O:9:"magpierss":19:{s:6:"parser";i:0;s:12:"current_item";a:0:{}s:5:"items";a:50:{i:0;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: 50 Most Important People on the Web";s:4:"guid";s:89:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/03/05/50-most-important-people-on-the-web/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/99487334/";s:11:"description";s:435:"<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070305/tc_pcworld/129301">The 50 Most Important People on the Web</a>: <a href="http://photomatt.net">Matt Mullenweg</a> is #16. He leads over other tech and web celebrities such as Jerry Yang (#19), <a href="http://rayozzie.spaces.live.com/">Ray Ozzie</a> (#22), <a href="http://scobleizer.com/">Robert Scoble</a> (#25) and <a href="http://techcrunch.com">Michael Arrington</a> (#30).</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:45:19 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:435:"<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070305/tc_pcworld/129301">The 50 Most Important People on the Web</a>: <a href="http://photomatt.net">Matt Mullenweg</a> is #16. He leads over other tech and web celebrities such as Jerry Yang (#19), <a href="http://rayozzie.spaces.live.com/">Ray Ozzie</a> (#22), <a href="http://scobleizer.com/">Robert Scoble</a> (#25) and <a href="http://techcrunch.com">Michael Arrington</a> (#30).</p>";}i:1;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:54:"Weblog Tools Collection: WP SEO Tips: Tag, You’re It";s:4:"guid";s:78:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/03/05/wp-seo-tips-tag-youre-it/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/99439833/";s:11:"description";s:3850:"<p>Today we are talking about the actual code of the page.  We will put touching on two points.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP#headertags">Header Tags</a></li>
<li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP#metatags">Meta Tags</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong><a name="headertags">Header Tags</a></strong></p>
<p>First, lets give a little background to what are tags and why they are important.  Think about it when you&#8217;re ready a book or a magazine.  When you see a small excerpt, your eyes will almost always glance there first to see what it&#8217;s saying.  Maybe in a newspaper there is a head line title that really catches your eye and draws in your interest.</p>
<p>This is exactly what Header Tags (H tags) are meant for.  When a search engine bot is looking at your page, it looks for the H tags (&#60;H1&#62;, &#60;H2&#62;, &#60;H3&#62;, &#60;H4&#62;, etc, up to H6) to find out what exactly is important about that page.  So what can you do to emphasize these tags on your pages?  I use some PHP code to fool around with how the tags are placed on my pages.</p>
<p>The H tags are important starting with the lowest number, making the H1 tag the most important.</p>
<p>In my header, I use code like this to move around the H1 tag:</p>
<p><code>&#60;?php if ( is_home() ) { echo "&#60;H1&#62;"; } else { echo "&#60;H2&#62;"; } ?&#62; &#60;a href="/"&#62;Google Inside.&#60;/a&#62;&#60;?php if ( is_home() ) { echo "&#60;/H1&#62;"; } else { echo &#60;/H2&#62;"; } ?&#62;</code></p>
<p>When I&#8217;m using that code, I put the title of my blog within the H1 tags for the homepage and only the homepage.  Then for single pages, I put the H1 tag around the actual title of the page (what the page is actually about).</p>
<p>Take a look:  <a href="http://www.ginside.com">my homepage</a> with only one H1 tag (<a href="view-source:http://www.ginside.com">view source</a>) and then <a href="http://www.ginside.com/2007/805/google-maps-with-live-traffic-reports/">a page with the title as an H2 tag</a> (<a href="view-source:http://www.ginside.com/2007/805/google-maps-with-live-traffic-reports/">view source</a>).</p>
<p>It&#8217;s generally a good idea to have only one H1 tag per page.  For H2, H3, and so on, I like to keep it to the follow: H1: one; H2: two; H3: five; H4: 10; H5: 15; H6: 20.  That way the bots don&#8217;t get overwhelmed about what the page is about.<br />
<strong><br />
<a name="metatags">Meta Tags</a></strong></p>
<p>Now for meta tags.  Search engines used to base search results almost purely on their meta tags, but that has since changed quite a bit.  Webmasters started cheating and using meta tags that didn&#8217;t have any relevance to their pages so the search engines changed how they ranked the pages.  Meta tags are very old, but I feel they are still useful.</p>
<p>A lot of blogs simply let the search engines figure out what to put for the description, but I feel it&#8217;s important to be able to control what visitors see in the search engine results.</p>
<p>I use a plugin called <a href="http://wordpress.uberdose.com/wordpress/another-wordpress-meta-plugin.html">Another Wordpress Meta Plugin</a>.  What it does is it lets you input custom values for both the keywords and the description for each post.  Yes, it does add to the amount of time you spend on each post, but I feel it has helped my ranking positions quite a bit by doing that.  The plugin is fairly basic to use and doesn&#8217;t require anything out of the ordinary.</p>
<p>If you have a plugin that you find useful for the meta information, please comment about it and I&#8217;ll see about adding it to this post.  There are a ton of meta tag plugins out there, but the one above is that I&#8217;ve had experience with and it works for me (using Wordpress 2.1.2)</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:30:21 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:8:"Jonathan";}s:7:"summary";s:3850:"<p>Today we are talking about the actual code of the page.  We will put touching on two points.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP#headertags">Header Tags</a></li>
<li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP#metatags">Meta Tags</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong><a name="headertags">Header Tags</a></strong></p>
<p>First, lets give a little background to what are tags and why they are important.  Think about it when you&#8217;re ready a book or a magazine.  When you see a small excerpt, your eyes will almost always glance there first to see what it&#8217;s saying.  Maybe in a newspaper there is a head line title that really catches your eye and draws in your interest.</p>
<p>This is exactly what Header Tags (H tags) are meant for.  When a search engine bot is looking at your page, it looks for the H tags (&#60;H1&#62;, &#60;H2&#62;, &#60;H3&#62;, &#60;H4&#62;, etc, up to H6) to find out what exactly is important about that page.  So what can you do to emphasize these tags on your pages?  I use some PHP code to fool around with how the tags are placed on my pages.</p>
<p>The H tags are important starting with the lowest number, making the H1 tag the most important.</p>
<p>In my header, I use code like this to move around the H1 tag:</p>
<p><code>&#60;?php if ( is_home() ) { echo "&#60;H1&#62;"; } else { echo "&#60;H2&#62;"; } ?&#62; &#60;a href="/"&#62;Google Inside.&#60;/a&#62;&#60;?php if ( is_home() ) { echo "&#60;/H1&#62;"; } else { echo &#60;/H2&#62;"; } ?&#62;</code></p>
<p>When I&#8217;m using that code, I put the title of my blog within the H1 tags for the homepage and only the homepage.  Then for single pages, I put the H1 tag around the actual title of the page (what the page is actually about).</p>
<p>Take a look:  <a href="http://www.ginside.com">my homepage</a> with only one H1 tag (<a href="view-source:http://www.ginside.com">view source</a>) and then <a href="http://www.ginside.com/2007/805/google-maps-with-live-traffic-reports/">a page with the title as an H2 tag</a> (<a href="view-source:http://www.ginside.com/2007/805/google-maps-with-live-traffic-reports/">view source</a>).</p>
<p>It&#8217;s generally a good idea to have only one H1 tag per page.  For H2, H3, and so on, I like to keep it to the follow: H1: one; H2: two; H3: five; H4: 10; H5: 15; H6: 20.  That way the bots don&#8217;t get overwhelmed about what the page is about.<br />
<strong><br />
<a name="metatags">Meta Tags</a></strong></p>
<p>Now for meta tags.  Search engines used to base search results almost purely on their meta tags, but that has since changed quite a bit.  Webmasters started cheating and using meta tags that didn&#8217;t have any relevance to their pages so the search engines changed how they ranked the pages.  Meta tags are very old, but I feel they are still useful.</p>
<p>A lot of blogs simply let the search engines figure out what to put for the description, but I feel it&#8217;s important to be able to control what visitors see in the search engine results.</p>
<p>I use a plugin called <a href="http://wordpress.uberdose.com/wordpress/another-wordpress-meta-plugin.html">Another Wordpress Meta Plugin</a>.  What it does is it lets you input custom values for both the keywords and the description for each post.  Yes, it does add to the amount of time you spend on each post, but I feel it has helped my ranking positions quite a bit by doing that.  The plugin is fairly basic to use and doesn&#8217;t require anything out of the ordinary.</p>
<p>If you have a plugin that you find useful for the meta information, please comment about it and I&#8217;ll see about adding it to this post.  There are a ton of meta tag plugins out there, but the one above is that I&#8217;ve had experience with and it works for me (using Wordpress 2.1.2)</p>";}i:2;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 3/05";s:4:"guid";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/03/05/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-305/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/99388219/";s:11:"description";s:2140:"<p><a href="http://www.joostdevalk.nl/code/wordpress/nodirectory/">No Directory</a> adds NOODP and NOYDIR meta tags to the header of your theme to force the search engines to use your own description and title for your site, instead of the one that is in <a href="http://dmoz.org/">DMOZ</a> or the <a href="http://dir.yahoo.com/">Yahoo directory</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.selig.se/wordpress/selig-stats/?lan=English">Selig-Stats</a> provides you with a number of filters that can be used directly within your posts / pages in order to display some statistics like post count, comment count etc.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.douglaskarr.com/projects/technorati-rank-plugin">Technorati Rank</a> utilizes the Technorati API to display your blog information (Rank, Links, Blogs Linking) and an Add to Favorites all in simple display.</p>
<p><a href="http://ideathinking.com/wiki/index.php/WordPress:CodeHighlighterPlugin">CodeHighlighter</a> uses GeSHi to highlight syntax for source code.</p>
<p><a href="http://ideathinking.com/wiki/index.php/WordPress:BookCoverPlugin">Book Cover</a> displays the book cover image from ISBN.</p>
<p>WordPress AdSense Deluxe+ Widget is a widgetized version of <a href="http://presentia.net/didzis/wordpress-plugins/adsense-deluxe/">AdSense Deluxe+ Plugin</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.onepiecenet.com/nsomniac/archives/20">Attach Links</a> is a Word Press plugin that allows you to attach one or more external links to each post. They will be shown in a list when calling the function <code>al_display()</code>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webvirtue.com/wordpress/?p=9">TellAFriendPost</a> allows the user to forward the post to there friend.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webvirtue.com/wordpress/?p=8">PromotePost</a> allows the user to Extend the post reach by forwarding it to the 45 sites including del.icio.us, Digg, Flurl, Techorati.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webvirtue.com/wordpress/?p=7">DoubleClick Meaning</a> allows you to doubleclick on a word to know its definition / meaning.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webvirtue.com/wordpress/?p=5">ScaleImage</a> scales images in the post using a slider.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:15:12 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2140:"<p><a href="http://www.joostdevalk.nl/code/wordpress/nodirectory/">No Directory</a> adds NOODP and NOYDIR meta tags to the header of your theme to force the search engines to use your own description and title for your site, instead of the one that is in <a href="http://dmoz.org/">DMOZ</a> or the <a href="http://dir.yahoo.com/">Yahoo directory</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.selig.se/wordpress/selig-stats/?lan=English">Selig-Stats</a> provides you with a number of filters that can be used directly within your posts / pages in order to display some statistics like post count, comment count etc.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.douglaskarr.com/projects/technorati-rank-plugin">Technorati Rank</a> utilizes the Technorati API to display your blog information (Rank, Links, Blogs Linking) and an Add to Favorites all in simple display.</p>
<p><a href="http://ideathinking.com/wiki/index.php/WordPress:CodeHighlighterPlugin">CodeHighlighter</a> uses GeSHi to highlight syntax for source code.</p>
<p><a href="http://ideathinking.com/wiki/index.php/WordPress:BookCoverPlugin">Book Cover</a> displays the book cover image from ISBN.</p>
<p>WordPress AdSense Deluxe+ Widget is a widgetized version of <a href="http://presentia.net/didzis/wordpress-plugins/adsense-deluxe/">AdSense Deluxe+ Plugin</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.onepiecenet.com/nsomniac/archives/20">Attach Links</a> is a Word Press plugin that allows you to attach one or more external links to each post. They will be shown in a list when calling the function <code>al_display()</code>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webvirtue.com/wordpress/?p=9">TellAFriendPost</a> allows the user to forward the post to there friend.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webvirtue.com/wordpress/?p=8">PromotePost</a> allows the user to Extend the post reach by forwarding it to the 45 sites including del.icio.us, Digg, Flurl, Techorati.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webvirtue.com/wordpress/?p=7">DoubleClick Meaning</a> allows you to doubleclick on a word to know its definition / meaning.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webvirtue.com/wordpress/?p=5">ScaleImage</a> scales images in the post using a slider.</p>";}i:3;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 3/05";s:4:"guid";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/03/05/wordpress-theme-releases-for-305/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/99388220/";s:11:"description";s:1602:"<p><a href="http://www.dennis.ca/weblog/ahem-wordpress-theme/">Ahem</a>, based on <a href="http://www.randomprocess.ca/2006/03/25/hemmed/">Hemmed</a> is a 2-column, widget-ready theme with navigation bar and Hemmingway-style bottom bar. </p>
<p><a href="http://subiectiv.ro/netu/wordpress-themes-green-thoughts/">Green Thoughts</a> is a three column, green and black WordPress theme inspired by <a href="http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/02/04/half-life-wordpress-theme/">Half-Life</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Lantern">Green Lantern</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.peterkrantz.com/projects/wordpress-themes/">Puritan</a> is a clean two column Wordpress theme suitable for extending with stylesheets for print and handheld devices, proper use of <code>title</code> for better SEO among other features.</p>
<p>Little Red Star has released <a href="http://www.littleredstar.co.uk/new-day-theme/">New Day</a>, <a href="http://www.littleredstar.co.uk/rock-princess-theme/">Rock Princess</a> and <a href="http://www.littleredstar.co.uk/neon-nights-theme/">Neon Nights</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.headsetoptions.org/">headsetoptions.org</a> and <a href="http://www.mandarinmusing.com/">Mandarin Musing</a> have released <a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1704/butterfly/">Butterfly</a> and <a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1705/rubyx/">Rubyx</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://guillaumeb.com/2007/03/03/theme-download-lifebits-10/">Lifebits</a> is a minimalist theme designed for Wordpress with smart screen-resolution detection and ajax search.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:08:47 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1602:"<p><a href="http://www.dennis.ca/weblog/ahem-wordpress-theme/">Ahem</a>, based on <a href="http://www.randomprocess.ca/2006/03/25/hemmed/">Hemmed</a> is a 2-column, widget-ready theme with navigation bar and Hemmingway-style bottom bar. </p>
<p><a href="http://subiectiv.ro/netu/wordpress-themes-green-thoughts/">Green Thoughts</a> is a three column, green and black WordPress theme inspired by <a href="http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/02/04/half-life-wordpress-theme/">Half-Life</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Lantern">Green Lantern</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.peterkrantz.com/projects/wordpress-themes/">Puritan</a> is a clean two column Wordpress theme suitable for extending with stylesheets for print and handheld devices, proper use of <code>title</code> for better SEO among other features.</p>
<p>Little Red Star has released <a href="http://www.littleredstar.co.uk/new-day-theme/">New Day</a>, <a href="http://www.littleredstar.co.uk/rock-princess-theme/">Rock Princess</a> and <a href="http://www.littleredstar.co.uk/neon-nights-theme/">Neon Nights</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.headsetoptions.org/">headsetoptions.org</a> and <a href="http://www.mandarinmusing.com/">Mandarin Musing</a> have released <a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1704/butterfly/">Butterfly</a> and <a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1705/rubyx/">Rubyx</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://guillaumeb.com/2007/03/03/theme-download-lifebits-10/">Lifebits</a> is a minimalist theme designed for Wordpress with smart screen-resolution detection and ajax search.</p>";}i:4;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:53:"Weblog Tools Collection: Top 6 Most Prolific Bloggers";s:4:"guid";s:82:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/03/04/top-6-most-prolific-bloggers/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/99351727/";s:11:"description";s:482:"<p><a href="http://www.thebizofknowledge.com/2007/03/top_6_most_prolific_bloggers_1.html">Top 6 Most Prolific Bloggers - 1000 posts or more - looking for the top 100</a>: This can be a slippery slope. I am not so sure that post count really makes for &#8220;prolific&#8221;ity but this is my post number 2113 on this blog.</p>
<p>How many posts do you have?</p>
<p>Thanks <a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/03/04/speedlinking-4-march-2007/">Darren Speedlinking</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:15:29 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:482:"<p><a href="http://www.thebizofknowledge.com/2007/03/top_6_most_prolific_bloggers_1.html">Top 6 Most Prolific Bloggers - 1000 posts or more - looking for the top 100</a>: This can be a slippery slope. I am not so sure that post count really makes for &#8220;prolific&#8221;ity but this is my post number 2113 on this blog.</p>
<p>How many posts do you have?</p>
<p>Thanks <a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/03/04/speedlinking-4-march-2007/">Darren Speedlinking</a></p>";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:17:"Matt: Blank Slate";s:4:"guid";s:44:"http://photomatt.net/2007/03/04/blank-slate/";s:4:"link";s:44:"http://photomatt.net/2007/03/04/blank-slate/";s:11:"description";s:499:"<p><a href="http://daringfireball.net/2007/03/blank_slate">Daring Fireball: Blank Slate</a> talks about basing your work off a template vs. starting from scratch. I think both can be valid, there are enough (over 1000) WP templates out there that finding one that&#8217;s close enough to what you want and customizing from there can be a great way to bootstrap and get started quickly. But longer term, invest in design. (This reminded me I have a long todo list for this site to catch up with.)</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:32:54 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:499:"<p><a href="http://daringfireball.net/2007/03/blank_slate">Daring Fireball: Blank Slate</a> talks about basing your work off a template vs. starting from scratch. I think both can be valid, there are enough (over 1000) WP templates out there that finding one that&#8217;s close enough to what you want and customizing from there can be a great way to bootstrap and get started quickly. But longer term, invest in design. (This reminded me I have a long todo list for this site to catch up with.)</p>";}i:6;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:53:"Weblog Tools Collection: How To: Install mod_security";s:4:"guid";s:81:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/03/04/how-to-install-mod_security/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/99331453/";s:11:"description";s:3888:"<p><a href="http://www.modsecurity.org/">mod_security is a well known web application firewall for Apache</a> that is easy to setup and provides a fair amount of protection from web malware and can even provide some protection from comment spam. The benefits of mod_security have been <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2005/05/security-update/">discussed</a> <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2003/11/26/mod_security.html">over</a> and <a href="http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/007442.html">over</a> again and with the recent unforeseen problems with Wordpress (<strong>In case you have not heard about it, if you have <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212/">not upgraded your Wordpress 2.1.1 installation</a>, you need to do it NOW</strong>), mod_security would have provided a level of security if it was installed. Since I had to install mod_security on one of my servers, the steps are fresh in my mind and worth a post. All of the steps below are assuming that you have some sort of a LAMP installation over which you have complete control. If you are on a shared host on LAMP, you will have to ask your provider to install mod_security for you.</p>
