O:9:"MagpieRSS":17:{s:6:"parser";i:0;s:12:"current_item";a:0:{}s:5:"items";a:50:{i:0;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 05/21";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5897";s:4:"link";s:89:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/21/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0521-2/";s:11:"description";s:1532:"<h4><a href="http://www.webdesignlessons.com/dynablue-wordpress-theme/">DynaBlue</a></h4>
<p><img title="DynaBlue" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/dynablue.gif" alt="DynaBlue" width="200" height="155" /></p>
<p>A truly dynamic theme that is constantly changing. This is a very current and stylish design for your WordPress blog. The header banner rotates through your latest 4 blog posts constantly until a user clicks on a story to pause and read more - a new feature in our themes.</p>
<h4><a href="http://wpcult.com/themes/galleria/">Galleria</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://wpcult.com/demo/galleria/"><img title="Galleria" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/galleria.jpg" alt="Galleria" width="200" height="125" /></a></p>
<p>Child theme for the Hybrid theme based on <a href="http://chris-wallace.com">Chris Wallace&#8217;s</a> Gallery theme.</p>
<h4><a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/natural-gloom-wordpress-theme/">Natural Gloom</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/demo/natural-gloom-wordpress-theme/"><img title="Natural Gloom" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/naturalgloom.jpg" alt="Natural Gloom" width="200" height="100" /></a></p>
<p>A gloomy and artistic two-column theme supporting widgets and nested comments.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/21/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0521-2/">WordPress Theme Releases for 05/21</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 21 May 2009 19:07:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:1532:"<h4><a href="http://www.webdesignlessons.com/dynablue-wordpress-theme/">DynaBlue</a></h4>
<p><img title="DynaBlue" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/dynablue.gif" alt="DynaBlue" width="200" height="155" /></p>
<p>A truly dynamic theme that is constantly changing. This is a very current and stylish design for your WordPress blog. The header banner rotates through your latest 4 blog posts constantly until a user clicks on a story to pause and read more - a new feature in our themes.</p>
<h4><a href="http://wpcult.com/themes/galleria/">Galleria</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://wpcult.com/demo/galleria/"><img title="Galleria" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/galleria.jpg" alt="Galleria" width="200" height="125" /></a></p>
<p>Child theme for the Hybrid theme based on <a href="http://chris-wallace.com">Chris Wallace&#8217;s</a> Gallery theme.</p>
<h4><a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/natural-gloom-wordpress-theme/">Natural Gloom</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://templates.arcsin.se/demo/natural-gloom-wordpress-theme/"><img title="Natural Gloom" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/naturalgloom.jpg" alt="Natural Gloom" width="200" height="100" /></a></p>
<p>A gloomy and artistic two-column theme supporting widgets and nested comments.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/21/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0521-2/">WordPress Theme Releases for 05/21</a></p>";}i:1;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 05/19";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5888";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/19/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0519/";s:11:"description";s:2529:"<h4><a href="http://azmind.com/2009/05/11/free-wordpress-theme-darkooo/">DarkoOo</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://azmind.com/wp-themes-demo/?wptheme=darkoOo-theme"><img title="Darkooo" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/darkooo.jpg" alt="Darkooo" width="200" height="118" /></a></p>
<p>It has a dark header and background (from which comes the name DarkoOo). The theme comes with 125×125 advertising space, a small &#8220;About me&#8221; space, and a place in the header to put your rss, twitter etc… links (easy configurable or removable). It has one Widgetized Sidebar.</p>
<h4><a href="http://netizensmedia.com/2009/05/14/vanillacart-wordpress-e-commerce-theme/">Vanilla Cart</a></h4>
<p><img title="Vanilla Cart" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/vanillacart.png" alt="Vanilla Cart" width="200" height="97" /></p>
<p>Clean, minimal, vanilla-style WordPress Shopping Cart Theme, made specifically for the free WP e-Commerce plugin.</p>
<h4><a href="http://the-cloisters.net/wordpress-themes/quietly-simple-theme/">Quietly Simple</a></h4>
<p><img title="Quietly Simple" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/quietlysimple.jpg" alt="Quietly Simple" width="200" height="106" /></p>
<p>2-column simple “back to basics” fixed-width theme in calming khaki and brown colors. Featuring an author info page, related posts and gravatars along with Custom Archives, Sitemap and full width No Sidebars page templates.</p>
<h4>Wall Magazine [removed, encrypted footer]</h4>
<p><img title="Wall Magazine" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/wallmagazine.jpg" alt="Wall Magazine" width="163" height="200" /></p>
<p>Two column, widget and gravatar ready, advertisement ready theme with support for Feedburner, auto-resizing images with thumbnails.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.arrastheme.com/">Arras</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://demo.arrastheme.com/"><img title="Arras" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/arras.png" alt="Arras" width="200" height="97" /></a></p>
<p>Arras Theme is a WordPress theme designed for news or review sites with lots of customizable features. It comes with 5 different news layouts to customise your front page, and an integrated theme options page for you to adjust the theme to your liking.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/19/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0519/">WordPress Theme Releases for 05/19</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 19 May 2009 19:42:17 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:2529:"<h4><a href="http://azmind.com/2009/05/11/free-wordpress-theme-darkooo/">DarkoOo</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://azmind.com/wp-themes-demo/?wptheme=darkoOo-theme"><img title="Darkooo" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/darkooo.jpg" alt="Darkooo" width="200" height="118" /></a></p>
<p>It has a dark header and background (from which comes the name DarkoOo). The theme comes with 125×125 advertising space, a small &#8220;About me&#8221; space, and a place in the header to put your rss, twitter etc… links (easy configurable or removable). It has one Widgetized Sidebar.</p>
<h4><a href="http://netizensmedia.com/2009/05/14/vanillacart-wordpress-e-commerce-theme/">Vanilla Cart</a></h4>
<p><img title="Vanilla Cart" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/vanillacart.png" alt="Vanilla Cart" width="200" height="97" /></p>
<p>Clean, minimal, vanilla-style WordPress Shopping Cart Theme, made specifically for the free WP e-Commerce plugin.</p>
<h4><a href="http://the-cloisters.net/wordpress-themes/quietly-simple-theme/">Quietly Simple</a></h4>
<p><img title="Quietly Simple" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/quietlysimple.jpg" alt="Quietly Simple" width="200" height="106" /></p>
<p>2-column simple “back to basics” fixed-width theme in calming khaki and brown colors. Featuring an author info page, related posts and gravatars along with Custom Archives, Sitemap and full width No Sidebars page templates.</p>
<h4>Wall Magazine [removed, encrypted footer]</h4>
<p><img title="Wall Magazine" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/wallmagazine.jpg" alt="Wall Magazine" width="163" height="200" /></p>
<p>Two column, widget and gravatar ready, advertisement ready theme with support for Feedburner, auto-resizing images with thumbnails.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.arrastheme.com/">Arras</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://demo.arrastheme.com/"><img title="Arras" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/arras.png" alt="Arras" width="200" height="97" /></a></p>
<p>Arras Theme is a WordPress theme designed for news or review sites with lots of customizable features. It comes with 5 different news layouts to customise your front page, and an integrated theme options page for you to adjust the theme to your liking.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/19/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0519/">WordPress Theme Releases for 05/19</a></p>";}i:2;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:67:"Weblog Tools Collection: Five Comment Related Plugins for WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:96:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/18/five-comment-related-plugins-for-wordpress/";s:4:"link";s:96:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/18/five-comment-related-plugins-for-wordpress/";s:11:"description";s:5645:"<p>Next up on the “Five” series is a sampling of 5 comment related plugins from the WordPress Plugin Directory.  There are 395 plugins as of today that are <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/comments">tagged with the term comment</a> to choose from.</p>
<p>Comments are the lifeblood of any website.  That is where the true interaction happens not only between the creator of the website and visitors but also between the visitors themselves of a website.</p>
<p>So I dug through the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/">WordPress plugin directory</a> and came up with what I believe are five plugins to help increase the interaction on your website:</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/">SI CAPTCHA for WordPress</a>: This plugin gives you an anti-spam measure on your comment form to help reduce the number of SPAM comments your website receives.  Now don’t get me wrong – <a href="http://akismet.com/">ASKIMET</a> does a terrific job of stopping SPAM comments (according to their website 82% of all comments are SPAM).  Well this plugin requires human intervention to answer/type in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha">CAPTCHA</a> phrase in order to submit the comment.  Bots and other automated methods of spamming your blog can not answer that phrase and thus the comment never makes it into your site – not even into the ASKIMET SPAM queue.  This one is very popular – 28,130 downloads all time and 3,034 in the last week.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/sicaptchascreen.jpg"><img title="sicaptchascreen" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/sicaptchascreen-thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="sicaptchascreen" width="244" height="214" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-comment-auto-responder/">WP Comment Auto Responder</a>: Here is a great way to encourage commenter&#8217;s to come back to your site after making a comment.  This plugin will send them a customized email that you create in the settings.  This automated email is a great opportunity to thank them for their comment and invite them to come back to the website and continue the conversation.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/wpcommentautoresponderscreenshot.jpg"><img title="wpcommentautoresponderscreenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/wpcommentautoresponderscreenshot-thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="wpcommentautoresponderscreenshot" width="244" height="204" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/thank-me-later/">Thank Me Later</a>: This plug in takes the previous plugin and goes one step further.  The extra step is to insert a given amount of time in between the original comment and a thank you email for that comment.  It can be set to send that follow-up thank you email an hour, day, week or month later.  What this does is remind that commenter of the fact they were on your site and hopefully bring them back for a follow-up to that original comment.  The email message is very customizable with tags that represent several variables in the comments.</p>
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<td width="200" valign="top"><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/thankmelaterscreensettings.png"><img title="thankmelaterscreensettings" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/thankmelaterscreensettings-thumb.png" border="0" alt="thankmelaterscreensettings" width="244" height="165" /></a></td>
<td width="200" valign="top"><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/thankmelateremailsample.png"><img title="thankmelateremailsample" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/thankmelateremailsample-thumb.png" border="0" alt="thankmelateremailsample" width="244" height="167" /></a></td>
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<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/featuring-countcomments/">Featuring CountComments</a>:  Want a quick snapshot of how active some of your commenters are? This little plugin will insert the total number of comments that an author/user has made on your blog.  One catch with this one is that the commenter must be registered and logged in to comment.  This will not work with anonymous entries.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/commentcount.jpg"><img title="commentcount" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/commentcount-thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="commentcount" width="244" height="57" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/commentwitter/">Commenttwitter</a>: Here is a little Twitter integration with your comments.  Imagine the conversation that could be driven to your website by having someone who takes the time to comment on on of your website postings tweet that comment and a blog post link to their Twitter stream?</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/commenttwitter.jpg"><img title="commenttwitter" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/commenttwitter-thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="commenttwitter" width="228" height="244" /></a></p></blockquote>
<p>So what type of plugins do you use to enhance your website comments?  Would love to hear success stories on increasing the discussions and comments at your site.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/18/five-comment-related-plugins-for-wordpress/">Five Comment Related Plugins for WordPress</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 19 May 2009 02:16:50 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:15:"WindowsObserver";}s:7:"summary";s:5645:"<p>Next up on the “Five” series is a sampling of 5 comment related plugins from the WordPress Plugin Directory.  There are 395 plugins as of today that are <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/comments">tagged with the term comment</a> to choose from.</p>
<p>Comments are the lifeblood of any website.  That is where the true interaction happens not only between the creator of the website and visitors but also between the visitors themselves of a website.</p>
<p>So I dug through the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/">WordPress plugin directory</a> and came up with what I believe are five plugins to help increase the interaction on your website:</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/">SI CAPTCHA for WordPress</a>: This plugin gives you an anti-spam measure on your comment form to help reduce the number of SPAM comments your website receives.  Now don’t get me wrong – <a href="http://akismet.com/">ASKIMET</a> does a terrific job of stopping SPAM comments (according to their website 82% of all comments are SPAM).  Well this plugin requires human intervention to answer/type in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha">CAPTCHA</a> phrase in order to submit the comment.  Bots and other automated methods of spamming your blog can not answer that phrase and thus the comment never makes it into your site – not even into the ASKIMET SPAM queue.  This one is very popular – 28,130 downloads all time and 3,034 in the last week.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/sicaptchascreen.jpg"><img title="sicaptchascreen" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/sicaptchascreen-thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="sicaptchascreen" width="244" height="214" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-comment-auto-responder/">WP Comment Auto Responder</a>: Here is a great way to encourage commenter&#8217;s to come back to your site after making a comment.  This plugin will send them a customized email that you create in the settings.  This automated email is a great opportunity to thank them for their comment and invite them to come back to the website and continue the conversation.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/wpcommentautoresponderscreenshot.jpg"><img title="wpcommentautoresponderscreenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/wpcommentautoresponderscreenshot-thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="wpcommentautoresponderscreenshot" width="244" height="204" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/thank-me-later/">Thank Me Later</a>: This plug in takes the previous plugin and goes one step further.  The extra step is to insert a given amount of time in between the original comment and a thank you email for that comment.  It can be set to send that follow-up thank you email an hour, day, week or month later.  What this does is remind that commenter of the fact they were on your site and hopefully bring them back for a follow-up to that original comment.  The email message is very customizable with tags that represent several variables in the comments.</p>
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<td width="200" valign="top"><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/thankmelaterscreensettings.png"><img title="thankmelaterscreensettings" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/thankmelaterscreensettings-thumb.png" border="0" alt="thankmelaterscreensettings" width="244" height="165" /></a></td>
<td width="200" valign="top"><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/thankmelateremailsample.png"><img title="thankmelateremailsample" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/thankmelateremailsample-thumb.png" border="0" alt="thankmelateremailsample" width="244" height="167" /></a></td>
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<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/featuring-countcomments/">Featuring CountComments</a>:  Want a quick snapshot of how active some of your commenters are? This little plugin will insert the total number of comments that an author/user has made on your blog.  One catch with this one is that the commenter must be registered and logged in to comment.  This will not work with anonymous entries.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/commentcount.jpg"><img title="commentcount" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/commentcount-thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="commentcount" width="244" height="57" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/commentwitter/">Commenttwitter</a>: Here is a little Twitter integration with your comments.  Imagine the conversation that could be driven to your website by having someone who takes the time to comment on on of your website postings tweet that comment and a blog post link to their Twitter stream?</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/commenttwitter.jpg"><img title="commenttwitter" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/commenttwitter-thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="commenttwitter" width="228" height="244" /></a></p></blockquote>
<p>So what type of plugins do you use to enhance your website comments?  Would love to hear success stories on increasing the discussions and comments at your site.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/18/five-comment-related-plugins-for-wordpress/">Five Comment Related Plugins for WordPress</a></p>";}i:3;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:55:"Weblog Tools Collection: What Are Your Theme Standards?";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5867";s:4:"link";s:83:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/18/what-are-your-theme-standards/";s:11:"description";s:1018:"<p>On a thread within the WPTavern forum, there is <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/forum/themes-templates/480-theme-standards-system.html">an interesting discussion</a> taking place among some prominent theme authors on creating a theme standards system. The initial idea is to create a standards system which would give theme authors a goal to shoot for. However, as the discussion has progressed, it&#8217;s easy to see that this entire idea of rating themes or putting together a set of standards is a complex problem. </p>
<p>So after reading through that thread, I thought it would be a good idea to tap into the WordPress community to figure out what is most important to you when it comes to using a theme? Is it price, license, design, usability, functionality, or something else?</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/18/what-are-your-theme-standards/">What Are Your Theme Standards?</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 18 May 2009 20:30:02 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1018:"<p>On a thread within the WPTavern forum, there is <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/forum/themes-templates/480-theme-standards-system.html">an interesting discussion</a> taking place among some prominent theme authors on creating a theme standards system. The initial idea is to create a standards system which would give theme authors a goal to shoot for. However, as the discussion has progressed, it&#8217;s easy to see that this entire idea of rating themes or putting together a set of standards is a complex problem. </p>
<p>So after reading through that thread, I thought it would be a good idea to tap into the WordPress community to figure out what is most important to you when it comes to using a theme? Is it price, license, design, usability, functionality, or something else?</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/18/what-are-your-theme-standards/">What Are Your Theme Standards?</a></p>";}i:4;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:41:"Alex King: WordPress Theme Admin Page Tip";s:4:"guid";s:66:"http://alexking.org/blog/2009/05/18/wordpress-theme-admin-page-tip";s:4:"link";s:66:"http://alexking.org/blog/2009/05/18/wordpress-theme-admin-page-tip";s:11:"description";s:2046:"<p>In WordPress 2.7.1 (and probably previous versions), the admin page that allows for theme activation has some behavior that you might find sub-optimal in certain conditions.</p>
<p>Today I was setting up a site and wholesale replaced the default &#8216;wp-content/themes&#8217; directory with a &#8216;wp-content/themes&#8217; directory checked out of our SVN. This removed the default theme (Kubrick) and left only the theme I was working on for the site.</p>
<p>For some reason, the theme admin page did not show any themes - it took me about 20 minutes to trace the code to figure out what was going on.</p>
<p>The wp-admin/themes.php file has code at line 139 that checks to see if more than one theme is present:</p>
<p><code>if ( 1 < $theme_total ) {</code></p>
<p>If more than 1 theme is found, then the grid of themes is shown so that you can choose between them. However, in my situation I had deleted all other themes leaving just 1 theme but had not yet activated that theme. With this edge case, no theme is active, and there is no way to select the 1 theme that is in the &#8216;wp-content/themes&#8217; directory.</p>
<p>A workaround is to change that code to:</p>
<p><code>if ( 1 <= $theme_total ) {</code></p>
<p>or to upload another theme. Then you can select the theme you need, and you&#8217;re good to go.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve opened a bug for this <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9865" rel="external">here</a>, so I&#8217;m sure this will be fixed in the near future. Hopefully this information will be helpful to someone else who runs into this situation in the interim.</p>
<p>UPDATE: I did search Trac, but apparently not well enough. Original bug <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9029" rel="external">here</a> for those wanting to review.</p>
<p><a href="http://sharethis.com/item?&wp=2.2.3&amp;publisher=a1583af8-28eb-4210-97bd-2bb5c02bc265&amp;title=WordPress+Theme+Admin+Page+Tip&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Falexking.org%2Fblog%2F2009%2F05%2F18%2Fwordpress-theme-admin-page-tip">ShareThis</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 18 May 2009 19:48:08 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:7:"summary";s:2046:"<p>In WordPress 2.7.1 (and probably previous versions), the admin page that allows for theme activation has some behavior that you might find sub-optimal in certain conditions.</p>
<p>Today I was setting up a site and wholesale replaced the default &#8216;wp-content/themes&#8217; directory with a &#8216;wp-content/themes&#8217; directory checked out of our SVN. This removed the default theme (Kubrick) and left only the theme I was working on for the site.</p>
<p>For some reason, the theme admin page did not show any themes - it took me about 20 minutes to trace the code to figure out what was going on.</p>
<p>The wp-admin/themes.php file has code at line 139 that checks to see if more than one theme is present:</p>
<p><code>if ( 1 < $theme_total ) {</code></p>
<p>If more than 1 theme is found, then the grid of themes is shown so that you can choose between them. However, in my situation I had deleted all other themes leaving just 1 theme but had not yet activated that theme. With this edge case, no theme is active, and there is no way to select the 1 theme that is in the &#8216;wp-content/themes&#8217; directory.</p>
<p>A workaround is to change that code to:</p>
<p><code>if ( 1 <= $theme_total ) {</code></p>
<p>or to upload another theme. Then you can select the theme you need, and you&#8217;re good to go.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve opened a bug for this <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9865" rel="external">here</a>, so I&#8217;m sure this will be fixed in the near future. Hopefully this information will be helpful to someone else who runs into this situation in the interim.</p>
<p>UPDATE: I did search Trac, but apparently not well enough. Original bug <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9029" rel="external">here</a> for those wanting to review.</p>
<p><a href="http://sharethis.com/item?&wp=2.2.3&amp;publisher=a1583af8-28eb-4210-97bd-2bb5c02bc265&amp;title=WordPress+Theme+Admin+Page+Tip&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Falexking.org%2Fblog%2F2009%2F05%2F18%2Fwordpress-theme-admin-page-tip">ShareThis</a></p>";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:51:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress News for 5/18/09";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5860";s:4:"link";s:78:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/18/wordpress-news-for-51809/";s:11:"description";s:1102:"<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/05/wordpress-2-8-beta-1/">WordPress 2.8 Beta 1</a> has been released. For all those of you that are adventurous, this is your cue. Codex lists all the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.8">changes in 2.8</a> that have been implemented before the feature freeze.</p>
<p>A &#8220;<a href="http://foolswisdom.com/wordcamp-sf-200/">Get ready for WordCamp San Francisco 2009</a>&#8221; post from Lloyd. I almost completely forgot about the <a href="http://2009.sf.wordcamp.org/wordpress-anniversary-party/">WordPress&#8217; Sixth Anniversary celebrations</a>. 572 attendees as of this post!</p>
<p><a href="http://wordcampcolumbus.com/">WordCamp Columbus</a> was <a href="http://twitter.com/#search?q=wccbus">great</a> with some spirited feedback! Looking forward to <a href="http://wordcampchicago.com/">WordCamp Chicago</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/18/wordpress-news-for-51809/">WordPress News for 5/18/09</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 18 May 2009 14:06:15 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1102:"<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/05/wordpress-2-8-beta-1/">WordPress 2.8 Beta 1</a> has been released. For all those of you that are adventurous, this is your cue. Codex lists all the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.8">changes in 2.8</a> that have been implemented before the feature freeze.</p>
<p>A &#8220;<a href="http://foolswisdom.com/wordcamp-sf-200/">Get ready for WordCamp San Francisco 2009</a>&#8221; post from Lloyd. I almost completely forgot about the <a href="http://2009.sf.wordcamp.org/wordpress-anniversary-party/">WordPress&#8217; Sixth Anniversary celebrations</a>. 572 attendees as of this post!</p>
<p><a href="http://wordcampcolumbus.com/">WordCamp Columbus</a> was <a href="http://twitter.com/#search?q=wccbus">great</a> with some spirited feedback! Looking forward to <a href="http://wordcampchicago.com/">WordCamp Chicago</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/18/wordpress-news-for-51809/">WordPress News for 5/18/09</a></p>";}i:6;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 05/17";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5863";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/17/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0517/";s:11:"description";s:3773:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://tinsology.net/plugins/adshare/">Adshare</a></p>
<p>Adshare allows you to rotate Google Adsense ads based on the author of the current post. It works by replaceing a default adsense publisher id with that of the author of the current post.</p>
