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The idea behind it was to see what would happen to the web if it was as [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2004:"<p>What if there was software with the elegance and extensibility of WordPress but all the features you&#8217;ve come to expect from social networks like Facebook? Now there is: <a href="http://buddypress.org/">check out BuddyPress</a>.</p>\n<p>BuddyPress is an official sister project of WordPress. The idea behind it was to see what would happen to the web if it was as easy for anyone to create a social network as it is to create a blog today. There&#8217;s been an explosion of social activity on the web, it&#8217;s probably the most important trend of the past few years, but there&#8217;s been a dearth of Open Source tools that enable the social web.</p>\n<p>In WordPress we have a robust and extensible base that can scale to many millions of users, and BuddyPress is essentially a set of plugins on top of WordPress that add private messaging, profiles, friends, groups, activity streams, and everything else you&#8217;ve come to expect from your favorite social network, like a Facebook-in-a-box.</p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think BuddyPress will be something you use <em>instead of</em> your existing social networks, I mean all your friends are already on Myspace, but if you wanted to start something new maybe with more control, friendlier terms of service, or just something customized and tweaked to fit exactly into your existing site, then BuddyPress is a great framework to use. Maybe even someday you&#8217;ll be able to connect your BuddyPresses to each other and to the existing monolithic social networks.</p>\n<p>This is just a 1.0 release and it&#8217;s not for everybody yet, for example it currently requires using MU which is a bit trickier to get set up than regular WordPress, but regardless <a href="http://buddypress.org/">I&#8217;d recommend diving into the community at BuddyPress.org</a>, which is great example of the software in action.</p>\n<p><a href="http://buddypress.org/blog/news/buddypress-10-has-arrived/">Here&#8217;s Andy&#8217;s official announcement post</a>.</p>\n";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:75:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/make-friends-with-buddypress/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:329:"What if there was software with the elegance and extensibility of WordPress but all the features you&#8217;ve come to expect from social networks like Facebook? 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The table below shows the actual breakdown of the poll votes, of which there were 2,651. As you can see, there were four main contenders: Dean J. Robinson&#8217;s Fluency-based submissions (two variations), the existing 2.7 interface, and Matt Thomas&#8217;s comp (MT), which [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:3064:"<p>The poll is closed, the votes are counted, and the results are interesting. The table below shows the actual breakdown of the poll votes, of which there were 2,651. As you can see, there were four main contenders: Dean J. Robinson&#8217;s Fluency-based submissions (two variations), the existing 2.7 interface, and Matt Thomas&#8217;s comp (MT), which exists somewhere between them in terms of style. Note: GB was a late entry, and was posted after over 900 votes had already been collected.</p>\n<p><a href="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/tweaksvote.png"><img src="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/tweaksvote.png" alt="The voting results" /></a></p>\n<p><img class="alignleft" title="Top image: Dean Robinson, Bottom image: Matt Thomas" src="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/tweaks_dr_mt.png" alt="Top two submissions by Robinson and Thomas" width="410" height="517" align="left" /></p>\n<p>As several people have rightly pointed out, the Fluency-style designs not only took the top spot, but in combination added up to a higher percentage than any other. We&#8217;re not focusing solely on that statistic, though, because had other designers submitted multiple versions, the numbers might have looked different. What was most interesting for me was checking in on the votes over the course of the two days the poll was open. The top three (Fluency-dark, Current 2.7, MT) kept beating each other out for the #1 spot as they cycled back and forth through the top three slots, and had the poll closed on time (left it open a little longer in case anyone translated the time zone incorrectly), the order would have been a bit different.</p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more interesting to me is the overall style that seems to be preferred among voters, as Matt&#8217;s comp has some stylistic similarities to Dean&#8217;s (see image at left). It also would be interesting to know how many of the votes for the current 2.7 interface were based on thinking it looked the best vs. how many were votes against changing the interface at all so soon after the 2.7 redesign. If you want to comment on what you liked best and/or least about any of the designs, <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/265261">this thread</a> is a good place.</p>\n<p>So what happens now? However we look at it, the Fluency-style designs clearly have a lot of fans. Then again, so do the designs of Matt Thomas (he&#8217;s behind the current style of 2.7, remember, in addition to the comp labeled MT). To give the interface the attention it is due, and to take seriously some of the interface feedback around usability and accessibility, we&#8217;re going to leave the looks alone for 2.8. It&#8217;s our guess that a revised style will make into 2.9 early in the development cycle to allow us plenty of time for user testing and revision. How close it winds up being to the comps submitted in this design tweaks challenge will depend, but in the meantime:</p>\n<p>Congratulations, <a href="http://deanjrobinson.com/">Dean J. Robinson</a>, on winning the vote!</p>\n";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:59:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/poll-results/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:357:"The poll is closed, the votes are counted, and the results are interesting. 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The top three (Fluency-dark, Current 2.7, MT) kept beating each other out for the #1 spot as they cycled back and forth through the top three slots, and had the poll closed on time (left it open a little longer in case anyone translated the time zone incorrectly), the order would have been a bit different.</p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more interesting to me is the overall style that seems to be preferred among voters, as Matt&#8217;s comp has some stylistic similarities to Dean&#8217;s (see image at left). It also would be interesting to know how many of the votes for the current 2.7 interface were based on thinking it looked the best vs. how many were votes against changing the interface at all so soon after the 2.7 redesign. If you want to comment on what you liked best and/or least about any of the designs, <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/265261">this thread</a> is a good place.</p>\n<p>So what happens now? However we look at it, the Fluency-style designs clearly have a lot of fans. Then again, so do the designs of Matt Thomas (he&#8217;s behind the current style of 2.7, remember, in addition to the comp labeled MT). To give the interface the attention it is due, and to take seriously some of the interface feedback around usability and accessibility, we&#8217;re going to leave the looks alone for 2.8. It&#8217;s our guess that a revised style will make into 2.9 early in the development cycle to allow us plenty of time for user testing and revision. How close it winds up being to the comps submitted in this design tweaks challenge will depend, but in the meantime:</p>\n<p>Congratulations, <a href="http://deanjrobinson.com/">Dean J. Robinson</a>, on winning the vote!</p>\n";}i:3;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:18:"Design Tweaks Vote";s:4:"link";s:60:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/design-tweaks-vote/";s:8:"comments";s:69:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/design-tweaks-vote/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:09:31 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:8:"category";s:14:"User Interface";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=685";s:11:"description";s:321:"Comps for the header/nav design tweaks are in, and the results are mixed. Some people just moved a few things around, while others proposed a new style altogether. We won&#8217;t make any major changes to style in 2.8, but if the vote leans toward a submission that proposes it, we&#8217;ll do some user testing and [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2893:"<p>Comps for the header/nav design tweaks are in, and the results are mixed. Some people just moved a few things around, while others proposed a new style altogether. We won&#8217;t make any major changes to style in 2.8, but if the vote leans toward a submission that proposes it, we&#8217;ll do some user testing and make a decision for early 2.9 (which, now that we think of it, is probably the right thing to do anyway. <img src=''http://wordpress.org/development/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif'' alt='':)'' class=''wp-smiley'' /> )</p>\n<p>Below are the links to the screenshots that were submitted. Please review each one (I&#8217;d open them all in tabs so I could look back and forth while they are all large size, because the voting poll just uses thumbnails), then choose the one you think looks the best/is the most usable.</p>\n<p>This poll was supposed to close at 8pm NY time on Tuesday (today), but we&#8217;re going to leave it open for an extra day. The voting poll will now be closed at 8pm NY time on Wednesday (that&#8217;s 2am Thursday, UTC). If you want to discuss the entries&#8217; pros/cons, <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/265261">this thread</a> would be a good place.</p>\n<p><a href="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/current.png">Current: The existing interface, for reference</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://p51labs.com/projects/wordpress-2.8-navigation/screenshot.png">KM: Current nav, header elements moved</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://andrerenaut.ovh.org/wp28.jpg">AN: Current nav, file folder style header</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://konstruktors.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mt-db-kaspars-dambis.png">KD: Current nav, modified header style</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://www.johnjamesjacoby.com/uploads/2009/04/jjj-wp-28.gif">JJ: Swap blog title and favorites menu</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://deanjrobinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mt-db-djr.png">DR1: Fluency style, dark</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://deanjrobinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mt-db-djr-2.png">DR2: Fluency style, medium</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://deanjrobinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mt-db-djr-3.png">DR3: Fluency style, light</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/ik.png">IK: Nav layered over dark background</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://gordonbrander.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mt-db-up.png">GB: Modified nav/header intersection</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://iammattthomas.com/28/dash.png">MT: Modified nav and header</a></p>\n<p><script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" charset="utf-8" src="http://static.polldaddy.com/p/1575922.js"></script><noscript><br />\n<a href="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1575922/">Which style do you prefer?</a><span style="font-size:9px;">(<a href="http://answers.polldaddy.com">answers</a>)</span><br />\n</noscript></p>\n<p>Results will be posted the day after the polls close. </p>\n";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:65:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/design-tweaks-vote/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:321:"Comps for the header/nav design tweaks are in, and the results are mixed. Some people just moved a few things around, while others proposed a new style altogether. We won&#8217;t make any major changes to style in 2.8, but if the vote leans toward a submission that proposes it, we&#8217;ll do some user testing and [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:2893:"<p>Comps for the header/nav design tweaks are in, and the results are mixed. Some people just moved a few things around, while others proposed a new style altogether. We won&#8217;t make any major changes to style in 2.8, but if the vote leans toward a submission that proposes it, we&#8217;ll do some user testing and make a decision for early 2.9 (which, now that we think of it, is probably the right thing to do anyway. <img src=''http://wordpress.org/development/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif'' alt='':)'' class=''wp-smiley'' /> )</p>\n<p>Below are the links to the screenshots that were submitted. Please review each one (I&#8217;d open them all in tabs so I could look back and forth while they are all large size, because the voting poll just uses thumbnails), then choose the one you think looks the best/is the most usable.</p>\n<p>This poll was supposed to close at 8pm NY time on Tuesday (today), but we&#8217;re going to leave it open for an extra day. The voting poll will now be closed at 8pm NY time on Wednesday (that&#8217;s 2am Thursday, UTC). If you want to discuss the entries&#8217; pros/cons, <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/265261">this thread</a> would be a good place.</p>\n<p><a href="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/current.png">Current: The existing interface, for reference</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://p51labs.com/projects/wordpress-2.8-navigation/screenshot.png">KM: Current nav, header elements moved</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://andrerenaut.ovh.org/wp28.jpg">AN: Current nav, file folder style header</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://konstruktors.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mt-db-kaspars-dambis.png">KD: Current nav, modified header style</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://www.johnjamesjacoby.com/uploads/2009/04/jjj-wp-28.gif">JJ: Swap blog title and favorites menu</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://deanjrobinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mt-db-djr.png">DR1: Fluency style, dark</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://deanjrobinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mt-db-djr-2.png">DR2: Fluency style, medium</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://deanjrobinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mt-db-djr-3.png">DR3: Fluency style, light</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/ik.png">IK: Nav layered over dark background</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://gordonbrander.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mt-db-up.png">GB: Modified nav/header intersection</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://iammattthomas.com/28/dash.png">MT: Modified nav and header</a></p>\n<p><script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" charset="utf-8" src="http://static.polldaddy.com/p/1575922.js"></script><noscript><br />\n<a href="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1575922/">Which style do you prefer?</a><span style="font-size:9px;">(<a href="http://answers.polldaddy.com">answers</a>)</span><br />\n</noscript></p>\n<p>Results will be posted the day after the polls close. </p>\n";}i:4;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:50:"Design Tweaks: Who’s In? (An idea in three acts)";s:4:"link";s:85:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/design-tweaks-whos-in-an-idea-in-three-acts/";s:8:"comments";s:94:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/design-tweaks-whos-in-an-idea-in-three-acts/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:57:40 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:8:"category";s:14:"User Interface";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=640";s:11:"description";s:328:"\nACT I\nJane: It is a thorn in my side that the blog name header is above the &#8220;dashboard&#8221; nav section in the admin, since in MU installations and with plugins (like stats), things in the Dashboard section span multiple blogs. Makes more sense for the header to head only the per-blog content area.\nMark: I agree [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:7119:"<h4 style="text-align: left;"></h4>\n<h4 style="text-align: left;">ACT I</h4>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Jane:</strong> It is a thorn in my side that the blog name header is above the &#8220;dashboard&#8221; nav section in the admin, since in MU installations and with plugins (like stats), things in the Dashboard section span multiple blogs. Makes more sense for the header to head only the per-blog content area.</p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Mark:</strong> I agree about the header. &#8220;This is the menu, this is the content.&#8221;</p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>All: </strong>Yep.</p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #888888;"><em>Five minutes later&#8230;</em></span></p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Mark: </strong>What do you guys this of this quick mockup I just did, playing with the admin header?<br />\n<img src="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/mark-mockup.png" alt="Mark Jaquith''s mockup" />\n</p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Jane: </strong>I like it that the nav is not under the header. Might need some styling help. I was also thinking maybe the favorites menu should drop down into the white h2 area by screen options/help tabs.</p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Ryan: </strong>Menu color to the top with blog title pushed over and favorites next to screen options sounds quite nice.</p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Jane: </strong>I&#8217;ll ask Matt Thomas if he could style it <em>[ed. note: Matt Thomas created the visual style for 2.7]</em>, and we can see what people think, maybe post on <a href="http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/">wpdevel</a> for feedback.</p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Ryan: </strong>If it&#8217;s quick, maybe we could even get it into 2.8.</p>\n<h4>ACT II</h4>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Matt T: </strong>Here are some comps based on what you told me.</p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Jane: </strong>Cool, but where are Screen Options and Help tabs?</p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Matt T: </strong>Still working on that.</p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Jane: </strong>Hm. Wonder if there&#8217;s time to open this up to community designers? I know we&#8217;re in freeze, and it&#8217;s no notice, but you didn&#8217;t get any notice either when we dropped this styling request on your lap a few hours ago. That&#8217;s the way open software development works: sometimes the best ideas come at the last minute!</p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Matt T:</strong> I&#8217;m all for letting the community take a stab at it. Especially if they come up with something brilliant to do with the Screen Options and Help tabs.</p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Jane: </strong>I&#8217;ll ask Ryan about release date and see if there&#8217;s time. I know they wanted your style recommendations today.</p>\n<h4>Act III</h4>\n<p><strong>Ryan: </strong>Tuesday is probably doable, no later than that for final delivery of style and any gradient graphics, etc.</p>\n<p><strong>Jane: </strong>Awesome! People will hate me for the short notice after the has-patch marathon, but since it&#8217;s a small project and over the weekend, and wasn&#8217;t even something anyone was planning until a few hours ago, I&#8217;m <strong>*really hoping*</strong> people will take this for what it is, an attempt to give more people input into an upcoming visual change in the interface, even if it&#8217;s not a huge one.</p>\n<p><strong>Ryan:</strong> Would have the benefit of warning people that header and menu will be changed a bit.</p>\n<p><strong>Jane:</strong> And we can have a vote. If I can get all the materials together and post in the morning, that would give 2 days of design time for submissions on Monday, and if we do a day of voting Tuesday, that&#8217;s 3 days notice for the vote. I&#8217;ll make sure to post to all the lists, etc.</p>\n<p><strong>Ryan: </strong>Will we announce with comps from Matt T as examples of what we&#8217;re thinking?</p>\n<p><strong>Jane:</strong> I&#8217;ll write up the UX reasons for considering the change, and Matt T can provide some style guidelines and his original comps so no one will have to waste time mocking up the basic screen layout.</p>\n<p><strong>Ryan:</strong> That would help set the scope. We just want tweaks here and there, given the timing.</p>\n<p><strong>Jane: </strong>Woot!</p>\n<p><strong>On Your Mark, Get Set&#8230;</strong><br />\nOkay, so here&#8217;s the deal. Modifying the nav/header to be a little nicer is was a last-minute design idea, and if it can&#8217;t be worked out in the time we have left before 2.8 (which is very little), we&#8217;ll just wait until 2.9 to work on it. But! If someone comes up with something the community really likes and it doesn&#8217;t break any of the design guidelines for the rest of WordPress, we could sneak it in.</p>\n<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/development/?page_id=661">UX and design guidelines for this mini-project are posted here</a> (so as not to clog up anyone&#8217;s feed reader with big graphics). Read through the UX stuff, check out the comps Matt Thomas mocked up last night (with absolutely no notice, for the record). Use the .psd as your base, and when it&#8217;s time to submit your ideas, make a .jpg or .png and post a link to it in the comments on this post. (Note: Only comments containing a link to a design submission using this format will be approved. For general discussion about this design challenge or any of the submissions, please head into the #wordpress-dev IRC channel.)</p>\n<p>Submit the link to your comps by 1am Tuesday, April 28 UTC (7pm Monday, April 27, New York time). If you have questions or want early feedback, we&#8217;ll be in and out of the #wordpress-dev IRC channel between now and then.</p>\n<p>Once we&#8217;ve received the submissions, we&#8217;ll post a voting survey (much simpler than the icon survey; this one will be more of poll, just choose the one you like best) as soon as possible, and will post the link to it here as soon as it&#8217;s online. We&#8217;ll only keep voting open for one day because of the 2.8 deadline, so put it on your calendar if you think you&#8217;ll forget. Voting will close at 2am Wednesday, April 29 UTC (8pm Tuesday, April 28, New York time). Results will be announced the following day.</p>\n<p><strong><a href="http://wordpress.org/development/?page_id=661">Go!</a></strong></p>\n<p><span style="color: #888888;"><em>* Chats above are a conglomeration of actual chats. </em></span></p>\n<p><strong>Reminder: Only comments containing a link to a design submission will be published here. All other comments will be deleted. </strong> </p>\n<p>If you want to leave a public comment about this contest, the design, etc., I&#8217;ve created a thread in the forums that you can use. <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/265261">Please discuss these things there</a>. If you leave a regular comment here on this blog, no one will be able to reply to you, because only actual links to design submissions will be posted in the comments here. </p>\n";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:90:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/design-tweaks-whos-in-an-idea-in-three-acts/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:328:"\nACT I\nJane: It is a thorn in my side that the blog name header is above the &#8220;dashboard&#8221; nav section in the admin, since in MU installations and with plugins (like stats), things in the Dashboard section span multiple blogs. 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Makes more sense for the header to head only the per-blog content area.</p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Mark:</strong> I agree about the header. &#8220;This is the menu, this is the content.&#8221;</p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>All: </strong>Yep.</p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #888888;"><em>Five minutes later&#8230;</em></span></p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Mark: </strong>What do you guys this of this quick mockup I just did, playing with the admin header?<br />\n<img src="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/mark-mockup.png" alt="Mark Jaquith''s mockup" />\n</p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Jane: </strong>I like it that the nav is not under the header. Might need some styling help. I was also thinking maybe the favorites menu should drop down into the white h2 area by screen options/help tabs.</p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Ryan: </strong>Menu color to the top with blog title pushed over and favorites next to screen options sounds quite nice.</p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Jane: </strong>I&#8217;ll ask Matt Thomas if he could style it <em>[ed. note: Matt Thomas created the visual style for 2.7]</em>, and we can see what people think, maybe post on <a href="http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/">wpdevel</a> for feedback.</p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Ryan: </strong>If it&#8217;s quick, maybe we could even get it into 2.8.</p>\n<h4>ACT II</h4>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Matt T: </strong>Here are some comps based on what you told me.</p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Jane: </strong>Cool, but where are Screen Options and Help tabs?</p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Matt T: </strong>Still working on that.</p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Jane: </strong>Hm. Wonder if there&#8217;s time to open this up to community designers? I know we&#8217;re in freeze, and it&#8217;s no notice, but you didn&#8217;t get any notice either when we dropped this styling request on your lap a few hours ago. That&#8217;s the way open software development works: sometimes the best ideas come at the last minute!</p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Matt T:</strong> I&#8217;m all for letting the community take a stab at it. Especially if they come up with something brilliant to do with the Screen Options and Help tabs.</p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Jane: </strong>I&#8217;ll ask Ryan about release date and see if there&#8217;s time. I know they wanted your style recommendations today.</p>\n<h4>Act III</h4>\n<p><strong>Ryan: </strong>Tuesday is probably doable, no later than that for final delivery of style and any gradient graphics, etc.</p>\n<p><strong>Jane: </strong>Awesome! People will hate me for the short notice after the has-patch marathon, but since it&#8217;s a small project and over the weekend, and wasn&#8217;t even something anyone was planning until a few hours ago, I&#8217;m <strong>*really hoping*</strong> people will take this for what it is, an attempt to give more people input into an upcoming visual change in the interface, even if it&#8217;s not a huge one.</p>\n<p><strong>Ryan:</strong> Would have the benefit of warning people that header and menu will be changed a bit.</p>\n<p><strong>Jane:</strong> And we can have a vote. If I can get all the materials together and post in the morning, that would give 2 days of design time for submissions on Monday, and if we do a day of voting Tuesday, that&#8217;s 3 days notice for the vote. I&#8217;ll make sure to post to all the lists, etc.</p>\n<p><strong>Ryan: </strong>Will we announce with comps from Matt T as examples of what we&#8217;re thinking?</p>\n<p><strong>Jane:</strong> I&#8217;ll write up the UX reasons for considering the change, and Matt T can provide some style guidelines and his original comps so no one will have to waste time mocking up the basic screen layout.</p>\n<p><strong>Ryan:</strong> That would help set the scope. We just want tweaks here and there, given the timing.</p>\n<p><strong>Jane: </strong>Woot!</p>\n<p><strong>On Your Mark, Get Set&#8230;</strong><br />\nOkay, so here&#8217;s the deal. Modifying the nav/header to be a little nicer is was a last-minute design idea, and if it can&#8217;t be worked out in the time we have left before 2.8 (which is very little), we&#8217;ll just wait until 2.9 to work on it. But! 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If you have questions or want early feedback, we&#8217;ll be in and out of the #wordpress-dev IRC channel between now and then.</p>\n<p>Once we&#8217;ve received the submissions, we&#8217;ll post a voting survey (much simpler than the icon survey; this one will be more of poll, just choose the one you like best) as soon as possible, and will post the link to it here as soon as it&#8217;s online. We&#8217;ll only keep voting open for one day because of the 2.8 deadline, so put it on your calendar if you think you&#8217;ll forget. Voting will close at 2am Wednesday, April 29 UTC (8pm Tuesday, April 28, New York time). Results will be announced the following day.</p>\n<p><strong><a href="http://wordpress.org/development/?page_id=661">Go!</a></strong></p>\n<p><span style="color: #888888;"><em>* Chats above are a conglomeration of actual chats. </em></span></p>\n<p><strong>Reminder: Only comments containing a link to a design submission will be published here. All other comments will be deleted. </strong> </p>\n<p>If you want to leave a public comment about this contest, the design, etc., I&#8217;ve created a thread in the forums that you can use. <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/265261">Please discuss these things there</a>. If you leave a regular comment here on this blog, no one will be able to reply to you, because only actual links to design submissions will be posted in the comments here. </p>\n";}i:5;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:33:"Summer of Code Students Announced";s:4:"link";s:75:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/summer-of-code-students-announced/";s:8:"comments";s:84:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/summer-of-code-students-announced/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:41:14 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:8:"category";s:11:"Development";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=631";s:11:"description";s:333:"Google has announced the successful applicants for the 2009 Google Summer of Code, and WordPress is lucky enough to have eight students allotted to our open source project. It was a tough choice, since we had almost 60 applications to choose from. We&#8217;d like to thank all the students who applied, and we&#8217;re sorry we [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2998:"<p>Google has announced the successful applicants for the 2009 Google Summer of Code, and WordPress is lucky enough to have eight students allotted to our open source project. It was a tough choice, since we had almost 60 applications to choose from. We&#8217;d like to thank all the students who applied, and we&#8217;re sorry we couldn&#8217;t take on more of you.