabfire.png" alt="" width="600" height="90" /></p><p>Gabfire Themes now moves on to Round 2, where they will be in another match next week on April 18, up against ThemeForest.</p><h3>Results of StudioPress vs. Themebaker</h3><p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16965" title="StudioPress vs. Themebaker" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/studiopressvsthemebaker.png" alt="" width="600" height="90" /></p><ul><li><span>1. StudioPress: 156</span></li><li><span>16. Themebaker: 37</span></li></ul><p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16966" title="StudioPress is the Winner" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/winner-studiopress.png" alt="" width="600" height="90" /></p><p>StudioPress now moves on to Round 2, where they will be in another match next week on April 18.</p><h3>Results of FlexiThemes vs. PremiumPress</h3><p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16957" title="FlexiThemes vs. PremiumPress" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/flexithemesvspremiumpress.png" alt="" width="600" height="90" /></p><ul><li><span>8. FlexiThemes: 51</span></li><li><span>9. 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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:53:"WPCandy: Vote here: Theme Madness 2011, Round 1 Day 3";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=16931";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:93:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/lDzlxOtXTBc/theme-madness-2011-round-1-day-3-voting";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:15297:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16931"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16934" title="wpthememadnessvotingday3-teaser" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/wpthememadnessvotingday3-teaser.png" alt="" width="600" height="240" /></a></p><p>This week we will be running through Round 1 of Theme Madness, with eight games happening each day. Today’s games will be:</p><ul><li><a title="Themify WordPress themes" href="http://themify.me/">Themify</a> vs. <a title="Bizz Themes WordPress themes" href="http://bizzthemes.com/">Bizz Themes</a></li><li><a title="Mojo Themes WordPress themes" href="http://www.mojo-themes.com/">Mojo Themes</a> vs. <a title="Theme Junkie WordPress themes" href="http://www.theme-junkie.com/">Theme Junkie</a></li><li><a title="WPBundle WordPress themes" href="http://www.wpbundle.com/">WPBundle</a> vs. <a title="Catalyst Theme for WordPress" href="http://catalysttheme.com/">Catalyst Theme</a></li><li><a title="KreativeThemes WordPress themes" href="http://www.kreativethemes.com/">KreativeThemes</a> vs. <a title="Dessign" href="http://www.dessign.net/">Dessign</a></li><li><a title="Elegant Themes WordPress themes" href="http://www.elegantthemes.com/">Elegant Themes</a> vs. <a title="Theme Trust WordPress themes" href="http://themetrust.com/">Theme Trust</a></li><li><a title="Templatic WordPress themes" href="http://templatic.com/">Templatic</a> vs. <a title="ChimeraThemes WordPress themes" href="http://www.chimerathemes.com/">ChimeraThemes</a></li><li><a title="Headway Themes WordPress themes" href="http://headwaythemes.com/">Headway Themes</a> vs. <a title="Aloha Themes WordPress themes" href="http://alohathemes.com/">Aloha Themes</a></li><li><a title="Press75 WordPress themes" href="http://www.press75.com/">Press75</a> vs. <a title="Themes by Bavotasan" href="http://themes.bavotasan.com/">Themes by Bavotasan</a></li></ul><p>All of the polls and instructions can be found just after the jump, so be sure to click through to have your voice heard. Voting will take place for the next 48 hours, and close at midnight on the 12th (Eastern Standard Time).</p><p>If you need a reminder, the rules can be found <a title="How to win your Theme Madness 2011 Trophy" href="http://wpcandy.com/announces/theme-madness-2011-rules">here</a>. 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ThemeJunkie</h3><p><a name="pd_a_4908293"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4908293"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4908293/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">survey software</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="Mojo Themes on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/mojo_themes">@Mojo_Themes</a> or <a title="ThemeJunkie" href="http://twitter.com/#!/themejunkie">@ThemeJunkie</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either Mojo Themes or ThemeJunkie start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>WPBundle vs. Catalyst Theme</h3><p><a name="pd_a_4908298"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4908298"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4908298/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">survey software</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="WPBundle on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/wpbundle">@WPBundle</a> or <a title="Catalyst Theme" href="http://twitter.com/#!