<p><a href="http://tinsology.net/plugins/tab-override/">Tab Override</a></p>
<p>Tab Override makes the post/page HTML editor (not visual) handle tabs similar to how a desktop text-editor would. After activating this plugin, pressing the tab key will insert a tab character rather than move focus to the next field.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webmaster-source.com/tweetable-twitter-plugin-wordpress/">Tweetable</a></p>
<p>Tweetable is a WordPress Plugin intended to help integrate Twitter into your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://sivel.net/wordpress/show-template/">Show Template</a></p>
<p>Prints an html comment in the footer of every page letting you know which template file of your theme was used for the display.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-logger/">WordPress Logger</a></p>
<p>Display log messages from PHP in the browser console in Safari and Firefox (with firebug). Essential debugging tool for plugin and theme developers. You no longer have to use &#8216;print_r&#8217; statements from PHP to figure out what is going on in the code, which more often than not, messes up the DOM and HTML layout. Displays complex PHP structures like arrays and objects in pretty print.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpressorg-one-click-install/">WordPress.org One-Click Install</a></p>
<p>Simply install this plugin to your blog and install it’s <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748">Greasemonkey</a> script from the plugin&#8217;s page and you will then be able to literally one-click install any plugin directly from WordPress.org.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.time-press.com/">Time Press</a></p>
<p>Easily integrate and configure a time line representation into your blog.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-minify-wordpress-plugin/">WP Minify</a></p>
<p>This plugin helps you easily integrate the Minify engine into your WordPress blog. Once enabled, this plugin will combine and compress JS and CSS to improve page load time.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.smartlogix.co.in/wp-insert/">WP-Insert</a></p>
<p>WP-INSERT from SMARTLOGIX is an allrounder WordPress plugin which takes care of it all be it your ads, your feeds, your tracking codes even the way you edit your posts!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogtrafficexchange.com/related-websites/">Related Websites</a></p>
<p>Related Websites is related posts for the blogosphere.</p>
<p><a href="http://epicalex.com/new-user-email-set-up/">New User Email Setup</a></p>
<p>The function of the plugin is to provide a basic interface so that admins can define a custom email that is sent to users when they first register. Subject, Text Body, From Address, Admin Subject and Admin Text Body can all be defined, to allow for a more personalized feel to your blog, that doesn’t have such a generic &#8216;welcome&#8217; email.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jenruno.com/SpamTask/">Spam Task</a></p>
<p>SpamTask is the world&#8217;s most advanced spam filter for blogs and guestbooks. It can be setup easily and effectively holds back all messages coming from spam robots, and uses the collected information to learn all by itself and become an increasingly better spam filter.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/17/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0517/">WordPress Plugin Releases for 05/17</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 17 May 2009 15:57:17 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:3773:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://tinsology.net/plugins/adshare/">Adshare</a></p>
<p>Adshare allows you to rotate Google Adsense ads based on the author of the current post. It works by replaceing a default adsense publisher id with that of the author of the current post.</p>
<p><a href="http://tinsology.net/plugins/tab-override/">Tab Override</a></p>
<p>Tab Override makes the post/page HTML editor (not visual) handle tabs similar to how a desktop text-editor would. After activating this plugin, pressing the tab key will insert a tab character rather than move focus to the next field.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webmaster-source.com/tweetable-twitter-plugin-wordpress/">Tweetable</a></p>
<p>Tweetable is a WordPress Plugin intended to help integrate Twitter into your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://sivel.net/wordpress/show-template/">Show Template</a></p>
<p>Prints an html comment in the footer of every page letting you know which template file of your theme was used for the display.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-logger/">WordPress Logger</a></p>
<p>Display log messages from PHP in the browser console in Safari and Firefox (with firebug). Essential debugging tool for plugin and theme developers. You no longer have to use &#8216;print_r&#8217; statements from PHP to figure out what is going on in the code, which more often than not, messes up the DOM and HTML layout. Displays complex PHP structures like arrays and objects in pretty print.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpressorg-one-click-install/">WordPress.org One-Click Install</a></p>
<p>Simply install this plugin to your blog and install it’s <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748">Greasemonkey</a> script from the plugin&#8217;s page and you will then be able to literally one-click install any plugin directly from WordPress.org.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.time-press.com/">Time Press</a></p>
<p>Easily integrate and configure a time line representation into your blog.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-minify-wordpress-plugin/">WP Minify</a></p>
<p>This plugin helps you easily integrate the Minify engine into your WordPress blog. Once enabled, this plugin will combine and compress JS and CSS to improve page load time.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.smartlogix.co.in/wp-insert/">WP-Insert</a></p>
<p>WP-INSERT from SMARTLOGIX is an allrounder WordPress plugin which takes care of it all be it your ads, your feeds, your tracking codes even the way you edit your posts!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogtrafficexchange.com/related-websites/">Related Websites</a></p>
<p>Related Websites is related posts for the blogosphere.</p>
<p><a href="http://epicalex.com/new-user-email-set-up/">New User Email Setup</a></p>
<p>The function of the plugin is to provide a basic interface so that admins can define a custom email that is sent to users when they first register. Subject, Text Body, From Address, Admin Subject and Admin Text Body can all be defined, to allow for a more personalized feel to your blog, that doesn’t have such a generic &#8216;welcome&#8217; email.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jenruno.com/SpamTask/">Spam Task</a></p>
<p>SpamTask is the world&#8217;s most advanced spam filter for blogs and guestbooks. It can be setup easily and effectively holds back all messages coming from spam robots, and uses the collected information to learn all by itself and become an increasingly better spam filter.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/17/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0517/">WordPress Plugin Releases for 05/17</a></p>";}i:7;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:57:"Mark Jaquith: State of the Word – WordCamp Mid-Atlantic";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/?p=299";s:4:"link";s:84:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/state-of-the-word-wordcamp-mid-atlantic/";s:11:"description";s:1290:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Here are my slides from the State of the Word keynote at WordCamp Mid-Atlantic:</p>
<p></p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/299/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/299/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/299/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/299/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/299/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/299/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/299/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/299/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/299/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/299/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=299&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 17 May 2009 10:30:32 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Mark Jaquith";}s:7:"summary";s:1290:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Here are my slides from the State of the Word keynote at WordCamp Mid-Atlantic:</p>
<p></p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/299/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/markjaquith.wordpress.com/299/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/299/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/markjaquith.wordpress.com/299/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/299/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/markjaquith.wordpress.com/299/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/299/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/markjaquith.wordpress.com/299/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/299/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/markjaquith.wordpress.com/299/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjaquith.wordpress.com&blog=316&post=299&subd=markjaquith&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:8;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:30:"Dev Blog: WordPress 2.8 Beta 1";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=744";s:4:"link";s:62:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/05/wordpress-2-8-beta-1/";s:11:"description";s:332:"<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8-beta1.zip">Download</a> it, <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/beta/">test</a> it, <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/newticket">file</a> bugs.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s new? <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.8">All of this</a>.</p>
<p>Good hunting, all you testers.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 16 May 2009 19:59:48 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Ryan Boren";}s:7:"summary";s:332:"<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8-beta1.zip">Download</a> it, <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/beta/">test</a> it, <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/newticket">file</a> bugs.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s new? <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.8">All of this</a>.</p>
<p>Good hunting, all you testers.</p>";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:45:"Weblog Tools Collection: At WordCamp Columbus";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5858";s:4:"link";s:74:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/16/at-wordcamp-columbus/";s:11:"description";s:1230:"<p>I am going to be at <a href="http://wordcampcolumbus.com/">WordCamp Columbus</a> today. If you are going to be attending the event, be sure to say hi.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://wordcampcolumbus.com/speakers/">list of speakers</a> is quite attractive. <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/">Jeff</a> and I were discussing WordCamp Columbus, planning out the event and scoping out presentations that we would listen to and as usual, it was quite overwhelming. I am looking forward to meeting up with old friends and making some new ones while I am there. I like to make my own mini conference in the halls, so if you see a big Indian guy huddled over with a bunch of others people discussing WordPress, you will know that you have run into me. <img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>I am looking for a few others folks to hang out with and have dinner at the end of the event. So if you are interested, please let me know. See you there!</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/16/at-wordcamp-columbus/">At WordCamp Columbus</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 16 May 2009 09:44:11 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1230:"<p>I am going to be at <a href="http://wordcampcolumbus.com/">WordCamp Columbus</a> today. If you are going to be attending the event, be sure to say hi.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://wordcampcolumbus.com/speakers/">list of speakers</a> is quite attractive. <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/">Jeff</a> and I were discussing WordCamp Columbus, planning out the event and scoping out presentations that we would listen to and as usual, it was quite overwhelming. I am looking forward to meeting up with old friends and making some new ones while I am there. I like to make my own mini conference in the halls, so if you see a big Indian guy huddled over with a bunch of others people discussing WordPress, you will know that you have run into me. <img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>I am looking for a few others folks to hang out with and have dinner at the end of the event. So if you are interested, please let me know. See you there!</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/16/at-wordcamp-columbus/">At WordCamp Columbus</a></p>";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:47:"BuddyPress: Help Shape the Future of BuddyPress";s:4:"guid";s:28:"http://buddypress.org/?p=398";s:4:"link";s:73:"http://buddypress.org/blog/community/help-shape-the-future-of-buddypress/";s:11:"description";s:1682:"<p>Since the release of <a href="http://buddypress.org/blog/news/buddypress-10-has-arrived/">BuddyPress 1.0</a> we&#8217;ve been thinking of interesting ways that the community could directly participate in the roadmap for future BuddyPress releases. </p>
<p>We think we&#8217;ve found a fun approach, and so we&#8217;ve decided to run a bit of an experiment. Over the last week, those who participate in the <a href="http://java.freenode.net/?channel=buddypress">BuddyPress IRC room on Freenode</a> have had the chance to look over and comment on a list of new BuddyPress features. These features are what we&#8217;d like to see make their way into BuddyPress within the next 1-3 versions.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s where you, as a community member come in. We&#8217;d like you to play a part in ranking these features, placing the most important features (to you) at the top, and the less important ones at the bottom. Hopefully we can tally enough votes to get a fairly decent overall perspective on what people want first.</p>
<p>These are just features for existing components, the two new components - status updates and albums are already at the top of the roadmap.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve built an interface over the last couple of days that will allow any BuddyPress.org member to log in and start &#8220;Roadmap Ranking&#8221;. Each of the features are broken down into their respective component and only one component is displayed on the screen at a time. You should rank each component&#8217;s features separately. Just drag and drop features in the list.</p>
<p>Head on over to the <a href="http://buddypress.org/roadmap-ranking/">roadmap ranking page</a>, and cast your vote!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 16 May 2009 00:37:57 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:9:"apeatling";}s:7:"summary";s:1682:"<p>Since the release of <a href="http://buddypress.org/blog/news/buddypress-10-has-arrived/">BuddyPress 1.0</a> we&#8217;ve been thinking of interesting ways that the community could directly participate in the roadmap for future BuddyPress releases. </p>
<p>We think we&#8217;ve found a fun approach, and so we&#8217;ve decided to run a bit of an experiment. Over the last week, those who participate in the <a href="http://java.freenode.net/?channel=buddypress">BuddyPress IRC room on Freenode</a> have had the chance to look over and comment on a list of new BuddyPress features. These features are what we&#8217;d like to see make their way into BuddyPress within the next 1-3 versions.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s where you, as a community member come in. We&#8217;d like you to play a part in ranking these features, placing the most important features (to you) at the top, and the less important ones at the bottom. Hopefully we can tally enough votes to get a fairly decent overall perspective on what people want first.</p>
<p>These are just features for existing components, the two new components - status updates and albums are already at the top of the roadmap.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve built an interface over the last couple of days that will allow any BuddyPress.org member to log in and start &#8220;Roadmap Ranking&#8221;. Each of the features are broken down into their respective component and only one component is displayed on the screen at a time. You should rank each component&#8217;s features separately. Just drag and drop features in the list.</p>
<p>Head on over to the <a href="http://buddypress.org/roadmap-ranking/">roadmap ranking page</a>, and cast your vote!</p>";}i:11;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:62:"Weblog Tools Collection: Weblog Tools Collection on the Kindle";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5856";s:4:"link";s:91:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/15/weblog-tools-collection-on-the-kindle/";s:11:"description";s:1203:"<p>Weblog Tools Collection is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0029XFNVW">now available for subscription on the Kindle</a>. There is a 14 day free trial if you would like to just try it out. So if you are a Kindle owner and a WLTC fan, please subscribe and let us know what you think. While I wish we could offer it for free, the charge is $1.99 (we get 30% of this amount).</p>
<p>If you want to publish your blog on Kindle, <a href="https://kindlepublishing.amazon.com/">you can do it too</a>! Be sure to let us know what you think of the experience if you choose to publish your blog on the Kindle. The <a href="http://forums.kindlecentral.com/forums/index.jspa">Kindle forums</a> are a little sparse at this time and the whole publishing page/venue is in beta so you might have some trouble. It was a breeze for us. Thanks to <a href="http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2009/05/14/publish-your-blog-on-the-kindle/">BloggingPro for the idea</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/15/weblog-tools-collection-on-the-kindle/">Weblog Tools Collection on the Kindle</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 15 May 2009 13:36:21 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1203:"<p>Weblog Tools Collection is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0029XFNVW">now available for subscription on the Kindle</a>. There is a 14 day free trial if you would like to just try it out. So if you are a Kindle owner and a WLTC fan, please subscribe and let us know what you think. While I wish we could offer it for free, the charge is $1.99 (we get 30% of this amount).</p>
<p>If you want to publish your blog on Kindle, <a href="https://kindlepublishing.amazon.com/">you can do it too</a>! Be sure to let us know what you think of the experience if you choose to publish your blog on the Kindle. The <a href="http://forums.kindlecentral.com/forums/index.jspa">Kindle forums</a> are a little sparse at this time and the whole publishing page/venue is in beta so you might have some trouble. It was a breeze for us. Thanks to <a href="http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2009/05/14/publish-your-blog-on-the-kindle/">BloggingPro for the idea</a>.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/15/weblog-tools-collection-on-the-kindle/">Weblog Tools Collection on the Kindle</a></p>";}i:12;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:31:"Lloyd: WordCamp SF Here I Come!";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://foolswisdom.com/?p=1851";s:4:"link";s:39:"http://foolswisdom.com/wordcamp-sf-200/";s:11:"description";s:2641:"<p><img class="alignright" title="WordCamp SF 2009 Logo" src="http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/h4/i/wcsf-smallbutton.png" alt="" width="125" height="125" />Only two more weeks until <a href="http://2009.sf.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp San Francisco 2009</a>. I can&#8217;t wait!</p>
<p>This is the original <a href="http://wordcamp.org/">WordCamp</a>. Every year has been fantastic!  There is no other event that brings so many of <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a>&#8217;s elite together.</p>
<p>They&#8217;re friendly people to boot! Thankfully, the elite are welcoming and generous with their time, knowledge, talent and bad jokes (puns). It&#8217;s a great learning environment.</p>
<p>The best kept secret about WordCamp is that the <a href="http://2009.sf.wordcamp.org/speakers/">speaker line up</a> includes many technology and web luminaries &#8211; <a href="http://www.dullest.com/blog/">Matt Cutts</a>, <a href="http://philip.greenspun.com/">Philip Greenspun</a>, <a href="http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/">Tim Ferriss</a>, <a href="http://www.horsepigcow.com/">Tara Hunt</a> to name a few of the incredible speakers.</p>
<p>Can you believe it is near free &#8212; the $25 cost doesn&#8217;t even cover the cost of the food. Thank you sponsors!</p>
<p>Even if WordPress wasn&#8217;t your thing (shame!), if you&#8217;re in the web, it should be a must attend event. It&#8217;s a great event for all bloggers and anyone publishing online.</p>
<p>There is also an after <a href="http://2009.sf.wordcamp.org/wordpress-anniversary-party/">party celebrating the sixth anniversary of WordPress</a>!</p>
<p>And Sunday, we&#8217;re hosting a barcamp-esque <a href="http://ma.tt/2009/05/wordcamp-developer-day/">WordPress developer day</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8230;expect more hardcore geek content like heavy WordPress performance optimization, BuddyPress internals, an intro to Erlang, a guide to secure coding, WordPress-as-CMS discussions, and more. If there’s a topic you’d like to lead start thinking about it now&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>There are only 64 spaces left for WordCamp, so sign up now! (Already 536 <a href="http://2009.sf.wordcamp.org/attendees/">people have registered</a>.)</p>
<p>I hope to meet you there.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone"><img title="Budd Family helping at Genius Bar WordCamp SF 2008" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3503/3460238686_94fd535c2d.jpg" alt="Budd Family helping at Genius Bar WordCamp SF 2008" width="500" height="335" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Budd Family helping at Genius Bar WordCamp SF 2008, as seen at http://central.wordcamp.org/</p></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 15 May 2009 04:19:02 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:5:"Lloyd";}s:7:"summary";s:2641:"<p><img class="alignright" title="WordCamp SF 2009 Logo" src="http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/h4/i/wcsf-smallbutton.png" alt="" width="125" height="125" />Only two more weeks until <a href="http://2009.sf.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp San Francisco 2009</a>. I can&#8217;t wait!</p>
<p>This is the original <a href="http://wordcamp.org/">WordCamp</a>. Every year has been fantastic!  There is no other event that brings so many of <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a>&#8217;s elite together.</p>
<p>They&#8217;re friendly people to boot! Thankfully, the elite are welcoming and generous with their time, knowledge, talent and bad jokes (puns). It&#8217;s a great learning environment.</p>
<p>The best kept secret about WordCamp is that the <a href="http://2009.sf.wordcamp.org/speakers/">speaker line up</a> includes many technology and web luminaries &#8211; <a href="http://www.dullest.com/blog/">Matt Cutts</a>, <a href="http://philip.greenspun.com/">Philip Greenspun</a>, <a href="http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/">Tim Ferriss</a>, <a href="http://www.horsepigcow.com/">Tara Hunt</a> to name a few of the incredible speakers.</p>
<p>Can you believe it is near free &#8212; the $25 cost doesn&#8217;t even cover the cost of the food. Thank you sponsors!</p>
<p>Even if WordPress wasn&#8217;t your thing (shame!), if you&#8217;re in the web, it should be a must attend event. It&#8217;s a great event for all bloggers and anyone publishing online.</p>
<p>There is also an after <a href="http://2009.sf.wordcamp.org/wordpress-anniversary-party/">party celebrating the sixth anniversary of WordPress</a>!</p>
<p>And Sunday, we&#8217;re hosting a barcamp-esque <a href="http://ma.tt/2009/05/wordcamp-developer-day/">WordPress developer day</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8230;expect more hardcore geek content like heavy WordPress performance optimization, BuddyPress internals, an intro to Erlang, a guide to secure coding, WordPress-as-CMS discussions, and more. If there’s a topic you’d like to lead start thinking about it now&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>There are only 64 spaces left for WordCamp, so sign up now! (Already 536 <a href="http://2009.sf.wordcamp.org/attendees/">people have registered</a>.)</p>
<p>I hope to meet you there.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone"><img title="Budd Family helping at Genius Bar WordCamp SF 2008" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3503/3460238686_94fd535c2d.jpg" alt="Budd Family helping at Genius Bar WordCamp SF 2008" width="500" height="335" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Budd Family helping at Genius Bar WordCamp SF 2008, as seen at http://central.wordcamp.org/</p></div>";}i:13;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:56:"Weblog Tools Collection: WP PluginsUsed: A Plugin Review";s:4:"guid";s:84:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/14/wp-pluginsused-a-plugin-review/";s:4:"link";s:84:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/14/wp-pluginsused-a-plugin-review/";s:11:"description";s:4533:"<p>Funny how things can get connected quite quickly on the web.&#160; Check this out.</p>
<p>I wrote a blog entry for WLTC just two days ago about <a title="Permanent Link to Five Nifty Sidebar Widgets for your WordPress Site" href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/12/five-nifty-sidebar-widgets-for-your-wordpress-site/">Five Nifty Sidebar Widgets for your WordPress Site</a>.&#160; Babs then <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/12/five-nifty-sidebar-widgets-for-your-wordpress-site/#comment-1255649">commented on that post</a> and said:</p>
<blockquote><p>Out of curiosity, does anyone know how many plugins it takes to break a WordPress site? *laughs*</p>
</blockquote>
<p>This comment then prompted <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/author/mark/">Mark from here at WLTC</a> to write a blog entry asking visitors to <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/13/guess-how-many-plugins-we-have-active/">Guess how many Plugins we have active</a> on the website and comment on how many active and inactive plugins they have on their own websites.&#160; This is a small contest that will earn the correct guesser a one year Flickr Pro membership. It is a very active thread right now (78 replies as of this posting).</p>
<p>So as I am watching the guesses stream in over the last 24 hours or so it reminded me of an awesome plugin I use on <a href="http://www.windowsobserver.com/">my site</a> and it fits in with this series of blog posts.&#160; So I guess you can say that this has come full circle in that my original post started the chain reaction to this post! Don’t you just love the way the web works!&#160; Nice job everyone.</p>
<p>So here is a look at Lester Chan’s terrific <a href="http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-pluginsused">WP PluginsUsed plugin</a> (current version 1.40).</p>
<p>After grabbing the download and installing the plugin all you need to do is create a new page on your site – I am calling mine <a href="http://www.windowsobserver.com/plugins-used">Plugins Used</a> (yeah I know very creative). Then in the edit box for this new page I am going to paste the following text in:</p>
<blockquote><p>[stats_pluginsused] </p>
<p>&lt;P&gt;      <br />&lt;H2&gt;Active Plugins&lt;/H2&gt;       <br />[active_pluginsused] </p>
<p>&lt;P&gt;      <br />&lt;H2&gt;Inactive Plugins&lt;/H2&gt;       <br />[inactive_pluginsused]</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Once you have that done save and publish the page to your website. There is also a simple change you can make to the <strong>wp-pluginsused.php</strong> file to prevent the plugin from showing what version of these plugins your using.&#160; Just open up the <strong>wp-pluginsused.php</strong> and make this change:</p>
<blockquote><p>Find - <em>define(&#8217;PLUGINSUSED_SHOW_VERSION&#8217;, true);</em> </p>
<p>Change it to - <em>define(&#8217;PLUGINSUSED_SHOW_VERSION&#8217;, false);</em> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>Save your file and load up your new <a href="http://www.windowsobserver.com/plugins-used/">Plugins Used page</a> (this is mine) and it will look like this:</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/pluginsusedscreenshot.jpg"><img title="pluginsusedscreenshot" border="0" alt="pluginsusedscreenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/pluginsusedscreenshot-thumb.jpg" width="201" height="244" /></a> </p>
<p>The page also shows details about the plugin including the plugins name, author and a description of the plugin.&#160; The plugin name and author are linked to their respective sites as well.&#160; This will allow you to head directly to that plugin’s website when you see this page on someone else&#8217;s blog and want to try it out.</p>
<p>So there you go – a great plugin from Lester Chan – one among many he has.&#160; If you have never checked out Lester’s work head over to his site now and <a href="http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/">take a look at his portfolio</a> – some very impressive stuff. His WordPress plugins are under the PHP Programming header.</p>