<p>If you are running some version of <a href="http://fedora.redhat.com/">Fedora</a> greater than Core 2, mod_security installation might be as simple as invoking yum:</p>
<blockquote><p><code>/usr/bin/yum install mod_security<br />
/etc/init.d/httpd restart</code></p></blockquote>
<p>For Debian and Ubuntu, you could do:</p>
<blockquote><p><code>apt-get install libapache2-mod-security<br />
a2enmod mod-security<br />
/etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload</code></p></blockquote>
<p>If per chance you are running a version of Fedora that does not have the mod_security package, you will need to download the source, compile the module, configure mod_security and restart Apache.</p>
<ul>
<li>Get the latest version of mod_security from <a href="http://www.modsecurity.org/download/modsecurity-apache_2.1.0.tar.gz">http://www.modsecurity.org/download/modsecurity-apache_2.1.0.tar.gz</a></li>
<li>Make sure you have httpd-devel installed with<br />
<blockquote><p><code>/usr/bin/yum httpd-devel install</code></p></blockquote>
</li>
<li>Follow the <a href="http://www.modsecurity.org/documentation/modsecurity-apache/2.1.0/modsecurity2-apache-reference.html#02-installation">steps outlined here</a>. The steps are very clear and should not be confusing. For the step that asks to configure mod_security, you can use a <a href="http://fedoranews.org/jorge/mod_security/mod_security.conf">very basic config from here</a> and copy the contents to /etc/httpd/conf.d/mod_security.conf More detailed rules can be <a href="http://www.gotroot.com/mod_security+rules">found here</a>.</li>
<li>After Apache restarts, make sure you web application (and Wordpress) are running as normal</li>
</ul>
<p>If things break, removing the module is as simple as commenting out the line that activates mod_security in httpd.conf (search for mod_security in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf) and restarting your Apache. There are lots of fun rules for <a href="http://www.gotroot.com/downloads/ftp/mod_security/2.0/apache2/blacklist.conf">comment spam mitigation</a>, <a href="http://www.gotroot.com/downloads/ftp/mod_security/recons.conf">Google Hack Signatures</a> and other tricks that you can add to mod_security. As with any high level application security, this adds overhead and there is a delicate balance between protection and paranoia. mod_security 2.1.0 has significant performance improvements over earlier versions.</p>
<p><strong>Standard Disclaimer: This How To comes without any warranty or guarantee of any sort. Please take these steps at your own risk and do not modify or change anything you are not familiar or comfortable with. I will not be responsible if you break your server. </strong></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:00:35 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:3888:"<p><a href="http://www.modsecurity.org/">mod_security is a well known web application firewall for Apache</a> that is easy to setup and provides a fair amount of protection from web malware and can even provide some protection from comment spam. The benefits of mod_security have been <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2005/05/security-update/">discussed</a> <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2003/11/26/mod_security.html">over</a> and <a href="http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/007442.html">over</a> again and with the recent unforeseen problems with Wordpress (<strong>In case you have not heard about it, if you have <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212/">not upgraded your Wordpress 2.1.1 installation</a>, you need to do it NOW</strong>), mod_security would have provided a level of security if it was installed. Since I had to install mod_security on one of my servers, the steps are fresh in my mind and worth a post. All of the steps below are assuming that you have some sort of a LAMP installation over which you have complete control. If you are on a shared host on LAMP, you will have to ask your provider to install mod_security for you.</p>
<p>If you are running some version of <a href="http://fedora.redhat.com/">Fedora</a> greater than Core 2, mod_security installation might be as simple as invoking yum:</p>
<blockquote><p><code>/usr/bin/yum install mod_security<br />
/etc/init.d/httpd restart</code></p></blockquote>
<p>For Debian and Ubuntu, you could do:</p>
<blockquote><p><code>apt-get install libapache2-mod-security<br />
a2enmod mod-security<br />
/etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload</code></p></blockquote>
<p>If per chance you are running a version of Fedora that does not have the mod_security package, you will need to download the source, compile the module, configure mod_security and restart Apache.</p>
<ul>
<li>Get the latest version of mod_security from <a href="http://www.modsecurity.org/download/modsecurity-apache_2.1.0.tar.gz">http://www.modsecurity.org/download/modsecurity-apache_2.1.0.tar.gz</a></li>
<li>Make sure you have httpd-devel installed with<br />
<blockquote><p><code>/usr/bin/yum httpd-devel install</code></p></blockquote>
</li>
<li>Follow the <a href="http://www.modsecurity.org/documentation/modsecurity-apache/2.1.0/modsecurity2-apache-reference.html#02-installation">steps outlined here</a>. The steps are very clear and should not be confusing. For the step that asks to configure mod_security, you can use a <a href="http://fedoranews.org/jorge/mod_security/mod_security.conf">very basic config from here</a> and copy the contents to /etc/httpd/conf.d/mod_security.conf More detailed rules can be <a href="http://www.gotroot.com/mod_security+rules">found here</a>.</li>
<li>After Apache restarts, make sure you web application (and Wordpress) are running as normal</li>
</ul>
<p>If things break, removing the module is as simple as commenting out the line that activates mod_security in httpd.conf (search for mod_security in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf) and restarting your Apache. There are lots of fun rules for <a href="http://www.gotroot.com/downloads/ftp/mod_security/2.0/apache2/blacklist.conf">comment spam mitigation</a>, <a href="http://www.gotroot.com/downloads/ftp/mod_security/recons.conf">Google Hack Signatures</a> and other tricks that you can add to mod_security. As with any high level application security, this adds overhead and there is a delicate balance between protection and paranoia. mod_security 2.1.0 has significant performance improvements over earlier versions.</p>
<p><strong>Standard Disclaimer: This How To comes without any warranty or guarantee of any sort. Please take these steps at your own risk and do not modify or change anything you are not familiar or comfortable with. I will not be responsible if you break your server. </strong></p>";}i:7;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:54:"Dougal Campbell: Important: Upgrade to WordPress 2.1.2";s:4:"guid";s:76:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2007/03/03/important-upgrade-to-wordpress-212";s:4:"link";s:76:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2007/03/03/important-upgrade-to-wordpress-212";s:11:"description";s:1097:"<p>
In the interest of getting the word out as quickly and as widely as possible, a brief word about a new WordPress release: If you recently installed version 2.1.1, you should <strong>upgrade to WordPress 2.1.2 immediately</strong>. There was a security breach on the server which housed the download archives, and some files in the 2.1.1 download were modified to include a serious security hole. There are more details in the <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212/">official WordPress Dev Blog announcement</a>.
</p>
<p>
While technically this only affects those who downloaded the 2.1.1 .zip or .tar.gz archives from the wordpress.org site in about the last week, it certainly wouldn't hurt to go ahead and upgrade, even if you downloaded earlier, or installed from SVN. Just because (there are a couple of unrelated bugfixes in there, after all).
</p>
<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=795&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_795" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a>
</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:01:57 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Dougal";}s:7:"summary";s:1097:"<p>
In the interest of getting the word out as quickly and as widely as possible, a brief word about a new WordPress release: If you recently installed version 2.1.1, you should <strong>upgrade to WordPress 2.1.2 immediately</strong>. There was a security breach on the server which housed the download archives, and some files in the 2.1.1 download were modified to include a serious security hole. There are more details in the <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212/">official WordPress Dev Blog announcement</a>.
</p>
<p>
While technically this only affects those who downloaded the 2.1.1 .zip or .tar.gz archives from the wordpress.org site in about the last week, it certainly wouldn't hurt to go ahead and upgrade, even if you downloaded earlier, or installed from SVN. Just because (there are a couple of unrelated bugfixes in there, after all).
</p>
<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=795&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_795" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a>
</p>";}i:8;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:52:"Weblog Tools Collection: Upgrade WordPress via Shell";s:4:"guid";s:81:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/03/03/upgrade-wordpress-via-shell/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/98917814/";s:11:"description";s:551:"<p><a href="http://techtites.com/2007/03/03/upgrading-wordpress-via-shell/">Upgrade WordPress via Shell</a> guides you to upgrading your existing <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> installation to the latest one if you have shell access to your hosting account.<br />
And if you haven&#8217;t <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">upgraded to 2.1.2</a> yet, then please do so immediately to ensure that your <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212/">WordPress 2.1 installation doesn&#8217;t get compromised</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:00:21 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:551:"<p><a href="http://techtites.com/2007/03/03/upgrading-wordpress-via-shell/">Upgrade WordPress via Shell</a> guides you to upgrading your existing <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> installation to the latest one if you have shell access to your hosting account.<br />
And if you haven&#8217;t <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">upgraded to 2.1.2</a> yet, then please do so immediately to ensure that your <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212/">WordPress 2.1 installation doesn&#8217;t get compromised</a>.</p>";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:40:"Donncha: You didn’t hear? Upgrade now!";s:4:"guid";s:56:"http://ocaoimh.ie/2007/03/03/you-didnt-hear-upgrade-now/";s:4:"link";s:56:"http://ocaoimh.ie/2007/03/03/you-didnt-hear-upgrade-now/";s:11:"description";s:2023:"<p>On the off chance that <a href="http://www.tomrafteryit.net/urgent-update-to-wordpress/">you</a> <a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/03/03/wordpress-211-users-important-update/">haven&#8217;t</a> <a href="http://www.tamba2.org.uk/T2/archives/2007/03/03/upgrade-to-212/">heard</a> <a href="http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2007/03/03/wordpress-212-is-a-mandatory-upgrade/">the</a> <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212/">news</a> yet. You should upgrade your WordPress install straight away. Don&#8217;t hesitate, do it now. Don&#8217;t pause to grab a cup of coffee. If you&#8217;re just waking up then rub the sleep from your eyes and jump to the <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">download</a> page and grab WordPress 2.1.2.</p>
<p>
<blockquote>Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.</p></blockquote>
<p>Users running from svn code aren&#8217;t affected, but then you probably already knew that already didn&#8217;t you? You should be subscribed to Hackers and Testers lists.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t worry if you&#8217;re running a <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/">WordPress MU</a> site. That isn&#8217;t affected, although you should upgrade to the <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2007/02/27/catch-it-if-you-can-wordpress-mu-111-escaped/">latest 1.1.1 release</a> as that fixes a number of problems with 1.0 as well as merging in some security fixes from WordPress core.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.com/">WordPress.com</a> users have nothing to worry about.</p>
<a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/irishblogs/" rel="tag">irishblogs</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/wordpress/" rel="tag">WordPress</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/wordpress.com/" rel="tag">wordpress.com</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/wordpressmu/" rel="tag">wordpressmu</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/wpmu/" rel="tag">wpmu</a>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:37:59 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Donncha";}s:7:"summary";s:2023:"<p>On the off chance that <a href="http://www.tomrafteryit.net/urgent-update-to-wordpress/">you</a> <a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/03/03/wordpress-211-users-important-update/">haven&#8217;t</a> <a href="http://www.tamba2.org.uk/T2/archives/2007/03/03/upgrade-to-212/">heard</a> <a href="http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2007/03/03/wordpress-212-is-a-mandatory-upgrade/">the</a> <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212/">news</a> yet. You should upgrade your WordPress install straight away. Don&#8217;t hesitate, do it now. Don&#8217;t pause to grab a cup of coffee. If you&#8217;re just waking up then rub the sleep from your eyes and jump to the <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">download</a> page and grab WordPress 2.1.2.</p>
<p>
<blockquote>Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.</p></blockquote>
<p>Users running from svn code aren&#8217;t affected, but then you probably already knew that already didn&#8217;t you? You should be subscribed to Hackers and Testers lists.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t worry if you&#8217;re running a <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/">WordPress MU</a> site. That isn&#8217;t affected, although you should upgrade to the <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2007/02/27/catch-it-if-you-can-wordpress-mu-111-escaped/">latest 1.1.1 release</a> as that fixes a number of problems with 1.0 as well as merging in some security fixes from WordPress core.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.com/">WordPress.com</a> users have nothing to worry about.</p>
<a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/irishblogs/" rel="tag">irishblogs</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/wordpress/" rel="tag">WordPress</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/wordpress.com/" rel="tag">wordpress.com</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/wordpressmu/" rel="tag">wordpressmu</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/wpmu/" rel="tag">wpmu</a>";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 3/03";s:4:"guid";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/03/03/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-303/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/98821747/";s:11:"description";s:970:"<p><a href="http://code.google.com/p/feedburnerstats/">FeedBurner Stats</a> is a plugin which gives you <a href="http://code.google.com/p/feedburnerstats/wiki/FeedBurner">FeedBurner</a> Stats without redirecting your users the FeedBurner feeds. So, you keep your subscribers on your site but still get the stats.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.vincentprat.info/wordpress/2007/03/01/wordpress-plugin-post-templates/">Post Templates</a> lets you create templates for your posts so that you don&#8217;t spend time copy-pasting the same code across different posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.linickx.com/blog/archives/266/recent-phpbb-topics-on-wordpress-plugin">phpBB recent topics</a> lists of recent phpBB threads or Topics displayed in WordPress.</p>
<p><a href="http://marjorie.citizencaine.org/patb/">Pinky and the Brain</a> displays a random Brain word in the top right corner, similar to Hello Dolly. <em>The download link doesn&#8217;t to be working right now</em></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:05:40 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:970:"<p><a href="http://code.google.com/p/feedburnerstats/">FeedBurner Stats</a> is a plugin which gives you <a href="http://code.google.com/p/feedburnerstats/wiki/FeedBurner">FeedBurner</a> Stats without redirecting your users the FeedBurner feeds. So, you keep your subscribers on your site but still get the stats.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.vincentprat.info/wordpress/2007/03/01/wordpress-plugin-post-templates/">Post Templates</a> lets you create templates for your posts so that you don&#8217;t spend time copy-pasting the same code across different posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.linickx.com/blog/archives/266/recent-phpbb-topics-on-wordpress-plugin">phpBB recent topics</a> lists of recent phpBB threads or Topics displayed in WordPress.</p>
<p><a href="http://marjorie.citizencaine.org/patb/">Pinky and the Brain</a> displays a random Brain word in the top right corner, similar to Hello Dolly. <em>The download link doesn&#8217;t to be working right now</em></p>";}i:11;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 3/03";s:4:"guid";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/03/03/wordpress-theme-releases-for-303/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/98812658/";s:11:"description";s:1080:"<p><a href="http://blogosquare.com/2007/03/01/download-the-best-black-minimalist-theme-for-your-wordpress-blog-colourfull-wall/">ColourFull Wall</a> is a black minimalist theme, highly customisable, lightning fast, easy to deploy and use while supporting the vast majority of plugins out there. It is SEO optimised coming with a built-in sitemap and archives page template. More little nifty goodies are built down into it like some quick shooting stats of the blog and bookmark link in the posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.studiengang-verzeichnis.de/">Studiengang-Verzeichnis</a> has released three themes viz. <a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1699/theme1/">Theme1</a>, <a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1698/blue-and-clean/">Blue and Clean</a> and <a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1697/red-and-clean/">Red and Clean</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1696/psalm-8-10/">Psalm 8</a> is a two column widget ready theme by <a href="http://www.taintedsong.com/wp-themes/">Joni</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Mar 2007 06:45:14 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1080:"<p><a href="http://blogosquare.com/2007/03/01/download-the-best-black-minimalist-theme-for-your-wordpress-blog-colourfull-wall/">ColourFull Wall</a> is a black minimalist theme, highly customisable, lightning fast, easy to deploy and use while supporting the vast majority of plugins out there. It is SEO optimised coming with a built-in sitemap and archives page template. More little nifty goodies are built down into it like some quick shooting stats of the blog and bookmark link in the posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.studiengang-verzeichnis.de/">Studiengang-Verzeichnis</a> has released three themes viz. <a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1699/theme1/">Theme1</a>, <a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1698/blue-and-clean/">Blue and Clean</a> and <a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1697/red-and-clean/">Red and Clean</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1696/psalm-8-10/">Psalm 8</a> is a two column widget ready theme by <a href="http://www.taintedsong.com/wp-themes/">Joni</a>.</p>";}i:12;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:63:"Lorelle on WP: Emergency Update Notification for WordPress 2.1+";s:4:"guid";s:87:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/emergency-update-notification-for-wordpress-21/";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/emergency-update-notification-for-wordpress-21/";s:11:"description";s:338:"If you updated WordPress in the past few days, download the new version and update it again. Someone was able to break in and malicious code was added to the download. The new version is WordPress 2.1.2.