/catalysttheme">@CatalystTheme</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either WPBundle or Catalyst Theme start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>KreativeThemes vs. Dessign</h3><p><a name="pd_a_4908302"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4908302"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a 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href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">Market Research</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="Templatic on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/templatic">@Templatic</a> or <a title="Chimera Themes on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/chimerathemes">@ChimeraThemes</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either Templatic or ChimeraThemes start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>Headway Themes vs. Aloha Themes</h3><p><a name="pd_a_4908315"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4908315"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4908315/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">online survey</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="Headway Themes on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/headwaythemes">@HeadwayThemes</a> or <a title="Aloha Themes on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/alohathemes">@AlohaThemes</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either Headway Themes or Aloha Themes start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>Press75 vs. Themes by Bavotasan</h3><p><a name="pd_a_4908320"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4908320"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4908320/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">online survey</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="Press75 on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/press75">@Press75</a> or <a title="Bavotasan on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/bavotasan">@Bavotasan</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either Press75 or Themes by Bavotasan start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>Theme Madness 2011 Game Schedule</h3><table id="wp-table-reloaded-id-14-no-1" class="wp-table-reloaded wp-table-reloaded-id-14"><thead><tr class="row-1 odd"><th class="column-1"></th><th class="column-2">Bracket A</th><th class="column-3">Bracket B</th><th class="column-4">Bracket C</th><th class="column-5">Bracket D</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr class="row-2 even"><td class="column-1"><a 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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:71:"WPCandy: The WPCandy Show, episode 1: “One is the loneliest number”";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=16893";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:60:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/4yJa0f2YGtk/ep-001";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:6439:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16893"><img src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/wpcandyshowep1-teaser.jpg" alt="" title="WPCandy Show episode 1 (teaser)" width="600" height="282" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16917" /></a></p><p>I&#8217;m excited to present the first episode of a new production here at WPCandy: The WPCandy Show. 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This is episode #1, and I&#8217;m your host Ryan Imel.</p><p>On today&#8217;s show we have a new WordCamp coming up, an update on Theme Madness, and a new record for WPCandy. Let&#8217;s get to it.</p><p>Big news this week, WordPress All in One for Dummies is now available. This is another WordPress book authored by Lisa Sabin-Wilson, the author of WordPress for Dummies, though this time she is joined by Cory Miller of iThemes, Kevin Palmer of Convertiv, Andrea Rennick of WPeBooks, and Michael Torbert of All in One SEO Pack. The book is currently available through Amazon, but will hit brick and mortar retailers on the 19th.</p><p>WPCandy&#8217;s own Theme Madness tournament is underway this month. For those who don&#8217;t know, Theme Madness is our game to determine the best WordPress theme vendor out there. Or at least, to determine which one can rally the most support. We are working through a bracket with 64 teams, and are currently wrapping up Round 1. 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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:27:"Matt: Meaning of VaultPress";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=37961";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:43:"http://ma.tt/2011/04/meaning-of-vaultpress/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:147:"<p>Douglas Van Bossuyt says <a href="http://www.douglasvanbossuyt.com/2011/02/06/what-vaultpress-means-to-me/">What VaultPress means to me</a>.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:46:34 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:4:"Matt";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:23;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:53:"WPCandy: Vote here: Theme Madness 2011, Round 1 Day 2";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=16870";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:93:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/2OWAbcFM1ng/theme-madness-2011-round-1-day-2-voting";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:15329:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16870"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16871" title="Theme Madness Round 1 Day 2 voting" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/thememadnessround1day2-teaser.png" alt="" width="600" height="240" /></a></p><p>This week we will be running through Round 1 of <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness 2011" href="http://wpcandy.com/series-on/theme-madness-2011">Theme Madness</a>, with eight games happening each day. 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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:60:"Publisher Blog: Jay-Z’s Life + Times Magazine on WordPress";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:43:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/?p=1388";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:87:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2011/04/11/jay-zs-life-times-magazine-on-wordpress/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:2326:"<p>Is there anything<strong> Jay-Z</strong> can&#8217;t do? His new lifestyle magazine, <a href="http://lifeandtimes.com/">Life + Times magazine</a> has just launched, running on <a href="http://www.wordpress.org">WordPress</a>, and it&#8217;s very slick. HOVA!</p>