<p>Post a link to your plugins used page in the comments to share with everyone and we can see just what your running on your site as well.</p>
<p>Until next time – stay safe out there!</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/14/wp-pluginsused-a-plugin-review/">WP PluginsUsed: A Plugin Review</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 14 May 2009 23:23:04 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:15:"WindowsObserver";}s:7:"summary";s:4533:"<p>Funny how things can get connected quite quickly on the web.&#160; Check this out.</p>
<p>I wrote a blog entry for WLTC just two days ago about <a title="Permanent Link to Five Nifty Sidebar Widgets for your WordPress Site" href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/12/five-nifty-sidebar-widgets-for-your-wordpress-site/">Five Nifty Sidebar Widgets for your WordPress Site</a>.&#160; Babs then <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/12/five-nifty-sidebar-widgets-for-your-wordpress-site/#comment-1255649">commented on that post</a> and said:</p>
<blockquote><p>Out of curiosity, does anyone know how many plugins it takes to break a WordPress site? *laughs*</p>
</blockquote>
<p>This comment then prompted <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/author/mark/">Mark from here at WLTC</a> to write a blog entry asking visitors to <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/13/guess-how-many-plugins-we-have-active/">Guess how many Plugins we have active</a> on the website and comment on how many active and inactive plugins they have on their own websites.&#160; This is a small contest that will earn the correct guesser a one year Flickr Pro membership. It is a very active thread right now (78 replies as of this posting).</p>
<p>So as I am watching the guesses stream in over the last 24 hours or so it reminded me of an awesome plugin I use on <a href="http://www.windowsobserver.com/">my site</a> and it fits in with this series of blog posts.&#160; So I guess you can say that this has come full circle in that my original post started the chain reaction to this post! Don’t you just love the way the web works!&#160; Nice job everyone.</p>
<p>So here is a look at Lester Chan’s terrific <a href="http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-pluginsused">WP PluginsUsed plugin</a> (current version 1.40).</p>
<p>After grabbing the download and installing the plugin all you need to do is create a new page on your site – I am calling mine <a href="http://www.windowsobserver.com/plugins-used">Plugins Used</a> (yeah I know very creative). Then in the edit box for this new page I am going to paste the following text in:</p>
<blockquote><p>[stats_pluginsused] </p>
<p>&lt;P&gt;      <br />&lt;H2&gt;Active Plugins&lt;/H2&gt;       <br />[active_pluginsused] </p>
<p>&lt;P&gt;      <br />&lt;H2&gt;Inactive Plugins&lt;/H2&gt;       <br />[inactive_pluginsused]</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Once you have that done save and publish the page to your website. There is also a simple change you can make to the <strong>wp-pluginsused.php</strong> file to prevent the plugin from showing what version of these plugins your using.&#160; Just open up the <strong>wp-pluginsused.php</strong> and make this change:</p>
<blockquote><p>Find - <em>define(&#8217;PLUGINSUSED_SHOW_VERSION&#8217;, true);</em> </p>
<p>Change it to - <em>define(&#8217;PLUGINSUSED_SHOW_VERSION&#8217;, false);</em> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>Save your file and load up your new <a href="http://www.windowsobserver.com/plugins-used/">Plugins Used page</a> (this is mine) and it will look like this:</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/pluginsusedscreenshot.jpg"><img title="pluginsusedscreenshot" border="0" alt="pluginsusedscreenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/pluginsusedscreenshot-thumb.jpg" width="201" height="244" /></a> </p>
<p>The page also shows details about the plugin including the plugins name, author and a description of the plugin.&#160; The plugin name and author are linked to their respective sites as well.&#160; This will allow you to head directly to that plugin’s website when you see this page on someone else&#8217;s blog and want to try it out.</p>
<p>So there you go – a great plugin from Lester Chan – one among many he has.&#160; If you have never checked out Lester’s work head over to his site now and <a href="http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/">take a look at his portfolio</a> – some very impressive stuff. His WordPress plugins are under the PHP Programming header.</p>
<p>Post a link to your plugins used page in the comments to share with everyone and we can see just what your running on your site as well.</p>
<p>Until next time – stay safe out there!</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/14/wp-pluginsused-a-plugin-review/">WP PluginsUsed: A Plugin Review</a></p>";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 05/14";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5847";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/14/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0514/";s:11:"description";s:1927:"<p><a href="http://bizzartic.com/2009/05/10/berita-business-wordpress-theme/">Berita Business</a></p>
<p><img title="Berita Business" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/beritabusiness.png" alt="Berita Business" width="200" height="190" /></p>
<p>Three column, widgetized theme with seven custom widgets  and spots and a featured slider on the homepage.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wordpressweekly.com/free-wordpress-template-design/dark-cherry-theme.html">Dark Cherry</a></p>
<p><img title="Dark Cherry" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/darkcherry.jpg" alt="Dark Cherry" width="200" height="89" /></p>
<p>It’s a well managed color palette color integrated into a most used blog structure with two columns. Here you have a lot of space to fit any ads, plugins or whatever you need.</p>
<p><a href="http://techblissonline.com/wpelegance-2-column-wordpress-theme/">WPElegance</a></p>
<p><a href="http://free-wp-themes.techblissonline.com/index.php?wptheme=WPElegance2Col"><img title="WPElegance" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/wpelegance.jpg" alt="WPElegance" width="200" height="135" /></a></p>
<p>WPElegance2Col is SEO-optimized, ad-ready, WordPress 2.7 compatible, two column theme with widgetized sidebars and footer.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webdesignlessons.com/tweetmeblue/">TweetMeBlue</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.webdesignlessons.com/demo/index.php?wptheme=TweetMeBlue"><img title="TweetMeBlue" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/tweetmeblue.gif" alt="TweetMeBlue" width="200" height="195" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, easy to use theme with support for featured posts, Twitter, Adsense and more&#8230;</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/14/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0514/">WordPress Theme Releases for 05/14</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 14 May 2009 20:22:21 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:1927:"<p><a href="http://bizzartic.com/2009/05/10/berita-business-wordpress-theme/">Berita Business</a></p>
<p><img title="Berita Business" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/beritabusiness.png" alt="Berita Business" width="200" height="190" /></p>
<p>Three column, widgetized theme with seven custom widgets  and spots and a featured slider on the homepage.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wordpressweekly.com/free-wordpress-template-design/dark-cherry-theme.html">Dark Cherry</a></p>
<p><img title="Dark Cherry" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/darkcherry.jpg" alt="Dark Cherry" width="200" height="89" /></p>
<p>It’s a well managed color palette color integrated into a most used blog structure with two columns. Here you have a lot of space to fit any ads, plugins or whatever you need.</p>
<p><a href="http://techblissonline.com/wpelegance-2-column-wordpress-theme/">WPElegance</a></p>
<p><a href="http://free-wp-themes.techblissonline.com/index.php?wptheme=WPElegance2Col"><img title="WPElegance" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/wpelegance.jpg" alt="WPElegance" width="200" height="135" /></a></p>
<p>WPElegance2Col is SEO-optimized, ad-ready, WordPress 2.7 compatible, two column theme with widgetized sidebars and footer.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webdesignlessons.com/tweetmeblue/">TweetMeBlue</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.webdesignlessons.com/demo/index.php?wptheme=TweetMeBlue"><img title="TweetMeBlue" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/tweetmeblue.gif" alt="TweetMeBlue" width="200" height="195" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, easy to use theme with support for featured posts, Twitter, Adsense and more&#8230;</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/14/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0514/">WordPress Theme Releases for 05/14</a></p>";}i:15;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:54:"WordPress.tv: Introducing VideoPress for WordPress.com";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=1893";s:4:"link";s:72:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/05/13/introducing-videopress-for-wordpress-com/";s:11:"description";s:1386:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
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<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/05/13/introducing-videopress-for-wordpress-com/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/OO4thna8/videopress2-web2.thumbnail.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/1893/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/1893/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1893/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1893/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1893/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1893/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/1893/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/1893/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1893/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1893/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=1893&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:16;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:63:"Weblog Tools Collection: Guess how many Plugins we have active?";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5840";s:4:"link";s:91:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/13/guess-how-many-plugins-we-have-active/";s:11:"description";s:1101:"<p>The first person to <strong>correctly guess the number of active plugins <em>and</em> the number of deactivated plugins on this blog</strong> <strong>will win a Flickr Pro membership for a year</strong> from us. We have more deactivated plugins than activated ones and the numbers aren&#8217;t astronomical. Thanks to <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/12/five-nifty-sidebar-widgets-for-your-wordpress-site/#comment-1255649">babs</a> for the idea. Authors/contributors on this blog are ineligible in this guessing game. <img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>While we are at it, how many plugins do you have activated and how many are deactivated? Do you have any that you activate once in a while when the mood strikes? Which number is higher?</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/13/guess-how-many-plugins-we-have-active/">Guess how many Plugins we have active?</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 13 May 2009 22:49:53 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1101:"<p>The first person to <strong>correctly guess the number of active plugins <em>and</em> the number of deactivated plugins on this blog</strong> <strong>will win a Flickr Pro membership for a year</strong> from us. We have more deactivated plugins than activated ones and the numbers aren&#8217;t astronomical. Thanks to <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/12/five-nifty-sidebar-widgets-for-your-wordpress-site/#comment-1255649">babs</a> for the idea. Authors/contributors on this blog are ineligible in this guessing game. <img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>While we are at it, how many plugins do you have activated and how many are deactivated? Do you have any that you activate once in a while when the mood strikes? Which number is higher?</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/13/guess-how-many-plugins-we-have-active/">Guess how many Plugins we have active?</a></p>";}i:17;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:40:"bbPress: bbPress 1.0 Release Candidate 1";s:4:"guid";s:25:"http://bbpress.org/?p=227";s:4:"link";s:63:"http://bbpress.org/blog/2009/05/bbpress-10-release-candidate-1/";s:11:"description";s:822:"<p>Yesterday we pushed the first release candidate for bbPress 1.0 out the door. You can grab it from the <a href="http://bbpress.org/download/">download page</a>.</p>
<p>Over the next few weeks there will be a (relatively) rapid progression of &#8220;RC&#8221; releases as we move towards a final release of 1.0</p>
<p>bbPress is almost stable enough to use on a live website, but I can&#8217;t recommend that yet. If you want to try it out on your existing data, then I suggest you make a complete copy of your site and then upgrade. If  you just want to take a look and see what&#8217;s changed then try a fresh install (some independent testing of the installer is always useful).</p>
<p>If you find a problem please <a href="http://trac.bbpress.org">report it in Trac</a> so I can get onto it as soon as possible.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 13 May 2009 03:49:14 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Sam Bauers";}s:7:"summary";s:822:"<p>Yesterday we pushed the first release candidate for bbPress 1.0 out the door. You can grab it from the <a href="http://bbpress.org/download/">download page</a>.</p>
<p>Over the next few weeks there will be a (relatively) rapid progression of &#8220;RC&#8221; releases as we move towards a final release of 1.0</p>
<p>bbPress is almost stable enough to use on a live website, but I can&#8217;t recommend that yet. If you want to try it out on your existing data, then I suggest you make a complete copy of your site and then upgrade. If  you just want to take a look and see what&#8217;s changed then try a fresh install (some independent testing of the installer is always useful).</p>
<p>If you find a problem please <a href="http://trac.bbpress.org">report it in Trac</a> so I can get onto it as soon as possible.</p>";}i:18;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:75:"Weblog Tools Collection: Five Nifty Sidebar Widgets for your WordPress Site";s:4:"guid";s:104:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/12/five-nifty-sidebar-widgets-for-your-wordpress-site/";s:4:"link";s:104:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/12/five-nifty-sidebar-widgets-for-your-wordpress-site/";s:11:"description";s:5099:"<p>Can you say that title five times very fast? <img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>In my last post I discussed <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/09/plugins-to-spruce-up-your-wordpress-based-website/">WordPress plugins that can spruce up your WordPress based website</a>. What I would like to do in this one is point out five sidebar widgets that you can put to use in your own sidebar to expand its capabilities and add additional functionality to your site for your visitors.</p>
<blockquote><p>-&#160; <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sidebar-login/">Sidebar Login</a>: This plugin is not only a widget that you can drag onto your sidebar in the admin interface but also provides a template tag that you can use anywhere in your site to show a login box.&#160; Once your visitor logs in via this form they will be returned to the page they signed in from instead of into the admin panel (unless they are an admin then they log into the admin interface).</p>
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<p align="center">Not logged in</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="200">
<p align="center"></p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/sidebarloginloggedin1.jpg"><img title="sidebarloginloggedin" border="0" alt="sidebarloginloggedin" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/sidebarloginloggedin-thumb1.jpg" width="197" height="143" /></a> Logged in as Admin</p>
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</tbody>
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<p>-&#160; <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/registration-form-widget/">Registration Widget</a>: What better widget to have right next to the Sidebar Login widget above then the one that lets a visitor register a user account so they can use that nifty Sidebar Login form as well.&#160; Very straight forward install and then add the widget to your sidebar where you want it.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/registerwidget1.jpg"><img title="registerwidget" border="0" alt="registerwidget" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/registerwidget-thumb1.jpg" width="89" height="244" /></a> </p>
<p>-&#160; <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/moon-phases/">Moon Phases</a>: Now this plugin would obviously be perfect on an astronomy or space blog/website.&#160; Its premise is simple after installing the plugin go to your appearance admin panel and add the Moon Phases widget to your sidebar and save it.&#160; There are four settings you can change which include Title; Show Zodiac; Show age (not yours – the moons); and Show details.&#160; I am a space and astronomy buff so stuff like this grabs my attention easily <img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/moonphasewidget.jpg"><img title="moonphasewidget" border="0" alt="moonphasewidget" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/moonphasewidget-thumb.jpg" width="188" height="244" /></a> </p>
<p>-&#160; <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/global-translator/">Global Translator</a>: Just what it sounds like with up to 41 language options at your disposal depending on what translation engine you select.&#160; Adds a widget to your appearance admin panel that you can add to your sidebar. Just click on the flag of the country you want to translate the page into.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/translator.jpg"><img title="translator" border="0" alt="translator" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/translator-thumb.jpg" width="255" height="69" /></a>&#160;</p>
<p>-&#160; <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twibadge/">TwiBadge</a>: I guess this list would not be complete without a little Twitter love.&#160; Here is a sidebar widget plugin that lets you add your Twitter Badge to your own sidebar.&#160; It is very configurable and does not require your Twitter password to work.&#160; </p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/twibadge.jpg"><img title="twibadge" border="0" alt="twibadge" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/twibadge-thumb.jpg" width="128" height="244" /></a>&#160;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>So what is your nifty sidebar widget that you can not live without on your site? Looking forward to hearing what your using.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/12/five-nifty-sidebar-widgets-for-your-wordpress-site/">Five Nifty Sidebar Widgets for your WordPress Site</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 13 May 2009 00:21:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:15:"WindowsObserver";}s:7:"summary";s:5099:"<p>Can you say that title five times very fast? <img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>In my last post I discussed <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/09/plugins-to-spruce-up-your-wordpress-based-website/">WordPress plugins that can spruce up your WordPress based website</a>. What I would like to do in this one is point out five sidebar widgets that you can put to use in your own sidebar to expand its capabilities and add additional functionality to your site for your visitors.</p>
<blockquote><p>-&#160; <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sidebar-login/">Sidebar Login</a>: This plugin is not only a widget that you can drag onto your sidebar in the admin interface but also provides a template tag that you can use anywhere in your site to show a login box.&#160; Once your visitor logs in via this form they will be returned to the page they signed in from instead of into the admin panel (unless they are an admin then they log into the admin interface).</p>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="400">
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<td valign="top" width="200"><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/sidebarloginnotloggedin.jpg"><img title="sidebarloginnotloggedin" border="0" alt="sidebarloginnotloggedin" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/sidebarloginnotloggedin-thumb.jpg" width="159" height="244" /></a>
<p align="center">Not logged in</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="200">
<p align="center"></p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/sidebarloginloggedin1.jpg"><img title="sidebarloginloggedin" border="0" alt="sidebarloginloggedin" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/sidebarloginloggedin-thumb1.jpg" width="197" height="143" /></a> Logged in as Admin</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>-&#160; <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/registration-form-widget/">Registration Widget</a>: What better widget to have right next to the Sidebar Login widget above then the one that lets a visitor register a user account so they can use that nifty Sidebar Login form as well.&#160; Very straight forward install and then add the widget to your sidebar where you want it.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/registerwidget1.jpg"><img title="registerwidget" border="0" alt="registerwidget" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/registerwidget-thumb1.jpg" width="89" height="244" /></a> </p>
<p>-&#160; <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/moon-phases/">Moon Phases</a>: Now this plugin would obviously be perfect on an astronomy or space blog/website.&#160; Its premise is simple after installing the plugin go to your appearance admin panel and add the Moon Phases widget to your sidebar and save it.&#160; There are four settings you can change which include Title; Show Zodiac; Show age (not yours – the moons); and Show details.&#160; I am a space and astronomy buff so stuff like this grabs my attention easily <img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/moonphasewidget.jpg"><img title="moonphasewidget" border="0" alt="moonphasewidget" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/moonphasewidget-thumb.jpg" width="188" height="244" /></a> </p>
<p>-&#160; <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/global-translator/">Global Translator</a>: Just what it sounds like with up to 41 language options at your disposal depending on what translation engine you select.&#160; Adds a widget to your appearance admin panel that you can add to your sidebar. Just click on the flag of the country you want to translate the page into.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/translator.jpg"><img title="translator" border="0" alt="translator" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/translator-thumb.jpg" width="255" height="69" /></a>&#160;</p>
<p>-&#160; <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twibadge/">TwiBadge</a>: I guess this list would not be complete without a little Twitter love.&#160; Here is a sidebar widget plugin that lets you add your Twitter Badge to your own sidebar.&#160; It is very configurable and does not require your Twitter password to work.&#160; </p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/twibadge.jpg"><img title="twibadge" border="0" alt="twibadge" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/twibadge-thumb.jpg" width="128" height="244" /></a>&#160;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>So what is your nifty sidebar widget that you can not live without on your site? Looking forward to hearing what your using.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/12/five-nifty-sidebar-widgets-for-your-wordpress-site/">Five Nifty Sidebar Widgets for your WordPress Site</a></p>";}i:19;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:57:"WordPress.tv: Introducing Post by Email for WordPress.com";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=1876";s:4:"link";s:75:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/05/12/introducing-post-by-email-for-wordpress-com/";s:11:"description";s:1390:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
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<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/05/12/introducing-post-by-email-for-wordpress-com/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/lssivkeW/post-by-email-web.thumbnail.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/1876/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/1876/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1876/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1876/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1876/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1876/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/1876/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/1876/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1876/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1876/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=1876&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 12 May 2009 22:47:25 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Michael Pick";}s:7:"summary";s:1390:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
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<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/05/12/introducing-post-by-email-for-wordpress-com/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/lssivkeW/post-by-email-web.thumbnail.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/1876/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/1876/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1876/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1876/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1876/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1876/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/1876/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/1876/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1876/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1876/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=1876&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:20;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Release for 12/05";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5818";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/12/wordpress-plugin-release-for-1205/";s:11:"description";s:2776:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://geeklad.com/free-ebay-store">Free eBay Store</a></p>
<p>Allows you to automatically display eBay listings on your blog. You just add a simple tag to a post or page, along with your eBay Campaign ID, and the relevant keywords for the products to be displayed. You can also optionally specify the number of rows and columns to specify the layout of your eBay store. Why pay to build an eBay store when you can build one for free?</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/imageshack-offloader">ImageShack Offloader</a></p>
<p>Allows you to have your images uploaded to and served from <a href="http://imageshack.us">ImageShack</a> to save server resources.</p>
<p><a href="http://sivel.net/wordpress/display-name-author-permalink/">Display Name Author Permalink</a></p>
<p>Replaces the username for author permalinks with the users display name. Returns a 404 if the author permalink using the actual username is used.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.gdstarrating.com/2009/05/07/gd-star-rating-130/">GD Star Rating</a></p>
<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>
<p><a href="http://geeklad.com/wordpress-pagerank-widget-plugin">WordPress PageRank</a></p>
<p>Display your Google PageRank on your blog</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-adsenser/">Easy Adsenser</a></p>
<p>Easy AdSenser, a popular plugin to manage Google AdSense, has been updated to add a few more languages and a few features that may make you few more bucks!</p>
<p><a href="http://wp-simpleviewer.fuggi82.de/">WP Simpleviewer</a></p>
<p>WP-Simpleviewer enables you to easily add SimpleViewer Flash galleries to your posts and pages. The admin interface helps you to create the thumbs for a new gallery and change its settings.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.weinschenker.name/plugin-feed-reading-blogroll/">Feed Reading Blogroll</a></p>
<p>The plugin improves your blogroll by displaying the freshness and the latest post-title of your bookmarks.</p>
<p><a href="http://tobias.baethge.com/2009/05/wp-table-reloaded-12-now-available/">WP Table Reloaded</a></p>
<p>This plugin enables you to create and manage tables in the admin-area of WordPress. You can then show them in your posts, on your pages or in text widgets by using a shortcode.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/12/wordpress-plugin-release-for-1205/">WordPress Plugin Release for 12/05</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 12 May 2009 20:18:29 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:2776:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://geeklad.com/free-ebay-store">Free eBay Store</a></p>
