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:20:"Matt: Squarespace 38";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=35167";s:4:"link";s:36:"http://ma.tt/2010/07/squarespace-38/";s:11:"description";s:510:"<p><a href="http://gigaom.com/2010/07/13/squarespace-gets-38m-to-compete-with-wordpress-and-six-apart/">Squarespace has raised $38.5 million dollars</a> to compete with WordPress and Six Apart. I used to chat with Anthony on AIM forever ago, and they&#8217;ve come after our VIP program before when they made a screencast showing how they could recreate Scoble&#8217;s blog in 15 minutes using their design tool. That&#8217;s quite a chunk of change, so it will be interesting to see what they apply it to.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:11:42 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:510:"<p><a href="http://gigaom.com/2010/07/13/squarespace-gets-38m-to-compete-with-wordpress-and-six-apart/">Squarespace has raised $38.5 million dollars</a> to compete with WordPress and Six Apart. I used to chat with Anthony on AIM forever ago, and they&#8217;ve come after our VIP program before when they made a screencast showing how they could recreate Scoble&#8217;s blog in 15 minutes using their design tool. That&#8217;s quite a chunk of change, so it will be interesting to see what they apply it to.</p>";}i:1;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:74:"WordPress Podcast: Diving deeply into Google Analytics with Justin Cutroni";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://wp-community.org/?p=629";s:4:"link";s:63:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wordpresspodcast/~3/Wyc5IMDGK28/";s:11:"description";s:1360:"<p>Let me give you some advice first: listen to this podcast with your Google Analyics account open and in front of you. <a href="http://cutroni.com/blog/" title="Analytics Talk by Justin Cutroni">Justin Cutroni</a>, this weeks guest, is an asbolute <em>expert</em> on Google Analytics, and he shows by explaining in a very easy way the most fascinating new functions that Google Analytics has to offer and which reports you as a blogger can use to improve your blogging.</p>
<p>The show discusses loads of features, from Advanced Segments and Custom Variables (and how nicely they&#8217;re integrated into yours trulies new version 4 of his <a href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/google-analytics/" title="Google Analytics for WordPress">Google Analytics WordPress plugin</a>) to the new Intelligence and Alerts tab. Not only does he explain the concepts, there are some very practical tips, like:</p>
<ul>
<li>How to create an advanced segment to find the content on your site that is generating most AdSense revenue.</li>
<li>How to create an alert for sudden traffic spikes from referring sites.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you&#8217;re serious about blogging and are using Google Analytics, or want to start using it, the hour listening to this podcast is well spent!</p>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wordpresspodcast/~4/Wyc5IMDGK28" height="1" width="1" />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:13:38 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:54:"joost@pressthis.com (Joost de Valk & Frederick Townes)";}s:7:"summary";s:1360:"<p>Let me give you some advice first: listen to this podcast with your Google Analyics account open and in front of you. <a href="http://cutroni.com/blog/" title="Analytics Talk by Justin Cutroni">Justin Cutroni</a>, this weeks guest, is an asbolute <em>expert</em> on Google Analytics, and he shows by explaining in a very easy way the most fascinating new functions that Google Analytics has to offer and which reports you as a blogger can use to improve your blogging.</p>
<p>The show discusses loads of features, from Advanced Segments and Custom Variables (and how nicely they&#8217;re integrated into yours trulies new version 4 of his <a href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/google-analytics/" title="Google Analytics for WordPress">Google Analytics WordPress plugin</a>) to the new Intelligence and Alerts tab. Not only does he explain the concepts, there are some very practical tips, like:</p>
<ul>
<li>How to create an advanced segment to find the content on your site that is generating most AdSense revenue.</li>
<li>How to create an alert for sudden traffic spikes from referring sites.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you&#8217;re serious about blogging and are using Google Analytics, or want to start using it, the hour listening to this podcast is well spent!</p>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wordpresspodcast/~4/Wyc5IMDGK28" height="1" width="1" />";}i:2;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:16:"Matt: 10 Million";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=35162";s:4:"link";s:32:"http://ma.tt/2010/07/10-million/";s:11:"description";s:574:"<p>Earlier today this blog passed 10 million pageviews since the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/">WP.com Stats plugin</a> started tracking it in May 2007. I would like t take this opportunity to express a special thanks to each of my readers, old and new, especially those that take their time to leave comments. Over the years this blog has begotten numerous features such as clean permalinks, galleries, and asides that have driven core WP development, and I hope that it can continue to serve as a testbed and playground for what WordPress can do.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:17:18 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:574:"<p>Earlier today this blog passed 10 million pageviews since the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/">WP.com Stats plugin</a> started tracking it in May 2007. I would like t take this opportunity to express a special thanks to each of my readers, old and new, especially those that take their time to leave comments. Over the years this blog has begotten numerous features such as clean permalinks, galleries, and asides that have driven core WP development, and I hope that it can continue to serve as a testbed and playground for what WordPress can do.</p>";}i:3;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:19:"Matt: VP Logo / Ads";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=35160";s:4:"link";s:33:"http://ma.tt/2010/07/vp-logo-ads/";s:11:"description";s:155:"<p>I wrote a bit today on the VaultPress blog <a href="http://blog.vaultpress.com/2010/07/13/new-logo-and-ads/">about its new logo and ad campaign</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:51:08 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:155:"<p>I wrote a bit today on the VaultPress blog <a href="http://blog.vaultpress.com/2010/07/13/new-logo-and-ads/">about its new logo and ad campaign</a>.</p>";}i:4;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:48:"Joseph: WordCamp Utah 2010 Update – Genius Bar";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://josephscott.org/?p=2495";s:4:"link";s:77:"http://josephscott.org/archives/2010/07/wordcamp-utah-2010-update-genius-bar/";s:11:"description";s:945:"<p>As part of WordCamp Utah this year we&#8217;re organizing a <a href="http://2010.utah.wordcamp.org/2010/07/07/genius-bar/">Genius Bar</a>, where you can come and ask questions of other local WordPress geeks.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;d be interested in participating at the Genius Bar <a href="http://2010.utah.wordcamp.org/contact/">drop us a note</a>.</p>


<p>Related posts:<ol><li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2010/06/wordcamp-utah-2010/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordCamp Utah 2010">WordCamp Utah 2010</a></li>
<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2010/04/wordcamp-san-francisco-2010/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordCamp San Francisco &#8211; 2010">WordCamp San Francisco &#8211; 2010</a></li>
<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/02/ill-be-at-wordcamp-denver/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: I&#8217;ll Be At WordCamp Denver">I&#8217;ll Be At WordCamp Denver</a></li>
</ol></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:35:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Joseph Scott";}s:7:"summary";s:945:"<p>As part of WordCamp Utah this year we&#8217;re organizing a <a href="http://2010.utah.wordcamp.org/2010/07/07/genius-bar/">Genius Bar</a>, where you can come and ask questions of other local WordPress geeks.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;d be interested in participating at the Genius Bar <a href="http://2010.utah.wordcamp.org/contact/">drop us a note</a>.</p>


<p>Related posts:<ol><li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2010/06/wordcamp-utah-2010/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordCamp Utah 2010">WordCamp Utah 2010</a></li>
<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2010/04/wordcamp-san-francisco-2010/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordCamp San Francisco &#8211; 2010">WordCamp San Francisco &#8211; 2010</a></li>
<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/02/ill-be-at-wordcamp-denver/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: I&#8217;ll Be At WordCamp Denver">I&#8217;ll Be At WordCamp Denver</a></li>
</ol></p>";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 07/12";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=8241";s:4:"link";s:89:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/07/12/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0712-2/";s:11:"description";s:2203:"<h4><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/shades">Shades</a></h4>
<p><img class="wlDisabledImage" title="Shades" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Shades.png" border="0" alt="Shades" width="150" height="112" /></p>
<p>A simple clean theme framework to work from, designed ideally for light colored backgrounds and easily adapted to darker layouts. Now with Threaded Comments and sticky post</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.diaboliquedesign.com/diaboliquelagoon/">Diabolique Lagoon</a></h4>
<p><img class="wlDisabledImage" title="diabolique" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/diabolique.jpg" border="0" alt="diabolique" width="150" height="69" /></p>
<p>3 column, widget ready theme with threaded comments with 10 background types</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.simplethemes.org/universe.php">Universe</a></h4>
<p><img class="wlDisabledImage" title="Universe" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Universe.png" border="0" alt="Universe" width="150" height="90" /></p>
<p>Universe is a pure, two column, widget ready theme based on <a href="http://www.tristarwebdesign.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/templates/universe/">Universe CSS Template</a>.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.presscoders.com/themes/chunky-theme/">Chunky</a></h4>
<p><img class="wlDisabledImage" title="chunky" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/chunky.jpg" border="0" alt="chunky" width="150" height="100" /></p>
<p>&#8216;Chunky&#8217; a fully compliant WordPress 3.0 theme. It supports all of the new features such as custom headers, custom background, custom menus etc. all of which are fully configurable in the admin control panel</p>
<h4><a href="http://3oneseven.com/04/tech-9/">Tech9</a></h4>
<p><img class="wlDisabledImage" title="tech9" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/tech9.png" border="0" alt="tech9" width="150" height="124" /></p>
<p>The Tech9 WordPress Theme, very clean style for a WP powered site with the Tech9 WordPress Theme theme, featuring a two column fixed theme layout, enabled with custom cufon fonts, optionspanel, pagenavi, frontpage slider, and related posts.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:37:38 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:2203:"<h4><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/shades">Shades</a></h4>
<p><img class="wlDisabledImage" title="Shades" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Shades.png" border="0" alt="Shades" width="150" height="112" /></p>
<p>A simple clean theme framework to work from, designed ideally for light colored backgrounds and easily adapted to darker layouts. Now with Threaded Comments and sticky post</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.diaboliquedesign.com/diaboliquelagoon/">Diabolique Lagoon</a></h4>
<p><img class="wlDisabledImage" title="diabolique" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/diabolique.jpg" border="0" alt="diabolique" width="150" height="69" /></p>
<p>3 column, widget ready theme with threaded comments with 10 background types</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.simplethemes.org/universe.php">Universe</a></h4>
<p><img class="wlDisabledImage" title="Universe" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Universe.png" border="0" alt="Universe" width="150" height="90" /></p>
<p>Universe is a pure, two column, widget ready theme based on <a href="http://www.tristarwebdesign.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/templates/universe/">Universe CSS Template</a>.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.presscoders.com/themes/chunky-theme/">Chunky</a></h4>
<p><img class="wlDisabledImage" title="chunky" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/chunky.jpg" border="0" alt="chunky" width="150" height="100" /></p>
<p>&#8216;Chunky&#8217; a fully compliant WordPress 3.0 theme. It supports all of the new features such as custom headers, custom background, custom menus etc. all of which are fully configurable in the admin control panel</p>
<h4><a href="http://3oneseven.com/04/tech-9/">Tech9</a></h4>
<p><img class="wlDisabledImage" title="tech9" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/tech9.png" border="0" alt="tech9" width="150" height="124" /></p>
<p>The Tech9 WordPress Theme, very clean style for a WP powered site with the Tech9 WordPress Theme theme, featuring a two column fixed theme layout, enabled with custom cufon fonts, optionspanel, pagenavi, frontpage slider, and related posts.</p>";}i:6;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"BuddyPress: BuddyPress Support; introducing Boone and hnla";s:4:"guid";s:29:"http://buddypress.org/?p=1331";s:4:"link";s:76:"http://buddypress.org/2010/07/buddypress-support-introducing-boone-and-hnla/";s:11:"description";s:1128:"<p>We&#8217;re proud to announce that <a href="http://buddypress.org/community/members/boonebgorges/">Boone Gorges</a> and <a href="http://buddypress.org/community/members/hnla/">hnla</a> have joined the BuddyPress Support team. Their knowledge of BuddyPress, site deployment, theme design and plugin development complements the existing team and will expand the range of topics we are able to help you with.</p>
<p>Our support team, which also consists of <a href="http://buddypress.org/community/members/jeffsayre/">Jeff Sayre</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/community/members/djpaul/">Paul Gibbs</a> and <a href="http://buddypress.org/community/members/r-a-y/">Ray</a>, frequently traffic the forums, help resolve problems, and share their advice and best practices. We’re all you’ve got, and we’re not so bad after we’ve had our coffee.</p>
<p>As a general reminder, if you have a support question please try to provide <a href="http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/">the information detailed in this post</a>; it really does help us help you.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 10 Jul 2010 23:30:26 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Paul Gibbs";}s:7:"summary";s:1128:"<p>We&#8217;re proud to announce that <a href="http://buddypress.org/community/members/boonebgorges/">Boone Gorges</a> and <a href="http://buddypress.org/community/members/hnla/">hnla</a> have joined the BuddyPress Support team. Their knowledge of BuddyPress, site deployment, theme design and plugin development complements the existing team and will expand the range of topics we are able to help you with.</p>
<p>Our support team, which also consists of <a href="http://buddypress.org/community/members/jeffsayre/">Jeff Sayre</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/community/members/djpaul/">Paul Gibbs</a> and <a href="http://buddypress.org/community/members/r-a-y/">Ray</a>, frequently traffic the forums, help resolve problems, and share their advice and best practices. We’re all you’ve got, and we’re not so bad after we’ve had our coffee.</p>
<p>As a general reminder, if you have a support question please try to provide <a href="http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/">the information detailed in this post</a>; it really does help us help you.</p>";}i:7;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:61:"Weblog Tools Collection: One Click Multisite in WordPress 3.0";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=8229";s:4:"link";s:90:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/07/09/one-click-multisite-in-wordpress-3-0/";s:11:"description";s:1670:"<p>[EDIT] Peter Westwood, one of the lead devs, <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/07/09/one-click-multisite-in-wordpress-3-0/#comment-1337395">in a comment below suggests</a> against the use of this plugin because of the complexities of the setup process that might be ignored if users install and enable this plugin without following the steps. He points users to the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network">Codex article</a> that explains the setup. If the preliminary setup is that complex, code could be written to understand, walk people through and then validate those setup steps in the future. I am pretty sure the core is going to get more mature about this. So this is just the first step.</p>
<p><a href="http://wpmu.org/daily-tip-enable-multisite-in-wordpress-3-0-with-one-click/">Enable Multisite in WordPress 3.0 With One Click!</a>: Sarah Gooding from WPMU.org notifies us of a plugin (which can be <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-multi-site-enabler-plugin-v10/">downloaded from the WordPress Repository</a>) that will enable MultiSite functionality on your WordPress blog with just one click. Installation for the Enable MultiSite plugin seems relatively simple and the process to enable the functionality is also easy. In case you were not aware of the new MultiSite feature in WordPress 3.0, our very own Klint Finley put together a <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/06/02/wordpress-3-multisite/">walkthrough of the feature for you recently</a>.Anyone blogging with MultiSite yet?</p>
<p>Disclosure: The linked blog is run by and advertiser on Weblog Tools Collection</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:13:55 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1670:"<p>[EDIT] Peter Westwood, one of the lead devs, <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/07/09/one-click-multisite-in-wordpress-3-0/#comment-1337395">in a comment below suggests</a> against the use of this plugin because of the complexities of the setup process that might be ignored if users install and enable this plugin without following the steps. He points users to the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network">Codex article</a> that explains the setup. If the preliminary setup is that complex, code could be written to understand, walk people through and then validate those setup steps in the future. I am pretty sure the core is going to get more mature about this. So this is just the first step.</p>
<p><a href="http://wpmu.org/daily-tip-enable-multisite-in-wordpress-3-0-with-one-click/">Enable Multisite in WordPress 3.0 With One Click!</a>: Sarah Gooding from WPMU.org notifies us of a plugin (which can be <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-multi-site-enabler-plugin-v10/">downloaded from the WordPress Repository</a>) that will enable MultiSite functionality on your WordPress blog with just one click. Installation for the Enable MultiSite plugin seems relatively simple and the process to enable the functionality is also easy. In case you were not aware of the new MultiSite feature in WordPress 3.0, our very own Klint Finley put together a <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/06/02/wordpress-3-multisite/">walkthrough of the feature for you recently</a>.Anyone blogging with MultiSite yet?</p>
<p>Disclosure: The linked blog is run by and advertiser on Weblog Tools Collection</p>";}i:8;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:40:"Joseph: Twitter Style Group Blog With P2";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://josephscott.org/?p=2483";s:4:"link";s:73:"http://josephscott.org/archives/2010/07/twitter-style-group-blog-with-p2/";s:11:"description";s:1435:"<p>How-To Geek has a nice post on <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/21373/create-your-own-twitter-style-group-blog-with-p2/">creating your own Twitter style group blog with P2</a> (the WordPress theme).  I like that they walk through how to setup P2 on both <a href="http://wordpress.com/">WordPress.com</a>, the hosted service, and using the <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress.org</a> software.</p>
<p>We use P2 quite a bit at Automattic, it has become a critical part of our internal communications. </p>