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<p>[Visit <a href="http://lifeandtimes.com/">Life + Times</a>]</p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:53:"WPCandy: Vote here: Theme Madness 2011, Round 1 Day 1";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=16735";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:93:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/V7JrV2Rsp7E/theme-madness-2011-round-1-day-1-voting";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:14964:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16735"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16786" title="WPCandy Theme Madness voting, round 1 day 1" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/thememadnessround1day1-teaser.png" alt="" width="600" height="240" /></a></p><p>This week we will be running through Round 1 of Theme Madness, with eight games happening each day. 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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:64:"WPCandy: WordPress Community Links: Big stack of Dummies edition";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=16753";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:82:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/zqWaMYFTm9s/big-stack-of-dummies-edition";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:7429:"<p><img class="size-full wp-image-16754 alignnone" title="Stack of Dummies books (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/stackofdummies-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="273" /></p><p>It&#8217;s time yet again, my friends, for this week&#8217;s edition of WordPress Community Links. 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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:69:"WPCandy: Adii Pienaar interviewed, discusses the success of WooThemes";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=16756";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:113:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/Pehtp7CWtUM/adii-pienaar-interviewed-discusses-the-success-of-woothemes";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:724:"<p></p><p>Adii Pienaar is a co-founder of WooThemes and well known member of the WordPress community. In this particular interview he discusses WooThemes&#8217; current growth, their plans for the future, and how his other projects are faring.</p><p>Adii is being interviewed by Charl Norman of the great <a href="http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2011/04/07/adii-woothemes-premium-wordpress-themes/">Bandwidth Blog</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16756">Adii Pienaar interviewed, discusses the success of WooThemes</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Sat, 09 Apr 2011 22:36:23 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:9:"Ryan Imel";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:36;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:58:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 4/9";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=9871";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:73:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/fmuoQkBB-QY/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:1525:"<h3>New plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://tinsology.net/plugins/amazon-tools/"><strong>Amazon Tools</strong></a> allows you to integrate your WordPress blog with Amazon Web Services.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/category-redirect-to-post-or-page/"><strong>Category Redirect to Post or Page</strong></a> allows you to easily redirect category links to a specific page, post, or even an outside url.</p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:63:"WPTavern: Using Chrome And WordPress To Publish Saved Bookmarks";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"http://www.wptavern.com/?p=5241";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:115:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WordpressTavern/~3/oCARKWuyMHU/using-chrome-and-wordpress-to-publish-saved-bookmarks";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:551:"<p>Here is a <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/forum/resources/2210-free-google-chrome-extension-wordpress-have-your-own.html">cool little extension</a> for Google Chrome that uses the WordPress API to publish saved bookmarks as posts instead of using the Del.icio.us service. It requires WordPress 3.0 and only takes about a minute to setup. Another nice touch is that it uses the Link post format if your theme supports it.</p>


