O:9:"MagpieRSS":19:{s:6:"parser";i:0;s:12:"current_item";a:0:{}s:5:"items";a:50:{i:0;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:55:"Weblog Tools Collection: My Thoughts on Premium Plugins";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7690";s:4:"link";s:84:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/02/04/my-thoughts-on-premium-plugins/";s:11:"description";s:7288:"<p>Most of you have heard by now of the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/02/03/good-luck-lester-chn/">departure of Lester Chan</a> from WordPress plugin development.  While he will continue to update his plugins as needed, all support will be terminated.</p>
<p>As a plugin author myself, I&#8217;m not surprised by this news.  With the world economy still in the pits, more plugin authors are feeling the crunch.  While they would like to release free plugins for all, at the end of the day, there are bills to pay and mouths to feed.</p>
<p>Within this article (rant?), I will go over the types of plugins I would pay for, an argument for paying for plugins, and go over several business models I see popping up.</p>
<h3>Plugins I Would Pay For</h3>
<p>Here are several categories that make a plugin something I would pay for (yours will undoubtedly be different).</p>
<ul>
<li>The plugin is a timesaver &#8211; Plugins such as <a href="http://akismet.com/">Akismet</a> and <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-spamfree/">WP Spam Free</a> save me from having to deal with SPAM.</li>
<li>The plugin provides peace of mind &#8211; Plugins such as <a href="http://ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup/">WordPress Database Backup</a> and <a href="http://www.w3-edge.com/wordpress-plugins/w3-total-cache/">W3 Total Cache</a> provide peace of mind.  My data gets backed up, and my blog is protected from an influx of traffic.</li>
<li>The plugin helps my readers &#8211; Plugins such as <a href="http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/">Subscribe to Comments</a>, <a href="http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/">PageNavi</a>, <a href="http://mitcho.com/code/yarpp/">Related Posts</a>, <a href="http://rauru.com/wordpress-popular-posts">Popular Posts</a>, and many others that improve the reader experience.</li>
<li>The plugin makes something complicated simple &#8211; I&#8217;m thinking of creating <a href="http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home/">XML Sitemaps</a>, creating forms (<a href="http://www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin/">cformsII</a> or <a href="http://www.gravityforms.com">Gravity Forms</a>), or listing podcasts (<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/">PodPress</a>).</li>
<li>The plugin fills a unique niche &#8211; An example includes the <a href="http://bravenewcode.com/wptouch">WP Touch plugin</a>, which is for mobile users of your WordPress-powered site.</li>
</ul>
<h3>An Argument for Paying for Plugins</h3>
<p>In 2009, we saw the premium theme market jump into the stratosphere.  </p>
<p>Jeff predicts the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/23/trend-for-2010-paying-for-plugins/">same for plugins in 2010</a>.  </p>
<p>One thing that has always confused me is that a lot of the &#8220;free plugins forever&#8221; advocates have a different opinion towards paying for themes.  Why is that so?</p>
<p>Unless you purchase the theme&#8217;s developer license, you only get to use the theme on one site.  And if you&#8217;re like me, you probably go through three (sometimes four) themes a year (I&#8217;m never satisfied!).</p>
<p>A plugin, however, is there before, during, and after the theme switch.  I can use it on more than one site (if the license permits), and upgrading it is much less of a hassle than themes.</p>
<p>On my personal site, I&#8217;ve pretty much had the same plugins for 3-4 years running.  If I were to pay for those plugins, that&#8217;s a good return on investment in terms of mileage.</p>
<p>For those who would never consider purchasing a plugin, remember, as the economy gets worse, your favorite plugin may be the next to get abandoned by its author for financial reasons.  It&#8217;s not at all uncommon, and I would argue that this is the rule, not the exception.</p>
<h3>Plugin Business Models</h3>
<p>Over the past year, I&#8217;ve observed several plugin business models crop up.  I will go over these briefly and weigh in on each.</p>
<h4>Donation Model Only</h4>
<p>Some plugin authors still choose to rely on donations for plugins.  For a minority of plugin authors, the amount of donations is sufficient.</p>
<p>However, I haven&#8217;t experienced success with the donation model, even after pushing it heavily.  My most popular plugin received 1-3 donations every six months.  </p>
<h4>Free Plugin &#8211; Charge for Support</h4>
<p>While some plugin authors have been successful in charging for support, for the most part, users download the plugin and move on.</p>
<p>An example is providing a download link for the plugin, and charging the user a subscription fee for support forums.</p>
<p>One thing I don&#8217;t like about this model is that it reinforces the fact that the time to take coding/updating the plugin is trivial.  Sure, support takes up time, but maintaining the plugin takes up a lot of time also.</p>
<h4>Free Plugin &#8211; Charge for Add-ons</h4>
<p>Another model I&#8217;ve seen is a plugin being provided for free, but add-ons for the plugin are an extra fee.</p>
<p>If the plugin proves popular enough, and the add-on is a must-have, you&#8217;ll likely find great success with this model.</p>
<p>The time you spent coding the &#8220;base&#8221; plugin will be offset by the income you receive from the add-ons.</p>
<h4>One-time Fee for Plugin &#8211; Extra for Support</h3>
<p>Another model I&#8217;ve witnessed is the user being charged a set fee for the plugin.  If the user wants support, the user must subscribe to a forum of some sort.</p>
<p>I personally disagree with this model as the user often pays more for support than what the actual plugin is worth.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also my opinion that if you charge for a plugin, support must be included.</p>
<h4>One-time Fee for Plugin &#8211; Support Included</h4>
<p>A model I&#8217;m fond of is just outright charging a fee for the plugin with support included.  </p>
<p>The downside of this model is that the user should expect a higher price.  Since the user is paying only one time, the higher price compensates for all the support the user is expected to have over the lifetime of the plugin.  </p>
<p>Typically the price goes higher for additional site licenses, as support is expected to increase.</p>
<h4>Subscription Based Model</h4>
<p>A subscription-based model allows you to spread costs across all of the subscribers.  The goal here is to gain as many subscribers as possible by charging a low price.</p>
<p>As a result, support and upgrade costs will be spread amongst all subscribers, where each subscriber gets the overall benefit.  And since some subscribers will stick around for the next billing period, there is constant revenue.</p>
<p>One thing to include is to have a &#8220;Buy Out&#8221; option, which will allow users a lifetime subscription for a set fee.  This is the One-time Fee option, so the price will be dramatically higher than a subscription cost.</p>
<p>I personally chose this model for my first premium plugin and it has been fairly successful so far.</p>
<h3>Conclusion</h3>
<p>Within this post, I went over the types of plugins I would buy, my reasons for purchasing a plugin, and the various models I&#8217;ve seen crop up.</p>
<p>I would love to hear your thoughts on any of these topics.  </p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:15:22 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:14:"Ronald Huereca";}s:7:"summary";s:7288:"<p>Most of you have heard by now of the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/02/03/good-luck-lester-chn/">departure of Lester Chan</a> from WordPress plugin development.  While he will continue to update his plugins as needed, all support will be terminated.</p>
<p>As a plugin author myself, I&#8217;m not surprised by this news.  With the world economy still in the pits, more plugin authors are feeling the crunch.  While they would like to release free plugins for all, at the end of the day, there are bills to pay and mouths to feed.</p>
<p>Within this article (rant?), I will go over the types of plugins I would pay for, an argument for paying for plugins, and go over several business models I see popping up.</p>
<h3>Plugins I Would Pay For</h3>
<p>Here are several categories that make a plugin something I would pay for (yours will undoubtedly be different).</p>
<ul>
<li>The plugin is a timesaver &#8211; Plugins such as <a href="http://akismet.com/">Akismet</a> and <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-spamfree/">WP Spam Free</a> save me from having to deal with SPAM.</li>
<li>The plugin provides peace of mind &#8211; Plugins such as <a href="http://ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup/">WordPress Database Backup</a> and <a href="http://www.w3-edge.com/wordpress-plugins/w3-total-cache/">W3 Total Cache</a> provide peace of mind.  My data gets backed up, and my blog is protected from an influx of traffic.</li>
<li>The plugin helps my readers &#8211; Plugins such as <a href="http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/">Subscribe to Comments</a>, <a href="http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/">PageNavi</a>, <a href="http://mitcho.com/code/yarpp/">Related Posts</a>, <a href="http://rauru.com/wordpress-popular-posts">Popular Posts</a>, and many others that improve the reader experience.</li>
<li>The plugin makes something complicated simple &#8211; I&#8217;m thinking of creating <a href="http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home/">XML Sitemaps</a>, creating forms (<a href="http://www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin/">cformsII</a> or <a href="http://www.gravityforms.com">Gravity Forms</a>), or listing podcasts (<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/">PodPress</a>).</li>
<li>The plugin fills a unique niche &#8211; An example includes the <a href="http://bravenewcode.com/wptouch">WP Touch plugin</a>, which is for mobile users of your WordPress-powered site.</li>
</ul>
<h3>An Argument for Paying for Plugins</h3>
<p>In 2009, we saw the premium theme market jump into the stratosphere.  </p>
<p>Jeff predicts the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/23/trend-for-2010-paying-for-plugins/">same for plugins in 2010</a>.  </p>
<p>One thing that has always confused me is that a lot of the &#8220;free plugins forever&#8221; advocates have a different opinion towards paying for themes.  Why is that so?</p>
<p>Unless you purchase the theme&#8217;s developer license, you only get to use the theme on one site.  And if you&#8217;re like me, you probably go through three (sometimes four) themes a year (I&#8217;m never satisfied!).</p>
<p>A plugin, however, is there before, during, and after the theme switch.  I can use it on more than one site (if the license permits), and upgrading it is much less of a hassle than themes.</p>
<p>On my personal site, I&#8217;ve pretty much had the same plugins for 3-4 years running.  If I were to pay for those plugins, that&#8217;s a good return on investment in terms of mileage.</p>
<p>For those who would never consider purchasing a plugin, remember, as the economy gets worse, your favorite plugin may be the next to get abandoned by its author for financial reasons.  It&#8217;s not at all uncommon, and I would argue that this is the rule, not the exception.</p>
<h3>Plugin Business Models</h3>
<p>Over the past year, I&#8217;ve observed several plugin business models crop up.  I will go over these briefly and weigh in on each.</p>
<h4>Donation Model Only</h4>
<p>Some plugin authors still choose to rely on donations for plugins.  For a minority of plugin authors, the amount of donations is sufficient.</p>
<p>However, I haven&#8217;t experienced success with the donation model, even after pushing it heavily.  My most popular plugin received 1-3 donations every six months.  </p>
<h4>Free Plugin &#8211; Charge for Support</h4>
<p>While some plugin authors have been successful in charging for support, for the most part, users download the plugin and move on.</p>
<p>An example is providing a download link for the plugin, and charging the user a subscription fee for support forums.</p>
<p>One thing I don&#8217;t like about this model is that it reinforces the fact that the time to take coding/updating the plugin is trivial.  Sure, support takes up time, but maintaining the plugin takes up a lot of time also.</p>
<h4>Free Plugin &#8211; Charge for Add-ons</h4>
<p>Another model I&#8217;ve seen is a plugin being provided for free, but add-ons for the plugin are an extra fee.</p>
<p>If the plugin proves popular enough, and the add-on is a must-have, you&#8217;ll likely find great success with this model.</p>
<p>The time you spent coding the &#8220;base&#8221; plugin will be offset by the income you receive from the add-ons.</p>
<h4>One-time Fee for Plugin &#8211; Extra for Support</h3>
<p>Another model I&#8217;ve witnessed is the user being charged a set fee for the plugin.  If the user wants support, the user must subscribe to a forum of some sort.</p>
<p>I personally disagree with this model as the user often pays more for support than what the actual plugin is worth.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also my opinion that if you charge for a plugin, support must be included.</p>
<h4>One-time Fee for Plugin &#8211; Support Included</h4>
<p>A model I&#8217;m fond of is just outright charging a fee for the plugin with support included.  </p>
<p>The downside of this model is that the user should expect a higher price.  Since the user is paying only one time, the higher price compensates for all the support the user is expected to have over the lifetime of the plugin.  </p>
<p>Typically the price goes higher for additional site licenses, as support is expected to increase.</p>
<h4>Subscription Based Model</h4>
<p>A subscription-based model allows you to spread costs across all of the subscribers.  The goal here is to gain as many subscribers as possible by charging a low price.</p>
<p>As a result, support and upgrade costs will be spread amongst all subscribers, where each subscriber gets the overall benefit.  And since some subscribers will stick around for the next billing period, there is constant revenue.</p>
<p>One thing to include is to have a &#8220;Buy Out&#8221; option, which will allow users a lifetime subscription for a set fee.  This is the One-time Fee option, so the price will be dramatically higher than a subscription cost.</p>
<p>I personally chose this model for my first premium plugin and it has been fairly successful so far.</p>
<h3>Conclusion</h3>
<p>Within this post, I went over the types of plugins I would buy, my reasons for purchasing a plugin, and the various models I&#8217;ve seen crop up.</p>
<p>I would love to hear your thoughts on any of these topics.  </p>";}i:1;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:44:"BuddyPress: BuddyPress 1.2 Release Candidate";s:4:"guid";s:28:"http://buddypress.org/?p=779";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://buddypress.org/blog/community/buddypress-1-2-release-candidate/";s:11:"description";s:1545:"<p>The release candidate version of BuddyPress 1.2 is now <a href="http://buddypress.org/buddypress.1.2.rc.zip">ready for download</a> and testing (<a href="http://svn.buddypress.org/tags/1.2-rc/">svn link</a>). Thank you to those who have contributed so far, we&#8217;ve <a href="http://trac.buddypress.org/timeline">closed over 125 tickets</a> since we released the beta last week.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re almost there, but we still need your help with this final testing phase. We&#8217;re looking for testers on both standard WordPress and WordPress MU version 2.9.1 and above. You can also test the release candidate without installing on our <a href="http://testbp.org">testing community site</a>.</p>
<p>As before you can find a <a href="http://trac.buddypress.org/query?status=accepted&#038;status=assigned&#038;status=new&#038;status=reopened&#038;group=priority&#038;max=200&#038;order=priority&#038;col=id&#038;col=summary&#038;col=milestone&#038;col=status&#038;col=owner&#038;col=type&#038;col=priority&#038;milestone=1.2&#038;type=!enhancement">list of known issues</a> and a <a href="http://trac.buddypress.org/newticket">place to post bugs</a> via the <a href="http://trac.buddypress.org">BuddyPress Trac installation</a>.</p>
<p>There are also <a href="http://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/upgrading-from-10x">instructions for upgrading test installations from previous versions of BuddyPress</a> on the <a href="http://codex.buddypress.org">codex</a>.</p>
<p>Please do not post bugs in the comments as they may be missed.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:57:35 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Andy Peatling";}s:7:"summary";s:1545:"<p>The release candidate version of BuddyPress 1.2 is now <a href="http://buddypress.org/buddypress.1.2.rc.zip">ready for download</a> and testing (<a href="http://svn.buddypress.org/tags/1.2-rc/">svn link</a>). Thank you to those who have contributed so far, we&#8217;ve <a href="http://trac.buddypress.org/timeline">closed over 125 tickets</a> since we released the beta last week.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re almost there, but we still need your help with this final testing phase. We&#8217;re looking for testers on both standard WordPress and WordPress MU version 2.9.1 and above. You can also test the release candidate without installing on our <a href="http://testbp.org">testing community site</a>.</p>
<p>As before you can find a <a href="http://trac.buddypress.org/query?status=accepted&#038;status=assigned&#038;status=new&#038;status=reopened&#038;group=priority&#038;max=200&#038;order=priority&#038;col=id&#038;col=summary&#038;col=milestone&#038;col=status&#038;col=owner&#038;col=type&#038;col=priority&#038;milestone=1.2&#038;type=!enhancement">list of known issues</a> and a <a href="http://trac.buddypress.org/newticket">place to post bugs</a> via the <a href="http://trac.buddypress.org">BuddyPress Trac installation</a>.</p>
<p>There are also <a href="http://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/upgrading-from-10x">instructions for upgrading test installations from previous versions of BuddyPress</a> on the <a href="http://codex.buddypress.org">codex</a>.</p>