<p>Related posts:<ol><li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/02/response-to-the-state-of-blogging-sucks/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Response To: &#8216;The State of Blogging Sucks&#8217;">Response To: &#8216;The State of Blogging Sucks&#8217;</a></li>
<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2010/01/first-rule-of-collaboration-if-you-cant-link-to-it-it-didnt-happen/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: First Rule of Collaboration: If You Can&#8217;t Link To It, It Didn&#8217;t Happen">First Rule of Collaboration: If You Can&#8217;t Link To It, It Didn&#8217;t Happen</a></li>
<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/04/wordpress-theme-authors-dont-forget-the-wp_head-function/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress Theme Authors, Don&#8217;t Forget The wp_head() Function">WordPress Theme Authors, Don&#8217;t Forget The wp_head() Function</a></li>
</ol></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:36:24 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Joseph Scott";}s:7:"summary";s:1435:"<p>How-To Geek has a nice post on <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/21373/create-your-own-twitter-style-group-blog-with-p2/">creating your own Twitter style group blog with P2</a> (the WordPress theme).  I like that they walk through how to setup P2 on both <a href="http://wordpress.com/">WordPress.com</a>, the hosted service, and using the <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress.org</a> software.</p>
<p>We use P2 quite a bit at Automattic, it has become a critical part of our internal communications. </p>


<p>Related posts:<ol><li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/02/response-to-the-state-of-blogging-sucks/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Response To: &#8216;The State of Blogging Sucks&#8217;">Response To: &#8216;The State of Blogging Sucks&#8217;</a></li>
<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2010/01/first-rule-of-collaboration-if-you-cant-link-to-it-it-didnt-happen/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: First Rule of Collaboration: If You Can&#8217;t Link To It, It Didn&#8217;t Happen">First Rule of Collaboration: If You Can&#8217;t Link To It, It Didn&#8217;t Happen</a></li>
<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/04/wordpress-theme-authors-dont-forget-the-wp_head-function/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress Theme Authors, Don&#8217;t Forget The wp_head() Function">WordPress Theme Authors, Don&#8217;t Forget The wp_head() Function</a></li>
</ol></p>";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:50:"WordPress.tv: Understanding Taxonomy for WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=4096";s:4:"link";s:64:"http://wordpress.tv/2010/07/09/understanding-taxonomy-wordpress/";s:11:"description";s:1407:"<div id="x-video-0" class="video-player">

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<p>I think this is a great example of how activity breeds activity, and it reminded me that social networks and niche communities are as susceptible to becoming stagnant as normal WordPress blogs can be. Most of us have probably had a great idea for a website, spent the $10 on the domain name, installed WordPress, made a fancy theme, posted 3 updates and then for whatever reason, just lost interest in it.</p>
<p>The same thing is totally possible with your social network, and when development slowed down here on the BuddyPress project in the past few months, the community felt that impact and over time there was some concern about what the future of BuddyPress was going to be.</p>
<p>Let me tell you that &#8220;the state of the word is strong.&#8221; &#8211; MM</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve recently added some really fancy functionality to BuddyPress.org that integrates any plugin in the WordPress repository that is tagged &#8216;buddypress&#8217; and gives it a public discussion group. It passes over a plugins&#8217; information like ratings and statistics, gives it its own dedicated support forum where you can assign administrators and moderators, and comes with a built in donate link so people can drop a few bucks in your pocket to show their appreciation. If you&#8217;re a plugin author, be sure to check it out!</p>
<p>In the coming months we have a lot of exciting things planned that will revitalize the BuddyPress.org website and help solidify BuddyPress as the ultimate social networking solution for your WordPress powered site. We&#8217;re looking at adding more core contributors, more forum moderators, redesigning the site with a completely custom template, improving the codex, and diving head first into some new features for 1.3.</p>
<p>For everyone that was worried about BuddyPress, you can breathe a sigh of relief. For everyone else, thanks for hanging out and staying interested while things were slow. We&#8217;re full steam ahead and you can count on seeing much more activity in our community in the coming weeks!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:15:02 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:17:"John James Jacoby";}s:7:"summary";s:2460:"<p>Over the past few weeks we&#8217;ve released 3 bug fix versions of BuddyPress; more than we&#8217;ve released for the entire beginning of the year. What I noticed is that when development was slow, so were our support forums and so was the general buzz about the project. Since we&#8217;ve started patching bugs and cranking out bug fix releases again, things are picking back up which totally rocks.</p>
<p>I think this is a great example of how activity breeds activity, and it reminded me that social networks and niche communities are as susceptible to becoming stagnant as normal WordPress blogs can be. Most of us have probably had a great idea for a website, spent the $10 on the domain name, installed WordPress, made a fancy theme, posted 3 updates and then for whatever reason, just lost interest in it.</p>
<p>The same thing is totally possible with your social network, and when development slowed down here on the BuddyPress project in the past few months, the community felt that impact and over time there was some concern about what the future of BuddyPress was going to be.</p>
<p>Let me tell you that &#8220;the state of the word is strong.&#8221; &#8211; MM</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve recently added some really fancy functionality to BuddyPress.org that integrates any plugin in the WordPress repository that is tagged &#8216;buddypress&#8217; and gives it a public discussion group. It passes over a plugins&#8217; information like ratings and statistics, gives it its own dedicated support forum where you can assign administrators and moderators, and comes with a built in donate link so people can drop a few bucks in your pocket to show their appreciation. If you&#8217;re a plugin author, be sure to check it out!</p>
<p>In the coming months we have a lot of exciting things planned that will revitalize the BuddyPress.org website and help solidify BuddyPress as the ultimate social networking solution for your WordPress powered site. We&#8217;re looking at adding more core contributors, more forum moderators, redesigning the site with a completely custom template, improving the codex, and diving head first into some new features for 1.3.</p>
<p>For everyone that was worried about BuddyPress, you can breathe a sigh of relief. For everyone else, thanks for hanging out and staying interested while things were slow. We&#8217;re full steam ahead and you can count on seeing much more activity in our community in the coming weeks!</p>";}i:11;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:53:"Mark Jaquith: WordPress Q & A: Week of July 5th, 2010";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/?p=451";s:4:"link";s:84:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/wordpress-question-answer-july-5th-2010/";s:11:"description";s:4359:"<h4>Brad asks:</h4>
<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s the optimal way to store large amounts of meta data for a taxonomy without creating a custom table in WordPress?</p></blockquote>
<p>WordPress has meta tables for the site (options table), posts, comments and users. It lacks a table for meta data about taxonomies (categories, tags, custom taxonomies). Solutions for this aren&#8217;t going to be simple, but I can think of a solution that doesn&#8217;t create extra tables. You could create a &#8220;shadow&#8221; entry in the posts table for each term, using a custom post type (say, &#8220;taxonomy-meta&#8221;). Then, just attach meta key/value pairs to that post entry.</p>
<p>As for linking the post proxy entry to its corresponding term, you could use the taxonomy system to place that term within that taxonomy, but it would probably be much faster to appropriate one of the existing fields, since this is a one-to-one relationship. I&#8217;d probably use <code>post_name</code> and make it something like <code>taxonomy-meta-term-{$term_id}</code>.  That way, it&#8217;d be fairly straightforward to grab the proxy object that corresponded to a particular term.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d create four API functions. One backend function to get the post ID of the proxy object corresponding to a particular term. A backend function to create a proxy object for a term if it doesn&#8217;t exist. And then one to update taxonomy meta, and one to get taxonomy meta.</p>
<p>It sounds complicated, but it shouldn&#8217;t be more than 30-40 lines of code. And your API would be simple. Share the code if you end up doing this!</p>
<h4>&#8220;K. K.&#8221; asks:</h4>
<blockquote><p>Can you explain how to become a core WordPress developer like you?</p></blockquote>
<p>WordPress is a meritocracy, so to get the &#8220;props&#8221; you have to show your worth and put in the time. Start by lurking in <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/">Trac</a> and seeing how we develop. Observe the weekly WordPress meetings in <code>#wordpress-dev</code> on Freenode. Then, when you feel confident, start submitting patches to Trac on tickets that need them. Or test the patches that are up there. Follow the tickets and respond to feedback. People who consistently provide quality patches and who seem to &#8220;get&#8221; the WordPress principles (e.g. options are bad, keep core light, target the 80% need, etc) will rise fairly quickly in prominence.</p>
<h4>Ted asks:</h4>
<blockquote><p>Are there any plans to incorporate Facebook connect or any of the other 3rd-party authentication mechanisms into WordPress? If not, are there any FB connect plugins you&#8217;d recommend &#8212; ideally ones that work for both WP and BuddyPress?</p></blockquote>
<p>Facebook Connect — no.  We might consider third party mechanisms like OpenID+OAuth, but they&#8217;re not on the short-term roadmap. The most popular Facebook Connect plugin seems to be <del datetime="2010-07-08T09:55:06+00:00"><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-facebookconnect/">WP-FacebookConnect</a>, written by a Facebook dev</del> <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-facebook-connect/">Simple Facebook Connect</a>.</p>
<br />  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/451/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/451/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/451/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/451/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/451/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/451/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/451/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/451/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/451/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/451/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=451&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:24:12 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Mark Jaquith";}s:7:"summary";s:4359:"<h4>Brad asks:</h4>
<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s the optimal way to store large amounts of meta data for a taxonomy without creating a custom table in WordPress?</p></blockquote>
<p>WordPress has meta tables for the site (options table), posts, comments and users. It lacks a table for meta data about taxonomies (categories, tags, custom taxonomies). Solutions for this aren&#8217;t going to be simple, but I can think of a solution that doesn&#8217;t create extra tables. You could create a &#8220;shadow&#8221; entry in the posts table for each term, using a custom post type (say, &#8220;taxonomy-meta&#8221;). Then, just attach meta key/value pairs to that post entry.</p>
<p>As for linking the post proxy entry to its corresponding term, you could use the taxonomy system to place that term within that taxonomy, but it would probably be much faster to appropriate one of the existing fields, since this is a one-to-one relationship. I&#8217;d probably use <code>post_name</code> and make it something like <code>taxonomy-meta-term-{$term_id}</code>.  That way, it&#8217;d be fairly straightforward to grab the proxy object that corresponded to a particular term.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d create four API functions. One backend function to get the post ID of the proxy object corresponding to a particular term. A backend function to create a proxy object for a term if it doesn&#8217;t exist. And then one to update taxonomy meta, and one to get taxonomy meta.</p>
<p>It sounds complicated, but it shouldn&#8217;t be more than 30-40 lines of code. And your API would be simple. Share the code if you end up doing this!</p>
<h4>&#8220;K. K.&#8221; asks:</h4>
<blockquote><p>Can you explain how to become a core WordPress developer like you?</p></blockquote>
<p>WordPress is a meritocracy, so to get the &#8220;props&#8221; you have to show your worth and put in the time. Start by lurking in <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/">Trac</a> and seeing how we develop. Observe the weekly WordPress meetings in <code>#wordpress-dev</code> on Freenode. Then, when you feel confident, start submitting patches to Trac on tickets that need them. Or test the patches that are up there. Follow the tickets and respond to feedback. People who consistently provide quality patches and who seem to &#8220;get&#8221; the WordPress principles (e.g. options are bad, keep core light, target the 80% need, etc) will rise fairly quickly in prominence.</p>
<h4>Ted asks:</h4>
<blockquote><p>Are there any plans to incorporate Facebook connect or any of the other 3rd-party authentication mechanisms into WordPress? If not, are there any FB connect plugins you&#8217;d recommend &#8212; ideally ones that work for both WP and BuddyPress?</p></blockquote>
<p>Facebook Connect — no.  We might consider third party mechanisms like OpenID+OAuth, but they&#8217;re not on the short-term roadmap. The most popular Facebook Connect plugin seems to be <del datetime="2010-07-08T09:55:06+00:00"><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-facebookconnect/">WP-FacebookConnect</a>, written by a Facebook dev</del> <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-facebook-connect/">Simple Facebook Connect</a>.</p>
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<br />  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/4076/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/4076/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/4076/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/4076/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/4076/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/4076/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/4076/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/4076/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/4076/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/4076/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=4076&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /><div><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2010/07/08/using-slideshare-on-wordpress-com/"><img alt="Using SlideShare on WordPress.com" src="http://videos.videopress.com/gdUZkfqG/slideshare-wordpress-com_std.original.jpg" width="160" height="120" /></a></div>";}i:13;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:38:"Lloyd: WordPress Activate Theme Action";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://foolswisdom.com/?p=2731";s:4:"link";s:47:"http://foolswisdom.com/wp-activate-theme-actio/";s:11:"description";s:1106:"<p>There isn&#8217;t yet a <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7795">WordPress activate theme hook</a>. In the last week, it&#8217;s come up twice where <a href="http://vip.wordpress.com/hosting/">WordPress.com Hosting VIP</a> partners wanted some code to run once on theme activation.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not an unusual scenario for our customers to create a new version of a theme, install it separately, and then activate it. Often this also allows reverting to the old version of the theme if something unexpected happens at launch.</p>
<p>In this scenario, it&#8217;s often easy to check for the existence of a new option, migrated, or other seed data, but sometimes you want to do something like:</p>
<pre class="brush: plain;">
global $pagenow;
if ( is_admin() &amp;&amp; 'themes.php' == $pagenow &amp;&amp; isset( $_GET['activated'] ) ) {
     // When theme is activated this code runs.
     // Still be defensive if you need to be, and check if
     // your baby is already born
}
</pre>
<p><a href="http://wpengineer.com/set-options-on-activation-themes/">Hat tip Frank Bültge</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:00:34 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:5:"Lloyd";}s:7:"summary";s:1106:"<p>There isn&#8217;t yet a <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7795">WordPress activate theme hook</a>. In the last week, it&#8217;s come up twice where <a href="http://vip.wordpress.com/hosting/">WordPress.com Hosting VIP</a> partners wanted some code to run once on theme activation.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not an unusual scenario for our customers to create a new version of a theme, install it separately, and then activate it. Often this also allows reverting to the old version of the theme if something unexpected happens at launch.</p>
<p>In this scenario, it&#8217;s often easy to check for the existence of a new option, migrated, or other seed data, but sometimes you want to do something like:</p>
<pre class="brush: plain;">
global $pagenow;
if ( is_admin() &amp;&amp; 'themes.php' == $pagenow &amp;&amp; isset( $_GET['activated'] ) ) {
     // When theme is activated this code runs.
     // Still be defensive if you need to be, and check if
     // your baby is already born
}
</pre>
<p><a href="http://wpengineer.com/set-options-on-activation-themes/">Hat tip Frank Bültge</a>.</p>";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:52:"WP Blackberry: WordPress for BlackBerry 1.3 Released";s:4:"guid";s:38:"http://blackberry.wordpress.org/?p=300";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2010/07/07/release-1-3/";s:11:"description";s:4062:"<p>WordPress for BlackBerry version 1.3 has been released to <a href="http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/5802">BlackBerry App World</a>.<br />
Depending on your region or country, you might not see the latest version in the BlackBerry App World, but on your device you should now already see the latest version 1.3.</p>
<p>These features have been added in version 1.3:</p>
<ul>
<li>Option to load more comments, not just the latest 100</li>
<li>Ability to load comments by status (all/spam/pendings)</li>
<li>You can now edit the comment details (Author Name/E-mail/URL)</li>
<li>Option to manually set the video-size when using <a href="http://videopress.com">VideoPress</a> service</li>
<li>A much requested formatting toolbar that allows you to <strong>bold</strong> text for example</li>
<li>A new word count feature is shown on the post/page write screen</li>
<li>You can now submit bug reports and feedback from within the app</li>
<li>Multiple improvement to how Stats are handled</li>
<li>Improvements on the photo resizing options and a new jpeg encoder is now being used</li>
</ul>