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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:87:"WPCandy: WPBundle unbundles, offers new pricing structure, and separates from WooThemes";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=16721";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:101:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/7vZRwqD2kGc/wpbundle-unbundles-offers-new-pricing-structure";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:2715:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16721"><img class="size-full wp-image-16723 alignnone" title="WPBundle pricing news (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/wpbundlebundle-teaser.png" alt="" width="600" height="270" /></a></p><p>WPBundle <a title="WPBundle pricing structure announcement" href="http://www.wpbundle.com/2011/new-wpbundle-pricing/">announced</a> this week that they would be making individual theme purchases available, where previously only their 10 theme bundle could be purchased. Individual themes are available for $50 each, though the bundle of all themes is still around for just $200, down from the previous $250 price tag. Mini-bundles were also teased, though no details are available yet regarding just what these will include.</p><p>The team stresses that individual theme sales include support, updates, child themes, and access to their icon set, same as the previous bundle did. Liam McKay described the reasons for the decision on their blog:</p><blockquote><p>From the start of the project we’ve had a lot of people requesting individual theme sales. We’ve never been against the idea, but there was a few reasons why we didn’t feel right doing this, one of which was our name! It felt strange moving away from bundles, because of that, but we understand the demand and need for cheaper options.</p></blockquote><p>The announcement also included the news that WPBundle is no longer partnering with WooThemes.</p><p><span id="more-16721"></span></p><p>McKay says there are no hard feelings over the split, but that with the new direction WPBundle is headed WooThemes &#8220;didn&#8217;t want to be part of the new direction as they have to focus their attention on their own products.&#8221; WPBundle will now use their own sales and support system, which they are in the process of implementing now.</p><p>Also, have a read through our past WPBundle coverage: WPBundle is one of the first WordPress shops that we were able to watch pretty much from <a title="WPCandy coverage of WPBundle" href="http://wpcandy.com/covers/wpbundle">when they began</a>.</p><p>While we&#8217;re on this topic, what is your stance on theme pricing? Do you prefer buying in bulk via a bundle or a membership, or buying individual themes? If you were calling the shots, what would you say? Where&#8217;s the sweet spot between profitability and user friendliness?</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16721">WPBundle unbundles, offers new pricing structure, and separates from WooThemes</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:50:56 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:9:"Ryan Imel";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:40;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:38:"Publisher Blog: AARP Blog on WordPress";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:43:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/?p=1361";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:70:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2011/04/08/aarp-blog-on-wordpress/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:2659:"<p>The AARP has launched their blog on <a href="http://vip.wordpress.com/hosting">WordPress.com VIP</a>.</p>
<p>To recall the sentiment of Beth Carpenter&#8217;s post &#8220;<a href="http://blog.aarp.org/2011/01/25/boomers-on-facebook-twitter-yep-sure-are/">Baby Boomers on Twitter? Yep, sure are</a>&#8220;, to that we say, <strong>Baby Boomers on WordPress? Yep, sure are.</strong></p>
<p>Welcome!</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.aarp.org/"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1362" title="Picture 2" src="http://wordpresspublishers.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/picture-2.png?w=640&h=364" alt="" width="640" height="364" /></a></p>
<p>[Visit the <a href="http://blog.aarp.org/">official AARP blog</a>]</p>
<p><em>Ready to become a <a href="http://vip.wordpress.com/">VIP Services Client</a>? Some of the <a href="http://vip.wordpress.com/clients">world’s biggest brands rely on WordPress.com VIP Services.</a></em></p>
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<p><a href="http://markjaquith.com/">Mark Jaquith</a> has been offering a similar service through <a href="http://coveredwebservices.com/">Covered Web Services</a>, including a full security audit, for quite some time. Sure, it&#8217;s for a fee, but how can you pass up something like this from a core WordPress developer?</p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:34:"Akismet: 25 Billion Pieces of Spam";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:30:"http://blog.akismet.com/?p=559";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:61:"http://blog.akismet.com/2011/04/08/25-billion-pieces-of-spam/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:3096:"<p>We reached a big milestone today: Akismet caught its 25 billionth piece of spam. We&#8217;re now detecting spam at a rate of around 40 million comments a day.</p>
<p>We&#8217;d love to do even more. If you know of a blog, forum or social network that needs some help filtering spam, please let them know we&#8217;re here to help!</p>
