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<p>After a ton of research I ended up with a Peplink, probably in part because <a href="http://peplink.com/">their website</a> is the best organized designed of the vendors I found. I&#8217;m very lucky to access to two great internet providers in my building: <a href="http://web-pass.com/">Webpass</a>, a local ISP which provides symmetric 100 Mbps (albeit shared with neighbors), and Comcast with DOCSIS 3.0 support (they sometimes market it as Extreme 50) which provides around 50-60 Mbps. Because the combined speed was above 50 Mbps put me as a &#8220;mid-sized business&#8221; <a href="http://www.peplink.com/balance/tech-spec/">according to Peplink&#8217;s product line-up</a> and I ended up with a Peplink Balance 390 (which seems to be the same as the 380 on their website).</p>
<p>First on the Balance 390, which I&#8217;ve used about a year and a half: it&#8217;s a really solid product. It did everything that was promised including the failover, has been rock-solid, and the Peplink-delivered firmware updates have made the interface significantly better since I bought it in December 2009 especially for router-centric things I like to do like have the DHCP reservations and naming. (The interface is significantly better than what I&#8217;ve used on Linksys and D-link routers before.) <strong>The 390 only had one downside: it&#8217;s incredibly loud.</strong></p>
<p>Now as background I should caveat that I&#8217;m pretty sensitive to ambient noise, especially from computing devices. Over the years I&#8217;ve gone from 4 computers in my office to just a laptop I take with me, and when I moved one of the things I looked for was the closet with the ethernet patch panel and where all the connectivity came in was far away from where I&#8217;d work or sleep. I&#8217;ve stopped using devices before, like the Drobo, because they were too loud. (I think the Drobo still takes the cake.)</p>
<p>But the &#8220;server closet&#8221; is actually the closet in my guest room slash TV room, so even though I was relatively shielded from the noise in there my guests were subjected to it, which was made worse because I had so much stuff in there the closet would get quite hot so I would usually leave the door cracked.</p>
<p>Late last year I started minimizing everything in there to bring the noise, heat, and my electricity bill down. I went from a couple of switches daisy-chained together to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002TPFTA">a single 24-port D-Link</a>. For network storage I&#8217;m a big fan of QNAP devices and have owned their 5, 6, and 8 drive versions. I had a <a href="http://www.qnap.com/pro_detail_feature.asp?p_id=111">TS-809U (rackmount, also really loud)</a> I shipped off to be an off-site backup, retired the old 5-drive, and standardized on a <a href="http://www.qnap.com/pro_detail_feature.asp?p_id=108">(pretty quiet) TS-639</a> with 6 1TB drives in RAID6 so about 3.6TB usable. Finally I replaced old desktop machines and Linux servers I had accumulated over the years with a <a href="http://www.apple.com/macmini/">single beautiful Mac Mini</a>. (Still planned is to replace old rackmount UPS with this <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00429N19W">much-quieter Cyberpower</a> and some <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003YFIRR6">nifty liberators</a>.)</p>
<p>But I was still stuck with the Balance 390 providing the lifeline of connectivity to the house and sounding like a plane taking off. However after <a href="http://forum.peplink.com/topic/noise-of-new-products">a post on Peplink&#8217;s bbPress-powered forums</a> I decided to check out two of their new products, the Balance 30 and Balance 310, as I said:</p>
<div class="blockquote"><blockquote><p>It looks like you guys have some new products that would be a little slower but adequete for my needs. I noticed on the comparisons that the 20/30 is a smaller and lighter than the 210/310, and they draw the same amount of power.</p></blockquote></div>
<p>They responded &#8220;The 20/30/210/310 are all completely quiet because they don&#8217;t have a fan!&#8221; Awesome, we&#8217;re in business. But how about performance? Since I&#8217;m in a unique position of having three of their products in front of me, and their website is a bit confusing, I decided to do some rough but real-world tests of each product and found a pretty counter-intuitive results.</p>
<p>As a background for the following benchmarks, I upgraded each device to the latest firmware (5.2.2), unplugged everything from the network, and plugged my laptop directly into the LAN port of each router and ran <a href="http://www.peplink.com/index.php?view=faq&id=111&path=19">some speed tests as suggested by Peplink themselves</a>, which I <a href="http://forum.peplink.com/topic/peplink-30-wan-aggregation">found on this thread</a>. Basically the tool just downloads some big files from Adobe, Apple, and Microsoft and tells you how long it took. The following table is the average of a few tests I ran for each while only having a single WAN link plugged in, then I tried some additional tests just on the Microsoft download paired with Comcast since that seemed to be the fastest possible, finally I plugged in both WAN links and kicked off multiple downloads at once and tried to observe the peak throughput. The absolute numbers aren&#8217;t as interesting, mostly the maximums. I basically wanted to test their assertion that &#8220;The ratings are derived from the actual performance (combination of sw and hw) and not limited by software.&#8221;</p>
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<td>Balance 30</td>
<td>Balance 310</td>
<td>Balance 390</td>
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<tr>
<th scope="row">
<div>List Price</div>
</th>
<td>
<div>$395</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>$1,495</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>$1,995</div>
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<div>Vendor-rated Throughput</div>
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<td>
<div>50 Mbps</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>50 Mbps</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>170 Mbps</div>
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<tr>
<th scope="row">
<div>USB 3G modem support</div>
</th>
<td>
<div>Yes</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>No</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>Yes</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row">
<div>Adobe Webpass</div>
</th>
<td>
<div>21.3 Mbps</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>37.1 Mbps</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>17.4 Mbps</div>
</td>
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<tr>
<th scope="row">
<div>Apple Webpass</div>
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<td>
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</td>
<td>
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<td>
<div>18.7 Mbps</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row">
<div>Microsoft Webpass</div>
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<td>
<div>22.2 Mbps</div>
</td>
<td>
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</td>
<td>
<div>22.3 Mbps</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row">
<div>Adobe Comcast</div>
</th>
<td>
<div>22.1 Mbps</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>42.6 Mbps</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>52.3 Mbps</div>
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</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row">
<div>Apple Comcast</div>
</th>
<td>
<div>21.6 Mbps</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>44.3 Mbps</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>46.7 Mbps</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row">
<div>Microsoft Comcast</div>
</th>
<td>
<div>22.4 Mbps</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>46.9 Mbps</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>57.9 Mbps</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row">
<div>Microsoft Comcast #2</div>
</th>
<td>
<div>31.3 Mbps</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>47.2 Mbps</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>57.3 Mbps</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
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<div>Observed CPU load</div>
</th>
<td>
<div>100%</div>
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<div>Comcast + Webpass  Microsoft Download</div>
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<td>
<div>90.16 Mbps</div>
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<td>
<div>49.5 Mbps</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>116.2 Mbps</div>
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<p>So the conclusions and things I discovered from these numbers:</p>
<ol>
<li>The 390 is the most powerful, it was able to handle 116 Mbps with some room to spare.</li>
<li>The 310 interface would freeze up and become completely unresponsive as the transfer got higher. Though it did better than the 30 on the single-WAN tests, it completely fell over on the dual-WAN test. The 30 stayed responsive even when the CPU pegged at 100%.</li>
<li>The 30 has <strong>bonus unadvertised gigabit</strong> LAN ports (the 310 has 10/100 Mbps ports) which surprised me because it seems <a href="http://www.peplink.com/balance/tech-spec/">from their comparison chart</a> that you only get gigabit LAN ports starting with the 380.</li>
<li>The 30 was able to peak just under 100 Mbps combining the two connections, which is not that far away from the 390, which is 5 times the cost. And it <em>crushed</em> the 310 which is 4x the cost.</li>
</ol>
<p>Now as for the <em>why</em> of these numbers, I don&#8217;t know, maybe Peplink could comment. This test was pretty unscientific, but I was able to recreate over and over again that plugged into the Balance 30 I got <strong>double the performance at a quarter of the cost</strong> of the 310, something I ended up repeating over and over because it was very counter-intuitive to me. Perhaps the 20/30 are just newer generation products and the 210/310 line will catch up in their next refresh, or after they clear out their existing inventory.</p>
<p><strong>So in summary:</strong> Peplink is great, their 380 and above products are fantastic if you need the power and can put them someplace no one will hear them. The 210/310 is a rip-off and should be avoided. The Balance 30 performs above its ratings and I&#8217;d recommend it for anybody like me with multiple internet connections. The &#8220;Next Generation Broadband Ready&#8221; rating on the 210/310 appears to be incorrect.</p>