For more information see: WordPress 2.1.1 dangerous, Upgrade to 2.1.2.
It appears that this is a mandatory upgrade for everyone, [...]";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:20:11 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:17:"Lorelle VanFossen";}s:7:"summary";s:338:"If you updated WordPress in the past few days, download the new version and update it again. Someone was able to break in and malicious code was added to the download. The new version is WordPress 2.1.2.
For more information see: WordPress 2.1.1 dangerous, Upgrade to 2.1.2.
It appears that this is a mandatory upgrade for everyone, [...]";}i:13;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:53:"Dev Blog: WordPress 2.1.1 dangerous, Upgrade to 2.1.2";s:4:"guid";s:53:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212/";s:4:"link";s:53:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212/";s:11:"description";s:659:"<p>Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.</p>
<p>Longer explanation: This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code in WordPress. The issue was investigated, and it appeared that the 2.1.1 download had been modified from its original code. We took the website down immediately to investigate what happened.</p>
<p> <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212/#more-199" class="more-link">(more&#8230;)</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:53:18 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:659:"<p>Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.</p>
<p>Longer explanation: This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code in WordPress. The issue was investigated, and it appeared that the 2.1.1 download had been modified from its original code. We took the website down immediately to investigate what happened.</p>
<p> <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212/#more-199" class="more-link">(more&#8230;)</a></p>";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:57:"Weblog Tools Collection: WP Plugin: Feedburner Feed Stats";s:4:"guid";s:85:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/03/02/wp-plugin-feedburner-feed-stats/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/98306383/";s:11:"description";s:3046:"<p>Feedburner Feed Stats is a simple plugin that I put together with the ideas (and some of the code) from <a href="http://www.45n5.com/permalink/how-to-get-feedburner-stats-without-using-feedburn.html">an article that I was reading yesterday</a> for a Wordpress hack of sorts. The idea is good and the code is simple.</p>
<p>Since a lot of people like the subscriber statistics offered by Feedburner but want to continue to offer feeds directly through Wordpress, if there was a way to pass on every feed request made to Wordpress transparently onto Feedburner, Feedburner would be able to gather subscription data. <a href="http://www.45n5.com">45n5</a> came up with the concept and some of the code for the Wordpress hack. I took some of that code, some more code from transparent proxy scripts, added a smattering of more code on suggestions from <a href="http://www.burningdoor.com/eric">Eric Lunt</a> along with the plugin framework that was already built by Steve Smith and am ready to alpha test my version of the Feedburner Feed Stats Plugin.</p>
<p>As I explained to a friend, after installing this plugin, <span><span>the feed for your (Wordpress) blog will be served directly by your blog. All feedburner is doing at that point is counting the number of people that read your feed</span></span>.</p>
<p>You can download the alpha code from the following link. <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/03/feedburnerfeedstats.zip" title="Feedburner Feed Stats">Download the Feedburner Feed Stats Plugin</a></p>
<p>Couple of gotchas and assumptions:</p>
<ul>
<li>You have to disable any Feedburner redirect plugins since this will effectively do the same thing. Might cause double the stats and all kinds of goofy redirect problems.</li>
<li>You will lose the click through statistics from Feedburner since the links on the feed are no longer from Feedburner.</li>
<li>I am assuming that Feedburner respects the HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR header from transparent proxies and uses that information to tag unique subscribers. The answer to that question might affect subscriber numbers</li>
<li>It looks like the country of origin is not determined by the proxy information and everything is showing up as the servers&#8217; location. I wonder what they use to determine the location of the subscriber. I also wondered if there was a way to spoof the remote_addr server variable from inside a curl request.</li>
<li><strike>As pointed out in the comments, this plugin requires PHP 4 &gt;= 4.3.0</strike></li>
<li><strike>Also, as Adam points out in the comments, Apache is required for this version of the plugin</strike></li>
<li>If you run any kind of ads over Feedburner, this is not for you</li>
</ul>
<p>If you still have questions, please leave a comment. Installation is really simple. Just download, move to your plugin folder, activate in your Wordpres back end, go to the options tab and configure. If something breaks, simply turn the plugin off or delete it from your plugin folder. Please post bugs and suggestions.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:15:13 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:3046:"<p>Feedburner Feed Stats is a simple plugin that I put together with the ideas (and some of the code) from <a href="http://www.45n5.com/permalink/how-to-get-feedburner-stats-without-using-feedburn.html">an article that I was reading yesterday</a> for a Wordpress hack of sorts. The idea is good and the code is simple.</p>
<p>Since a lot of people like the subscriber statistics offered by Feedburner but want to continue to offer feeds directly through Wordpress, if there was a way to pass on every feed request made to Wordpress transparently onto Feedburner, Feedburner would be able to gather subscription data. <a href="http://www.45n5.com">45n5</a> came up with the concept and some of the code for the Wordpress hack. I took some of that code, some more code from transparent proxy scripts, added a smattering of more code on suggestions from <a href="http://www.burningdoor.com/eric">Eric Lunt</a> along with the plugin framework that was already built by Steve Smith and am ready to alpha test my version of the Feedburner Feed Stats Plugin.</p>
<p>As I explained to a friend, after installing this plugin, <span><span>the feed for your (Wordpress) blog will be served directly by your blog. All feedburner is doing at that point is counting the number of people that read your feed</span></span>.</p>
<p>You can download the alpha code from the following link. <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/03/feedburnerfeedstats.zip" title="Feedburner Feed Stats">Download the Feedburner Feed Stats Plugin</a></p>
<p>Couple of gotchas and assumptions:</p>
<ul>
<li>You have to disable any Feedburner redirect plugins since this will effectively do the same thing. Might cause double the stats and all kinds of goofy redirect problems.</li>
<li>You will lose the click through statistics from Feedburner since the links on the feed are no longer from Feedburner.</li>
<li>I am assuming that Feedburner respects the HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR header from transparent proxies and uses that information to tag unique subscribers. The answer to that question might affect subscriber numbers</li>
<li>It looks like the country of origin is not determined by the proxy information and everything is showing up as the servers&#8217; location. I wonder what they use to determine the location of the subscriber. I also wondered if there was a way to spoof the remote_addr server variable from inside a curl request.</li>
<li><strike>As pointed out in the comments, this plugin requires PHP 4 &gt;= 4.3.0</strike></li>
<li><strike>Also, as Adam points out in the comments, Apache is required for this version of the plugin</strike></li>
<li>If you run any kind of ads over Feedburner, this is not for you</li>
</ul>
<p>If you still have questions, please leave a comment. Installation is really simple. Just download, move to your plugin folder, activate in your Wordpres back end, go to the options tab and configure. If something breaks, simply turn the plugin off or delete it from your plugin folder. Please post bugs and suggestions.</p>";}i:15;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 3/02";s:4:"guid";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/03/02/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-302/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/98275970/";s:11:"description";s:1190:"<p><a href="http://devblog.x-sphere.com/index.php/projects/wordpress/wp-weather">wp-weather widget</a> uses <a href="http://Weather.com">Weather.com</a> to show forecast information for a city.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.seologs.com/wordpress-duplicate-content-cure/">Duplicate Content Cure</a> prevents duplicate content in wordpress blogs by adding a noindex meta tag to wordpress pages that don&#8217;t contain any unique value, like categories, archives, and paged pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://code.google.com/p/wp-publications-archive/">wp-publications-archive</a> is a Wordpress plugin that allows administrators to upload and manage all sorts of files (i.e., publications). Additionally, end-users are able to navigate, search, and download them in the front-office.</p>
<p><a href="http://chaos-laboratory.com/2007/03/01/currex-ajax-based-currency-converter-widget-for-wordpress/">Currency Converter</a> sidebar widget for WordPress that can convert between 148 currency formats from all over the world.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.chweng.idv.tw/wordpress/ajaxified-expand-post-now/">Ajaxified Expand Post NOW</a> uses AJAX to expand the &#8220;more&#8230;&#8221; on your blog.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:35:37 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1190:"<p><a href="http://devblog.x-sphere.com/index.php/projects/wordpress/wp-weather">wp-weather widget</a> uses <a href="http://Weather.com">Weather.com</a> to show forecast information for a city.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.seologs.com/wordpress-duplicate-content-cure/">Duplicate Content Cure</a> prevents duplicate content in wordpress blogs by adding a noindex meta tag to wordpress pages that don&#8217;t contain any unique value, like categories, archives, and paged pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://code.google.com/p/wp-publications-archive/">wp-publications-archive</a> is a Wordpress plugin that allows administrators to upload and manage all sorts of files (i.e., publications). Additionally, end-users are able to navigate, search, and download them in the front-office.</p>
<p><a href="http://chaos-laboratory.com/2007/03/01/currex-ajax-based-currency-converter-widget-for-wordpress/">Currency Converter</a> sidebar widget for WordPress that can convert between 148 currency formats from all over the world.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.chweng.idv.tw/wordpress/ajaxified-expand-post-now/">Ajaxified Expand Post NOW</a> uses AJAX to expand the &#8220;more&#8230;&#8221; on your blog.</p>";}i:16;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 3/02";s:4:"guid";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/03/02/wordpress-theme-releases-for-302/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/98262921/";s:11:"description";s:571:"<p><a href="http://rockinthemes.com/rockinpaper-3-column-wordpress-theme/">RockinPaper 3 Column</a> is a blue and grey, clean and simple widgetized theme designed with a newspaper flair for reading and customization.</p>
<p><a href="http://rockinthemes.com/rockinsoft-2-column-wordpress-theme/">RockinSoft</a> is an elegant 2 column widgetized theme with rounded corners and soft colors.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hosterio.com/blog/bubbles-adsense-integrated-free-wordpress-theme/">Bubbles</a> is a two column theme available in four colors with and without adsense.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:15:14 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:571:"<p><a href="http://rockinthemes.com/rockinpaper-3-column-wordpress-theme/">RockinPaper 3 Column</a> is a blue and grey, clean and simple widgetized theme designed with a newspaper flair for reading and customization.</p>
<p><a href="http://rockinthemes.com/rockinsoft-2-column-wordpress-theme/">RockinSoft</a> is an elegant 2 column widgetized theme with rounded corners and soft colors.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hosterio.com/blog/bubbles-adsense-integrated-free-wordpress-theme/">Bubbles</a> is a two column theme available in four colors with and without adsense.</p>";}i:17;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:29:"Matt: 71Miles on WP Framework";s:4:"guid";s:56:"http://photomatt.net/2007/03/01/71miles-on-wp-framework/";s:4:"link";s:56:"http://photomatt.net/2007/03/01/71miles-on-wp-framework/";s:11:"description";s:803:"<p><a href="http://71miles.com/">71Miles is a cool new travel site</a> with a twist PM readers will find interesting &#8212; it&#8217;s built with WordPress. How? Adam Rugel writes &#8220;The nuts and bolts of our site is WordPress, it&#8217;s our foundation and content management system. We extended it to manage our content feeds: Google Calendar  XML for the events calendar, map, and mobile product and Kayak&#8217;s brand new hotel API for the hotel deals. We tricked out the custom fields in WP to do a lot the work for us, and we&#8217;ve got the categories set up so that we can scale to roll out dozens of editions (NYC, LA, Chicago&#8230;). At any rate we&#8217;re loving the platform&#8230;&#8221; Definitely one of the coolest uses of the WordPress framework I&#8217;ve seen in a while.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:52:30 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:803:"<p><a href="http://71miles.com/">71Miles is a cool new travel site</a> with a twist PM readers will find interesting &#8212; it&#8217;s built with WordPress. How? Adam Rugel writes &#8220;The nuts and bolts of our site is WordPress, it&#8217;s our foundation and content management system. We extended it to manage our content feeds: Google Calendar  XML for the events calendar, map, and mobile product and Kayak&#8217;s brand new hotel API for the hotel deals. We tricked out the custom fields in WP to do a lot the work for us, and we&#8217;ve got the categories set up so that we can scale to roll out dozens of editions (NYC, LA, Chicago&#8230;). At any rate we&#8217;re loving the platform&#8230;&#8221; Definitely one of the coolest uses of the WordPress framework I&#8217;ve seen in a while.</p>";}i:18;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:55:"Lorelle on WP: Blogging and Web Tech Events: March 2007";s:4:"guid";s:80:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/01/blogging-and-web-tech-events-march-2007/";s:4:"link";s:80:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/01/blogging-and-web-tech-events-march-2007/";s:11:"description";s:365:"The following are upcoming events related to WordPress and Blogging, as well as some interesting web technologies conferences and events. 