<p>Please do not post bugs in the comments as they may be missed.</p>";}i:2;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:54:"WordPress.tv: Introducing WordPress for BlackBerry 1.0";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=3232";s:4:"link";s:72:"http://wordpress.tv/2010/02/04/introducing-wordpress-for-blackberry-1-0/";s:11:"description";s:1449:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
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<p>[column width="47%" padding="6%"] Column 1 content goes here. [/column]<br />
[column width="47%" padding="0"] Column 2 content goes here. [/column]<br />
[end_columns]</p>
<p>There are shortcodes for up to four columns within the content. I&#8217;ve rarely come across a theme or a WordPress powered site displaying content in this fashion but I imagine it would work well for Magazine or Newpaper type sites. For more information on plugin usage, read the <a href="http://www.samburdge.co.uk/wordpress/wp-post-columns-plugin-2">official plugin page</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:30:13 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1331:"<p>Craig Buckler of SitePoint.com <a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2010/02/04/split-wordpress-content-into-multiple-sections/">published a neat guide</a> today on how to split WordPres content into 2 or more columns. The explanation dives into various functions and parameters with use of the Read More tag but within the comments of the post, someone mentioned a plugin called <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-post-columns/">WP Post Columns</a> by Sam Burdge. I downloaded the plugin and to my surprise, it works very well and does not require any code editing. The magic lies within the shortcodes that need to be inserted into the content. For example, if you wanted two columns within your content, you would use the following shortcodes.</p>
<p>[column width="47%" padding="6%"] Column 1 content goes here. [/column]<br />
[column width="47%" padding="0"] Column 2 content goes here. [/column]<br />
[end_columns]</p>
<p>There are shortcodes for up to four columns within the content. I&#8217;ve rarely come across a theme or a WordPress powered site displaying content in this fashion but I imagine it would work well for Magazine or Newpaper type sites. For more information on plugin usage, read the <a href="http://www.samburdge.co.uk/wordpress/wp-post-columns-plugin-2">official plugin page</a>.</p>";}i:4;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:32:"Joseph: WordPress for BlackBerry";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://josephscott.org/?p=1855";s:4:"link";s:65:"http://josephscott.org/archives/2010/02/wordpress-for-blackberry/";s:11:"description";s:1694:"<p>It&#8217;s a mobile app kind of week :-)</p>
<p></p>
<p>The <a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/">WordPress BlackBerry App</a> is out of beta and ready with it&#8217;s <a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2010/02/04/version-1-0-videopress-support-improved-comments-and-app-world/">1.0 release</a>.  </p>
<p>Just like the other WordPress mobile apps it&#8217;s open source and free.  You can find more help and info in the <a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/faq/">FAQ</a>, <a href="http://blackberry.forums.wordpress.org/">forums</a>, and <a href="http://blackberry.trac.wordpress.org/">Trac site</a> (for tickets and patches).</p>
<p>These mobile apps use XML-RPC to communicate with your WordPress blog, so make sure you have that enabled first.  You can find that in wp-admin under Settings -> Writing in the Remote Publishing section.</p>


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<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/02/installing-wordpress-as-a-subversion-checkout-or-external-in-a-subdirectory/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Installing WordPress As A Subversion Checkout ( Or External ) In A Subdirectory">Installing WordPress As A Subversion Checkout ( Or External ) In A Subdirectory</a></li>
<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/04/wordpress-theme-authors-dont-forget-the-wp_head-function/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress Theme Authors, Don&#8217;t Forget The wp_head() Function">WordPress Theme Authors, Don&#8217;t Forget The wp_head() Function</a></li>
</ol></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:23:03 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Joseph Scott";}s:7:"summary";s:1694:"<p>It&#8217;s a mobile app kind of week :-)</p>
<p></p>
<p>The <a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/">WordPress BlackBerry App</a> is out of beta and ready with it&#8217;s <a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2010/02/04/version-1-0-videopress-support-improved-comments-and-app-world/">1.0 release</a>.  </p>
<p>Just like the other WordPress mobile apps it&#8217;s open source and free.  You can find more help and info in the <a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/faq/">FAQ</a>, <a href="http://blackberry.forums.wordpress.org/">forums</a>, and <a href="http://blackberry.trac.wordpress.org/">Trac site</a> (for tickets and patches).</p>
<p>These mobile apps use XML-RPC to communicate with your WordPress blog, so make sure you have that enabled first.  You can find that in wp-admin under Settings -> Writing in the Remote Publishing section.</p>


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<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/02/installing-wordpress-as-a-subversion-checkout-or-external-in-a-subdirectory/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Installing WordPress As A Subversion Checkout ( Or External ) In A Subdirectory">Installing WordPress As A Subversion Checkout ( Or External ) In A Subdirectory</a></li>
<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/04/wordpress-theme-authors-dont-forget-the-wp_head-function/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress Theme Authors, Don&#8217;t Forget The wp_head() Function">WordPress Theme Authors, Don&#8217;t Forget The wp_head() Function</a></li>
</ol></p>";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:80:"WP Blackberry: Version 1.0: VideoPress Support, Improved Comments, and App World";s:4:"guid";s:38:"http://blackberry.wordpress.org/?p=209";s:4:"link";s:106:"http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2010/02/04/version-1-0-videopress-support-improved-comments-and-app-world/";s:11:"description";s:2952:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Very happy to announce that the Open Source WordPress for BlackBerry app has wrapped up the beta phase, and version 1.0 is now <a href="http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/5802">available</a>.   Thank-you to the tens of thousands of beta users who have provided invaluable feedback and feature enhancement ideas these past few months.</p>
<p>We submitted this version to the <a href="http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/appworld/"> BlackBerry App World</a> and that&#8217;s been approved <a href="http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/5802">and is now ready for download.</a></p>
<p>So what&#8217;s new in version 1.0:</p>
<ul>
<li>Ability to record and upload videos from your phone. We now support both 3gp and 3g2 formats on older generation BlackBerry devices.</li>
<li>Introducing support for the HD video service <a href="http://videopress.com">VideoPress</a>.</li>
<li>Streamlined UI and functionality relating to comment moderation</li>
<li>Overall enhancements to the speed and stability of the app</li>
</ul>
<p>Here&#8217;s a quick video overview of the app with all the latest features:<br />
<ins>
<div class="video-player" id="x-video-0">
</div></ins></p>
<p>For suggestions and support, please visit the <a href="http://blackberry.forums.wordpress.org/">forums</a>, and for developers who want to get involved, please check out <a href="http://blackberry.trac.wordpress.org/timeline">trac</a>. </p>
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<p>We submitted this version to the <a href="http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/appworld/"> BlackBerry App World</a> and that&#8217;s been approved <a href="http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/5802">and is now ready for download.</a></p>
<p>So what&#8217;s new in version 1.0:</p>
<ul>
<li>Ability to record and upload videos from your phone. We now support both 3gp and 3g2 formats on older generation BlackBerry devices.</li>
<li>Introducing support for the HD video service <a href="http://videopress.com">VideoPress</a>.</li>
<li>Streamlined UI and functionality relating to comment moderation</li>
<li>Overall enhancements to the speed and stability of the app</li>
</ul>
<p>Here&#8217;s a quick video overview of the app with all the latest features:<br />
<ins>
<div class="video-player" id="x-video-0">
</div></ins></p>
<p>For suggestions and support, please visit the <a href="http://blackberry.forums.wordpress.org/">forums</a>, and for developers who want to get involved, please check out <a href="http://blackberry.trac.wordpress.org/timeline">trac</a>. </p>
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<blockquote><p>As you all know, I have been doing WordPress plugins and supporting it for the past 6 years. These 6 years of my life, I have been through my polytechnic education, my national service as well as my university education. I just graduated from university in December 2009 and have been looking for full-time jobs. I am offered a full-time job and will be starting work on 1st February 2010. </p>
<p>I regret to say that I am NOT ABLE to provide support for my plugins anymore due to my full-time job commitment. I will leave this forum open and let the community help one another. However, I WILL still update my plugins whenever I can and you still can report bugs to me via email and I will try to fix it.</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;ve donated a chunk of change to Lester in the past, something he was very much appreciative for but there are quite a few vocal members of the community that argue Lester could have placed all the plugins behind a paid support model that might have negated the need for a full time job. I would not have paid for each individual plugin, but I would have paid a yearly fee that would cover the support costs of all of his current and future plugins. No one should be upset at Lester for pursuing other endeavors related to his career path. Also, it&#8217;s not as if he is completely abandoning development and support for his plugins so if his full time job doesn&#8217;t work out, we may very well see some sort of plugin club membership option from Lester in the future. </p>
<p>So I wonder, what type of business model would Lester have to set up in order for you to consider paying for both the plugin and support? </p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:59:08 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:2530:"<p>How many plugins do you run on your website that were created by <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/profile/gamerz">Lester &#8216;<strong>GaMerZ</strong>&#8216; Chan</a>? I&#8217;m guessing at least one or more. On <a href="http://www.wptavern.com">WPTavern.com</a>, I use three of them. I&#8217;ve been a huge fan of Lester ever since I discovered his assortment of plugins that provided functionality I didn&#8217;t think any WordPress site would want to be without. Features such as polls, easy page navigation, and nifty stats. I learned today that Lester is unable to provide support for his plugins due to a full time job he recently accepted. However, he states that he will try to keep the plugins working with newer versions of WordPress as time allows while also keeping the forum open to enable the community to help each other.</p>
<blockquote><p>As you all know, I have been doing WordPress plugins and supporting it for the past 6 years. These 6 years of my life, I have been through my polytechnic education, my national service as well as my university education. I just graduated from university in December 2009 and have been looking for full-time jobs. I am offered a full-time job and will be starting work on 1st February 2010. </p>
<p>I regret to say that I am NOT ABLE to provide support for my plugins anymore due to my full-time job commitment. I will leave this forum open and let the community help one another. However, I WILL still update my plugins whenever I can and you still can report bugs to me via email and I will try to fix it.</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;ve donated a chunk of change to Lester in the past, something he was very much appreciative for but there are quite a few vocal members of the community that argue Lester could have placed all the plugins behind a paid support model that might have negated the need for a full time job. I would not have paid for each individual plugin, but I would have paid a yearly fee that would cover the support costs of all of his current and future plugins. No one should be upset at Lester for pursuing other endeavors related to his career path. Also, it&#8217;s not as if he is completely abandoning development and support for his plugins so if his full time job doesn&#8217;t work out, we may very well see some sort of plugin club membership option from Lester in the future. </p>
<p>So I wonder, what type of business model would Lester have to set up in order for you to consider paying for both the plugin and support? </p>";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:47:"WordPress.tv: Introducing WordPress for Android";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wordpress.tv/?p=3242";s:4:"link";s:65:"http://wordpress.tv/2010/02/03/introducing-wordpress-for-android/";s:11:"description";s:1422:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><ins>
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<p><a href="http://android.wordpress.org/2010/02/02/wordpress-for-android-1-0/">WordPress for Android 1.0 Release</a>: The Open Source <a href="http://android.wordpress.org/">WordPress for Android</a> application is now <a href="http://android.wordpress.org/download/">available for download</a>. This is in addition to the <a href="http://iphone.wordpress.org">WordPress for iPhone</a> and <a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org">WordPress for BlackBerry</a> applications that are already available. It is built on top of the wpToGo application which has been taken over by the WordPress team and released as this Open Source Application. You can follow the development of the application at <a href="http://dev.android.wordpress.org/">dev.android.wordpress.org</a> and look for support on the <a href="http://android.forums.wordpress.org/">support forums</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:28:58 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:875:"<p></p>
<p><a href="http://android.wordpress.org/2010/02/02/wordpress-for-android-1-0/">WordPress for Android 1.0 Release</a>: The Open Source <a href="http://android.wordpress.org/">WordPress for Android</a> application is now <a href="http://android.wordpress.org/download/">available for download</a>. This is in addition to the <a href="http://iphone.wordpress.org">WordPress for iPhone</a> and <a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org">WordPress for BlackBerry</a> applications that are already available. It is built on top of the wpToGo application which has been taken over by the WordPress team and released as this Open Source Application. You can follow the development of the application at <a href="http://dev.android.wordpress.org/">dev.android.wordpress.org</a> and look for support on the <a href="http://android.forums.wordpress.org/">support forums</a>.</p>";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 02/02";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7661";s:4:"link";s:89:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/02/02/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0202-2/";s:11:"description";s:2057:"<h4><a href="http://www.tipografo.org/wordpress-themes/paintbox-cms/">Paintbox CMS</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.tipografo.org/testrun/?themedemo=paintbox-cms"><img title="PaintBox" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/PaintBox.jpg" alt="PaintBox" width="200" height="123" /></a></p>
<p>Paintbox-CMS is a grid based CMS theme layered on Tipografo&#8217;s Paintbox. It comes with a smooth 960 grid layout plus some creative jQuery effects for content loading. It outuputs some very light w3c valid xhtml\css code.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.wordpressguitarthemes.com/rock-guitar-theme-for-wordpress/">Rock Guitar</a></h4>
<p><img title="rockguitar" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/rockguitar.png" alt="rockguitar" width="200" height="87" /></p>
<p>Two column theme with electric guitar graphics built to suit a blogger who writes about guitars, or just about rock music generally.</p>
<h4><a href="http://fahrulazmi.com/pointsixcity-wordpress-theme/">PointSixCity</a></h4>
<p><img title="pointsixcity" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/pointsixcity.jpg" alt="pointsixcity" width="200" height="108" /></p>
<p>Single column, fixed layout, gravatar and widget ready theme</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.dynamicwp.net/free-themes/black-stone-theme/">Black Stone Theme</a></h4>
<p><img title="blackStone" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/blackStone.jpg" alt="blackStone" width="200" height="117" /></p>
<p>Fixed width, two column, widget and gravatar ready theme</p>
<h4><a href="http://webhostinghelpguy.inmotionhosting.com/wordpress/5-free-baby-mom-and-dad-wordpress-themes/">5 Baby, Mom and Dad WordPress Themes</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://webhostinghelpguy.inmotionhosting.com/demos/?wptheme=Stuffed%20Animals"><img title="Stuffed Animals" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/StuffedAnimals.jpg" alt="Stuffed Animals" width="200" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, widget-ready and gravatar-enabled</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:15:18 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:2057:"<h4><a href="http://www.tipografo.org/wordpress-themes/paintbox-cms/">Paintbox CMS</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.tipografo.org/testrun/?themedemo=paintbox-cms"><img title="PaintBox" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/PaintBox.jpg" alt="PaintBox" width="200" height="123" /></a></p>
<p>Paintbox-CMS is a grid based CMS theme layered on Tipografo&#8217;s Paintbox. It comes with a smooth 960 grid layout plus some creative jQuery effects for content loading. It outuputs some very light w3c valid xhtml\css code.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.wordpressguitarthemes.com/rock-guitar-theme-for-wordpress/">Rock Guitar</a></h4>
<p><img title="rockguitar" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/rockguitar.png" alt="rockguitar" width="200" height="87" /></p>