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If you&#8217;re new to WPCandy, our Community Links roundups are ways for us to share link-worthy materials with you each week. We keep an eye out for interesting WordPress related blog posts, tutorials, and resource posts and hand deliver them to you. Why? Well, we just love you that much.</p><p>All the tasty links are just after the jump. As well as an explanation for the cookies.</p><p><span id="more-16337"></span>First up we have blog posts. This week:</p><ul><li><span>Josh Leuze hit a milestone with his Meteor Slides plugin, and <a title="Josh Leuze celebrates a milestone" href="http://www.jleuze.com/a-tasty-meteor-slides-milestone/">celebrated</a> with 5-star cookies.</span></li><li><span>Jason Paul shared <a title="Why Jason Paul uses WordPress" href="http://www.jasonpaul.net/2011/03/wordpress/  ">why he uses WordPress</a>. Why do you use WordPress?</span></li><li><span>Thomas Svenson, a member of the Drupal community, <a title="Drupal and WordPress.org" href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/136294">shared his thoughts</a> on how the Drupal community can learn from WordPress.org. </span></li><li><span>Automattic&#8217;s Ian Stewart posed an interesting question on ThemeShaper regarding <a title="Ian Stewart on responsive design" href="http://themeshaper.com/2011/03/24/questions-responsive-wordpress-theme-design/">responsive design</a>.</span></li><li><span>It&#8217;s not quite a blog post, but Matt Mullenweg was on This Week in Tech <a title="This Week in Tech episode" href="http://twit.tv/291">last week</a>, discussing the <a title="Matt Mullenweg on the DDoS attack on WordPress.com" href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/some-turbulence/  ">DDoS attack on WordPress.com</a>. Jump to approximately the 40 minute mark to hear Matt&#8217;s portion. Mullenweg was also <a title="Matt Mullenweg interviewed at SXSW" href="http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP000438">interviewed at SXSW</a> by John Battelle. </span></li><li><span>WPMU.org put together a list of <a title="Musicians using WordPress" href="http://wpmu.org/21-musicians-doing-their-thing-using-wordpress/  ">musicians using WordPress</a>.</span></li><li><span>Ryan Ray, the latest hire at WooThemes, explains just <a title="What a Community Manager is" href="http://www.woothemes.com/2011/03/what-is-a-community-manager/  ">what his job involves</a> as a Community Manager.</span></li><li><span>For the developers in the crowd, Andrew Nacin wrote about <a title="Andrew Nacin on code refactoring" href="http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/code-refactoring/  ">code refactoring</a> on the WordPress dev blog.</span></li><li><span>Jeff Chandler shared <a title="Jeff Chandler on the Atlas theme framework" href="http://www.wptavern.com/my-thoughts-on-the-atlas-theme-framework">his thoughts</a> on the new Atlas theme framework. He also <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/is-akismet-still-free">started a discussion</a> on his blog about Akismet.</span></li><li><span>Ozh Richards shared <a title="Ozh Richards' excitement about his new book" href="http://planetozh.com/blog/2011/03/so-i-finally-got-my-hands-on-plugindevbook-whooohooo-o/  ">his excitement</a> when he received copies of the book he recently co-authored with Brad Williams and Justin Tadlock. 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Learn something:</p><ul><li><span>Noel Tock showed <a title="How to integrate event custom post types with FullCalendar" href="http://www.noeltock.com/web-design/wordpress/events-custom-post-types-fullcalendar-json-wordpress/  ">how to integrate</a> his events custom post type with the FullCalendar jQuery plugin. 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These might be worth bookmarking:</p><ul><li><span>Jean over at WPMayor put together a <a title="WordPress slideshow plugins" href="http://www.wpmayor.com/posts/plugin-reviews/best-slideshow-content-slider-plugins-for-wordpress/">collection of slideshow plugins</a> for WordPress. It&#8217;s a good list, though <a title="Meteor Slides WordPress plugin" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/meteor-slides/">Meteor Slides</a> is missing from it.</span></li><li><span>Chris Pearson wrote up a <a title="Beginnner's Guide to Website Optimization" href="http://diythemes.com/thesis/wordpress-website-optimization/  ">beginner&#8217;s guide to website optimization</a>.</span></li></ul><p>That&#8217;s it for this week&#8217;s 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:59:"WPTavern: WPWeekly Episode 110 – Everyone Wants A Jetpack";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=5191";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:117:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WordpressTavern/~3/yEBQsmdf9_A/wpweekly-episode-110-%e2%80%93-everyone-wants-a-jetpack";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:3352:"<p><img src="http://www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/wordpressweekly1.png" alt="wordpressweekly1" title="wordpressweekly1" width="120" height="120" class="alignright size-full wp-image-436" />In this episode of WordPress Weekly, we discussed a large number of topics considering it&#8217;s been awhile since the last episode. I give you the lowdown on Jetpack, a new plugin bundle released by Automattic. We also talked about the road map for WordPress 3.2. I give you a pet peeve of mine for an anti spam plugin and last but not least, I give you a plugin suggestion to take quick linking to previously written content to the next level. Thanks to everyone who showed up for today&#8217;s show. </p>
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<a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/ http://jetpack.me/2011/03/09/blast-off/">Automattic Launches Jetpack</a><br />
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<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/chaostheory"><strong>ChaosTheory</strong></a> is a dark single-column theme with a minimal, techy feel.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-9821" title="ghostbird" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/ghostbird.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="113" /></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ghostbird"><strong>Ghostbird</strong></a> is a blue, beige, and red one-column theme for WordPress.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.dominicfoster.com/nelson-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Nelson</strong></a> is a fairly minimal design that should be easy enough to customize to your own liking.</p>
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<p>Last but not least, the third thing I&#8217;d like you to do is introduce yourself to me. </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:79:"WPCandy: WPZoom launches a redesign to their theme shop, plus new pricing model";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=16295";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:123:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/UZ57L5X6GtA/wpzoom-launches-a-redesign-to-their-theme-shop-plus-new-pricing-model";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:2479:"<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16298" title="WPZoom 2011 redesign (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/03/wpzoomredesign-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="228" /></p><p>Pavel Ciorici launched a new design of <a title="WPZoom" href="http://www.wpzoom.com/">WPZoom</a> yesterday, along with a few new features for WPZoom. The new look is nice, but the update came with other interesting features as well. Top of the list are new subscription options for themes, bonus themes when you purchase, an improved support section, and a new members area.</p><p>The new pricing model introduces memberships to WPZoom, which previously only offered individual theme purchases. Now memberships can be purchased for $199 plus $9/month for a standard membership, or $299 plus $19/month for a developer membership. Ciorici <a href="http://www.wpzoom.com/news/meet-the-new-version-of-wpzoom/#comment-11597">says</a> both memberships will be guaranteed 1-3 themes per month. Individual themes can still be purchased for $69 or $149, standard and developer versions respectively.</p><p>Perhaps best of all, the new pricing structure includes a shiny new pricing page, which is <a title="WPZoom pricing page" href="http://www.wpzoom.com/pricing/">worth a gander</a>.</p><p>The new site was designed by <a title="Web designer Jonatan Flores" href="http://jonatanflores.com/">Jonatan Flores</a>, a web designer in Buenos Aires. The redesign comparison image is just after the jump.</p><p><span id="more-16295"></span></p><p>Below you can see the old design compared next to the new design (full size is linked):</p><p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/03/wpzoomredesigncomparison.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-16300" title="WPZoom 2011 redesign comparison" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/03/wpzoomredesigncomparison-600x518.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="518" /></a></p><p>This week must have some cosmic significance when it comes to site redesigns. We saw <a title="Gravity Forms site redesign" href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16177">Gravity Forms redesign their site</a>, <a title="Standard Theme site redesign" href="http://wpcandy.com/reports/standard-theme-launches-version-2-6">Standard Theme launched a redesign</a>, and now WPZoom. Does everyone know something about this week that I don&#8217;t?</p><p>What do you think of the redesign and the new features on the WPZoom site? Feel free to congratulate the WPZoom folks in the comments!</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:"Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:37:01 +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:7;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:86:"WPCandy: BraveNewCode release Piggy, a mobile web app for tracking WP E-Commerce sales";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=16321";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:81:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/xc7BTxb_zJk/bravenewcode-released-piggy";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:1857:"<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16322" title="Piggy app logo (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/03/piggylogo-teaser.png" alt="" width="600" height="185" /></p><p>BraveNewCode have recently released a new WordPress plugin called <a title="Piggy WordPress plugin" href="http://www.bravenewcode.com/store/plugins/piggy/">Piggy</a>. Piggy is a plugin that works in conjunction with WP E-Commerce, a popular e-commerce plugin for WordPress, to display your sales information on iOS and Android devices. Piggy provides a web app that will work on both iOS and Android devices, and will allow you to track your sales and even receive push notifications when new sales are made. Piggy also provides sales forecasting, based on your past e-commerce sales.</p><p>Piggy is available <a title="Piggy from BraveNewCode" href="http://www.bravenewcode.com/">from BraveNewCode</a> for $39, and installs to your site just like any other WordPress plugin. Installing the app to your iPhone or Android is as simple as saving the website to your home screen, as they show in their demo video (embedded below). It appears Piggy works with WP E-Commerce 3.7 and higher.</p><p>BraveNewCode are the folks behind the popular WPtouch Pro, a <a title="Mobile WordPress themes and plugins" href="http://wpcandy.com/recommends/mobile-wordpress-themes-and-plugins">mobile WordPress theme</a>. Does anyone have experience with BraveNewCode&#8217;s products? If so, share your experiences for others to see in the comments.</p><p>Also check out their demo video, just after the jump.</p><p><span id="more-16321"></span></p><p>This new web app seems pretty slick. We may need to update our <a title="Must have WordPress apps for the iPhone and iPad" href="http://wpcandy.com/recommends/wordpress-iphone-and-ipad-apps">must-have WordPress iPhone/iPad apps</a> list.</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:"Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:10:40 +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:8;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:55:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Updates Via Plugins?";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=9815";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/kLCFqtQ--W4/";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:1570:"<p>Two very interest <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> plugins have debuted recently. Both are built by core WordPress developers, both offer a way to push specific updates to the WordPress core through a simple plugin as opposed to a full WordPress update, and they do it safely without modifying any core files.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hotfix/"><strong>Hotfix</strong></a> &#8211; &#8220;This unofficial plugin provides fixes for selected WordPress bugs, so you don&#8217;t have to wait for the next WordPress core release.&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ui-labs/"><strong>UI Labs</strong></a> &#8211; &#8220;UI Labs is a plugin that offers experimental WordPress admin UI features with the aim of building upon and enhancing the default WordPress User Interface.&#8221;</li>