<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2010/07/07/release-1-3/blackberry-wordpress-02-2/" title="blackberry-wordpress-02"><img width="112" height="150" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/blackberry-wordpress-02.png?w=112&#038;h=150" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="blackberry-wordpress-02" title="blackberry-wordpress-02" /></a>
<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2010/07/07/release-1-3/blackberry-wordpress-03-2/" title="blackberry-wordpress-03"><img width="112" height="150" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/blackberry-wordpress-03.png?w=112&#038;h=150" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="blackberry-wordpress-03" title="blackberry-wordpress-03" /></a>
<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2010/07/07/release-1-3/blackberry-wordpress-01-2/" title="blackberry-wordpress-01"><img width="112" height="150" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/blackberry-wordpress-01.png?w=112&#038;h=150" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="blackberry-wordpress-01" title="blackberry-wordpress-01" /></a>
<br />
The app now supports the following languages:</p>
<p>English<br />
Italian<br />
Finnish [Thanks Apuasi]<br />
French [Thanks Yann Nave]<br />
Korean [Thanks Ben K']<br />
Indonesian [Thanks Kate of Pixel Insert]<br />
German [Thanks Frank Wessel]<br />
Portuguese (Portugal) [Thanks José Fontainhas]<br />
Japanese [Thanks Nao]<br />
Spanish [Thanks danivloven]<br />
Colombian Spanish [Thanks Blanca Mancilla]
<p>Interested in translating the app ? Visit <a href="http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/">translate.wordpress.org/projects</a>.</p>
<p>Have questions or feedback that would enhance the app ? Please visit the WordPress for BlackBerry <a href="http://blackberry.forums.wordpress.org/">forums</a>.</p>
<br />  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/300/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/300/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/300/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/300/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/300/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/300/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/300/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/300/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/300/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/300/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackberry.wordpress.org&blog=8247031&post=300&subd=wpblackberry&ref=&feed=1" />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:13:14 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Danilo";}s:7:"summary";s:4062:"<p>WordPress for BlackBerry version 1.3 has been released to <a href="http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/5802">BlackBerry App World</a>.<br />
Depending on your region or country, you might not see the latest version in the BlackBerry App World, but on your device you should now already see the latest version 1.3.</p>
<p>These features have been added in version 1.3:</p>
<ul>
<li>Option to load more comments, not just the latest 100</li>
<li>Ability to load comments by status (all/spam/pendings)</li>
<li>You can now edit the comment details (Author Name/E-mail/URL)</li>
<li>Option to manually set the video-size when using <a href="http://videopress.com">VideoPress</a> service</li>
<li>A much requested formatting toolbar that allows you to <strong>bold</strong> text for example</li>
<li>A new word count feature is shown on the post/page write screen</li>
<li>You can now submit bug reports and feedback from within the app</li>
<li>Multiple improvement to how Stats are handled</li>
<li>Improvements on the photo resizing options and a new jpeg encoder is now being used</li>
</ul>

<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2010/07/07/release-1-3/blackberry-wordpress-02-2/" title="blackberry-wordpress-02"><img width="112" height="150" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/blackberry-wordpress-02.png?w=112&#038;h=150" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="blackberry-wordpress-02" title="blackberry-wordpress-02" /></a>
<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2010/07/07/release-1-3/blackberry-wordpress-03-2/" title="blackberry-wordpress-03"><img width="112" height="150" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/blackberry-wordpress-03.png?w=112&#038;h=150" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="blackberry-wordpress-03" title="blackberry-wordpress-03" /></a>
<a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2010/07/07/release-1-3/blackberry-wordpress-01-2/" title="blackberry-wordpress-01"><img width="112" height="150" src="http://wpblackberry.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/blackberry-wordpress-01.png?w=112&#038;h=150" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="blackberry-wordpress-01" title="blackberry-wordpress-01" /></a>
<br />
The app now supports the following languages:</p>
<p>English<br />
Italian<br />
Finnish [Thanks Apuasi]<br />
French [Thanks Yann Nave]<br />
Korean [Thanks Ben K']<br />
Indonesian [Thanks Kate of Pixel Insert]<br />
German [Thanks Frank Wessel]<br />
Portuguese (Portugal) [Thanks José Fontainhas]<br />
Japanese [Thanks Nao]<br />
Spanish [Thanks danivloven]<br />
Colombian Spanish [Thanks Blanca Mancilla]
<p>Interested in translating the app ? Visit <a href="http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/">translate.wordpress.org/projects</a>.</p>
<p>Have questions or feedback that would enhance the app ? Please visit the WordPress for BlackBerry <a href="http://blackberry.forums.wordpress.org/">forums</a>.</p>
<br />  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/300/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/300/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/300/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/300/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/300/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/300/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/300/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/300/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/300/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wpblackberry.wordpress.com/300/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackberry.wordpress.org&blog=8247031&post=300&subd=wpblackberry&ref=&feed=1" />";}i:15;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:67:"WordPress Podcast: Adii Pienaar: Solving Problems the WooThemes Way";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://wp-community.org/?p=621";s:4:"link";s:63:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wordpresspodcast/~3/APqdmzz5XdE/";s:11:"description";s:1427:"<p><a href="http://twitter.com/adii">Adii Pienaar</a> is a  co-founder of <a href="http://www.woothemes.com/">WooThemes</a>, a leading  WordPress theme provider. WooThemes endeavors to maintain a tight connection  with their users, an integral element of their success. Adii discusses what  WooThemes is up to, what they’ve <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2010/02/menus-merge-patch-sprint/">contributed  to the WordPress</a> community and how WooThemes innovates in addressing user  problems.</p>
<p>In the News:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/">Upcoming  WordCamps</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2010/07/01/introducing-vaultpress/">VaultPress  Launches</a></li>
<li><a href="http://buddypress.org/2010/07/buddypress-1-2-5-2/">Another BuddyPress  Update</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/">WordPress MU Domain  Mapping Update</a></li>
<li><a href="http://foolswisdom.com/ab-testing-shrimptest-starts/">Conversion Rate  Optimization with ShrimpTest A/B Testing</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Plugin Picks of the Week:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/">Redirection</a></li>
<li><a href="http://vaultpress.com/signup/">VaultPress</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/expire-password/">PassExpire</a></li>
</ul>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wordpresspodcast/~4/APqdmzz5XdE" height="1" width="1" />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:29:22 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:54:"joost@pressthis.com (Joost de Valk & Frederick Townes)";}s:7:"summary";s:1427:"<p><a href="http://twitter.com/adii">Adii Pienaar</a> is a  co-founder of <a href="http://www.woothemes.com/">WooThemes</a>, a leading  WordPress theme provider. WooThemes endeavors to maintain a tight connection  with their users, an integral element of their success. Adii discusses what  WooThemes is up to, what they’ve <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2010/02/menus-merge-patch-sprint/">contributed  to the WordPress</a> community and how WooThemes innovates in addressing user  problems.</p>
<p>In the News:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/">Upcoming  WordCamps</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2010/07/01/introducing-vaultpress/">VaultPress  Launches</a></li>
<li><a href="http://buddypress.org/2010/07/buddypress-1-2-5-2/">Another BuddyPress  Update</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/">WordPress MU Domain  Mapping Update</a></li>
<li><a href="http://foolswisdom.com/ab-testing-shrimptest-starts/">Conversion Rate  Optimization with ShrimpTest A/B Testing</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Plugin Picks of the Week:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/">Redirection</a></li>
<li><a href="http://vaultpress.com/signup/">VaultPress</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/expire-password/">PassExpire</a></li>
</ul>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wordpresspodcast/~4/APqdmzz5XdE" height="1" width="1" />";}i:16;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:48:"WordPress.tv: Activating WordPress 3.0 Multisite";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=4059";s:4:"link";s:64:"http://wordpress.tv/2010/07/07/activating-wordpress-3-multisite/";s:11:"description";s:1372:"<div id="x-video-2" class="video-player">

</div>
<br />  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/4059/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/4059/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/4059/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/4059/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/4059/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/4059/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/4059/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/4059/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/4059/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/4059/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=4059&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /><div><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2010/07/07/activating-wordpress-3-multisite/"><img alt="Activating WordPress 3.0 Multisite" src="http://videos.videopress.com/EvUbutnB/multisite_std.original.jpg" width="160" height="120" /></a></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:26:42 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:11:"Ryan Markel";}s:7:"summary";s:1372:"<div id="x-video-2" class="video-player">

</div>
<br />  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/4059/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/4059/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/4059/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/4059/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/4059/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/4059/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/4059/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/4059/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/4059/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/4059/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=4059&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /><div><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2010/07/07/activating-wordpress-3-multisite/"><img alt="Activating WordPress 3.0 Multisite" src="http://videos.videopress.com/EvUbutnB/multisite_std.original.jpg" width="160" height="120" /></a></div>";}i:17;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:44:"Alex King: How to Get the Most From WordCamp";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://alexking.org/?p=4471";s:4:"link";s:69:"http://alexking.org/blog/2010/07/06/how-to-get-the-most-from-wordcamp";s:11:"description";s:2913:"<p>With <a href="http://2010.boulder.wordcamp.org" rel="external">WordCamp Boulder</a> coming up at the end of the week (still some tickets available), I thought it might be a good time to publish the observations and tips I&#8217;ve gleaned as a WordCamp attendee, speaker, sponsor and organizer. </p>
<p>If I could only share one tip, it would be this: <strong>Take responsibility for your WordCamp experience.</strong></p>
<p>Everything else I&#8217;m listing below can be summed up in that one piece of advice (and is true for just about any conference or meetup). It manifests itself in a variety of ways.</p>
<ul>
<li>If you aren&#8217;t enjoying/learning where you are, move. We try to cater to all attendees throughout the day, but not all sessions will interest everyone. There are normally multiple sessions going on at once, people hanging out in the halls, people at the Genius Bar or developer garages &#8211; if the session you&#8217;re in isn&#8217;t to your liking, take action and see what else is going on.</li>
<li>Ask questions in sessions. Speakers love the opportunity to share things they know will be of value to their audience. They know they are doing this when they are addressing questions.</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t be shy about approaching and talking to speakers. Most speakers I know really enjoy feedback, related discussions, etc. Plus, it gives them a nice ego boost.</li>
<li>Aggressively seek out people you want to connect with. At a conference I often get more out of conversations at random times and places than I do out of the structured sessions. If there is someone you want to talk to, go find them &#8211; don&#8217;t regret not doing so afterward. The corollary to this is to be respectful if they are busy or for some reason aren&#8217;t interested in conversing with you.</li>
<li>Find your own time for networking. Don&#8217;t rely on structured time to connect with people. Join a conversation between sessions, talk with people next to you. Chat up someone that asked a good question in a session.</li>
<li>Lastly, Remember that this is a community event organized by community volunteers with the help of local sponsors. We try hard to <a href="http://2010.boulder.wordcamp.org/2010/06/14/please-complete-our-interest-survey/" rel="external">get input</a> from the attendees and structure the event accordingly. I can&#8217;t speak for other WordCamps, but I know that last year&#8217;s WordCamp Denver and this year&#8217;s WordCamp Boulder are just about break-even propositions for us. Please temper your praise and constructive feedback accordingly.</li>
</ul>
<p>It&#8217;s been great to see how WordCamps have grown over the years and I&#8217;m very pleased to be able to help organize the Denver/Boulder editions. Keep up the community spirit and have a great time.</p>
<img src="http://alexking.org/wp/?ak_action=api_record_view&id=4471&type=feed" alt="" />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:30:15 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:7:"summary";s:2913:"<p>With <a href="http://2010.boulder.wordcamp.org" rel="external">WordCamp Boulder</a> coming up at the end of the week (still some tickets available), I thought it might be a good time to publish the observations and tips I&#8217;ve gleaned as a WordCamp attendee, speaker, sponsor and organizer. </p>
<p>If I could only share one tip, it would be this: <strong>Take responsibility for your WordCamp experience.</strong></p>
<p>Everything else I&#8217;m listing below can be summed up in that one piece of advice (and is true for just about any conference or meetup). It manifests itself in a variety of ways.</p>
<ul>
<li>If you aren&#8217;t enjoying/learning where you are, move. We try to cater to all attendees throughout the day, but not all sessions will interest everyone. There are normally multiple sessions going on at once, people hanging out in the halls, people at the Genius Bar or developer garages &#8211; if the session you&#8217;re in isn&#8217;t to your liking, take action and see what else is going on.</li>
<li>Ask questions in sessions. Speakers love the opportunity to share things they know will be of value to their audience. They know they are doing this when they are addressing questions.</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t be shy about approaching and talking to speakers. Most speakers I know really enjoy feedback, related discussions, etc. Plus, it gives them a nice ego boost.</li>
<li>Aggressively seek out people you want to connect with. At a conference I often get more out of conversations at random times and places than I do out of the structured sessions. If there is someone you want to talk to, go find them &#8211; don&#8217;t regret not doing so afterward. The corollary to this is to be respectful if they are busy or for some reason aren&#8217;t interested in conversing with you.</li>
<li>Find your own time for networking. Don&#8217;t rely on structured time to connect with people. Join a conversation between sessions, talk with people next to you. Chat up someone that asked a good question in a session.</li>
<li>Lastly, Remember that this is a community event organized by community volunteers with the help of local sponsors. We try hard to <a href="http://2010.boulder.wordcamp.org/2010/06/14/please-complete-our-interest-survey/" rel="external">get input</a> from the attendees and structure the event accordingly. I can&#8217;t speak for other WordCamps, but I know that last year&#8217;s WordCamp Denver and this year&#8217;s WordCamp Boulder are just about break-even propositions for us. Please temper your praise and constructive feedback accordingly.</li>
</ul>
<p>It&#8217;s been great to see how WordCamps have grown over the years and I&#8217;m very pleased to be able to help organize the Denver/Boulder editions. Keep up the community spirit and have a great time.</p>
<img src="http://alexking.org/wp/?ak_action=api_record_view&id=4471&type=feed" alt="" />";}i:18;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:48:"Lloyd: ShrimpTest Starts Rocking the A/B Testing";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://foolswisdom.com/?p=2717";s:4:"link";s:52:"http://foolswisdom.com/ab-testing-shrimptest-starts/";s:11:"description";s:509:"<p><a href="http://mitcho.com/">Mitcho</a> has posted a 0.1 version of  <a href="http://shrimptest.wordpress.com/">ShrimptTest</a>, the A/B Testing Plugin for WordPress, and a brilliant video showing the results of his month working on it:</p>