<p>Allows you to automatically display eBay listings on your blog. You just add a simple tag to a post or page, along with your eBay Campaign ID, and the relevant keywords for the products to be displayed. You can also optionally specify the number of rows and columns to specify the layout of your eBay store. Why pay to build an eBay store when you can build one for free?</p>
<p><a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/imageshack-offloader">ImageShack Offloader</a></p>
<p>Allows you to have your images uploaded to and served from <a href="http://imageshack.us">ImageShack</a> to save server resources.</p>
<p><a href="http://sivel.net/wordpress/display-name-author-permalink/">Display Name Author Permalink</a></p>
<p>Replaces the username for author permalinks with the users display name. Returns a 404 if the author permalink using the actual username is used.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.gdstarrating.com/2009/05/07/gd-star-rating-130/">GD Star Rating</a></p>
<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>
<p><a href="http://geeklad.com/wordpress-pagerank-widget-plugin">WordPress PageRank</a></p>
<p>Display your Google PageRank on your blog</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-adsenser/">Easy Adsenser</a></p>
<p>Easy AdSenser, a popular plugin to manage Google AdSense, has been updated to add a few more languages and a few features that may make you few more bucks!</p>
<p><a href="http://wp-simpleviewer.fuggi82.de/">WP Simpleviewer</a></p>
<p>WP-Simpleviewer enables you to easily add SimpleViewer Flash galleries to your posts and pages. The admin interface helps you to create the thumbs for a new gallery and change its settings.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.weinschenker.name/plugin-feed-reading-blogroll/">Feed Reading Blogroll</a></p>
<p>The plugin improves your blogroll by displaying the freshness and the latest post-title of your bookmarks.</p>
<p><a href="http://tobias.baethge.com/2009/05/wp-table-reloaded-12-now-available/">WP Table Reloaded</a></p>
<p>This plugin enables you to create and manage tables in the admin-area of WordPress. You can then show them in your posts, on your pages or in text widgets by using a shortcode.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/12/wordpress-plugin-release-for-1205/">WordPress Plugin Release for 12/05</a></p>";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:52:"Weblog Tools Collection: Theme Development Checklist";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5806";s:4:"link";s:81:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/12/theme-development-checklist/";s:11:"description";s:1089:"<p>Stefan Vervoort of WPToy.com has published a new and improved version of his <a href="http://wptoy.com/resources/wordpress-theme-development-check-list-pdf-version/">WordPress Theme Development Checklist</a>. This new checklist is provided in PDF form but it&#8217;s very easy to print. The checklist covers the following points:</p>
<ul>
<li>General</li>
<li>Stylesheets</li>
<li>Browser Compatibility</li>
<li>Pages</li>
<li>Styled Everything?</li>
<li>Standard CSS Classes</li>
<li>Validate</li>
<li>WordPress Code</li>
<li>Blog </li>
<li>Elements</li>
</ul>
<p>This is one of those guides you could put up on the wall to serve as a quick reference.</p>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/themedevchecklist.png" alt="themedevchecklist" title="themedevchecklist" width="539" height="359" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5807" /></p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/12/theme-development-checklist/">Theme Development Checklist</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 12 May 2009 11:00:51 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1089:"<p>Stefan Vervoort of WPToy.com has published a new and improved version of his <a href="http://wptoy.com/resources/wordpress-theme-development-check-list-pdf-version/">WordPress Theme Development Checklist</a>. This new checklist is provided in PDF form but it&#8217;s very easy to print. The checklist covers the following points:</p>
<ul>
<li>General</li>
<li>Stylesheets</li>
<li>Browser Compatibility</li>
<li>Pages</li>
<li>Styled Everything?</li>
<li>Standard CSS Classes</li>
<li>Validate</li>
<li>WordPress Code</li>
<li>Blog </li>
<li>Elements</li>
</ul>
<p>This is one of those guides you could put up on the wall to serve as a quick reference.</p>
<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/themedevchecklist.png" alt="themedevchecklist" title="themedevchecklist" width="539" height="359" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5807" /></p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/12/theme-development-checklist/">Theme Development Checklist</a></p>";}i:22;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:47:"WordPress.tv: The Twitter Friendly Links Plugin";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=1879";s:4:"link";s:65:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/05/12/the-twitter-friendly-links-plugin/";s:11:"description";s:1390:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><span><ins>
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<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/05/12/the-twitter-friendly-links-plugin/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/FreWc5lW/2571368.thumbnail.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/1879/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/1879/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1879/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1879/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1879/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1879/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/1879/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/1879/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1879/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1879/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=1879&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 12 May 2009 08:23:17 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Michael Pick";}s:7:"summary";s:1390:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><span><ins>
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<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/05/12/the-twitter-friendly-links-plugin/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/FreWc5lW/2571368.thumbnail.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/1879/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/1879/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1879/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1879/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1879/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1879/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/1879/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/1879/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1879/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1879/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=1879&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:23;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:45:"Weblog Tools Collection: Need Help With That?";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5803";s:4:"link";s:73:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/11/need-help-with-that/";s:11:"description";s:1503:"<p>Over the past two years, I&#8217;ve had the privilege to talk with a number of different plugin/theme developers. While they each have their own unique style of getting things done, one thing they all have in common is providing support.</p>
<p>Michael Torbert author of the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/">All In One SEO Plugin</a> <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/how-to-ask-for-support">wrote a great blog post published on WPTavern.com providing up to twelve things</a> you can do to help make the support process go as smoothly as possible. You may not agree with what&#8217;s on the list and in fact, if you have anything you&#8217;d like to add, say so in the comments. Considering the AIO SEO plugin is the most downloaded plugin on the repository, you can bet Michael has had his share of support queries and then some.</p>
<blockquote><p>Before you ask for support, use Google. Make a concerted effort to search for resolutions to your issue. This will help increase the clarity of communication with the developer about the problem you’re having. This helps to find and resolve the issue more quickly and ultimately means, saving you money.</p></blockquote>
<p>Let&#8217;s all do our part to make theme/plugin developers lives a little easier.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/11/need-help-with-that/">Need Help With That?</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 11 May 2009 11:12:47 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1503:"<p>Over the past two years, I&#8217;ve had the privilege to talk with a number of different plugin/theme developers. While they each have their own unique style of getting things done, one thing they all have in common is providing support.</p>
<p>Michael Torbert author of the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/">All In One SEO Plugin</a> <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/how-to-ask-for-support">wrote a great blog post published on WPTavern.com providing up to twelve things</a> you can do to help make the support process go as smoothly as possible. You may not agree with what&#8217;s on the list and in fact, if you have anything you&#8217;d like to add, say so in the comments. Considering the AIO SEO plugin is the most downloaded plugin on the repository, you can bet Michael has had his share of support queries and then some.</p>
<blockquote><p>Before you ask for support, use Google. Make a concerted effort to search for resolutions to your issue. This will help increase the clarity of communication with the developer about the problem you’re having. This helps to find and resolve the issue more quickly and ultimately means, saving you money.</p></blockquote>
<p>Let&#8217;s all do our part to make theme/plugin developers lives a little easier.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/11/need-help-with-that/">Need Help With That?</a></p>";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:22:"Matt: Journaling Tools";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=14107";s:4:"link";s:38:"http://ma.tt/2009/05/journaling-tools/";s:11:"description";s:162:"<p><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5246819/five-best-journaling-tools">WordPress listed as one of  &#8220;Five Best Journaling Tools&#8221;</a> at Lifehacker.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 11 May 2009 03:13:05 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:162:"<p><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5246819/five-best-journaling-tools">WordPress listed as one of  &#8220;Five Best Journaling Tools&#8221;</a> at Lifehacker.</p>";}i:25;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:65:"Weblog Tools Collection: I am sick of splogs Copying our Content!";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5794";s:4:"link";s:93:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/10/i-am-sick-of-splogs-copying-our-content/";s:11:"description";s:2845:"<p>I sincerely apologize for having turned our RSS feed into summaries. I understand it is annoying and creates an unnecessary step for those who read our content through the news feed. But rarely a day goes by when we do not have five to ten <em>new</em> trackbacks from blogs that are copying our content. I end up adding them to our blacklist and then sending a notice to the infringer. It gets <em>even more annoying</em> when the infringing blog does not have a contact page or I get a reply back stating that they did not know our content was not meant to be copied.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-5795" title="askfirst1" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/askfirst1.png" alt="askfirst1" width="150" height="150" /></p>
<p>I am not against some use of our content but I like to be asked and like proper attribution be provided for displayed content. I understand that duplicate content is bad for SEO but I believe that it is a give and take. Our content is for the better good of the WordPress community and we have no problem with sharing the information in every way that is useful to our readers. All of this is, after all for our readers to use.</p>
<p>Lorelle has written some <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/02/23/the-year-of-original-content-how-to-fight-back-against-abusers/">really</a> <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/10/what-do-you-do-when-someone-steals-your-content/">nice</a> <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/02/18/this-is-the-year-of-original-content/">articles</a> on <a href="http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/tag/content-theft/">Content Theft</a> and she links to a bunch of tricks and tools that can be used to curb content theft. One of the ways I know to deter the scrapers is to reduce the content in an RSS feed to summaries and I have done just that. There are other tools such as CopyScape that I could use but I fear that those will just increase information overload. Sadly, I hope to reduce the amount of time we spend fighting off scrapers but am pretty sure that theft will not disappear.</p>
<p><strong>We apologize again for serving summaries through our RSS feed. Please ask if you would like to use and/or re-display our content, we will probably say Yes! Also, if you are using the content from this blog, please do not claim it as your own but provide proper attribution.</strong></p>
<p><strong>[UPDATED] I heard and frankly agree with all the complaints. Back to full feed after a mere three hours. Trying an RSS footer plugin instead. Any and all other suggestions welcome!<br />
</strong></p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/10/i-am-sick-of-splogs-copying-our-content/">I am sick of splogs Copying our Content!</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 10 May 2009 22:35:49 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:2845:"<p>I sincerely apologize for having turned our RSS feed into summaries. I understand it is annoying and creates an unnecessary step for those who read our content through the news feed. But rarely a day goes by when we do not have five to ten <em>new</em> trackbacks from blogs that are copying our content. I end up adding them to our blacklist and then sending a notice to the infringer. It gets <em>even more annoying</em> when the infringing blog does not have a contact page or I get a reply back stating that they did not know our content was not meant to be copied.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-5795" title="askfirst1" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/askfirst1.png" alt="askfirst1" width="150" height="150" /></p>
<p>I am not against some use of our content but I like to be asked and like proper attribution be provided for displayed content. I understand that duplicate content is bad for SEO but I believe that it is a give and take. Our content is for the better good of the WordPress community and we have no problem with sharing the information in every way that is useful to our readers. All of this is, after all for our readers to use.</p>
<p>Lorelle has written some <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/02/23/the-year-of-original-content-how-to-fight-back-against-abusers/">really</a> <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/10/what-do-you-do-when-someone-steals-your-content/">nice</a> <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/02/18/this-is-the-year-of-original-content/">articles</a> on <a href="http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/tag/content-theft/">Content Theft</a> and she links to a bunch of tricks and tools that can be used to curb content theft. One of the ways I know to deter the scrapers is to reduce the content in an RSS feed to summaries and I have done just that. There are other tools such as CopyScape that I could use but I fear that those will just increase information overload. Sadly, I hope to reduce the amount of time we spend fighting off scrapers but am pretty sure that theft will not disappear.</p>
<p><strong>We apologize again for serving summaries through our RSS feed. Please ask if you would like to use and/or re-display our content, we will probably say Yes! Also, if you are using the content from this blog, please do not claim it as your own but provide proper attribution.</strong></p>
<p><strong>[UPDATED] I heard and frankly agree with all the complaints. Back to full feed after a mere three hours. Trying an RSS footer plugin instead. Any and all other suggestions welcome!<br />
</strong></p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/10/i-am-sick-of-splogs-copying-our-content/">I am sick of splogs Copying our Content!</a></p>";}i:26;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 10/05";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5792";s:4:"link";s:89:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/10/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1005-2/";s:11:"description";s:3136:"<h4><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/that-music-theme">THAT Music</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.thatagency.com/THATthemes/index.php?wptheme=THAT+Music+Theme"><img title="THAT Music" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/thatmusic.png" alt="THAT Music" width="190" height="200" /></a></p>
<p>Three column, red and dark theme with support for widgets, gravatars and WordPress 2.7.</p>
<h4><a href="http://3oneseven.com/06/solitude-wpmu-buddypress-theme/">Solitude wpMU</a></h4>
<p><img title="Solitude" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/solitude.png" alt="Solitude" width="124" height="200" /></p>
<p>The Solitude WP theme, create your own social network with the Solitude WordPress theme, loaded with a ”corporate” blue/white color scheme, an extensive 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>
<h4><a href="http://wordpress-themes.onzig.com/simple-blue-theme">Simple Blue</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://wordpress-themes.onzig.com/?preview_theme=ModernBlue"><img title="SimpleBlue" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/simpleblue.png" alt="SimpleBlue" width="200" height="187" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, widget ready, blue theme</p>
<h4><a href="http://7879designs.co.uk/downloads/free-wordpress-photoblog-theme-grace/">Grace</a></h4>
<p><img title="Grace" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/grace.jpg" alt="Grace" width="200" height="149" /></p>
<p>It&#8217;s a stylish, 3 column, widgetized theme with a jQuery powered rotating gallery on home page.</p>
<h4><a href="http://somadesign.ca/projects/the-erudite/">The Erudite</a></h4>
<p><img title="Erudite" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/erudite.jpg" alt="Erudite" width="200" height="163" /></p>
<p>The Erudite is a two column theme for writers who want readers. Everything has been carefully crafted to provide the optimal reading experience, and no attention has been paid to people who need gimmicks to maintain an audience.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.colorwalk.com/small_biz_green/">Small_Biz_Green</a></h4>
<p><img title="small_biz_green" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/small-biz-green.jpg" alt="small_biz_green" width="200" height="146" /></p>
<p>Small_biz_green is an elegent 2-column, professional looking free WordPress theme. It’s a perfect theme for small business blogs and personal blogs.</p>
<h4><a href="http://wp-content-themes.com/doc-a-free-minimal-wordpress-27-theme/257">Doc</a></h4>
<p><img title="Doc" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/doc.png" alt="Doc" width="200" height="150" /></p>
<p>Doc is a one-column theme, with a fixed width and lots of white space. It is intended to spoil your content and to satisfy your users’ reading pleasure.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/10/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1005-2/">WordPress Theme Releases for 10/05</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 10 May 2009 18:20:12 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:3136:"<h4><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/that-music-theme">THAT Music</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.thatagency.com/THATthemes/index.php?wptheme=THAT+Music+Theme"><img title="THAT Music" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/thatmusic.png" alt="THAT Music" width="190" height="200" /></a></p>
<p>Three column, red and dark theme with support for widgets, gravatars and WordPress 2.7.</p>
<h4><a href="http://3oneseven.com/06/solitude-wpmu-buddypress-theme/">Solitude wpMU</a></h4>
<p><img title="Solitude" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/solitude.png" alt="Solitude" width="124" height="200" /></p>
<p>The Solitude WP theme, create your own social network with the Solitude WordPress theme, loaded with a ”corporate” blue/white color scheme, an extensive 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>
<h4><a href="http://wordpress-themes.onzig.com/simple-blue-theme">Simple Blue</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://wordpress-themes.onzig.com/?preview_theme=ModernBlue"><img title="SimpleBlue" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/simpleblue.png" alt="SimpleBlue" width="200" height="187" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, widget ready, blue theme</p>
<h4><a href="http://7879designs.co.uk/downloads/free-wordpress-photoblog-theme-grace/">Grace</a></h4>
<p><img title="Grace" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/grace.jpg" alt="Grace" width="200" height="149" /></p>
<p>It&#8217;s a stylish, 3 column, widgetized theme with a jQuery powered rotating gallery on home page.</p>
<h4><a href="http://somadesign.ca/projects/the-erudite/">The Erudite</a></h4>
<p><img title="Erudite" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/erudite.jpg" alt="Erudite" width="200" height="163" /></p>
<p>The Erudite is a two column theme for writers who want readers. Everything has been carefully crafted to provide the optimal reading experience, and no attention has been paid to people who need gimmicks to maintain an audience.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.colorwalk.com/small_biz_green/">Small_Biz_Green</a></h4>
<p><img title="small_biz_green" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/small-biz-green.jpg" alt="small_biz_green" width="200" height="146" /></p>
<p>Small_biz_green is an elegent 2-column, professional looking free WordPress theme. It’s a perfect theme for small business blogs and personal blogs.</p>
<h4><a href="http://wp-content-themes.com/doc-a-free-minimal-wordpress-27-theme/257">Doc</a></h4>
<p><img title="Doc" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/doc.png" alt="Doc" width="200" height="150" /></p>
<p>Doc is a one-column theme, with a fixed width and lots of white space. It is intended to spoil your content and to satisfy your users’ reading pleasure.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/10/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1005-2/">WordPress Theme Releases for 10/05</a></p>";}i:27;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:84:"Weblog Tools Collection: How can I participate in WordPress Plugin Competition 2009?";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5783";s:4:"link";s:112:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/10/how-can-i-participate-in-wordpress-plugin-competition-2009/";s:11:"description";s:2074:"<p>Here are the simple steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Register on the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog">Plugin Competition Blog</a>, wait to be given author permissions (within 24 hours)</li>
<li>Make sure you check all the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/plugin-competition-2009-rules/">Plugin Competition Rules</a> and adhere to them in order to be eligible</li>
<li>Introduce your plugin(s) or your plans for writing plugins on the Plugin Competition blog</li>
<li>Once your plugin is ready, publish it on the blog and make it available for download via <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/">WordPress Extend</a></li>
<li>Provide initial support for the plugins through the Competition blog, your own blog or other place of publication and through WordPress Support and Extend.</li>
<li>The last step, but the most important step, is to submit the final code for your plugin to us via email. We do not publish this email or the instructions on what to put in the email till the final few weeks of the competition. Check back with us or on the Plugin Competition blog for that email address about two weeks before the end of the competition.</li>
</ol>
<p>Alternatively you could do the following if you need new ideas for Plugin development towards the competition. You could:</p>
<ul>
<li>You could post your questions and your needs on <a href="http://midout.com/groups/wordpress-plugins/forum/topic/12">this WLTC Community Forum Topic</a></li>
<li>You could post your question on the WordPress Forums</li>
<li>You could look at the most popular <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/">WordPress Ideas</a> and find one that has not been done in a plugin yet</li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/kvetch/">Adopt a Kvetch</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/10/how-can-i-participate-in-wordpress-plugin-competition-2009/">How can I participate in WordPress Plugin Competition 2009?</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 10 May 2009 12:39:52 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:2074:"<p>Here are the simple steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Register on the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog">Plugin Competition Blog</a>, wait to be given author permissions (within 24 hours)</li>
<li>Make sure you check all the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/plugin-competition-2009-rules/">Plugin Competition Rules</a> and adhere to them in order to be eligible</li>
<li>Introduce your plugin(s) or your plans for writing plugins on the Plugin Competition blog</li>
<li>Once your plugin is ready, publish it on the blog and make it available for download via <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/">WordPress Extend</a></li>
<li>Provide initial support for the plugins through the Competition blog, your own blog or other place of publication and through WordPress Support and Extend.</li>
<li>The last step, but the most important step, is to submit the final code for your plugin to us via email. We do not publish this email or the instructions on what to put in the email till the final few weeks of the competition. Check back with us or on the Plugin Competition blog for that email address about two weeks before the end of the competition.</li>
</ol>
<p>Alternatively you could do the following if you need new ideas for Plugin development towards the competition. You could:</p>
<ul>
<li>You could post your questions and your needs on <a href="http://midout.com/groups/wordpress-plugins/forum/topic/12">this WLTC Community Forum Topic</a></li>
<li>You could post your question on the WordPress Forums</li>
<li>You could look at the most popular <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/">WordPress Ideas</a> and find one that has not been done in a plugin yet</li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/kvetch/">Adopt a Kvetch</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/10/how-can-i-participate-in-wordpress-plugin-competition-2009/">How can I participate in WordPress Plugin Competition 2009?</a></p>";}i:28;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:74:"Weblog Tools Collection: Plugins to Spruce Up Your WordPress Based Website";s:4:"guid";s:103:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/09/plugins-to-spruce-up-your-wordpress-based-website/";s:4:"link";s:103:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/09/plugins-to-spruce-up-your-wordpress-based-website/";s:11:"description";s:3818:"<p>As many of you know – plugins can add significant functionality to your website.&#160; For instance there is a plugin that will add an entire forum to your site (<a href="http://simplepressforum.com/">Simple:Press</a>) and there is another one that will allow your visitors to contact you via a customizable form (<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/">Contact Form 7</a>).</p>
<p>What if you were just looking for a few plugins to fancy up your site a little bit or maybe add a small piece of functionality or info?&#160; Well they exist as well and sometimes it is the simple touches that really finish a site off.&#160; </p>
<p>Here are a few of my favorites:</p>
<blockquote><p>-&#160; <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shockingly-simple-favicon/">Shockingly Simple Favicon</a> changes your sites <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon">favicon</a> - that is the small graphic that shows up in the address bar of your web browser when your on a site. This even sticks when you switch themes after installing it.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/simplefaviconexample.jpg"><img title="simplefaviconexample" border="0" alt="simplefaviconexample" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/simplefaviconexample-thumb.jpg" width="375" height="38" /></a> </p>
<p>-&#160; <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-feed-copyright/">Simple Feed Copyright</a> inserts a copyright notice at the end of full text articles in your RSS feed.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/simplefeedcopyrightexample.jpg"><img title="simplefeedcopyrightexample" border="0" alt="simplefeedcopyrightexample" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/simplefeedcopyrightexample-thumb.jpg" width="380" height="32" /></a> </p>
<p>-&#160; <a href="http://kerrywebster.com/index.php/design/branded-login-screen-plugin/">Branded Login Screen</a> lets you add your own graphical logo or brand to your login screen.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/brandedloginscreen.jpg"><img title="brandedloginscreen" border="0" alt="brandedloginscreen" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/brandedloginscreen-thumb.jpg" width="379" height="184" /></a> </p>