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<p>I must admit, the two are rather intriguing. Hotfix offers immediate fixes to certain bugs that may not be addressed until the next core update, while UI Labs offers a sneak peek at some of the upcoming design improvements. I especially like the fact that, unlike core updates, these plugins don&#8217;t modify the core files and can be deactivated at any time. Both plugins offer an incredibly safe and efficient way to obtain new bug fixes and design improvements.</p>
<p>How do you feel about these two plugins, and what do you think about the concept of pushing core updates through plugins?</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:57:"WPTavern: GravityForms 1.5 Released – Tons Of New Stuff";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=5177";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:105:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WordpressTavern/~3/qO-4TRC9mWg/gravityforms-1-5-released-tons-of-new-stuff";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:3541:"<p><a href="http://www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/gravitylogo.png" rel="thumbnail"><img src="http://www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/gravitylogo.png" alt="gravityforms logo" title="gravitylogo" width="108" height="109" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2322" /></a>It&#8217;s been awhile since I&#8217;ve seen an upgrade notice for <a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=54585&c=ib&aff=82985">Gravity Forms</a> but alas, 1.5 is here. This new version incorporates a ton of new features and enhancements. Among the new features are:</p>
<p><strong>Multi-Page Forms</strong> &#8211; Using the new Page Break field you now have the ability split longer forms into multiple pages or steps. We have also integrated a visual paging status bar that can be used to show a progress bar or the steps involved in completing the form. </p>
<p><strong>Pricing Fields </strong> &#8211; Pricing Fields allow you to create quotes and order forms. It features integrated pricing calculations and is compatible with the Gravity Forms PayPal Add-On. Pricing Fields consist of a Product Field, Option Field, Quantity Field, Shipping Field, Donation Field and Total Field. They allow you to easily turn your form into an order form and collect payments when combined with the PayPal Add-On. </p>
<p><strong>Text Counter</strong> &#8211; A visual cue to show visitors the number of characters available for use on a text area. </p>
<p><strong>CSS Ready Classes</strong> &#8211; Easily create multi-column layouts using built in CSS classes. These keywords are custom CSS classes you add to the CSS Class Name option under the Advanced tab for each field.</p>
<p><strong>Default Notification</strong> &#8211; One of my favorite new additions will now automatically setup an admin notification that uses the WordPress Admin email as the Send To and includes all submitted form fields when a new form is created.</p>
<p>There are a couple of other things added as well but you can check those out on the spiffy new <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/gravity-forms-v1-5-released/">GravityForms Website</a>. I&#8217;ve been using Gravity Forms on WPTavern.com to handle my contact form for a few months now and I&#8217;m happy to say that it&#8217;s some of the best money I&#8217;ve spent. While I only use it for a contact form, the UI enables me to quickly and easily create a post submission form or edit my existing forms. So far, I&#8217;ve yet to see an alternate form solution that&#8217;s as elegant and easy to use as Gravity Forms.</p>
<p>Kudos to the team on their newly designed website. One of the pain points regarding their old design was that it was difficult to locate the blog part of the site. Thankfully, they&#8217;ve fixed that by adding the blog link to the top of the new design. </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:62:"WPCandy: Beginner’s Guide: How to install WordPress manually";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=12979";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:78:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/oZP8fVRFab8/how-to-install-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:11270:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=12979"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16309" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/01/howtoinstall-teaser.png" alt="" width="600" height="220" /></a></p><p>There are a couple of ways to install WordPress, and you should do it in a way that works for you. Some hosts have &#8220;one-click&#8221; installs via applications that install WordPress without you getting your hands dirty. You can also install it manually with an FTP client or Shell access. We&#8217;re going to go the manual route with FTP in this tutorial for a couple of reasons:</p><ul><li>There are simply too many hosts with different variations of automated installation processes.</li><li>We want to know what&#8217;s going on, so we&#8217;re going to &#8220;get our hands dirty&#8221;, if you will. 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Another popular, well documented, Mac / Windows / Linux capable desktop application is the <a href="http://filezilla-project.org/">FileZilla client</a>.</li><li><strong>Text Editor</strong> &#8211; When working with code, you need a text editor that doesn&#8217;t alter what you input, a.k.a, Microsoft Word IS NOT a text editor. Notepad (for Windows) and TextEdit (for Mac) are the default system text editors, but they are super lightweight and don&#8217;t come with any frills. I personally love <a href="http://notepad-plus-plus.org/">Notepad++</a> for Windows, because it is powerful enough and also simple enough for my needs with WordPress. I hear <a href="http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/">TextWrangler </a>is a good alternative to Notepad++ for Mac users. There are also paid versions of TextEditors and many other free ones. 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The easiest way to do this is usually through your host&#8217;s cPanel, or hosting control center. Login to your account and look for a link called MySql, Databases, or something similar.  There should be a guide similar to the pictures below that walk you through naming your database and creating a user.</p><p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/teaches/how-to-install-wordpress/attachment/createdbuser" title="CreateDBUser"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/01/CreateDBUser-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="CreateDBUser" title="CreateDBUser" /></a><br /> <a href="http://wpcandy.com/teaches/how-to-install-wordpress/attachment/createdatabase" title="CreateDatabase"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/01/CreateDatabase-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="CreateDatabase" title="CreateDatabase" /></a><br /> <a href="http://wpcandy.com/teaches/how-to-install-wordpress/attachment/installwp-2" title="Beginner's guide to install WordPress"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/01/InstallWP1-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Beginner's guide to install WordPress" title="Beginner's guide to install WordPress" /></a></p><p>After you name your database appropriately, you&#8217;ll also need to input a database host. 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define('DB_NAME', 'database_name_here');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'username_here');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');</pre><ul><li>Replace  database_name_here with the database name you defined in the previous step, keeping the single quotes.</li><li>Replace username_here with your database username you defined in the previous step, also keeping the single quotes.</li><li>Replace password_here with your database password you defined in the previous step, also keeping the single quotes.</li><li>localhost can stay the same unless your host uses a different name as described in the previous step.</li></ul><p>Next we need to set up our secret keys. There are eight lines in a row that say &#8220;put your unique phrase here&#8221;.  These are security keys that were <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-up-a-secret-key-in-wordpress-25">introduced</a> in WordPress 2.6 and enhanced in WordPress 2.7.  Note that this is extremely important, and you should not slack off from using a proper security key!</p><p>WordPress has even made this task super easy for you with this <a href="https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/">secret key generator</a>. Just go to the url and copy the code and replace the existing lines in your config file. This url randomizes the keys so they are unique every time the page is visited. Yes, they are supposed to be crazy long and full of weird stuff.</p><p>Once you finish with the edits, be sure to rename or copy this file as wp-config.php. If you don&#8217;t do this WordPress won&#8217;t think you did anything at all.</p><p>If you want to read all of the nitty gritty details of editing wp-config, check out the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php">WordPress Codex page</a> about it.</p><h3>It&#8217;s time to upload our files!</h3><p>Alright, pull up your FTP client and login. After you login, find the directory you want to load WordPress. If you want WordPress to be on the homepage of your site (which I recommend) it needs to go in the root folder. Depending on your host, the root folder may actually have its own place in your FTP connection. If you don&#8217;t put your files in the root, visitors will have to go to  http://yourdomain.com/whatever-folder-you-want to see your WordPress site.</p><p>When you upload your files, you don&#8217;t upload the entire WordPress folder, but rather open the WordPress folder and upload each file and folder into the root or subdirectory depending on where you are installing it.</p><h3>Run the install script</h3><p>Let&#8217;s visit your new WordPress site! Go to http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php. If you didn&#8217;t upload WordPress in the root folder, then you need to insert that folder name, such as http://yourdomain.com/whatever-folder-you-want/wp-admin/install.php.