<p>The plugin is already looking <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/profile/mitchoyoshitaka">fantastic Mitcho style</a>, and he&#8217;s just getting started!</p>
<p>Go to http://shrimptest.wordpress.com/ to download, try it out, and provide feedback.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:56:36 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:5:"Lloyd";}s:7:"summary";s:509:"<p><a href="http://mitcho.com/">Mitcho</a> has posted a 0.1 version of  <a href="http://shrimptest.wordpress.com/">ShrimptTest</a>, the A/B Testing Plugin for WordPress, and a brilliant video showing the results of his month working on it:</p>

<p>The plugin is already looking <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/profile/mitchoyoshitaka">fantastic Mitcho style</a>, and he&#8217;s just getting started!</p>
<p>Go to http://shrimptest.wordpress.com/ to download, try it out, and provide feedback.</p>";}i:19;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:30:"BuddyPress: BuddyPress 1.2.5.2";s:4:"guid";s:29:"http://buddypress.org/?p=1321";s:4:"link";s:49:"http://buddypress.org/2010/07/buddypress-1-2-5-2/";s:11:"description";s:793:"<p>A quick update from our release on June 29, BuddyPress 1.2.5.2 fixes a bug where marking a user as spam or attempting to delete them would result in the sky falling on your head. It also fixes a few other odds and ends from 1.2.5 which you can read at our <a href="http://buddypress.org/about/release-history/">release history.</a></p>
<p>We&#8217;ve also bumped the WordPress version requirement up to 3.0. BuddyPress 1.2.5.2 has been tested to work with WordPress 2.9.2, but our mantra has always been to support the current version of WordPress and maintain backwards compatibility as much as possible.</p>
<p>For the best possible BuddyPress experience (and for the security of your social network and your users) be sure to upgrade to WordPress 3.0.</p>
<p>Happy social networking!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:24:45 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:17:"John James Jacoby";}s:7:"summary";s:793:"<p>A quick update from our release on June 29, BuddyPress 1.2.5.2 fixes a bug where marking a user as spam or attempting to delete them would result in the sky falling on your head. It also fixes a few other odds and ends from 1.2.5 which you can read at our <a href="http://buddypress.org/about/release-history/">release history.</a></p>
<p>We&#8217;ve also bumped the WordPress version requirement up to 3.0. BuddyPress 1.2.5.2 has been tested to work with WordPress 2.9.2, but our mantra has always been to support the current version of WordPress and maintain backwards compatibility as much as possible.</p>
<p>For the best possible BuddyPress experience (and for the security of your social network and your users) be sure to upgrade to WordPress 3.0.</p>
<p>Happy social networking!</p>";}i:20;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:24:"Matt: Football to Themes";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=35158";s:4:"link";s:40:"http://ma.tt/2010/07/football-to-themes/";s:11:"description";s:246:"<p>Drew Strojny <a href="http://thethemefoundry.com/blog/last-3-years/">tells his story of his journey from professional football player</a> to small business owner to full-time WordPress theme developer, all in three years. (And GPL, natch.)</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:36:15 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:246:"<p>Drew Strojny <a href="http://thethemefoundry.com/blog/last-3-years/">tells his story of his journey from professional football player</a> to small business owner to full-time WordPress theme developer, all in three years. (And GPL, natch.)</p>";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 07/04";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=8226";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/07/04/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0704/";s:11:"description";s:3337:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.123contactform.com/wordpress-contact-form-plugin.html">123ContactForm for WordPress</a></p>
<p>Contact Form plugin from 123ContactForm.com. It requires a free account on <a href="http://www.123contactform.com/signup.html">123ContactForm</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-btbuckets-wordpress-plugin/">WP BTBuckets</a></p>
<p>Integrates the <a href="http://btbuckets.com/site/signup#utm_source=developer&amp;utm_medium=plugin&amp;utm_campaign=wordpress_thaya">BTBuckets</a> service into your WordPress blog, giving your blog the ability to dynamically morph depending on who your visitors are. Now you can target your visitors based on their visiting behavior</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ravall.com/2010/06/28/wordpress-multiple-user-ad-management-plugin/">WordPress multiple user ad management plugin</a></p>
<p>The plugin is ideal for blogs with multiple authors and acts as an incentive for making quality posts. When the add-on is enabled, users will have full control over the advertisements displayed on their own posts. Using a space pre-allocated by the blog administrator, authors will be able to display various forms of advertisements in addition to accepting Paypal donations</p>
<p><a href="http://www.riyaz.net/getsocial/">GetSocial</a></p>
<p>GetSocial adds a lightweight and intelligent floating social media sharing box on your blog posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wordtour.com/">WordTour</a></p>
<p>WordTour offers you a no-fuss time-saving solution to events management and a whole lot more</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dynamicwp.net/plugins/free-plugin-dynamicwp-contact-form/">DynamicWP Contact Form</a></p>
<p>This contact form is floating, hidden in the left side of your page, if its button clicked, the plugin will slideout</p>
<p><a href="http://konstruktors.com/blog/wordpress/2521-ajax-cache-purge-cookie-plugin">AJAX Cache Purge Cookie</a></p>
<p>This plugin sets a “version” cookie of your site’s content, which can be used for time-based cache invalidation, as the cookie is checked and updated (if necessary) on each page request through a single AJAX request.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.jonbishop.com/downloads/wordpress-plugins/socialize/">Socialize</a></p>
<p>Easily add actionable social sharing buttons to your posts on a page to page basis or across your entire site with ease.</p>
<p><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/">WordPress MU Domain Mapping</a></p>
<p>This plugin allows users of a WordPress MU site or WordPress 3.0 network to map their blog/site to another domain.</p>
<p><a href="http://pumastudios.com/software/picasa-album-uploader-wordpress-plugin">Picasa Album Uploader</a></p>
<p>This plugin provides a button to be installed into the Google Picasa Desktop to directly upload files from Picasa as WordPress media.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-ultimate/">SEO Ultimate</a></p>
<p>An all-in-one SEO solution: title tags, meta, noindex/nofollow, canonical, 404s, slugs, autolinks, hReview rich snippets, and more</p>
<p><a href="http://arpitshah.com/plugins/all-in-one-webmaster/">All in One Webmaster</a></p>
<p>This plugin has option to add Google, Bing, Alexa, Blog Catalog, Yahoo&#8217;s Webmaster and Analytics code (meat tags).</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:11:56 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:3337:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.123contactform.com/wordpress-contact-form-plugin.html">123ContactForm for WordPress</a></p>
<p>Contact Form plugin from 123ContactForm.com. It requires a free account on <a href="http://www.123contactform.com/signup.html">123ContactForm</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-btbuckets-wordpress-plugin/">WP BTBuckets</a></p>
<p>Integrates the <a href="http://btbuckets.com/site/signup#utm_source=developer&amp;utm_medium=plugin&amp;utm_campaign=wordpress_thaya">BTBuckets</a> service into your WordPress blog, giving your blog the ability to dynamically morph depending on who your visitors are. Now you can target your visitors based on their visiting behavior</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ravall.com/2010/06/28/wordpress-multiple-user-ad-management-plugin/">WordPress multiple user ad management plugin</a></p>
<p>The plugin is ideal for blogs with multiple authors and acts as an incentive for making quality posts. When the add-on is enabled, users will have full control over the advertisements displayed on their own posts. Using a space pre-allocated by the blog administrator, authors will be able to display various forms of advertisements in addition to accepting Paypal donations</p>
<p><a href="http://www.riyaz.net/getsocial/">GetSocial</a></p>
<p>GetSocial adds a lightweight and intelligent floating social media sharing box on your blog posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wordtour.com/">WordTour</a></p>
<p>WordTour offers you a no-fuss time-saving solution to events management and a whole lot more</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dynamicwp.net/plugins/free-plugin-dynamicwp-contact-form/">DynamicWP Contact Form</a></p>
<p>This contact form is floating, hidden in the left side of your page, if its button clicked, the plugin will slideout</p>
<p><a href="http://konstruktors.com/blog/wordpress/2521-ajax-cache-purge-cookie-plugin">AJAX Cache Purge Cookie</a></p>
<p>This plugin sets a “version” cookie of your site’s content, which can be used for time-based cache invalidation, as the cookie is checked and updated (if necessary) on each page request through a single AJAX request.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.jonbishop.com/downloads/wordpress-plugins/socialize/">Socialize</a></p>
<p>Easily add actionable social sharing buttons to your posts on a page to page basis or across your entire site with ease.</p>
<p><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/">WordPress MU Domain Mapping</a></p>
<p>This plugin allows users of a WordPress MU site or WordPress 3.0 network to map their blog/site to another domain.</p>
<p><a href="http://pumastudios.com/software/picasa-album-uploader-wordpress-plugin">Picasa Album Uploader</a></p>
<p>This plugin provides a button to be installed into the Google Picasa Desktop to directly upload files from Picasa as WordPress media.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-ultimate/">SEO Ultimate</a></p>
<p>An all-in-one SEO solution: title tags, meta, noindex/nofollow, canonical, 404s, slugs, autolinks, hReview rich snippets, and more</p>
<p><a href="http://arpitshah.com/plugins/all-in-one-webmaster/">All in One Webmaster</a></p>
<p>This plugin has option to add Google, Bing, Alexa, Blog Catalog, Yahoo&#8217;s Webmaster and Analytics code (meat tags).</p>";}i:22;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:52:"Mike Little: WordCamp UK, Manchester July 17-18 2010";s:4:"guid";s:35:"http://zed1.com/journalized/?p=1504";s:4:"link";s:76:"http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2010/07/04/wordcamp-uk-2010-manchester/";s:11:"description";s:1344:"<p>The third annual WordCamp UK is taking place later this month in Manchester, which is just up the road from me.</p>
<p><a title="Buy tickets for WordCamp UK 2010" href="http://2010.wordcampuk.org/tickets/">Tickets are on sale now</a> just £30. That&#8217;s £30 for two full days of meeting fellow WordPress users, publishers, designers, and developers.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference">unconference</a> is being held on the weekend of July 17th and 18th  at the <a href="http://www.business.mmu.ac.uk/">Manchester Metropolitan University Business School</a> which is in Manchester city centre and just a few minutes walk from the main Piccadilly train Station.</p>
<p>There are <a href="http://wiki.wordcampuk.tonyscott.org.uk/2010_running_order">four simultaneous tracks</a> this year: General &amp; user, Specialist &amp; developer, Miscellaneous &amp; spontaneous and a &#8216;Genius Bar&#8217; (a range of WordPress experts available to advice attendees on a one-to-one basis).</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be there, of course, and will  be presenting on Sunday. I&#8217;ll probably hang around the Genius bar at times too. It will be a great weekend, if you are a WordPress user, developer, or designer, or are just considering using WordPress, you should come along.</p>
<p>I look forward to seeing you there.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:28:12 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"mike";}s:7:"summary";s:1344:"<p>The third annual WordCamp UK is taking place later this month in Manchester, which is just up the road from me.</p>
<p><a title="Buy tickets for WordCamp UK 2010" href="http://2010.wordcampuk.org/tickets/">Tickets are on sale now</a> just £30. That&#8217;s £30 for two full days of meeting fellow WordPress users, publishers, designers, and developers.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference">unconference</a> is being held on the weekend of July 17th and 18th  at the <a href="http://www.business.mmu.ac.uk/">Manchester Metropolitan University Business School</a> which is in Manchester city centre and just a few minutes walk from the main Piccadilly train Station.</p>
<p>There are <a href="http://wiki.wordcampuk.tonyscott.org.uk/2010_running_order">four simultaneous tracks</a> this year: General &amp; user, Specialist &amp; developer, Miscellaneous &amp; spontaneous and a &#8216;Genius Bar&#8217; (a range of WordPress experts available to advice attendees on a one-to-one basis).</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be there, of course, and will  be presenting on Sunday. I&#8217;ll probably hang around the Genius bar at times too. It will be a great weekend, if you are a WordPress user, developer, or designer, or are just considering using WordPress, you should come along.</p>
<p>I look forward to seeing you there.</p>";}i:23;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:73:"Weblog Tools Collection: Phone Your Blog to Make a Post on WordPress.com";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=8224";s:4:"link";s:106:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/07/02/phone-your%c2%a0blog-to-make-a-post-on-wordpress-com/";s:11:"description";s:513:"<p><a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/telephone/">Phone Your Blog — WordPress.com</a>: Matt wrote a post yesterday about a new feature WordPress.com is testing using which a <a href="http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-voice/">blogger on WordPress.com could get it set up</a>, receive a special number and code and then call in to make a post. Interesting concept indeed. This is made possible by <a href="http://twilio.com/">Twilio</a>. Not yet available for self hosted WordPress blogs.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:17:18 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:513:"<p><a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/telephone/">Phone Your Blog — WordPress.com</a>: Matt wrote a post yesterday about a new feature WordPress.com is testing using which a <a href="http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-voice/">blogger on WordPress.com could get it set up</a>, receive a special number and code and then call in to make a post. Interesting concept indeed. This is made possible by <a href="http://twilio.com/">Twilio</a>. Not yet available for self hosted WordPress blogs.</p>";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 07/02";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=8222";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/07/02/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0702/";s:11:"description";s:1776:"<h4><a href="http://wpfeed.com/2010/06/wp3theme-free-wordpress-3-0-theme/">wp3theme</a></h4>
<p><img title="wp3theme" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/wp3theme.jpg" border="0" alt="wp3theme" width="150" height="129" /></p>
<p>WordPress 3.0 theme with 4 different styles and support for custom menus and custom backgrounds</p>
<h4><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddypress-colours">BuddyPress Colours</a></h4>
<p><img title="BuddyPress Colours" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/BuddyPressColours.png" border="0" alt="BuddyPress Colours" width="150" height="112" /></p>
<p>Child theme for the Default BuddyPress 1.2 theme with just the colours in a stylesheet</p>
<h4><a href="http://wp-skins.info/2010/06/21/free-wordpress-theme-simplytext.html">SimpleText</a></h4>
<p><img title="simpletext" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/simpletext.jpg" border="0" alt="simpletext" width="150" height="93" /> </p>
<p>A simple theme for WordPress, sidebar on the left, in the theme used not standard fonts (js typeface), theme compatible with WordPress 3.0, to create a paging navigation use the plugin wp-pagenavi.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.presscoders.com/themes/twist-of-ten-theme/">Twist of Ten</a></h4>
<p><img title="Twist of Ten" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/TwistofTen.jpg" border="0" alt="Twist of Ten" width="150" height="96" /></p>
<p>A fully compliant WordPress 3.0 theme. It supports all of the new features such as custom headers, custom background, custom menus etc. all of which are fully configurable in the admin control panel. The theme includes 8 brand new headers you can use in your theme, or you can upload your own</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:11:16 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:1776:"<h4><a href="http://wpfeed.com/2010/06/wp3theme-free-wordpress-3-0-theme/">wp3theme</a></h4>
<p><img title="wp3theme" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/wp3theme.jpg" border="0" alt="wp3theme" width="150" height="129" /></p>
<p>WordPress 3.0 theme with 4 different styles and support for custom menus and custom backgrounds</p>
<h4><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddypress-colours">BuddyPress Colours</a></h4>
<p><img title="BuddyPress Colours" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/BuddyPressColours.png" border="0" alt="BuddyPress Colours" width="150" height="112" /></p>
<p>Child theme for the Default BuddyPress 1.2 theme with just the colours in a stylesheet</p>
<h4><a href="http://wp-skins.info/2010/06/21/free-wordpress-theme-simplytext.html">SimpleText</a></h4>
<p><img title="simpletext" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/simpletext.jpg" border="0" alt="simpletext" width="150" height="93" /> </p>
<p>A simple theme for WordPress, sidebar on the left, in the theme used not standard fonts (js typeface), theme compatible with WordPress 3.0, to create a paging navigation use the plugin wp-pagenavi.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.presscoders.com/themes/twist-of-ten-theme/">Twist of Ten</a></h4>
<p><img title="Twist of Ten" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/TwistofTen.jpg" border="0" alt="Twist of Ten" width="150" height="96" /></p>
<p>A fully compliant WordPress 3.0 theme. It supports all of the new features such as custom headers, custom background, custom menus etc. all of which are fully configurable in the admin control panel. The theme includes 8 brand new headers you can use in your theme, or you can upload your own</p>";}i:25;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:51:"Dev Blog: 100 Million Plugin Downloads and Counting";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1429";s:4:"link";s:53:"http://wordpress.org/development/2010/07/100-million/";s:11:"description";s:2318:"<p>WordPress 3.0 Thelonious passed <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/counter/">3 million downloads</a> yesterday, and today <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/">the plugin directory</a> followed suit with a milestone of its own: 100 million downloads.</p>
<p>The WordPress community&#8217;s growth over the years has been tremendous, and we want to reinvest in it. So we&#8217;re taking the next two months to concentrate on improving WordPress.org. A major part of that will be improving the infrastructure of the plugins directory. More than 10,000 plugins are in the directory, every one of them GPL compatible and free as in both beer and speech. Here&#8217;s what we have in mind:</p>
<p>We want to provide developers the tools they need to build the best possible plugins. We&#8217;re going to provide better integration with the forums so you can support your users. We&#8217;ll make more statistics available to you so you can analyze your user base, and over time we hope to make it easier for you to manage, build, and release localized plugins.</p>
<p>We want to improve how the core software works with your plugin and the plugin directory. We&#8217;re going to focus on ensuring seamless upgrades by making the best possible determinations about compatibility, and offer continual improvements to the plugin installer. And we also want to give you a better developer tool set like SVN notifications and improvements to the bug tracker.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re also going to experiment with other great ideas to help the community help plugin authors. We want it to be easy for you to offer comments to plugin authors and the community, including user reviews and better feedback. We may experiment with an adoption process for abandoned plugins as a way to revitalize hidden gems in the directory. I&#8217;m not sure there is a better way to show how extendable WordPress is and how awesome this community is at the same time.</p>
<p>As <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2010/06/thelonious/">Matt said in the 3.0 release announcement</a>, our goal isn&#8217;t to make everything perfect all at once. But we think incremental improvements can provide us with a great base for 3.1 and beyond, and for the tens of millions of users, and hundreds of millions of plugin downloads to come.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:48:34 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Andrew Nacin";}s:7:"summary";s:2318:"<p>WordPress 3.0 Thelonious passed <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/counter/">3 million downloads</a> yesterday, and today <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/">the plugin directory</a> followed suit with a milestone of its own: 100 million downloads.</p>
<p>The WordPress community&#8217;s growth over the years has been tremendous, and we want to reinvest in it. So we&#8217;re taking the next two months to concentrate on improving WordPress.org. A major part of that will be improving the infrastructure of the plugins directory. More than 10,000 plugins are in the directory, every one of them GPL compatible and free as in both beer and speech. Here&#8217;s what we have in mind:</p>
<p>We want to provide developers the tools they need to build the best possible plugins. We&#8217;re going to provide better integration with the forums so you can support your users. We&#8217;ll make more statistics available to you so you can analyze your user base, and over time we hope to make it easier for you to manage, build, and release localized plugins.</p>
<p>We want to improve how the core software works with your plugin and the plugin directory. We&#8217;re going to focus on ensuring seamless upgrades by making the best possible determinations about compatibility, and offer continual improvements to the plugin installer. And we also want to give you a better developer tool set like SVN notifications and improvements to the bug tracker.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re also going to experiment with other great ideas to help the community help plugin authors. We want it to be easy for you to offer comments to plugin authors and the community, including user reviews and better feedback. We may experiment with an adoption process for abandoned plugins as a way to revitalize hidden gems in the directory. I&#8217;m not sure there is a better way to show how extendable WordPress is and how awesome this community is at the same time.</p>
<p>As <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2010/06/thelonious/">Matt said in the 3.0 release announcement</a>, our goal isn&#8217;t to make everything perfect all at once. But we think incremental improvements can provide us with a great base for 3.1 and beyond, and for the tens of millions of users, and hundreds of millions of plugin downloads to come.</p>";}i:26;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Alex King: WordCamp Boulder (Denver) Tickets – 1 Week Left";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://alexking.org/?p=4466";s:4:"link";s:79:"http://alexking.org/blog/2010/07/02/wordcamp-boulder-denver-tickets-1-week-left";s:11:"description";s:1599:"<p>The tickets for <a href="http://2010.boulder.wordcamp.org/" rel="external">WordCamp Boulder (Denver)</a> are starting to get a bit scarce with a week left before the event. There are <strong>only 16 tickets left</strong> that include a t-shirt and lunch, so <a href="http://wordcampcolorado.eventbrite.com/" rel="external">act quickly</a> to get yours.</p>
<p>There are also micro-sponsor tickets available for those wanting to do a little extra for the community and participate in the speaker/sponsor dinner on 9th.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve already got your ticket, make sure to grab a <a href="http://2010.boulder.wordcamp.org/badges/" rel="external">badge</a> as well.</p>
<p class="center"><a href="http://2010.boulder.wordcamp.org"><img src="http://2010.boulder.wordcamp.org/files/2010/06/wcb-sponsor.png" title="I'm Sponsoring WordCamp Boulder 2010" /></a></p>
<p>We are setting up a <a href="http://2010.boulder.wordcamp.org/genius-bar/" rel="external">Genius Bar</a> at WordCamp this year, and I&#8217;m very pleased that members of our <a href="http://wphelpcenter.com">WordPress HelpCenter</a> team will be there to help out. If you&#8217;ve got WordPress questions big or small, make sure to visit the Genius Bar.</p>
<p>A big thanks to our sponsors for the event as well &#8211; see the full list in the sidebar on the <a href="http://2010.boulder.wordcamp.org/" rel="external">official site</a>. As with ever WordCamp, the contributions of the sponsors are literally making the event happen.</p>
<img src="http://alexking.org/wp/?ak_action=api_record_view&id=4466&type=feed" alt="" />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:20:11 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:7:"summary";s:1599:"<p>The tickets for <a href="http://2010.boulder.wordcamp.org/" rel="external">WordCamp Boulder (Denver)</a> are starting to get a bit scarce with a week left before the event. There are <strong>only 16 tickets left</strong> that include a t-shirt and lunch, so <a href="http://wordcampcolorado.eventbrite.com/" rel="external">act quickly</a> to get yours.</p>
<p>There are also micro-sponsor tickets available for those wanting to do a little extra for the community and participate in the speaker/sponsor dinner on 9th.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve already got your ticket, make sure to grab a <a href="http://2010.boulder.wordcamp.org/badges/" rel="external">badge</a> as well.</p>
<p class="center"><a href="http://2010.boulder.wordcamp.org"><img src="http://2010.boulder.wordcamp.org/files/2010/06/wcb-sponsor.png" title="I'm Sponsoring WordCamp Boulder 2010" /></a></p>