</p>\n<p>Developers, if you see these bright young things in the dev channel, please be your usual friendly, helpful selves. <img src=''http://wordpress.org/development/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif'' alt='':)'' class=''wp-smiley'' />  Everyone else, wish our students luck with their projects this summer, which promise to be challenging but awesome. Without further ado, I&#8217;m pleased to introduce the GSoC projects (in no particular order) and the students tackling them.</p>\n<p><strong>Justin Shreve</strong>, Extended WordPress Search Engine. Justin will be mentored by Andy Skelton. One of the complaints I hear over and over again is about the search engine, so this could have great benefit to WordPress core.<br />\n<strong><br />\nRudolf Cheuk Sang Lai</strong>, Adding Photo Grouping by Album Functionality. This project will wind up being a piece of a larger media redux project for 2.9/3.0. Mark Jaquith is mentoring, and Noel Jackson will be a backup mentor.</p>\n<p><strong>Daryl Koopersmith</strong>, WYSIWYG theme editor/generator. This will allow users to create and edit themes without touching any code. Beau Lebens is the mentor on this project.</p>\n<p><strong>Michael Benedict Arul </strong>will be working on a similar project. Michael will be mentored by Andrew Ozz, since this project will be using jQuery. It’s our hope that having two students working on this idea separately will foster competition and allow us to compare approaches.</p>\n<p><strong>Daniel Larkin</strong>, Modified Preorder Tree Traversal (MPTT). Lead Developer Ryan Boren will be his mentor. This is Daniel&#8217;s second GSoC working on WordPress.</p>\n<p><strong>Diego Caro</strong>, a student from Chile, will also work on an MPTT project. Diego will be mentored by Thorsten Ott.</p>\n<p><strong>César Rodas</strong>, social and text processing algorithms for BuddyPress and MU as related to recommendation engines. Alex Shiels and Andy Peatling will co-mentor this project.</p>\n<p><strong>Anthony Cole</strong>, Event management with WordPress. Co-organizer of WordCamp Australia and New Zealand, Anthony will be working on a suite of plugins (or maybe just one or two out of a planned set, scope TBD) for event management/attendee networking that will be built on BuddyPress/MU/bbPress. We&#8217;ll use wordcamp.org as a test case, and release the final product to the community. Jake Spurlock will be mentoring, with Andy Peatling as backup.</p>\n<p>Congratulations, guys*!</p>\n<p>*<em>Seriously, we didn&#8217;t get more than a couple of applications from female student developers. Where are all the geek girls?</em></p>\n";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:80:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/summer-of-code-students-announced/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:333:"Google has announced the successful applicants for the 2009 Google Summer of Code, and WordPress is lucky enough to have eight students allotted to our open source project. It was a tough choice, since we had almost 60 applications to choose from. We&#8217;d like to thank all the students who applied, and we&#8217;re sorry we [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:2998:"<p>Google has announced the successful applicants for the 2009 Google Summer of Code, and WordPress is lucky enough to have eight students allotted to our open source project. It was a tough choice, since we had almost 60 applications to choose from. We&#8217;d like to thank all the students who applied, and we&#8217;re sorry we couldn&#8217;t take on more of you.</p>\n<p>Developers, if you see these bright young things in the dev channel, please be your usual friendly, helpful selves. <img src=''http://wordpress.org/development/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif'' alt='':)'' class=''wp-smiley'' />  Everyone else, wish our students luck with their projects this summer, which promise to be challenging but awesome. Without further ado, I&#8217;m pleased to introduce the GSoC projects (in no particular order) and the students tackling them.</p>\n<p><strong>Justin Shreve</strong>, Extended WordPress Search Engine. Justin will be mentored by Andy Skelton. One of the complaints I hear over and over again is about the search engine, so this could have great benefit to WordPress core.<br />\n<strong><br />\nRudolf Cheuk Sang Lai</strong>, Adding Photo Grouping by Album Functionality. This project will wind up being a piece of a larger media redux project for 2.9/3.0. Mark Jaquith is mentoring, and Noel Jackson will be a backup mentor.</p>\n<p><strong>Daryl Koopersmith</strong>, WYSIWYG theme editor/generator. This will allow users to create and edit themes without touching any code. Beau Lebens is the mentor on this project.</p>\n<p><strong>Michael Benedict Arul </strong>will be working on a similar project. Michael will be mentored by Andrew Ozz, since this project will be using jQuery. It’s our hope that having two students working on this idea separately will foster competition and allow us to compare approaches.</p>\n<p><strong>Daniel Larkin</strong>, Modified Preorder Tree Traversal (MPTT). Lead Developer Ryan Boren will be his mentor. This is Daniel&#8217;s second GSoC working on WordPress.</p>\n<p><strong>Diego Caro</strong>, a student from Chile, will also work on an MPTT project. Diego will be mentored by Thorsten Ott.</p>\n<p><strong>César Rodas</strong>, social and text processing algorithms for BuddyPress and MU as related to recommendation engines. Alex Shiels and Andy Peatling will co-mentor this project.</p>\n<p><strong>Anthony Cole</strong>, Event management with WordPress. Co-organizer of WordCamp Australia and New Zealand, Anthony will be working on a suite of plugins (or maybe just one or two out of a planned set, scope TBD) for event management/attendee networking that will be built on BuddyPress/MU/bbPress. We&#8217;ll use wordcamp.org as a test case, and release the final product to the community. Jake Spurlock will be mentoring, with Andy Peatling as backup.</p>\n<p>Congratulations, guys*!</p>\n<p>*<em>Seriously, we didn&#8217;t get more than a couple of applications from female student developers. Where are all the geek girls?</em></p>\n";}i:6;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:26:"Has-Patch Marathon Results";s:4:"link";s:68:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/has-patch-marathon-results/";s:8:"comments";s:77:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/has-patch-marathon-results/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:45:11 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:8:"category";s:30:"Development2.8bug huntmarathon";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=628";s:11:"description";s:327:"As promised, here are the results of the 24-hour has-patch marathon that was announced, begun and completed over the course of a few days last week (more on timing after the results). Results include activity from 8am Pacific time on Thursday, April 16, 2009 to 9am Pacific time on Friday, April 17, 2009.\nTotal number of [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:3738:"<p>As promised, here are the results of the 24-hour has-patch marathon that was announced, begun and completed over the course of a few days last week (more on timing after the results). Results include activity from 8am Pacific time on Thursday, April 16, 2009 to 9am Pacific time on Friday, April 17, 2009.</p>\n<p>Total number of patches committed to core: 44</p>\n<p>Contributors whose old patches were committed: 9</p>\n<p>Marathon contributors whose patches were committed: 13</p>\n<p>Tickets closed: 102 (breakdown below)</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed &#8211; 45</li>\n<li>Dupe &#8211; 16</li>\n<li> Wontfix &#8211; 10</li>\n<li>Invalid &#8211; 19</li>\n<li>Worksforme &#8211; 12</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Tickets created: 20 [<em>I guess not everyone got the memo that we were trying to close tickets.</em> <img src=''http://wordpress.org/development/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif'' alt='':)'' class=''wp-smiley'' />  ]</p>\n<p>Tickets reopened: 4</p>\n<p>Number of testers who left comments in ticket threads: 10</p>\n<p>Number of testing-specific comments: 18</p>\n<p>These numbers are based on opening each ticket that registered activity during the marathon hours and counting the actual comments that indicated some testing of a patch. Contributions to philosophical discussions without a patch, while important, weren&#8217;t counted for this purpose. Nor were Trac notices that simply noted a ticket was being closed because it was a dupe, invalid, etc.</p>\n<p>Top five contributors (committed patches): Denis-de-Bernardy, filosofo, nbachiyski, scohoust, simonwheatley</p>\n<p>Top five testing feedback providers: shanef, Nicholas91,  Denis-de-Bernardy, sivel, williamsba, mrmist (tie)</p>\n<p>Given the short notice/last-minute nature of the marathon, I think we did pretty well. Granted, there were people who complained that two days wasn&#8217;t enough notice to clear their schedules, but let&#8217;s be honest, the 24-hour has-patch marathon was more of a rallying cry to help clean out Trac than a deadline based on anything specific. Patches are <strong>always</strong> welcome/encouraged, and now that the big features for 2.8 are mostly done, the lead devs will be able to spend more time reviewing Trac tickets and patches.   Still, not too many people tested existing patches (or if they did, they failed to leave the requisite comment in the ticket threads). Testing patches is one of the easiest things you can do to help further development, since patches won&#8217;t be committed or rejected until they&#8217;ve been tested by several people.</p>\n<p>As we get closer to the 2.8 release, jump into Trac any time and test a few patches (don&#8217;t forget to leave the feedback!) if you have time. If there&#8217;s a ticket you&#8217;re sick of seeing there, write a patch and ask your fellow contributors to test it and comment on the ticket thread. We&#8217;ll announce an official bug hunt soon (and yes, there will be more than two days&#8217; notice), but the fact remains that addressing new bugs is easier if Trac isn&#8217;t clogged with old tickets. If you spot duplicate tickets, mark it a dupe, note the other ticket number in the comments and close the ticket. If you see one that is no longer relevant because the current code base fixes a problem reported several versions ago, mark it invalid, leave a comment and close the ticket. These simple housekeeping tasks may not seem like much, but they do help. Special props to Denis-de-Bernardy, who in addition to writing a couple of patches during the marathon and testing a few others, did a bunch of ticket maintenance like this, and cleared out a number of tickets.</p>\n<p>Thank you to everyone who participated, and until the next marathon, happy patching and testing!</p>\n";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:73:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/has-patch-marathon-results/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:327:"As promised, here are the results of the 24-hour has-patch marathon that was announced, begun and completed over the course of a few days last week (more on timing after the results). Results include activity from 8am Pacific time on Thursday, April 16, 2009 to 9am Pacific time on Friday, April 17, 2009.\nTotal number of [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:3738:"<p>As promised, here are the results of the 24-hour has-patch marathon that was announced, begun and completed over the course of a few days last week (more on timing after the results). Results include activity from 8am Pacific time on Thursday, April 16, 2009 to 9am Pacific time on Friday, April 17, 2009.</p>\n<p>Total number of patches committed to core: 44</p>\n<p>Contributors whose old patches were committed: 9</p>\n<p>Marathon contributors whose patches were committed: 13</p>\n<p>Tickets closed: 102 (breakdown below)</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed &#8211; 45</li>\n<li>Dupe &#8211; 16</li>\n<li> Wontfix &#8211; 10</li>\n<li>Invalid &#8211; 19</li>\n<li>Worksforme &#8211; 12</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Tickets created: 20 [<em>I guess not everyone got the memo that we were trying to close tickets.</em> <img src=''http://wordpress.org/development/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif'' alt='':)'' class=''wp-smiley'' />  ]</p>\n<p>Tickets reopened: 4</p>\n<p>Number of testers who left comments in ticket threads: 10</p>\n<p>Number of testing-specific comments: 18</p>\n<p>These numbers are based on opening each ticket that registered activity during the marathon hours and counting the actual comments that indicated some testing of a patch. Contributions to philosophical discussions without a patch, while important, weren&#8217;t counted for this purpose. Nor were Trac notices that simply noted a ticket was being closed because it was a dupe, invalid, etc.</p>\n<p>Top five contributors (committed patches): Denis-de-Bernardy, filosofo, nbachiyski, scohoust, simonwheatley</p>\n<p>Top five testing feedback providers: shanef, Nicholas91,  Denis-de-Bernardy, sivel, williamsba, mrmist (tie)</p>\n<p>Given the short notice/last-minute nature of the marathon, I think we did pretty well. Granted, there were people who complained that two days wasn&#8217;t enough notice to clear their schedules, but let&#8217;s be honest, the 24-hour has-patch marathon was more of a rallying cry to help clean out Trac than a deadline based on anything specific. Patches are <strong>always</strong> welcome/encouraged, and now that the big features for 2.8 are mostly done, the lead devs will be able to spend more time reviewing Trac tickets and patches.   Still, not too many people tested existing patches (or if they did, they failed to leave the requisite comment in the ticket threads). Testing patches is one of the easiest things you can do to help further development, since patches won&#8217;t be committed or rejected until they&#8217;ve been tested by several people.</p>\n<p>As we get closer to the 2.8 release, jump into Trac any time and test a few patches (don&#8217;t forget to leave the feedback!) if you have time. If there&#8217;s a ticket you&#8217;re sick of seeing there, write a patch and ask your fellow contributors to test it and comment on the ticket thread. We&#8217;ll announce an official bug hunt soon (and yes, there will be more than two days&#8217; notice), but the fact remains that addressing new bugs is easier if Trac isn&#8217;t clogged with old tickets. If you spot duplicate tickets, mark it a dupe, note the other ticket number in the comments and close the ticket. If you see one that is no longer relevant because the current code base fixes a problem reported several versions ago, mark it invalid, leave a comment and close the ticket. These simple housekeeping tasks may not seem like much, but they do help. Special props to Denis-de-Bernardy, who in addition to writing a couple of patches during the marathon and testing a few others, did a bunch of ticket maintenance like this, and cleared out a number of tickets.</p>\n<p>Thank you to everyone who participated, and until the next marathon, happy patching and testing!</p>\n";}i:7;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:21:"Start Your Engines…";s:4:"link";s:60:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/start-your-engines/";s:8:"comments";s:69:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/start-your-engines/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:00:03 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:8:"category";s:28:"Developmentbughas-patchpatch";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=618";s:11:"description";s:342:"The 24-hour has-patch marathon has just officially begun! For the next 24 hours (until Friday, 4pm UTC), the core developers will be evaluating patches that have been tested and committing those that are good. When they run out of those, they&#8217;ll start testing patches that have been submitted but not tested. This takes longer, so [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:3493:"<p>The <strong>24-hour has-patch marathon</strong> has just officially begun! For the next 24 hours (until Friday, 4pm UTC), the core developers will be evaluating patches that have been tested and committing those that are good. When they run out of those, they&#8217;ll start testing patches that have been submitted but not tested. This takes longer, so help us keep the momentum going by testing patches today.</p>\n<p>Grab yourself a copy of the <a title="nightly build " href="http://wordpress.org/download/nightly/ ">nightly build</a> to make sure you&#8217;re using the right version, then head over to Trac and start looking at the <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=assigned&amp;status=new&amp;status=reopened&amp;order=priority&amp;col=id&amp;col=summary&amp;col=status&amp;col=owner&amp;col=type&amp;col=priority&amp;col=component&amp;milestone=2.8&amp;keywords=~has-patch">has-patch* tickets</a>. Pick a ticket, download the diff, test it out on the browsers/platforms you have available, and write a comment about the results in the ticket&#8217;s comment thread. Move on to the next ticket. Do as many as you can over the next 24 hours.</p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;ve got the mad skills to contribute bug fixes and code patches for enhancements and other tickets, now is also a great time to contribute a patch. Why wait? One of the complaints I hear in the IRC #wordpress-dev channel is that it can be frustrating to write patches because sometimes it takes a long time for them to be reviewed and committed. For those people (and everyone else), this is the perfect time to patch, because we&#8217;ll be looking at every has-patch ticket in Trac for 2.8 over the next 24 hours. If you have a patch that&#8217;s been submitted but it hasn&#8217;t been tested, consider doing a little PR for yourself. Hop in the dev channel, post on your blog, mention on Twitter that you need people to test your patch *today* so that it can move forward in the process. This will speed things along. You can also add the keyword <em>needs-testing</em> in addition to<em> has-patch</em>.</p>\n<p>At the end of the 24-hour period, you don&#8217;t have to put your pencils down, but the core devs will be going to sleep and then returning to the regular dev cycle, so it&#8217;s worth it to contribute today. If you miss the deadline, it&#8217;s okay; you can contribute or test patches as usual, you just won&#8217;t get the more immediate gratification the marathon promises.</p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll post the results of the marathon here on Monday, after everyone&#8217;s gotten some rest and we can go through the Trac logs to see how many people got involved. This is one reason it&#8217;s so important to leave a comment when testing patches&#8230;it&#8217;s how we&#8217;ll be counting the number of marathon testers. Top patch contributors and testers will be recognized in the results post, so if that sort of thing motivates you, let the link love lead the way.</p>\n<p>Of note: we are now in feature freeze for 2.8!</p>\n<p>* &#8211; <em>For those who don&#8217;t know why I keep using the term <strong>has-patch</strong>&#8230; When someone submits a patch by uploading it to the Trac ticket, they add &#8220;has-patch&#8221; to the keywords field, so that the core devs will know there&#8217;s a patch attached. Not the most elegant system, true, and you&#8217;d think maybe Trac could just recognize that a certain file type had been uploaded, but there you have it. </em></p>\n";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:65:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/start-your-engines/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:342:"The 24-hour has-patch marathon has just officially begun! For the next 24 hours (until Friday, 4pm UTC), the core developers will be evaluating patches that have been tested and committing those that are good. When they run out of those, they&#8217;ll start testing patches that have been submitted but not tested. This takes longer, so [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:3493:"<p>The <strong>24-hour has-patch marathon</strong> has just officially begun! For the next 24 hours (until Friday, 4pm UTC), the core developers will be evaluating patches that have been tested and committing those that are good. When they run out of those, they&#8217;ll start testing patches that have been submitted but not tested. This takes longer, so help us keep the momentum going by testing patches today.</p>\n<p>Grab yourself a copy of the <a title="nightly build " href="http://wordpress.org/download/nightly/ ">nightly build</a> to make sure you&#8217;re using the right version, then head over to Trac and start looking at the <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=assigned&amp;status=new&amp;status=reopened&amp;order=priority&amp;col=id&amp;col=summary&amp;col=status&amp;col=owner&amp;col=type&amp;col=priority&amp;col=component&amp;milestone=2.8&amp;keywords=~has-patch">has-patch* tickets</a>. Pick a ticket, download the diff, test it out on the browsers/platforms you have available, and write a comment about the results in the ticket&#8217;s comment thread. Move on to the next ticket. Do as many as you can over the next 24 hours.</p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;ve got the mad skills to contribute bug fixes and code patches for enhancements and other tickets, now is also a great time to contribute a patch. Why wait? One of the complaints I hear in the IRC #wordpress-dev channel is that it can be frustrating to write patches because sometimes it takes a long time for them to be reviewed and committed. For those people (and everyone else), this is the perfect time to patch, because we&#8217;ll be looking at every has-patch ticket in Trac for 2.8 over the next 24 hours. If you have a patch that&#8217;s been submitted but it hasn&#8217;t been tested, consider doing a little PR for yourself. Hop in the dev channel, post on your blog, mention on Twitter that you need people to test your patch *today* so that it can move forward in the process. This will speed things along. You can also add the keyword <em>needs-testing</em> in addition to<em> has-patch</em>.</p>\n<p>At the end of the 24-hour period, you don&#8217;t have to put your pencils down, but the core devs will be going to sleep and then returning to the regular dev cycle, so it&#8217;s worth it to contribute today. If you miss the deadline, it&#8217;s okay; you can contribute or test patches as usual, you just won&#8217;t get the more immediate gratification the marathon promises.</p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll post the results of the marathon here on Monday, after everyone&#8217;s gotten some rest and we can go through the Trac logs to see how many people got involved. This is one reason it&#8217;s so important to leave a comment when testing patches&#8230;it&#8217;s how we&#8217;ll be counting the number of marathon testers. Top patch contributors and testers will be recognized in the results post, so if that sort of thing motivates you, let the link love lead the way.</p>\n<p>Of note: we are now in feature freeze for 2.8!</p>\n<p>* &#8211; <em>For those who don&#8217;t know why I keep using the term <strong>has-patch</strong>&#8230; When someone submits a patch by uploading it to the Trac ticket, they add &#8220;has-patch&#8221; to the keywords field, so that the core devs will know there&#8217;s a patch attached. Not the most elegant system, true, and you&#8217;d think maybe Trac could just recognize that a certain file type had been uploaded, but there you have it. </em></p>\n";}i:8;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:54:"The Super-Awesome WordPress 24-Hour Has-Patch Marathon";s:4:"link";s:96:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/the-super-awesome-wordpress-24-hour-has-patch-marathon/";s:8:"comments";s:105:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/the-super-awesome-wordpress-24-hour-has-patch-marathon/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:03:54 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:8:"category";s:11:"Development";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=609";s:11:"description";s:365:"Waiting patiently for a bug hunt to be announced before you get involved as a WordPress development contributor? Pshaw! Don&#8217;t be shy!\n2.8 currently has about 500 active tickets that need to be resolved. The core devs are largely working on the bigger feature additions, such as the embedded theme browser/installer, the new widgets management, improving [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:4270:"<p>Waiting patiently for a bug hunt to be announced before you get involved as a WordPress development contributor? Pshaw! Don&#8217;t be shy!</p>\n<p>2.8 currently has <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=assigned&amp;status=new&amp;status=reopened&amp;group=status&amp;order=priority&amp;milestone=2.8">about 500 active tickets</a> that need to be resolved. The core devs are largely working on the bigger feature additions, such as the embedded theme browser/installer, the new widgets management, improving performance, etc. so a lot of tickets that are of lesser priority are still just sitting there. Aren&#8217;t they calling to you, just like puppies at the pound? &#8220;Adopt me! Please!&#8221;</p>\n<p>Before we have a bug hunt and see the addition of dozens of new tickets, we need to clear out some of these old ones. Not being the kind of shelter that euthanizes its bugs after a certain amount of time (seriously, there&#8217;s <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4332">one ticket</a> that goes all the way back to version 1.5), we are hoping people will step up and bring home a bug today.</p>\n<p>To keep things moving, we&#8217;re announcing a new kind of event, related to bug hunts, but with a different slant. We need a sprint to clear out these tickets. Thursday is the day (and Friday for those over the date line). Core devs will spend 24 hours going through all the <a title="2.8 tickets tagged has-patch" href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=assigned&amp;status=new&amp;status=reopened&amp;group=status&amp;order=priority&amp;col=id&amp;col=summary&amp;col=owner&amp;col=type&amp;col=priority&amp;col=component&amp;col=version&amp;milestone=2.8&amp;keywords=~has-patch">tickets tagged with <em>has-patch</em></a>, and committing those that have been tested and work. So how can you get in on the Super-Awesome WordPress 24-Hour Has-Patch Marathon?</p>\n<p><strong>Write a patch. </strong>There are dozens of tickets for discrete little pieces of correction (<a title="Ellipses ticket" href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8714">change &#8230; to actual ellipses in admin interface</a>, <a title="Change link ticket" href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8713">change the &#8216;go back&#8217; link to a &#8216;view page&#8217; link</a>, etc.), dozens that are browser-specific bugs, dozens that might be more challenging. Pick the one you want to work on, add a comment to the thread so other marathon contributors know someone is working on it, and get the patch submitted before the marathon ends. If you start coding now, your patch could be in by the weekend!</p>\n<p><strong>Test a patch.</strong> There are, as of right now, <a title="has-patch tickets" href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=assigned&amp;status=new&amp;status=reopened&amp;group=status&amp;order=priority&amp;col=id&amp;col=summary&amp;col=component&amp;col=owner&amp;col=type&amp;col=priority&amp;col=version&amp;milestone=2.8&amp;keywords=~has-patch">177 tickets marked with has-patch</a>. Patches can&#8217;t be committed until they&#8217;ve been thoroughly tested. If you&#8217;re already running the nightly build start testing out these patches in as many operating system/browser combinations as you have. Only have one? Hey, it&#8217;s probably more than has been tested already! If you&#8217;re not already running the nightly build, you can <a title="Info on using nightly build" href="http://wordpress.org/download/nightly/">download it here</a> to set up a test blog. Don&#8217;t forget to add what you found to the comment thread for each ticket. If it doesn&#8217;t work, be specific about what is not working so that others can jump in and fix it.</p>\n<p>24 hours of patching, 24 hours of testing, 24 hours of committing. Don&#8217;t miss the excitement; get started now!</p>\n<p>The Super-Awesome WordPress 24-Hour Has-Patch Marathon begins Thursday, April 16 at 8am Pacific time (that&#8217;s <strong>Thursday, 4pm UTC</strong>) and will end, as you might have guessed, 24 hours later. No reason to wait, though&#8230; start early and get patching/testing. The more patches that have been tested by Thursday morning, the more that will be committed during the marathon.</p>\n<p>Go WordPress!</p>\n";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:101:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/the-super-awesome-wordpress-24-hour-has-patch-marathon/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:365:"Waiting patiently for a bug hunt to be announced before you get involved as a WordPress development contributor? Pshaw! Don&#8217;t be shy!\n2.8 currently has about 500 active tickets that need to be resolved. The core devs are largely working on the bigger feature additions, such as the embedded theme browser/installer, the new widgets management, improving [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:4270:"<p>Waiting patiently for a bug hunt to be announced before you get involved as a WordPress development contributor? Pshaw! 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This is because your browser keeps a copy of the CSS cached on your hard drive. Depending on how your server is set up, it may not check for a new version of the stylesheet for a couple hours, or longer! And even if <em>you</em> force-reload to see the changes, visitors who have previously accessed your site may still get the old CSS. One way to solve this is to &#8220;version&#8221; your CSS file, by adding <code>?v=123</code> to the URL in the <code>&lt;link /&gt;</code> to your stylesheet. This is rather a pain to have to do by hand every time, so here is a much better way:</p>\n<p><code>&lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="&lt;?php bloginfo(''template_url''); ?&gt;/style.css?v=&lt;?php echo filemtime(TEMPLATEPATH . ''/style.css''); ?&gt;" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" /&gt;</code></p>\n<p>This automatically updates the <code>?v=</code> part every time you modify the file. Boom. Now everyone instantly sees your changes.