</p><p>Now you will be greeted with the WordPress setup page. You need to input your site title, the admin username (I recommend NOT using admin!), a strong password (you can use the same one as you used for the database if it makes it easier), and your email that will be used for notification purposes. You can also choose whether you want your site to be indexed by search engines, which if the site is not for private purposes, you want to leave that checked.</p><p>Click &#8220;Install WordPress&#8221; and you should be done! You can visit your url where you installed it to check and see how it looks. Congratulations! You&#8217;ve successfully installed WordPress and it is time to make it awesome!</p><p><em>Did you recieve an error notification? Check out the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Common_Installation_Problems">most common errors and how to fix them</a>.</em></p><h3>Now what?</h3><p>You will now be greeted by the default WordPress theme on your homepage. If you want to get familiar with the backend, go to http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin, login, and look around. As the administrator of your new website, you&#8217;ll spend a lot of time here.</p><p>With your new website, you may find it advantageous to have a <a href="http://wpcandy.com/teaches/how-to-install-wordpress-locally-on-a-mac">local setup</a> as well, and we can walk you through it. You may also want to <a href="http://wpcandy.com/teaches/how-to-enable-multisite">enable WordPress Multisite</a> if you run a network. But first, check out our resources to <a href="http://wpcandy.com/teaches/how-to-find-wordpress-themes-quickly-and-easily">picking your first theme</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:"Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:51:44 +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:15:"Brian Krogsgard";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:11;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";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:36:"Matt: Think Quarterly runs 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:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=37932";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:52:"http://ma.tt/2011/03/think-quarterly-runs-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:115:"<p><a href="http://thinkquarterly.co.uk/">Think Quarterly, the new magazine from Google UK, runs WordPress</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:"Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:51:45 +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:12;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:"WPTavern: How To Mimic The WPTavern Commenting System";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=5171";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:105:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WordpressTavern/~3/aC8nQTmkuaY/how-to-mimic-the-wptavern-commenting-system";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:5910:"<p>Over the past few days, I&#8217;ve had a couple of people ask me what plugins I use to accomplish my commenting system here on WPTavern.com. I&#8217;m not a fan of using a third party system so in no particular order, here are the plugins I use. </p>
<p><a href="http://akismet.com/">Akismet</a> &#8211; I&#8217;ve had no problems with Akismet taking care of spam comments on this site. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.wptavern.com/please-adopt-this-plugin-comment-quicktags-reloaded">Comment Quicktags Reloaded</a> &#8211; This plugin provides the formatting buttons to the comment form.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/comments-preview/">Filosofo Comments Preview</a> &#8211; This plugin enables a live preview of the comment before it&#8217;s published. </p>
<p><a href="http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/">Subscribe To Comments</a> &#8211; Enables users to checkmark a box to receive notifications of new comments</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ajaxeditcomments.com/?affiliate_id=324">WP Ajax Edit Comments</a> &#8211; This is one of my favorite plugins because it provides a very easy way for visitors to edit their own comments. It also has built in support for After The Deadline meaning commenters can spell check before submission. It&#8217;s a commercial plugin but well worth the price. </p>
<h2>Secret Sauce:</h2>
<p>There is one particular feature of the WPTavern comment form that makes it a little unique. For each comment, there is a Reply link. When a visitor clicks this link, something like the following shows up: <strong>@<a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/WordpressTavern#comment-11900" rel="reply">Jeffro</a></strong> &#8211; The @ symbol as used by Twitter means you&#8217;re replying to someone specifically. The comment number is the unique comment ID and will link to the comment being replied to so the conversation is coherent. Last but not least the comment authors name is bolded. </p>
<p>I have <a href="http://konstruktors.com/">Kaspars Dambis</a> to thank for adding this functionality to the site which was originally part of the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/13/wordpress-plugin-competition-25-winners/">WP Comment Remix plugin that won the WeblogToolsCollection plugin competition in 2008</a>. </p>
<p>Now here is where it gets tricky. This functionality is not part of a plugin but is code that has been added to my child themes functions.php file. I don&#8217;t know where you would add this code in your own theme to achieve the same functionality but if someone could use it as a starting point and create a plugin that just does this, that would be cool.</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:72:"WPCandy: Oli Dale launches WPTurbo, a new WordPress auto blogging plugin";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=16272";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:79:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/_3UY74-qkjs/oli-dale-launches-wpturbo";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:2549:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16272"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-16277" title="Oli Dale's WPTurbo plugin logo (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/03/wpturbologo-teaser-600x211.png" alt="" width="600" height="211" /></a></p><p>Oli Dale, a blogging WordPress colleague of ours at <a title="WPLift, a WordPress blog" href="http://wplift.com/">WPLift</a>, has launched a new plugin and product this week called <a title="WPTurbo auto blogging plugin" href="http://wpturbo.com/">WPTurbo</a>. WPTurbo is an auto blogging plugin, with the built in functionality to pull in content to your site from Amazon, eBay, IMDB, Twitter, YouTube, and over a dozen others. Basically if you have content out there and want it on your site, it looks like WPTurbo is made just for that.</p><p>Dale explains in his announcement post that he has been working on WPTurbo for some time now, and is happy to have it finally released to the public:</p><blockquote><p>Things have been a bit quiet on WPLift over the last month, the reason is I have been working hard on finishing off a new premium WordPress plugin called <a href="http://wpturbo.com/">WPTurbo</a>. It’s actually been in development since last year – I have been working hard to get the website ready for launch and am pleased to announce it’s now live and ready to purchase.</p></blockquote><p>Dale&#8217;s WPTurbo plugin costs $149, and of course you can do whatever you want with it once it&#8217;s yours.</p><p><span id="more-16272"></span></p><p>Auto blogging plugins are a funny sort of thing. The way an auto blogging plugin works, is it pulls in content from other sites and automatically publishes them to your site. Plenty of legitimate uses come to mind. You could quickly populate a test site, or grab your own eBay listings and include them on your site. You could keep a backup copy of your tweets on your own blog (an idea I definitely support). Of course there are also a number of ways to use a plugin like this for evil, such as publishing someone else&#8217;s hard work to your own site. Dale&#8217;s work is still noteworthy despite the evil you <em>could</em> do with it, so I&#8217;ll just channel my inner  <a title="Uncle Ben on Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Ben">Uncle Ben</a> and say: <em>with great power comes great responsibility</em>.</p><p>Help me out here: speak up in the comments if you use an auto blogging plugin, perhaps even Dale&#8217;s new WPTurbo, in a reputable way. These plugins deserve some honest users.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:48:12 +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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<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptouch/"><strong>WPtouch</strong></a> automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects, when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Opera Mini, Palm Pre, Samsung touch and BlackBerry Storm/Torch mobile devices.</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:57:"WPCandy: How to find WordPress themes, quickly and easily";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=15342";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/uuu9EAdTtBE/how-to-find-wordpress-themes-quickly-and-easily";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:7827:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=15342"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15344" title="howtofindwpthemes-teaser" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/03/howtofindwpthemes-teaser.png" alt="" width="600" height="230" /></a></p><p>If you’re using WordPress, odds are you have started exploring the wonders that are WordPress themes. 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If we’re missing a solid method, feel free to add your own tips in the comments.</p><p><span id="more-15342"></span></p><p>The various methods we’ll be looking at are:</p><ul><li>Browse the WordPress Theme Directory</li><li>Visit your favorite commercial theme provider or marketplace</li><li>Search for, and bookmark, collections of WordPress themes on various WordPress blogs</li><li>Use a theme finding tool: ThemeSorter, Theme Finder, other theme search engines</li></ul><h3>Browse the WordPress Theme Directory</h3><p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16257" title="Free WordPress theme directory (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/03/freethemedirectory-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="250" /></a></p><p>We’ve all said <a title="Ryan Imel's editorial, ">our piece</a> about the state of WordPress themes in the free <em>dot org</em> directory at one point or another. 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Share with us in the comments.</p><h3>Search for, and bookmark, collections of WordPress themes</h3><p>Sometimes the easiest way to find WordPress themes is to let others do the work for you. There are a number of WordPress blogs out there (including our own, here) that take time tracking down WordPress themes for the sole purpose of collecting similar ones in a list for others. 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We’re not the only ones doing this, though. Oli Dale at <a title="WPLift" href="http://wplift.com/">WPLift</a> has put together some pretty awesome lists over there too, which are easily some of my favorite lists around. One thing I would not recommend is simply searching for lists of WordPress themes online. You may end up finding themes that aren&#8217;t reputable, safe, or worth your time. In this case it&#8217;s very important to use trusted sources.