<p>Two column theme with electric guitar graphics built to suit a blogger who writes about guitars, or just about rock music generally.</p>
<h4><a href="http://fahrulazmi.com/pointsixcity-wordpress-theme/">PointSixCity</a></h4>
<p><img title="pointsixcity" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/pointsixcity.jpg" alt="pointsixcity" width="200" height="108" /></p>
<p>Single column, fixed layout, gravatar and widget ready theme</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.dynamicwp.net/free-themes/black-stone-theme/">Black Stone Theme</a></h4>
<p><img title="blackStone" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/blackStone.jpg" alt="blackStone" width="200" height="117" /></p>
<p>Fixed width, two column, widget and gravatar ready theme</p>
<h4><a href="http://webhostinghelpguy.inmotionhosting.com/wordpress/5-free-baby-mom-and-dad-wordpress-themes/">5 Baby, Mom and Dad WordPress Themes</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://webhostinghelpguy.inmotionhosting.com/demos/?wptheme=Stuffed%20Animals"><img title="Stuffed Animals" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/StuffedAnimals.jpg" alt="Stuffed Animals" width="200" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, widget-ready and gravatar-enabled</p>";}i:15;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:29:"Joseph: WordPress for Android";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://josephscott.org/?p=1847";s:4:"link";s:62:"http://josephscott.org/archives/2010/02/wordpress-for-android/";s:11:"description";s:1271:"<p></p>
<p>Today the <a href="http://android.wordpress.org/">WordPress Android App</a> is out the door and open to the public ( <a href="http://android.wordpress.org/download/">download</a> ).</p>
<p>Like the other WordPress mobile apps this one is open source, and we&#8217;re excited to have other people contribute and help.  There&#8217;s a <a href="http://dev.android.wordpress.org/">developer blog</a>, <a href="http://android.forums.wordpress.org/">support forum</a>, and <a href="https://android.trac.wordpress.org/">Trac install</a> for tickets and patches.</p>


<p>Related posts:<ol><li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2010/02/wordpress-for-blackberry/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress for BlackBerry">WordPress for BlackBerry</a></li>
<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/06/wordpress-2-8-xml-rpc-and-atompub-changes/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress 2.8 &#8211; XML-RPC and AtomPub Changes">WordPress 2.8 &#8211; XML-RPC and AtomPub Changes</a></li>
<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/12/wordpress-2-9-xml-rpc-and-atompub-changes/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress 2.9 &#8211; XML-RPC and AtomPub Changes">WordPress 2.9 &#8211; XML-RPC and AtomPub Changes</a></li>
</ol></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:59:34 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Joseph Scott";}s:7:"summary";s:1271:"<p></p>
<p>Today the <a href="http://android.wordpress.org/">WordPress Android App</a> is out the door and open to the public ( <a href="http://android.wordpress.org/download/">download</a> ).</p>
<p>Like the other WordPress mobile apps this one is open source, and we&#8217;re excited to have other people contribute and help.  There&#8217;s a <a href="http://dev.android.wordpress.org/">developer blog</a>, <a href="http://android.forums.wordpress.org/">support forum</a>, and <a href="https://android.trac.wordpress.org/">Trac install</a> for tickets and patches.</p>


<p>Related posts:<ol><li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2010/02/wordpress-for-blackberry/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress for BlackBerry">WordPress for BlackBerry</a></li>
<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/06/wordpress-2-8-xml-rpc-and-atompub-changes/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress 2.8 &#8211; XML-RPC and AtomPub Changes">WordPress 2.8 &#8211; XML-RPC and AtomPub Changes</a></li>
<li><a href="http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/12/wordpress-2-9-xml-rpc-and-atompub-changes/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WordPress 2.9 &#8211; XML-RPC and AtomPub Changes">WordPress 2.9 &#8211; XML-RPC and AtomPub Changes</a></li>
</ol></p>";}i:16;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:70:"Publisher Blog: How-to: Nginx as a front-end proxy cache for WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:42:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/?p=759";s:4:"link";s:101:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2010/02/01/how-to-nginx-as-a-front-end-proxy-cache-for-wordpress/";s:11:"description";s:2186:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>From Harvard Law&#8217;s Dan Collis-Puro,  a how-to on optimizing your WordPress MU install, using Nginx as a front-end proxy cache for WordPress:</p>
<blockquote><p>We put an nginx caching proxy server in front of our wordpress mu install and sped it up dramatically – in some cases a thousandfold. I’ve packaged up a plugin, along with installation instructions here – WordPress Nginx proxy cache integrator.</p></blockquote>
<p>You can read the full details on <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/djcp/2010/01/nginx-as-a-front-end-proxy-cache-for-wordpress/">Dan&#8217;s blog</a> and grab the plugin from the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nginx-proxy-cache-integrator/">WordPress.org plugin directory</a>.</p>
<p>[ Visit <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/djcp/2010/01/nginx-as-a-front-end-proxy-cache-for-wordpress/">http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/djcp </a> ] </p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/759/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/759/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/759/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/759/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/759/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/759/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/759/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/759/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/759/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/759/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=publisherblog.automattic.com&blog=1470857&post=759&subd=wordpresspublishers&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:06:13 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:16:"Raanan Bar-Cohen";}s:7:"summary";s:2186:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>From Harvard Law&#8217;s Dan Collis-Puro,  a how-to on optimizing your WordPress MU install, using Nginx as a front-end proxy cache for WordPress:</p>
<blockquote><p>We put an nginx caching proxy server in front of our wordpress mu install and sped it up dramatically – in some cases a thousandfold. I’ve packaged up a plugin, along with installation instructions here – WordPress Nginx proxy cache integrator.</p></blockquote>
<p>You can read the full details on <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/djcp/2010/01/nginx-as-a-front-end-proxy-cache-for-wordpress/">Dan&#8217;s blog</a> and grab the plugin from the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nginx-proxy-cache-integrator/">WordPress.org plugin directory</a>.</p>
<p>[ Visit <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/djcp/2010/01/nginx-as-a-front-end-proxy-cache-for-wordpress/">http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/djcp </a> ] </p>
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<blockquote><p>When you have 70+ speakers and volunteers working for gratis, you start out $2,500 in the hole. And when attendees started registering like crazy, it really was a double-edged sword. While registration was beginning to reflect the fruits of our labor, and the hype was building, my little budget spreadsheet was blinking red with every registration. I was laying out money for shirts, bags and food, and the sponsors weren’t showing up</p></blockquote>
<p>For those that are willing to go through all of the trouble of putting a WordCamp together, I salute you!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:43:04 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1320:"<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/wcnyclogo.png" rel="thumbnail"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/wcnyclogo.png" alt="" title="wcnyclogo" width="220" height="89" class="alignright size-full wp-image-7650" /></a>WordCamps are great events. It&#8217;s where users of WordPress that are local to the area can all get together in one place to share tips, talk strategy, and share knowledge with each other. However, putting these events together takes time and an incredible amount of hard work, as shown by <a href="http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/2010/01/28/wordcampnyc-finances-or-ode-to-wordcamp-organizers/">Steve Bruner&#8217;s post on the WCNYC blog</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>When you have 70+ speakers and volunteers working for gratis, you start out $2,500 in the hole. And when attendees started registering like crazy, it really was a double-edged sword. While registration was beginning to reflect the fruits of our labor, and the hype was building, my little budget spreadsheet was blinking red with every registration. I was laying out money for shirts, bags and food, and the sponsors weren’t showing up</p></blockquote>
<p>For those that are willing to go through all of the trouble of putting a WordCamp together, I salute you!</p>";}i:23;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:53:"Weblog Tools Collection: 24 Plugins for Stats Junkies";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7644";s:4:"link";s:82:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/01/31/24-plugins-for-stats-junkies/";s:11:"description";s:1053:"<p>The name of the linked post is actually <a href="http://www.appsheriff.com/software/tools-software/24-noble-wordpress-plugins-to-determine-the-performance-of-your-blog/">24 Noble Wordpress Plugins To Determine The Performance of your Blog</a>, but it is safe to say that you would artificially kill the performance of your blog if you were to install of them (read: don&#8217;t install them all). However, if you are a stats junky like me, you might be interested in some of the plugins mentioned in the App Sheriff post such as <strong>Feed Statistics</strong>, <strong>Live</strong>, <strong>Post and Comments Time</strong> and <strong>Social Traffic Monitor</strong>. Now most of the information provided by these plugins can be derived from regular statistics sources but the filters can be interesting for some folks. Head over to the App Sheriff and see what you *might* have been missing!</p>
<p>We use WordPress.com stats, Statcounter and Google Analytics on this blog. I know that is two too many, but what can I say, I am a stats junky!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:06:32 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1053:"<p>The name of the linked post is actually <a href="http://www.appsheriff.com/software/tools-software/24-noble-wordpress-plugins-to-determine-the-performance-of-your-blog/">24 Noble Wordpress Plugins To Determine The Performance of your Blog</a>, but it is safe to say that you would artificially kill the performance of your blog if you were to install of them (read: don&#8217;t install them all). However, if you are a stats junky like me, you might be interested in some of the plugins mentioned in the App Sheriff post such as <strong>Feed Statistics</strong>, <strong>Live</strong>, <strong>Post and Comments Time</strong> and <strong>Social Traffic Monitor</strong>. Now most of the information provided by these plugins can be derived from regular statistics sources but the filters can be interesting for some folks. Head over to the App Sheriff and see what you *might* have been missing!</p>
<p>We use WordPress.com stats, Statcounter and Google Analytics on this blog. I know that is two too many, but what can I say, I am a stats junky!</p>";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:55:"Publisher Blog: WordPress as a CMS Case Study: WNET.org";s:4:"guid";s:42:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/?p=755";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2010/01/19/wordpress-cms-wnet-org/";s:11:"description";s:2119:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Back in July <a href="http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2009/07/16/fifty-sites-ten-months-one-cms/">we posted about the remarkable project</a> that WNET (PBS of NYC) put together with Tierra to launch 50 sites in ten months using one CMS, WordPress.</p>
<p>Dan Goldman and Jamie Trowbridge who headed up that project, were kind enough to present a case study of how it was all done, at the recent <a href="http://wordpress.tv/event/wordcamp-new-york/">WordCamp NYC</a>:<br />
<ins>
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  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/755/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/755/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/755/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/755/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/755/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/755/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/755/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/755/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/755/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/755/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=publisherblog.automattic.com&blog=1470857&post=755&subd=wordpresspublishers&ref=&feed=1" /></div><div><a href="http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2010/01/19/wordpress-cms-wnet-org/"><img alt="Dan Goldman and Jamie Trowbridge: WNET.org Case Study" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/U79YaU5T/1686-02_wcnyc_case_study_wnet2_std.original.jpg" width="160" height="120" /></a></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:45:18 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:16:"Raanan Bar-Cohen";}s:7:"summary";s:2119:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Back in July <a href="http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2009/07/16/fifty-sites-ten-months-one-cms/">we posted about the remarkable project</a> that WNET (PBS of NYC) put together with Tierra to launch 50 sites in ten months using one CMS, WordPress.</p>
<p>Dan Goldman and Jamie Trowbridge who headed up that project, were kind enough to present a case study of how it was all done, at the recent <a href="http://wordpress.tv/event/wordcamp-new-york/">WordCamp NYC</a>:<br />
<ins>
<div class="video-player" id="x-video-0">
</div></ins></p>
  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/755/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/755/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/755/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/755/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/755/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/755/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/755/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/755/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/755/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/755/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=publisherblog.automattic.com&blog=1470857&post=755&subd=wordpresspublishers&ref=&feed=1" /></div><div><a href="http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2010/01/19/wordpress-cms-wnet-org/"><img alt="Dan Goldman and Jamie Trowbridge: WNET.org Case Study" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/U79YaU5T/1686-02_wcnyc_case_study_wnet2_std.original.jpg" width="160" height="120" /></a></div>";}i:25;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 01/30";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7641";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/01/30/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0130/";s:11:"description";s:1631:"<h4><a href="http://www.thewindowsplanet.com/elegance-lite-free-2-column-wordpress-theme">Elegance Lite</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.elegance.thewindowsplanet.com/"><img title="Elegance" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Elegance.jpg" alt="Elegance" width="200" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Elegance Lite is a 2 Column light weight theme with right sidebar. This stylish theme has Admin Options to easily change the Header Logo and Background Color of Theme. Apart from all regular features, it also has support for Threaded Comments and Sticky Post. Comments have Gravatar Support.</p>
<h4><a href="http://wpgpl.com/themes/gunungkidul/">Gunungkidul</a></h4>
<p><img title="Gunungkidul" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Gunungkidul.jpg" alt="Gunungkidul" width="200" height="177" /></p>
<p>Two column, widget ready grid based theme with <a href="http://960.gs">960.gs</a> framework</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.businesswordpressthemes.info/download-clear-blue-sky-1-0/">Clear Blue Sky</a></h4>
<p><img title="Clear Blue Sky" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/ClearBlueSky.png" alt="Clear Blue Sky" width="200" height="150" /></p>
<p>A modern sky blue, two-columns theme with a clear, fresh look.</p>
<h4><a href="http://gabrieljones.com/tweetpress-twitter-style-wordpress-theme/">TweetPress</a></h4>
<p><img title="TweetPress" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/TweetPress.png" alt="TweetPress" width="200" height="150" /></p>
<p>Two column theme to make your blog look exactly like your Twitter profile</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:57:04 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:1631:"<h4><a href="http://www.thewindowsplanet.com/elegance-lite-free-2-column-wordpress-theme">Elegance Lite</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.elegance.thewindowsplanet.com/"><img title="Elegance" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Elegance.jpg" alt="Elegance" width="200" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Elegance Lite is a 2 Column light weight theme with right sidebar. This stylish theme has Admin Options to easily change the Header Logo and Background Color of Theme. Apart from all regular features, it also has support for Threaded Comments and Sticky Post. Comments have Gravatar Support.</p>
<h4><a href="http://wpgpl.com/themes/gunungkidul/">Gunungkidul</a></h4>
<p><img title="Gunungkidul" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Gunungkidul.jpg" alt="Gunungkidul" width="200" height="177" /></p>