<p>-&#160; <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/blogcopyright/">Blog Copyright (BC)</a> inserts a copyright notice in your websites footer. It automatically updates the year range each new year and prevents you from having to manually go in and provide an update to the date range.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/blogcopyright.jpg"><img title="blogcopyright" border="0" alt="blogcopyright" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/blogcopyright-thumb.jpg" width="381" height="112" /></a> </p>
<p>-&#160; <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-relativedate/">WP Relative Date</a> uses terms like &#8216;Today&#8217;, &#8216;Yesterday&#8217;, &#8216;2 Days Ago&#8217;, &#8216;2 Weeks Ago&#8217;, &#8216;2 &#8216;Seconds Ago&#8217;, &#8216;2 Minutes Ago&#8217;, &#8216;2 Hours Ago&#8217; to describe when a post was written instead of just the date and time.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/relativedate.jpg"><img title="relativedate" border="0" alt="relativedate" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/relativedate-thumb.jpg" width="384" height="55" /></a>&#160;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>So what are some of your favorite simple plugins for WordPress?</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/09/plugins-to-spruce-up-your-wordpress-based-website/">Plugins to Spruce Up Your WordPress Based Website</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 10 May 2009 02:40:57 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:15:"WindowsObserver";}s:7:"summary";s:3818:"<p>As many of you know – plugins can add significant functionality to your website.&#160; For instance there is a plugin that will add an entire forum to your site (<a href="http://simplepressforum.com/">Simple:Press</a>) and there is another one that will allow your visitors to contact you via a customizable form (<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/">Contact Form 7</a>).</p>
<p>What if you were just looking for a few plugins to fancy up your site a little bit or maybe add a small piece of functionality or info?&#160; Well they exist as well and sometimes it is the simple touches that really finish a site off.&#160; </p>
<p>Here are a few of my favorites:</p>
<blockquote><p>-&#160; <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shockingly-simple-favicon/">Shockingly Simple Favicon</a> changes your sites <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon">favicon</a> - that is the small graphic that shows up in the address bar of your web browser when your on a site. This even sticks when you switch themes after installing it.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/simplefaviconexample.jpg"><img title="simplefaviconexample" border="0" alt="simplefaviconexample" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/simplefaviconexample-thumb.jpg" width="375" height="38" /></a> </p>
<p>-&#160; <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-feed-copyright/">Simple Feed Copyright</a> inserts a copyright notice at the end of full text articles in your RSS feed.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/simplefeedcopyrightexample.jpg"><img title="simplefeedcopyrightexample" border="0" alt="simplefeedcopyrightexample" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/simplefeedcopyrightexample-thumb.jpg" width="380" height="32" /></a> </p>
<p>-&#160; <a href="http://kerrywebster.com/index.php/design/branded-login-screen-plugin/">Branded Login Screen</a> lets you add your own graphical logo or brand to your login screen.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/brandedloginscreen.jpg"><img title="brandedloginscreen" border="0" alt="brandedloginscreen" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/brandedloginscreen-thumb.jpg" width="379" height="184" /></a> </p>
<p>-&#160; <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/blogcopyright/">Blog Copyright (BC)</a> inserts a copyright notice in your websites footer. It automatically updates the year range each new year and prevents you from having to manually go in and provide an update to the date range.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/blogcopyright.jpg"><img title="blogcopyright" border="0" alt="blogcopyright" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/blogcopyright-thumb.jpg" width="381" height="112" /></a> </p>
<p>-&#160; <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-relativedate/">WP Relative Date</a> uses terms like &#8216;Today&#8217;, &#8216;Yesterday&#8217;, &#8216;2 Days Ago&#8217;, &#8216;2 Weeks Ago&#8217;, &#8216;2 &#8216;Seconds Ago&#8217;, &#8216;2 Minutes Ago&#8217;, &#8216;2 Hours Ago&#8217; to describe when a post was written instead of just the date and time.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/relativedate.jpg"><img title="relativedate" border="0" alt="relativedate" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/relativedate-thumb.jpg" width="384" height="55" /></a>&#160;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>So what are some of your favorite simple plugins for WordPress?</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/09/plugins-to-spruce-up-your-wordpress-based-website/">Plugins to Spruce Up Your WordPress Based Website</a></p>";}i:29;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:71:"Dev Blog: Contributing to WordPress, Part IV: Ideas, Opinions, Feedback";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=731";s:4:"link";s:47:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/05/ideas/";s:11:"description";s:7449:"<p>&#8220;I wish they&#8217;d implement <em>feature x</em>.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Why won&#8217;t they put <em>feature y</em> into core? It&#8217;s rated really high in the Ideas forum!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter what I think, all the decisions get made by an elite crime-fighting squad funded by an anonymous millionaire. Er, I mean the four core devs.&#8221;</p>
<p>These sentiments, and others like them, are the focus of today&#8217;s post. Setting aside the similarities between Ryan, Andrew, Mark and Peter to Charlie&#8217;s Angels for a moment, the question of how decisions about features are made needs to be addressed. There are a number of mechanisms in place for communication between the community and the core team, but with so many different channels, it&#8217;s hard to keep up with them all and still focus on production. Here&#8217;s where we are now&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>#wordpress-dev IRC channel</strong>: The IRC channel used to be more active. These days there&#8217;s rarely more than a dozen or two people online at any given time, and hours go by with no activity. When a question pops up, it&#8217;s often a tech question from a less experienced developer or site manager looking for help, as opposed to ongoing discussions about the best way to approach core code and features. When core-focused discussions do occur, they tend to fade out as time zone variances cause people to log off before a core dev enters the room.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/">wp-hackers list</a>:</strong> The hackers mailing list reaches thousands of contributing developers, plugin developers, and lurking interested parties. Discussions range from how to use hooks to whether or not something in core should be changed to troubleshooting for other list members. Conversations on this list sometimes can get heated and occasionally stray into rudeness, which makes some people hesitate to utilize this communication channel.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://wordpress.org/development">This dev blog</a>:</strong> This blog is used mostly for &#8220;official&#8221; announcements, and more recently, for surveys and polls intended to give the core devs an idea of community opinion on things being considered for future versions. Posting is irregular, sometimes with new content every other day, sometimes with nothing for a couple of weeks.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/">wpdevel.wordpress.com</a>:</strong> Another blog, also an &#8220;official&#8221; outlet, in which the core team posts about any big code changes they&#8217;re working on. This gives plugin authors and contributing developers a heads-up, and provides a place for community discussion around specific issues like the new widgets API.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org">Trac</a>: </strong>The ticket system used for active development has gotten out of control. Hundreds of tickets are already lined up for future versions because they were punted from current releases; many aren&#8217;t even relevant anymore. Trac has wound being a place where people report bugs, suggest code changes, request features and debate methodologies; some of these conversations are years old. This broad use of the system makes it harder to power through tickets and get bugs fixed.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/">Ideas forum</a>:</strong> The Ideas forum is a place where anyone can suggest a new feature, rate features suggested by others, leave comments, and generally discuss the future of the WordPress application. However, like Trac, some of the items here are years old. Because of the way the rating system works, older items remain at the top of the list. Some threads are simply he said/she said preference arguments, as opposed to contructive discussions about the value of implementing certain features or changes. There&#8217;s no direct connection between the Ideas forum and Trac.</p>
<p>WordPress is an open source project, successful because of the community that both develops and uses it. At the same time, some people find it difficult to become involved in the project, and are unsure of how to engage with the core team and community at large. The channels listed above can be overwhleming to someone just joining the community, and/or frustrating to longtime community members who feel like they used to have more influence. We need to fix this. The WordPress project needs to be welcoming, easy to navigate as a contributor, and provide useful feedback to help grow the expertise of its community members.</p>
<p>I think we should figure this out together. You, members of this community, know how you feel about the communication channels available to you. You probably have ideas about how to make it better. Some of you may even have sketched out digrams of systems that you think would work better.  Link Ideas to Trac? Change the Ideas rating algorithm? Close Trac tickets that don&#8217;t get resolved within a certain period of time? Just do everything through Trac? What do you think? What would make it easier for you to keep up with development progress and get involved with the varius contribution opportunities? I *know* you have an opinion.</p>
<p>Over the next few weeks, we&#8217;ll be gathering your input about how we can improve communication and participation, and then we&#8217;ll embark on a project to fix/create a system for collecting ideas, opinions and feedback that will allow WordPress to grow as an inclusive community. Here&#8217;s the plan: Gather ideas from people via IRC, forums, live chats, surveys, etc. Assemble a small group of interested parties to help figure out possible approaches, put suggested approaches to a community vote. If redesigning something (like the Ideas forum) is deemed necessary, utilize community designers to create layouts. Beta test it to see if it does work as hoped. Launch and make everyone happy with the new, improved communication/ideas/feedback system!</p>
<p><strong>Up First</strong></p>
<p>Use <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/269201">this forum thread</a> to post your suggestions about this. What do you think needs to be changed or improved? How would you structure it? How do the existing channels fit into your suggestion?</p>
<p>On Tuesday, May 12 at 21:00 UTC (5pm New York time), hop into the #wordpress-dev IRC channel (irc.freenode.com) and talk about your suggestions for how to improve communication. I&#8217;ll be there, taking notes and answering questions, and asking follow-up questions when someone pitches a good idea. An hour later, I&#8217;ll be joining the <a href="http://wordcastpodcast.com/">WordCast Podcast</a> to talk about this issue. <span>They&#8217;re trying to set up a call-in format; if that pans out, we&#8217;ll post the call-in info in the dev channel. Otherwise, </span> A call-in number has been set up through TalkShoe.</p>
<p>1-724-444-7444<br />
Meeting ID: 50127<br />
Pin (if you don&#8217;t have a TalkShoe account): enter 1#</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll also read off suggestions being made in the dev channel and discuss them.</p>
<p>More opportunities to weigh in on this issue to come. Also, further investigation into the similarities between the core devs and Charlie&#8217;s Angels. <img src="http://wordpress.org/development/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 09 May 2009 16:20:53 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:7:"summary";s:7449:"<p>&#8220;I wish they&#8217;d implement <em>feature x</em>.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Why won&#8217;t they put <em>feature y</em> into core? It&#8217;s rated really high in the Ideas forum!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter what I think, all the decisions get made by an elite crime-fighting squad funded by an anonymous millionaire. Er, I mean the four core devs.&#8221;</p>
<p>These sentiments, and others like them, are the focus of today&#8217;s post. Setting aside the similarities between Ryan, Andrew, Mark and Peter to Charlie&#8217;s Angels for a moment, the question of how decisions about features are made needs to be addressed. There are a number of mechanisms in place for communication between the community and the core team, but with so many different channels, it&#8217;s hard to keep up with them all and still focus on production. Here&#8217;s where we are now&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>#wordpress-dev IRC channel</strong>: The IRC channel used to be more active. These days there&#8217;s rarely more than a dozen or two people online at any given time, and hours go by with no activity. When a question pops up, it&#8217;s often a tech question from a less experienced developer or site manager looking for help, as opposed to ongoing discussions about the best way to approach core code and features. When core-focused discussions do occur, they tend to fade out as time zone variances cause people to log off before a core dev enters the room.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/">wp-hackers list</a>:</strong> The hackers mailing list reaches thousands of contributing developers, plugin developers, and lurking interested parties. Discussions range from how to use hooks to whether or not something in core should be changed to troubleshooting for other list members. Conversations on this list sometimes can get heated and occasionally stray into rudeness, which makes some people hesitate to utilize this communication channel.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://wordpress.org/development">This dev blog</a>:</strong> This blog is used mostly for &#8220;official&#8221; announcements, and more recently, for surveys and polls intended to give the core devs an idea of community opinion on things being considered for future versions. Posting is irregular, sometimes with new content every other day, sometimes with nothing for a couple of weeks.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/">wpdevel.wordpress.com</a>:</strong> Another blog, also an &#8220;official&#8221; outlet, in which the core team posts about any big code changes they&#8217;re working on. This gives plugin authors and contributing developers a heads-up, and provides a place for community discussion around specific issues like the new widgets API.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org">Trac</a>: </strong>The ticket system used for active development has gotten out of control. Hundreds of tickets are already lined up for future versions because they were punted from current releases; many aren&#8217;t even relevant anymore. Trac has wound being a place where people report bugs, suggest code changes, request features and debate methodologies; some of these conversations are years old. This broad use of the system makes it harder to power through tickets and get bugs fixed.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/">Ideas forum</a>:</strong> The Ideas forum is a place where anyone can suggest a new feature, rate features suggested by others, leave comments, and generally discuss the future of the WordPress application. However, like Trac, some of the items here are years old. Because of the way the rating system works, older items remain at the top of the list. Some threads are simply he said/she said preference arguments, as opposed to contructive discussions about the value of implementing certain features or changes. There&#8217;s no direct connection between the Ideas forum and Trac.</p>
<p>WordPress is an open source project, successful because of the community that both develops and uses it. At the same time, some people find it difficult to become involved in the project, and are unsure of how to engage with the core team and community at large. The channels listed above can be overwhleming to someone just joining the community, and/or frustrating to longtime community members who feel like they used to have more influence. We need to fix this. The WordPress project needs to be welcoming, easy to navigate as a contributor, and provide useful feedback to help grow the expertise of its community members.</p>
<p>I think we should figure this out together. You, members of this community, know how you feel about the communication channels available to you. You probably have ideas about how to make it better. Some of you may even have sketched out digrams of systems that you think would work better.  Link Ideas to Trac? Change the Ideas rating algorithm? Close Trac tickets that don&#8217;t get resolved within a certain period of time? Just do everything through Trac? What do you think? What would make it easier for you to keep up with development progress and get involved with the varius contribution opportunities? I *know* you have an opinion.</p>
<p>Over the next few weeks, we&#8217;ll be gathering your input about how we can improve communication and participation, and then we&#8217;ll embark on a project to fix/create a system for collecting ideas, opinions and feedback that will allow WordPress to grow as an inclusive community. Here&#8217;s the plan: Gather ideas from people via IRC, forums, live chats, surveys, etc. Assemble a small group of interested parties to help figure out possible approaches, put suggested approaches to a community vote. If redesigning something (like the Ideas forum) is deemed necessary, utilize community designers to create layouts. Beta test it to see if it does work as hoped. Launch and make everyone happy with the new, improved communication/ideas/feedback system!</p>
<p><strong>Up First</strong></p>
<p>Use <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/269201">this forum thread</a> to post your suggestions about this. What do you think needs to be changed or improved? How would you structure it? How do the existing channels fit into your suggestion?</p>
<p>On Tuesday, May 12 at 21:00 UTC (5pm New York time), hop into the #wordpress-dev IRC channel (irc.freenode.com) and talk about your suggestions for how to improve communication. I&#8217;ll be there, taking notes and answering questions, and asking follow-up questions when someone pitches a good idea. An hour later, I&#8217;ll be joining the <a href="http://wordcastpodcast.com/">WordCast Podcast</a> to talk about this issue. <span>They&#8217;re trying to set up a call-in format; if that pans out, we&#8217;ll post the call-in info in the dev channel. Otherwise, </span> A call-in number has been set up through TalkShoe.</p>
<p>1-724-444-7444<br />
Meeting ID: 50127<br />
Pin (if you don&#8217;t have a TalkShoe account): enter 1#</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll also read off suggestions being made in the dev channel and discuss them.</p>
<p>More opportunities to weigh in on this issue to come. Also, further investigation into the similarities between the core devs and Charlie&#8217;s Angels. <img src="http://wordpress.org/development/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>";}i:30;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:28:"Matt: WordCamp Developer Day";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=14105";s:4:"link";s:44:"http://ma.tt/2009/05/wordcamp-developer-day/";s:11:"description";s:680:"<p>I have some cool news: On Sunday the day after <a href="http://2009.sf.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp San Francisco</a> we&#8217;re going to host a WordPress developer day at the Automattic office on Pier 38. It will be Barcamp-style with no pre-announced schedule, but expect more hardcore geek content like heavy WordPress performance optimization, BuddyPress internals, an intro to Erlang, a guide to secure coding, WordPress-as-CMS discussions, and more. If there&#8217;s a topic you&#8217;d like to lead start thinking about it now, there should be plenty of room for everyone to connect. (Try to keep things local though, we&#8217;re not sure how the internet will hold up.)</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 09 May 2009 02:06:13 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:680:"<p>I have some cool news: On Sunday the day after <a href="http://2009.sf.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp San Francisco</a> we&#8217;re going to host a WordPress developer day at the Automattic office on Pier 38. It will be Barcamp-style with no pre-announced schedule, but expect more hardcore geek content like heavy WordPress performance optimization, BuddyPress internals, an intro to Erlang, a guide to secure coding, WordPress-as-CMS discussions, and more. If there&#8217;s a topic you&#8217;d like to lead start thinking about it now, there should be plenty of room for everyone to connect. (Try to keep things local though, we&#8217;re not sure how the internet will hold up.)</p>";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 05/09";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5769";s:4:"link";s:89:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/08/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0509-2/";s:11:"description";s:2288:"<h4><a href="http://themesphere.com/go-green-wordpress-theme.html">Go Green</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://themesphere.com/gogreen"><img title="Go Green" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/gogreen.jpg" alt="Go Green" width="240" height="120" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, widget ready theme with built-in ad management and support for Twitter.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.thepimppanther.com/tonight-we-party-free-wordpress-theme/">Tonight We Party</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.thepimppanther.com/wordpressthemesdemo/?preview_theme=Tonight%20We%20Party"><img title="Tonight We Party" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/tonightweparty.png" alt="Tonight We Party" width="240" height="192" /></a></p>
<p>&#8220;Tonight we party&#8221; is a fixed background, flexible width, cross-browser compatible free WP theme. One column layout. Has a collapsible sidebar on the left, always visible to the user and extendable on click.</p>
<h4><a href="http://izzataziz.com/2009/05/01/twitheme-free-simple-wordpress-theme/">Twitheme</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://twitheme.izzataziz.com/"><img title="twithemepic" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/twithemepic.jpg" alt="twithemepic" width="238" height="240" /></a></p>
<p>Widget ready, gravatar ready, 2.7 ready, two column theme using custom field for thumbnail.</p>
<h4><a href="http://themocracy.com/2009/04/panorama-free-wordpress-theme/">Panorama</a></h4>
<p><img title="Panorama" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/panorama.png" alt="Panorama" width="240" height="180" /></p>
<p>Panorama is a two column theme with a right widgetized sidebar and a main gimmick of a customizable header image&#8230;</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.tobacamp.com/templates/facebook-addict-wordpress-themes-is-available-for-free/">Facebook Addict</a></h4>
<p><img title="Facebook Addict" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/facebookaddict.jpg" alt="Facebook Addict" width="219" height="240" /></p>
<p>Three column, widget ready, Facebook style theme.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/08/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0509-2/">WordPress Theme Releases for 05/09</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 08 May 2009 20:27:07 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:2288:"<h4><a href="http://themesphere.com/go-green-wordpress-theme.html">Go Green</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://themesphere.com/gogreen"><img title="Go Green" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/gogreen.jpg" alt="Go Green" width="240" height="120" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, widget ready theme with built-in ad management and support for Twitter.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.thepimppanther.com/tonight-we-party-free-wordpress-theme/">Tonight We Party</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.thepimppanther.com/wordpressthemesdemo/?preview_theme=Tonight%20We%20Party"><img title="Tonight We Party" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/tonightweparty.png" alt="Tonight We Party" width="240" height="192" /></a></p>
<p>&#8220;Tonight we party&#8221; is a fixed background, flexible width, cross-browser compatible free WP theme. One column layout. Has a collapsible sidebar on the left, always visible to the user and extendable on click.</p>
<h4><a href="http://izzataziz.com/2009/05/01/twitheme-free-simple-wordpress-theme/">Twitheme</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://twitheme.izzataziz.com/"><img title="twithemepic" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/twithemepic.jpg" alt="twithemepic" width="238" height="240" /></a></p>
<p>Widget ready, gravatar ready, 2.7 ready, two column theme using custom field for thumbnail.</p>
<h4><a href="http://themocracy.com/2009/04/panorama-free-wordpress-theme/">Panorama</a></h4>
<p><img title="Panorama" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/panorama.png" alt="Panorama" width="240" height="180" /></p>
<p>Panorama is a two column theme with a right widgetized sidebar and a main gimmick of a customizable header image&#8230;</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.tobacamp.com/templates/facebook-addict-wordpress-themes-is-available-for-free/">Facebook Addict</a></h4>
<p><img title="Facebook Addict" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/facebookaddict.jpg" alt="Facebook Addict" width="219" height="240" /></p>
<p>Three column, widget ready, Facebook style theme.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/08/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0509-2/">WordPress Theme Releases for 05/09</a></p>";}i:32;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:29:"Matt: How David Beats Goliath";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=14103";s:4:"link";s:45:"http://ma.tt/2009/05/how-david-beats-goliath/";s:11:"description";s:249:"<p><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/11/090511fa_fact_gladwell?printable=true">Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliath</a>, from Malcolm Gladwell. A really enjoyable read. Hat tip: <a href="http://raanan.com/">Raanan</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 08 May 2009 19:37:10 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:249:"<p><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/11/090511fa_fact_gladwell?printable=true">Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliath</a>, from Malcolm Gladwell. A really enjoyable read. Hat tip: <a href="http://raanan.com/">Raanan</a>.</p>";}i:33;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:74:"Lorelle on WP: Weblog Tools Collection Annual WordPress Plugin Competition";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=4089";s:4:"link";s:100:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/weblog-tools-collection-annual-wordpress-plugin-competition/";s:11:"description";s:6633:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><img src="http://www.blogherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/wtcwpplugincompetition.png" alt="Weblog Tools Collection WordPress Plugin Competition logo" title="Weblog Tools Collection WordPress Plugin Competition logo" width="428" height="169" class="alignright size-full wp-image-12152" />The best Plugin competition, <em>The <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/26/announcing-wordpress-plugin-competition-2009-30/" title="Announcing WordPress Plugin Competition 2009 (3.0)">Weblog Tools Collection WordPress Plugin Competition 2009 (3.0)</a></em>, is underway. WordPress fans rejoice.</p>
<p>The annual <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog" title="WordPress Plugin Competition">WTC WordPress Plugin Competition</a> has rocked the WordPress Community since 2005. Each event brings out the best and most creative WordPress Plugin authors competing for prizes, and many of the award winners and entrants are now among the most popular WordPress Plugins in the world. </p>