</p><p>Do you have your own favorite sources for WordPress theme collection posts? Be sure to share them in the comments, particularly if you have assembled your own lists!</p><h3>Use a tool to find your theme</h3><p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16263" title="Theme finding tools" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/03/themefindingtools.png" alt="" width="600" height="56" /></p><p>If you’re looking for a very specific type of theme, sometimes the normal searching methods won’t work. 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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:74:"WPCandy: WordCamp Seattle 2011 tickets discounted due to generous sponsors";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=16249";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:119:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/RnASNhcwI_s/wordcamp-seattle-2011-tickets-discounted-due-to-generous-sponsors";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:1156:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16249"><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>Hey, remember WordCamp Seattle? We <a title="WordCamp Seattle 2011 tickets are now available" href="http://wpcandy.com/reports/wordcamp-seattle-2011-tickets-are-now-available">told you</a> about it just the other day. <a title="WordCamp Seattle's tweet about pricing" href="https://twitter.com/#!/wordcampseattle/status/50810591853547520">It turns out</a> that due to generous sponsors the event is now only $30, compared to the previous $40. So if your trip to Seattle was being held back due to that $10 (and you know who you are) <a title="Tickets at WordCamp Seattle" href="http://wordcampseattle.eventbrite.com/">you&#8217;re in luck</a>.</p><p>Student tickets are now available <a title="WordCamp Seattle tweet" href="https://twitter.com/#!/wordcampseattle/status/50810799014424577">as well</a>, for $25. The only thing better than attending a WordCamp is doing so while saving money, <em>amirite</em>?</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:08:03 +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:17;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:56:"WPCandy: Book review: WordPress For Dummies, 3rd 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=16210";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://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/1PtmwHKUpoE/wordpress-for-dummies-3rd-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:2986:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16210"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16237" title="WordPress for Dummies book logo (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/03/wordpressofordummies-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="237" /></a></p><p>It has been my experience that even experts in a field sometimes need a refresher in the basics. Either the fundamentals have changed since they were students or there are minor details that they never need to know before. Sometimes you just need to go back to school.</p><blockquote class="jump"><p>Just as important are the subjects it doesn&#8217;t cover.</p></blockquote><p><em><a title="WordPress for Dummies on Amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/WordPress-Dummies-3rd-Lisa-Sabin-Wilson/dp/0470592745">WordPress For Dummies</a></em>, by Lisa Sabin-Wilson is the perfect primer for WordPress. Between the iconic yellow covers are the integral basics everyone should know but maybe didn&#8217;t learn. I have never had the need to really dig in and learn about WordPress.com, setting up a MU network or importing a site from Blogger, but it&#8217;s all in there. And I know I&#8217;m not the only one who has had a client ask a basic question that just stumped them. This is the perfect go-to resource for those situations.</p><p><span id="more-16210"></span></p><p>This is also a great book to suggest to clients. It can turn a novice into a capable user pretty quickly without going into advanced topics that might result in a 3am phone call because they broke their site. Advanced users might scoff at the sections on &#8220;Uploading and using images&#8230;&#8221; or &#8220;Setting your profile&#8230;&#8221; but these are important basics that one might gloss over when introducing a newcomer to the world of WordPress.</p><p>Just as important are the subjects it doesn&#8217;t cover. There are no advanced chapters that will make your clients eyes haze over. It seems the author, Sabin-Wilson, intentionally kept PHP references, and any mention of editing files to a complete minimum.</p><p>No one wants to be caught buying or reading a &#8220;For Dummies&#8221; book that deals with their profession but this one might be worth the risk. Because it is a &#8220;For Dummies&#8221; book the writing is very lighthearted, instructions are listed step by step and there are heaps of screenshots and URLs. <em>WordPress For Dummies</em> holds your hand and shows you the fundamentals rather than lecturing you.</p><p>It makes you comfortable learning, even if it is something you feel you should have known already. Because of that it deserves a place in your WordPress library.</p><p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/rated/four-mints" title="WPCandy rated this 4 mints"><img class="aligncenter size-full" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2007/09/mints-four.jpg" alt="WPCandy rated this 4 mints" width="600" height="80" /></a></p><p><em>This review was written using the Kindle version of WordPress for Dummies 3rd Edition.</em></p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:13:10 +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:10:"Eric Weiss";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:18;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:80:"WPCandy: Cory Miller, WordPress entrepreneur, interviewed on Relentless Business";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=16228";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:123:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/iUn5kNobeK8/cory-miller-wordpress-entrepreneur-interviewed-on-relentless-business";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:466:"<p></p><p>Cory Miller is the WordPress entrepreneur behind iThemes, PluginBuddy and WebDesign.com. Recently he was interviewed on the <a title="Cory Miller on the Relentless Business video podcast" href="http://www.vsellis.com/relentless-business/relentless-business-episode-1-cory-miller/">Relentless Business</a> video blog about his experiences. In the video they discuss being a boss, business organization, and various tips based on Cory&#8217;s experience.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Thu, 24 Mar 2011 03:30:28 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s: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:19;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:65:"WPCandy: WordCamp Orange County is on the way: who’s attending?";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=16218";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:95:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/lg2lRqU5mXc/wordcamp-orange-county-2011-is-on-the-way";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:1297:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16218"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16219" title="WordCamp Orange County 2011 (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/03/wordcampoc-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="247" /></a></p><p>WordCamp Orange County is a one day event this year, taking place on May 14 from 8:00am to 5:00pm. The event will be held <a title="WordCamp Orange County location" href="http://2011.oc.wordcamp.org/location/">at Chapman University</a> in (spoiler alert) Orange County California. <a title="WordCamp Orange County tickets" href="http://2011.oc.wordcamp.org/buy-tickets/">Tickets</a> are $25 for general admission, and just over 100 are currently left (of the original 200 ticket set).</p><p>Of course the organizers are also interested in speakers and sponsors as well. If you have a head full of knowledge or a few spare dollars, head to the <a title="WordCamp Orange County blog" href="http://2011.oc.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Orange County site</a> and toss your hat in the ring.</p><p>So who will be attending WordCamp in Orange County this year? If so, how many of you are attending from California, and how many from out of state? Assuming we can make it, we&#8217;ll be coming all the way from the midwest. Share your travel plans in the comments!</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Thu, 24 Mar 2011 02:57:50 +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:20;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:63:"WPTavern: A Better Way To Link To Previous Content Via Insights";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=5167";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/uWAy-MNUTaY/a-better-way-to-link-to-previous-content-via-insights";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:2210:"<p>When WordPress 3.1 was released, it introduced a new feature which made it easy to link posts published in the past. I&#8217;ve found that feature to be too limiting. For starters, the linking is limited to posts on your site. Secondly, you need to use the Visual editor in order to use the linking feature. There is a better way to accomplish the same feature set and more with a plugin called <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/insights/">Insights</a> by Vladimir Prelovac. This plugin adds a meta box that you can move to the right side or below the post editor and does not require the use of the visual editor. When in use, you type in some search terms into the search box and select where to perform the search. This is where Insights shines as you can select <em>your own blog, Google Images, Google Videos, Wikipedia, Google, Google News, Google Blogs, and Google Books</em>. The search results are present in the same meta box where you can either open the result in a new tab or copy the link to put in your post. </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: Standard Theme sees redesign of landing page, adds post formats in version 2.6";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=16189";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:89:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/VpOaFm1yXQI/standard-theme-launches-version-2-6";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:1867:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16189"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16191" title="Standard Theme site redesign (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/03/standardthemeredesign-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="250" /></a></p><p>Tom McFarlin updated the Standard Theme blog today to announce a redesigned landing page and a theme upgrade. Standard Theme, now version 2.6, brings post format support, improved styles throughout the theme, and various SEO improvements. For the full list of bug fixes and feature additions, see <a title="Standard Theme 2.6 theme release post" href="http://8bit.io/blog/standard-theme-2-6-released/">their blog post</a>.</p><p>This version also introduced the Standard Theme Upgrade Kit, which walks you through what files need to be upgraded/overwritten when going from one version to the next. McFarlin says that upgrades via the Dashboard are still on the roadmap, but this is a step in the right direction.