<p>Two column, widget ready grid based theme with <a href="http://960.gs">960.gs</a> framework</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.businesswordpressthemes.info/download-clear-blue-sky-1-0/">Clear Blue Sky</a></h4>
<p><img title="Clear Blue Sky" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/ClearBlueSky.png" alt="Clear Blue Sky" width="200" height="150" /></p>
<p>A modern sky blue, two-columns theme with a clear, fresh look.</p>
<h4><a href="http://gabrieljones.com/tweetpress-twitter-style-wordpress-theme/">TweetPress</a></h4>
<p><img title="TweetPress" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/TweetPress.png" alt="TweetPress" width="200" height="150" /></p>
<p>Two column theme to make your blog look exactly like your Twitter profile</p>";}i:26;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:72:"Weblog Tools Collection: Plugin Review: WordPress Advanced Ticket System";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7629";s:4:"link";s:100:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/01/29/plugin-review-wordpress-advanced-ticket-system/";s:11:"description";s:3450:"<p>The other day, I had asked plugin developers to dish out their <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/01/26/plugin-developers-what-is-your-wishlist/">wish list</a> for the plugin repository. Olivier published a comment recommending a plugin called WATS or <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wats/">WordPress Advanced Ticketing System</a> as a way of handling support on your own website. </p>
<p>After installation, users need to visit the Wats Options page within the Settings menu to configure the plugin. The top of the settings page has a donate button if you want to send a little coin to the plugin author which is not intrusive or bothersome. While configuring the plugin, you can click on each menu title to show detailed information about that settings group.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/hiddenhelp.png" rel="thumbnail"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/hiddenhelp.png" alt="" title="hiddenhelp" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7630" height="209" width="517" /></a></p>
<p>The only problems I met when configuring this plugin is the user interface. Like I mentioned above, you can click on the settings title to show a hidden message that gives more details for the settings group but it&#8217;s not obvious this can be done. Also, while adding and editing the ticket priorities, I noticed that there is an icon to edit existing priority levels but the icon did not have a tool tip so it was not obvious that it was used to edit entries. Last but not least, the first button I see under the listings is REMOVE. The ADD button is further down below a status indicator. I think things could be rearranged to make a little more sense. For example, place the ADD, REMOVE buttons next to each other with a text field only appearing after the ADD button has been clicked. Directions for how to use this area of the configuration page also need to be added before this group of settings.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/settingsUI.png" rel="thumbnail"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/settingsUI-300x107.png" alt="" title="settingsUI" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7631" height="107" width="300" /></a></p>
<p>If you want to use WATS in conjunction with your main WordPress install, you can add new categories that can be configured to be open to submission. WATS has a front end ticket creation tool but the information for how to add this to a site was no where to be found until I browsed the <a href="http://www.lautre-monde.fr/wats-going-on/">plugin authors page</a>. You can use the following shortcode to add the form to a page or post: [WATS_TICKET_SUBMIT_FORM].</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/ticketcreated.png" rel="thumbnail"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/ticketcreated.png" alt="" title="ticketcreated" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7632" height="331" width="530" /></a></p>
<p>Once I approved the ticket, I was able to login and view its status. </p>
<p>Overall, the plugin performed as expected. My only complaints lie in the user interface but those could be addressed in an update. For those looking for a ticketing system that bolts on easily to WordPress, this plugin looks like it could be what you&#8217;re looking for. </p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:28:26 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:3450:"<p>The other day, I had asked plugin developers to dish out their <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/01/26/plugin-developers-what-is-your-wishlist/">wish list</a> for the plugin repository. Olivier published a comment recommending a plugin called WATS or <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wats/">WordPress Advanced Ticketing System</a> as a way of handling support on your own website. </p>
<p>After installation, users need to visit the Wats Options page within the Settings menu to configure the plugin. The top of the settings page has a donate button if you want to send a little coin to the plugin author which is not intrusive or bothersome. While configuring the plugin, you can click on each menu title to show detailed information about that settings group.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/hiddenhelp.png" rel="thumbnail"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/hiddenhelp.png" alt="" title="hiddenhelp" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7630" height="209" width="517" /></a></p>
<p>The only problems I met when configuring this plugin is the user interface. Like I mentioned above, you can click on the settings title to show a hidden message that gives more details for the settings group but it&#8217;s not obvious this can be done. Also, while adding and editing the ticket priorities, I noticed that there is an icon to edit existing priority levels but the icon did not have a tool tip so it was not obvious that it was used to edit entries. Last but not least, the first button I see under the listings is REMOVE. The ADD button is further down below a status indicator. I think things could be rearranged to make a little more sense. For example, place the ADD, REMOVE buttons next to each other with a text field only appearing after the ADD button has been clicked. Directions for how to use this area of the configuration page also need to be added before this group of settings.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/settingsUI.png" rel="thumbnail"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/settingsUI-300x107.png" alt="" title="settingsUI" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7631" height="107" width="300" /></a></p>
<p>If you want to use WATS in conjunction with your main WordPress install, you can add new categories that can be configured to be open to submission. WATS has a front end ticket creation tool but the information for how to add this to a site was no where to be found until I browsed the <a href="http://www.lautre-monde.fr/wats-going-on/">plugin authors page</a>. You can use the following shortcode to add the form to a page or post: [WATS_TICKET_SUBMIT_FORM].</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/ticketcreated.png" rel="thumbnail"><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/ticketcreated.png" alt="" title="ticketcreated" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7632" height="331" width="530" /></a></p>
<p>Once I approved the ticket, I was able to login and view its status. </p>
<p>Overall, the plugin performed as expected. My only complaints lie in the user interface but those could be addressed in an update. For those looking for a ticketing system that bolts on easily to WordPress, this plugin looks like it could be what you&#8217;re looking for. </p>";}i:27;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 01/28";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7625";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/01/28/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0128/";s:11:"description";s:3218:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://nodobidesign.nl/index.php?cat=concepten&amp;pagina=ndb_currency_plugin">NdB Currency</a></p>
<p>This plugin is used to exchange currency values online. Main use is for American weblogs to convert their Dollar amounts into Euro currency values. It&#8217;s an easy to install, activate and forget wordpress plugin.</p>
<p><a href="http://ptahdunbar.com/plugins/wordpress-loop/">WordPress Loop</a></p>
<p>The WordPress Loop widget was written to allow users that don’t know their way around PHP to easily show their content in any way they’d like. The widget has over 35 options to choose from. Customize your WordPress loop by one or more post types, categories, tags, custom taxonomies, authors, dates, custom fields, and a whole lot more!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.q2w3.ru/2010/01/25/1204/">Q2W3 Screen Options Hack Demo</a></p>
<p>This is a demo for WordPress plugin developers. It shows how to create your own form for Screen Options panel.</p>
<p><a href="http://plugins.trendwerk.nl/documentation/cms/">CMS</a></p>
<p>A collection of plugins to make WordPress feel more like a CMS. It has some small adjustments and some bigger ones. Also includes some other plugins like Multiple content blocks, Page manager and a FAQ plugin.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-post-footer/">WP Post Footer</a></p>
<p>Easily create a library of code snippets that can be inserted at the end of blog posts. Perfect for adding &#8216;Call to Action&#8217; content at the end of a blog post to ask readers to take further action.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://markbeljaars.com/plugins/tocc-plugin/">Table of Contents Creator</a></p>
<p>Table of Contents Creator automatically generates a highly customizable dynamic site wide table of contents that is always up-to-date.</p>
<p><a href="http://markbeljaars.com/plugins/irobotstxt-seo/">iRobots.txt SEO</a></p>
<p>iRobots.txt SEO is a fully customizable, optimized and secure robots.txt virtual file generator.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.benhuson.co.uk/wordpress-plugins/list-pages-at-depth/">List Pages at Depth</a></p>
<p>A more powerful version of wp_list_pages() which allows you to specify a start depth.</p>
<p><a href="http://kerrywebster.com/design/branded-login-screen-plugin/">Branded Login Screen</a></p>
<p>Replace the default login screen on your blog with a custom branded screen</p>
<p><a href="http://brandonallen.org/wordpress/plugins/edit-author-slug/">Edit Author Slug</a></p>
<p>This plugin allows you to change the Author slug, without having to actually enter the database.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/wordpress-seo/">SEO Ultimate</a></p>
<p>This all-in-one SEO plugin can handle titles, meta, noindex, canonical tags, 404 monitoring, linkboxes, robots.txt, and more. Version 1.5 adds more built-in documentation.</p>
<p><a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress/readme?project=twitter-tools">Twitter Tools</a></p>
<p>This plugin that creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. It allows you to pull your tweets into your blog (as posts and digests) and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:12:54 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:3218:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://nodobidesign.nl/index.php?cat=concepten&amp;pagina=ndb_currency_plugin">NdB Currency</a></p>
<p>This plugin is used to exchange currency values online. Main use is for American weblogs to convert their Dollar amounts into Euro currency values. It&#8217;s an easy to install, activate and forget wordpress plugin.</p>
<p><a href="http://ptahdunbar.com/plugins/wordpress-loop/">WordPress Loop</a></p>
<p>The WordPress Loop widget was written to allow users that don’t know their way around PHP to easily show their content in any way they’d like. The widget has over 35 options to choose from. Customize your WordPress loop by one or more post types, categories, tags, custom taxonomies, authors, dates, custom fields, and a whole lot more!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.q2w3.ru/2010/01/25/1204/">Q2W3 Screen Options Hack Demo</a></p>
<p>This is a demo for WordPress plugin developers. It shows how to create your own form for Screen Options panel.</p>
<p><a href="http://plugins.trendwerk.nl/documentation/cms/">CMS</a></p>
<p>A collection of plugins to make WordPress feel more like a CMS. It has some small adjustments and some bigger ones. Also includes some other plugins like Multiple content blocks, Page manager and a FAQ plugin.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-post-footer/">WP Post Footer</a></p>
<p>Easily create a library of code snippets that can be inserted at the end of blog posts. Perfect for adding &#8216;Call to Action&#8217; content at the end of a blog post to ask readers to take further action.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://markbeljaars.com/plugins/tocc-plugin/">Table of Contents Creator</a></p>
<p>Table of Contents Creator automatically generates a highly customizable dynamic site wide table of contents that is always up-to-date.</p>
<p><a href="http://markbeljaars.com/plugins/irobotstxt-seo/">iRobots.txt SEO</a></p>
<p>iRobots.txt SEO is a fully customizable, optimized and secure robots.txt virtual file generator.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.benhuson.co.uk/wordpress-plugins/list-pages-at-depth/">List Pages at Depth</a></p>
<p>A more powerful version of wp_list_pages() which allows you to specify a start depth.</p>
<p><a href="http://kerrywebster.com/design/branded-login-screen-plugin/">Branded Login Screen</a></p>
<p>Replace the default login screen on your blog with a custom branded screen</p>
<p><a href="http://brandonallen.org/wordpress/plugins/edit-author-slug/">Edit Author Slug</a></p>
<p>This plugin allows you to change the Author slug, without having to actually enter the database.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/wordpress-seo/">SEO Ultimate</a></p>
<p>This all-in-one SEO plugin can handle titles, meta, noindex, canonical tags, 404 monitoring, linkboxes, robots.txt, and more. Version 1.5 adds more built-in documentation.</p>
<p><a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress/readme?project=twitter-tools">Twitter Tools</a></p>
<p>This plugin that creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. It allows you to pull your tweets into your blog (as posts and digests) and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress.</p>";}i:28;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:30:"Alex King: Twitter Tools 2.2.1";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://alexking.org/?p=4039";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://alexking.org/blog/2010/01/28/twitter-tools-2-2-1";s:11:"description";s:1704:"<p>I&#8217;ve released a new version of Twitter Tools, my <a href="http://wordpress.org/" rel="external">WordPress</a> plugin that creates a full 2-way integration between your blog and your Twitter account.</p>
<p>This release addresses two bugs:</p>
<ol>
<li>The use of the native <code>json_decode()</code> function, required by the changes in WordPress 2.9 (version 2.1) created a problem for users with servers running 32-bit PHP. The <code>json_decode()</code> function treats the tweet ID field as an integer larger than it can handle, which causes the issues. Thanks to Joe Tortuga and Ciaran Walsh for sending in the fix. Of note: I haven&#8217;t had a chance to set up a 32-bit PHP install so I can&#8217;t reproduce this, but it appears to work for many based on <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/312067/page/2?replies=46#post-1367438" rel="external">forum feedback</a>. Yep, I&#8217;m still dealing with the ramifications from <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2010/01/13/wordpress-2-9-and-php-libraries">this</a>.</li>
<li>Typo-fix that should allow resetting digests properly (not sure when this broke). Thanks <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/353221#post-1370388" rel="external">lionel_chollet</a>.</li>
</ol>
<p>The download and more information are available on my <a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress">WordPress Plugins page</a>.</p>
<p>If you have any trouble with this, please contact the <a href="http://wphelpcenter.com">WordPress HelpCenter</a> (303-395-1346) or you can try the <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/" rel="external">WP Support Forums</a>.</p>
<img src="http://alexking.org/wp/?ak_action=api_record_view&id=4039&type=feed" alt="" />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:24:53 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:7:"summary";s:1704:"<p>I&#8217;ve released a new version of Twitter Tools, my <a href="http://wordpress.org/" rel="external">WordPress</a> plugin that creates a full 2-way integration between your blog and your Twitter account.</p>
<p>This release addresses two bugs:</p>
<ol>
<li>The use of the native <code>json_decode()</code> function, required by the changes in WordPress 2.9 (version 2.1) created a problem for users with servers running 32-bit PHP. The <code>json_decode()</code> function treats the tweet ID field as an integer larger than it can handle, which causes the issues. Thanks to Joe Tortuga and Ciaran Walsh for sending in the fix. Of note: I haven&#8217;t had a chance to set up a 32-bit PHP install so I can&#8217;t reproduce this, but it appears to work for many based on <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/312067/page/2?replies=46#post-1367438" rel="external">forum feedback</a>. Yep, I&#8217;m still dealing with the ramifications from <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2010/01/13/wordpress-2-9-and-php-libraries">this</a>.</li>
<li>Typo-fix that should allow resetting digests properly (not sure when this broke). Thanks <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/353221#post-1370388" rel="external">lionel_chollet</a>.</li>
</ol>
<p>The download and more information are available on my <a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress">WordPress Plugins page</a>.</p>
<p>If you have any trouble with this, please contact the <a href="http://wphelpcenter.com">WordPress HelpCenter</a> (303-395-1346) or you can try the <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/" rel="external">WP Support Forums</a>.</p>