<p>To celebrate the milestone, we&#8217;ve built a minisite with a guide to some of the different kinds of spam we filter. Check it out here: <a title="25 Billion Minisite" href="http://akismet.com/25billion">25 billion minisite</a>.</p>
<p>And, of course, we have some stats! We&#8217;ve dug through the 25 billion spams (well, some of the more recent ones) and found the following:</p>
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<li>Spammers are busiest on Friday at 20:00 GMT.</li>
<li>Spammers are least active on Sundays at 14:00 GMT. (Do spammers go to church?!)</li>
<li>A blog comment is 8% more likely to be spam on a Saturday morning than it is on a Tuesday evening.</li>
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<p><strong>And the winner is&#8230;</strong><br />
So what, you&#8217;ll be asking, was the 25 billionth spam? Here it is, a little bit of not-so-innocent flattery:</p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:67:"WPCandy: WordPress Workspaces: Brian Casel’s spacious home office";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=16374";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:86:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/BbsGoMZtUzA/brian-casels-wordpress-workspace";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:8134:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16374"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16380" title="Brian Casel's WordPress Workspace (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/03/briancaselworkspace-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="240" /></a></p><p>We all work with WordPress professionals every day. Not in the traditional way, of course: we use Twitter, Facebook, and blogs to work virtually with one another. And that works great. But have you ever wondered what someone’s office looked like, the desk where they spend the bulk of their lives working? I know I have.</p><p>This week Brian Casel, WordPress theme developer, will be showing us around his own <a title="WordPress Workspaces" href="http://wpcandy.com/series-on/wordpress-workspaces">WordPress Workspace</a>.</p><h3>About Brian Casel</h3><p>Brian Casel is a web designer based in Norwalk, Connecticut.  He&#8217;s the creator of <a title="WP Bids WordPress theme" href="http://wpbids.com/">WP Bids</a>, a WordPress theme for creating project proposals, as well as the <a title="Clean Slate WordPress theme" href="http://cleanslatetheme.com/">Clean Slate WordPress CMS Theme</a>.  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Stevie Wonder on the cover.</li><li>Print: The Big Lebowski. Designed by <a href="http://www.ibraheemyoussef.com/ibraheemshop/">Ibraheem Youssef</a>.</li><li>Fender American Stratocaster</li><li>Canon MX870 all-in-one</li><li>Amare Stoudemire and Carlos Beltran bobbleheads</li><li>Original artwork by Jeffrey Casel</li><li>Burton Custom X snowboard</li><li>Books</li><li>Trey, our 6-month old Lab mix</li><li>Drawers on wheels, Ikea</li><li>Desk with wood top, Ikea</li><li>Steelcase Cobi Chair</li><li>Mac Pro</li><li>2x Acer 23&#8221; Displays</li><li>Logitech web cam</li><li>Blue Yeti USB Mic</li><li>Altec Lansing Speakers + Sub Woofer</li><li>Apple Magic Trackpad</li><li>Logitech wireless mouse, Keyboard + mouse wrist rests, Staples</li><li>Pen + Pad</li></ol><h3>1. Print: Rolling Stone cover from June 1975, Stevie Wonder on the cover</h3><p>One of my all-time favorite artists as well as publications.  This is a nice inspiration to have on the wall.</p><h3>2. Print: The Big Lebowski, designed by Ibraheem Youssef</h3><p>My all time favorite flick.  Awesome poster, designed by <a href="http://www.ibraheemyoussef.com/ibraheemshop/">Ibraheem Youssef</a>.  It really ties the room the together.</p><h3>3. Fender American Stratocaster</h3><p>It sits nearby, lonely, reminiscing on years past when it was played daily.  Now it&#8217;s more of a monthly occurrence.  It&#8217;s nice to plug in and break away from the computer screen every now and then.</p><h3>4. Canon MX870 all-in-one</h3><p>It prints, scans, copies, faxes, and cooks me breakfast.</p><h3>5. Amare Stoudemire and Carlos Beltran bobbleheads</h3><p>Amare Stoudemire and Carlos Beltran.  I&#8217;m a New York sports fan.  These two got my back.</p><h3>6. Original artwork by Jeffrey Casel</h3><p>My brother, Jeff, is a talented artist and painter.  This is one of my favorite pieces of his.</p><h3>7. Burton Custom X snowboard</h3><p>Love to get out to the mountains when I can.  Most of the northeast mountains are a road trip away but hoping to hit the slopes in other parts again in the near future.</p><h3>8. Books</h3><p>Need to do something about the lack of space.  A few favorites can be found here: <a href="http://www.abookapart.com/products/html5-for-web-designers">HTML5 For Web Designers</a>, <a href="http://www.abookapart.com/products/css3-for-web-designers">CSS3 For Web Designers</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Purple-Cow-Transform-Business-Remarkable/dp/159184021X">Purple Cow</a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017922">Outliers</a>.</p><h3>9. Trey, our 6-month old Lab mix</h3><p>Working from the home office can get lonely sometimes.  This guy keeps me company and provokes the occasional wrestling match.  Named after one of my all-time favorite musicians and songwriters, Trey Anastasio.</p><h3>10. Drawers on wheels, Ikea</h3><p>Furniture piece from Ikea.  Sitting on top of it is one of the few remaining land-line phones around.  It&#8217;s nice when it stays quiet.</p><h3>11. Desk with wood top, Ikea</h3><p>Wood top desk from Ikea.