</p><p>The comparison image, showing their new site next to their old site, is just after the jump. Also, if you haven&#8217;t seen our thorough <a title="Comparison of WordPress Theme Frameworks" href="http://wpcandy.com/presents/wordpress-theme-framework-comparison">WordPress theme framework comparison</a>, be sure to do so. Standard is on that list.</p><p><span id="more-16189"></span></p><p>Below is the redesign comparison image (link goes to full size image):</p><p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/03/standardthemeredesigncomparison.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-16190" title="Comarison of old and new Standard Theme designs" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/03/standardthemeredesigncomparison-600x620.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="620" /></a></p><p>Do you use Standard Theme? What do you think of the improvements, and the continued work the team there is doing?</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:05:29 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s: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:22;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:49:"WPTavern: Fixing PressThis On A HostGator Account";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=5163";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/WordpressTavern/~3/NtWW6VVAKsA/fixing-pressthis-on-a-hostgator-account";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:3848:"<p><a href="http://www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/hostgator.png" rel="thumbnail"><img src="http://www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/hostgator.png" alt="hostgator logo" title="hostgatorlogo" width="72" height="76" class="alignright size-full wp-image-5164" /></a>It all started with a couple of tweets by Bradley Potter when he mentioned a HostGator specific bug to Andrew Nacin. Since WPTavern.com is also hosted on HostGator, I decided to try and replicate the bug. Following <a href="http://twitter.com/bradleypotter/status/50092690188148737">his</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/bradleypotter/status/50093083022462976">instructions</a> I was able to replicate the error pointing towards the possibility of something on HostGator not configured just right.</p>
<p>While testing another plugin by Trevor Fitzgerald that ties into his website <a href="http://www.presstags.com">PressTags.com</a>, I noticed that the Reblog feature didn&#8217;t work. It provided the same error as the Comment Trash link bug that Brad had mentioned. The reblog feature uses the built in PressThis bookmarklet in WordPress to republish an article. After going back and forth with Trevor as I thought his plugin was the one causing the error, I decided to install a fresh copy of WordPress within a subfolder to see if I could recreate the PressThis bookmarklet error. Sure enough, even on a fresh install, I would receive a 404 error each time I tried to use it. However, the raw URL for the bookmarklet worked just fine. Thinking that it was an HTACCESS problem, I got with Peter Westwood on Skype to perform some more troubleshooting but we discovered that even with an empty HTACCESS file, the error still occurred. </p>
<p>Trevor and I finally came to the conclusion that there was something wonky with HostGator and the way it treats URLs that had the following in it: <strong>_wp_original_http_referer</strong>. Both the move comment to trash link and the PressThis bookmarklet utilized this text and from what I can tell, adds the URL to my site twice within the link. Trevor then discovered a thread on the HostGator <a href="http://forums.hostgator.com/apache-upgrade-broke-feature-wordpress-t40603.html">support forum from 2008</a> that mentions an Apache upgrade that broke someones site. More specifically, the PressThis bookmarklet.</p>
<p>It looked as though <strong>mod_security</strong> had something to do with the breakage and in order for it to work again, the URL had to be whitelisted by HostGator. After I created a support ticket with HostGator explaining the situation and linking to the thread, they were able to tell me that some of the things I had been doing were definitely triggering some mod_security rules. They whitelisted those items which ended up fixing my problem not only with the PressThis Bookmarklet but with the Move Comment To Trash link as well. </p>
<p>So if you&#8217;re running on HostGator and the same thing is happening to you, create a support ticket and request that you be whitelisted for those mod_security rules. One of the questions I had received after publishing the answer to this support question is whether the whitelist for mod_security opens up the site to any security vulnerabilities. I have no idea. But if you do, please share those within the comments.</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:32:"Joseph: iPad Optimized 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:30:"http://josephscott.org/?p=3888";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:65:"http://josephscott.org/archives/2011/03/ipad-optimized-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:275:"<p>Nick <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/ipad-onswipe-theme/">announced new iPad display optimizations</a> for WordPress.com.  This is also available for WordPress.org users as plugin, <a href="http://onswipe.com/wordpress/">onswipe &#8211; WordPress</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:"Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:30:48 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:12:"Joseph Scott";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:24;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:75:"WPCandy: Onswipe partners with Automattic for viewing WordPress.com on iPad";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=16197";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:91:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/rPUqv6XuGZs/onswipe-partners-with-automattic-ipad";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:2994:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16197"><img class="size-full wp-image-16200 alignnone" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/03/Onswipe-and-Automattic.png" alt="Onswipe partners with WordPress.com" width="600" height="152" /></a></p><p><a href="http://onswipe.com">Onswipe</a> and <a href="http://automattic.com">Automattic</a> announced today that they are partnering together to provide all WordPress.com blogs with an iPad optimized viewing experience. Onswipe <a title="Onswipe's beginning as a WordPress plugin called PadPressed" href="http://wpcandy.com/reports/padpressed-makes-site-flipboard-like-on-ipads">started</a> as a plugin for WordPress, called PadPressed, and has since received <a href="http://wpcandy.com/reports/padpressed-becomes-onswipe-raises-one-million-in-funding">$1 million in funding</a>, and expanded their user base to other platforms. A parternership with Automattic could certainly help establish them as the defacto standard for viewing WordPress sites on the iPad.</p><p>There is already a plugin for .org users too. OnSwipe essentially gives your site the ability to do all kinds of tablet-like things, such as swipe, rotation, and other touch features. Users that enable OnSwipe will have a submenu under the appearance tab, called &#8220;iPad&#8221;. From there, you can enable the following features, according to the <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/ipad-onswipe-theme/">WordPress.com blog</a>:</p><ul><blockquote><li>Have the theme use an image from your recent posts as a cover.</li><li>Upload a logo to showcase your brand or personality on the cover.</li><li>Upload an image to be used as a loading graphic when visitors add your site to their home screen.</li><li>Switch fonts.</li><li>Choose from 9 different skin colors, to best match the feel of your site.</li><li>Enable or disable the whole thing.</li></blockquote></ul><p>Nick Momrik also noted in the post that WordPress.com currently has over 750,000 pageviews a day from iPad devices. <a href="http://blog.onswipe.com/news/onswipe-partners-with-automattic-to-power-ipad-traffic-on-18-6-million-wordpress-com-blogs">According to Onswipe</a>, they plan to make the plugin compatible to other tablet devices as well. They are also working on some &#8220;secret sauce [...] for social interactions across all Onswipe powered sites.&#8221;</p><p>We recently saw the <a title="Mobile is added to the WordPress extend menu" href="http://wpcandy.com/reports/mobile-added-to-wporg-menu">addition of &#8220;Mobile&#8221;</a> in the extend menu on WordPress.org. We&#8217;ve also seen a level of anonymity like never before between .com and .org with the <a title="The launch of Jetpack" href="http://wpcandy.com/reports/automattic-launches-jetpack">release of JetPack</a>. This appears to be yet another step forward to achieving both of those goals.</p><p>So what do you think? Is this pretty exciting to you? How much time do you spend browsing on the iPad or other tablet device?</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:28:11 +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:15:"Brian Krogsgard";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:25;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:49:"Publisher Blog: WordPress.com: now iPad Optimized";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=1349";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:80:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2011/03/23/wordpress-com-now-ipad-optimized/";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:2340:"<p>All WordPress.com users, including all <a href="http://vip.wordpress.com/clients/">VIP Hosting clients</a>,  just got a boost up when their site is being viewed with an iPad thanks to the Onswipe theme.</p>
<p>More details on how WordPress.com users can <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/ipad-onswipe-theme/">customize the Onswipe experience</a> on the WordPress.com blog.</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:73:"WPCandy: Gravity Forms launch site redesign, version 1.5, and two add-ons";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=16177";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:116:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/5oyBqv1Q92I/gravity-forms-launch-site-redesign-version-1-5-and-two-add-ons";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:2702:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16177"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16181" title="Gravity Forms plugin site redesign (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/03/gravityformsfightbling-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="228" /></a></p><p>Gravity Forms version 1.5 left beta and hit the shelves today, bringing the much anticipated new version into the public&#8217;s hands. Gravity Forms 1.5 brings a number of new features to the table. Top of the list are multi-page forms, pricing fields, post field enhancements, and a handful of new hooks and filters. You can find the full list of new features in their <a title="Gravity Forms version 1.5 release post" href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/gravity-forms-v1-5-released/">version 1.5</a> blog post.</p><p>You want more? Okay greedy, keep reading.