Unless otherwise listed ($$), these events are free or very inexpensive. For more information on these events, contact the hosts. For more information on WordPress and blogging events in general, or to contribute to this [...]";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:26:05 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:17:"Lorelle VanFossen";}s:7:"summary";s:365:"The following are upcoming events related to WordPress and Blogging, as well as some interesting web technologies conferences and events. 
Unless otherwise listed ($$), these events are free or very inexpensive. For more information on these events, contact the hosts. For more information on WordPress and blogging events in general, or to contribute to this [...]";}i:19;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:48:"Weblog Tools Collection: Why Readers Unsubscribe";s:4:"guid";s:77:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/03/01/why-readers-unsubscribe/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/97951530/";s:11:"description";s:1205:"<p><a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/03/01/34-reasons-why-readers-unsubscribe-from-your-blog/">34 Reasons Why Readers Unsubscribe from Your Blog</a>: Darren had asked the question, <a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/02/27/what-makes-you-unsubscribe-from-a-blogs-rss-feed">Why do readers unsubscribe from your blog&#8217;s feed?</a> and he tabulated the answers in the comments. Much of the answers are unsurprising but the top two reasons are too many posts and too few posts respectively. So the answer there might be to post just enough entries to keep people coming back and just few enough to keep from overwhelming them. I have found proof of that hypothesis in that the daily updates of plugins and themes on weblogtoolscollection.com works best in single consolidated posts. Other important factors included off topic posts, partial feeds and finally good content. I love <a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/03/01/34-reasons-why-readers-unsubscribe-from-your-blog#comment-950422">Scoble&#8217;s comment</a> on that post. There is a lot to be said for &#8220;do what you love, put stuff up you’d love to read, and the rest will fall into place.&#8221;</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:00:17 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:1205:"<p><a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/03/01/34-reasons-why-readers-unsubscribe-from-your-blog/">34 Reasons Why Readers Unsubscribe from Your Blog</a>: Darren had asked the question, <a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/02/27/what-makes-you-unsubscribe-from-a-blogs-rss-feed">Why do readers unsubscribe from your blog&#8217;s feed?</a> and he tabulated the answers in the comments. Much of the answers are unsurprising but the top two reasons are too many posts and too few posts respectively. So the answer there might be to post just enough entries to keep people coming back and just few enough to keep from overwhelming them. I have found proof of that hypothesis in that the daily updates of plugins and themes on weblogtoolscollection.com works best in single consolidated posts. Other important factors included off topic posts, partial feeds and finally good content. I love <a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/03/01/34-reasons-why-readers-unsubscribe-from-your-blog#comment-950422">Scoble&#8217;s comment</a> on that post. There is a lot to be said for &#8220;do what you love, put stuff up you’d love to read, and the rest will fall into place.&#8221;</p>";}i:20;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:51:"Weblog Tools Collection: How to Start Your Own Blog";s:4:"guid";s:80:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/03/01/how-to-start-your-own-blog/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/97815987/";s:11:"description";s:228:"<p><a href="http://www.ofzenandcomputing.com/zanswers/390">How to Start Your Own Blog</a> takes a look at several blogging services both remote-hosted and self hosted. A good read for someone wanting to start their own blog.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:15:29 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:228:"<p><a href="http://www.ofzenandcomputing.com/zanswers/390">How to Start Your Own Blog</a> takes a look at several blogging services both remote-hosted and self hosted. A good read for someone wanting to start their own blog.</p>";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 3/01";s:4:"guid";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/03/01/wordpress-theme-releases-for-301/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/97717798/";s:11:"description";s:1369:"<p><a href="http://rockinthemes.com/rockinbizred-2-column-wordpress-theme/">RockinBizRed</a> is a very clean, sleek, 2 column, widgetized theme designed with business blogs in mind using a nice red and gray color scheme.</p>
<p><a href="http://themey.com/note-wordpress-theme/">Note</a> is a two column, widget ready theme reminiscent of a notice board or jotter.</p>
<p><a href="http://stabani.com/wordpress/klate/">Klate2</a> is an update to the Klate theme based on the latest build of k2. It&#8217;s a minimalistic funky and retro theme with a pull out ajax shelf fat footer and includes sidebar modules. For WordPress 2.1 only.</p>
<p><a href="http://stabani.com/wordpress/digitalpixel/">digitalPixel</a> is a two-column widget-included theme based on K2 for wordpress. Includes custom-headers and Sidebar modules, live commenting and search, and other bits and pieces.</p>
<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1689/prideprejudise-10/">Pride</a> is a two column, fixed width, widget ready theme by <a href="http://ddsos.org/">Ekta Paneri</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.briangardner.com/themes/dropshadow-wordpress-theme.htm">Dropshadow</a> is a two column, widget ready theme. </p>
<p>Julian Klewes has released <a href="http://www.h4x3d.com/themes/bonsai">bonsai</a> and <a href="http://www.h4x3d.com/themes/corporatefk">corporateFK</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:30:14 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1369:"<p><a href="http://rockinthemes.com/rockinbizred-2-column-wordpress-theme/">RockinBizRed</a> is a very clean, sleek, 2 column, widgetized theme designed with business blogs in mind using a nice red and gray color scheme.</p>
<p><a href="http://themey.com/note-wordpress-theme/">Note</a> is a two column, widget ready theme reminiscent of a notice board or jotter.</p>
<p><a href="http://stabani.com/wordpress/klate/">Klate2</a> is an update to the Klate theme based on the latest build of k2. It&#8217;s a minimalistic funky and retro theme with a pull out ajax shelf fat footer and includes sidebar modules. For WordPress 2.1 only.</p>
<p><a href="http://stabani.com/wordpress/digitalpixel/">digitalPixel</a> is a two-column widget-included theme based on K2 for wordpress. Includes custom-headers and Sidebar modules, live commenting and search, and other bits and pieces.</p>
<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1689/prideprejudise-10/">Pride</a> is a two column, fixed width, widget ready theme by <a href="http://ddsos.org/">Ekta Paneri</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.briangardner.com/themes/dropshadow-wordpress-theme.htm">Dropshadow</a> is a two column, widget ready theme. </p>
<p>Julian Klewes has released <a href="http://www.h4x3d.com/themes/bonsai">bonsai</a> and <a href="http://www.h4x3d.com/themes/corporatefk">corporateFK</a>.</p>";}i:22;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 3/01";s:4:"guid";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/03/01/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-301/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/97715561/";s:11:"description";s:1156:"<p><a href="http://darxr.net/magnolia-widget/">Ma.gnolia Widget</a> allows you to display your ma.gnolia links in your sidebar similar to the del.icio.us sidebar widget. This widget uses SimpleXML and as such requires PHP5.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2007/02/28/first-release-visualize-advanced-features/">Visualize Advanced Features</a> will display the <a href="http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2007/01/31/wordpress-21-more-editor-options/">hidden buttons</a> in the WordPress 2.1 WYSIWYG editor.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.spicyexpress.net/index.php/2007/03/01/meyshan-6-in-1-wordpress-plugin/">Meyshan 6</a> acts as a place holder for any 6 plugins of your choice, in a very beautiful mini tabbed pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://cinnamonthoughts.org/wordpress/onairnow/">onAirNow</a> gets information about your currently playing track from a file uploaded via FTP and displays it on your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.im-web-gefunden.de/wordpress-plugins/iwg-extended-author-list/">IWG Extended Author List</a> expands your author-list at the post-page of every user that is allowed to <code>show_in_authorlist</code>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:15:15 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1156:"<p><a href="http://darxr.net/magnolia-widget/">Ma.gnolia Widget</a> allows you to display your ma.gnolia links in your sidebar similar to the del.icio.us sidebar widget. This widget uses SimpleXML and as such requires PHP5.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2007/02/28/first-release-visualize-advanced-features/">Visualize Advanced Features</a> will display the <a href="http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2007/01/31/wordpress-21-more-editor-options/">hidden buttons</a> in the WordPress 2.1 WYSIWYG editor.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.spicyexpress.net/index.php/2007/03/01/meyshan-6-in-1-wordpress-plugin/">Meyshan 6</a> acts as a place holder for any 6 plugins of your choice, in a very beautiful mini tabbed pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://cinnamonthoughts.org/wordpress/onairnow/">onAirNow</a> gets information about your currently playing track from a file uploaded via FTP and displays it on your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.im-web-gefunden.de/wordpress-plugins/iwg-extended-author-list/">IWG Extended Author List</a> expands your author-list at the post-page of every user that is allowed to <code>show_in_authorlist</code>.</p>";}i:23;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:23:"Matt: One Man Star Wars";s:4:"guid";s:50:"http://photomatt.net/2007/02/28/one-man-star-wars/";s:4:"link";s:50:"http://photomatt.net/2007/02/28/one-man-star-wars/";s:11:"description";s:599:"<p>Last night I saw the <a href="http://www.onemanstarwars.com/index2.html">One Man Star Wars Trilogy performed by Charles Ross</a>. The Force is strong with this one. Last night I was there as &#8220;press,&#8221; but I had independently <a href="http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/229636/">bought tickets</a> for Thursday night and I&#8217;m thinking about going again, it was pretty entertaining. Afterward I was able to interview Charles for a few minutes, and <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=-20beuY8O1c">Glenda has uploaded a video of the interview to Youtube</a>. (Warning: Low light.)</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:54:09 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:599:"<p>Last night I saw the <a href="http://www.onemanstarwars.com/index2.html">One Man Star Wars Trilogy performed by Charles Ross</a>. The Force is strong with this one. Last night I was there as &#8220;press,&#8221; but I had independently <a href="http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/229636/">bought tickets</a> for Thursday night and I&#8217;m thinking about going again, it was pretty entertaining. Afterward I was able to interview Charles for a few minutes, and <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=-20beuY8O1c">Glenda has uploaded a video of the interview to Youtube</a>. (Warning: Low light.)</p>";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:44:"Alex King: Link Harvest 1.0 Debug Edition #2";s:4:"guid";s:57:"http://alexking.org/blog/2007/02/28/link-harvest-10-debug";s:4:"link";s:59:"http://alexking.org/blog/2007/02/28/link-harvest-10-debug-2";s:11:"description";s:2046:"<p>The logs coming in from the <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2007/02/27/link-harvest-10-debug">Link Harvest debug edition I released last night</a> haven&#8217;t shown me anything conclusive yet.</p>
<p>Current hunches for the issue include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Script timing out.</li>
<li>Bad Behavior blocking things.</li>
<li>Plugin incompatibility.</li>
<li>Certain media types causing trouble (a link to an MP3 file for example).</li>
<li>PHP version incompatibility.</li>
</ul>
<p>I&#8217;ve put up a new version of Link Harvest with more debug logging added. If you&#8217;re having trouble with Link Harvest not completing the initial harvest, try this version.</p>
<p><a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress/plugins/link-harvest-debug.zip">Download it here</a>, see the install instructions <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2007/02/27/link-harvest-10-debug">here</a>, and <a href="http://alexking.org/contact">send me the resulting log file</a>.
<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://alexking.org/?p=2760&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_2760" class="akst_share_link" rel="noindex">Share This</a></p>

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<p>Current hunches for the issue include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Script timing out.</li>
<li>Bad Behavior blocking things.</li>
<li>Plugin incompatibility.</li>
<li>Certain media types causing trouble (a link to an MP3 file for example).</li>
<li>PHP version incompatibility.</li>
</ul>
<p>I&#8217;ve put up a new version of Link Harvest with more debug logging added. If you&#8217;re having trouble with Link Harvest not completing the initial harvest, try this version.</p>
<p><a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress/plugins/link-harvest-debug.zip">Download it here</a>, see the install instructions <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2007/02/27/link-harvest-10-debug">here</a>, and <a href="http://alexking.org/contact">send me the resulting log file</a>.