<p>We are setting up a <a href="http://2010.boulder.wordcamp.org/genius-bar/" rel="external">Genius Bar</a> at WordCamp this year, and I&#8217;m very pleased that members of our <a href="http://wphelpcenter.com">WordPress HelpCenter</a> team will be there to help out. If you&#8217;ve got WordPress questions big or small, make sure to visit the Genius Bar.</p>
<p>A big thanks to our sponsors for the event as well &#8211; see the full list in the sidebar on the <a href="http://2010.boulder.wordcamp.org/" rel="external">official site</a>. As with ever WordCamp, the contributions of the sponsors are literally making the event happen.</p>
<img src="http://alexking.org/wp/?ak_action=api_record_view&id=4466&type=feed" alt="" />";}i:27;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:19:"Matt: Post by Voice";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=35154";s:4:"link";s:35:"http://ma.tt/2010/07/post-by-voice/";s:11:"description";s:260:"<p>The voice feature is now live on WordPress.com, using <a href="http://twilio.com/">Twilio</a> and implemented by <a href="http://nickmomrik.com/">Nick</a>. Check it out: <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/telephone/">Phone Your Blog</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:29:50 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:260:"<p>The voice feature is now live on WordPress.com, using <a href="http://twilio.com/">Twilio</a> and implemented by <a href="http://nickmomrik.com/">Nick</a>. Check it out: <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/telephone/">Phone Your Blog</a>.</p>";}i:28;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:11:"Matt: Dessa";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=35151";s:4:"link";s:27:"http://ma.tt/2010/07/dessa/";s:11:"description";s:432:"<p>While walking home at the jazz festival earlier we stumbled across a hip-hop show by a female artist named <a href="http://www.doomtree.net/dessa/">Dessa</a> who has a new CD out called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0033BJSM4">A Badly Broken Code</a>. It&#8217;s not often you see hip-hop at a jazz festival, and it was an excellent show. Also, <a href="http://www.doomtree.net/dessa/">her blog</a> is WordPress-powered!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:08:11 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:432:"<p>While walking home at the jazz festival earlier we stumbled across a hip-hop show by a female artist named <a href="http://www.doomtree.net/dessa/">Dessa</a> who has a new CD out called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0033BJSM4">A Badly Broken Code</a>. It&#8217;s not often you see hip-hop at a jazz festival, and it was an excellent show. Also, <a href="http://www.doomtree.net/dessa/">her blog</a> is WordPress-powered!</p>";}i:29;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:28:"Matt: Job / Career / Calling";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=35149";s:4:"link";s:40:"http://ma.tt/2010/07/job-career-calling/";s:11:"description";s:1231:"<p>Jonathan Haidt in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0465028020">The Happiness Hypothesis</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Most people approach their work in one of three ways: as a job, a career, or a calling.</p>
<ul>
<li>If you see your work as a job, you do it only for the money, you look at the clock frequently while dreaming about the weekend ahead, and you probably pursue hobbies, which satisfy your effectance needs more thoroughly than does your work.</li>
<li>If you see your work as a career, you have larger goals of advancement, promotion, and prestige.</li>
<li>If you see your work as a calling, however, you find your work intrinsically fulfilling you are not doing it to achieve something else. You see your work as contributing to the greater good or as playing a role in some larger enterprise the worth of which seems obvious to you. You have frequent experiences of flow during the work day, and you neither look forward to &#8220;quitting time&#8221; nor feel the desire to shout, &#8220;Thank God it’s Friday!&#8221; You would continue to work, perhaps even without pay, if you suddenly became very wealthy.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>Hat tip: <a href="http://sivers.org/book">Derek Sivers books page</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:38:43 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:1231:"<p>Jonathan Haidt in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0465028020">The Happiness Hypothesis</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Most people approach their work in one of three ways: as a job, a career, or a calling.</p>
<ul>
<li>If you see your work as a job, you do it only for the money, you look at the clock frequently while dreaming about the weekend ahead, and you probably pursue hobbies, which satisfy your effectance needs more thoroughly than does your work.</li>
<li>If you see your work as a career, you have larger goals of advancement, promotion, and prestige.</li>
<li>If you see your work as a calling, however, you find your work intrinsically fulfilling you are not doing it to achieve something else. You see your work as contributing to the greater good or as playing a role in some larger enterprise the worth of which seems obvious to you. You have frequent experiences of flow during the work day, and you neither look forward to &#8220;quitting time&#8221; nor feel the desire to shout, &#8220;Thank God it’s Friday!&#8221; You would continue to work, perhaps even without pay, if you suddenly became very wealthy.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>Hat tip: <a href="http://sivers.org/book">Derek Sivers books page</a>.</p>";}i:30;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:34:"Mark Jaquith: Ask a WordPress Dev!";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/?p=446";s:4:"link";s:64:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/ask-a-wordpress-dev/";s:11:"description";s:1515:"<p>I&#8217;ve set up a <a href="http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/ask-wordpress/">question submission form</a> where you can send me interesting WordPress-related questions. They can be seeking advice on everything from usage, to hardcore plugin and theme development issues. I&#8217;ll periodically pick a good one and answer it here on this blog!</p>
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<ul>
<li>Why he selected and continues to use WordPress,</li>
<li>The secret formula of success for blogs,</li>
<li>How to work with and develop teams,</li>
<li>How to develop communities,</li>
<li>How to  measure growth and monetize,</li>
<li>How to build a brand</li>
</ul>
<p>In news:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/mu-forums-moving/">The  MU forums are moving</a></li>
<li><a href="http://buddypress.org/2010/06/buddypress-1-2-5/">BuddyPress 1.2.5 is out</a></li>
<li><a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/">Four WordCamps this month</a></li>
</ul>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wordpresspodcast/~4/NZRQlQ72gfo" height="1" width="1" />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:34:38 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:54:"joost@pressthis.com (Joost de Valk & Frederick Townes)";}s:7:"summary";s:1188:"<p><a href="http://twitter.com/petecashmore">Pete Cashmore</a> is founder and CEO of one of the world&#8217;s most popular blogs &#8211; <a href="http://mashable.com/">Mashable.com</a>, which happens to be powered by WordPress!  Since 2005 Mashable has been a leader in social media and technology news  coverage in addition to hosting events like the recent <a href="http://mashable.com/media-summit/">media summit</a> and <a href="http://mashable.com/smday/">social media day</a>. In tip-packed  show, Pete shares with us:</p>
<ul>
<li>Why he selected and continues to use WordPress,</li>
<li>The secret formula of success for blogs,</li>
<li>How to work with and develop teams,</li>
<li>How to develop communities,</li>
<li>How to  measure growth and monetize,</li>
<li>How to build a brand</li>
</ul>
<p>In news:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/mu-forums-moving/">The  MU forums are moving</a></li>
<li><a href="http://buddypress.org/2010/06/buddypress-1-2-5/">BuddyPress 1.2.5 is out</a></li>
<li><a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/">Four WordCamps this month</a></li>
</ul>
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<br />  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/4035/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/4035/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/4035/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/4035/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/4035/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/4035/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/4035/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/4035/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/4035/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/4035/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=4035&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /><div><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/raphael-mudge-after-the-deadline-sf10/"><img alt="Raphael Mudge: After the Deadline" src="http://videos.videopress.com/rR8SGdgG/raphael-mudge_std.original.jpg" width="160" height="120" /></a></div>";}i:35;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:28:"Dev Blog: Summer of WordCamp";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1418";s:4:"link";s:60:"http://wordpress.org/development/2010/06/summer-of-wordcamp/";s:11:"description";s:5678:"<p>It&#8217;s been summer for about a week now. Whether you&#8217;re on vacation or burning the midnight oil, attending a local/nearby <a href="http://wordcamp.org">WordCamp</a> is a great way to spend a weekend. Meet other WordPress users, developers, designers &amp; consultants, learn a little something, maybe share a little of your own experience and knowledge, and break bread (or raise a toast) with new friends and collaborators. Here are the WordCamps scheduled for this summer, along with what I know about them.</p>
<p>July 3: <a href="http://wordcamp.de/">WordCamp Germany</a> &#8211; Berlin, Germany. I love it that they&#8217;re using BuddyPress for their event site. They have multiple tracks, and what looks to be a nice variety of sessions. It&#8217;s only a few days away, so if you&#8217;re thinking of going, get your tickets now!</p>
<p>July 10: <a href="http://2010.boulder.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Boulder</a> &#8211; Boulder, Colorado, USA. This was WordCamp Denver last year, but the organizers have decided to mix it up and go back and forth between Denver and Boulder, which also has a thriving tech community. This year the venue is the Boulder Theater (so pretty!), and there will sessions for bloggers and devs alike, plus a Genius Bar to help people get their WordPress sites all fixed up. The speaker lineup looks good, and I hear they&#8217;re pumping up the wifi this year. I&#8217;ll be there, likely hunched over a notebook with Lisa Sabin-Wilson (author of <em>WordPress for Dummies</em> and <em>BuddyPress for Dummies</em>) to talk about the WordPress User Handbook project, and/or hunched over a sketchbook with Kevin Conboy (designed the new lighter &#8220;on&#8221; state for admin menus in WordPress 3.0) to work out a new default WordCamp.org theme (using BuddyPress). You can still get tickets!</p>
<p>July 17–18: <a href="http://uk.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp UK</a>- Manchester, England, UK. The roving WordCamp UK will be in Manchester this year, and is probably the closest to BarCamp style of all the WordCamps, using a wiki to plan some speakers/sessions and organizing the rest ad-hoc on the first day of the event. I&#8217;ll be attending this one as well, and am looking forward to seeing WordPress lead developer Peter Westwood again. I&#8217;m also looking forward to meeting some core contributors for the first time in person, like Simon Wheatley and John O&#8217;Nolan. Mike Little, co-founder of WordPress, is on the organizing team of WordCamp UK. Tickets on sale now!</p>
<p>July 24: WordCamp Nigeria &#8211; Lagos, Nigeria. Their site seems to have a virus, so no link from here, but if you&#8217;re in Nigeria and interested in attending/getting involved, a quick Google search will get you to the organizers. </p>
<p>August 7: <a href="http://www.wordcamphouston.com/">WordCamp Houston</a> &#8211; Houston, TX, USA. Houston, Texas, birthplace of WordPress! Fittingly, Matt Mullenweg will be there to give the keynote. WordCamp Houston is running three tracks &#8212; Business, Blogger and Developer &#8212; in recognition of the fact that people who are interested in using WordPress for their business may not actually be bloggers or developers themselves. This used to get labeled as a &#8220;CMS&#8221; track at previous WordCamps (including NYC 2009), but with WordPress 3.0 supporting CMS functionality out of the box, &#8220;Business&#8221; is a much more appropriate label. Who wants to bet on if there will be BBQ for lunch?</p>
<p>August 7 : <a href="http://wordcampiowa.org/">WordCamp  Iowa</a> &#8211; Des Moines, Iowa, USA. Another placeholder page. Happening, not happening? I&#8217;ve emailed the organizer and will update this post once I know more.</p>
<p>August 7–8: <a href="http://wordcamp.org.nz/">WordCamp  New Zealand</a> &#8211; Auckland, New Zealand. They haven&#8217;t announced this year&#8217;s speakers or topics, but they&#8217;ve been running polls to get community input into the program. Of note: in 2011 WordCamp New Zealand will be shifting seasons and will be in February instead, when the weather is nicer.</p>
<p>August 20–22: <a href="http://2010.savannah.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Savannah</a> &#8211; Savannah, Georgia, USA. Disclaimer: I am completely biased about Savannah, since I&#8217;m one of the organizers. This will be the first WordCamp in Savannah, and it&#8217;s being held at the Savannah College of Art and Design River Club, an awesome venue that used to be a cotton warehouse or something like that. Since Savannah doesn&#8217;t really have a cohesive WordPress community yet (though a fair number of people from Savannah attended WordCamp Atlanta earlier this year), this WordCamp is aimed squarely at building a local community. We&#8217;ll have a local meet-and-greet, regular sessions with visiting speakers (lots of core contributors coming to this one, plus Matt), and on Sunday it will be combination unconference/genius bar/collaborative workspace. Oh, and a potluck! We&#8217;ll also be running a pre-WordCamp workshop for people who have never used WordPress but want to get started, so that they&#8217;ll be able to follow the presentations and conversations littered with WordPress-specific vocabulary over the weekend. Ticket sales just opened, so get your tickets now.</p>
<p>For a <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/schedule/">schedule of all upcoming WordCamps</a>, visit <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/">wordcamp.org</a>. The autumn schedule is already packed! If you don&#8217;t see WordCamp in your area and are interested in organizing one, <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/about/">get more information and let us know</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:19:45 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:7:"summary";s:5678:"<p>It&#8217;s been summer for about a week now. Whether you&#8217;re on vacation or burning the midnight oil, attending a local/nearby <a href="http://wordcamp.org">WordCamp</a> is a great way to spend a weekend. Meet other WordPress users, developers, designers &amp; consultants, learn a little something, maybe share a little of your own experience and knowledge, and break bread (or raise a toast) with new friends and collaborators. Here are the WordCamps scheduled for this summer, along with what I know about them.</p>
<p>July 3: <a href="http://wordcamp.de/">WordCamp Germany</a> &#8211; Berlin, Germany. I love it that they&#8217;re using BuddyPress for their event site. They have multiple tracks, and what looks to be a nice variety of sessions. It&#8217;s only a few days away, so if you&#8217;re thinking of going, get your tickets now!</p>
<p>July 10: <a href="http://2010.boulder.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Boulder</a> &#8211; Boulder, Colorado, USA. This was WordCamp Denver last year, but the organizers have decided to mix it up and go back and forth between Denver and Boulder, which also has a thriving tech community. This year the venue is the Boulder Theater (so pretty!), and there will sessions for bloggers and devs alike, plus a Genius Bar to help people get their WordPress sites all fixed up. The speaker lineup looks good, and I hear they&#8217;re pumping up the wifi this year. I&#8217;ll be there, likely hunched over a notebook with Lisa Sabin-Wilson (author of <em>WordPress for Dummies</em> and <em>BuddyPress for Dummies</em>) to talk about the WordPress User Handbook project, and/or hunched over a sketchbook with Kevin Conboy (designed the new lighter &#8220;on&#8221; state for admin menus in WordPress 3.0) to work out a new default WordCamp.org theme (using BuddyPress). You can still get tickets!</p>
<p>July 17–18: <a href="http://uk.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp UK</a>- Manchester, England, UK. The roving WordCamp UK will be in Manchester this year, and is probably the closest to BarCamp style of all the WordCamps, using a wiki to plan some speakers/sessions and organizing the rest ad-hoc on the first day of the event. I&#8217;ll be attending this one as well, and am looking forward to seeing WordPress lead developer Peter Westwood again. I&#8217;m also looking forward to meeting some core contributors for the first time in person, like Simon Wheatley and John O&#8217;Nolan. Mike Little, co-founder of WordPress, is on the organizing team of WordCamp UK. Tickets on sale now!</p>
<p>July 24: WordCamp Nigeria &#8211; Lagos, Nigeria. Their site seems to have a virus, so no link from here, but if you&#8217;re in Nigeria and interested in attending/getting involved, a quick Google search will get you to the organizers. </p>
<p>August 7: <a href="http://www.wordcamphouston.com/">WordCamp Houston</a> &#8211; Houston, TX, USA. Houston, Texas, birthplace of WordPress! Fittingly, Matt Mullenweg will be there to give the keynote. WordCamp Houston is running three tracks &#8212; Business, Blogger and Developer &#8212; in recognition of the fact that people who are interested in using WordPress for their business may not actually be bloggers or developers themselves. This used to get labeled as a &#8220;CMS&#8221; track at previous WordCamps (including NYC 2009), but with WordPress 3.0 supporting CMS functionality out of the box, &#8220;Business&#8221; is a much more appropriate label. Who wants to bet on if there will be BBQ for lunch?</p>
<p>August 7 : <a href="http://wordcampiowa.org/">WordCamp  Iowa</a> &#8211; Des Moines, Iowa, USA. Another placeholder page. Happening, not happening? I&#8217;ve emailed the organizer and will update this post once I know more.</p>
<p>August 7–8: <a href="http://wordcamp.org.nz/">WordCamp  New Zealand</a> &#8211; Auckland, New Zealand. They haven&#8217;t announced this year&#8217;s speakers or topics, but they&#8217;ve been running polls to get community input into the program. Of note: in 2011 WordCamp New Zealand will be shifting seasons and will be in February instead, when the weather is nicer.</p>
<p>August 20–22: <a href="http://2010.savannah.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Savannah</a> &#8211; Savannah, Georgia, USA. Disclaimer: I am completely biased about Savannah, since I&#8217;m one of the organizers. This will be the first WordCamp in Savannah, and it&#8217;s being held at the Savannah College of Art and Design River Club, an awesome venue that used to be a cotton warehouse or something like that. Since Savannah doesn&#8217;t really have a cohesive WordPress community yet (though a fair number of people from Savannah attended WordCamp Atlanta earlier this year), this WordCamp is aimed squarely at building a local community. We&#8217;ll have a local meet-and-greet, regular sessions with visiting speakers (lots of core contributors coming to this one, plus Matt), and on Sunday it will be combination unconference/genius bar/collaborative workspace. Oh, and a potluck! We&#8217;ll also be running a pre-WordCamp workshop for people who have never used WordPress but want to get started, so that they&#8217;ll be able to follow the presentations and conversations littered with WordPress-specific vocabulary over the weekend. Ticket sales just opened, so get your tickets now.</p>
<p>For a <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/schedule/">schedule of all upcoming WordCamps</a>, visit <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/">wordcamp.org</a>. The autumn schedule is already packed! If you don&#8217;t see WordCamp in your area and are interested in organizing one, <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/about/">get more information and let us know</a>.</p>";}i:36;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:52:"Dougal Campbell: Book Review: Digging Into WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=2331";s:4:"link";s:131:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2010/06/29/book-review-digging-into-wordpress?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss";s:11:"description";s:6201:"<p><a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=88539&amp;c=ib&amp;aff=123839"><img class="alignright" title="Digging Into WordPress" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/images/ads/DIW-125-1.png" alt="" width="125" height="125" /></a>A couple of weeks ago, I won an eBook version of <a title="Digging Into WordPress" href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=88539&amp;c=ib&amp;aff=123839">Digging Into WordPress</a> from a giveaway on Twitter. This book was authored by <a href="http://chriscoyier.net/">Chris Coyier</a> and <a href="http://perishablepress.com/">Jeff Star</a>, who are both successful WordPress developers, well known in the community. I spent some time looking over it, And wanted to share my impressions. If you&#8217;re in a hurry and just want the 5-second review: It&#8217;s good, and it&#8217;s got something for beginners and experts alike. If you want a more in-depth look, then please read on.</p>
<p><span id="more-2331"></span>The first thing you&#8217;ll notice about this book: it&#8217;s gorgeous. These guys are both designers, and their aesthetic carries though in this work. The typography is refreshing, they make good use of color, there are screenshots where appropriate, and accent graphics add flair, but are not overdone.</p>
<div id="attachment_2337" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a class="fancybox" href="http://media.dougal.us.s3.amazonaws.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DigWP_ss_1.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2337  fancybox" title="DigWP Screenshot 1" src="http://media.dougal.us.s3.amazonaws.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DigWP_ss_1-300x239.png" alt="" width="300" height="239" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Sample page showing typography and layout</p></div>
<p>You might also notice that it&#8217;s over 400 pages long. There are 11 chapters, covering everything from installation to customizing themes, to security. If you&#8217;d like to get a taste, Chapter 3, Anatomy of a WordPress Theme, is available for download (the sample <acronym title="Portable Document Format"><span class="caps">PDF</span></acronym> also includes the full table of contents for the rest of the book). This chapter covers the usage of the standard template files which a theme can incorporate, the hierarchy for various page views, the Loop, sidebars, footers, and widgets, among other things. And that&#8217;s not the end of theme information &#8212; there&#8217;s more in Chapter 4, which discusses how to customize the loop, archive pages, tag clouds, and child themes.</p>
<p>Other chapters cover topics such as <acronym title="Search Engine Optimization"><span class="caps">SEO</span></acronym>, plugins, creating custom feeds, analytics, and how to create and use custom taxonomies. The information is thorough and well presented, with lots of screenshots and code examples sprinkled throughout. The ZIP file for the eBook also includes several example themes which can be used to jumpstart your own theming experiments.</p>
<div id="attachment_2343" class="wp-caption alignright"><a class="fancybox" href="http://media.dougal.us.s3.amazonaws.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DigWP_ss_2.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2343  " title="Code examples and plugin tips" src="http://media.dougal.us.s3.amazonaws.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DigWP_ss_2-300x239.png" alt="" width="300" height="239" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The book is sprinkled with code examples and useful plugin tips</p></div>
<p>Throughout the book, there are plenty of links to useful plugins, themes, and other resources and websites. One minor niggle is that all of the links are given as shorturls through the digwp.com server. On the one hand, I would prefer to see the actual link, so that I know ahead of time whether it&#8217;s a site that I&#8217;ve visited before, or some new site that I might like to visit. But on the other hand, I understand that this was done for the purpose of making it easier to format the text without having to wrap long URLs. I would suggest that in the future, they might consider using the shorturls in the main text, with footnotes to provide the full versions.</p>
<p>Currently, the print edition is sold out. They are exploring options for printing more copies, so hopefully they will come up with a reasonable way to make more hardcopies soon. I am one of those people who generally prefers printed books to eBooks. But I have to say that the <acronym title="Portable Document Format"><span class="caps">PDF</span></acronym> version (which currently sells for $27) does not disappoint, and I really didn&#8217;t mind reading it on the screen too much. Plus, once you&#8217;ve purchased it, you get free updates in the future when they revise it. And with the recent release of WordPress 3.0, there will probably be an update soon (the book currently covers up through WordPress 2.9).</p>
<p>All-in-all, I highly recommend <a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=88539&amp;c=ib&amp;aff=123839">Digging Into WordPress</a> for anyone who wants to learn how to configure and customize WordPress. It will be most useful to intermediate users who might already be familiar with general use, but would like to learn more advanced ways to tailor their sites. But the book covers a lot of ground, and even experts might pick up a thing or two.</p>
<p><em>Disclaimer: The links this article are affiliate links. If you follow them and purchase the book, I will receive a portion of the sale. However, this did not color my review. I had already formed my opinions before discovering the affiliate program.</em></p>