</p><p>Version 1.0 of the PayPal and User Registration <a title="Gravity Forms Add-Ons" href="http://www.gravityforms.com/add-ons/">Add-Ons</a> were released today as well. The PayPal Add-On allows you to accept PayPal payments through a Gravity Form, including donations and recurring payments. The User Registration Add-On allows you to create user registration forms which include BuddyPress and Multisite integration (as well as integration with the aforementioned PayPal Add-On). This brings the total number of Gravity Forms Add-Ons to five; the other three are MailChimp, FreshBooks, and Campaign Monitor integration. These Add-Ons are only available to those with Developer Licenses.</p><p>Along with the flurry of releases, the Gravity Forms website saw a redesign as well. The new site is much lighter than the previous design, shown after the break for comparison. The new site design includes a count of the sites using Gravity Forms (now over 100,000) and a solid Fight Club reference. There&#8217;s plenty to see on the new site, so why don&#8217;t you just <a title="Gravity Forms plugin website" href="http://www.gravityforms.com/">check it out</a>?</p><p><span id="more-16177"></span></p><p>Gravity Forms redesign, compared to their old one (link goes to full size comparison image):</p><p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/03/gravityformssiteredesigncomparison.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-16184" title="Comparison of Gravity Forms new site with the old one" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/03/gravityformssiteredesigncomparison-600x666.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="666" /></a></p><p>Now, with 100,000 sites under their belt, some of our readers must be fervent Gravity Forms customers. What do you folks think? And if you&#8217;re new to Gravity Forms, do today&#8217;s launches bring you any closer to whipping out that credit card?</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:00:11 +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:"";}}}}}i:27;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:46:"Alex King: SxSW WordPress Business Panel Audio";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://alexking.org/?p=5659";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:62:"http://alexking.org/blog/2011/03/23/sxsw-wordpress-panel-audio";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:1632:"<p>The <a href="http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP6179" rel="external">audio is now online</a> from the WordPress business panel I participated in at SxSW 2011.<sup><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/topic/wordpress/feed#fn1300861652317n" id="fn1300861652317" class="footnote">1</a></sup></p>
<p class="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkingorg/5530868729/in/set-72157626152209101/" title="Paneling by alexkingorg, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5294/5530876479_df52877b57_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Paneling" /></a></p>
<p>I talk quite a bit about <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com">Crowd Favorite</a> and running a WordPress development business in the first 15 minutes or so, then chime in here and there throughout the rest of the hour.</p>
<p>My thanks to <a href="http://shanepearlman.com/" rel="external">Shane</a> for putting together a great panel and doing a fantastic job as the moderator, and to my fellow panelists <a href="http://blog.epicerastudio.com/about/" rel="external">Brandon</a> and <a href="http://www.remarkable-communication.com/about/" rel="external">Sonia</a> for their great contributions to the panel and making it a fun experience (and hopefully interesting to the audience).</p>
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<li id="fn1300861652317n">The <a href="http://audio.sxsw.com/2011/podcasts/MakingMoneyWithWordpress.mp3" rel="external">direct MP3 download</a> is also available. [<a href="http://alexking.org/blog/topic/wordpress/feed#fn1300861652317">back</a>]</li>
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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:86:"WPCandy: Interview with Ron and Andrea Rennick, WordPress gurus (plus a discount code)";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=16140";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:76:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/Rqu6wNI-ReE/ron-and-andrea-rennick";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:2762:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16140"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16167" title="Ron and Andrea Rennick interview (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/03/rennickinterview-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="300" /></a></p><p>I&#8217;m very pleased to say that I recently had the opportunity to interview Ron and Andrea Rennick. They are two very valuable contributors to the WordPress project. Their expertise is WordPress Multisite, and much of their business today is around Multisite plugins, <a href="http://wpebooks.com">WordPress ebooks</a>, and development specifically <a href="http://wpmututorials.com">for multisite</a>.</p><p>If you&#8217;d like, jump straight into the interview:</p><p>The download link and information about the discount code are just after the jump.</p><p><span id="more-16140"></span></p><p>Ron and Andrea shared what&#8217;s going on with WPEbooks, WPMUTutorials, and <a href="http://www.studiopress.com/plugins/genesis-connect">GenesisConnect</a>, which are all parts of the newly formed <a href="http://rennickmedia.com/">Rennick Media</a>. Ron gave us some insight on his involvement as a core contributor with the transition of MU to Multisite in WordPress 3.0. Andrea also talked a bit about the book she has coming out, <a href="http://www.dummies.com/store/product/WordPress-All-in-One-For-Dummies.productCd-0470877014.html">WordPress All in One for Dummies</a>, which she coauthored with Lisa Saban-Wilson, Kevin Palmer, Cory Miller, and Michael Torbert.</p><p>Ron and Andrea are also celebrating their 21st wedding anniversary today! In honor of it, they have provided a <strong>discount code exclusive to WPCandy</strong> that will run to the end of March for <strong>21% off of purchases at WPEbooks</strong>. This is a great deal, and we talk more about some of their most popular products at WPEbooks in the interview. The discount code is at the end of the podcast.</p><p>This was my first ever interactive interview and audio recording, so I hope you all enjoy it. My dog, a one year old great dane, graces us with her presence a few times during the interview.</p><p>The Rennick&#8217;s are extremely nice folks, and I had a great time getting to know them better. Be sure to follow them on Twitter at <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/andrea_r">@andrea_r</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/wpmuguru">@wpmuguru</a>, because you&#8217;ll learn a lot about WordPress, multisite, quilting, and <a href="http://atypicalhomeschool.net/articles/the-secret-to-cutting-glass/">stained glass</a>.</p><p>You can download the interview in MP3 format <a title="Interview audio with Ron and Andrea Rennick" href="http://wpcandy.s3.amazonaws.com/interviews/Ron-and-Andrea-Rennick.mp3">here</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:"Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:30:06 +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:15:"Brian Krogsgard";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:29;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:77:"WPCandy: UI Labs plugin brings possible future WordPress UI to your Dashboard";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=16150";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:94:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/6C1PS_RChTE/john-onolans-ui-labs-plugin-is-available";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:1997:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16150"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16151" title="John O'Nolan's UI Labs plugin (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/03/uilabs-teaer.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="250" /></a></p><p>John O&#8217;Nolan is a member of the WordPress UI Team. <em>Whazzat</em>, you say? The <a title="WordPress UI Team blog" href="http://make.wordpress.org/ui/">WordPress UI Team</a> are the folks that make sure that WordPress is designed and operates in such a way that other content management systems still want to copy it in the future. O&#8217;Nolan&#8217;s first WordPress plugin was released today, and it&#8217;s called <a title="UI Labs WordPress plugin" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ui-labs/">UI Labs</a>. UI Labs is a way of playing with, and testing out, <em>potential</em> future additions to the WordPress UI. To be clear, this isn&#8217;t an official plugin, simply O&#8217;Nolan&#8217;s own work. Or, as it&#8217;s described on the plugin page:</p><blockquote><p>UI Labs is a plugin that offers experimental WordPress admin UI features with the aim of building upon and enhancing the default WordPress User Interface. All features are experimental, there are no guarantees and a modern browser is mandatory!</p></blockquote><p>Sounds like fun, right? Currently the plugin only adds color-coded post statuses (see the image above) but it seems O&#8217;Nolan has a number of features <a title="John O'Nolan's plugin tweet" href="https://twitter.com/johnonolan/status/50543870613790722">planned</a> for the future. <a title="UI Labs plugin" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ui-labs/">Grab a copy</a> and give it a try. Also, see <a title="John O'Nolan's blog post on UI Labs plugin" href="http://john.onolan.org/wordpress-ui-labs/">his blog post</a> on the new plugin.</p><p>What do you think of experimenting with UI changes this way? Does playing around with fresh design ideas excite you in the geeky way it does for me?</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:15:54 +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:30;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:62:"Weblog Tools Collection: Do You Still Use Internet Explorer 6?";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=9807";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/YL6N--fhEbQ/";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:2595:"<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2011/03/19/plans-laid-for-wordpress-3-2/">Our recent post on WordPress 3.2&#8242;s plans</a> generated some interesting discussion, with the bulk of it centered around the discontinuation of support for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IE6">Internet Explorer 6</a> in the Dashboard.</p>
<p>Internet Explorer 6, now almost ten years old, was once a power house in its own right. Now, the browser is drowning under its poor support for web standards, a pool of modern web technologies that it can never support, and a flood of hacks that many sites need to employ just to provide a decent browsing experience for IE 6 users. IE 6 was superseded by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_7">Internet Explorer 7</a> in 2006, followed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_8">IE 8</a> in 2009, and recently <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_9">IE 9</a> last week. Of course, alternatives to Internet Explorer, like <a href="http://www.firefox.com/">Firefox</a>, have been around much longer.</p>
<p>According to Microsoft&#8217;s own <a href="http://ie6countdown.com/">Internet Explorer 6 Countdown</a>, 12% of the world still uses the ten-year old browser. The highest concentration of IE 6 users is in China, with 34.5% of the country still using it, but usage is down to 2.9% in the USA and 3.5% in the UK.</p>