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	-->";}i:25;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:42:"Weblog Tools Collection: For Theme Authors";s:4:"guid";s:71:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/02/28/for-theme-authors/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/97293133/";s:11:"description";s:5324:"<p>My primary responsibility out here at <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/">Weblog Tools Collection</a> is to keep a close eye on WordPress plugin and theme releases.</p>
<p>One of the places I check regularly for theme releases is the <a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/">WordPress Theme Viewer</a>. I also keep track of updates via <a href="http://alerts.google.com/">Google Alerts</a> and more importantly <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/">our News section</a>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve lost track of the number of themes that I have downloaded, read about and previewed.</p>
<p>While doing this, I have observed several different methods of promotion and distribution of themes by their authors; some highly effective and some so bad that I have had no option but to ignore the release.</p>
<p>This <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Designing_Themes_for_Public_Release">WordPress Codex page</a> has an indepth explanation on starting off with themes for public release to promoting them and is a recommended read.</p>
<p>In this post I hope to address a few points that every theme author should consider when releasing a public theme.</p>
<h3>The Theme Page</h3>
<p>What use is a theme if nobody knows where to get it from? One of the most important elements in marketing your theme is a static page devoted to it.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve seen a lot of theme authors have a single page which will list <em>all their themes</em>. It&#8217;s good if you have a single, but what if you release two, or maybe five or maybe fifty?</p>
<p>Do you want your visitor to download your theme quickly or search through the list to find it?</p>
<p>One practice I follow is to make a seperate page for each <a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/">theme and plugin I create</a>. </p>
<h4>Contents of a Theme page</h4>
<p>The theme page could contain the following:</p>
<ol>
<li>Short description of the theme</li>
<li>Features</li>
<li>Screenshot or a Link to a live preview (I prefer the latter)</li>
<li>Download Link</li>
<li>Changelog</li>
<li>Known Bugs</li>
<li>Things you can do with the theme. This should preferably be a list of links to different posts that explain in detail</li>
<li>Support Information. Make sure you specify how a theme user should contact you if you are offering support. If you are not, make this clear.</li>
</ol>
<h4>How a theme page helps</h4>
<p>For one, it provides a quick and easy way for people to link to your theme, find the theme etc.<br />
It also works well with search engines as it normally becomes the top result if someone is searching for your theme.</p>
<p>Additionally, the page is timeless, unlike posts, especially if you have a permalink structure with the date in it.</p>
<h3>Individual Posts</h3>
<p>As I mentioned above, the theme should be on a static page. However, you should use individual posts to market the theme.</p>
<p>Posts should be used for theme releases and updates. It should also be used to highlight things you can do with the theme, e.g. if your theme has a custom header image support, then a post explaining how to change the header will be in order.</p>
<p>Posts also appear in your feeds by default and if someone is subscribed, he/she will be able to keep track of your development.</p>
<h3>Effectively using the WordPress Theme Viewer</h3>
<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/">The Theme Viewer</a> should be the first place where you should be getting your theme listed. It&#8217;s one place many people, including us at WLTC, track new themes.</p>
<p>However, this should not be your <em>only</em> place. The theme page belongs to your blog, not to some other site.</p>
<p>Another point I noticed with the theme viewer is that though you get a link back to your site, you don&#8217;t have a link to your theme page. However, they do allow you HTML in the post.</p>
<p>When writing a description, include the name of your theme and link that to the theme page you created. Also, a good detailed description with features works well, especially for those reading via RSS where categories are not visible.</p>
<h3>Make the contents of your theme clear</h3>
<p>I&#8217;ve recently been reading about the controversy surrounding sponsored links in a theme. While some authors are for this, others are against.<br />
Hence, if you are including paid links into the footer, make it clear to those who are downloading that these are present. Also make it clear if you need them to be there, because if you have an open license, the user is free to modify your theme and remove these links.</p>
<p>While you don&#8217;t have to account for each and every file in your theme folder, it helps if you have an explanation for a few critical ones. e.g. if you have an Archives template, let your visitor know.</p>
<h3>Summary</h3>
<p>To sum up:</p>
<ul>
<li>Create a page for your theme</li>
<li>Use individual posts for theme updates and other information related to your theme</li>
<li>Use the Theme Viewer effectively</li>
<li>Make the contents of your theme clear</li>
</ul>
<p>Do you have any other tips that you would like to share?<br />
If you are a theme author, what have you done to effectively spread the word about your theme. Have you posted your theme in our <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/">News</a> forum?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:15:13 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:5324:"<p>My primary responsibility out here at <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/">Weblog Tools Collection</a> is to keep a close eye on WordPress plugin and theme releases.</p>
<p>One of the places I check regularly for theme releases is the <a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/">WordPress Theme Viewer</a>. I also keep track of updates via <a href="http://alerts.google.com/">Google Alerts</a> and more importantly <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/">our News section</a>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve lost track of the number of themes that I have downloaded, read about and previewed.</p>
<p>While doing this, I have observed several different methods of promotion and distribution of themes by their authors; some highly effective and some so bad that I have had no option but to ignore the release.</p>
<p>This <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Designing_Themes_for_Public_Release">WordPress Codex page</a> has an indepth explanation on starting off with themes for public release to promoting them and is a recommended read.</p>
<p>In this post I hope to address a few points that every theme author should consider when releasing a public theme.</p>
<h3>The Theme Page</h3>
<p>What use is a theme if nobody knows where to get it from? One of the most important elements in marketing your theme is a static page devoted to it.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve seen a lot of theme authors have a single page which will list <em>all their themes</em>. It&#8217;s good if you have a single, but what if you release two, or maybe five or maybe fifty?</p>
<p>Do you want your visitor to download your theme quickly or search through the list to find it?</p>
<p>One practice I follow is to make a seperate page for each <a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/">theme and plugin I create</a>. </p>
<h4>Contents of a Theme page</h4>
<p>The theme page could contain the following:</p>
<ol>
<li>Short description of the theme</li>
<li>Features</li>
<li>Screenshot or a Link to a live preview (I prefer the latter)</li>
<li>Download Link</li>
<li>Changelog</li>
<li>Known Bugs</li>
<li>Things you can do with the theme. This should preferably be a list of links to different posts that explain in detail</li>
<li>Support Information. Make sure you specify how a theme user should contact you if you are offering support. If you are not, make this clear.</li>
</ol>
<h4>How a theme page helps</h4>
<p>For one, it provides a quick and easy way for people to link to your theme, find the theme etc.<br />
It also works well with search engines as it normally becomes the top result if someone is searching for your theme.</p>
<p>Additionally, the page is timeless, unlike posts, especially if you have a permalink structure with the date in it.</p>
<h3>Individual Posts</h3>
<p>As I mentioned above, the theme should be on a static page. However, you should use individual posts to market the theme.</p>
<p>Posts should be used for theme releases and updates. It should also be used to highlight things you can do with the theme, e.g. if your theme has a custom header image support, then a post explaining how to change the header will be in order.</p>
<p>Posts also appear in your feeds by default and if someone is subscribed, he/she will be able to keep track of your development.</p>
<h3>Effectively using the WordPress Theme Viewer</h3>
<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/">The Theme Viewer</a> should be the first place where you should be getting your theme listed. It&#8217;s one place many people, including us at WLTC, track new themes.</p>
<p>However, this should not be your <em>only</em> place. The theme page belongs to your blog, not to some other site.</p>
<p>Another point I noticed with the theme viewer is that though you get a link back to your site, you don&#8217;t have a link to your theme page. However, they do allow you HTML in the post.</p>
<p>When writing a description, include the name of your theme and link that to the theme page you created. Also, a good detailed description with features works well, especially for those reading via RSS where categories are not visible.</p>
<h3>Make the contents of your theme clear</h3>
<p>I&#8217;ve recently been reading about the controversy surrounding sponsored links in a theme. While some authors are for this, others are against.<br />
Hence, if you are including paid links into the footer, make it clear to those who are downloading that these are present. Also make it clear if you need them to be there, because if you have an open license, the user is free to modify your theme and remove these links.</p>
<p>While you don&#8217;t have to account for each and every file in your theme folder, it helps if you have an explanation for a few critical ones. e.g. if you have an Archives template, let your visitor know.</p>
<h3>Summary</h3>
<p>To sum up:</p>
<ul>
<li>Create a page for your theme</li>
<li>Use individual posts for theme updates and other information related to your theme</li>
<li>Use the Theme Viewer effectively</li>
<li>Make the contents of your theme clear</li>
</ul>
<p>Do you have any other tips that you would like to share?<br />
If you are a theme author, what have you done to effectively spread the word about your theme. Have you posted your theme in our <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/">News</a> forum?</p>";}i:26;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:15:"Matt: Podcast 8";s:4:"guid";s:42:"http://photomatt.net/2007/02/28/podcast-8/";s:4:"link";s:42:"http://photomatt.net/2007/02/28/podcast-8/";s:11:"description";s:337:"<p><a href="http://photomatt.net/dropbox/2007/02/photomatt-podcast-8.mp3">Podcast #8, which I mistakenly call #7</a>, includes comments on podcasting, wallets, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID">chipping</a>, McDonalds, and Microsoft Office 2007. Hopefully this one shouldn&#8217;t sound all chipmunk in flash players. 3:30.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:18:07 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:337:"<p><a href="http://photomatt.net/dropbox/2007/02/photomatt-podcast-8.mp3">Podcast #8, which I mistakenly call #7</a>, includes comments on podcasting, wallets, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID">chipping</a>, McDonalds, and Microsoft Office 2007. Hopefully this one shouldn&#8217;t sound all chipmunk in flash players. 3:30.</p>";}i:27;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 2/28";s:4:"guid";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/02/28/wordpress-theme-releases-for-228/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/97158028/";s:11:"description";s:841:"<p><a href="http://srinig.com/2007/02/27/wordpress-theme-evanescence-1_0/">Evanescence</a> is a neat looking theme with two column fluid width layout and a widget ready right hand sidebar.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.zeebob.com/wordpress-themes/">Black-N-White</a> is two column, widget ready theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1647/cgreen/">cgreen</a> are two column, widget ready themes <a href="http://www.headsetoptions.org/">Headsetoptions</a> and <a href="http://www.mandarinmusing.com/">MandarinMusing</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://themey.com/wood-wordpress-theme/">Wood</a> is a two column, widget ready theme with a wood background.</p>
<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1679/rockinbiz-1/">RockinBiz</a> is a clean and sleek theme designed for business blogs and websites. </p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:30:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:841:"<p><a href="http://srinig.com/2007/02/27/wordpress-theme-evanescence-1_0/">Evanescence</a> is a neat looking theme with two column fluid width layout and a widget ready right hand sidebar.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.zeebob.com/wordpress-themes/">Black-N-White</a> is two column, widget ready theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1647/cgreen/">cgreen</a> are two column, widget ready themes <a href="http://www.headsetoptions.org/">Headsetoptions</a> and <a href="http://www.mandarinmusing.com/">MandarinMusing</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://themey.com/wood-wordpress-theme/">Wood</a> is a two column, widget ready theme with a wood background.</p>
<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1679/rockinbiz-1/">RockinBiz</a> is a clean and sleek theme designed for business blogs and websites. </p>";}i:28;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 2/28";s:4:"guid";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/02/28/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-228/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/97147267/";s:11:"description";s:1491:"<p><a href="http://fortes.com/projects/wordpress/top-level-cats/">Top Level Categories</a> allows you to remove the prefix before the URL to your category pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://fuenteria.net/2007/02/27/cardioblog/">Cardioblog</a> it is a simple plugin for wordpress who shows in a graph of bars the whole of post writings in the month in course.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.2diabolos.com/blog/plugins-pour-wordpress/plugin-import_wordpress/">import_wordpress</a> allows you to import posts and linked files from a WordPress site to another WordPress site.</p>
<p><a href="http://gh3.ellequadro.net/my-works/babel/">babel</a> allows you to write your blog in multilanguage, and switch between these with a simple click on a flag.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.urbangiraffe.com/plugins/headspace2">HeadSpace2</a> allows you to add meta-data to your posts, pages, search results, archives, and categories. Meta data is added via a GUI, or can be automatically extracted from post content. Also allows modification to page titles, blog name, and per-post themes.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cimatti.it/blog/2007/02/12/cimy-user-extra-fields-for-wordpress-21/">Cimy User Extra Fields</a> lets administrators add extra user fields for additional user details.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.murraywilliams.com/software/word-count-plugin-for-wordpress/">MTW Word Count Counts</a> words in a post, making it possible to display that word count on a page (along with date, author, category, etc.).</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:15:19 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1491:"<p><a href="http://fortes.com/projects/wordpress/top-level-cats/">Top Level Categories</a> allows you to remove the prefix before the URL to your category pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://fuenteria.net/2007/02/27/cardioblog/">Cardioblog</a> it is a simple plugin for wordpress who shows in a graph of bars the whole of post writings in the month in course.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.2diabolos.com/blog/plugins-pour-wordpress/plugin-import_wordpress/">import_wordpress</a> allows you to import posts and linked files from a WordPress site to another WordPress site.</p>
<p><a href="http://gh3.ellequadro.net/my-works/babel/">babel</a> allows you to write your blog in multilanguage, and switch between these with a simple click on a flag.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.urbangiraffe.com/plugins/headspace2">HeadSpace2</a> allows you to add meta-data to your posts, pages, search results, archives, and categories. Meta data is added via a GUI, or can be automatically extracted from post content. Also allows modification to page titles, blog name, and per-post themes.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cimatti.it/blog/2007/02/12/cimy-user-extra-fields-for-wordpress-21/">Cimy User Extra Fields</a> lets administrators add extra user fields for additional user details.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.murraywilliams.com/software/word-count-plugin-for-wordpress/">MTW Word Count Counts</a> words in a post, making it possible to display that word count on a page (along with date, author, category, etc.).</p>";}i:29;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:41:"Alex King: Link Harvest 1.0 Debug Edition";s:4:"guid";s:57:"http://alexking.org/blog/2007/02/27/link-harvest-10-debug";s:4:"link";s:57:"http://alexking.org/blog/2007/02/27/link-harvest-10-debug";s:11:"description";s:2550:"<p>Some folks are <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/107866?replies=10" rel="external">having trouble with my Link Harvest plugin not harvesting all their links</a>. Since it works fine on all my test machines, I&#8217;ve added some logging to a special version to hopefully discover why it isn&#8217;t working for them.</p>
<p>To use this special debugging version you need to follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Install the plugin using the steps in the README.</li>
<li>Create a aklh_log.txt file in your wp-content/plugins directory.</li>
<li>Make the aklh_log.txt file writeable by your web server.</li>
</ol>
<p>Now run enable the Link Harvest plugin and run it as described in the README - it will log actions to the file you created. Hopefully the log file will contain useful information to fix whatever is causing it to fail for some folks. </p>
<p>If you want to turn off the logging, open the link-harvest.php file in a text editor and change:</p>
<div class="code"><code>@define('AKLH_DEBUG', true);</code></div>
<p>to:</p>
<div class="code"><code>@define('AKLH_DEBUG', false);</code></div>
<p>on line 29.</p>
<p>Once you&#8217;ve generated a log from a failed harvest, <a href="http://alexking.org/contact">let me know</a> and we&#8217;ll work from there.</p>
<p>You can <a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress/plugins/link-harvest-debug.zip">download the debug version here</a>. This link will be dead when the debugging work is done.
<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://alexking.org/?p=2759&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_2759" class="akst_share_link" rel="noindex">Share This</a></p>

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<p>To use this special debugging version you need to follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Install the plugin using the steps in the README.</li>
<li>Create a aklh_log.txt file in your wp-content/plugins directory.</li>
<li>Make the aklh_log.txt file writeable by your web server.</li>
</ol>
<p>Now run enable the Link Harvest plugin and run it as described in the README - it will log actions to the file you created. Hopefully the log file will contain useful information to fix whatever is causing it to fail for some folks. </p>
<p>If you want to turn off the logging, open the link-harvest.php file in a text editor and change:</p>
<div class="code"><code>@define('AKLH_DEBUG', true);</code></div>
<p>to:</p>
<div class="code"><code>@define('AKLH_DEBUG', false);</code></div>
<p>on line 29.</p>
<p>Once you&#8217;ve generated a log from a failed harvest, <a href="http://alexking.org/contact">let me know</a> and we&#8217;ll work from there.</p>
<p>You can <a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress/plugins/link-harvest-debug.zip">download the debug version here</a>. This link will be dead when the debugging work is done.