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  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wptv.wordpress.com/3259/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wptv.wordpress.com/3259/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wptv.wordpress.com/3259/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wptv.wordpress.com/3259/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wptv.wordpress.com/3259/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wptv.wordpress.com/3259/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wptv.wordpress.com/3259/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wptv.wordpress.com/3259/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wptv.wordpress.com/3259/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wptv.wordpress.com/3259/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordpress.tv&blog=5089392&post=3259&subd=wptv&ref=&feed=1" /></div><div><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/11/15/lin-chen-case-study-nyc09/"><img alt="Lin Chen: Harvard Gazette Case Study" src="http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/Cfu5qhjN/1686-19_wcnyc_ignite_harvard_std.original.jpg" width="160" height="120" /></a></div>";}i:32;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:49:"Donncha: WP Super Cache with Object Cache support";s:4:"guid";s:29:"http://ocaoimh.ie/?p=89495667";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache-object-cache-support/";s:11:"description";s:3818:"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick post to encourage brave testers. I&#8217;m adding object cache support to WP Super Cache so you&#8217;ll be able to store your cached files in a memcached backend instead of disk.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not complete but it&#8217;s running on this blog and well, you&#8217;re reading this which means it&#8217;s doing something and not breaking! If you want to give it a go grab the development version from <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3dvcmRwcmVzcy5vcmcvZXh0ZW5kL3BsdWdpbnMvd3Atc3VwZXItY2FjaGUvZG93bmxvYWQv">the download page</a>.</p>
<p>There are few caveats,  but three spring to mind:</p>
<ul>
<li> It won&#8217;t cache anything for &#8220;known&#8221; users. That is users who are logged in or leave comments. Usually a tiny minority of the visitors to any site.</li>
<li>  Refreshing of the cache is very incomplete. If you leave a comment, the cache for that page may not update immediately. The cache lifetime is set to 30 seconds, and after you leave a comment you become a &#8220;known user&#8221; and see the uncached version of the page anyway.</li>
<li> When posts are updated the whole cache is invalidated.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you don&#8217;t know what memcached is, or how to set it up then you probably don&#8217;t want to test this. If you do, use Google and find out about them. Unfortunately I don&#8217;t have time to explain how to install it.</p>
<p>Inspiration and some code taken from <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3dvcmRwcmVzcy5vcmcvZXh0ZW5kL3BsdWdpbnMvYmF0Y2FjaGUv">batcache</a>, the excellent caching plugin we use on WordPress.com.</p>
<p><strong>Update!</strong> I updated the Changelog in the readme.txt and I&#8217;m looking for testers. Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s new in the development version:</p>
<blockquote><p>* Added experimental object cache support.<br />
* Added Chinese(Traditional) translation by Pseric.<br />
* Added FAQ on WP-Cache vs Supercache files.<br />
* Use Supercache file if WP-Cache file not found. Useful if mod_rewrite rules are broken or not working.<br />
* Get mobile browser list from WP Mobile Edition if found. Warn user if .htaccess out of date.<br />
* Make sure writer lock is unlocked after writing cache files.<br />
* Added link to developer docs in readme.<br />
* Added Ukranian translation by Vitaly Mylo.<br />
* Added Upgrade Notice section to readme.<br />
* Warn if zlib compression in PHP is enabled.<br />
* Added compression troubleshooting answer. Props Vladimir (http://blog.sjinks.pro/)<br />
* Added Japanese translation by Tai (http://tekapo.com/)<br />
* Updated Italian translation.</p></blockquote>
<p>The biggest changes are the addition of the object cache and a small change to the php code that serves cached wp-cache files. If the mod_rewrite rules on your site don&#8217;t work for whatever reason the plugin will look for the Supercache file and serve that instead. An extra header is added to the served page when this happens. It&#8217;s all in the readme.txt!</p>
<p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvd2FudC10by10ZXN0LXRoZS1uZXctd3Atc3VwZXItY2FjaGUv" rel="">Want to test the new WP Super Cache?</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvd3Atc3VwZXItY2FjaGUtMDg0LXRoZS1nYXJiYWdlLWNvbGxlY3Rvci8=" rel="">WP Super Cache 0.8.4, the garbage collector</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29jYW9pbWguaWUvd3Atc3VwZXItY2FjaGUtMC05LTUv" rel="">WP Super Cache 0.9.5</a></li></ul></p> <img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?view=1&post_id=89495667" width="1" height="1" />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:02:03 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Donncha";}s:7:"summary";s:3818:"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick post to encourage brave testers. I&#8217;m adding object cache support to WP Super Cache so you&#8217;ll be able to store your cached files in a memcached backend instead of disk.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not complete but it&#8217;s running on this blog and well, you&#8217;re reading this which means it&#8217;s doing something and not breaking! If you want to give it a go grab the development version from <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3dvcmRwcmVzcy5vcmcvZXh0ZW5kL3BsdWdpbnMvd3Atc3VwZXItY2FjaGUvZG93bmxvYWQv">the download page</a>.</p>
<p>There are few caveats,  but three spring to mind:</p>
<ul>
<li> It won&#8217;t cache anything for &#8220;known&#8221; users. That is users who are logged in or leave comments. Usually a tiny minority of the visitors to any site.</li>
<li>  Refreshing of the cache is very incomplete. If you leave a comment, the cache for that page may not update immediately. The cache lifetime is set to 30 seconds, and after you leave a comment you become a &#8220;known user&#8221; and see the uncached version of the page anyway.</li>
<li> When posts are updated the whole cache is invalidated.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you don&#8217;t know what memcached is, or how to set it up then you probably don&#8217;t want to test this. If you do, use Google and find out about them. Unfortunately I don&#8217;t have time to explain how to install it.</p>
<p>Inspiration and some code taken from <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3dvcmRwcmVzcy5vcmcvZXh0ZW5kL3BsdWdpbnMvYmF0Y2FjaGUv">batcache</a>, the excellent caching plugin we use on WordPress.com.</p>
<p><strong>Update!</strong> I updated the Changelog in the readme.txt and I&#8217;m looking for testers. Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s new in the development version:</p>
<blockquote><p>* Added experimental object cache support.<br />
* Added Chinese(Traditional) translation by Pseric.<br />
* Added FAQ on WP-Cache vs Supercache files.<br />
* Use Supercache file if WP-Cache file not found. Useful if mod_rewrite rules are broken or not working.<br />
* Get mobile browser list from WP Mobile Edition if found. Warn user if .htaccess out of date.<br />
* Make sure writer lock is unlocked after writing cache files.<br />
* Added link to developer docs in readme.<br />
* Added Ukranian translation by Vitaly Mylo.<br />
* Added Upgrade Notice section to readme.<br />
* Warn if zlib compression in PHP is enabled.<br />
* Added compression troubleshooting answer. Props Vladimir (http://blog.sjinks.pro/)<br />
* Added Japanese translation by Tai (http://tekapo.com/)<br />
* Updated Italian translation.</p></blockquote>
<p>The biggest changes are the addition of the object cache and a small change to the php code that serves cached wp-cache files. If the mod_rewrite rules on your site don&#8217;t work for whatever reason the plugin will look for the Supercache file and serve that instead. An extra header is added to the served page when this happens. It&#8217;s all in the readme.txt!</p>
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<p>Hopefully this whets your appetite for whatever comes out of Apple tomorrow. Should be an interesting day for WordPress.com as well: whenever Apple does a major announcement we blow past all our previous traffic records. The current one-day record is 63.5 million pageviews.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:12:40 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:565:"<p>While reading <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/12/why-touch-screens-on-the-desktop-dont-really-work/">Michael Arrington&#8217;s essay Why Desktop Touch Screens Don’t Really Work Well For Humans</a> I came across this video, which I thought was pretty cool.</p>
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<p>Hopefully this whets your appetite for whatever comes out of Apple tomorrow. Should be an interesting day for WordPress.com as well: whenever Apple does a major announcement we blow past all our previous traffic records. The current one-day record is 63.5 million pageviews.</p>";}i:34;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:74:"Weblog Tools Collection: 1 Year Domain Registration for $1.17 from GoDaddy";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7622";s:4:"link";s:102:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/01/26/1-year-domain-registration-for-1-17-from-godaddy/";s:11:"description";s:700:"<p>For all of you looking to register your new blog domains, <a href="http://www.godaddy.com">GoDaddy</a> is having another domain sale as they often do.</p>
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<p>While we are on the subject, <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2004/11/04/how-did-you-name-your-blog/">how did you name your blog</a>? Was it based on the domain name you could register or did you think about it for a while?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:52:01 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:700:"<p>For all of you looking to register your new blog domains, <a href="http://www.godaddy.com">GoDaddy</a> is having another domain sale as they often do.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.dynamicwp.net/demo/?preview_theme=Simple-Magazine-Red"><img title="simple Magazine Red" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/simpleMagazineRed.jpg" alt="simple Magazine Red" width="200" height="117" /></a></p>
<p>Three column, fixed width, widget ready and gravatar ready theme</p>
<h4><a href="http://tntbase.com/wordpress-themes/tnt-dark-green-golden-temptation/">TNT Dark Green Golden Temptation</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://tntbase.com/tntbasedemosite/?themedemo=TNT_Dark_Green_Golden_Temptation"><img title="TNT Dark Green Golden Temptation" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/TNTDarkGreenGoldenTemptation.png" alt="TNT Dark Green Golden Temptation" width="200" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, widget ready theme (12 widgetized areas including 3 footer widget ready areas) with easy integration with twitter and FeedBurner</p>
<h4><a href="http://webhostinghelpguy.inmotionhosting.com/wordpress/5-free-wedding-wordpress-themes/">5 Free Wedding Wordpress Themes</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://webhostinghelpguy.inmotionhosting.com/demos/?wptheme=Wedding%20Blogging"><img title="Wedding Blogging" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/WeddingBlogging.jpg" alt="Wedding Blogging" width="200" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column theme gravatar-enabled, widget-ready, and perfect for posting wedding pictures</p>
<p>Are you WordPress theme developer? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Submit your themes</a> to get them listed in these release posts.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:15:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:1690:"<h4><a href="http://www.dynamicwp.net/free-themes/simple-magazine-red/">Simple Magazine Red</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.dynamicwp.net/demo/?preview_theme=Simple-Magazine-Red"><img title="simple Magazine Red" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/simpleMagazineRed.jpg" alt="simple Magazine Red" width="200" height="117" /></a></p>
<p>Three column, fixed width, widget ready and gravatar ready theme</p>
<h4><a href="http://tntbase.com/wordpress-themes/tnt-dark-green-golden-temptation/">TNT Dark Green Golden Temptation</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://tntbase.com/tntbasedemosite/?themedemo=TNT_Dark_Green_Golden_Temptation"><img title="TNT Dark Green Golden Temptation" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/TNTDarkGreenGoldenTemptation.png" alt="TNT Dark Green Golden Temptation" width="200" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, widget ready theme (12 widgetized areas including 3 footer widget ready areas) with easy integration with twitter and FeedBurner</p>
<h4><a href="http://webhostinghelpguy.inmotionhosting.com/wordpress/5-free-wedding-wordpress-themes/">5 Free Wedding Wordpress Themes</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://webhostinghelpguy.inmotionhosting.com/demos/?wptheme=Wedding%20Blogging"><img title="Wedding Blogging" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/WeddingBlogging.jpg" alt="Wedding Blogging" width="200" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column theme gravatar-enabled, widget-ready, and perfect for posting wedding pictures</p>
<p>Are you WordPress theme developer? <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-news/">Submit your themes</a> to get them listed in these release posts.</p>";}i:39;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:66:"Weblog Tools Collection: Plugin Developers: What Is Your Wishlist?";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7612";s:4:"link";s:93:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/01/26/plugin-developers-what-is-your-wishlist/";s:11:"description";s:1833:"<p>Back in October, we <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/10/27/are-your-plugins-compatible/">told you about the new compatibility box</a> that was added to the plugin pages within the repository. However, we&#8217;ve learned that this feature has one major drawback which is the crux behind <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=3554">this idea</a> proposed by shinephp.</p>
<blockquote><p>I propose to add the field e.g. &#8216;Problem description&#8217; required for input if visitor click &#8216;Broken&#8217; button in the Compatibility widget.</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;ve talked with a number of plugin developers and they have all said the same thing. The compatibility box is useless if feedback can not be tied to the rating. Sure, a support topic can be opened for the plugin but there is nothing tying that forum post to the broken rating. Mark Jaquith weighed in with an even better idea.</p>
<blockquote><p>They should get a chance (or a mandate) to provide feedback, and that feedback should open a new support thread.</p>
<p>However, first, plugin authors need to be able to resolve support threads about their plugin. Otherwise, they&#8217;re going to have a pile of duplicate threads. </p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m no plugin author, but I&#8217;d like to know from those who are what tools or processes need to be in place in order for you to continue using the repository versus your own setup. Obviously with your own setup, you can do whatever is necessary surrounding your plugin. The repository has its limits, especially when it comes to supporting plugins through the WordPress.org support forum that I hope Mark&#8217;s idea can address in the future. </p>
<p>So as a plugin author, what is your wish list for the plugin repository to make things easier on you?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:17:19 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1833:"<p>Back in October, we <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/10/27/are-your-plugins-compatible/">told you about the new compatibility box</a> that was added to the plugin pages within the repository. However, we&#8217;ve learned that this feature has one major drawback which is the crux behind <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=3554">this idea</a> proposed by shinephp.</p>
<blockquote><p>I propose to add the field e.g. &#8216;Problem description&#8217; required for input if visitor click &#8216;Broken&#8217; button in the Compatibility widget.</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;ve talked with a number of plugin developers and they have all said the same thing. The compatibility box is useless if feedback can not be tied to the rating. Sure, a support topic can be opened for the plugin but there is nothing tying that forum post to the broken rating. Mark Jaquith weighed in with an even better idea.</p>
<blockquote><p>They should get a chance (or a mandate) to provide feedback, and that feedback should open a new support thread.</p>
<p>However, first, plugin authors need to be able to resolve support threads about their plugin. Otherwise, they&#8217;re going to have a pile of duplicate threads. </p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m no plugin author, but I&#8217;d like to know from those who are what tools or processes need to be in place in order for you to continue using the repository versus your own setup. Obviously with your own setup, you can do whatever is necessary surrounding your plugin. The repository has its limits, especially when it comes to supporting plugins through the WordPress.org support forum that I hope Mark&#8217;s idea can address in the future. </p>
<p>So as a plugin author, what is your wish list for the plugin repository to make things easier on you?</p>";}i:40;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:39:"Matt: Ask Matt: Tips On Public Speaking";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=14757";s:4:"link";s:37:"http://ma.tt/2010/01/public-speaking/";s:11:"description";s:975:"<p>I get asked a lot about tips on public speaking because I do it so frequently. Positive response when I give a talk is generally proportional to how relaxed I was when giving the presentation and on good days I&#8217;ll get comments like people were able to relate to what I was saying or that watching me calmed them down. I don&#8217;t mention this in the video, but besides breathing and remembering the audience is there to see you do well, the best way to relax is to know your material down cold. I&#8217;ve lived and breathed WordPress for almost 7 years now, so I can talk about it for hours without thinking twice. I think practicing and knowing your material well comes across most in your body language which probably affects how people perceive your presentation more than what you say.</p>