<p>There certainly could be an economic issue or general inability to upgrade keeping IE 6 alive, as the browser only requires <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_98">Windows 98</a> to run, while IE 7 requires <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP">Windows XP</a>. Firefox seems to have finally pulled the old releases that were still compatible with Windows 98, but <a href="http://www.opera.com/">Opera</a> supported Windows 98 all the way up to 10.63 (released October 2010), and potential users can still <a href="http://www.opera.com/browser/download/?os=windows&list=all">download it here</a>.</p>
<p>With such a powerful and modern alternative to IE 6 available, even to Windows 98 users, the question remains as to why there are so many users still on such an outdated browser.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of IE 6, please leave a comment and let us know why. If you work for a company that forces you to use IE 6, march on down to the IT department and demand to know why you&#8217;re forced to use such an archaic browser.</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: WordCamp Reno-Tahoe 2011 is on the books, accepting registrations and speakers";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=16131";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:89:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/tmwCXJFAok0/wordcamp-reno-tahoe-2011-on-the-way";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:2048:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16131"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16132" title="wordcampreno-teaser" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/03/wordcampreno-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="240" /></a></p><p><a title="WordCamp Reno-Tahoe 2011" href="http://2011.reno.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Reno-Tahoe</a> is on for another event this year, making 2011 Reno&#8217;s third annual WordCamp. The event will take place June 4 and 5, and based on our tireless investigative journalism we&#8217;ve discovered: it&#8217;s likely to be pretty warm out there.</p><p>Past WordCamps in Reno have welcomed the likes of Matt Mullenweg and Merlin Mann, two names that most of us blogging dorks probably recognize. Organizer Chelsea Otakan is still looking for speakers for this year&#8217;s event, and will accept <a title="Speakers proposals for WordCamp Reno-Tahoe" href="http://2011.reno.wordcamp.org/speakers/">proposals</a> up until April 10th.</p><p>WordCamp Reno-Tahoe&#8217;s website has moved over to WordPress.org this year, so head over there to <a title="WordCamp Reno-Tahoe registration" href="http://2011.reno.wordcamp.org/register/">reserve your spot</a> if you&#8217;re interested. Tickets are now $30, or $40 if you wish to attend Sunday&#8217;s Theme Workshop or Blogger Bootcamp. Details are scarce right now, but it sounds like both are four hour blocks of time where really smart people will teach you things you might now know. You can count on that.</p><p>WordCamps can be a lovely excuse to visit a city you&#8217;ve never been to before. This year&#8217;s WordCamp Reno-Tahoe 2011 is no different: who doesn&#8217;t want to spend a couple of tech-filled days in the desert? If it works out, WPCandy will definitely be there. Just a reminder: we rely on folks like you <a title="You too can power WPCandy!" href="http://wpcandy.com/is/powered">powering not only WPCandy</a>, but our coverage of future WordCamps.</p><p>So who will be trekking out into the desert this year for a WordCamp? Let us know in the comments.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:35:47 +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:32;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<p>Download <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/comment_quicktags.zip">Comment Quicktags Reloaded</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:66:"WPCandy: FreelanceJam is a new podcast by two WordPress developers";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=16116";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:78:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/3uV0ohDOoGA/the-freelancejam-podcast";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:1303:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16116"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16119" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/03/freelancejam.png" alt="freelance jam podcast" width="600" height="200" /></a>FreelanceJam is a <a href="http://freelancejam.com/">new podcast</a> all about freelancing, web design, and WordPress. Episode 2 (actually the third episode) airs live tonight at 8 pm Eastern time.</p><p>FreelanceJam is the product of Brian Casel and Dave Yankowiak, two WordPress developers. Brian runs the theme development company, <a href="http://themejam.com/">ThemeJam</a> (notice a pattern?) and Dave develops WordPress sites at <a href="http://www.liftdevelopment.com/">Lift Development</a>.</p><p>While the show isn&#8217;t explicitly about WordPress, Brian and Dave both use WordPress for their development, and are big promoters of the platform. Plus, as music fans, they open and close every show with a new artist.</p><p>I&#8217;ve enjoyed the laid back style of the first couple of episodes, and maybe you will too. So tune in tonight if you&#8217;ve got the time, or you can check them out on their <a href="http://freelancejam.com">website</a>.</p><p>PS: Don&#8217;t forget to stay tuned to the <a href="http://wpcandy.com/podcasts">WPCandy podcast</a> as well. We like it too.</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, 22 Mar 2011 22:32:23 +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:15:"Brian Krogsgard";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:34;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<p>If you think the configuration link needs to be moved, let me know where it should go. If you don&#8217;t think it should be moved, I want to know why you think it&#8217;s a good idea to leave it where it&#8217;s at.</p>
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<p><a href="http://tokokoo.com/blog/2011/03/free-wordpress-e-commerce-3-8-theme-bangkoo-furniture-online-store/"><strong>Bangkoo</strong></a> is a free e-commerce theme designed with a furniture store in mind.</p>
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<p>Out of the gate, Atlas and it&#8217;s first child theme Elegance are clean and simple. In fact, I didn&#8217;t have to open the Readme file to figure out what to do although I couldn&#8217;t if I wanted to since the theme didn&#8217;t ship with one. Atlas is still in the testing phases and that could explain why there is no documentation either within a Readme file or a section dedicated to support on the website. I hope this changes prior to the frameworks official launch or some people will be left scratching their heads and ditching Atlas before giving it a real chance.</p>
<p>One of the nice things about Atlas is that its option pages blend right in with the UI back-end of WordPress which is always nice to see. Custom back-ends developed my theme authors usually look messy and out of place. </p>
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<p>For the layout of the site, users have a few options to choose from for their index, single, archive and attachment pages as well as single posts. Selecting a specific layout for a page is as easy as using the drop down box but it comes with a price. After using the visual editor by Headway this approach to viewing changes feels old school. It&#8217;s like the old days of making a change, uploading the CSS file, clicking refresh, possibly clearing out the cache, refresh again and if you don&#8217;t like the changes, revert to the old CSS file. It&#8217;s not as difficult as I describe but you do end up having to select a layout and refreshing the page to see if you like it or not. There is no way around this except to use some sort of live preview. </p>
<p>For themes that give end users the ability to use a custom logo for a header, the method I like best is an upload box that will upload an image using the WordPress media library. This is completely feasible and is much easier than providing a logo URL box. </p>
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<p>The other area of Atlas that made me screech in pain are the text area boxes that require me to know the ID numbers for Pages and Categories that I wanted to exclude from the drop down menus. <strong>I hate this technique</strong>. Please don&#8217;t make end users go through the pain of trying to figure out those ID numbers even if they are somewhat easy to discover. Instead, provide some UI such as check boxes or selection boxes that support multiple choices. </p>
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<p>One of the nicer points of Atlas which I&#8217;m sure other theme frameworks are going to adapt despite plugins being available is a way to disable the admin bar for all users, disable the admin bar for all non-administrator level users or enable the Atlas info panel on the WordPress admin bar for logged-in Administrators. The Atlas info panel shows the total number of database queries executed on the page with the total page generation time.  </p>
<h2>Conclusion:</h2>
<p>Other than the pain points I discovered, Atlas is not a bad Parent theme for its first version. However, if it&#8217;s going to have a chance to succeed with the big boys, it&#8217;s going to have to step it up in terms of ease of use. Also, support and documentation for some are the most important aspects of any theme and if it&#8217;s not available when this thing launches to the public, I doubt it will gain any traction. </p>
<p>For a limited time you can get free copies of both Atlas and its first child theme, Elegance, by becoming an Atlas beta tester or more aptly, a <a href="http://cranesandskyhooks.com/articles/become-an-atlas-beta-tester/">feedback provider</a>. Donal is looking for feedback and is willing to give you the framework as well as the first child theme for free to thank you for that feedback. So if you have a spare moment or two, give Atlas a spin and let him know what you think. </p>


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<p>I wonder if Ron and Andrea will be making the trip to Montreal this year?</p>


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<li><a href="http://www.wptavern.com/wordcamp-columbus-looking-for-more-speakers" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordCamp Columbus Looking For More Speakers">WordCamp Columbus Looking For More Speakers</a></li>
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<li>Faster and Lighter &#8211; With support for long-outdated technologies being dropped, this will be the fastest and lightest WordPress in quite some time.</li>
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<p>[Go to the <a href="http://blogs.blackberry.com/">Inside BlackBerry blog</a>]</p>
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<p>[Go to the <a href="http://helpblog.blackberry.com/">Inside BlackBerry Help blog</a>]</p>
<p><a href="http://bizblog.blackberry.com/"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1324" title="Inside BlackBerry for Business" src="http://wordpresspublishers.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/picture-12.png?w=586&h=280" alt="" width="586" height="280" /></a></p>
<p>[Go to the <a href="http://bizblog.blackberry.com/">Inside BlackBerry for Business Blog</a>]</p>
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