<p>Related posts:<ol><li><a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/11/12/book-review-wordpress-for-business-bloggers" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Book Review: WordPress for Business Bloggers">Book Review: WordPress for Business Bloggers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/12/22/wordpress-book" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress Book">WordPress Book</a></li>
<li><a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/01/06/book-review-poll" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Book Review Poll">Book Review Poll</a></li>
</ol></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:33:31 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Dougal";}s:7:"summary";s:6201:"<p><a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=88539&amp;c=ib&amp;aff=123839"><img class="alignright" title="Digging Into WordPress" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/images/ads/DIW-125-1.png" alt="" width="125" height="125" /></a>A couple of weeks ago, I won an eBook version of <a title="Digging Into WordPress" href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=88539&amp;c=ib&amp;aff=123839">Digging Into WordPress</a> from a giveaway on Twitter. This book was authored by <a href="http://chriscoyier.net/">Chris Coyier</a> and <a href="http://perishablepress.com/">Jeff Star</a>, who are both successful WordPress developers, well known in the community. I spent some time looking over it, And wanted to share my impressions. If you&#8217;re in a hurry and just want the 5-second review: It&#8217;s good, and it&#8217;s got something for beginners and experts alike. If you want a more in-depth look, then please read on.</p>
<p><span id="more-2331"></span>The first thing you&#8217;ll notice about this book: it&#8217;s gorgeous. These guys are both designers, and their aesthetic carries though in this work. The typography is refreshing, they make good use of color, there are screenshots where appropriate, and accent graphics add flair, but are not overdone.</p>
<div id="attachment_2337" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a class="fancybox" href="http://media.dougal.us.s3.amazonaws.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DigWP_ss_1.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2337  fancybox" title="DigWP Screenshot 1" src="http://media.dougal.us.s3.amazonaws.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DigWP_ss_1-300x239.png" alt="" width="300" height="239" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Sample page showing typography and layout</p></div>
<p>You might also notice that it&#8217;s over 400 pages long. There are 11 chapters, covering everything from installation to customizing themes, to security. If you&#8217;d like to get a taste, Chapter 3, Anatomy of a WordPress Theme, is available for download (the sample <acronym title="Portable Document Format"><span class="caps">PDF</span></acronym> also includes the full table of contents for the rest of the book). This chapter covers the usage of the standard template files which a theme can incorporate, the hierarchy for various page views, the Loop, sidebars, footers, and widgets, among other things. And that&#8217;s not the end of theme information &#8212; there&#8217;s more in Chapter 4, which discusses how to customize the loop, archive pages, tag clouds, and child themes.</p>
<p>Other chapters cover topics such as <acronym title="Search Engine Optimization"><span class="caps">SEO</span></acronym>, plugins, creating custom feeds, analytics, and how to create and use custom taxonomies. The information is thorough and well presented, with lots of screenshots and code examples sprinkled throughout. The ZIP file for the eBook also includes several example themes which can be used to jumpstart your own theming experiments.</p>
<div id="attachment_2343" class="wp-caption alignright"><a class="fancybox" href="http://media.dougal.us.s3.amazonaws.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DigWP_ss_2.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2343  " title="Code examples and plugin tips" src="http://media.dougal.us.s3.amazonaws.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DigWP_ss_2-300x239.png" alt="" width="300" height="239" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The book is sprinkled with code examples and useful plugin tips</p></div>
<p>Throughout the book, there are plenty of links to useful plugins, themes, and other resources and websites. One minor niggle is that all of the links are given as shorturls through the digwp.com server. On the one hand, I would prefer to see the actual link, so that I know ahead of time whether it&#8217;s a site that I&#8217;ve visited before, or some new site that I might like to visit. But on the other hand, I understand that this was done for the purpose of making it easier to format the text without having to wrap long URLs. I would suggest that in the future, they might consider using the shorturls in the main text, with footnotes to provide the full versions.</p>
<p>Currently, the print edition is sold out. They are exploring options for printing more copies, so hopefully they will come up with a reasonable way to make more hardcopies soon. I am one of those people who generally prefers printed books to eBooks. But I have to say that the <acronym title="Portable Document Format"><span class="caps">PDF</span></acronym> version (which currently sells for $27) does not disappoint, and I really didn&#8217;t mind reading it on the screen too much. Plus, once you&#8217;ve purchased it, you get free updates in the future when they revise it. And with the recent release of WordPress 3.0, there will probably be an update soon (the book currently covers up through WordPress 2.9).</p>
<p>All-in-all, I highly recommend <a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=88539&amp;c=ib&amp;aff=123839">Digging Into WordPress</a> for anyone who wants to learn how to configure and customize WordPress. It will be most useful to intermediate users who might already be familiar with general use, but would like to learn more advanced ways to tailor their sites. But the book covers a lot of ground, and even experts might pick up a thing or two.</p>
<p><em>Disclaimer: The links this article are affiliate links. If you follow them and purchase the book, I will receive a portion of the sale. However, this did not color my review. I had already formed my opinions before discovering the affiliate program.</em></p>