<p></p>
<p>We recorded this before <a href="http://www.speakerconfessions.com/">Scott Berkun&#8217;s new book Speaker Confessions was out</a>, which I recommend now.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:15:31 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:975:"<p>I get asked a lot about tips on public speaking because I do it so frequently. Positive response when I give a talk is generally proportional to how relaxed I was when giving the presentation and on good days I&#8217;ll get comments like people were able to relate to what I was saying or that watching me calmed them down. I don&#8217;t mention this in the video, but besides breathing and remembering the audience is there to see you do well, the best way to relax is to know your material down cold. I&#8217;ve lived and breathed WordPress for almost 7 years now, so I can talk about it for hours without thinking twice. I think practicing and knowing your material well comes across most in your body language which probably affects how people perceive your presentation more than what you say.</p>
<p></p>
<p>We recorded this before <a href="http://www.speakerconfessions.com/">Scott Berkun&#8217;s new book Speaker Confessions was out</a>, which I recommend now.</p>";}i:41;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:43:"Weblog Tools Collection: Do You Have Class?";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7609";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/01/25/do-you-have-class/";s:11:"description";s:1244:"<p>I have hard time understanding the basis of this article but I wanted to link to it because I know many in the WeblogToolsCollection audience are coders themselves and it would be interesting to see the conversation that arises from Andrew&#8217;s post. <a href="http://www.arickmann.co.uk/wordpress-coders-have-no-class/">WordPress coders have no class</a>.  At least, that&#8217;s what Andrew says in his post that discusses object oriented code being used in a non-object oriented environment. </p>
<blockquote><p>What do I mean by a non-object oriented environment? Well, firstly WordPress still does not require PHP5 for core code so there are limits to how many of the techniques it can use anyway. Secondly, WordPress has been around for a long time and has been developed by many contributors looking to achieve specific things with each patch without having a particular architecture imposed, except by committee.</p>
<p>WordPress developers tend to start as users who learn PHP in fits-and-starts when they need to accomplish something. They move from echo statements in themes, to functions, to classes, picking up ‘best practices’ as they go.</p></blockquote>
<p>Let Andrew know what you think by commenting on his blog. </p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:37:42 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:1244:"<p>I have hard time understanding the basis of this article but I wanted to link to it because I know many in the WeblogToolsCollection audience are coders themselves and it would be interesting to see the conversation that arises from Andrew&#8217;s post. <a href="http://www.arickmann.co.uk/wordpress-coders-have-no-class/">WordPress coders have no class</a>.  At least, that&#8217;s what Andrew says in his post that discusses object oriented code being used in a non-object oriented environment. </p>
<blockquote><p>What do I mean by a non-object oriented environment? Well, firstly WordPress still does not require PHP5 for core code so there are limits to how many of the techniques it can use anyway. Secondly, WordPress has been around for a long time and has been developed by many contributors looking to achieve specific things with each patch without having a particular architecture imposed, except by committee.</p>
<p>WordPress developers tend to start as users who learn PHP in fits-and-starts when they need to accomplish something. They move from echo statements in themes, to functions, to classes, picking up ‘best practices’ as they go.</p></blockquote>
<p>Let Andrew know what you think by commenting on his blog. </p>";}i:42;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:31:"BuddyPress: BuddyPress 1.2 Beta";s:4:"guid";s:28:"http://buddypress.org/?p=768";s:4:"link";s:52:"http://buddypress.org/blog/news/buddypress-1-2-beta/";s:11:"description";s:2079:"<p>Now alive and ready for testing is the <a href="http://buddypress.org/pre-release/buddypress.1.2.beta.zip">beta version of BuddyPress 1.2</a>.</p>
<p>This version will work with both WordPress 2.9.1 and WordPress MU 2.9.1 or higher. We especially need standard WordPress installation testers to put BuddyPress through its paces. Installation instructions can be found in the readme.txt file.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;d prefer to not download and install the beta version, you can always help with testing by registering on our <a href="http://testbp.org">testing community site</a>. This always runs the bleeding edge version of BuddyPress.</p>
<p>You can find a <a href="http://trac.buddypress.org/query?status=accepted&#038;status=assigned&#038;status=new&#038;status=reopened&#038;group=priority&#038;max=200&#038;order=priority&#038;col=id&#038;col=summary&#038;col=milestone&#038;col=status&#038;col=owner&#038;col=type&#038;col=priority&#038;milestone=1.2&#038;type=!enhancement">list of known issues</a> and a <a href="http://trac.buddypress.org/newticket">place to post bugs</a> via the <a href="http://trac.buddypress.org">BuddyPress Trac</a> installation.</p>
<h3>Testing Upgrades</h3>
<p>If you&#8217;re going test upgrading a previous BuddyPress installation please read the following instructions (please only test backup copies when upgrading with a beta):</p>
<ol>
<li>If you&#8217;re using a custom theme that is not a child theme of bp-sn-parent, please download and install the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-backwards-compatibility">backwards compatibility plugin</a> before doing anything.</li>
<li>Deactivate BuddyPress.</li>
<li>Upload and overwrite your existing BuddyPress plugin directory.</li>
<li>Delete &#8220;bp-default&#8221; and &#8220;bp-sn-parent&#8221; from your themes directory.</li>
<li>Activate BuddyPress. You do not need to move any themes.</li>
</ol>
<p>We also now have a <a href="http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/">development blog</a>. Weekly meetings are held in IRC every Wednesday at 19:00 UTC. Happy testing!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:23:56 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Andy Peatling";}s:7:"summary";s:2079:"<p>Now alive and ready for testing is the <a href="http://buddypress.org/pre-release/buddypress.1.2.beta.zip">beta version of BuddyPress 1.2</a>.</p>
<p>This version will work with both WordPress 2.9.1 and WordPress MU 2.9.1 or higher. We especially need standard WordPress installation testers to put BuddyPress through its paces. Installation instructions can be found in the readme.txt file.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;d prefer to not download and install the beta version, you can always help with testing by registering on our <a href="http://testbp.org">testing community site</a>. This always runs the bleeding edge version of BuddyPress.</p>
<p>You can find a <a href="http://trac.buddypress.org/query?status=accepted&#038;status=assigned&#038;status=new&#038;status=reopened&#038;group=priority&#038;max=200&#038;order=priority&#038;col=id&#038;col=summary&#038;col=milestone&#038;col=status&#038;col=owner&#038;col=type&#038;col=priority&#038;milestone=1.2&#038;type=!enhancement">list of known issues</a> and a <a href="http://trac.buddypress.org/newticket">place to post bugs</a> via the <a href="http://trac.buddypress.org">BuddyPress Trac</a> installation.</p>
<h3>Testing Upgrades</h3>
<p>If you&#8217;re going test upgrading a previous BuddyPress installation please read the following instructions (please only test backup copies when upgrading with a beta):</p>
<ol>
<li>If you&#8217;re using a custom theme that is not a child theme of bp-sn-parent, please download and install the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-backwards-compatibility">backwards compatibility plugin</a> before doing anything.</li>
<li>Deactivate BuddyPress.</li>
<li>Upload and overwrite your existing BuddyPress plugin directory.</li>
<li>Delete &#8220;bp-default&#8221; and &#8220;bp-sn-parent&#8221; from your themes directory.</li>
<li>Activate BuddyPress. You do not need to move any themes.</li>
</ol>
<p>We also now have a <a href="http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/">development blog</a>. Weekly meetings are held in IRC every Wednesday at 19:00 UTC. Happy testing!</p>";}i:43;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:52:"Dougal Campbell: WordPress 3.0 Multisite Terminology";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=1994";s:4:"link";s:132:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2010/01/25/wordpress-3-0-multisite-terminology?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss";s:11:"description";s:2850:"<div><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/wplogo-notext-rgb.png" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" title="WordPress" /></div><p><ins datetime="2010-01-25T14:58:18+00:00">One of the big changes coming in WordPress 3.0 is the merge of the WordPress MU code into the standard stand-alone WordPress codebase. When WordPress 3.0 is released, you will be able to choose to install it either as a single site, or in multi-site mode.</ins> With the migration from WordPress MU (MultiUser) to WordPress 3.0 (Multisite), I think there is a need for us to clarify some terminology. On the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Mailing_Lists">wp-hackers mailing list</a>, I&#8217;ve seen several instances where people used the word &#8220;site&#8221; to mean different things, depending on who is writing, and the context of what they are trying to say.There is some overlap currently between how we discuss an individual site within the setup, versus the overall system which contains those sites.</p>
<p>In WordPress MU, the term &#8220;site&#8221; tended to refer to the overall installation, covering multiple &#8220;blogs&#8221;. With WordPress 3.0 in Multisite mode, some people are conflating the terms &#8220;blog&#8221; and &#8220;site&#8221;, and it appears that &#8220;site&#8221; would be the preferred term. The new term for the overall system is &#8220;network&#8221;, as evidenced by the new <a href="http://wpengineer.com/wordpress-3-multisite-settings/">Network Settings page</a>. So instead of a &#8220;site&#8221; which contains multiple &#8220;blogs&#8221;, we have a &#8220;network&#8221; which contains multiple &#8220;sites&#8221;.</p>
<p>The change in terminology might cause some confusion at first, especially among people who are already familiar with WordPress MU, and are used to the old terms. But I think that saying &#8220;site&#8221; instead of &#8220;blog&#8221; is better, because it avoids confusion for people who are building websites that are <em>not</em> blogs. With that in mind, it makes a lot of sense to talk about a WordPress installation as a network of sites.</p>


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<li><a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/04/20/9rules-network-chooses-wordpress" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: 9rules Network chooses WordPress">9rules Network chooses WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2007/07/16/14-awesome-wordpress-powered-sites" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: 14+ Awesome WordPress-powered sites">14+ Awesome WordPress-powered sites</a></li>
</ol></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:00:30 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Dougal";}s:7:"summary";s:2850:"<div><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/wplogo-notext-rgb.png" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" title="WordPress" /></div><p><ins datetime="2010-01-25T14:58:18+00:00">One of the big changes coming in WordPress 3.0 is the merge of the WordPress MU code into the standard stand-alone WordPress codebase. When WordPress 3.0 is released, you will be able to choose to install it either as a single site, or in multi-site mode.</ins> With the migration from WordPress MU (MultiUser) to WordPress 3.0 (Multisite), I think there is a need for us to clarify some terminology. On the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Mailing_Lists">wp-hackers mailing list</a>, I&#8217;ve seen several instances where people used the word &#8220;site&#8221; to mean different things, depending on who is writing, and the context of what they are trying to say.There is some overlap currently between how we discuss an individual site within the setup, versus the overall system which contains those sites.</p>
<p>In WordPress MU, the term &#8220;site&#8221; tended to refer to the overall installation, covering multiple &#8220;blogs&#8221;. With WordPress 3.0 in Multisite mode, some people are conflating the terms &#8220;blog&#8221; and &#8220;site&#8221;, and it appears that &#8220;site&#8221; would be the preferred term. The new term for the overall system is &#8220;network&#8221;, as evidenced by the new <a href="http://wpengineer.com/wordpress-3-multisite-settings/">Network Settings page</a>. So instead of a &#8220;site&#8221; which contains multiple &#8220;blogs&#8221;, we have a &#8220;network&#8221; which contains multiple &#8220;sites&#8221;.</p>
<p>The change in terminology might cause some confusion at first, especially among people who are already familiar with WordPress MU, and are used to the old terms. But I think that saying &#8220;site&#8221; instead of &#8220;blog&#8221; is better, because it avoids confusion for people who are building websites that are <em>not</em> blogs. With that in mind, it makes a lot of sense to talk about a WordPress installation as a network of sites.</p>


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<li><a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/04/20/9rules-network-chooses-wordpress" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: 9rules Network chooses WordPress">9rules Network chooses WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2007/07/16/14-awesome-wordpress-powered-sites" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: 14+ Awesome WordPress-powered sites">14+ Awesome WordPress-powered sites</a></li>
</ol></p>";}i:44;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:65:"Weblog Tools Collection: Are You Spamming Comments Inadvertently?";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7603";s:4:"link";s:93:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/01/24/are-you-spamming-comments-inadvertently/";s:11:"description";s:4497:"<p>In a blog post titles &#8220;<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/08/kill-your-community/">6 Steps to Kill Your Community</a>&#8220;, Matt listed &#8220;Allow Spam Through&#8221; as the second step and &#8220;Don&#8217;t Participate in Comments&#8221; as the fourth step to killing your community. We treat comments and reader participation very seriously at Weblog Tools Collection. We highlight commenters, try to identify the frequent comments who participate willingly and heuristically remove nofollow tags from the links of commenters who participate in the community. I have personally chosen and thanked frequent commenter by providing them deeper access and rights to the various portals, elevating and applauding their presence within the community and have chosen most of my co-authors based on their participation and passion within the communities that I purvey. In short, I agree with Matt in that relevant comments and passionate participation are the lifeblood of any community.</p>
<p>But our little blog gets a <a href="http://blog.akismet.com/2006/05/15/second-most-spammed-man-in-the-world/">lot of attention from spammers</a>. We are listed on web pages that pin point nofollow blogs for spamming, splogs regularly repost our content and send us trackbacks and well disguised comments are often adorned with links to completely unrelated sites. Moderating comments takes a lot of effort from all of us (we are working on making this process simpler, stay tuned) and even then, some weirdness and mistakes slip past us. We have recently started noticing a lot of comments that seem mildly relevant but link to SEO sites or completely unrelated content that keeps changing.</p>
<p>Do you change your commenters&#8217; URI often when posting comments? Are you under the impression that leaving comments with different links will give those links more exposure? Do you <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/01/13/shorturl-comment-spam-problem/">use Short URLs</a> to get around comment spam restrictions? More importantly, how many of you force yourself to comment to just spread your links around? Have you ever left a comment just to increase your comment count? Are you an SEO professional who regularly comments on blogs for SEO purposes? You might be doing yourself (and us) more harm than good.</p>
<p>While we try our best to allow any and all relevant comments to be posted, we do actively remove suspicious comments. We make spam/spammer judgment calls every day, but spam is annoying and nasty and in my opinion, spam is like a leech that sucks off the goodness and leaves the host with nothing in return. It often clogs up the conversation and reduces relevancy. Just look at the latest comments on any old(er) blog with a popular post that has not been pruned and taken care of.</p>
<p>We do however, actively promote, reward and encourage passionate comments. If you feel that we have missed a comment that should have been posted, please contact us. However, if you are changing your link on every comment and linking to various websites around the internet who have paid you for your SEO services, please do not send us an email asking us to approve them. Mostly, dont be evil <em>and</em> smug!</p>
<p><em>How do you treat suspicious comments that have not been caught by Akismet? </em>We manually visit every comment waiting for moderation and actively remove suspicious comments and any older ones that might be related. It takes time but it is worth it.</p>
<p><em>How do you reward your commenters? </em>We use <a href="http://rmarsh.com/plugins/highlight-comments/">Highlight Author Comments</a> and hacked up versions of various plugins for heuristics.</p>
<p><em>Do you import comments from other places on the web? </em>No. We do not import comments from anywhere. The conversation is much more focused and we concentrate on quality versus quantity. We hope that our content, subject and demeanor encourage and crystallize commenting and participation. Other conversations about our posts on apps such as Digg, StumbleUpon and Twitter add nothing but noise wherein the real conversation in live comments get drowned out. I used to think that Trackbacks belonged in the comment flow. I have since changed my opinion after dealing with some posts with hundreds of comments.</p>