<p>Some popular past winners and submissions include <a href="http://blog.realthemes.com/wp-easy-uploader/" title="WP Easy Uploader">WP Easy Uploader</a>, <a href="http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dc2rmw69_302c8tvhhn" title="OneClick">OneClick</a>, <a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-plugin-who-sees-ads-control-adsense-display/" title="Who Sees Ads">Who Sees Ads</a>, <a href="http://pressography.com/plugins/wp-comment-remix/" title="WP Comment Remix">WP Comment Remix</a>, <a href="http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-plugin-update.html" title="WordPress Automatic Upgrade">WordPress Automatic Upgrade</a>, and <a href="http://www.alexking.org/blog/2005/05/23/popularity-contest/" title="Popularity Contest">Popularity Contest</a>. </p>
<p>As most of you know, I&#8217;m a huge WordPress Plugin fangirl. <a href="http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/" title="Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today">Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today</a> recently covered &#8220;<a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/04/27/5-wordpress-plugins-i-never-blog-without/" title="5 WordPress Plugins I Never Blog Without">5 WordPress Plugins I Never Blog Without</a>&#8221; on the <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/" title="Blog Herald" rel="tag">Blog Herald</a>, with some great recommendations, and in 2007, I spent <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/a-month-of-wordpress-plugins/" title="A Month of WordPress Plugins">an entire month writing daily about WordPress Plugins</a>, including showcasing <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/what-are-your-favorite-wordpress-plugins/" title="What Are Your Favorite WordPress Plugins?">your favorite WordPress Plugins</a> and a huge <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/02/lists-of-your-favorite-wordpress-plugins/" title="Lists of Your Favorite WordPress Plugins">list of your lists of WordPress Plugin recommendations</a>, since users often say more about WordPress Plugins then <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/a-love-letter-to-wordpress-plugin-authors/" title="A Love Letter to WordPress Plugin Authors">those who write them</a>. </p>
<p>Please lend <a href="http://www.weblogtoolscollection.com/" title="Weblog Tools Collection" rel="tag">Weblog Tools Collection</a> your support by helping to spread the word and the love, and help test the Plugin submissions and have your say on the ones you enjoy the most. If you would like to help sponsor the event, you are also welcome as this is a fantastic way to give back to the WordPress Community, especially to the Plugin authors who make our blogs run better and faster with little or no compensation.</p>
<p>I expect to see some <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/" title="WordPressMU" rel="tag">WordPressMU</a> and <a href="http://buddypress.org/" title="BuddyPress" rel="tag">BuddyPress</a> Plugins in addition to single hosted <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/" title="WordPress" rel="tag">WordPress</a> Plugins in the list this year. It should be one of the most exciting WordPress Plugin Competitions ever!</p>
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<p>The annual <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog" title="WordPress Plugin Competition">WTC WordPress Plugin Competition</a> has rocked the WordPress Community since 2005. Each event brings out the best and most creative WordPress Plugin authors competing for prizes, and many of the award winners and entrants are now among the most popular WordPress Plugins in the world. </p>
<p>Some popular past winners and submissions include <a href="http://blog.realthemes.com/wp-easy-uploader/" title="WP Easy Uploader">WP Easy Uploader</a>, <a href="http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dc2rmw69_302c8tvhhn" title="OneClick">OneClick</a>, <a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-plugin-who-sees-ads-control-adsense-display/" title="Who Sees Ads">Who Sees Ads</a>, <a href="http://pressography.com/plugins/wp-comment-remix/" title="WP Comment Remix">WP Comment Remix</a>, <a href="http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-plugin-update.html" title="WordPress Automatic Upgrade">WordPress Automatic Upgrade</a>, and <a href="http://www.alexking.org/blog/2005/05/23/popularity-contest/" title="Popularity Contest">Popularity Contest</a>. </p>
<p>As most of you know, I&#8217;m a huge WordPress Plugin fangirl. <a href="http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/" title="Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today">Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today</a> recently covered &#8220;<a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/04/27/5-wordpress-plugins-i-never-blog-without/" title="5 WordPress Plugins I Never Blog Without">5 WordPress Plugins I Never Blog Without</a>&#8221; on the <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/" title="Blog Herald" rel="tag">Blog Herald</a>, with some great recommendations, and in 2007, I spent <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/a-month-of-wordpress-plugins/" title="A Month of WordPress Plugins">an entire month writing daily about WordPress Plugins</a>, including showcasing <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/what-are-your-favorite-wordpress-plugins/" title="What Are Your Favorite WordPress Plugins?">your favorite WordPress Plugins</a> and a huge <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/02/lists-of-your-favorite-wordpress-plugins/" title="Lists of Your Favorite WordPress Plugins">list of your lists of WordPress Plugin recommendations</a>, since users often say more about WordPress Plugins then <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/a-love-letter-to-wordpress-plugin-authors/" title="A Love Letter to WordPress Plugin Authors">those who write them</a>. </p>
<p>Please lend <a href="http://www.weblogtoolscollection.com/" title="Weblog Tools Collection" rel="tag">Weblog Tools Collection</a> your support by helping to spread the word and the love, and help test the Plugin submissions and have your say on the ones you enjoy the most. If you would like to help sponsor the event, you are also welcome as this is a fantastic way to give back to the WordPress Community, especially to the Plugin authors who make our blogs run better and faster with little or no compensation.</p>
<p>I expect to see some <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/" title="WordPressMU" rel="tag">WordPressMU</a> and <a href="http://buddypress.org/" title="BuddyPress" rel="tag">BuddyPress</a> Plugins in addition to single hosted <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/" title="WordPress" rel="tag">WordPress</a> Plugins in the list this year. It should be one of the most exciting WordPress Plugin Competitions ever!</p>
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Posted in WordPress News, WordPress Plugins  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/4089/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/4089/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/4089/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/4089/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/4089/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/4089/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/4089/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/4089/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/4089/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/4089/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=4089&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:34;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:56:"Lloyd: Mozilla SEO & Firefox Tips & Tricks Web Page Bugs";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://foolswisdom.com/?p=1789";s:4:"link";s:69:"http://foolswisdom.com/mozilla-seo-firefox-tips-tricks-web-page-bugs/";s:11:"description";s:4513:"<p><strong>Update Thurs, May 7th</strong> (2 days later): Mozilla is working on the issue for Mozilla.com &#8220;<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491985">Bug 491985</a> &#8211;  Title tag changes for select product pages on Mozilla.com to help SEO rank &#8220;. To clarify, the improvement is more search engine clicks than ranking.</p>
<p>I provided some feedback to Mozilla just over a month ago about the <a href="http://www.google.ca/firefox?client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official">Mozilla Firefox Start Page</a> tip of handy tips &amp; tricks (how meta):</p>
<blockquote><p><span>&#8220;Get the most out of your Firefox! Improve your skills with some handy <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/tips/?utm_source=gsnippet&amp;utm_content=tip2&amp;utm_campaign=s032509">tips &amp; tricks</a>.&#8221;</span></p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m sure web browser developers share my passion for these web page details, but nothing has changed yet.</p>
<p>As I often see other sites with similar issues, I might as well share this web development tip &amp; trick <img src="http://foolswisdom.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" />  and other suggestions.</p>
<p><strong>&lt;Title&gt; Tags</strong></p>
<p>First, the &lt;title&gt; field is bad SEO. Says<br />
<code>&lt;title&gt;Mozilla Products | Tips &amp;amp; Tricks&lt;/title&gt;</code><br />
instead of including &#8220;Firefox&#8221;:<br />
<code>&lt;title&gt;Firefox Tips &amp;amp; Tricks | Mozilla Products &lt;/title&gt;<br />
</code><br />
Actually, all the product pages are likely in need of switching the &#8220;Mozilla Products&#8221; to the end.</p>
<p>This made a big difference for <a href="http://WordPress.com/">WordPress.com</a> search traffic way back when.</p>
<p>I work with many of our <a href="http://en.wordpress.com/vip-hosting/">WordPress.com VIP</a> new customers on this issue. Their instinct is to always have their brand or blog name first. But think of which search result you would be more likely to click on? In fact, WordPress historically made it to easy to get this wrong, so in version 2.5 a 3rd parameter &#8217;seplocation&#8217; was added to wp_title() to make it easier to do it correctly.</p>
<p>So <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/">http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/</a> title would become</p>
<p><code>&lt;title&gt;Firefox Web Browser &amp;amp; Thunderbird Email Client | Mozilla Products&lt;/title&gt;</code><br />
(Plus title case for the win.)</p>
<p>I suggested they give it try and see what happens <img src="http://foolswisdom.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" />  I&#8217;d be surprised if it does not squeeze a little more juice out.</p>
<p>Wow, there are lousy &lt;title&gt; tags all over their sites <img src="http://foolswisdom.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ title is just<code> &lt;title&gt;Featured Projects&lt;/title&gt;</code> Hopefully, <a href="http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/">David Boswell</a> will have a chance to coax out of someone some work here during the current <a href="http://redesignmozilla.org/">redesign</a> <img src="http://foolswisdom.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p><strong>Firefox Tips &amp; Tricks</strong></p>
<p>The Manage Your Downloads is an advanced tip? Say what?</p>
<p>&#8220;Find it a Flash&#8221; intermediate tip reads:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Find As You Type feature is another handy timesaver. Rather than<br />
using the &#8220;find&#8221; bar to search for a word on page, just click anywhere<br />
on that page and start typing the word you want. Your cursor will<br />
immediately jump to the first instance of that term.</p>
<p>&#8220;You can use it for links, too. For example, instead of moving your<br />
mouse across the page to a &#8220;learn more&#8221; link, just start typing the<br />
word and when the cursor finds it, press enter.</p></blockquote>
<p>It does not say that this is disabled by default, and can be enabled at Advanced &gt; Accessibility or any other hint or tip <img src="http://foolswisdom.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" />  Also, the phrase &#8220;on page&#8221; feels awkward, maybe &#8220;on a page&#8221;.</p>
<p>PS. I would not recommend enabling this, because it breaks some web apps that have click to edit.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 08 May 2009 02:30:22 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:5:"Lloyd";}s:7:"summary";s:4513:"<p><strong>Update Thurs, May 7th</strong> (2 days later): Mozilla is working on the issue for Mozilla.com &#8220;<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491985">Bug 491985</a> &#8211;  Title tag changes for select product pages on Mozilla.com to help SEO rank &#8220;. To clarify, the improvement is more search engine clicks than ranking.</p>
<p>I provided some feedback to Mozilla just over a month ago about the <a href="http://www.google.ca/firefox?client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official">Mozilla Firefox Start Page</a> tip of handy tips &amp; tricks (how meta):</p>
<blockquote><p><span>&#8220;Get the most out of your Firefox! Improve your skills with some handy <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/tips/?utm_source=gsnippet&amp;utm_content=tip2&amp;utm_campaign=s032509">tips &amp; tricks</a>.&#8221;</span></p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m sure web browser developers share my passion for these web page details, but nothing has changed yet.</p>
<p>As I often see other sites with similar issues, I might as well share this web development tip &amp; trick <img src="http://foolswisdom.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" />  and other suggestions.</p>
<p><strong>&lt;Title&gt; Tags</strong></p>
<p>First, the &lt;title&gt; field is bad SEO. Says<br />
<code>&lt;title&gt;Mozilla Products | Tips &amp;amp; Tricks&lt;/title&gt;</code><br />
instead of including &#8220;Firefox&#8221;:<br />
<code>&lt;title&gt;Firefox Tips &amp;amp; Tricks | Mozilla Products &lt;/title&gt;<br />
</code><br />
Actually, all the product pages are likely in need of switching the &#8220;Mozilla Products&#8221; to the end.</p>
<p>This made a big difference for <a href="http://WordPress.com/">WordPress.com</a> search traffic way back when.</p>
<p>I work with many of our <a href="http://en.wordpress.com/vip-hosting/">WordPress.com VIP</a> new customers on this issue. Their instinct is to always have their brand or blog name first. But think of which search result you would be more likely to click on? In fact, WordPress historically made it to easy to get this wrong, so in version 2.5 a 3rd parameter &#8217;seplocation&#8217; was added to wp_title() to make it easier to do it correctly.</p>
<p>So <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/">http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/</a> title would become</p>
<p><code>&lt;title&gt;Firefox Web Browser &amp;amp; Thunderbird Email Client | Mozilla Products&lt;/title&gt;</code><br />
(Plus title case for the win.)</p>
<p>I suggested they give it try and see what happens <img src="http://foolswisdom.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" />  I&#8217;d be surprised if it does not squeeze a little more juice out.</p>
<p>Wow, there are lousy &lt;title&gt; tags all over their sites <img src="http://foolswisdom.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ title is just<code> &lt;title&gt;Featured Projects&lt;/title&gt;</code> Hopefully, <a href="http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/">David Boswell</a> will have a chance to coax out of someone some work here during the current <a href="http://redesignmozilla.org/">redesign</a> <img src="http://foolswisdom.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p><strong>Firefox Tips &amp; Tricks</strong></p>
<p>The Manage Your Downloads is an advanced tip? Say what?</p>
<p>&#8220;Find it a Flash&#8221; intermediate tip reads:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Find As You Type feature is another handy timesaver. Rather than<br />
using the &#8220;find&#8221; bar to search for a word on page, just click anywhere<br />
on that page and start typing the word you want. Your cursor will<br />
immediately jump to the first instance of that term.</p>
<p>&#8220;You can use it for links, too. For example, instead of moving your<br />
mouse across the page to a &#8220;learn more&#8221; link, just start typing the<br />
word and when the cursor finds it, press enter.</p></blockquote>
<p>It does not say that this is disabled by default, and can be enabled at Advanced &gt; Accessibility or any other hint or tip <img src="http://foolswisdom.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" />  Also, the phrase &#8220;on page&#8221; feels awkward, maybe &#8220;on a page&#8221;.</p>
<p>PS. I would not recommend enabling this, because it breaks some web apps that have click to edit.</p>";}i:35;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Lorelle on WP: WordCamp Toronto Raising the Bar This Weekend";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=4085";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/wordcamp-toronto-raising-the-bar-this-weekend/";s:11:"description";s:7668:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?s=wordpress+events" title="WordPress Events"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/wpevents.png" alt="WordPress Events" align="right" /></a>Of all the WordCamp events to track, <a href="http://phug.ca/wordcamptoronto" title="WordCamp Toronto">WordCamp Toronto</a> this weekend, May 8-10, 2009, has been one of the most product and prolific. The <a href="http://phug.ca/wordcamptoronto/index.php/schedule" title="Schedule">Schedule</a> is three very packed days of events, speakers, and&#8230;everything. </p>
<p>Starting at 8AM on Friday and closing Sunday afternoon with an awards ceremony, it&#8217;s going to be a packed weekend event &#8211; and I&#8217;ll be there to share in all the fun and adventure!</p>
<p>One of the exciting parts of the conference is the <a href="http://phug.ca/wordcamptoronto/flashpress/" title="FlashPress at WordCamp Toronto">FlashPress</a> event. <a href="http://flashpress.ca/" title="FlashPress">FlashPress</a> is a WordPress Plugin which integrates a WordPress PHP based CMS and Flash site. <a href="http://onemethod.com/" title="One Method">One Method</a> and <a href="http://backspacestudios.com/" title="BackSpaceStudios">BackSpaceStudios</a> teamed up for this open source project which will feature the rebuilding of the One Method site from the ground up with the FlashPress bundle. They will be documenting the process, code, and challenges along the way as participants lend a hand in the process.</p>
<p>There is plenty of social during this three day event, including the <a href="http://phug.ca/wordcamptoronto/updates/opening-night-party-lou-dogs/" title="Opening Night Party @ Lou Dogs">Opening Night Party at Lou Dogs</a> on Friday, a popular southern barbecue and blues locale. </p>
<p>The <a href="http://phug.ca/wordcamptoronto/index.php/speakers" title="Speakers">Speakers</a> list is amazing, featuring some of the best of the best in WordPress and blogging from around Canada and the world. Speakers include:</p>
<ul>
<li><a title="Christopher Wulff" href="http://www.socialplanningtoronto.org">Christopher Wulff</a></li>
<li><a title="Dan Zen" href="http://danzen.wordpress.com">Dan Zen</a></li>
<li><a title="David Peralty" href="http://brandingdavid.com">David Peralty</a></li>
<li><a title="Duncan" href="http://digitaldeceptions.ca">Duncan</a></li>
<li><a title="Erin Blaskie" href="http://www.bsetc.ca">Erin Blaskie</a></li>
<li><a title="Glenn McKnight" href="http://oshawaremembers.wordpress.com">Glenn McKnight</a></li>
<li><a title="Ilya Grigorick" href="http://www.igvita.com">Ilya Grigorick</a></li>
<li><a title="James Walker " href="http://walkah.net/">James Walker </a></li>
<li><a title="Jeremy Clarke" href="http://simianuprising.com">Jeremy Clarke</a></li>
<li><a title="Joe Taiabjee" href="http://www.joetek.ca">Joe Taiabjee</a></li>
<li><a title="Joey DeVilla" href="http://globalnerdy.com/">Joey DeVilla</a></li>
<li><a title="Nick La" href="http://www.ndesign-studio.com/">Nick La</a></li>
<li><a title="Paul Laberge" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/seesharp">Paul Laberge</a></li>
<li><a title="Paul Morrison" href="http://www.iamunr.com">Paul Morrison</a></li>
<li><a title="Peter Flaschner" href="http://www.theblogstudio.com">Peter Flaschner</a></li>
<li><a title="Rannie Turingan" href="http://www.rannieturingan.com">Rannie Turingan</a></li>
<li><a title="Terry Smith" href="http://www.icedteapowered.com">Terry Smith</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Oh, and me, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle on WordPress" rel="tag">Lorelle on WordPress</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://phug.ca/wordcamptoronto" title="WordCamp Toronto"><img src="http://phug.ca/wordcamptoronto/wp-content/themes/WCT2009/images/banners/wct_2009_blue_130x130.jpg" alt="WordCamp Toronto" class="alignright" /></a>Members of the local <a title="b5media" href="http://www.b5media.com">b5media</a> team will also be speaking and in attendance, one of the popular blog networks built on WordPress.</p>
<p>The event will feature three tracks each day, with the third &#8220;track&#8221; being mostly social interaction and barcamp style unconference meetups. Everything from the technical aspects to the creative design elements, to writing styles and social media will be covered &#8211; with a lot of partying and coding in between.</p>
<p>I believe there are a few tickets left so hurry for this exciting WordPress adventure in Toronto, Canada.</p>
<p>Throughout the past few months, there have been <a href="http://phug.ca/wordcamptoronto/updates/awesome-wct-t-shirts-first-50-to-sign-in-on-friday-get-one-free/" title="Awesome WCT T-Shirts - First 50 to sign in on Friday get one FREE!">t-shirt giveways</a> and <a href="http://phug.ca/wordcamptoronto/updates/phug-announces-wct-ticket-giveaway-contest-winners/" title="PHUG Announces WCT Ticket Giveaway Contest Winners!!!">ticket contests</a> and all kind of events and activity around the WordCamp event. I believe this is the second WordCamp in Toronto and they are truly setting a standard for WordCamps around the world. Raising the bar, they are!</p>
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<p>Starting at 8AM on Friday and closing Sunday afternoon with an awards ceremony, it&#8217;s going to be a packed weekend event &#8211; and I&#8217;ll be there to share in all the fun and adventure!</p>
<p>One of the exciting parts of the conference is the <a href="http://phug.ca/wordcamptoronto/flashpress/" title="FlashPress at WordCamp Toronto">FlashPress</a> event. <a href="http://flashpress.ca/" title="FlashPress">FlashPress</a> is a WordPress Plugin which integrates a WordPress PHP based CMS and Flash site. <a href="http://onemethod.com/" title="One Method">One Method</a> and <a href="http://backspacestudios.com/" title="BackSpaceStudios">BackSpaceStudios</a> teamed up for this open source project which will feature the rebuilding of the One Method site from the ground up with the FlashPress bundle. They will be documenting the process, code, and challenges along the way as participants lend a hand in the process.</p>
<p>There is plenty of social during this three day event, including the <a href="http://phug.ca/wordcamptoronto/updates/opening-night-party-lou-dogs/" title="Opening Night Party @ Lou Dogs">Opening Night Party at Lou Dogs</a> on Friday, a popular southern barbecue and blues locale. </p>
<p>The <a href="http://phug.ca/wordcamptoronto/index.php/speakers" title="Speakers">Speakers</a> list is amazing, featuring some of the best of the best in WordPress and blogging from around Canada and the world. Speakers include:</p>
<ul>
<li><a title="Christopher Wulff" href="http://www.socialplanningtoronto.org">Christopher Wulff</a></li>
<li><a title="Dan Zen" href="http://danzen.wordpress.com">Dan Zen</a></li>
<li><a title="David Peralty" href="http://brandingdavid.com">David Peralty</a></li>
<li><a title="Duncan" href="http://digitaldeceptions.ca">Duncan</a></li>
<li><a title="Erin Blaskie" href="http://www.bsetc.ca">Erin Blaskie</a></li>
<li><a title="Glenn McKnight" href="http://oshawaremembers.wordpress.com">Glenn McKnight</a></li>
<li><a title="Ilya Grigorick" href="http://www.igvita.com">Ilya Grigorick</a></li>
<li><a title="James Walker " href="http://walkah.net/">James Walker </a></li>
<li><a title="Jeremy Clarke" href="http://simianuprising.com">Jeremy Clarke</a></li>
<li><a title="Joe Taiabjee" href="http://www.joetek.ca">Joe Taiabjee</a></li>
<li><a title="Joey DeVilla" href="http://globalnerdy.com/">Joey DeVilla</a></li>
<li><a title="Nick La" href="http://www.ndesign-studio.com/">Nick La</a></li>
<li><a title="Paul Laberge" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/seesharp">Paul Laberge</a></li>
<li><a title="Paul Morrison" href="http://www.iamunr.com">Paul Morrison</a></li>
<li><a title="Peter Flaschner" href="http://www.theblogstudio.com">Peter Flaschner</a></li>
<li><a title="Rannie Turingan" href="http://www.rannieturingan.com">Rannie Turingan</a></li>
<li><a title="Terry Smith" href="http://www.icedteapowered.com">Terry Smith</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Oh, and me, <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle on WordPress" rel="tag">Lorelle on WordPress</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://phug.ca/wordcamptoronto" title="WordCamp Toronto"><img src="http://phug.ca/wordcamptoronto/wp-content/themes/WCT2009/images/banners/wct_2009_blue_130x130.jpg" alt="WordCamp Toronto" class="alignright" /></a>Members of the local <a title="b5media" href="http://www.b5media.com">b5media</a> team will also be speaking and in attendance, one of the popular blog networks built on WordPress.</p>
<p>The event will feature three tracks each day, with the third &#8220;track&#8221; being mostly social interaction and barcamp style unconference meetups. Everything from the technical aspects to the creative design elements, to writing styles and social media will be covered &#8211; with a lot of partying and coding in between.</p>
<p>I believe there are a few tickets left so hurry for this exciting WordPress adventure in Toronto, Canada.</p>
<p>Throughout the past few months, there have been <a href="http://phug.ca/wordcamptoronto/updates/awesome-wct-t-shirts-first-50-to-sign-in-on-friday-get-one-free/" title="Awesome WCT T-Shirts - First 50 to sign in on Friday get one FREE!">t-shirt giveways</a> and <a href="http://phug.ca/wordcamptoronto/updates/phug-announces-wct-ticket-giveaway-contest-winners/" title="PHUG Announces WCT Ticket Giveaway Contest Winners!!!">ticket contests</a> and all kind of events and activity around the WordCamp event. I believe this is the second WordCamp in Toronto and they are truly setting a standard for WordCamps around the world. Raising the bar, they are!</p>
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<p>I have &#8220;<a href="http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/ProductsServices/Internet/Xtreme-I/">High-Speed Xtreme-I</a>&#8221; which promises &#8220;up to&#8221; a-lot, but the metered download rate is much, much lower than advertised, about 1.5-2Mb/s up and 0.75Mb/s. Fire up a video download and I&#8217;m in slowmo.</p>
<p>I want my favorite online video content delivered to me. Some of it is available on iTunes. Others like<a href="https://www.miroguide.com/feeds/9703"> WordPress.tv is available on Miro</a>.</p>
<p>Currently, I download a batch at the end of the day, but for my family the web is no fun if I&#8217;m downloading video podcasts in iTunes.</p>
<p>Is there a way to self-throttle or meter specific streams, downloads or applications on Mac OS X?</p>
<p>Unfortunately, there is a lot of content that isn&#8217;t even available for downloading. Mostly, I imagine because the content is supported by web page ads. I&#8217;d pay for that content, why is there no Audible.com for video podcasts? Or is there?</p>
<p>Even if available on iTunes or Miro, there is not even a link back to the online discussion, let alone comments, inline comments and tags (<a href="http://www.viddler.com/">Viddler</a>), and other resources. I would like it all to be pulled into my video player, except for YouTube comments <img src="http://foolswisdom.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>Am I alone? Any help <a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/">fellow web workers</a>? Any help from <a href="http://newteevee.com/">NewTeeVee pros</a>?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 07 May 2009 20:38:07 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:5:"Lloyd";}s:7:"summary";s:1719:"<p>I&#8217;m a web worker. My work is online, and it all slows to a snail&#8217;s pace if I&#8217;m streaming or downloading a video.</p>
<p>I have &#8220;<a href="http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/ProductsServices/Internet/Xtreme-I/">High-Speed Xtreme-I</a>&#8221; which promises &#8220;up to&#8221; a-lot, but the metered download rate is much, much lower than advertised, about 1.5-2Mb/s up and 0.75Mb/s. Fire up a video download and I&#8217;m in slowmo.</p>
<p>I want my favorite online video content delivered to me. Some of it is available on iTunes. Others like<a href="https://www.miroguide.com/feeds/9703"> WordPress.tv is available on Miro</a>.</p>
<p>Currently, I download a batch at the end of the day, but for my family the web is no fun if I&#8217;m downloading video podcasts in iTunes.</p>
<p>Is there a way to self-throttle or meter specific streams, downloads or applications on Mac OS X?</p>
<p>Unfortunately, there is a lot of content that isn&#8217;t even available for downloading. Mostly, I imagine because the content is supported by web page ads. I&#8217;d pay for that content, why is there no Audible.com for video podcasts? Or is there?</p>