<p>Related posts:<ol><li><a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/11/12/book-review-wordpress-for-business-bloggers" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Book Review: WordPress for Business Bloggers">Book Review: WordPress for Business Bloggers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/12/22/wordpress-book" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress Book">WordPress Book</a></li>
<li><a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/01/06/book-review-poll" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Book Review Poll">Book Review Poll</a></li>
</ol></p>";}i:37;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:21:"Matt: Bezos Interview";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=35147";s:4:"link";s:37:"http://ma.tt/2010/06/bezos-interview/";s:11:"description";s:205:"<p><a href="http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/06/29/jeff-bezos%E2%80%99s-mission-compelling-small-publishers-to-think-big/">JP Mangalindan interviews Jeff Bezos for Fortune</a>. (WP.com-hosted article.)</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:30:24 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:205:"<p><a href="http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/06/29/jeff-bezos%E2%80%99s-mission-compelling-small-publishers-to-think-big/">JP Mangalindan interviews Jeff Bezos for Fortune</a>. (WP.com-hosted article.)</p>";}i:38;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:48:"Publisher Blog: VaultPress: First Golden Tickets";s:4:"guid";s:42:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/?p=992";s:4:"link";s:79:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2010/06/29/vaultpress-first-golden-tickets/";s:11:"description";s:2649:"<p>Very exciting news that invites to <a href="http://vaultpress.com">VaultPress</a> &#8212; a subscription-based protection, security and backup service for WordPress blogs and sites &#8212; are now starting to be sent out. </p>
<blockquote><p>Over the weekend we started to trickle out the first Golden Ticket invites to VaultPress. This means that if <a href="http://vaultpress.com/signup/">you’re on the list</a> you now have a semi-random chance of being one of the first people who can sleep more soundly at night because of VaultPress.</p></blockquote>
<p>If you didn&#8217;t receive your invite yet, there is a way to <a href="http://blog.vaultpress.com/2010/06/29/beginning/">possibly get one more quickly</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>
If you’d like to move ahead in the line, write a blog post about why you want to use VaultPress and link it <a href="http://blog.vaultpress.com/2010/06/29/beginning/">here</a>, or tweet why  you need your site protected by VaultPress and use the hash tag #vaultpress.
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<br />  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/992/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/992/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/992/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/992/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/992/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/992/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/992/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/992/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/992/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/992/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=publisherblog.automattic.com&blog=1470857&post=992&subd=wordpresspublishers&ref=&feed=1" /><div><a href="http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2010/06/29/vaultpress-first-golden-tickets/"><img alt="Introducing VaultPress" src="http://videos.videopress.com/TxdSIdpO/vp-2-web1_scruberthumbnail_5.jpg" width="160" height="120" /></a></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:01:40 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:16:"Raanan Bar-Cohen";}s:7:"summary";s:2649:"<p>Very exciting news that invites to <a href="http://vaultpress.com">VaultPress</a> &#8212; a subscription-based protection, security and backup service for WordPress blogs and sites &#8212; are now starting to be sent out. </p>
<blockquote><p>Over the weekend we started to trickle out the first Golden Ticket invites to VaultPress. This means that if <a href="http://vaultpress.com/signup/">you’re on the list</a> you now have a semi-random chance of being one of the first people who can sleep more soundly at night because of VaultPress.</p></blockquote>
<p>If you didn&#8217;t receive your invite yet, there is a way to <a href="http://blog.vaultpress.com/2010/06/29/beginning/">possibly get one more quickly</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>
If you’d like to move ahead in the line, write a blog post about why you want to use VaultPress and link it <a href="http://blog.vaultpress.com/2010/06/29/beginning/">here</a>, or tweet why  you need your site protected by VaultPress and use the hash tag #vaultpress.
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<p>[ Visit <a href="http://vaultpress.com">VaultPress.com</a> ]</p>
<br />  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/992/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/992/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/992/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/992/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/992/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/992/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/992/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/992/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/992/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/992/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=publisherblog.automattic.com&blog=1470857&post=992&subd=wordpresspublishers&ref=&feed=1" /><div><a href="http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2010/06/29/vaultpress-first-golden-tickets/"><img alt="Introducing VaultPress" src="http://videos.videopress.com/TxdSIdpO/vp-2-web1_scruberthumbnail_5.jpg" width="160" height="120" /></a></div>";}i:39;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:28:"BuddyPress: BuddyPress 1.2.5";s:4:"guid";s:29:"http://buddypress.org/?p=1312";s:4:"link";s:47:"http://buddypress.org/2010/06/buddypress-1-2-5/";s:11:"description";s:2334:"<p>Ready immediately is <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/">BuddyPress 1.2.5</a>, which includes a number of important bug fixes to the 1.2 branch of code, and is another highly recommended upgrade. As always, be sure to back-up your installations before upgrading, and deactivate any dependent plugins that you might have to ensure there are no conflicts or errors during the process.</p>
<p>This version addresses a few WordPress 3.0 compatibility issues introduced in 1.2.4, and fixes a total of <a href="http://trac.buddypress.org/query?status=closed&amp;group=priority&amp;order=priority&amp;col=id&amp;col=summary&amp;col=owner&amp;col=type&amp;col=priority&amp;col=reporter&amp;col=keywords&amp;milestone=1.2.5">49 reported issues.</a>Check out the <a href="http://buddypress.org/about/release-history/">BuddyPress release history</a> for details on the important fixes in this release.</p>
<h3>We are Family</h3>
<p>This time around we had a lot of community participation, which rocks because we&#8217;re starting to find lots of little obscure bugs that would have been overlooked otherwise. Props go out to abackstrom, boonebgorges, cnorris23, dwenaus, erich73, francescolaffi, hempsworth, jeffsayre, paulgibbs, paulhastings0, nuprn1, r-a-y, rvenable, wpmuguru, and everyone else that contributed. (If I missed you, leave a comment below and I&#8217;ll add you.)</p>
<h3>Communication</h3>
<p>Near the end of this versions&#8217; development cycle, participation really ramped up mostly in part to better communication in the support forums from our core developers and moderation team. 1.2.5 would not have been possible without the passion and enthusiasm of our users, and we really appreciate your involvement in the project.</p>
<h3>Plugin Authors</h3>
<p>If you are a plugin author, you&#8217;re going to want to <a href="http://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/plugin-authors-important-buddypress-1-2-5-news-you-need-to-know/">read this post about the new actions</a> you should be using to load your code exactly where it belongs. BuddyPress 1.2.5 takes a big step forward towards being much more &#8216;dependent plugin&#8217; friendly, but possibly at the risk of breaking existing plugins depending on how they&#8217;ve been developed.</p>
<p>Now go update!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:00:34 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:17:"John James Jacoby";}s:7:"summary";s:2334:"<p>Ready immediately is <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/">BuddyPress 1.2.5</a>, which includes a number of important bug fixes to the 1.2 branch of code, and is another highly recommended upgrade. As always, be sure to back-up your installations before upgrading, and deactivate any dependent plugins that you might have to ensure there are no conflicts or errors during the process.</p>
<p>This version addresses a few WordPress 3.0 compatibility issues introduced in 1.2.4, and fixes a total of <a href="http://trac.buddypress.org/query?status=closed&amp;group=priority&amp;order=priority&amp;col=id&amp;col=summary&amp;col=owner&amp;col=type&amp;col=priority&amp;col=reporter&amp;col=keywords&amp;milestone=1.2.5">49 reported issues.</a>Check out the <a href="http://buddypress.org/about/release-history/">BuddyPress release history</a> for details on the important fixes in this release.</p>
<h3>We are Family</h3>
<p>This time around we had a lot of community participation, which rocks because we&#8217;re starting to find lots of little obscure bugs that would have been overlooked otherwise. Props go out to abackstrom, boonebgorges, cnorris23, dwenaus, erich73, francescolaffi, hempsworth, jeffsayre, paulgibbs, paulhastings0, nuprn1, r-a-y, rvenable, wpmuguru, and everyone else that contributed. (If I missed you, leave a comment below and I&#8217;ll add you.)</p>
<h3>Communication</h3>
<p>Near the end of this versions&#8217; development cycle, participation really ramped up mostly in part to better communication in the support forums from our core developers and moderation team. 1.2.5 would not have been possible without the passion and enthusiasm of our users, and we really appreciate your involvement in the project.</p>
<h3>Plugin Authors</h3>
<p>If you are a plugin author, you&#8217;re going to want to <a href="http://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/plugin-authors-important-buddypress-1-2-5-news-you-need-to-know/">read this post about the new actions</a> you should be using to load your code exactly where it belongs. BuddyPress 1.2.5 takes a big step forward towards being much more &#8216;dependent plugin&#8217; friendly, but possibly at the risk of breaking existing plugins depending on how they&#8217;ve been developed.</p>
<p>Now go update!</p>";}i:40;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:79:"WordPress.tv: Allan Cole: Children Are the Future – Child Themes in WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=4028";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/allan-cole-wordpress-child-themes-sf10/";s:11:"description";s:1381:"<div id="x-video-14" class="video-player">