<p><em>Do you turn off comments on old posts?</em> No. Old posts are gems. Conversations can get started on old topics and need to be allowed.</p>
<p>What do you do?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:54:30 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:4497:"<p>In a blog post titles &#8220;<a href="http://ma.tt/2009/08/kill-your-community/">6 Steps to Kill Your Community</a>&#8220;, Matt listed &#8220;Allow Spam Through&#8221; as the second step and &#8220;Don&#8217;t Participate in Comments&#8221; as the fourth step to killing your community. We treat comments and reader participation very seriously at Weblog Tools Collection. We highlight commenters, try to identify the frequent comments who participate willingly and heuristically remove nofollow tags from the links of commenters who participate in the community. I have personally chosen and thanked frequent commenter by providing them deeper access and rights to the various portals, elevating and applauding their presence within the community and have chosen most of my co-authors based on their participation and passion within the communities that I purvey. In short, I agree with Matt in that relevant comments and passionate participation are the lifeblood of any community.</p>
<p>But our little blog gets a <a href="http://blog.akismet.com/2006/05/15/second-most-spammed-man-in-the-world/">lot of attention from spammers</a>. We are listed on web pages that pin point nofollow blogs for spamming, splogs regularly repost our content and send us trackbacks and well disguised comments are often adorned with links to completely unrelated sites. Moderating comments takes a lot of effort from all of us (we are working on making this process simpler, stay tuned) and even then, some weirdness and mistakes slip past us. We have recently started noticing a lot of comments that seem mildly relevant but link to SEO sites or completely unrelated content that keeps changing.</p>
<p>Do you change your commenters&#8217; URI often when posting comments? Are you under the impression that leaving comments with different links will give those links more exposure? Do you <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/01/13/shorturl-comment-spam-problem/">use Short URLs</a> to get around comment spam restrictions? More importantly, how many of you force yourself to comment to just spread your links around? Have you ever left a comment just to increase your comment count? Are you an SEO professional who regularly comments on blogs for SEO purposes? You might be doing yourself (and us) more harm than good.</p>
<p>While we try our best to allow any and all relevant comments to be posted, we do actively remove suspicious comments. We make spam/spammer judgment calls every day, but spam is annoying and nasty and in my opinion, spam is like a leech that sucks off the goodness and leaves the host with nothing in return. It often clogs up the conversation and reduces relevancy. Just look at the latest comments on any old(er) blog with a popular post that has not been pruned and taken care of.</p>
<p>We do however, actively promote, reward and encourage passionate comments. If you feel that we have missed a comment that should have been posted, please contact us. However, if you are changing your link on every comment and linking to various websites around the internet who have paid you for your SEO services, please do not send us an email asking us to approve them. Mostly, dont be evil <em>and</em> smug!</p>
<p><em>How do you treat suspicious comments that have not been caught by Akismet? </em>We manually visit every comment waiting for moderation and actively remove suspicious comments and any older ones that might be related. It takes time but it is worth it.</p>
<p><em>How do you reward your commenters? </em>We use <a href="http://rmarsh.com/plugins/highlight-comments/">Highlight Author Comments</a> and hacked up versions of various plugins for heuristics.</p>
<p><em>Do you import comments from other places on the web? </em>No. We do not import comments from anywhere. The conversation is much more focused and we concentrate on quality versus quantity. We hope that our content, subject and demeanor encourage and crystallize commenting and participation. Other conversations about our posts on apps such as Digg, StumbleUpon and Twitter add nothing but noise wherein the real conversation in live comments get drowned out. I used to think that Trackbacks belonged in the comment flow. I have since changed my opinion after dealing with some posts with hundreds of comments.</p>
<p><em>Do you turn off comments on old posts?</em> No. Old posts are gems. Conversations can get started on old topics and need to be allowed.</p>
<p>What do you do?</p>";}i:45;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases of 01/24";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7601";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/01/24/wordpress-plugin-releases-of-0124/";s:11:"description";s:3262:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.placewidget.com/wordpress">PlaceWidget</a></p>
<p>PlaceWidget for Wordpress simplifies the process of adding a PlaceWidget to your Wordpress blog. You can create and configure your PlaceWidget right in the Wordpress Dashboard, then embed it in your sidebar with a standard Wordpress widget.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lumieredelune.com/encrelune/category-ancestor-plugin,2010,01">Category Ancestor</a></p>
<p>Category Ancestor is a plugin that adds a function you can use anywhere in your theme : get_category_ancestor($thecat) to retrieve the highest level parent of any category.</p>
<p><a href="http://plugins.trendwerk.nl/documentation/faq-you/">FAQ You</a></p>
<p>It is a simple FAQ plugin where you can create Categories and put Questions in them. You can easily insert them in a page with the WYSIWYG editor. Able to turn JavaScript on or off.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/freebie-images-free-stock-images-plugin/">Free Stock Images Plugin</a></p>
<p>Spice up your blog with high quality free <a href="http://www.crestock.com">stock images</a> &amp; photos created by professional photographers and illustrators: Easy to use search interface with advanced filtering and Drag &amp; Drop functionality.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/favicons/">Favicons</a></p>
<p>Choose a favicon to make your site eye-catching and easily recognizable by visitors. You can choose to use as favicon your gravatar, a private icon or an image from the Icon Set included</p>
<p><a href="http://josephrogermoore.com/leaveanote">Leave-a-Note Visual Commenting</a></p>
<p>Leave-a-Note transforms your comments into post-it notes to drag and drop anywhere on the screen, saving the new position until it is moved again.</p>
<p><a href="http://w-shadow.com/blog/2007/07/28/link-cloaking-plugin-for-wordpress/">Link Cloaking Plugin</a></p>
<p>Automatically cloak all (or only selected) links in your posts and pages.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/one-click-close-comments">One Click Close Comments</a></p>
<p>Conveniently close or open comments for a post or page with one click.</p>
<p><a href="http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/restrict-usernames">Restrict Usernames</a></p>
<p>Restrict the usernames that new users may use when registering for your site.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/wordpress-seo/">SEO Ultimate</a></p>
<p>This all-in-one SEO plugin can handle titles, meta, noindex, canonical tags, 404 monitoring, linkboxes, robots.txt, and more. Version 1.4.1 uses the new Google Webmaster Tools verification code.</p>
<p><a href="http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-minify-wordpress-plugin/">WP Minify</a></p>
<p>This plugin uses the Minify engine to combine and compress JS and CSS files to improve page load time.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yak-for-wordpress/">YAK for WordPress</a></p>
<p>YAK is a shopping cart plugin for WordPress which associates products with weblog entries.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pepak.net/wordpress/simple-download-monitor-plugin">Simple Download Monitor</a></p>
<p>Count the number of downloads without having to maintain a comprehensive download page.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:20:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:3262:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.placewidget.com/wordpress">PlaceWidget</a></p>
<p>PlaceWidget for Wordpress simplifies the process of adding a PlaceWidget to your Wordpress blog. You can create and configure your PlaceWidget right in the Wordpress Dashboard, then embed it in your sidebar with a standard Wordpress widget.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lumieredelune.com/encrelune/category-ancestor-plugin,2010,01">Category Ancestor</a></p>
<p>Category Ancestor is a plugin that adds a function you can use anywhere in your theme : get_category_ancestor($thecat) to retrieve the highest level parent of any category.</p>
<p><a href="http://plugins.trendwerk.nl/documentation/faq-you/">FAQ You</a></p>
<p>It is a simple FAQ plugin where you can create Categories and put Questions in them. You can easily insert them in a page with the WYSIWYG editor. Able to turn JavaScript on or off.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/freebie-images-free-stock-images-plugin/">Free Stock Images Plugin</a></p>
<p>Spice up your blog with high quality free <a href="http://www.crestock.com">stock images</a> &amp; photos created by professional photographers and illustrators: Easy to use search interface with advanced filtering and Drag &amp; Drop functionality.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/favicons/">Favicons</a></p>
<p>Choose a favicon to make your site eye-catching and easily recognizable by visitors. You can choose to use as favicon your gravatar, a private icon or an image from the Icon Set included</p>
<p><a href="http://josephrogermoore.com/leaveanote">Leave-a-Note Visual Commenting</a></p>
<p>Leave-a-Note transforms your comments into post-it notes to drag and drop anywhere on the screen, saving the new position until it is moved again.</p>
<p><a href="http://w-shadow.com/blog/2007/07/28/link-cloaking-plugin-for-wordpress/">Link Cloaking Plugin</a></p>
<p>Automatically cloak all (or only selected) links in your posts and pages.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/one-click-close-comments">One Click Close Comments</a></p>
<p>Conveniently close or open comments for a post or page with one click.</p>
<p><a href="http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/restrict-usernames">Restrict Usernames</a></p>
<p>Restrict the usernames that new users may use when registering for your site.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/wordpress-seo/">SEO Ultimate</a></p>
<p>This all-in-one SEO plugin can handle titles, meta, noindex, canonical tags, 404 monitoring, linkboxes, robots.txt, and more. Version 1.4.1 uses the new Google Webmaster Tools verification code.</p>
<p><a href="http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-minify-wordpress-plugin/">WP Minify</a></p>
<p>This plugin uses the Minify engine to combine and compress JS and CSS files to improve page load time.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yak-for-wordpress/">YAK for WordPress</a></p>
<p>YAK is a shopping cart plugin for WordPress which associates products with weblog entries.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pepak.net/wordpress/simple-download-monitor-plugin">Simple Download Monitor</a></p>
<p>Count the number of downloads without having to maintain a comprehensive download page.</p>";}i:46;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:23:"Matt: To Munich for DLD";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=33665";s:4:"link";s:31:"http://ma.tt/2010/01/to-munich/";s:11:"description";s:342:"<p>I&#8217;m heading to Munich, Germany for <a href="http://www.dld-conference.com/">the DLD conference</a> where I&#8217;m going to be on a panel. If you&#8217;re there say howdy and I&#8217;ll show you my Apple Tablet. (Just kidding. <img src="http://ma.tt/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> )</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:39:33 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:342:"<p>I&#8217;m heading to Munich, Germany for <a href="http://www.dld-conference.com/">the DLD conference</a> where I&#8217;m going to be on a panel. If you&#8217;re there say howdy and I&#8217;ll show you my Apple Tablet. (Just kidding. <img src="http://ma.tt/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> )</p>";}i:47;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:44:"Lloyd: WordPress Declaration of Independence";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://foolswisdom.com/?p=2303";s:4:"link";s:46:"http://foolswisdom.com/wordpress-independence/";s:11:"description";s:2045:"<blockquote><p>The WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source project: to democratize publishing through Open Source, <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GPL</a> software.</p>
<p>The point of the foundation is to ensure free access, in perpetuity, to the projects we support. People and businesses may come and go, so it is important to ensure that the source code for these projects will survive beyond the current contributor base, that we may create a <strong>stable platform for web publishing for generations to come</strong>. As part of this mission, the Foundation will be responsible for protecting the WordPress, WordCamp, and related trademarks. A 501(c)3 non-profit organization, the WordPress Foundation will also pursue a charter to educate the public about WordPress and related open source software.</p>
<p>We hope to gather broad community support to make sure we can <strong>continue to serve the public good</strong> through freely accessible software.</p>
<p><cite>About Web page, <a href="http://wordpressfoundation.org/">WordPress Foundation</a></cite></p></blockquote>
<p>There are already a lot of great comments on the welcome post &#8220;<a href="http://wordpressfoundation.org/2010/getting-off-the-ground/">Getting off the ground</a>&#8220;. Here is a one of the many juicy comments made by <a href="http://ma.tt/">Matt</a> in response to a question posted there:</p>
<blockquote><p>Sure, as a quick summary: [Wordpress.com and the Wordpress Foundation] completely separate, but share a similar name and my involvement. One is for-profit, the other non-profit. They both have similar goals in terms, but the Foundation can take a long-term multi-decade approach to solving these problems without regard for short term profit, market conditions, or shareholders. I’ve always had a vision for two simultaneous approaches to the WordPress way, the heart and the mind, but it’s just now coming together.</p></blockquote>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:06:50 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:5:"Lloyd";}s:7:"summary";s:2045:"<blockquote><p>The WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source project: to democratize publishing through Open Source, <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GPL</a> software.</p>
<p>The point of the foundation is to ensure free access, in perpetuity, to the projects we support. People and businesses may come and go, so it is important to ensure that the source code for these projects will survive beyond the current contributor base, that we may create a <strong>stable platform for web publishing for generations to come</strong>. As part of this mission, the Foundation will be responsible for protecting the WordPress, WordCamp, and related trademarks. A 501(c)3 non-profit organization, the WordPress Foundation will also pursue a charter to educate the public about WordPress and related open source software.</p>
<p>We hope to gather broad community support to make sure we can <strong>continue to serve the public good</strong> through freely accessible software.</p>
<p><cite>About Web page, <a href="http://wordpressfoundation.org/">WordPress Foundation</a></cite></p></blockquote>
<p>There are already a lot of great comments on the welcome post &#8220;<a href="http://wordpressfoundation.org/2010/getting-off-the-ground/">Getting off the ground</a>&#8220;. Here is a one of the many juicy comments made by <a href="http://ma.tt/">Matt</a> in response to a question posted there:</p>
<blockquote><p>Sure, as a quick summary: [Wordpress.com and the Wordpress Foundation] completely separate, but share a similar name and my involvement. One is for-profit, the other non-profit. They both have similar goals in terms, but the Foundation can take a long-term multi-decade approach to solving these problems without regard for short term profit, market conditions, or shareholders. I’ve always had a vision for two simultaneous approaches to the WordPress way, the heart and the mind, but it’s just now coming together.</p></blockquote>";}i:48;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 01/22";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=7594";s:4:"link";s:82:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/01/22/wordpress-theme-releases-for/";s:11:"description";s:2382:"<h4><a href="http://3oneseven.com/13/detox-wp-theme/">Detox</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://wp2.3oneseven.com/index.php?wptheme=Detox"><img title="detox" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/detox.png" alt="detox" width="200" height="139" /></a></p>
<p>The Detox BuddyPress theme, clean magazine style for a BuddyPress powered site with the brandnew Detox WordPress Theme theme,<br />
featuring a three column fluid theme layout, spiced up version of the <a href="http://wp2.3oneseven.com/index.php?wptheme=Detox">Detox 3.17 WordPress Theme</a>, enabled with flickr support, pagenavi support, frontpage slider, options panel, related posts and recent comments are built into the theme.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.longren.org/wordpress/unwakeable/">Unwakeable</a></h4>
<p><img title="Unwakeable" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Unwakeable.jpg" alt="Unwakeable" width="200" height="118" /></p>
<p>The Unwakeable <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> theme and is a combination of <a href="http://www.getk2.com/">K2</a> and <a href="http://openswitch.org/unsleepable">Unsleepable</a>. It uses K2 as a starting point, and replaced the default K2 header with a modified header from Unsleepable.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.kreativethemes.com/bright-sky/">Bright Sky</a></h4>