<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://alexking.org/?p=2759&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_2759" class="akst_share_link" rel="noindex">Share This</a></p>

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<p><em>Inspired by <a href="http://zeo.unic.net.my/notes/most-amazing-wordpress-tip-youll-ever-read-in-your-life/">Zeo</a> who was in turn inspired by <a href="http://warpspire.com/journal/web-production/most-amazing-css-tip-youll-ever-read-in-your-life/">Warpspire</a>.<br />
</em></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:00:23 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:484:"<p><strong>Build more Wordpress blogs. </strong>I tend to shy away from &#8220;me too&#8221; posts but I have to agree with this one. The more you Dive Into Wordpress, the better you get at it.</p>
<p><em>Inspired by <a href="http://zeo.unic.net.my/notes/most-amazing-wordpress-tip-youll-ever-read-in-your-life/">Zeo</a> who was in turn inspired by <a href="http://warpspire.com/journal/web-production/most-amazing-css-tip-youll-ever-read-in-your-life/">Warpspire</a>.<br />
</em></p>";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:57:"Donncha: Catch it if you can! WordPress mu 1.1.1 escaped!";s:4:"guid";s:74:"http://ocaoimh.ie/2007/02/27/catch-it-if-you-can-wordpress-mu-111-escaped/";s:4:"link";s:74:"http://ocaoimh.ie/2007/02/27/catch-it-if-you-can-wordpress-mu-111-escaped/";s:11:"description";s:1708:"<p>Despite my best efforts to put off releasing WordPress mu 1.1.1 for another day it slipped through my fingers, tarred and zipped itself into neat bundles on the <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/download/">download page</a> and screamed at all and sundry that it was free.</p>
<p>So, go on! <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/download/">Download</a> and enjoy. As always, try it on your development servers before pushing it live, just to make sure it doesn&#8217;t conflict with anything else you&#8217;ve installed. We&#8217;re tracking the development version of WordPress itself so any new features that you see there will be in WordPress mu too. And if you haven&#8217;t looked before, the <a href="http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/timeline">mu timeline</a> will give you a good idea of what&#8217;s changed recently.</p>
<p>Some highlights:
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/">PHPMailer</a> is now used for email delivery. Once you configure it to use a local smtp server email literally flies out the door.</li>
<li> &#8220;No Options&#8221; are saved. Well, WPMU already had something like this for storing false option values but now it&#8217;s much better. Thanks <a href="http://boren.nu/">Ryan</a> for fixing that in MU.</li>
<li> Ryan&#8217;s <a href="http://boren.nu/archives/2007/02/25/in-the-trunk-2/">In The Trunk</a> post has a pretty good list of the new features you can expect in this release.</li>
</ul>
<a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/irishblogs/" rel="tag">irishblogs</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/wordpress/" rel="tag">WordPress</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/wordpress-mu/" rel="tag">wordpress mu</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/wpmu/" rel="tag">wpmu</a>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:28:07 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Donncha";}s:7:"summary";s:1708:"<p>Despite my best efforts to put off releasing WordPress mu 1.1.1 for another day it slipped through my fingers, tarred and zipped itself into neat bundles on the <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/download/">download page</a> and screamed at all and sundry that it was free.</p>
<p>So, go on! <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/download/">Download</a> and enjoy. As always, try it on your development servers before pushing it live, just to make sure it doesn&#8217;t conflict with anything else you&#8217;ve installed. We&#8217;re tracking the development version of WordPress itself so any new features that you see there will be in WordPress mu too. And if you haven&#8217;t looked before, the <a href="http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/timeline">mu timeline</a> will give you a good idea of what&#8217;s changed recently.</p>
<p>Some highlights:
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/">PHPMailer</a> is now used for email delivery. Once you configure it to use a local smtp server email literally flies out the door.</li>
<li> &#8220;No Options&#8221; are saved. Well, WPMU already had something like this for storing false option values but now it&#8217;s much better. Thanks <a href="http://boren.nu/">Ryan</a> for fixing that in MU.</li>
<li> Ryan&#8217;s <a href="http://boren.nu/archives/2007/02/25/in-the-trunk-2/">In The Trunk</a> post has a pretty good list of the new features you can expect in this release.</li>
</ul>
<a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/irishblogs/" rel="tag">irishblogs</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/wordpress/" rel="tag">WordPress</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/wordpress-mu/" rel="tag">wordpress mu</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/wpmu/" rel="tag">wpmu</a>";}i:32;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:15:"Akismet: tDiary";s:4:"guid";s:42:"http://blog.akismet.com/2007/02/27/tdiary/";s:4:"link";s:42:"http://blog.akismet.com/2007/02/27/tdiary/";s:11:"description";s:262:"<div class="snap_preview"><p>tDiary is a blog tool famous in Japan, which should become more famous now that <a href="http://sho.tdiary.net/">Tadashi Tada</a> <a href="http://docs.tdiary.org/ja/?akismet.rb">has developed an Akismet library for it</a>.</p>
</div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:29:57 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:262:"<div class="snap_preview"><p>tDiary is a blog tool famous in Japan, which should become more famous now that <a href="http://sho.tdiary.net/">Tadashi Tada</a> <a href="http://docs.tdiary.org/ja/?akismet.rb">has developed an Akismet library for it</a>.</p>
</div>";}i:33;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 2/27";s:4:"guid";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/02/27/wordpress-theme-releases-for-227/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/96672839/";s:11:"description";s:2136:"<p><a href="http://www.gfxedit.com/themes/wordpress/ported-themes/internet-sharing-2-column-wordpress-theme.html">Internet-Sharing</a> is a two column theme with widget support, custom classes and admin configuration based on a template by <a href="http://www.solucija.com/">Solucija</a>.</p>
<p>Themey has released <a href="http://themey.com/apples-wordpress-theme/">Apples</a> and <a href="http://themey.com/reflection-wordpress-theme/">Reflection</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nathanrice.org/2007/02/26/my-first-wordpress-theme/">RockinBlueGreen</a> is a simple, 2-column (right sidebar) theme with rounded corners and a nice blue and green color scheme. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.exguides.org/blog/2007/02/24/techmaniawp-theme-released/">TechmaniaWP</a> is a two column widget ready theme based on a template by <a href="http://www.styleshout.com/">StyleShout</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://tomorrows-laundry.com/2007/02/23/four-blank-wordpress-themes/">Four Blank Wordpress Themes</a> is a set of four templates which contain the CSS needed to position the header, footer, sidebar and main content area. Ideal of those starting off with a new theme design.</p>
<p><a href="http://webgazette.co.uk/web-design/wordpress-themes/wp-multiflex-3/">WP-Multiflex-3</a> is a WordPress theme based on the Multiflex-3 design by <a href="http://1-2-3-4.info/">Wolfgang</a> featuring widgetised sidebars, a widgetised header and is fully prepared for localisation by editing just 1 file.</p>
<p><a href="http://milo.peety-passion.com/2007/02/26/garden-wp-theme/">Garden</a> is a four column Zen style with fluid width, custom header, background and icons and widget support.</p>
<p><a href="http://nothingconcept.com/index.php/coincidence/">Coincidence</a> is a two column fixed width, widget ready theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://themecorp.com/posts/the-green-house-theme/">The Green House</a> is a two column theme based on a template by <a href="http://www.freecsstemplates.org/">Free CSS Templates</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://ignorehim.com/wordpress/darkcash">dark.cash</a> is a dark and simple theme that utilizes a slight glass effect.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:29:18 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2136:"<p><a href="http://www.gfxedit.com/themes/wordpress/ported-themes/internet-sharing-2-column-wordpress-theme.html">Internet-Sharing</a> is a two column theme with widget support, custom classes and admin configuration based on a template by <a href="http://www.solucija.com/">Solucija</a>.</p>
<p>Themey has released <a href="http://themey.com/apples-wordpress-theme/">Apples</a> and <a href="http://themey.com/reflection-wordpress-theme/">Reflection</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nathanrice.org/2007/02/26/my-first-wordpress-theme/">RockinBlueGreen</a> is a simple, 2-column (right sidebar) theme with rounded corners and a nice blue and green color scheme. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.exguides.org/blog/2007/02/24/techmaniawp-theme-released/">TechmaniaWP</a> is a two column widget ready theme based on a template by <a href="http://www.styleshout.com/">StyleShout</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://tomorrows-laundry.com/2007/02/23/four-blank-wordpress-themes/">Four Blank Wordpress Themes</a> is a set of four templates which contain the CSS needed to position the header, footer, sidebar and main content area. Ideal of those starting off with a new theme design.</p>
<p><a href="http://webgazette.co.uk/web-design/wordpress-themes/wp-multiflex-3/">WP-Multiflex-3</a> is a WordPress theme based on the Multiflex-3 design by <a href="http://1-2-3-4.info/">Wolfgang</a> featuring widgetised sidebars, a widgetised header and is fully prepared for localisation by editing just 1 file.</p>
<p><a href="http://milo.peety-passion.com/2007/02/26/garden-wp-theme/">Garden</a> is a four column Zen style with fluid width, custom header, background and icons and widget support.</p>
<p><a href="http://nothingconcept.com/index.php/coincidence/">Coincidence</a> is a two column fixed width, widget ready theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://themecorp.com/posts/the-green-house-theme/">The Green House</a> is a two column theme based on a template by <a href="http://www.freecsstemplates.org/">Free CSS Templates</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://ignorehim.com/wordpress/darkcash">dark.cash</a> is a dark and simple theme that utilizes a slight glass effect.</p>";}i:34;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 2/27";s:4:"guid";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/02/27/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-227/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/96663089/";s:11:"description";s:989:"<p><a href="http://ahlul.web.id/2007/02/25/now-easy-to-upload-your-plugins/">WP Plugin Uploader</a> lets you upload plugins to your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wongkeenhing.com/projects/wp-plugins">WP-ExternalFeed</a> displays links from del.icio.us, Technorati and Reddit that is relevant to the current category of your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://wp-plugins.net/plugin/wpshop/#plugin_895">Wordpress Shop</a> creates a fully featured shopping cart that currently allows paypal as a payment provider.</p>
<p><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2007/02/26/link-harvest-10">Link Harvest</a> is a WordPress plugin that uses the content in your posts and pages to build a links list for you, based on the sites you actually link to.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.johnlawrence.net/index.php/2007/02/12/sociallist-for-wordpress/">SocialList</a> is a Wordpress plugin that adds a page to your admin area allowing you to view details on submissions of your pages to social bookmarking sites.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:15:16 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:989:"<p><a href="http://ahlul.web.id/2007/02/25/now-easy-to-upload-your-plugins/">WP Plugin Uploader</a> lets you upload plugins to your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wongkeenhing.com/projects/wp-plugins">WP-ExternalFeed</a> displays links from del.icio.us, Technorati and Reddit that is relevant to the current category of your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://wp-plugins.net/plugin/wpshop/#plugin_895">Wordpress Shop</a> creates a fully featured shopping cart that currently allows paypal as a payment provider.</p>
<p><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2007/02/26/link-harvest-10">Link Harvest</a> is a WordPress plugin that uses the content in your posts and pages to build a links list for you, based on the sites you actually link to.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.johnlawrence.net/index.php/2007/02/12/sociallist-for-wordpress/">SocialList</a> is a Wordpress plugin that adds a page to your admin area allowing you to view details on submissions of your pages to social bookmarking sites.</p>";}i:35;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:27:"Alex King: Link Harvest 1.0";s:4:"guid";s:51:"http://alexking.org/blog/2007/02/26/link-harvest-10";s:4:"link";s:51:"http://alexking.org/blog/2007/02/26/link-harvest-10";s:11:"description";s:3332:"<p>Link Harvest is a <a href="http://wordpress.org/" rel="external">WordPress</a> plugin that uses the content in your posts and pages to build a links list for you, based on the sites you actually link to. You can see it in action on my <a href="http://alexking.org/links">Links</a> page</p>
<p>I created this to help me better <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2006/11/30/leveraging-your-content">leverage my content</a> as part of my recent <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2006/11/02/building-v2-part1">site redesign</a>. I finally found time to test everything in WordPress 2.0 and 2.1, finish the README, etc. so I could release it.</p>
<p>The initial link harvest can be fairly resource intensive and can take a while as it goes through all of your posts and pages looking for links and processing them. My initial harvest took around 3 hours for about 2000 posts. Future posts are added incrementally and you probably won&#8217;t even notice it.</p>
<p>Link Harvest is a fairly complicated plugin, so I highly recommend reading the README and following the installation steps carefully. If you get really stuck, <a href="http://kingdesign.net/development">I do offer consulting services</a>.</p>
<p>On the technical side, I&#8217;ve recently added special handling support for <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/01/why-i-dont-use-feedburner">FeedBurner redirect URLs</a> and the ability to backfill page titles in the event some pages don&#8217;t load properly during the initial harvest operation. Like my Share This plugin, Link Harvest also uses Prototype for the <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2006/11/13/prototype-size-concerns">reasons I&#8217;ve explained previously</a>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d also like to thank the folks that have sent in a <a href="http://alexking.org/donate">donations</a> to help support all the projects and plugins I make available for free here. Please consider making a donation if you find this stuff useful.</p>
<p>The download is available on my <a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress">WordPress Plugins page</a>.</p>
<p>If you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/" rel="external">WP Support Forums</a> and send me the link.</p>
<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://alexking.org/?p=2541&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_2541" class="akst_share_link" rel="noindex">Share This</a></p>

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<p>I created this to help me better <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2006/11/30/leveraging-your-content">leverage my content</a> as part of my recent <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2006/11/02/building-v2-part1">site redesign</a>. I finally found time to test everything in WordPress 2.0 and 2.1, finish the README, etc. so I could release it.</p>
<p>The initial link harvest can be fairly resource intensive and can take a while as it goes through all of your posts and pages looking for links and processing them. My initial harvest took around 3 hours for about 2000 posts. Future posts are added incrementally and you probably won&#8217;t even notice it.</p>
<p>Link Harvest is a fairly complicated plugin, so I highly recommend reading the README and following the installation steps carefully. If you get really stuck, <a href="http://kingdesign.net/development">I do offer consulting services</a>.</p>
<p>On the technical side, I&#8217;ve recently added special handling support for <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/01/why-i-dont-use-feedburner">FeedBurner redirect URLs</a> and the ability to backfill page titles in the event some pages don&#8217;t load properly during the initial harvest operation. Like my Share This plugin, Link Harvest also uses Prototype for the <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2006/11/13/prototype-size-concerns">reasons I&#8217;ve explained previously</a>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d also like to thank the folks that have sent in a <a href="http://alexking.org/donate">donations</a> to help support all the projects and plugins I make available for free here. Please consider making a donation if you find this stuff useful.</p>
<p>The download is available on my <a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress">WordPress Plugins page</a>.</p>
<p>If you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/" rel="external">WP Support Forums</a> and send me the link.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.mutube.com/projects/wordpress/im-online/">IM Status</a> powered via <a href="http://onlinestatus.org">onlinestatus.org</a> and supporting most IM services including AOL, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Skype, ICQ and IRC.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:30:24 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:412:"<p><a href="http://www.bongard.net/blog/2007/02/25/wordpress-plugin-hide-on-homepage/lang/en/">Hide on Homepage</a> allows you to hide posts on the homepage of your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mutube.com/projects/wordpress/im-online/">IM Status</a> powered via <a href="http://onlinestatus.org">onlinestatus.org</a> and supporting most IM services including AOL, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Skype, ICQ and IRC.</p>";}i:37;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 2/26";s:4:"guid";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/02/26/wordpress-theme-releases-for-226/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/96357426/";s:11:"description";s:790:"<p><a href="http://www.livelydirectory.com/blog/wordpress-theme-surfer.html">Surfer</a> is a two column widget ready theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.heritage-tech.net/wordpress-stuff/#quicklime">Quicklime</a> is a three columned, widget ready theme with a lime green feel to it.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.littleredstar.co.uk/space-theme/">Space Theme</a> is a 2 column theme for Wordpress, using dark colours and transparency effects to achieve an effective mysterious space look.</p>
<p><a href="http://themey.com/credit-cards-wordpress-theme/">Credit Cards</a> is a two column, widget ready Wordpress theme with a right-hand sidebar.</p>
<p>Grab A Theme has released <a href="http://grabatheme.com/grab/fleur">Fleur</a> and <a href="http://grabatheme.com/grab/mawar">Mawar</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:30:24 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:790:"<p><a href="http://www.livelydirectory.com/blog/wordpress-theme-surfer.html">Surfer</a> is a two column widget ready theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.heritage-tech.net/wordpress-stuff/#quicklime">Quicklime</a> is a three columned, widget ready theme with a lime green feel to it.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.littleredstar.co.uk/space-theme/">Space Theme</a> is a 2 column theme for Wordpress, using dark colours and transparency effects to achieve an effective mysterious space look.</p>
<p><a href="http://themey.com/credit-cards-wordpress-theme/">Credit Cards</a> is a two column, widget ready Wordpress theme with a right-hand sidebar.</p>
<p>Grab A Theme has released <a href="http://grabatheme.com/grab/fleur">Fleur</a> and <a href="http://grabatheme.com/grab/mawar">Mawar</a>.</p>";}i:38;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:31:"Weblog Tools Collection: OpenID";s:4:"guid";s:60:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/02/26/openid/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/96322050/";s:11:"description";s:2357:"<p><a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/02/24/OpenID">OpenID</a> According to <a href="http://simonwillison.net/2007/Feb/25/six/">Simon Willison</a>, <em>OpenID is a simple piece of infrastructure on which smart applications can be built</em> and the buzz around OpenID is growing. This idea has been batted around for some time but the consolidation of ideas and a <a href="http://simonwillison.net/2006/Dec/19/openid/">working version</a> of the system really gives it some legitimacy. I still wonder what the uptake rate will be. If you are still wondering what OpenID is and what it can do for you, think of it as a decentralized authentication system much like Microsoft Passport but much less monolithic.</p>