</p>\n  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/279/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/279/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/279/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/279/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/279/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/279/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/279/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/279/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/279/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/279/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=279&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:2;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:64:"Dev Blog: Contributing to WordPress, Part III: Usability Testing";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=724";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/05/testing-opps/";s:11:"description";s:6418:"<p>One of the reasons WordPress 2.7 was such a success is the amount of usability testing that took place during the development cycle. Starting with <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/10/usability-testing-report-25-and-crazyhorse/">testing 2.5 and the Crazyhorse prototype</a> and following with the 2.7 beta, the testing program looked at almost every feature and function in the application. That kind of thing? Takes a lot of time. <img src="http://wordpress.org/development/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>\n<p>For readers who aren&#8217;t familiar with the process behind usability testing, here&#8217;s an overview. First, determine the scope of your test and create a test protocol/script. Determine the audience segments to be included in the test group(s), and begin recruiting. Recruiting may mean hiring an agency to find participants, but for testing WordPress, it makes more sense to recruit from within this community, so that means making a screening survey, reading all the responses, segmenting the respondents into categories and contacting people until you&#8217;ve filled your desired quotas (for whatever segments you&#8217;re seeking, such as newbie, experienced user, developer, CMS user, photoblogger, mobile user, etc. ). Then come the test sessions.</p>\n<p>Depending on what is being tested, these last anywhere from half an hour to an hour and half apiece. Sessions are generally recorded using screen capture and web cam, with a video camera for backup. The moderator(s) generally take notes during sessions and/or (depending on what software is being used for the session capture) set markers in the video to indicate task completion, comments of interest, etc.  In some cases, auxiliary test methods such as eye-tracking may be included. When the sessions are complete, the results are analyzed. All the notes and videos are reviewed, patterns are identified, and ultimately a report is written and the feedback informs the next round of revisions.</p>\n<p>Some people think it shouldn&#8217;t take much time to do all this. I&#8217;ve lost count of the number of people who cite <a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000319.html">an old article by Jakob Nielsen</a> that says you don&#8217;t need to test with more than 5 users because usability issues become clear right away. While I&#8217;ve found that to be generally true, when your user base is as diverse in experience level, usage, platform  configuration, language (right to left languages have a pretty different experience) and demography as the WordPress community is, 5 users really isn&#8217;t enough to get a clear picture. We try to test with at least a dozen people each round, but then we are limited to a geographic region (test in NY, test in SF, or test wherever we can schedule enough people back to back to make it worthwhile), while WordPress users are located all over the globe.</p>\n<p>To address this, we&#8217;re introducing a set of new contribution opportunities to expand our usability testing program. As with development and graphic design, we&#8217;re going to create an infrastructure to allow community participation in usability testing on a regular basis and in a much broader capacity than existed before, when it was limited to announcements that we needed participants in <em>x</em> city on <em>y</em> date. We&#8217;ll be looking for volunteer moderators as well as participants, hopefully from all over the world.</p>\n<p><strong>Moderators.</strong> Observational usability testing isn&#8217;t rocket science, but neither is it a simple task to reduce bias. Because of this, at first we&#8217;ll choose only moderators who have professional experience conducting usability tests. People who conduct testing for design agencies, software companies, usability consulting firms and the like will be our first round draft picks. In the future, when we have a group of regular volunteers and have ironed out any kinks in the process, we&#8217;ll ideally match up experienced testers with aspiring ones, using a mentorship model to increase the number of people who can contribute in this fashion.</p>\n<p><strong>Participants.</strong> If you use WordPress, chances are you could participant in a usability test at some point. In some cases we&#8217;re looking for particular behaviors (people who upload large video files, people who blog from their iPhone, people who manage more than 5 blogs, etc.), while other times the behaviors we&#8217;re looking for are much more common (do you have widgets in your sidebar, have you changed themes in the last 6 months, is there more than one author on your blog, etc.).</p>\n<p><strong>So how will these opportunities come into play, and how will it make WordPress better?</strong></p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll start with the moderators, and try to get volunteers with a decent geographic spread. Then, we&#8217;ll start signing up potential test participants in those areas (though we&#8217;ll also allow at-large registrations, since traveling testing will still be happening). We&#8217;re working on a registration process for potential participants. You&#8217;ll enter your basic info (location, contact info) and answer some questions about your WordPress usage to be entered in the database, and when there&#8217;s a testing opportunity coming up that&#8217;s appropriate for you, a local moderator will get in touch to see if you&#8217;re interested. Further down the road we may experiment with remote testing and other methods, but for now, this approach will broaden the geographic scope of our testing.</p>\n<p>All moderators will follow the same test protocols and script, and their results/reports/video will be reviewed and collated, with a composite report (including the protocol/script that was used) published to the community. This will provide designers and developers with broader feedback during the dev cycle, and will allow the wider community to both understand and participate in the testing program.</p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in being a moderator during this initial phase (meaning you do it professionally), <a href="http://jane.wordpress.com/contact-me/">send me an email</a> and introduce yourself. If you&#8217;re interested in signing up as a potential test participant, watch this space. We&#8217;ll post a link to the registration survey once it&#8217;s ready.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 04 May 2009 13:57:13 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:7:"summary";s:6418:"<p>One of the reasons WordPress 2.7 was such a success is the amount of usability testing that took place during the development cycle. Starting with <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/10/usability-testing-report-25-and-crazyhorse/">testing 2.5 and the Crazyhorse prototype</a> and following with the 2.7 beta, the testing program looked at almost every feature and function in the application. That kind of thing? Takes a lot of time. <img src="http://wordpress.org/development/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>\n<p>For readers who aren&#8217;t familiar with the process behind usability testing, here&#8217;s an overview. First, determine the scope of your test and create a test protocol/script. Determine the audience segments to be included in the test group(s), and begin recruiting. Recruiting may mean hiring an agency to find participants, but for testing WordPress, it makes more sense to recruit from within this community, so that means making a screening survey, reading all the responses, segmenting the respondents into categories and contacting people until you&#8217;ve filled your desired quotas (for whatever segments you&#8217;re seeking, such as newbie, experienced user, developer, CMS user, photoblogger, mobile user, etc. ). Then come the test sessions.</p>\n<p>Depending on what is being tested, these last anywhere from half an hour to an hour and half apiece. Sessions are generally recorded using screen capture and web cam, with a video camera for backup. The moderator(s) generally take notes during sessions and/or (depending on what software is being used for the session capture) set markers in the video to indicate task completion, comments of interest, etc.  In some cases, auxiliary test methods such as eye-tracking may be included. When the sessions are complete, the results are analyzed. All the notes and videos are reviewed, patterns are identified, and ultimately a report is written and the feedback informs the next round of revisions.</p>\n<p>Some people think it shouldn&#8217;t take much time to do all this. I&#8217;ve lost count of the number of people who cite <a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000319.html">an old article by Jakob Nielsen</a> that says you don&#8217;t need to test with more than 5 users because usability issues become clear right away. While I&#8217;ve found that to be generally true, when your user base is as diverse in experience level, usage, platform  configuration, language (right to left languages have a pretty different experience) and demography as the WordPress community is, 5 users really isn&#8217;t enough to get a clear picture. We try to test with at least a dozen people each round, but then we are limited to a geographic region (test in NY, test in SF, or test wherever we can schedule enough people back to back to make it worthwhile), while WordPress users are located all over the globe.</p>\n<p>To address this, we&#8217;re introducing a set of new contribution opportunities to expand our usability testing program. As with development and graphic design, we&#8217;re going to create an infrastructure to allow community participation in usability testing on a regular basis and in a much broader capacity than existed before, when it was limited to announcements that we needed participants in <em>x</em> city on <em>y</em> date. We&#8217;ll be looking for volunteer moderators as well as participants, hopefully from all over the world.</p>\n<p><strong>Moderators.</strong> Observational usability testing isn&#8217;t rocket science, but neither is it a simple task to reduce bias. Because of this, at first we&#8217;ll choose only moderators who have professional experience conducting usability tests. People who conduct testing for design agencies, software companies, usability consulting firms and the like will be our first round draft picks. In the future, when we have a group of regular volunteers and have ironed out any kinks in the process, we&#8217;ll ideally match up experienced testers with aspiring ones, using a mentorship model to increase the number of people who can contribute in this fashion.</p>\n<p><strong>Participants.</strong> If you use WordPress, chances are you could participant in a usability test at some point. In some cases we&#8217;re looking for particular behaviors (people who upload large video files, people who blog from their iPhone, people who manage more than 5 blogs, etc.), while other times the behaviors we&#8217;re looking for are much more common (do you have widgets in your sidebar, have you changed themes in the last 6 months, is there more than one author on your blog, etc.).</p>\n<p><strong>So how will these opportunities come into play, and how will it make WordPress better?</strong></p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll start with the moderators, and try to get volunteers with a decent geographic spread. Then, we&#8217;ll start signing up potential test participants in those areas (though we&#8217;ll also allow at-large registrations, since traveling testing will still be happening). We&#8217;re working on a registration process for potential participants. You&#8217;ll enter your basic info (location, contact info) and answer some questions about your WordPress usage to be entered in the database, and when there&#8217;s a testing opportunity coming up that&#8217;s appropriate for you, a local moderator will get in touch to see if you&#8217;re interested. Further down the road we may experiment with remote testing and other methods, but for now, this approach will broaden the geographic scope of our testing.</p>\n<p>All moderators will follow the same test protocols and script, and their results/reports/video will be reviewed and collated, with a composite report (including the protocol/script that was used) published to the community. This will provide designers and developers with broader feedback during the dev cycle, and will allow the wider community to both understand and participate in the testing program.</p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in being a moderator during this initial phase (meaning you do it professionally), <a href="http://jane.wordpress.com/contact-me/">send me an email</a> and introduce yourself. If you&#8217;re interested in signing up as a potential test participant, watch this space. We&#8217;ll post a link to the registration survey once it&#8217;s ready.</p>";}i:3;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:67:"Weblog Tools Collection: BuddyPress, bbPress Integration Plugin Bug";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5729";s:4:"link";s:95:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/03/buddypress-bbpress-integration-plugin-bug/";s:11:"description";s:1968:"<p><a href="http://umwblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_WPMu%2C_BuddyPress%2C_and_bbPress">Various tutorials on installing BuddyPress correctly and integrating bbPress with BuddyPress</a>, make mention of a plugin called &#8220;<a href="http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/wpmu-enable-bbpress-capabilities/">WPMU Enable bbPress Cabpabilities</a>&#8221; written by Michael Eagan. It simply adds a type of usermeta to the WPMU user tables for bbPress to pick up on. The plugin page says pretty clearly that this plugin is compatible with bbPress version upto 1.0-alpha-2. With the recent release of BuddyPress 1.0 and bbPress 1.0-alpha-6 (which has some very cool WordPress integration capabilities), this simple plugin developed a huge bug. Since it makes very little sense to release another version of this plugin, <a href="http://midout.com/groups/buddypress/forum/topic/9">I wrote up a simple fix for it on our Community Forums</a>.</p>\n<p>Speaking of our <a href="http://midout.com">WLTC Community</a>, we are up to 68 users who are actively making friends, posting on their blogs and writing up forum topics. I can&#8217;t say this often enough, but BuddyPress and WordPress have amazed me once more. It was relatively simple to set up (barring the voodoo nonce bug and the mismatched installation documentation/plugins due to version differences), it was a breeze.</p>\n<p>Not only is the back end software cool, the front end is pretty darn easy to use and can be addictive. If you don&#8217;t believe me, just register on our <a href="http://midout.com/register">Weblog Tools Collection Community</a> and <a href="http://midout.com/groups">take it for a spin</a>. I am very active there and have tried to encourage people to start participating, sharing and asking. We hope to make it as valuable of a resource as possible and even have plans for some custom development of our own (ok, we already have custom development, we just need to release our work).</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 04 May 2009 00:30:35 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1968:"<p><a href="http://umwblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_WPMu%2C_BuddyPress%2C_and_bbPress">Various tutorials on installing BuddyPress correctly and integrating bbPress with BuddyPress</a>, make mention of a plugin called &#8220;<a href="http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/wpmu-enable-bbpress-capabilities/">WPMU Enable bbPress Cabpabilities</a>&#8221; written by Michael Eagan. It simply adds a type of usermeta to the WPMU user tables for bbPress to pick up on. The plugin page says pretty clearly that this plugin is compatible with bbPress version upto 1.0-alpha-2. With the recent release of BuddyPress 1.0 and bbPress 1.0-alpha-6 (which has some very cool WordPress integration capabilities), this simple plugin developed a huge bug. Since it makes very little sense to release another version of this plugin, <a href="http://midout.com/groups/buddypress/forum/topic/9">I wrote up a simple fix for it on our Community Forums</a>.</p>\n<p>Speaking of our <a href="http://midout.com">WLTC Community</a>, we are up to 68 users who are actively making friends, posting on their blogs and writing up forum topics. I can&#8217;t say this often enough, but BuddyPress and WordPress have amazed me once more. It was relatively simple to set up (barring the voodoo nonce bug and the mismatched installation documentation/plugins due to version differences), it was a breeze.</p>\n<p>Not only is the back end software cool, the front end is pretty darn easy to use and can be addictive. If you don&#8217;t believe me, just register on our <a href="http://midout.com/register">Weblog Tools Collection Community</a> and <a href="http://midout.com/groups">take it for a spin</a>. I am very active there and have tried to encourage people to start participating, sharing and asking. We hope to make it as valuable of a resource as possible and even have plans for some custom development of our own (ok, we already have custom development, we just need to release our work).</p>";}i:4;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:32:"Peter Westwood: WordCamp UK 2009";s:4:"guid";s:32:"http://westi.wordpress.com/?p=81";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://westi.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/wordcamp-uk-2009/";s:11:"description";s:2005:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>WordCamp returns to the UK again this year and we hope it will be bigger and better than last year especially as we have convinced <a href="http://ma.tt">Matt</a> to attend this year.</p>\n<p>This years uk <a href="http://wordcamp.org.uk/en/">WordCamp is in Cardiff</a> on the weekend of the 18th/19th July and <a href="http://wordcampuk2009.eventbrite.com/">tickets are already on sale with an early bird discount rate available</a> until 31st May.</p>\n<p>If you would like to get involved we are still firming up the speaker schedule so if you have a topic you would like to talk about of see discussed let us know.</p>\n<p>We also have sponsorship opportunities available - more <a href="http://wordcamp.org.uk/en/sponsor-information/">information on sponsorship</a> can be found over on the WordCamp UK website.</p>\n<p>Looking forward to seeing some of you there.</p>\n Tagged: wordcampuk <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/westi.wordpress.com/81/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/westi.wordpress.com/81/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/westi.wordpress.com/81/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/westi.wordpress.com/81/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/westi.wordpress.com/81/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/westi.wordpress.com/81/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/westi.wordpress.com/81/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/westi.wordpress.com/81/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/westi.wordpress.com/81/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/westi.wordpress.com/81/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westi.wordpress.com&blog=15396&post=81&subd=westi&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 03 May 2009 16:24:45 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:14:"Peter Westwood";}s:7:"summary";s:2005:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>WordCamp returns to the UK again this year and we hope it will be bigger and better than last year especially as we have convinced <a href="http://ma.tt">Matt</a> to attend this year.</p>\n<p>This years uk <a href="http://wordcamp.org.uk/en/">WordCamp is in Cardiff</a> on the weekend of the 18th/19th July and <a href="http://wordcampuk2009.eventbrite.com/">tickets are already on sale with an early bird discount rate available</a> until 31st May.</p>\n<p>If you would like to get involved we are still firming up the speaker schedule so if you have a topic you would like to talk about of see discussed let us know.</p>\n<p>We also have sponsorship opportunities available - more <a href="http://wordcamp.org.uk/en/sponsor-information/">information on sponsorship</a> can be found over on the WordCamp UK website.</p>\n<p>Looking forward to seeing some of you there.</p>\n Tagged: wordcampuk <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/westi.wordpress.com/81/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/westi.wordpress.com/81/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/westi.wordpress.com/81/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/westi.wordpress.com/81/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/westi.wordpress.com/81/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/westi.wordpress.com/81/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/westi.wordpress.com/81/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/westi.wordpress.com/81/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/westi.wordpress.com/81/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/westi.wordpress.com/81/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westi.wordpress.com&blog=15396&post=81&subd=westi&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:92:"WordPress.tv: WordCamp Tokyo 2009: Higashi, Micho, Nao - 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Valid CSS and XHTML (Strict), threaded-comments, microformats, sticky-post, SEO.</p>\n<p><a href="http://www.cssjockey.com/imagination/">Imagination</a></p>\n<p><img title="image" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/image1.png" alt="image" width="200" height="125" /></p>\n<p>Completely customizable two column theme, preloaded with several styles with built-in support for twitter, Flickr, Feedburner etc.</p>\n<p><a href="http://izandi.net/2009/04/free-2-column-wordpress-themes/">Wave</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://izandi.net/Free_WordPress_Themes/Wave/"><img title="image" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/image2.png" alt="image" width="200" height="125" /></a></p>\n<p>Two column blue theme with a widgetized left sidebar.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 02 May 2009 21:33:24 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:1437:"<p><a href="http://izandi.net/2009/04/free-wordpress-themes-dreams-2-columns/">Dreams</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://izandi.net/Free_WordPress_Themes/Dreams/"><img title="image" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/image.png" alt="image" width="200" height="120" /></a></p>\n<p>Two column, widget ready, gravatar ready, totally blue theme.</p>\n<p><a href="http://www.varometro.net/blog/r755_theme/">R755</a></p>\n<p><img title="r755" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/r755.png" alt="r755" width="200" height="150" /></p>\n<p>R755 is a wordpress theme built from scratch with two basic principles: content comes first and the smallest possible size. Valid CSS and XHTML (Strict), threaded-comments, microformats, sticky-post, SEO.</p>\n<p><a href="http://www.cssjockey.com/imagination/">Imagination</a></p>\n<p><img title="image" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/image1.png" alt="image" width="200" height="125" /></p>\n<p>Completely customizable two column theme, preloaded with several styles with built-in support for twitter, Flickr, Feedburner etc.</p>\n<p><a href="http://izandi.net/2009/04/free-2-column-wordpress-themes/">Wave</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://izandi.net/Free_WordPress_Themes/Wave/"><img title="image" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/image2.png" alt="image" width="200" height="125" /></a></p>\n<p>Two column blue theme with a widgetized left sidebar.</p>";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:50:"Weblog Tools Collection: Smarter Theme Development";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5720";s:4:"link";s:79:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/01/smarter-theme-development/";s:11:"description";s:1028:"<p>Ian Stewart who is the creator of the <a href="http://themeshaper.com/thematic/" target="_blank">Thematic theme framework</a> is currently in the process of putting together a series which explains how to cut theme development time, easier theme modifications, and the power of child themes. The first two parts of this guide are already online and covers <a href="http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-child-theme-basics/" target="_blank">child theme basics</a> and <a href="http://themeshaper.com/modular-css-wordpress-child-themes/" target="_blank">modular CSS in child themes</a>. Ian plans on covering the following topics in the future:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Using Filter Hooks in WordPress Child Themes</li>\n<li>Using Action Hooks in WordPress Child Themes</li>\n<li>Creating WordPress Child Themes</li>\n<li>Publicly Releasing WordPress Child Themes</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Although this guide ends up using Thematic as the prime example, you should be able to pick up a few tips and tricks to implement if you&#8217;re not using Thematic.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 01 May 2009 22:14:12 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1028:"<p>Ian Stewart who is the creator of the <a href="http://themeshaper.com/thematic/" target="_blank">Thematic theme framework</a> is currently in the process of putting together a series which explains how to cut theme development time, easier theme modifications, and the power of child themes. The first two parts of this guide are already online and covers <a href="http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-child-theme-basics/" target="_blank">child theme basics</a> and <a href="http://themeshaper.com/modular-css-wordpress-child-themes/" target="_blank">modular CSS in child themes</a>. Ian plans on covering the following topics in the future:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Using Filter Hooks in WordPress Child Themes</li>\n<li>Using Action Hooks in WordPress Child Themes</li>\n<li>Creating WordPress Child Themes</li>\n<li>Publicly Releasing WordPress Child Themes</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Although this guide ends up using Thematic as the prime example, you should be able to pick up a few tips and tricks to implement if you&#8217;re not using Thematic.</p>";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:53:"Weblog Tools Collection: BuddyPress 1.0 Has Arrived!!";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5713";s:4:"link";s:79:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/30/buddypress-10-has-arrived/";s:11:"description";s:633:"<p><a href="http://buddypress.org/blog/news/buddypress-10-has-arrived/">BuddyPress 1.0 Has Arrived</a>.: Andy announced the release of BuddyPress 1.0 on the BuddyPress community Blog and there was much rejoicing. This was an excellent opportunity to get my WLTC Community project off the ground and I was an like installation fiend as soon as I finished work on my day job.</p>\n<p>So without further ado, especially if you want to play around with BuddyPress, please head over to the <strong>shiny new <a href="http://midout.com">WLTC Community</a></strong> and register for either a username or a blog. I hope to meet you there!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 01 May 2009 02:18:14 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:633:"<p><a href="http://buddypress.org/blog/news/buddypress-10-has-arrived/">BuddyPress 1.0 Has Arrived</a>.: Andy announced the release of BuddyPress 1.0 on the BuddyPress community Blog and there was much rejoicing. This was an excellent opportunity to get my WLTC Community project off the ground and I was an like installation fiend as soon as I finished work on my day job.</p>\n<p>So without further ado, especially if you want to play around with BuddyPress, please head over to the <strong>shiny new <a href="http://midout.com">WLTC Community</a></strong> and register for either a username or a blog. I hope to meet you there!</p>";}i:11;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:30:"Matt: BuddyPress for the World";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=14098";s:4:"link";s:46:"http://ma.tt/2009/04/buddypress-for-the-world/";s:11:"description";s:907:"<p>Happy to announce that <a href="http://buddypress.org/">BuddyPress is now available to the world</a>. BuddyPress is a package built on top of WordPress which transforms WP into a social network complete with profiles, friends, messaging, groups, and even activity streams. Of course it&#8217;s 100% GPL and Open Source. It&#8217;s built on top of MU (which can be tricky to install) so still not for everybody yet, but this is a major milestone in the WordPress world. <a href="http://buddypress.org/">Check it out</a>. Congrats to Andy and the whole BuddyPress team. <img src="http://ma.tt/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" />  <a href="http://buddypress.org/blog/news/buddypress-10-has-arrived">Here&#8217;s Andy&#8217;s official  announcement post</a> and <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/make-friends-with-buddypress/">WordPress.org</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:25:15 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:907:"<p>Happy to announce that <a href="http://buddypress.org/">BuddyPress is now available to the world</a>. BuddyPress is a package built on top of WordPress which transforms WP into a social network complete with profiles, friends, messaging, groups, and even activity streams. Of course it&#8217;s 100% GPL and Open Source. It&#8217;s built on top of MU (which can be tricky to install) so still not for everybody yet, but this is a major milestone in the WordPress world. <a href="http://buddypress.org/">Check it out</a>. Congrats to Andy and the whole BuddyPress team. <img src="http://ma.tt/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" />  <a href="http://buddypress.org/blog/news/buddypress-10-has-arrived">Here&#8217;s Andy&#8217;s official  announcement post</a> and <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/make-friends-with-buddypress/">WordPress.org</a>.</p>";}i:12;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:38:"Dev Blog: Make Friends with BuddyPress";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=719";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/make-friends-with-buddypress/";s:11:"description";s:2003:"<p>What if there was software with the elegance and extensibility of WordPress but all the features you&#8217;ve come to expect from social networks like Facebook? Now there is: <a href="http://buddypress.org/">check out BuddyPress</a>.</p>\n<p>BuddyPress is an official sister project of WordPress. The idea behind it was to see what would happen to the web if it was as easy for anyone to create a social network as it is to create a blog today. There&#8217;s been an explosion of social activity on the web, it&#8217;s probably the most important trend of the past few years, but there&#8217;s been a dearth of Open Source tools that enable the social web.</p>\n<p>In WordPress we have a robust and extensible base that can scale to many millions of users, and BuddyPress is essentially a set of plugins on top of WordPress that add private messaging, profiles, friends, groups, activity streams, and everything else you&#8217;ve come to expect from your favorite social network, like a Facebook-in-a-box.</p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think BuddyPress will be something you use <em>instead of</em> your existing social networks, I mean all your friends are already on Myspace, but if you wanted to start something new maybe with more control, friendlier terms of service, or just something customized and tweaked to fit exactly into your existing site, then BuddyPress is a great framework to use. Maybe even someday you&#8217;ll be able to connect your BuddyPresses to each other and to the existing monolithic social networks.