<p>Even if available on iTunes or Miro, there is not even a link back to the online discussion, let alone comments, inline comments and tags (<a href="http://www.viddler.com/">Viddler</a>), and other resources. I would like it all to be pulled into my video player, except for YouTube comments <img src="http://foolswisdom.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>Am I alone? Any help <a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/">fellow web workers</a>? Any help from <a href="http://newteevee.com/">NewTeeVee pros</a>?</p>";}i:37;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 05/07";s:4:"guid";s:89:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/07/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0507-2/";s:4:"link";s:89:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/07/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0507-2/";s:11:"description";s:2798:"<p><a href="http://human3rror.com/2009/04/26/i-like-content-wordpress-theme-release/">I Like Content</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/image3.png"><img title="image" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/image-thumb.png" border="0" alt="image" width="244" height="169" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, widgetized theme with a narrow sidebar in order to focus on content.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.rvoodoo.com/2009/04/theme-release-voodooempire2-v-17-for-wordpress/">VoodooEmpire2</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/image4.png"><img title="image" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/image-thumb1.png" border="0" alt="image" width="244" height="157" /></a></p>
<p>It&#8217;s a DJ influenced black and red 3 column theme. The sidebars are on the right. There is a customizable greeting message that can be configured from the Theme Options area in the admin menu. Also there are now 3 widget columns in the footer area that can be set up in the normal widget area.</p>
<p>Inksplash <strong>[REMOVED, SPONSORED THEME] </strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thepimppanther.com/wordpressthemesdemo/?preview_theme=Inksplash"><img title="image" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/image5.png" border="0" alt="image" width="244" height="196" /></a></p>
<p>A bi-color (navy-blue/tan) simple WP theme. Fluid layout. Cross-browser compatible. Gives the user the option to resize the font size (no plugin needed). 2 columns, sidebar on the right side. Paper pattern.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.download3000.com/free-wordpress-themes.html">Red Carbon and other themes</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/image6.png"><img title="image" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/image-thumb2.png" border="0" alt="image" width="244" height="184" /></a></p>
<p>Red Carbon is a two column widget ready WordPress theme with header that mimics red carbon.</p>
<p><a href="http://carringtontheme.com/2009/04/carrington-blog-20/">Carrington 2.0</a></p>
<p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3602/3488206501_aedddf703c_o.png" alt="Carrington Blog 2.0" width="240" height="180" /></p>
<p>Two column theme with support for threaded comments, custom colors and header images with lightbox for galleries.</p>
<p>Are you a theme author? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Submit your theme</a> to get featured in our daily releases. Remember to provide a link to the theme page as well as a demo or screenshot.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/07/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0507-2/">WordPress Theme Releases for 05/07</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 07 May 2009 06:45:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:2798:"<p><a href="http://human3rror.com/2009/04/26/i-like-content-wordpress-theme-release/">I Like Content</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/image3.png"><img title="image" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/image-thumb.png" border="0" alt="image" width="244" height="169" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, widgetized theme with a narrow sidebar in order to focus on content.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.rvoodoo.com/2009/04/theme-release-voodooempire2-v-17-for-wordpress/">VoodooEmpire2</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/image4.png"><img title="image" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/image-thumb1.png" border="0" alt="image" width="244" height="157" /></a></p>
<p>It&#8217;s a DJ influenced black and red 3 column theme. The sidebars are on the right. There is a customizable greeting message that can be configured from the Theme Options area in the admin menu. Also there are now 3 widget columns in the footer area that can be set up in the normal widget area.</p>
<p>Inksplash <strong>[REMOVED, SPONSORED THEME] </strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thepimppanther.com/wordpressthemesdemo/?preview_theme=Inksplash"><img title="image" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/image5.png" border="0" alt="image" width="244" height="196" /></a></p>
<p>A bi-color (navy-blue/tan) simple WP theme. Fluid layout. Cross-browser compatible. Gives the user the option to resize the font size (no plugin needed). 2 columns, sidebar on the right side. Paper pattern.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.download3000.com/free-wordpress-themes.html">Red Carbon and other themes</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/image6.png"><img title="image" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/image-thumb2.png" border="0" alt="image" width="244" height="184" /></a></p>
<p>Red Carbon is a two column widget ready WordPress theme with header that mimics red carbon.</p>
<p><a href="http://carringtontheme.com/2009/04/carrington-blog-20/">Carrington 2.0</a></p>
<p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3602/3488206501_aedddf703c_o.png" alt="Carrington Blog 2.0" width="240" height="180" /></p>
<p>Two column theme with support for threaded comments, custom colors and header images with lightbox for galleries.</p>
<p>Are you a theme author? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Submit your theme</a> to get featured in our daily releases. Remember to provide a link to the theme page as well as a demo or screenshot.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/07/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0507-2/">WordPress Theme Releases for 05/07</a></p>";}i:38;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:91:"Weblog Tools Collection: Five Tools to Increase the RSS Subscribers for your WordPress Blog";s:4:"guid";s:120:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/06/five-tools-to-increase-the-rss-subscribers-for-your-wordpress-blog/";s:4:"link";s:120:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/06/five-tools-to-increase-the-rss-subscribers-for-your-wordpress-blog/";s:11:"description";s:5734:"<p>When you build a website one of the things most people want are visitors.&#160; New visitors are great because they tend to turn into return visitors.&#160; People will return to your website because they find the content entertaining, informative and worth their time. However, you know how busy we get these days.&#160; We save a link to our favorites for a website and promise that we will be back on a regular basis.&#160; How often do you really go to your favorites directory and go back visiting websites? I know my answer – rarely.</p>
<p>So what can you offer that might draw your site visitors back to your site every once in a while?&#160; WordPress has this great ability to create RSS (stands for Really Simple Syndication) feeds.&#160; These RSS feeds are read through most modern internet browsers, stand alone free reader programs, web based reader programs and even office suites.</p>
<p>An RSS feed is a dynamic summary of information.&#160; In WordPress it is either comments on your blog posts or the blog posts themselves.&#160; When you update your website or someone makes a comment the RSS feed is also updated with that information.&#160; Then when someone <em>reads your feed</em> they see that updated information.&#160; The next step is for them to click on the link to your original blog entry or comment and head back to your site.&#160; Now that first time visitor is now a return visitor and hopefully clicking on a few more pages of your site while they are there.</p>
<p>So how can you attract more RSS subscribers to your blog feed?&#160; Well the beauty of WordPress and its community of plug in developers come into play then and give us some great tools to highlight an RSS feed on our sites to get those subscribers.</p>
<p>Here are my five favorite RSS plug-ins for WordPress:</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.trevorfitzgerald.com/projects/subscribe-remind">Subscribe Remind</a> by <a href="http://www.trevorfitzgerald.com/">Trevor Fitzgerald</a> – places a small reminder at the end of each post to remind readers to subscribe to your RSS feed. Check out the below screenshot’s&#160; very last line after the related posts. (11,689 all time downloads from the WordPress Plug-in Directory)</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/subscriberemind.jpg"><img title="subscriberemind" border="0" alt="subscriberemind" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/subscriberemind-thumb.jpg" width="280" height="130" /></a> </p>
<p><a href="http://omninoggin.com/projects/wordpress-plugins/wp-greet-box-wordpress-plugin/">WP Greet Box</a> by <a href="http://omninoggin.com/">Thaya Kareeson</a> – This plugin inserts a welcome note with a link to your RSS feed at the beginning of a blog entry very similar to what the Subscribe Remind plugin does. However, this plug in is setup for referrals from Twitter (pictured below), Google, Yahoo!, Digg, sSumbleupon, Technorati, etc.&#160; Plus it has a admin page where you can create your own welcome message for other services. (26,352 all time downloads from the WordPress Plug-in Directory)</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/wpgreetbox.jpg"><img title="wpgreetbox" border="0" alt="wpgreetbox" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/wpgreetbox-thumb.jpg" width="282" height="72" /></a> </p>
<p><a href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/rss-footer/">RSS Footer</a> by <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/profile/joostdevalk">Joost de Valk</a> – This is another plugin that adds an extra line to your blog posts that invite your visitors to become subscribers of your RSS feed. Very nice admin interface which allows you to customize the text and its location in your blog post. (22,671 all time downloads from the WordPress Plug-in Directory)</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/extra-feed-links/">Extra Feed Links</a> by <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/profile/scribu">scribu</a> – This small plugin adds auto-discovery links for RSS feeds based on what type of page and content is displayed.&#160; It then shows that RSS feed to your browser and it will then add links to those various other RSS feeds for category, tag, search, author and comments.&#160; More options to subscribe will usually result in more subscriptions. (2,411 all time downloads from the WordPress Plug-in Directory)</p>
<p>Feedburner Email Subscription Form in a Sidebar Widget.&#160; This one is not actually a plugin but a way I get an email RSS subscription form in my sidebar for visitors to sign up for email based delivery of <a href="http://www.windowsobserver.com/feed/">my sites RSS feeds</a>.</p>
<p>To get this form in the sidebar I simply choose a Text widget in the appearance admin panel and then paste in the email subscription form code from Feedburner’s website into its text area and save it.&#160; After that I now have the below text box in my sites sidebar.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/emailsubscriberssfeeds.jpg"><img title="emailsubscriberssfeeds" border="0" alt="emailsubscriberssfeeds" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/emailsubscriberssfeeds-thumb.jpg" width="212" height="197" /></a>&#160;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>So what is your favorite method of gaining RSS subscribers on your WordPress website? I look forward to hearing your ideas and suggestions in the comments.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/06/five-tools-to-increase-the-rss-subscribers-for-your-wordpress-blog/">Five Tools to Increase the RSS Subscribers for your WordPress Blog</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 07 May 2009 03:20:55 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:15:"WindowsObserver";}s:7:"summary";s:5734:"<p>When you build a website one of the things most people want are visitors.&#160; New visitors are great because they tend to turn into return visitors.&#160; People will return to your website because they find the content entertaining, informative and worth their time. However, you know how busy we get these days.&#160; We save a link to our favorites for a website and promise that we will be back on a regular basis.&#160; How often do you really go to your favorites directory and go back visiting websites? I know my answer – rarely.</p>
<p>So what can you offer that might draw your site visitors back to your site every once in a while?&#160; WordPress has this great ability to create RSS (stands for Really Simple Syndication) feeds.&#160; These RSS feeds are read through most modern internet browsers, stand alone free reader programs, web based reader programs and even office suites.</p>
<p>An RSS feed is a dynamic summary of information.&#160; In WordPress it is either comments on your blog posts or the blog posts themselves.&#160; When you update your website or someone makes a comment the RSS feed is also updated with that information.&#160; Then when someone <em>reads your feed</em> they see that updated information.&#160; The next step is for them to click on the link to your original blog entry or comment and head back to your site.&#160; Now that first time visitor is now a return visitor and hopefully clicking on a few more pages of your site while they are there.</p>
<p>So how can you attract more RSS subscribers to your blog feed?&#160; Well the beauty of WordPress and its community of plug in developers come into play then and give us some great tools to highlight an RSS feed on our sites to get those subscribers.</p>
<p>Here are my five favorite RSS plug-ins for WordPress:</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.trevorfitzgerald.com/projects/subscribe-remind">Subscribe Remind</a> by <a href="http://www.trevorfitzgerald.com/">Trevor Fitzgerald</a> – places a small reminder at the end of each post to remind readers to subscribe to your RSS feed. Check out the below screenshot’s&#160; very last line after the related posts. (11,689 all time downloads from the WordPress Plug-in Directory)</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/subscriberemind.jpg"><img title="subscriberemind" border="0" alt="subscriberemind" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/subscriberemind-thumb.jpg" width="280" height="130" /></a> </p>
<p><a href="http://omninoggin.com/projects/wordpress-plugins/wp-greet-box-wordpress-plugin/">WP Greet Box</a> by <a href="http://omninoggin.com/">Thaya Kareeson</a> – This plugin inserts a welcome note with a link to your RSS feed at the beginning of a blog entry very similar to what the Subscribe Remind plugin does. However, this plug in is setup for referrals from Twitter (pictured below), Google, Yahoo!, Digg, sSumbleupon, Technorati, etc.&#160; Plus it has a admin page where you can create your own welcome message for other services. (26,352 all time downloads from the WordPress Plug-in Directory)</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/wpgreetbox.jpg"><img title="wpgreetbox" border="0" alt="wpgreetbox" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/wpgreetbox-thumb.jpg" width="282" height="72" /></a> </p>
<p><a href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/rss-footer/">RSS Footer</a> by <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/profile/joostdevalk">Joost de Valk</a> – This is another plugin that adds an extra line to your blog posts that invite your visitors to become subscribers of your RSS feed. Very nice admin interface which allows you to customize the text and its location in your blog post. (22,671 all time downloads from the WordPress Plug-in Directory)</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/extra-feed-links/">Extra Feed Links</a> by <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/profile/scribu">scribu</a> – This small plugin adds auto-discovery links for RSS feeds based on what type of page and content is displayed.&#160; It then shows that RSS feed to your browser and it will then add links to those various other RSS feeds for category, tag, search, author and comments.&#160; More options to subscribe will usually result in more subscriptions. (2,411 all time downloads from the WordPress Plug-in Directory)</p>
<p>Feedburner Email Subscription Form in a Sidebar Widget.&#160; This one is not actually a plugin but a way I get an email RSS subscription form in my sidebar for visitors to sign up for email based delivery of <a href="http://www.windowsobserver.com/feed/">my sites RSS feeds</a>.</p>
<p>To get this form in the sidebar I simply choose a Text widget in the appearance admin panel and then paste in the email subscription form code from Feedburner’s website into its text area and save it.&#160; After that I now have the below text box in my sites sidebar.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/emailsubscriberssfeeds.jpg"><img title="emailsubscriberssfeeds" border="0" alt="emailsubscriberssfeeds" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2009/05/emailsubscriberssfeeds-thumb.jpg" width="212" height="197" /></a>&#160;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>So what is your favorite method of gaining RSS subscribers on your WordPress website? I look forward to hearing your ideas and suggestions in the comments.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/06/five-tools-to-increase-the-rss-subscribers-for-your-wordpress-blog/">Five Tools to Increase the RSS Subscribers for your WordPress Blog</a></p>";}i:39;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:51:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Links for 5/6/09";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5734";s:4:"link";s:78:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/06/wordpress-links-for-5609/";s:11:"description";s:3302:"<p><a href="http://yoast.com/40-wordpress-optimisation-tips/">40 WordPress Optimisation tips - Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.: Joost De valk has the slides for his talk on 40 WordPress optimization tips up for everyone. This is from his presentation at A4UExpo in Europe. If you do not follow Joost or use <a href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/">his plugins</a>, you might be missing out. We have recently started using his <a href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/tweetbacks/">Tweetbacks plugin</a> on this blog (with some minor tweaks for load). To test it out, just Twitter this post and you will see it appear as a comment.</p>
<p><a href="http://mobiforge.com/running/story/the-dotmobi-wordpress-mobile-pack">The dotMobi WordPress Mobile Pack</a>.: The dotMobi WordPress Mobile pack is a set of plugins to make your WordPress blog easier to use on mobile devices. This pack includes the following:</p>
<ul id="contents">
<li><a href="http://mobiforge.com/running/story/the-dotmobi-wordpress-mobile-pack#p2.1">Mobile switcher</a> to detect mobile visitors and provide an appropriate experience</li>
<li><a href="http://mobiforge.com/running/story/the-dotmobi-wordpress-mobile-pack#p2.2">Base mobile theme</a> for quick-and-easy XHTML-MP compliance</li>
<li><a href="http://mobiforge.com/running/story/the-dotmobi-wordpress-mobile-pack#p2.3">Extended mobile themes</a> so you can unleash your mobile creativity</li>
<li><a href="http://mobiforge.com/running/story/the-dotmobi-wordpress-mobile-pack#p2.4">Transcoding and device adaptation</a> to optimise the mobile experience</li>
<li><a href="http://mobiforge.com/running/story/the-dotmobi-wordpress-mobile-pack#p2.5">DeviceAtlas integration</a> for world-class adaptation</li>
<li><a href="http://mobiforge.com/running/story/the-dotmobi-wordpress-mobile-pack#p2.6">Mobile admin panel</a> for when posts can&#8217;t wait</li>
<li><a href="http://mobiforge.com/running/story/the-dotmobi-wordpress-mobile-pack#p2.7">Mobile ad widget</a> to make you some money</li>
<li><a href="http://mobiforge.com/running/story/the-dotmobi-wordpress-mobile-pack#p2.8">Barcode widget</a> to help users bookmark your blog</li>
</ul>
<p>The dotMobi Plugin pack is also compatible with WordPress MU 2.6 but requires PHP 5.0 or greater.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/05/05/statistics-blog/">17 Statistics to Monitor on your Blog</a>: Darren leads us through 17 important statistics on your blog, how to monitor them and how they can help you become a better blogger and in turn make your blog more attractive and more popular. He does however, warn newer bloggers to refrain from checking on stats too often.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.noupe.com/wordpress/powerful-cms-using-wordpress.html"></a><a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/05/06/custom-taxonomies-in-wordpress-28">Custom Taxonomies in WordPress 2.8</a>: Justin explains taxonomies to us and gives us a detail rundown on how to create taxonomies and use them effectively in your WordPress blog. Much of this tutorial is based on the yet unreleased WordPress 2.8.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/06/wordpress-links-for-5609/">WordPress Links for 5/6/09</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 06 May 2009 22:29:35 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:3302:"<p><a href="http://yoast.com/40-wordpress-optimisation-tips/">40 WordPress Optimisation tips - Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.: Joost De valk has the slides for his talk on 40 WordPress optimization tips up for everyone. This is from his presentation at A4UExpo in Europe. If you do not follow Joost or use <a href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/">his plugins</a>, you might be missing out. We have recently started using his <a href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/tweetbacks/">Tweetbacks plugin</a> on this blog (with some minor tweaks for load). To test it out, just Twitter this post and you will see it appear as a comment.</p>
<p><a href="http://mobiforge.com/running/story/the-dotmobi-wordpress-mobile-pack">The dotMobi WordPress Mobile Pack</a>.: The dotMobi WordPress Mobile pack is a set of plugins to make your WordPress blog easier to use on mobile devices. This pack includes the following:</p>
<ul id="contents">
<li><a href="http://mobiforge.com/running/story/the-dotmobi-wordpress-mobile-pack#p2.1">Mobile switcher</a> to detect mobile visitors and provide an appropriate experience</li>
<li><a href="http://mobiforge.com/running/story/the-dotmobi-wordpress-mobile-pack#p2.2">Base mobile theme</a> for quick-and-easy XHTML-MP compliance</li>
<li><a href="http://mobiforge.com/running/story/the-dotmobi-wordpress-mobile-pack#p2.3">Extended mobile themes</a> so you can unleash your mobile creativity</li>
<li><a href="http://mobiforge.com/running/story/the-dotmobi-wordpress-mobile-pack#p2.4">Transcoding and device adaptation</a> to optimise the mobile experience</li>
<li><a href="http://mobiforge.com/running/story/the-dotmobi-wordpress-mobile-pack#p2.5">DeviceAtlas integration</a> for world-class adaptation</li>
<li><a href="http://mobiforge.com/running/story/the-dotmobi-wordpress-mobile-pack#p2.6">Mobile admin panel</a> for when posts can&#8217;t wait</li>
<li><a href="http://mobiforge.com/running/story/the-dotmobi-wordpress-mobile-pack#p2.7">Mobile ad widget</a> to make you some money</li>
<li><a href="http://mobiforge.com/running/story/the-dotmobi-wordpress-mobile-pack#p2.8">Barcode widget</a> to help users bookmark your blog</li>
</ul>
<p>The dotMobi Plugin pack is also compatible with WordPress MU 2.6 but requires PHP 5.0 or greater.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/05/05/statistics-blog/">17 Statistics to Monitor on your Blog</a>: Darren leads us through 17 important statistics on your blog, how to monitor them and how they can help you become a better blogger and in turn make your blog more attractive and more popular. He does however, warn newer bloggers to refrain from checking on stats too often.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.noupe.com/wordpress/powerful-cms-using-wordpress.html"></a><a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/05/06/custom-taxonomies-in-wordpress-28">Custom Taxonomies in WordPress 2.8</a>: Justin explains taxonomies to us and gives us a detail rundown on how to create taxonomies and use them effectively in your WordPress blog. Much of this tutorial is based on the yet unreleased WordPress 2.8.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/06/wordpress-links-for-5609/">WordPress Links for 5/6/09</a></p>";}i:40;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: Wanted: Women WordPress Developers";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5751";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/06/wanted-women-wordpress-developers/";s:11:"description";s:1065:"<p>Jane Wells recently put the call out to the<a href="http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-pro/2009-May/001640.html"> WordPress Professionals mailing list</a> asking for recommendations for Women WordPress developers. That is, those who develop plugins or patches for WordPress, not bloggers. Personally, when I think of women involved with WordPress, I think of Lorelle VanFossen, Lisa Sabin Wilson, and a few others. Other than Lisa who develops themes, I can&#8217;t think of any women off the top of my head that contributes routinely to the development of WordPress or plugins.</p>
<p>If you are a female WordPress developer and you live on the West Coast, preferably around San Francisco, CA get in contact with Jane Wells as soon as possible. You may end up with the opportunity to present at WordCamp San Francisco. </p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/06/wanted-women-wordpress-developers/">Wanted: Women WordPress Developers</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 06 May 2009 22:03:05 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1065:"<p>Jane Wells recently put the call out to the<a href="http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-pro/2009-May/001640.html"> WordPress Professionals mailing list</a> asking for recommendations for Women WordPress developers. That is, those who develop plugins or patches for WordPress, not bloggers. Personally, when I think of women involved with WordPress, I think of Lorelle VanFossen, Lisa Sabin Wilson, and a few others. Other than Lisa who develops themes, I can&#8217;t think of any women off the top of my head that contributes routinely to the development of WordPress or plugins.</p>
<p>If you are a female WordPress developer and you live on the West Coast, preferably around San Francisco, CA get in contact with Jane Wells as soon as possible. You may end up with the opportunity to present at WordCamp San Francisco. </p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/06/wanted-women-wordpress-developers/">Wanted: Women WordPress Developers</a></p>";}i:41;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:31:"Matt: How P2 Changed Automattic";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=14087";s:4:"link";s:47:"http://ma.tt/2009/05/how-p2-changed-automattic/";s:11:"description";s:2485:"<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard of P2 yet, check out this quick video:</p>
<p></p>
<p>Almost everyone at <a href="http://automattic.com/">Automattic</a> is a blogger, but for the first couple of years of the company we didn&#8217;t blog much internally. Everything happened over IRC, Skype, and email. (In that order.) Eventually we started a blog that worked like a traditional blog did with long posts and comments, but everyone forgot to visit it until I wrote a quick script on cron job that would email everybody summaries of new posts and comments.</p>
<p>There was a disconnect we couldn&#8217;t reconcile: even though our internal blogs didn&#8217;t work out most of the company was active on <a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a> every day. (WordPress users are some of the most passionate adopters of micro-blogging.)</p>
<p>We found a solution in <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/introducing-prologue/">Prologue</a> which added a posting box to the home page and gave it a Twitter-like feel. Now Automattic had a pulse, a place where the incredible amount of activity was chronicled and captured. It was low-friction and hassle-free, we all started using it more.</p>
<p>But there was still a problem, Prologue was great for status updates but terribly awkward for conversation. P2 solves all this by <strong>moving the conversation inline on the homepage</strong>. Conversations can be fully threaded using 2.7&#8217;s new comment features. Finally the blog started to get so busy we made it real time so you can just leave the page open and new stuff will come in. (It&#8217;s hard to describe, so watch the video above.) Seemingly simple changes have increased engagement many-fold: our main P2 now has over 4,700 posts in it with 1,100 of those in the past 60 days.</p>
<p>It completely transformed how Automattic works internally and I think is one of the most valuable things we&#8217;ve adopted in the past year. I&#8217;m on the road a lot, and sometimes my only connection is checking the mobile-optimized P2 on my iPhone.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m excited about P2 partly because blogs provide an incredibly robust infrastructure on which to build more advanced apps and this is a good example of that. I&#8217;d love to see more themes that transform what WordPress can do top-to-bottom.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/p2">You can get P2 for your WordPress.org blog here</a>, and it&#8217;s available for all of WordPress.com too.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 06 May 2009 02:58:24 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:2485:"<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard of P2 yet, check out this quick video:</p>
<p></p>