</p><h3>12. Steelcase Cobi Chair</h3><p>Love it.  I tried the Aeron and Leap chairs for a year each before selling them off and settling on the Steelcase Cobi.  It&#8217;s lightweight and great on my back for long periods of working at the desk.</p><h3>13. Mac Pro</h3><p>2.8 GHz Quad-Core. 6 GB Ram.  She&#8217;s been good to me for nearly 3 years.</p><h3>14. 2x Acer 23&#8221; Displays</h3><p>I like the size and clarity.  Very affordable in comparison to the Apple display and others.  Had some issues with color accuracy, but mostly nitpicking.</p><h3>15. Logitech web cam</h3><p>Used for Skype calling and broadcasting Freelance Jam.  Has worked reliably for 3+ years.  Not the best in terms of video quality.</p><h3>16. Blue Yeti USB Mic</h3><p>Highly recommended if you&#8217;re doing any kind of podcasting or recording.  Drastically improves sound quality.  I use it for Freelance Jam and the occasional recording of guitar playing.</p><h3>17. Altec Lansing Speakers + Sub Woofer</h3><p>They do the job.</p><h3>18. Apple Magic Trackpad</h3><p>I swap this in when the mouse is wearing on the wrist.  Love using it &#8220;tap&#8221; mode.</p><h3>19. Logitech wireless mouse, Keyboard + mouse wrist rests, Staples</h3><p>High quality clicker.  Wrist wrests from Staples.  These help a lot for proper positioning.  I&#8217;ve been dealing with wrist and back issues over the years, and these are good things to have.</p><h3>20. Pen + Pad</h3><p>I&#8217;m addicted to Things for Mac, Google Calendar, GMail, Basecamp, and other apps, but this is by far the most useful GTD tool in the arsenal.</p><hr /><h3>That’s all folks!</h3><p>And that’s Brian Casel’s WordPress Workspace. Would you like to be included in our series? Just <a href="http://wpcandy.com/is/here">shoot us a note</a> and we’ll line you up to be next in our <a href="http://wpcandy.com/series-on/wordpress-workspaces">WordPress Workspaces series</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16374">WordPress Workspaces: Brian Casel's spacious home office</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. 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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:57:"WPCandy: WPCandy Podcast 18: I’m all teary eyed edition";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=16655";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:64:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/1YFW3lCtjDE/episode-18";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:2591:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16655"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16656" title="WPCandy Podcast 18 (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/wpcandypodcast18-teaser.png" alt="" width="600" height="195" /></a></p><p>It&#8217;s with great pleasure I present episode 18 of the WPCandy Podcast, the &#8220;I&#8217;m all teary eyed&#8221; edition. This week Brian and I were joined by special guest Otto, a prominent member of the WordPress community and Tech Ninja at Audrey Capital. You can follow Otto on Twitter at <a title="Otto on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/otto42">@otto42</a> and at his <a title="Ottopress" href="http://ottopress.com/">two</a> <a title="Ottodestruct" href="http://ottodestruct.com/">blogs</a>.</p><p>Jump straight into the podcast audio here:</p><p>This week we discussed:</p><ul><li><span>Theme Madness and why you should be playing along</span></li><li><span>Custom post types and custom taxonomies, including Otto&#8217;s take on each</span></li><li><span>bbPress, how cool it is, and what it represents</span></li><li><span>WooThemes&#8217; refocus on WordPress </span></li></ul><p>Brian&#8217;s pick was twofold: the <a href="http://wpebooks.com/replicator/">replicator plugin</a> and the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/snack-bar/">snack bar plugin</a>. My pick was Vanilla Forums and their various plugins for integrating with WordPress. Otto&#8217;s pick was <a href="http://onswipe.com/">OnSwipe</a> (see <a title="Onswipe coverage at WPCandy" href="http://wpcandy.com/covers/onswipe">our coverage of OnSwipe</a>).</p><p>Subscribe to the show <a title="WPCandy WordPress Podcast on iTunes" href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-wpcandy-wordpress-podcast/id388757170">on iTunes</a>, or <a title="The WPCandy WordPress Podcast RSS feed" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WPCandyPodcast">directly to the RSS feed</a>. As always you can send any emails you would like to have included on the show to podcast@wpcandy.com. Download links are after the jump.</p><p><span id="more-16655"></span></p><p>If you would like to download the podcast in MP3 format directly, you can do so <a title="Download WPCandy WordPress podcast episode 018" href="http://wpcandy.s3.amazonaws.com/podcasts/WPCandy-Podcast-018.mp3">here</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16655">WPCandy Podcast 18: I'm all teary eyed edition</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:24:11 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:9:"Ryan Imel";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}s:4:"type";i:128;s:7:"headers";a:9:{s:6:"server";s:5:"nginx";s:4:"date";s:29:"Sun, 17 Apr 2011 02:10:04 GMT";s:12:"content-type";s:15:"application/xml";s:10:"connection";s:5:"close";s:4:"vary";s:15:"Accept-Encoding";s:13:"last-modified";s:29:"Sun, 17 Apr 2011 02:00:31 GMT";s:14:"content-length";s:6:"332604";s:4:"x-nc";s:11:"HIT luv 139";s:13:"accept-ranges";s:5:"bytes";}s:5:"build";s:14:"20090627192103";}