</p>\n<p>This is just a 1.0 release and it&#8217;s not for everybody yet, for example it currently requires using MU which is a bit trickier to get set up than regular WordPress, but regardless <a href="http://buddypress.org/">I&#8217;d recommend diving into the community at BuddyPress.org</a>, which is great example of the software in action.</p>\n<p><a href="http://buddypress.org/blog/news/buddypress-10-has-arrived/">Here&#8217;s Andy&#8217;s official announcement post</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:24:44 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:2003:"<p>What if there was software with the elegance and extensibility of WordPress but all the features you&#8217;ve come to expect from social networks like Facebook? Now there is: <a href="http://buddypress.org/">check out BuddyPress</a>.</p>\n<p>BuddyPress is an official sister project of WordPress. The idea behind it was to see what would happen to the web if it was as easy for anyone to create a social network as it is to create a blog today. There&#8217;s been an explosion of social activity on the web, it&#8217;s probably the most important trend of the past few years, but there&#8217;s been a dearth of Open Source tools that enable the social web.</p>\n<p>In WordPress we have a robust and extensible base that can scale to many millions of users, and BuddyPress is essentially a set of plugins on top of WordPress that add private messaging, profiles, friends, groups, activity streams, and everything else you&#8217;ve come to expect from your favorite social network, like a Facebook-in-a-box.</p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think BuddyPress will be something you use <em>instead of</em> your existing social networks, I mean all your friends are already on Myspace, but if you wanted to start something new maybe with more control, friendlier terms of service, or just something customized and tweaked to fit exactly into your existing site, then BuddyPress is a great framework to use. Maybe even someday you&#8217;ll be able to connect your BuddyPresses to each other and to the existing monolithic social networks.</p>\n<p>This is just a 1.0 release and it&#8217;s not for everybody yet, for example it currently requires using MU which is a bit trickier to get set up than regular WordPress, but regardless <a href="http://buddypress.org/">I&#8217;d recommend diving into the community at BuddyPress.org</a>, which is great example of the software in action.</p>\n<p><a href="http://buddypress.org/blog/news/buddypress-10-has-arrived/">Here&#8217;s Andy&#8217;s official announcement post</a>.</p>";}i:13;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:38:"BuddyPress: BuddyPress 1.0 Has Arrived";s:4:"guid";s:28:"http://buddypress.org/?p=342";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://buddypress.org/blog/news/buddypress-10-has-arrived/";s:11:"description";s:13842:"<p>I&#8217;m happy to announce that version 1.0 of <a href="http://buddypress.org/about">BuddyPress</a> is now <a href="http://buddypress.org/download/">available for download</a>.</p>\n<p>This release marks over a year of solid development, starting from the roots of the <a href="http://chickspeak.com/">ChickSpeak</a> project, all the way to the blossoming developer community I see interacting on this site everyday.</p>\n<p>This is just the first step on a long road ahead. So much is possible now that we have a solid WordPress-based social framework to build upon.</p>\n<p>The status updates and gallery components are next on the roadmap, you can expect to see versions of those components appearing later this year. We&#8217;ll also be going through the hundreds of enhancement tickets we&#8217;ve received, and with your help prioritizing them for future versions.</p>\n<p>I&#8217;m most excited to see what plugin developers and theme designers can come up with. Even in the pre-release stages, <a href="http://buddypress.org/extend/plugins/">plugins</a> to extend and add functionality have already been popping up. If you&#8217;re a plugin developer or theme designer, be sure to check out the <a href="http://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/creating-a-custom-buddypress-component/">skeleton component</a> and <a href="http://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/creating-a-custom-buddypress-theme/">skeleton theme</a>. These packages will provide you with a solid starting point to build BuddyPress components and custom themes from.</p>\n<p>I&#8217;d also like to give some serious thanks to the community that has rallied around this project. I was told that getting people excited and involved with a new OSS project can be one of the hardest tasks to accomplish. I&#8217;m really bowled over that so many people have become involved with BuddyPress development and feedback on a daily basis.</p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to give a mention to every developer who has helped with the project, whether it be with tickets, advice, feedback or support:</p>\n<p><a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/adrenalis">adrenalis</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/ageeshkg">ageeshkg</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/andy">andy</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/andrea_r">andrea_r</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/arghagain">arghagain</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/arturo84">arturo84</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/armchairGeneral">armchairGeneral</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/atrax">atrax</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/barry">barry</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/beaulebens">beaulebens</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/bebopcool">bebopcool</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/belogical">belogical</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/benny148148">benny148148</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/bercon">bercon</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/bergsten">bergsten</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/bflora">bflora</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/blogestudio">blogestudio</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/bloom">bloom</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/bluestraw">bluestraw</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/borkweb">borkweb</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/bpress-tr">bpress-tr</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/brianbrey">brianbrey</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/burtadsit">burtadsit</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/buzz_lightyear">buzz_lightyear</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/catiakitahara">catiakitahara</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/cawoodm">cawoodm</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/cdancal">cdancal</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/ceo">ceo</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/chouf1">chouf1</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/chriscree">chriscree</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/conceptfusion">conceptfusion</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/coto">coto</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/creede">creede</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/crippledtechnology">crippledtechnology</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/DJPaul">DJPaul</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/Dace">Dace</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/da3rX">da3rX</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/daiko">daiko</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/danielfelice">danielfelice</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/daysleeperxyz">daysleeperxyz</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/ddmitry">ddmitry</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/developdaly">developdaly</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/dfa327">dfa327</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/diegoferrari">diegoferrari</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/digitalsaints">digitalsaints</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/dnusim">dnusim</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/dreman1">dreman1</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/drmike">drmike</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/duanestorey">duanestorey</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/dudboi">dudboi</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/egerrits">egerrits</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/ev3rywh3re">ev3rywh3re</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/ezd">ezd</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/FrankVolkelm">FrankVolkelm</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/famous">famous</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/farmerinchina">farmerinchina</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/fishbowl81">fishbowl81</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/frumph">frumph</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/fserer">fserer</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/GIGALinux">GIGALinux</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/gbellucci">gbellucci</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/geordee">geordee</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/gerbilo">gerbilo</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/gogoplata">gogoplata</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/gordie.lachance">gordie.lachance</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/gwrey">gwrey</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/hally47">hally47</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/hudatoriq">hudatoriq</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/hyper123">hyper123</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/hyrxx">hyrxx</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/IdaWebCo">IdaWebCo</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/ian-wallace">ian-wallace</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/iprashant">iprashant</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/iqcuties">iqcuties</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/italways">italways</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/Jehy">Jehy</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/JurMous">JurMous</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/j.conti">j.conti</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/jag25">jag25</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/jasonago">jasonago</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/jbasdf">jbasdf</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/jeffry.degrande">jeffry.degrande</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/jeffsayre">jeffsayre</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/jehy">jehy</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/jfcarter">jfcarter</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/jmax123">jmax123</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/joalbright">joalbright</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/john268">john268</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/johnbillion">johnbillion</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/johnjamesjacoby">johnjamesjacoby</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/johnnypea">johnnypea</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/josswinn">josswinn</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/jpelker">jpelker</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/jvinch">jvinch</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/KevinHeath">KevinHeath</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/keppy">keppy</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/khmiin">khmiin</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/kilmarac">kilmarac</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/lancewillett">lancewillett</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/lienxing">lienxing</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/lilyfan">lilyfan</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/lostdeviant">lostdeviant</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/lucahurst">lucahurst</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/matt">matt</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/maagic-net">maagic-net</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/mark-k">mark-k</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/martinnr5">martinnr5</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/matjack1">matjack1</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/matt826">matt826</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/maxaud">maxaud</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/mburp">mburp</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/mdawaffe">mdawaffe</a>, <a 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href="http://buddypress.org/developers/neuromancer2701">neuromancer2701</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/nicolagreco">nicolagreco</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/nolageek">nolageek</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/noumansaleem">noumansaleem</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/owrede">owrede</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/PerS">PerS</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/PierreR">PierreR</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/PioneerSkies">PioneerSkies</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/Ptath">Ptath</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/philpeter">philpeter</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/phlux0r">phlux0r</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/pioneerskies">pioneerskies</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/realfam">realfam</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/reprint">reprint</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/roypm">roypm</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/salsicha">salsicha</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/sgrunt">sgrunt</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/sharvank">sharvank</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/sharvankumar">sharvankumar</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/shawnkhall">shawnkhall</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/simonwheatley">simonwheatley</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/slaFFik">slaFFik</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/sollaires">sollaires</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/stecklars">stecklars</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/Taffman">Taffman</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/takayukister">takayukister</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/takuya">takuya</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/talk2manoj">talk2manoj</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/tekanji">tekanji</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/terryjsmith">terryjsmith</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/thezohan10">thezohan10</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/trent">trent</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/tvc123">tvc123</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/vachi">vachi</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/vintcn">vintcn</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/walter24">walter24</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/wardeh">wardeh</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/webzworks">webzworks</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/westpointer">westpointer</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/whyisjake">whyisjake</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/wildrot">wildrot</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/williamsba1">williamsba1</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/windhamdavid">windhamdavid</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/wordpressbob">wordpressbob</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/wrkng">wrkng</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/xmailr">xmailr</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/xmailr">xmailr</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/yoavf">yoavf</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/zahirtas">zahirtas</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/zanzoon">zanzoon</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/zheng1212">zheng1212</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:24:31 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:9:"apeatling";}s:7:"summary";s:13842:"<p>I&#8217;m happy to announce that version 1.0 of <a href="http://buddypress.org/about">BuddyPress</a> is now <a href="http://buddypress.org/download/">available for download</a>.</p>\n<p>This release marks over a year of solid development, starting from the roots of the <a href="http://chickspeak.com/">ChickSpeak</a> project, all the way to the blossoming developer community I see interacting on this site everyday.</p>\n<p>This is just the first step on a long road ahead. So much is possible now that we have a solid WordPress-based social framework to build upon.</p>\n<p>The status updates and gallery components are next on the roadmap, you can expect to see versions of those components appearing later this year. We&#8217;ll also be going through the hundreds of enhancement tickets we&#8217;ve received, and with your help prioritizing them for future versions.</p>\n<p>I&#8217;m most excited to see what plugin developers and theme designers can come up with. Even in the pre-release stages, <a href="http://buddypress.org/extend/plugins/">plugins</a> to extend and add functionality have already been popping up. If you&#8217;re a plugin developer or theme designer, be sure to check out the <a href="http://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/creating-a-custom-buddypress-component/">skeleton component</a> and <a href="http://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/creating-a-custom-buddypress-theme/">skeleton theme</a>. These packages will provide you with a solid starting point to build BuddyPress components and custom themes from.</p>\n<p>I&#8217;d also like to give some serious thanks to the community that has rallied around this project. I was told that getting people excited and involved with a new OSS project can be one of the hardest tasks to accomplish. I&#8217;m really bowled over that so many people have become involved with BuddyPress development and feedback on a daily basis.</p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to give a mention to every developer who has helped with the project, whether it be with tickets, advice, feedback or support:</p>\n<p><a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/adrenalis">adrenalis</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/ageeshkg">ageeshkg</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/andy">andy</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/andrea_r">andrea_r</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/arghagain">arghagain</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/arturo84">arturo84</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/armchairGeneral">armchairGeneral</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/atrax">atrax</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/barry">barry</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/beaulebens">beaulebens</a>, <a 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href="http://buddypress.org/developers/terryjsmith">terryjsmith</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/thezohan10">thezohan10</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/trent">trent</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/tvc123">tvc123</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/vachi">vachi</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/vintcn">vintcn</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/walter24">walter24</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/wardeh">wardeh</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/webzworks">webzworks</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/westpointer">westpointer</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/whyisjake">whyisjake</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/wildrot">wildrot</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/williamsba1">williamsba1</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/windhamdavid">windhamdavid</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/wordpressbob">wordpressbob</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/wrkng">wrkng</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/xmailr">xmailr</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/xmailr">xmailr</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/yoavf">yoavf</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/zahirtas">zahirtas</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/zanzoon">zanzoon</a>, <a href="http://buddypress.org/developers/zheng1212">zheng1212</a></p>";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:36:"Dev Blog: Design Tweaks Poll Results";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=701";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/poll-results/";s:11:"description";s:3063:"<p>The poll is closed, the votes are counted, and the results are interesting. The table below shows the actual breakdown of the poll votes, of which there were 2,651. As you can see, there were four main contenders: Dean J. Robinson&#8217;s Fluency-based submissions (two variations), the existing 2.7 interface, and Matt Thomas&#8217;s comp (MT), which exists somewhere between them in terms of style. Note: GB was a late entry, and was posted after over 900 votes had already been collected.</p>\n<p><a href="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/tweaksvote.png"><img src="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/tweaksvote.png" alt="The voting results" /></a></p>\n<p><img class="alignleft" title="Top image: Dean Robinson, Bottom image: Matt Thomas" src="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/tweaks_dr_mt.png" alt="Top two submissions by Robinson and Thomas" width="410" height="517" align="left" /></p>\n<p>As several people have rightly pointed out, the Fluency-style designs not only took the top spot, but in combination added up to a higher percentage than any other. We&#8217;re not focusing solely on that statistic, though, because had other designers submitted multiple versions, the numbers might have looked different. What was most interesting for me was checking in on the votes over the course of the two days the poll was open. The top three (Fluency-dark, Current 2.7, MT) kept beating each other out for the #1 spot as they cycled back and forth through the top three slots, and had the poll closed on time (left it open a little longer in case anyone translated the time zone incorrectly), the order would have been a bit different.</p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more interesting to me is the overall style that seems to be preferred among voters, as Matt&#8217;s comp has some stylistic similarities to Dean&#8217;s (see image at left). It also would be interesting to know how many of the votes for the current 2.7 interface were based on thinking it looked the best vs. how many were votes against changing the interface at all so soon after the 2.7 redesign. If you want to comment on what you liked best and/or least about any of the designs, <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/265261">this thread</a> is a good place.</p>\n<p>So what happens now? However we look at it, the Fluency-style designs clearly have a lot of fans. Then again, so do the designs of Matt Thomas (he&#8217;s behind the current style of 2.7, remember, in addition to the comp labeled MT). To give the interface the attention it is due, and to take seriously some of the interface feedback around usability and accessibility, we&#8217;re going to leave the looks alone for 2.8. It&#8217;s our guess that a revised style will make into 2.9 early in the development cycle to allow us plenty of time for user testing and revision. How close it winds up being to the comps submitted in this design tweaks challenge will depend, but in the meantime:</p>\n<p>Congratulations, <a href="http://deanjrobinson.com/">Dean J. Robinson</a>, on winning the vote!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:19:02 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:7:"summary";s:3063:"<p>The poll is closed, the votes are counted, and the results are interesting. The table below shows the actual breakdown of the poll votes, of which there were 2,651. As you can see, there were four main contenders: Dean J. Robinson&#8217;s Fluency-based submissions (two variations), the existing 2.7 interface, and Matt Thomas&#8217;s comp (MT), which exists somewhere between them in terms of style. Note: GB was a late entry, and was posted after over 900 votes had already been collected.</p>\n<p><a href="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/tweaksvote.png"><img src="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/tweaksvote.png" alt="The voting results" /></a></p>\n<p><img class="alignleft" title="Top image: Dean Robinson, Bottom image: Matt Thomas" src="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/tweaks_dr_mt.png" alt="Top two submissions by Robinson and Thomas" width="410" height="517" align="left" /></p>\n<p>As several people have rightly pointed out, the Fluency-style designs not only took the top spot, but in combination added up to a higher percentage than any other. We&#8217;re not focusing solely on that statistic, though, because had other designers submitted multiple versions, the numbers might have looked different. What was most interesting for me was checking in on the votes over the course of the two days the poll was open. The top three (Fluency-dark, Current 2.7, MT) kept beating each other out for the #1 spot as they cycled back and forth through the top three slots, and had the poll closed on time (left it open a little longer in case anyone translated the time zone incorrectly), the order would have been a bit different.</p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more interesting to me is the overall style that seems to be preferred among voters, as Matt&#8217;s comp has some stylistic similarities to Dean&#8217;s (see image at left). It also would be interesting to know how many of the votes for the current 2.7 interface were based on thinking it looked the best vs. how many were votes against changing the interface at all so soon after the 2.7 redesign. If you want to comment on what you liked best and/or least about any of the designs, <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/265261">this thread</a> is a good place.</p>\n<p>So what happens now? However we look at it, the Fluency-style designs clearly have a lot of fans. Then again, so do the designs of Matt Thomas (he&#8217;s behind the current style of 2.7, remember, in addition to the comp labeled MT). To give the interface the attention it is due, and to take seriously some of the interface feedback around usability and accessibility, we&#8217;re going to leave the looks alone for 2.8. It&#8217;s our guess that a revised style will make into 2.9 early in the development cycle to allow us plenty of time for user testing and revision. How close it winds up being to the comps submitted in this design tweaks challenge will depend, but in the meantime:</p>\n<p>Congratulations, <a href="http://deanjrobinson.com/">Dean J. Robinson</a>, on winning the vote!</p>";}i:15;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:30:"Alex King: Carrington Blog 2.0";s:4:"guid";s:54:"http://alexking.org/blog/2009/04/30/carrington-blog-20";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://alexking.org/blog/2009/04/30/carrington-blog-20";s:11:"description";s:1149:"<p>We&#8217;ve released <a href="http://carringtontheme.com/2009/04/carrington-blog-20/">Carrington Blog version 2.0</a>, a significant update to our advanced end-user blog theme (built on the Carrington theme framework).</p>\n<p class="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkingorg/3488206501/" title="Carrington Blog 2.0 by alexkingorg, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3602/3488206501_aedddf703c_o.png" width="240" height="180" alt="Carrington Blog 2.0" /></a></p>\n<p>Major changes since 1.x include:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for threaded comments.</li>\n<li>Customizable colors with preview.</li>\n<li>Customizable header images (select from your media gallery.</li>\n<li>Lightbox display for galleries.</li>\n<li>Integration of &#8220;attachment&#8221; display into the core framework.</li>\n<li>A variety of other enhancements and improvements.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Check it out - hope you like it.</p>\n<p><a href="http://sharethis.com/item?&wp=2.2.3&amp;publisher=a1583af8-28eb-4210-97bd-2bb5c02bc265&amp;title=Carrington+Blog+2.0&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Falexking.org%2Fblog%2F2009%2F04%2F30%2Fcarrington-blog-20">ShareThis</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:51:17 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:7:"summary";s:1149:"<p>We&#8217;ve released <a href="http://carringtontheme.com/2009/04/carrington-blog-20/">Carrington Blog version 2.0</a>, a significant update to our advanced end-user blog theme (built on the Carrington theme framework).</p>\n<p class="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkingorg/3488206501/" title="Carrington Blog 2.0 by alexkingorg, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3602/3488206501_aedddf703c_o.png" width="240" height="180" alt="Carrington Blog 2.0" /></a></p>\n<p>Major changes since 1.x include:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for threaded comments.</li>\n<li>Customizable colors with preview.</li>\n<li>Customizable header images (select from your media gallery.</li>\n<li>Lightbox display for galleries.</li>\n<li>Integration of &#8220;attachment&#8221; display into the core framework.</li>\n<li>A variety of other enhancements and improvements.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Check it out - hope you like it.</p>\n<p><a href="http://sharethis.com/item?