<p>Almost everyone at <a href="http://automattic.com/">Automattic</a> is a blogger, but for the first couple of years of the company we didn&#8217;t blog much internally. Everything happened over IRC, Skype, and email. (In that order.) Eventually we started a blog that worked like a traditional blog did with long posts and comments, but everyone forgot to visit it until I wrote a quick script on cron job that would email everybody summaries of new posts and comments.</p>
<p>There was a disconnect we couldn&#8217;t reconcile: even though our internal blogs didn&#8217;t work out most of the company was active on <a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a> every day. (WordPress users are some of the most passionate adopters of micro-blogging.)</p>
<p>We found a solution in <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/introducing-prologue/">Prologue</a> which added a posting box to the home page and gave it a Twitter-like feel. Now Automattic had a pulse, a place where the incredible amount of activity was chronicled and captured. It was low-friction and hassle-free, we all started using it more.</p>
<p>But there was still a problem, Prologue was great for status updates but terribly awkward for conversation. P2 solves all this by <strong>moving the conversation inline on the homepage</strong>. Conversations can be fully threaded using 2.7&#8217;s new comment features. Finally the blog started to get so busy we made it real time so you can just leave the page open and new stuff will come in. (It&#8217;s hard to describe, so watch the video above.) Seemingly simple changes have increased engagement many-fold: our main P2 now has over 4,700 posts in it with 1,100 of those in the past 60 days.</p>
<p>It completely transformed how Automattic works internally and I think is one of the most valuable things we&#8217;ve adopted in the past year. I&#8217;m on the road a lot, and sometimes my only connection is checking the mobile-optimized P2 on my iPhone.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m excited about P2 partly because blogs provide an incredibly robust infrastructure on which to build more advanced apps and this is a good example of that. I&#8217;d love to see more themes that transform what WordPress can do top-to-bottom.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/p2">You can get P2 for your WordPress.org blog here</a>, and it&#8217;s available for all of WordPress.com too.</p>";}i:42;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"WordPress.tv: Introducing the P2 Theme: Blogging in Realtime";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=1711";s:4:"link";s:40:"http://wordpress.tv/2009/05/06/p2-theme/";s:11:"description";s:1345:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
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<br /><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/05/06/p2-theme/"><img width="160" height="120" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/YYNW9iSj/p2v2web.thumbnail.jpg" /> </a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/1711/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/1711/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1711/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/1711/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1711/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/1711/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/1711/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/1711/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1711/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/1711/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=1711&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:43;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 05/05";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5741";s:4:"link";s:90:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/05/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0505-2/";s:11:"description";s:6138:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://tobias.baethge.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-table-reloaded-english/">WP-Table Reloaded</a></p>
<p>This plugin allows you to create and manage tables in the admin-area of WordPress. You can then show them in your posts, on your pages or in text widgets by using a shortcode. That way you won&#8217;t have to bother with HTML in your editor.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.nicasiodesign.com/wordpress-plugins/our-first-public-wordpress-plugin-dynamic-headers/">Dynamic Headers</a></p>
<p>It allows you to create highly dynamic header space on your WordPress site.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.smartlogix.co.in/wp-private/">WP Private</a></p>
<p>You will be able to mark a part of your post as private and the rest will be available to public and a register or login link will appear where your privatized content is supposed to appear. Once the user logs in they will be able to see the whole content (Great for membership sites). Now you can show off parts of your site to visitors and reserve parts for registered users.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.zy.sg/wp-phpquickprofiler/">WP PHP Quick Profiler</a></p>
<p>WP-PHPQuickProfiler is a WordPress plugin that uses a modified version of <a href="http://particletree.com/features/php-quick-profiler/">PHP Quick Profiler</a> to provide profiling and debugging related information to developers. <em>Do not use on live installations</em>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.smartlogix.co.in/wp-insert/">WP Insert</a></p>
<p>Use wp-insert to insert every kind of code you will ever need to insert into your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://iredlof.com/2009/04/iredlof-google-analytics-stats-wordpress-plugin/">iRedlof Google Analytics</a></p>
<p>iRedlof Google Analytics(GA) Stats is a WordPress admin panel plugin, This plugin is like WordPress .com stats plugin but the difference between the two is that WordPress.com stats works with WordPress analytics stats system.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jackmcintyre.net/projects/tracked-tweets/">Tracked Tweets</a></p>
<p>Tweet, track clicks. The post title is automatically shortened using tinyurl before being inserted into the tweet.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jackmcintyre.net/projects/tracked-rss/">Tracked RSS</a></p>
<p>This plugin rewrites your WordPress RSS feed to add Google Analytics tracking.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordics-page-summary/">Wordics</a></p>
<p>Wordics is a new plugin that generates colorful word clouds from text. The sizes of the words in the cloud are different. They depend upon the importance of the words which is measured by their frequency in the text compared to their natural occurrence in the language. This is how search engines view your page!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tquizzle.com/wordpress/plugins/twitter-links-plus/">Twitter Links Plus+</a></p>
<p>This new plugin checks Twitter user names mentioned in the content (posts, pages), and in the comments with the Twitter service to see if that user is indeed a Twitter user, then converts that user’s Twitter name to a link to the mentioned user’s Twitter profile page. If that @username isn’t a real Twitter account name, it simply won’t link it.</p>
<p><a href="http://michael.josi.de/projects/gcstats/">gcStats</a></p>
<p>gcStats is a plugin that focuses on GeoCaching and displays some Statistics in your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://chris-fletcher.com/plug-ins/widgetbucks-sidebar-plugin/">WidgetBucks Sidebar</a></p>
<p>Easily add WidgetBucks ad code to your WordPress blog.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/better-search/">Better Search</a></p>
<p>Improve your visitors search experience with Better Search. Better Search will provide contextually search your WordPress blogs and then list the results based on relevance. By using a <a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/better-search/bsearch-templates">template file</a> you can completely control the look and feel of the search results page.</p>
<p><a href="http://iredlof.com/2009/04/iredlof-ajax-login-wordpress-plugin/">iRedlof Ajax Login</a></p>
<p>iRedlof Ajax Login adds a beautiful JavaScript loaded Login/Register top panel to your WordPress theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/author-avatars/">Author Avatars List</a></p>
<p>This plugin makes it easy to display lists of user avatars on your (multiuser) blog. It also allows to insert single avatars for blog users or any email address into a post or page.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jenruno.com/SpamTask/">SpamTask</a></p>
<p>SpamTask has received major speed improvements and is now available for free. It is an advanced spam filter plugin for WordPress blogs and has so far caught 100 % of spam comments. There have also been added several new anti-spam methods which all assist the spam detection. Download, install and activate - That&#8217;s it, experience a clean blog environment.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/syntaxhighlighter/">SyntaxHighlighter</a></p>
<p>SyntaxHighlighter Evolved allows you to easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without loosing it’s formatting or making any manual changes. It uses the <a href="http://alexgorbatchev.com/wiki/SyntaxHighlighter">SyntaxHighlighter JavaScript package by Alex Gorbatchev</a> and a bit of code by <a href="http://wordpress.com/">Automattic</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.toppa.com/deko-boko-wordpress-plugin/">Deko Boko Contact Form</a></p>
<p>Deko Boko is a simple but highly extensible contact form for WordPress. It uses reCAPTCHA to protect the form from spam.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viadat.com/store-locator">Store Locator</a></p>
<p>Store locator plugin for WordPress web developers &amp; web site owners who need to show any set of important locations on a website. Locations are easily searchable by zip code or address. Uses Google Maps.</p>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/05/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0505-2/">WordPress Plugin Releases for 05/05</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 05 May 2009 19:52:56 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:6138:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://tobias.baethge.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-table-reloaded-english/">WP-Table Reloaded</a></p>
<p>This plugin allows you to create and manage tables in the admin-area of WordPress. You can then show them in your posts, on your pages or in text widgets by using a shortcode. That way you won&#8217;t have to bother with HTML in your editor.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.nicasiodesign.com/wordpress-plugins/our-first-public-wordpress-plugin-dynamic-headers/">Dynamic Headers</a></p>
<p>It allows you to create highly dynamic header space on your WordPress site.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.smartlogix.co.in/wp-private/">WP Private</a></p>
<p>You will be able to mark a part of your post as private and the rest will be available to public and a register or login link will appear where your privatized content is supposed to appear. Once the user logs in they will be able to see the whole content (Great for membership sites). Now you can show off parts of your site to visitors and reserve parts for registered users.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.zy.sg/wp-phpquickprofiler/">WP PHP Quick Profiler</a></p>
<p>WP-PHPQuickProfiler is a WordPress plugin that uses a modified version of <a href="http://particletree.com/features/php-quick-profiler/">PHP Quick Profiler</a> to provide profiling and debugging related information to developers. <em>Do not use on live installations</em>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.smartlogix.co.in/wp-insert/">WP Insert</a></p>
<p>Use wp-insert to insert every kind of code you will ever need to insert into your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://iredlof.com/2009/04/iredlof-google-analytics-stats-wordpress-plugin/">iRedlof Google Analytics</a></p>
<p>iRedlof Google Analytics(GA) Stats is a WordPress admin panel plugin, This plugin is like WordPress .com stats plugin but the difference between the two is that WordPress.com stats works with WordPress analytics stats system.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jackmcintyre.net/projects/tracked-tweets/">Tracked Tweets</a></p>
<p>Tweet, track clicks. The post title is automatically shortened using tinyurl before being inserted into the tweet.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jackmcintyre.net/projects/tracked-rss/">Tracked RSS</a></p>
<p>This plugin rewrites your WordPress RSS feed to add Google Analytics tracking.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordics-page-summary/">Wordics</a></p>
<p>Wordics is a new plugin that generates colorful word clouds from text. The sizes of the words in the cloud are different. They depend upon the importance of the words which is measured by their frequency in the text compared to their natural occurrence in the language. This is how search engines view your page!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tquizzle.com/wordpress/plugins/twitter-links-plus/">Twitter Links Plus+</a></p>
<p>This new plugin checks Twitter user names mentioned in the content (posts, pages), and in the comments with the Twitter service to see if that user is indeed a Twitter user, then converts that user’s Twitter name to a link to the mentioned user’s Twitter profile page. If that @username isn’t a real Twitter account name, it simply won’t link it.</p>
<p><a href="http://michael.josi.de/projects/gcstats/">gcStats</a></p>
<p>gcStats is a plugin that focuses on GeoCaching and displays some Statistics in your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://chris-fletcher.com/plug-ins/widgetbucks-sidebar-plugin/">WidgetBucks Sidebar</a></p>
<p>Easily add WidgetBucks ad code to your WordPress blog.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/better-search/">Better Search</a></p>
<p>Improve your visitors search experience with Better Search. Better Search will provide contextually search your WordPress blogs and then list the results based on relevance. By using a <a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/better-search/bsearch-templates">template file</a> you can completely control the look and feel of the search results page.</p>
<p><a href="http://iredlof.com/2009/04/iredlof-ajax-login-wordpress-plugin/">iRedlof Ajax Login</a></p>
<p>iRedlof Ajax Login adds a beautiful JavaScript loaded Login/Register top panel to your WordPress theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/author-avatars/">Author Avatars List</a></p>
<p>This plugin makes it easy to display lists of user avatars on your (multiuser) blog. It also allows to insert single avatars for blog users or any email address into a post or page.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jenruno.com/SpamTask/">SpamTask</a></p>
<p>SpamTask has received major speed improvements and is now available for free. It is an advanced spam filter plugin for WordPress blogs and has so far caught 100 % of spam comments. There have also been added several new anti-spam methods which all assist the spam detection. Download, install and activate - That&#8217;s it, experience a clean blog environment.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/syntaxhighlighter/">SyntaxHighlighter</a></p>
<p>SyntaxHighlighter Evolved allows you to easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without loosing it’s formatting or making any manual changes. It uses the <a href="http://alexgorbatchev.com/wiki/SyntaxHighlighter">SyntaxHighlighter JavaScript package by Alex Gorbatchev</a> and a bit of code by <a href="http://wordpress.com/">Automattic</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.toppa.com/deko-boko-wordpress-plugin/">Deko Boko Contact Form</a></p>
<p>Deko Boko is a simple but highly extensible contact form for WordPress. It uses reCAPTCHA to protect the form from spam.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viadat.com/store-locator">Store Locator</a></p>
<p>Store locator plugin for WordPress web developers &amp; web site owners who need to show any set of important locations on a website. Locations are easily searchable by zip code or address. Uses Google Maps.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/05/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0505-2/">WordPress Plugin Releases for 05/05</a></p>";}i:44;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:67:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Competition 2009 Started!";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=5737";s:4:"link";s:95:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/05/wordpress-plugin-competition-2009-started/";s:11:"description";s:1790:"<p>The <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/26/announcing-wordpress-plugin-competition-2009-30/">WordPress Plugin Compeition 2009</a> was underway on the 1st of May. This precludes the fact that any plugins developed or released after the 1st of May (but before the 31st of July, inclusive) can be entered into the compeition. There has been a lot of interest in the competition but no entries on the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog">Plugin Competition Blog</a> yet. If you are interested in posting on the blog but do not have a registration, please register there and we will give you the proper permissions. Please use this <a href="http://midout.com/groups/wordpress-plugins/forum/topic/12">forum topic on the WLTC Community</a> to ask for or request ideas for plugin development as part of the competition.</p>
<p>As for <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/plugin-competition-prizes/">the prizes</a>, over $2300 have been pledged towards prizes for the competition this year, which is awesome. We are looking for more corporate and personal sponsors for the comeptition to make the prize purse as attractive as possible. If you would like to sponsor some prize money, please contact us using the contact form in the menu above. This is a good way to provide some reward to the WordPress Plugin community and to get some advertisement for your blog, service or website. Any Tweets or linkage back to the competition is also very appreciated.</p>
<p>Game on (or should I say Plug on) !</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/05/wordpress-plugin-competition-2009-started/">WordPress Plugin Competition 2009 Started!</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 05 May 2009 13:44:23 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1790:"<p>The <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/26/announcing-wordpress-plugin-competition-2009-30/">WordPress Plugin Compeition 2009</a> was underway on the 1st of May. This precludes the fact that any plugins developed or released after the 1st of May (but before the 31st of July, inclusive) can be entered into the compeition. There has been a lot of interest in the competition but no entries on the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog">Plugin Competition Blog</a> yet. If you are interested in posting on the blog but do not have a registration, please register there and we will give you the proper permissions. Please use this <a href="http://midout.com/groups/wordpress-plugins/forum/topic/12">forum topic on the WLTC Community</a> to ask for or request ideas for plugin development as part of the competition.</p>
<p>As for <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/plugin-competition-prizes/">the prizes</a>, over $2300 have been pledged towards prizes for the competition this year, which is awesome. We are looking for more corporate and personal sponsors for the comeptition to make the prize purse as attractive as possible. If you would like to sponsor some prize money, please contact us using the contact form in the menu above. This is a good way to provide some reward to the WordPress Plugin community and to get some advertisement for your blog, service or website. Any Tweets or linkage back to the competition is also very appreciated.</p>
<p>Game on (or should I say Plug on) !</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/05/wordpress-plugin-competition-2009-started/">WordPress Plugin Competition 2009 Started!</a></p>";}i:45;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:44:"BuddyPress: Customizable Slugs in BuddyPress";s:4:"guid";s:28:"http://buddypress.org/?p=373";s:4:"link";s:67:"http://buddypress.org/blog/how-to/customizable-slugs-in-buddypress/";s:11:"description";s:2218:"<p>Now that <a href="http://buddypress.org/blog/news/buddypress-10-has-arrived/">1.0 is out in the wild</a> and the development style and standards of BuddyPress have been solidified, it&#8217;s time to share a few development style posts.</p>
<p>The first one is all about using custom slugs for the built in BuddyPress components.</p>
<p>BuddyPress (by default) functions around the URL structure. That is, when you punch in a particular URL it analyzes that URL and then works out what you are trying to do.</p>
<p>For example, the URL <code>http://example.org/members/andy/messages</code> tells BuddyPress that you are looking at the <code>members</code> area for member <code>andy</code>, and then in the <code>messages</code> component trying to view the newest messages in your inbox. BuddyPress will then perform all its internal checks to make sure you have the credentials to view this page, fetch the messages, then forward onto a template file to display them.</p>
<p>As you can see from that example, slugs in BuddyPress are an integrated part of how the application functions. So how do we change them?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s actually as simple as defining the slugs you want to use in your wp-config.php file. All the slugs for every built in component can be changed. Here&#8217;s a list of settings you can add (with some alternate slugs already set), that will change the slugs for each component:</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">
define ( 'BP_ACTIVITY_SLUG', 'streams' );
define ( 'BP_BLOGS_SLUG', 'journals' );
define ( 'BP_MEMBERS_SLUG', 'users' );
define ( 'BP_FRIENDS_SLUG', 'peeps' );
define ( 'BP_GROUPS_SLUG', 'gatherings' );
define ( 'BP_MESSAGES_SLUG', 'notes' );
define ( 'BP_WIRE_SLUG', 'pinboard' );
define ( 'BP_XPROFILE_SLUG', 'info' );

/* Some other non-component slugs */
define ( 'BP_REGISTER_SLUG', 'signup' );
define ( 'BP_ACTIVATION_SLUG', 'enable' );
define ( 'BP_SEARCH_SLUG', 'find' );
define ( 'BP_HOME_BLOG_SLUG', 'news' );
</pre>
<p>It&#8217;s just a matter of picking and choosing which slugs you&#8217;d like to change. You can then just paste the lines you need for those slugs from above, into your wp-config.php file somewhere before the &#8220;Stop Editing!&#8221; line.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 05 May 2009 08:29:19 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:9:"apeatling";}s:7:"summary";s:2218:"<p>Now that <a href="http://buddypress.org/blog/news/buddypress-10-has-arrived/">1.0 is out in the wild</a> and the development style and standards of BuddyPress have been solidified, it&#8217;s time to share a few development style posts.</p>
<p>The first one is all about using custom slugs for the built in BuddyPress components.</p>
<p>BuddyPress (by default) functions around the URL structure. That is, when you punch in a particular URL it analyzes that URL and then works out what you are trying to do.</p>
<p>For example, the URL <code>http://example.org/members/andy/messages</code> tells BuddyPress that you are looking at the <code>members</code> area for member <code>andy</code>, and then in the <code>messages</code> component trying to view the newest messages in your inbox. BuddyPress will then perform all its internal checks to make sure you have the credentials to view this page, fetch the messages, then forward onto a template file to display them.</p>
<p>As you can see from that example, slugs in BuddyPress are an integrated part of how the application functions. So how do we change them?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s actually as simple as defining the slugs you want to use in your wp-config.php file. All the slugs for every built in component can be changed. Here&#8217;s a list of settings you can add (with some alternate slugs already set), that will change the slugs for each component:</p>
<pre class="brush: php;">
define ( 'BP_ACTIVITY_SLUG', 'streams' );
define ( 'BP_BLOGS_SLUG', 'journals' );
define ( 'BP_MEMBERS_SLUG', 'users' );
define ( 'BP_FRIENDS_SLUG', 'peeps' );
define ( 'BP_GROUPS_SLUG', 'gatherings' );
define ( 'BP_MESSAGES_SLUG', 'notes' );
define ( 'BP_WIRE_SLUG', 'pinboard' );
define ( 'BP_XPROFILE_SLUG', 'info' );

/* Some other non-component slugs */
define ( 'BP_REGISTER_SLUG', 'signup' );
define ( 'BP_ACTIVATION_SLUG', 'enable' );
define ( 'BP_SEARCH_SLUG', 'find' );
define ( 'BP_HOME_BLOG_SLUG', 'news' );
</pre>
<p>It&#8217;s just a matter of picking and choosing which slugs you&#8217;d like to change. You can then just paste the lines you need for those slugs from above, into your wp-config.php file somewhere before the &#8220;Stop Editing!&#8221; line.</p>";}i:46;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Mark Jaquith: Force CSS changes to “go live” immediately";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/?p=279";s:4:"link";s:85:"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/force-css-changes-to-go-live-immediately/";s:11:"description";s:2328:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>If you update your WordPress theme&#8217;s <code>style.css</code>, you may have noticed that you have to &#8220;force-reload&#8221; your site in your browser to see the changes. 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>
<p><code>&lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="&lt;?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); echo '?' . filemtime( get_stylesheet_directory() . '/style.css'); ?&gt;" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" /&gt;</code></p>
<p>This automatically updates the <code>?12345678</code> ending part every time you modify the file. Boom. Now everyone instantly sees your changes.</p>
  <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>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 04 May 2009 21:47:02 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Mark Jaquith";}s:7:"summary";s:2328:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>If you update your WordPress theme&#8217;s <code>style.css</code>, you may have noticed that you have to &#8220;force-reload&#8221; your site in your browser to see the changes. 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>
<p><code>&lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="&lt;?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); echo '?' . filemtime( get_stylesheet_directory() . '/style.css'); ?&gt;" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" /&gt;</code></p>
<p>This automatically updates the <code>?12345678</code> ending part every time you modify the file. Boom. Now everyone instantly sees your changes.</p>
  <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:47;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>
<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>
<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>
<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>
<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>
<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>
<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>
<p><strong>So how will these opportunities come into play, and how will it make WordPress better?</strong></p>
<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>
<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>
<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>
<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>
<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>
<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>
<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>
<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>
<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>
<p><strong>So how will these opportunities come into play, and how will it make WordPress better?</strong></p>
<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>
<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>
<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:48;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:2217:"<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>
<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>
<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>
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<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/03/buddypress-bbpress-integration-plugin-bug/">BuddyPress, bbPress Integration Plugin Bug</a></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:2217:"<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>
<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>
<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>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com">Weblog Tools Collection</a></p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/05/03/buddypress-bbpress-integration-plugin-bug/">BuddyPress, bbPress Integration Plugin Bug</a></p>";}i:49;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:2011:"<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>
<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>
<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>
<p>We also have sponsorship opportunities available &#8211; more <a href="http://wordcamp.org.uk/en/sponsor-information/">information on sponsorship</a> can be found over on the WordCamp UK website.</p>
<p>Looking forward to seeing some of you there.</p>
 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:2011:"<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>
<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>
<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>
<p>We also have sponsorship opportunities available &#8211; more <a href="http://wordcamp.org.uk/en/sponsor-information/">information on sponsorship</a> can be found over on the WordCamp UK website.</p>
<p>Looking forward to seeing some of you there.</p>
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