<p>I can still think of various problems (Tim outlines some of those in his post). However, a good use could be in the Wordpress comment moderation system. Since Wordpress allows comments from previously authorized commenters, OpenID could be a way to positively identify a &#8220;valid&#8221; commenter on your blog forever. Of course, if any centralized whitelist type service is introduced in any form, that system could still be poisoned but that would be a weakness of the whitelist and not the OpenID platform. I also fear that since anyone can set themselves up as an OpenID provider, this could lead to a lot of confusion and possible weaknesses in the system. That is a discussion for another day.</p>
<p>At the heart of the OpenID system is the basic premise that only you have control over what shows up on your specified URI. As an example, if you have an LJ account and are setup with an OpenID for that account, you can specify your OpenID URI to login to any website that support OpenID. Once you specify your OpenID URI, you will be redirected to your site which will either ask you to log in or to authorize the website you are visiting to use your identity. (&#8221;no password&#8221; is slightly misleading)</p>
<p>There is already a <a href="http://verselogic.net/projects/wordpress/wordpress-openid-plugin/">lot</a> <a href="http://eran.sandler.co.il/openid-delegate-wordpress-plugin/">of</a> <a href="http://eran.sandler.co.il/openid-delegate-wordpress-plugin/">activity</a> <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=40">with</a> openID in the Wordpress arena. Have you used OpenID yet?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:53:38 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:2357:"<p><a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/02/24/OpenID">OpenID</a> According to <a href="http://simonwillison.net/2007/Feb/25/six/">Simon Willison</a>, <em>OpenID is a simple piece of infrastructure on which smart applications can be built</em> and the buzz around OpenID is growing. This idea has been batted around for some time but the consolidation of ideas and a <a href="http://simonwillison.net/2006/Dec/19/openid/">working version</a> of the system really gives it some legitimacy. I still wonder what the uptake rate will be. If you are still wondering what OpenID is and what it can do for you, think of it as a decentralized authentication system much like Microsoft Passport but much less monolithic.</p>
<p>I can still think of various problems (Tim outlines some of those in his post). However, a good use could be in the Wordpress comment moderation system. Since Wordpress allows comments from previously authorized commenters, OpenID could be a way to positively identify a &#8220;valid&#8221; commenter on your blog forever. Of course, if any centralized whitelist type service is introduced in any form, that system could still be poisoned but that would be a weakness of the whitelist and not the OpenID platform. I also fear that since anyone can set themselves up as an OpenID provider, this could lead to a lot of confusion and possible weaknesses in the system. That is a discussion for another day.</p>
<p>At the heart of the OpenID system is the basic premise that only you have control over what shows up on your specified URI. As an example, if you have an LJ account and are setup with an OpenID for that account, you can specify your OpenID URI to login to any website that support OpenID. Once you specify your OpenID URI, you will be redirected to your site which will either ask you to log in or to authorize the website you are visiting to use your identity. (&#8221;no password&#8221; is slightly misleading)</p>
<p>There is already a <a href="http://verselogic.net/projects/wordpress/wordpress-openid-plugin/">lot</a> <a href="http://eran.sandler.co.il/openid-delegate-wordpress-plugin/">of</a> <a href="http://eran.sandler.co.il/openid-delegate-wordpress-plugin/">activity</a> <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=40">with</a> openID in the Wordpress arena. Have you used OpenID yet?</p>";}i:39;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:26:"Matt: USPS and Speaker.gov";s:4:"guid";s:52:"http://photomatt.net/2007/02/26/usps-and-speakergov/";s:4:"link";s:52:"http://photomatt.net/2007/02/26/usps-and-speakergov/";s:11:"description";s:682:"<p>Jim Amos just wrote in that Campbell-Ewald launched a new WordPress-powered site for the US Postal Service, called <a href="http://delivermagazine.com/">Deliver Magazine</a>. Congrats to Jim and <a href="http://blog.detlog.org/">Naoko McCracken</a>! Ryan noticed the other day that Nancy Pelosi has <a href="http://speaker.gov/blog/">a WordPress blog at Speaker.gov called The Gavel</a>. Cool domain name, and good to see WP being used in the political realm, especially since none of the Presidential candidates for 2008 are using WP (yet). If you come across or instigate WordPress being used someplace cool, be sure to <a href="http://photomatt.net/contact/">write in</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 26 Feb 2007 07:26:10 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:682:"<p>Jim Amos just wrote in that Campbell-Ewald launched a new WordPress-powered site for the US Postal Service, called <a href="http://delivermagazine.com/">Deliver Magazine</a>. Congrats to Jim and <a href="http://blog.detlog.org/">Naoko McCracken</a>! Ryan noticed the other day that Nancy Pelosi has <a href="http://speaker.gov/blog/">a WordPress blog at Speaker.gov called The Gavel</a>. Cool domain name, and good to see WP being used in the political realm, especially since none of the Presidential candidates for 2008 are using WP (yet). If you come across or instigate WordPress being used someplace cool, be sure to <a href="http://photomatt.net/contact/">write in</a>.</p>";}i:40;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:24:"Ryan Boren: In the Trunk";s:4:"guid";s:51:"http://boren.nu/archives/2007/02/25/in-the-trunk-2/";s:4:"link";s:51:"http://boren.nu/archives/2007/02/25/in-the-trunk-2/";s:11:"description";s:1125:"<p>Here&#8217;s another update on the latest in <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> development.  The following features and enhancements were recently committed to trunk.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/02/06/new-blogger-importer/">New Blogger importer</a></li>
<li>More Atom Publishing Protocol updates</li>
<li>Atom 1.0 comment feeds</li>
<li>Proper Atom enclosures</li>
<li>Comment feeds everywhere.  For example, <a href="http://boren.nu/archives/category/wordpress/feed/?withcomments=1">feed for comments on posts in the WordPress category</a></li>
<li>Beginnings of conversion to <a href="http://jquery.com/">jQuery</a></li>
<li>More XML-RPC API enhancements</li>
<li><a href="http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/">PHPMailer</a> integration for better header encoding and SMTP support</li>
<li>Upgraded Mail Fetch class from <a href="http://www.squirrelmail.org/">SquirrelMail</a></li>
<li>Lots of bug fixes</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/timeline">Trac</a> is hopping. We have more people contributing to core WP development than ever.  2.2 is shaping up very nicely.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:07:31 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ryan";}s:7:"summary";s:1125:"<p>Here&#8217;s another update on the latest in <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> development.  The following features and enhancements were recently committed to trunk.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/02/06/new-blogger-importer/">New Blogger importer</a></li>
<li>More Atom Publishing Protocol updates</li>
<li>Atom 1.0 comment feeds</li>
<li>Proper Atom enclosures</li>
<li>Comment feeds everywhere.  For example, <a href="http://boren.nu/archives/category/wordpress/feed/?withcomments=1">feed for comments on posts in the WordPress category</a></li>
<li>Beginnings of conversion to <a href="http://jquery.com/">jQuery</a></li>
<li>More XML-RPC API enhancements</li>
<li><a href="http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/">PHPMailer</a> integration for better header encoding and SMTP support</li>
<li>Upgraded Mail Fetch class from <a href="http://www.squirrelmail.org/">SquirrelMail</a></li>
<li>Lots of bug fixes</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/timeline">Trac</a> is hopping. We have more people contributing to core WP development than ever.  2.2 is shaping up very nicely.</p>";}i:41;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:50:"Donncha: WP plugin: Flickr Blog This to draft post";s:4:"guid";s:70:"http://ocaoimh.ie/2007/02/25/wp-plugin-flickr-blog-this-to-draft-post/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://ocaoimh.ie/2007/02/25/wp-plugin-flickr-blog-this-to-draft-post/";s:11:"description";s:1189:"<p>Have you ever been annoyed when you blog a photo from Flickr and you wished the post had been saved as a draft instead of being published?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve used Flickr to host the images on <a href="http://inphotos.org/">my photoblog</a> from the first post there but <a href="http://inphotos.org/flickr-blog-this-to-draft/">this plugin</a> should make it easier and less stressful to use. Every time I publish a photo through Flickr I have to rush to resave the post as a draft post before anyone notices all the extra line breaks or broken links. Add to that, I tag and categorise the post and it&#8217;s a frantic few minutes of editing.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://inphotos.org/flickr-blog-this-to-draft/">Flickr Blog This to Draft</a> plugin for WordPress simply stops the publishing of blog posts from Flickr and saves them as draft posts.</p>
<a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/blogging/" rel="tag">blogging</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/flickr/" rel="tag">flickr</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/irishblogs/" rel="tag">irishblogs</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/photography/" rel="tag">Photography</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/wordpress/" rel="tag">WordPress</a>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:36:44 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Donncha";}s:7:"summary";s:1189:"<p>Have you ever been annoyed when you blog a photo from Flickr and you wished the post had been saved as a draft instead of being published?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve used Flickr to host the images on <a href="http://inphotos.org/">my photoblog</a> from the first post there but <a href="http://inphotos.org/flickr-blog-this-to-draft/">this plugin</a> should make it easier and less stressful to use. Every time I publish a photo through Flickr I have to rush to resave the post as a draft post before anyone notices all the extra line breaks or broken links. Add to that, I tag and categorise the post and it&#8217;s a frantic few minutes of editing.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://inphotos.org/flickr-blog-this-to-draft/">Flickr Blog This to Draft</a> plugin for WordPress simply stops the publishing of blog posts from Flickr and saves them as draft posts.</p>
<a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/blogging/" rel="tag">blogging</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/flickr/" rel="tag">flickr</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/irishblogs/" rel="tag">irishblogs</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/photography/" rel="tag">Photography</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/wordpress/" rel="tag">WordPress</a>";}i:42;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:89:"WordPress Podcast: Episode 19: WordPress 2.1 & 2.2, Gravatar 2.0, Matt Mullenweg podcasts";s:4:"guid";s:98:"http://wp-community.org/2007/02/24/episode-19-wordpress-21-22-gravatar-20-matt-mullenweg-podcasts/";s:4:"link";s:98:"http://wp-community.org/2007/02/24/episode-19-wordpress-21-22-gravatar-20-matt-mullenweg-podcasts/";s:11:"description";s:4366:"<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4">
<tr>
<td valign="top">03:03</td>
<td valign="top">
News: <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/ella-21/">WordPress 2.1 is released</a> and although it&#8217;s generally been warmly received, <a href="http://technosailor.com/wordpress-21-gotchas/">some people are having problems upgrading</a>. There&#8217;s also <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2007/02/14/wordpress-wednesday-easter-eggs-editor-extras-wordpress-plugins-and-more-wordpress-21/">a neat Easter egg</a> that gives you more editing options. Also, <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/view.php?view=not_voted">you get to suggest and vote on changes</a> to include in version 2.2, due to be released April 23rd, as well as <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/kvetch/">kvetch</a> about anything WordPress that gives you heartburn.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">12:34</td>
<td valign="top">
News: <a href="http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/02/06/new-blogger-importer/">WordPress.com gets the Blogger Import tool</a> first, WordPress.org users have to wait until WordPress 2.2.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">13:40</td>
<td valign="top">
News: <a href="http://blog.gravatar.com/">Gravatar 2.0</a> was released on Feb 15th, and has new premium member model that allows unlimited emails per account and unlimited gravatars, costing $10 a year.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">16:12</td>
<td valign="top">
News: <a href="http://photomatt.net">Matt Mullenweg</a> has begun <a href="http://photomatt.net/category/podcast/">his own podcast</a>. It started out rough&#8230; but it&#8217;s actually worth a listen.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">18:37</td>
<td valign="top">
News: WordPress.com recently announced <a href="http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/02/17/math-for-the-masses/">Latex functionality</a>.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">19:50</td>
<td valign="top">
Plug-in: <a href="http://bitbybit.wordpress.com/code/wordpress/plugins/admin-theme-preview/">Admin Theme Preview</a> allows you to preview how a theme is going to look on your blog without making it publicly active.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">21:03</td>
<td valign="top">
Plug-in: With <a href="http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/permalinks-migration-plugin/">Permalinks Migration</a>, you can safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your blog.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">22:30</td>
<td valign="top">
Plug-in: <a href="http://www.macalua.com/2007/02/01/top-posts-by-category-plugin/">Top Posts by Category</a> allows WordPress bloggers to feature their best posts, as determined by the number of visits to the post or number of comments and sorted by category.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">24:05</td>
<td valign="top">
Feedback: Jeff asks for more information on <a href="http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/">PodPress</a>, the plug-in we use to publish our podcast, as well as provide a Flash player so listeners may listen right here on the blog.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">25:26</td>
<td valign="top">
Feedback: Blog Columnist Martin Neumann loves the WordPress Podcast so much he even wrote <a href="http://www.theblogcolumnist.com/the-wordpress-podcast-its-all-good-jazz/">a blog post extolling its virtues</a>. (I&#8217;m not really monotone, am I?!)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">28:35</td>
<td valign="top">
Feedback: <a href="http://binarybonsai.com/">Michael Heilemann</a> gives his unique perspective on <a href="http://habariproject.org/">Habari</a> as well as his involvement with both it and <a href="http://binarybonsai.com/wordpress/">WordPress</a>.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">33:07</td>
<td valign="top">
Feedback: <a href="http://www.leliathomas.com">Lelia Katherine Thomas</a> doesn&#8217;t understand why people are upset over Habari, anyway. (I apologize for mispronouncing your name, Lelia. :oops:)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">33:44</td>
<td valign="top">
Feedback: <a href="http://www.i-jeriko.de/">Jeriko One</a> corrects a misstatement <a href="http://www.bloggingpro.com/">David</a> made about his <a href="http://www.i-jeriko.de/wordpress-plugin-feed-with-comments/">Feed with Comments Plug-in</a>.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br /><a href="http://wp-community.org/wp/podpress_trac/web/42/0/wordpress-podcast-019.mp3">Download Standard Podcast</a><br /><br />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 25 Feb 2007 03:35:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Charles";}s:7:"summary";s:4366:"<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4">
<tr>
<td valign="top">03:03</td>
<td valign="top">
News: <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/ella-21/">WordPress 2.1 is released</a> and although it&#8217;s generally been warmly received, <a href="http://technosailor.com/wordpress-21-gotchas/">some people are having problems upgrading</a>. There&#8217;s also <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2007/02/14/wordpress-wednesday-easter-eggs-editor-extras-wordpress-plugins-and-more-wordpress-21/">a neat Easter egg</a> that gives you more editing options. Also, <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/view.php?view=not_voted">you get to suggest and vote on changes</a> to include in version 2.2, due to be released April 23rd, as well as <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/kvetch/">kvetch</a> about anything WordPress that gives you heartburn.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">12:34</td>
<td valign="top">
News: <a href="http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/02/06/new-blogger-importer/">WordPress.com gets the Blogger Import tool</a> first, WordPress.org users have to wait until WordPress 2.2.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">13:40</td>
<td valign="top">
News: <a href="http://blog.gravatar.com/">Gravatar 2.0</a> was released on Feb 15th, and has new premium member model that allows unlimited emails per account and unlimited gravatars, costing $10 a year.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">16:12</td>
<td valign="top">
News: <a href="http://photomatt.net">Matt Mullenweg</a> has begun <a href="http://photomatt.net/category/podcast/">his own podcast</a>. It started out rough&#8230; but it&#8217;s actually worth a listen.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">18:37</td>
<td valign="top">
News: WordPress.com recently announced <a href="http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/02/17/math-for-the-masses/">Latex functionality</a>.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">19:50</td>
<td valign="top">
Plug-in: <a href="http://bitbybit.wordpress.com/code/wordpress/plugins/admin-theme-preview/">Admin Theme Preview</a> allows you to preview how a theme is going to look on your blog without making it publicly active.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">21:03</td>
<td valign="top">
Plug-in: With <a href="http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/permalinks-migration-plugin/">Permalinks Migration</a>, you can safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your blog.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">22:30</td>
<td valign="top">
Plug-in: <a href="http://www.macalua.com/2007/02/01/top-posts-by-category-plugin/">Top Posts by Category</a> allows WordPress bloggers to feature their best posts, as determined by the number of visits to the post or number of comments and sorted by category.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">24:05</td>
<td valign="top">
Feedback: Jeff asks for more information on <a href="http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/">PodPress</a>, the plug-in we use to publish our podcast, as well as provide a Flash player so listeners may listen right here on the blog.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">25:26</td>
<td valign="top">
Feedback: Blog Columnist Martin Neumann loves the WordPress Podcast so much he even wrote <a href="http://www.theblogcolumnist.com/the-wordpress-podcast-its-all-good-jazz/">a blog post extolling its virtues</a>. (I&#8217;m not really monotone, am I?!)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">28:35</td>
<td valign="top">
Feedback: <a href="http://binarybonsai.com/">Michael Heilemann</a> gives his unique perspective on <a href="http://habariproject.org/">Habari</a> as well as his involvement with both it and <a href="http://binarybonsai.com/wordpress/">WordPress</a>.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">33:07</td>
<td valign="top">
Feedback: <a href="http://www.leliathomas.com">Lelia Katherine Thomas</a> doesn&#8217;t understand why people are upset over Habari, anyway. (I apologize for mispronouncing your name, Lelia. :oops:)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">33:44</td>
<td valign="top">
Feedback: <a href="http://www.i-jeriko.de/">Jeriko One</a> corrects a misstatement <a href="http://www.bloggingpro.com/">David</a> made about his <a href="http://www.i-jeriko.de/wordpress-plugin-feed-with-comments/">Feed with Comments Plug-in</a>.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br /><a href="http://wp-community.org/wp/podpress_trac/web/42/0/wordpress-podcast-019.mp3">Download Standard Podcast</a><br /><br />";}i:43;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:55:"Lorelle on WP: Digg This Feature on WordPress.com Blogs";s:4:"guid";s:80:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/24/digg-this-feature-on-wordpresscom-blogs/";s:4:"link";s:80:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/24/digg-this-feature-on-wordpresscom-blogs/";s:11:"description";s:385:"One of the consistently most requested add-on features for WordPress.com bloggers has been adding a Digg This style button to their blogs. It&#8217;s now here.