&wp=2.2.3&amp;publisher=a1583af8-28eb-4210-97bd-2bb5c02bc265&amp;title=Carrington+Blog+2.0&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Falexking.org%2Fblog%2F2009%2F04%2F30%2Fcarrington-blog-20">ShareThis</a></p>";}i:16;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:35:"WordPress.tv: 画像の貼り付け";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=1817";s:4:"link";s:95:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/04/30/%e7%94%bb%e5%83%8f%e3%81%ae%e8%b2%bc%e3%82%8a%e4%bb%98%e3%81%91/";s:11:"description";s:1380:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><span> </p>\n<div>more about &#8220;<a href="http://vodpod.com/watch/1573991-%E7%94%BB%E5%83%8F%E3%81%AE%E8%B2%BC%E3%82%8A%E4%BB%98%E3%81%91">画像の貼り付け</a>&#8220;, posted with <a href="http://vodpod.com/wordpress">vodpod</a></div>\n<p></span></p>\n  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/1817/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/1817/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1817/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1817/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1817/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1817/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/1817/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/1817/" 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href="http://vodpod.com/watch/1573987-%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E3%81%AE%E8%A3%85%E9%A3%BE">文字の装飾</a>&#8220;, posted with <a href="http://vodpod.com/wordpress">vodpod</a></div>\n<p></span></p>\n  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/1815/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/1815/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1815/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1815/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1815/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1815/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/1815/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/1815/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" 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src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1813/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1813/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1813/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/1813/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/1813/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1813/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1813/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=1813&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:38:50 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Michael Pick";}s:7:"summary";s:1204:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><span> </p>\n<div><a href="http://vodpod.com/wordpress"></a></div>\n<p></span></p>\n  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/1813/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/1813/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1813/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1813/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1813/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1813/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/1813/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/1813/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1813/"><img alt="" border="0" 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src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/1702/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1702/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1702/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1702/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1702/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/1702/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/1702/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1702/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1702/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=1702&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:28;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:94:"WordPress.tv: WordCamp Tokyo 2009: Tenpura - 3 things you need for using WordPress in Japanese";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=1709";s:4:"link";s:109:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/04/30/wordcamp-tokyo-2009-tenpura-3-things-you-need-for-using-wordpress-in-japanese/";s:11:"description";s:1437:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>\n<div class="video-player" id="x-video-8">\n </div></ins>\n<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/04/30/wordcamp-tokyo-2009-tenpura-3-things-you-need-for-using-wordpress-in-japanese/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/1qLvH2Qu/wordcamp2009tokyo_04tempura_jp.thumbnail.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/1709/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/1709/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1709/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1709/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1709/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1709/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/1709/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/1709/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1709/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1709/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=1709&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:40:54 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Atsushi";}s:7:"summary";s:1437:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>\n<div class="video-player" id="x-video-8">\n </div></ins>\n<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/04/30/wordcamp-tokyo-2009-tenpura-3-things-you-need-for-using-wordpress-in-japanese/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/1qLvH2Qu/wordcamp2009tokyo_04tempura_jp.thumbnail.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/1709/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/1709/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1709/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1709/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1709/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1709/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/1709/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/1709/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1709/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1709/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=1709&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:29;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:71:"Weblog Tools Collection: 9 Ways to Make Your WordPress Blog “Smart”";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5703";s:4:"link";s:94:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/29/9-ways-to-make-your-wordpress-blog-smart/";s:11:"description";s:9250:"<p>Many of you might be confused by the title and the term &#8220;smart&#8221;.  To me a &#8220;smart&#8221; blog is a blog that behaves differently depending on its visitors&#8217; behavior and characteristics.</p>\n<p>A simple example of this is a blog that displays a list of today&#8217;s most popular posts on the sidebar.  The list changes based on visitors&#8217; behavior so to this is definitely a smart blog feature.  There are plenty of WordPress plugins out there that do this for you automatically (e.g. <a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/top-10/">Top 10</a>), but that is not the point.  The point here is that having the ability to morph your blog per visitor activity can assist you in meeting your conversion goals (whatever they may be).  A list of popular posts is quite a simple feature, so let me take you to another level by showing you more ways to make your blog smart.</p>\n<h3>List of &#8220;Smart&#8221; Features to Implement on Your Blog</h3>\n<p><strong>1. Display a different welcome message to different people</strong></p>\n<p>A great way to meet conversion goals is to display different things to different types of visitors.  For example, you can show a welcome message only to new visitors and not to returning visitors.  The message could be used to encourage new visitors to subscribe to your blog&#8217;s RSS feed, to download your eBook, to follow the your Twitter, or to satisfy any other conversion goal.  You can also specify a call-to-action in the message depending on where the visitor is coming from.  For example, you can ask your visitor to Digg your post if the visitor is referred to you from digg.com.</p>\n<p>There are already some plugins that automatically do this for you (e.g. <a href="http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-greet-box-wordpress-plugin/">WP Greet Box</a> and <a href="http://www.phoenixheart.net/2008/11/referrer-detector/">Referrer Detector</a>) in case you were wondering how you can implement such a feature on your WordPress blog.  Again the point here is that these plugins give you the ability to morph your blog based on your audience.</p>\n<p><strong>2. Show where other people went from current post</strong></p>\n<p>This feature is similar to a list of related posts, but is a bit different because the list is determined by visitor behavior.  Most related posts plugins use an algorithm to determine post relativity, but algorithms only go so far.  Why not trust your human visitors to generate this list of related posts for you?</p>\n<p>To implement this feature, you can install the <a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/where-did-they-go-from-here/">Where did they go from here?</a> plugin.  This plugin will add a &#8220;Readers who viewed this page, also viewed&#8221; section after your blog posts and track visitor activity to fill up these lists.</p>\n<p><strong>3. Show related post based on search queries</strong></p>\n<p>When a visitor comes to your site through a search engine, they are looking for something very specific.  If they land on your site and do not immediately find what they are looking for, they are as good as gone.  It would be smart for a blog to detect these search terms from search engine visitors and display a list of posts that closely matches these terms.  That way if the current post is not what the visitor is looking for, they will be tempted to visit other posts relating to their search terms before they leave your site.</p>\n<p>To implement this, all you have to do is install either <a href="http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-greet-box-wordpress-plugin/">WP Greet Box</a>, <a href="http://www.phoenixheart.net/2008/11/referrer-detector/">Referrer Detector</a>, or <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/landing-sites/">Landing Sites</a> WordPress plugin.</p>\n<p><strong>4. Thank a first time commenter</strong></p>\n<p>Most people love human interaction.  I love reading blogs because I know that there is somebody on the other side that I can email and chat with.  A good way to gain loyal readers is to thank first time commenters for contributing to your blog.  This helps you breaks the ice and assure your new reader that you are there if they ever want to email you.</p>\n<p>For this feature, you can use the <a href="http://www.justinshattuck.com/2007/03/19/comment-relish-wordpress-plugin/">Comment Relish</a> WordPress plugin.</p>\n<p><strong>5. Display custom message to people who use Ad Block software</strong></p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;m going to get flamed for introducing this feature, but here goes anyway (please don&#8217;t flame me too much).</p>\n<p>If you are a blogger that makes the majority of your money from advertisements, your income is definitely hurt from ad block software installed with your visitor&#8217;s browser.  A smart blog would remind visitors with ad block software that they are using ad block and suggest that they turn it off to support the blog.  Of course this message shouldn&#8217;t be displayed more than once or the blog will definitely lose traffic.</p>\n<p>If you are interested in this feature, you can check out the <a href="http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-plugins/anti-adblock-wordpress-plugin/">Anti-AdBlock</a> WordPress plugin, which will display any message you like at any frequency (I recommend once) to visitors with ad block enabled.</p>\n<p><strong>6. Selective advertising</strong></p>\n<p>As you may know, Google Ads does &#8220;smart pricing&#8221; to determine how much they pay you per click.  This means that if your ad has high click-through ratio, then they will pay more per click.  You can optimize this click-through ratio by not displaying ads in situations where you know that they are not going to be clicked.  To do this, you have to realize that there are two types of visitors to your blog: new and returning.  New visitors are more likely to click on an advertisement than returning visitors so it is best if you do not show these ads to returning visitors at all.</p>\n<p>You can implement this feature by installing <a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-plugin-who-sees-ads-control-adsense-display/">Who Sees Ads?</a>, which is the ultimate plugin for selectively displaying advertisments.</p>\n<p><strong>7. Mini &#8220;About&#8221; section only for new visitors</strong></p>\n<p>Have you even been to a blog that as a mini &#8220;About&#8221; section in the sidebar? (If not, you can check out <a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/">Planet Ozh</a>&#8217;s sidebar)  Doesn&#8217;t it make sense to show this section only to new visitors?  Hiding the section for returning visitors helps you reduce clutter in your sidebar and helps you bring other important content above the fold.</p>\n<p>You can also implement this using <a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-plugin-who-sees-ads-control-adsense-display/">Who Sees Ads?</a>.  Just treat the &#8220;About&#8221; section as an ad unit in your sidebar and specify that it should only be displayed to new visitors.</p>\n<p><strong>8. Ask for donations from returning visitors</strong></p>\n<p>To me, it doesn&#8217;t really make sense to ask a new visitor for donations because I&#8217;m not sure how they feel about my content yet.  Now if the visitor returns quite often, then I know that my content is useful to them.  I am more comfortable asking regular readers for donations as they are more inclined to donate anyway.  To me, this feature implemented along with feature #6 makes a whole lot of sense.  New visitors only see ads and returning visitors only see donation requests.</p>\n<p>You can also implement this feature with <a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-plugin-who-sees-ads-control-adsense-display/">Who Sees Ads?</a>.  Just treat the donate banner as an ad unit and specify that it should only be displayed to regular visitors.</p>\n<p><strong>9. Display &#8220;Out on Vacation&#8221; message</strong></p>\n<p>Everybody needs to take a break once in a while.  Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to let your readers know that you are on vacation and let them know when to expect you back?  That way you don&#8217;t lose readers from inactivity or lose readers who comment expecting an immediate reply.</p>\n<p>This is not really a feature based on visitor behavior, but I feel that it is still a smart feature because the message is only displayed to visitors that visit within a certain time period.</p>\n<p>You can again use <a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-plugin-who-sees-ads-control-adsense-display/">Who Sees Ads?</a> to display an &#8220;Out on Vacation&#8221; message near the top of your blog between a specific date range.  I love this because when you come back from vacation, you won&#8217;t have to remember to take down the notification banner.  You can also reuse the same notification banner the next time you go on vacation.</p>\n<h3>Conclusion</h3>\n<p>By now, I think you guys get what I mean by a &#8220;smart&#8221; blog.  Hopefully, these powerful plugins can help you reshape your blog into a more visitor oriented blog.</p>\n<p>Got a &#8220;smart&#8221; blog feature of your own?  Please share any other &#8220;smart&#8221; blog ideas in the comments section.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:00:56 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:14:"Thaya Kareeson";}s:7:"summary";s:9250:"<p>Many of you might be confused by the title and the term &#8220;smart&#8221;.  To me a &#8220;smart&#8221; blog is a blog that behaves differently depending on its visitors&#8217; behavior and characteristics.</p>\n<p>A simple example of this is a blog that displays a list of today&#8217;s most popular posts on the sidebar.  The list changes based on visitors&#8217; behavior so to this is definitely a smart blog feature.  There are plenty of WordPress plugins out there that do this for you automatically (e.g. <a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/top-10/">Top 10</a>), but that is not the point.  The point here is that having the ability to morph your blog per visitor activity can assist you in meeting your conversion goals (whatever they may be).  A list of popular posts is quite a simple feature, so let me take you to another level by showing you more ways to make your blog smart.</p>\n<h3>List of &#8220;Smart&#8221; Features to Implement on Your Blog</h3>\n<p><strong>1. Display a different welcome message to different people</strong></p>\n<p>A great way to meet conversion goals is to display different things to different types of visitors.  For example, you can show a welcome message only to new visitors and not to returning visitors.  The message could be used to encourage new visitors to subscribe to your blog&#8217;s RSS feed, to download your eBook, to follow the your Twitter, or to satisfy any other conversion goal.  You can also specify a call-to-action in the message depending on where the visitor is coming from.  For example, you can ask your visitor to Digg your post if the visitor is referred to you from digg.com.</p>\n<p>There are already some plugins that automatically do this for you (e.g. <a href="http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-greet-box-wordpress-plugin/">WP Greet Box</a> and <a href="http://www.phoenixheart.net/2008/11/referrer-detector/">Referrer Detector</a>) in case you were wondering how you can implement such a feature on your WordPress blog.  Again the point here is that these plugins give you the ability to morph your blog based on your audience.</p>\n<p><strong>2. Show where other people went from current post</strong></p>\n<p>This feature is similar to a list of related posts, but is a bit different because the list is determined by visitor behavior.  Most related posts plugins use an algorithm to determine post relativity, but algorithms only go so far.  Why not trust your human visitors to generate this list of related posts for you?</p>\n<p>To implement this feature, you can install the <a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/where-did-they-go-from-here/">Where did they go from here?</a> plugin.  This plugin will add a &#8220;Readers who viewed this page, also viewed&#8221; section after your blog posts and track visitor activity to fill up these lists.</p>\n<p><strong>3. Show related post based on search queries</strong></p>\n<p>When a visitor comes to your site through a search engine, they are looking for something very specific.  If they land on your site and do not immediately find what they are looking for, they are as good as gone.  It would be smart for a blog to detect these search terms from search engine visitors and display a list of posts that closely matches these terms.  That way if the current post is not what the visitor is looking for, they will be tempted to visit other posts relating to their search terms before they leave your site.</p>\n<p>To implement this, all you have to do is install either <a href="http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-greet-box-wordpress-plugin/">WP Greet Box</a>, <a href="http://www.phoenixheart.net/2008/11/referrer-detector/">Referrer Detector</a>, or <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/landing-sites/">Landing Sites</a> WordPress plugin.</p>\n<p><strong>4. Thank a first time commenter</strong></p>\n<p>Most people love human interaction.  I love reading blogs because I know that there is somebody on the other side that I can email and chat with.  A good way to gain loyal readers is to thank first time commenters for contributing to your blog.  This helps you breaks the ice and assure your new reader that you are there if they ever want to email you.</p>\n<p>For this feature, you can use the <a href="http://www.justinshattuck.com/2007/03/19/comment-relish-wordpress-plugin/">Comment Relish</a> WordPress plugin.</p>\n<p><strong>5. Display custom message to people who use Ad Block software</strong></p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;m going to get flamed for introducing this feature, but here goes anyway (please don&#8217;t flame me too much).</p>\n<p>If you are a blogger that makes the majority of your money from advertisements, your income is definitely hurt from ad block software installed with your visitor&#8217;s browser.  A smart blog would remind visitors with ad block software that they are using ad block and suggest that they turn it off to support the blog.  Of course this message shouldn&#8217;t be displayed more than once or the blog will definitely lose traffic.</p>\n<p>If you are interested in this feature, you can check out the <a href="http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-plugins/anti-adblock-wordpress-plugin/">Anti-AdBlock</a> WordPress plugin, which will display any message you like at any frequency (I recommend once) to visitors with ad block enabled.</p>\n<p><strong>6. Selective advertising</strong></p>\n<p>As you may know, Google Ads does &#8220;smart pricing&#8221; to determine how much they pay you per click.  This means that if your ad has high click-through ratio, then they will pay more per click.  You can optimize this click-through ratio by not displaying ads in situations where you know that they are not going to be clicked.  To do this, you have to realize that there are two types of visitors to your blog: new and returning.  New visitors are more likely to click on an advertisement than returning visitors so it is best if you do not show these ads to returning visitors at all.</p>\n<p>You can implement this feature by installing <a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-plugin-who-sees-ads-control-adsense-display/">Who Sees Ads?</a>, which is the ultimate plugin for selectively displaying advertisments.</p>\n<p><strong>7. Mini &#8220;About&#8221; section only for new visitors</strong></p>\n<p>Have you even been to a blog that as a mini &#8220;About&#8221; section in the sidebar? (If not, you can check out <a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/">Planet Ozh</a>&#8217;s sidebar)  Doesn&#8217;t it make sense to show this section only to new visitors?  Hiding the section for returning visitors helps you reduce clutter in your sidebar and helps you bring other important content above the fold.</p>\n<p>You can also implement this using <a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-plugin-who-sees-ads-control-adsense-display/">Who Sees Ads?</a>.  Just treat the &#8220;About&#8221; section as an ad unit in your sidebar and specify that it should only be displayed to new visitors.</p>\n<p><strong>8. Ask for donations from returning visitors</strong></p>\n<p>To me, it doesn&#8217;t really make sense to ask a new visitor for donations because I&#8217;m not sure how they feel about my content yet.  Now if the visitor returns quite often, then I know that my content is useful to them.  I am more comfortable asking regular readers for donations as they are more inclined to donate anyway.  To me, this feature implemented along with feature #6 makes a whole lot of sense.  New visitors only see ads and returning visitors only see donation requests.</p>\n<p>You can also implement this feature with <a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-plugin-who-sees-ads-control-adsense-display/">Who Sees Ads?</a>.  Just treat the donate banner as an ad unit and specify that it should only be displayed to regular visitors.</p>\n<p><strong>9. Display &#8220;Out on Vacation&#8221; message</strong></p>\n<p>Everybody needs to take a break once in a while.  Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to let your readers know that you are on vacation and let them know when to expect you back?  That way you don&#8217;t lose readers from inactivity or lose readers who comment expecting an immediate reply.</p>\n<p>This is not really a feature based on visitor behavior, but I feel that it is still a smart feature because the message is only displayed to visitors that visit within a certain time period.</p>\n<p>You can again use <a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-plugin-who-sees-ads-control-adsense-display/">Who Sees Ads?</a> to display an &#8220;Out on Vacation&#8221; message near the top of your blog between a specific date range.  I love this because when you come back from vacation, you won&#8217;t have to remember to take down the notification banner.  You can also reuse the same notification banner the next time you go on vacation.</p>\n<h3>Conclusion</h3>\n<p>By now, I think you guys get what I mean by a &#8220;smart&#8221; blog.  Hopefully, these powerful plugins can help you reshape your blog into a more visitor oriented blog.</p>\n<p>Got a &#8220;smart&#8221; blog feature of your own?  Please share any other &#8220;smart&#8221; blog ideas in the comments section.</p>";}i:30;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:28:"Dev Blog: Design Tweaks Vote";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=685";s:4:"link";s:60:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/design-tweaks-vote/";s:11:"description";s:2723:"<p>Comps for the header/nav design tweaks are in, and the results are mixed. Some people just moved a few things around, while others proposed a new style altogether. We won&#8217;t make any major changes to style in 2.8, but if the vote leans toward a submission that proposes it, we&#8217;ll do some user testing and make a decision for early 2.9 (which, now that we think of it, is probably the right thing to do anyway. <img src="http://wordpress.org/development/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> )</p>\n<p>Below are the links to the screenshots that were submitted. Please review each one (I&#8217;d open them all in tabs so I could look back and forth while they are all large size, because the voting poll just uses thumbnails), then choose the one you think looks the best/is the most usable.</p>\n<p>This poll was supposed to close at 8pm NY time on Tuesday (today), but we&#8217;re going to leave it open for an extra day. The voting poll will now be closed at 8pm NY time on Wednesday (that&#8217;s 2am Thursday, UTC). If you want to discuss the entries&#8217; pros/cons, <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/265261">this thread</a> would be a good place.</p>\n<p><a href="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/current.png">Current: The existing interface, for reference</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://p51labs.com/projects/wordpress-2.8-navigation/screenshot.png">KM: Current nav, header elements moved</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://andrerenaut.ovh.org/wp28.jpg">AN: Current nav, file folder style header</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://konstruktors.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mt-db-kaspars-dambis.png">KD: Current nav, modified header style</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://www.johnjamesjacoby.com/uploads/2009/04/jjj-wp-28.gif">JJ: Swap blog title and favorites menu</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://deanjrobinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mt-db-djr.png">DR1: Fluency style, dark</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://deanjrobinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mt-db-djr-2.png">DR2: Fluency style, medium</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://deanjrobinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mt-db-djr-3.png">DR3: Fluency style, light</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/ik.png">IK: Nav layered over dark background</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://gordonbrander.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mt-db-up.png">GB: Modified nav/header intersection</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://iammattthomas.com/28/dash.png">MT: Modified nav and header</a></p>\n<p><br />\n<a href="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1575922/">Which style do you prefer?</a><span>(<a href="http://answers.polldaddy.com">answers</a>)</span><br />\n</p>\n<p>Results will be posted the day after the polls close. </p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:09:31 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:7:"summary";s:2723:"<p>Comps for the header/nav design tweaks are in, and the results are mixed. Some people just moved a few things around, while others proposed a new style altogether. We won&#8217;t make any major changes to style in 2.8, but if the vote leans toward a submission that proposes it, we&#8217;ll do some user testing and make a decision for early 2.9 (which, now that we think of it, is probably the right thing to do anyway. <img src="http://wordpress.org/development/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> )</p>\n<p>Below are the links to the screenshots that were submitted. Please review each one (I&#8217;d open them all in tabs so I could look back and forth while they are all large size, because the voting poll just uses thumbnails), then choose the one you think looks the best/is the most usable.</p>\n<p>This poll was supposed to close at 8pm NY time on Tuesday (today), but we&#8217;re going to leave it open for an extra day. The voting poll will now be closed at 8pm NY time on Wednesday (that&#8217;s 2am Thursday, UTC). If you want to discuss the entries&#8217; pros/cons, <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/265261">this thread</a> would be a good place.</p>\n<p><a href="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/current.png">Current: The existing interface, for reference</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://p51labs.com/projects/wordpress-2.8-navigation/screenshot.png">KM: Current nav, header elements moved</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://andrerenaut.ovh.org/wp28.jpg">AN: Current nav, file folder style header</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://konstruktors.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mt-db-kaspars-dambis.png">KD: Current nav, modified header style</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://www.johnjamesjacoby.com/uploads/2009/04/jjj-wp-28.gif">JJ: Swap blog title and favorites menu</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://deanjrobinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mt-db-djr.png">DR1: Fluency style, dark</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://deanjrobinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mt-db-djr-2.png">DR2: Fluency style, medium</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://deanjrobinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mt-db-djr-3.png">DR3: Fluency style, light</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/ik.png">IK: Nav layered over dark background</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://gordonbrander.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mt-db-up.png">GB: Modified nav/header intersection</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://iammattthomas.com/28/dash.png">MT: Modified nav and header</a></p>\n<p><br />\n<a href="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1575922/">Which style do you prefer?</a><span>(<a href="http://answers.polldaddy.com">answers</a>)</span><br />\n</p>\n<p>Results will be posted the day after the polls close. </p>";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:14:"Matt: Spam SEO";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=14096";s:4:"link";s:30:"http://ma.tt/2009/04/spam-seo/";s:11:"description";s:115:"<p><a href="http://blog.akismet.com/2009/04/28/eliminating-spam-is-good-seo/">Eliminating spam is good SEO</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:16:30 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:115:"<p><a href="http://blog.akismet.com/2009/04/28/eliminating-spam-is-good-seo/">Eliminating spam is good SEO</a>.</p>";}i:32;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:37:"Akismet: Eliminating spam is good SEO";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://blog.akismet.com/?p=157";s:4:"link";s:64:"http://blog.akismet.com/2009/04/28/eliminating-spam-is-good-seo/";s:11:"description";s:6817:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>One of the most common forms of comment and pingback spam right now is the relatively subtle, ambiguous kind &#8212; short phrases or questions that are not obviously spam, at least on face value.  