<p><img title="brightsky-3d" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/brightsky3d.jpg" alt="brightsky-3d" width="200" height="131" /></p>
<p>Two column theme with support for twitter and lifestream integration and an advertisement area and admin features</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.blogging-inside.de/2010/01/kostenloses-you-name-it-wordpress-theme/">You Name It</a></h4>
<p><img title="younameit" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/younameit.png" alt="younameit" width="200" height="130" /></p>
<p>You Name It is a simple WordPress Theme with two sidebars. Three sidebars support Adsense format 160px and 250px.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.tipografo.org/wordpress-themes/sysyphus/">Sysyphus</a></h4>
<p><img title="Sysyphus" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Sysyphus.jpg" alt="Sysyphus" width="200" height="102" /></p>
<p>Sysyphus is a 2 columns, Widget Ready, JQuery Powered, Wordpress Theme, with carefully hand-crafted graphics and W3C Valid Code.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:45:15 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Perurry";}s:7:"summary";s:2382:"<h4><a href="http://3oneseven.com/13/detox-wp-theme/">Detox</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://wp2.3oneseven.com/index.php?wptheme=Detox"><img title="detox" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/detox.png" alt="detox" width="200" height="139" /></a></p>
<p>The Detox BuddyPress theme, clean magazine style for a BuddyPress powered site with the brandnew Detox WordPress Theme theme,<br />
featuring a three column fluid theme layout, spiced up version of the <a href="http://wp2.3oneseven.com/index.php?wptheme=Detox">Detox 3.17 WordPress Theme</a>, enabled with flickr support, pagenavi support, frontpage slider, options panel, related posts and recent comments are built into the theme.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.longren.org/wordpress/unwakeable/">Unwakeable</a></h4>
<p><img title="Unwakeable" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Unwakeable.jpg" alt="Unwakeable" width="200" height="118" /></p>
<p>The Unwakeable <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> theme and is a combination of <a href="http://www.getk2.com/">K2</a> and <a href="http://openswitch.org/unsleepable">Unsleepable</a>. It uses K2 as a starting point, and replaced the default K2 header with a modified header from Unsleepable.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.kreativethemes.com/bright-sky/">Bright Sky</a></h4>
<p><img title="brightsky-3d" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/brightsky3d.jpg" alt="brightsky-3d" width="200" height="131" /></p>
<p>Two column theme with support for twitter and lifestream integration and an advertisement area and admin features</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.blogging-inside.de/2010/01/kostenloses-you-name-it-wordpress-theme/">You Name It</a></h4>
<p><img title="younameit" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/younameit.png" alt="younameit" width="200" height="130" /></p>
<p>You Name It is a simple WordPress Theme with two sidebars. Three sidebars support Adsense format 160px and 250px.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.tipografo.org/wordpress-themes/sysyphus/">Sysyphus</a></h4>
<p><img title="Sysyphus" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Sysyphus.jpg" alt="Sysyphus" width="200" height="102" /></p>
<p>Sysyphus is a 2 columns, Widget Ready, JQuery Powered, Wordpress Theme, with carefully hand-crafted graphics and W3C Valid Code.</p>";}i:49;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:72:"Weblog Tools Collection: Making Site Wide Changes on Your WordPress Blog";s:4:"guid";s:101:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/01/22/making-site-wide-changes-on-your-wordpress-blog/";s:4:"link";s:101:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/01/22/making-site-wide-changes-on-your-wordpress-blog/";s:11:"description";s:7283:"<p>Last week I wrote up a post to review the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/01/16/real-time-find-and-replace-plug-in-review/">Real-Time Find and Replace Plugin</a> and the comments on that story about other methods to make site wide changes permanent sent me in search of another way to search and replace information in my SQL database.</p>
<p>Now I consider myself pretty decent at geeky things but directly editing and messing with my site’s SQL database does not top my list of things to do.&#160; Neither does manually going through nearly 1,000 postings to make changes.</p>
<p>What I found was a terrific plug-in that lets me perform a few different functions to make corrections or change info throughout my site.</p>
<p><strong><em><u>Caveat:</u></em></strong> Before I get started – this plugin does make changes to your database. Play it safe and back up your info to protect your original data.</p>
<p>With that said let me now introduce you to the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-regex/">Search Regex Plugin</a> written by <a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/">John Godley</a>. </p>
<p>The author provides the following description in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory:</p>
<blockquote><p>Search Regex adds a powerful set of search and replace functions to WordPress. These go beyond the standard searching capabilities, and allow you to search and replace almost any data stored on your site. In addition to simple searches you have the full power of PHP&#8217;s regular expressions at your disposal.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The plugin is currently at version 1.4.9 and is dated from July 2009 however it is fully compatible with WordPress Version 2.9.1.</p>
<p>So once you have downloaded and installed the plugin head to the Tools menu in the Admin interface:</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/searchregex.png" rel="thumbnail"><img title="searchregex" border="0" alt="searchregex" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/searchregex_thumb.png" width="139" height="190" /></a> </p>
<p>Click on Search Regex to get to the main admin page:</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/searchregexmain.png" rel="thumbnail"><img title="searchregexmain" border="0" alt="searchregexmain" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/searchregexmain_thumb.png" width="346" height="105" /></a> </p>
<p>From this spot you can either <strong><em>Search</em></strong>; <strong><em>Replace</em></strong> or <strong><em>Replace and Save</em></strong>. Only the last one makes permanent changes to your database when you push the button.</p>
<p>Lets review the options you can set for each one:</p>
<p><strong><em>Source</em></strong> Dropdown Menu lets you pick the areas in the database that will be searched.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/searchregexsourcedropdown.png" rel="thumbnail"><img title="searchregexsourcedropdown" border="0" alt="searchregexsourcedropdown" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/searchregexsourcedropdown_thumb.png" width="164" height="186" /></a></p>
<p><strong><em>Limit to</em></strong> Dropdown Menu restricts the number of entries that will be searched. This can be handy on a large site.</p>
<p>&#160;<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/searchregexlimitodropdown.png" rel="thumbnail"><img title="searchregexlimitodropdown" border="0" alt="searchregexlimitodropdown" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/searchregexlimitodropdown_thumb.png" width="84" height="102" /></a> </p>
<p><strong><em>Order By</em></strong> lets you choose to display the results of a search in either Ascending or Descending order.</p>
<p>Once you make those choices you are ready to search.&#160; Type the phrase you want to find in the <strong><em>Search pattern</em></strong> box. I found that multi-line searches do not work so well with this plugin so I recommend you keep it short and exact.</p>
<p>If all you want to do is find a handful or articles that have a certain phrase or word in them then click the <strong><em>Search</em></strong> button and you will see the following type of results:</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/searchregexresultssearch.png" rel="thumbnail"><img title="searchregexresultssearch" border="0" alt="searchregexresultssearch" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/searchregexresultssearch_thumb.png" width="244" height="140" /></a> </p>
<p>Each entry is on an alternating color line and if you look all the way over to the right on each line there is a link to either View the post as it appears on your site or Edit the post using the normal WordPress Edit screen. No changes are made to your database by using the <strong><em>Search</em></strong> button.</p>
<p>The next button you can use is the <strong><em>Replace</em></strong> button and this one lets you preview the changes that would be made for each entry that matches your search and replace criteria. Those results show up like this:</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/searchregexreplaceresults.png" rel="thumbnail"><img title="searchregexreplaceresults" border="0" alt="searchregexreplaceresults" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/searchregexreplaceresults_thumb.png" width="244" height="182" /></a> </p>
<p>Just like with the <strong><em>Search</em></strong> button results, if you look over on the right hand side you will see links to either View the post, perform the Replace function for that entry only or open the post up using the standard WordPress admin edit screen. If your only making a few changes this is very handy to do them one at a time to make sure your changing the info you want to change.</p>
<p>The last option you can use is one of the most powerful because it makes the change after you press the <strong><em>Replace and Save</em></strong> button.&#160; With this one you want to make sure the edit is exactly what you want to do.&#160; I recommend using the <strong><em>Replace </em></strong>button first to preview the matches it finds before executing the <strong><em>Replace and Save</em></strong>.</p>
<p>I do not have a screen shot to show you that function because honestly I do not have a change to be made right now. However, the results page looks a lot like the <strong><em>Replace</em></strong> results except they have been made instead of just displayed for review.</p>
<p>So there ya go – a very powerful tool in a small package.&#160; Let me close by repeating an earlier reminder – back up your database before executing any major changes using this plugin. You will be thankful that you did if you hit the wrong button <img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>So which do you prefer – this permanent change or the on the fly changes that are made by the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/01/16/real-time-find-and-replace-plug-in-review/">Real-Time Find and Replace Plugin</a>?</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:00:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:11:"Richard Hay";}s:7:"summary";s:7283:"<p>Last week I wrote up a post to review the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/01/16/real-time-find-and-replace-plug-in-review/">Real-Time Find and Replace Plugin</a> and the comments on that story about other methods to make site wide changes permanent sent me in search of another way to search and replace information in my SQL database.</p>
<p>Now I consider myself pretty decent at geeky things but directly editing and messing with my site’s SQL database does not top my list of things to do.&#160; Neither does manually going through nearly 1,000 postings to make changes.</p>
<p>What I found was a terrific plug-in that lets me perform a few different functions to make corrections or change info throughout my site.</p>
<p><strong><em><u>Caveat:</u></em></strong> Before I get started – this plugin does make changes to your database. Play it safe and back up your info to protect your original data.</p>
<p>With that said let me now introduce you to the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-regex/">Search Regex Plugin</a> written by <a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/">John Godley</a>. </p>
<p>The author provides the following description in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory:</p>
<blockquote><p>Search Regex adds a powerful set of search and replace functions to WordPress. These go beyond the standard searching capabilities, and allow you to search and replace almost any data stored on your site. In addition to simple searches you have the full power of PHP&#8217;s regular expressions at your disposal.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The plugin is currently at version 1.4.9 and is dated from July 2009 however it is fully compatible with WordPress Version 2.9.1.</p>
<p>So once you have downloaded and installed the plugin head to the Tools menu in the Admin interface:</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/searchregex.png" rel="thumbnail"><img title="searchregex" border="0" alt="searchregex" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/searchregex_thumb.png" width="139" height="190" /></a> </p>
<p>Click on Search Regex to get to the main admin page:</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/searchregexmain.png" rel="thumbnail"><img title="searchregexmain" border="0" alt="searchregexmain" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/searchregexmain_thumb.png" width="346" height="105" /></a> </p>
<p>From this spot you can either <strong><em>Search</em></strong>; <strong><em>Replace</em></strong> or <strong><em>Replace and Save</em></strong>. Only the last one makes permanent changes to your database when you push the button.</p>
<p>Lets review the options you can set for each one:</p>
<p><strong><em>Source</em></strong> Dropdown Menu lets you pick the areas in the database that will be searched.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/searchregexsourcedropdown.png" rel="thumbnail"><img title="searchregexsourcedropdown" border="0" alt="searchregexsourcedropdown" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/searchregexsourcedropdown_thumb.png" width="164" height="186" /></a></p>
<p><strong><em>Limit to</em></strong> Dropdown Menu restricts the number of entries that will be searched. This can be handy on a large site.</p>
<p>&#160;<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/searchregexlimitodropdown.png" rel="thumbnail"><img title="searchregexlimitodropdown" border="0" alt="searchregexlimitodropdown" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/searchregexlimitodropdown_thumb.png" width="84" height="102" /></a> </p>
<p><strong><em>Order By</em></strong> lets you choose to display the results of a search in either Ascending or Descending order.</p>
<p>Once you make those choices you are ready to search.&#160; Type the phrase you want to find in the <strong><em>Search pattern</em></strong> box. I found that multi-line searches do not work so well with this plugin so I recommend you keep it short and exact.</p>
<p>If all you want to do is find a handful or articles that have a certain phrase or word in them then click the <strong><em>Search</em></strong> button and you will see the following type of results:</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/searchregexresultssearch.png" rel="thumbnail"><img title="searchregexresultssearch" border="0" alt="searchregexresultssearch" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/searchregexresultssearch_thumb.png" width="244" height="140" /></a> </p>
<p>Each entry is on an alternating color line and if you look all the way over to the right on each line there is a link to either View the post as it appears on your site or Edit the post using the normal WordPress Edit screen. No changes are made to your database by using the <strong><em>Search</em></strong> button.</p>
<p>The next button you can use is the <strong><em>Replace</em></strong> button and this one lets you preview the changes that would be made for each entry that matches your search and replace criteria. Those results show up like this:</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/searchregexreplaceresults.png" rel="thumbnail"><img title="searchregexreplaceresults" border="0" alt="searchregexreplaceresults" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/searchregexreplaceresults_thumb.png" width="244" height="182" /></a> </p>
<p>Just like with the <strong><em>Search</em></strong> button results, if you look over on the right hand side you will see links to either View the post, perform the Replace function for that entry only or open the post up using the standard WordPress admin edit screen. If your only making a few changes this is very handy to do them one at a time to make sure your changing the info you want to change.</p>
<p>The last option you can use is one of the most powerful because it makes the change after you press the <strong><em>Replace and Save</em></strong> button.&#160; With this one you want to make sure the edit is exactly what you want to do.&#160; I recommend using the <strong><em>Replace </em></strong>button first to preview the matches it finds before executing the <strong><em>Replace and Save</em></strong>.</p>
<p>I do not have a screen shot to show you that function because honestly I do not have a change to be made right now. However, the results page looks a lot like the <strong><em>Replace</em></strong> results except they have been made instead of just displayed for review.</p>
<p>So there ya go – a very powerful tool in a small package.&#160; Let me close by repeating an earlier reminder – back up your database before executing any major changes using this plugin. You will be thankful that you did if you hit the wrong button <img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>So which do you prefer – this permanent change or the on the fly changes that are made by the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/01/16/real-time-find-and-replace-plug-in-review/">Real-Time Find and Replace Plugin</a>?</p>";}}s:7:"channel";a:5:{s:5:"title";s:16:"WordPress Planet";s:4:"link";s:28:"http://planet.wordpress.org/";s:8:"language";s:2:"en";s:11:"description";s:47:"WordPress Planet - http://planet.wordpress.org/";s:7:"tagline";s:47:"WordPress Planet - http://planet.wordpress.org/";}s:9:"textinput";a:0:{}s:5:"image";a:0:{}s:9:"feed_type";s:3:"RSS";s:12:"feed_version";s:3:"2.0";s:5:"stack";a:0:{}s:9:"inchannel";b:0;s:6:"initem";b:0;s:9:"incontent";b:0;s:11:"intextinput";b:0;s:7:"inimage";b:0;s:13:"current_field";s:0:"";s:17:"current_namespace";b:0;s:19:"_CONTENT_CONSTRUCTS";a:6:{i:0;s:7:"content";i:1;s:7:"summary";i:2;s:4:"info";i:3;s:5:"title";i:4;s:7:"tagline";i:5;s:9:"copyright";}s:4:"etag";s:25:""211d6-4b6b518f-f500bf"
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