There are great step-by-step illustrated instructions on the WordPress.com FAQ called &#8220;How Do I Digg&#8221;, but basically they are:

Register with Digg.
Publish your post.
Search Digg to find if it has been dugg, [...]";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:11:50 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:17:"Lorelle VanFossen";}s:7:"summary";s:385:"One of the consistently most requested add-on features for WordPress.com bloggers has been adding a Digg This style button to their blogs. It&#8217;s now here.
There are great step-by-step illustrated instructions on the WordPress.com FAQ called &#8220;How Do I Digg&#8221;, but basically they are:

Register with Digg.
Publish your post.
Search Digg to find if it has been dugg, [...]";}i:44;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:62:"Weblog Tools Collection: Remove Paging from WordPress Archives";s:4:"guid";s:91:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/02/24/remove-paging-from-wordpress-archives/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/95234577/";s:11:"description";s:245:"<p><a href="http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/02/24/remove-paging-from-wordpress-archives/">Remove Paging from WordPress Archives</a> provides code on how to remove paging from archives. The Home page and Feeds are excluded from this.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:15:16 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:245:"<p><a href="http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/02/24/remove-paging-from-wordpress-archives/">Remove Paging from WordPress Archives</a> provides code on how to remove paging from archives. The Home page and Feeds are excluded from this.</p>";}i:45;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 2/24";s:4:"guid";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/02/24/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-224/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/95173552/";s:11:"description";s:1651:"<p><a href="http://www.joshgerdes.com/blog/projects/simpleflickr-plugin/">SimpleFlickr</a> allows you to embed a flickr integrated simpleviewer into your Wordpress site.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.joshgerdes.com/blog/projects/flickr-tag-cloud-widget/">Flickr Tag Cloud Widget</a> will display a tag cloud of links from your flickr account.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.divshare.com/2007/02/23/divshare-uploader-the-wordpress-plugin/">DivShare Uploader</a> allows you to upload files directly from your “Write a Postâ€ page to your DivShare account, and insert them into your post with a single click.</p>
<p><a href="http://anthologyoi.com/wordpress/plugins/wordpress-dashboard-editor.html">Wordpress Dashboard Editor</a> allows you to add whatever you want to the Dashboard through PHP and HTML even Sidebar Widgets. You may also wipe the entire dashboard or individually remove sections like the Dev news, Planet Wordpress and the getting started section.</p>
<p><a href="http://anthologyoi.com/wordpress/plugins/inline-ajax-page-v21.html">In-line Ajax Page</a> (inap) displays the full contents of your posts and comments in-line without reloading the page or navigating away from your home page.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wongkeenhing.com/projects/wp-plugins">WP-ExternalFeed</a> displays links from del.icio.us and Reddit that is relevant to the current category of your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://dancameron.org/wordpress/">Google AJAX Search</a> adds AJAX Search to your site.</p>
<p><a href="http://alexrabe.boelinger.com/?page_id=53">flashSTAT</a>, based on the Flash module from maani.us, shows your statistic in a nice flash chart.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 24 Feb 2007 07:45:12 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1651:"<p><a href="http://www.joshgerdes.com/blog/projects/simpleflickr-plugin/">SimpleFlickr</a> allows you to embed a flickr integrated simpleviewer into your Wordpress site.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.joshgerdes.com/blog/projects/flickr-tag-cloud-widget/">Flickr Tag Cloud Widget</a> will display a tag cloud of links from your flickr account.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.divshare.com/2007/02/23/divshare-uploader-the-wordpress-plugin/">DivShare Uploader</a> allows you to upload files directly from your “Write a Postâ€ page to your DivShare account, and insert them into your post with a single click.</p>
<p><a href="http://anthologyoi.com/wordpress/plugins/wordpress-dashboard-editor.html">Wordpress Dashboard Editor</a> allows you to add whatever you want to the Dashboard through PHP and HTML even Sidebar Widgets. You may also wipe the entire dashboard or individually remove sections like the Dev news, Planet Wordpress and the getting started section.</p>
<p><a href="http://anthologyoi.com/wordpress/plugins/inline-ajax-page-v21.html">In-line Ajax Page</a> (inap) displays the full contents of your posts and comments in-line without reloading the page or navigating away from your home page.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wongkeenhing.com/projects/wp-plugins">WP-ExternalFeed</a> displays links from del.icio.us and Reddit that is relevant to the current category of your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://dancameron.org/wordpress/">Google AJAX Search</a> adds AJAX Search to your site.</p>
<p><a href="http://alexrabe.boelinger.com/?page_id=53">flashSTAT</a>, based on the Flash module from maani.us, shows your statistic in a nice flash chart.</p>";}i:46;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:48:"Weblog Tools Collection: Word 2007 and WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:77:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/02/24/word-2007-and-wordpress/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/95173553/";s:11:"description";s:171:"<p><a href="http://skattertech.com/2007/02/word-07-supports-wordpress/">Word 07 Supports WordPress</a> guides you through setting up Word 2007 to publish to WordPress.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 24 Feb 2007 07:45:12 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:171:"<p><a href="http://skattertech.com/2007/02/word-07-supports-wordpress/">Word 07 Supports WordPress</a> guides you through setting up Word 2007 to publish to WordPress.</p>";}i:47;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 2/24";s:4:"guid";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/02/24/wordpress-theme-releases-for-224/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/95172079/";s:11:"description";s:1247:"<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/3-columns/1642/rockinblue-3col-1/">RockinBlue</a> is a 3 Column is a modern, clean and sleek theme by <a href="http://www.corymiller.com/">Cory Miller</a> designed for reading and customization.</p>
<p>BlogCut has released two <a href="http://blogcut.com/free-wordpress-themes/">free WordPress Themes</a>, &#8220;Road to Heaven&#8221; and &#8220;Worn&#8221;. Road to Heaven is a clean and clear theme while Worn has an aged look to it. </p>
<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/3-columns/1643/vertigo-squared-enhanced-20/">Vertigo Squared</a> is a modern, 2-column Widget-ready theme by <a href="http://www.briangardner.com/themes/">Brian Gardner</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/1-column/1644/bare-redux-redux/">Bare Redux</a> is a simple single column fixed width theme by <a href="http://www.scarform.com/">Matthew Trevino</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1647/cgreen/">cgreen</a> is a two colum widget ready theme by <a href="http://www.headsetoptions.org/">Headsetoptions</a> and <a href="http://www.mandarinmusing.com/">MandarinMusing</a> based on design by <a href="http://www.nodethirtythree.com/">NodeThirtyThree</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 24 Feb 2007 07:30:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1247:"<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/3-columns/1642/rockinblue-3col-1/">RockinBlue</a> is a 3 Column is a modern, clean and sleek theme by <a href="http://www.corymiller.com/">Cory Miller</a> designed for reading and customization.</p>
<p>BlogCut has released two <a href="http://blogcut.com/free-wordpress-themes/">free WordPress Themes</a>, &#8220;Road to Heaven&#8221; and &#8220;Worn&#8221;. Road to Heaven is a clean and clear theme while Worn has an aged look to it. </p>
<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/3-columns/1643/vertigo-squared-enhanced-20/">Vertigo Squared</a> is a modern, 2-column Widget-ready theme by <a href="http://www.briangardner.com/themes/">Brian Gardner</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/1-column/1644/bare-redux-redux/">Bare Redux</a> is a simple single column fixed width theme by <a href="http://www.scarform.com/">Matthew Trevino</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1647/cgreen/">cgreen</a> is a two colum widget ready theme by <a href="http://www.headsetoptions.org/">Headsetoptions</a> and <a href="http://www.mandarinmusing.com/">MandarinMusing</a> based on design by <a href="http://www.nodethirtythree.com/">NodeThirtyThree</a>.</p>";}i:48;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 2/23";s:4:"guid";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/02/23/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-223/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/94715338/";s:11:"description";s:1390:"<p><a href="http://darxr.net/wp-bookmark-widget/">Social Bookmarks Widget</a> allows you to select a number of links to social bookmark sites which are displayed along with icons in the sidebar.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.philippfleck.de/1_philipps_blog/archive/732_hidead_-_wordpress-plugin.html">hideAd</a> allows the owner of the blog to embed advertisements but give periodical visitors the possibility to hide these ads.</p>
<p><a href="http://tomorrows-laundry.com/">Thickbox Automator</a> is an edited version of the original ImageWiz. After telling it where your images are located, what size thumbnails you want and a few other minor details, it produces the code which you can paste into any post or page.</p>
<p><a href="http://johnwyles.com/2006/12/06/livecontact-an-ajax-powered-contact-form-plugin-for-wordpress/">LiveContact</a> is an AJAX powered Contact Form plugin for WordPress.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.seologs.com/comment-spam-trap/">Comment Spam Trap</a> is a simple, yet effective plugin that kills comment spam, including the hated trackback spam.</p>
<p><a href="http://dancameron.org/wordpress/wordpress-plugins/search-everything-wordpress-plugin/">Search Everything</a> enables the searching of Pages, Comments and more.</p>
<p><a href="http://bc-bd.org/blog/?page_id=48">Hover</a> is a WordPress plugin replacing keywords with links and an optional popup.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:00:50 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1390:"<p><a href="http://darxr.net/wp-bookmark-widget/">Social Bookmarks Widget</a> allows you to select a number of links to social bookmark sites which are displayed along with icons in the sidebar.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.philippfleck.de/1_philipps_blog/archive/732_hidead_-_wordpress-plugin.html">hideAd</a> allows the owner of the blog to embed advertisements but give periodical visitors the possibility to hide these ads.</p>
<p><a href="http://tomorrows-laundry.com/">Thickbox Automator</a> is an edited version of the original ImageWiz. After telling it where your images are located, what size thumbnails you want and a few other minor details, it produces the code which you can paste into any post or page.</p>
<p><a href="http://johnwyles.com/2006/12/06/livecontact-an-ajax-powered-contact-form-plugin-for-wordpress/">LiveContact</a> is an AJAX powered Contact Form plugin for WordPress.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.seologs.com/comment-spam-trap/">Comment Spam Trap</a> is a simple, yet effective plugin that kills comment spam, including the hated trackback spam.</p>
<p><a href="http://dancameron.org/wordpress/wordpress-plugins/search-everything-wordpress-plugin/">Search Everything</a> enables the searching of Pages, Comments and more.</p>
<p><a href="http://bc-bd.org/blog/?page_id=48">Hover</a> is a WordPress plugin replacing keywords with links and an optional popup.</p>";}i:49;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 2/23";s:4:"guid";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/02/23/wordpress-theme-releases-for-223/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/94710682/";s:11:"description";s:1961:"<p><a href="http://blogdesignsolutions.com/2007/02/23/xmark-wordpress-theme-v10/">xMark</a> is a fully fluid 3-column, widget ready  theme for WordPress providing users with a plug-n-play theme that does not require the need to know the technicalities of coding.</p>
<p><a href="http://themey.com/hong-kong-wordpress-theme/">Hong Kong</a> is a Wordpress Theme with widget enabled RH sidebar. Black background &amp; funky neon. psd included for header.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.jammedph.com/wordpress-theme-empowered-red/">Empowered Red</a> is an adsense ready two column theme with a red color combination.</p>
<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1638/logistix/">Logistix</a> is a template by <a href="http://headsetoptions.org">headsetoptions.org</a> and <a href="http://www.mandarinmusing.com/">Mandarin Musing</a> based on design by <a href="http://www.freecsstemplates.org/">Free CSS Templates</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1637/sheep-theme-v1-10/">Sheep Theme</a> is a two column, widget ready theme by <a href="http://www.zeebob.com/wordpress-themes/">Zeebob</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1635/seasons-flashed-10/">Seasons Flashed</a> is a dark theme based on Kubrick with added AJAX Comments and a Dynamic Flash header by <a href="http://ddsos.org/">Ekta Paneri</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.seo-themes.com/2007/02/21/valentine-10-theme/">Valentine</a> is a two column theme dedicated to all people fallen in love and to the Valentine&#8217;s Day.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.doshdosh.com/adsense-tips-and-hacks/16-adsense-optimized-wordpress-themes-to-maximize-your-contextual-ad-earnings/"><span id="st" name="st" class="st">16</span> <span id="st" name="st" class="st">Adsense</span> <span id="st" name="st" class="st">Optimized</span> Wordpress templates</a> is a collection of Wordpress theme resources for AdSense optimized themes for Wordpress.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:45:22 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1961:"<p><a href="http://blogdesignsolutions.com/2007/02/23/xmark-wordpress-theme-v10/">xMark</a> is a fully fluid 3-column, widget ready  theme for WordPress providing users with a plug-n-play theme that does not require the need to know the technicalities of coding.</p>
<p><a href="http://themey.com/hong-kong-wordpress-theme/">Hong Kong</a> is a Wordpress Theme with widget enabled RH sidebar. Black background &amp; funky neon. psd included for header.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.jammedph.com/wordpress-theme-empowered-red/">Empowered Red</a> is an adsense ready two column theme with a red color combination.</p>
<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1638/logistix/">Logistix</a> is a template by <a href="http://headsetoptions.org">headsetoptions.org</a> and <a href="http://www.mandarinmusing.com/">Mandarin Musing</a> based on design by <a href="http://www.freecsstemplates.org/">Free CSS Templates</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1637/sheep-theme-v1-10/">Sheep Theme</a> is a two column, widget ready theme by <a href="http://www.zeebob.com/wordpress-themes/">Zeebob</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1635/seasons-flashed-10/">Seasons Flashed</a> is a dark theme based on Kubrick with added AJAX Comments and a Dynamic Flash header by <a href="http://ddsos.org/">Ekta Paneri</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.seo-themes.com/2007/02/21/valentine-10-theme/">Valentine</a> is a two column theme dedicated to all people fallen in love and to the Valentine&#8217;s Day.</p>
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