Since we <a href="http://blog.akismet.com/2007/11/27/it-really-is-spam/">last posted about this</a>, the more sophisticated spammers have progressed from old standbys like &#8220;nice post&#8221; and &#8220;great blog&#8221;, to more cunning things like questions (&#8221;where can I download your theme?&#8221;) and appeals to your helpful nature (&#8221;I&#8217;m having trouble subscribing to your RSS feed&#8221;).</p>\n<p>Akismet almost always catches these kinds of bogus comments.</p>\n<p>The tip-off of course is that they often include a link to a site that&#8217;s advertising dubious or sleazy merchandise (or worse, a web site that harms the viewer&#8217;s computer).  But it&#8217;s easy to forget to look at the link before approving a comment, or give the comment author the benefit of the doubt without checking closely.  And spammers have recently learned to post several comments over time, the first of which contains no link or obvious clue.  (We call these <em>precursor spams</em>).</p>\n<p>Anyway, a comment is a comment, right, so what&#8217;s the harm in approving a few tame platitudes, even if they were posted by spammers?</p>\n<p>Unfortunately it <em>is</em> harmful, and most of the damage is <em>to your own site</em>.</p>\n<p>By moving these comments out of your spam folder and publishing them on your blog, you&#8217;re doing three things, all of them bad:</p>\n<p><strong>1. You are undermining your site&#8217;s SEO.</strong></p>\n<p>The spammer&#8217;s web site might seem inoffensive on face value.  But the black-hat SEO and spam methods used by its promoter are not. That same spammer is busy building backlinks from anywhere they can find them, including some of the web&#8217;s worst neighbourhoods.  By regularly publishing links to spammers&#8217; web sites, you&#8217;re giving Google and other search engines a hint that links from your blog are poor quality.</p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s true that Google will <em>try</em> not to penalize a web site for inadvertently linking to a <a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=35769#3">bad neighbourhood</a>.  But even if they don&#8217;t, you are weakening the value of each of the other links from your blog - &#8220;diluting your GoogleJuice&#8221;, if you like - and helping to validate the spammer&#8217;s web site.  In some cases you might even find that <em>you are helping the spammer overtake your blog in search engine results</em>.</p>\n<p><strong>2. You are attracting more spammers.</strong></p>\n<p>Less skilled spammers will deliberately <em>seek out blogs that other spammers have successfully spammed</em>, because they know they are easy targets.  Organized spammers circulate lists of such blogs (for a small fee of course).  And professionals keep their own lists of previous victims, because they know future spam is even more likely to be approved there.  By letting some spam through - even seemingly harmless ones - you are providing a signal to spammers that your blog is a profitable target.  (Experienced bloggers will be familiar with this phenomenon: you accidentally approve one seemingly unremarkable spam comment, and a big batch of ugly spam follows soon after).</p>\n<p>WordPress and many other blog applications have a feature, independent of Akismet, where regular users who have had at least one comment approved, will automatically skip the moderation queue next time and have their comments published right away.  Spammers know this, and they&#8217;ll come back to take advantage of it.  Often they&#8217;ll link to a harmless looking site in their first comment (or include no link at all), but link to progressively more blatant spam in subsequent comments.</p>\n<p><strong>3. You are damaging your reputation.</strong></p>\n<p>You might not click on the links in all the comments on your blog, but some of your readers will.  And some of those links will go to sites that are sleazy, offensive, or harmful.</p>\n<p>Worse still, a spam tactic that is becoming more popular is to first post a small number of spam comments on innocent blogs; then send a large volume of spam to other web sites linking to the blog post that contains those comments.  (They do this to try to get around spam filters and blacklist that recognize and catch links to their own site).</p>\n<p>If you do publish spam comments on your blog, you might discover later that thousands of other blogs and forums have been spammed with <em>links to your blog</em>.</p>\n<p>So what should you do about it?</p>\n<p>Akismet will almost always catch these comments and put them in your Spam folder.  Usually you don&#8217;t need to do anything; just don&#8217;t approve them for publication.</p>\n<p>We have a real-time view of spam activity on millions of blogs around the world, so we can detect <em>patterns in behaviour</em> that can&#8217;t be seen by looking at any one single comment.  If a bland, generic comment turns up in your spam folder, you should be suspicious of it - Akismet flagged it for a reason.  Think twice before approving it for publication.  Unless you know the author, it almost certainly <em>is</em> spam &#8212; or a subtle precursor to it.</p>\n<p>Also, keep an eye out for forthcoming Akismet updates.  In addition to our usual work behind the scenes monitoring and adapting to new spam techniques, we&#8217;re developing some new features designed specifically to help protect against the potential harm done by spammers.</p>\n  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/akismet.wordpress.com/157/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/akismet.wordpress.com/157/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/akismet.wordpress.com/157/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/akismet.wordpress.com/157/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/akismet.wordpress.com/157/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/akismet.wordpress.com/157/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/akismet.wordpress.com/157/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/akismet.wordpress.com/157/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/akismet.wordpress.com/157/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/akismet.wordpress.com/157/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.akismet.com&blog=116920&post=157&subd=akismet&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:04:09 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:7:"summary";s:6817:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>One of the most common forms of comment and pingback spam right now is the relatively subtle, ambiguous kind &#8212; short phrases or questions that are not obviously spam, at least on face value.  Since we <a href="http://blog.akismet.com/2007/11/27/it-really-is-spam/">last posted about this</a>, the more sophisticated spammers have progressed from old standbys like &#8220;nice post&#8221; and &#8220;great blog&#8221;, to more cunning things like questions (&#8221;where can I download your theme?&#8221;) and appeals to your helpful nature (&#8221;I&#8217;m having trouble subscribing to your RSS feed&#8221;).</p>\n<p>Akismet almost always catches these kinds of bogus comments.</p>\n<p>The tip-off of course is that they often include a link to a site that&#8217;s advertising dubious or sleazy merchandise (or worse, a web site that harms the viewer&#8217;s computer).  But it&#8217;s easy to forget to look at the link before approving a comment, or give the comment author the benefit of the doubt without checking closely.  And spammers have recently learned to post several comments over time, the first of which contains no link or obvious clue.  (We call these <em>precursor spams</em>).</p>\n<p>Anyway, a comment is a comment, right, so what&#8217;s the harm in approving a few tame platitudes, even if they were posted by spammers?</p>\n<p>Unfortunately it <em>is</em> harmful, and most of the damage is <em>to your own site</em>.</p>\n<p>By moving these comments out of your spam folder and publishing them on your blog, you&#8217;re doing three things, all of them bad:</p>\n<p><strong>1. You are undermining your site&#8217;s SEO.</strong></p>\n<p>The spammer&#8217;s web site might seem inoffensive on face value.  But the black-hat SEO and spam methods used by its promoter are not. That same spammer is busy building backlinks from anywhere they can find them, including some of the web&#8217;s worst neighbourhoods.  By regularly publishing links to spammers&#8217; web sites, you&#8217;re giving Google and other search engines a hint that links from your blog are poor quality.</p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s true that Google will <em>try</em> not to penalize a web site for inadvertently linking to a <a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=35769#3">bad neighbourhood</a>.  But even if they don&#8217;t, you are weakening the value of each of the other links from your blog - &#8220;diluting your GoogleJuice&#8221;, if you like - and helping to validate the spammer&#8217;s web site.  In some cases you might even find that <em>you are helping the spammer overtake your blog in search engine results</em>.</p>\n<p><strong>2. You are attracting more spammers.</strong></p>\n<p>Less skilled spammers will deliberately <em>seek out blogs that other spammers have successfully spammed</em>, because they know they are easy targets.  Organized spammers circulate lists of such blogs (for a small fee of course).  And professionals keep their own lists of previous victims, because they know future spam is even more likely to be approved there.  By letting some spam through - even seemingly harmless ones - you are providing a signal to spammers that your blog is a profitable target.  (Experienced bloggers will be familiar with this phenomenon: you accidentally approve one seemingly unremarkable spam comment, and a big batch of ugly spam follows soon after).</p>\n<p>WordPress and many other blog applications have a feature, independent of Akismet, where regular users who have had at least one comment approved, will automatically skip the moderation queue next time and have their comments published right away.  Spammers know this, and they&#8217;ll come back to take advantage of it.  Often they&#8217;ll link to a harmless looking site in their first comment (or include no link at all), but link to progressively more blatant spam in subsequent comments.</p>\n<p><strong>3. You are damaging your reputation.</strong></p>\n<p>You might not click on the links in all the comments on your blog, but some of your readers will.  And some of those links will go to sites that are sleazy, offensive, or harmful.</p>\n<p>Worse still, a spam tactic that is becoming more popular is to first post a small number of spam comments on innocent blogs; then send a large volume of spam to other web sites linking to the blog post that contains those comments.  (They do this to try to get around spam filters and blacklist that recognize and catch links to their own site).</p>\n<p>If you do publish spam comments on your blog, you might discover later that thousands of other blogs and forums have been spammed with <em>links to your blog</em>.</p>\n<p>So what should you do about it?</p>\n<p>Akismet will almost always catch these comments and put them in your Spam folder.  Usually you don&#8217;t need to do anything; just don&#8217;t approve them for publication.</p>\n<p>We have a real-time view of spam activity on millions of blogs around the world, so we can detect <em>patterns in behaviour</em> that can&#8217;t be seen by looking at any one single comment.  If a bland, generic comment turns up in your spam folder, you should be suspicious of it - Akismet flagged it for a reason.  Think twice before approving it for publication.  Unless you know the author, it almost certainly <em>is</em> spam &#8212; or a subtle precursor to it.</p>\n<p>Also, keep an eye out for forthcoming Akismet updates.  In addition to our usual work behind the scenes monitoring and adapting to new spam techniques, we&#8217;re developing some new features designed specifically to help protect against the potential harm done by spammers.</p>\n  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/akismet.wordpress.com/157/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/akismet.wordpress.com/157/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/akismet.wordpress.com/157/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/akismet.wordpress.com/157/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/akismet.wordpress.com/157/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/akismet.wordpress.com/157/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/akismet.wordpress.com/157/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/akismet.wordpress.com/157/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/akismet.wordpress.com/157/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/akismet.wordpress.com/157/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.akismet.com&blog=116920&post=157&subd=akismet&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:33;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:37:"WordPress.tv: WordPress.tv is hiring!";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://blog.wordpress.tv/?p=58";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://blog.wordpress.tv/2009/04/28/wordpresstv-is-hiring/";s:11:"description";s:4253:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><strong>I&#8217;m super-excited to say that we&#8217;re hiring here at WordPress.tv towers!</strong></p>\n<p>With our combined focus on community content and putting out fresh tutorials for you, there are only so many hours a day in the average week. So, to make sure that we cover the gamut of WordPress video, we&#8217;re going to need an extra pair of hands.</p>\n<p>You can find the job description at our <a href="http://automattic.com/jobs/">Automattic jobs page</a> - the job you&#8217;re looking at is the &#8220;Reel Wrangler&#8221;. Here are a few more details:</p>\n<p><span id="more-58"></span></p>\n<p><strong>Are you our Reel Wrangling WPTVist?</strong></p>\n<p>The job calls for a flexible, creative jack or jill of all trades with an independent mind. Here at the Automattic ranch we all work from home, manage our own workloads, and live free of micro-management and rigid hierarchy. Laughing at Matt&#8217;s jokes is optional, although it does win you first dibs at the BBQ.</p>\n<p>That means you need to be able to communicate what&#8217;s happening, what needs fixing, and what you think, through our variety of online meeting places.</p>\n<p><strong>With this position you&#8217;ll be:</strong></p>\n<p>*Engaging with the WordPress community, and the videomakers within it - from scouting talent to uploading and publishing awesome videos from around the world</p>\n<p>*Actively moderating the WordPress.tv community, and helping people to find the help they need</p>\n<p>*Pinging out updates, blog posts, tweets and suchlike</p>\n<p>*Making our content more accessible with subtitle transcriptions</p>\n<p>*Managing our incoming videos, checking them out, and publishing the best to the web</p>\n<p>*Potentially helping out a bit with some concise, straight to the point screencasts</p>\n<p>*Sharing your thoughts, progress and whatever else blow-by-blow on the live-to-the-world <a href="http://dev.wordpress.tv">WordPress.tv dev blog</a></p>\n<p>*Working with a person whose eyebrows outsize even Sylar&#8217;s</p>\n<p><strong>You&#8217;ll need to be:</strong></p>\n<p>*Easy to get along with, patient and kind (yes, just like Mary Poppins)</p>\n<p>*WordPress, HTML and CSS savvy (as in working knowledge rather than genius, although that won&#8217;t hurt)</p>\n<p>*Familiar with video formats, publishing media to the web and using FTP</p>\n<p>*Self-motivated, independent and focused on making cool stuff happen</p>\n<p>*Bonus points for any screencasting, documentation or community/support chops</p>\n<p><strong>We can&#8217;t wait to hear from you</strong> - to apply, you&#8217;ll want to <a href="http://automattic.com/jobs/">check out all of the details here</a>, or if you&#8217;re super-confident, send a *short* email and your resumé to jobs [at] automattic [dot] [com]. We&#8217;d rather you didn&#8217;t apply in the comments or via the WordPress.tv contact form, and doing so will earn you 10 Suck-Points for not having read this <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>\n<p>Looking forward to hearing from you!</p>\n  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptvblog.wordpress.com/58/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptvblog.wordpress.com/58/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptvblog.wordpress.com/58/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptvblog.wordpress.com/58/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptvblog.wordpress.com/58/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptvblog.wordpress.com/58/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptvblog.wordpress.com/58/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptvblog.wordpress.com/58/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptvblog.wordpress.com/58/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptvblog.wordpress.com/58/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.wordpress.tv&blog=5310177&post=58&subd=wptvblog&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:45:25 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Michael Pick";}s:7:"summary";s:4253:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><strong>I&#8217;m super-excited to say that we&#8217;re hiring here at WordPress.tv towers!</strong></p>\n<p>With our combined focus on community content and putting out fresh tutorials for you, there are only so many hours a day in the average week. So, to make sure that we cover the gamut of WordPress video, we&#8217;re going to need an extra pair of hands.</p>\n<p>You can find the job description at our <a href="http://automattic.com/jobs/">Automattic jobs page</a> - the job you&#8217;re looking at is the &#8220;Reel Wrangler&#8221;. Here are a few more details:</p>\n<p><span id="more-58"></span></p>\n<p><strong>Are you our Reel Wrangling WPTVist?</strong></p>\n<p>The job calls for a flexible, creative jack or jill of all trades with an independent mind. Here at the Automattic ranch we all work from home, manage our own workloads, and live free of micro-management and rigid hierarchy. Laughing at Matt&#8217;s jokes is optional, although it does win you first dibs at the BBQ.</p>\n<p>That means you need to be able to communicate what&#8217;s happening, what needs fixing, and what you think, through our variety of online meeting places.</p>\n<p><strong>With this position you&#8217;ll be:</strong></p>\n<p>*Engaging with the WordPress community, and the videomakers within it - from scouting talent to uploading and publishing awesome videos from around the world</p>\n<p>*Actively moderating the WordPress.tv community, and helping people to find the help they need</p>\n<p>*Pinging out updates, blog posts, tweets and suchlike</p>\n<p>*Making our content more accessible with subtitle transcriptions</p>\n<p>*Managing our incoming videos, checking them out, and publishing the best to the web</p>\n<p>*Potentially helping out a bit with some concise, straight to the point screencasts</p>\n<p>*Sharing your thoughts, progress and whatever else blow-by-blow on the live-to-the-world <a href="http://dev.wordpress.tv">WordPress.tv dev blog</a></p>\n<p>*Working with a person whose eyebrows outsize even Sylar&#8217;s</p>\n<p><strong>You&#8217;ll need to be:</strong></p>\n<p>*Easy to get along with, patient and kind (yes, just like Mary Poppins)</p>\n<p>*WordPress, HTML and CSS savvy (as in working knowledge rather than genius, although that won&#8217;t hurt)</p>\n<p>*Familiar with video formats, publishing media to the web and using FTP</p>\n<p>*Self-motivated, independent and focused on making cool stuff happen</p>\n<p>*Bonus points for any screencasting, documentation or community/support chops</p>\n<p><strong>We can&#8217;t wait to hear from you</strong> - to apply, you&#8217;ll want to <a href="http://automattic.com/jobs/">check out all of the details here</a>, or if you&#8217;re super-confident, send a *short* email and your resumé to jobs [at] automattic [dot] [com]. We&#8217;d rather you didn&#8217;t apply in the comments or via the WordPress.tv contact form, and doing so will earn you 10 Suck-Points for not having read this <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>\n<p>Looking forward to hearing from you!</p>\n  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptvblog.wordpress.com/58/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptvblog.wordpress.com/58/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptvblog.wordpress.com/58/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptvblog.wordpress.com/58/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptvblog.wordpress.com/58/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptvblog.wordpress.com/58/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptvblog.wordpress.com/58/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptvblog.wordpress.com/58/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptvblog.wordpress.com/58/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptvblog.wordpress.com/58/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.wordpress.tv&blog=5310177&post=58&subd=wptvblog&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:34;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/27";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5701";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/27/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0427/";s:11:"description";s:3334:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>\n<p><a href="http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/expandable-dashboard-recent-comments">Expandable Dashboard Recent Comments</a></p>\n<p>Adds the ability to do an in-place expansion of comment excerpts on the admin dashboard ‘Recent Comments’ widget.</p>\n<p><a href="http://johnhawkinsunrated.com/wordpress-plugins">Ads for Old Posts</a></p>\n<p>The Ads For Old Posts plugin will automatically insert an ad block in your posts once they reach a certain age. The idea is to not bother your regular readers with ads, but display the ads for people who may find your posts months and years later.</p>\n<p><a href="http://www.seo-traffic-guide.de/wp-cartoon/">WP Cartoon</a></p>\n<p>This plugin lets you integrate the daily web cartoon from <a href="http://www.danscartoons.com/">http://www.danscartoons.com/</a> for non-commercial websites. It adds a button to the TinyMCE Editor in your wordpress installation so that you can integrate the cartoon with one click on any page or post you like.</p>\n<p><a href="http://themesphere.com/twitter-counter-wordpress-plugin.html">Twounter</a></p>\n<p>Twounter is a WordPress Plugin that fetches the number of followers for a twitter profile and returns it in plain text format. Twounter uses Twitter API to ensure that the plugin provides the maximum speed while fetching the number of followers.</p>\n<p><a href="http://www.ifgogo.com/323/wordpress-comment-digg-plugin/">WordPress Comment Digg</a></p>\n<p>This plugin will allow users to digg / bury every thread of your comments, thus find out the most valuable comments as well as the human-spammers.</p>\n<p><a href="http://admiyn.com/admiyn-twitter.html">Admiyn Twitter</a></p>\n<p>Admiyn Twitter is simple and useful way to change your Twitter&#8217;s status whenever a new post or comment is published in your blog.</p>\n<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>\n<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-to-any/">Add to Any</a></p>\n<p>Allows your visitors to submit posts to various sites</p>\n<p><a href="http://www.gdstarrating.com/2009/04/22/gd-star-rating-120/">GD Star Rating</a></p>\n<p>GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, multi ratings, templated rendering, has a widgets build in and extensive shortcode support.</p>\n<p><a href="http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-minify-wordpress-plugin/">WP Minify</a></p>\n<p>This plugin helps you easily integrate the Minify engine into your WordPress blog. Once enabled, this plugin will combine and compress JS and files enqueued by wp_enqueue_script() and wp_enqueue_style() to improve page load time.</p>\n<p><a href="http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-greet-box-wordpress-plugin/">WP Greet Box</a></p>\n<p>This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url.</p>\n<p><a href="http://sww.co.nz/wordpress-plugins/ezy-nav-menu/">Ezy Nav Menu</a></p>\n<p>Makes use of WP&#8217;s built in &#8216;Edit Links&#8217; to create and manage a website navigation menu that can be displayed using a custom template tag.</p>\n<p><a href="http://ideasilo.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/contact-form-7-1951/">Contact Form 7</a></p>\n<p>An easy method to allow users to contact you</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:24:44 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:3334:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>\n<p><a href="http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/expandable-dashboard-recent-comments">Expandable Dashboard Recent Comments</a></p>\n<p>Adds the ability to do an in-place expansion of comment excerpts on the admin dashboard ‘Recent Comments’ widget.</p>\n<p><a href="http://johnhawkinsunrated.com/wordpress-plugins">Ads for Old Posts</a></p>\n<p>The Ads For Old Posts plugin will automatically insert an ad block in your posts once they reach a certain age. The idea is to not bother your regular readers with ads, but display the ads for people who may find your posts months and years later.</p>\n<p><a href="http://www.seo-traffic-guide.de/wp-cartoon/">WP Cartoon</a></p>\n<p>This plugin lets you integrate the daily web cartoon from <a href="http://www.danscartoons.com/">http://www.danscartoons.com/</a> for non-commercial websites. It adds a button to the TinyMCE Editor in your wordpress installation so that you can integrate the cartoon with one click on any page or post you like.</p>\n<p><a href="http://themesphere.com/twitter-counter-wordpress-plugin.html">Twounter</a></p>\n<p>Twounter is a WordPress Plugin that fetches the number of followers for a twitter profile and returns it in plain text format. Twounter uses Twitter API to ensure that the plugin provides the maximum speed while fetching the number of followers.</p>\n<p><a href="http://www.ifgogo.com/323/wordpress-comment-digg-plugin/">WordPress Comment Digg</a></p>\n<p>This plugin will allow users to digg / bury every thread of your comments, thus find out the most valuable comments as well as the human-spammers.</p>\n<p><a href="http://admiyn.com/admiyn-twitter.html">Admiyn Twitter</a></p>\n<p>Admiyn Twitter is simple and useful way to change your Twitter&#8217;s status whenever a new post or comment is published in your blog.</p>\n<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>\n<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-to-any/">Add to Any</a></p>\n<p>Allows your visitors to submit posts to various sites</p>\n<p><a href="http://www.gdstarrating.com/2009/04/22/gd-star-rating-120/">GD Star Rating</a></p>\n<p>GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, multi ratings, templated rendering, has a widgets build in and extensive shortcode support.</p>\n<p><a href="http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-minify-wordpress-plugin/">WP Minify</a></p>\n<p>This plugin helps you easily integrate the Minify engine into your WordPress blog. Once enabled, this plugin will combine and compress JS and files enqueued by wp_enqueue_script() and wp_enqueue_style() to improve page load time.</p>\n<p><a href="http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-greet-box-wordpress-plugin/">WP Greet Box</a></p>\n<p>This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url.</p>\n<p><a href="http://sww.co.nz/wordpress-plugins/ezy-nav-menu/">Ezy Nav Menu</a></p>\n<p>Makes use of WP&#8217;s built in &#8216;Edit Links&#8217; to create and manage a website navigation menu that can be displayed using a custom template tag.</p>\n<p><a href="http://ideasilo.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/contact-form-7-1951/">Contact Form 7</a></p>\n<p>An easy method to allow users to contact you</p>";}i:35;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:28:"Matt: Wired Joins the Family";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=14093";s:4:"link";s:44:"http://ma.tt/2009/04/wired-joins-the-family/";s:11:"description";s:801:"<p>I wanted to take a moment to welcome <a href="http://www.wired.com/blogs/">Wired.com&#8217;s 12 blogs</a> to the WordPress family! (They just completed their switch from <a href="http://www.typepad.com/">Typepad</a>.) I thought this completes <a href="http://ma.tt/2009/01/top-100-blogs/">my prediction from January</a> that WP would reach over <a href="http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/01/15/the-blog-platforms-of-choice-among-the-top-100-blogs/">40% of this list of top blogs</a>, but when I went to the <a href="http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/">Technorati 100</a> today everything has changed! First, they only show ten blogs at a time now (lame!) and second there appears to have been huge churn on the list,so we&#8217;ll have to wait until next January to do an apples-to-apples comparison.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:22:15 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:801:"<p>I wanted to take a moment to welcome <a href="http://www.wired.com/blogs/">Wired.com&#8217;s 12 blogs</a> to the WordPress family! (They just completed their switch from <a href="http://www.typepad.com/">Typepad</a>.) I thought this completes <a href="http://ma.tt/2009/01/top-100-blogs/">my prediction from January</a> that WP would reach over <a href="http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/01/15/the-blog-platforms-of-choice-among-the-top-100-blogs/">40% of this list of top blogs</a>, but when I went to the <a href="http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/">Technorati 100</a> today everything has changed! First, they only show ten blogs at a time now (lame!) and second there appears to have been huge churn on the list,so we&#8217;ll have to wait until next January to do an apples-to-apples comparison.</p>";}i:36;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:62:"WordPress.tv: Feeds glorious feeds - WordPress.tv to your door";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://blog.wordpress.tv/?p=49";s:4:"link";s:82:"http://blog.wordpress.tv/2009/04/27/feeds-glorious-feeds-wordpresstv-to-your-door/";s:11:"description";s:2670:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><strong>We&#8217;ve been working behind the scenes to make it easier for you to watch WordPress.tv</strong> tutorials wherever you are - online or off.</p>\n<p>So you&#8217;ll notice now that on the <a href="http://wordpress.tv">front page of WordPress.tv</a>  (scroll down to the bottom) you can click to subscribe to our videos via the awesome, cross-platform, Open Source media center <a href="http://getmiro.com">Miro</a>. If you haven&#8217;t checked out Miro, yet, it&#8217;s an excellent way to download, watch, sort and browse web video, video podcasts, and even the video files on your computer. Better still, it&#8217;s totally Open, free to use, runs on pretty much any computer out there (although if you have a 10 year old system it might struggle with HD) and even brings you YouTube and other web-based video in glorious full-screen HD (source files allowing).</p>\n<p>We&#8217;re big fans, if you haven&#8217;t guessed.