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<br />  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/4028/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/4028/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/4028/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/4028/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/4028/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/4028/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/4028/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/4028/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/4028/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/4028/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=4028&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /><div><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/allan-cole-wordpress-child-themes-sf10/"><img alt="Allan Cole: Children Are the Future" src="http://videos.videopress.com/SqAcxOfw/allan-cole_std.original.jpg" width="160" height="120" /></a></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:45:09 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:11:"Ryan Markel";}s:7:"summary";s:1381:"<div id="x-video-14" class="video-player">

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<br />  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/4028/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/4028/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/4028/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/4028/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/4028/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/4028/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/4028/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/4028/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/4028/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/4028/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=4028&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /><div><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/allan-cole-wordpress-child-themes-sf10/"><img alt="Allan Cole: Children Are the Future" src="http://videos.videopress.com/SqAcxOfw/allan-cole_std.original.jpg" width="160" height="120" /></a></div>";}i:41;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:24:"Matt: Not Just for Blogs";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=35143";s:4:"link";s:40:"http://ma.tt/2010/06/not-just-for-blogs/";s:11:"description";s:137:"<p><a href="http://www.sennza.com.au/wordpress-is-not-just-for-blogs-dammit/">WordPress is NOT Just for Blogs</a> says Bronson Quick.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:13:14 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:137:"<p><a href="http://www.sennza.com.au/wordpress-is-not-just-for-blogs-dammit/">WordPress is NOT Just for Blogs</a> says Bronson Quick.</p>";}i:42;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:33:"Donncha: The MU forums are moving";s:4:"guid";s:29:"http://ocaoimh.ie/?p=89495935";s:4:"link";s:35:"http://ocaoimh.ie/mu-forums-moving/";s:11:"description";s:1335:"<p>The <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/">MU forums</a> will shortly be <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/18502">closing up shop</a>.</p>
<p>WordPress 3.0 integrated everything that MU always did so it&#8217;s better to consolidate the forums too. There&#8217;s a <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/forum/14">MultiSite forum</a> on WordPress.org and any queries about upgrading or problems using WordPress 3.0 should go there.</p>
<p>The old forums aren&#8217;t going anywhere but later today or perhaps tomorrow I&#8217;ll be making them read-only. You&#8217;ll still be able to browse the forum, and Google will still index the wealth of information already there but posting will be disabled.</p>
<p>So, thank you to everyone who contributed to the forum over the years. You helped make WordPress MU great. </p>
<p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/f8-i-am-only-going-to-shoot-at-f8/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: f8, I am ONLY going to shoot at f8">f8, I am ONLY going to shoot at f8</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/pseudo-ir-tutorial/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Pseudo-IR Tutorial">Pseudo-IR Tutorial</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/bird-photography/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Bird Photography">Bird Photography</a></li></ul></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:41:18 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Donncha";}s:7:"summary";s:1335:"<p>The <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/">MU forums</a> will shortly be <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/18502">closing up shop</a>.</p>
<p>WordPress 3.0 integrated everything that MU always did so it&#8217;s better to consolidate the forums too. There&#8217;s a <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/forum/14">MultiSite forum</a> on WordPress.org and any queries about upgrading or problems using WordPress 3.0 should go there.</p>
<p>The old forums aren&#8217;t going anywhere but later today or perhaps tomorrow I&#8217;ll be making them read-only. You&#8217;ll still be able to browse the forum, and Google will still index the wealth of information already there but posting will be disabled.</p>
<p>So, thank you to everyone who contributed to the forum over the years. You helped make WordPress MU great. </p>
<p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/f8-i-am-only-going-to-shoot-at-f8/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: f8, I am ONLY going to shoot at f8">f8, I am ONLY going to shoot at f8</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/pseudo-ir-tutorial/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Pseudo-IR Tutorial">Pseudo-IR Tutorial</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/bird-photography/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Bird Photography">Bird Photography</a></li></ul></p>";}i:43;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 06/27";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=8215";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/06/27/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0627/";s:11:"description";s:2843:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.jleuze.com/plugins/meteor-slides">Meteor Slides</a></p>
<p>This plugin makes it simple to manage a slideshow with WordPress by adding a custom post type for slides. The slideshow is powered by <a href="http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/">jQuery Cycle</a> and has over twenty transition styles to choose from.</p>
<p> <a href="http://www.riyaz.net/getsocial/">GetSocial</a></p>
<p>GetSocial is a WordPress plugin that adds an intelligent, lightweight, quick to setup floating social media sharing box on your blog posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.confidenttechnologies.com/products/confident_CAPTCHA.php">Image-Based CAPTCHA from Confident Technologies</a></p>
<p>Confident CAPTCHA™ is a unique, image-based CAPTCHA solution that stops spam and bots in a way that is easy and intuitive for your website visitors. Rather than forcing people to decipher warped and distorted characters or words, Confident CAPTCHA presents the visitor with a grid of randomly-generated pictures and simply asks them to click on specific pictures to verify that they are human and not a bot.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-address-shortening/">Post Address Shortening</a></p>
<p>With this Plugin you optimize your workflow as it enables you to auto-generate a shortened URL to your blog posts and stores it in the database. And the URL is displayed below the blog post. If the permalink of the article changes, a new Short URL will be automatically generated.</p>
<p><a href="http://imthi.com/wp-s3/">Amazon S3 plugin</a></p>
<p>WordPress Amazon S3 plugin is a simple plugin which will helps you to transfer your media files used in a post to Amazon S3 cloud</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://arpitshah.com/plugins/wp-google-buzz/">WP Google Buzz</a></p>
<p>Automatically displays Google Buzz button for every post. Google Buzz is shaping up to be an interesting new way to share content with your Gmail friends, so why not have a button for sharing blog posts/pages to the service? Google has released new Google Buzz APIs and this plugin includes those official Google Buzz APIs.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/front-end-editor">Front-end Editor</a></p>
<p>Enables &#8220;edit in place&#8221; functionality throughout your site. Version 1.9 brings support for custom types as well as full widget editing.</p>
<p><a href="http://arpitshah.com/plugins/twitter-goodies/">Twitter Goodies</a></p>
<p>This plugin will show your twitter tweets under Sidebar Area (Widget), Post and/or Pages</p>
<p><a href="http://www.watchcount.com/ebay-wordpress-plugin.php">WatchCount.com WordPress Plugin (WCCWPPI)</a></p>
<p>Allows you to display Most Popular eBay items and auctions in real-time, directly on your blog. You can also display eBay items from any particular seller</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:07:34 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:2843:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.jleuze.com/plugins/meteor-slides">Meteor Slides</a></p>
<p>This plugin makes it simple to manage a slideshow with WordPress by adding a custom post type for slides. The slideshow is powered by <a href="http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/">jQuery Cycle</a> and has over twenty transition styles to choose from.</p>
<p> <a href="http://www.riyaz.net/getsocial/">GetSocial</a></p>
<p>GetSocial is a WordPress plugin that adds an intelligent, lightweight, quick to setup floating social media sharing box on your blog posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.confidenttechnologies.com/products/confident_CAPTCHA.php">Image-Based CAPTCHA from Confident Technologies</a></p>
<p>Confident CAPTCHA™ is a unique, image-based CAPTCHA solution that stops spam and bots in a way that is easy and intuitive for your website visitors. Rather than forcing people to decipher warped and distorted characters or words, Confident CAPTCHA presents the visitor with a grid of randomly-generated pictures and simply asks them to click on specific pictures to verify that they are human and not a bot.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-address-shortening/">Post Address Shortening</a></p>
<p>With this Plugin you optimize your workflow as it enables you to auto-generate a shortened URL to your blog posts and stores it in the database. And the URL is displayed below the blog post. If the permalink of the article changes, a new Short URL will be automatically generated.</p>
<p><a href="http://imthi.com/wp-s3/">Amazon S3 plugin</a></p>
<p>WordPress Amazon S3 plugin is a simple plugin which will helps you to transfer your media files used in a post to Amazon S3 cloud</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://arpitshah.com/plugins/wp-google-buzz/">WP Google Buzz</a></p>
<p>Automatically displays Google Buzz button for every post. Google Buzz is shaping up to be an interesting new way to share content with your Gmail friends, so why not have a button for sharing blog posts/pages to the service? Google has released new Google Buzz APIs and this plugin includes those official Google Buzz APIs.</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/front-end-editor">Front-end Editor</a></p>
<p>Enables &#8220;edit in place&#8221; functionality throughout your site. Version 1.9 brings support for custom types as well as full widget editing.</p>
<p><a href="http://arpitshah.com/plugins/twitter-goodies/">Twitter Goodies</a></p>
<p>This plugin will show your twitter tweets under Sidebar Area (Widget), Post and/or Pages</p>
<p><a href="http://www.watchcount.com/ebay-wordpress-plugin.php">WatchCount.com WordPress Plugin (WCCWPPI)</a></p>
<p>Allows you to display Most Popular eBay items and auctions in real-time, directly on your blog. You can also display eBay items from any particular seller</p>";}i:44;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:23:"Matt: New Summer Design";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=35033";s:4:"link";s:39:"http://ma.tt/2010/06/new-summer-design/";s:11:"description";s:1771:"<p><a href="http://s.ma.tt/files/2010/06/2010-theme-compare.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-35034 aligncenter" title="Before and After" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2010/06/before-after-400x151.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="151" /></a></p>
<p>As has become the tradition around here, today I&#8217;m launching a new design to celebrate the new year. (See also <a href="http://ma.tt/2006/11/new-blog-design/">2006</a>, <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/04/new-spring-design/">2008</a>, <a href="http://ma.tt/2009/03/new-spring-design-2/">2009</a>.)</p>
<p>As you can tell, it is very inspired by the pop art of <a href="http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/">Roy Lichtenstein</a>, an idea that came to me while visiting the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. last year, and again <a href="http://matt.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/lichtenstein/">at SFMOMA in November</a>. The idea was beautifully executed by designer <a href="http://www.gnvpartners.com/web/">Nicolò Volpato</a> (who has now done 3 of the past 4 designs for Ma.tt) and coded up by <a href="http://ottopress.com/">Otto</a>.</p>
<p>The header is a lot smaller, the graphics should load much faster since they&#8217;re simpler, and there have also been a few tweaks throughout the site to make it feel a bit speedier. Instead of <a href="http://ma.tt/2003/04/image-fun/">image hacks</a> like I&#8217;ve used in my past few designs I&#8217;m now using <a href="http://typekit.com/">Typekit</a> for pretty much everything, which feels nice.</p>
<p>Please <a href="http://ma.tt/">take a look around</a>, stroll through some of the recent photo albums, and generally make yourself at home. Let me know what <a href="http://ma.tt/2010/06/new-summer-design/">you think in the comments</a>. On to the next one&#8230;</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:06:04 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:1771:"<p><a href="http://s.ma.tt/files/2010/06/2010-theme-compare.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-35034 aligncenter" title="Before and After" src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2010/06/before-after-400x151.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="151" /></a></p>
<p>As has become the tradition around here, today I&#8217;m launching a new design to celebrate the new year. (See also <a href="http://ma.tt/2006/11/new-blog-design/">2006</a>, <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/04/new-spring-design/">2008</a>, <a href="http://ma.tt/2009/03/new-spring-design-2/">2009</a>.)</p>
<p>As you can tell, it is very inspired by the pop art of <a href="http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/">Roy Lichtenstein</a>, an idea that came to me while visiting the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. last year, and again <a href="http://matt.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/lichtenstein/">at SFMOMA in November</a>. The idea was beautifully executed by designer <a href="http://www.gnvpartners.com/web/">Nicolò Volpato</a> (who has now done 3 of the past 4 designs for Ma.tt) and coded up by <a href="http://ottopress.com/">Otto</a>.</p>
<p>The header is a lot smaller, the graphics should load much faster since they&#8217;re simpler, and there have also been a few tweaks throughout the site to make it feel a bit speedier. Instead of <a href="http://ma.tt/2003/04/image-fun/">image hacks</a> like I&#8217;ve used in my past few designs I&#8217;m now using <a href="http://typekit.com/">Typekit</a> for pretty much everything, which feels nice.</p>
<p>Please <a href="http://ma.tt/">take a look around</a>, stroll through some of the recent photo albums, and generally make yourself at home. Let me know what <a href="http://ma.tt/2010/06/new-summer-design/">you think in the comments</a>. On to the next one&#8230;</p>";}i:45;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:12:"Matt: Plinky";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=35030";s:4:"link";s:28:"http://ma.tt/2010/06/plinky/";s:11:"description";s:664:"<p><a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/overcome-writers-block-with-plinky-prompts/">Overcome Writer’s Block With Plinky Prompts</a> &#8212; Automattic has bought <a href="http://plinky.com/">Plinky</a> and is promoting it from WordPress.com. See also: <a href="http://blog.thinglabs.com/2010/06/25/wordpress-com-acquires-plinky/">Thing Labs</a> (makers of Plinky and Brizzly), <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/25/automattic-buys-up-thing-labs-plinky-to-help-bloggers-overcome-writers-block/">TechCrunch</a>, <a href="http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/06/25/automattic-acquires-writers-block-helper-plinky-from-think-labs/">The Next Web</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:35:27 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:664:"<p><a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/overcome-writers-block-with-plinky-prompts/">Overcome Writer’s Block With Plinky Prompts</a> &#8212; Automattic has bought <a href="http://plinky.com/">Plinky</a> and is promoting it from WordPress.com. See also: <a href="http://blog.thinglabs.com/2010/06/25/wordpress-com-acquires-plinky/">Thing Labs</a> (makers of Plinky and Brizzly), <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/25/automattic-buys-up-thing-labs-plinky-to-help-bloggers-overcome-writers-block/">TechCrunch</a>, <a href="http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/06/25/automattic-acquires-writers-block-helper-plinky-from-think-labs/">The Next Web</a>.</p>";}i:46;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:40:"WordPress.tv: Dan Milward: WP E-Commerce";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=4020";s:4:"link";s:68:"http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/dan-milward-wordpress-ecommerce-sf10/";s:11:"description";s:1371:"<div id="x-video-15" class="video-player">

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