</p>\n<p>You can also subscribe to WordPress.tv in your feed reader of choice, or iTunes, via the feed URL <a href="http://wordpress.tv/feed">http://wordpress.tv/feed</a></p>\n<p>In iTunes, head to Advanced -&gt; Subscribe to Podcast, and drop in the URL above. You&#8217;ll be good to go and can then download any videos that tickle your fancy. </p>\n<p>We&#8217;re still working out a few kinks, but if you&#8217;re anxious to get your hands on our free (as in beer, as in freedom) tutorials in iPod-friendly MP4 format - you now have a bunch of ways you can do so.</p>\n<p>Enjoy!</p>\n  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptvblog.wordpress.com/49/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptvblog.wordpress.com/49/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptvblog.wordpress.com/49/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptvblog.wordpress.com/49/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptvblog.wordpress.com/49/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptvblog.wordpress.com/49/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptvblog.wordpress.com/49/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptvblog.wordpress.com/49/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptvblog.wordpress.com/49/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptvblog.wordpress.com/49/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.wordpress.tv&blog=5310177&post=49&subd=wptvblog&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:45:18 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Michael Pick";}s:7:"summary";s:2670:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><strong>We&#8217;ve been working behind the scenes to make it easier for you to watch WordPress.tv</strong> tutorials wherever you are - online or off.</p>\n<p>So you&#8217;ll notice now that on the <a href="http://wordpress.tv">front page of WordPress.tv</a>  (scroll down to the bottom) you can click to subscribe to our videos via the awesome, cross-platform, Open Source media center <a href="http://getmiro.com">Miro</a>. If you haven&#8217;t checked out Miro, yet, it&#8217;s an excellent way to download, watch, sort and browse web video, video podcasts, and even the video files on your computer. Better still, it&#8217;s totally Open, free to use, runs on pretty much any computer out there (although if you have a 10 year old system it might struggle with HD) and even brings you YouTube and other web-based video in glorious full-screen HD (source files allowing).</p>\n<p>We&#8217;re big fans, if you haven&#8217;t guessed.</p>\n<p>You can also subscribe to WordPress.tv in your feed reader of choice, or iTunes, via the feed URL <a href="http://wordpress.tv/feed">http://wordpress.tv/feed</a></p>\n<p>In iTunes, head to Advanced -&gt; Subscribe to Podcast, and drop in the URL above. You&#8217;ll be good to go and can then download any videos that tickle your fancy. </p>\n<p>We&#8217;re still working out a few kinks, but if you&#8217;re anxious to get your hands on our free (as in beer, as in freedom) tutorials in iPod-friendly MP4 format - you now have a bunch of ways you can do so.</p>\n<p>Enjoy!</p>\n  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptvblog.wordpress.com/49/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptvblog.wordpress.com/49/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptvblog.wordpress.com/49/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptvblog.wordpress.com/49/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptvblog.wordpress.com/49/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptvblog.wordpress.com/49/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptvblog.wordpress.com/49/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptvblog.wordpress.com/49/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptvblog.wordpress.com/49/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptvblog.wordpress.com/49/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.wordpress.tv&blog=5310177&post=49&subd=wptvblog&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:37;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:52:"Weblog Tools Collection: The Hidden Gem Of WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5697";s:4:"link";s:81:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/27/the-hiddem-gem-of-wordpress/";s:11:"description";s:1823:"<p>The other day, I was thinking about how easy it is to make a mess on the web. For example, purchasing a domain that you attach an email address to that is used for a year only to end up wanting to use a different domain. This means you have to go to every site you registered an account with and change the email address if you plan on letting the old domain retire. There are also a host of other issues as well which in the end, just seems like a giant mess. For this reason alone, I believe hosted blogging solutions will always have a market because you don&#8217;t have to worry about moving around or managing a domain. Typically, all you have to do is register an account and blog. </p>\n<p>However, users of WordPress.com have an awesome benefit that not many other blog hosting providers can match and that is, a free, open-source project based on much of the same code that powers the hosted service. It&#8217;s very unlikely but if WordPress.com were to ever go out of business, using WXR or <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels#Import" target="_blank">WordPress Extended RSS</a> you could export your content from your hosted account and move it to a self-hosted install of WordPress without missing a beat. If we look into the past, Matt has made it clear that WordPress will exist as an open-source project for as long as he is alive and hopefully, long after he is gone. Talk about peace of mind.</p>\n<p>There are a couple of blog host providers which are making some noise in the market right now and even though some of them provide a fancy way of doing things, I prefer having the control over the fate of my content rather than a fancy interface for blogging. </p>\n<p><b>How important is the export/import of data when it comes to choosing a blog host or blogging software?</b></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:25:08 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1823:"<p>The other day, I was thinking about how easy it is to make a mess on the web. For example, purchasing a domain that you attach an email address to that is used for a year only to end up wanting to use a different domain. This means you have to go to every site you registered an account with and change the email address if you plan on letting the old domain retire. There are also a host of other issues as well which in the end, just seems like a giant mess. For this reason alone, I believe hosted blogging solutions will always have a market because you don&#8217;t have to worry about moving around or managing a domain. Typically, all you have to do is register an account and blog. </p>\n<p>However, users of WordPress.com have an awesome benefit that not many other blog hosting providers can match and that is, a free, open-source project based on much of the same code that powers the hosted service. It&#8217;s very unlikely but if WordPress.com were to ever go out of business, using WXR or <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels#Import" target="_blank">WordPress Extended RSS</a> you could export your content from your hosted account and move it to a self-hosted install of WordPress without missing a beat. If we look into the past, Matt has made it clear that WordPress will exist as an open-source project for as long as he is alive and hopefully, long after he is gone. Talk about peace of mind.</p>\n<p>There are a couple of blog host providers which are making some noise in the market right now and even though some of them provide a fancy way of doing things, I prefer having the control over the fate of my content rather than a fancy interface for blogging. </p>\n<p><b>How important is the export/import of data when it comes to choosing a blog host or blogging software?</b></p>";}i:38;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:75:"Weblog Tools Collection: Announcing Wordpress Plugin Competition 2009 (3.0)";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5695";s:4:"link";s:101:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/26/announcing-wordpress-plugin-competition-2009-30/";s:11:"description";s:4240:"<p>It is that time of the year again. We will be holding another <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog">WordPress Plugin Competition</a>. The Plugin Competitions held in the past years have generated a tremendous amount of interest in WordPress and our entrants have come up with fantastic plugins such as <a href="http://pressography.com/plugins/wp-comment-remix/">WP Comment Remix</a>, <a href="http://www.aaronharp.com/dev/wp-manageable/">Manageable</a>,  <a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-plugin-who-sees-ads-control-adsense-display/">Who Sees Ads</a> and of course <a href="http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dc2rmw69_302c8tvhhn">OneClick</a> in addition to hundreds of others that were voted upon by readers like you. We have distributed thousands of dollars in prizes, helped popularize hundreds of plugins and have even prompted the adoption of various peices of code into the WordPress core. With <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/has-patch-marathon-results/">WordPress 2.8 around the bend</a> and the <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/summer-of-code-students-announced/">Google Summer of Code</a>, I have very high hopes for this year. Here are some links for those that have not yet participated or looked into our past WordPress Plugin Competitions:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/13/wordpress-plugin-competition-25-winners/">WordPress Plugin Competition 2008 Winners</a></li>\n<li><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/26/winners-wordpress-plugin-competition/">WordPress Plugin Competition 2007 Winners</a></li>\n<li><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/07/23/wordpress-plugin-competition-winners/">WordPress Plugin Competition 2005 Winners</a></li>\n<li><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog">WordPress Plugin Competition Blog</a></li>\n<li><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/plugin-competition-prizes/">List of prizes from last year</a></li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>We are looking for donations (via Paypal) towards the final purse for this years&#8217; competition. WeblogToolsCollection pledges $1000 towards the final prizes. </strong></p>\n<p>We will not be removing the past entries from the Plugin Competition blog. Much of the rules and expectations remain the same. They are listed below. The plugins will be judged by a panel of <em>at least</em> three judges. <strong></strong></p>\n<p>Some relevant details:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>All code <em>must</em> be G<strong>PL</strong></strong><strong> compatible</strong></li>\n<li><strong>All Plugins must be compatible with WordPress 2.7 and above</strong></li>\n<li><strong>All Plugins have to be secure and use secure coding methods. This is very important.<br />\n</strong></li>\n<li>Plugins must be made available through the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/">Wordpress Extend pages</a></li>\n<li>Plugins must be officially submitted through email and announced and discussed on the <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/pluginblog/">Plugin Competition Blog</a>. More details on submissions will be added in the last month of the competition. Release of plugin after competition start does not mean submission. You can submit your plugin way after its release to work out bugs etc.</li>\n<li>Running time for competition = 3 months starting the 1st of May till the 31st of July</li>\n<li>True Wordpress plugins only. No manual modifications can be required of users. No editing of core files allowed.</li>\n<li>You cannot submit plugins that have been released already. Modification or re-use of existing code to achieve completely new functionality allowed.</li>\n<li>All plugins require documentation as in the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/faq/">Wordpress Extend pages</a>.</li>\n<li>Preliminary support for the plugin has to be provided to the public.</li>\n<li>Any and all prizes/controversies/issues will be judged and decided at my sole discretion.</li>\n<li>Past winners are not eligible for this competition.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Please let us know if we can help answer any questions or if you would like to donate some money to the competition prizes. Your help will go a long way.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:08:34 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:4240:"<p>It is that time of the year again. We will be holding another <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog">WordPress Plugin Competition</a>. The Plugin Competitions held in the past years have generated a tremendous amount of interest in WordPress and our entrants have come up with fantastic plugins such as <a href="http://pressography.com/plugins/wp-comment-remix/">WP Comment Remix</a>, <a href="http://www.aaronharp.com/dev/wp-manageable/">Manageable</a>,  <a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-plugin-who-sees-ads-control-adsense-display/">Who Sees Ads</a> and of course <a href="http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dc2rmw69_302c8tvhhn">OneClick</a> in addition to hundreds of others that were voted upon by readers like you. We have distributed thousands of dollars in prizes, helped popularize hundreds of plugins and have even prompted the adoption of various peices of code into the WordPress core. With <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/has-patch-marathon-results/">WordPress 2.8 around the bend</a> and the <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/summer-of-code-students-announced/">Google Summer of Code</a>, I have very high hopes for this year. Here are some links for those that have not yet participated or looked into our past WordPress Plugin Competitions:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/13/wordpress-plugin-competition-25-winners/">WordPress Plugin Competition 2008 Winners</a></li>\n<li><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/26/winners-wordpress-plugin-competition/">WordPress Plugin Competition 2007 Winners</a></li>\n<li><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/07/23/wordpress-plugin-competition-winners/">WordPress Plugin Competition 2005 Winners</a></li>\n<li><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog">WordPress Plugin Competition Blog</a></li>\n<li><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/plugin-competition-prizes/">List of prizes from last year</a></li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>We are looking for donations (via Paypal) towards the final purse for this years&#8217; competition. WeblogToolsCollection pledges $1000 towards the final prizes. </strong></p>\n<p>We will not be removing the past entries from the Plugin Competition blog. Much of the rules and expectations remain the same. They are listed below. The plugins will be judged by a panel of <em>at least</em> three judges. <strong></strong></p>\n<p>Some relevant details:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>All code <em>must</em> be G<strong>PL</strong></strong><strong> compatible</strong></li>\n<li><strong>All Plugins must be compatible with WordPress 2.7 and above</strong></li>\n<li><strong>All Plugins have to be secure and use secure coding methods. This is very important.<br />\n</strong></li>\n<li>Plugins must be made available through the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/">Wordpress Extend pages</a></li>\n<li>Plugins must be officially submitted through email and announced and discussed on the <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/pluginblog/">Plugin Competition Blog</a>. More details on submissions will be added in the last month of the competition. Release of plugin after competition start does not mean submission. You can submit your plugin way after its release to work out bugs etc.</li>\n<li>Running time for competition = 3 months starting the 1st of May till the 31st of July</li>\n<li>True Wordpress plugins only. No manual modifications can be required of users. No editing of core files allowed.</li>\n<li>You cannot submit plugins that have been released already. Modification or re-use of existing code to achieve completely new functionality allowed.</li>\n<li>All plugins require documentation as in the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/faq/">Wordpress Extend pages</a>.</li>\n<li>Preliminary support for the plugin has to be provided to the public.</li>\n<li>Any and all prizes/controversies/issues will be judged and decided at my sole discretion.</li>\n<li>Past winners are not eligible for this competition.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Please let us know if we can help answer any questions or if you would like to donate some money to the competition prizes. Your help will go a long way.</p>";}i:39;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 04/25";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5693";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/25/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0425/";s:11:"description";s:2351:"<h3><a href="http://izandi.net/2009/04/free-wordpress-themes-dreams-2-columns/">Dreams</a></h3>\n<p><a href="http://izandi.net/Free_WordPress_Themes/Dreams/"><img title="Dreams" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/04/dreams.gif" alt="Dreams" width="200" height="129" /></a></p>\n<p>Two column, widget ready, gravatar ready theme</p>\n<h3><a href="http://www.acosmin.com/acosmintech-v1-free-wordpress-theme/">Acosmintech</a></h3>\n<p><a href="http://acosmintech.acosmin.com/"><img title="Acosmintech" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/04/acosmintech.gif" alt="Acosmintech" width="200" height="110" /></a></p>\n<p>Two sidebar, widget, gravatar and tag ready theme with SIFR for headings and an included PSD file</p>\n<h3><a href="http://dansette.com/2009/04/free-wordpress-theme-corp/">Corp</a></h3>\n<p><img title="Corp" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/04/corp.png" alt="Corp" width="200" height="150" /></p>\n<p>Corp is a free WordPress theme, with a double-column right sidebar and a business style - a riot of black and grays in other words&#8230; except that link and hover colors are fully customizable from the admin. Compatible with WP 2.7 threaded comments etc.</p>\n<h3><a href="http://3oneseven.com/13/niukita-wp-theme/">Niukita</a></h3>\n<p><a href="http://wp2.3oneseven.com/index.php?wptheme=Niukita"><img title="niukita" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/04/niukita.png" alt="niukita" width="200" height="154" /></a></p>\n<p>The Niukita WP theme, corporate styles with the Niukita WordPress theme, loaded with a “presidential” blue/white colour scheme and an options panel for full control over the frontpage layout, featuring a two column fluid layout with built in options panel, frontpage news slider and automatic SEO titles.</p>\n<h3><a href="http://rzepak.pure.pl/themptationpress-free-premium-wordpress-theme/">ThemptationPress</a></h3>\n<p><a href="http://themptationpress.pure.pl/"><img title="themptationPress" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/04/themptationpress.jpg" alt="themptationPress" width="200" height="46" /></a></p>\n<p>Two column theme, with four widget areas, dropdown menu, six background variations and ad management system</p>\n<p>Are you a theme author? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Submit your theme</a> to us.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:12:17 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:2351:"<h3><a href="http://izandi.net/2009/04/free-wordpress-themes-dreams-2-columns/">Dreams</a></h3>\n<p><a href="http://izandi.net/Free_WordPress_Themes/Dreams/"><img title="Dreams" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/04/dreams.gif" alt="Dreams" width="200" height="129" /></a></p>\n<p>Two column, widget ready, gravatar ready theme</p>\n<h3><a href="http://www.acosmin.com/acosmintech-v1-free-wordpress-theme/">Acosmintech</a></h3>\n<p><a href="http://acosmintech.acosmin.com/"><img title="Acosmintech" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/04/acosmintech.gif" alt="Acosmintech" width="200" height="110" /></a></p>\n<p>Two sidebar, widget, gravatar and tag ready theme with SIFR for headings and an included PSD file</p>\n<h3><a href="http://dansette.com/2009/04/free-wordpress-theme-corp/">Corp</a></h3>\n<p><img title="Corp" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/04/corp.png" alt="Corp" width="200" height="150" /></p>\n<p>Corp is a free WordPress theme, with a double-column right sidebar and a business style - a riot of black and grays in other words&#8230; except that link and hover colors are fully customizable from the admin. Compatible with WP 2.7 threaded comments etc.</p>\n<h3><a href="http://3oneseven.com/13/niukita-wp-theme/">Niukita</a></h3>\n<p><a href="http://wp2.3oneseven.com/index.php?wptheme=Niukita"><img title="niukita" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/04/niukita.png" alt="niukita" width="200" height="154" /></a></p>\n<p>The Niukita WP theme, corporate styles with the Niukita WordPress theme, loaded with a “presidential” blue/white colour scheme and an options panel for full control over the frontpage layout, featuring a two column fluid layout with built in options panel, frontpage news slider and automatic SEO titles.</p>\n<h3><a href="http://rzepak.pure.pl/themptationpress-free-premium-wordpress-theme/">ThemptationPress</a></h3>\n<p><a href="http://themptationpress.pure.pl/"><img title="themptationPress" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/04/themptationpress.jpg" alt="themptationPress" width="200" height="46" /></a></p>\n<p>Two column theme, with four widget areas, dropdown menu, six background variations and ad management system</p>\n<p>Are you a theme author? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Submit your theme</a> to us.</p>";}i:40;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:33:"Dougal Campbell: Where’s Waldo?";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=1490";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/04/25/wheres-waldo";s:11:"description";s:2786:"<p>Or, more to the point, where&#8217;s Dougal?</p>\n<p>Sorry about the long silence here. After our son got out of the hospital from <a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/03/02/home">his pneumonia</a>, he had four weeks of therapy before he returned to regular school. I had to drive across town to drop him off and pick him up, which ate up around 3 hours of each day when all was said and done. I&#8217;ve also tried to devote some time to taking care of some tasks around the house before I start my new job.</p>\n<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1497" title="MailChimp Head" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/the-head.jpg" alt="MailChimp Head" width="119" height="119" />New job, you say? Yup. I&#8217;m going to be working at <a href="http://mailchimp.com/">MailChimp</a> (go ahead, post all your &#8216;code monkey&#8217; puns, get it out of your system). MailChimp is a service for managing email newsletter campaigns, with nicely formatted <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language"><span class="caps">HTML</span></acronym> mail templates, and readership analytics. The team there is already doing a lot of nifty stuff, like when <a href="http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/want-700000-html-email-templates/">they used Amazon Mechanical Turk</a> to help vet a large set of programmatically generated themes and color schemes. I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing what I&#8217;ll get to work on, both in the main service, and in their &#8220;<a href="http://www.mailchimp.com/labs/">MailChimp Labs</a>&#8221; projects.</p>\n<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1500" title="Drupal Logo" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/drupal-logo.jpg" alt="Drupal Logo" width="108" height="124" />I&#8217;ve also been dipping my toes into <a href="http://drupal.org/">Drupal</a> a little bit lately. My wife, <a href="http://digitaldivas.net/">Susan</a>, uses Drupal at her job, and I figured it might be nice to offer her some real ideas every once in a while, instead of just saying, &#8220;if you were using <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a>, I could help you figure out how to do that.&#8221; And no, they <em>can&#8217;t</em> just switch to WordPress, unfortunately <img src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> Drupal does have a steep learning curve (if you really want to do more interesting things with it), but it also has some nifty architectural bits. While much of it still feels alien to me, some of it has more in common with WordPress than I expected. When I feel like I&#8217;ve learned enough, I&#8217;ll try to write up a WordPress/Drupal comparison (mostly from the developer&#8217;s perspective).</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:58:44 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Dougal";}s:7:"summary";s:2786:"<p>Or, more to the point, where&#8217;s Dougal?</p>\n<p>Sorry about the long silence here. After our son got out of the hospital from <a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/03/02/home">his pneumonia</a>, he had four weeks of therapy before he returned to regular school. I had to drive across town to drop him off and pick him up, which ate up around 3 hours of each day when all was said and done. I&#8217;ve also tried to devote some time to taking care of some tasks around the house before I start my new job.</p>\n<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1497" title="MailChimp Head" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/the-head.jpg" alt="MailChimp Head" width="119" height="119" />New job, you say? Yup. I&#8217;m going to be working at <a href="http://mailchimp.com/">MailChimp</a> (go ahead, post all your &#8216;code monkey&#8217; puns, get it out of your system). MailChimp is a service for managing email newsletter campaigns, with nicely formatted <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language"><span class="caps">HTML</span></acronym> mail templates, and readership analytics. The team there is already doing a lot of nifty stuff, like when <a href="http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/want-700000-html-email-templates/">they used Amazon Mechanical Turk</a> to help vet a large set of programmatically generated themes and color schemes. I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing what I&#8217;ll get to work on, both in the main service, and in their &#8220;<a href="http://www.mailchimp.com/labs/">MailChimp Labs</a>&#8221; projects.</p>\n<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1500" title="Drupal Logo" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/drupal-logo.jpg" alt="Drupal Logo" width="108" height="124" />I&#8217;ve also been dipping my toes into <a href="http://drupal.org/">Drupal</a> a little bit lately. My wife, <a href="http://digitaldivas.net/">Susan</a>, uses Drupal at her job, and I figured it might be nice to offer her some real ideas every once in a while, instead of just saying, &#8220;if you were using <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a>, I could help you figure out how to do that.&#8221; And no, they <em>can&#8217;t</em> just switch to WordPress, unfortunately <img src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> Drupal does have a steep learning curve (if you really want to do more interesting things with it), but it also has some nifty architectural bits. While much of it still feels alien to me, some of it has more in common with WordPress than I expected. When I feel like I&#8217;ve learned enough, I&#8217;ll try to write up a WordPress/Drupal comparison (mostly from the developer&#8217;s perspective).</p>";}i:41;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:67:"Weblog Tools Collection: Blogging and WordPress links for 4/25/2009";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5674";s:4:"link";s:94:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/25/blogging-and-wordpress-links-for-4252009/";s:11:"description";s:1885:"<p><a href="http://www.studiopress.com/tips/how-to-use-the-wordpress-image-uploader-to-create-thumbnails.htm">How to use the WordPress image uploader to create thumbnails</a>.: Brian explains how to automatically generate thumbnails (and resize images into various sizes) for your pictures using the WordPress image uploader.</p>\n<p><a href="http://wpengineer.com/embed-wordpress-functions-outside-wordpress/">How to embed WordPress functions outside of WordPress</a>.: WP Engineer explains how to embed WordPress functions into code that is outside of WordPress. This can be very versatile and can help extend the usefulness of any WordPress install but would obviously require custom code.</p>\n<p><a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/04/15/how-to-widgetize-your-page-menu-in-wordpress">How to widgetize your page menu in WordPress</a>.: Justin explains a simple method to widgetize your menu of pages on your WordPress blog. Once you do that, the page menu can be treated as any other widget.</p>\n<p><a href="http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/04/21/8-reasons-why-you-wont-make-money-from-your-blog/">Reality Check: You are not going to make money from your blog</a>.: Penelope&#8217;s interesting take on the views of the numerous MMO blogs out there and worth a read for everyone thinking of making a ton of money from blogging. I can attest that it is very hard to do and requires a lot more than just luck and perseverance for the rest of us, especially if you want to hold on to your principles and do the right thing.</p>\n<p><a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/comment-reply-via-email-open-to-all/">WordPress.com: Comment reply via email</a>. Now you can reply to comments on a WordPress.com blog just by replying to emails. This feature would be fantastic on hosted blogs but I can only presume the amount of setup and maintenance it would require.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:01:37 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1885:"<p><a href="http://www.studiopress.com/tips/how-to-use-the-wordpress-image-uploader-to-create-thumbnails.htm">How to use the WordPress image uploader to create thumbnails</a>.: Brian explains how to automatically generate thumbnails (and resize images into various sizes) for your pictures using the WordPress image uploader.</p>\n<p><a href="http://wpengineer.com/embed-wordpress-functions-outside-wordpress/">How to embed WordPress functions outside of WordPress</a>.: WP Engineer explains how to embed WordPress functions into code that is outside of WordPress. This can be very versatile and can help extend the usefulness of any WordPress install but would obviously require custom code.</p>\n<p><a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/04/15/how-to-widgetize-your-page-menu-in-wordpress">How to widgetize your page menu in WordPress</a>.: Justin explains a simple method to widgetize your menu of pages on your WordPress blog. Once you do that, the page menu can be treated as any other widget.</p>\n<p><a href="http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/04/21/8-reasons-why-you-wont-make-money-from-your-blog/">Reality Check: You are not going to make money from your blog</a>.: Penelope&#8217;s interesting take on the views of the numerous MMO blogs out there and worth a read for everyone thinking of making a ton of money from blogging. I can attest that it is very hard to do and requires a lot more than just luck and perseverance for the rest of us, especially if you want to hold on to your principles and do the right thing.</p>\n<p><a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/comment-reply-via-email-open-to-all/">WordPress.com: Comment reply via email</a>. Now you can reply to comments on a WordPress.com blog just by replying to emails. This feature would be fantastic on hosted blogs but I can only presume the amount of setup and maintenance it would require.</p>";}i:42;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Dev Blog: Design Tweaks: Who’s In? (An idea in three acts)";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=640";s:4:"link";s:85:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/design-tweaks-whos-in-an-idea-in-three-acts/";s:11:"description";s:6628:"<h4></h4>\n<h4>ACT I</h4>\n<p><strong>Jane:</strong> It is a thorn in my side that the blog name header is above the &#8220;dashboard&#8221; nav section in the admin, since in MU installations and with plugins (like stats), things in the Dashboard section span multiple blogs. Makes more sense for the header to head only the per-blog content area.</p>\n<p><strong>Mark:</strong> I agree about the header. &#8220;This is the menu, this is the content.&#8221;</p>\n<p><strong>All: </strong>Yep.</p>\n<p><span><em>Five minutes later&#8230;</em></span></p>\n<p><strong>Mark: </strong>What do you guys this of this quick mockup I just did, playing with the admin header?<br />\n<img src="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/mark-mockup.png" alt="Mark Jaquith''s mockup" />\n</p>\n<p><strong>Jane: </strong>I like it that the nav is not under the header. Might need some styling help. I was also thinking maybe the favorites menu should drop down into the white h2 area by screen options/help tabs.</p>\n<p><strong>Ryan: </strong>Menu color to the top with blog title pushed over and favorites next to screen options sounds quite nice.</p>\n<p><strong>Jane: </strong>I&#8217;ll ask Matt Thomas if he could style it <em>[ed. note: Matt Thomas created the visual style for 2.7]</em>, and we can see what people think, maybe post on <a href="http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/">wpdevel</a> for feedback.</p>\n<p><strong>Ryan: </strong>If it&#8217;s quick, maybe we could even get it into 2.8.</p>\n<h4>ACT II</h4>\n<p><strong>Matt T: </strong>Here are some comps based on what you told me.</p>\n<p><strong>Jane: </strong>Cool, but where are Screen Options and Help tabs?</p>\n<p><strong>Matt T: </strong>Still working on that.</p>\n<p><strong>Jane: </strong>Hm. Wonder if there&#8217;s time to open this up to community designers? I know we&#8217;re in freeze, and it&#8217;s no notice, but you didn&#8217;t get any notice either when we dropped this styling request on your lap a few hours ago. That&#8217;s the way open software development works: sometimes the best ideas come at the last minute!</p>\n<p><strong>Matt T:</strong> I&#8217;m all for letting the community take a stab at it. Especially if they come up with something brilliant to do with the Screen Options and Help tabs.</p>\n<p><strong>Jane: </strong>I&#8217;ll ask Ryan about release date and see if there&#8217;s time. I know they wanted your style recommendations today.</p>\n<h4>Act III</h4>\n<p><strong>Ryan: </strong>Tuesday is probably doable, no later than that for final delivery of style and any gradient graphics, etc.</p>\n<p><strong>Jane: </strong>Awesome! People will hate me for the short notice after the has-patch marathon, but since it&#8217;s a small project and over the weekend, and wasn&#8217;t even something anyone was planning until a few hours ago, I&#8217;m <strong>*really hoping*</strong> people will take this for what it is, an attempt to give more people input into an upcoming visual change in the interface, even if it&#8217;s not a huge one.</p>\n<p><strong>Ryan:</strong> Would have the benefit of warning people that header and menu will be changed a bit.</p>\n<p><strong>Jane:</strong> And we can have a vote. If I can get all the materials together and post in the morning, that would give 2 days of design time for submissions on Monday, and if we do a day of voting Tuesday, that&#8217;s 3 days notice for the vote. I&#8217;ll make sure to post to all the lists, etc.</p>\n<p><strong>Ryan: </strong>Will we announce with comps from Matt T as examples of what we&#8217;re thinking?</p>\n<p><strong>Jane:</strong> I&#8217;ll write up the UX reasons for considering the change, and Matt T can provide some style guidelines and his original comps so no one will have to waste time mocking up the basic screen layout.</p>\n<p><strong>Ryan:</strong> That would help set the scope. We just want tweaks here and there, given the timing.</p>\n<p><strong>Jane: </strong>Woot!</p>\n<p><strong>On Your Mark, Get Set&#8230;</strong><br />\nOkay, so here&#8217;s the deal. Modifying the nav/header to be a little nicer is was a last-minute design idea, and if it can&#8217;t be worked out in the time we have left before 2.8 (which is very little), we&#8217;ll just wait until 2.9 to work on it. But! If someone comes up with something the community really likes and it doesn&#8217;t break any of the design guidelines for the rest of WordPress, we could sneak it in.</p>\n<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/development/?page_id=661">UX and design guidelines for this mini-project are posted here</a> (so as not to clog up anyone&#8217;s feed reader with big graphics). Read through the UX stuff, check out the comps Matt Thomas mocked up last night (with absolutely no notice, for the record). Use the .psd as your base, and when it&#8217;s time to submit your ideas, make a .jpg or .png and post a link to it in the comments on this post. (Note: Only comments containing a link to a design submission using this format will be approved. For general discussion about this design challenge or any of the submissions, please head into the #wordpress-dev IRC channel.)</p>\n<p>Submit the link to your comps by 1am Tuesday, April 28 UTC (7pm Monday, April 27, New York time). If you have questions or want early feedback, we&#8217;ll be in and out of the #wordpress-dev IRC channel between now and then.</p>\n<p>Once we&#8217;ve received the submissions, we&#8217;ll post a voting survey (much simpler than the icon survey; this one will be more of poll, just choose the one you like best) as soon as possible, and will post the link to it here as soon as it&#8217;s online. We&#8217;ll only keep voting open for one day because of the 2.8 deadline, so put it on your calendar if you think you&#8217;ll forget. Voting will close at 2am Wednesday, April 29 UTC (8pm Tuesday, April 28, New York time). Results will be announced the following day.</p>\n<p><strong><a href="http://wordpress.org/development/?page_id=661">Go!</a></strong></p>\n<p><span><em>* Chats above are a conglomeration of actual chats. </em></span></p>\n<p><strong>Reminder: Only comments containing a link to a design submission will be published here. All other comments will be deleted. </strong> </p>\n<p>If you want to leave a public comment about this contest, the design, etc., I&#8217;ve created a thread in the forums that you can use. <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/265261">Please discuss these things there</a>. If you leave a regular comment here on this blog, no one will be able to reply to you, because only actual links to design submissions will be posted in the comments here. </p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:57:40 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:7:"summary";s:6628:"<h4></h4>\n<h4>ACT I</h4>\n<p><strong>Jane:</strong> It is a thorn in my side that the blog name header is above the &#8220;dashboard&#8221; nav section in the admin, since in MU installations and with plugins (like stats), things in the Dashboard section span multiple blogs. 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I know we&#8217;re in freeze, and it&#8217;s no notice, but you didn&#8217;t get any notice either when we dropped this styling request on your lap a few hours ago. That&#8217;s the way open software development works: sometimes the best ideas come at the last minute!</p>\n<p><strong>Matt T:</strong> I&#8217;m all for letting the community take a stab at it. Especially if they come up with something brilliant to do with the Screen Options and Help tabs.</p>\n<p><strong>Jane: </strong>I&#8217;ll ask Ryan about release date and see if there&#8217;s time. I know they wanted your style recommendations today.</p>\n<h4>Act III</h4>\n<p><strong>Ryan: </strong>Tuesday is probably doable, no later than that for final delivery of style and any gradient graphics, etc.</p>\n<p><strong>Jane: </strong>Awesome! People will hate me for the short notice after the has-patch marathon, but since it&#8217;s a small project and over the weekend, and wasn&#8217;t even something anyone was planning until a few hours ago, I&#8217;m <strong>*really hoping*</strong> people will take this for what it is, an attempt to give more people input into an upcoming visual change in the interface, even if it&#8217;s not a huge one.</p>\n<p><strong>Ryan:</strong> Would have the benefit of warning people that header and menu will be changed a bit.</p>\n<p><strong>Jane:</strong> And we can have a vote. If I can get all the materials together and post in the morning, that would give 2 days of design time for submissions on Monday, and if we do a day of voting Tuesday, that&#8217;s 3 days notice for the vote. I&#8217;ll make sure to post to all the lists, etc.</p>\n<p><strong>Ryan: </strong>Will we announce with comps from Matt T as examples of what we&#8217;re thinking?</p>\n<p><strong>Jane:</strong> I&#8217;ll write up the UX reasons for considering the change, and Matt T can provide some style guidelines and his original comps so no one will have to waste time mocking up the basic screen layout.</p>\n<p><strong>Ryan:</strong> That would help set the scope. We just want tweaks here and there, given the timing.</p>\n<p><strong>Jane: </strong>Woot!</p>\n<p><strong>On Your Mark, Get Set&#8230;</strong><br />\nOkay, so here&#8217;s the deal. Modifying the nav/header to be a little nicer is was a last-minute design idea, and if it can&#8217;t be worked out in the time we have left before 2.8 (which is very little), we&#8217;ll just wait until 2.9 to work on it. But! If someone comes up with something the community really likes and it doesn&#8217;t break any of the design guidelines for the rest of WordPress, we could sneak it in.</p>\n<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/development/?page_id=661">UX and design guidelines for this mini-project are posted here</a> (so as not to clog up anyone&#8217;s feed reader with big graphics). Read through the UX stuff, check out the comps Matt Thomas mocked up last night (with absolutely no notice, for the record). Use the .psd as your base, and when it&#8217;s time to submit your ideas, make a .jpg or .png and post a link to it in the comments on this post. (Note: Only comments containing a link to a design submission using this format will be approved. For general discussion about this design challenge or any of the submissions, please head into the #wordpress-dev IRC channel.)</p>\n<p>Submit the link to your comps by 1am Tuesday, April 28 UTC (7pm Monday, April 27, New York time). If you have questions or want early feedback, we&#8217;ll be in and out of the #wordpress-dev IRC channel between now and then.</p>\n<p>Once we&#8217;ve received the submissions, we&#8217;ll post a voting survey (much simpler than the icon survey; this one will be more of poll, just choose the one you like best) as soon as possible, and will post the link to it here as soon as it&#8217;s online. We&#8217;ll only keep voting open for one day because of the 2.8 deadline, so put it on your calendar if you think you&#8217;ll forget. Voting will close at 2am Wednesday, April 29 UTC (8pm Tuesday, April 28, New York time). Results will be announced the following day.</p>\n<p><strong><a href="http://wordpress.org/development/?page_id=661">Go!</a></strong></p>\n<p><span><em>* Chats above are a conglomeration of actual chats. </em></span></p>\n<p><strong>Reminder: Only comments containing a link to a design submission will be published here. All other comments will be deleted. </strong> </p>\n<p>If you want to leave a public comment about this contest, the design, etc., I&#8217;ve created a thread in the forums that you can use. <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/265261">Please discuss these things there</a>. If you leave a regular comment here on this blog, no one will be able to reply to you, because only actual links to design submissions will be posted in the comments here. </p>";}i:43;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:12:"Matt: WP.com";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=14090";s:4:"link";s:28:"http://ma.tt/2009/04/wp-com/";s:11:"description";s:110:"<p><a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/wpcom/">Automattic / WordPress.com now has WP.com</a>!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:16:49 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:110:"<p><a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/wpcom/">Automattic / WordPress.com now has WP.com</a>!</p>";}i:44;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:50:"Mark Jaquith: Typographica relaunches on WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/?p=274";s:4:"link";s:81:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/typographica-relaunches-on-wordpress/";s:11:"description";s:2289:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://new.typographica.org/">Typographica</a>, the excellent blog for typographical nerds, has just <a href="http://new.typographica.org/2009/on-typography/turning-the-page/">relaunched on WordPress</a> with a great new design by <a href="http://www.chrishamamoto.com/">Chris Hamamoto</a>. Asked why they switched from Movable Type to WordPress, <a href="http://new.typographica.org/2009/on-typography/turning-the-page/#comment-37961">Stephen Coles replied</a>:</p>\n<blockquote><p>For me, it seemed an obvious switch given WordPress’ wide adoption in recent years. We’ve often had trouble getting assistance with MT, whether it’s documentation or expert advice. Because WordPress is so common, the help resources and useful plugins are simply much more accessible.</p></blockquote>\n<p>WordPress&#8217; killer features are its <strong>community</strong> and its <strong>marketplace</strong>: thousands of free plugins, thousands of free themes, and hundreds of agencies and freelancers providing every possible WordPress development and support service you can imagine.</p>\n  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/274/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/274/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/274/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/274/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/274/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/274/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/274/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/274/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/274/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/274/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=274&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:07:41 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Mark Jaquith";}s:7:"summary";s:2289:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://new.typographica.org/">Typographica</a>, the excellent blog for typographical nerds, has just <a href="http://new.typographica.org/2009/on-typography/turning-the-page/">relaunched on WordPress</a> with a great new design by <a href="http://www.chrishamamoto.com/">Chris Hamamoto</a>. Asked why they switched from Movable Type to WordPress, <a href="http://new.typographica.org/2009/on-typography/turning-the-page/#comment-37961">Stephen Coles replied</a>:</p>\n<blockquote><p>For me, it seemed an obvious switch given WordPress’ wide adoption in recent years. We’ve often had trouble getting assistance with MT, whether it’s documentation or expert advice. Because WordPress is so common, the help resources and useful plugins are simply much more accessible.</p></blockquote>\n<p>WordPress&#8217; killer features are its <strong>community</strong> and its <strong>marketplace</strong>: thousands of free plugins, thousands of free themes, and hundreds of agencies and freelancers providing every possible WordPress development and support service you can imagine.</p>\n  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/274/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/274/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/274/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/274/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/274/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/274/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/274/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/274/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/274/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/274/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=274&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:45;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:27:"Matt: WordPress CodeSniffer";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=14088";s:4:"link";s:43:"http://ma.tt/2009/04/wordpress-codesniffer/";s:11:"description";s:157:"<p><a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/articles/wordpress-codesniffer-standard/">WordPress CodeSniffer Standard</a>. Helps you format your code in wp-style.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:34:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:157:"<p><a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/articles/wordpress-codesniffer-standard/">WordPress CodeSniffer Standard</a>. Helps you format your code in wp-style.</p>";}i:46;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:19:"Matt: PollDaddy PHP";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=14085";s:4:"link";s:35:"http://ma.tt/2009/04/polldaddy-php/";s:11:"description";s:202:"<p><a href="http://blog.polldaddy.com/2009/04/22/polldaddy-just-got-a-new-heart/">PollDaddy just finished their big switch from ASP.NET/SQL to PHP/MySQL</a>. Go and give the guys a virtual Guinness.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:28:43 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:202:"<p><a href="http://blog.polldaddy.com/2009/04/22/polldaddy-just-got-a-new-heart/">PollDaddy just finished their big switch from ASP.NET/SQL to PHP/MySQL</a>. Go and give the guys a virtual Guinness.</p>";}i:47;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:45:"BuddyPress: BuddyPress 1.0 RC-2 Now Available";s:4:"guid";s:28:"http://buddypress.org/?p=332";s:4:"link";s:65:"http://buddypress.org/blog/news/buddypress-10-rc-2-now-available/";s:11:"description";s:951:"<p>BuddyPress version 1.0 RC-2 has now been tagged and made available for <a href="http://buddypress.org/download">download</a>.</p>\n<p>This release requires <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/download/">version 2.7.1 of WordPress MU</a>, but for good reason. It is now possible to automatically download, install and upgrade BuddyPress from within the WordPress MU plugin admin area.</p>\n<p>If you are upgrading from RC-1 it is very important that you read the <a href="http://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-buddypress/upgrading-from-rc-1/">upgrade instructions</a> as the installation and setup of BuddyPress has changed significantly.</p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re installing BuddyPress for the first time, please follow the <a href="http://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-buddypress/">updated installation instructions</a>.</p>\n<p>We are now in the final stretch. Version 1.0 will be available within a week from today.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:20:39 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:9:"apeatling";}s:7:"summary";s:951:"<p>BuddyPress version 1.0 RC-2 has now been tagged and made available for <a href="http://buddypress.org/download">download</a>.</p>\n<p>This release requires <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/download/">version 2.7.1 of WordPress MU</a>, but for good reason. It is now possible to automatically download, install and upgrade BuddyPress from within the WordPress MU plugin admin area.</p>\n<p>If you are upgrading from RC-1 it is very important that you read the <a href="http://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-buddypress/upgrading-from-rc-1/">upgrade instructions</a> as the installation and setup of BuddyPress has changed significantly.</p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re installing BuddyPress for the first time, please follow the <a href="http://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-buddypress/">updated installation instructions</a>.</p>\n<p>We are now in the final stretch. Version 1.0 will be available within a week from today.</p>";}i:48;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 04/23";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5684";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/23/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0423/";s:11:"description";s:3029:"<p><a href="http://netizensmedia.com/2009/04/20/introducing-undercon-better-sweeter-customizable-wordpress-domain-parking-theme/">Undercon</a></p>\n<p><img title="undercon" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/04/undercon.gif" alt="undercon" width="200" height="100" /></p>\n<p>UnderCon is a customizable WordPress Domain Parking theme. It includes a theme options page that allows you to customize the title, description and logo. Easy Feedburner integration.</p>\n<p><a href="http://www.ziosteve.com/wptheme-brown/">Yaveo</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://www.temi-wordpress.com/go.php?http://www.temi-wordpress.com/testrun23/index.php?wptheme=Yaveo"><img title="Yaveo" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/04/yaveo.jpg" alt="Yaveo" width="200" height="150" /></a></p>\n<p>Two column, widget ready, simple white and grey theme.</p>\n<p><a href="http://www.pross.org.uk/themes">Garland Revisited</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://www.pross.org.uk/?themedemo=garland-revisited"><img title="garlandRevisited" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/04/garlandrevisited.png" alt="garlandRevisited" width="200" height="167" /></a></p>\n<p>A flexible, three-column theme with customizable colors.</p>\n<p><a href="http://www.paggu.com/2-column-wp-themes/minimalist-love-2-column-widget-ready-wordpress-theme/">Minimalist Love</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://demo.paggu.com/index.php?wptheme=Minimalist+Love"><img title="Minimalist Love" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/04/minimalistlove.jpg" alt="Minimalist Love" width="200" height="160" /></a></p>\n<p>Widget ready, two column, WordPress 2.7.1 compatible theme.</p>\n<p><a href="http://wp-content-themes.com/blackcat-free-wordpress-theme-for-cat-lovers/203">BlackCat</a></p>\n<p><img title="blackCat" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/04/blackcat.png" alt="blackCat" width="200" height="150" /></p>\n<p>BlackCat is a two-columns free WordPress theme, with widgetized sidebar, fixed width, a minimal white-gray-black color scheme and a cute cat in the header.</p>\n<p><a href="http://www.skidzopedia.com/2009/04/08/callisto-free-wordpress-theme/">Callisto</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://www.skidzopedia.com/?preview_theme=Callisto"><img title="Callisto" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/04/callisto.jpg" alt="Callisto" width="200" height="139" /></a></p>\n<p>Callisto contains Two Widget Ready Left and Right sidebars, with a shining glossy look. The theme is available in 4 unique flavors; Red, Blue, Green and Gray. Users have the leverage to choose their own favorite color. Highly Search Engine and Adsense Optimized with easy to use interface.</p>\n<p><a href="http://iredlof.com/2009/04/iredlof-inspire-wordpress-theme/">iRedlof Inspire</a></p>\n<p><img title="iRedlof" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/04/iredlof.png" alt="iRedlof" width="200" height="133" /></p>\n<p>An inspiring 2-Coloumn Black, Blue coloured theme tabbed for a revolutionary better browsing style with admin panel called the iDashboard.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:16:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:3029:"<p><a href="http://netizensmedia.com/2009/04/20/introducing-undercon-better-sweeter-customizable-wordpress-domain-parking-theme/">Undercon</a></p>\n<p><img title="undercon" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/04/undercon.gif" alt="undercon" width="200" height="100" /></p>\n<p>UnderCon is a customizable WordPress Domain Parking theme. 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Easy Feedburner integration.</p>\n<p><a href="http://www.ziosteve.com/wptheme-brown/">Yaveo</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://www.temi-wordpress.com/go.php?http://www.temi-wordpress.com/testrun23/index.php?wptheme=Yaveo"><img title="Yaveo" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/04/yaveo.jpg" alt="Yaveo" width="200" height="150" /></a></p>\n<p>Two column, widget ready, simple white and grey theme.</p>\n<p><a href="http://www.pross.org.uk/themes">Garland Revisited</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://www.pross.org.uk/?themedemo=garland-revisited"><img title="garlandRevisited" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/04/garlandrevisited.png" alt="garlandRevisited" width="200" height="167" /></a></p>\n<p>A flexible, three-column theme with customizable colors.</p>\n<p><a href="http://www.paggu.com/2-column-wp-themes/minimalist-love-2-column-widget-ready-wordpress-theme/">Minimalist Love</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://demo.paggu.com/index.php?wptheme=Minimalist+Love"><img title="Minimalist Love" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/04/minimalistlove.jpg" alt="Minimalist Love" width="200" height="160" /></a></p>\n<p>Widget ready, two column, WordPress 2.7.1 compatible theme.</p>\n<p><a href="http://wp-content-themes.com/blackcat-free-wordpress-theme-for-cat-lovers/203">BlackCat</a></p>\n<p><img title="blackCat" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/04/blackcat.png" alt="blackCat" width="200" height="150" /></p>\n<p>BlackCat is a two-columns free WordPress theme, with widgetized sidebar, fixed width, a minimal white-gray-black color scheme and a cute cat in the header.</p>\n<p><a href="http://www.skidzopedia.com/2009/04/08/callisto-free-wordpress-theme/">Callisto</a></p>\n<p><a href="http://www.skidzopedia.com/?preview_theme=Callisto"><img title="Callisto" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/04/callisto.jpg" alt="Callisto" width="200" height="139" /></a></p>\n<p>Callisto contains Two Widget Ready Left and Right sidebars, with a shining glossy look. The theme is available in 4 unique flavors; Red, Blue, Green and Gray. Users have the leverage to choose their own favorite color. 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If you do not have <a href="http://www.masternewmedia.org/index.html">Robin on your reading list</a>, he should be. I like his general writing style and his visual clues.</p>\n<p><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/15/10-exceptional-wordpress-hacks/">10 Exceptional WordPress hacks from Smashing Magazine</a>.: Smashing Magazine has another list of nice hacks for WordPress including resizing images on the fly and automatically including the first image in your posts for your home page. These lists amaze me. Some of the more popular design sites and larger blog houses such as Smashing Magazine and Mashable have become very adept at using lists to link bait. These lists tend to get Dugg very heavily and bring in a lot of traffic for them. I still cannot look away from a good list about WordPress!</p>\n<p><a href="http://www.killertechtips.com/2009/04/16/three-tools-to-track-and-defeat-content-theft/">3 tools to track and defeat content theft</a> lists three tools available to counteract content theft from your blog. This has become even more of an issue of late with the economy in the lurch, more people are jumping on the blogging bandwagon looking to make some extra money and might not be aware of copyright and Intellectual Property laws. The last tool listed is <a href="http://tynt.com/">Tynt Tracer</a> and I have been uysing it for a while. Tracer tracks and lists all the browser actions performed by visitors such as selecting and copying text and then uses Javascript to add a small link back to the original content if it is pasted onto another webpage somewhere. This method of tracking information copying is not really very effective, especially in this automated world of scrapers. While the information provided is interesting, it turns out to be a little useless if your content is <em>not</em> ruled by the lure of SEO but by your desire to just write and disseminate information. I still find myself checking back with the Tynt admin interface once in a while to see which topics seem to be more Search Engine popular this week.</p>\n<p><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/04/20/20-law-related-questions-every-blogger-should-know/">20 Law related questions every blogger should know</a>: <a href="http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/">Jonathan Bailey</a> puts together the answers to a list of 20 Law related questions for bloggers for the topics of Copyright, Defamation and Trademark. Again, this is for informational purposes only and is not to be considered as legal advice. This is also based on US Law.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:21:16 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:2826:"<p><a href="http://www.masternewmedia.org/how-to-blog-anonymously-and-maintain-control-of-your-personal-privacy-guide/">How To Blog Anonymously And Maintain Control Of Your Personal Privacy</a>.: Robin Good puts together a nice writeup on how and why to blog anonymously. If you do not have <a href="http://www.masternewmedia.org/index.html">Robin on your reading list</a>, he should be. I like his general writing style and his visual clues.</p>\n<p><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/15/10-exceptional-wordpress-hacks/">10 Exceptional WordPress hacks from Smashing Magazine</a>.: Smashing Magazine has another list of nice hacks for WordPress including resizing images on the fly and automatically including the first image in your posts for your home page. These lists amaze me. Some of the more popular design sites and larger blog houses such as Smashing Magazine and Mashable have become very adept at using lists to link bait. These lists tend to get Dugg very heavily and bring in a lot of traffic for them. I still cannot look away from a good list about WordPress!</p>\n<p><a href="http://www.killertechtips.com/2009/04/16/three-tools-to-track-and-defeat-content-theft/">3 tools to track and defeat content theft</a> lists three tools available to counteract content theft from your blog. This has become even more of an issue of late with the economy in the lurch, more people are jumping on the blogging bandwagon looking to make some extra money and might not be aware of copyright and Intellectual Property laws. The last tool listed is <a href="http://tynt.com/">Tynt Tracer</a> and I have been uysing it for a while. Tracer tracks and lists all the browser actions performed by visitors such as selecting and copying text and then uses Javascript to add a small link back to the original content if it is pasted onto another webpage somewhere. This method of tracking information copying is not really very effective, especially in this automated world of scrapers. While the information provided is interesting, it turns out to be a little useless if your content is <em>not</em> ruled by the lure of SEO but by your desire to just write and disseminate information. 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